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Vol 5 No.26 T W To Go to the Sandwich Islands Where Advantages are Good. Honolulu, Dec. 15 (via San Francisco, Dec. 23).--project of importing Negro labor from the Southern States to supply the demand for labor on the Hawaiian sugar plantations seems likely to meet with much success. J. B. Collins who spent several months in Mississippi and Louisiana seeking to recruit immigrants for Hawaii from the cotton and sugar plantations of those States, arrived here three weeks ago with two representatives of the Negroes whom he had interested in the subject. One of these was the Rev. John Henry Cook, one of the leading colored divines of Mississippi. The other was a plantation laborer. The two spent two weeks among the Kohala plantations, in whose interest Collins is working. They were so well satisfied with the conditions they found to exist that one of the Negro delegates, the laborer, determined to remain here, and has gone to work in Kohala. The Rev. Mr. Cook and Mr. Collins returned to the States today by the Zealanda, and the Rev. Mr. Cook says he will advise the people of his race to emigrate here, and expects to come himself. He says that the advantages he finds here over the conditions that prevail in the region from which he came are higher wages, shorter hours of labor and more equable climate, with no extremes of heat or cold. In addition he says the quarters provided free by the plantations are better on the average than the Negroes are able to provide for themselves in Mississippi. Then there is free medical attendance and other perquisites which make the real wages much larger than they apparently are, a good system of free schools, and an absence of race antagonism. He is very enthusiastic in his expressions regarding the outlook for the Negro in these islands. District Meeting. The semi-annual meeting of the Indiana District Household of Ruth met with the District Worthy Recorder Miss M. Crenshaw at Knightstown in a two days session. The business for consideration was of a routine-nature. The officers present were; Mrs. Ada Goins, Indianapolis, D. M. N. G.; Mrs Lulu King, Logansport, D. R. N. G.; Miss Margaret F. Crenshaw, Knightstown, D. W. R.; Mrs. Anna M. Ashworth, Terre Haute, D. G. G. THE RECORDER Wishes You A Happy and Prosperous New Year. The Recorder. A NEGRO NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF INDIANA EN LEFT THE DOOR OPEN AND THAT WAS HOW THE HON. FRANK B. BURKE Eleven thirty. New Year's Eve—the Nineteenth Century's dynin! The clouds are weepin o'er his bed, and said the wind is sighin; Old Doctor Time has give him up, there ain't no use in physic. His breath comes short and wheezy-like, same's mine does with [Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, Dec. 26—Twenty of thirty of the Democratic members of the legislature gathered in this city on Saturday to ask each other if there really was any Democratic party left and to find out what Thomas Taggart John W. Kern and some of the other leaders thought about it. They decided that the party was still in existence, though not a little disfigured and proceeded to discuss what they should do about a primary election law. The sentiment was heavily against this, though Mr. Morrs, editor of "the Maniac of Dallies," felt it his duty as a reformer, with the trade mark blown in the bottle, to declare that Indianapolis, Evansville and Fort Wayne ought to have something of the kind. He also launched forth a few well chosen phrases about purity in effections and similar efforts at general literary gorgeousness. the phthisic. But tho' I know he's booked ter sail on board old Chaton's packet, There'll be no weed upon my hat, no crasp upon my jacket, Fer when I've lived, as he has done, a hundred years full measure, I think I'll say ter Death, "Shake hands! I'm proud ter have the pleasure!" And yet he's been a smart old boy there's been few cycles quicker Ter see and grab a brand new way ter make our wheels go slicker. Before he come slow coaches wuz our latest locomotion, And cranky winds wuz all we had ter shove the 'crost the ocean. But now, great Scott! our railroads mark the map of every nation. And steamers rush our letters round the whole concerned creation; The telephone and telegraph have come ter ease our labors, And make John Bull and Urrle Sam that test like next door neighbors. The X ray lights a chap's inside and shows the framework in it, The spry typewriter prints his words a hundred ter the minute, The phonograph repeats his speech in tones that's plain, tho' Somebody had left the door oper and the Hon. Frank B. Burke got in. If there is anything Mr. Burke is particularly fond of, it is giving his fel low politicians a new sensation occasionally by springing a few statements of bald truth. He declared that he was dead against a primary law and so was every politician that was a beneficiary of the machine in politics. Last summer he had thought for a while that he was a candidate for governor, but he failed to make good with the machine. Mr. Taggart was in control of it and had other purposes. He wanted Mr. Kern to be the candidate for governor and the present primary methods enabled him and his machine to beat Burke to death Later it suited Mr. Taggart's purpose to make Burke the nominee for congress in the Indianapolis district Again the machine, by the grace of the present primary system, was brought into requisition and he was nominated "just as easy" by the same men that had cut his throat in Marion county a few weeks before. He was impressed with the fact that the "machine" is a great thing and was distinctly "again" anything that would tend to disrupt it. The movin picter show him how he looked when he wuz speakin. Electric ranges cook his food, electric launcher float him. And through electric lighted streets electric wagons tote him. And if one of 'em runs him down and does his vitals sever. Eleven forty-five—weem ter hear a distant humm And lively music in the air—the Twentieth Century's comin! What does he bring, I wonder now, ter tichel and surprise us? What magic tricks is up his sleeve ter pleasure and paralyze us? Will our grandchildren go abroad upon an airship lines. Or whiz straight through the earth upon the hourly train ter China? Will we "expand" until the moons divided "mongst the nations? Will war news telegraphed from Mars affect the stock quotations? Will water burn, I wonder? And will fire be cold and freezy? Will nothin be impossible and miracles jest easy? I wonder if— But there! I'll stop; my "wonderer"'s gittin tired, And, see! "tis on the stroke of twelve! The Old Year has expired. "The Nineteenth Century's dead!" So says the old clock with its tickin. The conference did not make up its mind what it should do on any particular subject, but the sentiment against the primary law seemed to be in a heavy majority. The crowd did not make any effort to decide who should be put up for speaker and president pro tem of the senate to be knocked down. The Hon. Eph Inman ex-boy orator, aspires to the leadership of the senate minority and will probably get it. For the empty honor in the house, Messrs. Louttit, Cravens, Cotner and Davis have lightened rods up. James, the smartest man the Democrats have in the house, was not thought of. He's dead and gone fer good and all, but I'm alive and kickin. Ring up the curtain! clear the stage! I'm ready fer the drama. You're welcome, Mister Twentieth! Now start your panorama! JOE LINCOLN In the Twentieth Century- The mid-road Populists got together here Saturday in rather slender numbers and talked volubly about organizing a new party. The old folderol about a "union of the reform forces" and that sort of thing was chewed over again. The Populists did not cast enough votes in the last election to make the influence of the leaders have any appreciable value that could be converted into dollars and cents; hence the anxiety for a new fake. The chief trouble with the Populist and other political organizations on similar lines is that the cardinal notion of their creed is that a man that is rich either by inheritance or by his own exertions is necessarily a scoundrel. I grant that many of them are, but there are also very many honest and high- Will women either wear short skirts or have pages to carry their trains? Will squirrels wait just a quarter of a second longer to make faces at the hunter? Will rich noblemen marry poor American girls? Will hornets and other stinging things arbitrate instead of fight when their nests are pulled? Will the grain be extracted from the heads of wheat and other cereals by a magnet and save the labor of harvesting straw? Will there be a law compelling barbers to remain silent? Now, candidly, wouldn't you like to know what sayers will be saying thinkers thinking, writers writing, doers doing and plotters plotting at the end of the next hundreds years? Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER29, 1900 TIETH CENTUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. THEIR TRUE POSITION IN THE COMMUNITY. Complex Services Which They Should Perform—Their Value as Public Institutions—Useful as Promoters of Business. The rightly conducted local newspaper contributes more to the well being of its community than any other private enterprise and is second in importance to the people to no public institution unless it be the public school, writes E. P. Harrison in Newspaper-dom. Much of a trivial nature may appear in the local paper, but the fact reminds that the local news, in the broadest sense, is the solvent which blends the varying elements of local life into an organic whole. To the vast majority of people local doings are more important than the doings of the state and nation. Next to the family, the most important unit is the local community. The local newspaper that records all of the local happenings, tendencies and developments that are of interest to the people has performed a very important service. If, in addition to this, the editor construes and comments on the more important matters in a way to reflect the best sentiments of the people, he contributes a factor to local life the value of which cannot be over-estimated. The editor still further places the town under obligations to him if, from study of the life and doings of other communities, he is able to make suggestions for the local welfare. The doctors put some new ones in and fix him better ever. The local paper should reflect local sentiments. The reader is more interested to know what many think about local questions than to know what we editor thinks. Local opinions are interesting local news. The editor who has the ability and is in touch with the community so as to conduct a paper on these lines has a hold upon the people which not only gives him an honorable and dignified position, but should, with good business management, make him an adequate income and a valuable property. Almost as important to the community and more important to the treasury is the management of that part of the paper which is paid for by the author—namely, the advertising. It should be borne in mind that advertising today is not an optional matter, but the only means by which goods can be distributed to the best advantage of buyers and the greatest profit to the merchant. It is an improved merchandising machine that enables the buyer to get what he wants at least trouble and expense and the dealer to do a much larger business with a given plant to his advantage and profit. While the space occupied by the advertiser is paid for by the merchant, it is the privilege and duty of the editor to make the matter as interesting and valuable as possible to the reader. A useful suggestion in the advertising columns adds as much to the attractiveness of the paper to the reader as though it appeared in the news columns. It can almost be laid down as a rule that the more fresh, interesting and helpful the advertising columns are made to the reader the more benefit the advertiser will derive from the paper and the more he will pay for the use of the paper. Success in conducting a local paper depends, first, upon the right conception of the highest utility of the paper. With this view of the office of the local paper there will be no seeking of temporary sensations, no deceiving headings, for the newspaper man will realize that the value of his paper to reader and advertiser alike rests on confidence. There will be no begging of advertising "to help the paper," for the attitude of soliciting advertising for the profit of the advertiser will be recognized as the more effective as well as the more dignified. In short, a conception of the true position of the local newspaper will place its conductor in the social position he should occupy and his bank balance on a footing of independence. Price 3 Cents Y The true reasons why negroes are not in labor unions are, first, because in the North, those in the trades are too few to amount to anything, and, besides, they are discriminated against by the unions of every kind; and, second, in the South the whites in certain branches are too few to successfully ostracise the negro and the negro is too intelligent to crave admission in an organization that will at once rob him of his identity. As soon as an organization is effected none but members can be employed, and as wages are controlled in the South, as in the North, or rather New York, the overflow of white men will crowd the negro to the wall, as they are doing in New York. In the South an employer can hire any man competent to do his work. In case he finds he has an incompetent man he can get rid of him without asking a dozen committees. When men are wanted in the South all the person desiring them needs to do is to go to the street and hire them as suits him, and when he no longer needs them, or for any reason desires a change, he simply makes the change or notifies the persons that their services are no longer wanted, and that ends it. In the North, even if a man, family is in a starving condition, even if he is as good at his trade as the best, even if the boss is in great need of help, yet if that man is not a member of the union he cannot be employed. Is their another so heartless a trust on God's green earth? The labor union as it exists in its greatest tyranny is the most cruel organization imaginable. The negro of the South has well weighed the situation and long ago decided that his best interests are to keep away from these labor organizations; to have nothing to do with strikes or any such methods. Consequently there is never a disturbance in the South; there is no conflict between capital and labor. The whites and blacks of the South are slow to rush into any foreign movement. The whites know their interests are in the black help, which is certainly equal of the white help of the North; therefore, both are determined to keep the unions governed by foreign influences away from their section. So let no one shed any more crocodile tears about the negro of the South. He is doing quite well, thank you, without the unions, and men of that section will always reserve the right to say whom they will hire, and whom they will work for, and what they will work for, and what they shall do with their money. A country is a dreary place when it is dictated to by men who are ready with a firebrand. RICHES OF THE PRINCIPAL MONARCHS OF EUROPE What They Receive and What They Have and Can Save For a Raiing Day —Queen Victoria Heads the List, Being Probably the Richest Sovereign in the World. it pay to be a king: This question, very often asked, and as seldom answered, is one that interests the whole world. There are those who think that besides the honor of it there is no emolument associated with the responsibility of ruling a great government. But the computed private fortunes of the world's greatest sovereigns, especially those of Europe, show that although uneasy may lie a kingly head, the state of unrest is so grandly remunerative that it would allow a most comfortable subsistence should the reposer be suddenly relieved of his sovereignty and compelled to live in retirement says the Omaha Bee. While it is considered the worst of form in court circles to discuss the private wealth of kings and queens, it is a well-known fact that their finances are gossiped about, and so loudly, too, that information regarding the pecuniary standing of monarchs escapes to the curious world without. For instance, everyone knows that Queen Victoria is the richest sovereign in Europe, if not in the world. Here is an estimate of her private possessions: Annual income from nation, $1,925,000. Revenues from Duchy of Lancaster, $300,000. Estates in Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy and Wales. The famous Koh-i-noor diamond, worth $3,500,000. Money invested to the amount of $50,000,000. Yet, in spite of these figures, there are those who claim that the sum of Her Majesty's fortunes when made know definitely will be comparatively small. They argue that Victoria is one of the most sympathetic and generous sovereigns in Europe, adding that her money is eaten up by pet charities, private salaries and pensions; and there is the mise en scene of royalty to be kept up, which requires an enormous amount of money. Her Majesty's wealth consists principally of jewels and cash; for, since she relinquished her claim to many of the land properties of the crown in return for the $180,000 civil list allowances, years ago, her riches are exceeded in real estate possessions by those of the Czar of Russia. But even these vast landed riches do not place Nicholas II. next on the list of millionaires on thrones. This enviable position is reserved, strange as it may seem, for Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of European Turkey, who manages to get away with $5,000,000 yearly to the maintenance of his harem and the provision of other luxuries. But if Abdul Hamid's subjects were to rise in revolt and dethrone him, these are some of the possessions which he would have to fall back on: A private fortune of $12,000,000. What he is able to "knock down" from a civil list of $4,000,000. Investments in other countries yielding an annual income of $1,500,000. A jewel embroidered wardrobe worth $3,000,000. Rings and other ornaments committed to have cost $1,500,000. But it must not be thought for a moment that the Sultan is satisfied with these riches. Far to the contrary, he longs to be known as the wealthiest man in all the world, and is constantly reaching out for additional wealth, while enjoying every luxury that money can procure. The magnificence of the Sultan's wardrobe is proverbial, and a set of diamond buttons for one of his court robes is only one of a large number of recent extravagances. Of the sums which are hidden away in the coffers of the Czar Nicholas II., little is known. He, however, owns vast lands in Siberia, and the following record of a portion of his wealth shows that there would still be enough to support Her Majesty the Czarina and the little grandduchesses should their royal spouse some morning awake and find himself suddenly dethroned and compelled to seek his own livelihood in a less austere manner. A million square miles of cultivated Russian lands. Gold and other mines in Siberia. Largest cream-colored horses in the world. Revenues from real estate to the amount of $15,000,000. Savings from a $5,000,000 civil list. A sparkling addition to this list is the Orloff, one of the diamond wonders of the world. This remarkable gem weighs 194 1-4 carats, and is set in the scipher of His Majesty. The Orloff was purchased in the year 1774 by the Armenian Schaffras, who sold it to Catherine II., of Russia, for half a million rubles, a pension of 20,000 rubles, and a patent of nobility. The Shah, another diamond which is a perfect mass of fire and brilliancy, is also contained in His Majesty's jewel casket. These two gems alone would bring a fortune if put on sale. King Leopold, of Belgium, were it not for his well-known unfortunate business speculations, would possess a private fortune of something like $75,000,000. He has in time, however, been one of the richest of European monarchs, and much of his wealth was consumed in the establishment of the Belgian colony in the Congo country, which cost him something like $500,000 a year for several years, and even now draws heavily on His Mateyst's resources. Then there are the $2,000,000 which he is said to have lost in the Panama scheme. Many handsome jewels, fine lands and the most magnificent collection of photographs in the world belong to the Belgian monarch, but his reverses have been so many that it is difficult to tell how much of his once imperial fortune remains. William II... the versatile Emperor of Germany, has a stock of this world's goods that contrasts strikingly with that of his neighbor sovereign, Leopold. His dual office of Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia makes him rich beyond all dreams of avarice. These are only a few of the resources upon which he could draw were he to become simply a prince, with no other office than that to which a royal birth naturally admits him: Four great palaces and fifty lesser ones and castles. Savings from an annual civil list of $3,853,000. Private income of $9,000,000 a year. Jewels whose sale would bring at least $2,500,000. Added to these riches, which are sufficient to satisfy a man of most Crosseusian desires, is the royal crown treasure of $300,000,000 founded by Frederick William III, comprising the domains of Flatow, Krojanke and Frudendorf, the Fredeikommiss of Prince Carl and the house of Fredelkommis of the Hohenzollars. The Empress, too, has a snug little fortune that figures into seven numbers, to which she has added constantly from the liberal allowances made by her royal husband. The private fortune of Franz Josef has been recorded in such a contradictory manner, and there are so few people who have an insight into the sovereign's finances that it is impossible to give an exact idea of his possessions. These, however, are known to be his personal property: An income of $1,000,000 yearly from private sources. Profits from civil list of $4,500,000. Jewels left by the late Empress, worth $3,000,000. Also enormous cash deposits in the Bank of England. Emperor Franz Josef came into possession of a great deal of the wealth left by his wife, the late Empress Elizabeth, which included valuable real estate. Her Majesty's Viennese possessions were famous the world over. The palace at Corfu, recently sold, was worth a fabulous sum, and it furnishings alone cost something over a million. Though King Christian of Denmark was a poor man when he ascended the throne, he is now numbered with the richest of the world's sovereigns. Much of his wealth has been brought into the family by advantageous marriages, notably that of his son to Louise of Sweden. But through his own thriftiness King Christian has accumulated a goodly store of this world's goods. the unique and charming spectacle which the assembly of King Christian's court presents during the summer months at his country seat is known wherever court news is circulated. This is one of the finest old castles in Europe, and would alone support His Majesty in regal style wee he deprived of his throne and its emoluments. Fredenborg is situated on the Lake Estrom and is surrounded by a magnificent park, combining forest glades with cultivated loveliness in a manner too artistic to describe. King Oscar of Sweden, who loves the good things of life, has but a small civil list with which to procure them. His private fortune, however, includes many valuable lands and the savings of the labors of nearly 30 years, which ought to be a goodly sum. They include: Several charming country palaces throughout Norway and Sweden. A private yacht which would easily bring $500,000. Money invested which yields $2,000,000 yearly. And the customary civil list gains of over $500,000. His Majesty has an immensely wealthy relative in his brother, Carl XV., but the most of the latter's fortune be bequeathed to his daughter nause upon her marriage with the Crown Prince of Denmark, so it is not at all certain that any of this wealth will revert to her uncle, though the Princess is very fond of "Uncle Oscar." There are other princely fortunes that could be written in letters and included in frames of gold. Spain, in all her poverty, manages each year to give her boy King $1,400,000, of which the prudent Queen Regent is able to lay aside more than half. The large, lucrative estates of Queen Wilhelmina made her a very rich young woman, and to these revenues she adds the savings from the civil list of $600,000 allowed her by the god old Netherlanders. Her castle at Loo is the most beautiful and highly valued of her landed possessions. Economical Gun Practice. Economic Gun Practice The method used in the United States navy for the economical training of the gunners is very interesting. It is a well-known fact that the cost of firing one of the large guns used in the navy is very great, amounting sometimes to $1,000 or more. To save this expense a very simple method is employed. In the case of the large guns an ordinary Remington rifle is secured in the breech of the gun and directly in the center of the bore, so tha. when it is fired its bullet takes the same direction as that of the regular projectile. The large gun is sighted in the usual manner. On account of the lesser velocity of the small bullet the target is placed close to the ship and is made correspondingly small. The method used for the six-pounder or other small guns is slightly different, as, instead of the small rifle, a wooden or dummy cartridge, the same size as the regular cartridge, is employed. Through the center of this wooden cartridge runs a rifle barrel which is loaded with a forty-four caliber cartridge. This latter method has the additional advantage of giving the gun crew practice in loading as well as firing—Washington Star. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Chat About the Hoosier Writer of "Homely" Poetry-How He Lost His Job and Became Prominent. "We Hoosiers ought to be everlastingly grateful to 'Lije' Halford," said the soap man in the hotel lobby, who was discussing the coming of James Whitecomb Riley to St. Louis under the auspices of the Indiana Society, "for bringing Riley into prominence, by dismissing him from his job as writer for the Indianapolis Journal." Of course they all wanted to know how it happened, and the soap man told the story. Riley was getting a few dollars a week from the Journal for original poems when "Lije" Halford, afterward private secretary to President Harrison and now paymaster in the army, came to the paper as managing editor. Halford at once decided that expenses should be cut down, and picked upon Riley as the first victim. He told Riley that the poetic department would be continued if Riley wanted to furnish the poems without expense to the office. The blow was a hard one on Riley, and he was ready for a time to give up in despair. While things were looking decidedly blue for him a convention was held in Indianapolis. One of the men nominated was a big fellow who had never made a speech in his life. He was called before the convention and shifting from one foot to the other in perfect agony for a moment, and then blurted out: "Gentlemen. I thank you for this nomination. I can't make a speech, but I can tell you one thing: The ticket you've nominated here to-day is goin' to win 'when the frost is on the punk'in and the fodder's in the shock.'" "I heard that speech," continued the drummer, "and it took the house by storm. It was evidence that the little poem by Riley, which had been published but a few days before, had been read by the delegates to that convention and by the spectators, who joined in the applause which greeted the apt quotation from the poem. That circumstance brought the business manager of the Journal to Riley's rescue, and his first book, 'The Old Swimmin' Hole, and 'Leven More Poems,' was published and made a great hit. Since that time things have been coming easy for Riley. 'If. Halford hadn't fired him he might never have discovered himself." "I heard a story on Riley when I was in Indianapolis the last time that is a good one," said another member of the group. "Riley used to have a fondness for dogs, and always, in his younger days, had one at his heels. One day in Indianapolis he came across a magnificent coach dog, and induced it to follow him away from the place it had been left by the owner. Riley took the dog down to the Journal office and tied it to the leg of his table, where he was doing some work. Along in the afternoon the owner of the dog came in with an advertisement in which he offered a reward for the return of his prize coach dog. Riley's explanations did not go, and only the intervention of other members of the staff saved the poet from getting a trouncing at the hands of the lrate owner of the dog. The story got out, and Riley was joked a good deal about it. He usually turned the matter to account by using the story to prove that it paid to advertise." "Riley told me once how he happened to adopt his homely style in writing poetry," said another member of the party. "He had been credited with having discovered a new field, but he told me that the idea came to him like a flash. He had been abroad, and was on his way home to Indianapolis. He looked up at the sky and decide that it was just as blue as it was in Italy. The purling brooks purled just the same in Indiana as they did in Switzerland. The trees were just as green on the Wabash as they were in France, and the birds sang just as sweetly in America as they did any place in the world. It came to the poet that it wasn't necessary to get out of sight of the plain people to find the poetry of life. The popularity of everything he has written along homely lines is proof sufficient that he was right about it."—St. Louis Globe-Democ t. Was "Agin" Vaccination. "I sign against being vaccinated? Just what I'll do. It gives you a crying baby, even if it didn't cry before. "Yes, with pleasure. I never took to it since I heard how a neighbor—Mrs. Robinson that was—lost a child by it. Not that it died of it—but when it was born' it was as healthy a child as ever I see'd—and so it was for a year after it was vaccinated; but after that, just a year, mind you, it began to pine and pine and never got on with its mother—Mrs. Robinson that was—nor the bottle, nor even the fancy foods (not that I ever held with they) nor nothing; and two years from being vaccinated that child took and died. Yes, I'll sign with pleasure."—Nineteenth Century. Across the Alps by Motor: Lieutenant Engler, of Frankfort, has just accomplished the feat of crossing the Alps by way of the Stiffler Joeh in an automobile, accompanied by his wife and an attendant. The route was by way of Frankfort, Munich, the Brenner and Ulm, and the whole excursion, which extended over 1,250 miles, was performed in 99 hours' driving—a record of over twelve miles an hour. The automobile used by Lieut. Engler is a benzine motor, model 1900, five horse power. Fifty pounds of luggage was carried—Paris Messenger. A Very Gentle Hint "You will find religion every where in nature," said the Rev. Dr. Speakmore. "There are even sermons in stones." "Yes, and have you noticed," replied the long suffering member of the congregation, "that the most precious stones are small and that they have to be cut before they become interesting?"—Philadelphia Press. DO YOU FEEL LIKE THIS? Pen Picture for Women. "I am so norwous, there is not a well inch in my whole body. I am so weak at my stomach and have indigestion horribly, and palpitation of the heart, and I am losing flesh. This headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I nearly had hysteries; there is a weight in the lower part of my bowels bearing down all the time, and pains in my groins and thighs; I cannot sleep, walk, or sit, and I believe I am diseased all over; no one ever suffered as I do." This is a description of thousands of cases which come to Mrs. Pinkham's attention daily. 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The simple reason is that Mr. Major uses the best materials ever discovered and other manufacturers do not use them, because they are too expensive and do not allow large profits. Mr. Major tells us that one of the elements of his cement costs $3.75 a pound and another costs $2.65 a gallon, while a large share of the so-called cements and liquid glue upon the market are nothing more than sixteen-cent glue, dissolved in water or citric acid, and, in some cases altered slightly in color and odor by the addition of cheap and useless materials. Major's cement retails at fifteen cents and twenty-five cents a bottle, and when a dealer tries to sell a substitute you can depend upon it that his only object is to make larger profit. The profit 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. Inist on having Major's. Don't accept any offhand advice from a druggist. If you are at all handy (and you will be likely to find that you are a good deal more so than you imagine) you can repair your rubber boots and family shoes, and any other rubber and leather articles, with Major's Rubber Cement and Major's Leather Cement. And you will be suprised at how many dollars you will be save. If your druggist supplies you, it will be forwarded by mail; either kind. Free of post a'le. THE UBIQITOUS AND WILY DE WET. Details of a Feat That Will Live In Military Annals as a Spectacular Display of Daring and Courage. London cable: The ubiquitous and why De Wet, "the South African fox," as he is sometimes called, promises to pass into history as one of the most dashing and dare devil military figures of the closing decade of the century. Numerous traps have been set for him, but so far he has evaded them all. Occasionally he has found himself in close quarters, but his daring and bravery have always helped him to safety. Advices from Bloemfontein say: "The details of General De Wet's latest escape from the encircling British column show that it was one of the boldest incidents of the war. When Haaabrook's commando joined De Wet, Dec. 12, some fifteen miles east of Thabancu, General Knox was only about an hour distant and the Boer situation seemed desperate. But De Wet was equal to the occasion. Dispatching Haaabrook westward to make a feint at Victoria Nek, De Wet prepared to break through the British columns at Springauh Nek Pass, about four miles of broad, flat, unbroken ground. At the entrance were two fortified posts, while artillery was posted on a hill eastward, watching the Boers. Suddenly a magnificent spectacle was presented. The whole Boer army of 2,500 men started at a gallop in open order through the nek. President Steyn and Pelt Fourier led the charge and De Wet brought up the rear. The British guns and rifles boomed and rattled incessantly. The Boers first tried the eastward route, but, encountering artillery, they diverged and galloped to the point of the hill to the eastward, where the fire of only a single post was effective. The whole maneuver was a piece of magnificent daring, and its success was complete in spite of the loss of a fifteen-pounder and twenty-five prisoners. The British force detached after Haaabrook came in contact with his commando at nightfall. The burghers were scattered and the Welsh yeomany galloped among the retreating Boers, using their revolvers and butt ends of their rifles with great effect. An incident of the light was the gallop of a British ammunition wagon right through the scattered Boers, the gunners using the revolvers freely." FOR AUTONOMY. FOR AUTONOMY. PHILIPPINE COMMISSION CONFERS WITH NATIVE LEADERS. Very Active Operations Now In Progress In Northern Luzon—Flitteen Insurgents Killed and 100 Pris Manila cable: The leaders of the projected autonomy party have again visited the Philippine commission, and the platform was discussed privately and in an informal way. The commissioners advise the elimination of a few minor features. Personally they approve the movement as a forward step in the direction of the ultimate measure of self-government which the commission has already been instructed to bring about. The plan of the party is to form United States Territories involving candidature for ultimate statehood. The platform declares in favor of a Senate and House of Representatives elected from the districts of the archipelago according to the population. In preparing a bill of rights the United States constitution is utilized, with the exception of the features of trial justice. According to the plan the Governor General appointed by the President would have the power to veto, except in cases of a two-thirds vote of the Legislature. The Legislature would choose five delegates to the United States. The platform opposes the sale of the Philippines without the consent of the Legislature. It contains little regarding judiciary or focal affairs. In the main it repeats the features of the United States constitution. The most influential and honorable natives are identified with the movement. Every mountain trail in General Young's district north of the Abra river and between the coast and Dolores has been followed up by American scouts this month. A similar movement has taken place in the provinces of Union, Benguet, Lepanto, and that part of South Ilocos which lies south of the Abra river. Fifteen insurgents have been killed and more than one hundred captured. The villages are always abandoned before the arrival of the Americans, but many buildings that have been used as barracks have been destroyed. Mr. Cleveland Considers That the Democrat Party Has Been Betrayed. The sensation in political circles last week throughout the country was an article in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post (copyright, 1900, by the Curtis Publishing Company), by ex-President Cleveland on the "Flight of the Democracy." Mr. Cleveland reviews the history of the party from 1782 down to 1900, and points out that defeat always came to the party through alliances with undemocratic forces. In speaking of this feature, Mr. Cleveland says: "The culmination of Democratic woe was reached when its compact with these undemocratic forces was complete, and when our rank and file were summoned to do battle under banners which bore strange symbols and were held aloft in unfamiliar hands. The result of such a betrayal was foredoomed. This abandonment of the principles of true democracy, this contemptuous disobedience of its traditions and this deliberate violation of the law of its strength and vigor, were by a decree as inexorable as those of fate, followed by the inevitable punishment of stunning, staggering defeat." Mr. Cleveland touches in turn on free silver and the federal courts, and believes that Democrats are against condemning "the general government for protecting itself in the exercise of its functions against violent obstructions within a State." Further on he declares. "I believe no Democrat will have the hardship to deny that we have fought our last two campaigns in alliance with undemocratic forces and that this alliance was immediately costly in defeat. Is there not good reason to suppose that even in success such an alliance would have proved unprofitable and dangerous?" In conclusion Mr. Cleveland says: "There is much for us to do, and the future is full of Democratic duty and opportunity. Our fighting forces will respond listlessly and falteringly if summoned to a third defeat in a strange cause; but if they hear the rallying call of true Democracy they will gather for battle with old-time Democratic enthusiasm and courage. "If I should attempt to epitomize what I have written by suggesting a plan for the rehabilitation and restoration of true Democracy I should embody it in these words: 'Give the rank and file a chance.'" A "TIGER'S" CHRISTMAS. An Indian Kills Two Men, Fatally Wounds Another, Is Chased Three Miles and "Winged." Muskogee, I. T., special: John Tiger, a full blood Indian, a ferryman on the Arkansas river two miles south of Eufaula, went to Eufaula with his wife Tuesday afternoon and while intoicated met L. B. Rober and threatened to kill him. Rober immediately struck Tiger with a board, no words passing between them. Tiger went to his buggy, got a Winchester, and came back to kill Rober, but failed to find Rober on his return. Enraged, he proceeded to shoot every one he saw, shooting James Beck through the hips and killing him; shooting and killing Dave Porter, a nephew of Chief Porter, and a mover named Johnson on his way to Missouri in a covered wagon with his family. Bud Taylor, aged 18, was shot through the shoulder and is not expected to live. Tiger immediately jumped on a horse and tried to escape, but was pursued. Tiger was chased three miles when he jumped off his horse, got behind a tree and began shooting. Deputy Marshal Johnson, who returned the fire, struck Tiger in the arm. The murderer surrendered and was brought to Eufaula. Tiger's arm will have to be amputated. Great indignation prevails over the free sale of liquors and firearms. J. Smith, who lives two miles south of Checotah, became involved in a quarrel with T. Thompson over the shooting at Eufaula and began shooting. Thompson was mortally wounded. HAS GIVEN AWAY $3,000,000. Dr. D. K. Pearson's Adds Another Gift to His Many Benefactions. $^8$ Chicago special: Dr. D. K. Pearson has sent his check for $50,000 as a Christmas present to Colorado College. Within the last seven weeks Dr. Pearson has given $200,000 to one other industrial institution, but declines to state the name of the recipient, who gave a pledge that the donor's name should never be divulged during his lifetime. These two gifts, together with $30,000 said to have been given by Dr. Pearson for the erection of a woman's dormitory at Northwestern University, bring the actual total of his known benefactions during the last ten years to the sum of $2,489,000, though these figures fall far short of the complete list. The money tendered anonymously probably reaches $500,000, making the whole amount very close to $3,000,000. SOLDIER RUNS AMUCK. Stabs Three Men With a Bayonet at Fort Washington. Washington special: Frenzied by drink, James L. McDonough, a private soldier at Fort Washington. Tuesday afternoon attacked a sergeant and four privates at the post, who had attempted to place him under arrest, and stabbed three of the party with a bayonet, which he had concealed under his coat. The attack was entirely unlooked for, and as a result Sergeant J. P. Staab is dangerously wounded in the left breast. Two other soldiers were also victims of the infiltrated man, one receiving a painful wound in the arm and another being stabbed in the shoulder. McDonough then escaped and a picked squad of fifty men are on the lookout for him. He is a foreigner by birth. At a late hour McDonough was taken into custody by the metropolitan police in one of the suburban districts. GEN. HARRISON'S BIG FEE. Venezuela Pays Him $100,000 For Win- ning Its Case Before the Paris Board of Arbitration. New York special: Advices from Caracas, Venezuela, state that former Presid- ent Harrison has received his tee, for services in connection with the arbitra- tion boundary dispute between British Gulana and Venezuela. The settlement was made, Tuesday. Ex-President Harrison was leading counsel for Venezuela in the arbitration case, which was de- cided by the tribunal of Paris, in which Venezuela regained valuable land claimed by Great Britain. Associated with him was Gen. B. F. Tracey. It has been stated officially that Harrison's fee was to be $100,000. sang a serenade and Shot Himself. New York special: Louis Lombardo undertook to serenade Jose De Parlo in Brooklyn Monday night. The girl's father ordered him away but Lombardo persisted in singing a love song, playing an accompaniment on a guitar. At the conclusion of the song, and while his sweet-heart was at her window, Lombardo drew a revolver and with it shot himself in the head. 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The Senate Wednesday passed the House resolution authorizing Congressman Bouteille's appointment as a captain in the navy and his retirement on full pay without opposition. Mr. Bacon introduced a resolution which was passed calling on Secretary of War for report of A. L. Lawshon on the receipts by the war department of Cuban funds and expenditures of same. Seventy-one private pension bills were passed, including two giving pensions of $5 a month to the widows of Gen. John McClernand and Gen. John M. Palmer. A bill giving a pension of $4 a month to the w'dow of Col. James Mercur, late professor of civil and military engineering at West Point, was also passed. The urgent deficiency bill was passed without debate. The Senate then at 1:30 p. m., on motion of Mr. Lodge went into executive session to resume consideration of the Hay-Paucefote treaty and at 2:40 p. m. adjourned. The House Wednesday, at the end of a spirited contest, passed bills to compete the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads to abolish grade crossings, to alter their routes into Washington and to change their terminal facilities. An amendment was placed upon the Pennsylvania bill to require the road to build a new station to cost not less than $1,500,000. The bills were vigorously antagonized by a portion of the minority under the leadership of Mr. Cowherd, of Missouri, on the ground that they were too liberal to the roads. A spirited debate was precipitated in the Senate Thursday over the resolution of Mr. Chandler to discharge the committee on contingent expenses from further consideration of the resolution authorizing an investigation of the Montana Senatorial case. The exchanges between the advocates and opponents of the resolution took a political turn and resulted in some lively colloquies. No action upon the resolution was taken. The debate was participated in by Messrs. Jones, of Arkansas, Spooner, Tillman, Scott and Chandler. The House Thursday passed the Indian and the Military Academy appropriation bills. The former carried $9,068,555, and the latter $700,151. Neither provoked much discussion. A few minor amendments were placed upon the former. No business was transacted by the Senate Friday. The news of the death of Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the President pro tem, of the Senate, was conveyed officially to the body, and, out of respect to her memory, immediate adjournment was taken until Jan. 3, 1901. Senator Fairbanks called the body to order and Rev. Milburn pronounced a beautiful invocation. The secretary then read a letter from Senator Frye appointing Senator Fairbanks presiding officer during his absence from the Senate. Meantime a conference of Senators had beer held as to the order of business. The reading of the journal was suspended and, at 12:05 p. m., on motion of Mr. Hoar, the Senate adjourned until Jan. 3. The House was in session only twenty-five minutes Friday, when it adjourned out of respect to the memory of Representative Wise, of Virginia, who died at his home in Williamsburg, Va. The customary resolutions were adopted and SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. committee of fifteen members appointed to attend the funeral. Under the joint resolution adopted a few days ago the adjournment was until Jan. 3, 1901. Santa Fe Telegraphers Now Free to Wor For the Company But Their Places Are Mostly Filled. Topeka, Kas., special: President Dolphin, of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, has declared off the strike of operators on the Santa Fe. All the striking operators here received orders Friday night from President Dolphin that the strike would continue no longer. The operators are beginning to speculate as to whether they will be reinstated in the employ of the company. They now have the permission of the organization to work if they can secure work. Chicago special: Third Vice-President Barr, of the Santa Fe system, said upon being informed that the telegraphers strike had been declared off: "As far as we are concerned it has been off for a long time. We have all the we need at present, and we will discharge none of them to make room for any striker who wishes to come back. These men broke their contract with us in a manner entirely unjustifiable, and we are done forever with the telegraphers as an organization." MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS Flendish and Indescribable Atrocities Perpetrated by Mohammed Fanatics. Vienna cable: Further reports of the Turkish massacres of Christians show that their instigator is a Mohammedan fanatic named Halduk Islam, who brags of having slaughtered 200 Christians with his own hands. The Turkish authorities have shown utter indifference to the massacres and the outrages perpetrated on Christians are beyond description. The friends tortured the Christians at Riharatz by slicing flesh from all parts of their bodies before killing them. A Greek orthodox priest was tied in a sack and pitched into the river at Genovitza. The Servian consul at Mitrovitza estimates that 1,100 persons have been killed and 400 women attacked and placed in harems. Three Little Boys Burned to Death Little Rock, Ark. special: Three boys of Dick Lamberson were burned to death in their home in North Little Rock Tuesday afternoon. Their father had locked them in the room on the second story while he went to the depot. They started a fire while playing with matches and were burned to death before the firemen could rescue them. Their ages were 9, 7 and 5 years. The family moved to this city four days ago from Tennessee. A Consul's Suicide. Philadelphia special: W. Irvine Shaw, who had been filling the position of United States consul at Barranquilla, Colombia, and who was recently appointed consul-general at Singapore, committed suicide in a hotel here Tuesday. He opened a femoral artery and slashed his throat and wrists with a knife. Ill health is supposed to have affected his mind. Does Not Favor the Ship Subsidy Bill O Other Forms of "Codding." Philadelphia special: A report from the North American Saturday asked ex-President Grover Cleveland for his opinion on the ship subsidy bill. He said: "I can not go into this matter, although I appreciate its importance. But I might say that I have not changed my opinions, I favor free ships just as I did when I spoke in this city at the launching of the steamship St. Louis." He then dictated the following statement, which, he said, contained all he cared to say regarding the subsidy: "In regard to this proposed subsidy I would refer you to my speech at the launching of the St. Louis. I then said something in favor of free ships. I have not changed my opinions. With our much-vauced accession to a position among the world powers, I hope to see not so much, instead of more, of that sort of coddling which a less prominent place in the family of nations was claimed by some of our people to excuse." TRIPLE TRAGEDY. Two Men Killed and Another Shot in the Head in Kentucky. Mayfield, Ky., special: Two men dead and another wounded is the result of a tragedy that occurred in the southwest section of the city at a late hour Tuesday night. Deputy Sheriff John Usher and Charles Bowline, a saloon keeper, were killed, and Birch Hillyer, an associate of the latter, received a bullet wound in the head. Usher and Sheriff Sam Douthit went to Bowline's home to arrest Hillyer, who resisted. Usher procured a revolver and fired at him. Bowline ran into the room and fired a bullet through Usher's heart, and was in the act of shooting Sheriff Douthit when the latter shot him dead. The tragedy took place in a small room at Bowline's home, and fifteen shots were fired. Hillyer was arrested and locked up as an accessory to the murder of Usher. TORNADO IN THE SOUTH. Buildings Wrecked and Two Negroes and Several Mules Killed. Macon, Miss., special: News was received here Sunday afternoon that a tornado passed through the eastern edge of Noxubee county and the western part of Pickens and Sumpter counties, Alabama, Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, doing great damage. Telephone news was meager. One house on the Sparkman place was destroyed. A residence on the Ross place, near Cooksville, was wrecked and its furniture destroyed. On the Beal place several houses were blown away. On the John Windham place the storehouse and barns were destroyed and several mules killed. One negro was killed. On the Nancy Plantat place everything was destroyed. Wash Oliver, a negro, was killed. The storm struck in Noxubee county about one mile southeast of Cooksville and took a northeasterly direction into Pickens. Murderer Owens Hanged. Paris, Ill., special. John Owens, who murdered James Hogue on a Big Four stock car, Sept. 22, 1900, was hanging here Friday. Owens gave the word "Go" as a signal for the fall of the trap, and "died game." Before going to the scaffold the condemned man broke his long silence concerning his identity, disclosing the utter brutality of his nature by dying with harsh words for his parents upon his lips, when he made the following statement: "John Owens is my right name. My parents live in Bell county, Kentucky. The last time I saw them was four years ago. They did not speak to me, for they had beaten me out of all my property." Wild Turkey Plenty in Illinois A correspondent of the Chicago Record, writing from Tonti, III., says: "In regard to your editorial, 'Game in Illinois.' I will say that while it is true that the wild turkey is gone from this State so far as the average hunter is concerned, this bird is yet fairly plentiful for the man who understands hunting them. On Dec. 3 I drove twenty miles, hunted and killed a wild gobbler weighing nineteen pounds, with a board ten inches long, and was in bed at 9 o'clock. Turkeys are plentiful in Alexander county, this State." Miss Morrison Released Eldorado, Kas., special: Jessie Morrison, the alleged murderess of Mrs. Castle, was released Monday evening on $5,000 bond. Her father accompanied the sheriff to the jail, and Jessie was released from custody. The party then quickly went to the Morrison home. Miss Morrison has not yet made known her plans for the immediate future. It is thought, however, that she will spend some time visiting her old home in the East. ADVERTISING RATES Entered at the Postoffice as second-class matter. All letters, Communications and Business matters should be addressed to THE RECORDER. Geo. P. STEWART, Publisher SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900 DESPICABLE WORK The article published in our last issue concerning the return of Mrs. Ada Bagby—Ford to this city, was erroneous. Some designing person, evidently bent on mischief, sent the article to this office, signing Mrs. Bagby's name to the same and it was published as authentic. Mrs. Irene Bagby denies the authorship of the letter which shows that it was a forgery. The letter has been turned over to the proper authorities and we have every assurance that the guilty party will be apprehended. The publisher of The Recorder will lend every possible effort in this case. Such despicable methods cannot and will not be tolerated. EDITORIAL WHAT IT WILL MEAN. If congress again adjourns without enacting any measure for the upbuild of our merchant marine in the trade, this is what it means: that foreign ship owners will for other indefinite period continue to from the American people from 10,000 to $200,000,000 a year for American imports and ex-1. That there will be a still decline in the tonnage under an register in the foreign 2. That our navy will be de-reinforcement that would follo-3. That our navy will be de-reinforcement that would follo-4. Should increase the number of ocean ships and of American sea-5. Upon the seas. 4. That the pres-skness of the United States up-seas will be intensified. 5. The United States will become further dependent upon foreign for the carrying of our exports imports. 6. That the dependence American people upon foreign for the carrying of all but 7 per-other exports compels the ex-7 of the United States to rely carriers that may, through for-wars or any other causes, compel their foreign owners to withdraw them from our trade. 7. That while the American treasury may save a paltry few millions of dollars annually by the refusal of congress to legislate in the interest of the American ship, the people of the United States will be compelled by that, very refusal to pay to foreign ships a sum twenty times greater than it has ever been suggested congress pay in one year in subsidies and bounties. 8. That, by neglecting to build a marine of its own, in the foreign trade, the United States contribute to the building of foreign ships, and to the education and experience of foreign seamen, which ships and men, in the ever-possible event of war, may be turned against the United States. 9. That American labor will be deprived of its share of the employment that would come from the building of the ships in the United States required for the carriage of our imports and exports. And this consideration of the subject utterly disregards the claims or provisions of any particular bill, but rests entirely upon the conceded necessity for an American merchant marine. The commissioner of navigation, in his annual report for 1900, just issued, shows that foreign governments are now paying more than $20,000,000 a year to their merchant ships in the way of subsidies and bounties. It is such aid as this to foreign ships that helps to make it impossible for American ships to profitably compete with them in the carriage of our imports and exports. Indiana's "black laws" are a disgrace and should be repealed Only 17 divorces were granted in Canada last year, while no one knows how many were granted in the United States. Representative Reagan of Marion county, is preparing a bill to be presented to the legislature that will check the growing evil in Indiana. On Thursday, January 10, the Indiana legislature will convene. A possible program of their work has been reviewed in special letters in THE RECORDER and a number of laws designed to be of advantage to the State, will be considered. Practically few reform laws are needed, but it is highly probable that those will receive consideration. A state meeting of colored men to be held soon will present suggestions to the legislature that will benefit the race. On the question of lynching it is the consensus of opinion that the declaration of Gov Mount is the sentiment of the leading white citizens of the State regardless of party affiliation. Lynch law is certain to receive a backset at this session. Incidentally a number of colored men hope to receive reward in the allotment of jobs. The race leaders did valiant service during the past campaign and their claims are meritorious. The citizens of Indianapolis rejoice in the merited advancement recently given the Rev. Charles W. Newton, former pastor of Bethel Church. Durhis short stay here Rev. Newton advanced ideas and financial plans that were helpful to all the city churches, regardless of denomination. As much as we dislike to thrash over old straw, still The Recorder desires to publicy express its appreciation for the many kindnesses accorded us by Rev. Newton. and, especially for his financial and moral support during the recent unpleasantness between this paper and the city ministers. In his new field of labor, we wish him God-speed and success. The real questions is, whether the Negro is to receive justice or not. If Representative Crumpacker's bill is to be turned down, for the sole purpose placating the South, the Republican party will be accused of ungrateful and Northern sentiment will be sure to react; but if behind this dilly-dallying method of dealing with the South there lies a first consideration of the rights of citizenship as guaranteed by the constitution, the Negro will be content. The disintegration of the once solid South gives us hope. "You may say for me, that no stone will be left unturned to run down these perpetrators of mob violence, deliberate vicious violators of the laws of the State, and visit upon them a vigorous prosecution and just retribution in the courts."—Gov. Mount. Comment ether pro or con will not alter Governor Mount's determination to do just as he states above. With the executive power at his command, we rest assured that success will crown his efforts. As the shipping industry is all "foreign," so far as the colored man is concerned, it not to be expected that he will have any especial interest in the merry fight that is now going on between the advocates of the Merchant Marine bill and the antis. But its mighty interestin' readin' for the colored brother and his convictions are for the right. It is to be hoped that the Negro will seize every opportunity presented whereby he may become a better citizen. Evidences material progress are to be seen everywhere; but as the weakest link in the chain represents its greatest strength, so does the indolent, shiftless and drunken colored man retard the progress of the entire race. Bishop Grant of the A. M. E. church, gave a dinner to the colored newspaper men last Tuesday evening. It was an informal affair and there were no invited guests. The lonesome few who got into the 20th century by mistake last Christmas will soon have plenty of company in their present isolation. Of course, Mr. Bryan will have pneumatic tube service in his newspaper office. He must have some way of blowing off his wind. Race patronage and support along industrial, professional and business lines, is what's needed most. +HE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA CHURCH NOTES 9th Presbyterian Church Michigan st., bet. Capitol avenue and Illinois st Rev. Minor will preach at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. and Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Prof. W. T. B. Williams, sup.t The public is invited to hear hlm. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. If you want to hear the pure spiritual, reviving and sin killing gospel of Jesus Christ preached in its purity, come and hear the Rev. Minor. JONES TABERNACLE A, M. E. ZION CHURCH RHV W. H. CHAMBERS, PASTOR Preaching at 11 a. m.; Sundayschool 2 p. m. Weekly meetings: Young Girls club, Monday 4 p. m. Miss Jen- nie Ashby, pres.; Young Ladies Occa- sia club, Monday eve 8 p. m., Miss Katie Stevenson, pres.; Dorcas Circle, Thursday 4 p. m., Mrs. Mary Allen pres.; Ladies Social Circle, Thursday 4 p. m., Mrs. Bunch pres. Young Men's Willing Worker club, Wednesday 8 p. m.; Class Thursday 8 p. m. you are invited Grand Rally on the first Sunday in January, 1901. All pastors and their congregations are invited. The pastor's family are spending the holidays in the city. Alacrity in work for self and the devil. Sloth for God and church, yet there are a faithful few who sacrifice self, even life for God and His church. We have some of the best and are praying for mo.e. We wish you a Happy New Year. ALLEN+CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH (Broadway, between Tenth & Eleventh Site.) R. French Hurley.D. D. pastor. Residence, 703 East Pratt street. You are welcome; come and see us Don't fail to attend the services. Regular preaching service at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., Classes at 12:80; Sun day-school at 2:15. Rev. Morris Lewis will preach to the Tribe of Benjamin at 3 p. m. tomorrow Watch meeting Monday night. MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. (Corner Eleventh and Fayette St.) Rev. B. F. Farrell Pastor The church is still in possession of a lovely choir. Service Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. B. Y. P. U. meets every Tuesday night; prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Five o'clock prayer meeting Christmas morning was very interesting: the tree Monday night was a success many valuable presents were received. The executive board of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society will meet at the church, Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Sundayschool at 9:30 p. m. Chas. Dupee, Supt. L. W. Rattifle, Pastor. Preaching at 10:45 A. M. and 7:45 p. m., Sunday-school 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Thompson, sup't; Class meeting 12 M. Mite missionary 7 p. m. first and second Sundays; Y. P. S. C, E. Wednesday evening; Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Tomorrow is Ladies Raily Day; we are expecting surprising reports from captains, Mesdames Mary Kinslow, Emma Stallard, Jane Merritt and Miss C. Brooks. At $ p. m. Bishop A. Grant D. D will preach. The funeral of Bro. Armstead Cooper, an aged and faithful member occurred last Sunday. He leaves relatives and a host of friends. The Revs. Rattifle and Stokes conducted the services. The Missionary Society will keep "Open Doors" New Year's Day from 2 to 11 p.m. Watch meeting, Monday night at 9:30; our series of meetings will begin Sunday, January 6. SIMPSON CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Rev. E. L. Gilliam - Pastor Services last Sunday were well attended and the special Kentucky meeting at 3 p. m. was a pleasant surprise to the members. Revs. Morton and Carpenter were present and rendered efficent service. Rev. Morton preached an excellent sermon in good old Kentucky style to the delight and edification of those present. The Christmas cantata was a grand success and the manner in which the children rendered their parts, showed the excellent training they had, received at the hands of the managers. The thanks of the school are tendered Mrs. Hayden Mrs. Johnson, Miss Boulden, Mrs. Franklin and Mr. Sharp and to all the teachers who aided in the preparation of this beautiful cantata. P. E. Sissle paeached the Christmas sermon to the delight of all present. The watch meeting at 9 p. m. there will be addresses, songs and remarks from prominent speakers on "The Events of the Closing Century" and the usual experience, testimony and coursecraion services. It is hoped, as it is the last of the year and of the century. that every member and friend will be present. A New Century offering will be taken. On New Year's Day the Ladies of the sewing circle will keep Open House and invite their friends to call and get lunch; they will serve turkey, rabbit, chicken, oysters, etc. from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. At 8 p. m. the Epworth League will furnish an excellent program, there will be no admission fee but a collection taken. The pastor went to Louisville Friday at the invitation of his former charge and delivered an address on Friday evening. Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months NEW YEAR WITH YANKEE DONS. BY J. M. SCANLAND. THE Spanish Mexicans of California and the southwest celebrate their New Year's in the same romantic and pastoral style that their ancestors brought from the "mother country." This celebration is not so replete with Acadian simplicity, however, as in the Acadian days before the "Americanos" came in such large numbers. In those "good old days that come no more" the dons led the customs of the country, and, though some of the forms are observed, the spirit, charming simplicity and much of the genuine hospitality have gone with the actors who figured in these pretty scenes. Each village still has its holiday observances, in which are reproduced the beautiful customs A THE LOTTERY OF LOVE. of the past generation. Their Christmas lasts until after New Year's. With their ancestors, however, life in this quiet and distant land was an almost perpetual Christmas. Now, as in former times, the villagers make presents more of a useful nature than otherwise, such as poultry, vegetables, fruits and perhaps sheep or an Andalusian pony. The return presents are of equal value. This is a point of honor, and to return a bauble to the donor of a valuable present would subject that person to endless ridicule. On New Year's day the principal don of the village or settlement gives a grand dinner, to which everybody is invited. And they generally come. The don in the olden days sent his major domo around with a verbal invitation for everybody to honor the don by attending his annual New Year's dinner. Now there is not so much formality. This dinner lasts all day and the next or as long as any of the guests continue to honor the host by their presence. Tables are arranged under arbors, and the barbecued meats, the fruits, wines and other edibles which have been collected for the past week are served by the pretty senoritas of the don's household, some of his numerous relatives of course assisting in dispensing the honors. During the day there are the usual horse racing, cocking mains and perhaps a bullfight. The latter, however, is not so fashionable now as in the early and "good old days." In the evening the amusements lead off with what is called the "lottery of love." By this lottery it is determined who are to be sweethearts for the coming year. The name of each young lady present is written upon a slip of paper and placed in a box, and the name of each young man is placed in another box. A little girl and a little boy are blindfolded, and each draws a name simultaneously. The senor and senorita thus mated by chance are to be "compadros," or companions, for the year beginning with that evening. The senor must accompany her to every feast, balle or public entertainment that takes place in the village or settlement. At least he must invite her, and if she refuse he is then at liberty to invite some one else. When the couple are not happily mated, this refusal is usually the case, and, while both understand that the Cupids have mismated them, the formalities must be kept up nevertheless. After this lottery the bale, or "grand dance," is announced by the don, who in a few flowery compliments again thanks his guests, and the bale opens with a contra dance, the first step being a half turn to the right and embrace partners, the senor very delicately putting his arms around the senorita as if about to waltz. This figure of the dance is omitted only when intimate friends compose the "set." It is a very pretty figure, and the grace with which the senor makes a feint to embrace the shy senorita is captivating. Casqueronis are still in vogue, and it DIAMONDS NO FANCY PRICES HERE. OUR SPECIAL BUYING FACILITIES ASSURE BARGAINS. Call and see what you can get for $7.50--$11.00--$25.00 500 Ladies' & Gent's Set Rings from $2 50 500 each FLETCHER M NOE, Loan Office 110 W. Market Street. is a high compliment to a senor when a senitor crumbles one of these eggshells of gilt spangles and cologne over his head. He must then ask her to dance with him, and, though she may refuse, he should ask again, for that is why she did it. Not to ask for a dance in return for this testimonial is considered to be a slight. At midnight there is a supper of fruit, cakes, wines and other light delicacies. The dance is resumed and continues until morning. When the festivities are at the highest, the casquonials are brought into action more lively. When they begin to fly like snowballs, the senoritas also begin to let down their hair. As a rule the hair of the senorita is as black as night, and it falls to her waist. A number of pretty Spanish Mexican ladies, dressed in the brightest colors, with their hair hanging loose over their shoulders, is a picturesque sight. The particles of eggshells and colored bits of paper give to the hair the appearance of being powdered or as if the senoritas had C3 WHEN THE FESTIVITIES ARE AT THE HIGHEST been out in snowstorm. The particles of paper and eggshells are difficult to weed out; hence the senoritas let down their hair at the beginning of the battle of casqueronis. It is a very pretty custom, and this, with the lottery of love, will no doubt be continued in these settlements as long as there are enough descendants of the ancient dons to celebrate the day. Greeting the New Century. Greeting the New Century. The wide discrepancy between the indications of various timepieces, which covers a range of perhaps a quarter of an hour, even in clocks which enjoy a reputation of being well regulated, naturally results in a rather ragged beginning of the welcome to the infant year. The early birds have the advantage in the total amount of noise produced, but their premature efforts are purely local in effect. The real symposium of hubbub does not make itself heard until at the exact instant when the last minute of the dying year has breathed its last. Then it rolls forth in chaotic volume, accompanied by engine whistles, bells, freecrackers, yells and every variety of horn toot that has ever been devised by the ingenuity of man. It seems to endure for many minutes without an appreciable break, although there is an unconfirmed report that individual noise-makers have been known to stop for breath or to give their second wind a good flying start. Chimes which in ordinary times are irresistible in sweetness can scarcely be heard on New Year's morning except by ears close to the beltry or during a lull in the babel of noises all around. Good Town For an Undertaker. Good Town For an Undertaker. An undertaker's business is advertised for sale in an English newspaper in terms which are really hardly such as to encourage any one to become a permanent resident of the locality. After stating that he is retiring from business altogether the advertiser praises the town thus: "Sanitary arrangements much neglected; mortality from fevers excessively high; total death rate 10.7 higher than any town within a radius of 50 miles; one trade competitor (carpenter) only; excellent opening for energetic man willing to put his heart into the business." To Stop Polite Blackmail. An agreement has been entered into by the business men of Holyoke, Mass., to refuse advertising to programmes and similar forms of scheme advertising. The Holyoke merchants think it time that a stop be put to the threats and polite blackmail of organizations that solicit advertising for their programmes. These business men will hereafter spend their money with the local newspapers, thus securing the results they are entitled to. Like a Cigar. An advertisement, like a cigar, should be so good that the first whiff or impression will cause a man to finish it.—Flushing (N. Y.) Journal. No Time to Play. The merchant who constantly advertises never has time to become an expert chess player.—Advisor. MADE TO FIT YOU ARE MY WINTER SUITS & OVERCOATS The latest creations in the Art of Suitings. Come and see them at your convenience. CLEANING, DYEING, REPAIRING D. L Mesbitt, Merchant Tailor. 405 Ind. ave. LADIES TAILORING JOHN MITHEN. 234 Indiana Ave. Open Evening Suits, Overcoats and Pants, Cleaned, Altered and Repair sd All Work First-Class and Guaranteed. DENTIST. 108 N. Illinois Street. Straw Hats Bleached and Pressed. Pressed. A special attention given to Ladies' sailors. All branches of Tailoring at reasonable prices. Pants pressed 10c. Albert Hutchinson, 344-348 E. washington Street Draperies, Carpets A Wall Paper Stoves and Furniture. We Want Your Patronage. 'Phones: Old, 1614l, New 560 Hyder's Photo Studio 878 Massachusetts Ave Margaret Dehorney Vs John T. Dehorney STATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion County, In the State of Indiana. No. 10720. Complaint for divorce. BE IT KNOWN, That on the 19 day of December, 1900 the above named plaintiff, by her attorney, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County, in the State Indiana, her complaint against the above named defendant and the said plaintiff having also filed in said Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant John T. Dehorney is not a resident of the State of Indiana; that said action is for divorce and the said defendant is a necessary party thereto and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement said complaint having defended to speak of the case, said answer murthereto on the 20th day of February, 1901. NOW THEREFORE, By order of said Court and whereas said plaintiff having identified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against him and that unless he appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 20th day of February, 1901, the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in February 1901, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained in said complaint will be heard and determined his absence James T. V. Hill Geo. B. Elliot Attorney for Plaintiff. Clerk. Imperial China Tea company. 3 LARGE STORES 3 901 Mass. Ave., 1103 Shelby Street and 244 Indiana Ave. A full line of Grooeries, Teas, Spices and etc. Premium ticket with each purchase. Goods delivered to all parts of the city. MORGAN AND SHELTON 417 Indiana-Ave. UNDERTAKERS . . AND . . Embalmers Fine Caskets. . . Best Service. Open Day and Night, Lady Attendant. 3058 Phone OUR CORRESPONDENTS. News, Incidents, Social * and * Personal Activities Seymour News. Jeanette Booker of Indianapolis is visiting relatives and friends, mrs Almy Jefferson spent the holidays in this city with relatives mrs margaret Caine is spending the holidays in Bedford Clifford Caine is spending the holidays in Greencastle Homer Goens spend a few days in Shelbyville William Irvin and Anna Haddricks of Greensburg Ind spent the holidays in this city Daniel Goens of Richmond Ind is visiting his brother Alex Goens Joesph Walker of Kentucky is visiting his brother Melvin Walker The Xmas trees and entertainments at the churches wasa success Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 Anderson News The Xmas Cantatas and trees at the three churches have been among the leading attractions this week. They were well attended. Hon. Gurley Brewer of Indianapolis was master of ceremonies at the Mock Govenor's Inaugural at the A. M. E. Church on Thursday evening Dec. 20. The entertainment was a grand success. M1s. Blanche Hill had charge of it. Miss Alice E. Dyson is visiting friends at Fort Wayne. Mesdames Sarah Thompson and Major Davis of Indianapolis were the guest of Rev, and Mrs. W. H. Taylor on Christmas day. Wm. A. Taylor of Franklin are visiting their son, Rev. W. H. Taylor and wife. Union watchmeeting services will be held by the Second Baptist; Second M. E. and the A. M. E. Churches at Allen Chapel. Rev. Bishop A. Grant D. D. will be in our city Friday Jan. 4, and will preach at Allen Chapel at 7:30 p. m. This will be the Bishop's first visit here and the people are anxious to see and hear him. Marlon Flashes The Xmas tree and entertainment given by the A. M. E. S. S. was a success. Many little hearts were made glad when Santa appeared in the room. The Second Baptist Church gave their Xmas excercises Xmas night, with financial success. The Eastern Star celebrated Xmas, Sunday with a program and a sermon by P. E. Saunders of Indianapolis. Several visitors were in the city among them was Mrs. Minnie Ferguson of Wabash, the guest of Mrs. John W. Burden. Miss Delcie Richardson of Anderson is visiting Mr. C. H. Winslow and wife. C. H. Jenkins the Tonsorial Artis at J. M. Nickles spent Christmas at his home in Greenfield Ohio. Cora Julius remains quite ill. Mrs. Lillian Harper spent Xmas with her mother in New Castle. Mrs. Dr. Thomas of the Lonis ville Medical School is spending the holidays with her husband Dr. W. T. Thomas. The Progressive Needle Club gave a Fair at the church Dec. 25, 26 and 27. Don't forget that Bishop Grant will be at A. M. E. Church Jan. 5 A grand rally, everybody invited. Bring your dollar. Harrison Thomas and Thomas Britton of Bloomington are visiting Frank and W. T. Thomas. Miss Jennie Miller of Indianapolis is visiting Miss Minnie Young Miss Lenna B. Harris of Benton Harber is the guest of Miss Burden Miss Belle Watson of Grandjunction is visiting Mrs.H, Fleming. Mrs. H. T. Pierson is entertaining her mother Mrs. Jones and cousin Alice Jones of Marion. Rev. Walker and Mr. Brown of Indianapolis are in the city. Mrs. Jas. McKnight and Mayne Talley are visiting in Indianapolis. Miss Lelia Hultz has gone to Winchester Ky. to reside for a while. John and Willis Somerville spent Xmas with their parents in Rushville. Mrs. King is entertaining her daughter and husband Mr. Weaver and wife of Marion. Mr. Frank Hampton and wife and Alma Cottman spend Christmas in Richmond. Ed. Sanders, James Martins of Indianapolis and Mr. Cox of Lebanon spend a few days here this week Mesdames Fry and McWilliams are visiting in Louisville Ky. Miss Lamb and Hettie Abbott were in Fort Wayne Wednesday. Mrs. Soloman Wood of Modoc is at the bedside of her daughter Mrs. A. Allen who is quite ill. A concert entitled "Queen of Fame" will be presented at the A. M. E. Church Jan. 1st. All are invited. Admission ten cents. Jeffersonville Notes Rey. Rollins is on the sick list. The public schools of our city after appropriate excercises last Friday, dismissed for two weeks vacation. Quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church was well attended. Rev. D. L. Irvin preached the sacramental sermon. Dr. J. W. Hall of Louisville was present at Bethel church Sunday, in company with Rev. S. A. Hardison of New Albany. Rev. A. McCulley from Plainfield Ind. is visiting Rev. Craven. Miss Jennie E. Williams of Simpsonville Ky. is visiting her mother Mrs. Eliza Williams. Crawfordsville Notes. Mrs. Clara Yates and daughter Miss Marshall, of Memphis Tenn. are visiting Mrs. Yates brother Nate Davis. Miss Viola McClain, of the Normal at Terra Haute is the guest of Miss Minnie Hale, this week. Mrs. Ed. Glover is visiting in Peru Indiana. J. E. Rogers of Bloomington was the guest of Miss Sadie Freeman, last week. Miss Blanche Patterson is the guest of Miss Maud Fisher this week, in Indianapolis. Mrs. Amanda Mayne of Indianapolis will spend a couple days as guest of Mrs. Sarah Hale. The entertainment given by the Baptist Church last Friday evening was a grand success. The Methodist Church had their Christmas tree Monday night. Martha Chapter O. E. S. rendered their beautiful Xmas exercise at the A. M. E. Church. Rev. Saunder preached a very fine sermon. A poem was read on the Star by Mrs. M. A. Tiester. Miss Minnie Hale gave a theater party to her friends Wednesday evening in honor of her guest and the strangers. Mrs. Ellison of Muncie spent the holidays with Mrs. Zack Williams, Subscribe for The Recorder, one year $1 THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Lafayette Gleanings. This week has been a merry holiday week in this city, both the sabbath-schools held their usual Xmas exercises, and was well attended. Several visitors are in the city from all parts of the state. Prof. W. F. Anderson is attending the State teachers Association in Indianapolis this week. The Recorder Correspondent took a peep at many Christmas presents exchanged and learned that Mrs. Thomas Stokes gave her husband a box of fine cigars; Mrs. L. Biddle to husband a pair of slippers and case; Mrs. J. E. Epps to husband a Knight Templar cap, bell and chain, silver decorations, Jos. Hoffman to his daughter Millie a piano; W. F. Anderson to his wife a handsome Eastern Star pin; Henry R. Hill to wife, triple mirror and silver water set; Mrs. America Graves to husband fine watch chain with Masonic charm; Mrs. Francis Smith's presents from her numerous customers amounted over one hundred dollars, and Miss Bertha Brown unusually lucky. Clifford H, Evans remembered his best girl with a handsome inkstand. Riley E, Anderson is spending the holidays with his grandfather at North Vernon Indiana. Mrs. Ida Biggs and Thomas and Oliver McDonald are visiting their parents at Lyons Indiana. The new officers of Floyd Lodge were installed Thursday night. The G. U. O. O. F. gave a banquet on the same night, both gatherings were pleasant ones to all who attended. Rev. Seymour of Indianapolis has been with the Baptist brethren all week. Shelbyville Notes. Miss Rosa E. Dent left Dec. 21 for St. Louis, Mo. to spend the holidays. Miss Clara Dudley left for Indianapolis, Wednesday to spend the holidays. Miss Estella Johnson of Indianapolis is spending the holidays in the city. Ernest Johnson, Lee Cwens and Ernest Montgomery spent Wednesday in Rushville visiting their best girls. Mr. Lewis and wife are attending the teachers associations in Indianapolis this week. Miss Lillie Haselwood of Indianapolis is in the city and will propably remain with her aunt Mrs Mary Smith. Mrs. Amanda Hawkins of Maysville Ky. is the guest of her daughter, Mrs, Arthur Allen. Mrs. Maud Route went to Covington Ky. Sunday where she spent the day and then continued her journey to LaFayette, Alabama where she'll make her future home. Miss Mayne Johnson returned Monday from a visit in Indianapolis Mrs. Arther Wilson of Franklin is the guest of her father. Homer Goens of Seymour is the guest of sister Mrs. Gertrude Carter. Mrs. Lizzie Goens who has been making her home with her sister, Mrs. Murray returned to her home in Bagdad Ky. Wednesday Knightstown Notes. Quarterly meeting, last Sunday was a success financially and spiritually. Elder Townsend presided. Mr. Louis Fox and wife gave a Xmas dinner in honor of Mrs. Mary Dodson of Marion. Those from out of city present were, Mr. Wash Hansard and wife of New Castle, Mr. G. W. Lawrence wife and daughter of Anderson and Thomas Lawrence of Capital City. Miss May Burris, Mrs. Kittie Grigsby, Mr. A. D. Gramby and wife of Capital City and Ray Laster spend Xmas with A. E. Gramby. Following, are Calls at the all day Company at Mr. A. E. Gramby and wife, the Misses Thomas, E. B. Keemer, Vada Brooks, J. H, Keemer wife and daughter, Dr. Waddell G. LaMac, Will Myers, Mesdames Bass and Crenshaw. Misses Rosa Thomas, Anna Thomas, Ray Laster and Will Meyers attended the Cake Walk and Ball Xmas night in New Castle. Miss Lena Scott spent Christmas in Greensboro. Frankfort News. Prof. E. Harper of Charleston Ind. is spending the holidays with his parents. Mr. Stewart and wife of Indianapolis is spending the holidays with their son Rev. Johnson and Miss Lola Kelley of Plainfield. Misses Minnie Valentine and Anna Powell are spenping the Holidays in Indianapolis. Elroy Cummings and Homer Parks of Rockville are spending the holidays with their parents. Harry Ratliffe spend Sunday in our city visiting relatives. Miss Blanche Radliffe is mourning over the loss of a diamond. Edgre Landsey, Flossie and Reman Fannings are on the sick list Logansport News. The Executive Committee of the District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met at the home of G. C. King Xmas afternoon in regular session. Those present were R. A. Roberts, D. G. M. of Spicelahd, James A. Johnson D. D. G. M. of Indianapolis, Dr. W. W. Thomas D. G. T. of Marion, and G. C. King D. G. S. of this city. Miis Ruby Hogan of LaFayette is visiting friends in the city. Willie Christman of Kalamazoo is the guest of relatives Mr, Chas. Parker and wife. The Rescue Riders Social Club have issued neat invitations to their New Years Reception on Jan. 1st and will open the new century in a good time. Gus Roberts of Indianapolis was the guest of Mr. Stone and wife last week. Miss Myrtle Smith of Hartford City is the guest of Miss Mable Parker during the holidays. Joe Malone purchased part interest in his brother's barber shop and has taken charge. A very interesting program was given by the children of the A. M. E. S. S. Christmas night after which presents from the Christmas tree were distributed. mrs. Sarah Thompson of Crawfordsville is visiting her sister Mrs. John Taylor, miss Chavis is the guests of her parents mr. Jas. Chavis and wife. South Bend Notes. Miss Elvira Russell of Logansport spent the holidays with her cousin Zora Sanders. Rasburn Curtis spent Christmas in Kalamazoo. Arthur Allen of Grand Rapids is visiting his brother Thadd. Miss Lucile melvin of Porthmouth Ohio is spending the holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth murphy 226 North Birdsell street. mrs. Etta Jones of Chicago, spent Christmas with her parents, and wife 507 South Scott street. Chas. Smith of Kalamazoo spent Christmas with friends in the city. Mr. W. James and wife spent Xmas with his father in Constintine. Mrs. H. B. Howard and daughter of Benton Harbor were in the city Sunday enroute for Brown Valley. Mrs. Carl Nicolson of Terre Haute is in the city. The West End Sewing Circle met at the home of Rev. F. Green. Mrs. Newton Sanders is spending the holidays in Ladsing Michigan. Frank mitchell and son of Kalamazoo spent the holidays with his brother Jas mitchell. Isom murphy of Williamsville mich. is spending a few days with grandmother in this city. Watchmeeting and the Lord's Supper at A. M. E. Church monday night. Watchmeeting also at the mt. Zion Baptist Church The Christmas trees and excercises at the different churches were well attended and successful. The Doctor has forbidden Rev. William Simpson to preach under five or six weeks on account of throat trouble. Irvington News. mrs. Susan Jones and granddaughter are spending the Holidays in Spiceland with Mrs. Ed. Young. Theodore Stewart and Earl Scott of Carthage are the guest of sister Mrs. Bell merriweather. Joe Brinty and miss Alice Billops were quietly married at the brides home monday evening. Miss Dew of Greencustle is in the city with the expectation of making this her home. mrs. Alice Baker after spending Holrdays with relatives in Goodland, has returned home. mrs. Laura Freeman spent Xmas with relatives in the city. Kalamazoo Notes. The death of mrs. Lottie Gradshall of Chicago occured Dec 21st, her brother George Burnette of this city attended the tuneral. mrs. Mary Brown of Bangor spent Xmas with her son Thos Woodfork mrs. Oscar Byrd of Day mich is visiting her parents. The recitation given by Estella Thurman was well taken. an essay by Hattie Booth did herself credit which showed her capability of writing such an article, mattie Cousin's solo was highly applauded Florence Brown also sang a solo. A large audience witness the Xmas tree and program at the AM E Church monday evening, The grand ball given by the Celery City boys was a success Subscribe for The Recorder and keep posted on the leading topics of the day. 25c for 3 months LEFT THE DOOR. Continued from First Page. minded men possessed or very run fortunes. One never knows how honest a man may be until he has passed through the fire of temptation. It stands to reason that the temptation to be dishonest when the opportunity arises strikes the poor man with twice the force that it does the rich man, for his needs are pressing and money is more valuable to him than to the man that has plenty of it. There are about as many dishonest hearts among men of no means as among men of means. It thus happens that there is more impecuniosity, more of the desire to make money in any way that offers and no questions asked, among the political leaders of a party that makes poverty one of the qualifications of admission, than among those of a party that takes in rich and poor alike. Not all, but very many of the Populist leaders in Indiana have been eternally "on the make," and in 1896 we had the edifying spectacle of the state convention putting the party up at auction and appointing official auctioneers to conduct the bargain and sale. For that was the plain effect, if not the intent of the selection of the famous committee of thirteen, clothed with "plenary power" to determine whether the party should sell out to the Democrats and have no separate electors or to the Republicans and run a ticket of its own. The leaders of this defunct organization are too thoroughly discredited to hope for success in getting up a new party. Governor Durbin and his family have been in the city a week engaged in the arduous task of house-hunting. Doubtless it would be much more satisfactory to the future governors, and certainly it would be more conducive to the dignity of the state, if, instead of raising the governor's salary, the legislature were to make some provision for an executive mansion. The suggestion has been made in some quarters that the state sell St. Clair park and use the money for this purpose. It would seem to me a great deal beter scheme to use this park as the site for the mansion. It comprises half a square in the very best residence district of Indianapolis, the blind asylum, with its beautiful grounds, occupying the other half Or, if it should be deemed better to have the mansion front on Meridian street, instead of on St. Clair, half the park could be used for the site and the other half could be sold as building lots for enough to erect a home befitting the dignity of the state Certain it is that the need of a home for the governor is felt in many quarters. It is not a very dignified proceeding for a governor to go chasing over town to find a place to house his family. The legislature will convene on Thursday, Jan. 10, and it is expected that the members will begin to gather in the city immediately after New Year's day. The great crowd that is usually attracted for the week preceding the organization is not drawn by the speakership contest, but the job lot of clerkships, doorkeepers' positions and other "places" that draw $5 a day. Of course, it is reasonable that the state or anybody else should pay something above the market rate for short-time work. That is the usual thing in business. But the state goes away beyond this and pays three or four times the money for such work that could be earned at anything else by the people that hold these positions. Men get "on the door" at $150 per month that would be glad to have a steady job at $40. And thus it goes all the way through. The result is a general scramble for the positions that does the party in control of the legislature twice as much harm as good, for there are a dozen disappointments and one ingrate for every place filled. The speakership contest is regarded by political leaders as still mainly between Stutesman and Artman, though King is making a very active fight and Bonhem holds a good position as a possible compromise. The Indianapolis News has opened a very active fight on Stutesman, denouncing him as a "lobbyist," the charge growing out of the celebrated street car fight in the legislature of 1897 between the Citizens' Street Railroad company, which owned the Indianapolis lines that time and was in turn mainly owned by Pittsburg capitalists, and the City Railway company, a symantec of local capitalists, which had franchise from the city government, but no road, in which the News championed the cause of the latter. It but fair to say that in this matter Stutesman was employed as one of the attorneys for the Citizens' company, having been employed by A. L Mason and W. H. H. Miller, the regular attorney for the company. People that know Stutesman and are familiar with that fight will be loath to believe that he did anything in that connection that would not stand full investigation, or that, if elected speaker, he would not perform the duties of the office with integrity as well as ability. His opponents have had nothing in, do with raising this question. There is a disposition among all of them to make the fight a clean and friendly contest. Applications by letter for minor positions have been pouring in on members almost since the election. Here are some of those that have cast a line out for what they can get: Henry Beasley, William Pollard, James Morris, George Sweetser, William Huffman, Isaac Leap, William Evans, Thomas Martin of this city, and David Pierson of Acton, are among the Marion county applicants for doorkeeper of the house. F. W. Gasper, Clifford Morrison and Thomas Dailey are local candidates for assistant clerk. E. C. Branyan of Huntington, who was formerly a deputy in State Treasurer Levy's office, is after the assistant clerkship, and W. A. Wildman of Marion is considered his chief opponent. Morris Fankbonke of Marion wants to be postmaster of the house. W. A. Sutton of Peru is a candidate for chief doorkeeper of the house. W. D. Wilson of this city wants to be engrossing clerk, H. H. Johns of Rockport is a candidate for postmaster of the house. A. Pittman of Fargo is a candidate for the same position. J. W. Ogburn of Greenfield wants to be an assistant doorkeeper. M. T. Murray of Connerville is making a fight for principal doorkeeper of the house. About the only candidate that feels entirely easy about the outcome is Colonel W. W. Huffman of Anderson for secretary of the senate. Mr. Huffman has been a sort of political clerk for Colonel Durbin for two or three years, and the impression that the new governor will land him in the position he is after is so strong that other aspirants have fought shy of this particular office. “EHE LOVE OF GOD BOUNDLESS AS THE UNIVERSE. ‘The Sacrifices und Sympathy of His Only Son fo Save » Dying World—Dr. * ‘Talmage's Sermon. remade for the world's disenthrallment and deliverance. His text is I John iv, -16, "God Is love.” Far back in tue eternities there came a time when (God would express one emotion of his nature which was yet unexpressed. He had made more worlds than were seen by the ancients from the top of the Egyptian pyramid, swhich was used as an observatory and more worlds than modern astronomy thas catalogued or described through telescople Tens. All that showed the ‘Lord's almightiness, but it gave no sdemonstration of his love. He might emake 50 Saturns and 100 Jupiters and not demonstrate an instant of love. “That was an unknown passion and the *sectet of the universe. It was a sup- spressed emotion of the great God. But there would come a time’ when this spassion of infinite love would be de- ¢lared und Wustrated. God would veil ritno longer. After the clock of many + centuries shad run down and worlds ‘had been Yorn and demolished, on 2 comparatively obscure star a race of «human beings wonid be born and who, though so bountifully provided for that ‘they ought to-haye behaved themselves weil, went into insurrection and con- sspiracy amd revolt. and war—finite against. infinite, weak arm against ithunderbolt, mun against God. 7 If hijgh intelligences tooked down and saw what was going on, they miust ‘have prophesied extermination—com- {plete extermination—of these_offend- vers of Jehovah. But, no! Who is that coming ont of the throneroom of heay- nz, Who Is that coming out of the »palaces of the eternal? It is the Son of the Emperor of the Universe. Down the stairs of the high heavens he comes till he reaches the cold air of a Decem- Der night in Palestine and amid the Ybleatings of sheep, and the lowing of +cattle, and the moaning of camels, and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for $3 years in- vites the wandering race to return to ®.God and happiness and heaven, ‘They - wore the longest 23 years ever known tin heaven! ‘The schoolmen deride the iden that * God has emotion. ‘They think it would ibe a divine weakness to be stirced by any eartlily spectacle. ‘The God of the Jearned Truch and Schleiermacher is an infinite intellicence without feeling, a cold and cheerless divinity, But the God we worship is one of sympathy and eompassion and helpfulness and affection. “God is love." But for, this divine feeling I think »our world would long ago have been demolished. Jest think of the organ- ized wickedness of the nations’ See Stheaibominitions continental! Behold ¢ false religions that hoist Mohant- dand Buddha and Contueius! Look ne Koran and the Shastra and the Avesta, that would crowd out of ‘orld the Holy Seriprures! Look at digging its trenches for the dead s the hemispheres! See the great with their holocaust of destroyed hood and womanhood! What hemies assail the heavens! What heries sicken the centuries! What ssions of crime-and atrocity and neircle the globe! If justice had ken, it would have said. “The world rves annihilation, and let annibi- fon, come.” In this day, when the creeds of mtehes are being revised, let move Johasig be put upon the thought of text. Let it appear at the begin- jx af every creed and at the ciose. p ancients used to tell of a great itary chieftain who, about fo go to tle, was clad in armor, helmet on 1 and sword at side, and who put lis arms to give farewell eubrace Juis child, and the child, affrighted at his appearance, ran shrieking away. ‘Then the father put off the armor that caused the alarm, and the child saw who he was and ran into his arms and snuggled agalust bis heart. Creeds emust’not have too much iron in their makeuj, terrorizing rather than at. etracting. They inast not hide the smil ing face and the warm heart of our ‘Father, God. If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you, like 4 child, out of the arms of a father, let the next para- graph put you in the arms of a moth: ver. “AS one whom his mother com- forteth so will I comfort,you.” Oh, swhat a mother we have in God! And mmy text is the lullaby sunz to us wher we are ill or when we are maltreated ‘or when we are weary ot when we arc bereft or when’ we ourselves lie down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the mother azainst our cheek. and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers. “God is love.” This swas the reason the Bible was written “Oh, I am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be veiled: “Tell it to. all the sinning, sufferin;: ‘dying race, tell it in song and serio on canvas and iu marble, on arch and -pillar: tell it all around thes earth— “God Is love.” : Pear is the dominant thought in al ‘false religions. For that the devotees veut themselves with lances and swing “or fron looks and fall under whegt -and hold up the right arm $0 long that \ ‘they ean not take ig down. Fear, brat Msh fear! But love is the queen in out religion! For that we build temples. Kor that we kneel at our altars. For that we contribute our alms. For that “ martyrs suffered at Brussels. market or over the heavens has ever been s0 much slandered as God. Bad men have fought against him and, have ‘thought they heard his volee in the crash of a thunderstorm, but have n-t seen him in the sunshine of the spring morning. They have blamed him for ‘wrongs which they had done. them- selves, The sight of a church building ‘exeltes their disgust. ‘They like the madrigal of a saloon better than the doxology of’ temple. They do not want to live with him in heaven, but would prefer on; leaving this world to go into some realm where God has ab- dicated the throne and from which he is exiled forever, ‘The reason is they do not know him, ‘They do uot realize the fact’ that God is the best friend this world ever had or ever will have and that he would do more for their happiness than any one in the wide universe, that he would help them in the ‘wear and tear and tussle of this life, that he would hush theit sorrows, that he would help cure the evil habits with which they sometimes struggle, that he would at thelr request not only forgive, but forget, the wrong things in their life. Yes; forget! And that is the only thing that God ever does ror- xet—pardoned transgression. ‘The best memory in the universe Is God's mem- ory, and he remembers all that has transpired in all thne and in all eterni- ty sure one kind of occurrence, That passes completely out of his memory. He declares, “Their sins and thelr in- iguities will I remember no, more.” Do you want more proof that “Gou is loye?” Yea, disinterested love. No compensation for its bestowal. No re- ward for its sacrifices. But I call that back. ‘The world did pay him. It paid him on Calvary, paid him with bram- bles on the brow and four spikes, two for the handy and two for the feet, and ‘one spear for the side near the heart; paid him in exeeration, paid him with straw pillow in a barn and a cross on a hill, paid him with a third of a cen- tury of maltreatment and hardship save one year—yea, is paying him yet imrejection of his mission of mercy. What do the Bible and the church liturgies amean when they say, “He de- scended into hell?” ‘They mean that his soul left his sacred body for awhile and went down into the prison of moral night and swung back its great door and lifted the chain of captivity and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world’s back and wept the tears of an eternal sacri- fice and took the bolt of divine indig- nation against sin into himself and, having vanquished death and hell, came out and came up, having achieved an eternal rescue {f we will accept it. Read it slowly, read It sol- ewnly, read it with tears, “He de- scended into hell.” Yea, It was most expensive love. There is much hmnan-love that costs nothing, nothing of fatigne, nothing of ‘money, nothing of sacrifice, nothing of ‘nnniliation. But the most expensive movement that the heavens ever made was this expedition salvatory. It cost the life of a king. It put the throne of God in bereavement. Tt set the uni- verse aghast. It made omnipotence weep and bleed and shudder, It taxed the resources of the richest of all em- pires. It meant angelic forces detailed to fight forces demoniae. It put three worlds into sharp collision—one world to save, another to resist and another to destroy. It charged on the spears ‘and rang with the battleaxes of. human ‘and diabolic hate, Had the expedition ‘of love been defeated the throne of God would have fallen, and Satan would have mounted Into supremacy, and sin would have forever triumphed, and mercy would live been forevel dead. ‘The tears and blood of the mar. [ti of the heavens were only a part of “the infinite expense to which the God: head went when it proposed to Save | the world. | Now. the only fair thins for human “hearts to do is to echo back that sover eign love. You and I have stood in mountainous regions where, uttering one distinct word, the echoes would came back with a resonance startling and captivating, and from alk ou ‘hearts there ‘should sound unto: the heavens responses glorious and long continued, Let the world change Its 'style of payment for heavenly love. No "more paynient by lances, by hammers: pao more payment by blows on the cheek and seourging on the’ back and [hooting of mobs, but payment in ardors of soul, in true surrender of “heart and Jove to the God that made ‘us ard the Christ. who ransomed us "and the Eternia Spirit who by reener "ating power muikes us all over again, | Alexander the Great, with his host, “was nurching on Jerusalem to. cap: [ture and plunder it. The inhabitants “came out elethed in white, led on by the liigh priest, wearing a miter and (glittering breastplate on which was emblazoned the mime of God, .and | Alexander, seeing that word, Lowed | and halted his army, and the city was |saved. And if we had the love of God | written in all our hearts and on all om lives and om all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation | would fall back, and we would go on |from victory unto victory until we | stand in Zion and before God. | Leander swam across the Hellespont guided by the light which Hero the THE RECORDER. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA ee were saved, and the king wrote on some tablets the words, whicin ne had ¢ A read some time before, “As the hart > anteth after the water brooks, 90 . panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.” ‘ Some have compared the love of God | INVADING BOERS RECEIVI to the ocean, but the comparison fails, VALUABLE ASSISTANCE. for the ocean has a shore, and God’s = love is boundless, But if you insist on s comparing the love of Goi to the | President Kruger Becoming Stitt Neck ecein put on that ocean four swift] Becnuse of Revent Successes—Lord saibug craft and let one sail to the Kitchener Arrives at De Aar. north and one to the south and one. to ee the east and one to the west, and Iet | yonon cable: -“We learn,” says ¢ them sail on a thousand years and aft: | pany atuit, “that the resoree oF ae er that let them al return and some | ous suuation In-Caps colony are fu ‘one hail the fleet and ask them if they | congrmed. ‘The tavading, Booes are have found the shore of God's love,,| Coiving much assistance from the Ca and their four voices would respond:'| Duton’ mallwer commantacon tates “No shore! No shore to the ocean of | Cape Town snd the north ie aincana Gods mercy pletely severed, partly by Boer operatio od and partly by rains,” ‘What Some Things Have Cost. Usinda Abe) Mhaetnaduaht adbibe cae: ‘The magnificent national Capitol at Washington has cost, since the lay- Ing of its comer-stone Iq 2793, very nearly $15,000,000, but the State Capi- tol of New York, at Albany, although Hof yet completed according to the ar chitect’s designs, has already cost al- most $20,000,000, and is the most ex- pensive building of modern times. ‘The largestand most expensive City Hall in hodbnited States is that of Philadelphia. and Its principal tower is to contain the largest clock in the world. ‘The greatest price ever paid for a horse was $150,000, given by Mr. Mat- com Forbes, of Boston, for Arion, which he bought from senator Stan- ford, of California. Axtell, the trotter, brought $105,000 when three years old, while in 1891 St. Blaise was sold for $100,000. : One hundred and three thousand dol- lars has been offered and refused for a Hebrew Bible now in the library of the Vatican at Rome. This makes it the most valuable book in the world, so far as dollars and cents go. In 1635, when tae entire Dutch na- tion was crazy upon the subject of tu- lips, a single bulb was sold for $2,200. At such prices it would pay better to raise tulips than to own the most val- uable gold mine in the world. Speaking of gold mines, where do you sufpose the most valuable bit of ore ever smelted in the world, so far as is known, was found? In Califor- nia or Australia or India? No, indeed. It was a lot containing 200 pounds of quartz-holding gold at the rate of $50,- 000 per ton, and was found in a mine at Ishpeming, Michigan. The cosiliest cigars ever exported from Havana were a quantity made expressly fot the Prince of Wales, and valued at $1.87 apiece in the factory. ‘The largest sum ever asked or of- fered for a single diamond was $2,150,- 000, which the prince of Hyderabad, in India, agreed to give the jeweler who then owned the Imperial, which is con- sidered the finest stone in the world. ‘The Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey each possesses a prayer mat, or rug, made of diamonds and pearls, and valued at: something over $2,500,- 000 apiece. The largest and most.ex- pensive rug in the world, made of the ordinary materials of ‘which such things are manufactured, is owned by the Carlton Club, of London. ‘A broken Wooden horse, with which Napoleon Bonaparte played when a child, was recently sold for 1,000 franes ‘Think of paying $250,000 for a single meal! ‘That is what a wealthy Roman once did, when he wished to impress a dozen guests with his disregard for riches. ‘The most valuable of modern paint. ings is Meissonier’s “1814,” which waa bought by a Frenchman for $170,000. | The same gentleman paid $150,000 for | “The Angeins,” by Millet, of which you all have doubtless seen photo- gtaphs or other reproductions. Unknown Heroes. There were hundreds of instances at Galveston where men sacrificed their own lives in an effort to save the lives» of others. "Chey were he- roes in the true acceptation of that term, and could not withstand the piti- ful cries for help which came from every direction, There is no spot to mark their last recting place, nor will any monumental column ever rise above them. Compared with such acts of unselfishness and devotion to the cause of humanity the deeds of Dewey at Manila, and Hobsou. in. Santiago harbor, pale into insignifieance, No tongue can utter and no pen can in- dite a tribute which will do justice to the - memory of these “unknown heroes.—Texas Odd Fellow. Intuitive. ‘The intrepid explorer accosted the Antarctic Eskimo in all confidence, “You look Just like the Arctic Uski- mo.” said he, “bu:—" “There's all the difference in the world between us,” interpesed the Ant- arctle Eskiino, with a loud langh, al- though he had never before come in contact with civilization. ‘As for the explorer, his chagrin knew no bounds upon discovering thus that this well-known joke was quite intui- tive.—Detroit Journal. VUnancweravie. A young man ltome from college, wishing to Inspire his little sister with awe for his learning, poted to a star and sald: “sis, do you see that bright little luminary? It's bigger than this whole world.” “No, taint.” said Sis. “Yes, it Is,” declared the young col- legian. “phen why don't it keep off the rain?” was the triumphant rejoinder.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘Taking No Chances. “Now, see*here,” said the Adirondack guide, “I want you to understand that Yon are never to get twenty feet away from me. Keep right up close, and don’t you dure to wander off. See?" “But why this peculiar caution?” tn- quired the man who was out for big game. ~ “Well,”) said the guide. shortly, “Im too young and I've got too big a family depending on me to be mistaken for deer."—Cleveland Plain Dealer, DUTCH ALLIES. INVADING BOERS RECEIVING VALUABLE ASSISTANCE. ‘President Kruger Becoming Stiff Necked Becuuse of Recent Succeses—Lord Kitchener Arrives at De Aar. London cable: -“We learn," says the Daily Mail, “that the reports of the se- rious situation in:Cape Colony are fully confirmed. ‘The invading Boérs are re- ceiving much assistance from the Cape Dutch. Railway communication between Cape Town and the north is almost com- pletely severed, partly by Boer operations and partly by rains,” “Since the Nooftgedncht affair,” says the correspondent of the Daily Mall: at ‘The Hague, “Mr. Kruger has become stiff-necked. He now scornfully rejects €ll private suggestions in the nature of peuce overtures.” Lord Kitchener has arrived at Dé Aar, Cape Colony, and Is taking measures to crush the Boer invasion, A CHRISTMAS APPEAL. Sixto. Lope, Filipino Representative, Pleads With the President For \ “Peace and Good WIL | Philadelphia, Pa., special: | Sixto Lo- ‘pes, the representative of the Filipinoy, whe is cow in thts oly, has written “m Chrintmas letter to theg*resident and Deo. ple of the United States.” In this he says: : “Wien the heart ts broken God enters and truth is realized; when peace reigns Jn the Heatt rath ts algo Borccivod.” At ‘his reason of peace and ood will, when the hearts of men, freed from the sterner things of dally, lite are softened. and eran together, when all mankind is une der the influence of the Prince of Pease 1 wiah to make an appeal on behal€ of our sorely stricken people. “Tam convinced that If the American ecbin only. Meow, shat is happening 1a ‘ie Philippines the flag pf (race. would wave over every blood-stained eld in our Teloved island home, ‘But the martial ssiths an Wak co coulierdiieny of oa: Honal prate Sb-aestige, have suited the sar of pliy ana oopiitbame “In this great land, wherein w/ sjoyed the blessings of liberty and abundance, thote aoe thee Wid woulA aici. vb [the toete lon of kiling a Callow Delos: yet who, under the Influence of martial lors, do not realise that -thousande of Sere met ond Galle Weaep women ore felee stat bp cromayana stration ts s confict whlch can only reault ts death to one people and withered laurels to the aver SWIM}; we powell to, eakousicives what te the cure of fall thls strife. and suftering’ I only know that the Filipino people aro asking for that which the prey Rage ighes esa tipia as Gian ba seme wok Uaey tes oes a [terenoea?’ aay It sot bo. that “the all ideceaeilag uth ey Siok Pesta ined velit ede/vd'ae Ul vary somes of wi: At thie season of peace 1 plead for peace. May this plea, written with Do Wino aed tone eas eet oe Mi apace otal vote sks tsa cote a Set Oo ct tao Ueenld seuc ae o {hin tng lant Chelstieay Oty loeattege” A VERITABLY PESTHOLE. Soveral Handred Cases of Smallpox and a Death Rate of 20 Per Cent. Loutsvilie, Ky., special: The Courter- Journal says: “The State Board of Health has quarantined Greenup county against the world. The smallpox situa- tion in that county Is critical. ‘There are sovtral hundred cases, and the geath rate hasbeen 20 per cent., the largest known in the history of the disease in the State. ‘Phe State Board of Health has ordered that every person In the county be vac- cinatgd, A special from South Ports- mouth says that orders have been re- eelved by all Chesapeake & Oto Ratl- rod agents to discontinue the sale of tickets and to Fefuse ull freight to or from the county: Guards have been sta- tloned to prevent anyone leaving the county, Several persons have been ctopped who attempted to cross the Ohio river n skits.” FELL 150 FEET. Dropped to the Bottom of the Shatt, and ‘May Kacoves: Youngstown, .0., special: Randall Wehr, night engineer at the shaft of the Evans Coal Company, fell 150 feet to the bottom of the shaft and escaped alive. Wehr, who is 2 years old, was working around the top of the shaft, when he slipped, and ani instant later was lying at the bottom. Though badly bruised he was conscious, able to esplain how the aceldent occurred and nas an even chance for recovery. A Little Kentucky Afatr. London, Ky., spectal: Two men were killed and two wounded at Faris’s disttl- lery, twelve miles, from here. Monday, Four members of the Sizemore family on one side and Henry Barrett and W. H. Young on the other, engaged in a des- perate fight, Young was killed instantly; the brains of one of the Sizemores was shot out and two of the Sizemores were probably fatally wounded, An old feud was the cause of the trou. All are from Clay county. ‘Two Farmers Shot. Fort Worth, Texas, special: Marshal Morrison, of Mansfield, this county, shot and killed Dick House and badly wound- ed his father, O. P. House, farmers, from Mansfield, Neb. The cause of the tragedy is not known, but it is said {t grew out of a’ grudge of long standing. Marshal Morrison was not Injured. He has been fan officer in Mansfield for fifteen years. Fatally Shot His S@n. ° Great Falis, Mont., special, Jacob Wer- ten Tuesday shot and fatally wounded his son John. Werten had treated his wire badly and the son interfered to protect the mother. The father drew a revolver ‘and fied a ball into the boy's feck. Wer- ten anrrendéted to the authorities, : SUPERSTITION IN PANAY, A Woman Boloed Because She Was Be- Meved To Bo a Witch. Washington special: News has been Teoeived at the war department of a pe- cullarly atrocious murder in the Philip- pines, the circumstances of which were developed at the trial of six natives be- fore military commission at Capiz, Pa- nay, P. I. It appears from the testimony that two of the prisoners were respons!- ble for the death of the wife of one of thelr neighbors. With seven or ‘eight other men they tent to the house of a native named Voctor Pere and forcibly took him and his wife to the Panay river, where they bound their hands behind them and told them that thelr “last day had come.” The woman was struck with @ bolo and her dead body thrown Into the river. Her husband witnessed her mur- der, and anticipating a similar treatment, sprang into the Aver, and, notwithstand- ing his arms were pinioned, managed to reach the opposite shore. According to the witnesses the motive for the crime was @ superstitious bellef that the mur- dered woman was a witch possessed of occult powers whereby she in some mys- terlous way had brought about the death of a neighbor's child, ‘The two men were sentenced. to be hanged, but General Mae- Arthur mitigated the sentences in each case to confinement at hard labor for twenty years, out of consideration of the exceedingly low order of intelligence and blind superstition of the accused. FIFTEEN HUNDRED CHINESE SLAIN TREACHEROUSLY. Reform Forces Led Into a Trap in Centra) China—Leaders Beheaded by Order of the Governor at an Arranged pci Minneapolis special: A Times special from Vancouver says: “News of a terrible massacre of the reform forces in China and the beheading of twenty-seven of its leaders was recelved here Tuesday in a cablegram by W. A. Cumrow, secretary of the Chinese Reform Association in America, The engagement {s reported to have taken place in a populous section of the Yang Tse valley in Central China. It resulted in the killing of 1,500 men and the complete demoralization of the re- form forces. ‘The battle in which the re- formers were brought by treachery, took place on Dee, 18, and the work of the movement hag, as a consequence, been dropped in all that part of the country. “The Chinese here are loud in their ex- pressions of disapproval of the conduct of the campaign by their leaders. It ap- pears from the few details given In the cablegram received that Long Tom. the reform leader of a badly armed force of 12,000, paid a visit” to Chung Hi Tung, governor of the district, who, though an imperial officer, was believed to have been in sympathy with the reform movement. ‘Leng was invited to the governor's pal- ace, and, with his 12,000 men, marched into the city. ‘They left all thetr arms out- side the gates, taking the precaution to carry only their loaded revolvers. There were 5,000 Imperial troops in the town, but nothing was feared from them. Whee the audience witn the governor was ar- ranged there were twenty-seven of the leading followers of Kang Yu Wel ad- mitted. Then a disagreement arose. The governor had the leaders seized ana taken into the court yard, where they were be- headed, and in the meantime a secret or- der had been sent to the imperial troops to descend upon the poorly armed rabble of the reformers.” ‘The five thousand well Arilied soldiers took the country people completely by surprise, but nevertheless the latter pluckily fought thelr way through and escaped. ‘They carried away their own wounded, but left 1,500 dead on the field arf scattered in the streets of the city. PONTIFICAL POMP. The Holy Door of St. Peter's Cathedral Figaratively Sealed by the Pope. Rome cable: The Pope Monday per- formed the ceremony of closing the holy door of St. Peter's Cathedral, with the gorgeous forms usual to great functions of this kind, ‘There was a great gather- tng of the princes of the church, who par- tletpated In the ceremony, which was witnessed by enormous crowds. ‘The clos- ing of the holy door took place with the utmost pomp, his holiness descending to St. Peter's Cathedral at 1a, m., and the ceremony lasted until 1 p.m. The Pope then returned to his apartments appar- ently-not fatigued. He intoned the ‘Te Deum tn 4 resonant voice, and through- out gave evidence of being in excellent heaith and spirits. He used the artistic, golden trowel subscribed for by the Cath- olics of the world, in mortaring the three gilded bricks which he placed, as a first layer, on the threshold of St. Peter's door. The whole pontifical court partict- pated in the ceremonies. Pe a a ee Seattle, Wash., ‘special: Advices have been received from Sitka. Alaska, stating that that town fs in @ condition of sup- pressed excitement, fearing an outbreak of Indians. The United States marines stationed there are under arms, and the marshal and deputies are taking every precaution to protect the whites In case of trouble. The aspect of affairs is very serious at Sitka, as the Indians are by far the strongest numerically. ‘There are Stty-fivé marines commanded by Capt. Pendleton at Sitka, Lynched the Wrong Man, Gulfport, Miss., special: Henry Lewis, the alleged negro murderer of Marshal Richardson, has not been caught, though loodhounds and posses are still. after hhim, ‘The negro Lewis, who was lynched here Friday by a mob, it now appears, was a cousin of the alleged murderer and wholly innocent of the crime. ‘A Farmer's Mysterious Disappearanee. © | Galena, INL, special: Charles W. Cook, ‘a prosperous farmer, residing at Gratlot, Wis., mysteriously disappeared Nov. 6, ‘and has not been found. He had $400 on his person when he lett home and his famil¥ ts feafful that he has been mur- FOR p) “fhe greatest stand ever made for civ. ration was the inkstand. 5 Fire » Shot 20 Milos, ‘The United States will fire a shot twen. ‘¥. miles, which willbe a record breaker ‘er the distance. ‘The gun from which it 9 t0 be sed will Bese marvel of Ame. can Ingenuity knd workmanship. Anoth, sr marvel of American ingenulty is Nos. setter’s Stomach Bitters. For fifty years t has cured constipation, indigestion, dys. 2epsia and billousness, See oe ‘Hunting in France. “Sometimes, in'the Parisian’s more remote excursions after smaller zame,” writes Richard Whiteing in the Century, “a wild boar/ crosses the path; so the prudent sportsman takes his hunting-knife or even*bis revolver with him, as well as his gun. ‘The Wrench list of necessaries for the field is alarmingly large; the stations a Rambouillet and Fontainebleau, og nights when ‘people are going down for the shooting, are encumbered with materiel de guerre In a manner that suggests a mobilization of the army, The Revolution saw the last of the grand battues of the old school: and then the infuriated people held the gun, and slaughtered without merey, for food, without a thought of the ti ture. The partridge never fairly re. covered from that blow.” FOUR DOCTORS FAILED. (A Michigan Lady's Battle with bie ease and How It Wax Won. Blushing, Mieh., Dec. 24. 1900. Spe. clal.)}—One of the most active workers in the cause of Temperance and Social Reform in Michigan is Mrs. P. A. Pass. more of this place, She is a prominent and yery enthusiastic W. ©. T. U. woman, and one who never loses au op: portunity to strike a blow against the demon of Intemperance. Mrs, Passmore has suffered much bodily pain during the last three years through Kidney and Bladder ‘Trouble. At tines the paln was almost unbearable, and the xood fady was very much distressed. “She tried physician after physician, and each in turn failed to relieve her, let Alone effect a cure, Home remedies suggested by anxious frienis were ap- plied, but all to no purpose. At last ome one spoke of Dodd's Kidney Pills as a great remedy for all Kidney and Bladder Diseases, and Mrs. Passmore decided to try them. She did, and is now a well woman. She lias given the following statement for publication: At different times in the past three years, I have suffered severely with Kidney and Bladder Trouble, and after trying four of the best physicians t could hear of, two of them living in the State of New York, 1 fotund myself no Detter. I took any amount of home remedies suggested by kind fiends, with little or no relief from anything. [ decided to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. Less than one box has done me more good than all other treatments com- bined. 1 am still using them, aud can say from experience that they are an excellent remedy for Kidney and Blad- der Trouble. I would heartily recom- mend them to all those suffering from these ills in like manner. MRS. P. A. PASSMORE, Flushing, Micb. When physicians and all other meth. ods of treatment have failed, try Dodd's Kidney Pills. What they did for Mrs. Passmore they gpill do for any one similarly aftlicted. BOe a box. All dealers. : | | UPRIGHT Scarten a | ME tuntagn : ee ait Gr a WE : tl 1h A jacobs EN a Oil eee FREE ELECTRIC BELT OFFER A Recrmcenns 2 Santas Ree ee Sora cee earrings aes BEARS, ROEBUGK & CO., Chicago. RAI N: THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It isa tonic and its effects are permanent. A successful substitute for coffee, because it has the coffee flavor that everybody likes. | __ Lots of coffee substitutes in the market, but only one food drink— Grain-0, 4 AM grocers; fe, and 250, POR ae ol BB a HES HERE A SE FANS. BS) vost Cougtt Syrup, Ci PL intime, Sold by droggists, CONSUMPTION: 4 GANGER tome "Writa fo fal paticuar 28 Fetorences. “The Germ, Cancel ‘Gaare, 198. nets Sete “[ NU SNDIANAPOLIS, No. ta, 1900 LIQUID FUEL FOR STEAM RS. Vessel Carrels to London From Borrowing Only Oil For Its Fires. In October the steamship Cowrie carried all the way from Kootel in Ireland to London, a distance of 9,225 miles using nothing but liquid fuel, when the steamer reached London the steamer supplied steamer for unmachinery were fired by the material. The oil was not burned in the layer of incandescent coal, because in some systems, but war had to a spray by means of a jet at the furnace door, where delivered from tanks above the Cowrie is formerly fired with oil and her owners say that her companion to liquid fuel has been attended with advantageous results. Only six workers are now required, though six were necessary when coal was used. A great deal of bunker space is saved. The consumption of oil at its is only twenty-two tons a day, while the daily consumption of coal to be thirty-five tons, and a ton of oil occupies only thirty-four cubic feet against forty-five feet required for coal. The oil is also taken on board each more quickly than coal, and recently 200 tons were pumped into a vernal steamer in an hour. The oil yielded by the Borneo oil elds is said to make an excellent fuel as it comes from the ground, and it is beginning to be much used for his purpose by the Hamburg-American and other steamers that are engaged in the Eastern trade. White's Manual Labor Institute. White's Manual Labor Institute. White's Manual Labor Institute is located about five miles from Wabasha the midst of a fine farm of 760 acres. It seems somewhat isolated, though it is connected with surroundings and villages by telephone and excellent roads. It has been in possession of Indiana Yearly Meeting or more than forty years, the money or its purchase being willed to it by Josiah White, of Philadelphia, since deceased. I was shown the records of the first treasurer of the institute, showing a transfer of the land from the Indians, for $6,500 in gold, under date of 1859. The school was maintained for a number of years as an Indian school, but recently it has been educating and training poor orphans of the State. Sixty-seven children are now there, mostly boys, of ages ranging from eight to fourteen years. The people of Richmond are perhaps aware that the institute is now under the management of one of the former citizens of Wayne county, John Harvey, and his estimable wife, who for so long a time well cared for our poor farm. They are admirably fitted to successfully oversee the farm and its interests, and to train and control the class of children found there. Though they have been in the institute but two months, everywhere there is evidence of their wise management, and especially apparent was that excellent attribute, which is so akin to goiliness. Mr. Harvey's son has the government of the boys and he exercises over them a gentle yet remarkable firmness—Phoebe Stevens, in Lucky Porter? "We were traveling from El Paso to the coast," said the advance man of the theatrical combination, "and the porter had tucked us snugly in our berths, when we were awakened to the consciousness that our train was 'held up.' The robbers marched us out of the car and made us deliver. Fortunately, not one of us had more than a few dollars in cash. But the man who held up the car porter gave a yelp of delight: 'See what I've found! Purr 'em back; start the train.' In the careless porter's vest pocket they discover a roll of bills as big as the pocket would hold. It looked as if there must have been several hundred dollars. We all knew of the profitable rapaciousness of the Pullman car porter, but never dreamed that his accumulation were so large. Yet the friendly human spark of forgiveness and sympathy was in our hearts for the poor fellow losing so much at one fell swoop. We were gathered in the smoking compartment and had a consolation purse under advisement for the darkey, when he came along himself. 'Mah lawd! dat was de luckiest 'sperience I done ever had,' he said, chuckling all over. 'Lucky' We were astonished. A poor servant robbed of hundreds chuckles with glee. 'Deed, yes, ge'men. Dey never looked but his in only one of my pocket's." -New York Times. Inland Australian Towns. The inland country towns of Australia bear a strict family resemblance to one another. There is a single main street with a few small ones leading out of it, and the houses are all of one story, and roofed with roff. The three or four public buildings, however, are generally of a substantial and sometimes an ambitions design, and the inhabitants are very proud of them. The diplomatic visitor will take care to praise them. A park and a newspaper complete the public institutions. Each township forms the center of a scattered community that collects there at frequent intervals for a horse race, a cricket match, or similar gathering. A ride of thirty or forty miles is thought nothing of in a country where you may see a beggar on horseback. As you proceed inland the population is sparser and the towns are fewer until you reach the "Out Back," which is the limit of civilization.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Motor Cars Threaten England's Peace The prevalence of motor cars opens up a very awful vista in the future. Some people can not bear the sound of railways; they dislike the din, rattle and dust. What is to be done with motor cars causing the same annoyance along every rural road? No longer can children play in country lanes, or the quiet pedestrians gather way-side flowers; no longer can the nursemaid go for a stroll with the baby in the perambulator, or the lame man warm himself in the sunshine. The whole of England will be one vast railway track, the silence of the fields broken by the shrill whistles and harsh rumbling sounds, while the dust flies around in clouds, blinding and confusing those who presume to attempt to admire the beauties of nature.—London Sphere. MRS. BREWER RECOMMENDS PERUNA FOR GRIP AND FEMALE CATARRH. The Home of Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer at Westerly, R. J. Publisher—Certainly not. It's only for women.—Detroit Free Press. es of the Kidneys ES FROM and gallant affection was about Sept. 20. ached. encroached examination ennamination made their Chicago, was its Stone and those serious not marking on privately associates ass. with the bulletins respiration, approaching illness. Dispatch. will stand no trifling because no disease none more fatal. Statistics show that no Kidney Diseases than any other diseases. Is This What A Does your back ache? Do you have scanty flow of urine? Do you have frequent severe headaches? Do you urinate too frequently either day? Have you sand, gravel, brick dust or wilt? Have you dark or bloody looking urine? Have you dark circles around the eyes, or bloated appearance of the face. Your Kidneys AND HERE IS WHERE YOU Kidney Disease does not make it firm hold on your system. Morrow' are made for Kidney Diseases and that the witnesses," three o Diseases of the Kidneys "For about a year I had a dull, heavy pain in the small of my back, which would be attended by a sharp, stinging pain when lifting or stooping over it. Of the pain in my back, I could not sleep and get proper rest, and would feel dull and tired when arising in the morning instead of fresh and vigneron. Morrow's Kid-ne-olds were first advertised I did not have much faith in their curative qualities, but after seeing them recommended to relieve S KID-NE-OIDS are prep Morrow's Kid no-olds are made or DW & CO., CHEMISTS, In a letter to Dr. Hartman concerning the merits of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brewer writes, among other things: Westerly, R. I. "Dear Dr. Hartman-1 and Pe-ru-na a sure cure for all cataract affections so common in this part of the country. It cures a cold at once. There is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na. As for la grippe, there is no other remedy that can at all compare with Pe-ru-na. "I am among the sick a great deal in our city and have supplied many invalids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith as to its results. I have never known it to fall to quickly and permanently remove that demoralized state of the human system which follow la grippe. "In all cases of extreme weakness I use Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence of a good result. In cases of weakness peculiar to me. Cupidity has more to do with the affairs of Cupid than the majority think. Piso's Cure for Consumption, is an invaluable medicine for coughs and colds—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A quarrel may soon be over, but a feud is deeper seated and may go on and on with the ages. 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. It is far easier to sell a dog than it is to give him away. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50-cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A Thanksgiving Benefactor. "A burglar carried off one of our turkeys." "You don't say so?" "Yes, and he left a note saying that he left us the other so we would have something to be thankful for."—Detroit Free Press. Going to Travel? If so, address G. A. A. Dean, Jr., T' F A., Missouri Pacific system, 16 Claypool Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., who will be glad to give you full information relative to rates, routes and accommodations. No trouble to answer questions. U. S. SENATOR DAVIS DIES FROM KIDNEY DISEASE. Senator Davis made a prolonged and gallant fight with disease. The trouble of the kidney affection was the fatal outcome, first appeared about Sept. 20. Trouble Stealthily Encroached. The trouble had, however, stealthily encroached upon a vital organ, and on Nov. 11 examination of the urine proved the presence of inflammation of the kidneys. Both acute nephritis and diabetes made their appearance, and Dr. Murphy, of Chicago, was summoned. He agreed with Doctors Stone and Lankester as to the presence of these serious ailments in acute form, and, while not making any public statement, he made known privately both of his mother, who associates his opinion that the case was hopeless. To those, however, who were familiar with the symptoms of acute kidney troubles the bulletins held onious information, the rapid respiration, fluctuating pulse, delirium and approaching coma telling the story of death's nearness. St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. J. C. Schoeh, of DuBois, Pa., convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Morrow's Kid-no-oids cure kidney troubles promptly and to stay cured. "For about a year I had a dull, heavy pain in the small of my back, which would be attended by a sharp, stinging pain when lifting or stooping over. On account of the pain I could not sleep and get proper rest, and would feel dull and tired when arising in the morning instead of fresh and vigorous. When Morrow's Kid-no-oids were first advertised I did not have much faith in their curative qualities, but after seeing them recommended to relieve symptoms like my own. I procured some at Vosburg's drug store, and then proceeded to directions. I few days the pain in my back stopped. The Kid-no-oids have done away with that dull, tired feeling and I am enjoying better health than I have for years." Mr. Schoeh, lives at 117 Olive Ave. THE RECORDER, INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA will stand no trifling because no disease is so deceptive and none more fatal. Statistics show that more people die from Kidney Diseases than any other disease. Do you have scanty flow of urine? Do you have frequent severe headaches? Do you urinate too frequently either day or night. Have you sand, gravel, brick dust or white mucous in your urine? Have you dark or bloody looking urine which scalds when voiding? Have you dark circles around the eyes, puffiness under the eyes, or bloated appearance of the face in the morning? Kidney Disease does not make itself felt until it has secured a firm hold on your system. are made for Kidney Diseases and that they cure Kidney Diseases can be attested by a "cloud of living witnesses," three of which give voluntary testimony below; sex I am sure that no other remedy can approach in good results the action of Pe-ru-na. It meets all the bad symptoms to which females are subject. The irregularities and nervousness, the debility and misfortune which afflict more or less the women from which affect the change of life, are one and at least met and overcome by this excellent remedy. I wish every young lady in our city could read your book. "Mrs. Lizle M. Brewer." Pe-ru-na will cure the worst cases of catarrh. The la grippe is acute epidemic catarrh, for which Pe-ru-na is a specific. Mrs. J. W-Reynolds, New Lisbon, Ohio, has many years with chronic catarrh of the throat and continuous cough; many physicians fail to cure. Permanently cured by Pe-ru-na. Thousands of testimonials could be produced. A unable treatise on catarrh sent free by The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company, Columbus, O. Mrs. King's Nervy Old Hen. Mrs. R. King is the owner of a courageous and capable old hen, of non-descript breed, that she wouldn't trade for a whole flock of blooded poultry. It is the only hen in Oregon, perhaps in the United States, that ever fought and killed a hawk. The battle occurred a few days ago, when a chicken hawk swooped down upon a band of baby towels of which the old hen was the mother. The hen didn't squawk and run, calling upon her offspring to follow her, but with a fierce and well-directed peck buried her bill beneath the hawk's left wing. It was a solar plexus blow and a clean knock-out. The hawk seemed surprised and dazed. It feebly arose, flew aimlessly against a clothesline and then dropped into the garden, stone dead. That hen will be queen of Mrs. King's poultry yard on Wild Horse Creek as long as she survives.—Weston Leader. Wives can keep a quarrel going longer than husbands. They fan it. Red Cross is the best Ball Blue the world knows. Large package only 5 cts. Snarley—Hear about Hauton's great come-down? Yow—No! Tell me. Snarley—He walked up to the twentieth story of the Sky-scraper and took the elevator down.—Syracuse Herald. A Slight. Author—Shall I write a preface to this book? DuBose, Pa. and is always glad to give a good word for that peerless kidney remedy to Kid-ne-olds. Mrs. Gold Campman 45 River St., Sharon, Pa. gives her daughter a kidney remedy after she used Morrone's Kid-ne-olds, hoping by so doing she will help some other woman to help deblitating backaches, combing backaches, combing backaches to the female sex. 1830 Sharon, Pa., Nov. 8, 1900. John Morrow & Co. Dear Sirs: "I take pleasure in recommending your medicine to the patient. I may benefit others as it has me. Three years ago in March I was attacked with a severe fever which left me in a Mrs. Gold Campman, miserable, weak condition. About one year ago, after my kidnakes became affected, the pain in my back was so bad I could not sit up or lie down. I saw Morrow's Kid-neoids highly recommended and procured a box and took them according to directions, which resulted in a cure. I have taken in all three boxes and consider the medicine so good Kidneys no disease is so deceptive and now that more people die from er disease. What Ails You? ine? headaches? either day or night. dust or white mucous in your urine? ing urine which scalds when voiding? the eyes, puffiness under the eyes, of the face in the morning? eyes are Sick HERE YOUR DANGER LIES: it make itself felt until it has secured a ow's Kid-ne-oic and that they cure Kidney Diseases can be attested by a "three of which give voluntary testimony below: are for sale by all druggists or by prepaid on receipt of 50 cents. made only by SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. An old bookkeeper declares that it is surprising to see how many valuable things a man can buy if he simply economizes in little things. "I once made up my mind. I would become the possessor of a good gold watch. I saved up the money for it in this way: When I felt like eating a 50c luncheon, as I often did, I ate a 25c one instead, and put the other quarter aside for my watch fund. You will hardly believe it, but in less than six months I had saved money enough to purchase the watch." "But you don't seem to have bought it," said his friend, observing that there were no outward signs of such a purchase. "Well, no. When I found how easily I could get along without 50c lunches, I concluded I could get along just as easily without the gold watch, and the watch fund is growing into a house and lot fund now." - Youth's Companion A Knowing Boy. "I see that your teacher is going to be married, Bobbie. I thought you were going to marry her when you grew up?" "Well, I may yet. She's from Chicago, you know."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Man will forgive woman anything save the wilt to outwit him. Corkscrews have sunk more people than cork-jackets will ever save. A Revelation. 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Kid-neoids advertised and recommended so highly by other persons whose knee is similar to my own that I decided to try them. I began to improve in two or three days after I commenced to take them. the hospital for a time, but it seemed that my disease was incurable. My older wife was terrible, especially my back. I saw Morrow's Kid-ne-olds advertised and recommended by other persons because symptoms were similar to my own that I decided to try them. I began to improve in the days after I commenced the care, and continued to improve until the pain in my back has all disappeared. I have felt like a new person since taking her older sister's care, and able to recommend such a valuable medicine." Mrs. Sterner resides at 1615 17th Ave., Altoona, Pa. as 300,000,000 of them are being smoked this year. Ask anybody about them, if you have never smoked them yourself. They have made their own reputation and their own place in the cigar trade, wholly on their merits. Three good smokes for f cents, and no waste! Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old. Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Aix Sinensis Apple Seed - Apple Seed Peppermint - Bilberry Seed + Walnut Seed Orange Seed Watergrown Plain Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Patterson NEW YORK. A6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. Most ev some Old Virg as 300,000,000 smoked this year them, if you have yourself. The own reputation in the cigar tr merits. Three cents, and no w Three hundred million O year. Ask your ow More KID-N oids ated by a "cloud of living now: All the Testimonials and letters published by John Morrow & Co. are true. They are proof positive of the great merit of Morrow's Kid-neoids. Each name and address is correctly given; if you write them enclose a postagestamp to pay for the answer. or by mail --- Cura Sick Kidneys.