Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1895 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1895.

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The New York Store

(ESTABLISIICD 1853.) OPEN TO-NIGHT Special To-day and Tomorow A $10.00 Ladles' Writing Desk for '5.49 C2 Fine Mahogany finish on Curly Birch, larg-e French Plate Mirror, French Legs, one draw er. Stands 4 feet 8 inches high, 33 inches wide and 16 inches deep. An actual $10 desk for $5.49. Fourth floor. The Toys, Games, ' Dolls, Etc., In the Basement and The Holiday Books On the Second floor will go at a lively rate to-day. We expect to see you here. Pettis Goods Co A TRAMP KICKED 1II3I OFF Stephen Sillier, ft C, II. 4c D. Bralcma.il, In a Precarious Condition. Stephen Miller, a C, II. & D. passenger brakeman, met a mysterious accident. Saturday night, as a result of which h is lying in a precarious condition at his home. No. 2S4 East Ohio street. When Miller left .his home, Saturday morning:, to make his regular trip to Cincinnati, he told his "wife he would he hack to spend Sunday. Satur day evening he started from Cincinnati to "dead head" back to Indianapolis, lie had an arrangement with the conJuctor of. the train on which ha returned to -check- up - at Pine - street, where he would get off. When Pine street was reached Miller left his seat in the coach and started for the platform. That was the last seen of him by the train crew. He waa found near the Pine-street crossing about midnight Saturday night unconscious and bleeding from bruises on his bead and neck. He remained in a stupor until about 11 o'olock yesterday, when he revived sufficiently to talk. He claimed that he was kicked from the platform by a tramp and fell to the ground while the" train was moving at a smart rate or speea. Dr. Wagner la attending the injured man. red NOIiDICA WILL BE HERE. Melba, However, Will Not SInsr at the May Festival. The directors of the May Festival Association have practically closed a contract with Manager George W. Stewart, of the Boston Festival Orchestra, for ths coming year. At the Denlson Hotel, yesterday afternoon, the directors met Mr. Stewart and discussed the prospects for the May entertainment. In a day or two It Is expected a contract will be drawn up by which Mr. Stewart will furnish all of the .talent for the enteitainment. It is settled that Nordlca will be here, but Melba will not come on account of her Kuropean engagement. Mr. Stewart said last night that the prospects for a long list of the best artists Is excellent. The orchetra will be larger next year and the vocal talent will toe of the highest order. The festival, It Is thought, will be held the second week In May. AMUSEMENTS. Hoyt's A Texas Steer. Hoyt's "A Texas Steer" will open to-night At English's for three nights and Christmas matinee. This is recognized aa probably the best of Hoyt's plays. The author himself has that opinion of It. The return of Tim Slurphy to the piece In his old role of Maverick Brander has brought the play back to its old-timo strength and humor. Stuart Robson will be at the Grand tomorrow night as Hob Acres In "The Rivals." Christmas matinee and night he will entertain the crowds with his new play, "Government Acceptance," which was written by Daniel Hart. Like Mr. Robson's former successes, it deals with the ambitions of commercial life, where brother battles with brother. Mr. Robson's character la the play is different in every respect from any he 'has before asuumed. Tried to Defraud Irvine . NEW YORK. Dec. 12. Aubrey C. C. New ton. alias Densll Del Carstairs. a well-, dressed Englishman, was arrested to-day for attempting to borrow money from Sir Henry Irving, the actor, upon the strength of a forged letter of introduction, purporting to have been written by Sir Kdward Clarke, the distinguished English lawyer. Notes of the Stage. t Mr. Moxart, agent for Mr. , Tom Thumb, and Manager Harmon, of Bancroft, the magician, are in town. Harry W. Semon's Extravaganza Company, with the new aerial ballet and a big bill of first class specialists, will be the Christmas week attraction at the Empire beginning to-day matinee. ' The Park Theater has for its Christmas week Florence Bindley and company, who open this afternoon in "The Captain's Mate." This play will run for three days and be followed by "The Pay Train." . Harold Blake, who it will be remembered created such a favorable Impression at Wild wood Park during the summer opera season, is tho principal tenor of the Bostonlans this yrar and will sing the role of Captain Selden in the new opera, "A War-time Wedding," during the Bostonlans engagement next week. . PERSONAL AND SOCIETY . . Ur. Harry Birk, who Is attending DePauw lintversity, returned yesterday to pend the holidays at home. 'Mr. Perg Applegate has been confined to hi home on North Meridian street for several days on account of illness. Miss Agnes Illrk has lued Invitations for a reception Saturday afternoon, Dec. 28, from 2 to 6, at her home on North West street. The boxes and stalls for the G'eo Club concert to-night, at the Grand, will b occuplel by the following patronesses: Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Brwln. Mr. and Mrs. Herod. Mr. anl Mrs. Woolen, Mrs. Coburn. Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gate. Mr. anl Mra. Ferd Winter. Mr. and Mr. C. L. Hsre, Mr. anl Mrs. Hewitt Howland. A number of young society ladies will accompany the patronesses.

LIMITATION TO PEACE

IlEV. F. O, DALLAUD, IX HIS S CRM OX, DISCUSSES TUB WAR CLOUD. Quakers Compared to Men Who Re fused to Man the Gun Mr. 3111born'i Reference. Rev. Frank O. Ballard, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, preached an interesting sermon yesterday morning. In which he touched on the trouble be tween this Nation and England. The ser mon was a Christmas sermon, the subject being, "Peace on Earth and the Duty of Living Peaceably." The text was from the eighteenth verse of Romans xll, . which reads: "If It be possible as much as lieth in you, live peaceable with all men." During the sermon Mr. Ballard said: "We are to be genial and gentle, meek, merciful and loving. We are to be studious of peace, not testy and litigious. We are not only not to be actually embroiled ourselves. but we are to do what we can not to em broil other men. We are to be children of the millennium and are to long for the Ideal and golden world when sword3 shall be beat Into plowshares and spears Into pruning hooks. "Yet contentions may bo forced upon us, hence the limitation put upon the duty to live peaceably. The command Is, 'if It be possible as uch as lleth in you.' That means that even when you most desire peace others may compel you to contend. Our revolutionary fathers could not live at peace with King George; it was not possible. Abraham Lincoln could not live at peace with the Southern Confederacy, although he was a man of peace and greatly desired to do so. He could only have lived in peace by breaking his own oath and by allowing evil men to disrupt the Nation. Moses could not witness the degradation of his own people, -smitten down by the oppressive tyranny of Egypt, and be at peace with those tyrants. And He, the one only, the all perfect and matchless. one-called the 'Prince of Peace could not, although the gentlest of beings, live at peace v.ith the proud sectaries and ecclesiastics with whom he was surrounded. The noble prophets of Israel could not be at peace with Idolatrous kings and people, but were even sent of heaven to contend against them." ' "Venezuela has not for a period of many years been, able, though earnestly seeking to do so, to live In concord and agreement with Great Britain, and if tie encroachments of the latter shall continue and her disposition to bully a smaller and weaker nation shall be further shown, these United States may possibly not be able to live in peace with Great Britain. Something Is due to justice and to honor as well as to peace. It is often our duty in this mixed state of the world to suffer in silence, unresisting, but it is equatty our duty at the call of Justice and honor to stand against wrong and to bring to the contention all the force that may be required. m "We have a great and sincere admiration for the Quakers, but we submit that they have pushed their doctrine of nonreelstincA too far. Thev may safely refuse to contend, for they are but a handful, and, as has been said, they are like a handful of men in a fort who take advantage of the nroteetion of the fort while they refuse to man the guns. Peace then should be our desire and our study, in tne aomesuc maim, in aocletv and in our ordinary bus! nese relation we are to. live on term of "But let it not be forgotten that there Is a moral and public reformatory duty incumbent upon us also. Courts are places of contention, yet men must go to law, at least In this order of things. Great dis cussions and strenuous reforms may be carried on, although they do disquiet society. It is impossible for Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. Parkhurst to live peaceably by the side of Tammany, and it would be a shame if they could. And it is a shame to us if we are so peaceable that we can be at peace when gamblers and thugs and lawbreakers would dominate the city. There is a duty of excitement as truly as there is a duty of peace and quiescence, for He who was called the Prince of Peace also said, M come not to eenu yeaco on cuim uuu u cnutu. It makes all the difference. In the world, however,;' whether our contentions are in the Interests of truth and of liberty or whether they are selfish and only inspired by our vanity,' pride or combativeness. AH breach of the peace which is caused by the ascendency of the malign elements in man is evil and only evil. And, alas, how much HE ASKS FOR PEACE, Rev. J. A. Mllburn's Reference to the Venesnelnn Imbroglio. Rev. J. A. Milburn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, preached a Christmas sermon on peace yesterday morning and in the course of his remarks he said: "And I pray you to remember at this particular time that our Nation stands on the verge of a dreadful conflict with another nation, whose blood is in its veins, whose thought impregnates its mind, whose ideals decree its conscience and whose traditions exalt and glorify Its history. I pray you to-remember that the very essence of the incarnate gospel of the Son of God is peace and good will towards all men. Now that we are talking much and loudly of war, now that we stand face to face with England in her strife and greed for empire, now that the militant and bellicose spirit of our Nation has been aroused, let those of you who are Christians remember the gospel of peace. , "And above all things let us not be driven to rash and impeteous -action by false and fictitious notions of honor, chivalry and heroism. This country, thank God. has no need to demonstrate its honor. It is a Nation of heroes, born from the loins of heroes; it was founded in a spirit of heroism and its whole history has been a manifestation of heroism and its valor has been established again and again in a hundred fierce and desolating battles. No man who knows the meaning of the word honor, the meaning of the word chivalry, the meaning of the word heroism, doubts the grandeur of the American spirit, doubts that this country is equal to the task of enforcing righteousness at the cannon's mouth if needful. Then let our message this Christmastlde, be not a word of war, not a word of anger, not a word of hate, not a word whose far off and awful consequences shall be desolation to tens of thousands of homes and woe to tens of thousands of hearts, but rather Christ's word, the words of peace to all the children of men." SOME LOCAL. REFORMS. Tier. W. F. Crafts Refers Pointedly to Rooks in the Public Library. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of tho National Bureau of Reforms, last night at Meridianstreet M. E. Church delivered the last of a series of addres?cs In this city that have extended through a peiiod of several months. The address was confined to a summing up of the progress of reform in this country during the present year. The facts stated are mostly found in the Thanksgiving number of the bureau's bulletin, which Is devoted to the work of the year throughout the United States. . Dr. Crafts began with a statement of the many efforts that have been made this year. to. have prize fights, and how the authorities of several States and of the United States ' had prevented them. He praised Governors Culbertson, Clark and Matthews, of Texas, Arkansas and Indiana, for their strong and successful opposition. That the acts of these Governors had done a larzo ambunt towards the permanent 6un predion of such exhibitions Dr. Crafts had little doubt. He entered extensively into the various kinds of gambling, and said the session of Congress last winter, although cursed by men of all parties, should have the credit of passing at leat two of the best acts on the national statute books the law preventing the use of express com panies to transmit mail matter to lotteries, and the law authorizing Carroll 1). Wrieht. Commissioner of Labor, to investigate the effect of drink upon labor, tor the lottery law he Brave the most credit to Prof. II. Woodbridge. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who began the agitation and spent a large amount of money in arousing the sentiment necessary to secure the passage of the bill. Senator Hoar, who introduced and championed the bill, was also given due credit. Mr. Crafts thought the law should now be extended so as to pre vent telegraph companies carrying mes sages designed for gambling purposes, hav ing especial rererence to the work on such as the Mercantile Telegraph Company. which operate a pool room in the rear of Tron s naioon. in regard to this Dr. Crarts took time and words to strongly score Senators Gormai: and Rrice for opposing the lottery bill. The speaker then touched

on the various reforms of the year, giving

especial attention to the. fact that several States had raised the age of consent, while some had discussed the matter but refused to take action. Indiana being among the latter class. Civil-service reform in cities was mentioned and the vote of Chicago for reform was given as indicating the wish of the people. Coming down to this city. Dr. crarts spoke of visiting the pool rooms in the rear of Troa's saloon, and said that al though selling pools is prohibited in thiJ State, any one could gamb.e all day long in that place without molestation, "and under the very eye of the Sentinel aad News." he added. He praised the prosecutor for the recent action in regard to suppressing the slot machine gambling. This, he said, ia an evil of even greater proportions than some that seem more harmful. "Last winter the Legislature enacted a law," he said, "requiring the public schools to teach the effects of alcoholic stimulants on the system. This law became effective last July, but a visit to the public schools of thi3 city failed to show wherein it is in oparation. The teachers know nothing about it and the pupils know less. I think Indianapolis is not the best city in the United States, but it is certainly not the worst. In the observance of the Sunday laws it does not equal Pittsburg. (In Pittsburg nothing but medicine can be bought on Sunday. Even a glass of soda water, a dish of ice cream or a banana cannot be found for sale.) Thi3 city might bo made as clean morally as its streets. "I would suggest a few things that might aid in bringing about some reforms. I would appoint a committee on gambling to see what could be done to suppress pool room gambling and then act upon the recommendations of the committee until the evil is suppressed. You have laws that will reach the case. This same committee might seo that the prosecution of the slot machine gamblers is properly carried out. Then let there . be a committee on purity to push the fight for raising the age of consent and to make tho divorce laws more stringent. Your Police Court 19 a place where much Insight into the needs of reform may be obtained. A committee should be appointed to visit this court that is large enough to have one or two members on duty every morning. It would show the authorities that you are on their side In the punishment of crime would also give an opportunity to do good when persons are brought into court who are susceptible of reform. When I saw your Jail I thought I would find an institution where prison reform was in vOgue. It is a magnificent structure. When I. entered it I found young boys, arrested for their first offense, and not yet shown to be guilty, confined where they had daily intercourse with hardened criminals. After staying there a month awaiting trial It would be a wonder if they came out uncontaminated. "Your magnificent library Is a source of much that is bad. I found there a large number of school children taking out just such books as seemed to suit their fancy, without let or hindrance. It is true that in many Instances the attendants tried to get them to take books that 'would improve their minds, but were seldom successful. Parents allow their children to read anything found in the library and much of it is not suited for young minds. I would recommend Siturday night talks as a remedy for this. It would not entirely obviate the evil, but if some persons who know the books would undertake to give the children a little Instruction It would be helpful." At the Mayflower Church. Special Christmas services were held at the Mayflower Congregational Church, corner of Delaware and Seventh streets, yesterday morning, there being music appropriate to the eeason, and a sermon by the pastor. Rev. J. W. Wilson, which was suited to Christmas time. Mr. Wilson took as his subject, "Seekers from afar," and dwelt on the birth of the child Christ, dealing more fully with the Journey the wise men made to And the new-born King. At that time tradition said a new King was to be born; that a bright star would appear at his birth, and - the coming of the child was eagerly anticipated. II was no wonder then, that the wise men started forth to locate the child Jesus. The star of Christ still shines and the Savior is still ready to greet all. those who seek Him. God has many ways or speaking to people: lie is always in communication with the devout and humble. "We laugh at the thought of God coming to us in dreams," said Mr. Wilson, "tut our dreams are not the dreams of the old times. Our dreams are but Images cn a disordered mind, due to dyspeptic conditions and overfeeding. The dreams of the prophets were tne outgoing or devout souls. God speaks through the stars, through science, inrougn nature ana tnese may lead to Him." At Allen M. B. Chapel. Rev. A. L. Murray, of the Allen Chapel M. E. Church, preached yesterday morning an able sermon on "Good Tidings of Great Joy." An old-fashioned experience meeting was -announced for Christmas morning at 5 o'clock. HORSES SEED A HOSPITAL. Those In Fire Department Should Be Properly Trained. "While the Board of Safety is considering the building of now fire-engine houses," began a well-known horseman a few days ago, "the members should consider the erection of a hospital at one of the houses. There should be provisions made for sick and disabled, horses. Dr. Armstrong made a recommendation for such a place while he was city veterinarian, but his plans were never carried out. If the board proposes to purchase new horses and put them in active service, as has been done, lt will be a great Injustice to the people who have to pay for them. Horsetf Sut right to work in the department will e knocked out in a few months. The hospital which I suggest would furnish a proper place for their training. The new horses could be taken there and prepared for hard work. They should be trained. The expenses are far greater now than necessary lust because green animals aro put In the harness and expected to do work which would be hard for toughened ones. This expense Will continue so long as the city does not pay proper attention to the training of horses. If a horse gets sick or lame now there is no place where he can be cared for properly. All the department has to offer is a narrow stall, and tho poor animal cannot improve with the excitement around him and himself a prisoner. It will be economy for the city to provide a refuge for the fire and patrol-wagon, horses right now, while improvements are under way. You would be surprised to know the number of horses that have been killed off pulling the patrol wagon during the last five years. It all comes from putting green animals, many of them never having seen a pavement, to hard work without proper training." THE OFFENSE WAS TRIVIAL. Police Arrest n Man nnd Ills "Wife for Quarreling. John and Mary Caton, living at 217 East Washington street, got Into trouble yesterday and the police were called in. Caton is a printer and most of the time works industriously. According to tho statement of his wife he remained away from home Saturday night and did not turn up until lato yesterday evening. The trouble between the couple was of a trivial nature, but it attracted a crowd and both were, arrested. Caton was charged with assault and battery and his wife with disturbing, the peace. About 9 o'clock last night the woman's daughter, a modest, refined-looking girl of about sixteen, went to the station house and timidly inquired if nhe could see her mother. The girl was led up to the woman's department and talked to her mother through the iron bars of the cell. The seeno between mother and daughter was so pitiful that the men about the station were glad when it was ended. The girl went directly to Mayor Taggart from the station houso ami in a little while the Mayor called up Captain Quigley and instructed him to release Mrs. Caton without bail. The woman was turned out, promising to appear in Police Court this morning. Shortly afterward the daughter came back and asked if she might see her father. The latter came from hla cell with a smile on his face aud a cheery "Hello, daughter," on his lips. "Oh, you needn't say 'hello" to me," angrily cried the girl with a stamp of her little foot. "I haven't any sympathy for you. I've got mamma out of jail and now you can stay here. "I'll not help you." With that he flounced out of the place. Caton was not released. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity will meet at General Carnahan's office at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A reorganization of the alumni association for 1SIHJ will be effected. Jon W. 8tutsenberg. of North Delaware street, yesterday received a telegram announcing the death of his brother Michael S. in San Antonio, where ho had gone lor his health. He was formerly a resident of Fort Wayne. All Tiles set by experts. J no, M. Lilly.

BRIGHTER FOR GRAIN

MORE HANDLED IX NOVEMBER THAN FOR. MANY MONTHS PAST. Comparisons Since Interstate-Commerce Act Went Into Effect The Year's Wholesale Trade. Probably there Is no point In the West where the interstate-commerce act so seriously affected grain traffic as It did at Indianapolis, and while under its provisions Indianapolis cannot become as important a grain center as formerly, of late it has been recovering lost ground and ia November more grain was handled at Indianapolis than in any previous month since the interstate-commerce act went into effect. During November there were 2,173 carloads of grain Inspected and of this number 1,901 were loaded with corn, while in November, lS9i, there was handled at this point but 695 carloads of grain; increase this year, 1,478 cars. The, large local consumers of corn are the cereallne mills, which require 4.&Q0 bushels of corn a day, the starch works, which use 4,000 bushels of corn a day, the Indianapolis hominy mills, which use 2,500 to 3,000 bushels a day, and the American flake mills, which use about 1,000 bushels a day. But when compared with former years, before the Interstate-commerce act become effective, Indianapolis: is not In it as a grain center. The year 1SSI Indianapolis handled the largest quantity of grain in any one year, over 24,000,000 bushels being handled- In that year. There were then four large elevators in operation, eleven large grain firms and numerous brokers. There are now fewer legitimate grain dealers here, while there are more brokers in business. Ah idea of the business then done may be. formed from 'the fact that In the fall of 1S81 Fred P, Rush & Co. for tea con secutive weeks averaged shipments of slxtynlnecarloads of grain dally over the Erie and the Baltimore &, Ohio lines, and during the grain season this ..firm shipped, Mr. Rush states. 5,500,000 bushels of wheat, 1,800,000 bushels of oats and 3,500,000 bushels of corn, and there .were several other firms which handled several'- million bushels of grain that year. Beside there were large grain dealers in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore who had representatives at Indianapolis and many of them still have. Indianapolis, however, on account of the Interstate-commerce act, does not get 'the credit of handling grain that It once did as now the grain is billed through here; before it was billed local to Indianapolis, then taking a through rate at this point. Among local grain shippers Lt is thought tnat one of the most interesting and imporant Influences that will be exerted by the new Joint Traffic Association will be on the grain trade and fear exists Jest, under the new order of things.; the free move ment of the immense domestic and export grain trade of the country will be hampered to some extent by the Inflexible rules which it is understood that the board of mat agers will establish. 1 Speaking of the sul Ject Saturday a prominent freight official said: "The grain trade Is peculiarly sensitive. Tne rise or a cent in price may check a strong flow of the cereals to Europe, for we compete wun otner nations. The reauc tion of a cent may change a stagnant move ment into ona of great volume. And in the same way any other, change which affects me price in England accelerates or. retards tne gram exoorts. Chief among these Is the transportation rate. Under the old order of things, now passingaway. the Western lines had tha power to fix east-bound rates, the eastern lines on the other hand con trolling west-bound rates. But now under the Joint Traffic Association, rates both east-bound and west-bound will be passed upon and fixed at New, York. I fear that at that great distance from the Western grain centers the great susceptibility of this movement to influences will not be appreciated. It needs a little -electricity some where, like a springboard, to start it. would not want to be quoted as advocating rate cutting, but if there is any one place where It can be exercised Judiciously at less injury to any one nd at greater benefit to the people at! large it. is in this export grain trade. There has always been more or less of lt going on,-and when rates were not cut there were opportunities for a com bination with ocean re.tes, which amounted to tne same thing m effect. I imagine tnat for time at least it-will end A HEALTHY IH'SINESS TEAR. One of the eterah Wholesale Mer chants Grows Reminiscent. Said one of the oldest of the business men on South Meridian f tree t. on Friday last, to a Journal reporter. "Well, we are closing another year and I believe it is safe to make the assertion that in no city where as extensive a wholesale business Is done, have the houses In the various lines done healthier volume of business than this year. In no department has there been a rush but, taken as an aggregate, the sales of the year will foot up favorably with any of the preceding years with a majority of the wholesale houses. It Is perfectly safe to say that there Is no city 'where the wholesale houses are on.a.moro solid, basis financially than are the .wholjesala houses of Indianapolis. I was connected wli. the first of the wholesale houses established on South Meridian street, and to-day am really the oldest merchant now in business on this street. To-day, in conversation with another of the older business men, in recounting the past, we found that, .with two or three exceptions, every wholesale house on this street was started by young men who, by uprijrht, untiring efforts, have built up the business in their respective lines and among them all, he could not think of one merchant who had led a dissipated life, or had been wbat would be called a fast liver. They have all kept steady at business and have established a credit which any business man might envy. But few are-yet what might be termed rich, although a number of them could now retire were they so inclined to, with a competency. Still, all seem inclined to continue in business, taking in young men as partners, as in tho case of A. Keifer & Co.. liurdsal & Co., several of the wholesale grocers. Iron and hardware stores, con fectionery and millinery houses. I can count thirty-five or forty, without studying the matter much, who are now our best business men on this street. They commenced very humbly. Their check in any bank would now be good for a large sum of money: Today the business outlook for the Indianapolis wholesale houses .was never brighter. Don't think that in speaking thus of the wholesale firms on South Meridian Ptreet. I am casting any reflection on the reveral wholesale houses which have been established in the last few years on South Pennsylvania street, for a large per cent, have been established by younr; jjien who commenced as clerks In some. of the South Meridian-street houses, and arc doing an excellent business and in a financial way are rso, l ,, Industrial 'oteS. The four-story building on South street near Illinois street ia about reaiy for occupancy, and by Jan. 1 the National Electric Headlight Company will occupy a portion of the building and the Indiana Cvcle Chain Company the remainder. The building has a frontage of ninety feet on South street and is built to best acommodate the industries which will occupy it. The four-story building on Fort Wayne avenue whicn tne Kruner lfrothers are erecting for the Munger Bicycle Company Is now being put under roof and when complete will give the bicycle company a large amount of additional room. The company has hoped to get into the new building by the first of the new year, but it will probably be Jan. 15 before it can do so. Negotiations are pending which will probably result in the erection of a large building for the Bellis Cycle Company to occupy. The company's business has grown beyond all expectations of the founders of the plant and although the company has twice taken in additional room lt is still much cramped for room to work the number of men the business now and in prospect will require. Otto Stechhan, who a few months ago retired from the manufacture of lounges, haj remodeled the building he then occu pied and will go Into the manufacture of wooden rims lor Dicycies on an extensive scale. Hetherlngton & Berner are putting in a very complete outfit of automatic modern machinery and when completed It wiil be one of the largest and most modern equipped manufactories of this class In the country. The Indiana Bicycle Company will this week bpgln moving into Its new office building, which 13 without question one of the finest office buildings of any industry in the State If not in tne country, as money has been expeniea tavisniy in maaing u a handacme, imposing and still a substantial structure. The building 1 two storien high with basement room underneath and fifty ieet wiae, naiiuuiuviy wusaeu un me ex terlor with brick and stone and the in terior is a marvel of beauty. The Indian anolls cablr.et works do all cf the Interior

work, which Is of a high standard. This company also furnishes the desks and en

tire outfit cf the oraces on botn noors. everything to be new and of the most expensive manufacture and style of office furniture. The Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company has got Into its new building on Kentucky avenue and South Mississippi street, and now has room to work iour hundred persons. ' The building is one of the best lighted, heated and ventilated struc tures in the city. Kverytnmg aoout it is modern. The works will have a capacity to turn out three miles of bicycle chain a day. In their old works they could not turn off half that measurement or Dicycie chain. The larcre five-story building of Parry Brothers is completed and this morning the company will begin placing the machinery in position. This is unquestionably the most solid and substantial building ever erectea in this city. It is 1G6 feet in length by 83 feet in width, with a new boiler house ad joining, in which there is a battery of four boilers. In everything the building is wen equipped; has two large elevators and numerous other arrangements for handling the work exteditlously. The building is lighted by electricity and heated by the exhaust eteam from the boilers. THE "BROADWAY SQUAD." All Hare Titles nnd Each Little Doaslnar. Does a Captain Splan and the detective force were startled by a great commotion in the hall of the police station the other morning and rushed out to see what It was all about. They found It was only "the "Broadway squad" going through the evolutions of the morning dress parade. The "Broadway fcquad" is composed of the crossing patrolmen "Terry" Moore, "Bill" Milam, "Bob" Lyons and Perry Lund. They report each morning before going to their posts for the day. For their own edification and improvement they have formed themselves into a drill squad. The officers of the squad are: Captain, Milam; sergeant, Lyons; first lieutenant, Lund, and second lieutenant, Moore. Regardless of Upton's tactics, the sergeant of the squad Is made to take rank, above the first and second lieutenants. The captain says he can dispense with privates very well, as he has the other officers to command. The sergeant and the first lieutenant each have some one to whom they can address orders, but the second lieutenant sighs, "Oh, for a private in this squad." As it is. he has to content himself with the privilege of "talking back," and the captain says "he can do it to the Queen's taste." As in all well regulated military companies, the tactics provide for an Inspection first and foremost. "Here not long ago,", said the captain, "after the boys got their new uniforms I dispensed with the Inspection. I had my old uniform and they, looked better than I. But I have mine now and you can bet I make them . come to time." At the command "right dress" the pquad braces up in grand military style and the Inspection begins. Woe to the man who has a hair on his coat or a speck of mud on his shoes! The other day Sergeant Lyons had a speck of mud on his right shoe. The captain gave him a sound lecture on the necessity of setting a better example to his subordinates. The sergeant in turn inspected the first lieutenant and managed to find one of his buttons awry and then he administered a severe rebuke. And so lt went until all had been inspected except the captain, when Second Lieutenant- Moore's turn came and he "got back" In good form. The captain had dropped his helmet on the floor and forgot to brush off the dust. There was a tpot on the top of it as big as a tin dinner plate, a fact that did not escape Lieutenant Moore's attention. He walked over to the captain and deliberately took off his helmet and pointed to the dust spot with a silent gesture of disdain. "If you were not the captain of this squad," said he "I would have something to say to you about 'setting good examples to your subordinates.' " The captain made no reply, but wiped the offending spot away with his coat sleeve, transferring the dust thereto. "Captain," said Lieutenant Moore sarcastically, "I think it would be a good idea for you to get a brush, 6ir." Amidst a derisive shout from his "subordinates," the captain went for a whisk broom. After that the squad was put through a dozen or so military evolutions. When the drill was finished . the captain said, "attention, squad," and began a lengthy harangue, directing the men as. to how their duties for the day should be performed. After a minute or two some one of the bystanders called "time," and the men broke ranks and filed away to their posts, where they spent the balance of the day endeavoring to keep weak women and helpless children from being run down by clanging street-cars and runaway horses. FOR ROBBING A PREACHER. Frank Preston nnd Frank Newman May De "Wanted at Lebanon, Frank Preston and Frank Newman, arrested Friday night by the detectives on the charge of associating" with thieves, were identified yesterday by a Big Four conductor as the two men who boarded his train at Lebanon a few days ago and ten-' dered him a ten-dollar bill In payment of their fare. He was afterwards notified that two men bearing the description of his two passengers were , wanted In Lebanon for assaulting and robbing an old preacher of that town of $400. Part of the money was in ten-dollar bills. The authorities at Lebanon have been notified and the marshal will come here to-day to identify the men. If they are the men who committed the robbery they will probably be taken there for trial. Preston and Newman were arrested in a room at 130 East Washington street. Among their effects a lot of email saw blades, such as are used for cutting steel, were found. THD COURT RECORD. Supreme Court. 17745. State of Indiana vs. Express Company: Marion C. C. Reversed. McCabe, J. 1. An assessment of tax must be made and levied upon actual property, and that property must be within toe State. 2. The Board of Tax Commissioners, under Seition 8484, R. S., 1K4, for taxing express companies, may make an assessment of so much per mile on the wholo number of miles of the route of each company in this State. 3. The unit system of assessment was Intended to prevent destruction of values by disruption and disintegration. Superior Court. Room 1 John I McMaster. Ju3ge. ' !. Louis Otto vs. Eldora Otto; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Aetna Savings and Loan Association vs. Esther S. Baker et al.; foreclosure, George M. Hawkins appointed receiver. Bond, Room 3 Lawson M. Harvey, Judge. Samuel Robbins vs. Hermudez Asphalt Company; account. Finding for defendant and Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Louisa K. Roblson vs. Benjamin F. Robieon; divorce. Finding for plaintiff on complaint and for defendant on cross complaint. Judgment against defendant for costs and custody of child given defendant. Anna P. Deichhr vs. George P. Deichler; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Prohibited from marriage for two years. On motion Thomas J. Bishop admitted to bar. Sal'.le I Atkinson vs. Benjamin S. Atkinson; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff with custody, of child. - . Sanford P. Hamilton vs. Elizabeth G. Palmer; street Improvement assessment. Dismissed and costs paid. Room 3 Pliny W. Bartholomew, Judge. Indianapolis Brewing Company vs. Edward E. Bermauer; on note. Dismissed and costs paid. Angollne Chenault vs. Walter Chcnault; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Lucy Sanders vs. Andrew Sanders; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Liia Rams vs. John S. Rams; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Plaintiff prohibited from remarrying for two years and maiden name restored. Lyda A. Harper vs. William S. Harper; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Circuit Court. Edgar A. Brown, Judge. The Star Saving and Loan Association vs. Joseph Maudlin et al. Trial by court. Finding in favor of plaintiff for and decree of foreclosure. New Salts Filed. Michael J. O'Connor et al. v. Lcroy D. Hanshaw; suit on account. Superior Court, Room L Hugh A. Cummlns vs. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad Company; suit for damages. Superior Court, Room 2. Wm. - Bossert et al. vs. Sophia Dufee et al.; street improvement. Cirruit Court. John J. Carriger et al. vs. Charles W. Bridges; suit for damages. Superior Court, Room 3. Aetna Saving and Loan Association vs. Michael McManamon et al.; suit to foreclose mortgage. Superior Court. Room 2. Ella Brant vs. Frederick Brant et ah; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 3. Ixjuisa Lenz vs. Jacob Lenz; suit for divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. J. Me.ntzel vs. J. Wohlfeld; complaint In attachment. Circuit Court. Benjamin F. Veatch vs. Addle Veatch; euif. for divorce. Superior Court. Room 1

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RESPONSE TO THE AGNOSTICS CRITICISM OP THE BIHLE. Rer. Dr. lech, of Oawfordsville, Defends the Sacrrd Boole Asnlnst the Attacks of the Famous Lecturer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 22.-The Rev. Dr. Leech, pastor of the First M. E. Church, delivered here to-night his lecture on "Ingersoll's Criticism of the Bible." This lecture has been delivered in a number of Eastern and Western cities, but never before in Indiana. A great audience was present. Dr. Leech said In part: "Europe and America have presented to the world a long line of illustrious Christian scholars, and also the champion chiefs of infidelity. A number of the latter class have found it financially profitable to utilize the lecture platform to promulgate their bitter Invectives against the inspired volume that the dying Walter Scott termed 'the one book. Each has put in new form old and threadbare objections, that have frequently been overthrown by men eminent in biblical learning and. mighty In intellectual grasp. Like the hydra, slain by Hercules, infidelity fights successfully for life and ever and anon, like the fabled phoenix, reappears In new plumage. It struggles, like the eea god of Troteus, to present Itself In new and more attractive display. Bolingbroke, Voltaire nor Paine were ever more blasphemous than Mr, Ingersoll, who has long held his position as a public lecturer far less by profound scholarship than by hla intemperate scurrility la attacking the sacred oracles. No cultivated student of the Bible. or the science of reasoning can fail to discover his unfairness of statement rand I ncoherency of argumentation. Impartial Investigation transfigured Into Christians such eminent skeptics as Isaac Newton, Lord Rochester, Lord Lyttleton and Gilbert West. Blasphemous ridicule of the BIbJe and the entire system of Christianity is the bait with which thU polished rhetorician allures young men to the death trap prepared for their religious faith. To. him to lecture is to appropriate an even ing to a steady fire of funny stories and feeble arguments against the book that has won the veneration of the most celebrated thinkers of the world. The peerless orator Sheridan fitly said, in his great address on the French revolution. I have ever considered a deliberate disposition to make proselytes to infidelity an unaccountable depravity. Whoever attempts to pluck the belief on this subject from the bosom of one man, woman or child commits a brutal outrage, the motive for which I have never been, able to conceive. "Mr. Ingersoll never discusses the general trend of the Bible, but Invariably he classifies such fragments of isolated verses and chapters as present a loving heavenly Father as vindictive in his attributes, and ne marshals such bits of inspiration as appears to illiterate neonle n vMnsa th. the Scriptures are not only destitute of vuvmo inspiration, out are positively hostll to human happiness, the rights of women and children, the physical emancipation of the enslaved, and are positively favorable to slaverv. conrnhinn polygamy and other acknowledged evlL Let ua icw mio mat marvelous volume known as the Bible, around whih th n-nH.v. standard volumes are but constellations of diamonds shining in the splendor of a great vnua. sun, nuu Bee it Mr. ingersoll s crit icisms have any solidity of foundation. COMING TO THE POINT. "He can seo no necessity for the exist ence of the book to which Chrysostom rave tho name 'Bible.' He. regards the torches of nature and season as sufficient for the enlightenment of our race. What do" these tell us concerning the divine attributes, the plan of salvation and human destiny? What did ' such illustrious- pagans as Homer, Cicero, Thucydldes and Tacitus know concerning things beyond the grave, or personal relationship to Jehovah? Their national altars smoked with deDaucnery and licentiousness amidst their highest eras of civilization. Now and then a magnificent man like Socrates would stand morally superior to his environment, as a truant star sparkling in solitary glory on a stormy sky. Egypt, the world's intellectual mother worshiped oxen, reptiles and birds. Phoenecla, Persia and Syria offered human sacrifices to dumb deities. England's Druid priests bathed their knlveM in th hAor. of young men in the adoration of their gods. Even in recent times Mexican priests offered, annually, thousands of young men and women under the knife, as offerings to the sun. It was when God saw the human race involved in Cimmerian darkness that His hoiy spirit overshadowed the thought and guided the pens of holy men to reveal His will. Just as artists detect in the masterpiecs of Raphael. Angelo, Leonardo da ini and Ten Eyck their individual gifts, so have multitudes of great Christian scholars seen God's hand in the sixty-six books Of the Bible. God's impress and imape are on the wonderful volume. Tralne'd and educated men long ago gave up the theory that each word of our translations, or the original Scriptures, was directly Inspired of God. Each sacred author has a style peculiar to himself. Into their minds God breathed the general trend of sentiment and doctrine regardless of grammatical, logical or rhetorical expression. The minor errors of our translations as to historical facts or ancient statistical information no more mar the perfection of the Bible as the inspired revelation of the divine will than the known spots on the sun impair its brilliancy and beauty on a cloudless summer day. Because Greece claimed to. have received a single sentence from heaven she gilded it. In gratitude, on the front of her finest temple. We have an inspired volume worthy of our study as the accurate moral chart on the ea of time the one central sun to light benighted humanity on to henven-the inexhaustible spiritual gold mines for an Impoverished race." Dr..Ieech then discussed the rigors of '"slavery of ancient nations as compared with Hebrew servitude, with its frequent periods of emancipation, and the numerous privileges of a Hebrew servant., and closed that discussion with the words: "In all lands Christianity has pioneered emancipation and such Christian statesmen as Wllberforce, Alexander the Second, of Russia, and the martyred Lincoln have led In the conflicts for freedom. The Bible frowns on every form of oppression. It swings back on their golden hinges the doors of the temple of universal liberty and welcomes a universal brotherhood to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness " Ho discussed polygamy and showed that it had always been abolished, as in Utah under the forward march or the Bible. He said that it had to bo hunted to-day among the harems of the Mohammedans, who butcher Christian missionaries and massacre the thousands of Christian men an women of Armenia, whose blood calls for ino expulsion 01 tne jurks rrom Europe by the great powers of the world. Dr, Lech traced the uplif:ing of women and children everywhere through Bible preaching. He showed that many ancient nations gave no protection to such persons. Greece murdered maimed Infants, Carthage offered them to deities in fl.imes. Snarta. slew them, clamoring like old Plato for tho "survival of the fittest;" China and India have murdered millions on millions of inrants. "one or tho great teachers of antiquity said. .'Suffer the little children to come unto me, " said Dr. Leech, "and only under Christian governments is the slaugh ter of an Illegitimate child classed as mur der, and only on tluir soil do asylums and benevolent homes for children abound." He showed how the Bible has held on to the hand of woman until she has been lifted to legal equality with man, and in many professions she is bearing off the honors and crowding them with thousands of her sex. Every wom.in ought to be the stanch friend or tne i;ioie, ana me publication or any new "Woman's Bible" is a superfluous and Dr. Leech showed how the Bible had up lifted nations from every standpoint Intel. lectually. morally, socially and politically, until even Queen Victoria has said, "The Bible u the secret or England s greatness." Speaking of the relative number and learning of Christian scholars and authors as compared with inrileis and agnostics. Dr. Leech said: "The Bible has founded ninetynine of every hundred of colleges and universities. The libraries of the world are burdened witn tne productions of great Christian authors. Agnostic authors, of any literary fame, could be comfortably seated In a Pullman car and their volumes accommodated in a lady's summer trunk. They repose on the shelves of public librar ies as quietly and undisturbed as the bones of the dead in the tombs of the Roman cats. combs. Bonaparte spoke . truthful words who he .i!d: The loftiest Intellects sine the advent of CbrUtUnlty have had a rac

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me gospel. Ihe euioIum. or men of learning, concerning the inspired sacrrd oraclr. have been as count!e?s as the starrv oths ot the night." THE AGNOSTICS CARICATURES, Speaking of Mr. Ingersoll's cirlcaturcs of biblical doctrines and statistics. Dr. Letch said: "In our churches each lay member Is his and her own interpreter of the word of God. Mr. Ingersoll cannot understand how Methuselah lived to be JC3 years of ase, or how Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs. None of us can, nor docs our happiness in this life or the life to come depend on belief or nonbellef of these nonessential things. He ridicules the Old Testament ac count of the costliness of that magnificent structure known as Solomon's Temple and its surrounding courts snd interior trta?ures. the erection of which consumed weverc and a half years. Christian srholaryhta does not claim to know, Infallibly, even tho autnors or the books of Kings or Chronicles, much less whether the talents of gold and silver named therein are In harmony T.lth our conceptions of their value as rated by American standards of money. He cannot understand the miraculous birth of Jrsu. or the miracles of the Christ, or the triune mode of the divine existence, and yet he is Ignorant of a thousand miracles of naturs , and laws and facts of science to which he gives intellectual assent. Ju.t how far the puzzling historical facts of the Bible were aictated under the supernatural Influence o! the Holy Snlrit. and nreclselv how far tlm earliest copies f the sacrel manuscripts we have discovered are absolutely free from errors and Interpolations, we know net. In spiration was rrormsed by Chrl?t to His apostles. Paul, pettr and John tell us how they spoke anl wrote under divine direction. The . novation of the soul Is not poised on Its supreme confidence in the infallibility of any man's interpretation of Scriptural statistics, but under the Christian system, on its reliance on Jesus Christ as a personal Savior from the guilt ani power of sin, that faith followed as-a logical sequence by a holy life. 1 am as unable as is Mr. lngersoll to rolve all of the dark problems presented by the sacred author during a period covering fifteen hundred years. What Is nemlexlrr and ambiguous I lay aside, and so Jcck my hand in the ban I 'of a personal iiedeemrr, that day by day Jie guides me into intellectual peace, progressive purity of heart ar.d an Increasing measure of usefulness of life." Dr. Leech then discussed the influence of the Bible on war, civilization, etc. U stated that "when Paul entered on hi missionary Journeys there was not an asylum for orphans, the blind, the d oaf, the dumb, the insane, the aged, the poor, the magdalene, or the inebriate tn existence. In the histories of the Roman empire and Grecian states we read of no institutions of mercy. Those of us who have walked amidst the excavated stones of burled ancient cities saw no block that had connection with a benevolent structure. Christianity creates and supports the Immense majority of these Institutions." Dr. Leech portrayed the transfiguration wrought, from many standiolnts, by the Bible, civilization on Rome, Greece and other nations. "It gave birth to the Christian Commission for the amelioration of the horrors of war. It created the Red Cross Society, and will hand to Clara Barton the funds for her sublime work In Turkey." Speaking of the triumphs of Christianity, Dr. Leech Paid that "the universal practice of the ethics of the Bible would inaugurate the millennium and conVert earth into a new Eden. So lofty is the estimate placed on these compositions from the standpoint of Inspiration that Jurisprudence glitters with Its gems, and Congresses and Parliaments pink its maxims into their bst legislation. We could better afford lo have all other volumes forever perish than to surrender the sacred oracles. No histories approximate In importance the Pentateuch and Acts of the Apostles by Luke. No poems are fo universally read as David's Psalms. No star ever shone on the vllon of Kepler or Herihell like 'the star of Bethlehem.' No correspondence extant ia so prized by mankind as the twenty-one letters of Paul and his colleagues. The central figure of history is the divine man whoso blorraphy was written by the four evangelists. No gardens of Venice or Paris have won human Interest like that investing Elen and Gethsemane. No Alpine crest has been so magnetic as Slnal and Hermon, or the little hills called Olivet and Calvary. No word-paintings in literature have won such admiration as John's Apocalypse. No capital of earth is worthy of mention beside that metropolis whose walls are Jaspar and whose gates are pearl. Around but one IClng Btand angels and arch angels, cherubim ana serapmm. r.ven from the- literary , standpoint Jb r.-nnvt rrnvi in srlorv as we climb thee mountains of God. An we sink tho shaf'-S of thought the more deeply these mines cf virgin gold become richer. Multitudes of authors have taken from thsne waters of life, but they roll like aa exhaustle Niagara. Scholars have for centuries gathered these flowers of sweetness, but to-day they are superabundant with bloom and fragrance. Other books nasn une cormus on the public gaze, dui me iiui fujis like an imperishable central sun. INGERSOLL'S INCONSISTENCY. Dr. Leech enumerate a number of natural laws and scientific facts from gravitation on to hypnotism to which Mr. Ingersoll ..vnti that are quite as mysterious as any doctrine or historical fact of the word ot God. He closed this discussion with thess words: "He walks among these acknowledged enigmas that baffle human comprehension. Ills reason can grasp but a few buds from a world-wide conservatory a few links of Fequences in an( endless chalna few spray drops from nn eternal cataract of truth. But he muxt comprehend God. or whom David says, 'Clouds and darkness are around him.' He can no more comprehend God than a worm on a palace can comprehend the mind of the architect. As wtll may an Insect, that find Its cradle and tomb on the same leaf, undertake to coniprohend tho beauties of the forest that cr ClDrP!Leech then described the battle won by the Bible on various fields nf ccntrst. from the early conflicts with Atheism and Pantheism down to its present, strugg.e with the representatives of an ultra higher crltlclsS." He predicted that "after l:s nnal fight, with its last foe, its foundation would be found unimpaired, its blocks of inspiration Just where the sacred builders placed them, and the cornice laid . Tjy St. John as fair as Parian marble. What a thousand foes from the days of iv.sus have not been able to accomplish Mr. instrsnll cannot do. as he tosses his torpedort of satire against this impregnable Gibraltar The aged will continue to bend lovingly over its pages and the widow will read Its precious promises to her fatherless chiltren. The sick will drink nectar from this chalice of salvation-and the dying will rlafp its divine assurances as they go. like UunTin'. pilgrim, through the river of Death. oung Sen will not suffer Mr. Ingersoll to underSfne their eternal interests or blast thrtr HSTwt hoprs. They v.ill resist his efforts to force them out Into a wilderness of dreary speculation and dark uncertainty. They will not allow him to drug their sne of personal responsibility to Gd or blind their outlook of life beyond the grave fidelity promises nothing that Is blissful in this life and nothing cheerful on that other shore. In despair many of its representative men have exchanged, time for eternity-: But with the Bible and Christ a soul walks through Jordan as triumphantly to wm no perusal. NEW LEASE ON THE E&PIE& Will He Converted Into a Standard Attraction House st Auijost. Manager Zimmerman, of the Kmplrs Theater, received a telephone milage yesterday from Hubert Heuck. of Cincinnati, who is Interested in the Kmplre. announcing that a deal had Juat bttn closed .by which John Brady, who has a chain of heaters, becomes the lcsst of the Kmplrs for a number of years. The lease will not go lato effect until Aug. 1 next year. It Is announced that only standard attractlor.a will be played In the theater, the vaudevltls feature being abandoned. Mr. Brady controls Heuck's Opera House In Cincinnati, and If the same standard of attractions given there mnlntalned at the Umpire the Utter house will be a formidable competitor for higher ctass patronage In thl city. Mr. Brady has theaters at Detroit. Grv d Baplds, Toledo. Cincinnati and other cities. He is now booking for the Lrnpire for next y s The Delaware-street front to the Enjire is being rapidly conr.txucteJ and it lll ba ready for the. opening ia a few weeks. Th box-oll'ice will be removed to the pjUwarrstreet lobby, which will b the main-entrance. Ths one on Wabash street mill bo closed. The bodv must be well nourished pjw, to prevent idekness. If vour appetite U pocr take Hood's Cartas rill.

Bible a 'pearl or great price -rrpos i a casket of amazing keauty. This sworV of the Spirit is encased in a scabbard or wondrous richness. These slxty-?ix 'apples

from 'baskets of silver.

as Moses and ns peopi- v k""1 waters of the Red sea." Dr. Iech closed his lecture with an'appcal to the students of the college and other young men present tn crown the Bible kins of thlr books and

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