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DAILY EXPRESS^

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nished, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

Terre Haute will yet have natural gas, we do believe.

The South Corolina Episcopal convention decided that colored clerical delegates may sit in the convention and a half dozen seceders marched out of the convention. This is a long step forward, especially when you remember that it was a South Carolina convention that reached this decision.

When in a column of angry editorial our contemporary managed to make a connection between an attack on Mr. George Paris who caused the name of a postoffice to be changed and the "taxing power" of the government it is not difficult to discern on what lines of thought the insanity manifests itself.

Our esteemed contemporary is solicitous for the appointment of "a soldier doctor" on the pension board. It wasn't so solicitous when the late board was appointed, on which there were not so many soldiers as on the present one, What objection has it to Dr. Hawortb anyway? What has he done to the Gazette?

Mr. John R. Lynch of Mississippi: whom the president has appointed to be fourth auditor of the treasury is, perhaps, the ablest colored citizen in the United States. Mr. Frederick Douglass has had a more remarkable career and manifested considerable intellectual ability at the time when the exception of his distinction gave him great fame, but Mr. Lynch is a man of most unusual mental attainments. He is a practical and reasonable man, above reproach in his private and public life, and who yet is young enough to "grow."

If there is a big thing in oil values underneath the surface of the earth in this locality, there is no good reason why ., all the obtained value should not be kept cfoes not enrich "the people where it is produced, unless the money received for the product remains with the people

Terre Haute is evincing a commendable purpose to obtain by local enterprise all the benefit there is in the great discovery, and it is to be hoped that all the home companies will first of all have a regard for the principle of home protection.

James Cordon Bennett has rushed away to the mahdi's country. One report is that he has received definite information, not heretofore made known, about Chinese Gordon, and another is that he has undertaken to enter Khartoum and return alive to Paris, where he made bet that he could do so. It used to be that the New York Herald employed men to make daring and remark.able expeditions as a means of advertising the newspaper, and James Gordon's exploits were scrupulously withheld from the public, but this latest sensational escapade of his seems to indicate that he has undertaken to serve as his own advertising agent, or that his predilection for an irregular mode of life has led him into the most startling adventure of all his mad career.

And yet the heathen rage. The Gazette never will forget or forgive anyone who had anything to do with changing the name of that postoffice. Mr. George Faris seems to be the especial object of its attacks at present, but no doubt others will yet come in for a

of its

resentment. Of course our contemporary never alludes to the fact that the postoffice name at Ellsworth has been changed back to Edwards from Ball. It has not even given its readers the information to which they are entitled—and this is one of the strongest reasons for believing that had not the name been changed while Mr. Paris was in Washington our contemporary would not now be making such an ass of itself.

SOUTHERN ROT.

The Charleston News and Courier says that the name ot the Rebel Lee will shine as brilliantly In the page of history as that of the Rebel Washington. Hardly!.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Another of the prominent Democratic papers in the South a few days ago said that Jefferson Davis was no more guilty of violating his oath than was Abraham Lincoln, the latter by issuing the emancipation proclamation. Our Southern friends are much in the habit of eulogizing the honesty of purpose and patriotism of Lee and Davis, one in leaving the army of the Union and the other the senate to go where their honor called them, and much has been said in a descriptive way of the manner in which the Southern brethren left the halls of the national legislature and the ranks of the army, as if it were done openly, frankly and honorably, but the discovery of letters and other messages supposed to have been kept as secret as intended, has long ago established the fact that both Lee and Jefferson had been secretly conspiring to disrupt the Union for a

long time before they dramatically declared that they could no longer hold the official positions in which under oath they were bound to be loyal to the Union. In fact, their sense of honor caused them to

strut

out

of the service of the United States only when sneaking treason was no longer possible. There may have been some southern men whose sense of honor quickly caused them to lay down their allegiance to the Union when they came to believe they could no longer support it, but the Lees and Jeffersons who for many months had been using their positions to cripple the government in anticipation of the break in the union of states they were scheming to bring about cannot plead that they were men of honor, if mistaken in purpose.

C. O. D.

Ought to Travel.

She—With such a voice as you have, Mr. Yeller, you ought to travel. He—Indeed?

She—Yes. To Africa, or some desert Island, for instance. And he Immediately traveled. __

Of Course It Wouldn't.

First Bohemian—Did your new play prove a suc cess? Second Bohemian—Well, hardly. I thought I was going to make a great hit, too, by introducing a balky horse in the last act, but It utterly failed to draw.

Shibboleth.

Office Seeker—I have called to see, Mr. Wanamaker, If you can do something for me. I am a life long Phlladelphlan, having been born and raised, so to speak, on the classic banks of the Schuylkill.

Mr. Wanamaker—You are no Phlladelphlan. No true citizen of dear old Philadelphia ever pronounces Skookl In two distinct syllables.

A Pleasant Life.

.tiier—Why don't you brace up and try to do something? Why, even the humblest of God" creatures work, and work faithfully. Look at the little bee for Instance.

Son—Yes, I'd like to be a bee. He lives In clover one half the year and In honey the other half.

A Successful Bribe.

The theater was crowded to the utmost. Suddenly there rang out with startling distinctness the thrilling cry of "Fire!" The Immense crowd whose nerves had already been wrought to an In tense pitch of extreme emotion by the affecting death of "Little Eva." in another moment would have been crushing and trampling each other In wild, Insensate panic. The stage carpenter appeared before the curtain. In a voice which rang out over the rush of hurrying feet and the agonized screams of women, whose corns were undergoing comminution, he cried: "Halt!" Hypnotlzed, as It were, by the commanding tones of his voice, they paused in their wild flight "Ladles and gents," he continued, "they ain't a bit of danger, and, if you will only set down, I give my word and honor as a gentleman that the orkistry shan't be allowed to play ary other note to-night" The inducement was too great to resist, the wild excitement was quelled, and the lives of perhaps hundreds were saved.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Steel Rails, Watches and Glass. Up a high hill he heaved a huge round stone. —[ODYSSEY. To the Editor of the Ex press:

SIR: The editor of our free trade organ continues to be very uneasy In his mind about the au TnSrivuSij-tnat'he iftiSOlUtety reiUBBS to be comforted. He consequently maintains toward protection his old time attitude ot malignant and mendacious hostility, and in his furious zeal for the Interests of the British he raves and screams and screeches, unrestrained by any sense of decency or any regard for truth. To be sure, he occupies the place of under dog In this light, and from his undignified position can only make unseemly noises, and Impotent attempts to snap and bite, but to use the words that Mlltou puts in the mouth of Moloch, he seems to think that "This, If not victory, Is at least revenge." Yet In many cases It is not even revenge. When he gravely tells his readers that the coal miners of Scranton and tne Lehigh valley are out of employment because of the tariff on coal, he over does the matter. They know there never was any tariff on eastern Pennsylvania coal and that the depression In the coal trade Is fully accounted for by the late mild winter and the vastly increased use of oil and natural gas. The revenge comes in when they set him down for a liar and a fool.

This apostle of free trade has the gall to keep on talking about steel rails. Let us drop one on his toes.

Not long ago, with the help of the Rockville Tribune, he told us this: "it costs $12.50 to make a ton of $26.50 steel rails at Carnegie's works the labor costs $4.75 to $5 and the reader Is left to Infer that Carnegie gets the other $14. This method of calculating the cost of manufactured articles Is supposed to be the invention of Statesman Mills. At least he made constant use of It last fall with disastrous results to his cause. The fallacy consists in suppressing the fact that the material of which an article Is made, Is an element in cost of the finished product. The average price of Bessemer pig, the raw material of steel rails, lias been above $16.50 per ton for many months, and a ton of pig does not make a ton of finished steel. The problem then may be stated about this way: The raw material in a ton ot steel rails costs $18 50, the remaining necessary expenses as stated by the Gazette are $12.50, amount of cost $31, selling price $26.60 profit $14. It will be seen that this little equation don't verify, but no matter. Carnegie and protection are to blame for that, and so long as those$14 serve as an excuse for denouncing the American manufacturer as a thief, the liars who tell the story will stick to their lie. These fellows, though, ought to study their problems enough to enable them to He with soma show of plausibility. Such falsehoods as these are gross, palpable, clumsy. They are enough to disgrace even a Tory. On the first day of this month 2,000 tons of Bessemer pig sold at Pittsburg at $17, and yet a large sale of rails was made on the same day at $26, and perhaps the feature about the business that Is most exasperating to free trades Is the fact that to-day rails are selling at Pittsburg and Chicago at less than the foreign price, with insurance and transportation added, Instead of the $44 that they ought to bring If Cleveland and the St. Louis platform were right.

The Gazette's recent assault on the American watch was another performance quite worthy of a journal which prefers that foreigners shall be prosperous rather than Americans. American watches came In with protection and now Ingenious machinery has so perfected, facilitated and cheapened their production that we make the best, and, quality considered, the cheapest watches in the world. We sell them in Liverpool, and even In Geneva. A railroad man would be ashamed to own that he did not carry an American watch. Beside, the price of foreign watches has been so forced down by home competition that about a quart of the Swiss made article can be had for what one cost before the war. Indeed, watches are now so common that the ragged street arab In the picture, who is saying "My Elgin Is all right." is hardly an exaggeration. But this triumphant vindication of the wisdom of protection does not make the Gazette man happy, and he yells for free trade In watches.

Not long ago our free trade organ told apathetic story about the wrongs of a New Albany glass worker. This fool came from Belgium, where, when he was industrious and lucky, he could earn as much In a week as he can make here In a day. But after the election of Harrison plate glass fell 20 per cent., while many of the workmen in the New Albany glass works became so careless in handling the costly plates it was their work to polish that they broke about twenty-five per cent, of them. They were therefore cut 20 per cent on wages, and were Informed that they could save all the cut by handling the glass carefully. But this was not satisfactory, and the man was furious when he thought of having voted for Harrison, and hereafter he intends to vote for free trade, though under that system not a foot of plate glass can yet be made In America. But he wants revenge. it it drives him back to Belgium to work for sixty cents a day to get It, though on his own showing he can still make three dollars and fifteen cents per day at New Albany. The fool ought to have his revenge and be can count on the help of the Gazette In getting that, and the 60 cents, too. But he had another grievance. He said there had been a cut of 20 per cent In the price of glass, and DePauw made It all up by reducing wages 20 per cent It follows then that If DePauw's operatives had their wages reduced 100 per cent glass would cost nothing. That Is, material, wear, breakage, cost of superintendeney. interest on cost of plant, commissions. eta. would ill disappear if wages could be reduced 100 per cent And this, in spite of the fact that the Gazette claimed last fall that wages are only l9 per cent of the finished goods. But a

lie too absurd to deceive a schoolboy is not too monstrous to be useful to a free trader. The Gazette's twaddle about rails and plate glass almost equals some of its able

our foreign commerce. In one of Its recent atone about our trade with Chili, it told us that we could not expect to trade with Chili, because we would not "swap" what we bad to sell for the surplus products of that country: but when

The Gazette man scans his exchanges constantly for Items on which to hang sensational falsehoods against protection. His vigilance In this is so untiring that he might be called the watch-dog of free trade. Only last night his diligence was rewarded by the discovery of another outrage. This time the robber tariff has pounced upon our women In the matter of fruit jar caps, and It proposes to "cheat womankind every time they put up a Jar of fruit" "No age. sex or condition Is exempt from" tariff extortions, and the result, If the Gazette is right, promises to be disastrous to fruit canners. But after all. the Gazette may calm Its agitation, and assure Its female readers that they are in no danger from the tariff. We don't depend on Europe for fruit preserving goods, and protection has nothing to do with their price. Fruit cans are an American Invention and fruit canning* Is an American industry. Three boys with a machine make 10.000 cans a day and the number of caps they can make has probably never been counnted. We export canned goods largely and if the summer supply of caps costs an average family a cent or even a nickel more than It did last summer' the outrage is one for which protection is In no way responsible. If free traders could be taxed for the privilege or lying about protection, the poor old Gazette

would soon have to go out of business. C. would soon have to go out of business. A Card From Dr. Spain. To the Editor of the Express:

SIR: The news having reached me for the first time that a report had been In circulation to the effect that I had discharged two Union soldiers from St Anthony's hospital, last fall, because they would not vote the Democratic ticket. I desire to say In answer that there Is not so much as even a microscopical atom of truth In such a report. For the past two years my service at the hospital has been limited to the female wards, and begins April 1st and ends June 30th. Hence it will be seen that even if I had become lost to all principle of honor, or had descended to the level of the Individual who manufactured and circulated such an Infamous falsehood. Such an act as the one charged could not be true since I had no power or authority to discharge any man at any time, or upon any pretext from the hospital for the past eighteen months. A. W. SPAIN.

EXCHANGE ECHOES. Kearney (Neb.) Enterprise: President Harrison could do nothing to make his name more fragrant in history than to concentrate the whole power of his administration upon an effort to secure a free vote and fair count in the South and an election free from corruption In the North.

Des Moines Register: The South must yet respect the political rights of citizenship, with a free ballot and a fair count. But It Is cause for congratulation that it begins the second century of constitutional government as it began the first, standing shoulder to shoulder with the North with pride in the Union and devotion to the common flag of a common country.

Albany Express: It fills us with a feeling of hap plness to note that the "quiet wedding" is coming more and more Into vogue, and that the riotous, boisterous marriage Is going more and more out of the vogue just mentioned. We have held all along that the practice of solemnizing a marriage with the aid of dynamite, a troupe of real Indians, and a steam calliope was reprehensible and not at all In accord with our Ideas of what ought to be In good society.

DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE OFFICE

A New York Postmaster Suppresses the Mail of His Successor. MIDDLETOWN,

THE TKKRK HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNlNtt,

articles

to that country we expected her

sent a.ship

retnra wlth

load of specie, and nothlng else and it reprraeats Americans as ready to spit in the face of the Chilian who would have the Impudence to offer to trade with us. And yet dear reader, the balance of our trade with Chill has been year by year, against us. and the specie goes the other way. For the year 1887 it took seventy-Ove solid tons of silver to pay that very balance. __

N. Y., May 18.—A re

markable case in connection with the postoffice at Coshocton, Sullivan county, has been unearthed. Henry Winters was the postmaster, and in March last, soon after Postmaster General Wanamaker assumed his duties, Henry Inderlied was appointed to supersede Winters, The usual blank bond was mailed from Washington to Mr. Inderlied. The bond was executed and remailed at Coshocton but never reached the postoffice departman Stivers, failed to reach Mr. Inderlied. Suspicion was that Winters was suppressing letters from Washington and congressman Stivers, also those sent by the new appointee. It was only by the use of plainer envelopes, addressed in a disguised hand to other parties that Mr. Inderlied could obtain any information, and his second bond was mailed at another postoffice somes miles from Coshocton. His commission as postmaster was mailed from Washington on the 8th instant but he did not receive it until yesterday. Special Agent Stewart, of the postoffice inspector's department, appeared on the scene and Winters soon wilted. In the latter's pockets were found Mr. Inderlied's commission and letters from Congressman Stivers and the postoffice department, all addressed to Inderlied. Inspector Stewart took charge of the pocketed mail. Mr. Inderlied was put in charge of the office at once and Winters was taken to New York by the inspector last night, the new postmaster accompanying them.

Tlie Meat and Cattle Companies Combine. NEW YORK, May 18.—At the adjourned meeting of the representatives of the American meat company and the directors of the American cattle trust, this afternoon, the much talked of deal between the two concerns was finally consummated. A contract for a number of years was drawn up and signed by the controlling powers of the two organizations, by which the meat company will handle the entire product of the cattle trust. Senator jrsey, one of the leading spirits in the meat company, expressed himself as well pleased with the new arrangement.

Madam Marantette Will Be Here.

The race association have secured the services of Madam Marantette, and her celebrated saddle horse Woodiawn, the winner of the championship for saddle horses at Madison Square garden, New York City. She will also try to beat the half mile and mile record to wagon with her celebrated team Major Banks and Evergreen. Madam Marantette was here last spring at the races and her appearance was received daily with a perfect furore of enthusiasm. The Madam is considered the finest equestrienne in America.

A 'ew Perfnuie.

The church was beautifully decorated with sweet spring flowers, and the air was heavy with their fragrance. As the service was about to begin small Kitty pulled her mother's sleeve and whispered: "Oh, mamma, don't it smell solemn?"—[Harper's Young People.

The Soldiers'Tombstones.

The veteran soldiers and friends and relatives of deceased soldiers will meet at 2:30 p. m. to-day, in Woodiawn cemetery, to locate the graves of many deceased veterans, whose graves are unknown to the veterans' cemetery committee.

Raising tlie Saloon Tax.

Special to the Indianapolis News. BLOOMINGTON, May 18.—The city council has raised the saloon license from S100 to $250. All the councilmen are Republican, and the vote was unanimous.

The Kentucky Vernacular. The profanity of certain of the betters on Proctor Knott might be called "English as she is Spokane." I

WOMEN 111 THE PULPIT.

"What do I know of women aa preachers!*" aaid the Rev. Dr. Cuyler, repeating the New York Timee' reporter's queetion. "Well, I am not sore but 1 know a good deal about them, about one ot them, at least. You have heard about the Smiley-Cuyler affair of some years ago, I presume?" "It wasn't very much, after all, although there was plenty of excitement at the time. I invited Miss Sarah F. Smiley, a fuli-ordained preacher belonging to the Qaaker sect and a moet gifted woman, to preach in my pulpit. A certain Sunday evening was set, and a large audience assembled to hear her. She. delivered a scholarly and eloquent serthon, delighting every one who listened. But she was a woman and she stood in a Presbyterian pulpit* and there were some to take exceptions to these facts in conjunction. My action was criticised in several quarters, and finally the matter came before the presbytery. There were three days of discussion and argument, more or lees warm. President Patton, now of Princeton and my warm friend, and Dr. Van Dyke were, at the time^wo of my principal opponents. They lugged in St. Paul by the shoulders and quoted the Bible at me, but I stood my ground, and in the end the presbytery took a mere formal action, to the effect that, however, the sentiment of the body might be against women in the pulpit, no law existed prohibiting it. I knew I had violated no law ^ny action was prompted by a desire to reciprocate the courtesy of my Quaker, brethren, who, disregarding their established custom in such things, had on more than one occasion invited me to addrees their meetings. However, the end was not yet. "At the convening of the next general assembly the matter came up again with more discussion and argument, but finally a decision was reached in a suggestion that the matter of women preaching in our pulpits be left discretionary with the pastor and officers of every church, which culmination I naturally took as a vindication of my position.

When I went over to the church the day the news was made public I found my sexton was running up the flag. 'What's that for?' said I. 'O,' he replied, 'I saw in the papers this morning that we've triumphed, and up goes the flag.' "So you see I have had some experience with women preachers. Miss Smiley is a remark able woman her learning is profound and thorough she reads Hebrew and Greek like a college professor. Her book, 'Who is He?' is, I consider, one of the most masterly argu ments on the divinity of Christ which we have. She is of a fine old Quaker family in Maine, all the members of which are distinguished in some way. In this country and in England her scholarly attainments and powers^ of oratory have received warm recognition. She is, however, out of the pulpit now. She joined the Episcopal communion Bome years ago and is, by permission of Bishop Doane, a sort of deaconess and Bible reader in the Biocese of Albany. This F&eeiVfe'now'wh at'the many"enjoyed"" be fore, for wherever she is or in whatever she says Mies Smiley must be influ ential." "Are there now, that you know of, any women acting as regularly installed pastors?" asked the reporter. "No I do not know of any in the Presbyterian denominations. I think the Methodists have ordained some not fully, however. Mrs. Pre be Hanneford of the Universalist faith is, I think, a regular minister but they are few, and their number is not increasing. I do not in my time, nor need you in yours,look for any pronounced success of women as pastors—that is, regularly filling a pulpit and attending to church work as men do. To begin with, the strain to prepare two sermons a week would be too great upon the nervous system of a woman. She could not bear up under it long. And there are important pastoral functions whose performance by women the public will not take kindly to until a great change of existing feeling is undergone. People do not like to be married by a woman nor to have her officiate at funerals in pastoral visiting of the sick she is not sought after. To every clergyman are brought tales of conscience many of these a woman would never hear there are, in fact, at present apparently insurmountable obstacles against her progress in this direction. Why, it was tried right here in Brooklyn, uptown somewhere. A lady was pastor of a church for two or three years perhaps. But she was not successful. The church got into debt, and, although attempts were made to enlist the public in her support, Bhe had to give up the charge. "But, as I tell the women suffragists, something must be left to us men. Women have invaded the bar, the rostrum and the platform they are journalists, doctors and authors they rightfully and splendidly rule the home and have charge of all mankind during the formative years. If they come into politics and pastorates how can we poor creatures in pantaloons distinguish ourselves? "When it comes to women as speakers merely, they are many and successful. Elizabeth Fry, that majestic picture among Quaker and all other women, set too brilliant an example not to have plenty of followers. Speaking of her, by the way, Dr. Tyng once said to me: 'I consider that Elizabeth Fry had as much call to the ministry as I.' 'What is a call to the ministry?' I asked him. "'First, an ability to preach second, a willingness of the people lo hear, the one supplementing the other,' which, as I told him at the time, was pretty good for an eminent Episcopal divine. "To go back to women speakers. M.ee Frances Willard is one of the best known on temperance and religious topics. She has assisted Moody in his services, and in Boston with him electrified great throngs of men and women with her eloquence. Mrs. Foster delivered a temperance address, to which I listened, that could hardly besurpassed. A judge, a friend of mine, said of it to me afterward: 'That is the only thoroughly logical discourse I ever heard from a woman.' Mrs. Foster is a licensed lawyer, practicing in Iowa with her husband under the firm name of Foster &. Foster. Miss Andrews, a missionary from India, is another delightful talker. Hannah Whitehall Smith, wife of Pearsall Smith, is a*Quaker preacher, whose fame is wide and talent unquestioned. The list is long these only occur to me rapidly. As preachers, though, in our faith at feast, women hold no place."

From another source the reporter obtained much the same information. As teachers, missionaries, lecturers, advo

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cates of various oauaes, women are in numerably recognized aa ranking equally with men, but aa paeton, regularly filling pulpits and charged with the duties of a parish, their scope is very limited. The second clergyman applied to •poke of Miss Alice Fletcher, who is employed by the government in parceling f«.Ai to the Omaha Indiana. The night of April 8, in the lecture-room of the Rev. Dr. John Hall's church, the Heart of Presbyterian conservatism, Miss Fletcher delivered an address before the Woman's Indiana Rights association of New York. It was a mixed assemblage, comprising some of the city's most thoughtful and cultured men and women. Mr. Hooper C. Van Vorst introduced the speaker, whose appearance was most ladylike and refined. Her discourse was clear, logical and impressive. Another woman, of whom the same gentleman Baid that "she is in constant demand as a speaker, and has but few equals," is Mrs. Layah Barakat,who, as ber name indicates, is a foreigner. She is a native of Beirut, and came to this country with her husband from Egypt at the time of the bombardment of Alexandria by the British a few years ago. She soon learned the English language, and she has thrilled large audiences with her eloquence in all parts of the country.

THE CHUBCHEP.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.—Social services in the moaning. Sunday school as usual. Society of Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.—Sunday Bchool at 9:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor in the morning and evening, at 11 EL m. and 1:30 p. m.

CENTBAI. PRESBYTERIAN CHCRCH.— Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Divine service, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Young people's meeting, 6:30 p. m.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH—Morning serviceat 10:30 a. m, evening at :45» p. m. Young people's meeting at 6:45 p. m. Sunday school, 9 a. m.

UNIVERSALJST CHURCH.—Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Evening subj«ct, "The True Church* and Saving Faith." All cordially invited.

ASBURY CHURCH.—Quarterly meeting The Rev. A. A. Gee, D.D., the presiding elder, will be present to preach and conduct the sacramental service at 10:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor at 7:30 p. m.

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH.—Holy communion at 8:00 a. m. morning service and sermon at 10:45 a. m. evening service and sermon at 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Sunday school at St. Luke's at 3 p. m.

N O E S

The young ladies' society of the German Methodist Church will give an ice cream social and band concert at Dowling hall next Thursday evening. The Military band has been engaged to fur nish the music.

The Congregational choir is now com-

Sliss

osedofMrs. Bertha Hoberg, soprano, Frances Carlton, contralto, Fred Paige, tenor, John B. Aikman, bass. A. Li. Wyeth is the organist.

Twenty-Three Federal Indictments.

•The federal grand jury to-day reported twenty-three additional indictments and adjourned for one week. The indictments includes several election cases and three bribery cases, two of which are against Democrats and one" against a Republican. One of these is a re-indict-ment of a man of more or less promi-

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include over-zealous patriots in both parties. Many of the twenty-three indictments returned are against alleged counterfeiters and revenue law violators. —[Indianapolis News.

The Union Picnic

The Union Sunday school picnic at Crawfordsville yesterday was more largely attended than any previous picnic given by the churches of this city. One thousand one hundred and forty tickets were sold and it required two trains, one of eleven coaches and one of six, to carry the crowd, and then a great many people were disappointed. The seats, isles, a platforms and steps of the cars were literally teeming with people as the train pulled out, and a brighter, livelier, handsomer or happier crowd is seldom seen.

Distinguished Persons Confirmed.

In St. John's Chapel at Washington last week, Bishop Faret confirmed a class that included Justice Gray, of the United States supreme court, the sister-in-law of Postmaster General Wanamaker, the daughter of Secretary of State Blaine, and a daughter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews.

Inconsistency en

the

Platform.

A $10,000-a-year preacher in the East is making a sensation by denouncing the "money power." This is hot any more ridiculous than men who never work going over the country pleading for the rights of the down-trodden and oppressed laboring man.—[Peoria Transcript.

Total Abstinence Society.

All members of Terre Haute Total abstinence club are requested to meet at their hall over Pixley's clothing store, at half-past one o'clock to-day, to attend the funeral of our late member, Robert Slavens. GEO. E. PALMATEER,

WM. MCATIIV, President. Secretary.

The Omission Is Now Rectified.

Ben Butler says his enemies have called him everything but "a fool." This is an unfortunate oversight on the part of his enemies, but we have no doubt but that they will supply the omission as soon as it is called to their attention.—[Minneapolis Tribune.

Twin ViclMltudes*

General Greenback Weaver, of Iowa, and the potato-bug have already appeared in Oklahoma. The vicissitudes of civilization are keeping right up with the procession in the new territory.— [Philadelphia Press.

Significant Contrast. ---s-

In Bangor, Me., under prohibition the number of Baloons is one to every 120 inhabitants, but in Boston under high license one to every 577 inhabitants. The cause—prohibition can not be enforced, while high license is and can be.—[Troy Times.

Conldn't Get 'Ein In.

It is far more profitable and instructive to read your Bible than to monkey away the shining days endeavoring to induce a lot of hypothetical pigs to enter a hypothetical pen.—[Nebraska

nal.

State Jour

Church Music Comes High.

Miss Belle Johnson, ef Chicago, who has been chief soprano soloist in Dr. Scudder's church, has accepted the offer of the East End Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, at a salary of $2,000 a jear.

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THE SPRIHO HAT. At the theater.

I saw her when she entered first. And marked ber sentle smile: It seemed as thouto sunshine had burst,

And micd the darkened aisle As with a tripping step she drew Still nearer where I art. I saw her eres were bright and blue—

And I decided that To iofe that maid a man need be r.: No vet learned sage Till she sat down In front ot me ,r

And I conldn't see the stage For that Spring hat!

At church.

When Sunday came and I was led Into a eburch by chance. I said my prayer—then raised my head

A vision met my glace— Her slender form and auburn hair ware lust In front of me And still another charm was there

That I rejoiced to see. For when the sermon proved a bore I slept untU the hymn— The preacher couldn't see me, for

I was behind the brim Of that Spring hat!

rifunsey's Weekly.

The father of boating at Cornell university was the author of "Tom Brown at Rugby."

On the South Australian railway engineers who run their trainB for two years without accident receive a present of $50.

Amelia Battle, a n«gro auntie of LaGrange, Ga., claims that she had several children running/tround when the war of 1812 broke out.

An Ohio church deacon exclaimed: "Consarn it all to Texas! and the verdict of the church investigation was: "Not guilty, but in bad taste."

A Philadelphia clothing house is attracting customers by photographing every person buying a suit in his new clothes, free of charge. The scheme works well.

A hew Spanish industry of profit is the cultivation of tomatoes. Some of the importations last year bore 100 per cent, profit, and the- trade will be much developed this year.

Four locomotives, to be run by soda, which takes the place of fire under the boiler, have been built in Philadelphia. They are for service on the streets of Minneapolis, where steam engines are forbidden.

There arrived at Punta Gordo, Fla., recently, an elderly woman with two old hens'setting on duckB'eggs. She had taken them all the way in the car with her, each hen setting contentedly a basket.

A scurvy trick was played upon one of the slot and nickel chewing gum machines at Bethlehem, Pa. On its being opened the other day sixty-five iron washers were found, instead of so many pennies, which had been put into the slot, and sixty-five cakes of gum were missing.

A Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) doctor, whose nose was pierced by a rifle ball last week, performea an operation upon it. In healing one of his nostrils was closed up, and, after two trips to Detroit and finding no relief, the doctor proceeded to bore a hole through his nostril, and now can smell a dinner as far away as any body.

The largest cat's-eye in the world arrived in London recently from Ceylon. Its present weight cut is 170 carats, and it is insured for 30,000 rupees. It is wonderfully beautiful, the gem giving out a wide, warm beam of opalescent light. Cat's-eyes of the first class are now as valuable as diamonds in the London mo***"*

One of the'novelties which an Augusta, Me., firm is sending out are electric spectacles. At the end of each bow is a miniature thermo-electric pile, in which the electricity is generated by the heat of the brows. The current passing along the bows and rims, which are highly magnetized, is said to be highly beneficial to the eyes.

A peculiar attempt to evade both the customs and quarantine regulations is reported from Windsor to the customs department. A railway car containing a horse, several sheep and several bales of hay was duly reported at customs. One of the officers found a thoroughbred bull wedged in between the hay and the rear of the car.

A discovery important to buttermakers has been made by the agricultural department at Washington. It has been shown by analysis that abutter derived from a cow fed on cotton-seed meal might be condemned as adulterated, when judged by the amount of volatile acids present. Besides possessing a low percentage of volatile acids, butter from cows fed on cotton-seed meal has a strong persistence of the reducing agent and a phenomenally high melting point. It is abutter recommended for warm weather and hot climates.

An impudent fellow asked" a gentleman coming out of a Pittsburg theater for an admission check, saying he had lost his own. He got it, and then asked for the Beat coupon. The gentleman gave it, saying sarcastically, "Here's a cigarette to smoke between the acts." and the cheeky fellow stepped lightly in. The manager, hearing of him,

Some queer answers were elicited during an examination of witnesses in a contested election case in Florida. "Who was the Republican candidate for congress in this district?" was asked. Answer: "I don't know." "Would you know the name if mentioned?" "Yee, sir." "Was it Robert Ingersoll?" "Yes, sir,' dat's de man." "Well, who was the Democratic candidate?" "I don't know, sir." "Was it John Sherman?" "Yes, sir, dat's de very man." "Well, what is congress?" "I don't know, sir. "Is it a man or a woman?" "I think it is a woman." "What kind of a woman?" "A black woman."

A St. juis tailor promised a' customer that he would have his new suit done in a few minutes. The young man Aid: "All right, I'm going across the street to take a bath. Send the clothes over there." The tailor agreed and the young man went to hiB bath. One of the attendants offered him $5 for his old clothes, the offer was accepted and the transfer made. The young man finished his bath, but the new garments didn't come. He waited and grew impatient. He was kept in the bath-room for five mortal hours before the suit came. Then he took his departure vowing never to trust a tailor's word again.

Many cruelties are said to be practiced on the Indians at Flathead reservation in Montana by the native police. The religious and moral teachers are said to encourage the savage in these customs. Easter Sunday is made a grand whipping day at the mission, and the women are especially chastised. An Indian woman was recently whipped with her hands tied behind her and then thrust into prison, and while imprisoned the unfortunate victim gave birth to a dead infant, according to the Portland Oregonian. An investigation by the government authorities at Washington might develop some startling facts.

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AMUSEMENTS.

INDIANAPOLIS

May Musical Festival,

Tomlinson Hall, May 27, 28, 29. This association, formed to advance musical oiUt.nr* iu tills.State.- and to develop Indl.'ina tiilent, will give at Its Orst festival live concerts, three at night and two In the afternoon.

There will be a clionis of 600 voices wlileli lins been trained carefully for months, and a large orchestra composed of members of the Theodore Thomas and Boston symphony orchestra and local musicians.

Indiana talent will be represented by Miss Margaret Reld Kackley.'wlio is now studying In Paris, and Miss Hortense Plerse. of Anderson, who lias acquired a national reputation.

The eminent soloists who have been engaged are Miss Emma Juch, whose work as the leading soprano of the National Opera Co. lias made her a prime favorite with Indianapolis audiences Slgnor Jules Perottl, the tenor whose magnlllcent high created so much enthusiasm at the Metropolitan Opera house duTlng the last season: Herr Enill Fischer, prlmo bass at the Metropolitan Opera house, and a great favorite with New York audiences: Mme. Therese Herbert H'oerster, dramatlc soprano Miss Helen von Poenliof, contralto Miss Adele Aus der Ohe. one of the few pupils of Liszt who can rightfully claim that distinction Max Bendlx, violinist, and Victor Herbert, violoncellist.

Season tickets. Including reserved seats, general admission. $1 to night concerts and 60c to matinees reserved seats 50c and 25c extra. Season tickets or single tickets for any concert may be had by addressing Henry S. Kraser, No. 1 Kast Washington street, Indianapolis, Ind.

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TIME TABLE.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) No. 6 New York Express (S«V) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. !S) Atlantic Express (PAV) No. 6 Fast Line*.

Trains marked thus (P) denote I'arlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping .. Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

*3 T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. LKAVK FOR TO* WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (S&V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Kast Line (P4V) No. 7 Kast Mall

1.42 a.m. 1U.18 a. m., 2.15 p. m. 9.04 p. w.,

LEAVE FOR THK KAST.

1.90 a. m. 1 61 a. m.17.15 a. m. 12.42 p. m. 2.00 p. ni

ARKIVK FROM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (84V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Kast Line »(P4V) No. 3 Mall and Accommodation.......... No. 7 Kast Mall

1.30a. m., 10.12 a. w. .. 2.00p. m.' 6.45 p. m. tt.00 p. iu.

ARKIVK FROM THK WRST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New Yark Express (84V) No. 30 Atlantic Express (P4V) No. 8 Fa* Line

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

UUn FOR THK NORTH.

No. G2 South Bend Mall No. 51 South Bend Express ABRTVK FBOM THK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express.... No. 6B South Bend MaU