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YESTERDAY AT ACTON. A Largely Increased Attendance and Unusually Interesting Exercises. Dr. C. N. Sims’s Lecture on “Philosophy of Failures,” and Prof. David Swing on “The Novels We Read”—Notes. THE MORNING LECTURE. Dr. Sims’s Interesting Discussion of the Causes Leading to Failures in Life. The attendance at the Acton Assembly yesterday was very largely increased, considerable delegations ooming in on all the trains. Tho success of the undertaking is already assured, for all the tents are well tilled. It is certain that large crowds will be in attendance, both to-day and to-morrow, and the addresses already delivered have been of such an interesting character as to Justify the belief that the remainder of the programme will be equally entertaining and profitable. Yesterday morning at 11 o’clock Rev. Charles N. Sm>° thft!rE!to • 01 the Pyracaso (N. Y.) University and oue of the most prominent Methodists •* the country, delivered a lecture on “The philosophy of failures.” There was a large audience present to hoar him, including hundreds of his old friends aud parishioners from this city and others who knew him only by reputation. His address was a practical and unusually interesting discussion of a subject wbioh he had evidently oarefully considered. HU illustrations and conclusions were unusually bright aud entertaining. Dr. Sims introduced his lecture by an account of a pietentious business venture, with which he was familiar, telling how two ambitious young tneu had erected a magnificent building, stocked with the finest goods, employed scores of salesmen, and had a grand opening with all the aocompauinients of splendor and magnificence, and after various disasters and disappointments, the inevitable came in the shape of an unpretentious sign in the window “To lei.” This, he said, was the type of many a life venture. Varied in a thousand ways, like the changing pictures of a kaleidoscope, is this simple storv. in the pretentious rooms up town and in the litile shops where needy widowhood attempts to provide for fatherless little children. From umoug the stroug and weak, the high and lowly the pretentious and the humble, from all ranks of people and all departments of life, the disappointed ones are passing silently to the rear, leaving thetr places at the trout, which thoy could not fill, with or without notice, “To let.” Not In money and merchandise alone, but in social position, in moral character, in professional endeavor, iu the struggle for fame, in the accomplishment of good, the pursuit ot pleasure, are found the disapppointed aud defeated ones. Th°re are two issues of the life effort that men are \>ont to call failures One la where the wishes, purposes and hopes we have cherished are never realized; but this is not necessarily any real failure. The real failure is he who does not do and become what he might and ought. To every muiiuu being is given some measure, of power, great or small, and some field of opportunity, broad or narrow, and to wisely and fully use the one and occupy the other is success. But afifer all the apologies we may make for adverse circumstances, the fact remains that every pathway of human effort is rilled with wrecks that tell of sad or shameful failures. Men back down lu morals aud are lushed out of sight by an intelligent and outraged public. They are* defeated in the race for honors aud retire. They attempt the learned profession and strive in obscurity. Their commercial schemes explode and they drop from the wreck into the moving mass ot tollers, who battle in a lif: -long, traceless conflict with poverty, hungerand cold. In considering the causes of failures, thar, through defector weakness of. character, comes naturally first. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and n.'ajy a character, brave and strong in most respects, has gone down because of failure Ht some point of special weakness. I notice as among those things that endanger success; 1. The spirit of dishonesty. There is perhaps no more widespread and fatal moral disease abroad in the. world than this. The whole structure of social life must be honest; houosi in money, morals and obligations. Money is the world’s universal, self-adjusting balance sheet, showing the state of accounts between the individual amt society at large. Thus, if I m the owner of a dollar, it is prtmu facie evidence that either by person or proxy I have done for society a dollar’s worth of service more than it has ever returned, and my dollar is a check upon society as a whole, or any individual inemner thereof for service to that amount. (I am sorry there are so many who prefer to serve society by proxy, using for that end father, father-in-law, or dead husband.) And what money is in general, such in particular are service, morals, intelligence, refinement and chainctei for that ponton of society within the reacli of their influence. Be sure if yon *ver do the world an honest service. It wUI most honestly reward you. But herein is dishonesty, that men seek and rake these rewards, under pretense of having furnished equivalents, when, ia fact, they do not deliver the goods in amount aud quality as promised. This disposition to do underwork and demand overpay is the essense of dishonesty, and when it exists it is an element of weakness of character. The spirit appears lu the bougbt-up votes of corrupt legislators, coal oil companies, gold mining shares and diamond region swindle.-, in stolen trademarks, shoddy manufactures, adulterated material, patent medicines, the quackery of professional life, lying advertisement) reckless expenses, misappropriation of funds, gamt>ling upon margins—iu this and a thousand other ways this haneful spirit of dishorn tr\ is abroad In the world, destroying credits, weakening the love of virtue aud fostering a distaste for conservative, old-fashioned, plodding honesty. It is like scrofula iu the. blood of the social body, breaking out here aud there lu ugly ulcers. Look at some of these: Bankruptcies without number, thieving clerks, defaulting bookkeepers and government-officials, absconding cashiers, ruined young men, the small savings of the poor stolen by wholesale from trust institutions, bought-up juries,unpunished criminals, high taxes and widespread suffering. The keystone of the arch which* supports all reliable business character is absolute honesty iti thought, word aud act. Let it be brokeu.aud the whole structure falls in hopde.-s ruin. When once tho sacred obligations of honesty are trampled under foot, the character is so debauched tnat it will not thereafter be satistt. and with what Is Justly its own. Another of the causes of many failures is the weakness of indolence. Work is the genius that wins life’s prizes. The painstaking industry and care that perfect ear n part and attends to each detail, that prevents cuoh waste and guards against each surprise, that puts up the strongest points and finishes with tho finest pollan. Is the winner always. Fickleness Is another claimant for weakness in character, to whose account many failures may be charges. Many people who have the spirit to work have not the patience to waif. They always plant the orchard of their hopes with dwarf trees, because they bear sooner than the standard, though only a tithe of as much fruit. False pride is another weakness too qfteu adding to tho probability of failure It is a mortifying confession to make on behalf of our common humanity, but candor compels it, that many people arc ashamed of the fact of t heir fluanci.il condition and honest poverty aud their honorable though humble toil. Failures because of carrying needless weight are only too common. The waste of foolish spending occasions mane. I would not encourage meanness, nor parsim my, for there is such a thing as feeding avarice with the best virtues of the soul, but on the other side there is a recklessness of prodigality, for needless indulgence, that wastes resources and brings no adequate return. Habits of vicious indulgence, the nnconfessed vices, the cultivation or evil habits, the occasional drinking lay the foundation of the most dreadful failures possible to men. The unlawful Indulgences that disease the imagination, the secret vices that make life a hypocrisy ami a lie, the growing habit that supplants the will—these are tlie rocks upon which life is most sadly wrecked. Ho I have suggested some or the causes that outer into and produce the multitude of failures that meet us ou every baud. He has not • been honest, and character and oredit have gone down together. He lias neen indolent, and the world has stung him our like a drone from the hive of busy workers. He has. been fickle and as unstable as wuter, and he has never excelled. Full of false pride that prevented him accepting his work with hearty good will, the genius of his business has forsaken lilm. Misunderstanding life, he has pursued a delusion, to be cheated by it in the end. Another strong enough to have couquered success has cumbered himself with reckloss habits or tampered with vice uulil he whs caught iu her trap. I will conclude with a more oheerful pioture, a vision of success. A happy heart and a useful life are the essence •f success. Lowly aud high, greatness aud little-

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ness. are the merest accidents. Goodness, not money, secures it. There is a success of kind deeds, nobly done, tnat make ui> the acquisitions of life. There is a higher joy of sympathies ex tended, of happy memories, of warm hearts, strongly bound together, that make the true treasure of a successful life. When we are gone, it will not be for the clothes we have worn ami the style we have put. on and the wealth we have gathered aud the splendor amid which we have shone, that otfr memories shall be tenderly cherished, but for tho helping hand and the kindly word and the ministrations of love and the purity of character we have shown; and when the whole brief history of earth is ended and we come to take the places assigned by Him who is the judge of ur all, the humble faith, the Godly life, the little ones visited and clotned and fed, will he counted life’s triumph, and we shall receive the crowns of conquerors uud the robes of the righteous as life’s ultimate and highest success. NOVELS YV E READ. Prof. David Swing’s Pertinent Observations Concerning Current Literature and Other Matters. In the afternoon Prof. David Swing, the distinguished Chicago divine, lectured to a very large audieuce ou “The Novels We Read,” the subject beiug treated in that gentleman’s usual attractive and entertaiuing manner. The audience, which had received large accessions from tho oity, was unusually attentive and appreciative. The exercises were begun with the hymn, “Stand Up for Jesus,” and Governor Cuiuback br’efly introduced Mr. Swing, who said, in brief: I have not come here to either abuse or eulogize the novel or the novel-reader, but I simply want to ask you to.examine into the philosophy of that kind of a book called a novel. The novel is gradually working its way into your libraries, and its seems therefore that a practical inquiry concerning its use and advantages may be interesting. It is said that everything contains in It the reason of its existence, aud the novel certainly does. Let me advance some general principles. All literature is a pioture of the soul, 'and as the soul may sit for several pictures, so this literature presents to us various attitudes of the human mind. Religious works representing the soul looking upward toward its Creator, history representing It looking back over the ages, aud romance looking toward the beautiful. Mrs. Scott Siddons, who is, or was said to have been the most beautiful woman of the world, bad over fifty photographs taken of herself, and all were beautiful. Similarly literature sends out various phases of itself, and we shall discuss one—the novel. There are five fine arts—for their mission is the beautiful alone-architecture, painting, sculp; ure. music and literature, and of the latter the novel is a branch, a golden branch, indeed. You are all capable of judging quite accurately of all this array of the beautiful by following two laws, viz.: first, what ideas are offered me by this work, and second, how many of them! It is questions of ideas aud sentiment. People instinctively recognize a work of art, whatever it may be, but this power is stronger in some than others. The average musician is carried away by a performance—is wrapt up iu the execution, and be forgets that his music does not convoy many ideas to his bearers, ana thus bis art falls. Comparing the fine arts together, that will be the greatest art which can throw into your minus and hearts the most ideas and the best. Music is not sound, for if It were merely that t should set myself up as a singer. Music is the union of beauty and aotiud, and that is the reasou so many of us are left out when choirs are made up. [Laughter.) A man who builds a shed is not an architect, unless he adorns it aud beautifies it. Palntiug is not color, but the beautiful spreading of color. Literature is never truth, merely, for if it were the dictionary would be literature, the Congressional Globe would be literature, and the multiplication table would be a literary gem. Literature is boautiful truth—ornamented thought. Musle can only say a few things to us. It is the most powerful art, but the narrowest, the most limited, but the sweetest. Two young lovers in Germany ti led to carry on a courtship by uiusle alone, but failed entirely; the art was too narrow. When they branched out, however, they were more successful. Architecture has only a few grand Thoughts, bur by means of literature the soul outers every thought. It is the great gateway through which the soul passes. Think of the Greek language—Bo,ooo words, only 50,000 iu common use, and all capable of unlimited development. The simple verb meaning “to love” has 1,500 different parts, and frequently only one of these has broken a young man’s heart, and the other 1,490 did him no good. The words of literature are all beautiful, and literary art is always ornamented by imagination ami fancy. The other great ornamentation of literature is Its breadth. When a Calvinist preaches nis words are distasteful, probably, to Methodists, and consequently his sermon is not literature, it is Calvinism Literature pleases everybody, and rolls before us as infinite as the seas. Homer, Virgil, Sliakspeurn all wrote for the humau race. There is always an ideal something, and I am going to speak of the ideal novel. What Is the ornamentation of it? Let us go back in the past lor our answer. Four thousaud years ago there began to be an image of the human face, carved in a rock or painted iu canvass, and that was the origin of the novel. The conception whs developed into symmetrical proportions by the Greeks, but they did not find the perfect image of this being. It took the world 5,000 years to learn where the human nose should set in and how long it should continue. That image of beauty was called differently by different nations, but you may call her what you please. She was the origin of the novel. list tue iellyouliow the novel is literature with an ideal woman in it, not the real women mind you. She has not. yet reached tue villages and cities and camp grounds, hut she is ooming. I might say in this connection that in my opinion tho Ideal man is still further away. [Laughter] The ideal woman is the essence, the reason of the novel. The philosophy of the novel Is human thought ornamented by a beautiful woman. All races decorate, we are all children of the beautiful. If h clergyman in this audience should go to some strange city, he would follow a brass band around, and stand on the corner and listen to a liana organ. [Laughter.] God has ordained it that there shall always be a window ope;, through which may come' some light. Woman is the inspiration of the novel, and we all follow that book lor that reason. I have another proof of this: In those savage nations where the woiueu were slaves and drudges, there were uo novels. But when Greece emancipated women from a slavery worse than death, then anise the novel in all its beauty. In the dark ages for 1,500 years there were no novels because the women were iu the background, and there were only men, and they were all theologians. But in the revival of letters, back Oniut) women and back came tho novel; but the work was crude. The work of development was slow, and now the good novel is just beginning to appear. It has only been recently that we have had good machinery in our fields, good railroads, good steamboats, and it is only at the present time that we are beginning to have good sermons from our pulpits; uud tuns it is with novels. The entire effort of the old novelist was to get a couple of young people entangled in love, and then find all sorts of obstacles to their marriage. When lie had invented enough Indians, pirates and morhers-m-law to fill two volumes, he wrote tho story, and wound it up either with a wedding or a fuuerul, generally the latter, and everybody was glad of it. * There has been a great improvement in novelwriting since then. The standard works of today are expressive of ideas aud beautiful thought. Around a central figure are grouped people of strong individuality, ladies aud gentlemen whose words and actions arc conducive to healthy thought aud noblerconduot. Woman is the Inspiration—the guiding star of the true novel—a fact that will bo apparent to you if you carefully review the standard uovols you have read. Recall Jean Paul Richter’s, who fur over half a century had been a worshiper of God aud a student of men. He was familiar with history, with science, and he, could have written a philosophy whoso profundity won hi have astonished the world, had thoy stopped to read it. But. he knew a better way to reach tho hearts aud minds of men and women, and lie took advantage of it. He wrote a novel when lie was comparatively an old man. not a romantic love tale, with nothing further to commend it, but a powerful story that se.r people to thinking all over the world. The Countoss Linda was invented by him, und threw a beautiful light over all those pages. If he had written a philosophy he would have needed only thirteen volumes, one for each of the members of the Concord Hohool of Philosophy, and one for his wife toflle away for future reference. Charles Dickens’s great idea was not a love affair. There is a scarcity of beautiful women lu Ilia books; but men read them through iu hopes that they would finally come in near the end. Dickens’s great idea was philanthrophy in all it phases. He was the friend of the children. He gathered up the boot-blacks und the chimneysweeps. The child of to-day is a happy child, and Dickons did much to bring this about. He is tlie apostle of philanthrophy. Now we come to Tlmckery. What a change in scenery, bur, there Is the woman. His idea was to show up the follies or society. In Hawthorne you walk througu galleries of fine ails,

and there is just enough of Hilda und the white dove to lure the reader on. There, is George McDonald, whose theme ia generally religion. In his novels he restated Christianity for us. The clergy could ne,ver do it. But along oame a novelist, pushing a beautiful woiuau in front of Utoi, and the deacons, elders and preachers all followed her. [laughter.] George McDonald made hell a little smaller than it used to be. Fifty years ago it was decidedly the largest section of the universe. Nearly everybody went there except our own set; now very few people are going. I need say nothing of George Eliot, Bulwer aud the others. The ideal novelist gathers up the truths of this world and fastens them together in a beautiful package. Love is tile string that binds them. The novelist ornaments those gates through which the truths of life must march, like the soldiers who came home from the war, begrimed with dust and powder, and marched under under arches of flowers, put up by loving hands. Education is never tho accumulation of ideas, It is the awakening of the heart, the development of the feeling. These five flue arts call your attention to the grandeur of your world. Educatian is life, not learning; vivacity, not lntormstio*. The savage sloops eighteen hours a day with * tendency toward tweutv-four, because his mind is not awakened. Education is tne awakening of the spirit, the development of life. Look back and see what men have marked the ages. They have not been those who knew much, but men who felt deeply—men wbo lived. Education is the power to appreciate God’s grand world here and hope for a grander one to come. I speak of this because or the common tendency to narrow down life. It is a mistake—a dreadful mistake. The merchant at the age of forty becomes a yard-stick, rbe doctor at the age of forty-five has quit, the ohureb; he doesn’t read; he has narrowed the world all down to where he can cover it all with his saddle-bags. The clergyman is even worse. He starts out with the iutent:ou of never being broad, and at the age of fifty be is narrower than he ever hoped to be. He preaches the same old sermons, in the same old way, and loses what little liberality of thought he over had. Os course I make an exception of present company. I don’t menu any of you gentlemen. [Great laughter.] Why, I knew a young preacher once woo moved to a new town anil the ladies presented him with a writing-desk, filled with pigeou-hoies lor different purposes. One of these he labeled “Seriuoiis recently preached.” and another “Sermons not recently preached.” Well, one hot Suuday he came home from liis morning service and by mu take put in his sertnou with those “not recently preached.” Wneu he came to select, a sermon for the. evening service, he accidentally got hold of the one he had in the morning, aud would you believe ill—he preached that same sermon agaiu to the same congregation, and he aid not know it. [Laughter.] And only two of the flock recognized it either, although all had heard it iu the morning [Continued merriment]. There are too many preacuers like that I aui afraid. The lawyer is no better. At the age of forty five he has fprgottem the English language: he don’t speak of men and women, he calles them “parties.” I heard of a Chicago lawyer onco whose wife read two novels to him when he was sick, aud he said to her: “I have been entirely too much wrapped up in law, and have forgotten almost everything else. When I get well I shall lay aside my statutes aud write a novel,” aud so he did. The first chapter told about a nice young mau and a pretty young woman. The second told how they met and fell in lovo. The third, a very pretty chapter, told how they took a walk together in the evening and how ihey got outside the town because the sun went down aud they couldn’t see ttie corporation line. It was a very romantic story, but be spoiled it in the next chapter. After tho lovers were appropriately seated in the shade of a spreading oak, although It was night, the young mau said: “Adelaide, I can no longer conceal tny feelings. I love you muilly, distractedly, wildly. I cannot live without you. Your image is in my heart by night and by day, aud without you my life is incomplete.” Now, that was all very pretty, but—would you believe It?—the lawyer commenced that ‘maiden’s answer to that burning, declaration with: “The other party responded substantially as follows.” and that took away all the romance. That is the great danger to young people; by confining themselves to one thing thoy will soon begiu to narrow in this glorious life. I want to say to my young friends here that they should read u few good novels—not 100 many—as well as heavier works that wtll tend to widen their intellectual scope. No person should read novels too much—all somewhat. Those who don’t want to read them above all others should. Professional men, who intellectually are like a pool in August—dead; mechanics, merchants and scholars alike,you wut to have a broad view of things. To have your face up against oue thing all the time is fanaticism. There are uieu who look through long punched elders and see a little brigiit spot and call that heaven. You want to avoid all that and you want to take advantage ot everything that will make you more libera: and more intellectual.

THE EVENING LECTURE. In the evening Mr. E. W, Halford, of Indianapolis, delivered an address on “Some Features of Journalism.” NOTES. The grounds are in excellent order, and the new water-works provide an immense supply of pure drinking water. To-day and to-iuorrow J. B. Cameron, with bis cornet, will acoompauy the singing in addition to the choir, which is from tlie Ceutral-aveuue M. E. Church. The tabernacle Is a magnificent buildiug for the purposes for which it is intended. It will comfortably seat 1,600 people, and Is excellently ventilated and arranged. This morning at 11:30 o’clock Rev. D. H. Snowden, of Camden, will lecture on “Work and Workers.” At 2 o’clock Rev. T. DeWitt Tulin age will lecture on “Big Blunders,’’ und this evening Capt. John B. Conner on “Some Phases of Religious Thought/* To-morrow morning Dr. Taliuage will preach, and iu the afternoon Dr. Mann. The admission to tiie grounds is 25 cents, and the fare for the round trip from tlie city is 65 oeuts, which lucl tides admission. AN OUTRAGEOUS REPORT. The following card explains itself: “The statement lu the News of last night with respect to the price of admission to the lecture of Rev. Dr. Taltnage is an outrage upon the Assembly and upon the public. There will be no charge of $1 for admission at the gate, nut only 25 cents, tho same as upon all other (lays. The fare for the round trip from Indianapolis will be only 65 cents, Including the price of admission to the grounds and lecture. There was no shadow of uutuoruy for such a publication. “Will Cumback, “John B. Conner, “E. W. Halford, “Board of Managers.” Birtlip and Deaths. BIRTHS. The return of births for the week ending with yesterday, reported at the oity health office, is as follows: To Mr. aud Mrs. George W. Dietz, girl; Mr. und Mrs. Mark McGrath, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Junius E. Cravens, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nan, girl; Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas, girl; Mr. ami Mrs. Michael Climw, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marsh, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Obenchain, girl; Mr, aud Mrs. Albert Birch, girl; Mr and Mrs. Edward Davis, boy; Mr. aud Mrs. Fred. Schieiter, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Long, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Stepheu Dean, girl; Mr. aud Mrs. John Flynn, boy; Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Burnett, girl; Mr. aod Mrs. Sam. L Douglass, girl; Mr. aud Mrs. George Vogel, boy; Mr. and Mrs. John Bass, girl; Mr. aud Mrs. Fred. Spiring, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffmetster. boy; Mr. und Mrs. James R. Morgan, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Clinton W. Parker, boy; Mr. und Mrs. MeArgal, girl; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Birmingham, boy; Mr. and Mrs. John J. Davis, boy; Mr. aud Mrs. John W. Franks, boy; Mr. and Mrs. James R. Woirhaye, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Brisbin, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gross, boy; Mr. und Mrs. Win. Krooni, girl; Mr. ami Mrs. Peter School), girl; Mr. ami Mrs. Robert Kcmpf, girl; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Coffin, girl: Mr. and Mrs. John C. La wire, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Michael Keefe, girl: Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wintergasr, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Casserly, glrq Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moroney, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glatzal, girl; Mr. and Mis. George Kuplan, boy. DEATHB. For the same period tho following deaths have been reported: Johanna Kavanuugh, aged 63 years, appoplery; Pearl Stevens 26 years, dysentery; Caroline Wingley, 61 years, gastric fever; Infant Lupc, 3 years, inanition; Julia Job, 23 years, congestion of stomach; Mary Blair, 45 years, typhoid fever; Mrs. Gractensteln, 58* yearn, heart disease; Mary Wright, 80 yearn, old ago; Franklin Freeman, 6 years, typhoid lever; Moritz Sohuiidt, 37years, Bright’s disease; Pearl Anderson, 2 years, diarrlußa; George A. Walker, 21 yearn, typho-malurlal fever; Surah Gayton, 17 months, consumption; Elizabeth Reno, 23 years, atrophy of liver; Thomas Hanraliun, 31 years, eaucro! duod muin: Nellie O'Connell, 18 years, consumption; Michael Shea, 62 years, congestive fever; Mary Padden 14 years, consumption; Mary Conner, 6 months, inanition; Hugh Douglas, 2 months, congestion of tne brum; Nicholas Harant, 83 years, old age.

THE NEW STATE CAPITOL. The Commissioners Preparing to Declare the Contract Abandoned. __—.— Mr. Seward Sympathizes with the Contract-ors-Can the Building Be Completed Wit Ilia the flpi,ooo,ooo Limit? Tho Board of State-house Commissioners, after a mysterious session running through several days, havo drawn the curtain and revealed to the view of the public their gland tableau of a big Indian about to tomahawk an already helpless victim. For months they have been expected to take some kind of decisive action iu reletting the contract for the building of tho State-house, but they have moved iu the matter with the caution which characterizes all large bodies. The failure of tho Legislature to act honestly with the contractors, or heed the advice of the investigating committee, placed the commissioners iu a predicament of the greatest embarrassment. The mistake is likely to result in a loss to the State, as the commissioners havo stated, time after time, of upwards of $1,000,000. In the. performance of their trust the commissioners are required to complete the building at a cost not to exceed $2,000,000, and this is tbe oue thing which they keep constantly in view. In moving slowly, they claim that they have been acting in accordance with the best legal advico and havo only exercised the caution which would save them from mukiug a serious mistake. Since the 7th of last March very little work ou *the State-house building has been done, aud for the last three months all work has been practically adandoned. “What are the commissioners going to do!” has been a standing question now for several weeks, and yet It was evident that there was only one thing for them to do. In the preliminary proceedings to the step which they have taken the history of the contract and its conditions wero reviewed. Their action is based upou the provision in tho contract that “wlieuever the contractors full to prosecute the work upou the new State-house building us rapidly as the commissioners may direct they may deolare the contract abandoned.” Their next step was to serve formal notice ou Columbus R. Cummings ami Elias F. Goboi, of Chicago, that, us the sureties of Kanmacher & Denig, the contractors, they would bo hold liable for the failure lo ooutiuue the work on the buildiug. In the notice which was served on the sureties the commissioners say: “That Messrs. Kanmacher & Denig, contractor for the now State-house ot Indiana, have failed and refused to proceed with the work of constructing the said building during the present building season as directed by this board. “On the 7th day of March, 1883, written orders wore given to tho said contractors, Messrs. Kanmacher & Denig, ror the completion of certain work by the. 20th day of April, 1883, and again, on the 23d day of April, 1883, for the completion of certain work by the 3iet and y of May, 1883: and again, ou the sth day of June, written orders were given the contractors for the completion of certain work by the 30th day of June, 1883. “But little, if any, attention bus been given to the orders above uiautioued by the said Kaumacher & Denig, and only a very small portion of the work de*ignated has been completed, although the aniouut of work required to be done within the time mentioned was reasonable, and with ordinary diligence ou the part of the contractors could have been completed within tbe time specified. Now, therefore, notice is given to you, as sureties of said Kanmacher & Denig, contractors for the State-hous *. of Indiana, that unless the said contractors, or you as their sureties, proceed without further delay to prosecute tiie work of completing tbe said new htate-bouse of Indiuna with a reasonable degree of rapidity, then this board Will Drooeed to declare the contract abandoned on uie part of tho contractors, and will hold tho said Kanmaobar & Denig and you as their sureties, liable on their ooud for all damages occasioned by suld abandonment of the coutraot ” As was expected, tbe commissioners received no satisfactory response to the foregoing docu* tnenr, and after reviewing in full all that relates to the work on the State-house building since the adjournment of the Legislature, the proceed lugs of the commissioners conclude with the following, fixing Sept. 3 as the time for declaring the contract abandoned on tho part of the contractors: “Now, therefore, the board of State-house commissioners hereby direct and require said contractors to prosecute tbe construction of said building as required by said contract, and perform all the work thereon, and deliver all the materhiU here specified, by the 3d day of September next; that is to say, “First—Leveling up the floor-joists of thetbirdstory beams with briok. “Second—Setting of cut-stone work on Missis sippi street, center part, same height as Tennessee street center part, aud backing up the gaum with briok. “Third—Finishing the twelfth course and setting the thirteenth, and fourteenth courses of out ’ atone around the entire building, and backing up the same. “Fourth—Setting of all the granite plinths and limestone bases for pilasters in ilie third story corridors. “Fifth—Laying of brick work one scaffold high, (four feet, six inches) ou all inside walls in the third story. “Sixth—Cutting and rubbing of the outside cut-stone work to the top of the seventeenth course. “Seventh—Catting, rubbing and setting of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth courses of the dome, second story. “Eighth—Delivery of sufficient material,brick, stone, etc., to iusure a speedy continuance of tiie work. “And on tbe failure of said contractors to perform the work and deliver the materials embraced in the. foregoing specifications by the 3d day of Septomber next, the board of commissioners hereby notify tho said Kantuacher Sc Denig, that they will then deolare the said contract abandoned oil tho part of said Kanmoaher & Denig; and tbe said board will treat the said contract as abandoned from and after the 3d day of September next, on the part of said contractors, and will proceed to relet the construction of said building to other party or parties, and hold said Kanmacher A Dduig responsible upou their bond executed to insure the performance of said contract for all losses, damages, and expenses, direct and indirect, caused or occasioned because of such abandonment of said contract by said Kanmacher A Denig, as well as any and all increase in the cost of constructing said bp tiding caused by such reletting thereof to other parlies.” Tlie secretary of the board was directed to notify Messrs. Cummings and Goble, of Chicago, of tlie action of the commissioners, and that they will be hold liable us sureties on the contract of Kanmacher A Denig. Mr. Denig is now iu Chichago, but lie has been notified of the action of the commissioners. Commissioner Howard was interviewed during the afternoon by a Journal reporter, and when questioned regarding the reletting of tho contract, said: ‘Tlie contractors are given one more chance, but I do not think that they will resume work. They are not prepared to do the work specified. The truth i , they cannot proceed, aud the contract will havo to ha relot.” “On what conditions will tlie new ooutraot bo let!” was asked. ‘The commissioners will, of course, reserve the right to reject all bids. The buildiug must be completed tor $2,0u0,000, and any bid proponing to do the work for a larger amount will not be considered.” “if you fail tu find a man who will undertake to do tho work for $2,000,00b what will then be done!” “I cannot say what will be tbe action of the hoard, hut I think that we would simply advertise a second time for bidders. The work can be done, however, for $2,000,000. A very careful calculation has been made and wo find that ihu building can be completed at a cost not to exceed $2,000,000.” “Then why don’t the present contractors continue the work!” “They cannot. They would like to if they could, because they would have some pride in completing tho building. I regard Mr. Howard as a most estimable .gentleman, and sympathize with him. He has lost a great -deal of money, I don’t bciiove in lno State taking advantage of a ’ man who is acting iulthfiill.v aim honestly simply because he lumpens to make a mistake. The loss of tbe contractors lias been almost solely through the rise in the price of labor. The very thing w inch has contributed largely jo lue prosperity ol this

i j city has crushed these men. More than onc-balf of tue expense of building the State-house is in | the matter of labor, and to increase the price, even a few cents a day over their estimates ! would make a great loss. I think it’s all wrong for tlie Slate to take advantage of a contractor ; who loses on a tliiug of that kind. If the loss occurred on anything else it would be different.” I Mr. Seward stated, when questioned regarding ! the amount left for the completion of the building within tho limit, that there In something over $1,200,000 iult oi tuo $2,000,000. PERSONAL, Col. James Connor, of Chicago, is at the Grand Hotel. A. M, Kennedy, of Rushviile, is at the Grand Hotel. C. C. Neff, of Columbus, 0., is at the Bates House. Hon. C, W. Powell, of Paris, 111., is at the ! Bates House. | A. N. Grant, of Kokomo, is at the Bates House. E. G. Beach, of San Francisco, is at the Bates House. Hon. E. C. Johnson, of Michigan City, is at the Bates House. E. G. MeJendy, of Fremont, lud., is at the Grand Hotel. Mr. aud Mrs. T. A. Hendricks have returned from their western trip. Rev. C. N. Sims will preach ab Meridian street Church to-morrow morning. Hon. 8. P. Sheerin, Clerk of the Supreme Court, will*be married ou the 19th iust. to Miss Daugherty or Louisville. President J. H. Smart, of Purdue University, left for Washington to-day ou business connected with the institution. Elder Sweres, a well-known colored minister, will conduot the Circle Park temperance meeting to morrow afternoon. Mrs. Lena Taylor ami daughter Nellie, of No. 101 Davidson street will leave to-iuorrow for Richmond on a two-weeks visit. Miss Evelyn E. Colburn, of Detroit, ’ate of Vassar College, is the guest of Miss Lilian Russel, at the Wheatly homestead. Rev. F. C. Holliday will preach at Roberts Park Church to-morrow morning, and Rev. C. N. Sims, of Syracuse, N. Y., in the evening. Mrs. Thomas Durham, of Topeka, Kan., aud Miss Minnie Decker, of Cleveland, are visiting Mis. Captuin J. A. Humphreys, North Alabama street.

T. E. Hibben and F. 11. Iletherington will exhibit the results of a five days’ sketching tour through Monroe count)', at Lieber’s art gallery this ufternoon. Miss Callis, the State Librarian, has gone to Martinsville for a short visit, aud next week will leave for an extended trip West, to be absent about two months. Frank H. Blackledge, the Governor’s private secretary, and Albert B. Porter last night started for New Mexico, and will be absent in tlie West about two weeks. F. D. Tharp, Raysvllle; E. Gatehouse, Danville, 111.; C. A Ray, John Ruy, Terre Haute; T. C. Donnell, Franklin; O. J. Craig, Sullivan; John W. Harper, of Cincinnati, are at the Grand Hotel. B. Grove, No. 92 Plum street, exhibits, with commendable pride, tbe New York Morning Post, of the date of Friday, Nov. 7, 1783, which he says bus been iu his family for more than fifty years. Frank R. Magner and 11. R. Mann, Paris, Til.; Henry Rick, Mattoon, 111.; J. B. Messiek, Terre Haute; T. N. GoodknigUt, Franklin, Ky.; W. T.' Fry, Crawfordsvllle; A. O’Hara, Union City: E. D. Thompson, Waldron; Miss Bctiie Smith, Miss Bailie Jones, Miss Jennie Sylvester uud Miss Laura Kent, of Paris, 111., are registered at the Bales House.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. The last will and testament of Johanna Kavnnaugh was yesterday admitted to probate. William Watson Woollen has been appointed guardian of Myrtle A. Emery. Bond, $1,200. Indianapolis Council No. 3, Mechanical Engineers of North America, at their regular meeting last night, elected Jacob W. Loeper, delegate to the national convention of mechanical engineers of North America, to be held at Cincinnati next month. The People’s Railway Company yesterday filed amended articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, adding the names of thirtyseven subscribers for twclvo shares of stock each. The city clerk yesterday issued building permits to G. L. Barr to erect a SI,OOO frame dwe 1iug at 731 South Meridian street: to James Brown, S7OO dwelling at 735 South Meridian street: to Nicole Catalano, $1,150 storeroom at 494 Virginia uveuue. W. T. Nobl®, of this city, a brakomau on tlie L, R. A W. road, while sumac a brake yesterday was thrown from tbe car, breaking an arm aud receiving other injuries. The aocident nocurred near New Carlisle, O. He is iusured in the National Benefit Association. The G. T. Speer New Process Cold-air Drying Company was incorporated yesterday. It i organized for the purpose of supplying patent improvements In drying kilns. The capital stock is $500,000, utW the place of business of the company will be Aurora, this State. The directors are Garrett T. Speer, AI. L Brosius and Henry De Bus. To-morrow will be the regular day for the monthly meeting of commercial travelers at the Y. M. C. A. The meeting will be held in the chapel. No 35 North Illinois street, at 4i\ m. All resident and visiting agents are cordially invited to attend. Music and shore talks by different persons present will add interest and profit to the meeting. There’s not a speck, there's not a stain That on the teeth we cliauce to see, But shadows forth decay and pain, if not removed right speedily, Bv Sozodont, whose wondrous power Works miracles iu one short hour. Advice to Mothers* Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always boused when children are cutting Teeth. It relieves tiie lltrle sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and tue little cherub awakes as “might as a burton.” Ir Is very pleasant to nude. It soothes the child, soft-ans t]io gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twentyttve ceuis a bottle. No short lengths iu Corticelli sewing silk. SKlNsr Men. “Well’s Health Ren ewer” restores health and vigor, cures dyspepsia, impotence. sl. _ AMUSEMENTS. ZOO THEATER AND DOOBLE ELEVATED GARDEN. C. T. GILMORE Manager. Monday, July 30, 1883, With usual Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. LOOK! ourM ll§“ LOOK! The Zanfretta French Dancing Pantomime Troupe, Assisted by the following favorite specialty people: Musott and Lord, Li.lie (’iirroll, Billy Gray, Miss Frankie Gray, Pat Mali lo we, Hattie Wescott, May (’lark. Mav Arnott. To conclude with tho pantomime entitled THE BRIGANDS. Night, Loo, 25c, 35c. Matiueo, 10c, 15c, 250*

BLOOD. SCROFULOUS. INHERITED. CONTAGIOUS. IN 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on inv body until my breast was one mass of corruption. Some of these Ulcers were uor less than one ami one-half inches m diameter, the edges rough, ragged, and seemingly dead, the cavity open to the bone ud filled with offensive mutter. Everything known to the medical faculty was tried in vain. Gradually the bone itself became diseased, and then the suffering began in earnest. Bone Ulcers began to take the place of those lillhreto on the surface. i became a mere wreck. For months at a time could not my hands to uiy head because of extreme soreness. Could not turn tn tied. Knew not what it was to bo an hour even tree from pain. Had reason to look upon life itself as u curse. Tn the summer of 1880, after ten years of t ins wretched existence, I began to use theCutlcura Remedies, amt after two years’ persistent use of them the last. Ulcer has healed. The dread disease has succumbed. All over tbe breast where was onco a mass of corruption is now a healtuy skin. My weight has increased from one hundred and twenty-three to one hundred and fifty-six pounds, and the good work is stiil going ou. I feel myself anew man, ana all through the Cutieura Remedies. JAMES E. RICHARDSON, Custom-house, New Orleans. _ Sworn to before United States Commissioner J. D. Craw lord. TO CLEANSE THE BLOOD Os Scrofulous, Inherited and Contagious Humors and thus remove the most prolific cause of human suffering, to clear tlie Skin of Disfiguring Blotches, Itching Tortures, Humiliating Eruptions and Loathsome Sores caused by Inherited Scrofula, to purify and beautify tlie Skin, and restore the Hair so that uo trace of disease remain, Cutlcura Resolvent, the new Blortd Purifier, and Cutlcura and Cutlcura Soap, tiie great Skin Cures and Beau titters, are infallible. They are the only remedies that succeed wheu physicians and all other means fall. Price of Cutlcura, small boxes. 50c; largo boxes. sl. Cutlcura Resolvent, $1 per bottle. Cutlcura Soap, 25c. Cuticuru Shaving Soap, 15c. Sold by all druggists. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston.

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AN ©PEW SECRET AMONG THE LADIES The brilliant, fascinating tints of Complexion for which ladies strive aro chiefly artificial, ami all who will take Ike trouble may secure them. Tlicso roseate, bewitching lines follow the use of Hagan’s 'dugnolia Balm—a delicate, harmless and always reliable article. Sob! by ail druggists. The Magnolia Balm conceals every blemish, removes Sallowness, Tan> fieriness, Eruptions, all evidences of excitement and every imperfection. Its effects aro immediate and so natural that no human being can detect its application,

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Infants and Children Witßont Morphino or yarcotine. Wliat gives our Children rosy cheeks, What cures their fevers, makes them sleep; 'Tis ('astoriu. When Babies fret, oncl cry by turns, What cures their colic, kills their worms. Hut. Oaitoria, What quickly cures Constipation, Bour Stomach, Colds. Indigestion ; But C.v-dorla. Farewell then to Morphine Syrups, Castor Oil aud Paregoric, and Hail CaM o via* Centaur Liniment.-Anab-solute cure fox* lilieuziiatism, Sprains, Burns, Galls, &0., and uu Instantaneous Pain-reliever.

HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. HOTEL, COLUMBIA, OC EAN BEACH, N. J. Opens June 20. Desirably located within fifty feet of surf. Facilities for boating, fish lug, bathing, etc. Music throughout the season. For illustrated circular, terms, etc., address FILED. E. FOSTER. Manager. MACKINAC ISLAND. The Michigan Central Railroad Company line issued a beautifully illustrated guide book to this wave-washed tourists’ paradise of tlie unsalted seas. Write at once to O. W. RUGGLKS, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111, and get it copy before the edition Is exhausted. FOREST HALL, DIAMOND LAKE, MICH. This beautiful resort is now open for the reception if guests. It is es pod ally recommended to those seeking a change of climate, on account of the wonderful salubrity of the atmosphere. It is one of tlie most charming spots ia Michigan. A superb sheet of water affords endless amusement for sailing and fishing parties. Every luxury to be found unsurpassed at any fashionable resort. Special rates to families, Most accessible to railroads from all quarters. Address E. J. Sc A. 9. MAY, (.':iMs.nni'm. Mich. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Atv fast taking the place of ail others In fan tones. Foundries. Machine Shops ami Mills. Parties having their own power can procure art Electric Gcneraror ami obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent anil storage system has been perfected. making small lights for houses and stores hung wherever needed, ami lighted it will, dav or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies tor lighting cities and towns, can semi to tbe Brusii Electric Cos.. Cleveland, 0., *u lo Ihu uiidorsigued at Indiauauolia. J. CAVES.

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