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GREAT “Blue Mark” CLOAK SALE THIS WEEK AT AYRES’ N; B.—You are invited to attend this Slaughter Sale ot Fine C loaks. All garments marked plainly in the ‘‘Blue Mark.” L s, ay¥s & CO. M BALDWINS CO. P I AN Q S. Musical Tone, Elastic Touch, Great Durability, Handsome Style and Finish. J*ct the Piano' wanted by hundreds of families. Call •ad examine them, or eend for full descriptions and prices. SOLD ON LOW MONTHLY PAYMENTS. D.H. BALDWIN & CO. 95,97 and 99 N. Pennsylvania St. HOLIDAY GOODSI PKRFUMERY, of American, French and English —hes. SACHET POWDERS. FACE POWDERS, TOILET BRUSHES. And a variety of articles suitable for the season. BROWNINGS SLOAN Apothecaries’ Hall. THE HEW YORK STORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.] THIS WEEK WE SHALL CLOSE OUT ALL BOOKS AND HOLIDAYGOODSI PRICES MARKED WAY DOWN! Toys at exact Half Price. Fancy Glassware at Exact Ost. Books at Manufacturer’s Cost. PRICES IN PLAIN FIGURES. PETTIS, BASSETT k CO. Does This Look Like Hard Times? Eleven pianos aod four organs were sold for New Year’s gifts at Emil Wulschner’s music boose. The names of purchasers were given in yesterday's Journal. His sales of violins, guitars, flutes, banjos, accordions, etc., were five times greater than any previous year. A set of thirteen band instruments were sold to Centerville, Ore., in direct competition with San Francisco. Mr. Wulschner is a direct importer of musical goods, and his house is the largest and most complete in the State. He runs his house in true Hoosier style, and with his own capital; is not under the influence of Cincinnati capital, as is the case of four other houses in this city. Chiekering pianos and Burdette organs are the best in the market. New England and Wheelock pianos are the best medium instruments for the money. MO CINCINNATI SIDE SHOW. Instruments at Wnlschner’s are all new, from the factories, not refuse pianos sent to Indian&p•lis branch and consignment ’houses from Cineinnnati headquarters to middle-men. No shoddy Cincinnati instruments at Emil Wulschnxu’s establishment, 42 and 44 North Pennsylvania street. ____________________ Amusements This Week. At the Grand Opera-honse to-night, and until Thursday, Mr. Joseph B. Polk, a good comedian, will appear in "Mixed Pickles,” a successful comedy, and will be succeeded the remainder of the week by Sinn’s company in Robert Buchanan’s great melodrama, "Alone in London.” English’s will be closed the first part of the week, and the attraction the latter part of the week will be the famous Carleton Opera Company, in the great operatic success, "Nanon,” which bad such a long and profitable run in New York. Chang, the Chinese giant, and Harry Webber, in “Nip and Tuck,” will be the attractions at the Museum, and the Zoo will have the the RentzSaotley specialty company all week. * Equal Suffragists. The regular business meeting of the Equal Suffrage Society will be held to day at 3 p. m„ in tbe parlors of the W. C. T. U., No. 76 North Pennsylvania street This society will hold a kerbs of public meetings daring tbe winter, to be addressed by Mr. Foulke, Mr. Ruble and others. Delegate Board of Agriculture. The annual convention of the Delegate State Board of Agriculture begins to-morrow, and will continue in session until Thursday evening. Members of tbe State board will be elected from eight of the sixteen districts. Bu King & Elder's windows.

AH EVANGELICAL CRUSADE. The Remarkable Resalts of tbe McAll Mission Work Among the French. A BuionMeeting of Christian Workers Listens to a Recital of the Accomplishments of the Famous Movement. At the services of the First Baptist Church yesterday morning, the Rev. Mr. Newell, in the interest of the Me All Mission, in France, spoke of the progress of evangelical religion in that country. He briefly sketched the wonderful work that has followed the very humble and almost insignificant effort of Mr. McAli in Paris fifteen years ago. His necessarily brief history of the mission awakened the earnest attention of his hearers, supplementing what he has already done during his short stay here. During the afternoon he addressed the children of the Tabernacle Sunday-school on the same topic, an and in the evening spoke to a union meeting of several organizations at the. Second Presbyterian Church. Notwithstanding the disagreeable night the audience was of good size. Mr. Newell prefaced his remarks by reading a portion of the second Psalm, from the second to eighth verse inclusive. He began by referring to tbe revocation of the edict of Nantes. Rome and Louis XIV said now heresy shall be banished from the country and the people shall never more read the Bible. Through the ages, though, the people have been waiting for the irrevocable decree of God. A short time before Galileo had been anathematized by Rome for announcing his belief of the earth’s revolution on its axis. The Church of Rome said "the earth does not turn npon its axis.” But the gospel moves on in spite of the edict of Nantes, and Rome ean no more stop it than she can stop the earth revolving on its axis. A French lawyer who had visited this country with Mr. Dodd on behalf of evangelistic work in France, met the speaker one day in Paris, and invited him to go in his company the next day to a provincial town 6ome distance away. "You will find there something to interest you,” he said. They went, and their time of entering the town was about the hour of high mass at the cathedral. They entered the building, and found there but a few young women and old men, with the priests performing the service. But their meeting was to take place in & spacious ball-room fronting the public square, that Sunday afternoon. A fireman’s parade was the attraction in the square, and people attired for a holiday flocked thither in crowds to take part in the gala scene. The deputy of the department presided at the meeting of the evangelical workers. There was an audience of a very few who had come in out of curiosity. "The people,” said the deputy, "have no idea of the religion of the Bible.” As the exercises went on the people came in groups of threes and fours, until every inch of * room in the hall was filled. Os the large crowd only thirteen were women. The others were men of business, men of trades, and all voters. They came in to thoroughly look into the religion that was there preached. "The only hope for France is the gospel,” said one. A month later tbe deputy who presided was a candidate for re election to the French Chamber. Atheists and Catholics joined their forces against him, but be stood up boldly to face their persecution and calumny. He said, "1 am not a religious man, but oue the Catholic Church calls an infidel. France must have a religion, and the best for her is the religion of the Bible.” Despite the strenuous efforts of atheists and Catholics, who left nothing undone by which they could defeat him, the deputy was re-elected, and by a majority larger than the one received before. While all atheists and infidels do not believe that France must have a religion, many express it aud wish for the Bible. The Bible that has done so much for England and America, they say, can do as much for France. It was this wish from a few in Belleville who asked Mr. McAll to tell them about the Bible that led him to give up his church in England and throw aside tbe salary he was receiving. He did these things to do this humble work among the Socialists. His plan was simple but effective A small room was rented. It bad the simplest furniture and no decorations, except scriptural quotations in silver letters on dark calico background, made by the women, and put on the walls. A little musical instrument, upon which Mrs. McAll played, was on the platform, and at the door stood a man distributing to passers-by simple printed invitations to come in and hear. Children’s meetings and mothers’ meetings were organized. At all the crowds increased until tbe small quarters could not accommodate them. Station after station was organized in different parts of the city of Paris, and then the spirit spread to other places, inspiring the need of evangelistic work in them. Lyons soon had these little stations, and Marseilles, Toulon, Bordeaux, and other cities in France. In Corsica and Algiers, too, they were established, until now there are over thirty stations in and around Pans, and over a hundred throughout France. This is the result of fifteen years’ work. There is a beautiful blendiug of denominations in this interest, and there is a unity among pastors in assisting . it. Without their help the mission staff would be unable to man the many stations. Presbyterians, Baptists and members of the Church of England alike engage in the spread of the gospel in France, without knowing or asking about differences in sect The McAall mission has no controversy with Rome. Except in prayer the Pope is never mentioned, nor is the Virgin Mary referred, to only as the mother of Jesus. It is against the principles of the mission to use the term Prottestant. His friend, the Rev. Rowell Hitchcock, once said: "There are three Americans; one is historical, the other two are not; one is prosperous, the other two are not; one is a Protestant, the other two are not.” In using this illustration mission workers will change the word Protestant to evangelical. Again, the people knew Mr. McAll, but not Moses. It did no good to speak of Moses, but when the Bible history of this man was read to them and explained, they could understand the verse in the third chapter of John, "And as Moses lifted np the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” People are coming to these missions by the hundreds, thousand end hundreds of thousands. They are charmed by what they hear, and no longer are the stations confined to the quarters where the poor and ignorant, the vicious and the criminal dwell; they are on the boulevards, gathering in the pleasure-seekers from theater and case. These, too. are crowded with interested listeners, for the people of France are becoming restless under the Church of Rome. The stations are managed on the most economical plan, the barest necessities being used, while salaries are compressed to a minimum. There is, also, a humaneness in the work. Mr. McAll, at tbe close of each service, runs down from the little platform to personally greet his hearers and shake hands with them. The people love him and have faith in him. M. Alan was converted and he became a worker. He desired to go into a disreputable section of the suburb where no religious services had been held because the people would not allow them. Receiving permission from Mr. McAll to undertake the venture, M. Alan went there one Sunday evening. The small room was crowded, but from the beginning disturbances of sat-cahs and the Doise of shuffling feet came from the audience. Daring the singing everyone sang on a key of his own, and when the monsieur began to read the Bible a great part of the erowd, headed by a burly ruffian, left the room. The ruffian, on reaching the door, turned and said: "We want no religion here; and more, we will not have it You can’t carry on your meetings, and if you come again we will break np yonr meeting and kill yon.” A few days later he had a children’s gathering, and at its close they said to him, "Monsieur is in tho case across the street He will kill you. Oh! monsieur, go out by the side door, and do not let him see you.” M. Alan had with him his littie boy, and, taking the lad by the hand, left the room by the front door. Going across to the case, he entered, and found the ruffian sitting at the table. "You threatened to kill me,” said M. Alan. "Yes." "I came here to bo killed.” The man was startled and did not know what to reply. lie repented of bis threat when M.

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Alan said, “my revenge is different from yours. It is that of peace. Go, my son, and get on that man’s lap. Throw your arms about his neek and kiss him.” The lad did so; the ruffian hurst into tears and exclaimed, "Monsieur, you have conquered me. You shall come back and hold your meetings.” Tne station in that quarter is one of the mission’s greatest successes. "Five years ago,” said Mr. Newell, "when I first went to Paris, 1 knew very little French. As tbe hotel table I sat next to a French lady of unasaal culture. She is the wife of a gentleman engaged in a large business in this country, and her presense in Paris was to conduct the education of her son. She said to me, ‘Why do you not talk in French? ‘Ah. madam, I know so little of the language that I do net wish to afflict you with my poor accent and grammar.’ She proposed that I should speak thereafter with her in that language. I could acquire a knowledge of it and become proficient only through using it in conversation. I stumbled through the idioms aud phrases for a while when the thought came to me to win her to Jesus. Sbe was a. Romanist and tbe means I adopted was to ask her construction of certain sentences in my French Testament. One day, calling her attention to the phrase, ‘Dieu est l’amour,’ I said it reads *God is love.’ ‘No,’ she replied, ‘God is lovely,’ but ‘Dieu est l’amour’ was a revelation to her. She did not know that he was love but lovely. The people are glad to learn that God is love. "It was my last attendance at the station on the Rue de Rivoli,” continued the speaker, "before my departure for America. That station is supported by ladies of New York. It was proposed that I should bring with me to the patrons on this side of the water some testimonial of what their benevolence had done. Many of the audience came forward, and, shaking me by the hand, asked me to carry to the ladies their thanks. One young man, who had a prosperous business and had been brought to the Bible religion by the mission’s efforts, said: ‘Tell the good people in America that we as a people are not so bad as they they think.us to be. We are not so atheistical, so irreligious— not so much anti-religious as we are aDti-clerical.’ ” Mr. Newell closed by an appeal for assistance from the congregation, which was given liberally. THJg IQSEDS OP YOUNG MEN. Inauguration of a Public Movement to Erect a New Y. M. C. A. Building. A Striking Coutrast Between the Allurements Offered for the Young Men by the Vicious aud Moral Influences. The meeting at Meridian-street M. E. Church, last evening, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, was not as largely attended as was expected. Many were prevented from being present, doubtless, by the disagreeable weather. The president of the Y. M. C. A. stated that a letter had been received from John V. Farwell, of Chicago, announcing that it would be impossible for him to be present, hut it afforded him pleasure to be able to introduce to the audience Mr. W. C. Douglass, of Boston, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a young man of prominence in the work of Christian organizations. In the course of his remarks Mr. Douglass said that the tendency of the population is to congregate in cities; they are the vortexes which are swallowing up the best manhood of the country homes. The social problems of to-day and the future are to be solved in the cities, and the important factors in these great problems are the young men. There is mnch of concern gathering abont these young men. The words of the apostle who wrote, "I write unto ye, young men, because you are strong,” are applicable in the eolation of the social problems which are being agitated in tho present day. The young mena?* strong for good or evil, and careful atttifttfcn should be given to the character of the conditions or surroundings which are likely to influence them. Where are the young men of Indianapolis to spend their leisure hours in the evenii.g —under what influence and what surroundings? Upon these depend his valne to home, to business, to state and to society. There are 15,000 young men in Indianapolis. When 1 strolled down the streets of your city last evening I found a great many bright places where young men could enjoy themselves. Were these places provided by the good people of the city? From the sedate-looking beer kegs that I observed standing on the sidewalks I should think that they were not. How many saloons are there in Indianapolis? There are 400 places of degradation and vice, open doors of hell, open for the young men of Indianapolis. In these places there are glittering chrystals, tables with newspapers on them for the young men to read, and games for them to amuse tttjmselves over. These 400 places have, probably, 800 men employed, and there are millions o? dollars invested in this line of business, all for the specific purpose of meeting the social wants of the young men during their leisure hours, and to drag them down to degradation. How many places are there in Indianapolis provided by the good people to meet the social needs of young men? The Public Library and the socalled Castle of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Only two good places against 409 bad ones. The chances are that the young man walking down the street, seeking a place to spend his evening pleasantly, will drift into the wrong place. There is only one regularlyemployed man in the city whose business it is to prevent young men from going wrong, and there is an investment of only $35,000 against millions in the business which has for its specific purpose the dragging down of young men. Will you not, by the grace of God, determine that whatever else may he weak, this union for the good of young men shall be strong? In mentioning the benefits to he derived from properly-equipped quarters for young men the speaker said that it had been stated by a prominent physisian that the best cure for consumption was the course of instruction given in the Boston gymnasium. In the Y. M. C. A. in thAt city there are over 1,200 young men enrolled in the eighteen industrial night classes, who receive instruction in different branches of study. A few years ago the railroad companies having lines entering St Louis erected aY. M. C. A. building for their employes there, and they regard it the best investment they have made. They support the institution, and have expressed a willingness to contribute towards enlarging the capacity of the building whenever it becomes necessary, because the influence which it has had upon their employes has been of great practical benefit to them. Mr. Vanderbilt, in his will, made substantial provisions for the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, and he did it because he knew that good could he done by the organization. He had seen the results of the work among his employes on the New York Central. These business men who have put over $4,000,000 into Christian association buildings daring the last four years knew what they were doing. "Tbe rotten old building that we have in this city,” said the speaker, "has been condemned by the fire department, and is wholly unfit for the uses of our organization. Away with it It discounts Christianity before the people—it brings contempt upon it It would be better to have no building at all than one that misrepresents us. We shall erect a building that shall be bright with the work of young men.” Thomas 0. Day, the president of the association, at the conclusion of the remarks of Mr. Douglass, said that he desired that it should be clearly understood that the Y. M. C. A. is not in any way in antogonism to the churches. It is the outgrowth of the energy and aggressive power of the churches—it is the child of the chnrch. The association desires to erect a building in Indianapolis which could be made attractive to young men. "The city needs a gymnasium,” he said, "that is not a lager-beer saloon, as the present one is. We want a place where the young men can find musical instruments, books, the literature of the day, and where they can have a good time without mixing immorality with hilarity.” A reception will be tendered Mr. Douglass at the residence of Mr. Day, on North Meridian street, to-morrow evening, when the erection of anew building for tbe Y. M. C. A. will be discussed, although nothing will ho done at that time toward raising money for the purpose.

A RELIGIOUS AWAKENING. Progress of Mrs. L. 0. Robinson’s Great Revival at Roberts Park Chnrch. A Powerful Appeal to Young and Old to Work Earnestly for the Advancement of Christian Principles. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, Roberts Park M. E. Church, last evening, was filled, even in the galleries. The work of Mrs. L. O. Robinson, the evangelist, here, has thus far been gratifyingly successful. Yesterday morning, at the love-feast, at 9 o’clock, 250 gave in their experience. At 10:30 she preached from I Cor., xi, 24: "And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body which is broken for you; this do in rememberance of me.'” At the close of the sermon the Lord’s supper was served. She addressed the Sunday-school at 3p. m., and the altar was crowded with mourners, of whom thirty three professed conversion. More than eighty, up to that hour, had been converted during the week. Mrs. Robinson took as her text at the evening service the last clause of I Kings, xix, 9: "What doest thou here, Elijah?” She said that Elijah was the marvelous character of the Old Testament He flashes out upon the page of history with the suddenness of lightning. is no introductory allusion, hut at once he stands before us the full-grown man, facing the proud king, denouncing him in his iniquity. Then, after a life marked by the most wonderful incidents, the most striking courage, he disappears in a chariot of flame. Hie strong point was his courage. He was a man who would face the fifties and their captains without the quivering of a muscle; a man who would stand single-handed and alone, and wait for the proud King to come. Yet his strongest point was the very one upon which he failed—a proof that our strength is utter weakness unless panoplied by the aid of God. A man is utter weakness unless guarded, shielded and panoplied by grace divine. Elijah’s backsliding from cowardice had so little excuse. It came so soon after God had shown His willingness to receive and care for his child; so soon after God had in answer to Elijah’s prayer locked up His heavens to a rebellious people, and then in answer to his cry had burst the heavens. Just after this we find him fleeing away into the wilderness before a woman’s threat, and crying out in the next hour that God would take the life he had played the coward to shield.

Sometimes I have felt proud of that day of weakness in Elijah’s life. Perhaps more of us have crept into that day of Elijah’s life for shelter than into any other. And then when he has played the coward to save his utterly selfish life God does not send malediction but angel’s food. God says to him, Elijah, 1 will teach you. Elijah had formed, like many others, his esti mate of God from his own characteristics and peculiarities. But there were characteristics of God to come of which Eiijah had formed no conception. And when God did manifest himself to him it was not in the great strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the roaring fire, but in the still, small voice: "What doest thou here, Elijah?” Oh listen to the whisper that is ringing in your soul. Why do you not listen? Why turn that voice away with excuses? The devil is poor in excuses; he has not over half a dozen, and yet how eagerly men clutch at them. The grandest work of Elijah’s life was done after his backsliding. The grandest successes of life have been built upon failures. Many a Christian life has slipped and had its day of cowardice, only to come back and be bound closer to the side of Christ. Elijah’s name has been used as a synonym of power. Where are the Elijahs that God is to use in the evangelization of the world? To-night we will talk about the human side, and ask where are the powers that God means to use in the evangelization of the world? Where art thou, Elijah? Oh, ye mothers of tbe laud! Years ago I thought I had a very fair conception of what were the duties of a mother. I thought I fully knew how far the mother’s influence would go, how long a mother’s words would last. But I learned more as my work took me through the sinks of iniquity in the purlieus of cities. I tell you a mother holds in her hand a scepter that reaches further than any scepter in the hands of any crowned head on earth. I was once speaking in the Y. M. C. A. hall when I saw standing among the listeners a coarse, hard-featured Englishman. He tried to avoid me. We prayed, aud again I tried to get his attention. Then a hymn was sung. He had been in the habit of coming to the rooms in the winter—they are warm and comfortable—and as I spoke to him again, he said, with a wicked laugh, "My business doesn’t begin until late in the night.” Another hymn was sung, and I saw he was quivering from head to foot. He said: “You are singing tho hymns that mother used to sing me to sleep with in old England. You don’t know how wicked I have been. I have run to evil as a duck to water. I have not been tempted to a crime that I have not dipped my hand in.” I begged him to make some pledge for that, mother’s sake. The singing continued. "Oh, dear,” said he, "they are singing another of those songs,” and across forty years of a wrecked and wasted life came a mother’s voice, and it could be heard. Mothers, I beg of you to-night to come close to the heart of Jesus that your life may be reflected iD the lives of your children. In the southern part of this State I spoke to a young mau and asked him if he would not be a Christian. He said he couldn’t do ,it; it would cost him $3,000 a year; he was going, he said, to take a situation at that price as book-keeper in a distillery. He said he could not hold that place and he a Christian. I told him he was right—no man cau be a Christian and touch the accursed thing. I asked him where was his mother, and he pointed hack toward the little country churchyard. He said: "I remember the night she died; I feel the touch of her hand upon my head as she prayed God to keep her hoy from the evil that is in the world.” I asked him to go home and think it over; to see if he could afford to sell that mother’s boy for $3,000. He came back. He had been amid the bustle of business, the rattle and roar of steam, and that mother's voice continued to ring in his ears. He came to the altar and gave himself to Christ He said he had made up his mind that his mother’s boy should not be sold for three hundred times $3,000. What doest thou here Elijah? Oh, ye daughters of the land! My girls, I would not if I could throw one shadow over vour young life’s morning. lam glad that life has a springtime when the flowers bloom and all is joyous. I would take nothing from that blessed time, hut would show the power of the influence you must wield either for or against the cause of Christ. There are girls who come back from seminaries with notions of French infidelity, and German infidelity, thinking them sweet A woman sneer at Christ! A woman sneer at home! Oh, my daughter, go read the page of French history! Go to-day and see the marriage vow a myth and home a fable. Go to Germany and see the degradation of woman there. Philip Phillips told me that in the city of Berlin he had seen a cart with a dog attached to it, attended by a woman, going through the streets with coal. The dog-cart stopped in front of a hotel, and, upon her head, the woman carried basket after basket of coal into the house and up-stairs. LonngiDg upon the sidewalk, a pipe in his month, was a man, the owner of this woman and this dog and cart. You may go from one end of this conntry to the other, and see nothing like that The position of woman in this country, better than in any country in the world, is due to the religion of Jesus Christ Give your influence to this religion. My girls, as you value home, as you value happiness, as you value purity, as you value your life, I beg of you, keep olose to the cause of Christ and never, by word or look, turn any feet into the downward path, lest you break your own heart in so doing. What doest thou here, Elijah? Oh, ye fathers! Take the record of Roberts Park Church, of Meridian-street Church, of California-street

Church, of any church of any denomination in this city, or, I may say, in this land, and tell me why that record shows so many more women than men in the eharcb, at the prayermeeting, at the Sunday-schooL Go into the legislative halls where, we will say, they are discussing plans for a penitentiary. There is a plan for the cells. One little corner with a few cells for women, while tier upon tier, hundreds of cells for men—and they are filled, too. What is the reason girls are going into the church, taking mothers place, and our boys are surging down the broad road to ruin! Oh, you say, women are naturally religious. I tell you there is nothing in nature or revelation to found that opinion upon. Women are as prone to sin as men—perhaps not the same kind of sin. It takes the same grace of God to keep woman from sin as it does her brother. The boy sees the father does not attend church—that the prosperous business man is not there. Our boys listen to our words and love mother, but when they come to grow up and feel the throb of young manhood in their veins they go and do as father does. Men do not know how boys watch them. A black-eyed little fellow is standing by when a conversation is going on, and a man, a welldressed man, a man that a boy looks up to and admires, drops an oath. Willie goes off, and in a little while is playine marbles, and, as his marble goes spinning across the line, he uses the oath he has just heard. The other boys think Willie is getting to be a man more rapidly than they, and they, too, swear, and four boys have taken their first lesson in profanity. The son follows the father. In California a stalwart man lived with his wife and little boy on a sloping mountain-side. Five miles away, through a dark canyon, was his place of business. There he would go, and lie drunk night after night He was sober at home, and would take his boy in his strong arms, and romp with him. One evening he left him after such a romp, and shouldering his-rifle walked down the mountain side through tho dark canyon. The little fellow watched him as he waiked away, and soon growing lonesome called “papa” several times, and then followed down the road the father had gone. The night came on, and the child’s voice came out in the darkness crying “papa, papa.” In the bushes are two fiery eyes. There is a savage growl, a bound, a child's cry, and all is over. Following the sermon the altar rail was crowded with seekers and workers, the exercises being chiefly singing and praying, with private exhortation with those seeking the better life. Mrs. Robinson’s work will continue through the week, services being held at Roberts. Park Church each day at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. Methodist Week of Prayer. It has hitherto been the custom for the Methodist churches of the city to unite in the observance of the week of prayer, but that will not be done this year. At Roberts Park Church the very interesting and successful meetings under the charge of Mrs. L. O. Robinson will he continued every night daring the week, and it is probable they will be given somewhat of a direction toward the special subjects suggested by the Evangelical Alliance. At Central-avenue meetings will begin on Tuesday night, to-night b ing given to a session of the official board. To-morrow night Capt. E. F. Ritter will have charge of the meeting; on Wednesday night Dr. E. S. Elder; on Thursday night the topic of “Missions” will he considered, and Mr. Ritter will conduct the Sunday-school lesson for the next Sabbath, and on Friday night Rev. Mr. Jordan will have charge of the meeting. All the meetings will be under the general supervision of Rev. A. W. Lamport, the pastor, but it is hoped to give additional interest to the services by the division of labor. At Meridian-street Church services will begin to-morrow night, addressed by Judge Morrow; on Wednesday night, addressed by William Bosson; on Thurday night, addressed by Dr. Gilbert, and on Friday night by Mr. C. W. Smith.

“Wants to Know.” A letter of a column and a half, rehearsing the attack which the Shelbyville Democrat has been making upon Police Commissioner Murphy, Superintendent Lang, and Treasurer Cooper, appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, on Saturday, purporting to have been sent from this city. It was not written by Mr. G. B. Thompson, the regular correspondent of the paper at this point, and is supposed to have been written by some person interested in the fight What Snacks “wants to know” is the name of the writer. The regular annual election of officers of the First Baptist Church will be held at the church this evening. Wagon Scales. We offer for a few days several four-ton Wagon Scales at reduced prices. Also, nice line shotguns at low figures to reduce stock. Agents for Warren Powder Company. Try the Warren Snap-shot Powder and you will not buy any other kind. Hildebrand & Fugate, 35 South Meridian street. SAVE YOUR MONEY And buy a useful New Year’s Present and one that will last a lifetime. WHAT SHALL IT BE? A PIANO or ORGAN! At Prices and Terms we offer, EVERY FAMILY can afford a first-class instrument. THEO. PFAFFLINI CO.. 82 and 84 N. Pennsylvania St.

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