Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIAJSTAPOIilS JOUaNALv MONDAY, JAKUABY 3, 18S7.

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- ,A IE Airs RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

The Kusincssof the Year 1880 Makes a Favorable and Satisfactory Exhibit. She Year Just Opening Tromises Even Better Results, Both in Freight and I'assenjjer Service The "Weekly Car Movement. The exhibit given below shows the number of ears received and forwarded at Indianapolis over the fifteen roads centering here in the year 18SG, ns compared with that of thirteen precediug yvars, also the movement by months, for six fear past These statements are compiled from the train records weekly, and are statistics of value, to such an extent do they represent the pulse of business. It will be noticed that in the year just closed there were 20,323 more loaded ears handled at Indianapolis than in the year 188."., and 72,071 more than in 1834, and that only In 1832 has the movement exceeded that of 1830. The year 1832 was not by any means as profitable t the roads aa the year just closed, so terribly were rates cut Right here it is proper to state that even the year 1832 would have been discounted handsomely had the roads been oble to obtain cans to carry the business offered. An analysis of the business of the year just closed shows the volume, of traffic was the largest in the months of March, August, October and December, in each month the movement exceeding that of tho corresponding moath of 1S85. Take the year through the east-bound tonnage was some lighter than in 1S85, although tris last four months it has exceed that of 1833. and but for the scarcity of cars the tonnage of l8So would have unquestionably exceeded that of 1835. In west-bound tonnage there was a marked increase, it reaching the largest figures in the history of the roads which carry business westward, and this is the more striking, as a lighter tonnage of anthracite coals and coke was brought west than usual during the summer and fall, months. The through business of the north' and south lines was about the same in 1S8S as in 1S85 southward, but northward it was somewhat in excess. Thecal business was the heaviest in - the history of Indianapolis roads, and the north -uia-jouin lines were espeetauv iavorea, as is monstrated in the handsome increase in earn ings of the L., N. A & C, the G, I., St L. & C, the T. & V.. the J.. M. & I. and the G, II. & I. in connection with the Air line division of the jU, . A. Si C. Good crops ime had much to do with making the exhibit of the year as favorable to t tie local movement as it was. Then, again. St should be borne in mind that Indianapolis sroads suffered nothing, comparatively speaking, from strikes, which so unfavorably affected railroad interests in the Southwest and the NorthVest, and from this fact railroad emloys may weil draw a lesson, as without trikes Indianapolis lines have been greatly prospered, and on nearly all roads the men have yaaaw the best pay in either of the preceding jfruTB hiuch iiib mania 10 cut aown expenses cams over railway managers: and what is still betur.-the year 1887 opens under more favorable pusMees tor the prosperity of railroads than has . any .'receding year since the railroad interests pecamo so important a feature of the industries of this country. During the year 1886 the volume or trams increased the most strikingly with Jhe imlianaDOlis & Vincennes road. That of the 1.. irt Li & U. and the C, II. & I., however. . v InuRt be quite satisfactory to the managements. ne ie-line has made a record, and maintained rates as well, of which the management need not pe asnamea. Especially has their west-bound raflic been more than satisfactory. All lines !kaA 1 - 1 . . iUo uua iipoo year s worit, with prospects eTfn mis wm oe improved upon In 1887. jttelow is given the number of loaded cars, by months, received and forwarded at ludianapolis tu tue year 1000 ana tne live nreced n taq181. 18i.. 1883. 1834. 1885. 1886. January 'eb March.. April... JIay.... Jane.... July.... Aniimt. rept.... Oct Jov.... . Leo .... 5;3U3 54.787 63.973 67,154 60,o:h C9.475 79,495 74,580 72.898 69,868 70,213 CU.8U7 7U..'77 74.8-12 U7;J23 63,578 67,54 C3.841 5(1.015 5r.,lG5 G0.2R3 61,130 69.290 77,!)01 59,912 82.584 78.683 t)i,i U7,l9 43,751 67,208 61,898 57,918 60.546 1(5,320 57,770 60,218 H6.532 50,10 61.661 67,527 59 540 70,521 (10,744 65.2(1 1 56,45! 69.022 84,580 77,287 63,358 67,811 76 3(59 82.625 75,1)2 C9.027 69,803 74 959 75.089 67,098 68,957 76.590 80 255 68,427 65;422 68,789 02,022 K,M Itf.OUii 04,016 79,052 81,156 Total... 81 6.767 837,914 737,939 746,871 798,512 818,842 Below s shewn the total movement, bv ixiwuvuo ui ioou auu iue ii v proceeding years: 1881. 1862. 1883. 1884. Jan fell.... Jloii-li. April .. lny ... 'Juno... July ... Aim .... frept .... Oct, Vor ... Pec 1885. 7y,i7o 81.715 KM,.?. 87,fi94 7,243 75,M73 75,7?6 81,373 S8,ft76 97, 4 4 8 -,...-. 88,573 1886. 87,.V... 87.VW 7, o 77. IfiO H l.V) 1)3,72 91,576 8(1, ha 9.1.-76 8'.),M7 70,781 67, ISO PA. 2 tO 87..W.5 7.m f9,Sl.. H,"8 K,y90 lfi,7S $ifl.4i")8 ff),219 V2.M2 66,075 tt.OI2 79.V07 73,671 62. 4S 7S.WI 81.7'M 9(, v7 83. 330 fi,:i97 8I.2S0 6i."72 83,556 104,3!3 74.940 88.M4 J 1,077 SO, 90.1 S,fl02 88,441 85,073 60,747 79,43'J 7i,tf7 82,::io it,30 94,47 102.S77 84,310 103,603 Total ..1,104,371 1.009,129 932,562 951,861 l,029,3Wl7o67,249 CA1J MOVEMKNT FOR FOURTEEN VKA.RS. lotals. Ijoaded. Tojils 5873 603,840 875.91618S0 859 381 3874 605.308 451.932; 1881 1 104 371 37.. 591.538 887.258! 1882 1,069129 375 708 620 5(Kl,272i 1883 982 582 3877 618,144 404,412 1884 951861 387.' 610.117 517.117 1885 1.029390 3379 705,444 593.032,1880 1,069249 BELT ROAD TRAFFIC Loaded. 727.883 816,757 837 914 797.939 746.871 798,514 818,842 II. low is given the number of cars transferred over the Belt road, by months, in the years 1882 tart lisai icq-. ioo ' .wwr, mjw-x, lUO'J OI1U lOOU; 1882. 1883. 1884. January.... l'elji uary .. llarch , April 1S55. 39.720 38.050 51,058 87,411 34,233 31.58 85,539 43.637 43,875 44.000 42,293 44,762 20,479 21.483 23,831 22.021 20.628 1886. 23,444 31.156 20.806 28.900 23.30S 32.631 20,811 28.752 19.789 36.035 22,771 85.680 49.5e0 44.188 41.183 84,249 J ni 20.787 37.662 July Anrust September Vtuber ....... Kovemixr Xeceuhje 24.08(5 25.179 33.284 27.788 31,574 3185 24.989 32.181 38.391 25.186 80,670 40.587 26.730 31.623 38,907 24,767 32,313 40.058 39.183 88.35$ 37.P07 41.011 47,856 41,191 45,539 Total 289.M3 305,470 420,576 457,743 491,77 .J'f''3 engines handled during the year lSbo 45,532 cars of l.ve stock; in months, as follo: January. 4,624; February, 2,962; March 2.515; April, 2,696; Ma;, 4,038: June 4,033; Ju ; oepieipoer, 2,OJ; October, i'J?-1''. ovmher, 6,309; December. 6,488. Ic joo. laere wre nanaied by Belt road 48,934 car-loads of live stock. n engines Th lear's Business at the Union Depot, lu the year 1SS6 there arrived at the Union Depot 42,890 passenger trains. This statement includes 160 special, excursion, camp-meeting and picnic trains. The officials at the Union Dn-ot tau that four passenger coaches to the train would not be an overestimate ef the aver- , age number, whlchmakeg the number 171,760 passenger coackes handled during the year at this station. The promptness with which trains have arrived during the year Just closed is a matter over which there is touch favorable comnient. Take, for instance, the fast express over the Dee-line, No. 5, which hauls the Bestoa aad the New York through coaches for V,Loul8 "Bi iu in Indianapolis at 10:3.) p. m. But five times during the year has it arrived late. This is a record that caanot De beaten where a train cover so great a distance, and the record is the mere favorable to the Bee-lJae, so eommon is it for the road to get Lake Shore read. No. 1, ever the CL, I., St L. , YiL hdrVv,V w9 lat bQt twice durullch comes through from Chicago, was late hut three times. Tfce Vandalia day express the night express but five times. The records h h,e L D- &S- the t, U k W., western division, are ail good. The Pennsylvania lines make an ac'avorable exhibit, but ft i. dV. to the management of the Hues west of Pittsburg to Mate that the trouble lies east of Pittsbur fta.0. f aoald be reaiedi.d i lhe compaDlw .xpect

to maintain the excellent reputation thn road has had ic former years with the traveling public

Local Business of the Pennsylvania Linen. Statement of cars and tonnage handled at Tanhandle freight houses, Indianapolis, for the year ending December, 1886: Car Ton n aire. larmary .................. February................... March ..................... A jriL... ...... ....... .May 'm June....................... July.. .......... August. September October , 1. K10 1.980 2. G56 2..r7S 2,:i86 2.489 2.416 2618 2.6'J7 2.661 14.401.596 15.836.405 23.440.646 21.335.182 18,850,379 21,119.171 21,254,567 24,835,720 25.012.648 23,406.662 21,974,313 20,383.099 November 2.M95 December 2 156 . Grand total.... 23,809 251,850,388 Traffic of tho I., 1. & S. In the year 1886 the Indianapolis. Deeattr& Springfield road handled on the system 40?S24 cars, of which number 24,334 were loaded cars. During the year" 24,087 cars were received and forwarded at this point; of this number 15,860 were loaded cars. The value of this road to Inaianapolis as a local line is shown in the fact that of the loaded cars handled at this point 12.504 were brought into this station, while but 3,302 were forwarded from here. The showing would have been even more favorable for this road had it not, like a majority of the Indianapolis lines for the last five months, been short of cars to handle the business offered. Railroad Construction in 1886. The following shows the new mileage of 1880, with the number of lines on which the track was laid: Mi. Idle States .... Southern States

5 31 35 399 62 1,1 02 44 1,118 64 2,553 61 2,250 24 557 .295 8,010 3,131 3,125

Houth? Iail in 1885 .. Laid in 1884 From the above it will be seen that the greatest activity in construction was in the Northwestern and Southwestern States. Indianapolis Railroad Christian Association. The yearly report of the city Railroad Christian Association shows: Attendance, readers aad visitors. 1,318; attendance at services, 202, making a total of 1,520; services held (at homes of railroad people), 17; visits and calLs upon sick and injured, 78; visits and calls upon shops, offices, switchhouses, etc., 150; funerals attended, 5; papers distributed, 758; places visited in Interest of the railroad Y. M. O. A, 11, viz:, Connersville, Union City (three times), New Albany, Richmond and Franklin in this State; also, Altoona and Erie. Pa., Louisville. Kv.. Parsons anrt Of. ta. Kan., and East St Louis, 111.; miles traveled. 5,286; twenty magazines and papers' regularly keDt On fil: ?.00 inlnmon 1., uv.-.. n ... . v u , ' -w.v... .u ..vim jr. ucu. vv. Oobb, the secretary, who has lahnrarf nnrf great disadvantages the last year, as his rooms are neither inviting nor pleasantly located, is promised better quarters when the new union station is cotnnleted. Flnrino. tb .,r,t he will work to increase interest in th ii9nmtion and increase the number of volumes in the library, and get matters generill into good shape for taking possession of his new quarters, which will probably be ready for occunancv the coming fall. Mr. Cobb deserves mnch credit for the great good he has accomplished nnder circumstances so unfavorable. A Light Week's Business. T ! ... ..... jjusmess wun T.ne railroads, as well as with mercnants, shows the effect of the holidays, tho volume of traffic in the week ending Jan. 1 hav ing been the lightest in any week of three months past. The train record shows that 201 fewer loaded cars were received and forwarded at this point than in the week ending Dec. 25; ret xjompared with the movement the corresponds Areek in 1885, the exhibit is a favorable one. as A4ol more loaded cars were received r.l fWflTVl A 1 1 than in 4-V. n 1 rri . ... in some measure at fault for the unfavorable ex- . ....... ,u ltlaU ween, ina nonoarn nr u wiwiaii wee.; men cars are still scarce to fill orders with. We notice that the decrease was quite general in chametAr Vfn f.. - v w i , Hlt3 ..w..B uu w,o mure mariiea in west-bound than cfc-oounu tonnage. There u still a good move kets, and local traffic continues to be very satis..j, ,u .wunif, ana trie year opens under the moBt favorable circumstances for all Indianpou nnes. ueiow is civen the nnm W f received, aad forwarded at this noint in t.h ending Jan. 1, as compared with that of the preilar anu wun ino corresponding week in

Xamo of Road. Loaded Jan. 2, 1886. L.. N. A. & a Air-lir,A I., D. & S I. & V a, h. & i Wabash 120 234 369 402 195 I., B. & W.iS n 681 551 C..I.,SLU&C..afa7,.e I a curia. .. .. 1,244 j..m. &l . C, St. L. & P. 5 Columbus. r , ,. i Chicago.... Vandalia i. st it Bee-line. . 1,449 604 1,337 173 1,791 1,451 1,426 Total ; Empty cars 12,027 4,012 Total movement 16,039 A Testimonial to Mr. J. J. Hender.nn Yesterday morning a telephone call brought John J. TTanrUfann o r.n I . V - a j , .tui ui iuo Ji'iams JCiXpress company, to tne express office, where he found vumyfvujf h ouipioyes drawn up inline. It moieea very much like a strike, as the men have neea worting during the holidays as never beT T T wiw. . xj. ones, a messenger on the L & V iuau, aDproacnea air. Henderson iu a threaten ing manner. Mr. Jones was apparently loaded. His remarks took the form of a presentation speech, and a handsome gold-headed cane was passed over to the agent Mr. Henderson, who acknowledged himself to be fast approaching three score years, received tho gift with appro priate remarks, and concluded with inviting each and every one to be present at his resi dence, No. 445 North New Jersey street, on next Saturday evening. The State Board of Agriculture. The thirty-fifth annual convention of the Statu Board f Agriculture will convene to-morrow at 10 o'clock, in the rooms of the board, southeast corner of Market and Tennessee streets. After the organization of the convention to-morrow ii ... . tne exercises win consist of addresses bv Gov ernor Gray. Mayor Dennv and CnV .t n Maynard. Tho Safe Was Not Robbed. Charles Gorsuch, the safe expert, relieved the anxiety of George Burgess, of the Mieh?n number and Coal Company, by opening the safe, V m , .... a vuo .J9 ol wnicn a burglar fied with on Friday mgui. xneeontentaof the safe, amounting to only 43 cents, were found untouched. Meetlng of KepobUcans Thla Kvenlnjr. mere wui be a meeting of Republicans, this evening, at Koom 2, Superior Court to hear reK"' Ul wuiumees ana to take further steps for tne permanent organization of the Indianapolis Republican Club, of the Lincoln League. A full attendance is desired. Ayeb's Sarsaparilla stops tha nauseous discharges of scrofulous CatarrtL mrtt the eomplaioL

Loaded Loaded Jan. 1, Dec. 25 1887. 1886. 180 192 450 546 364 639 501 G61 " 480 522 870 944 896 , 946 1.510 2.072 1,780 1,916 694 825 1,459 1,543 272 271 1.854 2.204 1,557 1,822 1,561 2,356 14,458 17,659 4,002 4,860 18,460 22,519

FUTCEB PS0B1TI0X.

A Paper Read bj Rer. T. A. Goodwin Before the Methodist Preachers Meeting, Dee. 27. The word itself is misleading. It begs the whol6 question as a basis of reasoning on the subject of inquiry by assuming what is neither proved nor conceded, and then proceeds to deduce conclusions which are wholly without foundation. As a theological technic it may be tolerated in the absence of a better term, but noth ingmore. The question intended to be discussed is the probability or possibility of such a change of character after death as is often realized in life; whether the good may become bad and the bad become good in the life beyond, for the possibility of a transition either way implies a possibility of a transition the other way; for, if the bad may become good, the good may become bad. But why call this a probationl There is nothing in the Bible or in experience which authorizes the naming of the phenomena of life a probation. It has grown from the same misapprehension of the ends of life as that which fabricated the idea that Life's the time to mortals given To 'scape from hell andy to Heaven. Life has no such a purpose. Its ends are higher, purer, nobler and more eodlibe. To honor God, to becefit mankind, To serve with lofty gifts the lowly needs Of that poor race, for which the God-man died, And do it all for love, O, this is life. escaping heli is a mere incident of a wellspent life; escaping heaven is the only sure consequent. The Bible gives not a single instance of an appeal to the terrors of hell as a motive to cease to do evil, except that the rich man in hell wished to have it tried on his wicked brother, but the suggestion was probably rejected as not being the proper method to move sinners to a better life. The rest and joy of heaven are often set forth as encouragement to endurance in the ways of righteousness, but nothing more. Moses endured, having respect to the recompense of the reward. Paul kept the crown in sight to strengthen him, and Christ himself endured for the joy that was set before Him. The difficulty in the popular eschatology of to-day is that the church has not fully returned to the Bible doctrine of last things from the fabrications of priestly ineenuity as devoloped in th age of monastic supremacy. Then the priests built a purgatory on the border land of heaven, because there was money in praying souls out of it; we retaiu the intermediate state which has no existence in the Bible, and which is utterly meaningless where disconnected with the idea of reformation; and the discussion which has lately been foisted on the church, relating to the possibility of a change of moral character after death, has grown entirely out of the inconsistency of Protestant creeds on this subject, together with its companion figment, that this life is a probation; that the great purpose of living here is to prepare for the hereafter, because human life on earth sustains to the life bevond the relation that a novice in a convent sustains to the monk after having completed the period of probation in the hard school of convent life. There the master constantly impressed his novice with the immense value of penance and prayers as so securing higher rank in the monastic life that they were to be coveted, just as the poet perverts oviipture wiien ne sings: Our sufferings and our trials here Shall only make us richer there, When we arrive at home. Life here is not a probation. It is only a section of our eternal living, differing from the life beyond, so far as we ean see or know, only in its material environments. Here we live in an eanniy nouse. as best suited to earthly surroundings; there, it doth not yet appear what we shall be, except that our heavenly house will be a building of God, not made with hands, and it shall be imperishable. In every sense, that is an unexplored country. It may not be true that none have ever returned from us bourn, but it is true that the language of earth has utterly failed to convey to us any satisfactory notion of its realities. The average notion is purely materialistic. To the Indian heaven is a happy hunting-ground, while to the Christian it is anything the poets have painted. Watts makes it a beautiful landscape, while John describes it as a great city with pearly gates, and jasper walls, and golden streets; while the hell of the poets is a pit without bottom, filled with burning brimstone, and harpies, and fiends, and instruments of torture The monks of the middle ages had these conceptions well elaborated and it is wholly because some yet remain who cling to the gross materialism of the dark ages that this question of the possibility of a change of moral character and, therefore, a change of place after death, is a matter of discussion Within a half century the burning lake has been almost entirely eliminated from pulpit discussions of future punishments. Why should not a specific plt.ee als be eliminated? Why should heaven be a walled city, out of which the ransomed may not go, and hell a bottomless prison equally unopenable? By the way, this discussion seemsto relate wholly to the possibility of an escape from hell, those who indulge in it assuming that, once in heaven, they are forever 6afe. In this discussion we must accept the Bible as supreme authority, but we must apply its teachings with enlightened discretion. " The papists prove transubstantiation by the Bible, while we find abundant reasons for not accepting ...o.i uoum,uuua "irauuii uiscreuiimg tneir authority. By Calvin the "horrible decrees" were defended from the Bible; but there are very few now who accept his deductions, though" t'aey reverence the book which to his mind taught that dogma. Fifty years apo. and loa the papal doctrine of a burning hell found Protestant defenders who could quote Scripture to prove the abhorrent dogma; but now it is never preached by intelligent men yet the Bible was never more reverenced as God's word than now, so that having the idea of the unalterable moral character of tha life that is to come let no man Via dMr.in the application of Scripture in proving it for there is not a passage quoted in its defense that win noc gracernuy yield to another view, lent on this subject, as if it would say that its mission is to deal only with the living present juiy one irum stanas nra-imnioni. wi, lates to the life to come, and to that life only as that life is a continuation of the life that now is. "Whatsoever a man sowtb v..u e also reap. is God's nniNi .n.v. any theory relating to matter or to morals mat uoes noi recognize this as unchangeable is radically defective. Heaven and loii plainly taught in the Bible, as to the future m joy and sorrow are taught as the present sequences of virtue and vice. But we are lft wholly to conjecture and analogy in our conceptions of the permanency of either. .uet U3 see. it is the sonl that nn nAt body. The soul is the man, the body is morel the temporary house; the "earthly 'house," as P.iul calls it: the "tabernaclA n n Peter calls it, in which the man sojourns a little while. Matter, by being incorporated in this tent acquires no moral quality. It is grass though flesh, for Isaiah nndfMtA philosophy of animated matter wheu he said, "All flesh is grass." Grass can no mora sio after having been manufactured into human flesh than when manufactured into the flesh of any other animal or not manufactured at all. The soul, the man, is independent of the body and may live in the body or out of the body. It does live in the body. ana u aoes live out or tne bodv. Wa rm famil iar with much of Its experiences in thAhndv We can only conjecture from thASA -nrhot may be its experiences out of the body. We know this much as to its experiences in the body: it may sin and become wretched: it m tn-n and become happy, and these experiences may be repeated .alternately and frequently, or it may abid in the one or the other an innttT.n. ously that the habit may be such that we look for nothing bad in the one iea ,rttK5 good in the other, but in no case, by any process, is the great law, "Whatsoever a man sowetb that snail he also rear." abro!a.td VhA. may be implied in the forgiveness of sin through the adorable Redeemer, and tnnr than tM.n can tell is implied, still the law of sowing and ouiuos unrepeaiea ana unmodified. Ave all concede that there is some Scrintn rn And some human experiences that teach: While the lamp holds out to burn Tha vilest sinner may return. But suppose the late renentant innr rfi return at tho supreme taomeat, that does not

a harvest according to is nothing more perpapal theory of salcountenanced by some rrotestant preachers, who should know better. inai oy looking at the crucifix held bv a priest ing, "Lord, be merciful to me. a sinner," just as it?ire me arm? man's c issv nra nr o4anla .iu8 memoes out, opens the celestial gates iu vuesi 01 earth's wretches, landing him on the heaven side of that great gulf which priestly lneenoity has built between beaven and hell. W e know that he is not safe if he haopeas not to die at the time provided for by this unscnptural process of preparation. We need not disparage death-bed repentance nor pronounce it sourious: hnt wa a11 bnn. that very few whn was expected to be a deathbed ever walk lon in the new life they professed to have obtained. Now. does dying does the mere act of poini? out of thi 'rni" make such a change in the capabilities of the soul of the real mm tht it omnitt wUnco into its former character an hour, a dav. a week or an ace thereafter? It is entirely eratnitona to assume that soul environments, out of the body, are more friendly to soul purity than the environments in the body. We' know nothing about soul environments or soul capabilities in that other life. Certainly, the Bible is silent on the SUbiect. and nnr vnpiana ii Ainallw o5 lent. But We do know that hnra evil man and seducers wax -worse and worse, while the path of the just grows ungual-, ana sne habit or virtue strengthens Trim increasing year?. That the mere act of U l 1 II Llin M L. rr il If I. IIHnH dying can, of itself, chance the character of th -i m a. man, is repudiated by every one; hence we suppose that this law continues through eternity, the wicked waxing worse and worse, and the righteous increasing in the ways of righteousness. But it is assumed that this wicked characterthis vilest sinner may arrest this downward momentum at any point this side the actual leaving of his "tent" Let us concede that he may. If he may a week, a day, an hour, aa instant before, why may not the same intelligent being do as much an instant, an hour, a day, or an age after? lie acts in the body or out of the body independent of the body, anyway. The body neither sins nor repents; it is the aet of the soul in any case. Let us not be horrified at this possibility, because it is equally possible for the good man to cross to the other side. It is only carrying the papal doctrine of falling from grace to its logical conclusion a dogma case, fully preserved in the Church of England, and from it irauBierrea to our own church, as are some other unscriptural papal inventions. Do not some of us preach that the wife-murderer may so Repent and believe that he may go straight to heaven, to the society of the good of all ages, jind of his dear departed companion, unless, perchance, after years of Christian living, she may, for the pains of death, in her last hour, as our burial service has it, have fallen from God and is herself on the hellward side of that impassable dividing gulf, and there to remain forever? Now, if a life-long Christian may "at the last hour for the pains of death, fall from God." why may he not, an hour later, a year later, an age, or ages, later? Out upon such wicked and foolish perversion of the truth. The physical pains of a dying hour cannot affeet the moral character of a servant of the living God, or send him hence from God; neither can gazing at a crucifix, nor ejaculating a prayer, in the supreme moment, fit the soul of a demon incarnate for the society of the blessed. Let no one who preaches that a life long sinner may repent at the last moment, and go to heaven, urge against the possibility of repentance and reformation after death that it is a dangerous doctrine to teach because it encourages procrastination. How can it more than the doctrine of death-bed repentance? How can it more than all of that style of preaching that speaks of life as a period of probation in which to prepare for dying? The truth of the question of future repentance and reformation is that the Bible is wholly silent on the subject, but that analogy shows that it is possible but highly improbable. There, as here, evil men and seducers are likely to wax worse and worse, while the child of God may be expected to become more ana more like the All Father. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. jir. t red btucky is visiting in the city, the guest oi win zanders. iuiss aiay Kidpath, of Greencastle, is visiting iu.jpo ludiuv UOVT18, on xxorm Illinois street TTTine invitation of Messrs. Dickson & Talooir, a party or gentlemen from this city will to-morrow evening, visit Sumac Lodge, Romou, iuu., me country place of Mr. Henry M. xaioon, to witness a ferret rabbit hunt a i ... a toooggan party in honor of Mr. Ferd omoch., or uana, ana composed of Messrs Fugate, WTill and Jam63 Leonard, Ferd Smock Joe Marott and Ole Thayer and Misses Ada and uuue isoney, uiara Allen and Oma Waddell enjoyed tne sport of the "slide" on New Year's afternoon. Supper was served to the party bv mo iuiri.ro liuuuif, niter wnjen tne evening Was Bjjeui, iu a game or progressive euchre, Mr. omocK scoring tne most points. lintel Arrivals. Bates House:John Paul Jones. Washington. . nuiiosiueg, rranKiin; Will H. uein ana wire, Fairmount; Miss Hubbard ....A...nu, u. riron, uonn Oj. Lamb. F Carpenter, Terre Haute; J. C. Gorham, Austin Grand Hotel: H. C. Darnell, Greencastle; J. M. Andrew. T. B. Buskirk. Pao i-V W n', Fort Wayne: J. C. Kleih-r, Mt. a K ir dricks, Jamestown; Thomas L. Catterson. - . . . ir. i i .nluitcneii; m. tmrk, Peru; D. L. Anderson. R. H. Walls, Greencastle; J. B. Cook, Glenwood; John S. Shanck, Rushville; John H. Grafe Terre Haute; Miss Meb Culbertson, Rich ro and! J. A. Robbins, Martinsville; Daniel Wang, Tipton; J. B Wilson, Ladoga: W. A Mooney, Columbus; Isaac D. Dunn, Teft; E. W. Hiller Peru; Jeff. McDonald. Crawfordsville. Personal Mention Elsewhere. CAMBRIDGE CITY. Among the holiday visitors are Miss Alice Swain Oxford Female College; David Gray. Weslevmn nSl lege, Delaware, O.; Glenn Swirgett Bloomington i ti L -"""icne martin, also of Bloomington Miss Jessie Gray visited friends in Richmond last week.... Belle Callaway has returned from her visit . ou xrenuiqion, ma Misses Lizzie and they were called to attend the funeral of tV ----Misses Grace Riley and Jennie Smith, twa fitSS? I16,T-Mu;Ste' wore tte tot ? !!8 S,,.and ,lhe Y5L- last week.... Miss Belle -.-w., ui Aicumooa, was Kali: . Ts.i. . the guest of Mrs. Frank Clavnool. nf ATi,t,.; -,!.;.. x. ' miss Aince iswain t.hrlfmB w.'-f, 1 L?Vin 5j"?f ! last week. ...Mrs. John Wa.tz is spending the holidays with her daughter, Miss Aliee Joslyn, St. Louis. ...Miss Susie Logan, of Paris. I1L. was the guest of Dr. C. S. Wilson's family on Wednesday. .Those of this city who attended the Knightstown ball, on Wednesday evening, are- Wdter bwigeett and Miss Edna Smith, Harry Wilson and Miss Alice Swain, Ed McCaffrey and Miss Magge Bond. W. F Stevenson and Miss S K tin. Georee Cary and Miss Ida Grisinger, Clem Holderman and Miss Hettie Campbell, of Franklik. Tenn. , Rob V"3 wmr riscnei, n. ia. Kariden and Miss Van Vdkenburg, of Plymouth, Ind., and Charles Ballengerand Walt Jones. "ios LAFATETTE. Mrs. Wm. Wallace gave a pleasant afternoon reception last Thursday. A large number of kdies were present... Mrs. Jasper M. Dresser, wife of the State Senator, held a reception Wednesday afternoon, which was one of the pleasantest and most brilliant affairs of the season. A number of guests from neighboring ciues were present.... A delightful sleighing party was made up Thursday evening. Those participating were Misses Clara Dickason, of Danville, I1L; Mary Moulton, of Woodstock, O.j Nellie Wallkce, Emml Dresser, Anna Anderson. Mabel Levering and K. Sample, Charles Marstetler, Iiouis Jason George Ball. Henry Vinton, George Ade and JM7-' -H't recep tion at the home of her father, Thomas Coleman, on o!dday r. Vh handsomely decMaud Johnson, of Carbondale....Mrs. W. T. Barbee was at Indianapolis last week.. ..Miss Ailvs Wilson is the guest of Mis. Julia Moore, of Jndii.napo.is. . . . Miss Jessie levering is visiting Terre Haute friends. . . . .Miss Maggie Doll is home from Chicago. NOBLESYIIXE. fJ;5etCT'cteftainea ?aite a nber of her r 2, tea T"6 evenini Mr. Will T. PfafL of ladianapolu, and Miss Zulu Pfaflf, of Westfield. ?P,nUVSd,ifsd'' Mr- i Mrs. P. B. Pfaff.... Mrs. T. E. Boyd, with her daughter and son, is visitingrelatives mrienry county.... Mrs. S. R. Perkins entertained her friends at tea Fridav evening.. ..Miss Kate Jamison was at Westfield on Wednesday. CHAMPAIGN", ILL. David Bailey and wife have gone to El Paso. Texas Pfnd remainder of the winter.... Mrs. ffl and daughter, of Dakota, are guests of Mrs.1. E. lApham.... A complimentary dancing partv. in honor oi Lctsio Jxroggs, wm given at the iloore HaH,

prevent his reaping his sowing. There oicipus than that vation, too often

Saturday evening.... Misses Cora and Nettie Gray are

t grami parents, at Udebanse.... Mrs. C li. Jones is intertaininir Mrs. Ii Mfrrro nf T - viUe, Ind....Miss Mary Bragg is home from Chicasro on a visit Miss Ida Scull, of Henderson. Ky.. is ""orwuuou oy misses r.u ana ijaura tfcaeh.... f Lupton is in Burlirgton. low....!,, A. Kobmson and bride xmve reiarnea trom California. . ..Miss Mary E. Jones, of DePauw University, is a guest of Mrs. a B. Jones. ....Miss Adelle Farmer, of Farmer City, is the guest f r'! rroiessor nyaer ana I'rofes sor V ood and wife made a holiday visit to Chicago. .... hisses tana Uordon and Amelia Thorn are visit'"s" -rniio.- . .irs. IL. A. Sperry is visiting in Chif,Tv : X111SS -Mud Kimball was a guest of Danville. ..... .i.cliuo mo wees; .uiss susie ijeevin, of Hoopeston, is visiting Mrs. L. C. Garwood J. D. allace and wife spent the holiday week in Pooria. . ...Oarl H. TThler nd nf nf 'Tf;.li . :.U i . tfalcom and wife on Sunday and Monday. MATTOOy, ILU Mr8- - Jennings is home from a visit at Kansas lr" Mrs- Hattie B. Aver, of Indianapolis, visitei in Mattoon this week James Atkinson and wife are visiting m Nashville. Tenn....The friends of Miss Czarina Clark assisted her ic celebrating her birthday anniversary Friday evening.... Rev. O. S. Thompson and family are guests of friends at Nashville. HI Mrs. A. B McDavid, of Sullivan, 111., visited Mattoon friends Christmas Mrs. Lenna McCord. of Vincennes. Ind., is a guest of Col. J. F. Drish and family.. . . Iiss Carrie Jingles is spending vacation in Pana Miss Belle Bryant, of Milan, Tenn., is a guest of her sister, Mrs. W. E. Long.... Miss Minnie Hogue, of county, is visiting her uncle, J. B. Hogue.... achlloms, of Georgetown, 111., is a guest of Mrs. V,. ? Morns.... Misses Edna Buck aud Rella Welsh oi Jsnelbyviue. are enie-ta of Donrm V Tt,iAt I J-i " - ' uva, t W LUu KrA.J I : ." icwivru pw xear s aay caiiersat the rsidence of William S. White.... The Misses Busch, 33 U street, kept open house on New Year's day, assisted by Misses Mand Rider, of Fairfield: Johanna and Lutie jvtfnuey. or winasor; MoUie and Emma Thuneman, of oumvan; ijiara tt leshner, of Coles; Lionise and Maggie Beali and Sophia Hasler, of this city Wm. Chettle and wife are visiting at New Albany, Ind Miss lone Haielrigg, of Adams. Ind., is a guest of R Ownly and family Charles Lenhart and mother are vismng in Ohio. .. H. N. Dickson and wife and Mrs. J. Kreraer, of Areola, were guests of H. M. Dickson and wife on Christmas and Mondav Mrs. Samuel Ainsworth is visiting at Colli nsvillo. Ill Mrs. M. A Bourie, of Upper Sandusky. O., is a guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. -Mozier....Miss Fannie Kremer, of Areola, is a guest of Miss Lottie Pnrdy....Miss Moloy. of North Veis ?r 18 11 ET3esfc of Miss May Cassell Mrs. Richard Doyle ia visiting at Carbon. Ind Miss Georgia Bo veil 8Dent the holidav vnc.af.inn in Vla with home folks Wm. Tilv an1 wif. nt r",K visited Mattoon friends and wife, of Washington. Mo.. friends.... Alice Heermana is visiting in TnH;nnniia Mrs. D. D. Riekettii Oreencastle. Ind.. visited Mrs. Tnm Wal W-tfk rir"Mr8" Hnsfhey nd daughter Clara, of Shelby- ' woi airs. Jennie jox tniswoek.... atrs. yt. c. ninicie lias returned from Matamora, Ind. EXPRESSIONS OP TOE STATE PRESS. Knightstown Banner: Mob law is murder. It may be a murderer who is murdered, but the act of taking human life, without dua nrocess of law, is murder all the same. Shelbyville Renablican: Hitrh li local option constitute the proper treatment for the liquor traffic in Indiana. Let the Legislature brace itself up to the exigencies of the occasion. Auburn Dispatch: It yet remains to be dincovered how every voter in our country may have his vote fairly cast and counted despite bribers and bulldozers. No one should allow another to dictate to him a creed for belief or a ballot for voting. Middletown News: To choose i education may be had is to choose the wrong. To choose to do wrong where right may be done is criminal. Crimes are amenable to law. Why, men, cannot, ana ought not, education to be made compulsory? Fort Wayne Gazette: Dispatches from Missouri say that an enormous cave has been discovered in that State. This probably relates to tha vast hole which the reinstatement of District Attorney Benton made in the tattered fabrio of civil-service reform. Wabash Courier: With about one-half the Democratic press demanding the nomination of Cleveland in 1888, while ti Cth bjalf predicts his defeat in the event of his fiotnination, one is at a loss to understand just what is meant by Democratic harmony. Fort Wrayne Gazette: The Democratic party has no leader either in or out of Congress. It needs no leader. A party without a purpose, except to go for the offices, is simoly a free-for-all foraging party, and the man that can secure the most plunder is the best Democrat This is modern Democracy. Rochester Republican The Democratic partv has for twenty-five years done nothing but si't oa the fence and criticise Republican methods iuu crowi at tne prosperity of the Nation. It is iow laumr an enort to saddle its own confusion oi mina on tne Kepublican party, and to hold pail.y responsive tor its own helplessness. Llkhart Review: Take the tax off tobacco the first thing, because that is a necessity, which r. -'n v wman or cnua, must have, and LV "'""osucn a rener to the burdens of life! x u is me true democratic economy. Take the tnoge articles that will be the greatest ..nv nMu. tjmocrauc voter, include whisky. Valparaiso Vidette: Much that we attempt to do by law in regulating private morals ia im practicable, and will have to Via n Ana. i cKu io sen-ruie ana moral suasion as the only . . . .... . " ' .tlUD lOlru" v wuBtis oi perrect harmless " "7J Z1? .rorce or law to the protection y--" -om injury by others as the proper ii , 1 1 it rT r. - . . , - . T 1 T uawrenceoare rress: When a faxw v. smart Democratic leaders concocted the inf amU8 'gerrymander in the short-siehted belief that it fortified them in nower. tVi. . . uiiic.rMuiaaiiOf7 would be overthrown: ii not mis year thorougnly, then the next time tne people get an oDnortnnit t?t - xuk uaiance or just and fair men in both parties who abhor the machinations of political V WW v too. Lagrange Standard: The reonl overcome tne infamous crr.mAni..i.ni..4 . . I - - bir&4 99 Bit to give the Democrats cerentv m .... T . , . . J " J ' "J u IU uesisiaiure, so rar as to cause a tie on joint to secure a majority by further righting of - - wcio ib aay nonesc ann lanrFtii ., wmcuuni oi irregularities, so as to j o.u namson ana clean up the benevolent institutions, the nennlA wnnU !;!..... "f uojojfaiea in tne Assembly do it . . , ' T . .tag lueco .wonticello Herald: The indie.at.tnn General Harrison will be his own successor. All this warlike talk amoag Democratic new-nAn?.!.1 that the face of the returns, whtf h it ; .i.;.j show a Democratic majority, must be adhered u w rovuiuiionarymemoas win be inaugurated a uuij iuib na very narmiess wind. We had auipis oi one or meir sanguinary" engagements in 1876 The fight in Indiani will oe as wiwuicoa vu iu re-eieciion or Ueneral Harrison. Lafayette Ualh Publio natronACA main. s evuaoiy. puone corruntion. Thi ft ,.. k. . , ... ' e v... ., so well demonstrated that men should only differ as to methods for its betterment The great ii.ujo ui uur country is mat state of affairs which makes the inspiration of campaign enthusiasm the appetite for boodle. So long as the viwi, amouui oi patronage Is put uplo feed and mcKravi0 luo venanty oi the blood-sucker of politics, just that long will the ui uonesi men crying for great concerns ot tne state be lost in the shame less uproar, a lasie ror this sort of feeding r,.B upuu a partisan jiKe leprosy upon the body. It scandalizes the whole Nation as it has u iub hh iwo years scandalized the State of Indiana. Politicians under the whin mA of party spirit may be pardoned for standing in " -j ytugr.s, uus men aoout to quit the stage, and whose yeara should give thera discretion, if not wisdom, ought to ponder well before they place themselves on record as bkiu re-orm bo. neeaea and so bound to Grady on the War-I'ath. Atlanta Comtitntion. V n a. . 1 1 V if Waa UDl0Uhtedly sincere In his apt i a J- ,c'"-''f nu narmony at the Net juukuu umner. uut since the appearance of u uic.ure in xiarper s wee.lv, we see no reaii 57 nosunties should not be reopened. The Aiicgcu purtrait represents an aged person of iciuub wnaencies, sunering with neuralgia in the jaw. The face has the swarthy cast of a ujou wuu uas oeen oiown up out of a well, and 'v" uuuercurrens inat suggests acute cholera morbus in the part of the body not uown m me picture, 'lhe Constitution Is disposed to try secession once more, and If the North accepts the Harper's portrait as correet it will undoubtedly let the "erring brothers go inpeace"thia time,if they will take with them the original of that portrait Mr. Grady's friends do not claim that he is a fcAnquet of beauty or

or even a little lunch, but they do claim that.h is not the murderer of the Probst family, or tha original of Dick Deadeye. SHESaiAX FOR PRESIDENT.

Pennsylvania Republicans Movement Favoring the New York Special. Inangnrate Ohio AXao. The Sun prints tha following special from Pmladelphia: - "The Republicans as well as the Democrats of I ennsylvania are attentive readers of the Snn. and being such, they have an abiding faith that, running as the especial candidate of the mugwumps, Grover Cleveland cannot be re-elected to the presidency. Hence they are more deeply interested in the nomination of a Republican candidate for President in 13S3 than they are in the selection of Governor Beaver's cabinet, which will be made known two weeks from next Tuesday. "x R recent letter I stated that Mr. Blaine would not have more than thirty of the sixty delegates from this State; and since thee a mrtvemefit has been inaugurated which witt probably prevent Mr. Blaine from getting mor than a baker's dozen of delegates from Pennsylvania at any stage of the balloting in the next national convention. Tha calm reflection of the Republicans of Pennsylvania, who do not 'go it blind' for any man, leads them to believe that John Sherman is the best equipped man in their party for President, and, in consequence, he is strong with tha party leaders. As. between Blaine and Sherman, under the skillful leadership of James McManes, who now holds, relatively, as much political power m Philadelphia as John Kelly lona exercised in the political counsels of Tammany, John Sherman would secure every one of tha twelve delegates of Philadelphia. "It will not be forgotten that in 1880 it waf James McManes who led the Pennsylvania bolt against Grant at the Chicago convention, taking thirty delegates instructed for Grant over to Blaine; and while I am not authorized to make known why Mr. McManes is notfor Blaine in 1888, this much I may state, that while he might forgive infidelity on the part of a polititian of little note, who had been led to it under stress of circumstances that mitigated it vet a BimtlA wrong deliberately committed by a Cabinet minister, the Premier of an administration, was a crime in the eyes of a blunt man with the force of character as marked as that. nF xr. mm .... vm.uw illU Manes, too great to be easily forgotten or for given." A Lively Old Man. Philadelphia Hecord. Mr. Gladstone has iust celebrated bin iah. seventh birthday. He can cut down a tree, translate Homer, criticise Tenn vsnn. AmhtHuxley, and fight the whole Tnrv .Amn orously as if he had fou nd thA fnnn.lln tnm which Ponce de Leon sonht Th.M lie life can not always be held responsible for untimely mental decay. Why tho Blind Man Got Ieft. Philadelphia Press. People are makine a trood deal of tin fuss over the assertion that Miss Rose Cleveland received $400 more for her recent poem that Milton got for "Paradise Lost" There i nnthstrange in all this. Milton never advertised. Generally Leads to Suicide. New York World. Having no ambition to become tUhtr a monopolist or a suicide, we very willingly leave "starting papers" to those who have an uncon trollable longing for that kind of enterprise. Manager Geyser Soda Co.. S cureda severe cold with Red StarCoueh Cure. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, YOU WANT TO SEE TTHfi RADIANT HOME BEFORE Toil BUT A BASE-BURNER. j 36 East Washington Stret G-A.S STOVES c CO era S3 CD to NO KINDLING REQUIRED. NO COAL TO CARRY. NO ASHK. TO REXfrtVUL Prices from $2 to $16. Gas Engines from Horse-power u; vl "o11 ?i"amers ia this city only. On Xhibltion and f r sale at the 7 GrJS COxAIPANY, ouum renniyivania street thootAnU of tun of the wort l klol And of loBg andlng .r.. t :, , . -ino"a " r 1 1 rn t ri ta in its ene UABLBTBEATI8onh!f5lM nT liner r. uireezGRAND KCOTJEHf. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. . ' i.juu.h - 'j , wuromvuwi i .-.eitr' aa'' "trlotly flntrolawi Rate$j.50 , 3 and ..SOper day, the Uttr prle Includm bith. CHiO. V. tTINUsT, Troprieteiv

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