Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1891 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1891.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY ORATORY

Host of Prominent Men Celebrate the Glorious Fourth at Woodstock, Conn. iddressed tj Gen. 0. 0. Howard on th Declaration of Independence Poem t j Manrica Thompson, the Well-Known Writer. Forcible Utterances by Chauncey M. Depew on Immigration and Patriotism. Short Talis bj Senator Ilawlej, Major XIcKinlej and Others W. S. Parkinson at Bloominzton, I1L Observances Elsewhere. CHEAT DAY AT WOODS l'OCIi. Addresses by Gen. Howard, 3Ir. Dspew and Others Foe m by 3Ianrice Thompson. Woodstock. Conn.. July 4. Henry C. Uowen gathered a distinguished company of American orators at Homeland Park today, for participation in the Fourth of July celebration. Chauncey 31. Depew, William McKinley. General Hawley. Senator Aldncb. General Howard and Murat Hal tea J were on the list of speakers. John Waaamaker telegraphed that he could not come. Congressman Charles Knssell, of Connecticut, welcomed all on behalf of Mr. Bowen, and introduced Gen. Joseph If. Hawley as the president of the day. Generalllawley'a speech was brief. The immigration question was the only one of general importance to which he devoted his attention. He insisted that every immigrant must become a true and thorough American. They must not feed upon tho venom which has entered their souls as the result of foreign oppression and tyranny. The General gave the Bellamy philosophy a kick and then stopped. Gen. O. O. Howard, the next speaker, began by praising the regular army. He said no member of it had ever proved disloyal, 'No private ever did, perhaps, but a good many officers proved pisloyal," interrupted a congressman on the platform. They were not as numerous a9 tho disloyal members of Congress," tartly replied the Gener-L GENERAL HOWARD'S ADDRESS. Continuing. General Howard said: More than three thousand years ago a vast multitude ol Israelites passed over the Jordan by a miraculous pathway. Before the waters returned into their place, tilling up this pathway and oversowing the river's bank, twelve stones were taken up from the river bed and carried forward to the neighborhood of Gilgal. irom them the great general and leader, Joshua, caused a monument to be erected. He then said to the people: "When your children shall ask their fathers, in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall answer. Israel came over this Jordan on dry land." This simple monument and the speech of Joshua were for the purpose ''that all the people of the earth might know the hand or the Lord; that itisniinhty, and that they might fear the Lord their God forever." The monument and the recorded speech have be-n the witness from that time to this of that mar eloun day. They have been helpsto fathers and mothers in the transmission to children, and children'schildren. of fundamental principle, viz., that of loyalty to the Lord God. So to my mind, in a sense, the instrument which we call the "Declaration of Independence" stands as & perpetual memorial better than any monument. Joshua's etrnctnre inaugurated tue very beginning of a nation. It was the corner-stone of tho theocracy; the harbinger of the kingdoms of David and Solomon. The very aetd of loyalty to God and the fathers of Israel. So this, our declaration of human rights, approved by Congress the 4th of July, 177f. an extraordinary documeut, multitudinous in distribution like the leaves of the forest, is at the very beginning of onr Nation. It is the corner-stone of human liberty human rights as the Divine Master enunciated them. It was the earnest of a successful revolution, and the harbinger of higher and better things long afterward in tho successful emancipation of human slavery. The first statement of principle in the document has the marks of inspiration: t We bold these truths to be self-evldent:;that all meu are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain lnterent and Inalienable rights: that among these are lire, liberty and ths pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights government are in.nituted a:uour men deriving their Ju.st powers from the conxeut of the governed; that whenever any form of roverrmient becomes destructive of these ends it Is the rijrhtof the people to alter or to abolish it. and to Institute new government, lay In Its foundations on such principles and organizing its povers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. And the closing word) have a solemnity and impressiveness like Holy Writ: And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the, protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. TRITE YET IN THE CRUCIBLE. It is. indeed, very commonplace to reiterate these old sayings, such as: "All men are created free and equal." "God gave them inalienable rights." "Among them life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." "Genuine governments derive their just powers from the governed "The people have a right to revolution;" to destroy an eflete system; "to build anew so as to securo their safety and happiness;" and. further, for the people to express a tirm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence while they "pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor!" Yes, they perchance, seem to us trite sayinps, like tales an hundred times told. Vet they were once new; they foucht long for existence, for expression. They lie at the very beginning of constitutional government: they strike at the root of tyranny, of oppression, of misrule, serfdom and of slavery. The faithful Israelites, while they have not through the ages kept np the monument erected near the bauk of the Joniau, have, nevertheless, done another thing, they have kept bright the record and the events of it; and they have answered the children's inquiry: What means this record? What means this fascinating story f What means this loyalty to the Father of all? o it appears to me. in these days when men are devoting themselves so engrosingly to material thoughts and material interests, and appear to care less and less for the record of fundamental principles, to be especially wise to pause and inquire why this national holiday was ever established? What principles were enunciated on that day? Who were the great men assembled to legislate and publish a declaration which grows brighter and stronger ami more helpful to our people and to the rest of mankind as the years go by? WHAT IA RENTS SHOULD TELL CHILDREN. The answers to these questions are simple. It is what parents in America should always tell their childreu. First This national holiday was established to celebrate thu independence ot this Nation the beginning of it. A government unexampled in tho security it gives to hnir.an liberty and human rights spranir. di.fctly as the branch springs from the vine, from this declaration. The Independence day is intended to secure a Impoy recognition of the benehts aud blessings of this superb government. Second The principles enunciated may be comprehended in Abraham Lincoln's corcise statement; it is "the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.5' Let the people rejoice, then.especiallj' on this birthday, that they govern: that they govern themselves. Let the children rejoice that ti -s inheritance of this self-government is rich, expansive, abundant; and that it is all ttieir own. Third The great men wLo, under God, made the Declaration, were in Congress assembled in Independence I fall of the old Pennsylvania Mate-h-juse. Philadelphia. The first nam' higurd is the president of tAe Congress. John U&nxock, vi hu. ui tho

peril of his life, wrote his name in such plain letters that it could not be mistaken by friend or foe. A list of names follows his. such as: Samuel Adam. Jobu Adams, Roger Sherman, Charles Carroll, Thomas Jetlerson. Kichard Henry Lee. Benjamin HnrrUon. and others. down to Thomas Hay ward, jr. Fifty-six in all. noble names, worthy sires of a strong nation! They had the courage of Johua. whom the Lord strengthened wheu.in the face of vast aud unknown perils. He said to him: "Have not 1 commanded thee? lie strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither.be thou dismayed; lor the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." John Adams, of Massachusetts, one of the signers, thinking the declaration would be made two days sooner, wrote: Tho 2d of July, 1770. will le the most niemorat.le epoch in the history of America; to be celebrated by succeeding generation as the great American festival, commemorated as the

day ot deliverance from one end of the conti nent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. Put the declaration was not adopted till the 4th of July. Hence the prophetic day, the day of power and glory, passed on from the 2d to the world-renowned 4th of July. THE NEWS AFFECTS WASHINGTON. In 1776 it took a longer time for news to pass from Washington to Boston than it does now, even by steamers, to go from New .York to London or Paris. After Washington had taken command in the vicinity of Boston and put everything in that neighborhood into safe condition for the future, he turned his face toward the Hudson to meet new diiliculties and dangers in that quarter. He was in the city of New York about the 1st of August, 1770. and there first received the gratifying intelligence that Congress, representing the people, had actually broken loose from the mother country, and that the independence of the United States had been declared by a public resolution on the preceding I onrthof July. Though everything depended on the success of his arms in the defense of this new position, yet the Declaration of Independence itself appearei to him a vantage ground, and greatly rejoiced his patriotic heart Before the civil war. from my youth 1 recall the rejoicings of tho people as the hanpy day came round. It was celebrated in churches, in schools, in special public assemblies, in military parades, iu family and neighborhood picnics, on tho banks of running streams and in beautiful, shady groves; on land and on sea. at home aud abroad wherever the proud American citizen could liud a few comrades or iriends to unite with him in celebrating the joyous occasion, there was our Nation's festival. There was. however, always a feeling of dissatisfaction, moreor less pronounced, on the part of many people of the free states, in the presence of the reading of the Declaration of Independence and the proclamations from pnbiio officials, and the orations and poems delivered in connection therewith. Their excessive praise of the government, their excessive claims lor the happiness of the people when tney could almost hear the clanking of the chains of servitude, smote every conscience and appeared a travesty of right and truth. It was no wonder that orators like Kufus Choato should declare the clauses of the Declaration of Independence but "glittering generalities." It was nothing strange that men like Garrison, and Phillips, and May, and Love joy, and Douglass should cry out. "Sound! Mere sound and bombast!' But the Declaration has remained intact, while falsehood and the folly of human conduct which preceded the reality, have brought us to a new and wholesome dispensation ami a new aud truer interpretation. We care little for reciting the usurpations' of "King George;" but we have come to the period of time and history where there is actual "liberty aud union, one and inseparable' from the Atlantic to the Pacific. SOUTHERN FEELING, During the civil war. while the Southern States were striving for secession and for a new sort of independence they shut their eyes to the old Declaration, the old charter of liberty. Defeats liko those of Gettysburg and Vicksburg meeting them on or near the Day of Independence, the birthday of the national existence, caused them depression and often great bitterness; it is understood that the celebration of the Fourth of July has not yet been resumed to any great extent among those who were destined to sutler disappointment and defeat; yet I do hope, as loyalty has already revived, as the llag is agaiu waving brightly, with undiminished grace and beauty, from every capitol and from every publio building, and as. little by little, a conviction comes upon even the vanquished themselves, as well as upon others, that the results of tho civil war have indeed been but blessings In disguise yes, admitted blessings to those who sutlered most by the war; that slavery, with all its concomitant evils, has departed; that freedom has come in and become universal; and that prosperity has by no means been confined to the conquering hosts; 1 do hope that there will be a speedy and glad return to Independence day in every Southern community. The principles of the Declaration of Independence are a common inheritance to the whole people, and nothing can be wiser or better than onr annual feasts ot joyful reminder; nothing more likely to assuage the pain and irritation of old wounds and do awny with all bitterness; nothing better than a common, happy, universal celebration of this national holiday. It will educate tho children of the late slaves; it will enlighten the children of the foreign born; yes, it will enlighten all who participate in the gala exercises and intellectual feasts of the occasion. Possibly for a time it may be best to have a more serious and thoughtful celebration than formerly. Possibly we might by a common consent revaoi p. abridgeor modify, as they do in the Kevined Statutes, some old forms for public recital. But. on this day I would make prominent the great wisdom of our fathers. A wisdom passing humau knowledge, when they united in the declaration of the principles that are bound, sooner or later, to prevail throughout the eaith; among them the greatest, that all governments. God-given governments, are based upon the consent of the governed. moRLKMS SOLVED IX DUE TIME. True, we have had dissensions, contentions, strifes, civil upheavals, and what nation has not? but under the guidance of Him who moves in a mysteiious way his wonders to perform, we have already eliminated from onr system the principal causes of human disturbance. We havo already solved problems that at one time seemed to reqniro for their solution something more than the liuite mind. 1 here remain a few problems extremely ditlicult to the eyes of our best seers. They pertain to how wo shall deal with certain gigantic evils that are suggested by the words social vice, intemperance, excessive immigration, prejudice of race, prejudice of caste, hat money, enormous monopoly, persistent and insidious efforts of secret bodies to undermine and destroy the public schools, ballot corruption, and a thousand other ills that we needuot emphasize. As in the days of the revolution, the Lord raised up men like Washington and thone who signed the Declaration of Independence to solve the questious submitted to them as in the days of 1SPJ He gave us leaders like Madison, and Harrison, and Perry, and Andrew Jackson to solve the problem of a proper international international intercourse: as in the days of the Mexican war. He raised up men who. like Polk, and Marcy, and Zachary Taylor, were to tiolvo the intricate problems concerning our boundaries and lix the proper limits of this Nation: and as in the days of our great civil upheaval He raised up men like Lincoln, Chan, Seward, Stanton, Grant. Hierman and Thoma. who were able to deal with the most trouble some questions of secession and slavery, and solve them, without losing a star from our national crown so. with tho clear seeing of this lloth national birthday, we can conl'.dently predict that lie who has brought us thus far will raise up men of purity, aud ability, and wisdom adequate to the solution of every remaining problem. So let us then, in conclusion, lift up our minds and hearts and contemplate the wonderful wisdom of the Kuier of Nations, aud. while we magnify our past achievements, give to Him the glory that is His due, with a confident faith that if, as a people, we do tho best we can to extend His richtf outness, He, ou His part, in His mighty power, will keep us safely till our destiny shall be accomplished. The poet of the occasion, Maurice Thompson, vai not .present. absence tie

poem was read by Mr. Clarence Bowezu It was as follows: TI1E DAY WE CELEHRATE. Worn out, they say, is Freedom's shell. Her chords can please do more: Eileut the tongues that used to tcU. Her praises o'er and o'er. Far back (in years remote It seems) When patriot hearts were young. Our country's flag was in our dreams And Freedom's songs were sung. July the Fourth that maglo date Giants did connre by. As one by one tho stars of state Flamed through the morning sky. What men we had how strong their hold On stalwart Liberty! ' nt in what flawless hero-mold. Those leaders of the free! The hand of heaven reached down and sealed

The scroll of Jefferson; Toe world rang like a stricken shield When Webster's speech was doneThere was a pause when Phillips rose. A start when Greeley wrote; Then Whittier's verse and Lincoln's prose The heart of Duty smote. The guns of Gettysburg roared loud Upon our Sacred Hill; The flashes from that battle-cloud Were bolts of Freedom's wllL When patriot Grant from knightly Lee Received the truant sword. Upon its hilt hung Freedom's key, fc tamped with Hope's latest word. So soon forgot! Is life so cbeapt Is gratitude a name! Go. children, wake the guards who sleep Around the tower ot Fame! Fling out our Flag to veil the sun, Let Texas vie with Maine. And sfhiloh cry to Lexington O'er mountain, stream and plain! July the Fourth this is the day . Let all the cannons roarLet bells ring loud, let trumpets bray. And let our eagle soar! That glorious bird still has the right To show the world our shield To stir the stars along its flight Across the heavenly field. Let dull aristocrats reprove And at our fervor sneer; They never taw our armies move Or heard our soldiers cheer. We are but simple followers Of Washington and Lee; The merest breath of memory stirs Our deeps of loyalty. Our hearts must keep (what in good faith Our fathers kept before) Our country first, in life or death. Honored forever more. DEPEW ON IMMIGRATION AND PATRIOTISM. Chauncey M. Depew was honored with three cheers when was introduced. Mr. Depew said: "Tho Declaration of Independence was not an accident: it was a result. It is the quality of American liberty that it is the solvent of all the dangers threatening the state which other forms of government hold in check by force. Within fifty years fifteen millions of people hare come from foreign lands and settled in the United States. "Every period has its own perils. It is safe to say that they are fewer and less dangerous now than ever before. Immigration is a danger, but I would be willing to have the formulation of the methods by which it should be brought within safe limitations aud restrictions to representatives of the Irish. German. Scandinavian and Italian societies of the United States. We want no contract labor to pauperize our industries; no criminals to prey npon our communities and till our prisons; no lepers to debase our blood and deplete our hospital funds. But we still have room for the honest, the healthy, the industrious and the Intelligent "I have no patience with the weakkneed, epmdle-shanked, watery-brained dyspeptics who despair of this Republic. I have no sympathy and only contempt for watery patriotism. I know men who invest abroad because they think they see the shadow of anarchy menacing their possessions 1 know men who live abroad to get out from under the American avaiauche. I hope they will never return. Applause. Wo neither want them nor do we want the offspring of such stock. Kenewed applause.! We are said to bo in danger to the peril 01 great wealth.- Wealth is very well distributed in this country. My experience is, and 1 have been connected for twenty-five years as attorney and counsel with men of great wealth, that eight-tenths of them lose their fortunes in their life time. There are perils of corporations. But corporations aie creatures of law, and the creator can destroy or crush them as he pleases. When the law-making body does not reflect the sentiment of the commnnity, then send an honest man to the Legislature and have the law fixed." Hon. N. W. Aldricb, of Rhode Island, spoke of the industrial future of New England. Major McKinley was given a very cordial reception when he rose to speak. He said he was not present to make a tariff speech or to talk politics; he did not think that was appropriate for the Fourth of July. The greater part of his remarks were confined to discussion of the lessons to be drawn from what he termed the three speech-making periods of our history. They were the war for independence, the adoption of the Constitution, and the war for the preservation of the Union. At the conclusion of Maior MoKiniey's remarks, which were brief, three cheers were given for the next Governor of Ohio. Murat l'.alstead spoke next on "The Preservation of the Peoplo's Inheritance," and Rev. David Gregg, of Brooklyn, closed the speaking with a spirited address on the subject of "Loyalty and Americanism." A SOUTUEKNER'S ADDRESS. rat riot to Speech of W. S. Tarklnson, Leader of the Citizen Lynchers of New Orleans. Bloomixgton, 111., July 4. W. 8. Parkinson, of New Orleans, who acquired international fame by being one of the originators of the law and order movement which culminated in the killing of several members of the Mafia, some months ago, was by invitation the orator of the day at a great open-air mass-meeting held here today. He was heartily received, and his patriotio address was listened to with great attention, and repeatedly punctuated with applause. It had been supposed that he would mako some reference to the Italian question, but in this the audience was mistaken. Among other things he said: "I yield in the love of my country to no man within the borders of it. My pride iu this grand government is not overtopped by any. In its greatness I glory, in its unity I rejoice. And I hesitate not to assert that the most intensely American spirit and pride which I have ever seen, can be found in the lowlands of Louisiana behind the levees of the Mississippi. The s tars and stripes have no more faithful lovers than the men of the new South, no more earnest and determined defenders of the beloved flag can be found within the four corners of the Nation. None will resent more quickly an insult to it. This the President would have learned had he seen tit to visit our city; and this that other man than whom. I think, no greater lives today, can feel, if he will only come to ns. We will show him how we appreciate his genius and admire his Americanism. I scarcely need say I mean the great Secretary of State, James G. Blaine. "Teach the negro, teach the white man, both native and naturalized, that what is being done is in the hope of benefiting the community, and not in the expectation of getting an office. Teach them that there are higher purposes than personal aggrandizement. Show them the dignity of private citizenship, and a lesson will have been taught and a name and fame will have been won which will be more enduring than any monument of brass. The example will become contagious, emulation will take the placeof apathy, and efficiency and honesty will reign and please where Ignorance and dishonesty now dominate and insult. Restriction of immigration, raising the limitation of time for naturalizat ou. and the strict enforcementof the law requiring him who would become a citizen absolutely to forswear all allegiance to any other power on earth to impress upon the immigrant how solemn is his undertaking when the oath is administered: to enforce upon him the great value of the privileges which he is acquiring: to show him that by the faot of tiaturalizatiou he has been raised from a serf to a freeman, the peer of an) man on earth these are matters esaeutial, and their importance cannot bt de

nied by any one who desires to preserve the institutions of the Republic To me the solution of the difficulty which confronts the South is in what 1 have already said. Teach the negro, by example, that office-holding is not the end and hone of life. Show him how to become an honorable, patriotio citizen, and the problem is solved. Like you to whom I speak, we are Anglo-Saxons, and there never has yet been a difficulty which that race did not overcome. There has never been found a peop'e superior to the white. I dare say you, upon whom I look, are not In search of one. I am not. nor will I for one moment acknowledge that any other can rule America, yet you may go to New Orleans and ask the negro if he has any better friend. I am not afraid of tho answer. . "Are we iu sympathy? Can I carry back to ray people the assurance that we have at last come together, and that upon all that concerns the welfare of our land we are in accord? I have endeavored more to suggest than to discuss; to show, if possible, that we are a Nation with a national character, with common purposes: to tell you that in the hearts of the Southern people there is a longing to forget past differences, and to stand shoulder to shoulder with yon in the protection of our country and the preservation of its institutions. If, in scattering this seed by the wayside. I have thrown any npon good ground, I shall feel that I have accomplished something in my day aud generation, if it shall spring np into life so strong as to retnaiu with you and yours forever." . . OBSERVANCES ELSEWHERE.

Crowds of Masons, Odd-Fellows and Veter. ans Gather to Hear Patriotic Speeches. Bpecisl to the Indianapolis Journal. Sadorus. I1L. July 4. There was a grand old-fashioned celebration at this placo in old Sadorns grove to-day. It was held nnder the auspices of the Masons, odd-fel-iows and Grand Army men. The orators of the day were Hon. S. G. Wilson, the silvertongued orator of Danville; Hon. A. J. Miller, of Urban a. and Judge C. I, Staley, of Champaign. The principal topic discussed by Mr. Wilson was the assimilation of foreign immigration. He stated that one hundred and fifteen years ago to-day our Hag was unfurled, and a patriotic knot was tied in which the Goddess of Liberty wedded the Hercules of freedom. He then discussed the labor question in connection with the increase of population from immigration. He said none but those who have records as law-abiding citizeua should be admitted to America. Celebration at Vevay I'arlc Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Casey, 111., July 4. Vevay Park, three miles west of this city, covered herself with glory to-day, in caring for the vast assembly, estimated at seven thousand, which gathered there. The welcome address was delivered by Kev. J. A. Burchitt, Charles W. Johnson reading the Declaration. Recitations by Misses Ro3a Burns aud Edith Brown rvere highly complimented. The most prominent speaker of the occasion was Rev. D. F. Howe, pastor of the Centenary M. L Church, of tipringtield. George R. Parker and Elder Jacobs, of Kansas, 111., followed with short addresses. The musio was furnished by the Casey quartet and cornet band. Enthusiastic Celebrations In the South. New Orleans, July 4. Tho day was generally celebrated in this city and more enthusiasm shown than for thirty years. National salutes were tired and bands played national airs in the public parks. The Patriotio Order of the Sons of America gave a grand festival, ball and pyrotech-' meal display at W est .bud. 1 he Ancient Order of Hibernians gave a picnic at tho fairgrounds. The vessels in the harbor were beautifully decorated with Hags, and the national colors tloated from all tho principal buildings in the city. Dispatches from all points show that the day was enthusiastically celebrated throughout the gulf States. Free Dinner Under the Trees. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomingdale, Ind., July 4. Four thousand people celebrated the Fourth at Tangier to-day. The Odd-fellows were in chargo of the exercises, and there was a general turnont of tho brotherhood from Irom this and surrounding counties. Hon. David Strouse. of Rockville, a past grand sire of the order, a brilliant and favorite orator, delivered an oration. The Tangier band enlivened the occasion with music. A dinner was set under the spreading trees, and everybody was given a hearty invitation to partake. Address by Ex-President Hayes. Beatrice, Neb., Jnly 4. Twenty-fivo thousand people assembled on the Chautauqua grounds to-day to listen to the address of ex-President R. B. Hayes. His theme was the growth and achievement of the American Republic, it? armies and its future glorious destiny. He spoke for over two hours and closed with a grand peroration on the character and enduring fame of Lincoln. Orations and 11 re-Works. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Danville, 111., July 4. The fourth was observed in this city by a grand industrial parade in the morning, which was the biggest success of anything in that line that ever occurred in Danville. E. R. E. Kimbrongb and W. J. Calhoun were the orators of the day. Bicycle races tilled in the afternoon at the new fair grounds and a magnificent display of tire-works finished np the evening. Balloon Ascension at Mattoon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, 111., July 4. Mattoon's patriotic citizens kept np their record to-day by indulging in a grand celebration, consisting of an immense display, speeches, .balloon ascension. bicycle, hose-coupling, and other contests for prizes, and concluding with the nsualj fine display of lire-works at night.' The events were witnessed by a great crowd. DAILY WKATHEK BULLETIN. Local Forecasts. For Indianapolis and Vicinity For the twenty-four hours ending 8 p. m.. Jnly .", 1891 Slightly warmer; fair weather, with increasing cloudiness. general indications. - Washington, July 4. Forecast till 8 p. M. Sunday: For Indiana and Illinois Generally fair; stationary temperature; variable winds. For Ohio Fair on Sunday; stationary temperature; northwest gales. Observations at Iudianapolis. Indianapolis, July 4.

Time. liar. Ther. 11. 11. 7 a.m. 30.03 07 60 7 P.M. 30.00 76 41

Weather. i're. Nwet;CIoudless Xwestl Cloudly O.oo 0.00 Maximum temperature, 81; minimum temperature, 50. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation on July 4: 1cm. Prr. Normal 75 O.10 Mean 6 o.oo Departurefromnonn.il 7 0.10 Excess or detlciency siuce July 1... 20 0.0.1 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. i!12 3.4b Plus. (General Weather Uonrtltion. Saturdat. July 4. S p. m. Pressure The high area extending along the Missouri and Missippi valley remained central in southwestern Wisconsin; the lower area is central over Nova Scotia; onother low area approaches from the ex treme northwest. Temperature In Canada the temperature is from CO to CO-: 70 and above is reported from British Columbia, Wisconsin, Illinois. Indiana and Virginia southward; 80 and above in western Texas, aud from Tennessee and Georma southward. Precipitation Local rains fell in Penn sylvama. northern Kansas, near the gulf . m . - . as - . m coasi anu irom iew iuexico noriuwara. An Education Finished. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telf irrsph. Ob. Uncle George," exclaimed Miss Gas well, "why didn't you come a week ago? I graduated last Wednesday.'' "An." replied Uncle George, who takes a greatinterest in his Mece'a education," what did you graduate inT "Why, in the loveliest white India mull. inaae ny over the sweetest white silk.

RUMORS ABOUT MR. BLAISE.

Physicians Reported as Saying the Secretary of State Is a Very Sick Man. New York, July 4. Sensational reports are again in circulation concerning the condition of Secretary Blaine's health. The World to-day prints the following dispatch from Bar Httbor, Me.: Secretary Blaine is not as well to-day as yesterday. He has had no appetite, and is living wholly on milk food. A party of intimate friends of the family called to-day, bat were refused audience with Mr. Blaine. The family is making an attempt to conceal from the public his real condition, but the physicians who are in attendance say he is a very sick man. His driving out is a farce. ' lie has to be lifted into the carriage, bolstered np with pillows while there, and heloed out and into his room, where he immediately retires to his couch for rest. Rumor among his friends says that he cannot remember an event a week old. Great solicitude is expressed here as to his condition. SUE IS TRULY IIAPrY. A Visitor to Mary Anderson's Home Says - She Looks as Queenly as Ever. Pall Mall Gazette. For the best part of the last twelve months Mr. and Mrs. De Navarro have been living atTunbridge Wells, in the green neighborhood of which they have now determined to settle down definitely in a pretty honse. Between household occupations and discoveries, the long rambles through the lanes and byways, in which husband and wife take an equal delight, the study of Spanish pursued by Mrs. De Navarro under her husband's tuition, the eyenings devoted to music (to which both are pasionately devoted, while Mr. Do Navarro is a hish-clasa performer as well as a connoisseur and composer) and the intercourse with a few friends, complete their daily routine. All Tunbridge Weils has from the first shown itself not only willing but eager to fete and welcome "the DeNavarros." Unfortunately, these strenuous endeavors have so far met with very little response. If yon go to the Roman Catholis Church down in tho town you may, Sunday after Sunday mostly at early mass, as well as during the chief service of the day see Mr. and Mrs. De Navarro, side by side, looking into the same book, and joining in the service with the devoutness for which Miss Mary Anderson has always had the reputation, which is fully shared by Mr. Antonio De Navarro. They are unwearying walkers, too. The lady who has had more social and artistie triumphs and Suecenses than fall to the share of many women, be they never so fair or accomplished, and the gentleman who has traveled over the best pirtof the globe, and enjoys tho intimate friendship of many an eminent musician, think it neither infra dig. nor dull to spend a sunny afternoon in a quiet game of croquet or tennis, or in easy chat with friends whose literary and artistic interests preclude the conversation from ever falling to the level of average society. It was in the drawing-room of one of the pretty country houses on the hill slope above Tunbridge Wells that I met Mr. and Mrs. De Nevarro a day or two ago. Of course I bad heard dim rumors that "Miss Mary Anderson" was completely broken down In health: that she was "a wreck of her former self," pale, and a favorite society phrase "gone ofi'" altogether. It was, therefore, with considerable surprise that I looked up to the radiant wonuu entering the room, her figure as queenly h ever, her face as beautiful, and flushed with the healthy tinge that follows an out-door life in pure air and pleasant surroundings, and her eyes Hashing with happiness ana high spirits. Her dress was elegant but very simple. She wears the close-fitting sage-green costume with the nuequaled grace we. have learned to appreciate since we saw Miss Mary Anderson as Galatea, but which is considered to "go" only with tho clinging draperies of ancient Greece. Mr. De Navarro, if bis wife expressed the wish to return to the stage, would never think of preventing hen he has far too much of the artist's soul not to sympathize to the lull with the longings to express in acting, or painting, or music what stirs the heart and mind. , But no; she bad the choice between a publio Ufa of triumph and success and a very simple retired home-life! she has chosen the latter, and is radiantly happy in it BEHEADED BY MORMONS. An Ex-Folyg-amlst Tells or the Killing; of a Secret-Service Agent Detroit Sun. Allan Conrad was a happy and prosperous fanner, living in Brownstown township, near Trenton, thirty years ago. He was then about twenty years old. Now be is a Mormon elder, and lives in Montfort, U. T. Conrad has had the proverbial seven wives all at once. In fact, he has gone through all the wickedness and luxury of the eftete Mormon kingdom. By a fortunate investment in mining stock he has amassed a fortune, and now, after thirty years' absence, he has returned home to visit the scenes of his youth. Mr. Conrad is no longer a polygamist, but has been divorced from six of his wives, ' and is now worrying along with one. ' "Yes; there used to be some lively old times in Salt Lake City when the gentiles were first getting a foothold." said he, in relating his experiences. "The Mormons thought that the gentiles were going to throw them right out of the beautiful city they had built up, and so they resolved to tight the invaders to the death. There are many spicy incidents that have never been written up by Eastern newspapers. When United States officers first began to interfere the Mormons determined to expel tbem and the gentiles in toto. There was a detective named Manning, belonging to the secret service, who came there as a Mormon convert. "He pretended to have been converted at Elmira, N. Y. His object was to penetrate into our secrets and then communicate them to the otlicials. "The Mormon elders are a sly lot of men. and they don't like to be fooled with in that way. They suspected Manning right off, and watched him. Some one told them that he was a United States detective. They found him in communication with the ofiicials. At a meeting of the chosen prophets his doom was healed. He was to be led into the religion up to the front, where he would learn something of value to him as a detective, then denounced and secretly beheaded. I bad nothing to tlo with his death, but I was aware of the sentence passed upon him. "bo the next day there was a batch of the chosen to be anointed. Manning was among them. You know the men and women are stripped in separate apartments, rubbed with oil and then turned loose in the holy of holies, where the final anointment takes place, and they are declared saiuts. Well, it was decided to let Mao nimr go as far as the door of this sanctuary, where the elder in charge wax to challenge him and he was to be bonnd, gagged and then beheaded in a dark cellar. "The crowd of masked inon trooped in. Manning among them. To allay his suspicions the elder challenged several others, and would not let them pass until they bad been fin ther examined and deemed worthy. "Manning was on the point of gaining a victory when he was stopped under pretense of giving him a hearing. One of the priests beckoued him to an inner room. As he entered, the door was closed and locked. A struggle was heard inside, but none except the two priests detailed to get him out of the way knows what became of Manning. He was never seen again. "At the next meeting of the order the leader asked: 'Saints, have you performed 3our duty!' "'We have replied the two saints, and nothing more was said about it." Two Last Chapters. Buffalo Commercial. A singular story is related of Edgar Fawcett's new novel. "A New York Family ." It first ran serially through the pages of the Illustrated American. Mr. Fawcettleft for Europe besore tho first chapters were published. For a time everything went on swimmingly. Fifteen chapters had made their appearance, and the novel was gaining new friends for the psper. Suddenly, at the last moment the printers announced that the next two chapters were missing from the MS. Search was made everywhere in the editorial rooms, in the printers' office and in the of fice of the artist, who was illustrating the work. At last all hope was abandoned. It was Wednesday. The paper went to press on I hursday. V hat was to be done! Mr. Fawcett was in Europe. He could not be appealed to it would take weeks before he could supply the missing chapters. Then

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HI tTsefl vr? Millvywfi of TTnrno5 one of the editors stepped into the breach. It was ho who had read and ac cented tho MS. He volunteered to supply ' the missing chapters, depend ing partly on memory, partly on his inventive faculties. He went out that night to his sea-shore hotel, called for a bottle of claret and half a dozen strong cigars, and by 10 o'clock next morning turned up at the office with six tnousauu words of copy to till up the hiatus so unexpectedly produced. The novel appeared as usual, and none of the readers of the paper was a bit the wiser. And. later on. as Mr. Fawcett found himself too busy to substi tute his own two chanters, and as he was content with the version of his involuntary collaborator, the latter' s tiro chapters form a portion also of the printed book. JAPA .ESE PKOGBESS. What Americans Have Done for the Mikado's Empire In a Generation. 6an Francisco Chronicle Rev. Mr. Assada. a Japanese theologian. entertained the congregation in theTrinity Methodist Episcopal Church at Sixteenth and Noe streets last evening, with a recital of his experience, both as a pagan and as a Christian. Mr. Assada is a rather good-looking Jap anese, with an intellectual though severe cast of countenance. He is a graduate of the Garrett Biblical School, of vans ton. 111. After his education was completed he returned to Japan and preached Christianity among the people of that country for a a time. His present visit to the United States is for the purpose of soliciting fur ther missicnary aid for the benefit of his benighted countrymen. His discourse last evening dealt almost entirely with the history of his own life. and his recital of the trials he experienced in his endeavors to become a Christian contained many touching as well as ludicrous incidents. Mr. Assada greeted a Chronicle reporter cordially atter he had finished speaking. "les. 1 am looking for missionaries among your people," he said in response to a query. Although Japan is yet in her miancy ene is a very healthy child, but she needs nutriment American ingenuity- and American co-operation have been great factors in the bnilding np of our country. Consequently, how can we help but feel grater nl to the American people! Thirty-tive years ago Japan had no free schools, no telegraph or telephone systems, no newspapers, no railroads, no postal facilities, and the Christian God was comparatively a myth. To-day she is cobwebbed by thousands of miles of telegraph and telephone wires, the newspaper is considered as essential as the daily meal, every little hamlet has its free school, where the children of the poor and their name is legionmay receive the knowledge that raises them from the level of cattle; the entiro country is girded with the steel bands of the railroad, our postal facilities are acknowledged to be, with one exception, the best in the world, and the first name the Japanese mother teaches her little one to lisp is that of God. "It Is a wonderful metamorphosis to bo accomplished in such a brief period, but we want more. We are not satisfied. Japan. It has significance Japanese are poor and needy. There are thousands of hungry hearts waiting for the food of Christianity in the remote districts of mycouutrv. That is why I am here. 1 relinquished my hope of fortune, my friends and my worldly prospects to enter upon this work, but I am satisfied." Mr. Assada spoke with a fervor that left not tho slightest donbt of his sincerity. "Who can prophesy," he continued, "what Japan will be iu another thirty-live years? There is no reason why our progress should not be as great in the future as it has been in the past We have one of the best governments on the globe, combining, as it does, the best points of the English and German systems, with the dangerous principles of neither. Onr Emperor is liberal, and anything that tends to the advancement or prosperity of thi empire receives his hearty sanction. We have a great country, and there are magnificent possibilities before ns, but we need your Lelp." Mr. Assada's plans are not yet settled, but he will probably remain on this coast for some weens. CROWDED PARIS. The Effort to Extend the Inner Line of Fortifications. New York Sun. The plans of the French War Department for the extension of the inner wall of Paris on the city's west side are issues of War Minister Freycinet'a proposal that the whole interior line of fortifications should be pushed further from the heart of the city. M. De Freyoinet had tdvocated this step for some time, and at the time of his recent election to the senatorsnip for Paris he promised to do his best to get through the French Parliament the necessary measures. The spring war scare kept the Minister's plans in the background. As soon as this abated he submitted bis proposals to the head military council. They were practically that the inner wall should be given up. The engineers among the generals of the council would not hear to this. They maintained that the forts alone did not fender the city sutiiciently safe, since in times of panic a hostile force, independent or in pursuit of fleeing troops, could slip between tbem and into the city. The result of this representation was that the conncil granted only the minimum of M. De Freycinet'a proposal, and this minimum is probably all that will be put into execution for the relief of Paria's crowded population. ' The plan, as it now stands and probably will be adopted, is to push the inner wall on the west side across the Seine. The new fortified line will then pass irom the Porte d'Anteull (that is from the point where the Bois de Boulogne and the city of Boulogue meet) over the Seine, iucluding St. Cloud and excludiug Suresnes, thence to Mont Valerien, from which point it will follow the line of the heights to Asnieres. Puteaux, Chantecoq. Neuilly. Levailoir-Perret. Courbevoie and Asnieres will be within tho wall. Eastward from Asnieres the wall will pass over the Seine, including Clinch)', and excludiug St. Queen, and will join the old works at Porte de Cliznancourt. Tho cost of this extension will be approximately 2o,ooo,ooo. When the present wall was begun by Louis Philippe Paris had but 1,0,JU! inhabitants, and the population of its immediate outskirts was hardly 70.000. According to the recent census the total population has risen to about 3.000,000. Within the fortified liue around Paris there are 3,700,000, exclusive of the garrison. These persons at present live on about 110.000 acres. In the body of the citv the total rent of the buildings, which it has been impossible to increase in number, has grown f roiu $33,000,000 in 172 to $110,000,000. While the mortality of other great cities has decreased relatively, moreover, the mortality of Paris has assumed greater relative proportions. The dangers of a siege nnder such conditions would, therefore, be much greater than the) were twenty years ago. Tho extension of the whole inner wall, as desired by the civil authorities of Paris, would cost about 000,000. lllgbly Improper. Louisville Times. Miss Manhattan How do yon account for the prevalent use of spectacles in Boston. Miss Emersonf Miss Emerson We do not regard it proper to gaze with the Eaked er, the unclothed optic. An Ancient Fear Tree. Norrlitown (Pa.) Register. Mr. George K. Ritter. of Norristown. eighty-six years old, has been visiting the Ritter homestead, where he was born, in Colebrookdale township. Berks connty, now belonging to John Bitter's estate. There Is a pear tree, of the oats-harvest variety, on the property, which he thinks is 175 to 'JOO years old, and still bearing frnit Mr. Ritter remembers eating fruit from the tree eighty years ago. when It was about the size it is now. and he relates that his great-grandfather. Mathias Ritter. who took up the land in 1731, found the

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4.n Yosts the Sbinrlarrl iii:i. WRIGHT-Rev. Iirvl Wrijrtit. residiD st Xa. 4". Exoeluor arenas, died en fcaiard morning, si 6 o'clocli, of I'ilury calculi. Mr. Wright s horn in Washington conntv. InAL. ana, in Uis year 1834. He carus to Marion ountT in 1857. wbers Lehas sinre resided, except four yesrs spenton hit old horns fsrm. lis was a nuntsit ria the Methodist Church. &ul had a large experience in th pioneer work of the church, harmr organized and built soTeral charcnes In and aronud lul.Tpoii. At one lime he was engaged extensively In the real estate business, but met with reverses during the panic, lie it-ares a widow and five sens, all frrovn. or nearly so, who are engaged in business in this citv. His eldest eon. Dr. F. M. Wright, is a practicing physician. The funeral wlU take plaoe I rom. the rrsidence at 10 a. m on Monday. WATCD-CSiAyEOUa VAXTED THE ADDRESS OrA. REDSYW it cr parties keepin WUd West Hitters, Indian Secret Liniment or Indian Hub l'ad tor ale. 2. P. VAUUUAN, b Dpcinc; street, Westfleld. 21as. WANTED QUICK -LADY iLK1) GEJfTIE" man to trarel with dramatics company. Al man with smau capital; responsible piuon txl alary. Address Manager 1IOWAUD, j oornal otnee. r ANTED RAND. THE UNDERSIGNED ? company desires reposals to farotah a larse quantity of tine, clean sand on cars at Indlanapoh1. THE WEHTICHN PAV1NU AMD St'sTLY COId galls Block, Indianapolis, Ind. AGENTS WANTED $150 PER MONTH EASIly earned. Fifty freBtleraen solicitors wsnttl st once tor cheapest and most popular. life marsnce fraternity. Address or call ou COM JIAN'DEK, Room 30, Thorpe mock, IcdlanspoUs. TIT ANTED AT ONCB. ONE MANAGER v v special and one local acent. Extraort TWO Extraordinary Inducement to plsee ttte latest Mill beot policy rv r Offered. UNITED LITE ISM'RaNCE ASCI ATION. Booms 64 to 72. World llidldln. New York. S. W. BLoSH, nrat rice presideat; II. W. HATCH, recocd vice-president, agency committee. "ITANTED-A THOROUGHLY COMTETF-NT V V man to take charge ot a hickory-spoke factory; one who understands the entire luniuea matins:, selling and grading. Will sell an interest, lea or give part ot the profits for the msnstivinent. An lm merit quantity ol irool timber wiUmi -ay reach. A. good opening for the TiyhX mau. Address I LIP1'A1ANN. Uljphant, Ark. TIT ANTED TRAVELING SALESMAN TO t seU Raking Powdrr to the retail grocery trade. We pat our goods np in glass rolling pins, fclxty dollars month salary and expenses or commission. Want men who are now on the road to carry as a side lino. This is omwrtnnlty for clerk! and others w ho want to get on the road and make moner. Write for particular send stamp for reply. CHICAGO HAK.1NO PoWDKKCO, 842 Van liuren fit Chicago. ltKWAIiD. Qlfl REWARD FOR PARROT COLOR OKI, OlvJ yellow head and wings, tipped with red. The above reward will be paid tor the return of parrot, or on Information If affy one hs &ot it concesieL Address 3 Jt East North street TKItSONALu -pUEUMATISM. M78CULAXI AND INFLAM. Lv History, curtt by Dr. Thach-r'stuaimetleahielis. M. C 111AYLK, 352 Morlh Alaliaina street. FOU SAIJ: OU TRADE. T?OR TRADE-GOOD LOTS ON ELECTRIC CAR XT line and improved r mperty for goud turn. IL C JAirtt.Li iuhi JNorut Delaware. ANNOUNCEMENT. TTTNDOW-8CREENH IF YOU ARE tN" NEED if of them, send yenr address or postal to A. E. FRENCH, 1S3 North Illinois street, snd lie m ill il ami aliuw you Inn new invention. No order ask.ed unless merit of good meets with your approval. IF YOU WANT A SPECIMEN OF OUR CEMENT walks, inmpect O. I. Weaver's. or Judye Taylor's, my, or A. MiotrTs. t? 43 North Illinois sr. If you want a specimen of pavetaents. Lnjecl that at K4 College avenue. srae are ileaMl with our work and prices thst they sre taking np nearly new trl( k lavements and walks for it. We pay a reasonable price for old trick not too tadly worn. For prices call or address T. A- UOODWIN, Agvnt. hi College avenue. , FINANCIAL. "f ONEY ON WATCHES. DIAMOND. JEW J1 -lry. without publicity. CITY LOAN OFFICE bl Wei Washington streei. , rpo LOAN 1 PER CENT. MONEY. ROOM D Lorraine Block. Union National SavlDc aud Loan AssooiaUoa of Indianapolis. CJIUKCll SERVICES. Congregational. 1LYMOUTncnUKCII. CORNER MERIDIAN and New York streets. Oscar C. McCulhch. pastor. 8ervlces coaduclod Lf Rsv. W. C Gordon, New Haven. Conn. Morning. 10:43. Evening, ":!.". bong Hervice Organ prelude, offertory." Wely, Paul Uabr; chorus, "tipint Immortal." from Attila. soprano solo, "Uock of Ages. Miepperd. Mr. Audrew smith; ladies' chorus, "Evening Hymn," Coucone; baritone solo. "See. Now, the Alur," Fame, id w.Nell; soprano sola "Ave Marie." KnsslnLMiss Fein; Cjuartet. "Hear. O Lord," Watson; chorus. "Unfold. Ye Portals," Oonnod. Sunday-school at 9 3 J a to. Mid-week meeting on Thursday evening at 7:45. Spiritualists. SPIRITUALISTS' MEETINGS AT MANSUR Hail, bundar, 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Lectures aud tests by G. W. Kates and wife, nnder a us pices Indiana Association All invited. tree standing near a spring, that later on the timber around the premises was cut away but the pear tree was left to grow and llourish, which it has done ever since. It was a good-sized tree tben. and had been planted lor some time. This is the "boss" old pear tree in this part of Pennsylvania, without doubt. Cutton. LIVERPOOL, July 4. Cotton Ppot quiet: middling, 4 9-lGd. Sales, 7,000 bales, ot widen 500 bale were for speculation and export, and included 5,'JOO bales American. Receipts, 'J.l'OO bale, all American. American middling, low middling clause, July, 4 30-04 d, sellers: July and Aufoist, 430-64d, sellers; August and September, 4 31-64d, sellers; beptember and October. 4 37-64d, value: October and November, 43t-ld. sellers; November and December, 4 41-040, sellers; December and January, 4 42-44 4 43-04d; January 'and February, 4 44-640 4 4 5-01 d; February and March, 4 46-04 a 4 47-04 d. Future closed quiet. TDeYBtctiT,0,9 A heavy burdyi all the ills and ailments that only female flesh is heir to. It rests with you whether you carry it or lay it down. You can euro the disorders and derangements that prey upon your sex, with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It's a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by an experienced physician, and adapted to woman'B delicate organ ization. For all organic displacements and weaknesses, accompanied by weak . back, bearing-down sensations, and for all uterine diseases, it's a positive specific. It's guaranteed to give satisfaction, in every case. If it doesn't, you've only to ask for your money and it's cheerfully refunded. If it does, you'll want to ask for nothing more. It'ff. the cheapest medicine you can usv because you only pay for the good you get. It improves digestion enriches tho blood, invigorates the system, and produces refresh-' ing Bleep. . ,