Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1896 — Page 7

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The Indiana Trust Co. TRUST BUILDING, Virginia Avccus and Washington Street.

Real Estate Department Tlii company nets ns general or upecinl ORent in taking care of real cstnte. It MAKES ItEPAIIlS, COLLECTS RF.XTS, PAYS TAXES, DRAWS LEASES AXD MORTGAGES. Insurance Department Write Are Insurance on dwelling and business property, stock of merchandise, houxehold Roodo, etc. This company represents only the largest and HtronKfst insurance companies. Safety Vault Department Hose for rent from $3 per annum nnd upward. Special lire nnd burglar proof vault for the storage of silverware, sealskin conts, etc. Separate npnrtments for women. """""MSSSSWSSSSBSSSSBSSSS-SSWBSSSSB) THE L. A. KINSEY CO., ISCOHPORATED. CAPITAL, 9i.5,000 FLXIj PAID. DEALERS Chicago Grain and Provisions, York Stocks. BRANCH 10 West Teeth St, Anderson, Ind. Loug Distance Telephone. 1373. 11 and 13 WEST PEARL STREET. "l" 71 J T A np The crop damage prlxl Is now " VV 11 r i I at hand, ana prices will co in m n f a A hiRber. Writ- for our Lhx otx Ie-u;atn.M ami dally market leuers. wnicn are iree. va Klflin Jt CO.. Broken, zzhzji ia .;u;e si., inicago. HOW $20 .MADE $500 IN 20 DAYS )ur book "How Kortuncj Are Ma-le eiplalns. Sent free. Write at once, as tLe eiit on 1 limited. The ltfc.NN INUTON IN V ESTMEN'T CO., I WaU St.. N. Y PELL OFE A FRACTION MAY AVI I EAT WEAKER AT CHICAGO, AXD DECLINED 7-SC. Oetter Crop Xevrs Had Its Effect All the Markets, Including: ! Provision Lines. on CHICAGO. April lS.Fine growing weather, lack of export and milling demand and the denial of chinchbug damage caused wheat to rule.weaker to-iay. May closed at TsC, or ;fcc below yesterday's close. Corn and oats declined ?c and lie respectively. Pork quiet at 125 under yesterday, lard .02K.C and ribs .05c. Tiie very favorable weather now prevailing and prospects for the next few days had much To do with with the weakness of wheat at th2 opening and during the forenoon. Crop reports also covering the period since the close of the previous month gave a good account of the progress made by the wheat plant since it came under the influence of growing weather. Added to the favorable crop news was the unsympathetic tone of the foreign markets to yesterday's aivanca here. The public cablegram quoted spot wheat in Liverpool unchanged and futures Ud higher. May wheat opened at from to 66Uc, declined to 66"8c, recovered to KVjC and then-began a decline which took it down to 65c with a. subsequent recovery to Wc and G5Tic, the closing quotation. One of thfl weak features of the day's statistical news was that no wheat was cleared from; New York in the last twenty-four hours. Demand for winter wheat from country millers at a premium over May price has 'practically ceased; In fact, some pre viously purchased has been ordered resold. The visible supply statement on Monday has posibilitles of a comparatively heavy decrease, and from 1,000,000 bu upward was the generally-expressed expectation or it. The backward state of spring wheat seeding In the Northwest was again a matter of frequent comment, but the extra moisture which 13 the present chief barrier to a rat -Id completion of the seeding, was general, considered more than ample compensatior. for two weeks' delay in getting the seed In. Corn suffered from the weakness of the wheat market, and the generally favorable, outlook for the planting time. May corn opened at 30a'gCO1i declined to Cue and closed at 3sc sellers. For a Saturday the oats market was very active. Good offer; ugs and sympathy with wht made the ftellng easier. May opened at 20c, sold off to 19;c and closed with that price bid. The provision market starter firm, but heavy, soon weakened, getting into line with the tendency of the grain markets. Estimates for Monday Wheat, 10 cars; corn, 360 cars; oats, 220 cars: nogs, 27,000. Leading futures ranged as follows: Open- High- Low- Clos Articles. Wheat April May .. July ., Corn April . May .. July . Sept . Oats May .. July . Sept .. Pork May .. July .. Lard May .. July ., Ribs May .. July .. ing, est. est. lng. est. 66 67 30 a 31 32?4 2 20i 20-ii est. 654 65 29-1 30 314 S24 204 65"s 67 234 304 S1U .324 204 204 $S.R0 8.& 4.924 5.074 4.374 4.50 314 2' 20?4 5S.72U $.72' 2 S-60 8.923 S.92i S.S0 4.971, 4.97, 4.92U .10 5.10 6.073 4.424 4.37Vi 4.57i 4.50 4.424 4-574 white. 19-&20c: No. 3 white. 19U20Uc: No. 2 rye, 371 ; No. 2 barley nominal; No. 1 flaxseed, 914c; prime timothy seed, $3.30; mes3 pork per brl, $S.G0ft3.63: lard pr poun.I, -Ttnxa i.SSic; short-rib sides (loose), 4.STfT4.40e; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), 44 HHc; short-clear sides (boxed). - 444:ic; whisky, distillers tinLTned goods per al. Re'ceirU -Flour. 7.000 brls; wheat. 11.000 bu; co.-n. 113,000 bu; oats. 1S6.000 bu; barley, 19 000 bu. Shipments Flour, 11,000 brls; wheat, 536.00) bu: corn, 1.740.000 bu; oats, 231.000 bu; rye. 1.000 bu; barley, 11,000 bu. LOCAL GRAIN AXD PRODUCE. Trade of the Week More Satisfactory, Tvltu Few Fluctuation. More business was transacted In the week closing April IS than in any preceding week eiace the holidays. Still In some lines It is not up to expectations. Wholesale grocers, druggists, hardware men and hat and cap dealers fared pretty well. Dry-good3 houses and. milliners dll not have the trade they had looked for. While there were a number of changes, none were of much importance. As would be expected, poultry, egg3 and butter all declined. Some descriptions of hog products declined a little. Hides were off Uc During the week sugars advanced slightly, and the week closes with fruits and vegetables of all descriptions, except potatoes, stronger. Lemcna are scarce and advancing. Oranges are about off the market. Receipts of strawberries are light and price uncertain. The market is now well supplied with new cabbage . from Florida, but prices are still high. The flour market shows a little more activity, and, while prices are no higher,, they are firmer. The local grain market wa3 fli.t all the week, track bids varying but litJe. Corn ehowed the most marked fluc;ua:Vns. The week closed with track bids ruling ah follows: Wheat No. 2 red. 70c; No. 3 red, C0'67c; wagon wheat, 63c. Corn No. 1 white, 31c: No. 2 white, Clc; No. 2 white, 21c: No. 2 white mlxd, 204c; No. 3 white mixed. 23'4?; No. 2 yellow. 30c: No. 3 yellow, 2uc; No. 2 mixed, 2lV c; No. 2 mixed. 2.4c: 'ar corn. zb4c. Oats No. 2 white, 22c; No. 3 white. 22?-'-c: No. 2 mixed. 21c; No. 3 mixed, 20c: Hay No. 1 timothy. S13ri4; No- . $103 22.M; No. 1 prairie. jXKfclO. Poultry nnd Other Prilufc. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry Hens, 64c; r;rinj3, 64c; cocks.

Cash quotations were as follows; Flour nominal; No. 2 spring wheat. 65c; No. 3 epring wheat. 654c; No. 2 red, 6SV&70c: No. 2 corn. 3Q4r30c: No. 2 oats, 194c; No. 2

2c: turkey hens, 10c; old hens, 8c; toms, 7c;

uij loms, ic; aucKs, so; geese, &c. Hutter--ChaIce country, 9c. llggs Shippers paying S'jc for fresh stock. Honcy-lGiilSc per lb. Beeswax 20c for yellow; 15c for dark.Wool Medium washed, 14c; fine merino, unwashed, 10c; tub-washed, 20&23c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Feathers Prime geese, 20322c per lb; mixed duck, 20c per lb. - HIDE3. TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides No. 1. 5Uc; No. 2, 4Uc; No. 1 calf, 6c; No. 2 calf, 4Uc. Green Hides No. l.Mc; No. 2,T. Grease White, 3Hc; yellow, 2c; brown, Tallow-No. 1. 3c; No. 2, 2c I Bones Dry, 51213 per ton. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Unchanged IIoka Active nnd Illcher Sheep Weaker. INDIANAPOLIS, April 13. Cattle Receipts light; shipments light. The general cattle market was unchanged from yesterday. Export H.00&4.20 Shippers, medium to good 3.70$i3.yo Shippers, common to fair 3.253.G0 Feeders, goo to choice... Z.LO'aZ.ld Stockers, common to good 2.75'a3.33 Heifers, good to choice S.503.8j Heifers, common to medium 2.75'a3.25 Cows, good to choice 3.10-03.33 Cows, fair to medium 2.70XOO .Cows, common old 1.50g2.50 Veals, good to choice 4.0C&5.oa Veals, common to medium 2.7513.73 Bulls, good to choice 2.003.33 Hulls, common to medium 2.232.75 Milkers, good to choice 27.0035.00 Milkers, common to medium 15.0022.00 Hog Receipts, 3.0CO; shipments, l.OCO. The market opened active at an advance of IAJ) 7UC, packers , and shippers buying, and the small offerings were soon exhausted at the advance. , Light $3.6Cc?3.75 Mixed 3.6C63.72H Packing and shipping 3.6033.72 Houghs 2.753.25 Pigs , 1 2.50Q 3.70 Sheep and Lambs Receipts light; shipments light. The supply was so light that buyers had not enough to fill their orders. The tendency wa3 rather weaker. Sheep, good to choice J3.33ti3.75 Sheep, fair to medium 2.853.15 Sheep, common thin 2.25512.65 Lambs, good to choice yearlings.... 4.00fi4.35 Lambs, common to medium 3.253.75 Spring lambs, 30 to 50 lbs, per 100 lbs 6.008.00 Bucks Z.OOfclOQ ; Elsewhere. CHICAGO, April 18. Dressed beef cattle firmer, and shippers have been very good buyers at $3.20(3.40 for common to prime steers sales being largely at $3.752.15, with extremely few above $4.25. The government Inspectors are condemning a great many light and common calves, and shippers are at last beginning to cease buying them at any price. Milkers and springers sell at per head. The demand for hogs was sufficient to absorb the limited offerings, as prices were strong and largely 5c higher for heavy medium and mixed lots, while light weights were steady. Common to choice heavy sold at $3.3(3.70, packing lots selling largely at $3.65. while medium weights sold up to $3.S5. Light hogs sold readily at $3.604. Sheep Trade was moderately animated at the decline of' ZafiXic this week. Sheep are now selling at S2.50ff3.75 for poor to extra, largely at $33.50, and lambs bring $3.754.50. Receipts Cattle, 400; hogs, 11,000; sheep, 4,500. ST. LOUIS. April 18.-Cattle Receipts. 300: shipments, 250. The market was steady. Export steers, $4.154.30; fair to good shopping, C(W4.10; dressed beef and butchers' steers. $3.254: light steers, under 1.000 lbs. 12.85(g) 3.65; stockers and feeders, $2.503.75; cows and heifers, 52.50ft3.60; canners. Jl.50fi2.35; bulls, mostly at 2.25S2.70; calves. W.iofeS: Texans steady; steers, $2.803.85. mainly at $.3.60; cows and heifers, $23.23, mostly at $2.2503. Hcgs Receipts, 4,600; shipments, 500. The market opened steady and closel weak. Heavy, $3.2233.50; .mixed. $3.20g3.50; light. S3.5O&3.G0. Sheep The market was steady. Natives, $3.233.73; Texans, $353.60; spring lambs, $6fc 7.50. - EAST BUFFALO, April 18.-Cattle Receipts only a few odd head, not over a carload In all. Market 6 low. Hogs Receipts, 33 cars. Market fahiy active; Yorkers, good to choice, $3.903.95; roughs, common to good, $33.20; pigs, common to fair, $3.653.90. Sheep and Lambs Receipts. 16 cars. Market fairly active; lambs, good to choice, $4.504.70; culls, fair to good, $44.25; sheep, choice to prime export wethers. $44.10; culls and common, $2.753.CO. KANSAS CITY, April 18.-Catt!e Receipts, 2.000. Market nominally steady; Texas steers, $3-93.50; Texas cows, $23.10; beef steers, $34; native cows, $1.733.50; stockers and feeders, $203.83; bulk $1.9003.15. Hogs Receipts, 900; shipments, 1,600. Market strong and 5c higher. Bulk of sales at $3,4023.55; .heavies. $3Q3.4o; packers. $3. 3.55; mixed. $3.403.65; Yorkers, $3.553. pigs, $3.353.65. Sheep Receipts, 1,700; shipments, 1,100. Nominally steady; lambs, $4.104.20; muttons, $2.503.00. CINCINNATI, April 18,-CattIe The mar ket was steady at $2.504.io. Receipts, 100; shipments. 100. Hogs The market was strong and higher at $3.133.63. Receipts, 2,500; shipments, 2.300. Sheep The market was steady at $2.604. Receipts. 200; shipments none. Lambs steady at $3.01i4.85; spring lambs, $3 6. EAST LIBERTY, April 18. Cattle strong; prime, $4.25'ft4.35; good, $4.10ca4.20; good butchers, $3.S04; roughs, fat, $33.75; bulls, 6taga and cows. $1.75i3.60. Hogs Slow and unchanged. Sheep Steady and unchanged. LOUISVILLE. April lS.-Cattle-The market was dull and unchanged. Hogs The market was dull and unchanged. Sheep and Lambs Nothing doing. Pension for Veterans. The applications of the following named Indianlans have been granted: Original SpecIal, April 6) John R. Ervln, Muncie; George C. Reed, Hanover. Increase Freeling H. Biggs, West Lebanon; Jacob Wyer. Curry ville; James Laswell, Boonville; George W. Hall, Edwardsport. Reisssuey-James F. Simpson, Lamb. ' Original' widows, etc. Minors of William Hatfield. Go3hen; KaroIIna Kasllng. Evansvllle; minors of Christian Ostermeyer, In-. dlanapolis. Reissue (Special. April 6) Cynthia M. Dain, Kirkpatrick. John Wilkes Ilooth's Remains. Seaton ?Junroe, In North American Review. So many stories were shortly after this time published concerning the final disposition of Booth's remains that I must state, in conclusion, what I saw and knew about It. Some accounts treated the subject as a mysterv the covernment was determined to was carried down the liver and bay by nUht, and thence out to sea. where It was sunk forever out of the sipht and knowl edge of men. Nine years afterward I met In Europe an Englishman who declared and offered to wager that Booth was then alive and in India. He "knew all about It," of course, but he eventually decided not to lose the considerable number of pounds sterling he had offered to risk when 1 engaged to produce an authenticated extract of the proceedings cf the commission. The facts, with which I was well acquainted, are these: After the adjournment of the commission the remains were, in my sight, sewn up in a navy blanket and passed over tne sloe of the vessel into a small boat, manned by two persons, one of whom was rowing, and who had been detailed . by uoionei JtiaKer, with Instructions which they kept to themselves. The boat proceeded down the Anacostla and disappeared around the point in the direction of the United States Arsenal, now the artillery barracks. In these grounds was the old penitentiary, within the walls of which the conspirators were subsequently confined, tried and four of thera executed. The officers on duty at the arsenal were well known to me, two of them being my relatives. A short time subsequently one of these told me of the receipt by him of the body, and its interment in a cellar under the penitentiary bulldng on the day I saw the last of It Several years afterward, as is now well known, the government turned it over to the family, and it Is now renting in their cemetery plot in Baltimore. Price of the La." Chicago Post. "La Lole." like la grippe, has come and gone. This "la" is not quite as bal as the other "la." for she cost only $2 per attack and lasted only two nights. There wa3 a time when you might have seen this fascinating young woman for 10, 20 or 30 cents, as your purse might Justify, but that was before she went to Paris and became a la-la, la-la-la. Perhaps it may be necessary to explain fnr the benefit of those who have not a pe.rfet command of French that the difference beween Loie Fuller and "La Loie Is $1.70, which is the only equivalent for the peculiar French Idiom. Chicago has been generous in welcoming Miss Fuller to her old home, and Is sensible or tne nonor con ferred upon her by the discriminating surrendering an equal sum for a nignt 8 ride in the coach of an -Italian marchese. And yet, with all this fearful exhibition of an electric storm, the paraJox remains that la Loie" doe? not shock m half as delightfully as in the eld days when she was merely the Lois. Ar.d es for her doncir.- oh. "La Lc'.z" c-vd tzsiclzz lcr.j cJ.

A PECULIAR PEOPLE

THEIR NIXG CARDINAL VIRTTES AXD AX EPIT03IE OF THEIR RELIEF. Xevr England Shakers Whose Religion , fs, to Use Their Oirn Words, Most Iladletil Spiritualism. Lewlston Journal. Maine Shakerdom suffered a ssvere loss by the death cf Bishop John B. Vance at Alfred, Saturday, March 14, after a brief illness. There are two families or communities of these peculiar people In this State, one at Alfred and one at New Gloucester, on the shore of Sabbath Day lake. Bishop Vance was the recognized temporal and spiritual head of both of these societies. He was born In Balleyville, in eastern Maine, sixty-two years ago. His father, Shubael Vance, joined the Alfred Shakers when John was five years old. The coming leader early gave Indications of more than ordinary natural ability. At the age of sixteen he began to teach, since which time he has been almost constantly In homes as an instructor of youth. He was" made an elder at twenty years, and steadily rose in rank until ne reached the bishopric. As a public speaker he was remarkable for sound reasoning, and his sermons and addresses were marvels of clearness and power. As a careful and able financier and executive officer he ranked among the best which the Maine societies ever had. His headquarters were in Alfred," while he made frequent business trips to the family at Sabbath Day lake. Organized Shakerism In Maine dates back more than a hundred years. The first convert to the iaith In this State was John Cotton, of Alfred, in 1783. He married Eleanor Coffin, daughter of Simeon Coffin, who is said to have been the first white man to penetrate the forest of what the Indians then called Masseoesic, ana took up ms abode in an Indian wigwam, which then stood near the site of the present Shaker house of worship in Alfrad. Shaker missionaries held meetings In Alfred, Waterboro, Ly man and other adjoining towns, result ing in many converts. In 1793 a "United Society of Brethren called Shakers" was organized in Alfred, being the first com munistic society ever known in 'Maine. "Neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was hs rWTI Knt V o r Vi o r 1 oil Vlrrrcj I ri Anmmnn v vui, itikj uuu Ull iiuua 14 VUlllillVit, To-day the Alfred Shakers have In their possession about twelve hundred acres of land, beautifully situated on very elevated ground known as Shaker hill. Upon the top of this hill stands the little Shaker village, consisting of about twenty-four old-fashioned farmhouses, most of them having been built i v j j mt. nearly a hundred years ago. They are In excellent repair, each building standlng by itself, with an extensive green lawn stretching out on all sides. One line of these houses fronts on the main street, while another straight row stands in the rear. The society is divided Into two families, containing in all about sev-enty-flve people. They have a fine water power near the village, on which is an excellent grist mill. In the earlier years of its history this society was rather famous for its di versity of manufactures, among them cone spinning wheels for wool and linen, deck reels, wooden spectacles, tubs. pails, churns, brooms, dry measures In sets, whips, hair sieves, oval boxes in nests, mortars, etc. , They also ran a tan nery and did a large business in raising garden seeds, and the sisterhood srcn and wove cotton cloth for the market with profit. The only trouble was that their industries were too much diversified for large gains. The Shaker society at Sabbath Day lake. New Gloucester, was organized in 1794, under the lead of Elder John Barnes, of Alfred. Their first meeting house and family dwelling house was built the following year. The huge chimneys of the latter building, now standing, required twenty thousand bricks, which were made on the shore of the lake. The society was then far from being rich, but now possesses a valuable property, and, in the lingo of the world's people, is exceedingly "well fixed" finan clally. The home farm at present con slsts of about seventeen hundred acres of choice tillage and timber land. There is a valuable water privilege near the village, which is utilized by sawmill, carding mill and other machinery. The society formerly carried on quite extensive manufactures, but since improved machinery and sharp competition have made old-fashioned methods Unprofitable they have almost entirely abandoned this branch of work. GOING TO DECAY. Added to their home property Is the flve-hundred-acre farm of what was formerly known as the "Poland hill Shak ers," located one nille north of the Sabbath Day lake village, on the first and highest peak of the Poland "range." Its once busy village is now tenantless save by a family or two of "world's people." and is fast going to decay. For seventv . tf uA Knn ii v, u,,.cu uu,comate oraer. p prancn xamiiy or the main society. . ouimera are uuman. uut mere IS a divinity which shapes their treatment of the stranger within their gates that s more than formal kindness It bears the broad seal of true hospitality, without partiality and without hypocrisy. can you accommodate a man and horse for the night?" asked the travelstained scribe, standing In the doorway of the trustee's office at Sabbath. Day iaKe. cu , x mi uk. bu, uianuiy replied a short, stout, benevolent-faced Shakeress. wearing the drab suit and regulation cap or tne order. And in less time than It takes to tell it man and beast were taken In and made comfortable by willing nanus. I use the word "comfortable" in it best sense. Anyone who Imagines Shaker life to be austere and cheerless, shut within four bare wall?, furnished with three-legged stools, a birch broom and a tallow candle. Is wofully mistaken. Sabbath Day lake Shakers do not devote much time or space to frills or furbelows, but they religiously believe In home comforts, real and solid, end they have them. Office, sitting room, dining room and sleeping rooms are models of neatness, cheerfulness and real comfort. There are no French dishes on their tables, but there is plain food in profusion. Including the whitest of homemade bread, the sweetest of uncoloj-ed butter, the richest of cream, and ample bowls of real Shaker apple sauce. The only relic of grim barbarism observable In the entire bill of fare was dried apple pie! Yours truly never did take kindly to this particular brand of pastry. Visitors and others outside the Shaker household of faith are not invited to break b d Un the family but eat ,n is for the performance of some peculiar table rites and ceremonies, or for mere convenience sakeI was unable to ascertain. One highly suggestive feature about the sleeping apartments of there peculiar pecpis is.the l-cli el rccQmoC:'.?n frr

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ences. Tne sleeping rooms are large ana alry and usually contain two beds each,. but they are ever and always severely single. Shaker home government Is one of the marvels of this communistic order. The nine cardinal virtues of Shakerism are: 1. Purity In mind and body a virgin life. 2. Honesty and Integrity of purpose in word and deed. 3. Humanity and kindness; to friend and foe. i 4. Diligence In business, thus serving the Lord. Labor for all, according to stiength and ability, genius and circum stances. Industrious, yet not slavish; that all may be busy, peaceful and happy. G. Prudence and economy, temperance and frugality, without. parsimony. 6. Absolute freedom from debt, owing no man anything but love and good will.. 7. Education of children in Scripture, secular and scientific knowledge. 8. United Interest In all things more comprehensive than selfish relations of husband and wife and children the mutual love and unity of "kindred spirits, the greatest and best demonstration of practical love. ' 9. Ample provision for all in health. sickness and old age; a perfect equality one household, one faith, practicing every day virtue, shunning all vice. To bring together in one family, from the four corners of the earth, as It were, men, women and children of all grades of training and no training at' all. all shades of religion, morality and politics, control, hold and mold them in the image of Shakerism, as drawn In the foregoing nine cardinal virtues, most surely requires administrative ability and moral power, not to say magnetic force, of no mean order. And yet, this is what they do not only at Sabbath Day lake, but throughout Shakerdom, wherever a family exists. There are four orders of Shaker gov ernment the ministry, elders, trustees and family deacons. The ministry look after the spiritual and financial interests of the society, the trustees conduct its business affairs, the family elders and deacons care for the temporal and domestic welfare of the family at home. The official head of Shakerism in Maine ranks as bishop. He is the spiritual and financial authority of - both the Alfred and Sabbath Day lake Shaker families, and is responsible only to the Mount Lebanon ministry, that being the senior society of the United States. FEMININE EQUALITY. The ministry of the family at New Gloucester, or Sabbath Day lake, consists of Elder William Dumont, Eldresses Liz zie M. Noyes and Prudy Stlckney, asso ciates. Trustee, Aurella G. Mace, with the bishop, who is general trustee for the Maine societies. Deacons there are none; Sarah Fletcher and Amanda Stlckney are deaconesses. In all of these official positions below bishop the rules call for two men and two women associates. It will be observed that. -while the women are quite fully represented, the men are wanting, The simple truth about It Is, probably, that there are not men' enough in the family of the requirea caliber to go round. Not only -.are women's rights acknowledged and honored In all Shakerdom. but in the Sabbath Day lake soCety the dual order, is so far ignored that the women virtually run the entire ;nsVVr on n 13 Dut usuce lo say inat h is wen run. Thp two controlling spirits in the management of the Sabbath Day lake family are Eldress Lizzie M. Noyes and Trustee Aurella G. Mace. . Both are women of marked individuality of character, administrative ability and aptness to gov ern, and so wisely and well do they per form their allotted -tasks that they are beloved by all their people, while good order, neatness and thrift are apparent on every nana. , , Eldress Lizzie M. Noyes. as senior eldress, has the management of the family indoors, spiritually, and temporally. She is a niece of the late William Noyes, a veteranTnewspaper man of Maine, at one time proprietorof the Maine Farmer and afterward the first proprietor of the Blddeford Journal. She has several rela tives now living in the cities of Bldde ford and Saco. She was born in Oxford, this State, fifty years ago; was educated at Hebron Academy; adopted the profession of teacher, which calling she fol lowed until 1880, when she joined the Shakers, of which1 order her father, Joseph Noyes, had been a member since 1S62. Eldress Lizzie at once took a prominent position in the work of the com munity. Her present rank of senior eldress places upon her a heavy burden of responsibility, which she has thus far met with signal success. Her father died in 18S7, and an uncle of hers, who is also a member of this family, is still living at an advanced age. Trustee Aurella G. Mace occupies a position similar to that of treasurer of a corporation. She has charge of the head office, runs the society store and is the local agent of the society to conduct business transactions with the "world's people." She. was born in Farmington, this State, and has been a Shaker ever since her babyhood; was teacher of the children of the society for twenty-seven years, and has held her present position of trustee fifteen years. Onerous as her daily duties are, she performs them with the precision and gracious ease which come of long practice and an enthusiastic devotion to Shakeristic principles. The peculiar feature of this peculiar people is their religion. A Shaker com munity is only another name for a church. Shakerism is spiritualism, and. to use their own words, "the most radical spiritualism of our day." Shakers claim to have been "mediums" of spirit phenomena long before the Rochester rappings were heard of. Indeed, their name as Shakers comes as the direct result of spirit manifestations through them. In Manchester, England, where Mother Ann Lee, the originator of Shakerism, was born, the first Shakers were Quakers. In theIr religious gatherings . some disfiauuuieu spirit .huuiu move me enure 1 II 1 1U . . 1 J 11 congregation to shout, sing, dance and fly about in a strangely grotesque fashion, and they were'called by the ungodly world "Shaking Quakers." At their early camp meetings in this country trances, rolling. Jerking, barking and dancing were favorite modes of spirit manifestations. At one of these meetings three thousand persons are said to have fallen in trances. In the "rolling" exercise they doubled head and feet together and rolled over like a wheel, or, stretching themselves prostrate, they turned swiftly over and over like a log. This was done to mortify the flesh. The"jerks" were more debasing. It began with the head, which flew backward and forward and from side to side with u quick jolt; or they would hop about with head, limbs and body twitching and bobbing in every direction. "Barking, like a dog was the lowest humiliation. They got down on air fours, growled, snapped their teeth and howled like a truly vicious canine. These fantastic tricks were superseded by the Shaker dance, which was a series of rapid whirls around, kept up for hours. But most of these violent "spirit" demonstrations have long since been done away with by the Maine families, and now the Sabbath Day lake Shakers seldom hold a public meeting at alL They do hold private assemblies, however, to which no ungodly outsider can gain entrance. What takes place at those gatherlngs can only be guessed at. In the matter of doctrine the Shakers are closelv allied to the Unitarian faith, They deny the resurrection of Christ as ioousn: tnev can me atonement aoctrine "untrue and disappointing," and declare the "trinity scheme" to be monstrous. They believe God is the Eternal Two Father and Mother: they respect Christ as a good teacher, and claim that the Christ spirit now In the world came a second time through Mother Ann Lee. the founder and head of Shakerism: that then the true millennium began, and. Nvhilp thev are modest about clalminir thM all the world will become Shakers, they believe that all men will finally accept Shaker principes. They believe in no other or future rcccr.d crniinj cf

THE CARLYLE HOUSE

THE FAMOUS PLACE IX C1IEYXE ROW IS XOW A PUDLIO MUSEUM. Interesting: Relies of Thomas nnd His Jane to De Found There Objects Carefully Arranged. New York Post. The house in Cheyne row. Chelsea, where Carlyle lived has long been a place of pilgrimage. While it was still ' the dirtiest and shabbiest in all the neighborhood hero worshippers came to look upon it and shed a sentimental tear. It needed no medallion on the wall, no statue on the embankment garden beyond to remind thera of the tragedy of which the little old eighteenth century street was the scene not so many years since. Into the domestic drama of the Carlyle household it Is now impossible to Intrude, that drama having been made public property, once and for all, when the "Reminiscences" and "Letters" were published. It is this which really has reconciled one to the recent transformation of the house Into a public museum. Otherwise one might shrink from what would seem the violation of a great man's privacy. It Is different with Milton's cottage at Chalfont, for instance, with Durer's house In Nuremberg, Milton and Durer being among the remote heroes of dead centuries. But only yesterday the Carlyles were still at No. 5, now No. 24, there struggling in that "tearing whirlpool of miseries, anxieties and sorrows" which life, alas, always was for them both. However, since museum the house has now become, the more interesting and complete it is made, the better, so that most people will hear with pleasure that the loan exhibition opened in December ior a monm, xne time Deing men extended to three, . Is to be continued in definitely.' It Is true that many of the things on view at the present moment the greater number the property of Mr. Alexander Carlyle may eventually be claimed by their owners. But it Is hoped that others will be sent to take their place, and, at any rate, the collection will remain as It is until the summer a fortunate arrangement for touring Americans apt to seek headquarters in London during May, June and July. The house, as by this, time Is well known, has been put in repair and given the thorough cleaning It so sorely needed after its temporary role as cheap hotel for cats. Every effort has been made to restore It to the condition In which it was left by the Carlyles, their wall pa pers even having been reproduced, for in their day in many of the rooms wall paper mere was,, wen nung over tne beautiful paneling, which, with the daintily decorated stairway, was one of the chief charms of their home had they but realized it. When possible the old furniture has been arranged in its old place where they were accustomed to see it, and in every room and on the stairway pencil sketches by Mrs. Allingham show the exact position of engrav ings and pictures, these in some cases nntnallv hantrlnc whpro oriErinallv thev belonged. What little there is down stairs is xouna in tne oacK dining room. Carlyle's bookcase, designed by himself, standing in the recess Ly the chimney place which he" meant it to fill. There you may see the complete library edition of hlr works in the familiar red bind ings published by Chapman & Hall. And there, too. to vour irreater nleasure. vou - w r w s w w may see many of Carlyle's own books; really a motley collection, for you chance upon now a Danish grammar or a "Hand Book for Ireland," now the works of John Knox or the plays of Schiller, or, again, a copy of the "Earthly Para dise," opened to show the inscription, "Thomas Carlyle, with his scholar John Ruskln's love; 1st January. 1870." Ah me! ah, me! as Carlyle might have sighed. SUGGESTIVE RELICS. One shelf Is reservtd for a. pretty, oldfashioned cup and saucer artd a couple of plates In. white and gilt "part of breakfast set," the catalogue explains; and memory forthwith singles from out the long procession of maid servants, Mr. Carlyle's special abhorrence, "that horse," "that cow, that mooncalf," and looks upon the grim comedy played one dull November morning "a .whole washing tub full of broken things" in the , kitchen, all the china breakfast service gone irretrievably save a mere remnant left for the idle gaze of the sightseer. Do we not know those maid servants of No. 5 even better than Cromwell's Ironsides, than Frederick's Grenadiers? Will they not, too,-be rmembered as long as Carlyle's name is honI ored, as long as the most human letters ever written are read by a sympathetic or prying public? On the wall opposite are engravings of Frederick, Of Maria Theresa and of I others who had a part to play in that I weariest of all books in the making; and in a case are fragments of manuscripts some full of the blue pencil corrections that were the printers' despair; medals commemorating Carlyle's birthday, a horseshoe with screw cogs for frost, invented by him a horseshoe all too sorely needed, too seldom used in London's slippery streets and other such odds and ends. But the more Intimate relics are above in the drawing room. It is impossible here to give a full list of them; of the portraits, the pieces of furniture most notable the desk upon which all Car lyle's books, except only the Schiller, were written the miscellaneous contents of the glass case, with its testimonials from home and abroad, its photographs, card cases, pencils, flasks, seals, and the several trifles once the most immediate personal property of either Carlyle or Mrs. Carlyle. But perhaps among them all is nothing so pathetic, so genuinely touching as the three little birthday and Christmas notes. "The prophecy or a washstand," one says, "to the neatest of all women. Blessings on her bonny face, and be it ever blithe to me as it is dear, blithe or not. 25th December, 1850." And this from the man who hated all such nonsense as presents and shrank from the bother of going into a shop to buy anything. Of his tenderness in so trivial a matter to his wife after her mother's death one likes to have the reminder in the room where, for 'all its distinguished associatlpns, one remembers best the long, bitter days of her loneliness and jealousy, the long, sad evenings when he sat solitary over his dreary Prussian books MRS. CARLYLE'S ROOM. On the same floor is Mrs. Carlyle's bedroom, all put empty. But Its emptiness cannot help one to forget her terrible sleepless nights; her headaches; her waiting In the darkness, with revolver and rattle by her bedside, during the household cleaning, to her ever a horror: her ag0ny In the early morning, when. t . . , awakened by the crowing of infernal cocks" or barking of dogs, she listened for the mad stamping and titanic curslng in the room above. "If we cwild only i Riccp, ucm, buc .w um-Ci she wrote to him and what you call digest, wouldn't it be nice?" and so writing gave, perhaps. the true clew to the tragedy of their life together. The bed has been brought back to Carlyle's room a great gloomy bedstead, with heavy red hangings, well calculated to murder sleep. How often 1- it figured in airs, uariyie s letters, wnere no domestic detail, however squalid or I lurid, was ever glossed over tales, these. rhlcn tne equeamisn ao not venture to repeat. But perhaps interest culminates I whtn ctill another flight of stair 13 I climbed and one finds one's rclf In tho

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its top light, the most disastrous of their many, failures, where for the most part of those endless thirteen years Carlyle was "smothered", under his "Frederick." Was there ever since the world began an author whose work was done in such anguish and bitterness of spirit? Thechair presented to him by John Forster has a prominent place. On the walls the faces of Voltaire and Frederick look' out from quaint little old cheap prints. There are portraits innumerable of the master himself; most conspicuous a photograph of Mr. Whistler's picture, a painting by Llnnell (very early this, of course), a sketch by Count D'Orsay. And there are, above all, in convenient cases, manuscripts and letters far more than can be now enumerated; none, however, of greater value, I think, none that does him more honor than the brave, manly, fine letter written by him to his pub lishers after the manuscript of the first volume of his "French Revolution," lent to Mill, had been burnt. Real trouble Carlyle met with a dignity and courage and strength that almost make one wish his way through life had been less smooth and easy. For, rugged as it seemed to him. assuredly most of his trials and tribulations were of his own imagining. . So entirely Is the domestic economy of the little house laid bare to the curious that the basement kitchen may be visited, where odd pieces of the Carlyle dinner, service are set out upon the dresser. and a cat sits purring in front of the fire. for all the world as if Pen were still alive. Glimpses there are. also. Into .the tiny garden, where, during the hot sum mers when he stayed in town, Carlyle had his tent study. At the back rises a bit of thp old brick wall, all that is left of Henryv VIII's Chelsea manor house. To one side is a small green china garden seat, one of the "noblemen, It may be. on which Carlyle sat for his midnight smoke, "looking up into tne empyrean and the stars." And later grass plots and paths and bushes are, as well as the thing can be done, to be put In Dreclsely that order In which Mrs. Carlyle tfept them. Altogether the place has a homely yet solemn pathos, not spoiled by indiscreet or blatant touting for the tourist. The directors have shown admirable Judgment and sympathy In they Arrangement of the rooms and cases. Thefa is nouung to offend the most sensitive; much more than I have had space to mention, to delight the student. Indeed, No. 24 Cheyne row, like the Soane Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, will," to many, seem far worthier a- special visit than the large, better advertised galleries and museums. Be cause I believe that no one who has read Carlyle with pleasure or profit can fail to be interested, I am eager to call attention to the fact that it is proposed to make this exhibition of Carlyle's relics permanent. SNAKES IX THE CITY. A Vermont Farmer Calls on a Nerr York Friend and la Surprised. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A little Incident in connection with a recent visit to New York by a young Brattleboro farmer left an impres?lon which Is not likely to be forsrotten. Having a little leisure, the visitor concluded to look up a former chum and . schoolmate with whom he had spent many a day fishing and hunting In and about Brattleboro. After securing, an address from the directory which he assumed to be that of his friend, he was soon able to locate the block, though he found it more difficult to gain an entrance to the room where he anticipated the visit with the friend of his boyhood. Finally he was directed to a dingy stairway which led to the top story, and to the securely-fastened door on which he was able to decipher the number for which he had searched. After repeated knocks a voice from within huskily Inquired his name and the object of his visit. A long wait and the door was carefully opened. For a few seconds the visitor doubted and hesitated, but being assured that he had found : the identical person for whom he was looking, he rather cautiously stepped Inside. There was something strange and mysterious about the surroundings, and the young farmer almost, wished himself back in hi quiet Vermont home. The apartment with its Turkish furnishings was dim and weird by the rays from a deep colored skylight, for there was no ether window, through which a sort of luminous glow , filled the whole Interior. -Ia that light a man stool before him with smoota facA thin and r.hastly. with sharp, penetratlKj eyes, his hair long and disheveled, who might have been most any one but the visitor's friend. But there cculi be no m!f take, as he was soon convinced, and after a brief reference to oil times and scenes, the hollow-eyed man proceeded to expialn his present surroundings. 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