Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1897 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, . -MONDAY,

JANUARY J, 1897.

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Our Annual Sale of Linens and Cottons Commences This Morning Look Out for Pettis Dry Goods Co. Buy YourWinter Shoes OFGIJO. J. MAHOTT, 26 ond 28 East Washington St. STAIX TIU2 I.ATIvST STYLUS. "Sj3 Every Civilized Cuisine Has for its basis wholesome Bread. PRINCESS FLOUR In a selected product ot guaranteed purity. tf A 1 i. Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baklug powder. nkbecof til la levering fttrengtn. Latttt United Mate Government Fond Report. P.otal Baki.no Powdis CO- Ncv York. AMUSEMENTS. Local Announcement. The Empire will have Ruh's Exceltior ExtrMvangnnia Company this week. The feature of noitei Morri?on' production of 'Vnrnifn." that tomes to the Orand to-niht. In an eiioloscopic representation of a "Spanish hall fisht. It la another vrrsicn of the Cinematograph. The scene U nil in one picture, ami lavis fifteen minute. The Transoceanic a Company that romcs to t.e Park to-day has what they call a KincmatoKraph, which will take the j lace of the Cinematograph, which ha been the feature at the i'ark for Ave wekn. The K Inr mat graph views fire said to h? different from those heretofore rhown at the park. De Wolf Hopper's "Kl Capitan," which cornea to Kpgllsh's the last half of the week, is the first opera of the reason in Indianapolis, ami the engagement will probably te the m.?t Mn-ccnful Hopper ever j Uyed in thla city. Inejuiries as to vhen "El Capitan" would te here l ave eon received ever sim-e the reason opene.l, showing the general intret In the coming prthljctlon. The advance hale opens to-day at the Pembroke. Xordlca Ilevenue on Melba. The great Metropolitan Opera House production cf "Siegfried" la?t week In New Yoik afforded Mme. Nordtca weet revenge. Thi. was the. operi which rautei the turning down of the American prima donna l" the foreigners. The role of I'runnhllde wa the one Jeaa De Iteszke was instrumental in reelng that Mme. Melba secured for her great Wagnerian debut. o to ppeak, thu leaving Nordica cut in the cold, and renultlng In her leaving the Metropolitan organization. Well. Melba Mng Drunnhildc, and It vaa so heavy that the fell, and fell hard. In fact she ktruck bottom In the critical notices with such an unmlstakeable dull thud that at the next performance of "yiesfr.'ed" on Saturday the secured a doctor's certificate rather than appear again before she could rehearse with her frknl Jem and fortify her confidence for another attempt. This left the role of r.runnhllde on Saturday for Jean's foreign shster-indaw, Mme. LUvinne. who has been thrown at the New York public already several times this reason without causing the rooters to get up and cheer. The New I oi k critics. observing what a bone-crushing fall they gave Melba. or rather what a headlong consequential plunge she took herself In irunnhilde. have emayed to pick her up again tenderly and let her decline mere gently, this time with the bitter and sympathetic announcement that llrannhllde Is not wholly pulted to the Australian diva. Verily. Nor J tea's revenge U sweet. Jean de Heszke's debut In Warner's "Sleg fried" ban ct the hancSime tenor ni mustache. Siegfried 1 a yocfh with a beardless face, and the sacrifice was recessary to precerve the character. The tenor's face Is changed considerably by the loss of his hirsute ornament, and the female portion of the audience was not particularly pleased with the change, although M. Jean 1 said to look younger than Alvary in the p.irt. A dummy mustache will have to replace the neat little curled affair l Keszke gave up In the barber'a chair when he resumed the part of Romeo. Note of tlie Stanrc. Sir Arthur Sullivan has made arrangemerits with Signer E. Carozzl. of Milan, to produce an Italian version of "The Mikado" throughout Italy for a period of live years. Verdi Is working on an oratorio because he "hates to be Idle," but ho is not. according to u recent visitor, composing an opera on u Shakspearean or any other theme. Moritz Rosenthal, the pianist, will go to Southern California as soon as he can travel safely. He expects to begin his season on the Pacific coast some time in February. Since Captain Chapman's recent raid of the swell bachelor dinner at Sherry's, in New York, on account of the quality of the vaudeville performance placed tefore the fashionable diners, S. Ooodfriend. In Pls and Player, suggests that police interferes. e might be avoided in the future by presenting- an entertainment of a more serious and mbitar.tlal qualify. Ibsen's "Ghosts" for a farewell bachelor dinner woul-l doubtless prove very edifying and. possibly,- pertinent. Edward Abram. manaser of "Faust" and Oarmen." was presented with an opal ring Chri-tmas by Lewis Morrison. The ring was accompanied by a tiny e'lp of parer. on which was written: "eioo. luck to the New Year; to hades with the old. Your fiiend. the devil." Within an hour atter getting the ring Abram received word that a lawsuit for Hsa against him In Tnnesce had been diim!Hed. The next day a telegram told him that "Carmen" played to a JLS5 house where he had expectet not over $2no He begins to think the opal is not a harbinger of bad luck after alL Charles Frchman made his first api-earanre before the curtain at the Empire Theater last Monday night, when the Vtock company opened in "Under the Hed P.cbe." FW.man Is notoriously mcx!f t. and heretofoie has never answered a public call to appear on the stage and bow his acknowledgments. Hut in this occasion the audience wai exceptionally enthusiastic arter the list act. The company wm honored with nine curtain calls, but the audler.ee ou.d not desist until Frchman came out. It is said that the Napoleonic manager hjd a bad case of neae fright, and only ventured half wav out until nn one in the stave entrance pushed him gently frjrward until his entire figure was clearly In view. Andrew Mack dropped In at a phonograph store on Proadway recently tj hoar himself sing Ms song. "My Pearl Ik a Powery titrl." He handed tfca ftVttaiact a dlnie and g ot a nickel in change.

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Then he rnovej along to hear his friend Otis Harlan sing "Nam-y." raying for It with the nickel he had Just reteived. "1 am sorry, but this Is a counterfeit," said the attendant. "Well. 1 like your nerve." replied Mack. "Pl lri't y..u Ju't give It to ine?" "c)h. I ! yioir pardon." said the man. "You needn't." answered Mack: "the counterfelt's no worse than these things you are passing off In the t)xes." The plot of "A Contented Woman." the comedy Charles Hoyt has written for his wife. Caroline Miskel-Hoyt. to Mar in, binges on just a common everyday ugly button. Penton Holmes Is a politician and a candidate for mayor in a Western city one of those cities where womsn are allowed to vote. Of course he has lots to worry him. and he has been saying some pretty ntsty things to hi wife. She forgives him. however, anl heaps the proverbial coals by sewing a button on his overcoat Just as he is hurrying off to a political meeting. She doesn't get the button in the right place, and Penton tears it off. says "damn." goe out and slams the or. That settles It. That "damn" Is the last straw, and Mrs. Holmes consents to acrept the nomination for mayor tendered to her by the reform party and run In opposition to her husband. In talking! of his experiences In comic opera to a reporter of a Philadelphia paper during his recent engagement in that cty, Da Wo'f Ho; per gild that in hU opinion the most hopeless error a singer can make is to lose hi? recollection of a word of frse In a topical song. "In a speeech," he tall, "you can usually retain the thought and can Improvise something to keep from a regular split, but in a topical song it is different. I had aq experience in New York city last summer during the long run of 'El Capitan' at the Proadway Theater In that city, and by a singular fatality c n the very night that the comisser of Its score, accompanied by the members of his now famous band, visited the theater to witness the performance, when I got stuck In the second line of one of the. verses of the 'Typical Tune of Zanzibar,' the topical song of the opera In the third act. After an Ineffectual attempt to Jog my memory, and being unable to do so, I told the audience what whs the matter, and left the stage, but came back and sang two other verses, tried it again and succeeded, which brought down the house. 1 have Just hs much trouble with the verses I write myself, and am just as helpless when I forget a word." TUB WAIlMKi: AM Kill (MX.

He In iv Fighter, and tienernl Pnntlo's; Opinion In I'rroncoux. San Francisco Chronicle. Tho belief of (Jeneral I'ando in the martial inferiority of the American people la one that .was very common in Kurope a few years before our civil war. Judged by Kuropean standards, we had not done well in the military sense during the revolution, our final victory beinj? attributed abroad to the direct and Indirect aid of thr French. Measured even by our own standards, we had cut a rather sorry figure in P12. when we tried to invade Canada. After that time, except during the Mexican expedition, everything; which savored of the military art in this country came under the ban of public opinion: o much so that the army was compressed to small garrisons in the Indian country and at the chief seaports, while the militia became a public laughing stock. There are those who yet smile at Tom Corwln'd take-offs of the "citizen soldiery" on the floor of Congress, and thousands who retain the old prejudice against them. We had income In the Corwln era more of a nation of shopkeepers than the English were when Napoleon winged his heedless and fatal sneer at them from the midst of his massed and glittering legions. The stranger Irom abroad, rarely seeing a soldier and never one that he could admire, and finding the people deep in peaceful pursuits, made the mistake of comparing the Americans to the Chinese. Captain Marryat, the novelist, who came here in the fifties, wrote that 30.000 British soldiers could march from one er.d of the Union to the other without meeting serious opposition. Yet it was not a decade from then when three millions of men were under arms in the "nited States hikI wore lighting battles which, like that of Cold Harbor, did not cease until over 20,10 men were lying wounded or dead upon the field. In four years the Northern half of this country had risen to be the greatest war-making power on the globe, while the other half had given an example of genius in the arts of soldiership which would have adorned Trance in the days of the First Empire. North and South alike had produced the greatest generals of their time, 'and had rctaught the theory and practice of war to Kurope as thoroughly as Frederick the Great had done In the previous century. The trouble with European critics had been that they could not understand a people who were warlike but not military; who were able to fight n occasion, but who did not carry the pomp and circumstance of sword and uniform into everyday life. They might have learned of such a people by a study of ine Spartans or of the Romans In the era of Cincinnntu. but they had eyes and ears for nothing but standing armies, great navies and the external evidences of military zeal and enterprise. The European literature of 1S.U1SC" is full of signs of astonishment at the colossal scale of the war between the North and South. "Who would have imagined It? The Americans can fight." was the prevailing note of political and newspaper comment. The crltlc?sm of (Jeneral Pando has a curiously belated ;ir. as If the Spanish commander had awakened from an Epheslnn fleep and was talking of things which he h id Imagined in some previous age. He "knows the Americans." he says, "and is convinced of their military inferiority to the Spaniards" the poor Spaniards, who. driven out of fifteen American colonies, are now struggling, with the aid of 2d.0J') troops, to hold the last ditch against a few thousand rebels whom they call brigands. Simply because the Yankees are a money-making race, and have no taste for the slashed hose and doublet of the prancing cuirassier. General Pando Is sure that they would be overmatched by the bedizened Dons. Poor Pando, whose name should be Quixote. The best that can be' wished for htm is that he wnl never get the Inferior Yankee after him with the proverbial sharp stick. PessilmlNtie View. New York Post. Mr. HerhxTt Spenc-r closes his last volume on sociology with a chapter on the prospects "in the near future." To him all the evidence points to a speedy disappearance, or, at any rate, a steady undermining, of the system of voluntary industrial development and free contract, and the establishment of a state "in which no man can do what he likes, but every man must do what he is told." One sign of the change he rends In the conduct of representatives and legislatures. Thoy are not able to resist the demands of citizens and classes who besiege them for favoring laws, involving the increase of taxation and the overburdening of the taxpayer especially of the taxpayer of the future. The lavish expenditure into which both national and local spending bodies are falling points to a coming time when "the brainworker will find that there arc no places left save In one or other public department; while the handworker will ti-,d that there are none to employ him save public officials." Hut such an entire loss of freedom will befall only those who. by their decline from the old ideal of free initiative and independence, have shown that they do not deserve freedom. "Only a nature which will sacrifice everything to defend personal liberty of action, and Is eager to defend the like liberties of action of others, can permanently maintain free Institutions." Who shall say that we In New York city to-day do not justify Mr. Spencer's dark picture? We praise Hampden for resisting the ship monev. vet our most respectable citizens:, lights in "the professional and religious worlds, pav over their blackmail to a public corruption and are frightened out of their lives when un effort is made to expose and defeat him Certainly such civic cowards do not deserve freedom, and certainly free Institutions cannot be permanently maintained while their practices go unrcbuked and unchanged. The Cnlmn Mtuutlou. Washington Special. The latest and most reliable information is that Spanish arms have been making great progress in the province of Pinar del Klo and that the insurgents who hav, been concentrated there for months are scattering Into the country further eas:. It would appear that the revolutionists hands are disintegrating, a process which is the natural result of a failure to transfer the allegiance of the colored insurants from Macco to a white man. General VyIer Is assuring his government thtt the province is now comparatively quiet and that he Is making rapid headway in suppressing the insurrection. This view Is believed In administration circles In preference to the reports emanating from the clique of professional patriots who are bathing in wine at the expense of the cigar makers and other sympathizers who continue to put up contributions. A Plea for5 Versatility. Washington Post. Wc observe by the remarks of the young men who are doing business tor the'press associations at Catlton tnat every visitor to the little frame dwelling is "closeted" with the President-elect. This Is all ri?ht. but it Is becoming the least Lit monotonous! It would seem that the correspondents might occasionally "wardrobe" or "pantry" cr "clotheshorf' an office seeker, just to give a faint dash of versatility to the dny's proceedings. Itather llercnt. Washington Post. It Is said, Mr. Bryan objected to the three-sheet-poitcr mode of attracting attention to Ids lectures. Mr. Uryan's dislike of the three - hcet-pcstcr J Jea in : newly developed aifair.

HEAR THEIR NEWiPASTOR

HEX. .1. ( t mvjim; smiiii iiegixs his MIMSTHY .T T A II E II X A C LR. Ills Sermon Yentenlny Mornlnur About :;M People Have Joined First Baptist la Ioat Two Years. Rev. J. dimming Smith preached his first strmon yesterday morning as pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The auditorium of the church was filled. Mr. Smith had Ix-en heard by the congregation before and had made a very favorable impression as a speaker and a thinker. He came here from San Francisco to succeed Rev. Mr. Rondthaler. having been for nine years the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church In the Golden Gate city. His text yesterday was from Deuteronomy, the thirty-second chapter and thirty-third verse: "The good will of him that dwelt in the bush." In part Mr. Smith said: "The Scripture is an art gallery of masterpieces which have given Inspiration to artist and scholar, and no flnple scene Is more Impressive than the old seer standing on Nebo with eye ur.dimmed and strength unabated, glancing down at the outstretched camp below, then far away to the land his fathers saw In vision. With calm imagination he traveled back over stormy years to the bush where he heard God's voice. It was an epoch his rapt mind went back to pore over that mount on which he took his last view of earth. The imprcssiveness of that eiKch to this ausstere and masterful prophet lay both In the prelude and the postlude. Crucial events led up to it. Those forty years in the solitudes were fraught with education of the loftiest order. The doctrine of Providence is economy in details. Not a moment was lost: not an Impression went to waste. Every storm-scarred mountain brow ami every sky line and every sunny meadow and every bleak patch and every thorny path became a part of a view of nature's poetry and boundless imagination. His nddresses show a tropical fancy united to a severe judgment. "In addition to this education on nature came the education in law. His father-in-law was Jethro. one of thoo primitive chieftains whose sway at times extended over millions; who were patriots, priests and lawgivers. The strong bent In Mo;es toward the best problems of law was sharpened by that association with tho powerful chieftans. There Is a grandeur In law. The lower animals chiefly obey Instinct, but men, when massed in communities, require to formulate laws to hold the whole together. Severe discipline of every power must go to that supreme last. "Some day some great genius will catch tho gleam of beauty in this great seer. No drama could be richer in every element of literary and noble suggestion than the drama of these forty years of association with Jethro. We can picture many contests which the shrewd capacity of Jethro ami. the sure Insight of Moses found it an easy thing to settle. They knew human nature as it was and as it ought to be. Often those who have fathomed human nature are fraught with pessimism and as often those who revel in the ideal which men ought to reach nre flighty. Moses, however, saw far enough into nature to catch a glimpse of a possible manhood, and therefore was an optimist. Our Mole owes much of its force In these ages to the fact that, although It sees and scathes sin. It is buoyant and inspiring more than it is piercing, and noble -senilis everywhere are strengthened or saddened by the simple fact of sin. but are still more affected by what God's love in a man can do. If sin abounded love hath much more abounded. "Then too these forty years of solitude developed the quality of humanity in Moses. Though safe himself from the iower of Pharaoh he still heard the echoes of their groans. A nation was In chains. His fellow-countrymen were loaded down to please a tyrant's policy. There are those who claim that Moses composed the drama of Job. If so. the problem was similar to the, problem of the father of Hebrews. The one was Individual, the other material, but both forced to the front the stronger Cire applied over men. If men believe nothing until they fathom It. men will not believe the breath they speak it with. However, we see Moses wrestling with the problem of the Hebrews, working under despotism and longing. In some way. to see. a man rise who would set them free. "In this respect he is an antctype of rhrist. Solitude sustained for years could not quench 'that sympathy for nun which made him slay the coward who tlltreated the Hebrews. The divine Instinct was in that early act which forced his fl'ght from court. Long before God spake out of the bush and armed him with plagues to eru.h the tyrant. Moses had been engaged in working out a plan to set his people free. "The best elements In the best men form the normal greatness of Christ. Men who deny that Christ could bear a world's sin are blind to the world's best men who have, in an infinitely lower measure, borne In the world's pairs. All progress is blood bought somewhere. Hut In the preTt achievement of Calvary none but Christ, the son of Gcd. could have borne the whole weight of j world's sin. Is It any wonder the rapt oia seer snouio iook hhck irum Nel.o to that bush which formed an epoch In his career, which brought out to manifestation the secret problems and longings of those lonely haunts? He saw God there because he saw God long before, working in him toward that mission. THE CIIItlSTIAX SPIRIT. Itev. C X. Sims on Its Man lfestutlons in International Affairs. Rev. C. N. Sims, pastor of the Moridbmstreet M. E. Church, preached yesterday morning on the "Manifestations of Christian. ty in International Affairs In In the course of his sfrmon Dr. Sims touched on the Armenian question, affairs in the Transvaal, the Venezuelan boundary dispute and other incidents which he regarded as Indicating the progress of the spirit of Christianity. Dr. Sims said, in part: "The question Is of Un asked and no without anxiety. 'Is the Christian religion losing ground in the wcrld?' Are the teachings of Jesus becoming hss authoritative among men? Is the supernatural of his life story failing into discredit? Are the usages of society superseding His system of ethics? Is faith failing in the earth? We cannot find answers to these questions In census tables nor church statistics. It Is only In those demonstrations of the moral sense, and the demands lor the enforcement of Christian principles which rise into general observation that we may find any approximate answers to our questions. Let us then Interrogate the year lsf4t as to the present influence and power of Christianity. Certain notable events in the world's records of the past year exhibit the potency and prevalence of Christian faith .imons men. "The .Armenian struggle is one of these. In the heart of the Turkish empire Is the ancient Christian province of Atmenia. The doctrines of Jtsus were taught and accepted there as early as the fifth century a hundred years before Mohammed was born. The ilible was translated Into the language of the people. Then came Mohammedanism, the Koran, the Turkish empire and th acceptance of the Turkish Sultan as the official head of the Moslem faith. The two religions were substantially unlike, and antagonistic in their practical workings. The one was progressive, the other stationary: tlie one kind, the othr cruel; the one held to the divine fatherhood, the other to fatalism. Their confilets have lKen many and bloody. Threequarters of a century ago the Turkish rulers began to encourage the Incoming Protestant Christian faith and civilization. Missionaries were .velcomed, schools were established, chapels erected, teachers employed and the industries and methods of Protestant enterprise introduced and fostered. In the last seventy-five years more than four hundred missionaries have wrought and taught among these people with the consent of the government. The Bible has been translated once more and given to the people. The leaven of protestantism has been kneaded into the social structure and was showing its Influence upon the faith and prosperity of the country. ATROCITIES IN ARMENIA. "When the present Sultan came to the throne he brought with him an intense hatred of Christianity. His mother was a pervert from Christianity to Moh.nmmedism and her son inherited her hatrtd of the faith she- had abandoned. He began his attack upon the Christians by deposing the many hundreds of them who held official positions. Self-interest was thus invoked to Induce them to apostatize from their faith. "His next movement was against the Christian schools. A severe; cer.scrshlp whs inaugurated und whenever books contained such words as 'courage,' 'patience.' 'progress' and 'patriotism they were condemned and burnd. Then followed the breaking up of the schools themselves and the want

on destruction of mission property. It was not a long step in his plan of persecution when murder and plunder began their work of devastation. It Is believed that nearly one hundred thousand Christian Armenian men have been murdered, their homes destroyed, their property carried away and their wives and children left destitute and helpless. In the presence of this horror and desolation the Christian spirit manifested Itself. Public sentiment In America and Great Britain demanded of the powers that thev shuild Interfere jn th,1 interest of the Inalienable rights of rr.en rights made s.i'-red by the spirit and teachings of Jesus. Against all interests of traffic, in the midst of perplexing questions of diplomacy, these governments are hesitating pressing upon the Sultan their demands that he regard and protect human life and rights. Never before have the nations gone so far in their concern for the oppressed and the injured. It is the Christ spirit w hich has taught, the value and brotherhood of man. THE RED CROSS SOCIETY. "But the work of the Red Cross order, led by that5 peerless woman, Clara Barton, in its sublime task of mitigating the horrors of war, pestilence and famine, is yet a more manifest indication of the power of the Christ spirit in the world. Crossing oceans and continents, entering strange lands, speaking to people of differing languages, it bears In the name " of brotherhood and sympathy its gifts of food and clothing, its words of love and hope. It is the Rood Samaritan traversing the earth with Christian ministrations, where only hate and crueltv had appeared belore. We have not seen the Christian spirit so beautifully and efficiently manifested before. Surely it is not perishing from the earth. "The maintenance of the Transvaal republic against the machinations and plots of those who would destroy it in order to seize its valuable mines, gives us another illustration of the triumph of righteousness over the spirit of greed. Justice has become stronger than ambition and regard for the riphts of men more effective than the dreams of extended empire. It is the Christ spirit In the world sheltering the weak and helpless. "In the reference of the Venezuelan boundary question to a court of arbitration we have presented to us the sublime spectacle of a powerful and ambitious nation, foregoing extension of territory and possession of great highways and vast we alth, waiting for the decision of an international court of inquiry. It was not so before Jesus came. It has not been so where other faith has prevailed. The Christ spirit has won nptable victories for justice in the past year. Righteousness in the hands of the weakest nation l. stronger than vast armies and great nations. "But the crowning triumph of the Christ spirit during the last year is the agreement between the two great English-speaking nations to refer their differences in the future to arbitration. To cease reliance upon power and to depend upon right. It Is the virtual fulfillment of the prophetic vision of beating swords into plowshares and spears Into pruning books. "The real Christ spirit of love, and justice, and charity is covering: the earth as the waters cover the - sea. lot us take heart and hope for its speedy triumph among men." YETEUAXS HOME SOCIETY.

Ilev. 31. I. Wells Makes an Address at Robert Park In Its Behalf. Rev. M. I j. Wells spoke In the pulpit of Roberts Park Church yesterday morning upon the work of the Veterans' Home Society of the Indhana Conference. He explained In the beginning of his discourse that the work was of the churches of the conference and therefore not an outside matter. He came not to present new obligations, but to aid that church in meeting the obligations already resting upon it. The society is largely engaged in local work. More than half of the trustees reside In this city and have resolved to provide two or three veteran parsonages In Indianapolis. The object of the society is to aid the church in providing a comfortable support for conference claimants. "When It was sugggested in the last session cf the conference," said the speaker, "that we should raise an endowment fund of IbtO.ooo for this work the proposition was regarded as a very extravagant one. But upon careful investigation I find that In order to meet the small allowance made the conference claimants we will need an endowment fund of fci'Hi.nOH. This Is upon tho supposition that we shall continue to receive the same amounts from other sources that has been received in the past. This sum cannot be raised In avphort time;. The society therefore 'propose, ' to push this work for at least ten or fifteen years. We therefore ask your subscriptions payable annually, running for as many yours as your faith can assume. Many subscriptions run for ten years. The church is in debt to the old wornout preachers. It us pay our debts and then give liberally to the benevolences." The speaker gave a graphic account of the poverty of some of the superannuated preachers. No collection was asked, but some came forward at the close of the services and made voluntary subscriptions. The pastor followed wjth a brief address and administered the sacrament of the Eord's supper. HEV. 3IH. ELLISON'S (iHKAT WORK. In Tho Years -ls People Have Joined Hie First Baptist Church. Rev. I). J. Ellison, pastor of the First Baptist Church, yesterday began his third year as pastor of that church. The first year Mr. Ellison filled too position he gave the right hand of fellowship to 110 persons, fifty-two of whom he baptized. Forty-eight were received on letters and ten on experience. In 1S9U Mr. Ellison baptized ICS persons, fifty-nine ,-ere received by letter and twenty-one on experience, making a total cf L'itS added to the mrmhoiship of the church in the two years of his ministry. Yesterday he gave the hand of fellowship to twentyfour persons, and several arc awaiting the ordinance of baptism. Ilrukeiitan Fell from the Train. James Whiteside, a Big Four brakeman. wlille working cn the rear end of a freight train at midnight, was suddenly thrown to the ground as the train started forward with, a jerk. Whiteside fell on his left leg and suffered a compound fracture above the knee. The crew picked him up and placed him in an empty box car. He was brought to the city by a Belt Railroad engine. At the crossing of the Prion track; and 'Capitol avenue the injured man was removed to the city ambulance and conveyed to St. Vincent's Hospital by Dr. Van Natta. where he received attention from Dr. Marsee. surgeon of the Big Four. Besides the fracture cf his leg, Whiteside U suffering from shock. Street-SprlnLInyr Taxes. The street sprinkling duplicates are now in the office of Treasurer Schmidt and the tax must be paid this month. The treasurer has also taken active steps to collect delinquent taxes, and the people who are delinquent m::st call at once and pay or stand In danger of having evies made. There are no sprinkling taxes .against property on Improved streets, but the tax levies on property on araoi ail unimproved streets. O uk lit to Pay. Collier's Weekly. One of the great railway companies of the West is about to do great service to the farming community, and Incidentally to increase its own income, by establishing experimental farms in several portions of the States traversed by its lines. The West c ontains plenty of good soil and hardworking men. but the farmers have but little time and money to expend in experimenting for themselves. They know how to plant corn, wheat, oats. etc.. so as to get some sort of crop, but they are compelled to do their work as cheaply and rapidly as possible, very few being rich enough to hire labor; such work as they cannot do for themselves must remain undone. Any one who will discover lor them what crops will yield a larger cash return for a given amount of labor, or what method of treatment will insure a larger yield of the grain, etc.. with which they are familiar, will be of great service to them. Farmers' own experiments have generally yielded unsatisfactory results, for they have seldom been carried far enough: the government's experimental stations, like those of some of the States, have been of some use. but only to men who could afford "Intensive" farming, which implies expensive farming, although the yield justifies the outlay. The railway experiments alluded to are being conuuetcel In so many places, and so close to the men interested in the results, that they promise to he more immediateb' useful than State ami national experimental stations combined. At the very kast, they will save the farmers of the vicinity from any disastrous epidemics like the sorghum fever, the beetroot fever, the hemp fever, etc., which at times have devastated many Western farmand pockets. The Modern Sn tiwt 1 1 u t e. Kansas City Journal. The olilest inhabitant does not remember a holiday season when the sleighing wt poorer. JJut the bicycling is superb.

LIFE IN THE WHEAT BELT

MADDEMXG 310XOTOXY AM) LOXELIm:ss TO CITY VISITORS. Aretie Winters and Torrid Suiumcrsi Hovr Xew Land In Broken Troubles of the Present Pioneers. North Dakota Letter In Boston Transcript. This is the home of King Wheat, the spot In which all thought Is centered and all business based .m the raising and the price of wheat. It is in the most fertile portion of that richest of all wheat i.elds, the Red River of the North valley. It seems odd to see in history that North Dakota was settled in 1TS2 at Pembina, many years before many of the great States of the middle West were settled. That settlement at Pembina was, moreover, permanent. It came from some tradesmen of the great Hudson Hay Company, who drifted down a little to the south and thus- came upon what were then French possessions. At that time Manitoba was simply a land of Indians and trading posts, and this whole section was given over to Indians. It Is said that the fact that this section is a very rich wheatgrowing portion of the earth was found out by accident. At any rate, this land, now renowned all over the world for Its No. 1 hard wheat, which obtains the highest rank in Liverpool over the wheat from all the world, was for generations regarded as unfit for cultivation and utterly uninhabitable. For some reason, investors would not bring their money here, and the cold weather acted as a bar, as it does yet and always will, to active settlement. And it is a curious fact that the upper Red River valley was settled, not by people of the United States, but by Manitobans. And It was a burst boom wnich populated North Dakota. In the early eighties the Canadian Pucific Railway Company, aided by private interests, began a systematic booming of Manitoba, which was the only Canadian land serving as a refuge for the crowded people of Ontario, Quebec and the other provinces of the East. There was, as a consequence, a tremendous immigration from those eastern provinces to Manitoba. Values rose very high, and Winnipeg seemed destined to be in a few years as large as Toronto. But the settlers were not satisfied with either crop conditions or government. Hundreds of them left the province and came across the line into this country, which was organized in 15. They were pleased with the country, and sent for their relatives and friends from their old homes in the East. Jn this way Cavalier county was settled.. At this time more Canadian newspapers are taken than newspapers printed in America. Just at this season at least two hundred people are going back to their old homes in Canada to spend the winter in visiting friends. Since the county was organized, 1VO, over two thousand aliens have been made citizens. They came from every nation on earth, chiefly lrom Norway and Germany. THE PIONEERS. Pioneer days seem to the readers of the Transcript to be a thing of the past in this country, but that such Is not the case may be easily shown by a visit to this section. One-third of the area of this country is as yet unorganized territory. There are still, in spite of the heavy and somewhat loose "taking up of land," over 100.000 acres of government land in the county, which are yet open to settlers. Every township, unorganized or organized, contains thirty quarter sections reserved to the State for the support of State institutions, a wise provision which will give the State a large endowment some day. One can ride tor miles and miles on this boundless prairie wUhout seeing a house. Here and there are the !':le "ciaim shaks," erected by the honvtead seeker who has "tiled" on a quarter section. The way some of these persons are able; to get hold of land is a revelation to an Eastern man. Think of a man obtaining 1G0 acres by pre-emption, acres by tree claim and HjO acres ny homestead rights. The tree claim and the preemption acts have been repealed, and the secretary of agriculture recommends the repeal of the homestead acts, but this will probably not b; done. It Is an undisputed tact that the free land of the West has caused, to some extent, the decline in valius of Eastern farm land, but It is equally true that in no other way could the great West have been settled so soon. To determine whether good or evil in the greater quantity has lollowed tho passage of the free-land acts is a very dithcult tasK. That many who get land h?ve not honestly earned it goes without saying. Ttitr laws are strict enough, but their interpretation is most liberal. The life cf the farmer of this great wheat belt Is one which would seem to an urban resident as maddening. Here in this Red river valiey live thousands of farmers whose lives uro full of hardships, but it is true that the natural conditions are lull of gocd to them and only the defects of human laws ha' e made the lot of some of them very bad. This county is certainly one of the pioneers. It Is situated on what is calkel "tne mountain." i. c, on the first elevation which rises from the level plain west of the Red river. Farther west people think the land is too high and this land was unsettled for years because it was regarded for years as lying too high, and therefore? subject to frost and hail. Farming in this country is very unlike farming in the East or in the great corn states of the middle West. It requires at least two seasons before a new piece of land is worth cultivating. One year It is "broken" and the next sown in something, but the yield Ls not usually very good. A FERTILE SOIL. The third year it begins to yield richly, and up to this time there has been no thought of diminution of the fertility of this land. The farmers of this section sow, in addition to wheat, oats and barley. As soon as the ground Is free from frost, the serving time begins and for two and more weeks one sees almost no farmers in the villages. The grain is sown in a hurry. Then there Is little to do but wait for the liar vest. The whole world knows of the great wheat farms of the Dalrymples near Casselton. There l."ii) binders are at work at once. Congressman M. N. Johnson, of this State, tells an amusing story about the extent of the farms of the State. He said he was called upon by the Postoftice Department at one time to find out whether an old farmer in a county adjoining his own was capable to fill the office of postmaster. He learned that the farm on which the "old fellow" lived had raised the year before $"a.j.(i00 worth of grain and that the patrons of the postoftice were the postmaster's employes; and yet Mr. Johnson says that he had never even heard of the man or his great farm. boon after the harvesting comes the threshing, and this is a gigantic piece of work. Horse-power is hit e unknown. Engines always accompany separators. There are usually at least thirty men employed, arid the number often rises above fetrty. The daily expenses of a threshing crew is about S'i. Tne amount of wheat threshd in a day is Incredible. This year the yield was poor and no machine in this section turned out over :J.loil bushels in any day. but last year the daily threshing ran up to nearly S.oa-) bushels. The threshing done and the grln placed In sacks, the chiaf act of the drama comes selling the grain. The marketing of the grain of this county is not the business of a few weeks, but continues for nearly six months. All winter long the farmers haul their grain to market. Some of them In this county have to make a trip of fifty miles to market. The scene in a large marketing town in thofcc winter days is most Interesting. As soon a,s the farmer's wagon or sled comes to town It Is balled by the agents of the commission firms of Iuluth and Minneapolis. They examine the wheat and adjudge its grade and fix a price. Or they ask that the farmer con.slgn his grain to their firm at Duluth and take his chances at the shift In the price. Or the farmer sells his grain directly to the elevator company and receives cash for It. There are six gigantic elevators here and they are often tilled, une of the unpleasant features of this marketing of grain is the anxiety of the creditors. One cap s-e here dally merchants watching each load of grain to see If Its owner in not a debtor. This arisen from the famous exemption laws of this State, which will be explained hereafter. There is much delay In getting enough cars to haul the wheat, und these cars are secured often weeks beforehand. SCARCITY OF CARS. During this winter the scramble for cars has leen very great. The farmers were afraid that the high price would fall and they were at first very anxious to get their wheat to Duluth. but as the price has held up well, they have become more at ease

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A Few Specials 75c Gowns to-day, 3Sc. Muslin Skirts to-day, 33c. Muslin Drawers, 17c pair. Corset Covers, 8c each. First Day Our Great Linen Sale Damask Table Linens, Napkins, Pattern Tabic Covers, Towels, Crash and Linen Pillow-cases at PRICKS where dollars w ill do double service. Wrixn.o Mo Bloel Coo 7 and 9 East Washington St.

Hut if the farmer has his wheat all sold and is out of debt he does very little during the rest of the winter. This is one of the unfortunate conditions of this county. If wheat brings a good price and the farmers have plenty of it they can make a good living from wheat alone. This fact has made the Dakota farmer somewhat too reliant on wheat, and as a matter of fact only about six months of the year are devoted to farmwork. There is in this county as yet very little or other kind of stockrearing, and very few dairy farms. "Intense farming" is entirely unknown. During the most of tho winter the farmers remain at homo or go visiting friends In other states, as many Canadians are doing now. The exemption laws mentioned above are without doubt the cause of much of the misery of the farmers of this section. All personal property up to $1,500 is exempt from seizure for debt, not Including a homestead, and a man may have a homestead of less than $5.00 exempt. Ther? is no doubt that these very high exemptions were made to shield the poor man from the creditor, but they have had Just tho opposite effect. As no property can be seized, the man who wishes to lorrow money must give a mortgage on his crop, his implements or his stock or some other chattel. The rate of interest is very high, often 12 per cent., but It is a fact that so much is lost by dishonest debtors that these high rates are justifiable. The leading merchants of the State are asking for a repeal of the high exemption laws and the substitution of honor in place of any other form of security. One of the marked features of lib? in this section is the great popularity of outdoor sports in the summer. The summers hero are delightful, and they are spent in the open air. People go plcknicking and to fairs and races and all sorts of games. There aro no woods within sixteen miles of this village, and yet people gladly go in great crowds twenty miles to a picnic. Baseball tennis and football are very popular. The summer nights are very short, and one can in Juncplay tennis until 9:13 and sometimes later. Ice sports are popular In the winter. Every village has Its Ice rink, where games on the ice are features and where the great game of curling Is played. The celebration of Fourth of July hero last summer and every summer could not do otherwise than amaze the stranger. It must be admitted that far more attention is given to the races, which always accompany the day. than to the oration. Hut the chief odd feature of the day is the appearance of the streets. As stateet above, this town has no grove and few trees, none at all In the. business streets. But the people an determined, and the evening before the "day we celebrate" wagons come from the timber twenty miles away, loaded! with voung saplings. These saplings are sold to the merchants and nailed to the sidewalks all along the street, thus giving the appearance of a street lined with young trevs. Of course, these saplings wither before the next day. but for that day the town is Idled w'th an aroma of the forest. in view of the terribly severe Novemlx r one could hardly say that the weather of North Dakota Is admirable. That blizzard of Thanksgiving day of this year was the worst in the history of the State. Hut It ls true, nevertheless, that the temperature of Deeemlor has averaged dally lu degrees higher than November. To obtain an Idea of the severity of the weather in this State one must forget the thermome ter. When the tempe rature is very low, the air is still and one does not feel the cold. The blizzard of IS'te; occurred in a temperature of fifteen above zero, and the storm did not abate until the mercury had fallen to zero. The temperature of forty or fifty below zero is not at all severe compared with fifteen above zero, when the wind is raging from the northwest. There is but one verdict as to the three summer months, June. Julv and August, they are delightful. The mercury did not rise above eightyeight last summer. The winter days are very clear and bright, and it seems as if there are many more moonlit nights than in the States to the south. One must not forget that this State has the largest percentage of foreign-born citizens of anv State in the Fnion, V) per cent. Nearly 20 per cent, of the citizens were born in Norway. This county can eertalnlv le called cosmopolitan In character. It "has large numbers of French. Norwegians. Germans. Russians. (Menonlies). Icelanders, Scotch and English. Campaigning in this county has its disadvantages. The county is very strongly Democratic. though the Democratic majority fell off very much this year), and the only Republican candidate elected to a county office is an Irishman from Ontario who speaks French. North Dakota is this year proud of the fact that, though Inhabited by people who are almost all in debt. It is the only State admitted with the other Western Territories In li which remained true to the Republican party, and the only State west of the Missouri which gave a decisive majority fr sound money, except the coast state's of Oregon and California, and the North Dakota majority. ,r.CO0 out of AT,M votes. Is almost as creditable as the 30,000 in Minnesota. DOOI.I'Y C THE .NEW YEAH. The PhlloKoplier Make Ileselution with a. Limitation. Chicago Post. Mr. Hennessy looked out at the rain chipping clown lu Are hey road and sighed: "A-ha. tis a bad spell iv wether we're bavin'." "Faith. It Is." said Mr. Dooley, "or else we mind it more thin we lid. 1 can't remlmber wan day fr'm another whin I was voung. 1 niver thought iv rain or snow, cold or heat. But how th heat stings an th e-old wrenches me bones, an if I go out in th rain with less on me thin a ton Iv rubber I'll pav dear f'r it in aehin' Jints. so I will. That's what old age means, an' now another year has been put on to what we had bfure an' we're expected to le gay. "Ring out th old.' says a guy at th' brothers' school, 'ring out th' old. ring in th' ne-w.' bet savs; ring out th false, ring in th' trueV says he. It's a pretty siutimint. Hinnlssv. but how ar-re we doin' to do it? Nawthin'd plaz' me betth.-r thin te turn me back on th' wieke-d an' ingloryous past, ray form me life an live at p-are with th wurruld to th' Ind iv me days. But how th ciivvle can I do it? As th f Iiows says: 'Can th' leopard change hi?spots. er can't he?' "You know Dcrs.y. Iv coorse. th' croevod May-o man that come to this counthry about wan clay in advance iv a warrant fr heep s'ealin"? Ye know what he done to me. u ilin' people I was caught In me clUir pooriu warher into a bar'l.' Well. !;t nit;nt says I to roysilf. thinkin' Iv Dersey. I says: 'I swear that henceforth I'll k ep" me t'-mper wi;h m fellow rnrri. I'M net let ange r or jealousy get th' t tther iv me. I say;-. 'I'll bive off all n;.old feuds, an' if I meet me Ir.lmv go'n' down th' st'nreet I'll go up an" .-Kake 1 ir.i be th' han. if I'm sure he h;Mi't a briel; in th' either hand.' Oh. I was mighty rn. pllme-nthary to mesilf. I set l- th" stov dhrinkin' hot wan, an' iviry wan I .lhrtink made m- more iv a pote. T'.; th v.a v vith th' st u T. When I'm in dhrlnk I hav.manny a line thought, an' if I wasn't too comfortable to v an' look f'r th' ink bo;, tie I eud wrllo pomes that'd make- Shakspere ;n" Mike S anlan thln'.c t!v y were wur-tkln' on a dredge. 'Why.' rays I. 'carry into th" new ye ar th' hatreds lv th' o',!" 1 says. 'Lt th' e'rnd past bury Its dead.' says I. 'Tur-rn ye- r lamps up to th blue fcky. I says. lt was rnlr.in' like th' di vie an' th' hour wu mlUuicht, but 1 ive

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Sale ConimencesS Sale at clearing prices. Not a single item Kverv Trimmed Hat or Bonnet must go. to $5.00, $3.00 and $2.00 each. no hee'd to that, beln' comfortablo with th hot wans.) An I wint to th dure, an whin Mike Duffy come by on number wan hundhreel an live, nngin th gong iv th ca-ar. 1 hollereel to him: 'Ring out th old. ring in th new.' '(Jo back into ye'er eta hi ha says. An' wring ye'erseif out ho says. YeiYr wet through,' ho says. "Whin 1 woke up this mornin' lh pothry had all disappeared an' I begun to think th las' hot wan I took had somethln wrong; with it. Resides, th lumbago was grippirr me till 1 cud hardly put wan foot lnduro th other. Hut I raymimbereei me promises to mesilf an I wint out on th sthrevt intindin' to wish tverywan a happy New Year an hopin In me hear-rt that th first wan 1 wished it tod tell me to go to th elivie so I cud hit him in th' eye. 1 hadn't gone half a block lefuro I Fpicd Dornoy acrost th sthreet. I picked up n. half a brick an' put it in me iock(t, an' Dorsey done th fame. Thin w wint up to eae.U other. A happy New Y'ear.' says I. Th' same to you.' says he, 'an manny of thim ho says. To have a brick in ye'er hand says I. T was thinkin iv glvin yo a New Year's gift.' says he. 'Th same to you an' manny of thim. says 1. fondlin' mo own ammunition. 'Tis even all around says he. It is.' says I. 'I was thinkin' las night I'd give up me gredge again ye says he. I had th samo thought mesilf.' says I. 'But since I seen ye'er face h.i says. Tve concluded that I'd be more comfortable hatin ye thin havln' yo f'r a friml. says he. 'Yej a man lv taste sayj I. An we backed away fr'm each, other. He's a Tip an' can trow a stone liko a rifleman, an', Hinnlssy, I'm something iv an amnchoor shot with a half brick "mesilf. "Well. I'vo been thinkin' it over, an I've nrgied It out that Ilfe'd not lo worth livln if we didn't keep our inimies. I can have al! th' frinds I neel. Anny man can that keeps a liquor sthore. But a rale sthrong Inimy, specially a May-o inlmy, wan that hates yo ha-ard an that ye'd take tho coat off ye'er back to do a bad tur-rn to, Is a luxury that I can't g without In me. olJ days. Dorsey is th right sort. I can't go by his house without beln in fear he'll spill th chlmbly down on me head, an whin he passes my place he walks In th middle av th sthreet an' crosses himself. I'll swear off on anny thing but Dorsey. He's a good man an I deside him. litre long life to him." i.i;phosv is t iioii:i.i:ss. Father Conrnrdy Believe that Jclenee Mny Find n Cure. New Y'ork Press. Father I L. Conrardy. who has been a missionary among the Umatilla Indians in the Northwest, and who later succeeded Fathe r Damien at the Molokal i Hawaii) b-per colony, is now studying medicine under Dr. Monnet, of Chicago. As soon as hej has received a diploma he will return to Medokai to relieve the priest now officiating there, who ls a brother of the famoua Father Damien. In speaking of the vexed question as to whether leprosy was contagious or not. Father Conrardy said that It was not contagious except by inoculation. He then tolvl the following story of the cause of tha death of Father Damien: "Father Damien knew that he could not be too careful aUuit letting even the slightest scratch or abrasion on his body como Into contact with a leper, ami for a lone time be escaped. One day, however, when he chanced to be suffering from a badly bruised hand, he was called to the bedside of a leper boy who had Just fallen and hurt himse lf. "The father knew the risk he ran. but the little fellow'M suffering was too much, for his prudence. After bandaging his own hand carefully with antiseptic cloths h went to work and saved his patient to & few more years of life, but when he wa through he was a leper himself. "The Japanese are shejwing that the case of the leiH-r may not te hopeless, aj I had supposed. I have been to some of the hospitals established by them in Toklo and in, other places by the Japanese government, and It Is what I saw then that has determined me to study with Dr. Monnet "One of the saddest cas.-.s in the settlement Is Captain Clayton Strong, it native of Philadelphia, and once maMer of a trading schoom r. lie has rich relatives in Illinois, but they refuse him aid. His wonderful vitality has ke pt him alive till he is now fifty-six year old. For seven years ho has bee-n blind. "There arc- alout 1.2') lepers at tho threo settlements on Molokal. almost all of whom are native Hawallans. The others are eevcntee n white men, two w hite women and twenty-five Chinese. The distinct settlements are on a leach four miles long. In charge of six Catholic brothers and fivo Sisters of Charity." Let Ilinietallinni IlrM. New York Comme rcial-Advertiser. However anxious some American? may ha for bime tallism the Euro an nations, finding plenty to do In attending to their own affairs and. caring nothing at all atut It, are content to let the (subject molder In the tomb. Why should we care? Is ro", ur currency the best In the world? Who is wise enoush to say that any of tho changes sugge sted wouid be iM-neticLal? Is It not better after all to let the gold standard alone? International bimetallism Is as dead as "Jc hosophat. Ami It is always gracious to let the dead re-t In peace. The deael are tired. They don't want to be dls-turln-d. As a nation let us tarry no longer at the tomb. We are horry that eb-ath has overtaken so promhing a child, but wc cannot weep. Safe Outlook. Kansas City Journal. Sensible people will not become alarmed ove r a fw bank failures. They will Meadfastly keep e!ie eye on the rising sun of returning profpeiity and llu: other on James II. Eckc ls. Scrofula 5s a word vou don't quite understand, but if you talk with your doctor, he will tell you that it is .generally believed to be due o to the same cause which gives rise to Consumption. It appears mostly in those who are fat-starved and thin, usually in earlv life. A course of treatment of Scott's Emulsion with the Hypophositcs wherever Scrofula manifests itself, will prevent the development of the disease. Let us send you a book. vree. SCOl'I & UJSUL. Ciein.u, New VmiIw I