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NEW PUBLICATIONS. Mr. Frank G. Carpenter’* Geographical. Header. The study of geography as ordinarily pursued is rather uninteresting to the average child. After he has found the places on the map and committed to memory a few dry statistics concerning each—facts that he forgets with the greatest of ease—little remains on the young student’s mind but a vague outline of the countries of the earth and a jumbled record of tin .r characteristics. It is to put iife into these dry hones of study that Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, the well-known traveler and newspaper correspondent, has prepared a geographical reader, the iirst of a series, to he used in connection with the ordinary text-book. The Volume relates to Asia, and he takes the pupils across the Paelhe from Vancouver to Japan, from there through Korea and Siberia back to Chino, south to Biam, then to India, Persia, Palestine and Turkey. It is not a mere record of trawl, although Mr. Carpenter has been over this ground himself and Invests his story with the life that only one who has seen what is described can give. In addition to mere description of places he pictures the Asiatic peoples as they are found in their homes, on their farms and in their faotorics. He surveys the customs, commerce, government and religions of the oldest races of the earth and notes the charges tint are going on In their social and political life, with their possible results. In short, he undertakes to give a direct human interest to a study that is usually only one of places, and succeeds admirably. The book is profusely Illustrated and is well adapted to its purpose, that of supplementing the work of the regular text-books. Published by the American Book Company, New York and Chicago. American Plumbing Practice. Plumbing has become so important an art In modern city life and good plumbing so essential to comfort and health that everybody is interested in having plumbers thoroughly posted in the business. “American Plumbing Practice,” a technical work which has just come from the press, wil! contribute to this end. It is a compilation of illustrated descriptions of plumbing installations in modern buildings of every character, together with notes and queries touching Interesting points developed in practice, from articles which have appeared In the Engineering Record. This periodical has for many years given much attention to domestic water supply, house drainage, ventilation and plumbing. Within this period the tall office building lias been developed, involving special problems of drainage and plumbing; and the equipment of hotels, hospitals, amusement halls, swimming baths and other public buildings has been ui*oa the most thorough and elaborate scale. The illustrated descriptions of the most notable examples of plumbing work in these different classes of buildings which have been published in the Engineering Record from week to week, have proven valuable to plumbers as well as to architects, and their collection' in book form constitutes the most comprehensive and practical work on modern American plumbing practice published. It Is a completo handbook of the latest and best methods in plumbing. Cloth, $3. Published by the Knglneering Record, 100 William street, New Y ork. The Old Testament I nder Fire. The author of this volume, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, says in his preface that its contents were “struck off at white heat.” They bear evidence of having been prepared for u particular purpose, being a series of sermons preached by Dr. Behrends in reply to the attacks that have recently been made against the Old Testament by Dr. Lyman Abbott and others. It is a counterblast against the so-called “higher critics,” and while it is not exhaustive of the subject, it is vigorous. “The Old Testament Under Fire” is not a discussion involving intricate technicalities, nor does it enter into these minute details which can only be appreciated by specialists, ’t is addressed to all thoughtful men in pulpit and pew who, while they may not be Hebraists, have common sense and are practical logicians. Moreover, the book is rendered more readable, and the argument more effective, by the avoidance of a didactic style and the use of an earnest conversational form. As a stanch defense of the Scriptures it will have a real and practical value to thousands of men and women. Cloth, $1; New York; Funk A Wagnalls Company. Studies in Indiana Geography, The Inland Publishing Company (Terre Haute) has gathered together its studies In Indiana geography, which have appeared from time to time in the Inland Educator, and has issued them in a pamphlet volume. The work is intended mainly for teachers, but is invaluable in the way# of supplementing tin study of geography in this State. It contains much scientific data not found in other text-books, and each chapter Is prtpared by a specialist in the particular line of investigation coveted. These chapters tr> it of the following pii uses of the subject: “The Ni w Geography,” “The General Geography of Indiana.” “The Glacial Deposits of Indiana, Phe Erie-Wuhash Regina," “The -Morarde Lukis of Indiana,” “The Natural Resources of Indiana." A Century of Changes in the Aspect of Nature,” “A Study of the City of Terre

Haute” and “A Short History of the Great Lakes.” The book contains eleven maps. Paper, 50 cents. Joint Metallism. Anew edition is published of “Joint Metallism” by Anson P. Stokes, it being the fifth. The aim of the work is to evolve a plan by which gold and silver together, at ratios always based on their relative market values, may be made the metallic basis of a sound, honest, self-regulating currency, without frequent recoinings and without danger of one metal driving out the other. If this could be done it would be a practical solution of the silver question and ending of the war of the standards. The author’s plan for accomplishing it is too elaborate to be set forth here, and it seems to be as artificial and impracticable as it is < laborate. The contents of the book were originally published as letters to the New York limes, and the fact that it has run to a fifth edition shows there is still a demand for literature on the money question. It is published in Question of the Day series by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. Trooper Peter Halket. Olive Schreiner's latest book is something more than a novel. It is a work of fiction which is half narrative and half allegory, realistic in conception ami treatment and permeated with genuine religious sentiment. Peter Halket is a trooper belonging to the English army stationed in Africa, a man of the lowest ideas and Ideals, who. in the course of the story, becomes completely changed in his moral condition through the reforming power of religion. The story is written with intense earnestness, with the same qualities of style that made the author’s “African Farm” so interesting ar.d effective. Cloth, SL2S. Boston: Roberts Bros. I’lne V'alley. This is not a dissertation on the pine forests of the United States, but a collection of short stories, six in number, by Lewis B. France, delineating the picturesque and exciting life that may still be found in the mountains of Colorado. The stories are realistic and the pictures of mountain life, character and scenery seein true to nature. They possess individuality and “Pine Valley” will hold its place as a contribution toward the history of an epoch destined to pass away. The volume is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated from photographs of the “valley.” New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Cos. Schoolbooks. The American Book Company has added to its list of schoolbook publications “A Brief Latin Grammar," by W. D. Mooney; "Stories of Missouri,” by John R. Mustek; “Bible Readings for Schools,” by Rev. Nathan D. Schaeffer; “Carpenter’s Geographical Reader, Asia,” by Frank G. Carpenter. All these ate published in good form, bound in cloth and sold at very reasonable rates. * Publishers’ Notes. After many mistaken reports as to the date of publication of James Lane Allen’s new novel, “The Choir Invisible," it was published a few days since by the Macmillan Company. The first large edition of the work was entirely sold on the day of publication. “Wayside Courtships,” Mr. Hamlin Garland’s new book, is to be published shortly by D. Appleton & Cos. There are also to be new editions of Mr. Garland's “Spoil of Office, a Member of the Third House,” and “Jason Edwards,” which will be uniform with “Wayside Courtships,” and the Appletons, who published Mr. Garland's “A Little Norsk” a few years since, will now be able to present five of Mr. Garland’s books. ‘NThe Battle of Harlem Heights” will be the subject of a monograph to be issued in the fall by the Macmillan Company for the Columbia University Press. This one American victory achieved during the Revolution within the limits of Greater New York now stands out in relief against a list of disasters, and as a bit of local history a full and accurate account of it will be welcome. As it has been definitely settled that the action occurred on Momingside Heights, under the very shadow of Grant's tomb and on the sites of Barnard College and Columbia University, anew historical charm is associated with that section of the city. Publication of the English version of the Polychrome Bible, edited by Prof. Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins University, which has been so long announced is to be begun in October next by the issue of three books (Judges, edited by Prof. Moore of Andover; Isaiah, edited by Canon T. Cheyne, Oxford; and Psalms, edited by Prof. Wellhausen). Dodd, Mead & Company are to be the American publishers of this monumental work. It is to be issued in England by James Clarke & Cos., London. The same firm anounces for early publication “The Land of the Dollar.” by G. W. Steevens. Last autumn the Morning Post, of London, sent Mr. Steevens, a clever young journalist on its staff, to this country. He observed very carefully our political campaign, and wrote for his paper some of the most brilliant and vivid letters that we have seen in a newspaper and which were quoted both in Europe and in this country. These letters form the basis of his “Land of the Dollar.”

THREE ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE. A Wife Despondent at Her Husband’s Cruel Charge. There is a theory in police, circles that dismal, rainy weather superinduces morbid and moody conditions of mind that engender suicidal and homicidal mania. Like most theories this rule, if it he a rule, has its exceptions. Time and place gave the proof yesterday. Although the day, for the most part, was pleasant and bright three separate attempts at self destruction were recorded. Mrs. Edith Morford, thirty-seven years of age, living at 614 old Cornell avenue with her husband. Nelson Morford, a one-eyed man who sells papers down town, sought to take her own life. She purchased and swallowed 10 cents’ worth of laudanum. Her life -was almost at the last ebb when she was discovered. Hastily Dr. Thomas was summoned from the City Dispensary shortly after 6 o’clock. After working with Mrs. Morford for an hour her life was saved. Domestic infelicity and jealously was the cause. Mrs. Morford was a widow with a family of children when she married her present husband. It seems that Nelson Morford accused his wife of infidelity and threatened to abandon her and that the thought of parting with him and the disgrace of it prompted her to seek to end her own life. At any rate that is the story the husband told the physician. Mrs. Morford protests that she is guiltless of any wrong doing and resents her husband's suspicions and jealousy. Owen Griflin Wanted to Die. Owen Griflin, living at No. 369 West Pearl street, took a large quantity of morphine yesterday afternoon and lay down to die. Members of the family discovered him and hastily summoned Drs. l&lsenbeiss and Peffley. The physicians worked with Griffin for several hours, and finally declared him out of danger. Griffin is twenty-eight years old. He gave no reason for wishing to end his life. Ilii McHenry’s Attempt. * Ida McHenry, living at No. 313 West Washington street, despondent over a quarrel with her lover, swallowed five or six grains of morphine yesterday and then took an ounce of ergot. Dr. Marxer, of the City Dispensary, was called to attend the woman. He stated last night she would recover. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Washington Bowling Club w r ent to Cincinnati yesterday to roll a match game with the “Hops” Bowling Club. The board of trustees and oflieers of the Park Memorial Tree Association will meet in the assembly room of the Commercial Club to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock for the transaction of important business. In the next thirty days the firm of C. N. Williams & Cos., for many years identified with the business interests of Crawfordsville, will occupy offices in the Lemcke building. Charles N. Williams is the state representative of the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia and for the last eight years has had absolute control of business in Indiana. The firm comes to Indianapolis because of Its central location and the broader business opportunities offered. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. O. C. Bohannon, of Knightstown, is with her sister, Mis. K. M. Navin, on North Senate avenue. Mrs. Arvilla Matilda Bistllne will be at horn, v. ith her daughter, Mrs. Walter Legrand Dynes, Tuesdays, No. 25 South Linden street. Ills Jaw Broken by u Cooper. Claus 1.. Drawer and a cooper living on Blackford street had a fight last evening which resulted seriously for Drawer. He was knocked down and kicked in the jaw, and suffered a bad fracture of the jaw bone. Dr. Eis* nln-iss attend 'd his injuries, and Bra war was taken to nis home, in the rear of No. 2*6 W. s? Washington street. No arrests were made.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1897.

A SERMON BYMR.SPINING THE MINISTER WHO CREATED SUCH AX IMPRESSION AT WINONA Preached Yester day Morning; at the First Presbyterian Chnreh—Rev Dr. Ellison to Law Students. Rev. George L. Spining, of Orange, N. J., who created such a strong impression at Winona last Thursday, when he arose in the General Assembly meeting of the Presbyterian Church to second the nomination of Dr. Sheldon Jackson for moderator, preached at the First Presbyterian Church yesterday morning to a large congregation. Dr. Spining came from Winona with Rev'. M. L. Haines, pastor of the church, who presented him to the congregation. He will return to-day to take further part in the assembly proceedings. His sermon yesterday was one of the most forcible heard here for some time, the distinguished divine handling some of the foremost sociological questions of the day in a convincing and logical way. He touched on the relations of capital and labor, folding that they ai-e interdependent and that it is the duty of the former to provide work for the latter, deprecating speculation and legalized gambling of ail sorts. He has no patience with anarchistic demagagues who preach the destruction of capital. “The mission of capital,” said he, “is to find work for labor to do. Strike it down and you put out the eyes of labor and blind it, like a blind Samson, to grind forever at the millwheel of poverty.” The sacredness of marriage, the duties of the poor to the rich and similar sociological questions were touched upon. “Alliances” w r as the theme of Dr. Spining's discourse, based on the alliance of Jehu and Jehonadab, spoken of in II Kings, x, 15. “Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered. It is. If it be, give me thy hand. And he gave him his hand.” After speaking of tne historical events that led up to the mission of Jehu, Dr. Spining saia, in part: “Jezebel and her descendants are written blood-red in Bible history. By Jezebel, Ahab was seduced; Baal was set up against God and the land was soaked witn the blood of God’s prophets. The day of uivine vengeance hud come and Jehu was the Instrument in God’s hand to accomplish His purpose. Loyalty to him was loyalty to God and disloyalty to him was alliance with Jezebel and Baal and disloyalty to God. On the way frem Jezreel where he had destroyed Jezebel, to Samaria, where he was to destroy the priests of Baal, he met Jehonadab, a goodly man—a Navarite or religious devotee, wiio came in the way to meet him. Jehonadab was the son of Rechab, the founder of the Reehabites, an Arabian tribe which entered Canaan with Israel. The vow' or rule of the tribe was: ‘Ye shall ‘drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever; neither shall ye build houses nor sow seed nor plant vineyards nor have any, but all your days ye shall dwell in tents that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye are strangers.’ They were in Canaan, but not of Canaan; in Israel, but not of Israel; worshipers of one God, haters of idolatry, religious Bedouins, they kept to themselves and mingled in the affairs of Israel; Chief among these stern Arabs was Jehonadab. a chief in whom Jehu might find a powerful ally. Hence the stopping of the royal chariot and the abrupt and pointed question of the text: ‘ls thine heart right as my heart is right with thy heart?’ The answer may be rendered, It is- Give me thy hand.’ Or, ‘lf it is, give thine hand.’ And he said: ‘lt is. And he give him his hand.’ “ ‘Give me thine hand.’ How otten is this voice heard in the world, the voice pleading for help, sympathy and alliance—the widow, the orphan, the aged anil crippled—Christian philanthropy appealing through the subscription list. It is not the agent begging. but weak humanity crying. Too often we see only the canvasser and not the cause —the man or the woman and not the Christ whom they represent, and withdraw our hand from the outstretched hand of Him who said, ‘lnasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’ “GIVE ME THINE HAND.” “ ‘Give me thine hand.’ This time ’tis the voice of the young man in the presence of the merchant, asking for a position, the voice of the father asking lor work, the voice of the young girl thrown out early upon the world, going weeping from office to office, from committee to committee, seeking employment. I never pass a women’s exchange without thinking of genteel poverty lying back of articles on sale, of the bravery of self-help, of tears and prayers wrought into many a delicate bit of work. Take up one of those articles; you know not what weary eyes have bent over it, what tears may have dropped upon it, what heart history is wrought into it. O brave effort of the weaker sex to maintain a. footing in the unequal struggle for life! O mute and eloquent appeal ior a helping hand! “ ‘Give me thine hand.’ The holiest of all human alliances is that of holy wedlock. It is impossible for man to live alone. What is humanity? Man is not—woman is not; they are but fragments, halves of humanity. The halves need each other, not for paternity alone, but for mutual development, for the unity of the family. The family is the oldest institution of the human race. Nations, kingdoms and empires pass away, deluge after deluge of change nave swept over the surface of society, leaving naught scarcely of social fabric or political history, but on the bosom of each Hood rode the ark of the family and proved it to be stronger than the buttressed fortresses of empires. It is the only perpetual institution of humanity, and that because it is of God and bound together by laws of necessity and love as strong as the laws of gravitation, which secure the unity of the physical universe. So men and women seek marriage as naturally as they seek any other necessity of their being. But in this alliance it is essential that the heart should go with the hand. Marriages of convenience, without love, are too often bound by the mere vows of convenience also. Is marriage a lottery? Yes, and no. No, to the wise and thoughtful; yes, to those who rush into it blindly and are governed more by sensual than spiritual passion. All true marriages are made in heaven, but a great many matches are made on earth, and many of them soon smell of brimstone. ‘Give me thine hand,’ said a young man to a beautiful girl at whose wedding l officiated. He was matured, blase and hardened, but elegant and fascinating; she blind and trusting. All society was there and the wedding bells rang merrily. The world of fashion said it was a splendid match; yea, a match, but was it a marriage? One year from that day I knelt beside that weeping bride while her husband expired in the dying agonies of delirium tremens. .Read Burns’s ‘Cotter’s Saturday Night’ if you would see the family as God intended it. That poem is a sanctuary of peace. The humblest cottage where love and duty dwell may contain enough happiness to stock a palace where these art 1 divorced. Marriage is but a crucifixion within their marble walls. Whether marriage is a success or failure, home a foretaste of heaven or hell, depends not upon wealth or beauty, but upon the union of love and duty. The remedy for the unhappy marriage is the introduction of religion into the heart and life.”

CAPITAL AND LABOR. ." ‘Give me thine hand.’ It is the voice of business calling for co-operation—confi-dence. What is thy scheme? Is it to develop some legitimate industry, or to corner the market in some commodity? Is it for .gambling, or square dealing? Is it a scheme wherein the promoter pockets the profits and the stockholder the loss? ’Give me thine hand.’ It is the invitation of capital to labor. They join hands in wedlock, and the children of that marriage are the Brooklyn bridge, railroads spanning u continent, the ocean greyhound, the cable girdling the world, mines, mills and factories giving employment to millions of willing hands and injuring streams of comfort into millions of Homes. Paralyzed be the hand or tongue that will antagonize them. The one can do nothing without the other, and they should always be friends. ‘Give me thine mind,’ says wild-eyed anarchy. ‘and we will strike down cupital.’ Then down comes every temple of industry in the land, and in the ruins are bulled every wage earner. W hen will men learn that man does best when capital does best? and labor does worst when capital can find no outlet? No work for labor to do? The mission of capital is to find work tor labor to do. Strike it down and you put out the eyes of labor and bind it like a blind Samson to grind forever at the wheel of poverty. The stoppage of a thousand mills, the sluggish circulation of money, not its scarcity, the general business stagnation and consequent idleness of millions of men point to two conclusions: Capital fears to take the risk of investment or it can find no work for labor to do. It is not so much

a question of blood in the body politic as an adequate circulation, and that circulation will resume when the cause of its stoppage fs removed. In the meantime men suffer and demagogues who never gave a dollar’s worth of employment to labor seek to create classes and arraign one against the other. But this is not a country of classes; we know no nobility but honesty, no family but native or adopted sons of America, no privileged classes as in Europe, no heriditary rulers, no civil officers but those which spring from and are elected by the people, and no sovereign but the sovereign will of the people as expressed at the ballot box.” ” ‘Give me thine hand.’ It is the voice of the state to the church, anil of the church to the state. Though the church and state are separate there is a sense in which they are indissolubly united. The state protects religion in 'he exercise of the freedom of faith. The church in turn supports the state by cultivating national morals. Where should the flag of our country float if not from every steeple in the land over Protestants, Jews and Catholics alike? For this, our symbol of civil and religious liberty. has been soaked in blood for civil and religious freedom. We do err when we bind it to the masts of commerce and courthouses and schoolhotises of our land alone. Let it float there where our fathers placed it over the state w'hich protects religion, over religion which purifies the state, and let both state and church stand together for the moral and national honor of that flag which symbolizes the highest and holiest hopes of humanity, the best that is attainable in politics or religion among the children of men. Underneath the cross—the incomparable cross—symbol of the world’s redemption by blood, there is no symbol so sacred to me as the flag of my country. “ ‘Give me thine hand.’ It is the voice of Christ. Ah, brother, the waters are deep through which we are all going. This is the voice of him who walketh all waters. You need that hand, my brother, to place your feet on the rock where the swelling of Jordan will not overflow you. It is the hand that was nailed to the cross for thy redemption. When Caesar gave his hand he gave the power of the whole Roman empire with it. When Christ gives his hand the power of the mighty God goes with it. No such alliance was ever offered to a sinner as that which is offered in the wounded hand of the Son of God. Grasp it in faith and and be saved forever.” In conclus'on Dr. Spiffing spoke of the alliance of churches in a union for the evangelization and salvation of the world. Last night Dr. Spining preached at the First Presbyterian Church on the subject of his frontier experiences. A TALK ON WAGNER. Special Exercises Last Night at Rev. Mr. IJewliurst’K Church. The exercises at the Plymouth Church last night were devoted to the rendition of Wagnerian music and a talk on the great composer by the pastor, Rev. Frederic E. Dewliurst. The audience was very large. Most of the anthems given were adaptations from the Wagner creations and the solos were selected from the composer’s best known music. One of the special features of the evening was a violin solo by Master Thad Rich. The selection was the prize song from the “Meistersinger.” Mr. Edward Nell’s fine baritone was heard to advantage in “Oh, Thou Sublime, Sweet Evening Star,” from “Tannhauser.” Mr. Dewhurst in his remarks on the life and work of the great composer spoke of his own appreciation of the Wagnerian music. He believed it was becoming more and more appreciated by all classes of people. There was a time when the press of the country was inclined to make light of this subiime work, but it is not so in this day. Wagner realized that the day would not only come when the notes of the orchestra and the human voice would blond together, but that all the arts would blend together in one great art. The people are impressed, tht; pastor said, with the greatness of the idea wrought from Wagner’s work. He referred particularly to the great drama of “Lohengrin” and spoke of the “Meistersinger,” created by Wagner in his resting time, after he had turned aside from the more serious work of life. The pastor urged that when one has a good motive whether it comes from Wagner or from religious study, it should be translated that moment into some good deed. Memorial Day Services. The annual Memorial-day services were held at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church yesterday mornir.g, Rev. Dr. Smith, the pastor, preaching the sermon. George H. Thomas Post G. A. R. attended in a body. A special feature of the service was the singing by the qii^rtet-""P&triotic air,s were sung, concluding with “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,” to a bugle accompaniment. The music of this old air always affects veteran soldiers strangely and many eyes were dim when it was rendered Dr. Smith preached a sermon appropriate to the day. conveying the lesson of patriotism in sympathetic language. In the' evening Dr. Fred Williams, a noted minister of Baltimore, preached. Dr. Williams has been attending the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Winona. Law School Baccalaarcate. The baccalaureate sermon of the class of 1897 of the Indiana Law School was delivered at the First Baptist Church yesterday morning by Rev. D. J. Ellison, pastor of the church. “Without law there is no liberty” was the theme. The entire class attended the sermon.

To Smash the Heavenly Trust. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: For a number of years the lay members of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been vigorously protesting against the tyranny of the preachers’ “combine,” that runs everything, ignoring the laity upon all occasions, except when the “dear brethren will please take up a collection,” but have been met by that fine'shrewdness of ministerial diplomacy, mingled with prayers and amens, but not much success. The aim of the laity has been for equal representation in the conferences of the church, and such a move was voted on and' carried by an overwhelming majority of the members. By juggling of the bishops and preachers the will of the members has been defeated and their rights ignored. The laity must not presume to want a voice in the control of the church; they must just pay the bill the ministry piles upon them, “be good and go to heaven when they die.” But even this does not seem to satisfy the members any longer. They want some rights while on earth. To this end,a large number of prominent members of the Methodist Church have united in a call for a great mass convention of the priest-ridden laity to meet in Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Sept. 15, for the purpose of organizing the Methodists throughout the United States for a grand light for their rights. The Indications at this time are that the convention will be the greatest affair of the kind this country has ever had. Every condition is ripe for this upheaval. The preachers have turned a deaf ear to the just demands of a long-suffering and wronged laity. The church is losing caste and power in America. Debts are growing and mortgages flourishing on the churches as a result of the preachers’ unbusinesslike management. Millions of dollars are worse than wasted on that expensive failure, the foreign missionary work, while every dollar is needed right in the church at home. Amid all this the preachers keep up their heavenly trust and cry for “more, more” to an already overburdened membership. It has become so that the way to heaven is like the way to hell—it is so expensive that only millionaires can afford it. The forthcoming convention is destined to smash the heavenly trust and make the grand old Methodist Episcopal Church free. A LAY MEMBER. Indianapolis, May 32. Death of B. F. Simmons. B. F. Simmons, an old resident and former manufacturer of this city, died yesterday at his home, No. 9 Irving place. He was seventy-seven years of age and had lived in Indianapolis for years. Mr. Simmons came here from Madison, Ind., but he had formerly lived in the East. He was well respected by all who knew’ him. He leaves four children, three sons and a daughter. They are Mrs. Emma Cox and John A. Simmons, of this city; C. L. Simmons, of New York, and Harry Simmons, of Chicago. Sawed Off. Chicago Tribune. “Hear me out. Glorianna Hyde!” exclaimed the impetuous young man. “It may be that I have spoken too soon. You may not have ‘anticipated such an avowal’ from my lips ’on so short uji acquaintance.’ Does it seem short to you? To me it seems centuries. Love is an eternity in a second. You may not have given me any tangible encouragement but in your gracious presence. within the sphere of your attraction, under the spell of your lovely dark eyes, l have-seemed to hear a w’hisper of hope like the soft rustle of an angel’s wing ” “Mr. Blngwell." interrupted the matter-of-fact young woman, yawning slightly, “angels don’t have wings. The best authorities all agree on that noy ”

THE CYCLE PATH LINED ALL SORTS OF WHEELING ( OSTI TIES % SEEN THERE YESTERDAY. A Description of the Cycling: Gown of a “Millionairess” \\ hich Cost Over S7OO. Yesterday was not an ideal day for cycling, hut there were many hundreds out enjoying short spins. The rain of the early morning interfered with most of the club runs and prevented the long run wheelmen making their usual excursions, except in the caso of that very small number of wheelmen who stop at nothing when once a trip is decided upon. This is the class of riders which can be seen during every day of the winter riding about the streets in snow and sleet. They are hardy fellows —perhaps foolhardy. Some of these fellows made their usually -long Sunday runs yesterday. The cycle path was lined with wheelmen and wheelwomen yesterday. Sunday is the only day that many of these riders get to take a ride for pleasure alone. Many young women riders have wheels which they use almost every day in the week riding to and from offices or stores down town where they are employed. But at such times they are not dressed in a manner for the fullest enjoyment of cycling. And so it is with the men. Many men feel that knickerbockers are out of place for business. For instance, lawyers are few in number who would think of appearing before a court to argue a case in knickerbockers. It thus happens that the matter of being able to dress for the wheel is important in considering the possibilities for enjoyment in riding. Yesterday afternoon most of the riders seen on the cycle path were dressed for the wheel and were able to get the full enjoyment out of the sport. But in their attempts to “dress for the wheel” some riders made a ludicrous spectacle of themselves. Fashion decrees that a lady's costume shall be of one color throughout even to shoes and hat and these latter are better within the decree if made of the same material as the skirt—the high cloth tops of the‘shoes taking the place of the tabooed leggings. A jacket to match the skirt is a necessary part of a woman’s costume, but in warm weather this need not necessarily be w'orn over the w T aist. There are few women riders who seem to understand how to dress correctly' for a wheel. They will appear the model of perfection in a walking costume or in a dress for the theater, but when- they' don their bicycle attire their friends are often startled. There are women who cannot discern the difference between the bicycle skirt and the walking skirt. They have the former too long and too wide for satety and comfort. Others go to the other extreme and get their skirts too narrow to allow ot the proper freedom for pedaling. Both these classes were out. T hoy enjoyed themselves apparently and afforded an opportunity for study on the part of the observer. Then there was the class of w'omen composed of these who for economy’s sak.6 have a.bbr€*viutcd a strict skirt for use on the w'heel. This skirt is about five yards around the bottom, and it naps about in the winds and wraps itself about a woman’s limbs in a dangerous and unbecoming way. But the wearer of this skirt w r as dressed for the wheel and did not seem to realize that any criticism could be made of her appearance. Another woman, to prevent the unpleasant flapping of her wide skirt, bound the bottom of it with leather. This stiffened it so that every movement of the limbs threw' it up and disclosed the face that she rode without bloomers under the skirt. , . , Shoes of every description were seeri, but they were less noticeable either for their propriety or otherwise than the headwear affected. The soft creased hat w r as worn by the majority of women riders and the more tastv had them made of the same material as their skirts and jackets, or of the same shade of color. Some wore sailor hats. They protect one’s ears and neck from the sun. One or two women seen wore caps. The most unusual headgear that a woman can w T ear on a wheel is a trimmed hat, no matter of what style or how trimmed There were some of them out yesterday. To see a woman riding a wheel with a street hat trimmed gorgeously in flowers looks about as bad as to see a man w'earing a dress suit and silk hat riding. Sweaters for women do not seem to have become anything of a fad here. There are some very pretty ones sold and they look very neat upon a w'ell-rounded form, but they are not comfortable. Several were seen yesterday. ... There is no need to describe _ ! ,ie men. Most of them were dressed in knickerbockers or knee pants of some kind. A Bicycle Gown Costing $715.50. The most expensive bicycle suit on record has just been ordered at one of the swellest tailors in New' York, according to the New York Journal. The girl who meets the bill is worth a million in. her own right, is an athletic beauty and a reigning belle in the ultrasmart set. The suit which makes the bill is the most? elaborate ever designed in this country. It is lined with silk, finished with jewels and will cost a lump sum of $715.50. Two "Scott and Adle” shawls, at $75 a piece, will be employed in making the skirt and jacket. And, by the way, these English shawls are the very latest things for any sort of fancy outing suit. The skirt will be stitched half way to the knees, with the lines of stitching not over a sixteenth of an inch apart. This is the new device to stiffen the lower part of the skirt without adding to the weight. The edges of the jacket are also stitched, and, together with the skirt, is elaborately braided, which latter touch ad<B; some $25 to the expense. Bloomers and Finings of suit throughout will be of silk—not less than sixteen yards of siik to be used, which gives another item of $22.50. With the bloomers have been ordered a half drtzen interlining of the tinest lawn, at $2.50 a pair. Boose jackets are no longer the correct thing for the crack bicyclist. The newest waist is tight fitting always, and worn with a series of vests and shirt fronts. It sounds very simple just to say, “I shall order at least three vests for my new bicycle suit,” doesn’t it? Well, that is what the “millionairess” in question did, and these three vests are going to cost her $25 apiece. The principal color in her suit is green, so she has ordered one vest of sage green, one of geranium red, embroidered in black and gold, and one of white broadcloth, embroidered in silver. With these vests she will wear snow-white linen shirt fronts and black satin ties. And $25 is not so very extravagant for a vest when you stop to consider that the garment is made when the material is wet and was to be molded to the figure. A Panama straw hat, fawn color and trimmed with scarlet and green, will add one ten-dollar Item, and bicycle boots of finest leather will add another of $lB. Golf stockings in mixed greens and tans will be worn in place of the high-top hoot. An entire box of these stockings have been ordered, as it is difficult to match them exactly. Fifteen dollars a half dozen will buy the softest and b'st in the shops. But the crowning extravagance of this particular “biking” maid is yet to come. Her belt of elephant green leather is clasped with a buckle of oxidized silver set with emeralds. The buckle is in the form of two bicycle wheels. The rim of each wheel is bordered with small green stones a single large emerald forming the hub. This trifling decoration to adorn the “slender waist” of the pretty wheelwoman will cost treble the price of her wheel; that is to say, exactly fsoo.

LED BY' MAYOR HARRISON. Annual Sunday Bun of Chicago Bicycle Cl übs. CHICAGO, May 23.—Mayor Harrison, riding a wheel and escorted by eight officers in knickerbockers, led the annual Sunday run of Chicago’s bicycle clubs to-day. The parade started from Thirty-fifth street and Grand boulevard and ended at the loop in Garfield park, and was participated in by 3.006 cyclists, of whom 150 were of the gentler sex. Racing in Mexico. MEXICO CITY. Mexico, May 23.—The second day of the race meeting of the Mexican Cyclists’ Union was held to-day and there was a very large attendance of many prominent people present. Including United States Minister Clayton and daughters and Consul General Crittenden and wife. Mile Race, First Class—Won by J. E. Mohler. Time. 2:13. Mile Handicap—Won by Mohler. Time, 2:17 1-5. He exhibited a wonderful burst of speed In the stretch. A. W. Evans, a well-known amateur rider of tho United States, rode

And Painful Affections of Nearly all the Organs Cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. From the Journal, Detroit, Mich.

“Disease oc the spinal cord and nervous prostration, was what the doctors called it at first,” Mrs. Rosa Tapley, of No. 721 Harrison Street, lonia, Mieb., said yesterday to a reporter, “but it was not long before every organ and member of my body was affected. There was a continuous beating Tat the’pit of my stomach, my head ached on until I thought 1 should grow insane. I felt as if I was smothering and my legs so weak that l had to drop when I felt the spells coming on. As for sleep, that was out of the question, except little cat naps, for in addition to the feelings I have attempted to describe, I had neuralgia, and for six months I kept getting worse and worse, and at last was confined to my bed in October, 1594. “ I Lave nearly always thought it was la pippe, that I had,” Mrs. Taplev continued, “though the doctor never would say so, but whatever it was it kept getting worse and worse, especially my head and nerves, and I thought 1 should aie, but I dragged on a wretched existence until about one year ago, when, while I was reading tho Detroit Journal and Saranac Weekly, I saw a long account of a similar case to my own being cured by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I made up my mind to try these pills, and so procured a supply and began taking them according to directions. s>. My experience has been most happy. My heart’s action is normal, my back and spine gave me very little trouble, all neuralgic and rheumatic pains have left me. I Lave no headache, whatever, and after (bo

in both races, but sacrificed his chances of winning for the purpose of pacing other contestants. Seventy-Five-Mile Rontl Record. BALTIMORE, May 22.—Henry Smith, of this city, who holds the twenty-four-hour American record, rode against time to-day to establish a seventy-five-mile record, a distance recently recognized by the Century Road Club. Smith’s time to-day was 4 hours, 17 minutes and 12!& seconds against a strong wind. Killed Racing: with a Train. ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 23.—0tt0 Keppling, aged eighteen, while racing on his bicycle with a train on the Irondequoit Bay Railroad to-day, caught his pedal in the step of a car and was thrown under the wheels and killed. Bicycle Notes. A number of “unattached” riders went to Greenfield yesterday. Broad Ripple Park was thronged with visitors again yesterday. Riders would be much more thankful for the things they have in cycling if there were not so many other things in it that they want. Tho Indianapolis Cycling Club made a short run yesterday, circling about the city, but never getting more than a half dozen miles away. Entries for the Decoration day road race are coming in slowly, but there is reason to believe that there will be over a hundred starters. Most riders will wait until the* last day to enter. The road race course to Millersvillo was kept pretty hot yesterday by riders who expect to compete. It will be the last opportunity for some of them to go over the course before the race. FORECAST FOR MONDAY. YVcnilicr Bureau Promises a Fair Sky Until 11 it. iu. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m. May 24—Fair weather on Monday. General Conditions —Low barometric pressure prevails, except from South Dakota northward. Higher temperature prevailed, except from Tennessee and North Carolina northward, where rains fell and cooler temperature prevailed. Thunderstorms formed in localities of Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina and Tennessee. FOREICAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Forecast for Monday: For Ohio—Clearing in early morning; generally fair Monday; cooler; brisk northwesterly winds. Indiana and Illinois—Partly cloudy weather; cooler in southern portions; northerly winds. Sunday's Local Observations. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m. .2!b74 64 86 West. Rain. 0.04 7 p.m.. 29.76 66 73 West. Cloudy. 0.58 Maximum temperature, 73; minimum temperature, 03. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation May 23; Temp. Preo. Normal ....1 65 .14 Mean 68 .62 Departure from formal *3 *4S Departure since May 1 —65 *1.30 Departure since Jan. 1 —63 *4.17 *Plus C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperatures. The following table of temperature is furnished by the United States Weather Bureau; Stations. 7a. m. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta. Ga 74 .. • .. Cairo, 111 68 80 76 Cheyenne, Wyo 44 Chicago, ill 52 68 60 Concordia, Kan 56 Davenport, lowa 56 68 56 Des Moines, lowa 56 68 60 Dodge City, Kan 56 SO 74 Kansas City, Mo 56 78 72 Little Rock, Ark 68 84 80 Memphis, Tenn 72 82 80 Nashville, Tenn 72 82 70 North Platte, Neb 52 76 74 Omaha, Neb 50 70 66 Rapid City, S. D 50 70 62 Salt Lake City, Utah.... 54 St. Louis, Mo 64 80 72 Springfield, 111 56 74 66 Springfield, Mo 62 78 71 Vicksburg, Miss 68 82 78 Cincinnati, O 72 78 66

The Brown-Sexton Cane. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The special from Salem to the Journal in Saturday’s issue relating to the verdict of the jury in acquitting Brown and Sexton on the charge of murder for the killing of John Rippey, and the insinuation (almost accusation) of Judge Martin dishonoring himself and the bench by accepting bribe money to show favors to the accused in points of law and rulings of the court are very unjust. Judge Martin stands at the head of the legal profession of the State, and is a lawyer not excelled by any for his correct understanding of the law, and has the honor and courage to enforce them regardless of favor to friend or foe. His rulings in this case were highly commended by the attorneys, both for the state and the defendants, and his instructions to the jury were based on the evidence and facts as attested by the court from day to day. As to the jury being composed of men who would accept money as an equivalent for their honor and sworn duty to give justice to the men whose lives or freedom were in their power, or to see that justice was meted out to the accused for the killing ot the unfortunate John Rippey, they have the sentiment of Liwrence county and the officials in general that they did their duty honestly, conscientiously with ail regard for the dead man and his living friends and relatives. The large number of the best class of citizens of Louisville, among them men holding the highest offices of honor of that city, testifving as to tho courage, ability and honor of the accused, -and the manly, innocent look on tiie faces of both Sextain and Brown were enough to convince Any jury that these men were not red-handed •murderers. The killing of Rippey was an unfortunate mistake, innocently made, only to preserve their own lives, as they well knew the record of the man they were seeking; he was known as a desperate man, and they knew that if he got th- drop on them they were gone. The resemblance of the dead man to Brooks, as sworn to by tho Salem undertaker, bojh as to looks and the size of the men. to continue

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It Outstrips Them AH The Monarch has that fly-away-and-leave-the rest quality which makes it the chosen racer of the wisest riders. The Monarch Bicycle is a little bit the nearest to perfection in every point. Hear its riders praise it. They know. A catalogue if Monarch Cycle f j London. Indianapolis Agent: A. LEAUTV, 81 W. Washington St.

tho most skeptical how easy such a mistake could innocently occur under such circumstances. We have all due regard for the Journal’s correspondent at Salem, but think that he is a little off when ho undertakes to attack the honor of the judge and the verdict of the jury of the Lawrence f’ircuit Court, as rendered in the BrownSexton trial. The friends of Judge Martin are iustlv indignant at such an outburst of such uncalled-for insinuations. B. Bedford, Ind., May 23. THE SENATE CIRCUS. A Once Greut Legislative Body in ltd Degenerate Stage, Washington Letter in New York Evening Post. If Mr. Hoar had his Forum article to rewrite to-day he would think twice before denying that the Senate has degenerated. The spectacle which has repeatedly been witnessed of late in the chamber where he sits daily as a re lic of better times gone by is enough to turn the most sanguine American into a pessimist. The spectators’ galleries have been packed so that the overflow trickled in long queues down the corridors—the curiosity seekers being perfectly content to stand for hours in uncomfortable attitudes, waiting for the possibility of a vacant seat inside, and meanwhile regaling themselv< s with the inarticulate sound of a high-pitched human voice when some orator warmed particularly to his work. Inside the crowd had the same notion of the purpose of its presence as the mob at a political convention. It was there to help some cause along by “rooting” for this speaker and by discouraging tliat one. The only feature of the show omitted was the band. The more of a mountebank a senator made of himself the more popular he was with the spectators upstairs, and the clownishness of Mason, of Illinois, aroused the wildest of all their outbursts of merriment and approval. Once a day. possibly, these boisterous demonstrations would draw a feeble rebuke from the presiding officer, who would repeat mildly the customary formula of warning—the threat which is never executed that the galleries would be cleared if the offense were repeated. Tho regular Senate-goers have been educated by experience to know just how much that means, and it produces almost no effect upon their conduct. So the next time the clown in the ring would make a point he would get his round of plaudits, perhaps a trifle more subdued than the last, but quite vigorous enough to spur him on to greater efforts. It may be asked how the ml scorn! net of the spectators proves the degeneracy of the Senate. The answer is twofold. Had the Senate been constituted as in the days of Sumner, and Edmunds, and Thurman, Bayard and Hamlin. Frelinghuysen and Schurz, and Morton, could such scenes have been witnessed on the floor? Would not the moral forces of that dignified body have been sufficient to suppress them and keep decency uppermost? Could “one of tho boys,” of the Mason order, have broken into the Senate in those days? It is doubtful. But even if one had, what * chance would he have stood with the gallery gods? In the ’7os the spectators themselves held ttie Senate in respect anil would have frowned down a speech which contained neither law nor logic, but was designed merely to provoke handclapping or raise a laugh at the low-eomedy antics of the orator. “Is there a war in Cuba?” asked Mr. Mason, and the best answer lie could give to his own question was that if there were no war. there ought to be! “Is the testimony of newspaper correspondents, in the absence of any official information, sufficient ground for action by the Senate?” Certainly, for the newspaper correspondents are a long-suffering set of men; vh* y sit in tho second story of tho Senap* chamber and listen to speeches at an’ average compensation of $lO a week; is not that proof enough that we can trust them? “Shall wo pay no regard to international law?” our so-called international law Is an ancient barnacle; the sooner we get rid of it the better. “Are we to pay no heed to the business interests of the country?” oh. I’m right from th>- people, the plain people-; I’m run by no boss; I belong to no ring; 1m the product of no machine; in short. I'm the stuff, and must of you feL lows ain't! Whoor-roo! And so it went on. Mr. Hoar himself was obliged to utter a protest against such a mixture of ignorance and vulgarity as he was called upon to buffet. In the midst of his attempt to set Senator Hawley right on a point of international law which nearly every schoolboy knows, so persistent an effort was made to turn his explanation into absurdity that he exclaim* and in despair: "If this Is a mere matter of a circus, I will sit down.” A circus! Did any one ever venture to comp-are a solemn session of th# Senate twenty years ago to a circus? Yet the phrase sprang from the indignant lip# of tho very veteran who lately resented an imputation that the Senate had degenerated! A Suggestion. Philadelphia Record. The administration is in doubt whether to send the $50.0i0 in cash to (.Tuba or to buy food and ship it. After the failure to find a ship in which to send corn to tho famine victims of India tho government had butter be shy of shipping experiment*

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