Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1897 — Page 3

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Sale of seats for the engagement of Kellar at English’s Thursday night will commence at 9,o’clock this morning. The advance sale for Joseph Jefferson’s only appearance -this season at English’s next Saturday night in his famous “Rip Van Winkle” will begin at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning. Ishani’s Octoroons, which open at the Park this afternoon for the tirst half of the week, have always been favorites at the Park, and promise to repeat their former Cyrene’s Vaudeville Company, in conjunction with Sherman & Morrjsey’s “Jay Circus” Company, will be at the Empire all week. Why Hardy Killed Teas. That genius is sensitively subject to moods, which are inspired by external things, is again shown by a story recently told about Thomas Hardy, the author of “Teas of the D'Urbervilles” and other famous novels. Hardy’s stories, which are ootod for their fidelity to locality and truth of character, owe their atmosphere to his painstaking habit of studying the places about which he writes and the characters whose counterfeits he puts into fiction. Os course, while an author may but describe a locality, he as a rule builds up a character from Ins own imaginings and to suit the purposes of his story, using the typos he may encounter only as lay figures whose externals alone are exactly reproduced. Hardy makes* a point of sojourning in the places described by him in his novels until he is certain of his local color. It is declared that the locality of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles.” described generally in the book as Wessex, which was an ancient geographical designation of the west of England, is in reality in the vicinity of Hardy’s own country seat, and thus the marvelous truth of the rural pictures painted in the novel by the author is explained In speaking oi "fess of the D’Urbervilles” recently, It is said—and this relates to the phenomenon suggested—Hurdy remarked to a friend: “If it hadn’t been such a dreadful dav when l visited Stonehenge, it is probable that I shouldn’t have decided ’Tess’ must die.” This decision once arriv-il at in the author’s mind was irrevocable. While the story was appearing serially. Hardy received scores of letters from persons who foresuw the fateful progress of the novel and who besought him to change the current of events and end the story happllv. Rut that was not to be. The last scene in Mrs. Fiske’s play, made from Hardy’s novel, brings the stage story of "Tess” to a climax in a counterfeit picture- of Stonehenge, where Hardy was so depressed that the fate of the heroine was sealed as a result. The appearance of Mrs. Fiske and her Coffee of very low grade, or Coffee esser e, is mixed in every imitatiun of Postum, which has a coffee taste, thus far tested. The counterfeiters cannot make Postum, the only pure cereal coffee, with a coffee taste, on the mark/L

great supporting company in “Teas” at the Grand next Thursday Is one of the dramatic events of the Indianapolis season. Rival Owners Gutting a Theater. LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. Lansing Theater, the leading playhouse of the city, was this morning before daylight dismantled of part of Its furnishings, almost a riot accompanying the work, and as a result J. F. Lansing, late half owner, L. C. Burr and Roscoe Pound, his attorneys, and a score of laborers were to-day arrested. The trouble is the outcome of the sale of the property under foreclosure a week ago. Mr. Lansing claimed there was a conspiracy to defraud him of part of his holdings. The District Court, however, confirmed the sale on Saturday and declared the title t ested in the purchaser, William Oliver, of New York. This morning the rival claimants and their adherents had a personal collision which was not quelled until the police had been called. Koten of the Stage. Miss Johnstone Bennett finds a commercial career too slow and Is going into vaudeville. She will appear at Proctor’s Twenty-thirci-street Theater next week. Madge Ellis, who opens at Koster & Bial’s to-day, is deserving of more than passing notice, for she is the only American who has become a distinct star in the London music halls. Lincoln J. Carter, playwright and manager, of Chicago, has inaugurated the Lincoln J. Carter Amusement Corporation, which has, he says, a paid up capital of SIOO,OOO. Offices have been opened, and the enterprise combines a theatrical exchange, a booking agency and a general supply depot for everything needed in a stage production, from plays to scenery and players. No more charming bit of child acting has ever been seen in New York than that o£ little Venic Wells In the part of Chan Tay In “The First Born,” but tho very joyousness and life which is put into the boy’s part again gives rise to the question as to whether Mr. Powers’s characterization of the Chinese Is as thorough and understanding as that of Mr. Fernald In "The Cat and the Cherub.” The infant Hoo Chee in the latter play was, it will in exact contrast to Chan Toy. Instead of bounding upon the stage screaming in childish delight, he walks on with a calm and studied dignity as befits his father’s son. He attempts no playfulness, even with his beloved cat, but clasps It to hit breast In a solemn but thoroughly affectionate manner. Chan Toy. on the contrary, is a boisterous infant; he plays as rudely as other children, and is altogether In strong contrast with his self-constrained, silent father. Chinese children may accumulate their dignity later In life, but to the untaught observer the characterization of Hoo Chee certainly seems the better in consideration of the picture which both Mr. Powers and Mr. Fernald have given us of the matured Chinese.—New York Journal. HOG-KILLING HIGH MARK INDIANAPOLIS PACKERS ECLIPSING ALL FORMER RECORDS. Cattle Slanghter Equally as GreatIncrease In Stock Yards Business —The Horse Market. * The Indianapolis packing houses begin the winter killing season in a manner which indicates that in the coming year all former records are to be eclipsed. In the month of November there were killed at the Indianapolis packing houses 110,000 hogs, 44,000 more than in November, 1896, and the month of December bids fair to exceed this record, as Kingan & Cos. are now killing 5,000 to 5,500 hogs daily, the Moore packing house 1,000 to 1,200 daily, Coffin & Fletcher 800 to 1,000, the Indianapolis Abattoir Company 300 to 400, the Gardner abattoir 200 to 300, so that among them all 8,000 to 9,000 hogs are being killed at Indianapolis every day. At the seventeen Western points that report the number of hogs killed In the month of November, 1,960,000 hogs were killed, against 1,395,000 In November, 1896; increase this year, 565,000. Indianapolis packing houses are now killing more cattle than at any former period, Kingan & Cos. killing from 300 to 500 head a day If they can get them. At the Indianapolis abattoir 250 to 300 head are now killed a day, and at the Gardner abattoir 150 to 200 head. All three of these establishments, besides furnishing beef for this market, are shipping dressed meats to a larger extent than ever before.

To Be tlie ’Largest Horse Market. In the month of November over 3,000 horses were sold at the two auction sale stables in close proximity to the stock yards, the sales occurring on Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. Os the horses sold 2,342 were shipped in here, and between 600 and 700 driven in from the surrounding country. Mr. Blair, of the firm of Blair & Baker, predicts that within the next two years Indianapolis is to have the prominence of being the largest horse market in the United States. It is quite certain that two large concerns are to purchase ground and erect large sales stables thereon and possibly a third within the next twelve months, and ail are firms that have ample means and will go into the business on a large scale. The large number of export buyers now* on this market, and the still larger number of Eastern and Southern buyers who are here at the weekly sales, has attracted the attention of the firms who contemplated locating here, and it is more than probable that the predictions of Mr. Blair, one of the founders of the auction sales, will be realized. Largest Stove Plant In the Went. Indianapolis can now boast of having the most modern and large*st stove manufactory in the Western States. The Indianapolis Stove Company is now in its new buildings and running to its fullest capacity, employing more men than at any time in the history of the works. The new foundry building is 318 feet by 72 feet in width, and with the large buildings formerly occupied by the Indianapolis cabinet works, the Indianapolis Stove Company now has as much fioor room as any plant in the city, unless it be the Parry Manufacturing Company or ilaneable iron works. In the construction of the plant every device of modern invention which aids in operating so extensive a plant economically and to the best advantage has been introduced. In the future, part of the buildings occupied formerly by s he cabinet works Will be used as a warehouse. Stock Yards* liig Baxlneia. The Indianapolis stock yards are now enjoying the greatest prosperity at any time in the twenty years they have been established, and the present management is leaving nothing undone to increase the busiwere received at the yards 126,034 head of nogs, against 93.471 head in November. 1896: increase this year, 33.163. There were received during the month 13.139 head of cattle, against 9,320 head in November, 15<%increase this year. 3,814. There were received 6,707 head of sheep, against 5,367 head in November. 1596: increase this year, 1 440 During the month 2.342 head of horses w-en' received fer the Indianapolis horse market. November Flour Output. Local millers are still doing a light business. While the capacity of the mills is 96,000 barrels a month, in November but 30,257 barrels were turned out. against 40,426 barrels in October this year and against 35,309 barrels in November, 1896. The price of wheat has been so much above, that of fiour that it has been unprofitable for the millers to push their output, only to fill certain lines of orders. Grain Inspections. The official report of the Board of Trade shows that in November there were 97,300 bushels of wheat inspected, against 36,800 in November, 1896, and 345,000 bushels of corn, against >I,O*JO in November. 1596. and 46.000 bushels of oats, against 55,000 bushels in November of last year. (’brlstmiiK l*!n>tottrnphs. Standard styles,* Rembrandt proofs, carbons In fourteen colors on ivory surface, porcelain, etc. Sittings this week promised for Christmas and promises fulfilled. Kitchen Residence Studio, old 614 North IJennsylvunia street.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1837.

GREETED BY BIG CROWDS CHI IICHES THRONGED TO HEAR MR. AND MRS. MOOTH-fICKER. Salvation Army Leaders Hold Four Service* In as Many Anditorinnis— The Colonization Scheme. ♦- Commander and Mrs. Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, were w’ell received by immense audiences in Indianapolis at the four services held yesterday. For the afternoon service, when Commander BoothTucker explained his colonizatior plans, an audience g ithered at Roberts Park Church that filled every available foot of space in the large auditorium. At this service the commander's wife, known in Salvation Army circles as “Consul” Booth-Tucker, made an Impassioned address on the work that is being accomplished in the rescue homes and "shelters” in the large cities. The consul’s private secretary, Brigadier Alice Lewis, who entered the work after receiving a careful training for the operatic stage, assisted in the services, singing solos to her own accompaniment. Colonel French, of Chicago, commander of the Northwestern district, presided at the meeting. On the rostrum were Rev. J. A. Milburn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, and Rev. J. Gumming Smith, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Mr. Bacon, pastor of Roberts Park Church. During the afternoon Brigadier Alice Lewis addressed the Young Women’s Christian Association in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church. J. Cumming Smith made the invocation at Roberts Park Church. Dr. Bacon, pastor of the church, briefly welcomed the great Salvation Army leaders to Indianapolis. “We believe,” said he. “that God Is in this great movement. We welcome Commander and Consul Booth-Tucker.” The commander apologized for the fact that this was his first visit to Indianapolis. One might think, he said, that this would be the first city he would visit in America after leaving India, on account of the similarity of names. It is not necessary, he declared, to go to India to find jungles. Royal Bengal tigers of poverty and hunger haunt the jungles of the great cities. He told what has been done to relieve present distress in the large cities by the: Salvation Army. From twenty-eight institutions for caring for the destitute, a year ago, the number has increased to eighty-one at present. A year ago these institutions were under the care of 226 officers of the army. To-day there are €3O in the work. Night after night, he said, food, shelter, cheer and hope are provided for four thousand sad hearts. “We have provided for the poor more than 1,000,000 shelters in the last twelve months. And, best of all, we have been able to touch the hearts and bring about the reformation of some of the most terrible characters. Os course, all this takes money, as you may suggest How much? On an average of 15 cents for each time succor is given, about $150,000 a year. The poor people who have been helped have themselves paid upward of SIOO,OOO in cash. Some $30,000 has (been used to provide the institutions, furniture, etc., in the local work, so that, as a matter of fact, the great work acomplished has cost charitable people but $20,000. “But the city colonies for the poor are not sufficient, and we are arranging to tack on farm colonies, to place waste labor on the waste land with waste capital. Some people do not like the word ‘waste.’ Very well, call It idle labor, placed on idle land %vith idle capital, or, if that word does not please you, call it surplus labor, surplus land and surplus capital. No matter what you call it. Do it somehow, and as quickly as you can.”

’ CARING FOR THE MASSES. In working out this idea, the commander said, in a practical, businesslike way, the solution of the problem of caring for the masses of poor people will be solved. “Nobody disputes,” said he, “that there are three millions of these submerged classes in our midst. In dealing with the problem that poverty presents we ought to avoid fallacies. There is the ‘ostrich fallacy.’ The ostrich, burying his head in the sand, imagines that, because he cannot see the danger, it does not exist. The roars of the lion of poverty are heard in the midst of us. Woe betide us if we close our ears to them. Then there is the ‘football’ policy of kicking human beings from city to city. In New York they tell us that Chicago is a wicked place, because its poor are shipped to other cities. Chicago tells the same story of New York. From place to place the poor human footballs are kicked about. I am afraid that tramps, like other birds, will come home to roost. You send them out blackbirds and they will come back harpies. Then beware of the ‘crucifixion’ policy of nailing poverty to the cross. A ragged coat does not indicate a ragged character, a ragged intellect nor a ragged heart. Above all, let us not forget the rules of morality, humanity and Christianity. Not long ago I had the privilege of talking with President McKinley. In the course of that talk I said to him that society has a right to say to the destitute. ‘This is what you must do to receive aid,’ but it should not. be conditioned upon breaking up the family. A man whose family Is broken, whose loved ones are taken from him, Is no better than a derelict at sea—yea, he is worse, for the derelict may be blown out of the water with dynamite to prevent danger to other vessels, but we have not arrived at the stage where we can blow up the poor man.” Whether man is worthy or unworthy, said the speaker, should not be asked when he extends a hand for aid, but whether he is willing or unwilling to work. He said he had heard of a charitable organization that spent 350,000 in a year inquiring into the worthiness of ten thousand cases. It is most difficult, lie said, to inquire into the character of those in need. Twenty witnesses will swear that he is black, while twenty others will swear that he is w’hite. “With skillful lawyers to throw more dust in your eyes,” said he. “it is difficult to decide the case and you might as well flip a coin in the air, calling ‘heads you lose tails you win,’ to the applicant for your bounty. In nine cases out of ten, he said, it would ho found that the man was willing to work. “We believe from our experience that not more than 5 per cent, are unwilling to work when a chance to work is offered them,” he said. “Once in a while we find cases like that related hv one captain who put a man to sawing wood. When the captain’s back was turned the fellow slipped away after scribbling dow*n these lines: “ ‘Just tell them you saw me But you didn’t see me saw.' “Because we occasionally find one unwilling to work should we deny aid to the 95 per cent.?” FROM CITIES TO COLONIES. Commander Booth-Tucker said that he was often asked whether the people would be willing to leave the cities for the colonies, where they were provided with five or tenacre tracts of land, provided with comfortable cottages, a few pigs and poultry. He said that he knew three thousand people who are waiting to march at his command into “this poor man’s paradise.” He toid of experiments that have been made In California and Colorado. In the former State he expects to open forty cottages Christmas day for as many families. It is not proposed to take the scum of the cities, he said, but 90 per cent, of the men who w’ant to go to these colonies are already agriculturists who have drifted into the cities and cannot get away again. “Asa matter of fact.” he said, “these people are about as good as this great audience here to-day." He spoke of the appeal that he had recently made in New York for SIOO,OOO to get the plan established on a business basis. It met with a response of but $30,000. The scheme is to be under the direction of five trustees, who are to issue certificates for the money put into it and guarantee to pay i per cent. He predicts that the people will repay every dollar every ten years. If the money that now keeps up the almshouses were invested in this way he says that 500.i)oo could be given homes every ten years and at the end of that time the money would be ready to be invested again. “Instead of Klondike of bust, the cry of California or bust has been the Salvation Army’s motto. When our colony was founded there It was heard that people were preparing to march down on it from all directions. We had to warn them that we could not care for all of them at once.” The commander has great faith in his colonization scheme and predicts that it will tend more than anything else to solve the

poverty problem. In time he believes that every church will have its colony, “cities of refuge" for the poor and destitute. After a collection was taken for the local work, which includes a plan for a "shelter” for poor men. Consul Booth-Tucker followed her husband* in a talk. MRS. BOOTH-TICKER TALKS. An Iniinense Crowd Heurs Her at Second Presbyterian Clinreh. The Second Presbyterian Church was crowded last night to greet Mrs. BoothTucker. Chairs were placed in all the aisles and in all the open space about the pulpit. There was not an inch of space that was not taken, and after all that It was possible to get into the commodious auditorium had been seated, hundreds more crowded in and struggled for standing room. When it came time to dismiss the congregation it was necessary that the extra chairs be stowed away under the pews before the people could move. Mrs. Booth-Tucker presented a pleasing appearance. She appeared in the regulation Salvation Armv uniform of blue and red, excepting that the texture of her garments was finer than, that usually seen about the army barracks. The regulation poke bonnet covered her head and she wore a large white sash extending from her left shoulder and trailing the floor at her right side. Mrs. Booth-Tucker is a good orator and speaks earnestly and impressively. She is hard to understand, however, owing to her strong English accent. It was necessary to pay strict attention to follow her, but after her peculiarities of speech were understood she could be hefftrd and Understood all over the room. She spoke almost on the same lines as in her afternoon address at Roberts Park Church. She said that there were 270.000 people kneeling annually at the altars of the Salvation Army, and 60,000 souls seeking salvation at these altars in the United States. The rescue homes in this country cared for 4,500 young women annually, and the criminal homes saved 1,500 young men from prison. At the conclusion Os her address Mr. Milburn asked that a collection be taken for the Salvation Army, and the baskets were passed with difficulty in the immense crowd. They returned heavily laden with bills, silver and blanks filled out with promises to pay liberal sums. ROME AND CHRISTIANITY. Dr. C. N. SI in* Speak* of the Martyrdom of Paul. Dr. C. N. Sims, pastor of the Meridianstreet M. E. Church, spoke last night on “Romo and Early Christianity.” He preached from the text found in Acts xxiii, 11—“ So must thou !• ir witness also at Rome.” The pastor said in part: “Jerusalem, the greatest religious center of the world, rejected Christ, arrested, tried and put Him to death. Then desolation came to it, as Jesus prophesied, and it ceased henceforth as a great city. Rome had become the greatest city on the earth at the beginning of the Christian era. Very soon after the risen Savior had given commandment to preach His gospel in all the world, it was taught and believed, and organized into a church at Rome. Who first preached Christ there we do not know. When Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans, before he had ever seen the city, the church was there, and numbered among its prominent members men from all parts of she empire. Paul was brought there a prisoner, but was permitted to live in his own hired house and preach Christ to whoever would hear him. “Rome was then a dense city of about two millions of people, inclosed with a wall of about thirteen miles circuit. Outside were beautiful villas and a dense suburban population, where now is the desolate Campagna. The great aqueducts supported by innumerable and lofty, arches stretched from the mountains to the city, bringing in rivers of pure cold water from the melting snows. Within the walls there was a monotony of lofty gray buildings, unrelieved by a single spire, and only one dome lifted Its shining tops to the fleavens. Half the population was slaves, and the other half Roman citizens, mostly poor, shiftless and idle, getting their living by the gratuities of the government, and their amusement from the brutalities of the theaters. There was no hospital in the great city. People did sometimes expose their sick by the street side or under the porticoes to receive suggestions of treatment from the strangers who passed.by. The best physicians and artisans were slaves. There were a few senators, a few noblemen, and a resident army of IQ,OOO to 15.C00 soldiers. The religion of Rome recognised two groups of duties—the gods of The, state and the divinities of the homfc. Near the Forum was the ancient temple oj Vegta, and not far away was the new Pantheon, where were shrines of all tho national gods. “The Romans were tolerant of all the religions of the provinces so long as they did not Interfere with the established worship of the state. And so Paul preached, and the Church of Christ grew in the city and sent out its missionaries everywhere throughout the empire. But Nero was growing vile and proud, and he burned three-fiourths of the city that he might rebuild it with broader streets and more stately edifices and that he might erect his own golden house on a space more than a half mile square. Paul’s first trial was before the burning of the city, and after his acquittal he went ahead revisiting the churches he had founded. After a few years he returned, to find that Nero, in order to divert suspicion from himself of having burned the city, was accusing the Christians of this great crime and was subjecting them to the most horrible punishments. Paul, as a leading Christian teacher, was arrested, thrown into the old Mamertlne dungeon and taken thence and beheaded outside the walls of the city. This was about the year 66 of the Christian era. The Christians were misunderstood and hated. They were looked upon as disloyal to the state because they refused to pay divine honors to the Emperor. The story which went abroad 'about their communion was that they murdered a child, ate its flesh, drank its blood and followed these crimes with others equally horrible. They were regarded as haters of man, and persecutions came frequent and dreadful for nearly three - hundred years. They held fast their faith and defended one another. The scrawl of a fish on a doorway was token of she”er and help to the haunted Christian who passed that way. The vast underground chambers and passages of the catacombs became places of shelter, of worship and burial. In the five hundred miles of these subterranean passages were buried three millions of Christians, of whom uncounted thousands were martyrs. “But in the midst of these fierce persecutions Christianity spread. Able defenders of the faith arose. Intrepid missionaries penetrated all lands. And after three hundred years of conflict Constantine saw the banner in the skies, blazing with the legend ‘By this Conquer,’ and Christianity became the faith of the empire, and Rome the center of Christian power.”

AT HALL-PLACE CHURCH. Rev. George M. Smith's Sermon on “Four Faces.” George M. Smith, pastor of Hall-place M. E. Church, yesterday morning preached on “Four Faces.” His text was from Ezekiel i. 10. “They four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.” “The exiled prophet was standing upon the lonely banks of tho River Chebar,” said the minister; “coming out of the north he saw a whirlwind, a cloud, an infolding fire and a radiant brightness encircling all. Coming from the midst of these he saw four living creatures and they each one had the face of a man, the face of a lion, the face of an ox and the face of an eagle. Each face had a significance, the correct interpretation of which would give us God’s idea of a Christian. The face of a man indicates having the expression of intelligence and sympathy. The Christian should be intelligent, he should be u Bible student, a reader of good books and- papers and a close observer of men. Not in business or any profession or pursuit in life is there a gre iter demand for intelligence than in the church. In former times many good people thought that when a man had failed in everything else he was good material out of which to make a preacher. Conditions have changed and a man is not prepared to meet the demands which the church is making upon the ministry to-day unless he has ability to succeed in almost any calling in life. The welfare of the church demands intelligence in both the pulpit and pew. The Christian should not only have a brain, hut he should have a heart. He should be sympathetic. “But we must discriminate closely or our sympathies will be abused. I estimate that nine-tenths of the vagrants who are going about this country appealing to the sympathies of the people are unworthy objects of charity. This being true, nine-tenths of our indiscriminate giving t>ut encourages lying, deceit and idleness. There is not a person in any station in life but who feels the need of the warm touch of human sympathy. There are many unforrunate persons worthy of charity. We should be sympathetic. “Each living creature had the face of a lion, bold, courageous and of daring determination. Garfield said the great need of the church is ‘men who are not afraid to do right and then look the devil In the face and tell him that he Is a devil.’ “The face of an ox apparently indicates a readiness for service or for sacrifice. The Christian should not only be ready to do the will of God, hut he should be ready to

suffer the will of God. They also had the face of an eagle. The eagle is used In the Bible to personify spirituality. 'They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount upon wings as eugles.’ A captive eagle is always restless, beating itself against its cage, longing for its prison door to be opened that it may fly away to its native home among the cliffs. Likewise the soul confined in these tabernacles of clay, with surroundings uncongenial to our spiritual nature, becomes restless and we wonder “ ‘Whence the pleasing hopes, these fond desires, these inward longings of the soul. ’Tis the divinity that stirs within us.’ “Some day the angel will break the bonds and the redeemed soul, like the eagle, will fly away to its native home—which is heaven.” BRIGADIER ALICE LEWIS. Tells of the Work of the Army In the Slums. Brigadier Alice Lewis fascinated a large audience in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church with an interesting account of her work in the Salvation Army. This meeting was under the direction of the Young Women’s Christian Association, Mrs. F. F. McCrea presiding. Brigadier Lewis has all the charming characteristics of English women. Her face glows with enthusiasm as she talks of the work. She has the rosy complexion of her nation, and surprised her hearers when she said that she had been in the work thirteen years; in that time going into many countries. She looks too youthful for such a. varied and long experience. In her girlhood her parents, who w r ere musicians, gave her a careful training for the operatic stage. She met General Booth, founder of the army, became interested in the work, and finally decided to renounce worldly ambitions and attach herself to the great cause. Miss Lewis told of the great efforts that were made to bring peace and comfort to the very lowest strata of society, to thieves and criminals of both sexes, who were repelled from even the poor surroundings of the ordinary Salvation Army barracks. To reach this class the Salvation lassies go into squalid tenements to live and gradually inspire confidence in the lost ones who, after witnessing the ministration of the “slum lassies" and “slum angels,” as they are known, consent to attend little meetings in their rooms, where their es are opened and hope for better things is ...spired. Some of the stories Miss Lewis told were very startling. The “slum angels," wearing the uniform of the army, are brave and fearless, go into low dives and foul resorts, ready to rescue the fallen. Their influence she described as most remarkable. It is a rare thing for harm or insults to befall one wearing the army uniform. The close attention which the brigadier’s talk received indicated the greatest interest in her experience. —♦ ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICES. First Session of Retreat Intier the Yonng Ladles* Sodality. The first session of the retreat, under the auspices of the Young Ladies’ Sodality of St. John's Church, was held last night. Father Waldron, of the St. Joseph’s Dominican Priory, of Somerset, 0., W’ho is conducting the retreat, gave an instruction. The meetings will last three days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Each day, with the exception of Wednesday, mass and instruction will be given at 5:30 a. m., one at 8 o’clock, and in the evening at 7:30 prayers and instruction will be given, the meeting closing with the benediction of the blessed sacrament. The first mass on Wednesday, the feast of the immaculate conception of the blessed Virgin Mary, which day is one of holy obligation, for the accommodation of laborers and those who could not otherwise attend, will be said at 5 o’clock. The second mass will be said at 7 o’clock and the high mass at It, with a short sermon. One feature of the evening service will be the reception of several members into the Young Ladies’ Sodality. The Living Rosary Society of St. John’s Church met in that church yesterday after vespers, and the Ladies’ Total Abstinence Society held a meeting in the Library Hall. High mass at St. John's Church yesterday was sung by Rev. Joseph Aehatz. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Father Gavisk. The text was taken from the gospel of the day, the second Sunday in Advent, Matthew xi, 2-10, relating how John the Baptist was beheheaded. Father Gavisk emphasized two strong points in the life of John, his strength of character and the plainness and fearlessness of his preaching. He held the close attention of the large congregation. A social will be given at the Masonic ’oi l iiimlay evening. Dec. 19. by the Knights of Father Mathew for the benefic or tne poor and needy of St. John’s parish. Rev. Dennis McCabe, of the Holy Cross Church, will deliver an address.

SHERIDAN AT FISHER’S HILL. “Don’t Cheer Me, Damn Von, Get Up and Go at ’Em,” His Command. New York Sun. After nearly two years’ service in Louisiana the Ninetenth Corps came North in the summer of 1861. arriving at Washington just in time for the First Division, under Emory, to assist in repelling the attack of Early on the capital. General Sheridan had been called from the West to take command of the troops operating in the Shenandoah valley, and in August the Nineteenth Corps joined his army. In the corps was the One-hundred-and-thirty-ftrst New York Regiment, which had some interesting experiences at Winchester and at Fisher’s Hill. On the evening of the 18th of September the One-ht ndred-and-thirty-first was stripped for the fight, all buggage being ordered to the rear at Harper's Ferry, and long before morning it moved out across the fields toward Opequan creek. Early in the morning of the 19th we got it into position, filing through a heavy belt of timber, and formed a line of battle in the edge of the woods. The Second Brigade (Mollneaux's), Second Division (Grover’s), advanced to the charge in splendid style, but pushing forward with too much zeal, was met with a terrible fire of musketry from the “Stonewall Brigade” of Gordon’s division, which was in our immediate front. Our men broke and fell back in considerable disorder to the shelter of the woods from which we had advanced. It was at this critical moment, when by the repulse of so large a portion ot the Nineteenth Corps, the right center of the line of battle was weakened and perhaps the fate of the day imperiled, that Nicholas W. Day, colonel of the One-hun-dred-and-thlrty-first New York (a New York city regiment), seizing the colors, rushed forward a hundred yards in front of the whole line and rallied the regiment out nearly to the line from which they had just retreated. . _ „ , This example was followed finally by other regiments. Dan Macaulay, the young colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Zouaves, Gen. Lew Wallace’s old regiment, led his men on horseback shouting, “New York and Indiana forever, boys." ’The Pwentysecond Iqwh. Onc-hundred-and-iifty-ninth New York and the Third Massachusetts Cavalry (acting as infantry) followed in rapid succession, and the break in the line of battle was quickly filled up. After expending all our ammunition we were relieved by other regiments and retired from the field. While resting in the woods, our brigade commander. General Molineaux, rode along the little wood path in our front, accompanied by Gen. William H. Emory, the corps commander, who after warmly thanking Colonel Day for his gallant conduct, raised his hat to the little band before him, and said: , ~ “Men, you have saved the day; I wish every man present to consider himself my personal friend.” ’Twas no idle compliment from the grim old veteran of two wars. “Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.” Late in the afternoon we were attached to a brigade formed of picked regiments and marched by left oblique across the big field to support a battery which was furiously firing into the woods, where the line of battle had now receded. After reaching our destination we lay down watching the long lines of Torhert’s cavalry on our right. Very soon the notes of the cavalry charge were heard, Custer’s long saber flashed high in the air. and we witnessed the famous cavalry charge at Winchester. The Fisher's Hill light was more like a foot race than a battle It was nearly nightfall when our men on the skirmish lines rose up and shouted, "Here comes Sheridan.” It was indeed the little hero, mounted on his big black horse “Rienzl.” Coming from the right, where he had inaugurated a flank movement, and not wailing for staff officers to carry his orders, thus wasting precious time, he dashed down in front of the whole line, taking big rocks and bushes and gullies in flying leaps. When he heard the ringing cheer of the men for “Sheridan” he suddenly pulled up, tore off his hat, and shouted: “Don’t you cheer me, damn you. We’ve got 'em, damn ’em. We’ve got their guns! We've got their works! Get up and go for ’em.” This was not a very formal ordeT from a major general, but it had the merit of being effective, for instantly a race was begun to see who should get to the enemy’s works first; hut wffien we got there Mr. Johnny had departed The pursuit was Kept up all night through woods ami fields; through villages and over garden fences. Better bargains in standard makes of pianos that, anr one. Call and see Wulschner’s.

PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS ♦ SU GGESTIONS THAT MAY AID IX SOLVING THE VEXED QUESTION, * And Result In Placing the Home Mission Work of a Great Chureli on a More Satisfactory Basis. # . I * To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: I submit the following as a home mission plan for the Presbyterian Church in North America: —First—The Organization of the Presbyierial Committees.— 1. A presbyterial home mission committee shall be elected and & chairman appointed annually at the spring meeting of presbytery. 2. The chairman shall be the ex?cutive officer of the committee; he shall preside at committee meetings, receive and distribute funds under the direction of the committee, keeping a correct account ot the same, giving and receiving receipts for all moneys handled. He snail be a member of tlie synodical committee and shall appoint a representative to the synodical committee meetings when unable to attend himself. 3. l.t shall be the duty of the home mission committee to visit all fields asking for aid and all localities where there is a possibility of organizing either church or day schools at least once a year, and to use due diligence in acquiring a thorough knowledge of all mission fields within the bounds of presbytery. 4. A committee shall sit in connection with the regular meetings of presbytery, and oftener if deemed advisable, and ieceive the representatives of all churches and localities applying for aid, seeking to learn the abilities and necessities of these fields. The committee shall recommend the grouping of churches and fields to the best advantage and assist them to secure suitaole pastors and supplies. 5. The home mission committee shall report to the presbytery semi-annually its grouping of churches, the money which has been raised and disbursed, giving estimates and an account of the work performed, making such recommendations as the work may seem to require, all of w’hieh shall be subject to the review of the presbytery. 6. It shall be the aim of the presbytery, through its committee, to group its weaker churches into convenient pastorates as economically as possible, to stimulate the churches to generous giving and to celfsupport. And so far as possible to aid churches upon a siiding scale of reduction from year to year. The presbytery shall exercise its episcopal powers in all these matters. 7. The churches receiving aid shall give a full report semi-annually to the committee upon a blank prepared by the Board of Home Missions and shall report at such other times as the committee may elect. 8. Presbytery will use its own discretion in the employment of evangelists, it being understood that grants of aid to presbyteries are made upon the basis of an economical grouping of churches into pastorates. Presbyteries can then use their grants for the support of pastors or evangelists or both. 9. The initial assessment shall be based approximately upon the average yearly congregational expenses for the period of three years next preceding ihe initial assessment. This assessment will be the minimum amount expected from the churches. The presbyterial committee will not make final arrangements with its home mission churches and their pastors until the amount asked for by presbytery has been reviewed by the synodical committee and by the home board, and the final grant reported back by the officers of the board to the chairman of the presbyterial committee. 10. The churches will forward all home mission money direct to the treasurer of the board, at 156 Fifth avenue, New York. The actual expenses of the committee shall be paid from the presbyterial home mission fund.

—Second—The Organization of the Synodical Committee.— 1. The synodical committee shall be composed of the chairmen of the various Presbyterian home mission committees. 2. The officers of the committee shall be a chairman, a secretary and treasurer. (a) The chairman shall be elected at the annual meeting of synod, and he shall call the meetings of the committee, preside, sign synodical orders, report to synod for the committee and be a member of the board of home, missions by virtue of his office. (b) The secretary and treasurer shall be designated annually by the committee. He shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of the committee, notify the members of called meetings at least one week before the meeting, and care for the synodical funds subject to the order of the committee. 3. The synodical committee shall meet in connection with the annual meeting of the synod and on the first Tuesday of May, and oftener when so ordered by a majority of the committee. 4. Duties of the committee: (a) It shall receive reports from the presbyterial committees, review and equalize the estimated grants asked for by the various presbyteries; it shall instruct the chairman of the synodical committee, who, by virtue of his office, is also a member of the board of home missions, as to the needs of the synod and the character of its work in order that he may fairly represent the synod before the board. The committee shall advise with presbyteries as to the employment of evangelists seeking to unify the work in the synod and to make all possible advance at strategic points, (b) The committee may employ evangelists or a superintendent, or both, where the nature of the work seems to demand these, it being understood that funds for the employment of a superintendent will be granted by the board only to nonself-sustaining synods and where the work is of an exceptional and frontier character, (c) At the annual meeting of synod the committee shall give a full report of the work it has performed during the year, with a resume of the work of the presbyteries, and make such recommendations for future work as may seem wise, all of which shall be reviewed by the synod. 5. The members of the synodical committee shall be entitled to their actual expenses in the performance of synodical work, a bill of w hich shall be made out and indorsed by the chairman and forwarded to the treasurer of the home board semi-an-nually. —The Organization of the Board of Home Missions.— 1. The Board of Home Missions shall consist of the chairman of the home mission committees of the synods of the Presbyterian Church in North .America. 2. The officers of the board and their duties: (a) There shall be a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer and an executive committee, (b) The -chairman shall be elected annually by the hoard from among its own membership and he shall serve without remuneration. It shall be his duty to preside at the meetings of the hoard, to sign official documents and look after the general interests of the board, (c) The secretary shall be elected for a term of three years and is ex officio a member of the hoard. He shall be the executive officer of the board and shall devote his whole time to the interests of the work. It shall be his duty to carry on the official correspondence for the board, to visit the synodical committees and synods, and to present the interests of the work to the church at large as he has opportunity. He shall sign all jorders on the treasurer before any money shall be paid out. (and) The treasurer shall he elected for a term of three years and shall be a member of the hoard ex officio. He shall give ample bond, keep the financial affairs of the board in business shape, receive all moneys, giving duplicate receipts for the same promptly. One receipt shall go to the donor, or treasurer sending the funds; the duplicate shall be forwarded to the chairman of the presbyterial committee within whose jurisdiction the payer is located. He shall pay out funds upon the order of the secretary not otherwise provided for by the rules of the hoard. He shall notify the synodical chairman quarterly of the amounts paid in the various presbyteries in his synod, (e) The executive committee shall be composed of the chairman, secretary, treasurer and two other members of the board elected at the annual meeting of the board. The executive committee shall have power to carry out the policy of the board, their traveling exs being paid from the home mission fund. ~i. This board shall have custody of the home mission interests of the Presbyterian Church of North America, subject to the control of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It shall report to the General Assembly annually, making such recommendations as may seem wise. 3. The bo-rd will review the work and -estimates of the synods and presbyteries. modifying the same when necessary, which modification shall be final when approved by the assembly, seeking to equaiize the amounts granted to the various synods and presbyteries according to their necessities and importance, and shall give the whole work of home missions that careful supervision. that generous support and aggressive character which the exigencies of our times and the nature of our population demand. 4. The board is directed to recommend to the church that the minimum sum of $— he raised the first year after this plan is adopted, 9 of which shall be raised on the assessment plan from the churches. 5. Disbursements—Payments shall be made to the chairmen of the presbyterial committees quarterly, beginning with April 1. The treasurer will forwurd to each presbyteriul chairman quarterly an amount

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The treasurer’s accounts shall be audited annually by an expert accountant under the direction of a special auditing committee appointed, the assembly. 7. Ail special gifts and trust funds left to the cause of home missions shall he held and disposed of by the board under the direction of the General Assembly. 8. The members of the board will be allowed an amount covering their necessary expenses from their homes to the place of meeting and return by the nearest practicable route once per year. POINTS OF ADVANTAGE. While no doubt many objections and imperfections will be discovered In the above plan and some few may think it revolutionary and altogether impracticable, I claim the following points of advantage: I. It is presbyterial, making the presbytery the unit. It is Presbyterian in that it recognizes the supervising power of the synod, also the supervising power of the court of last resort, the General Assembly, and gives it linal jurisdiction as prescribed by the book in other church matters. 2. The above plan gives presbytery and synod large liberty in the matters of selecting pastors, evangelists, superintendents and lurge imerty in tne general conduct of the work within their bounds. 3. The plan is a realization, to some extent, of the latent episcopal powers of the church in the matter of grouping churches, placing pastors, giving close personal supervision to the churches and fields. These things will compel close supervision of the work by the presbyterial and synodical committees. 4. The plan encourages systematic and even proportionate giving. We avoid th haphazard collection on the one hand, and the horizontal assessment of so much per capita on the other. 5. The plan constitutes the heme board, as it is believed it should be constituted, of men representing each section of the church. The majority of the presbyteries meet in April, instructing the home mission committees. They carry their instructions up to the synodical committee, which will meet and revise the work early in May. The synodical committee will instruct their chairman, who are members of the board and who will meet at the assembly about the middle of May fresh from the fields. They will recommend action to the assembly, which will be finally reviewed and the presbyteries will be notified immediately of their assessments and grant of funds, and the work goes on. . , . , 6. It will be seen by this method that no great debt upon the board will be possible, and thus an item of thousands of dollars of interest will be saved. The presbyteries are paid in proportion as they pay. This, of course, will secure more money because it will be an incentive to hundreds of derelict churches to do their part or they or their neighbors will suffer in consequence. The presbyterial chairman knows within a week the amount each church in his presbytery has given through the duplicate receipts, and thus knows what per cent, of his grant will be sent on by the board. He is thu* in a position to urge each church to its full duty. The plan will pay as promptly as any plan of the assembly or of any synod now pays, as the motive and pressure to such payment by the above method is all that It can be made. 7. The mission of the board s “circulars’* will he transferred to the living agents of the presbytery, who will be more powerful to awaken enthusiasm and secure funds. This plan need not interfere with those who desire to give largely. The plan only recommends a minimum amount for the weaker churches, but expects much more than the assessment from some of the stronger. 8. The plan of “assessment” cannot be objected to as “irregular” for the reason that the assessment idea is already enforced by the church for the purpose of carrying on presbyterial. synodical and assembly expenses. Any legal -’’jections that may be made can be met either by modifying the plan to meet the legal conditions where the plan is not vitally effected, or we may seek to have legislation modified to suit the plan. I apprehend no serious difficulty In this direction. * 9. Objection may be made that the traveling expense account may be large. Not so large when it is remembered the board meets annually, and with the assembly. In all probability some of the members of thu board each year will be commissioners and have tsieir exponses paid by the assembly. It will be seen that, the office of the secretary will not need so much help. Thero will be a saving in that direction. We eetimate a saving of from SIO,OOO to $15,000 on interest and salaries. Not only so, but the immediate supervision will greatly increase the income or there is but little in the plan. Indianapolis, Dec. 4. R. V. HUNTER.

Author of “Sight Before CbriM man.’* Clarence Cook, in the Century. Mr. William S. Pelletreau, In the Interesting account of Dr. Moore’s life, which ho has just published, tells us that the “Visit from St. Nicholas” was written In 1822 as a Christmas present for his children, and that a young lady visiting the family copied it into her album and sent it, unknown to Dr. Moore, to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, who printed it, without the author’s name, in the issue of that journal for Dec. 23, 1823. From the newspaper it found Its wajr to the school readers and speedily became a great favorite witji children all over the country. Mr. Pelletreau tells us that Dr. Moore was at first annoyed by the appearance of the poem In print, as he had not intended it for the public and thought it a mere trifle with but slight literary merit. No doubt it was with some misgivings that, twenty years later, he gave it 4 place in tho volume of his collected poems. With the. proverbial blindness of writers, he probablythought this playful sally, written to please his youngsters at their Christmas merrymaking, far inferior to its all-forgotten companions, of which he says in his preface: "Some of them have cost me much t'me and thought, and 1 have composed them ail as carefully and correctly as I could.” A (iuod Appoint men 1. Washington Post. In the appointment of ex-Senator Bruce as register of the treasury. President McKinley has made an admirable selection. Mr. Bruce is a splendid type of self-made man, whose unwearying Industry and natural ability have enabled him to triumph over obstacles of birth and circumstances. He Is an honor not alone to his race, lut to American citizenship, and he will add credit to the administration. Thousands ore Trying It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely’s Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have prepared a generous trial sire for 10 cent*. Get it of your druggist or send 10c to ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely’s Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize fiis statement, “It is a positive cure for catarrh if used as directed.’’ —Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely’s Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no coeame, mucury nor any injurious drug. Price, 60 etui* At druggists or by mail.

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