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9L I'roKrnmme Preiiaretl—The I’nlvcraity** Finances. A meeting of pastors and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal churches of Indiana will bo held at the Meridian-street M. E. Church Tuesday and Wednesday, April 26 and 27, In the interest of De Pauw University. The principal reason for the contorted action is the fact that for some time past the tinances of the university have been in a discouraging condition and although at present somewhat improved yet it is deemed necessary that something be done to insure the permanence of a prosperous condition and to this end a discussion of ways and means is contemplated by all interested parties. A programme for the several sessions of the two days’ meeting has been arranged and entertainment provided for the large number of delegates expected from all parts of the State. At the iirst session Tuesday evening the meeting will be under the direction of the alunmi and undergraduates of Asbury and Do Pauw University, Charles W. Smith presiding. The music will be furnished by the Dc Pauw Glee Club. Augustus I*. Mason will present a report showing the present financial condition and needs of the institution. Charles F. Coffin will tell of Its true educational sphere, while Dr, Henry J. Talbott will discuss the duty of the alumni of the university to their alma mater. On Wednesday morning Clem Htudebaker. of South Bend, wilt preside and beside music by tlto glee club, J. Frank Jlanly, of Lufuyettc, and Eugene Iglehart. of E vansvtile, will deliver addresses on "Asbury and Do Pauw in the History of Indiana,” which will be followed by an address, “De Pauw University—the Child of Indiana Methodism,” by Dr. C. N. Sims, of this city. At the afternoon session William Newkirk will preside. Addresses on ’ Our Young People and De Pauw University.” will bo made by Dr. J. F. Borrv, edlior of the Epworth Herald, of Chicago, and F. M. Barbov.*, of Evansville, president of the State League. Following this will come reports from committees the introduction being by D. O. Hamilton, of Chicago, who will invite short speeches on “How Should We Sustain and Endow De Pauw University?” In the evening a grand rally will be held under the direction of Bishop Bowman, in which music by the glee club will be one of the features. The topic for the evening will be “The Relation of De Pauw University to the Christian leadership of the Twentieth Century.” and the speakers will bo Dr. David Moore, editor of the Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, and Dr. Charles Jt. Payne, of New York. Mae Men on a Sunday Spree. Bicycle Patrolmen Streit and Schrotder and Patrolman Cranium yesterday were • ailed to an Upstairs room on Washington street, near Alabama, and arrested nine men on charges of disturbing the peace. Part of them were drunk and all were drinking beer. They were singing and creating a disturbance. They gave the following names; I'harles Harmon. Louisville; William Brook, 1 <oui*vllle; Gus Behock, 237 East Washington street; William Sube, 257 East Washington street: Charles Thompson, :w Lord street; Charles and Wm. Suetzel, 1!) Palmer street; James Tyner, 21 Palmer street, end Thomas Arnold, 255 East Washington eueet.

COMPENSATIONS OF WAR REV. JOSEPH A. MII.BIRX SETS FORTH SOME OF THESE. • ♦ Will l nlfy hii American T> pe—SermouK liy Rev. J. Cummlng Smith anil Other Ministers, The compensations of war wore considcred last night by the Rev. Joseph A. Milburn in his sermon at the Second Presbyterian Church. His text was from Psalms Ixxvi, 10: “Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee.” In opening lie spoke of the dual make-up of the world—one side so fair and beaut fui, the other so tempestuous. Thin same duality, ho said, is in man, witli ono side of Ids being so imperial and like God, the other so weak, so frail, so intem]>erato and so full of the spirit of wrath. The Bible characterizes man as a child of wrath, and man lias earned bis right to tlie unhappy title. His history has been all along tlie path belligerent. Dr. Milburn proceeded as follows: “The history of England lias been a history of war; so lias that of Russia, France and Germany. Thus what is true of man in his physical life is true of his natural life. Wo should think that in the sphere of intellect we should find a spirit of placidity, calm, serenity and repose, but the history of mind has in its evolutions shown little of this serenity. Its cost, too, has been a warfare. Every truth lias cost a great price—lias had to battle for its deed. The history of letters is a history of strife; so also the history of spiritual man. Two of the three great religion'- of the world ha\e been militant. Islamism is entirely militant, and Christianity largely so. Christianity is essentially a religion of peace, but practically its way has been one of war, storm, strife and persecution. Mercifully, God has overruled this wrath of the human spirit toward great ends. “War has been the precursor of civilization, wrath the avant courier of peace. England's career has been a career of militancy which is everywhere caried to civilization. The higher light, morality, life and beauty, have fructified in the throes and agonies of the human spirit. There is comfort for us in this truth of the overruling providence of God in our present situation. War seems inevitable, and war is very deplorable. It is deplorable because it means great burdens, tremendous oppressions resting upon the toil of many generations. War involves a vast expenditure, and that expenditure must be met by the strong asm of toil. Bonds do not pay for war. The coin in which war is paid is ultimately human sweat and laborers’ industry. “War is further deplorable in that it means sorrows. If we should get into a war with Spain—and war seems likely—it would involve this Nation in abyssmal gtief. If would mean many broken hearts, bereaved fathers and mothers, bereaved sisters and brothers, bereaved homes everywhere throughout the land. And, further, war is deplorable when we remember it will diminish the prestige of democracy. Democracy has a great mission to the world, and that is to teach the nation the lesson and the most difficult of all arts, the art of peace. Let monarchies mangle, aristocracies contend; it is our mission as a nation to show the world that a nation can be great and yet entirely peaceful. However, if war comes, 1 believe that then, too, this overruling Providence of the infinite will manifest itself, and that in any warfare with Spain the wrath of man will imprint the jiraise Os God.

COMPENSATIONS OF WAR. “War has its compensations. One of them is that it will work beneficially in fortifying national virility. It will make our people stronger and more robust. This Nation was founded bjr great men, by stalwart heroes endowed with leonine consciences, but in the past forty or fifty years there has been an unquestionable deterioration in our national type. Peace has tended to luxury, luxury to indolence and effeminacy, toward laxity and irreligion, and these are more deadly foes to empire than war. Should war come, deplorable as it is, it will at least vertebrate our moral sense, teach us to look higher; it will eventuate in masculinity; it will exalt our ideals as a nation and make us a more valiant people. “The second compensation is that it will tend towards social stability. The social stability of this country is menaced in three different ways: First, by isolation; second, by social differentiation, in the fact that men envy the superiority and progress of other men; third, by the heterogeneity of our population. War, should it come, will counteract these tendencies to national disintegrat'on. It will give outlet to that militant spirit that seems to be an ineradicable propercy of human utterance against an external foe. Man is naturally militant, martial, restless and quarrelsome, and if he can’t give expression to his militancy towards an external foe it will manifest itself in internecine strife. The presence of an external foe is the guaranty of social stability of European nations, and should we contend with Spain it will give release to that spirit of unrest which has for the last ten years menaced seriously the perpetuity of American institutions. “War will do much to eradicate the spirit of class antipathy that has grown up through inevitable social differences which different social talents always bring about. We have already a manifestation of this beneficent side to the war spirit when we see that rich and poor are alike patriotic, and that the man of vast fortune is just as loyal to the government as the man who has nothing. Howard Gould, George Gould, Astor, Vanderbilt, John Wanamuker, all offering their fortunes and their services to the country in its time of need shows clearly that social unity in this country is, after all, greater than social difference. FUSION OF AN AMERICAN TYPE. “War would boa further offset to the forces that menace our national life in that it tends to national homogeneity. This country contains within itself almost every nationality, each with its peculiarities and antipathies. One of the beneficent consequences of war would be a fusion of all these into one American type. It would dissipate the foreign spirit and leave as its result. a spirit purely American. "A third compensation of a war with Spain is that it will impress upon us the duty of adequate preparation for future emergencies. A great army, a great navy is ono of the surest guarantees of peace. This Nation does not need a great army, but with its vast and sweeping shore lines and the complications that will eventuate from the reassertion of the Monroe doctrine it is necessary that it have a large navy, not for war purposes, but for peace purposes This is not theory, it is a fact. England’s navy is greater than the combined navies of her two nearest competitors, and England lias not fought a great naval battle since the battle of Trafalgar. Russia has the largest standing army in the world, and yet she has not been engaged in a great war since 1858. Who can question that if this country had had a navy adequate to its resources and responsibilities that the Cuban question would have been settled long ago? The smallness of our navy gave Spain a lighting chance, so that she would run the risk of being whipped by America rather than meet the risk of internal revolution. What this country needs is a vastly larger navy. “Whatever may lie the outcome of the present situation, until war is determined upon let us ail hope for peace und pray for it. Dot us hope and pray that the clouds of war will vanish from our skies and that the ends of justice and humanity may lie attained without strife. Battle is sometimes necessary, but is always deplorable and terrible. Above all things in tills crucial hour let us be superbly loyal to our chief executive. We should thank God we have so good and brave a man as our leader. He is worthy of his high place and we must all be true to him. Wo must not criticise lilm unkindly and question his motives, but wo must be obedient to his leading. ]f by diplomacy bn shall bring us to peace let us bo grateful to Idm. If bis final word be for war let us in the measure of our strength servo him and our country.” REV. MR. SMITH'S SERMON. He Alin Discusses Hu* Present Mnr Crisis. The Rev. J. Camming Smith, of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, lectured yesterday morning on the city of Nineveh. The lecture was one of a series which Dr. Smith lias been delivering on the prophesy of Jonah.' The subject involved more or less of war. and the present difficulty in regard to Cuba came up naturally. Mr. Smith spoke in part as follows: “I have described to you Die city of Nineveh, those moats 150 feet broad outside of wails broad enough for six chariots to

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drive abreast, along, and those massive towers of observation. War was the normal condition of the Assyrian empire, ft was organized brute force. No sooner did a general lead back his worn army to rest and toad his favorite princes with spoils than the soldiers began to fret in peace and the rage for tight burned in their breasts. The forces were organized, but they lacked our modern equipment, and while adroit generalship counted in checkmating the schemers of an enemy, it was rather the momentum of numbers that won. Wo moderns excel In .superiinemss and exquisite nicety of murderous weapons. One reads in the press about the two countries now in deadlock and their war ships with a horror. Two serial- rs who fling the charge of lie at one another, and other senators whos> hearts are full of oaths, create amusement. A man without a liery temper is a misfit in a stormy world. But l confess that war is different. A Spain that once owned the empire between the south Mississippi and the sunny shores of the Pacific, whose flag floated over Mexico and Central America, whose scepter ruled all South America except Brazil and the little, Guianan; that power has been driven from her ancient territory, and now contests lipv last right to rule Cuba. If war must come to wrest that jeweled isle from a hated thraldom, then, war is noble. But every resource of diplomacy must be exhausted. A naval engagement might he more disastrous to our fleets titan sanguine jingoes calculate. If wo lost at sea we would forge new chains for Cuba. Even if w gained at sea wo pluck an island empire from her bosom but leave her power lessened but little. Worse than bullets or submarine destroyers of all device would be the fatality of our troops under scorching skies and in malarial districts. We could afford a luxury of exquisite satisfaction to that hyena of modern warfare, a Weylor. to think that Spain woo’d at least by a show of resistance cause thousands of our choice young men to die in a clime to which their sinewy, hardy vigor was manured. Sonia satisfaction there would be, in an open contest with a great power. There would boa clear-cut issue. Our heroism would feel a requital in such an encounter. But 1o light a. moanhearted power in her back yard and to have our most, virile manhood fall a prey ,t<> the diseases of a tropical campaign does make our best Americanism recoil from a war unless as an extreme necessity after every act of diplomacy has been employed in vain. “Nineveh stood boldly every siege with tho sense that the enemy was a lion, it would have cut tho nerve of their action of tho enemy prowled around the lew sullen hills and were famous for an unequaled cowardice. I believe in discussions in senates, but perhaps it' before discussion had begun to flood the land the clear note of war had been heard it might have cowed Spain into a tame surrender. The attitude of our President has been stirringly and strikingly majestic. He has stood for a republic. We can safely intrust tlie issue in his hands. But no more troops ought to be mobilizied into sultry climates than absolutely necessary. Spare leonine manhood all the more because such mettle spurns to be spared In the crusade of emancipating our long-groaning and chivalrous neighbors.” * CHI RCH OF TO-DAY. Rev. C. N. Sims* Points Out Some of Its Weaknesses. Rev. C. N. Sims, of tho Meridian-street Church, yesterday preached on the topic, “The Church of To-day.” He spoke from the text, Rev. ii. 2-4: “I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee.” The pastor said in part: “The text is an inspired eulogy and criticism on one of the early churches, but may be applied with equal propriety to the church of to-dav here in the midst of us. The world never saw another ambition so colossal as that of Jesus of Nazareth. He undertook to found a religion for all nations and for all time. Its principles were as unchangeable as God himself, and its methods as diverse and flexible as the conditions of men. It invited to its fellowship all classes of people and undertook to transform them into the purest and best society the world ever knew, and through them to evolve anew heaven and anew earth full of righteousnes. “The church of to-day excels in culture, intelligence and high morality. It has built up for itself or gathered into its organization almost the whole of the refinement of our time, and has organized and maintains a moral standard purer and more exalted than exists anywhere outside of it. It has a stability and persistence which is amazing. It has lived on through dissolving empires and changing civilizations, the one imperishable institution known among men. Its enterprises pass unimpaired from generation to generation, it is splendidly generous. It maintains its missions and schools and hospitals and reform agencies with unfailing liberality and listens responsively to the appeals of all the other charities which have arisen outside of its immediate paternity. ' “But it has also its weaknesses. It has too mueh substituted respect for religion, for religion itself. Men admire and support, and attend, and ally themselves with the church, while they fail to seek the profound experiences of personal piety. They give when they do not pray. They listen sympathetically but do not taste and see for themselves, and they are therefore incapable of giving to the church the help which comes from spiritual union with it. It too readily mistakes material prosperity for spiritual life. If the service is impressive, the preaching eloquent, the music grand, the congregations large and the incomes abundant, it calls this success, forgetting that the real test of prosperity is the growth of spiritual life and .Christian character, and the multitude of conversions. It is deficient in Bible knowledge and faith. The Bible is the text-book and guide of the Christian. It is God’s message to him, it shows him the Christ and teaches him the way of life. As well might a man hope to become an eminent lawyer without studying books of law. or a successful physician without reading the journals of his profession, as for one to expect to become an intelligent and consistent Christian without a constant, reverent searching study of the word of God. ‘Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee.” “It substitutes too much social usages for God’s word in the government of conduct. The Christian man must bring his life to the Christian authority. Without it faith is feeble, conduct halting, experience variable and unreliable. When the church rises to its privileges and puts on its strength it tinds itself in possession of great opportunities. It already has the good will of nearly ail intelligent and influential people. The best people have studied tho church and passed favorable judgment upon it. They believe in it. if its members turn out bad, they charitably class them as hypocrites, and do not charge their conduct to it. A certificate of church membership presented by a stranger creates a strong presumption in his favor. “It may have access. if it will, to the unfortunate and the vicious. Their wants and woes drive them to it in their hours of deepest need, it is said that a crowd of people in New York cheered the name of Jesus and hissed at mention of the church. But the men that hissed would have rung parsonage door bells had they been hunting the charity of a night’s lodging, it has its for native hand upon childhood. The Sunday school is broader than the church membership and it may, if it will, give to childhood its impress of faith, its religious desires and its social tastes. There is not in all the earth another power for good so regiil and potent as the Christian church. If the church will nourish vital piety, if it will make its services attractive, instructive and persuasive, if il will bo intensely aggressive, alert and loving, its power and accomplishment for good will he only a little less than omnipotent. “All classes of people flock to a great revival. for till deeply fed their need of Christ’s saving power. Minister and people, are alike responsible for the efficiency and attractiveness of the church. And when both arc true the world will yield to the transforming power of the gospel.” A IIOI.Y WAR.

That In Wliat This tution W ill Begin, Says Rev. Mr. Jenkins. Rev. Burris A. Jenkins, pastor of the Third Christian Church, preached a sermon to the commercial travelers. of the city yesterday morning. There was a large attendance of commercial men, each wet ring some patriotic emblem on the lapel of his coat. The church was decorated witli the American flag. Mr. Jenkins found his text in Psalms xxvil, 11: “Lead me in a plain path.” He spoke of the value of toads and roadmakers, and said that where roads have gone civilization, education and religion have followed. Had China built roads instead of a wall it might have been a civilized and one of the foremost nations. “We are indebted to ancient Rome,” continued the pastor, “for unrolling her great white roads like ribbon ail over the world, thus preparing the way for the Apostle Paul to travel, protected by his Roman citizenship. In this modern day it is to the En-glish-speaking race that wo are indebted for road-making. Throughout* the- world have the Anglo-Saxons gone preparing the way fur commerce and the gospel. Livingstone Is pre-eminently a great roadmaker. sending his Journeys like lightning flashes through the dark continent of Africa, opening the waterways and finding paths in trackless forests. And the world is indebted, moreover, .to the great travelers—Jesus himself was a traveling teacher. Paul, the apostle, as has truly been said by the title or a recent book, was ’St. Paul the traveler.’ There is to-duy no class of men in America to whom wu arc more indebted for knitting

our people together than we are to the commercial travelers. The press is a unifying force, but sometimes it divides us. Great political and religious conventions unite us. but their influence is a passing one. All tho time, however, the great army of commercial travelers, silent and unorganized, is teaching the North how to understand tho South, the East to know the West, and the farmer to appreciate the city man, until they have welded our country together as perhaps no other one force lias done. Consider. then, the gravity and weight of the responsibility that rests upon them. It is theirs, then, to pray devoutly with us alitor we are ail travelers—that prayer uttered by an ancient fellow-traveler, ‘Lord, lead me in a plain path.’ God does lead and direct tire paths of men and nations. He is directing the path of our American people at this time, and as we stand to-day on tlio verge of war God is guiding the events of our day. Wo have prayed to avert war, w > have hoped to avoid it. blit that hope has gone, and wo now expect in the coming week, perhaps, to enter upon a. war which shall cause tho inhumanity of roan to man to cease on the neighboring island of Cuba. It will be a holy war—as righteous as that which drove the Cananites out of the land before Israel, as righteous as that which drove the British out of America at the point, of the continental bayonet. It will be holier than the crusades, without a vestige of self-aggrandizement, without the dross of any selfish purpose mingling with the pure gold of our motive. Ood shall guard tiie right, ami if we must go into the war let us go reverently and devotedly, without bluster or pomposity.” BUSY WITH REHEARSALS ■ MR. VAX I)KR STUCKKX CONDI t TED TWO OF THEM YESTERDAY. ♦ Tho Solo Choir—•Children** (liorns 'lbis Aflernoon-Pntrlolii' Muic to Be Given Eneli Night. ♦- Mr. Van der Slacken, director of the May festival, is very busy with the chorus these days, and most of his time is spent in this city perfecting the great musical enterprise of Yesterday afternoon lie directed two rehearsals, one of the solo choir, made up of prominent soloists of Indianapolis who arc to sing certain parts of “Lucifer,” and the other of the Amphinn Club, which is to sing tho “Pilgrims' Chorus” in the “Tannhauser” number. Tho solo choir rehearsed at Baldwin's music rooms at 2:30 o’clock, and the Amphion Club at the School of Music at 4:50 o'clock. Mr. Van der Stucken expressed himself as satisfied with tho progress made at both rehearsals. He found a line quality of voices in the solo choir. The Amphion Club has been working very actively of late, and is in good trim to take up the work which is to fall to it in the programme. The members of the solo choir are as follows: Sopranos—Mrs. Enrique Miller, Mrs. Carolyn Winter Goetz, Mrs. Fremont Swain, Mrs. John P. Frenzel, Mrs. A. W. Posey. Miss Georgia Galvin. Contraltos—Mrs. Isaac Rice, Mrs. Earl M. Ogle, Mrs. W. L. Fugate, Mrs. Fred M. Bachman, Mrs. Arthur Duett Gates. Tenors—Henry Raah, Hugh McGibeny, Charles W. Parker, Homer H. Van Wie. Baritones—Edward Kell, R. Byron Overstreet, Emil Steinhilber, C. A. O’Connor, Arthur D. Gates. These singers are from the Maennerchor, Musik-Verein, Matinee Musicale, Philharmonic Club and prominent church quartets. This afternoon at 4:30 o’clock Mr. Van dor Stucken will conduct the first rehearsal of the full chorus of children at the Manual Training School. Heretofore the boys and girls have been trained separately, but today they will be brought together for the first time this season. A marked improvement in tho children is noticed, and much of this is due to the excellent training they received last year when the little ones made such a hit at the matinee. One of the main objects of the festival, developing the love of music in this city, approaches accomplishment as these children are enthused with the musical spirit. The several hundred youngsters are among the most loyal boomers of the season of song, boasting at all times of the part they play in it. Next Thursday afternoon Mr. Van der Stucken will rehearse the solo choir again, and the main chorus in the evening. He will be here next Sunday. To-night he will have the chorus in hand, and the works to be sung, other than “Lucifer.” will be taken up. Every number to be given at the festival has already been rs-hearsed and the time is now approaching for the finishing touches. In the “Lucifer” number, the children's chorus will participate, and the sight of the vast body of singers that night will be an attraction in itself. The children will represent spirits in the work. To-morrow evening Mr. Gantvoort will deliver his first lecture at the Propylaeum on the May festival music. These lectures will be free, Mr. Gantvoort.. who is a noted lecturer on musical topics, having been secured by the festival directors to increase interest in the festival as well as post the patrons of the festival on the music to be presented. As it is more than probable the SpanishAmerican war will be open at the time the festival is in full blast, patriotic music will be given at. every night of the festival. Mr. Van der Stucken will have a little surprise in this line the first night.

GAVE A JOINT EXHIBITION. Social and South-Side* Tiirnvcreins at Tomlinson Hull. The Social and South Side Turnverein united in giving a gymnastic exhibition at Tomlinson Hall lust night under the direction of Ifermn Osterheld and Curt Toll, physical directors of the two associations. About three hundred members of the various classes participated. The large audience present applauded the efforts made to entertain them and seemed much pleased with tire performance. There was much commendation for Messrs. Osterheld and Toll and both were the recipients of lloral gifts. The entertainment opened with a grand march by all the participants, including the ladies and gentlemen and the members of the boys’ and girls’ classes. A little tot of a boy brought up the rear carrying a Cuban flag bigger than himself. He waved it gracefully, however, and that was the signal for prolonged applause. .The gymnastic students formed a striking picture, completely filling the big stage. As they filed off the Cuban flag was placed among the decorations of American flags in the background. After tiie march came an exhibition by the boys’ class, containing boys between the ages of six and ten years, A pretty movement was the flag drill. Each boy held a small American flag in either hand and as they were furled back and forth in the calisthenic exercises the effect was striking. Following this the boys amused the audience with pole climbing. Some scaled the tall poles as quickly and gracefully as squirrels, but others were unable to accomplish the feat. Following this fifty-four young girls in navy blue costumes, wit 1 1 sailor blouses, went through various evolutions, including a very pretty march to stately minuet music. The second boys’ class (ten to fourteen years old) gave a dumbbell exercise that showed good drilling and which was generdttsly applauded. This number close with companion exercises on five bucks, the boys forming high pyramids. Following a number by the second girls’ class, which included wand exercises, a German song followed by dance movements, the girls’ and ladies' class gave what was the feature of the first part, apparatus work. Some of th<feats accomplished on the parallel bars and ladders were difficult and the gracefulness and case with which they were accomplished surprised the audience into the heartiest applause of the evening. The ladies wore pretty costumes of while sailor blouses and blue divided skirts. The most difficult work was done by the men's and youths’ classes after the intermission. A number of the feats performed on the gymnastic apparatus are seldom undertaken outside the circus. The barbell exercises by the laities' class, the calisthenic exercises by classes of the public schools and the club swinging were worthy of special mention. The entire performance closed with the formation of pyramids by the youths' and men's classes. Too Mill'll Beer and Morphine. Cora llall, twenty-one years old. took too much beer yesterday. It made her melancholy and she swallowed 10 cents' worth of morphine and lay down in her room. Massachusetts avenue, to die. Drs. Weitz and Jaeger, of the City Dispensary, arrived in time to save her life. She could give no reason fur attempting to kill herself except that she had the “blues.”

WAITING FORTHE ORDERS * GOVERNOR RECEIVES NO COMMUNICATION FROM WASHINGTON. .— ■ . - Stream of Visitors nt tlie Light Artillery Armory—Preparations Beinu Continued. ♦- The week that has passed since the President submitted his message to Congress has not tended to relieve the nervous tension among the militiamen o£ Indianapolis. If they awaited eagerly the message, they have awaited more eagerly the outcome of it. There was a lull in the excitement while the Senate was debating the Cuban resolutions, but when it finally passed the most liberal resolution proposed there was anew fever of excitement among the militiamen. The information of the action of the Senate came with the morning papers yesterday, and it was hourly expected during the day that the orders for the Indiana. National Guard to move would come. But the day passed without a word from Washington of an official nature. Governor Mount remained close to his home telephone all day, where he was in communication with the telegraph offices and with ids own office in the Statehouse, Col. Charles Wilson, his war secretary, remained in the office during the greater part of the day ready to receive anything that might come from the War Department; but not a lino came. A big batch of mail came, however, and the secretary devoted a part of the time to reading it and classifying it. There were the usual offers of service in case of war, men and women offering themselves to their country for service in any capacity, from commanders of regiments down to drummer boys and nurses. it is believed now that no order for the mobilization of the state troopS will be received until both houses have agreed on the form of the Cuban resolutions and the President has given Spain a last chance to avoid war. The opinion prevailed at first that the action of tne Senate dispelled all doubt about war and that the War Department would begin organizing the troops for campaign work at once, so as to have them officered, equipped and stationed at convenient points by the time, active hostilities should begin. Hut the very faint ray of hope from Minister Woodford that Spain may yet adjust the Cuban affair satisfactory to the United States has led to the belief that the War Department will issue no order to the state troops until Spain’s reply to the President's last demand has been received. The troops, however, will in the meantime continue their preparations, and will be held ready to respond to the call without a moment's delay. At the Light Artillery Armory there was a constant stream of visitors all day yesterday. The battery has its full quota of 103 officers and privates, and there are fifteen or twenty men waiting an opportunity to go in the places of any men who do not icspond to the call. The waiting contingent will have but little chance to go to the front with the Light Artillery, however, for_ there is not a man of the 103 hut who is eager for the order to go. Nothing but death or serious illness will make a vacancy in the ranks now. The armories of the infantry companies were quiet yesterday. They have no such comfortable clubhouse quarters as the battery boys, and do not make them their headquarters except on regular drill nights, but the "wchfoots” are just as "game” as the "red legs," and every infantryman is ready for the fray. The companies are all recruited up to the war quota, and there are men also waiting to break into these companies in case of accidents which prevent those already in going at the call. No word has been received from General McKee and Captain Curtis since their departure for Washington. They attended the conference of state militiamen with the House committee on military affairs Saturday, and are expected to return home this morning, when they will make a report to the Governor.

THE CHURCH FLOURISHING. Annual Report of the Tabernaele’s Condition. At the annual meeting of the Tabernacle Church congregation last week for the election of officers and to hear reports from the various boards Judge Vinson Carter was elected moderator. The following officers were elected: Elders, Vinson Carter, William Dugdale, Smiley N. Chambers: trustees. S. N. Chambers, John D. Holliday, H. E. Zimmer, Henry C. Thornton; deacons, Joseph E. Bell, Edgar H. Evans, Herbert S. Wood. The treasurer of the church. J. E. Shidelcr, from the board of trustees, madd a statement of the financial condition, showing a record for the past quarter altogether the most flattering in the history of the church within the last five years. The manual shows a live membership of 1,014, the largest membership of any Presbyterian Church in Indiana. The pastor, Rev. J. Cumming Smith, was the recipient of congratulations upon the work of his first year’s pastorate. Progress was. evidenced all along the line. The Sunday school showed an increase in average attendance, and a similar report was made concerning the progress of t he work at the West Wash-ington-street Chapel under the ministrations of Rev. W. B. Dunham, associate pastor. During the year the Tabernacle Church raised almost SI,OOO more for missionary purposes than was given last year. A HOP ALE SUNDAY. A Great Crowd at Brighton Bench Yesterday. Gambrinus reigned king at "Brighton Beach” yesterday, when 1,200 men and boys journeyed to the notorious resort beside the canal and watched a makeshift game of baseball. No admission was charged at the gate, but the mass of humanity that crowded into the scorching “bleachers” like sardines in a box were in possession of thirsts so well developed that when the colored waiter passed by crying, “Here’s a nice cool drink! Hop ale, gem’men. Buy one and you’ll be s'prised and want to buy two rno',” they stampeded his iced bucket, and soon the ground was Jittered with “hop ale” bottles. At frequent intervals the duskv vendor held up a bottle so that its amber-colored and betrothed contents would more realistically proclaim its true character. , „ The two teams, which were composed of local professional, semi-professional and amateur players, were debarred during Hie game from imbibing any of the hop ale. much to their discomfiture, but after the game the dash that was made by the consolidated forces of baseball talent for the bar would have done credit to a college football team practicing the “flying wedge." Incidentally the game resulted in a score of Outing Whites IF>, Outing Grays 4. THE WAITER USED A CLUB. \\ cm Stout’s Place Again the Scene of a Fight. Two men, accompanied by two women, entered Stout’s restaurant in Market street last night and ordered an elaborate supper for four. After eating, the men escorted the women to the door and then made a dash from the place, but, however, not quick enough to prevent a waiter from reaching the last one out and administering to him a severe beating witli a club in lieu of a settlement. No arrests were made. Mitiiiutt'r Zimmer ilia n*M Benefit. The benefit at the Empire Theater tonight tendered to Manager Charles Zimmerman and Stage Manager \V. L. Donaldson gives promise of being an unusually good performance as the bill, consisting of twelve specialties, contains the names of several well-known and popular professionals. The following have volunteered: Mile. Mini Diva, from tho'Folios Bergere. Paris: the Nanon Trio, in vocal selections: Barton Okey, prime of the swinging wire: the Tramp Quartet, in character imitations; Ed 8. Jolly, tag time musical act; Mi. Ernest Eidman, phenomenal baritone; the National Quartet; Miss Alice Elliott, buck, wing ami fancy dances: Boss and Brown, comedy Fingers; the two pickaninnies, buck and wing dancers, and Williuni Lotto. highest net diver in the world, who will dive lifiy feet from the dome of the theater into u net.

SPECIAL NOTICE. The advance sale of SEASON TICKETS ONLY for the tenth annual MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL Will begin at the BIG FOUR TICKET OFFICE, No. 1 East Washington street, next THUPSHAV APRIL 21, AT 9 A. M. PRICES OF SEASON TICKETS—Front row balcony, $10,00; rear rows balcony, $8.00; front rows main floor, SS,OO; rear rows main floor, sb.oo; gallery, $4.00. Not mote than six scats sold to one purchaser. Tickets can be reserved by letter or telegraph by addressing Rig Four Ticket Office. 11l of 11 ’ S ’ Troo P s - See the Yellow Sheets. N. Y. ] TlODill/, d lion SMMd y World and Journal. All leading Publications; also the best Cigars and Tobacco at monument Place Cigar nnd News StandC I_| aNo. II Monument Place. Southeast Segment. • *4• i'ltll K Os vO.

MR. FLYNN'S MORNING NIP THE K I.YG OF THE FIFTEENTH W ARD DRINKS “AVAL KESHA.” It Almost Lost Him Ills I.ifc A enter* day Morning—He AVUI Drink No Mure of It. The Honorable Bill Flynn, t-aloon keeper and assistant sprinkling Inspector under the Taggart administration, was born under a lucky star, and an incident of yesterday morning fully confirms this fact. Mr. Flynn's charge on the silver “push” in the Iron Hall building, the- unexampled heroism of his personal encounter on that occasion, his escape unscathed from the very jaws of defeat, if not death. Is a matter of history. At the recent Taggart primary in his ward many a man went to the floor in the scrimmage, but the Honorable Bill's pennant still flew at the masthead when the last of the enemy’s guns were spiked and the bartender had mopped up the gore. On Easter Sunday an Irish friend tried to prove himself the best man in the Honorable Bill’s saloon, and Dr. Courtney sewed up all the, evidence which went to show that ho wasn’t the best man. Yesterday Mr. Flynn took another shy at fate, and after—but this is getting ahead of the story. Recently Mr. Flynn has been and Waukesha water, a habit which has to be followed surreptitiously in the Fifteenth ward. He didn’t even confide his secret to his bartender, lest that worthy lose respect for his employer. If it should ever become known in the Fifteenth ward that Bill Flynn had signed the pledge, that same Flynn would be hurled from his throne in a jiffy. But it is not known for certain that Mr. Flynn signed the pledge, although that seems the only rational reason for any good Democrat drinking Waukesha water. Saturday night Mr, Flynn took down his bottle of Waukesha and put it back on a shelf, to be placed In the refrigerator when time came for closing up. After locking his doors the saloon keeper grabbed the bottle which he found on this back shelf and planted it on the ice. Yesterday morning, bright and early, Flynn opened the refrigerator for his Waukesha water. Tilting the long-necked bottle, ho took a copious draught, and then spewed out a mouthful of it. "The divil’s own wather is this!” he exclaimed. "Walker Shaw, is it? If it's Walker Shaw, he’s did and in th’ bottle, an’ he’s bin did a long time, too, from th’ taste o’ it. Humph! Mibbe that’s th’ way this wather is intinded to be, for I know some wathers do be doin’ th’ more good the rottener they taste. I’ll take another swig jist to dhrown the taste of th’ first one.” So up went the bottle, and a quart of the liquid gurgled out and down to where Mr, Flynn was thirstiest. The gentleman suddenly began to make wry faces. “Who's had this Walker Shaw bottle of mine?” he bawled out. “Oi say, who’s had this Walker Shaw wather of mine? Begorra, I'm done for. Sind for a docther!” And send for the doctor they did. The medical gentleman was prompt in responding. He ascertained, first, that Mr. Flynn had swallowed a quart of benzine. Then he took steps to relieve the patient of the explosive fiuid. In a short time the assistant sprinkling inspector was out of danger, and, now being entirely recovered, he is the victim of his friends’ pointed remarks. It is said when he discovered he had swallowed benzine he clapped his hand over his mouth and mumbled: “Hare ye, Tarry Shoine—mum—mum—take away thot saygar. Poot out thot foire, I say. and don’t coom near me wid it! Poot id out. D'ye want ter make a volcana out o’ me? Poot id out!” Mr. Flynn is now all right, and will be inspecting sprinkling in his usual happy style this morning.

A Colored Policeman Dead. Nelson Clark, colored, a city patrolman, died yesterday at his home, 1124 South State avenue. He had been ill nine days, suffering from chronic stomach disorders. He leaves a wife and one small child. The funeral will occur to-day at 2 o’clock and a squad of police will attend. A Thirteen-Year-Old Boy Arrested. Anna Mowring, living at lib West South street, complained to the police yesterday that James White, a thirteen-year-old boy living in the house, had stolen s'* from her. Patrolmen Streit and Schroeder found the lad at the corner of South and Delaware streets and placed him under arrest. He had $1.85 in his pocket. Funeral of Miss Hingltuiii. The funeral of Miss Bingham will take place this afternoon at 3 o’clock at St. Paul’s Church, Rev. G. A. Carstenscn officiating. The Interment, which will be at Crown Hill, will be private. A still alarm at C o’clock last evening called the lire department to the restaurant at 114 North Pennsylvania street. An overheated range caused a loss of about $lO. Dun lap's Celebrated llals At Seaton’s Hat Store. BAD IRS’ SAIDORS now ready. Feed your horse JANES’S Dustless Oats. McGilliard Agency Cos. Fire insurance. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General ofliees, 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Englißli Styles. Fine Riding Haddles—l.adiPs’ and Gents.’ F. L. HERRINGTON, Harness and Saddlery, 129 E. Market street. Kimball pianos, Carlin A l.ennox. J E. Market st. The Latest Style Os FINE THIN WATCHES for ladies and gentlemen are in demand. We Ilnve Them Also, tine Hold Chains, elegant Chatelains. It is a satisfaction to carry a line time-piece. Try one and find out. C. Walk, ® & Son, INDIANA’S BEADING JEWELERS. FURNITURE, CARPETS MESSENGER’S, 101 E. Washington St*

L. T. FIVER’S i Lait D’lrisi (Orris Root Milk.) ; A Fragrant, | ( Refreshing, \ Astringent TOILET PREPARATION ; For refreshing and beautifying the complexion, for use after shavfof, etc. | Charles Mayer & Cos. j 29 and 31 W. Wash. St. Toothless Men may have their deficiencies supplied by the dentist, and be restored to the pleasures of mastication. Hairless Men may have their heads thatched by the wigmaker and be restored to their pristine youth and beauty. Our mission is to Clothesless Men Not to men who arc absosolutely In purls natural! bus, but to men who do not consider them- • selves dressed unless they are well dressed. For Suits We make to order from a large selection of fancy Cheviots, Thibets, Worsteds, blue and black Serges, at S2O. Kahn.... Tailoring Cos. 22 and 24 East Wash. st

Standard of the Town Rumsey BICYCLES 98 : $50.00 116 North Pennsylvania St. Columbia Chainless Every day it is used it demonstrates its superiority over auy wheel made. The price is $125. We also have the chain wheels, $75. Hartford, SBO and S4O. Ask for catalogue. It is a work of art. LILLY STALNAKER. 114-116 E. Wash. St. COKE! COKE! LUMP and CRUSHED, - FOR SALE BYThe Indianapolis Gas Cos. For tickets, call at office— No. 49 South PennsylTania St. Egan & Kinney Cos. Importing Tailors Handsomest line of exclusive Spring Suit and Overcoat patterns in the city. 303 Stevenson Building. jliTTelephone 2:527. GARDEN AND FLOWER Grass Seed, lawn Fertilizer HUNTINdTON & PAGE, 136-135 E. Market St •—Tel,lßD~i