Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1901 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1901.

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XXX Loie Fuller, the "fire dancer," Is reported to have contracted to tour the country in conjunction with an operatic organization under the management of Andrew McCorjnlck and John W. Morrisey. XXX Oscar Hammerstein Is to back the wellknown comedians, the Russell brothers, in a new piece entitled "The Russell Brothers In Congress." in contradistinction to "The Hogers Brothers In Washington." XXX Augustus F. Howell, a reader of considerable note, residing: in Boston, will prernt "An Evening with David Harum" at Plymouth Church to-night under the auspices of the Boys' Club Association. , XXX Henry Hamilton, the English playwright, has completed two acts of his dramatization of Stanley J. Weyman's romantic novel. "The Castle Inn." which will be one cf next season's big productions, comprising fifteen distinct scenes. XXX Mlaco and Fulton's "Jolly Grass Widows" will commence a three days engagement at the Empire Theater this matinee. The company comes well recommended. It has played the leading burlesque houses of the country with great success. 'xxx John Mason, who has been leading1 man with Daniel Frohman'a stock company the past two seasons, will be featured next season by Manager Jacob Litt in a new modern society drama. The following season Mr. Litt proposes to star Mason. xxx "My Lady Dainty," the charming comedy from the pen of Madeline Lucette Ryley, author of Henry Miller's success. "Richard Bavage, will be presented by the Kelcey Shannon company at English's Opera House X riday and Saturday next week. xxx Cecil Raleigh, the English dramatist, who wrote the much-discussed melodrama, "The Prince of Peace," has almost finished a new play called "The Queen of Society," which will be given a sumptuous production at the Broadway Theater early next teason. XXX One of the best features of the entertainment to be given at the Park Theater the last half of the current week by Rusco & Holland's Original Nashville Students and Gideon's big minstrel carnival combined Is declared to be the famous Nashville Stu dents Quartet, a body of unrivaled colored singers lngers. "The J XXX I Belle of Bohemia." George W. Lederer's new Casino musical comedy, was presented at the New Apollo Theater. London, last Thursday night and received In such a manner as to Indicate that it will enjoy as long a run as was accorded "The Uel'e or rsew ork" at the London Shaftes bury Theater. XXX William Collier, in Augustus Thomas's cew comedy. "On the Quiet." has scored a triumph at the Madison-square Theater, New York, where he will probably remain the ret of the season. Mr. Collier's new manager, jacoo L.itt, proposes to give him a new play each year, and to that end has placed commissions with Madeleine Lucette Ryley and other equally noted playwrights. xxx Walter Appleton Clark, the highly talented young American painter, has com pleted the portrait of James K. Hackett which was ordered by the committee of tne iew lor riayers Club. Th s 1 th first time the honor of admission to the clubs select gallery of atasre hp been awarded to so ycung a man as Hackaiiv portrait represents Mr. HackeUJ as Rudolph Ilassendvll. V XXX This is the Zoo's last week as a favorite place of amusement. Beginning with Fri day the institution will be devoted entirely to training animals ror Mr. TJostock's show et the Pan-American exposition in itu rrnta Each day until Friday will be given over to a benefit for some worthy local organization. Fine programmes have been prepared and Indications are that the Zoo's uis uaya wjii ue us uest. k X X Harry E. Feicht's lecture on the Ober ammergau people and I'as-ion Play brought out another large audience at the Grand last niht. This repetition of th Wt.ir. was made more interesting and enjoyable by the pre-ence of the choir of St. Mary's Catholic Church, whicn sang Facred ona ana appropriate nyrm.?. An augmented orchrstra rendered pans of the original musjiai fcore 01 me j'as-ion l'Iay. v xxx Park patrons will welcome Johnny and "rama Ray, the great destroyers of gloom, at that popular playhouse this afternoon. obtn thty will bejin a thre days' ngage-

rrent In the furiously funny farce. "A Hot Old Time." All of the old favorites that helped make the piece enjoyable last reason are with the Hays this year and a number of clever new farceurs have been engaged, making the company the largest that Mr. and Mrs. Ray have ever taken on the road. XXX Playwright Augustus Thomas has by no means shattered the popular Ideal of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith in transferring that Interesting personage to the stage. Good old "Noll" Goldsmith is painted by the dramati3t much as he was in actual being a thoroughly charming fellow. Mr. Stuart Robson, the brilliant comedian, for whom this character was created, has succeeded admirably in realizing it almost to the life. 'Oliver Goldsmith" will be presented at English's Opera House by Mr. Robson and hin excellent supporting company Thursday night of the current week. xxx "The Princess Chic," the new comic cpera by Kirk La Shelle and Julian Edward, to be presented at English's Opera House Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon of the current week, will appeal strongly to lovers of good music. The authors of this opera have

attempted and it is declared with great success a revival of the old-time opera comique, in which tuneful music abounded over horseplay and Jokes of doubtful merit. The musical score of "The Princess Chic" is the most pretentious that has characterized any comic opera produced in recent years. xxx Fannie Rice will present at the Grand Opera House this afternoon and the remainder of the current week the first of the much-talked-of Nell Gwyn plays. In addition to Miss Rice and her clever company the following bill has been provided: Frank and Lillian Smith, expert rifle shots; Mile. RIalta, dancer; Belle Williams and her plckinlnnies; James II. Cullen, polite monologuist: Knight Brothers, comedians: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thorne lrt a sparkling comedietta, and the three Navarros, European acrobats, with the wonderful biograph added for good measure. Miss IVethersolc's Illness. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21. The Olga Nethersole company closed its season with the performance of "Sapho" at the Olympic Thea ter last night. The illness of Miss Nethersolo and her departure for Europe were the causes of the premature closing of the season. A BOER CAMP IN CEYLON LIEUT. W. 31. CKOSE, l. S. X., AVIUTES i:;teuesti.glv about it. A Untune Publication In "Which the Expatriated Borrs Express Their Hope and Fears. An Interesting newspaper has bee", re ceived in this city from Lieut. W. M. Crose, of the United States navy, , of the battle ship Kentucky, that recently touched at Colombo on her way to Manila. He is a brother of Dr. S. E. Crose and of B. D. Crose, of this city. Lieutenant Crose writes: "The British transport Catalonia recently brought about one thousand Boer prisoners to Ceylon, and they are now in an encampment up country some distance in land from Colombo. They have amused themselves painting post cards and picture frames some of them. I mean carving pipes and boxes, and some of them started a publication. The first copy had an explosive bullet as a head, and the authorities made them change it. The publishers were allowed to print only five numbers, and only a few a. hundred, or so copies were printed of each. Advantage was taken of the permission to publish the paper to print some objectionable articles. so the British suppressed it. Colombo is one of the busiest seanorts I ever saw. All, or nearly all. vessels en route to China, Japan, Siberia, the East Indies and Australia stop in here, so that the harbor is always full of shipping. It Is a beautiful place, and at this time of year (latter part of January) it Is not very hot, although it Is only about 6 degrees from the equator. The British have a way of making themselves comfortable, no mat ter where they may be, and the big. onestory bungaloes. with broad verandas and tiled roofs, make me wish for a chance to settle down here for the rest of my natural life. Living Is cheap, servants are cheap and one does not have to wear many clothes. We have been here nearly a week, and to-morrow we leave direct for Manila." A UNIQUE PUBLICATION. The publication referred to by Lieutenant Crose is a. small six-page paper, published on fine linen paper. It. Is profusely illustrated with comic pictures, and the work Is all done by writing and then mimeographed. The paper sent by Lieutenant Crose is No. 4 of the publication, the one issued before the British suppressed the paper. It sells for 20 cents, and Is dated "Camp Lyre, Dlyatalawa, 15 Oktober." The head dress of the paper represents a man playing a lyre beneath a cocoanut tree, while two monkeys are Juggling cocoanuts on the other sides of the tree. The publication is well filled with advertisements, most of which are notices of shooting galleries In the camp. Such advertisements say that only saloon rifles are used. One advertisement reads: "P. D. O'Reilly, M. E. Licensed Jeweler and goldsmith. Native gold and silver Jewelry a specialty. A stock of rubies, sapphires, cat s-eyes and moonstones, rough or polished, on hand. Transvaal and Free State coat-of-arms a specialty. Engravings of Jewelry made to any design. Loans on approved security to any amount Address Hut 27." Another advertisement reads: "Free State and Transvaal beer hall. Cool drinks, hop, ginger always on hand. Professor Fräser, the great palmist, always in attendance." Half of the reading matter of the paper is published In Dutch and the other half in English. The paper contains a long story entitled "Perverters of the Truth." It reads: "The poet tells us that heaven lies about us in our Infancy. In boyhood days tond parents do the lying for us; when we ore grown up we lie lor ourselves and about ourselves. When the end of the nose and the Hps and th's toes are turned up to the roots of the daisies the tombstone takes up the wondrous tale. Thus it would appear that we are compassed about with lying from the cradle to the grave, and even beyond. What wonder, then, that, having nothing else to do at Dlyatalawa, we pursue the old familiar habits and pervert the truth for pastime? When the entire camp is anxiously straining its ears for news, and cablegrams are scarce, why should not some of our comrades in whom the mendacious habit is stronger than in others manufacture their own news? At all events there are those who reason thus, and. having their own creative imagination, brought the news into existence and industriously disseminate it amongst the manyheaded multitude. CAMP TALES. "Sometimes the seed falls into shallow ground goes In at one ear and out at the other. Sometimes It falls amongst thorns the teller is choked off by a listener who knows him too well, but sometimes It falls Into good ground good, productive solL The man who hears it will tell it and retell it until the original fiblet has been mag nified thirty, forty or a hundredfold into a colossal lie. The whole camp has it by heart and there is general unrest. Then the news monger Is happy. During the last week the camp has been full of rumors hatched in the above manner. The purport of most of them was that the long and sanguinary war that has occupied the stirring twelve months behind us was over forever portion and parcel of a dreadful past and that gentle winds were already wafting the ship that should carry the exiles home asaln. This story has been repeated in a hundred different forms during the week. Day unto day has uttered speech, night unto night has shown knowledge, and u knowledge that was akin to ignorance. And still we are In the dark us to the truth. There Is nothing for it but patience. When the ships arrive and we are on board we shall apologize to the last man who spread the rumor and believe him." This story shows that the Boers are anxiously waiting for their deliverance from the prison camp. The paier contains a column called "Camp Sweepings," and the principal Item concerns a revival of boxing in the camp. There was one lively bout Ir. which the winner challenged any man in the camp for a flve-thousand-pound side bet. Coburn Coal Company sells the best Coal.

DR. H. A. BUCHTEL HEARD

HE IS SOW CHANCELLOR OF THE U.MVEItSITY OF DENVER. Preache at Central-Avenne Methodist, Where He Was Formerly Pastor Other Church Services. Ttcv. Dr. Henry A. Buchtel, chancellor of the University of Denver, located at University Park, Col., preached yesterday morning in Central-avenue Methodist Church. The event was of more than ordinary interest because of the fact that a little less than five years ago Dr. Buchtel was the regular pastor of the church. His return to his former pulpit and charge was, therefore, in the nature of a homecoming, and this feature was accentuated by the unusually large congregation and the cordial greeting extended to Dr. Buchtel at the close of the services. During the past two months Dr. Buchtel has suffered a number of afflictions. On Feb. 13 he received news of the death, at Greencastle. Ind., of his son. aged five. who was with Mrs. Buchtel and her daughter, the latter a student in De Pauw University. The daughter is" a sufferer from heart trouble and cannot withstand the rarefied atmosphere of Colorado, so that she and Mrs. Buchtel will remain at Greencastle after the departure of Dr. Buchtel. When asked yesterday as to the time of his return to Colorado. Dr. Buchtel Faid: "I shall return this afternoon. I must get back to my duties because I have been out practically two months. I had been ill myself for about a month before my little son died." THE SERMON. Dr. Buchtel took a3 the text for his sermon Phil, iv, 10: "But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ." He spoke, in part, as follows: "Men of the best Quality must be fre quently asking themselves the most serious questions about the present needs of relig ion, and these questions will become more direct and more searching as we grow In Intellectual diameter. Just anybody can be a moral cipher, and it is true, if God s word be true and we have no hesitation about that it is true also that Just anybody can be an Integral "force in the moral order of his times if he really desires to be. So to drift with the tide, that Is one thing; it requires no effort whatsoever. To go against the tide, to make the world good, to help everybody whose life we touch Into the highest and best view of life that requires some definite and specific effort. If we were to write out here this morning what we severally considered to be the present needs of religion In the world, I think v.e would be greatly surprised to see whf. a variety of answers we should have to that always present and always living question. When we como to inspect these answers in a critical way I think we would be surprised to notice what a disposition we all have to put show in the place of substance and what a disposition we have to count as fundamental necessities what are only imaginary necessities, and what a disposition we all have to desire the things that are of absolutely no value whatsoever and to turn aside from the things which really make religion to be strong In the earth and which God deslre3 to give us in the same" abundant degree which He supplies us with the air and sunshine about ua on every side. v "Any true picture which we can make of God can never by anywhere near the fact- Indeed, the method by which we determine our own growth in the things which made for character is in contrasting the view of God which we hold at one time in our career with the view which we hold at another time. If our picture of God makes Him increasingly beautiful and if our picture of God represents Him as infinitely resourceful, so that all the best things are the things which He is continually desiring to give to men if that Is our picture of God and if that grows as we ourselves grow in strength and in symmetry of character, and in Christllkeness, then we may be very sure that we are growing In grace and in the knowledge of the truth. If God be infinitely good, then He must desire our highest and best good. and if God be infinitely wise, then It must necessarily be that He is pleased when we put substance down for substance and when we never put show in the place of substance, and if He be infinitely wise and infinitely good, and infinitely resourceful, then He must have the power to help men to' grow better and better as time goes on, and to make religion to be more and mow powerful In the earth, and more and more beautiful in the eyes of men, so that the church shall grow stronger and stronger as time goes on. PLAIN AXIOMS. "Now suppose any man who has saturated himself with the truth of God's word cannot avoid admitting that all these declarations are the plainest axioms that ccme out of the reading of God's word. If we were to write out this morning what we conceive to be the present needs of religion I suppose a good many of us would express it to be our Judgment that one of the things religion needs is more dramatic vindication. Such a dramatic vindication as, for example, Jesus gave in His miracles. We are so attached to the spirit of the world, so saturated with the world's Ideas and Ideals from the fact that we are environed by the world on every sloe that we are prone to imagine that religion will make its progress as everything else makes its progress. The political party makes its headway in a dramatic way, and we imagine, many of us, that religion could make gains in the same .way. But I am sure that when we look at the matter aright we shall come to the conclusion that religion never needs anything of that sort, that it is a harm to real religion rather than an advantage to It. Religion is doing Justly and walking humbly before God. Religion does not seek to display itself with a brass band and make a spectacular exhibition of itself. Religion seeks to make character and so it does not seek the things which the world seeks in Its totally different view of life, and we must say then that religion does not need any dramatic vindication, that it does not need, in a word, any more evidences than it has. It has evidence and abundance of It, of every conceivable variety. It has a variety of evidences that we call historical. We notice that Just precisely as the gospel of Jesus Christ has had its opportunity in the lives of men and in the government of the earth. Just so far has the world become a good place to live In. "And then there Is a vast succession of evidences that we call experimental. Men who desire to know the truth about religion can ascertain the truth about religion any day in about ten minutes' time. It only requires sincerity and candor, and that Is the difficult thing to secure. You remember how during the lifetime of our Lord the most spectacular things about His life did not make any impression upon the minds of men that were insincere and uncandld. When the Lord appeared on the Mount of Olivet of all miracles we can dream of there is nothing like the ascensionand when the great group of believers stood there looking at Him the record says that as they looked some doubted: that is to say, the men that were uncandid and insincere in the face of Christ were not affected by it. So wherever there are men who are candid and wherever there are men who are sincere you will find that they never have any difficulty in arriving at the real value ot religion. Religion does not need any vindication and does not need any adltional evidence beyond what the good God has been pleased to give us now. "Then I presume there are others who would be disposed to say that one of the things religion needs is more marks of external unity. Many men affect to think that some great calamity came over the church In the breaking up of the church into various bodies, so tnat the variety of faiths that we find in the earth has been some hindrance to religion. So they affect to think that there must be some serious difficulty with religion since men look at it in so many different ways. When we come to Inspect the matter a little more closely we can see that the best thing that has ever happened to religion in the history of the world Is tne breaking up of the church intc many bodies. You have on opportunity to see what comes of this external unity in Russia, for example, and you gee it in Spain, and you saw it in Italy, and you see it in South America, and you have an opportunity here In our own country to see what comes of breaking up the church into many bodies." PRESENT CHURCH LIFE. Dr. Buchtel declared that there never has been such a church life as exists at tho

present time. He digressed at this point to refer to the various churches of which he has been pastor, commencing with the first circuit traversed by him in 1S72. He spoke of h!s sympathetic relations with the churches at Greencastle, at Richmond and Lafayette and Central-avenue Church in this city, saying there is nothing In the life of these churches to call forth such a letter, as Paul wrote to the church at Corinth. "My contention is." said the minister, "that the best of the church life that has appeared in the world's history is now here and the best people that have ever lived in the world are now living in the world. It would be a poor comment on the gospel of the Son of God if that were not true." Dr. Buchtel said that he recently talked to the students at De Pauw University, Greencastle and asserted that the student body of to-day is better and does 50 per cent, more work than it did In the days when he attended college. Dr. Buchtel said he supposed that another need of religion that might be suggested by some people is the need of more coercing power of grace. He replied to this by citing the case of Paul who, when he became convinced that he was following In the wrong path immediately turned about and, "without communing with flesh and blood," began to help Instead of persecute the Christian church. "Wherever you find a man like St. Paul," said the speaker, "wherever you find a man who has grown up living always in all good conscience, that man has precisely the same sort of spiritual life that St. Paul had. that is, he has religion enough to swim in. Now you know that any more marked coercive force of grace would not make character; it would break it." Dr. Buchtel said that possibly some people might think religion needs more light on the life to come. The error of this idea was shown by pointing to the fact that if men could see as clearly into the future as they can into the past, when adversity should come upon them they would turn Into more dreamers, thinking of the happiness that is awaiting them in the beyond, whereas God wants men to be strengthened by trouble so that they can meet life more bravely. He declared that God means for men to live in this world while they are in it and not to be whlling away their time dreaming and imagining about the next. MEN'S REAL NEEDS. The concluding portion of the sermon was devoted to an enumeration of men's real needs. Dr. Buchtel said these are; a higher and purer conception of what God is; a higher and finer idea of what men and women can become. The last may best be obtained by coming in contact with people of high ideals and pure lives.. In conclusion Dr. Buchtel said: "My last word is this. Religion needs and the church needs and we all need a keener sense of our personal obligation to each other. There will not be a person whom you meet, as you go out of this church, whom you do not owe something. Every person you meet is a person to whom you must bring something beautiful out of your own life. You muat make it easy for people to believe in goodness by what is in you. So every life you touch when you go out of here will be a life that expects something from you and the good God expects you to bring something to them. There is absolutely not a person in the world that you must not show your best. You must bring to every life you touch the highest and best life in you. so that every person 'that comes in contact with your life will see not only that you have been with Jesus, but that

you are with Him now. So the good God is desirous of ministering to our needs and giving us in the most complete and abounding manner all the things that are necessary to the development of the highest and best and to the development of what is most beautiful and most Christlike in ourselves." COMMENTED ON MRS. NATION. The Usual Interesting Sermon at Mcrldlnn-Strcet Church. Meridian-street M. E. Church was crowd ed last night, and after the ushers had seated all they could the pastor, Rev. William A. Quayle, directed from the pulpit the seating of many who were standing in the rear, delivering a short but effective talk on nelghborllness. His sermon was on temperance and prohibition laws, and was, he said, suggested by various newspaper comments upon the work of Mrs. Carrie Nation in Kansas. His text was from tho thirty-fourth verse of the fourteenth chapter of Proverbs: "Righteousness exalteth a nation." He began by saying: "I propose to-night to talk on a subject of whloh I chance to know something I think you will be glad and about which a good many peo ple seem to know nothing." Reference was made to Kansas and its liquor laws. their effect and enforcement, and compari son with the laws and existing conditions in Indiana. "Indiana," he said in this re gard, "is medieval and the Kansas plan is or the twentieth century." Continuing he said In part, after declaring himself in favor of prohibitory laws: "The Nicholson law which obtains In Indiana is good so far as it goes. It has this to be said in its favor it may mean local option provided a majority of the proper citizens can be got to appeal against the location of a saloon. I oelleve every man should bear his own burden. I think there are a good many poor officers, but not half so many as poor citizens. "I have observed that when the North Indianapolis Anti-saloon League complains against the right parties they have an injunction out against one of the roadhouses. The law will not operate itself. We cannot expect officers of the law to be eager for its enforcement when we are not eager ourselves for its enforcement. If the people want to enforca the laws, I think all of the good business men and women should organize , themselves into a league of good citizenship, which will see to it that the laws we have are respected and enforced. What is needed In Indianapolis Is a laymen's movement. "The reason why Mrs. Nation can go through Kansas and not be molested is because these places are illegal. Prohibition in Kansas has reduced the business to the ground of illegality. In Indianapolis it has been shown to be legal." Dr. Quayle bitterly attacked the practice of social drinking, and Dartlcuiarlv the habit of beautiful, cultivated women offering liquor to "poor, Innocent, weak men," with the request that it be drank "for my pake." The social drinking habit suggested the matter of smoking, and of this he said: "A cigarette Is something a simpleton smokes to make him more simple than he was and the Lord knows he can't bear it. His is a mighty little house to make so much smoke. Any parent who has no more Judgment than to allow his child to begin cigarette-smoking is not fit to be a parent, and it was a great crime for the Lord to allow a child to be born in that family." Returning to the Carrie Nation crusade he referred to the work of Sunday last, saying: ."She led a mob on the Lord's day. The mob was not all of mature persons. There were boys in the crowd. What a shame!" Then followed the reading of a letter which he had received during the week from one of Mrs. Nation's admirers. The portion read was as follows: "You should think twice before preaching sermons. Does the Bible not say that In some cases we may do evil that good may come of it? Read diligently the Bible and not be wise In thine own conceit. Mrs Nation is a God-fearing woman; a sanctified woman. If God teaches Mrs. Nation to destroy, who is there that dare say nay? Go, to, man, and cover yourself with ashes and weep and mourn for the lack of knowledge of the God you pretend to worship, lours, in Christ.' It was read a few words at a time with a running comment which kept the congregation in constant laughter. Dr. Quayle explained that he did not read the letter for the purpose of making a Jest of it for he thought the woman who wrote it 'was sincere in her motive, though she used bad Judgment in criticising what others might think and say of the wisdom of the line of action pursued by Mrs. Nation. The writer gave her name and address, and stated she had heard the pastor's sermon upon Mrs Nation's methods one week ago. THE STRAIGHTFORWARD MAN. Points in Ihe Sermon of Rev. C. E. Bacon nt Roberts Park Chnrch. Rev. C. E. Bacon, pastor of Roberts Park Church, preached yesterday morning on the "Straightforward Man." He sa:d the secret of the straightforward man was in tho passage of the Bible. "Keep thlno eyes looking on and thine eyelids before thee." Mr. Bacon said In part: "Toy soldiers keep their eyes looking on and their eyelids before them, but they are not alive, every movement that they make is subject to outside motion. What this passage applies to is to men who are capable of life, to men who think and do for themselves. There are, however, men In tho church of God who are similar to the toy soldier. They sit in their pews with that deathlike t.tare In their eyes, but there Is no life in them. They are people who aro subject

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only to excitement. I mean by this that they go with the current. They are moved by the general run of humanity. They are people who have no feeling and their soul is only wrought up by some mere outv sentiment. Possibly it Is the sermon that moves them; or It may bo the singing, any way It 13 not their soul which is moved by the love of Christ. They are not the class who keep working on and on. They are not the people who live straightforward and upright lives. "The stiyings of Paul are used now as x.orldly maxims. But neverthelers, he intimates, and I believe that ho is right, that one .should mind his ov-n business. That is, to mind It with a religious impulse. A salcon keeper may say to a won Im who has warned him not to sell her husband i'rink for her to mind her own affairs and he will mind his. But this woman is minding her owi atfalrs. She Is trying to kee.i this man from wrecking her horn and from dcstrcylrg the soul of her husband. The politician will say to a man, 'Stay at homo or in your factory and let mo run public affairs. But notwithstanding what he says, it is the duty cf every man to see that his rights as a citizen are protected oy the ballot. I believe that in all there is but1 one unifying power which brings control over the eoul and that is the power of God. There are things about u? which are so sacred that we can take no one int cur confidence In regard to them. One of tnese is your soul. It is so sacred that it Is shut up from everyone. Even your family and your best friends cannct be ad rrltted into it. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can enter this sphere. The home is also another sacred place. There t-.re few more sacred places than this. It is the naered realm from which all of the world is shut out. The home is the shrine at which no one can worship as the husband and wife." In conclusion Mr. Bacon said: "Sentitive ness is something that ought not to be indulged in by the straightforward man, because a sensitive man is one who sees and hears everything around him, and the straightforward man Is the one who keeps his gaze before him and hears and seed nothing that goes on about him.- I will ask what it Is that fills the eye of the rtraightforward man and the answer will be this: It is the image of Christ. And I am glad that God has His eye on the straightforward man for he is the man who has but one object in life which he is pursuing with all of the might that is in him." SPIRITUALISM DISCUSSED. Rev. R. V. Hunter Uses Hnrsh Words in Ills Sermon. Rev. R. V. Hunter, of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, discussed the subject of "Spiritualism" at the evening services yesterday. He began by saying that he had given the subject of Spiritualism- some study, and had observed the methods pursued by those who profess to be mediums. &o while he did not pffetend to speak as an authority he did claim that he had given the subject more than casual Investigation, and could therefore give an unbiased expression of opinion concerning it. "Throughout the world's history," he said, "there have been innumerable false prophets. Mahomet became dissatisfied with religion as it existed In his time and went forth to seek a new one. In later times in our own country Brlgham Young and his colleagues also became restless under existing religious forms and went forth Into the desert to create one which they conceived to be better. The principle Inciting this action has continued to be a force among men, and has reached down Into the people about us and created various forms of dissension from the general order of things. One manifestation of this fact is the upgrowth of what is known as Spiritualism. "Now in regard to this subject I wish to say this: "While it is undoubtedly true that some people have more magnetic force than others, and some very strange things havo been accomplished by the exertion of this power, there has been no good substantial evidence produced that the spirits of disembodied friends have returned to earth or in any way have held converse with a living person. There has not been one bit of proof presented by those who Cialm to be adept in the business that would stand the scrultny of a thorough and dispassionate scientific investigation. When Spiritualism was first introduced by a family named Fox, of Rochester, N. Y., about the year 1S48, there were many surmises as to the true explanation. Some persons thought that the rappings which were heard came from real spirits, othem thought that the rappings were due to the abnormal magnetic powers of the medium, while still others were of opinion that tht rounds were caused by the cracking of th joints of the body of the medium. But neither then nor at any time since has thero been worthy evidence that messages from the spiritual world have been received. It is a strage fact, too, that in the great majority of cases the medium is at best an ignorant and uncultured person. It is also a fact that those who take up with the Idea are well meaning persons who are either not well balanced mentally, or are ignorant. Then there are some who are so anxious to hear from deceased loved ones that they get into a state of rr.ind where they are easily susceptible to bad influences. I would not speak of thU matter so eeriously were it not for the fact that there are many people who believe In this fraud, as is attested by the fact that right here In our own city is i Church of Spiritualism. And it is also trus, in my opinion, that a person who assumes this doctrine soon loses all his religion." Mr. Hunter sarcastically referred to the fact that all seances take place in the dark, where the movements of the medium are not discernible. He also gave instances where the fraud has been detected, and explained the inconsistencies of the chief works which have been issued pertaining to the subject. In conclusion he declared that Spiritualism 13 a "humbug, a lie, and a sham." FATHER SAItGHNT'S SERMON. The First of a Serie nt St. David's Episcopal Church. Father Henry R. Sargent, of the Order of the Holy Cross, preached the first conference sermon of the week at St. David's Episcopal Church yesterday morning. His sermon was on the subject of "True Living," and he argued that truth should be the object of all men's lives. A man must strive In his Inmost heart, he said, to acquire as far as may be the standard of life exemplitied by Christ. This is a privilege Inherent in all men. and la is no way restricted by the circumstances

"Every little noiso v?ould startlo mo and set my nerves to trembling from head to foot I got very littlo sleep at night and I could scarcely eat tho lightest food without having awful pains in my stomach. I took no end of medicine, but nothing helped me, and when I begta with Dr. Miles' Nervine I had no faith in it It helped mo right away, and vhen I had taken seven bottles I was cured. n MRS. A. K. Johnson, Northfield, Vt

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Copy of Statement of the Condition OF TUB United States Branch of the Assurance Society On the 31st day of December, 1900 It is located at No. 33 Pine street. New York City. HALL & HENSHAW, U. S. Managers. Home Office 81 Cornhill, London. The amount of it3 capital is $2,500,000 The amount of its capital paid up Is 900.00G The Assets of the Company la the United States v areas follows Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons J121.696.22 Real estate unincumbered 200,000.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of various per cent., as per schedule filed L12$.370.00 Debts otherwise secured 9,919.76 Debts for premiums 1S3.676.5S Total assets $1,613,602.6 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due I74.203.C5 Losses unadjusted 06,179.65 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof 13.4SO.00 All other claims against the comv pany 2S.226.03 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 697,202.93 Total liabilities )19.532.2S The greatest amount in any one risk, $23,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, auditor of state of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1W0, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on tile in this office. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my SEAL. official seal this 7th day of February, 1901. W. H. HART. Auditor of State. LOCAL AGENCY! R. ZENER & CO. Talbott Block. of birth. A man obscure and unimportant in all the facts of material worldly existence is entitled to seek for the blessing which is the highest boon of man. And sUch a man is endowed with all the essentials of success if he is sincere In his quest. In conclusion it was urged that this fact applies to all men of to-day, and that they seek to attain the higher life. Father Sargent" will remain during the coming week. Every afternoon, beginning to-day, he will give devotional talks to women, and will also preach sermons this evening and Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. T. J. Vlllera'a Sermon. Rev. Thomas J. Villers, pastor of the First Baptist Church, delivered' a sermon last night on "A Personal Question." Mr. Villers said: "Napoleon once said that there Is always a crisis In every battle, and It is at this time that it may be won or lost. It is the same with a man's life. There Is a crisis In It and at this tlmo a man may be lost or won to Christ, whichever the case may be, for Christ only knows two parties, those that are against Him and those that are for Him. "NYe may for a little while ease our conscience by shifting the responsibility. But finally the old question will arise, as It did to Pilate. What shfiJl we do with Jesus called Christ? We must not wait for any feeling to come over us before we are saved because God does not save souia by feeling, but by faith." In Catholic Chnrchei. Yesterday marked the beginning of the period In which Catholics are requested to approach the holy table under penalties of excommunication. This period extends until some weeks after Easter Sunday, yet it is called Eastertime on account of the rules of the church, which stipulate that all Catholics must receive holy communion at least once a year, and that about Eastertime. This time expires on Trinity Sunday, June 2. Wednesday. Thursday and Saturday of this week will be observed as Ember days and will be days of fasting and abstinence. PKEACHERS AND SCIENTISTS. Fl rat Go to the Holy Land, Second to See the Eclipse. NEW YORK, Feb. 2t.-On the North German Lloyd steamer Werra, which left today for the Mediterranean, were two parties of tourists. The larger party was composed of clergymen and Bible students bound for the Holy Land; the smaller party, of scientists, bound for Sumatra, to view the eclipse of the sun on May 17. There were thirty-eight members of the first Dartv. They will be absent for more than three months. Among the scientists who will observe the eclipse in Sumatra are Prof. Alfred E. Burton. I'rof, Geo. L. Hosmer, Harrison "W. Cmlth and G. 11. Zlatthes.

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Copy of Statecent of the Condition OF T1IC United States Branch of tho Liverpool and London and Globs Insurance Co. 0nthe3Ist day of December, 19CD It 1j located at 45 William street. New York City. JOHN M. DOVE. Manager Home Office. Liverpool, Eng. HENRY W. EATON. Manager New York Office. JOHN U. SPANN. Attorney for Indiana, Residence Indianapolis, Ind. The Atseti of the Company la the Halted Stxtes areas follows: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents and other persons 5SS3,9s5.43 Real estate unincumbered I.91L24Ü.0J Bonds owned by the company, bearing Interest at the rate of ... per cent., secured as follows: U. S. 4 per cent, bonds. 1925 ISUSDiOO State, county and municipal bonds 233,273.00 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior Incumbrance 3.14.20.00 Debts for premiums Wl.Xii.M All other securities (O.lsT.tt Total assets 53.046.77. U LIABILITIES. Losses unadjusted, net amount of unpaid losses 1511.071.0S All other claims gainst the company C54.JC7.L7 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 3,771.409.14 Total liabilities J1.337.411.C3 The greatest amount In any one risk (la rare cases). JOO.uuü, and rarely 175,000. State of Indiana, office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned, auditor of state of ihn State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of tne condition or tne above-mentioned comnanv on the 21st dav of Ieremhr rMtf shown by the original statement, and that ine said original Eiaiemem is now on file in this office. In testimony .whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my offi&EAL. cial seal, this 4th day of February, 1WL W. II. HART. Auditor cf State. Indianapolis Agents John S. Spann & Co., 148 East Market Street. Copy of Statement of the Ccr.2iti:n OP THE Fire Insurance Co. On the 31st day of December, I9C3 It is located at No. 3 Court street, Brook lyn. N. Y. WILLIAM L. LANE, President TilOMAS iL HARRIS. Secretary. The amount of Its capital Is The amount of its capital paid up is.. 200.003 The Assets of the Conpsoyle the (Jolted Statei are if follows: Cah on hand and In the hands of agents or other persons KOT.13 Bonds owned by the company. bearing interest at the rate of ... per cent., secured as follows: United Stat 4 per cent ftf.173 fO United States 3.63 per cent .. 141.7T-i.ivj Brooklyn Itapid Trankt 5 per cent. 1S.2 ).) Portland Gas 6 per cent 3.0). i Debts otherwise secured 5.74.' Debts for premiums 27.1M.1C All other securities 2lv.47l.ofl Total assets &6S.47I.X1 LIADILITICS. Amount owing and not due, to banks or other creditors tX,YAo$ Losfc adjuted and not due C.DuOu) Looses unadjusted .x).0J Amount neceary to reinsure outstanding risks 7S.ri7.C3 Total liabilities .J11S.717.C3 Th greatest amount in any one risk. J10.WU. State of Indiana. Offlce of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, auditor of state of th State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of DecemUr. 1SO0. at thown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and aifix my fdCAL. official seal this llth day of X-Vbru-ruary, lL W. H. HART, Auditor of Ctut:

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