Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1901 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 1. 1901. 1

The Ayres Showing of Smart

Spring

Holds much that is delightfully new and artistic in both conception and development. Here's a description of one of the handsomest a pen picture by a local fashion writer.

"Perhaps the mot beautiful frock of all, fhown by the Ayres people, i3 a, Gainsborough gown. The skirt of light c:i.ctor taffeta Is a three-flounced affair, fach flounce beln edged with a heavy French lace of Intricate design, while inserted motives of the same lace further elaborate each flounce. The bodice accompanying this Fkirt Ih of white taffeta, with a front of accordion-plaited mou?selalne do sole, of which the collar is a most marvelous combination of blue and gretn panne and exquisite embroidery with something more than a hint of red. A chic tie of gold net, edged by the

This Gainsborough suit and several others just a3 handsome may be seen among1 a collection that now crowds every available case and rack on our second floor.

IL. S. A.JS'IRES f3l CO

CAMERA THE II LIEBER COMPANY. SS Weit Washington Street. OFFICE DESKS Offica Furniture Never before have we had such an array of Office Furniture They are mad better, finished better, and more convenient than ever before, and then they are LOWER PRICED. Tou should see the 5-foot Roll-top Deste we sell at G28.00 Then we have others at $23, $22, and down to Bato Furniture Co. J 0 IS and 20 E. Washington St STORY OF STEVENS GIRL DETAILS ABOUT IIEIl ItETL'UN TO II Ell 31 OTHER X.N TEXAS. Years Afto She "VV'nn Kidnaped liy Traveling ctors Fonnd In Hndley Industrial School. Considerable Interest was aroused In this vicinity a few weeks ago, by the finding of n young girl, Carrie Stevens, at the Uadley Industrial School. She had been kidnaped from her home In El Paso. Tex., several years before, and the story of her restoration to her mother Is one of more than usual Interest. A correspondent tells the story in the following words: The story of the mysterious disappearance of the llttlo Steven3 child from Kl 1'aso over rix years ago, the discovery of her In Indiana a few days ago, and the last chapter enacted to-day, when the child, now a well-grown girl, was restored to her mother. Is a more romantic epir ode than could be found In the world of lictlon. "A telegram received last Monday containing the tidings that the child had been found at Danville, Ind., and requesting the details of her disappearance first brought the story to the public mind Again. Several people who remembered the circumstances were found, and the details of the story were published last Mon- . day. Mrs. Anna Stevens, the mother, who has been living In Mexico for several years, was Informed by wire of the finding of her daughter, and yesterday arrived In El Paso. In the meantime a country peace officer who had gone East on official business was delegated to bring the child to El Paso, and she arrived here this morning. "The girls full name Is May Carrie Ftevens. She Is a well-grown, flnly formed girl, and though only eleven years of age looks to be full two yers older. She was neatly, even prettily, dressed in a large red felt hat, trimmed with ribbons of the fame color, a dress of some dark material and smart woolen Jacket. Her face Is not only a pretty one, but Its exprelon denotes intelligence and good nature. In frhort, $he has all the evidences of a child who has been well trained, well nurtured and klndiy treated. Her attitude toward her mother was that of one who would be affectionate but had not quite accustomed brseif to the changed conditions of her life. MRS. STEVENS'S STORY. "Mrs. Stevens Is a well-appearing woman with regular, handsome feature?. In rerponse to the request for a detailed account of the disappearance of her daughter and the facts surrounding the case she told the following story: " The stories that have been published recently about my daughter and myself have In-en fo full of errors that 1 am glad to give the true story. I was married when miite young to V. Ö. Stevens, a railroad bridge foreman. I was married la S-ui Antonio, and after our man luge my husband and I traveled a good denl over the road. We finally fettled in EI Paso and I lived hre for hrventt-en years. My eldest daughter wa.- named Victoria and is now Mrs. Clark. The other child Is thi. cne. Hr full name Is May Carrie Stevens. Her father died when she was a year and a half old. having me in straitened ctreunitance. I took a house and made my living by keepir.g furnished rooms. " 'It was during this time that I met Mrs. Taylor, who subsequently separated me lrom my child. She was Introduced to me by .her husband. 11 brakeman. who had been an old friend of my husband. Pefore lu r m iniate ?he had been an actress. She l.-iul me a. good deal and we became quit Intimate. "Sh." frll very much in love with my baby and s;tnt hours with her. My children vrrn L.th taker, down with carlet fever nr. l I w:if hard pre.-sed to take care of t"?-m and the household affairs. It was at th'.s thar that Mrs-. Taylor hogged me to Fi.o her my little Carrie. While I was hav-it.-r a hard time to get along, there was no T..!on hy I should p.irt with my child, and I declined. The children were Just recring from their sickness when Mrs. TtyVr kiM ! was gntr.g to Valentine. Tt r . and asked me to b t her take the bal.y with her. as the trip would benefit V' r. I con.-ented.. and they were gone a ,ek r so. Wht-n they returned the child v. j . Imr roved tl:.it when Mrs. Taylor fiwvr ;.-: 1 later tliat I let the little one no with her to visit her brother at Albui.nerque I again consented. That was on tvirliy, Au ;. s. Ir was the last time ! mv baby until this morning. Mrs. Taylor had prorni.-ed to write me from ;! to day about my little on?, but ?s no 1- :t-r came ;:ft r some days had gone ty i became anxious and wrote to htr at

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fame embroidery, gives a finishing touch of 'leganet. The coat, which forms the third part of this beautiful costume. Is a striking thing in castor broadcloth, rather llghtt r in tono than the filk of the f-k!rt, the upper portion of which Is close fitting1 and dou'.'ie-brcasted, and, Incidentally, fastened by handsome gold filagree buttons, reaches to the waist line only, but at tha back and sides fal!3 a full Fkirt that sweeps the ground. Cuffs and revers of stitched castor panne, and a white collar, magnificent with embroidery, complete this exceedingly beautiful suit." Albuquerque. I received no reply and then telegraphed her, but In vain. SOLICITED AID. "Then I became perfectly frantic. I went to Sheriff Simmons and Captain Hughes and told them all about the matter. They telegraphed to every place where they thought It likely that Mrs. Taylor would be and finally Detective Ben "Williams located her at Las Vegas, N. M. "I did not have the money then to go after her and so I went to Mr. Turney, explained the situation and he telegraphed Mrs. Taylor to bring the baby back to EI Paso and he would pay all expenses she had occurred. "As soon as she received the telegram she took the next train and disappeared with the child. I spent all the money I could get trying to find my little one, but without avail. Sheriff Simmons also spent a good deal of money and so did the Knights of Pythias. For a long time I was prostrate with grief, but as year after year went by and I could get no tidings of my lost one I had to give up the search. "The mother's voice was full of indescribable pathos and tenderness, as with the tears rolling down her cheeks shedrew the girl to her side. Carrie did no: seem able to tell much about her life In detail, but after much urging she told the following 6tory: " I don't remember belns taken away. I remember that we went to Nashville, where we stayed awhile. Then we went to Louisville, and after we had been there some Erne we joined a show. 1 worked on the trapeze In an acrobatic performance, but I don't remember very much about all that time. I know that one day while we were playing in Lafayette, Ind., a Miss Victoria Prazier took me from Mrs. Taylor and put me in the Hadley Industrial School, which is twenty-five miles from Indianapolis. " 'I remained there until the other day, when the peace officer came for me and brought me to El Paso. 1 was !n the home four years and six months. Mrs. Taylor died some time after I went Into the home. She was kind to me, but when I got mad about anything she would tell me that my mother was still alive, and then when I was good again she would say that she had died a long time ago. I could Just remember the color of mother's hair and her eyes. I knew that my home had been in El Paso, and the story of my life was published several times In the Indianapolis papers. I always went by the name of LotUe Stevens." MARCH GRAIN INSPECTION. A Falling: Off in Inspection of CornSummer Packing Season. In the month of March the reports of the Board of Trade inspectors showed that there were Inspected 23.&00 bushels of wheat, against 11.250 in March, 1900, and 83,250 bushels in 1S'J9. There was inspected but 6S,250 bushels of corn, against 61S.S00 bushels in March, 1W0, and against 2SS.S00 in 1S99; oats, 28,750 bushels, against TI.CKXi bushels in M00 and against 20,000 In 1S90. The corn Inspections were the lightest of any March In many years, and Is due to the fact that there has been a steadily advancing market in prices, and bad country roads prevented grain deliveries to railroad stations. So great has been the demand for corn that elevators and storehouses were soon cleared of their holdings. Another point made is that farmers are not In need of money, and not forced to sell their corn Then corn is being fed to cattle and hogs In larger quantities than usual, as provisions arc steadily advancing. The Saiunicr racking Season. The summer packing season, which opened March 1. makes a good showing for Indianapolis packing houses. They killed K.Ort) hogs, against 51,000 in March. 1000. Owing to the scarcity of hogs but few points where the packings ore reported showed as many hogs killed as last year, the eighteen points reporting having killed 1,3:a),0jü hogs, against 1.530.0W in March, li)uO. SMITH'S SAFE ROBBED. In Ansvrerlns: the Cnll Patrolman Morgan Was Injnred. The bicycle police and detectives were called to Ed T. Smith's fish market at 135 North Illinois street at 6:25 o'clock yesterday evening to investigate a supposed safe blowing. When they arrived they found that the safe had been opened or left open and 53G In paper money was gone. An entrance had been effected by the burglar through a rear window. Two of the clerks were in the store at 4 o'clock in the afternoon to get some oysters for a colored man and say everything was In order when they were there. The police have no clew to the burglar. While going to the store Picycle Policeman William Morgan was knocked from his wheel in a collision with another bicvcllst and was badly hurt for a short time. A wheelman dashed out of the alley east of the Fletcher Bank building as the blcyclo policemen were coming west on Washington street and Morgan ran over the wheelman. He was thrown headlong, striking his head on the pavement with great force. For a time he seemed dazed and was walked back to the police station, where his head was dressed In the Dispensary. The wheelman scrambled up after the collision, mounted his bicycle and was pedaling around the corner into Virginia avenue before the police could see who he was. LAUNDRYMEN OF THE STATE. Annual 3IeetlnK of the AMNoclntlon AV1U li Heltl To-Day. Laundrymen from different parts of the State began arriving in the city yesterday to attend the annual meeting of the Laun- - -III ItA V- . M r. w. -9 n . . A new 3 Piano for tlw at Wulachner.

liiet vt in 1 . ' i -1 ij-.nxy out, io-uioirUW at the. Bates. C. E. McKcrn, of Tcrre Haute, is president of the association and Arthur Irwin, of the same city, is secretary. It Is expected that seventy-five or more laundrymen will attend the meeting. Major Taylor, of this city, who is r member of the association, said yesterday that these annual meetings never fix prices. The laundrymen meet for general information and to exchange views as to methods for mrrvinar rm thA work

MADE THE ROUNDS

CAitnin nation nscoiiTnn HOOTING MEN AND HOYS. II Y' Wo Stont lierr Cnrdrn nnil Other LIqnor Dlpensnrie Visited by the Kiinfiim Crusader. LECTURE POORLY ATTENDED PA I LP RE FI103I ORATORICAL AND FINANCIAL POINTS OF VIEW. The Anti-Liquor Evangelist Creates n Stir About the Dcnhun in the Early Moruln? Hours. Followed by an irreverent crowd of men and boys, who pushed and jostled her until she was completely worn out, Mrs. Nation, after having talked the greater part of two hours at Tomllnson Hall, last night made a round of visits to various saloons lr. the city, where she exhorted the proprietors, amused the ever-increasing crowd, and finally wound up at the Denlson Hotel long after midnight. ' Mrs. Nation left Tomlmson Hall by the side entrance and accompanied by Edward Clark and a few newspaper reporters, she immediately started for the Bates Inn saloon in the alley across from the Bates House, but having no conection with that hostelry. The proprietor of the place had been informed of Mrs. Nation's approach, and when she arrived she found the saloon closed up tighter than a drum. It was then suggested that she pay a visit to the saloon of Wesley Stout, at 13Ö Market street, and Mrs. Nation at once agreed to go. When she was piloted toward the Stout saloon the crowd following was swelled to enormous proportions, and it was with difficulty that she was able to get near the resort. It was necessary to take her In at the rear door, where she was met by Stout and escorted to the front door of the restaurant, which is run in connection with the saloon in the room Just west of the saloon. The crowd on the outside grew larger every moment and there were many women in the throng. Men. and boys ran from all directions, as if there had been a serious accident or a fire. MADE A "SPEECH." "When the men and boys caught sight of the leader of the hatchet brigade through the dirty windows in the badly lighted restaurant, which was full of tobacco smoke, they called for her to make her appearance and crowded closely to the doors. Stout opened the door shortly and placed a chair in the entrance and aided her to mount it. She faced the crowd and there was a mingling of cheers and jeers that could be heard several blocks away. During her talk to the boys, as she termed them, her little black bonnet became obstreperous and fell forward on her face several times, acting as a sort of muxzle. She did not stop talking, however, during these accidents, but the small wags In the crowd called to her to stop talking through her bonnet. About one-tenth of those in the crowd were attentive and respectful, but the others seemed to take the speech and her actions as a huge Joke for them to jeer at. On arising to the chair Ehe succeeded in commanding attention at once, although it was broken numerous times throughout her talk when men tried to attract Stout's attention and made jokes of her utterances. Stout told the crowd to be quiet and Mrs. Nation would make a speech, and she then began weird movements with her hands as a substitute for graceful gestures, and in part said: "Yes, I want you to be quiet, boys, for I have something to say to you. When I was on the train coming to Indianapolis I made up my mind that I wanted to see behind the screens in this city and see the bad that is going on. A gentleman on the train told me that if I wanted to see such life I must go to West Stout's place, and here I am. Jeers and laughter. Since arriving her I have been under contract with the bureau and I was not permitted to make speeches until after concluding my lecture, but that lecture is over and I am going to do as I please. "WANTS TO SMASH. "It is my mission to go to the lost and Jesus tells me to go among the evil people. He says if I can't get men loose from the liquor habit to smash them loose. I want to smash all places selling liquor." At this point Stout offered to open the door of his saloon, but Mrs. Nation only smiled and continued her oft-Interrupted remarks. "It is less harm to go stealing," she continued, "than It is to sell whisky. These poor boys will be sent to hell and I don't want them to go to hell. I shall show them that they shall not go to hell before my eyes. That was why I took my hatchet and went to smashing. I got enough out of it to pay me for my whippings and black eye and then I got in Jail. But what is a jail? "The Ixsrd never Intended that "Wes Stout should run a saloon." Then turning to Stout she continued: "Tou are too nice a looking man to do this for you are better loking than any preacher I have yet seen in Indianapolis. Stout is doing what the devil wants him to do or he wouldn't be selling whisky to men." Some one interposed an objection to this remark and said that Stout was an honest horseshoer and Mrs. Nation continued: "Well, if he earned money by the sweat of his brow the Lord would forgive him, but he doesn't do it. He sells that awful liquor. The saloon business is the lowest and meanest business a man ever engaged in. I have my hatchet and I will chop at the tree, chopping off the branches first and then will kill the tree before I quit." Mrs. Nation then grew serious and tried to sing a 6ong, but when her musical chords crossed on a high C she spoke the rest of the lines. "You had better cut a man's throat," she continued, "than sell him liquor. Jesus is looking at me now and says I am the light of the world. He told me to go to Wes Stout's saloon as Stout is a bad brother in a bad business. BIG CROWD PRESENT. By the time Mrs. Nation had concluded her remarks the street in front of the Stout place was simply congested with people, and it was with the greatest difficulty that Mrs. Nation could force her way through the crowd. When the party arrived in front of the Sentinel office an attempt was made to get rid of the crowd by taking Mrs. Nation through the front door, which was immediately closed behind her, and then taking her out the back way into the alley. Dut the crowd was cognizant of the ruse and when Mrs. Nation came out the back door into the alley the crowd was waiting for her. She seemed to enjoy the fact that she had been discovered and cordially Invited the whole crowd to accompany her. Without any warning she dropped Into the Press saloon, where her sudden appearance with the big crowd at her back so startled the barkeeper that he was speechless for at least five minutes. A man was Just drinking a glass of beer as Mrs. Nation entered and he became so frightened that he dropped the glass when It was but halT way to his lips, and taking to his heels disappeared in the crowd before Mrs. Nation had time to accost him. Mrs. Nation was not to be denied, however, and she harangued the unfortunate barkeeper on his ungodly business for more than a quarter of an hour. Leaving the place. Mrs. Nation next made her way into the Bernauer saloon, whre, having evidently been posted, she inquired In a loud voice the name and business of the proprietor. When Informed by the bartender that Bernauer whs a councilman Mrs. Nation exclaimed at the top of her voice: "You're rl-ht; he is the devil's own councilman, and it's a pretty business for fcim tt be in to be running- his saloon open

on Sunday and occupying tho position, he

does." ORDERED AND DRANK BEER. While Mrs. Nation was talking two or three of the gang that surrounded her. wishing to show their bravado, ordered and drank beer in her presence, and not withstanding that several of the better sort asked them to desist persisted until their glasses were empty. Mr. Clark made persistent efforts to get Mrs. Nation to go to the hotel, but she absolutely refused to listen to htm, and before retiring for the nicht she visited Monninger's saloon. at the corner of Ohio and Illinois, and Ostendorf's saloon, In the alley back of the English Hotel. In the latter place Mrs. Nation was just a moment too late to get into tho saloon troner. as the door was almost shut in hrr face. It was a glass door, however, and Mrs. Nation could plain ly see two or three young women seau a on the inside at the tables. She called to them through the door, begging them to come out of the hell hole of .sin and begin a new life. But those on the Inside turned deaf ears to her entreaties and she was linallv forced to go away without accomr.lishing her nurnose. After making a vain effort to get into the rear of Henry Smith's cafe Mrs. Nation finally neaaea ror ine hotel, the crowd following ntr to the very door. Before passing In she bade all of those nresent an affectionate good night and the crowd, though somewhat disappointed because she had done no smashing. responded witn a cheer. THE LECTURE A FROST. A Small Amllcnce nt Tomllnson Hnll to ller.r Carrie Nation. The attempt of Mrs. Carrie Nation to give a Sunday night lecture for an admission fee in Indianapolis in the face of the op position of religious and temperance people of the city was a miserable failure in Tomlinson Hall last night, wncn tne veteran hatchet-wlelder of wild and woolly Kansas came upon the platform at a few minutes after 8 o'clock, she found no one there to greet her,' to shake her hand or to present her to the audience, to whom she was practically a stranger. Turning to the audience, or rather the rlace where the audience should have been, Mrs. Nation was confronted with row upon row of empty chairs, extending almost to the rear of the hall. At a point near the exits were a few rows of chairs filled with people. The balcony was almost as barren of spectators as the lower floor, but there was a fairsized group in the gallery, where the price of admission was at the minimum. "Come up front, people," begged the grey-haired female crusader, "I can't talk to empty benches." With a rush the handful of people in the rear of the auditorium pressed to seats near the stage and when they were massed together it could be seen that there were about three hundred in the audience. A woman dressed in mourning and carrying an Infant went to the rostrum and took a chair near the lecturer, Other women followed quickly, and then a number of long-haired men, emboldened by the example of the women, took places on the platform. Several men with hair trimmed in a rational manner lent the aid of their presence to form a motley and striking picture of which the pudgy little hatchet-wlelder was the center. INTRODUCED HERSELF. Mrs. Nation introduced herself after the manner of a noted orator, now dead, of whom she did not speak the kindliest words in her talk. The meeting was opened With singing of the doxology by the audience, led by M. E. Rice, of this city, with Mrs. Nation waving her hands encouragingly to the audience. Prayer was offered by Rev. L. C. Masters, a clergyman from Muncie. The crusader then appealed to Mr. Rice to sing a song, Eaying that she could always talk better after listening to a little music. Mr. Rice granted the request by giving a parody on "Where Is My Wandering Boy TonIght?" entitled "Downin the Licensed Saloon." Mrs. Nation very candidly admitted that she Is not a lecturer and that she has not the faculty of stringing together big words. She said her great dependence was in the Bible. "Sometimes I get so hungry to read that precious book that I just run from my werk to get down my Bible and begin reading it." The lecture or talk was in the nature of a Bible reading, interspersed with characteristic remarks suggested either by the verse just read or by some momentary mental process of the speaker. At the outset of her talk she began to read from the 23d chapter of Jerendah, but immediately digressed to say that she had once been a washer of dishes and an osteopathic treater. but that the Lord took her from that kind of work to engage in the temperance crusade. Some of Mrs. Nation's characteristic sayings were: "Christian science is the devil's own doctrine, it is a sidetrack. 'How do you know?' I am asked, and I says, 'this is a sure indication, whenever any kind of isms that you have has to be established by another set of books outside of the Bible, you can safely say it is a heresy from hell, a device of the devil's to lead reople from the old tracks.' " WAY FOR MEN TO SPEAK. "Let men speak 13 they are Inspired by God, and not as Ingersoll or as Mrs. Eddy or other people of that kind, employed by the devil. "The saloon Is the direct enemy of the home, it drains the home. That is the reason why it lives. It lives that others may die, and if others don't die it can't live. Well,' I says, 'here Is one that won't live where there i3 a licensed saloon; I will not live where there is an open saloon. I said, You die or I file, one or the other,' and I have made my words good. Laughter and applause. This liquor traffic is right at the door of the church. I believe there are as many devils in the rulplt now as there are ambassadors of Christ. I have seen this temperance work held back and restrained right in Kansas, in Wichita, the women would have gone forward there and would have swept these hell gates away, but the preachers said, 'Peace, peace,' when there was no peace, and they held it back right in Topeka and we had to burst the bonds there and leave the preachers in the rear The saloon keepers said 'riot!' and the preachers said riot! the saloon lepers ?aid 'law breaking' and tho preachers said 'law breaking;' the saloon keepers and the preachers said 'malicious destruction of property when It was destruction of malic ious property. Great laughter and ap plause. "I would have done some smashing here to-day I couldn't have helped it but I knew you would put me in Jail here If I did and I didn't want my bondsmen to lose their money. I am out on 52,000 bond now to keep the peace and I have five trials to fuce in Kansas, and that Is the reason why I did not do some smashing, but I am going to do with my might what my hands find to do. Laughter and applause. "If you can't drive a man out of his evil ways, just do a little smashing and you will nnd that he will begin to think. "Our Savior was not the seed of a man. but the seed of a woman. He got His hu inanity from a woman and His divinity from God. CANDIDATE FOR AUDUBON HONORS "How I hate to see a woman advertise a cruel disposition by putting a dead bird and the wings of corpses on their bonnets. Laughter and applause. It don't look good. I say, that feather looks a good deal better on the rooster's tall and on the bird that files in the clouds than on a woman's bonnet. A fashionably dressed woman is cne of the most hateful things In the world to me. Why, she Is like a mannlkln to hang the fashions of the day on. That is all he is. O' woman, don't do that. The devil makes fashions, and don t run after him. "Vhen Jesus was here on earth there was not one woman that ever said a word against Him. "We havo washed your dirty clothes many a time and cleaned up your dirty spittoons and cleaned up after you vomited when you came home on a spree. Now let us clean up after you at the polls. "A vote Is the best kind of a smasher that you can find, but I didn't have that. und so I had to try some other kind of a miashfr, and I believe I have accomplished more with my kind of a smasher than yoa men have with yours. "If all hell was to gtt together and have a conference and devise the easiest way of tilling its vaults. It would select the liquor traffic. It could not have a consolidation cf all the meanness and baseness In hell or in earth that would t-o accomplish its purpose as this liquor tranic. "There is nothing in the world that the devil wants you to do so much as to pro fusa religion and then keep in your place O yes, wants yo i to profess religion, wants

you to profess holiness, 'but just let me alone.' A great many of tbese preachers say, 'Moral suasion, moral suasion.' 'No.

I says, 'Mr. Devil, thank you, 1 have used moral suasion enoueh.' I said, 'there is one thing the devil hasn't got a corner on. and that Is a hatchet.' I exhausted every other resource, but I believe In the perseverance of the saints, and I don't believe that any ralnt gets to heaven without persevering to the end. POPULAR FROM JAIL LIFE. "I never was as popular in all my life. Really, I never did amount to anything until I got in Jail laughter and applause, I never got the reople to hear me before. "They have got a brass band at my home, and they have got everything fixed up to give me a big ovation, and they are ready to iisht for me, these very people that used to tell me It was none of my damned business what they did. "I would not go with a man who would chew tobacco and spit amber. "There is nothing, in this world so mag nificent as an honest, clean, pure man, and there is nothing in the world so sweet as the heart of a woman filled with the grace of God. lApplause. Don't you want that kind of a woman for your wife? Yes. you do. Don't you want that kind of a woman to be the mother of your children? Yes. vou do. What do you want? Do you want a drunken bloat of a husband to bring children into the world that you have to sit and nurse their eccentricities, for a man Instills into his offspring his own detects "The ministers nowadays taue jubt a mtle bit of n. text, and they preach from it. nnd thpv rirrnrh so far from it that I don't jest see any connection between it and the word of God. Laughter and appnuse.j "What made me smash? uecause x ioe these people so well that I can't bear to see them tumbled over into hell. 1 have a very kindly feeling for these saloon men. Therp Is a worse nliee than the saloon, and that is the hypocrites in the corners of the 1 churches. These hypocrites in me cnurcu pull men down. "The man that stands behind the bar is just as good as the man that votes him there arplause, and a great tieai Dencr than a church member that will vote for a saloon. I will take the chance of a saloon man every time before I will a church member that votes to have an open saioon. I don't want to go to a hypocrites' hell. DEVIL MIGHTY WISE. "The devil is mighty wise. He likes mirrors In saloons, because they make a drinker think he has plenty of company. I hate a mirror, that is, In a saloon. If n drunkard has another man with him he looks in the mirror and thinks there are four of them. T think if you men of Indianapolis can be saved by a little smashing the women ought to do a little smashing." Mrs. Nation gesticulated with her spec tacles, which she held in her hand, con stantly, except when reading from her flexible-backed Bible. She ridiculed a lawyer for boasting of his knowledge of the Bible and at the same time pronouncing the name of the book of Job as if it wero the word which means a situation, in a snort time she caused a guffaw of laughter by herself giving out the ludicrous pronunciation "brlc-a-braw." She created no, llttlo amusement by relating the inci dent of a woman striking her in the eye with her hand and causing the optic to remain black and blue for several weeks. 'I walked into a butcher shop close by, ' said the lecturer, "got a piece of meat, tied it on my eye, and then went back to my smashing." At another stage of her desultory talk she narrated the story of her trip to Kiowa, Kan., last December her first smashing expedition, asserting that the Lord told her to go. "I told my husband I was going to stay all night at Springer s house, and I did Intend to do it, but I had a pretty good trotting horse, and when he got to Springer's gate he just kept on -going, and I said: 'V ell, if the Lord wants 'Cu to go on, why, just go on.' and I kept on till I got to Kiowa, twenty-four miles distant." She continued to narrate the smashing of three saloons In Kiowa, and said triumphantly that the sheriff consulted the best lawyers In the town and then told hr she could go home. And now there ain't a saloon in that county," cried the temperance enthusiast. This statement was received with hearty applause. In fact, the frequence of such outbursts, and their heartiness Indicated that a large portion of the audience was in thorough sympathy with the crusader. MANNER OF DISMISSAL. Her manner of dismissing the audience was characteristic. She said: "I will dis miss this congregation by saying 'God bless ycu. Pray for Carrie Nation.' " Mr. Rice sang "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus," and the meeting came to an end. Mrs. Nation passed a few minutes In shaking hands with people who crowded to tho platform, but it was soon apparent that she was eager for "the fray," and with her peculiar suddenness she left her sympathizers stand ing gaping at her while she scurried down stairs and bundled Into a carriage, which set off at once for Wes Stout's resort on West Market street, followed by a crowd of newspaper men and curiously inclined citizens almost as great as that which heard the lecture. Messrs. Myers and Zeigler, of the Grand Opera House, who broughi Mrs. Nation to Indianapolis for last nights paid lecture. are evidently financial losers to a consid erable sum. as they have repeatedly stat ed -that Mrs. Nation was to receive a cer tain sum regardless of the amount that might be collected at tho door. These gentlemen also nave to defray the cost of advertising the event and the rent of the hall. Mr. Myers was confined to his room in the Denlson Hotel by illness last night, and was represented by his associate in the venture, Mr. Schäfer Zeigler, auditor of the Grand Opera House, who looked very blue over the disastrous outcome of their fondly cherished project. Rev. Mr. Masters, the minister who opened the meeting, said at its close: "I am in doubt as to the wisdom of making this lecture take place on a Sunday night." OBJECTED TO NUDE FICTUHES. Mrs. Nation Tears Abont the Denlson nt an Early Hour. Carrie Nation passed a restless night Saturday night. She was in deep mental straits, because she had given out that she would be good during her stay In Indianapolis and refrain from doing any smashing, and some insidious tempter had whispered in her ear that in the Casino, which 13 a dispensary of liquid refreshments attached to the Denlson Hotel, there were nude pictures. "Nude pictures In this very hotel In which I am trying to sleep! Horrible! Horrible!" These were the reflections that kept ringing through the active Nation brain all night long. Finally, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, the weight of her horrible secret became past all bearing. Leaping from her down couch in Room 1?1, on the third floor of the Denlson, she grabbed her simple wearing apparel. donned each article one after the other with lightning-like rapidity, and, without bestowing a glance into the mirror to see If her "topknot" was on straight or awry, dashed down the stairs into the hotel office. "I demand to be shown into your bar room, she said, with a look of determination on her severely plain features and fire flashing from her beadlike eyes. The command was given instant obedience. "What the deuce is a fellow to do when a whole Nation orders him about?" ejaculated Clerk Schuessler after the affair had quieted down. PICTURES SHOCKED HER. There were no customers In the Casino when the saloon destroyer entered the room, nor were there any signs of llquar having been sold over the bar recently. This was greatly pleasing to the heart of the female crusader. But when her eyes fell upon the classic pictures of "The Nymph in the Wood" and "Potiphar'a Wife," which cost X2,(fO apiece, her eyes fairly flashed fire and her indignation knew no bounds. "To think," she snapped, "that I have been staying in a plice where such infamous pictures are exhibited to arouse the baser passions of men! I will not eat another mouthful until those pictures are taken away. And if they are not removed I will smash them with a cuspidor." Mrs. Nation called for the proprietor of the hotel, but neither Mr. Jackson, Mr. Fulwell nor Mr. Crist, who are Joint owners of the hostelry, are in the habit of leaving their beds at such an unseemly hour, and the "Kansas Hurricane" was compelled to await In patience their coming to the hotel. When the three proprietors arrived they were filled with consternation to learn that Mrs. Nation wa "on tht rampage." Mr. Fulwell at once sought an audience with tho irate old woman and

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of the house had heard from her lip sev eral hours previously. "But. madatr.r. said Mr. Fulwell in his suave manner. "those paintings are of the same kind that you will find on exhibition in art ston about the city and also hanging on the walls of many private homes. They ar not obseene pictures, but costly oil paintings of classical subjects." "They are vile, utterly vile." jerked out the crusader, "and must be removed or f will not eat a mouthful in your house. I have not had my breakfast yet. and will not have it until those pictures are taken away. THE COMPROMISE. The three proprietors held a consultation. and finally evolved a happy scheme. Again Mr. Fulwell proceeded to the door of Room 1?1, and, gaining entrance, said: "Mrs. Na tion, will it satisfy you if we have tho:'e objectionable paintings covered with canvas while you stay here?" To Mr. Fulwell's surprise the energetic little woman assented to this proposition, but Insisted upon accompanying the men and seeing with her own eyes that the pictures really were covered. When the saloon smasher and the party of gentlemen entered tlv Casino to cover the paintings a crowd of perhaps three or four hundred people had assembled in front of the saloon, drawn there by the report that Mrs. Nation was going to do a little smashing in Indianap olis. "Vou people have come here to get liquor to drink." she said, addressing the crowd after she bad seen the hateful pictures covered with a double-thickness of canvas. "Oh, indeed, madame. you are mistaken," hastily interposed Mr. Jackson, "they have only come here out of curiosity to see you. We do not violate the law by selling liquor here on Sunday." Turning again to the crowd. Mrs. Nation proceeded to deliver to the men and boys one of her stereotype harangues on th. evil of the use of intoxicating liquors and tobacco. So vigorous was her denunciation of smoking that one man remarked: "Why, the old lady seems to think it is a blamed sight worse to smoke than it is to get drunk, doesn't she?" "Will Lecture To-Night. Mrs. Nation will lecture at the Shiloh Baptist Church. West and Walnut streets, at 6 o'clock. An admission will be charged. EDWARD THOMPSON SHOT A CIt AND HOTEL WAITER GOT INTO TROUBLE AT SEYMOUR. Alonro Ilnrris Accused II Im of Heine Too Atlcntlve to Mrs. Harris Woninn Also Shot. Edward Thompson, a young colored man who has been employed at the Grand Hotel as a waiter, got off the J., M. & I. midnight train In the Union Station last night with a fresh bullet wound In his left shoulder. Thompson received the wound at Seymour yesterday evening In the Panhandle passenger depot. His assailant was Alonzo Harris, also colored, who lives at Seymour. The trouble was caused by Thompson's alleged attentions to Harris's wife. The story which came from Seymour relative to the trouble is to the effect that Harris suspected that Thompson was coming down from Indianapolis on the evening train, and that Mrs. Harris was to meet him at the station. The train from Indianapolis was due to arrive at 5:3C, and was about on time. Mrs. Harris was In the waiting room when tho train arrived, and her husband was watching outside. Thompson alighted from the train and passed into the waiting room. When he and Mrs. Harris met they greeted each other affectionately. As he embraced Mrs. Harris her husband appeared and began to shoot. He fired three shots from his revolver. One of the bullets struck Thompson in the left shoulder, another struck Mrs. Harris in the arm and the third went wild and did no harm. Many people were in tho waiting room at the time and there was much excitement. Thompson was looked after by a physician and Harris was soon afterward arrested by A. W. Mills, mayor of Seymour, who happened to be across the street when the shooting occurred. Thompson was able to return to the city on the train which arrives here about midnight. The bullet was still in his shoulder. Thompson said last night that he had started for West Baden and did not intend stopping at Seymour. He would not say that he had arranged for Mrs. Harris to meet him. He said the woman spent part of the winter in this city and he had understood that she and her husband were separated. Thompson has been married, but his wife is dead. Mrs. Harris has been employed in the family of George F. Schäfer, of Seymour. Her husband is the son of a colored minister at Seymour. NO SELECTION MADE. Meeting of the Reform Scllool Hoard of Control. The board of control of the Reform School for Boys did not appoint a superintendent at its meeting Saturday night. The board appointed J. P. Moran, assistant superintendent of the school, to act temporarily in the place of Mr. Charlton, who has resigned. There will probably be another meeting of the board next Friday or Saturdaj', ,and it is probable that an appointment' will bo made at that meeting. The feeling prevails at Plalnfleld that E. E. Y'ork will be. selected by the board to take Mr. Charlton's place. AGAINST JUNK DEALERS. "Warrants for Sixty Tlaced in the Hnndfl of the Police to Serve. The promised fight of the Junk dealers against the new ordinance requiring: licenses will now be Instituted If the organization intends to do anything. Last night warrants against sixty Junk dealer were given to the police for service. The affidavits charge violations of the ordinance in conducting the business without license. The Junk dealers, who claim the license named by the ordinance U too high, have combined, and, it is understood, have considerable money in a common fund to fight the cases. Spiritualistic Anntvemnry. The members of the First Spiritualistt Church celebrated the fifty-third anniver sary of modern spiritualism last night with appropriate exercises at their church. Mrs. Amanda Coffman was the speaker and srave delineations. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers and designs. NextJ Sunday Dr. Schlisserger. of Colorado, will lecture, which will b the first of a series of lectures. FIRST CINCINNATI KXC.LHSIO.X, Snnilfl)', April 7th, Via BlK Four Honte. 9 1. 2511 o nnd Trip Special fast train. Leaves Indianapolis Union Station 7 a. m. Returning leaves Cincinnati 7 p. m. I., d. A W. Sleeping and Chair Cars Between Indianapolis and Quincy. I1L Feed your horse JANES'S Dustless Oats. Franlc Saak's Greenhouse For EHer flowers. Old 'ihone 2d, new 'phone 3142. Zi't St. Jotrh. Ufte "tt'hlte Line Wsh!ne; Powder for houee clranln; lar sliw packages, &c. at grocers.

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