Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1902 — Page 7

TITK IXDTAXAPOI.TS JOURXAI,. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. 1002.

THE CITY AND GAMBLING

MAYOR, CAIT. i:CSLlMll AMI POLICi: m ri:inTi:M)nT cosfi:ii. The l'nrinrr Tlilnk Police Are iJoInjc Thrlr Duty Park Ilonrel Heors;nn-Izrs-Municipal Affair. Mayor Hook waiter said yesterday afternoon, after a lengthy conference with Superintendent of Tolice Taffe, that he is perfectly satisfied with the manner in which the police? department Is being conducted and that he Is convinced that no favoritism i? being shown any gamblers by officers of the force. The mayor refuses to be swayed by the oft-repeated agitation stirred up In certain quarters as to the prevalence of gambling and alleged closing of eyes of detectives to wholesale selling of policy tickets. "While demanding absolutely that the police shall Fhow no favoritism and arrest policy players, ticket sellers and keepers of gam?, as we.ll as gamblers of all kind., wherever found, the mayor does not think that censure of anybody is in order. On that point he intimates that Capt. William K. English, president of the Hoard of Safety, and himself are In perfect accord. Captain English talked to the mayor yesterday afternoon while Superintendent Taffe was with him. Captain English stated that as long as he is a member of the board constant effort must be made to eliminate all forms of gambling; that he would Insist on an active campaign by his subordinates. The mayor agreed and spoke particularly In reference to policy. Superintendent Taffe referred to the fact that his men were constantly making arrests, but that the rub came when it was attempted to Fecure convictions. For an officer to at.'h a policy player is like sending a belled cat to nab a mouse. All patrolmen and detectives are known by sight and their appearance is the signal for a scattcrment. In regard to the reports which have been spread as to his intention to resign soon from the Joard of Safety, Captain English said yesterday that he had not deckled when he would sever his connection with the board. It will be a matter for events of the future to decide, he said. pauk iioAitn iti:r!t(;.Mzi:s. Charte IL Coffin In Elected President Central-Avenue Iloulevnrd. The Hoard of Pari; Commissioners held Its annual reorganization meeting yesterday and Charles E. Coffin, on motion of the retiring president. Col. M. A. Downing, vas made president of the board for l'JO'J. Hert Fcibleman was re-elecUd secretary of the board for another year and thanked for tfiiclent service. The board asked J. Clyde Power, superintendent of parks, to have a survey prepared of Fall creek, from Central avenue to the fair grounds, in order that the route of the proposed Fall creek boulevard may he presented to the board In tangible shape. It is stated that the board will take no action on the boulevard question for some time, but wishes to have a survey available when the time comes to go ahead with the driveway. The board sent a notice to the Board of "Works that it wants Thirty-eighth street opened from Northwestern avenue to .Myers's free gravel road, across river. A considerable amount of routine easiness was transacted. Ilids were received from the Consolidated Coal Company and A. I J. Meyer & Co. for furnishing ten carloads of coal to Garfield Park. A. B. Meyer & Co. got the contract on a bid of $2.50 per ton. The engineer was ordered to renew the telephone contracts with the- old and new companies, to prepare specifications for a new steam roller and for 'additional roadways in Brookslde Park. Controller Breunlg was notified that money is needed to pay for the handsome new shelter house erected at (arfield Park, and he is asked to Introduce an ordinance Into Council asking for a transfer of funds amounting to FAILS TO ET SI PPOHT. Councilman Sonrliier Will Temporär lly WlthelrntT 111 Ordinance. Councilman Sourbier says that members cf the Retail Grocerymen's Association are not backing him In his endeavor to have the small dealers in staples removed from the main markethouse. He prepared an ordinance recently which would have made It Illegal for grocery keepers and dealers in staples to do business in the markethouse and was promised assistance from the association. Now he says grocerymen are becoming scared because petitions are being circulated in favor of retaining the staple lealers in the markethouse. They are advising Mm to withdraw the measure. Mr. Sourbier says he will not withdraw It permanently, but it will not be introduced, as at Krst contemplated, at the next meeting of Council. Mr. Sourbier will present his ordinance requiring theater managers anil managers cf public houses of entertainment to proVide plainly-marked places of exit for the public. It will rquire also that firemen be stationed at the theaters each night a performance is given. It also provides that the number of tickets sold shall be limited to the seating capacity of the house. Councilman Eppert stated yesterday that his annexation ordinance providing for the taking In of a good-sized piece of territory between Fall creek and Thirtv-fourth street will be introduced next Monday night. To rrotect School Children. Some time ago School Commissioner Moores appeared before the Board of Works and urged that It order the opening of Sheldon street across the Belt Railroad and also the constriction of a footbridge across the State ditch. Mr. Moores declared to the board that hundreds of children attending the Washington school were exposed to constant danger in crossing the tracks at the Belt, near the present end of Sheldon street, and that the street should be opened. The board yesterday took action on Mr. Moorcs's request and ordered the city engineer to prepare necessary papers. Papers were also ordered for the opening of Valley avenue, under the tracks of the Big Four Railway. A subway will be constructed. Sewer nirt Cnne Annnynnee. Piled-up dirt from the new Michigantreet sewer, lying near the tricks of the street-car company, has furnished a cause for endless complaint from the patrons of the line to the Board of Works. In wet weather the dirt becomes sticky mud several Inches deep, and the consequent annoyance may be Imagined. Yesterday the board ordered the company and the sewer contractor to remove the dirt, the expense of removal to be shared equally. After a conference with the mayor. Vice President Jones also agreed to put owl cars on the North Illinois-street and Brightwood lines. Service every hour and fifteen minutes will be given. Härtel Invited to n Smoker. The Manufacturers Club of Indianapolis will meet next Wednesday night, Jan. S. In the assembly room of the Commercial Clbb to discuss the problem of smoke prevention and has invited Building Infrector Samuel G. Härtel to attend the meeting. The clab will banquet at S:.T0 In the evening In the dining room of the club, and talks on smoke prevention w'ill be had later. Mr. Bartel probably will attend the meeting, and may l called upon for a talk on the matter under discuslon. Council Finance Committee. City Clerk Elliott yesterday announced that a meeting of the Council committer on finance will take place next Monday evening. Immediately preceding the regular meeting of Council. Sevetal minor ordinances will be considered. Councilman Wynne' Ordinance. Councilman Thomas A. Wynne is considering the Introduction of an ordinance which will indirectly increase the efticienev

of the fire service. His ordinance will make It unlawful for any wagon or vehicle to fall to get out of the way on the approach of tire apparatus going to a fire. Numerous delays and several accidents have resulted from the failure In the past to obey an unwritten law as to the right of way of the apparatus. Addition to Cltr Ennlneer' Force. Through the Board of Works the mayor yesterday made the following appointments: Rodman in the' office of city engineer, David Springer, of the Ninth ward; Inspector in the office of city engineer, Walter Durbln, of the Eleventh ward; transit man In the same office. Newman Allen, of the Ninth ward: inspector in the same oftie, John C. Chi. These appointments practically exhaust the list of places to be filled through the Hoard of Works. HOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE. ASSESSMENT ROLES APPROVED. For local sewer in first alley north of New York street, from Oriental street to first allev west of Arsenal avenue and from New York street to Vermont street. For cement walk and curb on south side

of St. Clair street, from Senate avenue to West street. PRIMARY ASSESSMENT ROLL APPROVED. For local sewer In first alley south of Thirteenth street, from Brooks street to West street. PAPERS ORDERED. For the vacation of Marcy avenue, from Twenty-fifth street to Twenty-seventh street. For the opening of Valley avenue tinder the C, C. C. & St. L. tracks between Rural street and. Nevada street. For the opening of Sheldon street across the Belt Railroad tracks. PETITIONS FILED. For private driveway across the sidewalk on Central avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. For grading alley north of Minnesota street adjacent to 1229 and 1227 Swift street. For rescinding all action on I. R. 2TS, 1901, and passage of resolution for stone curb, cement walks next to curb four feet wide. BOND APPROVED. Of J. K. Cooper & Co. for local sewer in alleys north and south of Sanders street, from East street to Edgewood street; amount. $4.25; sureties, John W. Cooper and Hugh J. Drummond. TEUM1T FOR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY. To Albert M. Cole across sidewalk at Twenty-first and Delaware streets. FINAL ROLL APPROVED. For vacation of five feet off each sideof Vermont street, from "Warman avenue to King avenue. DOUBLE TRACK DESIRED 3i Kim of Tin: first waiid improvement cllil Hoard of Work Will He ALed to Innlst Vpon Better Street-Car Serrlce for IlrlKlitTOod. The system of operating the Brightwood street-car line was given some very hard raps last night by members of the First Ward Improvement Club. The club met in the office of Albert Thayer, 1714 Hillside avenue. The executive committee at the last meeting of the club was authorized to prepare resolutions asking for a betterment of the street-car service. The committee made its report last night. It asked that a double track be laid from Columbia avenue to "Winter avenue, with switches from Winter avenue to Brightwood. Another suggestion was that the street-car company put on trailers to the motors from 5:30 a. m. till 7 a. m. and from 4:30 p. m. until 7 p. m. On market days Tuesday and Thursday the trailer to remain on until noon and on Saturday to remain on all day. These resolutions were adopted by the club. The executive committee was empowered to take the resolutions before the Board of Works next Monday morning at 10 o'clock and demand better street-car service. A number of speeches were made by members when the first section of the resolution was read. Albert Thayer arose and told of his experience wun the Brightwood street cars. He pictured the street cars as though they were cattle trains. "The wine rooms and gambling hells are nothing compared with the street cars of this city, and especially the cars on the Brightwood line," he said. "Young girls are shoved into the cars and are there jostled about by tough men; mothers carrying infants are made to stand up for lack of room." Mr. Thayer was the only one present who cared to air his opinion regarding the system. Mr. Reaves, secretary of the club, moved that the committee Insert In its resolutions that the street-car company put the line on an eight-minute schedule. This motion was carried. Later it was found by one of the members that the club might ask for a sixminute schedule. This amendment was adopted. M. L. Clawson, president of the club, then said that he was In favor of the six-minute schedule as the club might ask for that and If the street-car company was not inclined to give it, a compromise might he reached on an eight-minute schedule. These same tactics he thought misht be pursued in asking for the double tracking of the line. He said that when the club went before the Board of Works Monday morning it should ask for a double track from Columbia avenue to Brightwood. If the company would not do that a compromise might be made on the first proposition. This statement aroused a great deal of feeling from several, of the members, who characterized it as half-hearted-ness. L. D. Bentling was one of the most emphatic in giving his opinion. He thought it was the-duty of the club to deal with business men in a business-like manner and there should be no child's play. Dr. W. R. Johnson, who was the only resident of Brishtwood present, did not take kindly to the first proposition of double tracking the line from Columbia avenue to Winter avenue. He said the residents ol Brightwood were just as eager to get good street-car service as the people who dwelt below the hill. He said it was the duty of the club to look after the interests of all the people of the First ward. Other committees made reports In which petitions from property holders were presented. The club is seeking to have Fern avenue graveled; also the extension of Winter avenue through Parker street. HIGH SCHOOL SENATE. The Attendance Lnree After n TwoWeeks' Recess. The Shortrldge High School Senate met yesterday after a two weeks recess. The gallery was crowded and many former members of the lody were present. After roll call the old "stars" were called on for speeches, and Major Downing, Mary Pratt and Fred Olsen made remarks. The senate then turned its attention to the election of officers, which resulted as follows: President, Senator White (Frank Williams) : vice president. Senator Scott (Ferd Kahn); secretary. Senator Proctor (Herb Wagner); reading clerk. Senator Keene (Ernest Holdson); custodian, Senator Pritchard (Earl lrltehard.) The Chinese bill was read for the third time, after which the committee reported on it. The report stated that It was not advisable to pass the bid. The knock of Mr. Biddy caused the meeting to adjourn before a vote could be taken on the question. The trial of Senator Doboe will begin next Friday. He will be defended by Senators Pritchard and Proctor. Senators Fairbanks and Bacon will prosecute the Kentucky senator. Trniiafern of Real Estnte. Isaac H. Norman yesterday purchased a property of Clinton S. Cunningham on Eitel avenue, near Meridian street, for $2.5.0. The deed was filed yesterday transferring a strip of land adjoining the Atlas engine works from H. II. Hanna to the company for a consideration or Jll.nno. Tho addition is on Hillside avenue and Twenty-first street, and was purchased to increase the yard capacity of the works and for additional .storage facilities. Charles A. Ross has purchased of John M. Bash a property at the corner of Delaware and Twenty-third streets for JJ.buo.

FOR FEMININE READERS

THE SEPARATE I'AXCY WAIST STILL A FEATURE OF FASIIIOX. Dainty Dlshe to Serve nt Luncheons A Distinguished Woman Distasteful Health Foods. One of the distinguishing and perhaps most attractive features in the realm of fashion is that In which the separate fancy waist reigns supreme, says the fashion writer of the New York Post. It stands out by itself more than ever this winter, not in the least new In the sense of a literal novelty, for women have luxuriated in this handsome compromise garment for many seasons past, but so varied in design and combinations of fabric and color, so elegant and fascinating in detail and decorative effect that, a3 a writer recently said of it, "It is like the cultivated perfection of a flower which reveals some new beauty with each successive blossom." It seems to have opened a new and very elastic province for fashion and trade as well, since it has so effectually sundered Itself from tho skirt in the commercial perspective and become a very conspicuous leader among the most costly and elegant day and evening "dress" garments for women. The most beautiful of laces and nets, the finest of silk-wrought diaphanous tissues, the rarest of embroidered silks, satins and velvets are used for these waists, and this winter, when so many protective long wraps are elected for by fashionable women, the airiest and most fragile of textiles are used for the separate waists worn beneath them. Even at fashionable hotels the dining rooms are now filled with women guests arrayed in diaphanous bodices over low-cut silk lining, and after so many years of strict attention to the matter of sensible gowning, even at "dress" functions, the wonder to the spectator of all these present summery effects I how the weaiers in heated apartments subject at times to chilly ventilation draughts manage to escape pneumonia and other Illnesses. There appears to be a revival on all dress occasions of the very delicate gowning of a century ago, but if long persisted in we shall no doubt hear again of "galloping consumption," the dire disease that has been heard little or nothing of since silks, light, beautiful evening wools, velvets and warm, light, protective underwear took the place of the thistle down and zephyr like type of dressing which delighted tor a season the brief lives of so many of our fair ancestors. Fashion has established Norfolk plaits as a salient feature of winter blouses and fancy waists, either with front or back buttonings. One of the new models em bodying this detail is formed of forestgreen Indian cashmere, trimed with silk stitching in a darker Ehade and tiny chased silver buttons. The waist shows applied plaits that taper gradually as they near the belt. The fronts blouse slightly, and the closing Is at the back. The standing collar has narrower turnover points trim med with stitching and buttons, and the bishop sleeves have straight cuffs finished like tho stock. The waist has only a front and back yoke lining. Many fabrics can be used in making these graceful blouses. which are at once comfortable, dressy and very modish, and the most favored textiles are cashmere, Lansdowne. albatross. French and Scotch flannels and peau de soie. All the tendencies of fashion still incline toward the svelte clinging effects in gowning, with little or no means of disguising any defects of figure by former clever ma nipulatlons of drapery. The bodice, howev er, is still the point of vantage as far as elaborate decorations and variety in ar tistic designs are concerned, and surely there was never greater diversity In the modes of trimming." A very similar but still conspicuous feature which is emnha sized among many of the winter toilettes is the dainty guimpe effect in lace or ret which in not a few instances is made deen er than ever before. It extends well down. dividing the bodice nearly in half, so that the lower portion is not much more than a wide corselet. The guimpe extends sllehtlv over the top of the sleeves, the bits of raised applique trimming imparting a sngntiy additional breadth to the shoulders that Is both effective as a garniture and improving to the figure, especially now that bodices are cut somewhat shorter on the shoulders. Dainty- Refreshments. Philadelphia Telegraph. Just now, when all manner of social affairs are to the fore, the housewife is racking her brains for new and appetizing refreshments. Sandwiches are, of course, the pieco do resistance, as one might say, in the refreshment line. Ice cream and cloud-like wisps of egg and sugar in the way of cake are only tantalizing to the man or woman with a keen appetite. But a sand wich is seized with joy and the Inner man is comforted. " Delicious is the chocolate sandwich. Very thin w-afers are spread with a coating of melted chocolate, and then another wafer is put over wnen dry, the completed com pound being both appetizing and sustain ing. Those who arc fond of cincer will likp the ginger and nut sandwich. Have line close-grained bread and slice thin, trimming into fancy shapes If des!re1. Spread lightly with butter and then with a mixture of chopped nuts and preserved ginger, using just enough of the syrun to moisten. From Japan hails a sandwich that has round much ravor wltn lovers of good dining. Chop raw oysters very fine, season with pepper, salt and a little tobasco. Lay on thin, buttered white bread, with a crisp nean-ieai oi leiiuce between. Serve while the lettuce Is fresh. Here is one that would give an appetite to the most confirmed dyspeptic: Chon two good-sized cucumbers fine, add a little onion juice, a dash of red pepper, and as much mayonnaise dressing as will mako it the right consistency. Malaga grapes add a delicious flavor to the following concoction: Take large white grapes, cut lengthwise and slip out the seeds. Slicv nice sour apples and celery very thin. Toss all up In French dressing and spread. A very pretty effect Is given by mixing some mosaic sandwiches among the others For these use white and brown bread. put ting them together with green butter. The butter'is made by lulling spinach, putting It through a sieve, draining as dry as pos sible and seasoning with finely chopped parsley and capers, making it perfectly smooth by beating In creamed butter. While on the subject of entertaining, a hostess may get a suggestion from the pretty cards used at a recent dinner. Beautifully painted In water colors was an empty nest tilted somewhat from its posftlon on a leafless bough. A family of birds was seen flying away from the nest. and in finciful letters under It appeared the words "To let." The cards were much admired, and any one at ail clever with her brush could produce others equally ouaint. As a last word, let me add that candied mint leaves are an appreciated addition to a luncheon or dinner menu. They are sent around at the end of the meal in lieu of mint bonbons or the cordial. A few added to a lemon ice before freezing gives a delicious flavor. A Noted Womnn. New York Tribune. Of the women in Chicago who have at tained prominence outside their local fiel none stands out so conspicuously as Miss Jane Addams, the founder of Hull House and developer of the Social Settlement plan. Her work in this line has been attende with marked success. Miss Addams, who is a native of Illinois, came to Chicago to settle permanently about IS 3, after severa visits to Europe. While abroad she devote her attention to studying the industrial conditions in East I.ondon. It was then that she became Interested In Toy n bee Hall. an experiment to sorten the lot of the world's tollers. She became ambitious to hazard the London plan in Chicago, and out of this resulted the Hull House venture. Miss Addams has held several public posts, having been garbage inspector In the district In which Hull House is located, and one of the women commissioners to the recent Paris exposition, while at present she fills the office of ' postmistress of the pmtal substation In Hull House. Last spring, when lynching of negroes in ti.e South was arousing public feeling in the Vorth, an Indignation meeting, called fcv

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held at the Dearborn Mission. The speakers were prominent white persons. All the other speakers, including senator ..Mason, utnounced the lynchlnss. Much to the surprise of all. Miss Addams emphatically ap proved tne violent punisnmeni ui DiacKs. "Thnso IvnrMncra o ro n fond thine fcT you black people." she said. "The deeds of those negroes in the South merited the punIshmpnt T t."1 vnn cnlorprt rif-onle therp is only one remedy against the violence of the houtnern wnites towara your ureimm down there education. Educate your race, uplift yourselves and there will be no more lynching. Most remarkable to record, the meeting gave warm approval to Miss Addams's ut terances. Fnpnlatnhie llenlth Foods. New York Commercial Advertiser. A mother groans over her efforts to make her family eat the health foods she pro vides and urges upon them. "They received them first," she says, "with a scoffing courtesy that usually at the second offering becomes polite refusal and later open contempt. A certain kind of patented biscuits, warranted to do everything that could be expected from any kind of food for a growing child, was my latest attempt and failure. I offered them to all the family from the eldest down, focussing my effort, after discouragement elsewhere, upon my twelve-year-old boy. Him I coerced into trying the biscuits, and I insisted that one every meal should bo his portion. 'If you can't eat it in the dining room you may take it out to finish at your play.' I finally compromised, and my suspicions should have been awakened by the alacrity with which he accepted the proposition. They were not. however, and it was a genuine blow to find a day or two later behind the door of the basement entrance a neat little pile of my valued biscuits in mute protest against misdirected energy. Health bread and health flour, any of the various cereal substitutes for coffee, and all the rest of the list are detested by us all, and unless the patentees can provide a way to get their products eaten my family will not achieve the digestive salvation that seems to bo within reach, if they were not such heretics." Coins: I p nnil Down Stnlrs. Good Housekeeping. Walking up and down stairs can b made an excellent exercise for developing the muscles of the legs from the hip down and giving a good poise to the body if performed in the correct and easiest way. As usually done, with the body thrown forward at the hips, the heel of the foot constantly striking, the poise of the body is lost and a great strain Is put on the back, tending to increase the nervousness of the housewife. If the body is carried well poised, upright from the hips, the ball of the foot striking the stair first, the knees being flexible, both in ascending and descending, all the good effects are obtained, and if much stair-climbing is done there will be a great difference in the feeling of vitality. Ascending stairs rapidly by springing from the ball of one foot to another forms an excellent means of strengthening the ankles and curing a tendency to flat feet. Odds anil Ends. One is never advised to make a purchase of black corduroy. The fabric has a tendency to look rusty as time tries it. For little girls long, loose-fitting coats of black silk, satin or velvet are popular. These have a broad white lace collar that extends over the shoulders in a cape effect. For a pain In the stomach pour a littlo whisky over a lump of sugar and set fire to it. When the fire has died out eat the sugar before it has had time to cool and while it is as hot as you can bear it. One has almost to sit up nights nowadays to keep one's sleeves In style. The latest Idea is a sleeve broad at the wrist and slashed on tho outside to show either a frill of lace or a puff of some material. Deerskin belts supersede those made of suede, seal and patent leather. Dyed black, dressed with a velvety surface and clasping with a gun-metal buckle, they are the "correct" thing to wear with a flannel waist. Says a mother: "From the glove counter I carried home the hint to Use powder, not In the children's gloves, but their unyielding new stockings. Any house powder will do talcum or corn starch if nothing else is handy and the stocking slips on with the greatest ease." The colonial tie is to be the dress shoe for women this spring. It Is an imitation of the shoe worn by women In the revolutionary period, and follows closely the original type. A conspicuous feature Is-the high flaring leather tongue, which is lined with leather and forms the background for a large buckle. If one wears black, whether from choice or necessity, there Is no textile that looks better in the long run, at least among semidress fabrics, than does fine black drap d'ete or cashmere. A gown of these softly falling materials, perfectly fitted and tastefully trimmed, is never out of place on any ordinary occasion. The New York shops are showing spring and summer silks already. The soft shades of blue, mixed with arabesques of white, seem to be the favorites. Satin-surfaced foulard3 and Oriental silks soft, heavy, lusterless and, in some Instances, corded are also seen. The latter are extremely rich and effective. A good thing to polish windows with is a small hand mop made of scraps of chamois: bits no larger than a silver dollar can be used. String them all together on a piece of strong twine and tie into a bunch. When dirty wash It out, dry and. before using, rub it soft In your hands. The mop Improves with usage. Says the New York Tribune: "Thrifty shoppers will rejoice in the knowledge that after several years of disuse fashion has decreed the return of moire antique and gros grain silks for coats, long wraps, skirts and costumes. These two materials are considered among the best wearing and least expensive of high-class silks." It is said that powdered borax wJ'l take grease 'spots out of woolen goods better than anything else that can be used on short notice. Spread the skirt out, with the spot over a smooth place on the table, and rub the borax Into it with the fingers, allowing it to remain a few minutes, then brush off with a whisk broom. Do this two or three times, or till the spot disappears, and your skirt is ready to wear. ew Year's Resolutions. New York Commercial Advertiser. The only way to make a New Year's resolution with any hope of keeping It and your natural and amiable bearing toward the world Is to adapt J. M. Barrie's recipe for enjoying a day in bed. The fun of staying all day In bed, says that canny Scot, is to begin by saying "I will get up in fifteen minutes." When the fifteen minutes arc up you continue to nap or lounge. But you must not say "I'll stay here all day. How delicious." You must say: "Another half hour and then I'll have to get up." But at the end of the half hour you still rest among the pillows. And so on, tasting your case all day long. And that's the way to make New Year's resolutions. Say "I won't buy bargains, or smoke or drink or rend French novels, or po to problem plays this month." Then at the end of the month renew the threats, and the first thing you know it will be Dec. 31 and you will have passed an exemplary and colorless year. And your stock of egotism won't mount so high as it docs when one makes yearly contracts with one's conscience and abides by them. PnNsiiiK It l'p to Congress. Brooklyn Eagle. Governor Taft favors civil rule for the Philippines and General Chaffee believes in a military government. Congress, which is the competent rulfr under the Supreme Court decision, will take its choice of either or neither. Gaelic Invocation of Pence. Deep peaie I breathe Into you, Ü weariness. lure; O ache, here! Peep pac-e, a soft white dove to you; 1I ieac. a juit rain to you: Deep p;ice, an eMir.c wave to yuu! lK'f p ptMce, re 1 wln i t-f tl." eist from you; Peep pe.u . jrray win ! of th west to you: Ife; fHoe, ilark Tvln'l of the r-rth from you; lvej pt-ace, blue wind of the south to you! IVl i'-ai'(?, put red of thj flanie to you; Io peace, pure white of the rno n to you: Peep pence, pure vreon of the Rras to you: !ep prare, pure brown of the farth t you; Deep pacp. pure pray of the ilew to you; i-ep peace, pure l. lue of the sky to joul le-p pace of tho running wave t y.,u, peep peace rf the fiair.j: air to you. lVtp peace of the quiet irth to you. peep pa e of the .l--;iinK ton s to yci! Prep peat e of the Yell w Shepl'erl to iu, Wp pein e of the Wan i- ring Slu ph r.l"s to you, ltep peace if the Flock of Star to y.u. Peep pea e frmi th Sen of l'e:, to yuu. iK-ep peHce from the heart of Mary to you. Fr, in ISrHijet f the mantle Deep peaic, U-p I race! And with the kindn-r, too. of the Haughty Father. Peace! In the name of the Three who are One, And by the will of the King of the Klemr nts, peace! Peace! From Deirdie Wed and Other Votmu.

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J2 THE SUXDAY-SCIIOOL LESSON. Lemon It Jan. 5, The Quarterly Preview Act i, 1-11. The Book of Acts has been aptly called the Fifth Gospel and the Gospel of the Holy Sririt. It is the sequel to the Gospels and the Introduction to the Eri'tles. It Is the keystone holding up the New Testament In strength and beauty; a rlcUire gallery, presenting a series of subjects sketched by a master hand scenes thrilling, majestic, significant beyond comparison. Luke modestly calls his writing a treatise, a tract- ile makes no essay at systematic exposition. The book is brief twenty-eight scant chapters. It can be easily read in forty-flve minutes. It covers a period of only thirty years. Tet how incomparable its contents! "What sermons! What miracles! What photographic reflections of apostolic life! It has tho witching1 charm of all "origins" and books of Genesis. A book of acts Indeed "a histary of striking deeds'." If for no other reason the fifth part In the New Testament would be of incalculable value because it contains the only original biograrhy, brief as it Is, of t. Paul, by almost universal consent the grandest character of human history, next to the Man of Nazareth himself. Seventeen out of twenty-eight chapters are consumed in the narrative of the conversion and missionary Journeys of Saul of Tarsus. To bo concluded. THE rROMISK OF POWER. An old legend Fays St. Luke was a painter. Whether that be true or not he shows genuine artistic skill In the series of pictures which make up his Pook cf Acts. Ills art in the use of words is nowhere more evident than In his noble delineation of the ascension scene. On the last of the forty days during which He had shown himself alive by many infallible proofs Jesus leads His disciples to well-remem-btred Olivet. They go down the deep chasm and across the brook Kedron, past Gethsemane along the very way by which, ttrewn with garments and palms. He had once approached the city. The text reads, "And being assembled together with them;" margin. "Eating together with them." This was the real last meal. Under some grateful shade, betide some fountain, they sat. Previous appearances hflped to wear away the preternatural in Jesus r-erson. The conversation is worthy of this holy tryst ing place. In solemn terms Jesus renews the commission of His apostles, assuring them that thir authority proceeds from One to whom all power Is given in heaven and In earth. He fhow them the world wldencss of the field of their operations; the Issue of the acceptance or rejection of their message; the Inspiring assurance of the constancy of His presence. personal safety would have suggested immediate flight from Jeruealcm. Two days would have taken them to happy Galilee, with Its comparative safety, far from the inpfancholy scene. of th S.ivl.r's betraval, humiliation and death. Hut I jtu- offsets the dictates of hfart and f.esh with ' H;s direct command "that they timul 1 net depart fpirn Jerusalem." He renews that pr-mi-u which they ha 1 already often heard from ! His lips. The glorious effusion of the ever-M.f-ed M'-rlt Is Just at hand. They mu-t await It in Jerusalem. The Inveteraf, hereditary narrowress of the curre nt Hebrew thought b trays Itself even in these favored discljks an they a-k. Whether, at the time cf the effusion of the Holy Spirit, the Umiral pnver will be restored to Israel." O the consummate patience of this Idf-al Teacher! What forbearance Ho shows toward their tluzsirh apprehen ion! on of Kniland'i immortal rrcacheri, rreitrlck W.

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OS Robertson, has a characteristic sermon entitled "The Christian's Progress by Oblivion of the Past." There is a progress, too, by the oblivion of the future. It is a blessed providence we cannot know the times and seasons. Jesus affirmed the effusion near, that His disciples might be encouraged; He did not reveal the precise moment, that they might be continuously alert. "Ye shall be witnesses to me unto the uttermost part of the earth." IIa offeats their racial plans and prejudices by the very terms of their apostolic commission, which gives them a glimpse of the world-wide dimensions of Ills coming kingdom. Xow follows that radiant scene, treasured legacy of the church in each successive age. Jesus lifts His hands In benediction (Luko xxlv, 0), and while In the act He is parted from them; literally He ttood aside from them (Ibid., 11), as the minister stand apart from his congregation. In plainest view of all. Each disciple has an equally favorable opportunity to observe the fpectacle. Every eye Is upon Him, "while they beheld." (AcU.) His hands still extended in benediction, "He was taken up." (Acts.) "He was tarried up." (Luke.) Hy a convoy of angels, undoubtedly. It is affirmed that Jesus' return shall be like His departure. On His return all the holy angels will be with Him. So they were on His departure, (l'sa. Ixviii, 17.) A cloud iettives Him out of their sight. No ordinary cloud, this! His return is to be In a flame of fire. His departure is in a supernatural radiance, the effulgent flame of the divine presence. The glory of God the Father covers the retreating form of God the Son. It is a spectacle the majesty of which shall only be equaled by the second appearing of the great God and our Savior. Upward goes the triumphal procession! God has gone up with a shout! He bads captivity captive, and receives gifts for mn. Such was Jesus' assumption His taking up into heaven. Mark says He sat on the right hand of God. Luke aflirms the apostles worshiped Him. In Acts, he describes them as riveted to earth, and gazing into the heavens loi;g after the glorious scene had vanished. The Savior, mindful of His disclx'ks even in tho ecstasy of His triumph, detached two angels from His train to break their spell, and sent them forth to their dangerous .but delightsome task of witnessing for Him, with the comforting assurance that His return was certain, and should bo, in all respects, as glorious as His departure had been. Luko puts the finishing touch to the picture when he describes the disciples an returning to Jerusalem with great Joy. THE TEACHER'S LANTERN. When Eord Rrougham was asked If he had real a certain historical volume, he answered, with a dash of egotism, perhaps. "N, I am too busy making history to red history." Jcnus did not satisfy His disciples' historical curiosity. He would have them make history. He would H't tell them when. If ever, the kingdom wa3 to be re stolid to Israel. He b,-de tnm re His busy witnesses to th- uttermost part of the earth. Jesus" considerate nss of His disciples 1 touchlr.;; and Inspiring. Evn u:nid th eclat of His triumphal reception t glory. He forgets not the men of Galileo who gaz wistfully after Him. Arge 1 are Hi.s minist to gently break their spell, und to comfort and assure thir minds with promise of the e e rtalnty and glory of His return. May we r.ot hope that He a thin still tender'y atte ntive t us as individuals? The n r-pore-al j re.seix-e r f Jesus and the sj '.ritual presence of the H- ly Ghost simultaneous ly uj-on th earth would have been necessarily antagonistic to each other In their influence ufn n the human mind. Tho bodily abiding of Jesus would have foktcrvd a certain iutrialiti tendency In raUglon. PUgriznif ei to tht plac of 111c reiidanc

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and Good Life Subscribers Withdrawn would be in vogue. No one would be content until he had "seei Him with his eyes." And this looking upon and handling with the hands tha living Logos would everywhere have be-n substituted for a spiritual communing with the Holy Ghost. So the ascension was expedient. There waa a bwieflcent purpose in the conspicuous manner of Jesus' departure from earth. Had He gona illusively the confident note In tl apostles' preaching would have been wanting. On the contrary, having beheld his ascension with their phyaical aensen, in a place and hour under conditions which precluded aberration, therg was a holy assurance In their go?prl. Tht ascension, and nothing short of It, accounts for the immediate and exceeding Trnjldness of tha apostles. The ascension Is the correlate of the resurrection. The latter could never hava been proof of Jesus' Immortality and divinity ha X He died again, or even clandestinely dlsappared. Faith, germinated by the resurrection, woull have been frosted by an Illusive passing. Tha ascension Is logically necessary. It ia the golden finale to the divinely eymmttrlcal lifo. The ascended Lord is head over all. He personally presides over His church. He Is captain of salvation to the sacramental host of the Lord's elect. ciutisTiAX i:mi:avoh. Thnt Which Conic First Mnit. I, vlll, '1 Gen. all, 7-X. That quaint oil divine, Matthew Henry, once wrote fcententiojsly: "He who buys gx.ds has paper and twino thrown in." How -low ar men to learn that the greater Includes the Marry the heir apparent, and you n-t worry about your coren-t. Few of the sa li'gs of Christ handed down outside the i:n; are authentic, hut this, at least, quote.-: ty Origen, has all the marks of a Christly authoihip: "Ask great thincs. little things ahall tea added to you; ak heavenly things, and earthly things thall be addd to you." In Profe-ssor Irumrnond's capita! address t toys, based uj-on our lesson text and entitp I, "First!" he compared religion t a i-hip'a hln.. "Sur pose you take the helm out of a ri; rid hang it over the lww, a ti 1 end that sl.ip to pea; will It ev?r reach th r,th. r side? (vrtainly not. It will drift al.ut anjlmw. Hop religion In its place, and It will take you ?tra!svt through life, and Mraight to your Father ,n Heaven when life is over." And the place of religion Is al w a j s first. How can we tell whether we are putting religion first? Chiefly by our desire and ambitions. Thrt Is f'methlng we earne.-tly wan?, but we feel that G.d does n,.t want u to hav It. or we strive for It long in hln. Now. ci we give up our own will and eheerfuMy iiit God'u? Can we ntr lnt the hj.irit of Sat Holm's nobb pm, and say: Now. I.rd. I leave at Thy I e. f . . t T his thing which look so near, n, j?vet; 1 will not nee-k. 1 will not l"nx. 1 almot fear 1 have b n wrong. I'll go and work th harder. I rd. And wait till by a mi loud. ePar word Thou (liest me to Thy lve j f,t To take thU thing bo dear, s nvett. If we can say t h I . and mean It, we are putting "first things first;" we are praving thj Ee-id'H Prayer. "Thy will be done." And whoever puts first thlnt-M first w!J fr1 that ecinl things and thirl things, und ai the ift of them to Infinity, will com a! i of their own n.-,.rd. It n like building a twenty-story building. For weks there l i.j progre .. only a hole in the .-r"jr:d. erly i.i-ee-.-a:it driving of pt!. Jn1 it:rir.g of cto.t t, and lavitig of great stone thirty or forty fe. t I flow the sirface.. Half th woik It d n. b:n; iem fiy, when an a l.juite foundation ! completed. After that, the wall rise mh if In n da. Hut if the t L:n iatl'-n !! I ri--t eftid to l-dr m er Its e.;:iv al nt. th twnty Morie. woull c :- h.riv mite raj I J I than they r-e. And e'hmt'a demand u;.ii u see-rn ! ; - undcrrrn m l work, rotative wotk. work lt d .e nt eour.t. It 1 all subtraction, n-.t a ' -t!n: giving us. tot raining; an n.pti-d a i-urr-n irrc I life, a h! In the grojn!. e, that Is the rirst; Just as th le.-ruU'a TirM i- '. 1 the urrer.der of his peuuil will, that ! I may be Incorporated In the grand will of t a army. Knt. 'hrl!t'; then. 'hr!t i yoi.i S-ek ftr!t the Kingdom, and le! i o-ira!f t It; thn th crown n ojr head. VU btiome a kii-jl AMCS R. WELLS.