Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1904 — Page 6

THE, INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL. 4, 1904.

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EASTER ROYAL DAY OF THE JHIBTUI W However, Rev. Albert Hurlstone, of Roberts Park, Says It Contains Many Surprises. GEX. HARRISON QUOTED "With the altar and the rostrum embanked in a solid bed of flowers, whose fragTance radiated throughout the large audience room, the Easter services at Roberts Park Church yesterday morning tina mirlA m Kotlftil onl off fartivP.

A chorus of seventy-five voices furnlsheu I the music, asslstel by a quartet and accompanied by an orchestra and the large pipe organ of the church. The Ea.ter sermon was delivered by the istor, ; the Rev. Albert Hurlstone, who Id that the day was not one belonging any particular sect, but was the crownLrated by all churches alike. The sermon follows in i-art: "Easter Is the royal day. of the Christian year. The sun of other days. In Passion week and Eastertide we are not thinking of Methodism or Presbyterlanism or any denomination, but of Christianity. Easter bells celebrate victory and it should tune our hearts' to Join in the shout of them that triumphs, the song of them that feast. It Implies the victory of life over death, truth over falsehood, righteousness over evil, hope and Joy over gloom and despair. The little band of-Christ's lovers had been smitten with deep sorrow at the cross. The one life of perfect beauty had ended. The one ministry of oxqulslte service had closed. They had seen the light fade, out of the eky. the one fair glory pass away from the heavens. And now it was all so dark, to lonely and so sorrowful. Hope had been dethroned. . Paralysis had crept along their vcin3.. The one person In tvhom their little society had cohered had sunk Into fatal oblivion. The great companion was dead. And all that was left to them was a pathetic memory. They might sigh 'for the touch of a vanished hand,' they might hearken for the sound of iho voice that is Btlll.' It is all over.. Death has won her proudest victory; she holds her jinest conquest. John takes the mother of Jesus j.o his own hom?, and, as they wend their Borrowing: way amid the gloaming, they turn to take one last. long. lingering look at the central cross on which the thorncrowned Savior had died. Three crosses they pee in the dim .twilight, but about the central one a strange light lingers! It Is yet to become the light of the world, the center of the moral universe. "The loyal 'women were last at the cross and earliest at the grave. 'While It was yet dark three lonely women steal alonp the deserted streets In the dim twilight of the early day with gifts to embalm the dead. Some surprises had occurred previously. Secret disciples had come forward. Joseph, of Arlmathea, a rich man. had gonein boldly unto the Governor and beggred the body of Jesus. The sun was eclipsed, the graves of the dead were opened and other manifestations of power showed that the death of Jesus shook the universe. It was not the death of a creature; It was the death of the Son of God. The Creator voluntarily dying for Ills favorite creature, men. Surprise followed surprise. Christ's burial was a surprise. He was crucified as a felon between two thieves. Interment was not often granted to criminals. Their bodies were often cast Into the Valley of Ilinnom. the emblem of hell. In this case Joseph -and .Nlcodemus. rich and influential Xriends of Jesus, begged His dead body, and with loving hands prepared it for burial. The place of Interment was a surprise. Joseph placed the body in his own tomb. It was a sepulchre hewn out of the rock. 'In the garden a new sepulchre. Think of it. a grave in a garden. Not often Co we look for a grave In a garden.. The jintT"or love sometimes places ilowers upon the- jrrave and the eyes of love water them with tears. But this Is to make the graveyard more like a garden. Here, however, the garden becomes a gTave. The garden speaks of life. The grave of death. The grave in the garden was an unconscious prophecy. The stone was rolled away and the women were surprised. The tomb was empty. While it was yet dark the women came, but they were surprised at the missing body. The 'vision of angels' was a surprise. And the angels said to Mary: 'Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen I "The garderier's manner was a surprise to Mary. 'Woman, why weepest thou?" So the gardener proved to be the risen Lord. He said to her 'Mary.' There was the Savior's voice. His recognition and her answer. 'Rabboni, Master.' Mary's visit to the sepulchre when it was yet dark Is a parable as$ well as a historic scene. Light was flashed upon life from a tomb. Comfort came to men from the place of tears. Hope sprang out of the darkness, as the rainbow throws itself from horizon to hori-. zon on a cloud. That Is the splendid paradox of Christianity, that those experiences which are the darkest yield the brightest and the richest glories. All our fairest possessions come to us in the dark. All our most radiant hopes are born In sorrow. "We are made perfect by suffering. From hours that are shadowed by disappointment, pain and loss come consolations, compen?atlons and 'discipline that refine the spirit and give to life its armament and blessedness. Out of the sorrow of Gethsemane and the bloody sweat, out of the ignominy of Calvary and the gloom of death is born the radiant glory of Easter day.' 'Each year Easter comes with new meaning to some hearts. Ours is ;i gospel to those in darkness. As long as there are hearts to love there will be hearts to sorrow. When ex-President Harrison met with the attorneys of this city, a short time before his death, to pay tribute to his friend and forrner law partner, Mr. Fishback, he said, with eloquence and pathos: In the dead of the night lately, gentlemen of the bar, my little daughter came to mo with deep earnestness and said: "Papa, in the big dark of the night I wake up and want to touch you. If I don't I feel lonely.' " The general paused.1 choked, and with tearfilled eyes continued: 'I put out my hand to touch my old friend: he Is gone and I am lonely.' True picture this of many a sorrowing one in the dark hour of bereavement." STATUES MADE OF SALT AND SULPHUR Mephistopheles and Lot's Wife Will Be at the World's I- . -'air. ST. LOUIS. April 3. Enduring marble and temporary staff, which have marked the statuary of past expositions, are not the only kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, although more works of art carved from these materials are there exhibited than were ever collected at one place in the history of the world. Many odd materials have beeu made Into artisllc figures that eloquently proclaim the idea of the designer. Some of these unique statues are collossal in size and large sums of money were expended in their . making. Birmingham. Ala., has built a statue of Vulcan. It Is fifty fret hlsh. the base constructed ot coal and coke and the statue cast in treu. It portrays Birmingham's lmirtane as a manufacturing center. King Cotton Is Mississippi's offering. Cotton Is the material used, and the giant is as 'tall as Alabama's Vulcan. The Spirit of ITUh is manifested in an artistic figure modeled from beeswax. Idaho presents the figure of a Cot-ur u'Alene miner cast from copper. Golden t utter was used by a Minnesota artist as the appropriate mate-lal for a statue of John Stewart, the bul'der of the .".ri creamery. Louisiana rm scuts two curiosities In sculpture a figure of Mephistophf lt-s in sulphur and loot's wife curved from a block of rock salt. California shows the figure of an elephant built of almonds. Peneoytl Work. to llmuiue.

PHILADELPHIA. April 2.-The American Bridge Company, which owns the Pencoyd works, of this city, has announced that the Pencoyd p!ant will resume work on April 25. The werk have 't;i rnctually clewed down for -ve-al mnthj. About 2.0U0 met. will be tmplojcd.

SERVICE IS HEIGHTENED BY FLOWERS MID SONG During Easter Discourse at Christ Church Rector Discusses Reality of the Resurrection. PROGRAMME OF MUSIC

A beautiful service, radiant with the glow of bright Easter thought3 and punctuated with Eastr anthems, which was held at Christ's Church yesterday morning, carried with It a sublimity which left a deep impression on the large congrega tion. Easter lilies bedecked the altar and breathed throughout the sanctuary sweet fragrance. The musical programme was excellent. and consisted ot eighteen numbers. Dr. James I). Stanley, rector, delivered a very appropriate sermon on "The Future Life," taking for his text II Corinthians, i. 10, "Jesus Christ has brought light and immortality," concerning which he said: "There is not a man who does not wish to gaze on the other shore, to know what is beyond the vale of death. Some men purposely cast such thoughts aside. They comfort themselves with the thought that if they are honest, just and pure the future can take care or Itselt. "In the domain of science we cannot find an answer to this question. Science replies: 'Ask me not: the answers are not In my domain.' Go to the word of God and we have it. The Man of ages has spoken directly and emphatically. Then arises the question. 'Was there such a man as Jesus Christ who rose from the dead?' "If there were not, then history is but romance. The mere fact that this is a church of the living God is a perpetual witness of Jesus Christ's resurrection. "Can we understand what everlasting means? The Scripture tells us what It shall not be; it shall not be a place of weeping eir parting. "Christ tells us it will be a place where there is a contlnuality of being, a progress of the soul on the great things of the spirit, a rising from corruption to incorruptlon, from dishonor to glory, from weakness to power, from a natural to a spiritual body. The following excellent musical programme was offered: "Glory in Excelsjs Deo," Gounod; canticle, "Donum Est," Gouvy; anthem, "O Lord, I Will Exalt Thee," Parker; quartet. "And When the Sabbath Was Past." Clough-Leighter. OMlilll OF EASTER TOLD 3Y REV, E, E, It Was Adopted, He Says, as a . Pagan Springtime Festival. VIEWPOINT OF SCIENCE "Divine power of love, sacred moments In which the passion of a hallucinated woman gives to the world a resurrected God." With these words from Renan's life of Jesus, the Rev. E. E. Newbert began his sermon at All Souls yesterday morning. Continuing, he said: "The resurrection is accepted by the majority of Christians as the best attested fact In history. Yet from the view point of. science or experience or critical scholarship how impossible the event. Of those who deny the resurrection it may be asked, why then observe Easter? Why sing Easter music or why go to market for the Easter lilies? Why speak a word to per petuate the legend? In reply it may be said that Easter is older than Christianity. As a pagan springtime festival it was adopted. The day comes down to us a her itage of. humanity, glorified by the ideal and hope and dream of countless genera tions. In its larger meaning Easter is big enough for the Christian and tne nonChristian, the Catholic and the Protestant, the evangelical and the Unitarian. But whatever its origin the day has become the living symbol of life and hope and joy. "It is argued that the resurrection is the foundation of the world s hope of Immor tality, that apart from it there is no evi dence, and that it is the one searchlight lighting the path to death. And yet the hope of immortality is quite distinct from belief in the resurrection. hat of the ages before Christ? What of the prehistoric races whose funeral rites expressed the ideas of the future life? What of the faith of ancient Egypt and the great pre-Christian East? Or I think of Rome and Greece. I follow Seneca Into exile and wall on his words. I converse with Socrates and am with him as he drinks the cup. Immortality here? Yes. Or I think of the thousands who die bravery, hoping for life and happiness, yet think not at all of the resurrection. Even were we dealing with a fact, how would the resurrection of Jesus prove immortality? Did a man break the bonds of death? The isolated event is no assurance that life is ever Lord of death. Or did Deity defeat death at the tomb? If. so. how does the incident help immortal man? "The world docs have before its feet the light of the immortal hope, but it harks back even less than It thinks to an empty tomb in Judea. Fact is we g-ather from the very sum of. life. Argument and logic fail to convince. . e turn to the poets and prophets. W e visit the mystic. We gather widely from the world of fact and fancy. Imagination and intuition have value. We go with humanity, we catch the step in the onmarch; we take part in the battle for the true and just. We see how far man has objectified himself in life. We give credit for civilizations old and new. We take note of the power of soul as expressed in art and music and great religion. From our wide survey we re turn bearing the high ideal of immortality. Perhaps It is enough to know that the universe is framed on an innnlte plan and that Its center and circumference Is soul. It i3 possible to live with hope; possible to come to the morning in confidence, to the evening in triumph. Humanity will con tinue to look for dawn after darkness. Its day toll touched by dream." BELIEF III ETERNITY IS HELD TO BE SOURCE OF BLESSING Dr. Stansfield Employs Old and New Testament References to Support Contentions. PERSONAL IMMORTALITY At the Easter service at the Meridianstreet M. E. Church the Rev. Dr. Stansfield delivered a sermon on "Personal Im mortality yesterday. His text was: "If a man die, shall he live again?" (Job xiv, 11); "Blessed arc the dead which die in tho Lord." and "Because I live ye shall live also" (John xiv, 1?.) From this text he brought out the fact that man Is on earth only a short time and during that time should prepare for eter nity. "In all the lr.story of tho race the high est morality has always found its motive and dynamic the consideration for an etcr nal lit-." h- said, "and all races who have a marked degree of righteousness have had tho thoughts of eternity and love of God in their hearts. He spoke strongly on the blessing of the belief in eternity to those who had lost loved ones and contrasted them with th stern, despairing stoics who did -not hold suth a belief. The death and resurrection of Christ was held to be the essence and heart of Chris tian teaching and truth. "The Now Testameiit immortality is not an indefinite, general, racial something, but is personal and in accord with the . highest known scien tific truths of life." said Dr. Stansfield. iso chance for disappointment IT you serve Mrs. Austin's Pancakes. All grocers ivll It.

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ARGUMENT OF The Rev. J. dimming Smith Discourses on Truth of Scripture in Easter Sermon. UNCHANGED BY DEATH "The Better Troof" was the theme of the Rev. J. Cummlngs Smith's Easter sermon at the Tabernacle yesterday morning. The sermon was dominant with Easter thought. "Just as the fallen tree gradually sinks down into the ground, so the fact that Jesus rose from the dead has sunk into the soil of apostolic epistles." said the minister. "In these epistles there is a great carelessness of evidence because the apostles, with absolute spontaneity, allowed truth to take its own course. The greatest evidence that Christ rose from the dead is not His physical reappearance, but one thing a hundred Shakspeares and Bacons could not understand is His personality, liimself. After death He continued consistently the same line of doctrine as before; whose sympathetic touch was the same as before; who never indulged In any allusions to His recent tortures; who never reminded the disciples of their truant treachery the same magnetic, helpful, practical Teacher and Friend as before. This Is sufficient evidence. "In those last forty days death was past, life stretched before like a far summer landscape without a shadow to mar it. The prince of evil was defeated . and the church was born anew. "Bible students should not neglect the study of His life after rising from the dead. The cross was the supreme school of culture. It is natural that after having passed through death that His late spirit should have risen to a higher plane of vision. The spiritual power of the Lord was the surest evidence by which to Identify Him aftr the resurrection. "Remember, all of you. in these days of criticism and egotism, that the first and the last argument for the inspiration of the Bible or any other book is the inspiring quality in the book; that the final, unanswerable argument for Christ is that Christ Himself. His divine touch. His superhuman force and gentility. His sublime egotism. His appeal to tho soul forever. These constitute the Christ. "Thus we reach His divinity, and how can divinity die? 'It was impossible that He should be held by death,' quotes Peter. Why? Because the divine life is indestructible. Mind and matter may be conjoined, but they cannot commingle. Our souls are taken off from Jod s original soul ana can no more die than God can die." MM WHO WARS WITH GOD IS DEAD ME HE LIVES Rev. J. C. Christie, of West Wash ington-Street Presbyterian, Talks on "Resurrection." SALVVTION ANNOUNCED That a man may be dead while he yet lives by willful disobedience to the com mands and teachings of Christ Is the doc trine advocated by the Rev. J. C. Christie, pastor of the "West Washington-street Presbyterian Church, in his regular Easter sermon delivered yesterday. A similar theory is held that when a man who follows the dictates of God still lives even after death. In part he said: "In these words are the announcement of a truth, the promise of a salvation and the connecting link between the truth and the salvation. The truth is that of death. resurrection and life. We usually make the sequence life, death and resurrection. Christ makes it death, resurrection and life, lift Ing the question out of the world of the flesh, setting it down In the world of spirit, covering the lower thought by the higher thought, and telling' us that to be separated from God Is death; that to re ceive God is resurrection, and that to be united with God Is life. Spiritual death is to be 'out of harmony with God; spiritual resurrection Is to get into harmony with God, and spiritual life is to stay in Jnarmony with God. 'The man who is warring against God, who is consciously and wilfully breaking His commandments, is-a dead man even while he lives, like the burnt-out crater of a volcano with flowers growing around Its rim. The man who stops this, who opens his mind to let in God's thought and opens his will to let in God's law, is a resurrected man. And the man who holds fast to this resurrection, who not only hears God, and comes forth out of his sin, but walks with God and draws the whole of his life out of Him, is a living man even when he dies, death having no power over him, because he has passed out of it into life. "This Is Christ s announcment of truth. And after this follows the announcement of salvation. Christ never dealt with truth In order to impress men with metaphysical certainties. At the beginning, or at the middle, or at the end of every beam of revealing light there Is a divine power reaching out its hands for the salvation of souls; a loaf of bread and a Jug of water at tho bottom of every truth the bread and the water of life. And this is Just what His salvation is. It is life. It is not safety. It is not reward. It is not privilege. It is not a transaction outside or ourselves. It is not a bargain with heaven. It is not a reconciliation of man's life to God's will. The salvation of the soul is into life. Sin is unnatural. It is Jangled bells. It is .discord with Gou. It Is rebellion against the laws of life. To be lost Is to be lost out of God, and to be lost out of God Is to be lost out of life; and -to be lost out of life is to be lost into death; and to be saved into life is to be saved into God. You can tell whether or not your reason is in har mony with God. You can tell whether or not your reason is in narmony with God; if It is thinking its way into God: if it is eager after revelation: if it is straining itself forward along the ways of divine light. "Christ, with Mary and Martha, was standing between a tomb and green fields. That is where He Is standing still. If you have not i received His resurrection power into your life, your life is a grave. But all around" that grave is a world of light and glory; silver-threaded In every direction bv the crystal waters or the river or lire. green-bordered all through time and eternity with the grasses and flowers and fruits of the unfading trees of life. Opportunity Speak. Yes. I am Opportunity; Hut say. young man. IVn't wait for nie To come to you; You buckle down To win your crown. . And work with head And heart and hands, As does the man Who understands That those who wait. Exacting some reward from fate Or lurk, to ca!l It so Sit always in the 'way-back row. And yet vou must not let Mc get away when I show up. Tho pol Jen cup Is not for him who stands .With folded hands. Expecting me To serve his inactivity. I serve the active mind. The seeing eye. The ieady hand That grasrj me passing by. And take3 from me The good I hold For every spirit Strong and bold. He does not wait on fate Who seizes me. Fcr 1 am fortune. Luck, and fate. The corner stone Of what Is great In man's accomplishment. Rut I ain r.one of theso To him who does not seize; I must be caught. If any good Is wrought Out of the treasures I possess. oh, yes. I'm Opportunity; I'm great: I'm sometimes late, Hut do not wait For me; Work on. Watch on. Good hand, pood heart. And some day you will see Out of your effort risingOpportunity. William J. Lamston. in Success.

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I 9 Pastor of Friends' Church Defends St. Paul's Story of the Resurrection. QUOTES FRENCH AUTHOR The fact of Christ's crucifixion and resur rection substantiates the theory of the Christian religion and shatters the founda tions of all other arguments used against the miracles related in the Bible, according to the Easter sermon delivered yesterday by the Rev. M. E. Tearson, pastor of the First Friends' Church. The Rev. Mr. Tearson spoke in part as follows: "The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the supreme miracle and is the seal of all the gospel miracles. An acknowledgment of the great fact of the resurrection makes all the other facts of Jesus's life easy of belief. "Paul was the great doctrinal preacher and the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians is the great resurrection chapter. It includes all Christian doctrines. Here Paul asserts the necessity and supremacy of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. "But there is eo much of mystery about the resurrection. We are compelled to believemany things we do not understand. "When very old Victor Hugo wrote: 'I feel in myself the future life. I am rising, I know, toward the skies. The sunshine is over my head. The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around mc the immortal symphonies of tho worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. It is a fairy tale and it is history. For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verse, history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode and song. But I feel that I have not said a thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say I have finished my day's work, but I cannot say I have finished by life. My day's work will begin the next morning. " The tomb is not a blirul alley. It is a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight and opens in the dawn. My work is only beginning. My work is hardly above the foundation. I would be glad to see It mounting and mounting forever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.' " CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TO UNITE HJDNMBnS Union Meeting in Tomlinson Hall Is Held and Spirit of GoodFellowship Prevails. $250,000 GIFT FOR BUTLER For the first time In the history of Indianapolis a general fellowship meeting, taken part in by all of the Christian churches of the city, was held at Tomlinson Hall yesterday afternoon. The attendance was much beyond that expected and the large assembly room was. filled to overflowing. Many were turned away, unable to gain entrance. The principal object of the meeting was to pave, the way for a larger work of the church in the city. An endowment of $250,000 for Butler Col lege has been undertaken by the church and that unity may exist when this work is taken up was one of the objects of yesterday's gathering. It Is also the in tention of the church to raise $10,000 for the colored congregation of the same denomination, which was also referred to at the mass meeting. A special choir under the direction of John H. Stem had charge of the music. which was one of the features of the meet ing. The speakers were Hilton U. Brown, the Hew A. H. Fhllputt änd W. E. Gar rison, president-elect of Butler College. The address of the llev. Fhilputt in part fol lows: "We are the representatives of over 5.000 members enrolled in the churches of our faith and order in the city of Indianapolis, rejoicing here to-day in the good fellowship of Christian work. Our cause was nlanted in this city in 1S33. having already gained a foothold in several sections of the State. In numbers we are scarcely second to any other religious body. TV'e have a fair share of the wealth and brain of the people. We stand f or a sane and wholesome view of the Scriptures and freedom of re liglous opinion so long as Christ is made the center of faith. We are evanselical but not oppressively orthodox. We are open A I A . ' to new ngnr. ana not wedded to outworn credal statements. The New Testament is our rule of faith and practice and if we interpret it wrong to-day we hope to be set ngnt to-morrow. "iou will hear an announcement later about a new enterprise in which we have a chance to render an Important service to the city and to the cause of Christ, in the building and equipping of a church for our colored brethren to do a work of a charac ter much broader and better than they can now do. "I might speak of other special things but time forbids. One other thing' I must mention." however, and that Is our duty in the matter of good citizenship. The State treats us well, exempts our church property irom taxes ana snows us consideration in many ways. We owe much in return. We are citizens and as such owe the best that is in us to our country. Our Christian vows but emphasize these obligations. "Christian people should stand for the best things in legislation, public Improvements, movements for the higher life of the city and all endeavors to lift up humanity Our citizenship should be beautiful and un selfish. "We have done some things, we can do greater things. Let this hour mark the birth of larger aspirations." Mm. Gould Is Improving. NEW YORK, April 3. Mrs. George J. Gould, who was operated on for appendi citis, continues to improve. TIIK JOL'ltXAL'S SHOPPING DEPART MENT I mm For the Use of Joumn: Subscribers. The Journal has established a free shonping department for the use of lt3 readers. All Journal suuserioers are invited to use the department freely at all times. Experts have been engaged as Journal shopping commissioners who will personally execute any orders readers wish to send. 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The Missing Man

A Thrilling Tale of Mystery, Dealing with a Startling Phase of Hypnotic Influence and Double Personality

CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY. Synopnift of Preceding: Chapter. Arthur Hamilton, of Giovedale. N. II.. takes leave of his wife and two little children or.a May day to po away for an absence of two weeks on a mission which he does riot explain and to a place which he does not name. A like mysterious trip has been taken during every May of their married life and has formed the only cloud between them. The wife Is loyal, but doubts .arise in spite of her. She watches her h isband cn this occasion from an upper window and sees a strange woman emerge from the vl'lage Inn and greet him on his way to the railroad station. A week after his departure a clerk from the bank In which Hamilton is em ployed as cashier comes to her residence to see him and tells the suspicious Mrs. Hamilton that he saw her husband at the bank at 8 o'clock the night before. She has not seen him and Is greatly alarmed. Investigation develops that no erne has seen him but the clerk. No suspicion of dishonesty is felt by the other bank officers, so great is their trust in Hamilton, but they begin to fear foul play. "They are good children, and their father is a good man." she said, proudly. "I do not doubt It: and now. if ycu please. we will go over this matter as carefully and calmly as possible." "Very well. Clare, you may take your brother Into the garden." As soon as the children went out, Mrs. Hamilton turned an expectant face toward the detective. Now, madam, have you any Idea where your husband has gone? "None whatever. "I am told that everv vear since your marriage he has been away in the month of May and stayed two weeks. "Once he stayed but ten days; at another time he was gone fifteen." "Have you any knowledge or. his lire previous to his marriage?" "I know- .his birthplace. It was timira. Y. I knew his mother. He was an only child, ills lather cnea wnen ne was five years or age. The ramny was once exceedingly wealthy, I have heard, but Vane, when I married him. was only moderately well-to-do. as we say here. "No children but your husband? "No: but two died in infancy, Vane told me." How does- your husband appear when he goes away? "Sometimes he seems troubled, at otner times quite cheerful. But this time he ap peared more worried than usual, lie seemed very absent-minded, and he talked in his sleep a good deal the night before he went away. Ah!" Mr. Bruce appeared interested. "What did he talk about?" "Of carrying heavy loads, and he com plained that nobody would help him. I can't stand it. It is too much, too hard. he said over and over again. I thought he referred to his business, which Is very difficult to manage, for my uncle and Mr. Henderson are both disposed to leave an the details to Vane." "Probably you are right. W hat else eiici he say?" . . . . Mrs. Hamilton blushed and hesitated ana looked at his notebook. Mr. Bruce promptly closed it and put it in his pocket. "You were saying, I think," ne saia sug gestively: -but still he hesitated. . "After all, dreams amount to nothing stray scraps of fancy, conversations and a confused jumbling up or wnat it wouia oe too much to call ideas. .... "I understand you,' sne saia, Keenly. "You think what he said may be of consequence. 1 tninK so, i . uui i'ibc i- col lect that when my nusDanu t-puive a. woman's name in his sleep I did not mistrust his honor, nor do I now." rerhaps you will ten me wnar. ne saio. looking her squarely In the face, for he perceived he had a woman of nerve and I A W common sense 10 aeai wim. "I will. He said 'L.enora ;ora a preuy name. ,. ... t-.- T-011 it now anv one namea jjeiiora.' vn i do not. and I have never heard " 1 .... 1 A. atni vmi thinK vou can explain . x can see that," he said. kJVIil v' - norhan that would De loo mucn 10 say, Atr- Hamilton arose, went to the bookcase. on' took therefrom a volume of Poe's "He liked them very much, and I found a wiimnric at 'Lenore. a .'"-" - -- . , . ... Mr Bruce took the dook ana reau wiin not unattractive accent. How shall the ritual then be read?-the re Ttv vou bv yours, tne evu tjc j W""- - , . . w .1.. That 'id to death the innocence, that died, and At-.A on. vnlltlCr?" pnp' verse is -very melodious, but that u one of hi poorest poems, btlll It might Vinv- haunted your husband s mind. Did tnUo manv clothes when he went tr nti-nv" 'No, very lew, ana ne iuuk uuie ui me children s wants, ana promistu iu urmg v.rm what thev asked for. fc 1 ' - . . . - I . 3 At 1 1 AI.. Do you thinK ne visuea me van, me 11 . y i Th.it T do not Know. ur. usourn sajs he did; but if so, it seems as if he would have come home, even 11 oungcvx 10 away again uirccio"What sort OI a young man ia una vaborri "A most respectable young man, of good family and careful bringing up." "Given to pleasure, likes fine horses, gay company, and the like?'' "Doubtless he does. Most young men do; but Tony Osborn is neither reckless nor dissipated." "Glad to hear It. So many young men are " After a few more questions, Mr. Bruce took his leave, assuring Mrs. Hamilton that, without doubt, tidings would be got of her husband before long. Then he wenf straight to the Essex House to learn what he could about the strange ladv who had spoken to Mr. Hamilton on the street, for he had heard the meeting commented upon. CHAPTER IV. ' DISCLOSURES. Mr. Bruce, the oeiecuve, mei wun no Bruce, the detective, met difficulties In learning what he wished to know regarding Mrs. Anderson, of New Jersey, who, it appeared, by some unaccountable freak of nature, had been given emerald hair as a head covering, and stranger yet, in spite r tnis was a beautiful woman. Mr. Bruce, for reasons of his own, chose to go to Miss Talbert for information and was amply rewarded. He was told In as few words as possible all that was known about the strange lady. Finally. Miss Talbert, asking to be excused for a moment, left the room and returned almost immediately with' a fine, hemstitched handkerchief with an intricate embroidered design in the corner. "And what may that bo?" asked the puzzled detective. "Her handkerchief?" "Yes, she dropped it in the hall as she went out. One of the girls saw it drop and called to her, but she did not hear." Mr. Bruce looked helplessly at the design. "I wish her name was here," he said. "Why, It Is. It 13 there quite plain. All those leaves and scrolls are but embellishments to the name'." "What Is the name? it is Hebrew to me." "Mary." "Are you sure?" "Yes, quite sure," replied Miss Talbert. "Then," thought the detective, "the woman is not likely to be Lenora, and Mrs. Hamilton may ne right, i'ocs poems are haunting, certainly; but somehow I felt as if this woman was the Lenora of his dream." 1 "Perhaps you had better say nothing about my inquiries," he said to Mfss Tal bcrt upon leaving. "Very well. I will remember your cau tlon," she answered, and she watched him with some curiosity as he went down the street and turned the corner. "He is going to the bunk," she thought; and she was right. Arrived there, he found that the business being carried on was all of an Inward na turc. Tractically it had been suspended for nearly a week, and now affairs had taken a brisker gait under the examinations of Bank Commissioner Winch, who arrived the day previous. He was very busy, but stopped to talk with Mr. Bruce when he learned his errand. He said the passbooks had been comin in rapidly, four hundred out of six hundred had been examined and found correct. Agents were out collecting the others, and turning them In as rapidly as possible. The directors of the savings bank were busy in straightening out matters, and It would

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be impossible to remove the injunction for a week or two. "Does it appear that Mr. Hamilton has fled with the funds?" asked the detective. "There has been strange work, strangle work, said the commissioner. Lp to a late date everything seems to have gone all right; but since then affairs have taken on a different aspect." "Since when?" "Since the 2Sth day of May, and perhaps before that day." "Did he take the money with him? "It is presumed so. Being cashier and treasurer as well, he has the right to take charge of all deposits, notes and cash. loung Osborn says he took a lot of stuff, ns he called it, to the deposit .vault in Boston. We have just heard from some of the stuff, Mr. Bruce. You may as well know It now as later. "What do you mean. Mr. Winch?" "Simply this: It developed this morning that previous to the 2Sth of May. Hamilton altered a note payable to this bank, making the amount five thousand instead of five hundred, and deposited the note with the Urst National Bank of Boston, as col lateral for money. Whether he has done so in .more than this Instance it is impossible to say." The commissioner faced about after this statement and scanned the countenance of the detective as if for confirmation of the grave state of affairs. "Many such notes?" asked Bruce. "Lots," said the commissioner, briefly." "What does Osborn say?" asked the de tective after a pause. "Looks sober and says he doesn't know what to think about it. He professes to think there must be come mistake. Still he affirms, and It rests on his word alone, it seems, that he saw Hamilton enter the doer on the 22d; and he says that it may turn out the note was taken from Hamilton altered, and presented at the bank by some one, professing to be Hamilton himself." "Such things are done, but not In a bright, wide-awake banking1 house like that." "Well, the directors are in a terrible state of excitement. With other notes sowed broadcast over the' country it is not to be wondered at." "Of course Hamilton's bondsmen will settle." "Yes, they have signified their readiness to settle. Mr. Carter, and Henderson, too. say they believe that, dark as It looks, tfie matter will clear up." "There must be a foul conspiracy back of it, then," said the .detective. "Looked at now, it as clear a case of dishonestv as I ever knew. Still," recollecting himself, "a new phase of the matter may arise at any moment. Anything look like complicity on the part of Osborn?" "No: the president found a letter under his door this morning, without any postmark. It relates to Osbornf I believe." "From Hamilton?" asked the detective, with alert gaze. The commissioner nodded. "It purports to be, 1 cant ten you wnat was in it. though. The contents have not been made public except that It exonerates Osborn of any complicity In the matter of which he might be suspected. "A confession, that, almost, of crime' on Hamilton's part?" "No. It is a guarded letter. You will have to ask the president about it to know more. Perhaps he can , tell you: I can't." Bruce went directly to the president's house, found him alone, and stated his errand. .The president showed him the letter at once. "I found it in the hall this morning Just Inside the door, where some one must have thrust It last night. There Is no post mark, you see." It was a plain envelope with a typewritten address to G. W. Hastings, Pres. Sav ings Bank, Grovedale, N. H. The letter ran: Mr. Hastings: You are no doubt afraid that the savings bank funds are stolen. but such is not the case as far as I know, If on making such examination as you desire, you find deposits not credited in the bank books, you may rest assured if I failed to make the entry it was a mistake. and if others have done it I know nothing about it. As for Osborn he is as honest as the day. I am unable to return at present. but shall do so as soon as I can. Show this letter to my wife. "A curious letter," said the detective. staring blankly at-the ceiling. "Yes, he must have seen the newspaper reports." . "Probably thought the affair of the de posited note hadn't come to light yet." 'That is what I thought." said the presl dent. "But he is right about the passbooks: thus far they are all correct, the commis sioner says. The letter says ushorn is as honest as the day, and yet hints that if others have failed to make proper entries he knows nothing about it. "So he' does! I never thought of that. Osborn would make the entries if Hamilton was not in, and Hamilton was seldom at the bank more than two hours a day. What does the letter mean, do you think?" There seem to be two meanings, and which flatly contradict each other. He throws suspicion on Osborn, and yet says he Is as honest as the day. If there is any complicity on the clerk's part, it would be for Hamilton s Interest to have him thought innocent. On the other hand. they seem at odds. Hamilton hints- at otners, ana usDorn states tnat ne saw Hamilton enter the bank on the night of the 22d. "True," said President Hastings, looking puzzled. "It is a strange case, taken in all its aspects. I wi6h it could be dlscov erea tnat tne casnier is an nonest man It injures trust in humanity to find that where we have put full confidence we have been deceived. "Mr. Hamilton was, I hear, a man much respected." He was, and his wife still has Implicit trust in him." Remembering- Mrs. Hamilton's manner. Mr. Bruce could not perfectly agree with him, but said nothing. ou are in her employ, are you not?" asked Mr. Hastings. 'I am. I reported to her this morning." "Did she show you her advertisement of the reward she offers for information of her husband?" "No, perhaps she thought I had seen it." The president handed him a journal and pointed to the notice, saying as he did so: "She came to me ana together we wrote it. It was before developments about the changed amount of the note. The detective read : $500 REWARD. Vane C. Hamilton, of Grovedale. N. H has been missing Eince May 10, unless, as is stated by one person, he was at the savings bank the 22d. Mr, Hamilton is thirtj'-five years of age; five feet ten inches in height; weighs about 150 pounds; has a slight swinging gait. light brown hair, dark brown eyes; has no beard but a. heavy mustache, when he left home was dressed in a gray tweed suit with sack coat, a light black overcoat, and black Derby hat. The above amount will be paid to any one through whose efforts he is returned to Grovedale, N. H. MRS. V. C. HAMILTON. Correspondence should be addressed to W. A. Hastings, President, Grovedale Savings Bank. t "Has this advertisement resulted In any correspondence yet?" asked the detective. "A letter from Conductor Libby reached me this morning." It lay on the desk and he handed it to the detective, -,who read It attentively. "There seems to have been a woman with him, you see," said the president. "Yes; and the conductor says that Hamilton acted strangely, almost as if he did not recognize him. though they have known each other for years." "Libby knows everybody has been on the train thirty years' said Mr. Hastings. "What about this woman? If it was an elopement, of course Hamilton would fight shy of recognition." "But was it? I confess that puzzles me most of all, for Hamilton seemed thoroughly devoted to his wife, aCd she Is a, splendid woman. But it appears this Mrs. Anderson, or whatever her name m.y b met him like an old acquaintance, and after stating at the hotel that she was on her way to Coatlcoke. P. Q., went the next morning south Instead of north in the same train with Hamilton. Bead what Libby says about it." "They sat together and the woman was talkative, but Hamilton did not say much. at least when I saw them. She bought a ticket on the train to Portland, but I did not notice her when I went my last rounds The last I saw of JIamllton was at Portland depot. He did not appear to notice me. though l-iokea him lull in the face." "Where was the woman, I wonder?" asked Mr. Hastings after listening to the extract. "That may or may not be difficult to learn." said the detective, rising to leave Mr. Hastings arose also. "Mr. Bruce," said he. "the notice ns it reads now offers but five hundred reward. but I am empowered to offer a thousand mo-e. making the sum fifteen hundred. though for the present no change will be made in the wording, unless you advise it "I do not advis it. A change would alarm Hamilton, showing that suspicions had been awakened. At present, th notice reads simply as If It were believed he was missing, or detained against his will, or as if It were feared harm had come to him. To show that he is thought to

have absconded with funds of the banic would alarm him directly and put him beyond our reach. But he might even

.return if he thought nothing was suspected. if it should be authentically stated by you. for instance, that upon examination everything had been found correct. Still he must know the affair of the altered note would leak out some time." "Yes, and -there may be others of still largvr amount. Mr. Bruce." "True. One thing more I wish to ask you. Who presented the note anfl received the money at the Boston bank?" "Mr. Hamilton himself." "Are you sure?" "I have the written word of Simon Low, the cashier of the banx. Ixiw has been here more than once. He knows Hamil ton nearly as well as I do." "How did he come to write to you?" To Be Continue To-morrow. SEALS, STCNCILS AXD ST A 3! PS. r seals. CILSSTAMPSi I CTALOCUt FKEZ HADOXS.CXECJCi &C 1 DE. SWAIN'S HEALTH HOME 73 Middle Drive, Woodruff IMac. Superior accommodation! for chronle aad rury oua ctiN. Nw TaiaDDon 237. SEALED PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS will be received by Kerrrllla Oil ana rrosprcunj -o., jterTvuie, ienn.. for bar. ing' 8-lnch well. For other Information writ FELIX BEJACH. Secretary. Kerrrtlle, Venn. Notlc ia hereby given that the underalaned. the Beard cf Commiraioners of Marlon countr. Indiana, win, up ia jv u ciock a. m., Monaaj. April IS, 1!M. receive sealed bids for conatructlon of bridnre over Pleasant run, on Shearer pike, in Warren townahlp. according to apclflcattona on nie In tne oraca or the auditor of Marlon county. Lach bid must bo accompanied by a bond ml affidavit aa required by law. The board reervea the naht to reject anr or all bid. Witness our hands, this 2d day of April, IDOL JOHN K. M'GAUOHET. JOHN M'OREOOit. THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Comml5sioners of Marlon County. Attest: CYRUS J. CLAUK. Auditor. 'Notice la hereby given that the underalaned. the Hoard cf Commitftonera of Marion county. muiai.a, wjii, up iu uriwi a. m.. Monday. April 1. 104. receive sealed bl1 for construction of bridge over Orme ditch, on Hardtng street road, in Section 16. Township 14. Hange 3, in Perry township, according to Una and apectncaiions on nie in me race 01 tne auditor of Marlon county. Bach bid must be accompanied hy a bond and affidavit aa required by law. The board reservea the right to reject anr or all bids. Witness our hands, this 2d day of April. i?0i. JOHN E. M'GAtr.HEY, JOHN M'CiREGOR. THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Commissioners of Marion County, Attest: CTTRUS J. CL.AKK. Auditor. Notice la hereby given that the tinde rslrnedT the Board of Commissioners of Marlon county. ni.jiana. win. up 10 i'J o ciock a. m.. Monday. April 18, l'X'4. receive sealed bids for construc tion of culvert over ditch on Pendleton pike, in Section 7. Township IS. Range 5, in Lawremtownship, according to plans and spectncatlons on flle In the otFcc of the auditor ot Marlon county. Kach bid must be accompanied by a bond an affidavit as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Witness our hands, this 2d day of April. 1304. JOHN E. M CJAl'OHEY, JOHN M'GKEGOK. . THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Commissioners of Marlon County. Attest: CYRUS J. CLARK. Auditor. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned.' the Heard of Commissioners of Marion county, Indiana, will, up u 10 o'clock a. m., Monday, April 1$, 190. receive sealed bids for construction of culvert ov?r ditch on Pendleton pike. In Section 13, Township 15. Range 4, In Lawrence township, according to plana and specifications on 'file in the cflice of the auditor of Marlon county. Each bid must be accompanied by a bond and affidavit as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. , ' Witness our hands, this Jd dav of April. 1904, JOHN E. M'OAI C.HEY, JOHN M GREGOR. THOMAS E. SI AFFORD. Commissioners of Marlon County, Attest: CYRUS J. CLARK, udltpr L Notice Is hereby, given that the undersigned the Hoard of Commissioners of Marlon county, Indiana, will, up to 10 o'clock a. m., Monday, April 18, 1M4, receive sealed bids for construction of bridge over Pleasant run. on Tenth street, on north line of Section 2, Township 15, Rang 4. in Warren township, according to plans and specifications on file In the office of the auditor of Marlon county. Each bid must be accompanied by a bond anl affidavit as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Witness our hands, this 2d dav of April. 1301. JOHN E. M GAUGHEY. . JOHN M'GREOOR. THOMAS E. SI AFFORD. Commissioners cf Marion County, Attest: CYRUS J. CLARK. Auditor. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned the Board of Commissioners of Marlon cointy, Indiana, will, up to 10 o'clock a. m.. Monday, April 18. 1904. receive sealed bids for construction of bridge ovt-r ditch on Muesslng road, in Section 15, Township 15. Range 5. in Warren township, according to plans and specifications on file in the oflico of the auditor of Marion county. Each bid must be accompanied by a bond an4 affidavit as required by law. The board reservea the right to reject any or all bids. Witness our hands, this 2d day of April. iMi. JOHN E. M GAUGHEY, JOHN M'GREOOR. THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Ccmmlf "loners of Marlon County. Attest: CYRUS JLCLARK, Auditor. Notl-e Is hereby given that the undersigned, the Hoard of Commissioners of Marion county, Indiana, will, up to 10 o'clock a. m., Monday, Arrll 18. 1304, receive sealed bids for construction of bridge over Pleasant run. on Arlington avenue, north of Irvinaton. according to plans and specifications on file in the office of tn auditor or Marion county. Each bid must be- accompanied by a bond and affidavit as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any aa t ft bide. , itness our hands, this 2d day of April. 1904. JOHN E. M GAUGHEY, ' JOHN M'GREGOR. THOMAS E. SPAFFORD. Commissioners of Marion County, Attest: CYRUS J. CLAKK, Auditor. Notice Is hereby jtlven that the undersigned. the Board of Commissioners of Marlon county. inaiana, win. up to :'J o clock a. m.. Monday, April IS, lf4. receive sealed bids for construc tion of bridge on Crawfordsvllle road, in Section 2ö, Township 16, Range- 2. in Wayne townfhip. according to plans and specifications t.n fila fn tri- oince or the auditor of Marlon county. Kach bid must bo accompanied by a bond and aP'.davit as required by law. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Witness our hands, this 2d äav of Arrll. 1DCL JOHN E. M'OAUOHEY. JOHN M'GREOOR. THOMAS E. PAFFORD. Commissioners of Marion County. Attest: CTRUS J. CLARK. Auditor. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. the Hoard cf Commissioners of Marlon county. inniana win. up to 10 o clock a. m.. Monday. April IS. 'M.- receive sealed bids for construction of bridge over ditch on road between Sections ?2 and 33, Township 16. Range 5, in Warren township, according to plans and specifica tions on file In the ollioc of the auditor of Marion county. Each bid must be accomjan!ed by a bond and affidavit as required bv law. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bi3s. Witness our hands, this 2i dar of April. !i04. JOHN E. M'OAI'OHEY, . JOHN M'GREGOR. THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Commissioners of Marlon County. A 1 1 est: CYRUS J. CLARK. Auditor. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned' the Board cf Commissioners of Marlon county, Indiana, will, up to 10 o'clock a. m.. Monday, Apill 1. 131, receive sealed M1s for construe, tlon of bridge over Grassy erc-ek. on north Una of Section 4. Tonhlp 1". Rang S. In Wairetj township, according to p!-.ns and specific atlont m file in the cfTice e-f the auditor of Marlon county. Each Md must be- accompanied by a bond and affidavit as required by law. The board reer es the right to reject any or all bids. ' Witness our hands, this 21 dav of Arrll. Wt. . JOHN E. M'G AUGHEY. JOHN M'GREGOR. THOMAS E. STAFFORD. Commissioners of Marion County, Attest CYRUS J. CLARK. Auditor. ""Notlre is" hereby given that the undersigned the luard of Commissioner ef Marion county, " Indiar.r.. will, up to 1 o'clock a. m.. Monday, May 2. 1"4, receive sealed bids for construction cf brif'ire over I.lck cree-k. on Rlufr read. in Section Teiwnfhlp 15. Ranre 3. In Perry township, according f plans and specifications on file in the office of the auditor of Marlon count v. Each bid must be. accomnanlcd by a bond an affidavit as required b- law. The board reserves the right to reject any or ail bids. Wltnesu our hands. tM 21 day of April, iwi. JOHN E M'GAUC.HEY. JOHN M GREGOR. THOMAS E STAFFORD. Cornmlsloners of Marlon County Ätte4: CYRUS JCI.AJtK. Auditor. Cotlee"iV hereby given that the underslYne the Hoard cf Commissioners "f Marlon county, Indiana, will, up to 10 o'clock a. m.. Monday, April IS. 1W4. receive sealed bids for construe, tlon of bridge over Indian creek, on Rel roaf, in Section 15. Township 1. Range S, in Iiwrenca township, according to plans and sper ifirattona on file In the otTce of the auditor of Marlon countv. K.ich bid mut be accompanied by a bond and affidavit as required bv law. The hoard reserves the right to reject any or Alt bin. Witness our hands. tr, 1. tr.l 2d dar of April. 190 JOHN E M'GAUOHET JOHN MGREGOR. THOMAS E. FTAFFOnrv t ommi-i. -Tiers or Marlon t'ou ... - . . m . ..... ...... v" uei; wxikua .. . wvjvxv. Auditor.