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S. SHEETING [eport of the Sessions Held at Hfayman Chapel, Indianapolis. The S. S. Convention of the Indianjlia Dist., met at Wayman Chapel me 25 and adjourned Friday June 'tomeet at Greeacastle in 1903. Delegates and preachers were presInt from ten churches namely: Green jastle, Logansport, Frankfort, Crawjrdsville, Danville, Lafayette, Thorn. >wt>* Koblesville, Bethel Church and dayman Chapel of Indianapolis. The morning session of the first day ras taken up in appointing committees The afternoon session was opened rith devotional exercises conducted !>y Thomas Jackson, delegate from 3 laicfie]d, ,, The District Superintendent, John Kersey read the reports of the diftftnt Sunday Schools, which showed »t of them to be in a flourishing Indition The welcome address was made by fehu W. Evans, Secret*! y of theY. C, A. and was responded to by Rev l. M. Taylor, from Logansport. Both the address and response were highly ippreciated by the members of the [convention. After singing, Rev. 1 'oleman of the Richmond District, made some very interesting remarks to the Convention The first topic on the program for discussion was Teachers helps in pre paring the lesson. The discussion was opened by Rev. Downs, of Bethel. It was thoroughly discussed by the pastor and delegates, each giving suggestions as to the. best method for a teacher to prepare his lesson. Miss Myrtle Smith of Greencastle read an interesting paper on “Tha Normal Course.” In this excellent paper, Miss Smith emphasized the importance of every teacher taking the Normal Course. She.said that it makes the teachers better qualified to teach the word of God to the little cnes. Everyone who heard was greatly benefited. Rev. Radliffe made some very interesting and appreciative remarks to the convention. The evening session was devoted to preaching by Ruv O’Banyoun. Thursday morning there were three or four very interesting discussions and papers read on “Personal work among scholars.” The discussions showed what the teachers are doing and what they should do io regard to working among the scholars and keeping alive their interest in the Sunday School. Mr. King, delegate from Logansport discussed the topic “Parents Duty to the Sabbath School,” by means of a ehart which proved to be interesting. Another interesting and appreciative paper was read by Miss Lavertia Siler, from Plainfield. Her topic was, “Is ths Sabbath School Convention a Benefit?” In this paper the benefits derived from a Sabbath School Convention were so plainly set forth that none could help seeing them. Dr. Batson of the Church Extension made some verv beneficial suggestions to the convention in regard to the musis of the Sabbath-schoo 1. The afternoon session was very brief, Mrs. Allen of Lafayette conducted devotional exercises after which the convention adjourned to attend the C. E. Convention at Tomilsoo H-ll. In the evening the election of officers for the eosueing year were as follows: John D. Kersey, Dist. Sup’t., Frankfort; G. C. King, Secretary, Logansport; Josephine Smith, Ass’t Secretary, Thorntown; Blanche Radcliffe, Treasurer, Frankfort. After the elec tion of officers and some remarks by Mr. Kersej and Mr. King, the convention adjourned. This was followed by an entertainment and receptio under the auspices of Bethel Church. An in cresting paper on “How Best to Im prove Collections for General Purpos. es” was read by Flora Harper, dele gate from Frankfort. The paper was thoroughly discussed by all present An interesting feature of the convention was the Round Table. In this talk the pastors and delegates recalled the topic which had been of more interest and benefit to them and brought out its good points. Hon. Gurley Brewer made a very interesting and appreciative address to the convention and offered to incorporate the statitics of the convention, if they would be given to him. Miss Carrie Heston from Wayman Chapel read an interesting paper on “The Primary Department,” and Mr. Tiester read one equally as interesting on “How to Secure Home Study of the Lensou The combined repor s of the Sunday Schools were as follows: No. of schools, 9; scholars this year, 532; deaths, 9; conversions, 23; total money raised, 9314.39, The convention adjourned Friday at 1:00 p. m. and everyone expressed himself as having been great ly benefited by the ponvention Emancipation Addresses. Hon. Gurley Brewer has been invited to deliver Fmanoipation Day addresses at Marion August 1; Princeton August 2; and Logansport August 4.

K. P. GRAND LODGE MEETS Reports Show lacreaseln Membership and Finance—New Officers Elected. The fifth annual convention of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana, was held in Connersville, begining Tuesday and'closing Thursday night. The Grand Lodge met with Me. Intosh looge No. 4. The degree was confered upon ten candidates. The reports of the Grand Lodge officers showed a large increase in membership and finance. For the releif of Knights during the past year, the sum of $1,115.25 wa» paid out. The balance cash on hand July 1, was $1 896 80. Tuesday evening a public reception was was held at the Methodist church. An interesting program was carried out, the welcome address by Mayor Clark being responded to by Grand Chancellor Porter. Wednesday night a concert was given at Mt. Zion Baptist church.

Rkmus Moore. Grand Chancellor.

The following officers and represen tatives wtre present: G. C., W. H. Porter; G. K. R. & S., Remus Moore G. M. of E., Henry Sweetland; G. V. of W., W. M. Reed, of Indianapolis; Grand Prelate. S. R. Oxindine, Richmond: Grand Lecturer, Dr. C. R Atkins, Anderson; G. Inner Guard, Chas. Lanier; G. Outer Guard, Rufus Hammond; G. Master at Arms, Jerry ITranklin. Indianapolis; G. Medical Regist .r, J. H. Ballard. Representatives, Silas Redmond, H. M. Hart, No. 2., Geo. P. S ewart, Corwin Ernest, John D. Morris and Geo. F. Dungey. of Indianapolis; S. R. Ox indme, Richmond; Geo. Washington* Connersville; B. Corley, Irvington; U S. Dempsey. Nobelsville and Hope Hall. Anderson; Jus. A. Shelton and James Pittman, Indianapolis. Thursday night a grand banquet and public reueption was held at the Odd Fellow’s Hall The attendance was large, and the affair was greatly enjoved by all present. The election of officers resulted as follows: G. C., Remus Moore, Indianapolis; V G C., William Dempsey, Noblesville; G. P , Geo. Washington, Connersville; G. M. of E., S. R. Oxet-dine, Richmond; G. K. of R. and S., Jas. N. Shelton, Indianapolis; G. M at Arms, Hillie Hart, Ind’p’ls; G. M. Reg., Dr. C. R Atkins, Anderson; G. Lecturer, Jno. D. Morris, Indianapolis; G. I. Guard, Silas Redmond, Indianapolis; G. O. Guard, Jerry Franklin. The next Grand Lobge will convene in Indianapolis. William H. Porter, was elected Supreme Representative-

General Race News A charter was last week granted to the Young Negro Business Association, of Richmond Va., formed to create and develope industrial andagriculturial enterprises and buy and sell real estate in or out of that state. Capital not less than $1,000 or more than $10. 000.00, divided into shares of $10.00 each. Officers for the first year are: J. M. Dabney, president; W. O. Turner, first vice-president; A. D. Price, second vice-president, Claude C. Brown, sec retary; Matthew C. White, treasurer; J. R. Pollard, attorney. J. A. Lomax of Chillicothe, O., owns and conducts a carpet factory. He manufactures awnings, parlor stools, tents, cuts, renovates and lays carpets. His place is equipped with nearly $1,800 worth of machinery. The Historical and Literary Congress of Ihe Fourth Episcopal district of the A. M. E. church, ot which Bishop Grant is tne founder, will convene for a three days session next Wednesday, in Detroit’ About seventy-five ministers and laymen are expected to present. Prof. Fred D. Blake of Terre Haute has been appointed by Mayor Steeg, of that city, as secretary of the Board ot Health. The State of New Jersey, which has a population of 70.000, are to have a Stabe Industral school to be conducted on the lines of the Tuskegee Institute. Such a school will have plenty of students and all of them will not come from the Middle States and the New England States. Jonesboro, a new village now being laid at Fort Lee, five miles from Richmond, Va., is being populated by negroes only. The site consists of 800 acres, cut up into building lots, a park orchards, grazing lands and small farm for truck.

FROM THE CAPITAL One of the State's Most Interesting Institutions Described. INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE BUND

Not an Asylum, but an Educational Institution Where Children Receive Scholastic and Technical Training— Affairs Administered in Accordance With Strict Business Principles— Movements of Indiana Senators. [Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, July 15.—One of the most Interesting and at the same time one of the most beautiful places In Indianapolis is the Indiana Institution for the Blind. The main building, set In the midst of ample grounds, which are shaded with fine old trees and adorned with well-kept flower-beds, looks like the ante-bellum capitol of some Southern state. When the institution, one of the pioneer state schools for the blind, was located here more than half a century ago, the grounds were on the outskirts of Indianapolis. Now the real estate is the most valuable owned by any one state institution; occupying a half block within a half mile of the center of business, it would bring more than $500,000. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that of the million and a half dollars spent by the state for the education of the blind, nearly one-third has been returned to it in convertible property by the increase in the value of the spot upon which this great work has been carried on. Despite the fact that this institution has been in operation since 1847, the character of its work is so little known by the general public that nine out of every ten tax-payers of Indiana if questioned would say that it is an asylum where the blind are cared for as helpless wards of the state. While the attendance is greater now than it has ever been, yet many counties of Indiana are unrepresented at the school, and it is said that two-thirds of its students come from within a circle having a radius of seventy miles, with its center at Indianapolis. Oul of the 164 students enrolled during the school year recently closed, none was present from Spencer, Dubois, Perry, Crawford, Clark, Scott, Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Ripley, Dearborn, Franklin, Noble, Lagrange, Steuben, Beaton, Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Lake Starke or Porter counties, and the enrollment from these and other counties comparatively remote from the capital has been insignificant sinee the establishment of the institution. Yet there is no educational institution In the state more useful to its students or doing a work so peculiarly its own. Character of the Work. For nine months of the year, and through a course extending over the regular eommon and high sohoot period of twelve years, ohildren with eyesight so impaired as to be unable to carry on tha work of tha public schools are taught not only tha eommon branches, with tha more important subjects of ordinary high school study, but are given an industrial training which has enabled many of the graduates of the institution to earn a livelihood after leaving It. Iftislc, for which the blind manifest a special aptitude, is made an Important branch Of the work of the school. One Interesting department of the work is the manufacture of stereotype platas from which multiple copies of musical exercises are printed and distributed among the pupils. The subjects of those selections range from the simplest ballads to concerted compositions by Moszkowski and Mascagni. Another indication of the tendency of the blind toward all that pertains to music is the popularity of the course in piano tuning offered in the industrial school. The institution has turned out a great many efficient piano tuners, an unusual delicacy of hearing eoming to the rescue of the sightless to most cases. Fully 100 of the 164 pupils in the school are entered In some one or more of the musical ooarees. The chief problem with the bMnd is one of occupation, not only because it te necessary to many ae a means of KveHhood and opportunRlee for the eaerclse of their natural industry are few, but because observation being denied, the long hours must be made less tedious by busy hands. In the industrial school, besides piano tuning, the boys are taught broom and ebalr work; the girls sewing. Last year more than 1,600 brooms were made at the institution, and nearly 490 ehatau were caned. Nearly a thousand articles were made with the needles of Mur gMe, not only sewing, but eroShuMuc and ornamental beadworir being taught. Attsnduaee and Administration. The Indiana Institution for the Bduoatlon of the Blind ranks not only among the largest, but the most efflcfently managed schools of its character in the country. The attendance has gradually increased year by year sinee 184T. The present superintendent, Mr. Qeocge 8. Wilson, who came from the superintendency of the Greenfield schools to take charge of the InstltuMpp five years ago, has shown a masked aptitude for the work assigned to him. He has materially reduced the per capita expense of maintaining the school without decreasing the advantages offered. In 1895 the pur capita cost of maintenance was

$267.76; during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1991, it was a little less the* $294.06. Fourteen teachers, four laborers and six general'officers are employed. With the comparatively meager appropriation of little more than $30,000, the institution does a work of the greatest value, and highly creditable to the state. The management of the institution, during the administrations of Governors Mount and Durbin, has been vested in a bi-partisan board. The strictest business methods prevail in the management of its affairs. All supplies are purchased from the lowest and best among competitive bidders, are paid for only on vouchers approved by the board and filed with the auditor of state, and are distributed only on requisitions approved by the superintendent and made of record. The system of bookkeeping is the same as that enforced in the various state institutions at this time. The administration is one of economy and strict accountability from a financial standpoint, and from an educational standpoint the institution has never accomplished better results than are now manifest. Taking a Little Rest. Senator Beveridge is off for a two months’ vacation trip to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. The senator needs rest and will return physically fit for the active speaking campaign in which he will engage immediately upon his return to Indiana. Senator Fairbanks will watch the development of a campaign in which he is vitally interested, at closer quarters, dividing his time between his farm in Illinois and his office at Indianapolis, with the Indiana state capital having the advantage in the division. It is considered not unlikely that he will speak on public occasions before the formal opening of the state campaign. The speaking campaign will not be a long one, but it will probably be possible for one of the Indiana senators to be heard in every county In the state before the election, and in some of the larger centers of population it is possible that both of them will speak. Governor Durbin has Just returned from a vacation enforced by the condition of his health. It is remembered that several of Indiana’s recent governors have been tried beyond human endurance by the onerous, duties of the office. Governor Durbin, a busy man throughout his lifetime, seems to find it difficult to act on the advice of Ms friends and take an occainonal rest, but he was finally induced to make a trip to the north somewhere, fishing with his friend “Bob” DePauw. Editors Take an Outing. This is'the week set for the annual outing of the members of the Indiana Republican Editorial association. The trip will be by way of Sandusky and across the lake to Putrln Bay, from whence side trips will be taken to various points on the lake. There wW be no keynote speeches by visltlnc statesmen and no effort to outline a party policy; social enjoyment and better acquaintance among newspaper men is the sole!object of the trip, as the association holds its business meeChig daring ths winter. It has besn remarked that there is something especially appropriate in view of psesent political conditions in the fact that the Indiana Republican editors will make their headquarters at the Motel Victory, while their Democratic colleagues gathered for their midsummer meeting at a health resort. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ HOW THE tTATE DEBT ♦ ♦ HAS BEEN SCALED DOWN ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The great reduetion of the + 4 elate debt which has been ac- 4 ♦ compllshed during the present ♦ 4 era of Republican eontrol hae 4 4 been effected through no polloy 4 4 of niggardlmeee, and there haa 4 4 been a substantial reduction, 4 4 rather than an inereaee of the 4 4 tax levy. 4 4 Here is one item going to 4 4 show how it is that the admin- 4 4 istrations of Governors Mount 4 4 and Durbin are able to make 4 4 so good a showing. In 1896, 4 4 when the Republican party 4 4 came into control of financial 4 4 affairs in Indiana, the auditor 4 4 of state received 10 per cent of 4 4 the fees of his office. The same 4 4 rule obtained In other state of- 4 4 flees. The fee and salary law 4 4 passed by the Republican leg- 4 4 ielature of 1896 took away 4 4 these perquisites. In the insur- 4 4 ance department of the state 4 4 auditor’s office alone, the collec- 4 4 tions from 1895, including the 4 4 present year, aggregate one 4 4 and three-quarters millions of 4 4 dollars. The state auditor's 4 4 commission on these fees under 4 4 the old order of things^ would 4 4 have been more than $176,000, 4 4 representing a dead leas to the 4 4 state. 4 4 It has not been so very 4 4 many years ago that state of- 4 4 fieials received all the feee. 4 4 Under such a system there 4 4 would have gone into private 4 4 ooffere during the past seven 4 4 years from the state auditor's 4 4 office alone more money than 4 4 was expended in the construe- 4 4 tion of the state capitol. 4 4 Republican legislative candl- 4 4 dates in Indiana stand for a 4 4 denial of the theory that a pub- 4 4 He office le a private graft. A 4 4 vote for them Is a vote to en- 4 4 dorse economy, honesty and 4 4 sound business methods in the 4 4 administration of the state's af- 4 4 fairs. 4

Race Prefers Extermination Last Friday afternoon the Rev. Edward L Gilliam, D. D. (colored), of the Lexington conference, spoke to the Indiana Epworth League on “The Negro in the Methodist Church—Why?” At the close of his address he digressed to say the Negroes of the United States preferred to face extermination as a certainty in American soil than voluntarily to surrender their birthright m American civilization. He refered to the work of the Methodist church in opposing slavery, which caused the secession of that part which became the M. E. church South. He said there are about 300,000 negroes cm the rolls of the Methodist church, not counting the members of the A. M .E. and A. M. E. Zion church. He praised the work of the education being done Mi the South by the Methodist church. “Wecontinue members of the M. E. church.” he said, “because she has always been the friend of our race, because like the Bible she knows no North, no South, no East, no West— the world is her parish; because she extends an invitation to all men to ceme to her altars. “We remain when the hydra head of race prejudice and caste rise , whether on the:bishop’s bench, in the editor’s chair, the pastor’s rostrum, in the layman’s pew, the church speaks in no uncertain tones and says ‘color shall be no bar’. “We remain, because even though it is stated by those high in her councils that there are conferences which would not submit to the presidency of a colored bishop, that we have such manly editors as David H Moore, now bishop who fearlessly says to all such conferences that the sooner they sever their connection with the church, the better it will be for all concerned, even though but a Gideon’s 300 be left, yet the church would be victorious. * * * “But say some of our critics, ‘There are men and women in the M. E. church who do not want you in there, and who are not your friends.’ Granted. But ought w« to be surprised? Among the holy angels there were traitors to Jehovah; the apostles had their Judas; and the American army its Arnold; the United States its seceders, yet in eaeh instance God reigned aud right prevailed. Should we leave the church because the opioionsof this class of individuals is against us’ when the church has said so many times that no man should be known by his color, when she has shown her love for us by her works and by her devotion to our interests? “Ought we to leave when we have a Central (Tennessee) College, now Walden University, which was presided over for a third of a century by that friend of the race, John Braden? A Gammon Theological Seminary and a Clark University , baptised and consecrated with the best thought and energy and wealth of a Gammon and a Haves? Or a Meharry Medical College, made possible, through the munificenoe of our fellow-Indi«iniaas, the Meharrys? Ought we to leave when the best years of a Rust, s Hamilton, a Hartzell are freely given for our people, and when the eyes of the world are being turned to the M. E. church for more light upon the negro problem?” KING EDWARD'S AILMENT.

July 20 In History. 1588—Spanish armada attacked by Howard. 1854—Caroline Anne Southey, poet and novelist, widow of the laureate, died; born 1787. 1870—Beginning of the Fran co-Prussian war. 1887—Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., the novelist, died in Hyde Park, Mass.; born In Waterville. Me., 1823. 1897—Jean Ingelow, British poet and novelist, died in London; born 1880. 1900— China appealed to France, Japan and the United States to Intercede with the powers. Rout of the Chinese on the Amur by the Russians. Sharp fighting between the Boers and English Invaders in the Transvaal. 1901— Susanna Du Plessls Kruger, wife of President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic, died at Pretoria; born 1836.

Burna

July 21 In History. 1706—Robert Burns, poet of Scotland, died at Dumfries; born near

Ayr, 1759.

1884 — Collision off Cape Finistere between Laxhorn and Gijon; 130

lives lost.

1888—Charles Theodore Eugene Duclerc, senator and former premier of France, died In Paris;

born 1813.

1898— Rear Admiral Melanchthon Smith, U. S. N., retired, died at Green Bay, Wis.; born 1810. 1894—Frederick Ferdinand Low, ex-gov-ernor of California and United States minister to China In the sixties, died at San Francisco; born 1828. 1896—Mrs. John Hoey, once a noted actress In Wallack’s company, died at Long Branch, N. J.; born 1821. Charles Dickens, Jr., son of the novelist, died at Kensington, England; bom 1837. 1899— Robert G. Ingersoll, soldier, lawyer and noted agnostic, died at Dobbs Ferry; born 1833.

July 22 In History. 1298—Battle of Falkirk; the Scotch were badly beaten, and Sir John Graham was killed. 1403—Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy) was killed in the battle of Shrewsbury. 1707—England and Scotland were united in one kingdom called Great Britain. 1832—The Duke of Relchstadt, or Napoleon II., only son of Napoleon L, died near Vienna; bom 1811. 1864—General James B. McPherson, commander of the Federal Army of the Tennessee, was killed In front of Atlanta; born 1829. 1883—General Edward Otho Cresap Ord, distinguished American soldier of the civil war, died in Havana; born in Maryland 1818. 1895—Professor Rudolf Gneist, eminent German scholar and professor, instructor of the reigning kaiser, died in Berlin: born 1826. 1900—Lucius E. Chittenden, former register of the United States treasury, died at Bennington, Vt.; born 1826.

July 23 Id History. 1798—Land battle of Abookeer; Bonaparte almost annihilated the Turkish army of Mustapha Pasha1816—Charlotte Saunders Cushman, actress, was born in Boston; died 1876. 1866—Great riot in Hyde park, London; reform meeting broken up by the police. 187S—Isaac Merritt Singer, sewing machine inventor, died. 1885—General Grant died in the Drexel cottage at Mount McGregor; bora 1822. 1888—Courtlandt Palmer, agnostic and trimillionaire, died near Brandon, Vt.; bom 1843. 1893—Port Louis, capital of Mauritius, devastated by fire; It was wrecked by a hurricane in 1892. 1897—The Dlngley tariff law went into effect at midnight.

His Physician, Sir Frederick Treves,

Wrote Interestingly of It.

What physicians regard as one of the most exhaustive essays written on the subject of perityphlitis is that of Sir Frederick Treves, published in Thomas Clifford Alibutt’s “System of Medicine.” Every phase of the malady is treated in that essay, and many of the typical cases cited bear remarkable similarity to that of King Edvard, says the Detroit Free Press. The following are some extracts from

that essay of interest to laymen:

Perityphlitis represents the very commonest variety of peritonitis, and the remarkable frequency of inflammation in this position is due to the fact that the appendix is one of the weakest points within the abdomen. Perityphlitis may be met in patients of all ages. Cases have been recorded in children respectively seven and thirteen months of age. On the other hand, the disease has been met with in patients of advanced age. The great proportion of cases occur in young

adults, and the period of greatest fre- , e ot L „ LsuM quency is between ten and twenty. Tavlor roierfdi

The following table is compiled by Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Fritz, the total being 452 cases: Proportion

of cases. Per cent

5 to 10 years 10.8 10 to 20 years. 40.7 20 to 30 years 29.0 30 to 40 years 11.5 40 to 50 years 4.6 Over 50 years . 3.4 A large proportion of the subjects of perityphlitis, especially the subjects above the age of twenty, are chronic dyspeptics. They bolt their food or their meals are irregular or they hurry over their meals or they begin active work as soon as their repast is finished. Many of these people have a morbid appetite; many of them are aware that an attack is generally preceded by an aggravation of the dyspeptic symptoms. The holiday season is generally very productive of cases of perityphlitis. Certain of the patients are nervous persons, who seem to be victims of a kind of nervous dyspepsia. In the second place, the history of an indigestible meal is comparatively frequent in the account of events which immediately precede the actual attack. The general features of an attack are sudden severe abdominal pains.

VV Oman's Work and Merit). LOVE DIES NOT.

July 24 In History. 1783—Simon Bolivar, South American liberator, bom In Caracas, Venezuela; died 1830. Bolivar descended from a noble Peruvian family. He studied In Europe and witnessed the closing scenes of the French revolution. Returning to America, he Van Buren. visited the United States, then joined the revolutionary movement In South America. Successively as general, dictator and president, In Venezuela, the United States of Colombia and Peru, he led the fight against Spain. The Bolivian code framed for Bolivia, a new state formed out of upper Peru, Was adopted by Peru, and Its author became president for life of that state. The sword of Bolivar liberated three states, and his genius organized them for a free existence. 1798—John Adams Dix, general and statesman, born in Boscawen, N. H.; died

1879.

1803—Alexandre Dumas, the novelist, bora;

died 1870.

1862—Martin Van Buren, ex-president, died at Kinderhook, N. Y.; born 1782. 1897—General Lafayette McLaws, a noted Confederate officer and a veteran of the Mexican war, died in Savannah;

born 1821.

1899—The Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer, noted Universalist writer and educator, died In Boston; born 1804. July 25 In History. 1471—Thomas a Kempis, quaint old author,

died.

1750—Henry Knox, American general, secretary of war under Washington, born

In Boston; died 1806.

1794—Baron Trenck, famous for his escapes from prison, guillotined at Paris.

1834—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and

critic, died; born 1796.

1863—General Sam Houston, Texas patriot, at one time governor of Tennessee and later of Texas, died at Huntsville,

Tex.; born 1793.

1898—Major General lilies’ forces landed at Porto Rico and began the conquest of Spanish garrison troops. The same day Major General Wesley Merritt, American commander of the array In the Philippines, reached Manila with re-enforcements for the advance guard then under General T. M. Anderson. IflQl—President McKlaley proclaimed free trade between Porto Rico and the

United States.

July 26 In History. 711—King Roderick, "the last of the Goths,” defeated and slain by the

Moors in Spain.

1456—Henry VII. of England bom as Earl of

Richmond.

1739—George Clinton, “signer,” governor of New York and vice president, born in Ulster county, N. Y.; died Gem Morgan.

1812.

1863—John Jordon Crittenden, the Kentucky statesman, an ardent American supporter of Lincoln’s administration, died near Frankfort; bora 1787. 1891—Paul Dillingham, ex-governor, died at Waterbury, Vt.; bom 1799. 1898— General George W. Morgan, Mexican and civil war veteran, died at Fort Monroe; born 1820. 1899— General Ulisses Heureaux, president of Santo Domingo, assassinated.

The sun shines out for a day or two, And the heart of the seed awake and warms, And then the skies are no longer blue, And then comes shadows, clouds and storms. Pitiless rains that have their way, Hour after hour, day after day; And, oh ’tis comfort to me and you That love fades not as the sunbeams do! Stars go out in the quiet sky; Sunbeams fade and the moonbeams pale; Buds of beauty bloom but to die; All the fountains of pleasure fail; Rain and sleet on our bowers descend; Song and sunshine must have an end; But wherever our home, wherever our lot, ’Tie a comfort to know that love dies not. —Josephine Pollard, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ninetieth birthday was celebrated by negro residents of San Francisco in the old church on Stockton street, from the very pulpit where the patriot, Thomas Starr King, preached forty years ago to hold California within the Union and against the extension of slavery. Women will be represented at the coming congress of life-savers which is to be held at Nantes, France, in the latter part bf this month. The life-saving work of American women particularly will receive attention, inasmuch as they contribute not a little to the efficiency of the life-saving service of the United States, Women in America, it is thought, are now engaged in man’s occupations to an astonishing degree, but the innovation seems to be carried still further in Europe. In Germany, Switzerland and Holland women take part in the labors of agriculture. On the streets o* Munich women are employed to keep the car lines clean anc they are specially uniformed for the pur" pose in short skirts. Bavaria being well supplied with forrests, wood is largely used for fuel, and along the curb of Munich’s streets women fre. quentty sef! their firewood. In Zurich there are women bootblacks. In Germany the railway stations have women ticket ageobs, and women are custodians of museums in many foreign capitals. A GOOD SERMON. REV. W. W. LUCAS, MAKES SOME FORCIBLE REMARKS. A Negro minister, Rev. W. W. Lucas, seeretary of the Negro Young People’s Christian and Educational Congress, preached a sermon in Macon, Ga., a few days ago in which he told his people some truths that they needed to hear. He said: “I have decided that the only way to get rid of the “jim crow” car, is to get rid of the “jim crow” Negro. If I could use 200,000 bars of soap on the unwashed Negroes that travel on trains and hang around depots I would solve the Negro problem about twenty per cent. Lazy, ragged bare feet fellows, longing for silver slippers and long white robes and counting themselves worthy; neglecting to provide a home for their families on earth and yet claiming a house not made with their hands in God’s heaven. The white man is trying to make this earth blossom as a rose and the Negro is getting ready to die! The white man is or" ganizing business enterprises and the Negro organizing societies to turn out at their funerals! Now I object to a hundred dollar funeral for afifty-cent Negro, The Negro eats up and dresses away all he makes. One square meal on Sunday sweeps away all the wages of the week. He reminds me of the mule which ate the shipping tag from his leg. An old Negro exclaimed: “Gee, dat mule dun eat up his whar-he’s-gwine!” That’s what the Negro does. He eats up his living.”—Chattanooga Times.

LAST NEGRO LEAVESDecatuk, Ind., Special—The last negro has left this city. His departure was caused by the anti-negro feeling here, Abont a month ago a mob of fifty men drove out all the negroes, to the number of seven, who were then making this city their home. Sinee that time the feeling against the negro race has been intense, so much so that an anti-negro society was organized here. The colored man who has just left the city same about three weeks ago, and since that time has received many threatening letters. When he appeared on tne streets he was insulted and jeered at. For the past two weeks he has been on the streets onlf once or twice, and then he was acoompained by his employer, the proprietor of the Burt Hotel. An attack was threatened and he made a hasty exit. The anti-negroites in the city declare that, as the city is now cleared of negroes, they will keep it so, and the j importation of any more will undoubtedly result in serious trouble.