Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1889 — Page 6

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1889

TO SAVE TIIE PERISHING.

SOLEMN THOUGHTS ON THE WORK. lr. Tal mar Looking- Forward to th Salvation of Men of Every Race Th AI manao 6econl Only to the Bibla -Th Clock's rower. At the Brooklyn tabernacle, last Sunday, after expounding passages descriptive of the world as it hall be when gospelized, Dr. Talmage pave out the hymn: People and realms of eery tongue Dwtll on Iiis love with sweetest 0117. Text, Revelations, six., 4; "Amen; Alleluia." The nineteenth century is departing. After it has taken a few more Ptcps, if each year be a step, it will be pone into the eternities. In a short time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which fact makes the Bolemnest book outside the bible the almanac, and the most supsestive and the most tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth the clock. The last decade of this century upon which we shall soon enter will be the grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. 1 am glad it is not to come immediately, for we need by a new baptism of the holy ghost to prepare for it. That last ten years of the nineteenth century; may we all live to fee them! Does anyone pay that this division of time is arbitrary? Ob, no; in other ages the divisions of time may have been arbitrary, but our years tlate from Christ. lots auy one say that the jn"oupin of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, no; next to the figure reven, ten is with (.iod a favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten vears in Canaan. Ten righteous men wouIl Lave saved Solom. In the ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their riUars ten, and their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were ten lavers and tea candiestick and ten tables and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the commandments written on Mount isnai were ten, end ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew, and the reward of the greatly faithful is that they shall reign over ten cities, and in the etiort to take the census cf the New Jerusalem the number ten swines around the thousands, crying "ten thousand times ten thousand." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of the nineteenth century with an intensity of interest 1 can hardly describe. I have also noticed that the favorite time in many of the centuries for creat events was the dosing fragment of the centurv. Is America to be discovered, it must be in the last decade of the fifteenth century, namely, 1452. "Was free constitutional government to be well established m America, the last years of the eighteenth century must achieve it. Were three cities to be subnu rged by one pitch of Fcorue, Ilerculaneuni and Strähne and Pompeii in the latter part of the first century must go under. The fourth century closed with the most agitating ecclesiastical war of history Urban VI against Clement VII. Alfred the Great closes the uintk century, and Edward Ironsides the eleventh century with their resounding deeds. The sixteenth century closed with the establishment of religious independence in the United Netherlands. Aye, almost every century has had its peroration of overtowering achievements. As trie closing years of the ct nturies seem a favorite time for great scenes of emancipation or disaster, and as the number ten wems a favorite number in the scriptures, written by divine direction, and as we are ioon to enter upon the last ton years of the nineteenth century, what does the world propose? Whatdoes the church of Christ proprose? What do reformers propo.-e? I know not; but now, in the prest-nce of this consecrated assembly, I propose that we make ready, get all oür batteries planted and our plans well laid in what remains in this decade, and then in the last decade of the nineteenth century march up and take this round world for God. When I say we I mean the 500,000,000 Christians now alive. J tut as many of them will not have enough heart for'the w ork, let us copy Gideon, as he had 32,000 men in his army to fight the Midianites, but many of them were not made of the right sturf, and he promulgated a military order savins: "Whosoever is fearful and afraid let him return and depart early from Gilead," and L000 were afraid of petting hurt and went home, and onlv JO.OOO were left and God told them that even this reduced number was too large a number, for they might think they had triumphed independent of divine help, and so the number must be still further reduced, and only those should be kept in the ranks who in passing the river phould be so in haste for victory over their enemies that, though very thirsty, they would, without stopping ä second, just scoop up the water in the palm of their right hand, and scoop up the water in the palm of their left hand, and only .';0Q men did that, and those ilOO men, with the battle-shout "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon !" scattered the Midianites like leaves in an equinox; so out of the fiOO.OOO.UOO nominal Christians of to-day let all unbelievers and cowards go home and get oat of the way. And Buppose we have only 40O,OÜ0,0(iÖ left suppose onlv .'00,000,'JOU left suppose only 100,000,000 left yea, suppose we only have 50,000.000 left, with them we will undertake the divine crusade, and each one jut scoopinjrup a palmful of the river of God's mercy in one hand and a palmful of the river of God's strength in the other, let us, with the crv, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon," the sword of the Ix.rd and of John Knox, the sword of the Lord and of Matthew Simpson, the sword of the Lord and of L'ishop Mcllvaine, the word of the Ird and ot Adoniram Judfon, the sword of the Lord and of Martm Luther, go into the last decade of the nineteenth century. Is it audariou- for me to propose it? Ob, no; a captive servint in the kitchen of Naaman told the commander-in-chief where he could get rid of the blotches of his awful leprosy, and his complexion became fair as a babe's. And didn't Christ, in order to take the opthalmia out of the eyes of the blind man, use a mixture of spittle and dust? And who showed liiucher a short cut for his army so that, instead of taking the regular road, by which he would have come up late, lie came np in time to save Waterloo and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad, who perhaps could not write his own name? Ami so I, "who am less than the least of all saints," propose a short cut to victory, and am willing to be the expectoration on some blind eye and tell some of the brigadier-g-nerals of the Lord of hosts how thislenrosicd world may in the final decade of the nineteenth century have its flesh corne again as the flesh of a little child. Is there anything in prophesv to hinder this speedy consummation? No. home one begins to quote from Daniel about "time, times and a half time," and takes from I'evelation the seven trumpets, blowing them all at once in my ear. But with utmost reverence I take up all the prophecies and hold them toward heaven and say God never has and never will pton consecrated etiort and holy determination and magnificent resolve, and that if the church of God will rise up to ita full work it can make Daniel's time twenty years and his half time ten years. Neither

Isaiah, nor Ezekiel, nor Micah, nor Malachi, nor Jeremiah, nor any of the major or minor prophets will hinder us a second. Suppose the bible had announced the millennium to begin the year 1HS9, that would be no hindrance. In one sense God never changes His mind, being the same yesterday, to-day and forever. But in another sense he does change His mind and times without number every day, and that is when his people prav. Didn't he change his mind about Nineveh ? By God's command Jonah, at the top of voice, while standing on the steps of the merchants1 exchange and the palatial residences of that city, cried out: "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall bo overthrown!" Was it overthrown in forty days? No. The people gave up their sins and cried for mercy, and though Jonah got mad because his whole course of sermons had been spoiled and went into a disgraceful pouting, we have the record so sublime I cannot read it without feeling a nervous chill running through me. "(Jod saw their works that they turned from their evil wav, and God reoented of the evil that He had said lie would do unto them, and lie did it not." God is a father, and some of us know what that means, and some time when we have promised chastisement, and the child deserved it, the little darling has put her arms around our neck and expresses such sorrow and such promises of doing better that her tears landed on the lips of our kiss, and we held her a half-hour after on our knee, and would as soon think of slapping an ansel in the face as of even striking her with the weight of our little finger. God is a father, and, w bile He has promised this world scourgings, though they were to be for a thousand years, or five thousand years;. lie would, if the world repented, substitute benediction and divine caress. God changed IÜ3 mind about iodom six times. He had determined on its destruction. Abraham asked Him if He would not spare it if fifty righteous people were found there; and. narrowing down the number, it" forty-live people were found there; if forty people ; it thirty people; if twenty people; if ten people were found there. And each of the six times the Lord answered yes. Oh, why didn't Abraham go on just two steps further and say if live be found there and if one be found there, for then for the sake of Ix)t, its one good citizen, I think Sodom would have been spared. Light times does the bible say that God repented when he had promised punishments and withheld the stroke. Was it a slip of Faul's pen when he spoke of God's cutting short the work in righteousness? No, Paul's pen never slipped. There is nothing in the way of prophecy to hinder the crusade I have proposed for the last decade of the nineteenth century. The whole trouble is that we put off the completion of the world's redemption to such long and indefinite distances. The old proverb that "what is everybody's business is nobody's business" might be changed a little and made truthfully to say what is the gospel business of all the ages is the gospel business of no age. We are so constituted we cannot get up much enthusiasm about something 500 years from now or 1,000 years from now. We are fighting at too long a range. That gun called the "swamp angel" was a nuisance. It shot six miles, but it hardly ever hit anything. It did its chief destructive work when it burst and killed those who were setting it off. Short range is the effective kind of work, whether it be for worldly or religious purpose. iSoino man, with his eyes h.ilf shut, drones out to me the bible quotation, "A thousand years are as one day ;" that is, ten centuries are not long for the Ixml. But why do you not quote the previous sentence, which says that one dav is with the Lord as a thousand years That is, he could do the work of ten centuries in iwenty-four hours. The mightiest obstacle to Christian work is the impression that the world's evangelization is away oil'. And we take the telescope and look on and on through centuries until we see two objects near each other, and we strain our vision and guess what they are, and we call great conventions to see what they are, and we get down our heaviest theological works and balance our telescope on the lid ami look and look, anil finally conclude that they are tw o beasts that we see, and the one has hair and the other has wool, and we guess it must be the lion and the lamb lying down together. In that great cradle of postponement and somnolence we rock the church as thoush it were an impatient child, and say : "Hush, my dear; don't be impatient! Don't get excited by revivals! Don't cry! Your father's coming! Don't get uneasy! He will be here in two or three or ten or twenty thousand years." And we act as though we thought when Macaulay's famous New Zealander in the far distance is seated on a broken arch of London bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's, his grandchild might break in and jolt his pencil by asking him if be thought the millennium ever would appear. Men and women of the eternal (iod! Sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. We may have it start in the decade that is soon to commence, and it will be done if we can persuade the people between now and then to get ready for the work. What makes me think it can be done? First, b 'cause God is ready. He needs no long persuasion to do His work, for. if He is not willing that any should perish, He is not willing that any cf the people of the next decade shall persih ; and the whole bible is a chime of bcdls ringing out "Come, come, come," and you need not go round the earth to find out how much He wants the world to come, but just to walk around one stripped and bare and leafless tree with two branches, not arched, but horizontal. But He is waiting, as He said He would, for the cooperation of the church. When we are ready (Jod is ready. And He certainly has 11 the weaponry ready to capture tins world for the truth, alfthe weapons of kindness or devastation. On the one band the gospel and sunshine and power to orchardizeand gardenize the earth, aud fountains swinging in rainbow and Chatsworthian verdure and aromas poured out of the vials of heaven, while on the other band He has the weaponry of devastation, thunderbolt and conflagration, and forces planetary, 6olar, lunar, stellar or meteoric, that with loose rein thrown on the neck for a second would leave constellations and galaxies so many split and shivered wheels on the boulevards of heaven. And that God is on our sideall on our side. Blessed be His glorious name! Blessed was the hour when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace with him! If you continue to ask me why I think that the world can be saved in the final decade of the nineteenth century, I reply because it is not a great undertaking, considering the number of workers that will go at it, if once persuaded it can be done. We have sifted the f.00,000,000 of workers down to 40n,fWaOOO ami .TOO.000,000 and i?00,000,00 an.l 100,000,000 and to 50,000,000. I went to work to cipher out how many souls that number could brio;? to God in ten yearn if each one brought a soui every year and if each soul so brought should bring another each succeeding year. I found out, aided by a professor in mathematics, that we did not need anything like such a number of workers enlisted. You see, it ia simply a question of mathematics and in geometrical progression. Then I gave to the learned professor this problem: How many persons would it require tu start with if each one brought a soul into the. kingdom each year for ten years and each one brought another each succeeding vear in order to have 1,400,000,000 people " saved, or the population of tho earth at present? Iii

answer was 2,754,375 workers. So you see that when I sifted the 500,000,000 nominal Christians of the earth down to 50,000,000 and stopped there, I retained for this work 47,000,000 people too many. There it is in glorious mathematics, quod erat demonstrandum. Do you tell me that God does not care for mathematics? Then you have never 6een

the giant's causewav where God shows His regard for the hexagonal in whole ranges of rocky columns with six sides and eiiangles. Then you have not studied the geometry of the bee's honeycomb with six sides and six angles. Then you have not noticed what regard God has for the square; the altar of the ancient tabernacle four square, the breastplate tour square, the court of the temple in Ezekiel's vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid out four square. Or you have not noticed His regard for the circle by making it His throne "sitting on the circle of the earth," and fashioning sun and moon and stars in a circle, and sending our planetary system around other systems in a circle, and the whole universe sweeping around the throne of God in a circle. And as to His regard for mathematical numbers. He makes the fourth book in His bible the Book of Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel and numbers the troops of Sennacherib and numbers Solomon's hewers in the forest and numbers the spearmen and numbers the footmen and numbers the converts at Pentecost and numbers the chariots of God rolling down the steps of heaven. So I have a rirht to enlist mathematics for the demonstration of the easy possibility of bringing the whole world to God in the coming decade by simple process of solicitation, e:ich one only having to bring one a year ; although I want to take in 40,000, and I know men now alive who, I think, by pen or voice, or both, directly or indirectly, will take hundreds of thousands each, t-o you see that that will discharge some of the 2,751,375 from the necessity of taking anv. Another reason why I know it can be done is that we may divide the work up among the denominations. God does not ask any one denomination to do the work, or any dozen denominations. The work can be divided and is being divided up, not geographically, but according to the temperaments of the human familv. "We cm not say to one denomination you take Persia, and another, you take China, and another, vou take India, because there are all styles of temperaments in all nations. And some denominations are especially adapted to work with people of sanguine temperament or phlegmatic temperament or chronic temperament or bilious temperament or nervous temperament or lymphatic temperament The episcopal church will do its most effective work with those who by taste prefer the stately and ritualistic. The methodist church will do its best work among the emotional and demonstrative. The presbyterian church will do its best work among those who like strong doctrine and the 6tately service softened by the emotional. No each denomination will have certain kinds of people whom it will especially affect. So let the work be divided up. There the 750,000 Christians of the pre-byterian church north, and other hundreds of thousands in the presbyterian church south, and all foreign pntsbyterians, more especially Scotch, Knelish and Irish, making, I guess, about 2,000,000 presbvterians; the methodist church is still larger; the church of England on both sides the sea still-larger ; and many other denominations as much if not more consecrated than any I have mentioned. Divide up the world's evangelization among these denominations after they are persuaded it can be done before the nineteenth century is dead, and the last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Japaneso, the last American, the last Asiatic, the last African will see the salvation of (iod before he sees the opening gate of the twentieth century. But this brings me to the adjoining thought, natuelv, we have the money to do the work. I mean the 50,0)0,o(rj of Christians have it. Aye, the 2,751.000 Christians have it; and the dam which is beginning to leak will soon break, and and there will be rushing Hoods of hundreds, and millions, and billions of dollars in holy contribution when you persuade the wealthy men of the kingdom of God that the speedy con version of the world is a possibility, and that Isaiah, and Ezekit 1, and Daniel, and St. John will net stand in the way of it, but help it on. I have no sympathy with this bombard ment of rich men. We would each on be worth $5,000,000 if we could and by hard persuasion mitrht perhaps bi induced to take SI 5,000, 000." Almost every paper I take up tells of some wealthy man who has endowed a college or built a church or a hospital or a free library, and that thing is going to multiply until the treasury of all our denominations and reformatory organizations will be overwhelmed with munificence if we can persuade our men of wealth that the world's evangelization is possible and that they may live to see it with their own eyes. I have always cherished the idea that when the world is converted we would be allowed to come out on the battlements of heaven and see the bannered procession and the bonfin 8 of victory. But I would like to 6ee the procession closer by and just be permitted myself to throw on a fagot tor a bigger bonfire. And ii you persuade our men of wealth that there is a possibility for them to join on earth in the universal glee of a redeemed planet, instead of laborious beseeching for funds and arguing and flattering in order to get a contribution for Christian objects, our men of wealth will stand in line at a postoffice window or a railroad ticket office, but in this case waiting for their turn to make charitable deposit. The gentiles are not long going to allow themselves to be eclipsed by Mr. Hirsch, the Jew who has just given $40,000,000 for schools in FraDce, Germany and Itussia. I rejoice that sc much of the wealth of the world is coming into the possession of Christian men and woiiicn. And although the original church was very poor, and its members were fishdealers on the banks of Galilee, and had only such stock in hand as they could take in their own net, to-day, in the hands of Christian men and women, there is enough money to print bibles and build churches and support missionaries under God in ten years to save the world. Again, I think that the world's evangelization can be achieved in the time specified because we have already the theological institutions necessary for the work. We do not have to build them; they are built and they are filled with tens of thousands of young men, and there will be three sets of students who will graduate into the ministry before the close of this centurv, and once have them understand that instead of preaching thirty or forty years and taking into the kingdom of God a few hundred souls, right Ixdore them is the Sedan, Is the Armageddon, and these young men, instead of entering the ministry timid and with apologetic air, will feel like David, who came up just as the armies were Bet in array and he left his carriage and shouted for the battle and cried: "Who is thin ltncircurnnsed Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" and with five gravel stones skillfully flung sent sprawling the bragging ten-footer, his mouth into the dust ana his heels into the air. My friends, what but such a consummation could be a fit climax to this centnry? You notice a tendency In history and all about us to a climax. The creation week rising from herbs to fish, and from fish to bird, and from bird to quadruped, and from quadruped to immortal man. Tho

new testament rising from quiet genealogi cal table iu Matthew to apocalyptic doxology in I'evelation. Now, what can be an appropriate climax to this century, which has heard the puff of the first steamer, and the throb of the first otetho6cone, and the click of the first telegraph, and the clatter of the first sewing-machine,

and saw the tlash of the first electric lizht, and the revolution of the first steam plow, and the law of 6torms was written, and the American bible society and American tract society were born ; and instead of an audience laughing down Dr. Carey for advocating foreign missions, as was done at Northampton in England in the last century, now all denominations vying with each other as to who shall go the farthest and the soonest into the darkest ot the New Hebrides; and 300,000 souls have been born to God in the South Sea islands, and Micronesia and Melanesia and Malayan Polynesia have been set in the crown of Christ, and David Livingstone has unveiled Africa and the last bolted gate of barbaric nations has swung wide open to let the gospel in. What, I ask, with 1,000 interrogation points uplifted, can be a fit, an appropriate, and sufficient climax except it be a world redeemed? Yea, I beiieve it can be done if we get prepared for it, because the whole air and the whole heaven is full of willing help. "Are they not all ministering Spirits sent forth?" We make an awful mistake if we calculate only on the forces we can see. The mightiest army is in the air. My brethren, so much of selfishness, and pride, and rivalry, and bad motives of all kinds get into our work here that we are hindered. But the mighty souls that have gone up to the Hying armies of the sky have left an imperfection behind; and these souls are with us and without a fault and with perfect natures are on our side. You can not make me believe that after toiling here for long years for the redemption of of the world until, from exhaustion, some of them fell into their graves, they have ceased their interest in the stupendous conflict now raging, or tint they are going to decline their help. Irenrcus Prime! Honored on earth, but now glorified in heaven, have you forgotten the work toward which you gave for more than half a century your gracious life, your loving voice and your matchless pen? No! Then come down and help. Alexander Dufl ! Have you forgotten the millions of India for whose salvation you suffered in Hindoo jungle and thundered on missionary platform? No. Then come down and help. David Brainard! Have you forgotten the aborigines to whom you preached and for whom you prayed until you could preach and pray no more, lying down delirious amid the miasmas of the swamp? No! Then come down and help. Moncrieff and Freeman and Camphell I Have you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No! Then come down and help. I rub out of my eyes the stupidity and unbelief, and I, the servant of these great Elishas in the gospels, see the mountains all around about are full of horses of fire and chariots of fire, tad they head this way. Hovered over are we" by great clouds of witnesses and helpers. "Clouds of apostles in the air, led on bv Taul! Clouds of martyrs in the air, led on by Stephen! Clouds of prophets in the air, led onbylsaiati! Clouds of patriarchs in the air, led on by Abraham!" Clouds of ancient warriors in the air, led on by Joshua, and that bible warrior, at whose prayer astronomy once halted over Ajalon and Gibeon, seems now to lift one hand toward the descending sun of this century and the other hand toward the moon of the last decade, saying: "Stand thou still till the church of (iod gets the final victory !" Then let .lift take what remains of this decade to get ready for the final decade of the nineteenth century. You and I may not live to see that decade or may not live to see its close, but that 6hall not binder me from declaring the magnificent possibility. I confess that the mistake of my life has been, not that I did not work hard for I could not have worked harder and lived, as (iod knowsand myfamilyknow but that I have not worked under the realization that the salvation of this world was a near-by possibility. But whether we see it, the beginning or the closing of that decade, is of no importance, if only that decade can get the coronation, and then all decades shall kneel before this enthroned decade, and even the graygrown centuries will cast their crowns before it and it will be the most honored decade between the time when the morning stars sang together as tho libretto of worlds was opned and the time when the mighty angel, robed in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall, with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, swear by Him that liveth forever and ever that tiuie shall bo no longer. Allelulia! Amen! A Hallad. O. Rosal'e, my Roalio! So sweet and fair, my Rosalie I've matte our cottage home no bright The wedding home of you and me With lovlnj care nnl loving light And rarest flowers fair to see, My llosalie, my Rosalie! O, Rosalie, ni y Rosalie! So brijiht and blithe, my Rosalie! You died Ion? years ago, they say, And I'm a silly man grown old! They pass me by so strangely fj. The world is hard and drear and cold. My Kosaüe, my Rosalie! O, Rosalie, my Rosalie! My Io?, iiy life, my Eoialle! I moeV a merry laugh at them ! An angel child you'll always be. But what am I to do to item My burning lore, deep a the SC a, For yoa. my all, ray Rosalie! O, Rosalie, my Rosalie! Ho fairy-like, my Rosalie! I dream you'll come to me to-day. The mother-bird sinffi low and sect, The sun shines so surpassing gay, And I have made our cottage neat! My Rosalie, uiy Rosalie! O, Rosalie, my Rosalie! 'Tis all dream, iuy Rosalie! I know you'll ne'er come hack to me! For many many years ao, J rcinemt-er now, they laid you low In a grave as cold as icy soowl My K.walie. my Rosalie! Grecncastle, Ind. "Jacksosj Botd. The Bill Wsi All Right. rurk. "Will yon vote for my bill?" inquired the lobbyist of the legislator. "No, sir," replied the latter; "your bill is a winille." ''Why, innn, you must have the wrong bill in miml. I mean this fifty-dollar bill!" "Well, this appears to lr. a good bill," said the legislator, after examining it critically. "I'll vote for it, of course." rnihlnn'i Cliangea. IN. Y. World.1 Mr. De Style "Why, my dear, I'm glad to j see you so composed. When I left this mornins; you were weepinij and wailinsr and tearing j your hair, because FiJo wa sick." I Mrs. De tyle "Well, you see, just after you i left, Mrs. Tiptop tame in and told me that docs of Fiiio's breed were goini out of fashion. So I dried iny tear aod kicked him out." Dlaeord From Unanimity. Puckd "There is no dlflerenee whatever between the ; two political parties," remarked Chatterton. i "Thev are both agreed od wanting the spoils'" i "Uut don't you know, my dear fellow," re- ! turned Peg ram, "that that agreement causes I their greatest dilferencer' r A eood appetite is essential to (rood health, and loss of appetite indicates something wroni. Hood's arsaparilla creates and sharpens the appetite, assists the digestive organs and reirulates the kidneys and liver. Take Hood's i bursaparilla taü season. Sold by druggists.

HE WAS TIRED OF LIFE.

A MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN CHICAGO. Sydney Walters Takes Morphin in His Room at the Hotel Richelieu, Where He It act Besn Patting Up in Style Two Women In the Case. ClIICAGO, April IS. A gentleman who has been stopping at the Hotel Richelieu since April 10, and was registered as Sydney Walters, suicided with morphine in his room last niht. About 6:30 o'clock last evening a chambermaid passing Walter's room heard the labored breathing and notified the clerk. The dour of the room was found to be doubly bolted on the inside and it took some time to force an entrance. When this was eflected a physician was immediately summoned, and everything possible done to resuscitate Walters, but he was too far gone. The suicide was attired in a new and expensive full evening dress suit, including the regulation swallow-tail coat, white tie, bouttonaire, kiJ-gloves and patent leather shoes. He had evidently intended to die in good form and he succeeded. Why he committed suicide is cot yet thoroughly developed. That he bad two or more wives and was engaged in several gallantries is believed to have ha 1 something to do with it. Mr. Carrollson, chief clerk of the Richelieu, says thf.t Walters came to the hotel eight days ago. He took the best room in the house, threw his money around as though he owned a gold mine somewhere, gave big champagne suppers to hosts of gentlemen friends, drove out in the most expensive equipages, hail boxes at the opera and was a general swell all around. A search for letters or other things which would furnish a clew to the cause of the deed was fruitless. The only writing found was upon two telegrams, which read as follows: L'xiox Dei'OT, Clevklano, )., April 15. Received letters and am stayinz at No. H Johniontt Mas. C'YDnky Walters. Cleveland, O., April 17. Telegraph If you are coming and I will mod you. Mus. Sydnf.y Waltkks. Mr. Carrollson at once notified her by telegraph of Mr. Walters' death, and she arrived here this morning and gave testimony at the coroner's inquest. She said that she was married to Walter? in Cleveland six months nco. He was an Lnelishman by birth and was born in London, where he had done considerable work as a journalist, .''even years ago he came to this country and did work for diiierent publishing-houses about the country. .She said she received three letters from Walters one on Friday last, the second on Saturday and the last one yesterday. In one of these he said he was going to kill himself. Business was bad; was not any prospect of it getting better and he was determined to end his life. "He tried several times before to kill himself," concluded Mrs. Walters, "but he was always prevented from carrying out his destirns." Later in the day Mr. Morris Greenherg of this city called at the llichelieu and informed Mr. Carrollson that Walters hoarded with him in this city in 1S87, together with his wife, an actress, whose name is Malvina ltcnner. He seemed to have plenty of money, and lived in style. After retidin? with Mr. Cireenberg for seven mouths the two moved to the north-side, where they started housekeeping at 2uS La Salle-ave. They lived in the bight of style, went into the best society, had a grand turnout, and were much sought after by the .well people of the nor:h-Md An adventure of gallantry, in which Mrs. Walters discovered her husband to have been the principal, led to a separation, and the wife re'umed to the stage. She is said to be playing in a variety theater in Minneapolis at present. Her brother, George Renner, is treasurer of the Olympic theater in this city. To a reporter be said: "Walters came to this country eight years aero and seven years ago he married my sister. His past life was always shrouded in mystery. A great many people who knew him in the old country said he had ! een a deserter from the English army, had been tried and convicted and was just about to be transported as a convict wheu he escaped and came to America. He was a fearfully w ill fellow anil never supported my sister, and sin was coming to Chicago this week to institute proceedings for divorce. He was continually in scrapes with other women and several months aero, for weeks, he had three or four, and sometimes half a dozen, women at the La Salle-ave. house, where they carried on scandalously. He was a gambler and spent nil he could get hold of in card playing. How many other wives he had I don't know." After his separation from Malvina Renner Walters went to New York and thenee to Pittsburg, where he met Nora Lrman. Subsequently they went to Cleveland, and it was she who came from Clevelaud and testified at the inquest to-day. WALTERS' ALLEGED WIFE. He Met Her In a yuestionxble Resort In ritt'tMirj; and Took Her to Cleveland. Cleveland, O., April 18. For the past week, the alleged wife of Sydney Walters has been residing with Kose Relmont, a notorious woman, on Johuson-st. From a resident of the same house a reporter heard the foliow ing6tory of Walters, which, it was said, had been told by the woman. The suicide is an Englishman and his family reside in that country. He called himself a journalist, and claimed this city as his home, although be traveled extensively through thesurrounding country. Some months ago he met Katie Lrmon in a questionable resort in Pittsburg. An intimacy spraug UP between the two and the young woman accompanied Walters to this city. They lived for a time at a fashionable hotel, where Kn;ie Ermon was known as Mrs. Sydney Walters. She claimed that he would have married her, but he could not obtain a divorce from his lawful wife, who he allered was Estelle Clayton, the actress. Walters' employer, a Mr. Perry, learned of the relations existing between the young man and his so-called wife and discharged him. The woman paid that Walters became despondent at this time and tried to commit suicide, but was resuscitated. He was unable to procure employment and left his watch at the hotel to settle his bill. The woman pawned her watch in order to give him money with which to go to Chicago in search of work. She stopped for a time at a respectable boardinar house, but running out of money was forced to leave a week ago. It was then that she sought shelter at the Johnson-st. house. She had received several letters from Walters during the last tew days, and on Wednesday afternoon was handed a missive from the young man stating that he had taken aconite and was dyisg. The letter began and ended with professions of atlection, and assigned despondency ns the enue for his act. A teleerurn was sent to the proprietor of the hotel llichelieu asking if the contents of the letter were true. Two hours later u dispatch stating that he was dead was received in reply. The young woman went to Chicago on the limited express Thursday morning. Scrofula is transmitted from parent to child, and thus becomes a family inheritance for generations. It is therefore the duty of every scrofulous person to cleanse his blood by a thorough and persistent course of Oyer's barsaparilla. Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, baring had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung Auctions, also a positive and radical cure for Ncr.-ous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, a'.ter having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of oases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a desire to relieve human sullering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this receipe, in German, French or English, with full directions lor preparinsr and usinj,'. Sent by mail bv addressing with stamp, naming this paper, V. A. NOYLS W Tower's Uiock, Rochester, N. Y. Consumption hurely Cured. To tiir Editor Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. 15y its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of iny remedy FREE to any of your re.ders who have consumption if thewill send me their express and P. 0. Address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocvm, M. C, 1S1 Pearl-sL, New York.

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ready mm. The most certain and safe Pain Remedy in the world that instantly stops the most excruciating pains. It ia truly the great CONQUEROR OF PAIN and has done more good than any known remedy. For Sprains, Bruises, Backache, Pain in the Chest or Sides, Headache, Toothache, or any other External Pain, a few applications rubbed on by the hand act like magic, causing the pain to instantly stop. For Colds, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Congestions, Inflammations, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Small of the l ack, etc., more extended and repeated applications are necessary to effect a cure. All Internal Tains, Paina in the Bowels or Stomach, Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, I)iarrhTa, Colic, Flatulency, Fainting Spells are relieved instantly and quickly Cured by taking internally a half toateaspoonfulof IlEADY HELLE? ia half a tumbler of water. Malaria in Its Various Forms FEVER AND AGUE. RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF Not or'.y cures the patient seized with malaria, but if people exposed to it will, every rn rning on getting out of bed, drink twenty or thirty drops of the Heady Kelief in a g;&ss of water, and cat a piece of cracker or a crust of bretid, they will escape attacks. With IIA IWA V'S PlLIö there is no better cure for fever ami aue. Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by druggists. ADVICE TO CONSUMPTIVES. Consumption is a Scrofulous disease occasioned by a deposit of tubercles in the lungs the upper portion of them generally. As the tubercles enlarge they begin to irritate the lunjjs by pressure on the surrounding parts. This creates a hacking cough. At length nature, in her endeavor to get rid of the annoying tubercles, sets up an inflammation; matter is secreted and the tubercle is softened. It then comes to a bead, or suppurates, and the matter is discharged into the nearest air tube. This the patient raises, which, for a time, allays the couh, but as the air cells fill up with tubercular matter, the blood can circulate but imperfectly through the lungs; hence it becomes more impure for the want of air, which lessens the power of nature to throw oS' the disease, outil at last the disease becomes so general and the cough so great that hectic fever and night sweats intervene, with bleeding of the lungs, until the patient finally sinks. NOW ADVAY'S Sarsaparillian Resolvent. Is the only Medicine that has ever yet struck t the root of the disease, acts in this wise: First, by its action on the glands, it purifies the blood and counteracts the Scrofulous habit of the body, which is the cause of the disease; second, it promotes the action of the absorbents that remove the deposited tubercles, and third, it allays the couch, giving immediate ease to the patient If patients, laboring under this disease, will follow the directions here laid flown, we w ill promise, in every case, that their complaint will be speedily relieved, it not entirely cured, by the use of this remedy. DIRECTIONS: Take from a teaspoon to a dessertspoonful of the UESOLVENT, in a little water if more agreeable, three times per day, half an hour after meaN. Eat good, nourishing food, such as beefsteak, mutton chop, venison, roast beef, sago, arrow root, tapioca, and the like. Drink as much milk as agrees with you. Pay particular attention to fresh air, cleanliness, exercise, and as a general thing comfort, as mnch as possible. Lofty and airy sleeping apartment, not exposed to drafts; and care to avoid and prepare for sudden changes of temperature: never go out of the house when the atmosphere is moist. Be careful not to catch fresh cold, but cure the one you have. Wear flannel underwear according to the season, which should be .hanged for drv nisrht and mornirir. Do but this, and the RESOLVENT will exceed your most santruine expectations, and fulfill our most confident promises. For pain in the chest, buck or limbs, rub with READY RELIEF applied by the palm of the hand, or flannel saturated; and if diarrhcra should trouble the patient (as it sometimes does) a dose or two of the RELIEF, that is, half a teasponful swallowed in half a tumbler of water, will check it. One of HEADWAY'S PILLS should be taken occasionally to induce healthy action of the Liver, etc. We concientiouslv recommend our SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT. READY RELIEF and PILLS for the ease and comfort and probable cure of all suPering from Consumption. It is cruel to give way to despondency. The mind exerts a wonderful influence over all diseases, and firm in the hope of a cure. Consumption must give way to the proper treatmenL HEALTH. STRENGTH. Türe blood makes sound flesh, strong bone, and a clear skin. If you would have your flesh firm, your bones sound, and your complexion fair, use RAD WAY'S 8A1UAPAKILLIAN RESOLVENT. THE SKIN, After a few days' use of the Sarsaparillia. becomes clear and beautiful Pimples, Blotches, Black Spots, and Skin Eruptions removed. Sores and Ulcers soon cured. Per. eons su "ering from Scrofula, Eruptive Diseases of the Eyes, Mouth, Ears, Legs, Throat ani Glands that have spread, either from uncured disenses or mTcary, may relr upon a c-ire if the Sarsaparillian ü taken. Sold by all druggists. 1 a botde. DR. I AD TV AY'S Regulating Pills, The Great Liver Remedy. Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, clsanse, and strengthen. DR. RADWAY'S PILLS. For the cure of all disorders of the Stms.ch, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Coativeness.Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation of the Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals, or deleterious drugs. Observe the following symptoms resulting from Diseases of the Ditrestive Organs: Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of Blood in the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fullness of Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or I Kluttennjof the Heart, Lhokinorbuiiocaunsr ! Sensations when in a lying posture. Dimness of ! Vi.inn llsita fir WtftHa hfnm thai Sir-Ht and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, and Sudden Hashes of Heat, Burning in tbe Flesh. A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the system of all the above-named disorders Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists.

To the Public. Be iure to ask for RADWAY'S tnd see that tho name of "HAD WAY" ü oa vhl jcu lujr.

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C"ACa'JAINTM WITH THE CfOCRAPHYOF THf COW"TTSU OBTAIN U JOi INFORMATION Fr&M A STUiTCFTMtS HAS CS TN SEAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE C.,R. I. P. ani C, K.4K. R-ya.) PTest, Northwest exd Southwest. Zt lncrafles CHICAGO, JOLIET, BCCZ ISLAND, BAVEJfport. DTJ3 naixrs, cotj::ctl eltttj-ts, vta. Trr0T7N. BICXTX FALLS, MINNE. PO LIS, BT. PATJI.. BT. JOSEPH. ATCHISON. LEAVTNWORTH. KAK841 CITY. TOPI.KA, CGLCHADO BPiUGS. DHNVH, PCXELO. met hundred of prosperous cltios aal towns ti aversion vast areas cf tho richest larany landa la tha weit SOLID VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS Xeadini? cü co3i-ctltor la erlenöor and luxury of cccomro J--:o j (üni'vt between CHICAGO end C3LO?JU30 8PZING3. II.KVER an pa. ZJ2Z.O. EilUat magniScest VHSTIELLE TTIAHI eervico (daily) betweea CHICAGO nnd COtTNCU. BLUFFS (OiTAHA?. aad between CHICAGO and KANSAS CTXT. Modern Day Coaches. eleRanl TJiaing Cars (aerrins? delicious tncals et taedcnita pric33i, restful Kochainir Chair Cora (scats rtttE) and Palac9 Clooplaj Cars. Ths direct line ta NELCOX. HOKTCN. rnJTCEvTNSON. WICHITA. AIiILE!,-2, CALDWELL, and oil point la Lonthera Ilebroaa. K&nsas. Colorado, the Indian Territory ctI Tcxss. California Excursion daily Cacico of routes to tio Facile coast. Tho Famous Albert Lea Routo Runs mipcrbly cguiTjrwHi Express Trains, dafly. between Cliicajjo, bu Jusepb, Atchison, Xteaven wortii, n&23as City, aad Slittrcarxihs asd fct. PauL Tho populo r t oxirir. t lino to the scenic resorts and huntin? an Ji Cshir. j r-rcur.ctfl cf tho corthwest. It Yvatertov.Ti crl Eious Falls brarci traverses Via crozl " YHEAT AITD D-IHY EZXT" ol Korth?r-iI)wa, Southwestern TC;nnesota aad East Central Dakota. The Ehort Line via Ber.c.a and Kackaxee offers facilities t3 trr-.vel to and Irora Indianapolis, Cuf tnnati uJ clcr Southern roiats. For Tickets, TIaps, r"ol 3rs. or cVsired Information, apply ct any Coupon Ticket C ITu-e. or address E.ST. JOHN, E. A.HOLBROOK. Genl Manager. GrJ Ttt. & Pass. At CHICAGO. ILL STATE OF INDIANA, MATUON COUNTY. S.i Ia th Superior Court nf Marion county, in ttas Mate of Indiana. No. 33.-0 Complaint for foreclosure o! ruortae. tieorce P. His-oll, Truppe, ts. Joseph A. Moore, Mar t. Mfore ihi ti ifiM, Ingram F. etcher, Gertrude KWoher hi riiol et al. Be it known that on SI dar of April. the aHore-na'ucl plaintirt, hr b attorney, Clei ta theottioeof the Cierk of the Supf-rior Courtot Marion countr, in he Mate of In l.ana. hi complaint acain'-t th ab:m-nani? 1 d jiendant, an i the aaid plaintil having a!o filed io ai 1 Orlc's office the affidavit f a competent person, sliowln; that said defendant. Jeph A. Moore, Mary M.-ore (his wife. In cram Fl'tflivr, Gertrude Fletcher ilii ife, and. Mary A. Walkrr, are not resMf-nt of the State of Indiana; that they are defendants and nece.ary parties to a uit now rx-n linj M enforce a lien on real estate situate in Marino eountv. In.) iana. t-wit: t foreclose a tnort ja;: on real etale; nd, whereH, said p!ainti"f having r indorsement on said complaint ro'inirod aid defendant ti sp;ear in said murt ani iuvtror oemur iLereto, on tue 3d day ot Jim. l't. Now, therefore. ly order of said court, naid defeiidatit lat alnive named . re hereby notified of tb tlm ami M'ndency oi ivaid complaint acaint ihetn. and that uaM ;lwr a;:e.ir and answer or demurs thereto, at the callinc of a;d cause on the Sd day ot June, lv:', the same leim? the tirt judicial day of a term of said court, to he hecun ani held at the court house in the City of Indianapolt on the first Monday in .Inn", said complaint aud the mailers "and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in their absence. JulIN R. VIIS, Clerk. D. M. Bradbury, Attorney for PlaintiX l0-3t S HERIFFS SALE. By Ttrtneof a certified copy of a decree to ma directed from the Clerk of the Marion Circuit Court f f Marion countv. Indiana, in ratine No. 33,170.wuere in MetroKlitan .tviut; and Loan A':-.i.:if is plaint ft', arid Nicholas M"irnis et al. are defendant, requiring me to make the um of ivelre hundred and thirteen dollars and w?Ten cents t1 .2I.7"S. with interest and cost, I mill expose at p blic sale to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, TIIE 11th DAY OF HAY, A. P., between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. tu. of said day, at the door of th court house la Marion countr, in 1. ana, the rents and profits for S term not exceeding seveu years, oi the following real estate, lo-wit : Twenty-six (:',) feet an i f-ur i) inrhes oT of the north side of lot thirteen ( 1 3 of Fhiott s subdivision of outlet one burdred and ti;ty-iT ( in the city of lndina;xli. Mar. on county, Indiana. If such rents an 1 pro.'it mill not eil for a sufficient um to satisiy said lecno, intere-t and cos's. I will, at the same time and place, e xpn. to public sal the ft e simple of s-ud real e-tate, or so much thereof as may lm suihcient to diM-lurs: said decree, interest and cost. .-a.d f-a'o iil le mad' without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. ISAAC KING. Fheriff Marion county. Apr' I 17. A. P. 1W. Kealing A Huj, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 17-8t S HERIFFS SALE. By Tirttie of a certified copy of a dere- to n directed from the Clerk ot ihe Pnperior Court of Marion county. lud:ana, in cau-e No. :3,37i wherein am' el Keklin? is plaintitl" and Andrew J. thulL, Ilosa L. bhull rt al., are defendants requiring me to make the sunt of tour hundred and thirty-four dollars (,:40h. with Interest and eo-.is. I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, TIIE 11th DAY OF MAY, A. D. 1S9, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. nt. ani 4 o'clock p. ro. of said day, at the dxir of the court house ot Marion county. Indiana, the r nts and profits for s terra not exceeding seven j tars, oi the following real estate to-wit: Iot number fourteen (111, in S A B. F. Morris' Oak Hill addition to the city of In lianaindis, Marion county. In liana, now in the town of Brightwood, ta said county and Mate. If such rents and prcht.swilt not sell for s sufficient sura to satistr said decree, interest and costs, I VI, at the same time and place, expose to publio sale the fee simple of saiJ real estate, or so rauch thereof ai may b-- sufficient to d"charpe said decree. Interest and cots. .aid sale will be made without any rehsf whauver from valuation or appraisement laws. ISAAC KING. Sheriff oi Marion CountT. April 17, A. P. l?s?. Kealing A Hu-g, Attorneys for Plaintiff. CHERIFF'S SALE. Fy- Irt'ie of s cert i fiel copy of a decree to me directed from the clerk of the superior court of Marioa county, Indiana, in cau No. i.t.Zyt, wherein Metropolitan t-avinc ami Loan Association is plaintid and rlriilRCt Dntty is deiendant. reuirinj me to make the sura of tight hundred and eu'hty-nne dollars and thirty-twocents j -tl.3.'), w ith inter-'-t an 1 costs, 1 will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, TIIE 11th DAY OF MAY, A. P. 13, between the hours of 1 o'clock, a. nt. and 4 o'clock p. in. of said dar, a: the d.ir of the Court House, ia Marion County'. Indiana, the rents an 1 profit ftr tenu not exceed Inij seven years, of tbe following described real estate, to-wit: Lot mimlvr seventy-nine iT, In Thomas B. Elli Ott's subdivision of outlotone hundred aud fitty-i (I.V.I, in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. If such rentsand profits will not sell fora sufficient Sinn to satisfy said d.-ree, iuterest and costs, I wiil, at the same time and place, expose to pub ic sale the fee simple of said real e-date, or so much thereof as may be surft -ient to di-chire said derr e. Interest and costs. lid sale w ill be made without any relief whatever from valuation orapnraisemeni laws. IAAC KlNtf. Sheria Marion County. April 17, A. P. 1SS9. 17-ot Kealing A Hui&, Attorneys for riaintlff.

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pnOBATE CAUSE 'o. 1,517. James II. Fisher, administrator, with ths will annexed, of -state of Catharine C Hohhs, deceased, vs. Manraritta C. llaldeman, Virginia C. MacWaidi, et ai. In the Circuit Court ot Marion county, Indians. Mar Term, 1-.;. To Manrar tta C. HaMeman, Virginia C. MaeYeaeh, Marion C Watts, Jeannett Cameron, John J. Cameron, John it. Cameron and Marian V. Cameron. Vou are ever-nllj' hereby notified that tbe abos named ietitioncr. i administrator, ith 1 annexed. o( the eetate aforesaid, has fled in the Circuit tourt of Marion county, lnd ana, s petition making you defendants thereto, and pray his; therein for an order and decree of said fdirt, anthorizinu the sale of certain real estate Ixlonein? to the eUU of said d"-edent, and in aa.d -tlti-.n described, to. make assets for tb payment of tbe debts and liabilities of said rotate ;' and that said petition, so filed a . J pending, is set for hearing in said ( ircnit Court at Iks Court House in Indianapolis, Indians, on the twenty-third judicial day ol tbe May tro. ISA), of said court, the same being tbe Slst day . of M, 1'J. Witness h Clerk and seal of said court, this 4th day of April, 1SS9. JOnN B. WILSON, Ort. . don T. Porter. Attorcar. io-:t