Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1892 — Page 10

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 18. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

3 SUNDAY THOUGHTS

MORALS0 "MANNERS T A CII18TMAS, There is a great deal of talk amon? ministers and in churcbaa about reaching the masses. The gap between these and those is deplored in vehement speeches and in eloquent resolutions. If the ministers and churches really wanted to reach the people they could do it easily enough. "Where there's a will there's a way," eaith the prorerb. How is it in other directions? The politician reaches the voters, the merchant reaches Lis customers. The housewife reaches the botcher the baker. Livinjrstona and Emin Pasha and Stanley reach the most inaccessible parts of Africa. The truth is the religious classes do not want to reach the people except in the foresaid speeches and resolutions. The desire is to be understood in a Pickwickian sense. Anything like personal contact with the degraded and depraved ia shrunk from, although this is known to be a sine qua non. The sacrifices of time, tate and money essential to the work are objected to. The readjustment of outgrown and antiquated methods is offensive to conservative routine. Hence those epeeches are put in the place of acts, and those resolutions are passed instead of practiced. 'Tis so much easier to lament than to amend. Jesus Christ found no difficulty in reaching the masses. "The common people tieard him gladly" such is the inspired record. He went araonp them went down to them in order to brinj: them up to him. 'Twaa brought as a reproach against him by one of the bitterest of his opponent?, later on. that he did thus contort with the unworthy that he rejected the good and collected the bad. Orifen, in the name of the primitive church, folidly refuted this elander. "True, our Jesus came to call einnera," but it was "to repentance; he assembled the wicked, but it was to convert them into new men and women. We come to him covetous, he maKei? ns liberal ; unjust, he makes us equitable; lascivious, he makes us chaste; violent and passionate, he makes us meek; impious and profane, he makes us religious." This, as M. Claude, the celebrated French preacher, remarks, is the true effect of communion with Jesus Christ; it transforms us into the image, and this transformation U so essential that, if it does not appear in a man, we are obliged to conclude he is not in communion with Christ. It was not without a purpose that our Lord called a group of fishermen into the apostleship and bade them become "fishers of men." Now, to fish well, as one of the most successful of all modern fishers of men has reminded us, "it is necessary to know nore than the science of ichthyolozy. What a book can tell a man about fishiosr is worth knowing, but it is little that a hook can do toward making a man a true fisherman. If a man is going to lish for Cab, he must become their scholar before tie can become their master; he must go to school to the brook to learn ita ways. And to fish for men, a man must learn their nature, their prejudices, their tendencies and their courses. A man to catch fish must not only know their habits, but their tastes and their resorts: he must humor them according to their different natures and adopt his inptruments to their peculiarities. To sit on a bank or deck and say to the fishes: 'Here I am, authorized to catch yon : come and bite what I give you !' is just as ridiculous, but no more so, as is much of our preaching. The Christian's business is not to stand in an appointed place and say to men: 'Here I am ; come and take what I give you.' His business is to find out what men are, what men want and to take them by what they will bite at." We mnst cultivate sympathy, for men s men, independently of their accidentals and incidentals, must see the divine in the human; a possible Mary in every Magdalen and a possible Matthew in every pnblican. This is to the saving influence over men what the seed time is to the harvest, that without which thereshall be !n the autumn an empty barn and an unprovided table. May is likely to be known as the American feast of tabernacles. "What with the great methodic convention in session at O-naha, and the general assembly of the presbyterians meeting yonder in Portland, the devil ought to be busy mending his fences. Whether the true-blues will electrocute Brother Briggs, and whether the methodists will let the brethren and cisters dance will appear in due time, r.-opbecy ia dangerous. We have no desire to have our prophecy set down in continuation of D'Israeli'a chapter "On Events Which Never Happened." but we hazard the "guess" that Brother Briggs Will go and that at Omaha the objectionable section 212, relating to amendments, will be amended. Piety and prudery commence with the same letter, bat do not mean the same thing., There is sometimes more virtue in a dance than in a sermon, and .more morality in a theater than in a church. We say to the clergy of the city, live out in the open as much as possible. Get and tiee a bicycle. Better still, ride on horseback. The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse. Why should converts in uniting with jthe church profeps Calvin? Isn't it -cnongh to confess Christ? Let the mind and the heart swap places i occasion ally, eo that the heart shall be I.igh nd the mind modest. Tht Ultimatum of "ebuchadnezzer to the three Hebrew worthies with reference to the image of Bel on the plain of Dura, is that of persecutors in all ages turn or burn. The mail is defined in Webster's dictionary as "any one of numerous species of terrestrial, air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix." For the benefit of those readers who are not familiar with "the genu Helix," we translate the definition into common English aud say, the snaii is a slow coach. "You flee it today in a certain place. You look tomorrow, and yet it has moved but only n inappreciable distance. There are soine niil-Chriitians and snail-churches. Those are moving toward heaven, and these are movinz toward the conversion of men, but so slowly that, in comparison, the snail is a lightning express. "(io slow" is a good injunction, if one is on the wrong track. 'Tis wise, too, in preparation. The boy goes to school a jonir time before he branches out into life ; the athlete trains a long time before he e iters the arena; the army ia exercised a long time before it takes the

field; the railroad train moves slowly when it leaves the station, io the church might properly go slowly in starting. But, gracious, it has been going nearly two thousand years. It has accumulated experience, money, adherents, influence. It ought to go rattling along at the speed ofCnauncey Depew'i "Flying Yankee" on the New York Central railroad. Time goes fast, sin goes fast, death goes fast. What need, thenforo, that the church should exchange the Htiail for the deer, the tae coach for the steam engine or better yet, the telegraph. We eay to dull churches and heavy Christians, as the sea-captain did to Jonah when the prophet was asleep in the ftorm on the Mediterranean: "What meanest thou 0 fcleeper? A nee, call upon thy Uod." The open secret of modern life, with its infinite complexity, is organization. What a virtue we should distil from fraiity. What a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs. JJuluvr Lytton. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track passed over. CoUridge. How ill gray hairs become the tool and jester. tshakrare. A ifnteful m'nl

By owin owe not, but is at ones Indebted and discharged. rMnYTO. Be the headlight on the locomotive, and not the danger signal at the end of the train. -4 non. The greatest thing a hero leaves his race is to have been a hero. George Klit. Good conduct is the mother of riappineps. Blanchnrd. The first and worst of. all fraud3 is to cheat one's self. Bailey. Oh, it is great, and there is no other greatness to make some work of God's creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God. to make some human heart a little wiser, manfuler, happier, more blessed, less accursed. CarhjJe. What makes us sore against those who practice artifices upon us is that they fancy themselves cleverer than us. Rochefoucauld. "That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in an author when his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ then I pronounce him to be mistaken. Dean ISwift. Our aunts and grandmothers always told us that men are a sort of animal, that if ever they are constant 'tis only when they are ill used. 'Twas a kind of paradox I could never believe, but experience has shown me the truth of it. Lady Mary Wort'cy Montague. Of - what is the most subtle folly composed but of the most subtle wisdom? Montaigne. A Southern women's council is to be held during the coming fall in one or another of the southern cities, at which prominent ladies will discuss religion, philanthrophy, politics, literature, temperance, education and the world's fair. Mina Kate Cunningham of Arkansas is president pro tem., and temporary chairwomen have been appointed from each state in Dixie. New York city has over 100 balls a night during the dancing season. Is this the reason why the New York delegates at Omaha have sprung the memorial in favor of terpeichorean exercise upon the grave and reverend doctors there? Why should the methodists be shut out from all this gaj'ety? Why, indeed! The Ram's Horn blows these three blasts: 'Norrie people never look up as long as they can stand up. "Whenever a man chooses evil he shakes hands with the devil." "When you start out to save einners, don't wait to put on your glove." The city of Tokio has a student population of from tJO,000 to 80,000. There are 20,000,000 scholars in the schools of India. These are the young men to whom we have the duty and privilege of preaching the gospel. If you find yourself irritated and unhappy and with fairly good reason for being so, take hold of yourself by the collar and set yourself down hard aud say to yourself: "Well, what of it? Supposing this is so, how long will it last? What difference will it make in a short time? A good night's rest will probably dissipate iL If nothing else in ich t end it, death will and death is always near. Why should I allow the short time I am to spend here to be made wretched? No, I will not permit my life to be embittered, and chafed, and fretted." Then go and dash cold water over your head, and take hold of seme useful work. The defiant lawlessness of wicked men should be met by the aggressive goodness of righteous men. As a restraining power, law is good, but eospel ia better. The one says conform, the other tays reform. Ahaihrr Lonc.Kcli Want. Street A Smith's Good New. J Feddler "One moment, madam. I am introducing one of the most wonderful and most useful inventions of the age; sella like wildfire: everybody buys 'em. It's a new patent peddlers' boll." Lady "A what?" Peddler "Peddlers' bell, madam. It is intended to go on the door or portal along with the vi-itors' bell, servants' bell, etc." Lady (impatiently) "You peddlers are a perfect nuisance, and you know'it. The servants' bell is good enough for any of you." Peddler "Ah, res, but the eervants' bell rinjrs. This doesn't." Elex TXsaflache an a Feilere all too tooablM tncS dent to a bilious etat of tüo systnm. mob aa Dlxalness, Nausea, Drowaloess, Dtatress aftet? atin. 1 a la the HJa. ho. Whilo the zooat )wairtiM mooes baa been shown la owctag t foaVfts. yet Outer's little Lfmr FCf an equally valuable in Constipation, coring and pro Venting tblaannovin complaint, while thT tlaa correct all disorders of the toinacn.sUmalate the fcrer aoA rog ate tLo bow!. ren U the oU.) f Lth ther wntUd bo almost prlocloes to fhoea w?va isroJAsr from ttia dintoe tng complaint; bntfortn ICataly thelrgwöoosadoas noteiidhrra,andthota ,trio oace try then wiliflnd tbcee little pllla raits, able in so many wars that they will not be Willi r g to do wuhout Uwa. Vnt artur aUatck bea4 flsthebaoeof ao many Uro that hare Is Where W9 make our great boesX. Our plila euro It wMla Others do not. t Carter's Utile Ii Ter Pills are rwy small and wery eaey to tol te. One or two rill makoa domo. Th?y arestrtatiy vegtaM auddo not gripe or pnro but bv thofr aontla action pluaae aU whj ose thorn. Ia vials at 25centa ; fle for IL DüU fcy drugaU everyw are, c sent by mal i. CARTER RZDIGINB CO., New York. Si'jm FILL SliALL DOSE. SLU1LFPJCE

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THE THIRD OF THE "NINETEENTH CENTURY" PAPERS. Dörntens of the Slums of the Perled In Large Citlra How They Live end Store, and Ileve Their Heine The rmle I'rotuct The Typical Slain Inhabitant finally Man with lllatorj llfrrence iietween Ablnte and Relative foferty Noted Tn of Today Is Absolute. (Allioe K. Myleoe.J The typical inhabitant of elumdom is not the least interesting product of our nineteenth century civilization. Though regarded by society as a commodity, a compound of mathmematical quantities or chemical gases, he is a being with a heart and a brain, and between these spring a thousand needs and emotions. Christian charity says he has a heait of flint and a conscience as devoid of moral consideration as an absence of all. fear can make it and that the force cf civilization have placed him in his proper Bphere. It does not take the trouble to look below the surface and inouire whether he is other than a mere machine or to ascertain the cause of his poverty. It flings him a crust and with its lips moist with the professions of the lowly Nazarene murmurs: "How sad; but 'tis God's law that one man's thrift comes by another's need." So much for the Christian charity that has for nineteen centuries been preached from the pulpits of the world and lived in its, marts by the gospel of mBmmon. The typical male inhabitantof the slums is usually a man with a history. He does not always spring from the soil which stamps him an outcast. Very often he comes from respectable parentage and lives a respectable life until misfortune overtakes him and ne falls through no fault of his own. lie struggles bravely against his fate and would better his condition if he could. Unsuccessful, he loses courage and becomes a prey to endless Ionian 28 for what is forever out of his reach. His hopelessness ends in despair and ho eeeks to drown his misery in drink until hiä selfrespect and manhood become unknown quantities. The words friendship, love and home have long ceased to hold any meaning for him; his only ambition is to cet something to eat and drink, no matter how, and to end the race in which he occasionally has sense enough to realize that he has scored an overwhelming defeat is the one dream of his miserable life. He has not the courage nor the means to take hid own life. He simply drains out an existence of terrible sunering and misery until death rings the curtain down on what might have been a blameless life. The inhabitants of the slums of our lare cities today are enduring a mnss of acute agonies such as never pierced the heart of savage races. Civilization offers them no respite from poverty and suffering, but only increases their needs. Primitive man, the man of the woods and caves, would not endure hunger and want. He emerged for conquests and spoils. The ravazea of Atiiia and Geneseric began from the etomach. Civilized want is ehytnd modest. It dresses itself, if it may. in " the garb of respectability and smiles in the' face of the pitiless world. The women and children of this adjunct of modern civilization called the slums, who live ir wretched rooms where a cooking etove sometimes constitutes the only article of furniture and the inmates sleep upon pallets of straw on the floor, furnish materi.il for the potter's field and employment for the well-clothed, well-fed attendants of the human waif at our poor houses and charitablo institutions. Let me give here an excerpt from a description of a trip I took into the slums of Boston t few .Sundays ago: The region visited was certainly worthy of the prophetic epithet "the abomination of desolation." Over it the fires of lust and 'passion had ewept in unrestrained fury'and what I saw were the mere embers of souls, the blackened and spectral stumps of a once noble humanity. Girls who were onco pure dandled in the arms ot brutes wno were once men. AVomen with rum-bloated faces twirling cigarettes under the ncses of men; young men lost to all sense of shame and honor lying drunk or asleep upon the benches or floor. The p-reat feature of Sunday visiting is invariably th number of people found drunk in their homes. The revels of the night before seem to teil on men and women alike. Our first visit takes us up a rickety flight of stairs into a dirty tenement house. Here we find an old woman lying on a couch covered with rags. Her body is barely covered with dirty and raeged underclothing, which shows us a shrunken frame bareiy held together with the brown, shriveled skin. She lifts her long, bony hands end exclaims, -Goi bless ye, God bles ye, dears; an it's good of ye to come an' see a poor, old sick woman." My companion inquires if she has yet had her breakfast. The old creature says : "Tim, my son, is getting me something I euees." Tim, a stout, ruddy-faced Irishman, is fumbling around a dirty table, littered with indescribable articles covered with filth. No food is visible either on the table or on an old rotten cupboard standing against the weather-stained wall. Tim seetna very nervous and my companion seems to understand that there ia no food in the house, if the place may be dignified by such a name, and asks the old woman if she would not like some gruel. "Yea, dear; yes, dear," ehe answers nervously. I am told to remain with the sick, woman while the slum officer goes home to bring the gruel. While she is gone the woman begins a crooning sort of a noise, as though trying to sing to a cnild. She asks me if I can sing, and receiving a negative reply, raises a weak voice to a high pitch, and tremulously repeats a weird little song learned, she said when a child. She cannot sing, yet the feeble mind can bring back scenes of her childhood and enable her to live them over again, even in the midst of such squalid surroundings. The old face lights up as 6he proceeds, and she half raises herself and sits with closed eyes swaying to and fro, oblivious to all about her. A feeling of awe steals' over me as I watch her, and, as she falls back with a low moan on the rouch I shudder, and wonder if she is dead. She lies still, seeming not to breath, and I dread to speak fearing I shall get no answer. My heart begins to quake within me, and I tremble like an aspen leaf, when Tom, who has been dozing in the next room, jumps up and breaks the spell by beginning to sweep the floor with the ttub of an old broom. The noise arouses the old mother, and she begins to talk of her better days. Sho tells mo that she was born in Ireland, near Hublin, and in one of a large family of children. Her father was a well-to-do farmer, and her childhood was not an unp!oa"ant one. She married a handsome Irish lad, when but a Blip of a girl, and came to America. Jiy hard work and strict economy she and her husband accumulated several thousand dollars, They lived in Boston most of the time, and a few years before the great fire in '62 thev took a houso on what was then res.rlp lace, for which they paid $1,000 a year.

The fire swept away everything they bad. The husband got discouraged, and. after s lingering illness, died, and left a widow and three children. Things went from bad to worse, the eon, Tim, "took to drink," the daughter grew to womanhood and went to California with her younger brother, and the poor old mother was obliged to rent a miserable room in the worst part of the city aud live aa beet she could. he worked as long aa she could walk, and now ehe mutt depend upon charity or starve, as her drunken son is worse than no support. We turn into a narrow alley, which is paved with brick and cleanly swept, and enter the first open door. We are greeted by a etench that is almost unbearable. We climb one flight of stairs and rap at an old rotten door ot the right. The rusty bolt U pulled from its socket and the door - opened just far enough to, allow the spider-like eyes of a little, old man to peer inquisitively at us. A squeaky voice says, betöre we can speak a word: "I've nothin' for ye; go to some respectable place, if ye want anything." He being assured that we want nothing, but have come to do something for him if we can, opens the door wide enough for us to see into the room. When we ask if he is comfortable, he runs hi band through bis thin, gray hair and looks sharply at us for a moment. "If you are really respectable yourselves, and can do anything for an old man, I would like a mattress. I sleen on this," turning to an old mattress which is bo thin and eo discolored by filth and nue that it would be impossible to tell it from a door mat, were it lying on the the floor. The contents of the room are indescribable.' It is enough to say that it is the mot poverty stricken place we have yet seen. Here the old man lives with only his thoughts and the cockroaches for company. He says he has been ill for twp months and has nothing in the room to eat We climb another flight of stairs aud as the odor, seeming to come from the top story, is so bad, we hesitate about going farther. I take courage ' from my companion's words, aud push on up another

night. I will not offend the reader by going into details, but I would suggest that the health commissioners visit Bowling alley a little of tener than they do. This floor is too much for us. We descend one flight and rap for admittance at a rickety door painted green. In answer to a grulf "come in" we enter. In the room are two women and an old man. The place is decently clean, but oh, bo bare and poor. The party have been imbibing and the fumes of old gin nearly suflocate us. The eider of the two women has drank enough to make her exceedingly hilarious. The young woman's face is swollen terribly, and as my companion speaks to her, she bursts out crying. She haa inflammatory rheumatism and ehows us her feet, which are a!so badly swollen. On one foot in a man's stocking and the other is covered with a long stocking almost too ragged to cling to the leg. She asks me to bring her eome underClothing, saying she has none. I promise to bring her some, and smooth one of the poor ewoo'en hands aa I talk, ir-o unused to kindness is ehe that even this little attention is more than she can stand. The great tears begin to chase each other down the distorted cheeks. She weeps and sobs like a child, and ends by standing up and pntting her arms about my neck and kitsing me. Though given by a most hideous and repulsive wanton, a Magdalen of the lowest type, I would not forego the gratification of that caress for a king's ransom. The old man sits over the little cracked stove trying to keep warm. I ask him if he is able to work. He says he has not done a day's work for twenty vears. I ask the woman if the old man was her father and Bhfi says,' "No. he lives'here with me." There is a d'flerence between absolute and relative poverty. The poverty of pspt centuries was relative. That of today is absolute. The blankets and bread of the nineteenth century are better than the rushes and crusts of the middle ases; but humanity in the middle ages was at least certain of its crusts and rushes. THE TEACHING OF FLOWERS. "There is Instruction in a flower; Mountains and ocrans, planets, suns and SBttue brar not the impress ot Almighty power in character! More WiMe than tboss Which lis has written on ths tiniest Flower whose light bell bends Beneath the dew-drop's weight ght I1 B. SIOOUB5KT. When the dust of the world has grown thick on the heirt. And we see the gay dreams of oar childhood depart, Whn the sun of our hopes has gone down In eclipse, And the apples ot jor mock with ashes our lips, There's naught in this life can those dreams still renew Like the innocent Sowers all bending with dew. Forthey glow in their vestures, the fair and the bright. As if backing in them were strange beings of light; And they carpet with gems the beautiful earth, At in Eden of old, where these bad their birth, And my spirit drinks in at the morniog's glad hour, Its life from the suubeams its joy from the flower. Why may not the buried, theloTed ones of ours, KeTlnit this sphere in the guise ot the flowers,' To cheer with their beauty s hea hope bas grown dim, Atid in breathings of fragrance to whisjerof Him Who raiseth the lowly, who guardetb ths weak. And who ahelteretu all if Ills ehulter they seek? What sermon from pulpit can a lesson impart, Like that which the flowret distils on the heart? Whst pesl from the organ, so startling and grand. Can raise up the soul to that bright spirit land. Like the breath of (he jas'mine, the blush of the rose, When the earth is all beauty and the sky all repose? Oft times I have thought S'jme invisible power, Belongs to. presides o'er the tiniest flower; Prompts the Yisious of fancy to steal oa tho soul. And sway o'er the pasMons a witching control; Make thoughts crowd the mind ia ths language of sung. Bearing swift in their impulse the feelings along. Ths life of the patriot, the death of ths brave, Ths tumult of battle and the perilous ware, The sallies of mirth or the shadows of woe, Tinge thecolor of thoughts like the God-given bow, As in gay or in pensSYo gradations they rise, A cloud o'er the earth or a ray from the skies. If these be but dreams vthich my fancy hath wrought. Why is it that sympathies holy are brought, Deep feelings awakened, my being's harp stirred. As though it the voice of a loved spirit ht ard. If there dwells not a monitor solemn and stern Ia the depth of the heather bell's cloud-tinted urn? At the close ol the day, In the stillness of even, When my soul hears the niuiic of angels in heaven, When my thoughts are. all freed from life's wild commotion, ' And would rise on faith's wings as a hymn of devo tion, Then I will praise ths great God of creation on high. For the flowers on the earth aoI or heaven when I die. Indianapolis, May 1."- fJosEPH F. Baowx. Iteboklnr st Flirt. 2T. Y. Weekly. Mrs. riainface-"I have an old coat which, though somewhat worn, ia etill quite pood. Would you Jike to have it?" Miss Flirti ''What? Do vou mean to insinuate that I would wear one of your cast-ofr garments?" Mrs. l'lainface "I didn't know but thnt you mi?ht. You seem to be trying to get my husband." rnrllr Kaisntlpstsd. N.Y. Weekly Mrs. Lakeside"! don't see bow you eastern ladies live -no divorces, no alimony, no nothing." Miss Lonecash "It is rather hard scratching, but then we manaze to rake in a little boodle now and then on a breach of promise euit."

TREASONABLE CORRESPONDENCE An Affecting Scene Between Mr. Lin coin's and One of His Agents.

Durinz the spring and summer of ISC 2 the government at Washington was, more than at any other time during; the rebellion, ham ju red in the direction of successful movements of the army n the field, particularly those of the army of the peninsula. Changes of base, would be promptly anticipated by the opposing forces of the confederates. For manv weeks this was the order of thins. The best detective ekill to be obtained in the North was brought to bear under direction of Secretary Stanton to find the source of this secret means of information. Finally evidences were discovered that letters, giving in detail contemplated movements of the army and other information valuable to the rebels and highly injurious to the interests of the federal forces, were being sent from secessionists and sympathizers in the capital city. Just who the offending individuals were it seemed for a time utterly impossible to determine. It was determined in cabinet meeeing to appoint three police commissioners, who should control a thoroughly skilled and well-equipped force of secret service officers to consist of both men and Women, selected for their especial adaptability in ferreting out those who were sending treasonable correspondence to Richmond. President Lincoln accordingly appointed the three commissioners; one of whom was Joseph F. Brown, at this time better known as "Uncle Joe" Brown, who for seventeen years has been a deputy in the office of the clerk of Marion county. One day Uncle Joe went, to the white house and was ushered into' the presence of Mr. Lincoln. ' Mr. President,' said Commissioner Brown, "we have traced to its source eome of this contraband correspondence." "Well, sir; you know what to do," replied the president. "But it is a woman," said Mr. Brown. "That is unfortunate," responded the great-hearted president of the nation, but you must do your duty." "But the woman is Mrs. Lincoln," said the commissioner of police. The sensitive heart of the president was touched. He sat down and, covering his face in his hands, appeared buried in deep thought for several minutes. Then, arising to his feet, he took Uncle Joe'e hand in his and in tones tremulous with emotion said: "My friend, she ia like many others in these turbulent times ; she knows not what she is doing. I'lease leave this matter in my hands. There shall be no further cause for complaint." The correspondence referred to consisted of letters sent by Mrs. Lincoln to her brother, Capt. Todd, an officer in the Confederate army on detailed service at Richmond. OLDEST MAN ON EARTH. A Spantard Near Hulen Claim to Have Livod 154 Years. ICIty of Mexico Special. Trobably the oldest man on earth is to be found in the outskirts of this city. Jesus Campeche lives in a hut with his great-great-grandson, who is a full grown man. Campeche came originally from Spain, where he says he was born in 1738, which would ma.ke him now 154 years old. lie has the appearance of being about ninety years old, and is fairly active for an old man. He shows papers to bear out the assertion as to his ago and birth, and the man with whom he is living says there is no doubt as to the relationship he bears to the old man. Campeche snys that he has never known a day's sickness in his life. He says he remembers coming to this country when he was twenty-five years old as a soldier, and that was long before the war of the revolution in the United States. The old man's memory is good, and he tells of things which took place the last century as if they had occurred last year instead of 10() years ago. In fact he remembers things seventy-five and a hundred years aeo better than he does those of recent occurrence. The papers which he carries to prove his assertions are the copies of a church register in Validolid, Spain, showing his date of birth and that of his baptism. The papers are undoubtedly genuine, aa far as the dates are concerned, and the only thing to be determined is whether they are rightfully his or not. His memory of incidents in the last century would indicate that he is either telling the truth4' as to his participation therein or he has a meet wonderful mind to have stored up the tales in such a manner as to have deceived all who listen to him. The priest of the church which he attends is an old man of eighty-six, and says that he was an acolyte in the church when he was a boy and Campeche was an old man at the time. . . NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSIONl Thursday, July 28, 1893, Via the Lake Kris & Western iL K. "Natural Gsi Houte." On Thursday, July 2S, 1892, the Lake Erie & Western railroad will run their popular annual excursion to Cleveland, Chautauqua Lake. Buffalo and Niagara rails at foLowing very low rates, viz: Peoria 7.50 Fort Wayne $5.00 Bloomiorton 7.00 Muncie 5.00 Lafayette 6.00 ConneravilL 5.00 Michigan City COO Rush ville 5.00 Indianapolis 5.00 New Castle 6.00 Tipton 5.00 Cambridge City.... 5.00 Lima 4.00 Fremont. 4.00 Sandusky, R00. With corresponding reductions from intertnediate points. In addition to the above, the purchasers of these tickets will be given privilege of special excursion side trips to Iewiaton-on-the-Lake, including a steamboat ride on Lake Ontario, for 25 cents. To Toronto and return hy Lake from Lewiston, Jl.OO; to Thousand Islands, $5.00. Tickets for the above side trips can be had when purchasing Niagara Falls ticket, or at any time on train. , Beside the above privileges, with that of spending Sunday at the Falls, we will furnish all those who desire a side trip from Brocton J unction to Chautauqua Lake and return FKEE OF CHARGE. Tickets of admission to places of special interest at or near Niagara Falls, but out side the reservation, including toll over the International Bridge to the Canadian side, elevators to the water's edge at Whirlpool Kapids on the Canadian side, will be offered on train at a reduction from prices charged after reaching the Falls. Do not mit this opportunityfto spend Sunday at Niagara Falls. The excursion train will arrive at Niagara Falls 7 a. m. Friday. July 2y, 1802. and will. leave the Falls returning Sunday morning, Jnly 31, at 6 o'clock, stopping at Cleveland Sunday afternoon, giving an opportunity to viait the magnificent monument pf the late President Garfield, and many other interettting points. Tickets will be good, however, to return on regular trains leaving the Falls Saturday. July 30, for those not desiring to remain over. Tickets will aleo be good returning on all regular trains up to and including Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1S2. 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In the Marion Circuit Court. May Term, 1S2. Notioe is hereby given that William H. Stringer, at administrator of the estate of farh Koback, deceased, has presented aud filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of id estate, and that the same will eome up ioi examination mil action of said t Ircuit Court on the öoth day of May, I'Sl, at which time all Jieirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said Court and show csus it' any there be, wliy said account nd voucbtrs hould in t be approved. And the heirs of said estate are also hereby required at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their n-ir-ship. V. 11. JSTKINGER. Hawkins & Smith, Attorneys. ll--t VOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC A In the matter of the estate of Amelia S. Revel, deceased. In the Marion Circuit Conrt, May Term, lii Notice is hereby given that W ulistu W. Ravel, as administrator oi the estate of Amelia S. Revel, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that th. um will come up for examination and action of sol I Circuit Court oa the a.uu day of May,l'.C at which tmie all heirs, er ditors or legatees of said c.-tate are required to appear In aid Court and show causo, il any there be, w hy said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said riiate are also hereby required at the time sad place aforesaid, to appear and tunk pront of their heir suip. WILLIAM W. REVEL. ll-2t N TOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC. In the matter of the estate of RobertWhite.de ceased. In the Marion Circuit Court, Mav Term, 191 Notice ia hereby given that mith IL M apes, as administrator of the estate of Robert White, deceased, has presented and tiled his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for examination and action of said Circuit Court on ths 3Pth day of May, Mi at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said eMate are required to appear in said Court and allow caure, if any there be, wbv said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs ot said estate are also hereby required at the time and r lace aforesaid, to appear and make rr of their heirship. SMITH II. MATES. W. W. Woollen, Attorney. ll-2t X TOTlCE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC. In the matter of i'ae estate of John Mask, de ceased. In the Marion Circuit Court. May Terra. 12. Notice is hereby given tnat hos Mack, as administratrix of the etat-j of John Mack, deceased, has prcfentod and riled her account aud vouchers in tiuai settlement of said estate, aud that the same, will coiue up for examination and aotiun of sail Circuit Court on the aotti dy of May, 1! at w hich time all heirs, creditors or lecie- uf said estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause. If any there be, why said account and vouchers should not b ! approved. And tho heirs of said estate are aiso hereby required at th tune anl place aioresall, to appear and make proof of their heirship. Carson A Thompson, Alt ruers. Ro-K MACK. y OT1CE lOULIK?, CHLnlioiia, fclc. In the matter of th" estate of Terry Green Porter, decesed. In the Marion Circuit Court, May Terra, 192. üot eeis hereby -iven that Annie Torter, as executrix 01 the estate of Perry Green Porter, deceased, has presented and tiled her account and vouch-rs in final settlement of said etate, and that the samt will come up for examination and action of said circuit IV.11 on the lh day of May, 1'.'2, at which time all heirs creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause, if auy there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate are also hereby required at the time and place aforesaid, to ai rearand wake proof o their heirship. 11 ANNIE PORT EU, Executrix. 1 l-2t N TOllCE TO HEIRS, iKEuI TORS. ETC. In the matter of the estate ot Aaron Q. Boardman, deceaM'd. In the Marion Circuit Court, May Term, 1891 Notice is hereby given that Omer B. Boardman, aa executor of the estate of Aaron Q. Beardman, deceased, has presented and tiled his account and vouchers in final settlement of said etate, and that the same will come up for examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 17th day of May, 19J, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of sail estate are required to appear, in said court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouches should not be approved. And the heirs of said etate are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heir"bip. OMER B. BOARDMAN. winter A Elam. Attorn-ys. 3t yOTICE TO Ii LI RS, CREDITORS, ETC In the matter of the estate of William P. Johnson, d-ed. In the Marlon Circuit Court, May Term, 18! Kotice is hereby given that August n floioe, ai administrator of the estate of w in. P. Johnson, deceased, has presented and filed his aooount and voucher In final settlement ot st.id estate, and that the same w:ll come up for examination an! action of said Circuit Court on tht 17th day of May, l$9t at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees ot said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be, why said acoountaud vonchers should not be approved. And the heirs of sail estate are also hereby required, at the time and rlaca aloreaid.to appearand make pronf of Ihelr heirship. ' r AUG! SUN BOKE, ,-:st VI OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS. ETC In the matter ol the estate of Ehra J. Newman, ds"fn'tbe Marion Circuit Court, Mar Term. I9i otice 1 hereby given that Charles V. fcmüli and A M, Hannah, ai executors of the estate of Ell J. Newinan.JeceaseJ.have presented and fiM their aooount and vouchers In final sett lernen of said etate, and that the same will tome un for examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 2'Uh day of May, 1.., at v.hii a time all heirs, creditors or legatees of aid' estate are required to appear In sai l court and show cause, if anv there b, why said account and ouchers should not lie approved. And the heirs ot sal t estate are alo hereby required, at th time an place aforesaid, tu apvear and make proof of their EUr.hip. CHAV W. SMITH. " 9 ALEX M. U AN 3 AH, Exm. Duncan 4 5mUh, Attorney!. 6J9

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