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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1890.
HAS THE CALL
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ITEMS FROM THE POLICE.
The Detectives Arrest Two Men Accused of
the Hutchinson Ilobbery.
Lon Henderson and William Clark, each
about twenty-live years of age, were ar
rested yesterday by Chief Splann and de
tectives Quifcley, Gerber, Page and Thorn
ton on a charge of house-breaking and
grand larceny. They are accused of the
robbery, committed last Tuesday evening,
of tho residence of Byron Hutchinson,
No. 573 orth Tennessee street, when
a lot of jewelry, valued at
about 810. was stolen. Chief ISplaun
has been engaged upon the case for several
days, and detailed the other officers men
tioned to aid in tho work. Henderson was
captured at a house in an alley running off
South street, and Clark was taken at his
mother's house on McCarty street. The
stolen jewelry was recovered a few days
ago. It is said to have been disposed of for
small amounts by Henderson at a pawn
shop on Massachusetts avenue and a
butcher-shop on Virginia avenue. A com
bination watch charm and locket, valued at
28, was sold at tho latter place for 10
cents.
The Grandfather Had the Rest of It.
George Bright and John D. Ford, his
grandfather, seventy-two years old, were
arrested by patrolmen Hurt and Manning,
yesterday afternoon, on charges of assault
and battery and disturbing the peace. The
difficulty occurred at their home, on Eliz
abeth street. Tho old man charged that
Brisht had struck his mother, Ford's
daughter, whereupon tho old man knocked
his grandson down, and was proceeding to
give him a severe thrashing when the o ul
cers arrived on the scene.
Casey's Dad Driving
Daniel Casey, a young white man, was
arrested yesterday by patrolmen Doherty
and Giblin for cruelty to an animal. He is
said to have hind a horso and buggy, Sat
urday night, from David Marshall, the Oak
Street liveryman, and to have returned
them yesterday morning in bad condition.
The buffgy, Marshall states, was broken
and the horse had been badly over-driven
and abused.
He Flourished a Kevolrer.
Frank Stubbs, colored, was drunk yes
terday morning, and terrified the passers
by with a huge revolver, which he flour
ished in a dancrerous manner, threatening
to take sundry lives. He was arrested by
Captain liruce and Sergeant Joyce.
A Shoe Store Ilobbed.
The Toledo shce store, at No. 480 Virginia
avenue, wm robbed cf about $10 worth of
ihocs early yesterday morning or Saturday
night.
Keceptlon to James Wliltcoinb Riley.
The members of the Indianapolis Literary
Clnb may each bring one guest, either a
centlcman or lady, to the reception given
by the club to James Whitcomb Kiley. this
evening.
i'LTlTt'lusat Win L.Eidc?i.
TAUGHT AT TIIE CIIURCIIES
Tho Outlook of Christianity Bright in
Results of Modern Advancement.
Christ's Great Compassion for the People Ee
Tealed to Them the Worth of Their Own
Little Lives A South-Side ReviraL
OUTLOOK OF C II III STI ANITY.
Spirit of Modern Humanity the Spirit of
Christ's Teaclilngs.
Kev. William A. McAtee. D. D., of Mad
ison, Wis., occupied the pulpit of tho Sec
ond Presbyterian Church, yesterday morn
ing, taking for his text part of the eighth
verse of the eighteenth chapter of St. Luke:
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh
shall ho rind faith on the earth!
"Our Lord was doing all that divine love
knew how to do." said Dr. McAtee, in the
onrse of his sermon, 'to sow the seed of faith
in the human heart. Jesus probably did not
wait for an answer to his question, know
ing that his friends were t:o immature in
the things of heaven to reply intelligently.
What would our answer be? Some
say that religion is a mero su
perstition; that death ends everything;
that the ago of faith will never return, and
religion will be a steadily declining factor
from this time forth. It must be venturing
a great deal to predict such a future for re
ligion. Was it not always man's relentless
judge! Was it not always pryiug into his
heart and bidding him cleanse that! Has
it not always'given as its standard the in
finite perfection of Gcdf Like leaven, it
has spread until to-day, in splendor and
aptitude of equipment, it seems better fit
ted and more likely to survive than it did
when first ushered into the world. He who
stood by the cross 1,S00 years ago saw Him
rejected by Jew and gentile, while he who
looks out on the world to-day sees millions
of people nominal worshipers of Christ."
We should not. however, the Doctor said,
rely too much on the historj of Christianity
in the past as an augur for the future.
"Some think," he continued, "there is an
irrepressible conrlict between Christianity
and modern knowledge of tho universe.
This has been tho subject of much writing.
The same thing has been notable in certain
periods of the past. After tho deep sleep
of the middle ages the intellectcal revival in
Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
attracted the attention of tho world. Tho
classics became a craze with all the intel
lectual classes of E urope. For one or two
whole centuries it was generally thought
that the new literature had superseded re
ligion, and, according to thewriters of that
day, a kind of superiicial rationalism took
possession of almost every one. The battle
of unbelief now rests largely upon philology
and science. Oh, Scieuce, what crimes have
been committed in thy name! We hold not
thee responsible, but those who have
known thee but to abnse thee.
You may search the Scriptures and
not find a text to stop you in tho
exploration of the visible world,' say a
one of the most learned minds of our time.
"When I see such great minds advocating
tho belief that there is nothing in modern
science, to uiihtato against our religion it
rejoices m. A little philosophy inclines
men's minds to atheism, but the depth of
philosophy brings them in tho right direc
tion. If we may form a favorable augury
from this, much more, way we predict a
brighter future for religion when compared
with modern Teform. Take one hundred
years of any other period of history and lay
it down beside the nineteenth century,
and it is like midnight compared to a
cloudless noon. How would Kome. Greece
or Egypt have greeted tho proposition that
all men are born equal! Is this new spirit of
humanity a passing fancy! God forbid!
Or has it come to stay and make this world
a better home for the lowlyf It will re
main and be a principal factor in the his
tory of the world. It is Christianity's otl
spring, and it is obvious that the spirit of
modern humanity is tho spirit of Christ.
"Within the last two decades." the Doc
tor continued, "men have been studying
the great religions of the world as never
before to ascertain whether in the great
East some of the ethics have not taught re
ligions as pure as that taught by
Christ, but the search has been in
vain. They show us platitudes, sen
timent and beautiful thoughts, but noth
ing as lucid, as heart-iillinir, as soul-vitalizing
as the thoughts of Christ. His teach
ings are far above anything discovered by
those who have penetrated into the re
ligions of the East. We now know that the
religion of Christ is not one religion among
many, but tho only true religion bestowed
upon us by our great Maker. Shqw me a
nation that noyer prays and I will show
yon a race of monsters and not of men. In
Christianity and nowhere else is the secret
of forgiveness of sins disclosed. Christ
alone can savo you. Ho fed all
the hungry, satisfied the thirsty. Do yon
think the world will ever give Him uc.
having once learned His worthf Strong as
these reasons aro that the outlook for
Christianity is bright, they are not my
personal reasons for tlrat belief. I believe
that this religion has como from God, and
must, therefore,be imperishable. Therefore,
I do not need to hf.vo ray faith bolstered up
by history. His promise of the ultimate
triumph of His kingdom lays a foun
dation for me upon which I am content
to rest. But, after all. my friends,
the question of faith on earth is insignifi
cant compared to the question of its endur
ance and continuance in our own hearts."
"When the Son of Man cometh will lie
find the faith in crur hearts!" the Doctor
asked in conclusion. ''That is the question
of questions for you and for me. Is it
swaying our intellects, controlling our
hearts, determining our destiuies: orare we
living in indifference to itf Let us ask the
question of ourselves, Vhen the Son of
Man cometh will he find tho faith in our
hearts!'"
THE TVI STF ULN ESS OF HUMANITY.
Life May He Worth Living Through the
Influence of One Great Man.
Rev. John Dumont Reed, of Cheboygan,
Mich., preached at tho English Lutheran
church yesterday morning on "The Wist
fulness of Humanity," his text being the
thirty-sixthVverse of the ninth chapter of
Matthew:
But when fie saw the multitudes he was moved
with compassion for them, because they were
distressed and scattered as sheep not having a
shepherd.
Mr. Reed, in beginning, said that it was
with the needs of human nature that Jesus
Christ had most to do; that His true and
profound insight perceived in men a cer
tain lack that is usually overlooked; He
read and interpreted the great hunger that
is in the lives of men. "In the lives of
most of us," said the preacher, "there is
something that never finds adequato ex
pression. What we call living is largely a
makeshift; it is the fragment which we put
in lieu of the complete design that we can
never carry out. Robert Louis Stevenson
makes one of his characters say 'My life is
but ft travesty and slander on myself; I have
lived to belie my naturo: all men do; all men
are better than this disguise that grows
about and stiiles them It is not every
man who feels this so keenly: not every
man of whom it is so positively true. Ihit
what an intense nature feels thus vividly
is more or less distinct in all the hack
ground of every ouo's experience. There
are few natures in which there is not a
touch of fine melancholy that may be
brought to the surface by an exquisito
strain of music or a rare flash of eloquence.
To use the words of another, there is in all
men something of the wistfulnessof exiles,
conscience of a passion tnd energy greater
than any known issue of them explains.
It was this wistfulncss which stirred tho
quick, sensitive sympathy of the Christ.
They tell how humanity feels the wide dif
ference between its ideal aud its actual
performance. Tho picture of human fail
ure is not a bright one, and yet. on the
whole, it is not nearly so dark as it
might be. Its melancholy is of a
twilight hue. Tho note of despair is as
rare as the note of triumph. Few aro ca
pable of great things; few aro capable of
uu absorbing passion for great things.
Yet if we do not realize what we fall short
of we yet do realize our falling short. The
clouds may obscure tho heights from our
view; but we see tho clouds and wo know
there are heights above them. Not overy
man knows what be lacks, but every man
knows that he lacks something."
It is strange how eargerly, the preacher
continued, wo turn to the gifted few in
whom life's promise has reached a measure
of fulfillment. "We are naturally hero
worshipers." ho said. "Somehow we seem
to feel that at the hands of one more gifted .
we shall. receive what we have beenunablo
to get by our own striving. This is tho hope
ful side of humanity's wistfnlness. Here
is a sort of expectancy, as of one that does
not look for denial. 'I he measure of a man's
gift is the extent to which be can share it
with his fellows. It were better for the
man of genius had he never been born if he
does not put forth his powers to aid a strug
gling humanity. Unless he earns the thanks
of mankind he forfeits his greatness. Tho
great and good heroes, geniuses, saints
will not avail us simply as examples. We
are not able to follow the examples. They
must bo moved by compassion lor us and
impart something to us. In the life of one
great man the lives of many may bo made
better worth the living. In. many mill
ions of people there is born one musician,
one poet, one orator; but through these
elect few the dumb speak, the blind receive
their sight, the lame walk. Through them
the joy and sorrow, the hope, love and as
piration of the millions find expression.
The eloquence of song and the eloquence of
speech add a distinct aud abiding value to
tho lives of vast multitudes who have not
these gifts. Deep in every human heart
there lurks a song, and we turn our gazo
wistfully to the one out of all tho multi
tude that can sing it."
It was through the power of a deep sym
pathy with their unspoken need, Mr. Reed
said in conclusion, that Christ gained His
unparalleled influence over tho multitude.
He was moved with compassion for them.
So He found them and thsy found them
selves in Him. There was something in
Him greater even than song or speech; and
in tho revealing of His greatness there was
also revealed to each one of tho mighty
throngs that gathered around, the possibility
of greatness in his own little life.
OBEDIENCE TO LAW.
Feople Were Horn Into This "World Under a
State of Condemnation.
Revival services will continue at tho
Soventh Presbyterian Church another
week. Rev. R. V. Hunter having secured
Rev. Dr. H. II. -Wells, of Ohip.to conduct
tho meetings. Dr. Wells, who is a noted
revivalist, and has como hero from New
Albany, preached yesterday ,morning and
evening. His sermon last night was upon
"The Divine Government," his toxt being
the nineteenth verse of the l&'d Psalm:
"The Lord hath prepared His throno in
the heavens; and His kingdom ruleth over
all." The Doctor said the doctrine of the
divine government, whoso sway is univer
sal, and of which God is the supreme head,
istanghtin the text. Religion has to do
fundamentally and essentially with man's
relation to divine government. It is
exceedingly to be regretted, tho
preacher said, that tho idea has
gone abroad in the world that religion
is mere sentiment, mere feeling, a stirring
of emotion, to feel happy, to have a lew
tears trickling down the cheekN, a good re
solve, or something of that kind.
"It is from such expressions," continued
the Doctor, "as 'seeking religion,' 'getting
religion 'experiencing religion as though
it were some mysterious, intangible thing,
but that, if sought long enough aud earn
estly enough, in some inscrutible way ono
might fina it, and when found, ono could
then have it and be religious. Every doc
trine of the word of God is built upon and
grows out of fundamental facts pertaining
to the government of God. Men forget tho
f:overnment of God, but they are very so
icitous as to who shall bo tho head of city,
Statoand national affairs. It is not any
more true that Jlenjamin Harrison
is chief executive of this Notion than
it is true God is chief executive of the
universal government and that you aro
amenable to God's law and must givo an
account of the deeds done in the body.
This law has to do with our citizenship
under the divine government and our
loyalty to God.. The laws of God are per
fect, in that they differ from man's laws.
Sometimes Christian people speak of tho
law of God as though it were a horrible
thing, and a preacher who preaches it is apt
to become unpopular in a community. Yet
no language in heaven or earth is expres
sive enough to tell of the love of God. It is
a sea that is bottomless, shoreless, illimita
ble and eternal.
"You have some good laws in Indiana,
some laws for which you would lay down
you life. But if you were to go to the pris
ons and ask some of those fellows behind
the bars what they thought of those laws
they would say that they despised them
and would trample them under their feet.
How is it they are so down on the law of
Indiana! Because they aro rebels against
it, they bavo sinned against it, are under
condemnation of tho law, and its penalty
is hanging over their heads. When a man
becomes a loyal citizen of God's govern
ment he will love God's law, and reverence
it. Christians, be careful how you talk
about God's law. Tho law is stern, pitiless,
inexorable. When it is violated the penalty
must bo inflicted, cr the law is destroyed.
This is true in the home, in the
school, in the State. I am old fogy
enough to believe we need a revival in this
land of a reverence of law, and it should
begin in the home. A boy or girl who is
not taught to submit to his parents will go
out to curse society. If we are to have good
citizens and law is to be rcverened we need
to lay tho foundation arouud the hearth
stone. I have been astonished to hear peo
ple crying out for higher and better tem
perance legislation. We do not execute the
laws we have. Better repeal the law than
havefl the body-politio treated with con
tempt. The word of God teaches that
when Adam fell we fell, and we are born
into this world under a state of condemna
tion. Adam represented this human family to
which we belong. He was on trial, and
sinned, and when he sinned we sinned;
when ho fell we fell, and when he went
down we went down. That is tho doctrine
the Bible teaches. If you can explain that
away, you explain away the reason for the
coming of Christ. We were a lost race and
Christ came to bring us pardon."
To-night Dr. Wells's subject will be. "Is
Morality Alono Sullicient to Save!" Tues
day night. "How Can a Sinner be Justi
fied!" Wednesday night, "TheGospel Offer,
to Whom is it Made!'1 Thursday night.
"The Great Assize or tho Day of Judg
ment." Friday, "The Impenitent Sinner's
Final Doom."
Calling Things by Right Names.
Tho sermon of the Rev. M. B. Hyde, at
Hall-place M. E. Church yesterday, was on
"Moral Discrimination, or Things by Their
Right Name." He took for his text the
twentieth verse of the fifteenth chapter of
Isaiah:
Woe unto them that call evil good and good
evil: that put darkness for light and light for
darkness; that put hitter for sweet and sweet for
bitter.
The preacher said that directness of
speech occurred all through the Bible.
While Christ never transcended the bounds
of delicate address. He always called things
by their right names. Sin is always sin,
whether in the heart reeking with secret
lust or exhibited in tho outer lifo of the
sinner. In the Sermon on the Mount Christ
clearly indicates this. "When we speak,"
said the preacher, "of calliug evil good we
do not mean the mero pronouncement of
evil as good, but the quiet relation men sus
tain to the evil while seeing the evil, and
thus practically calling it good by a lack of
F roper sentiment or moral discrimination,
n tho matter of getting wealth," he con
tinued, "the maxim which governs so many
is," 'The end justifies the meaus.' Gain
getting is legitimate, bnt the passion
becomes so intensified that right principle
is ignored, questionable methods resorted
to and tho good ends sought are argued as
justifying the evil means employed. There
are ficticious deals in tho great markets of
tho land, and gambling methods of the
Hutchiusons are condoned because of the
great gain resulting therefrom. But the
moral consequences of thiscallingevil good
are truly alarming.
"The traffic in liquor," said Mr. Hyde,
"will illustrate my thought. One great
reason so many are willing to permit the
existence of this trafiic is the largo 6ums
of money which it yields. It is a most pro
lific source of revenue, which is of great
practical good, hence tho gigantic evil
freely yielding revenue is also called good.
In conversation with a gentleman a few
days since I asked him what he thought of
the English capitalists buying American -breweries.
He auswered: It is a good in
dication 'Indication of what!' I asked.
Of prosperity he responded. In my judg
ment this is a most glaring instance of call
ing evil good. I think the matter referred .
to is an indication of a basely polluted
moral 6ense."
Applying the teaching of tho text to
social and religious life, the preacher said
many call evil good and good evil on these
lines. Many social amusements, as the
dance, the game of cards are called good,
while tho subtle evil influences and ten
dencies lurking therein aro unseen.
Unselfishness of Christian Life.
Prof. A. Tompkins, dean of the Normal
School at DePauw University, delivered at
Plymouth Church, last evening, a lecture,
his subject being "He that loseth his life
shall find it." No man, if he be a Christian,
he said, will lind his whole life or being
within himself. It is beneath his feet, by
his side, all around him, and it is
even shed upon him from tho heav
ens above. While it is true
man is born with all his possibilities with
in him, he passes to something beyond self.
There is an unselfishness aside and different
from mere self-sacrifice. In the bestowal
of charity, its beneficence is diminished to
that degree to which one's self accom
panied the offering. Such works should
not be done for the pleasure it affords the
donor, but for the blessing it bestows upon
the bcneficiarj When charitable deeds
aro committed fcr tho mere pleasure and
satisfaction afforded, they become expres
sions of selfishness rather than of charity.
The Christian at such times should forget
the gratification to self iu tho contempla
tion of the blessing to tho other.
The Champion Church-Debt Kaiser.
Chicago, Feb. 10. Kev. Dr. Ives, of Au
burn, N. Y., the "church-debt raiser," dem
onstrated again, to day the fitness of his
sobriquet. The occasion was tho dedica
tion of the new Park-avenue Methodist
Church, corner of Robey street, of which
the Rev. Win. Fawcett is the pastor. Tho
edifice is a handsome brown stone, costing
$38,000, on which there rcmaiued a debt this
morning of 10,000. Dr. Ives's eloquent and
persistent appeals secured from tho people
present at the dedication exercises pledges
for the whole $10,000, payable in threo aud
six months. Tho conditions were that no
subsciiption would be counted unless tho
entire amount of the debt was subscribed.
Dr. Ives, in the course of his remarks, men
tioned that he had participated in 1,200
similar affairs throughout the United States.
FUNERAL OP DR. PEARSOX.
Tributes to the Dead Physician from tho Many
Who Esteemed Him and His Life's Work.
: The funeral of Dr. Charles D. Pearson
took place from his late residence, 702 North
Ieridian street, yesterday afternoon, and
was largely attended. The services at the
house were conducted by Rev. E. P. Whal
lon, of tho Fourth Presbyterian Church,
who, in his excellent discourse, paid the
highest tribute to the memory of tho dead
physician, whoso life ho characterized as
blameless and stainless, and his death
peaceful. "He was a godly man said
tho minister, "of high ambitions and no
ble purposes; a man loved by all
with whom he caino in contact,
and whose death causes sorrow to come to
many hearts. Living tho life he did he is
assured a blessed immortality, and that
should comfort the sorrowing, should
cause them to rejoice that, freed from suf
fering, he has cone to his eternal home."
Mr. Whallon referred to the Doctor's long
period of usefulness in this community,
and said his life was one worthy of emula
tion. A quartet consisting of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Morrison, Miss Winifred Wil
lard and Mr. Charles Parker furnished mu
sic. The casket was half hidden by a beauti
ful mat of narcissus, lilies of the valley,
roses and Easter lilies. There was a profusion
of exquisite flowers, chief among which
wero designs from tho Order of Chosen
Friend and tho Loyal Legion. The former
sent a "Gates Ajar," surmounted by a
crown, tho whole piece over threo feet
high, being composed of Roman hyacinths,
roses and lilies, with tho initials O. C. F.
in immortelles at tho base of the gates.
The Loyal Legion's remembrance was a
very largo Maltese cross in roses aud lilies,
with the inscription "Loyal Legion, 1805,"
in red, white and blue immortelles. Besides
these wero a pillow of roses and white
lilacs, an anchor of roses, and lilies of tho
valley, and numerous bunches of callas,
roses and loose flowers.
The pall-bearers were: Chester Bradford,
J. L. McMaster, J. C. Adams and John
Knight, representing the Scottish Rite, aud
W. D. Wiles and James T. Layman, repre
senting George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R.
Tho latter organization and the Loyal Le
gion headed the funeral procession, followed
by the Scottish Rite representatives. Tho
latter had charge of tho services at the
grave, which were most impressive and
wore conducted by Col. N. R. Ruckle. Dr.
Jenckes delivering the prayer. Tho inter
ment was at Crown Hill Cemetery.
Will Manufacture Ice.
Cold waves have come, aud cold waves
have gone, without giving the ice-dealers
tho slightest chance to get into action, and
tho prospects of a famine in what has be
come a necessity has determined the Indi
anapolis Ico Company to wait no longer on
the uncertain weather. The company will
soon begin the erection, near the ico pond
at North Indianapolis, of what
is to be one of the largest
ice manufactories in the country.
Its capacity will be big enough to keep tho
company supplied with the desired stock
the year round, and it will be quite an ac
cession in this direction. Mr. E. J. Arm
Strong, of tho company, says it is to be
equipped with the latest machinery known
in the manufacture of ice, and that when it
is in full running order he will not care how
many soft winters are in store for him.
Work will soon be commenced upon the
proposed ice plant of Shover & Dickson,
and, with the two concerns in operation,
thero should be no scarcity of the product,
though it may come high.
Amusement Notes.
The Grand Opera-house will ofler two
sterling attractionsthis week. JA. M. Palm
er's Madison-square Theater Company, in
Sir Charles Young's masterpiece, "Jim, the
Penman," will begin its engagement to
night, and hold the stage for four perform
ances, including the usual Wednesday mat
inee. The pla3' is one of the strongest and
most interesting ever presented in Indian
apolis, and the company is one that will
produce it with the best effects.
Following "Jim, the Penman," the come
dian, E. 11. Sothern, will appear in his ex
cellent drama of "Lord Chum ley," sup
ported by Daniel Frohman's Lvceum Thea
ter Company. This play will be given ;
Thursday and Friday nights and at tho
Saturday matinee. Saturday night Mr.
Sothern will present "Tho Highest Bid
der." N. S. Wood will appear in his new play,
"Out in the Streets," at the Park Theater
this afternoon. The engagement will con
tinue for one week.
Fatal Injuries Through a Fall.
Thomas Webb, sixty-two 3ears of age,
died yesterday afternoon at the home of
his sou, John D. Webb. No. SSI South Me
ridian street, from injuries received from a
fall the night before. Mr. Webb lived on
tho Blurt road, about seven miles from the
city, and caino in Saturday evening to join
the Joseph R. Gordon Post, G. A. R., and
take part with it in the parade in honor o
Governor Hovey. About 9 o'clock he left
the Capitol, where the Hovey reception
was in progress, and went down Missouri
street. Near tho Big Four tracks
ho fell into a hole into which
molds from a foundry had been
thrown. His cries. for assistance
brought Henry Hanrahan. an employ of
the Big Four, who took him out, and. with
the help of patrolman McMnllen, attended
to Mr. 'Webb's wounds until he was re
moved to his son's homo. Mr. Webb was
first lieutenant of Captain Carson's com
pany of the Seventieth Indiana, and served,
throughout the war. Ho leaves a widow
and five children.
He said: "My love, I am sorry to disappoint
you alont the picnic, but my trotter has a laane
foot," That's nothing! We've got plenty of fc-ai-vation
OIL
The Detroit Free Press Fiend has been punning
on Dr. Hall's Cough 8rrup. Hi 1 only gratitude.
for all thiuklug men know its nicrits.-Exchauge,
OLSEN'S DUTIES.
His Officiousness Brought on the Trouble Be
tween Him and the Street Commissioner.
Councilman Olsen is being severely crit
icised for his conduct toward Street Com
missioner De Ruiter at the meeting of the
Board of Public Improvements last Satur
day afternoon. When Mayor Sullivan ap
pointed Olsen chairman of the board he
considered him, he said. Saturday evening
as a man whose knowledge of business
principles especially fitted him for the
place. "Mr. Olsen is all right when it comes
to paying off his own men," said a council
man last night, "but I think that Mayor
Sullivan is thoroughly convinced by this
time that he made a blunder when he made .
him chairman of the Board of Public Im
provements. He seems to have been totally
carried away by the gift of office, and oven
in tho little things where the most ordinary
business man would be expected to
act with discretion he seems to lose his
head. With all of his declarations
ot non-partisanship before election Mr.
Olsen has somehow got the idea into his
head that every man who is a Republican
is unworthy of official position, and that
nothing which such an official may say
bears even a shadow of truth. That kind
of business will not do, and if Olsen insists
on continuing in his partisan and unjust
ways Mavor Sullivan could do no better
than ask him for his resignation aa chair
man of the board."
Mr. Olson has, since his selection as chair
man, ignored llicklin and Murphy, tho
other members of tho board. In actions ho
has distinctly given them to understand
that he is the leading authority of the
three. At the sessions of the board he has
not been content, it is said, with presiding
over its deliberations, but has persisted in
taking the lead in such a mauner that the
other members could not mistake his wish
for them to keep silence. And he has even
gone further. All the bills that have
been t carried away from tho street
commissioner's office, under the excuse of
undergoing an examination, have oitber
been carefully protected in Mr. Olsen'a coat
pocket or locked up in his office safe. "The
whole trouble between Mr. Olsen and my
self," said Street Commissioner Do Ruiter
yesterday, to a reporter, fc'4 began when ho
laid claim to all of my books and papers.
He seemed to think that he, and
not I, was street commissioner, aud he
would take bills and receipts from my
office to which he had no more right than
yon have. Anything to which he might
take a fancy went down into his pocket,
whether it was a pay-roll, or a receipt or
what not. I concluded that that kind of
business had gone far enough. I want to
know who is street commissioner, and that
is why I brought rav suit. I think if I can
not tho courts can teach him where his du
ties begin and end. That is all I ask, and
if I can have justice I shall get it."
ENDED HER TROUBLES.
Mrs. Hahn Commits Suicide After Beine Up
braided by Herilother for Drinking Beer.
Mrs. Maggie Hahn, twenty-four years of
age, and living with her husband, George,
on West Washington street, over Kerr's
livery stable, had some things in home life
to worry her. She was, it is said, inclined
to be gayer than her husband desired, and
this led to quarrels- that were fol
lowed by scoldings from her mother.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. HahD
visited her sister, Mrs. Bowman, at No. 14
Sharp street. In the course of her stay
there Mrs. Hahn, in spite of her mothers
protest, drank beer. The mother holds to
total abstinence and the daughter had
been lectured now and then on her fond
ness for beer. Yesterday the lecture seems
to have had an unusually depressing effect
on Mrs. Hahn, as in reply to her mother's
upbraidings, she 6aid: "I will end the
trouble." She went to a neighboring drug
store, purchased morphine, and swallowed
it before Bhe returned to her sister's house.
When she did go there and told what she had
done the mother and sister did not believe
her, but soon the effects of tho drug were
noticeable. A messenger was at once 6ent
for a physician, but it was some time be
fore ono could be found. Mrs. Hahu,
though, was beyond effective treatment,
and she died at 0 o'clock last night,
i. .i
Subscribing to the Club's Fund.
Although the subscription hooks of the
Commercial Club stock have been in the
hands of the committee only one day, sev
eral hundred shares have been taken by
prominent business men. In addition to
those already published, the following sub
scriptions wero made Saturday: Charles
B. Fletcher, 8150; Jesso Fletcher, $200; S. A.
Fletcher, H. H. Hauna, J. C. Shaffer and
W. H. Eastman, $100 each. Tho member
ship committee will hold a meeting this
morning and the board of directors this
afternoon.
Her Parents Welcomed Her Home.
Pearl Condit. sixteen years of age, who
left, without permission, tho House of tho
Good Shepherd a few days ago, was seen by
officer Britney on the streets last night. He
followed her to a house on a Liberty street,
and then taking tho girl in custody, pre
vailed upon her to retturn home. To this
the girl assented. She was joyously wel
comeo by her parents when she entered
their hou&e. Pearl promised them that she
would give them no further trouble.
Turners Monthly Exercises.
The monthly examination at the Turn
teachers' Seminary was completed yester
day noon. It was attended by Messrs.
Muench and Bollinger, of t. Louis, speak
er and secretary of the North American
Turnerbnnd. The exercises lasted from 9
till 12 o'clock, and were very creditably
rendered.
To Builders and Contractors
We would say, investigate Hall sliding inside
blinds before you adopt anv ottoer. They are
cheaper than tho old style; don't sag nor rattle;
do not Interfere with curtains; can be taken out
in one minute. Call and see model at 52 South
Meridian stieot, and leave your order.
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WHEN" YOU ARE LOOKISTO
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Wood and Slate Mantels as caa be shown. We make
no failures in putting thein np. First-claas mantel
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South Meridian st. We make gas connections.
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DID YOU GET IT?
Your valentine! Whether you did or
didn't, did you Kend one? If not better
lato than never. Tho tiling in valen
tines this year is somo dainty article in
silver. Como iret one or more. They
aro beautiful, useful, nice to hrwe in
any event. Silver is all the go. It is in
fashion all the year round.
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AND-
JACKETS
AT THE POPULAR BMCES.
RINK'S
CLOAK HOUSE,
30 and 32 North Illinois Street.
SPANN & CO.'S
WOODLAWS LOTS.
On Enrflsh, Spann, Fletcher, Iloyt and Lex
ington avenues, the host building lots In tho
city for homes for people In moderate circum
stances. Thero aro still a few lots with shade
trees gas, water, paved sidewalks, graded and
graveled streets and alleys, sewerage, and street
cars. The addition Is beautiful. There are many
pretty cottages occupied by their owners, and
more belns built all the time. We will sell
choice of the 30-foot lots for from $425 to $500.
On monthly payments if desired.
JOHN S. SPANN & CO.,
80 East Market Btreet.
WALL - PAPER
We are showing Bomo new tints in IN
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CATIICAIIT, CLELAND & CO.,
26 East Washington Street.
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The agency of the Continental Insurance Company,
of New York, has been transferred from Richardson
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. AT TIIE
GAS-WORKS
At 8 cts. per bushel for Lump,
and 9 cents per bushel for
Crushed, to all those who de
sire it.
Tickets obtained at 49 South
Pennsylvania street.
BRUSH BRILLIANCY
Arc and Incandescence
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
For particulars address
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