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Prices You Can
Depend Upon
You’ll find them at our Remodeling Sale
to-day, cheaper than you would expect.
Special offers in Black Pattern Dresses,
Silks, Cliallies, Organdies, Children’s
Hats, Suits and Shirt Waists should make
buying here a . . ,
Mutual Advantage
Come and See, Anyhow
L.S.AYRES&CO.
Agents for Butterick Patterns.
Monday’s Great Bargains
ONE WINDOW
Worth Monday
11 Rope Draperies for sin
gle doors $2.50 93c
9 Rope Draperies for dou
ble doors $3.50 $1.87
12 Rope Draperies for dou
ble doors $6.00 $3.42
ONE WINDOW
43 pairs Fancy Stripe Crape Curtains —
just the thing for summer—
MONDAY, 88c PER PAIR
the Goods in our Show Windows
Be Get Them Monday
C2T ty NO RESERVES
E2T £2?" ‘’“SSUx.tt
Albert Gall
17 and 19 West Washington Street.
JfeiyClosed Saturdays at 1 p. m.
MOULTON’S
Unmounted
Photographs
At WARD’S
42 North Pennsylvania Street, opp. Postoffice.
VENETIAN BLINDS
One of the comforts of home. Shuts out
the light, admits the air; is ornamental
and healthful; is very durable; is the only
arrangement whereby you can regulate
light and ventilation. We have the BEST.
Call in; see them work.
SCHLEICHER & MARTENS
18 AND 20 NORTH MERIDIAN ST.
“Go to u Glove Store for Gloves.”
SOEU AGEJNTS
The new Wash Gloves (silk f A A
between lingers), color —jKI I 111
white and yellow, a pair.. •vrvr
FREE: A cake of Glove Soap with each
pair.
10 Etifft Wnnhlngton Street. (Ent. 1878.)
GARFIELD PARK CONCERT.
Too Long u Walk from Street Curs to
Da ml Stand.
If it were not for the long walk from
the street car to the band stand, the free
concerts at Garfield Park would be most
enjoyable affairs. As it is there is good rea
son to hope that wagons or sedan chairs
may hereafter meet the cars and convey
the people within the park. Many were the
exclamations of surprise last night from
those who had never visited the park. Sur
prise Was manifested at the beauty of the
place and at its size and the distance neces
sary to walk to enjoy the concert. The
band could not be heard from the entrance
to the park.
Thousands attended the concert. Cars
wore run closely together from 7 to 8
o'clock and all were crowded to the guards.
As late as 9 o’clock all outgoing cars were
packed, while from 8 o'clock until a late
hour the cars coming hack to the city were
equally as well filled. People were coming
and going all evening. The street-ear serv
ice was fair. A car which left Washington
street at S o’clock carried eighty-nine pas
sengers. It was an ordinary motor car
without a trailer. The game car on the re
turn trip carried thirty-nine passengers and
the stats were crowded and passengers
were standing in the aisles. 'Some of the
other trains were as crowded as this.
The concert itself was interesting to lov
ers of that sort of music, but in itself it
did not prove the attraction of the even
ing. The advertisement Os the concert for
this park on tills particular evening made
the park the Mecca for all the thousands
of young men and women who can gener
ally be seen on the down-town streets on
Sunday evenings. The crowd was headed
that way and this class went with the
crowd. Almost everybody wa.ked to the
band stand from the car and some thou
sands found seats or stood about in the
vicinity of the stand. Others, to the number
of hundreds, occupied benches or sat upon
the wet ground along the brow of the low
hill running along the course of Bean
creek. Many others wandered aimlessly
about the park and those who seemed more
familiar with the grounds found seats in
the secluded spots. Some were not within
hearing of the music and seemed uncon
cerned about it. The programme of the
music was qs follows:
March—“ City Band” Miller
Overture—“ Don Juan” Mozart
Waltz—•‘Chantilly’* Wuldteufel
Baritone solo,
Mr. T. Ortes.
Selection —“A Night in Granada”..Kreutzor
Spanish serenade—“La Talorfia”* Yradlers
Medley overture—" Mother was a
1-ady" Beyer
Gavotte—" Ever Thine”... H, Weiss
"Henrietta Polka” tfeyer
Grand descriptive fantasia from "Fire
side to Battlefield” Dalby
HIS PONY RAN AWAY.
*Vllliuiii Kern** Spine Hurt and Ills
Ear Torn Off.
William Kern, living at 173 Linden street,
was breaking a pony yesterday which he
had hitched to a cart. At Shelby street
and Pleasant run the pony started to run
away. Kern was thrown out over tire rear
of the cart and badly hurt. Dr. Krdmun,
of the City Dispensary staff, attended him.
It was found that Kern’s chief injury was
to his back, that his left ear was torn off,
and ho was bruised about the shoulders.
Dr. Erdinan removed K< rn to his home and
Drs. Bigger and Winters were called in
the case. It is impossible, to tell yet how
serious are the injuries to the spine.
. fees the China Closets ulLvm. L. Elder’s,
BETRAYED BY THE TYPES
FORGERY OF A WILL SHOWN BY A
WRITING MACHINE'S MECHANISM.
*
Noted Farley Cn*e in Supreme Court
from Lelianon—Mr*. Hankins
Shut Off from Fortune.
When the judges of the Supreme Court
return from their summer vacation they
will find before them a case containing a
story that wojld delight the heart of Dr.
A. Conan Doyle or any other writer of the
modern high-class detective tale. The peo
ple of Nobli-sville, as a general proposition,
believed that if old Mary’ Jane Farley did
not in reality leave the bulk of her money
to pretty young Mrs. Jennie Hawkins she
ought to have done so. And this was prob
ably true, for had not the young niece lived
for years with the feeble old lady and at
tended faithfully and cheerfully to all her
wants; had she not devoted her young life
almost entirely to her aunt in her old age
and illness? And what of it, if she hud,
a year or so before the death married Haw
kins, who had neither wealth nor high rep
utation in the community. She had been
so closely confined at her aunt’s side thft
she had little opportunity to pick and
choose. And, anyway, Hawkins might be
all right if given the opportunity to show
what he could do. And if not to Mrs. Haw
kins. to whom should the money go? The
only others near of kin were her two
brothers, the Messrs. Evans, men well
along in years and already possessing more
than the common share of this world's
goods. In fact they were rich and old,
while Jennie Hawkins and her husband
were poor and young, and the money meant
so much moro to them than to the brothers.
No, the story did not come out just
right, but, for all that, it is not the less
interesting to lawyers, detectives and all
that ilk whose trade leads them to ponder
upon and unravel human mysteries involv
ing property rights and crime.
When Mary Jane Farley died in the sum
mer of 1895 thei’e did not seem to be any
will, and it looked as if all her money would
go to the brothers Evans by due process
of law. This was a heavy blow to Mrs.
Hawkins and her husband, and long after
others had ceased to hope they continued
the search for the missing will. Finally one
day as the winter set in the news was
whispered about Noblesvilie that Hawkins
had found the precious document .among
some of his aunt’s papers, and she had
done the right thing by leaving the most
of her money, some SIO,OOO or $12,000, to
Jennie. Sure enough, in two or three days
the will was brought into court to be pro
bated. It was a type-written document,
very simple in Us construction and hud
been drawn in May by an attorney named
Pfaff. It bore the signatures ot two well
known citizens as witnesses. There seemed
to be something fatal about the will, for
not only the attorney, but both the wit
nesses as well had very shortly followed
the testatrix to the grave. Death, had
claimed them all.
This coincidence only served to excite the
suspicion of tho brothers Evans, and they
boluiy charged that Hawkins had forged
the will, and they brought suit to have it
set aside upon that ground. And, alas for
human sympathy anu tho rights of ro
mance, the facts brought form by inex
orable modern machinery, proved in the
minds of the juryman that the will was
spurious, though the plaintiff's attorneys
did not go to the unnecessary length, of try
ing to snow w’ho forged it.
TYPEWRITERS IN EVIDENCE.
Attorneys Fertig & Anderson, of Nobles
ville, undertook to unravel the mystery for
the plaintiffs, and C. C. Shirley, of Kokomo,
and George Shirts, of Noblesvilie, under
took the defense, afterward calling to their
aid Judge T. J. Terhune, of Lebanon. Mr.
Anderson came to Indianapolis with the
will to consult typew'riter experts and com
pare it with the work of various machines.
It was said to have been written by Mr.
Pfaff upon a machine in the office of Sen
ator Boyd, but the senator had been try
ing a large number of machines, with a
view’ to purchasing one, at that time, and
it might have been written upon any one
of a dozen. Anderson applied to George E.
Field, State agent of the Remington, who
assured him that it hud not been written
upon any one of a dozen well-known ma
chines. There was anew machine on the
market, however, the Blickensderfer, whose
writing he had never seen, and this might
be it. Mr. Anderson found twenty different
makes of typewriters on the market here
in his investigation. When he struck Dixon
Edgerton, agent for the Blickensderfer, a
comparison showed that the will had prob
ably been written upon that machine. He
found there was but one such machine in
Noblesvilie, belonging to an architect, and
there were some circumstance* connected
with this machine, but they decided that it
was ’not necessary to prove the identical
machine and the author of the forgery, so
these circumstances were not brought ui>.
The trial began at Noblesvilie and was
the topic of conversation w'herever men or
women w’ere gathered together. In one of
these conversations, where one of the jurors
w’as talking a point was brought up again:,t
the defense and the juror remarked that
that would be explained away later. He
was overheard, and upon this ground the
plaintiff’s attorneys moved the dismissal of
the jury and demanded a change of venue.
The jury was dismissed and the case sent
to Boone county, where it was tried three
weeks ago. The plaintiffs had nothing to
go upon but the internal evidences of the
document. It is true that Deputy Auditor
Fred Shepard, of this county, and other ex
perts testified that the signatures of testa
trix and witnesses, all written with an in
delible pencil, looked as though they were
written by the same hand, yet juries are
accustomed to hear experts on both sides
and the question of the signatures w'as not
the reallv material point, for Mayor Wil
son, of Noblesvilie, testified that he was
present when the will was executed, and
though a trainload of witnesses came over
from Noblesvilie itext day to impeach his
veracity another trainload came on the day
following to sustain his reputation.
The plaintiffs showed the jury that the
will could not have been written upon a
type-bar typewriter, for there were in*
dentations about many of the letters, show
ing conclusively that it must have been
written upon a machine where the type is
embossed upon a wheel. All sorts of ma
chines were operated in the presence of the
jury to show this. Then it was shown that
there are but four wheel machines in ex
istence, the Hammond, the Crandall, the
Munson and the Blickensderfer. The blank
lines for signatures had been made by strik
ing the characters for underlining, and just
above the lines were indentations of a
double-footed letter, either a K or an H.
Microscopic examination showed that one
of the indentations slanted a little, showing
it to be a K. Below the line w’ere very
faint indentations of the parenthesis mark.
It was shown that upon the Blickensderfer
machine these characters are placed in the
relative positions that would make these in
dentations possible, while in none of the
other wheel machines are the letters so
placed. At either end of these blank lines,
as a sort of a nourish, the section mark had
been used Very few machines have this
character and the Blickensderfer is one of
them. . . .. . ..
Then came the clinching testimony of the
plaintiffs. They introduced affidavits by
the president of the Blickensderfer Com
pany and the man who oversees the making
of tile dies for the wheels, proving that this
character had never been on the Blickens
derfer machine until October. 1895. whereas
the will was dated In May, 1895. This
showed conclusively that the will had been
drawn six months after it was dated and
after the death of Mary Jane Farley, and
the jury found It to be a forgery.
TO-NIGHT’S COUNCIL MEETING.
Report* to Be Mode on the Gnmewetl
System Investigation.
The Common Council will hold its regular
meeting to-night and several matters of
considerable public interest will come be
fore it. The special committee, consisting
of Messrs. Colter. Montgomery and Woody,
appointed to make an investigation of the
charge against Councilman Clark, will
make Its report and there is some ques
tion as to whether the Council will accept
the report, tho Impression prevailing in
many quarters that the committee could
have made its investigation much more
thorough. MacCurdy, the man who openly
charged Mr. Clark with attempting to ex
tort $5,000 from the electric company he rep
resents in order to get the police patrol sys
tem contract, has made so many varied
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1897.
statements that sertno of the eouncilmen
have little faith in his veracity one way
or the other, but they believe that if the
committee had put a number of searching
questions to MacCurdy, that young man,
being under oath, might have thrown fur
ther light on the matter, either to show
that there was something in the charge
or that, he made it up out of the whole
cloth. These eouncilmen feel that the grand
jury should take up the MaeCurdy-Clark
case. After MacCurdy filed his affidavit
with the investigating committee tho in
quiry did not proceed much further.
"I do not know’ that we shall reach any
conclusion or make any recommendation to
night.” said Mr. Montgomery, chairman of
the committee, to a Journal reporter last
night, "though the committee will have a
im-vting early this evening before the Coun
cil meeting, when that will be considered.
It is possible that we shall simply lay all
the testimony before the Council and let it
reach its own conclusions.”
"Did you ask MacCurdy any specific
questions on his charges?” was asked.
"Yes; he was questioned very closely. He
came in before the committee had con
vened and handed me the paper in which
he withdrew the charges and seemed to
think that settled it. I had him wait until
the other members were there, and then
he was put on the stand and cross-exam
ined until I almost felt sorry for him. He
declared that Clarke had not come to his
office and hinted at a. money consideration.
He said he had gone to Clarke’s place of
business to talk of the matter, but no word
had been said about money or other consid
eration for Ills vote.”
"How do you account for his later inter
view, then?”
"I don’t know’ what to think of it, unless
he is crazy. After examining him, we ex
amined ‘Dick’ Herrick, Colbert, Morse and
the reporters to whom MacCurdy had
talked. That afternoon I heard that his
Cleveland partner was in tow’n, and we
caught him with a subpoena and put him
on the stand. He corroborated MacCurdy
In the statement that there had been no
negotiations with Clarke, nor any advances
in that direction.”
Despite the assertion of MacCurdy that
Clarke did not come to his office, Dodge
stated to a Journal reporter, before the in
vestigation, that he saw’ Clarke there.
The theater ordinance, with the report of
the special committee of architects ap
pointed by the mayor, will be sent back to
the Council. This committee believes it.
would be best for the Council to first pass
anew general building.ordinance, and then
base a special theater ordinnace on that.
The New York ordinance, which it has
been so strenuously attempted to force
through the Council, would be difficult, if
not utterly impossible, of enforcement in
this city, as the ordin ■ nee w r as based on
New York’s general budding laws. These
general building laws describe fully what
is meant by fireproof materials, and in the
theater ordinance the word "fireproof” tois
thus used undertsandingly. Indianapolis
building ordinances are wholly insufficient,
and, according to the architects, a special
theater ordinance similar to the New York
one, without a proper base, would not an
swer the purpose for which it was de
signed.
MR. TAGGART ALARMED
*
HIS “SCARE-HEAD” INTERVIEW IN
THE DEMOCRATIC ORGAN.
*
Activities of the Silver Men in llehnlf
of Frank A. Mims—But the May
or lias the Machine.
Mayor Taggart, in his fight for renomina
tion, has found it necessary to “come out”
in a double-leaded interview in the organ
of his party declaring that ever since the
nomination of Bryan at Chicago he “has
stood squarely on the platform.” He Is
forced into this declaration, he says, by the
fact that newspapers about the country
have spoken of him as the candidate of the
gold element of the local Democracy. Pos
sibly the newspapers about the country
go upon the theory, just as do the local sil
ver leaders, that actions and facts speak
with considerably more emphasis than
words. And if the outside newspapers know’
the mayor as well as do the local silver
ites, they w’ould possibly be more emphat
ically of this opinion. Those who know
him best are moro inclined to get their in
formation from his record than from his
iiftervie’v.
Here, us elsew'here last year, the tried and
ihfiuential leaders of the Democracy were
for sound money and none was more de
termined in this position up to the time of
the convention than Thomas Taggart, ex
chairman of the state committee, mayor of
the city and one of the most influential
Democrats of the State. He was chairman
of the sound-money executive committee,
carried the primaries of this county for
that principle and made a desperate fight
in the state convention. But the silver
sentiment in the party throughout the
state was too strong. Like the other lead
ers, he w r as turned down and his sound
money delegates were thrown out of the
convention and a contesting delegation of
silverites seated. After the convention
Taggart remained friendly to both sides
and slipped along through the campaign as
quietly as possible. Since the election he
has had various appointments to make and
these have been almost invariably made
from the ranks of the Palmer and Buckner
adherents, while all those employes of the
city administration who took the, gold side
of tho arguments have been permitted to
retain their places despite the clamor of the
silver howlers that thev were bolters and
traders and should be turned out.
Now’ Mr. Taggart is a candidate for re
nomination for mayor and the same men
who succeeded in leading the party into
the Populist camp last year are opposing
him with vigor and virulence. Two months
ago they organized the “Democratic Silver
League,” and the activities of this organ
ization have been directed toward the de
feat of Taggart for nomination. They have
held meetings each week and have de
nounced Taggart as a “gold bug,” by
means of speeches, interviews, and printed
circulars. Taggart had the machine, the
old city committee being made up largely
of his personal friends, more than half of
whom had stood by the Palmer and Buck
ner ticket last year. At first the silverites
directed their attention largely to denun
ciation of this committee and calling for a
new deal. The chairman of this committee.
Captain J. B. Curtis, had given an inter
view’ after the election, in which he ex
pressed satisfaction at the defeat of Bryan
and this interview was harped upon in
numerous circulars from the silver league.
The new deal was given them two weeks
ago with great suddenness. Captain Curtis
one day issued a call for organization prim
aries tho next evening and the silverites
were all unprepared for it. Anew appor
tionment of precincts had been made and
the only maps in existence were blue prints
made in the office of the city engineer and
in the hands of the friends of the adminis
tration. With this advantage they went in
and elected anew committee more strongly
tinged with the gold element than the old
one and W. W. Spencer, one of Taggart’s
best friends, was made chairman. Believ
ing that the time to strike was while the
enemy was demoralized, Mr. Spencer at
once announced his appointment of pre
cinct committeemen and issued the call for
the city convention. The silverites are still
without maps, but they have pulled them
selves together far enough to get into pret
ty fair fighting trim. They have brought
out as a candidate against Taggart Frank
A. Maus, a wealthy retired brewer, and
have induced the Populists and silver Re
publicans to call their city conventions at
the same day as the Democratic gathering
with the threat that if the Democratic con
vention nomniatee Taggart, these two ele
ments will nominate a free-silver Democrat
and thus give the silverites the opportunity
of splitting up the Democratic strength.
It is conceded that the Democratic con
vention will put a silver plank in its plat
form, but this does not satisfy the silver
howlers. They want to know what is the
use of a "gold bug” candidate on a silver
platform and declare that if Taggart should
be re-elected they woqld have the same
spectacle over again of a Democratic ad
ministration manned by gold-standard ad
herents.
But for all this, the chances are largely
in favor of the nomination of Taggart. He
has the machine and all the gold Demo
crats as well as those leaders who stood
for gold at the start and then weakened
after the convention are friendly to him,
and the election of last November showed
that nearly half the Democrats of the city
are for gold. After being whipped so thor
oughly the mosses of the Democrats are
much more ready to listen to reason thun
they were a year ago, and the leaders
turned down so ignominiously then are re
gaining their influence.
Sunstroke Killed Him.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
An autopsy on Horace M, Singer, who
had lived in Chicago for years, revealed a
pulmonary tuberculosis, an empyema con
taining a pint of pus, diffuse chronic neph
ritis anti fatty disease of the aorta. Per
haps. after all, a fatal sunstroke is a real
relief to a Chicagoan.
CHOIR DIDN’T GO DOWN
*
RAILROAD DECLINED TO GIVE A
SPECIAL RATE TO ACTON.
♦
A Hitch in the Camp-Meeting Music
us u Result—Women's Home
Missions.
*
It was almost a perfect day at Acton
Park yesterday. It showered for a time in
the afternoon, but in the language of one
of the campers, "it was the Lord's rain,”
and It seriously inconvenienced no one, but
rather contributed to the enjoyment of the
day. Perhaps a hundred excursionists
came by the trains, and while this number
is considered small for the first Sunday In
Acton, yet it was large under the circum
stances. The association has lately com
plained that the railroad company was
adopting stricter rules regarding passes to
those who contribute to the daily pro
gramme, but the friction with the company
did not reach much intensity until the
Roberts Park choir sought passes to the
grounds for yesterday’s services. As the
choir number sixty-three, the company de
murred to giving it free transportation, and
also refused any cheaper rate than that al
ready granted excursionists. The choir be
came equally stubborn, and although it is
understood that there was only a few dol
lars difference between the company’s de
mands and the proposition made by the
choir, yet the negotiations were abruptly
broken off, and as a consequence the beau
tiful music advertised at the camp could
not be given, and a large number of church
members who would have accompanied the
choir stayed at home. The absence of a
larger crowd, however, did not detract from
the beauty of the services or the genuine
spiritual tone of the day.
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society
had charge of the day's services, and a
large number of the ladies of the East In
dianapolis district of that organization were
present and participated in the devotional
exercises. In the afternoon Mrs. Erail
Wulschner, conference president, conducted
the services, which proved the best of the
day. Airs. Wulschner be. m with the read
ing of a paper containing many beautiful
thoughts suggested by the eighty-fourth
psalm, and also later gave the audience
further evidence of her skill in a short ad
dress on the subject: “Flowers—Their
Place in Christian Work.” She said:
"Our first lesson in faith and against
worldly carefulness was taught by the
beautiful charge: ’Consider the lilies how
they grow; they toil not, they spin not, and
yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.’ ”
Airs. Wulschner then spoke practically of
the various flowers of the Bible. Os the
lily she said that Its stately dignity, chaste
and inviolate purity made it especially ap
propriate for the church. "Transferred
from the earlier to the later religion, from
pagan temple to convent, cloister, cathe
dral, hospital and home, it has gained in
significance and preaches at all times a
gospel of love and beauty, free from all
egotism, full of wholesome piety and
charity and rich with eternal purity and
hope." Continuing she said: “Flowers are
heavenly messages to sacred or secular
feasts, to the house of rejoicing or mourn
ing, and shed a a glorious radiance over
every spot they grace; and the holiest of
all, the fairest and sweetest of the heart,
the crown of perfection, the crowning glory
of Christianity, is love,”
HER HUSBAND HER PROXY,
Following Airs. Wulschner Airs. Ella
Chidester sang a solo, after which Air. C.
L. Weaver read a paper prepared by his
wife, who is president of the Home Alis
sionary Society of the district. Airs. Weaver
was so sick as to be unable to attend, but
sent her husband as proxy. Her paper con
cerned the work being done by the society,
some idea of which can be gleaned from
her closing statement:-, which were as fol
lows: "We have more than 40,000,000 people
in Christian America to-day who have not
heard of the blessed tidings of Christ and
accepted Him as their savior. Almost
1,000,000 emigrants yearly are coming to
our shores of every nationality. There are
7,000,000 colored people in tho South, 2,000,000
of the mountain whites, the thousands of
inhabitants of New Alexico, the Mormons
of Utah, the 60,000 Indians, with their 40,000
children growing up in savagery, the Al
askan savages and the Orientals on the
western coast, all in need of salvation and
enlightenment. Surely, dear friends, 1 have
said enough to snow you where our duty
lies. I am a firm believer in foreign mis
sionary work as well as home work, but
surely our first duty is in America, our
country which God in His goodness has
given us.” Airs. Weaver thougl't that
while missionaries w r ere sent to China it
w’ere W’ell not “to neglect the heathen at
our own back door,” and that the negroes
in the South needed attention as well as the
blacks in the center of Africa.
The sermon of the morning w r as delivered
by the Rev. L. G. Adkinson, president of
the New Orleans University, and was pe
culiarly appropriate to the theme of the
day. Air, Adkinson chose for his subject
"Receiving and Giving,” taking for his text
the words of Jesus to his disciples in St.
Alatthew’ x, 8. "Freely ye have received,
freely give.” The line of thought that he
developed was that inasmuch as the women
of the church owe such a great deal to the
influences of their Christian bringing up
they should freely give to the education of
those who are homeless and motherless. He
said that the church had a greater w’ork
titan ever to perform in the world, that its
members should remember what they have
received from God and should seek after
deeper consecration, deeper earnestness, a
fuller measure of the power of the Holy
Ghost. In order to give out anything it
is necessary first to receive, as in the case
of tho disciples whom Jesus enjoined to re
main in Jerusalem until they received the
power from on high to preach to all the
world. But instead of seeking after a
more fervent faith many church members
now seem to believe that it is indulging in
cant to make a true expression of personal
religious experience, tho majority do not
attend prayer meeting and as far as class
service is concerned hardly any ever even
think of attending it. Since the advent of
the fashionable church the power of the
Holy Ghost has been gradually lost and
now much is as “sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal.” "Aly plea,” said the
speaker “is for deeper consecration, a fuller
absorption of the love and power of God
through which we hope to save others.”
Dr. Adkinson then proceeded ,to apply the
remarks he had made to the necessity ex
isting for rendering a helping hand to the
negro children of the South. He gave to
the negroes the title of the homeless race.
He said that they are motherless, mat they
have no family life, that they never know
their ages and that many of them actually
have no names. The husband and wife are
often separated for months at a time, there
are no family records kept and their habits
are very loose, there being no regular meal
times or any fixed time for sleep. These
benighted freedmen are under the ban of
complete ignorance and throughout w’hole
sections of the South they have no access
to any kind of schools. A greater field for
active Christion work exists nowhere. "This
work is necessary for the preservation of
the country in the future,” said Mr. Ad
kinson. “If any danger menaces this coun
try it is the overthrow of the Christian
home. The mothers and daughters of the
Middle and Eastern States owe nearly
everything they have to the influences of
the good homes which they possess and
they should be thankful and prove their
thankfulness by aiding in providing the less
fortunate with the same influences. The
negroes compose one-ninth of the popula
tion and it is essential for the good of the
country that they be brought under the in
fluences that make good citizens. The
Freedman’s Aid Society and the Woman's
Home Alissionary Society are doing a great
good in this direction, but their efforts fall
far short of tho actual need. The duty of
all true women of the church is to assist
the mis-slonary society to the extent of the
established dues of two cents a week of
that organization. The amount is small to
the individual, bat in the aggregate it
reaches a considerable sum. and the trained
missionaries and schools of the society are
reaching out all over the South.”
The speaker gave some figures showing
the illiteracy of the negroes in Louisiana.
Os 66.947 of school age- in thirteen parishes
in 1890. only 9,221 ever received any instruc
tion of any kind. One cause for this lack
of schooling was a lack of public as well
as private funds for the work. Another
cause was the public sentiment in the
South against the negro. Alany of the
whites refused to treat the negroes as hav
ing souls, and their lives wen- considered
valueless. The negroes are huddled in mis
erable villages and are compelled to ac
cept orders on plantation stores for their
wages instead of money. Yet many of the
negroes, particularly the women, are goed,
worthy people, who love the flag and who
love Protestant ism, and to a large numlr
the Alcthodist Church, thanks to the mis
sionary society is looked upon as a mother.
“The chains of slavery are not as yet
stricken from the negro race,” said the
speaker in closing, “and there seems no
adequate remedy for their miserable con
dition, but we can do our part and a free
giving out by consecrated womanhood will
accomplish wonders.”
In the evening Dr. H. S. Hilton, state
superintendent of the Indiana Children's
Home Society, delivered a sermon on “The
Kingdom of Christ.” He spoke on the real**
ity, the strength, the laws and the triumphs
of Christ's kingdom. He said that Jesus
Christ was no visionary nor diplomat. He
never used words as Talleyrand said, to con
ceal thought, but to convey it. Hence the
people heard him gladly. His kingdom is a
real kingdom. It exists here and now as
well as in the hereafter.
To-day will be devoted to the cause of
home missionary work.
THE PENTECOSTAL BAND
ITS CHARACTERISTIC TEAT SERV
ICES IN THE COl RTHOI’SE YARD.
■ *
Rev. R. V. Hunter .loins with Ilev. Air.
.Mil (>u in In Deploring the Evil
Effects* of Fair Hunk.
*
The littlt? congregation of men and women
that meets under a tent in the courthouse
yard every Sunday afternoon and every
evening in the week is known as the Pente
costal Band. It is a sect, according to a
member of the band, that knows no creed
save the plain, every-day gospel. They be
lieve in the coming of a judgment day, but
do not pretend to say when or how it will
be made known to the people.
The w’hite canvas house of worship in
the courthouse yard is barely large enough
to shelter two hundred people. The Pente
costal Band is not the largest congregation
in the city, but it is one of the most earnest
in the work. Out at 540 East Washington
street is the band’s hom'e, where a dozen
or more young women reside and engage in
missionary and philanthropic work. South
of the city the band has a farm of twelve
acres, where the m’embers go to rest from
their work. The band goes into the street
and preaches the gospel wherever listeners
can be found. The Sunday afternoon ser
vices at the tent are usually fairly well
attend'ed. Above the entrance there is the
inscription, in great black letters: "Pen
tecost Band—Services Every Night. Come.”
Yesterday afternoon the services wer'e in
the nature of an experience meeting. There
was prayer and song and then members
of the band told of their conversion to
Christ and how it had come about. There
was no regular sermon, as the leader of the
band, Rev. Thomas Nelson, was absent at
Waverly, holding a meeting there. Two or
three young men and a rather comely
young woman—Miss Anna Bright, leader of
the band of girls who belong to the organ
ization-conducted the 'exercises. The songs
they sang were familiar old gospel hymns.
One would give an experience and then a
strong baritone yoice would be lifted in
song:
“Follbw, follow, I will follow Jesus,
Anywhere, everywhere, I will follow Him.”
The clear, strong voice of Miss Bright
would join the chorus and the other mem
bers of the band would take up the words
until they fairly rang. Then a man stood
up) and began to talk. He was glad he had
been saved by the Pentecostal Band. He
had been a drunkard; he had been in the
streets, in the station house. “But I’ll be
there no more,” he exclaimed at the close
of his exhortation. “If l m arrested again
it will b'e for serving God.” Then came an
other hymn and words of praise burst from
the lips of the band. A woman got up to
tell how she had been saved.
"I’m a witness for Christ,” she said, “and
I am so glad that God owns me, poor and
unworthy as I am.” Another woman told
of her experience and how she came to
foresake the world. She said she had
danced and partaken of the gay amuse
ments of the lighter world, and she believed
they were wrong. At length it grew time
to close the service.
“It’s time for our street meeting,” said
Miss Bright, "and, friends, we owe sls on
our tent and we want to raise that money
this afternoon or night.” The giri took a
hat and passed through the audience, gath
vring a coin here and there. The best of or
der prevailed during the service, the au
dience being attentive and apparently eager
to hear all that was said.
the danger of fair bank.
Rev. R. V. Hunter Indorses the Ser
mon of Mr. Milburn.
Rev. R. V. Hunter, in his sermon at the
Seventh Presbyterian Church, last night,
discussed the saloon question, concluding
as follows:
“In this iconnection I desire to commend
the stand taken last Sunday by Rev. J.
A. Milburn, of this city, with reference to
a resort known as Fair Bank, up on Fall
creek. Mr. Mulburn is right when he con
demns public drinking. He believes that
no man or woman of ‘refinement’ should
give recognition to a place of this kind. I
would go further and say that no man or
woman who pretends to be either a good
citizen or Christian ought to give recog
nition to a place of this kind. Mark this:
The promoter of Fair Bank, so I am in
formed by the newspapers and some who
ought to know, is a gambler and saloon
keeper. Again, intoxicating liquor is sold
there to those who have the money with
which to pay for it.
“Many young people become bewildered
with the music, the beauty of the place,
the gay surroundings and are led to take
their first drink. The curse of the thing
will be more manifest five, ten or twenty
years from now' in the crop of drunkards
that were started on their downward
course at Fair Bank. They claim to keep
out ‘improper characters.’ They may dis
cern the lowest, the poorest or the very
drunk in a few instances. But these are
not one half so dangerous to the young
and thoughtless as the sober, well-dressed
and designing libertine.
“Mr. Milburn was wise when he said, ‘lt
is idle to answer here that this kind of
thing is cosmopolitan—that it is done
abroad, that beer gardens are common in
Europe.’ Why should we corrupt our youth
and raise a generation of drunkards be
cause they may do so in Europe. Our fore
fathers left Europe because they desired to
escape certain sius common there. No true
American is anxious to Europeanize this
country. The immodest assurance of some
few foreigners who insist upon doing here
as they did abroad, or worse, is not accept
able to Americans. The intelligent, the bet
ter part,and 1 believe the larger part,of our
foreign citizenship recognizes the fact that
America stands for something different
from what they have been accustomed to
abroad. All intelligent friends of American
institutions, of a virtuous and sober race
of people will eschew the beer garden and
the public drinking houses. 1 call upon the
Christian and moral citizens of our fair
city to avoid the glare and glitter of all
such institutions as ’Fair Bank.’ It is the
golden mouth of a desolating and murder
ous monster. The public drinking house is
becoming more and more common in the
cities. People who, a few years ago, would
have deemed it an impropriety, if not a
wicked thing, to asociate with the habitues
of these places have come to deem it quite
the thing, the fad. This is plainly a letting
down of refinement and moral sentiment.
Why should we ape the evil customs of for
eign na*-'-)ns? Especially when our people
have tea iperaments more nervous and leas
able to withstand the encroachments and
devouring appetite for strong drink.
“There is no middle ground to occupy in
this business. The tendency of public
drinking in this country is to immodesty,
immorality and degeneracy. I have been
informed by those who are in a position
to know' that it is no uncommon thing for
young men and women to be taken home
trom these drinking places, both private
and public, in a maudlin state of intoxica
tion. I do not know what the police can
do to restrain them. But I do know' that
when public sentiment becomes burning hot
against such debauching institutions they
will go to the wall. It will not do for the
lovers of strong drink to plead for ‘personal
liberty’ in this matter and cite the ‘old
world.’ If Such people prefer ‘personal lib
erty’ of the ‘old world,’ let them embark
upon the next outgoing vessel. America
stands for order, decency, education, mor
als, sobriety—an advancing civilization.
Every one knows that drink is ruinous to
all of these. We who love our Nation and
desire to help our fellow-men to rise in
life ought to be total abstainers ourselves
and seek to repress such influences as will
lead others into customs ruinous to health,
nappiness. prosperity, virtue, honesty and
morality.”
Call for Outside Help.
Kansas City Star.
There are no angels In Kansas, and Par
adise. a village In that State, out in Russell
county, wants a station agen^
THE WITLESS MR. WITT
COMES IP FROM KENTECKY AND IS
BUNCOED BY HIS ''EMPLOYER.”
He Even Didn’t Know He NVn* a ATc
tim l util Told St* lij
a Policeman.
♦-
Shakspeare certainly was right when he
declared that there is nothing in a name,
else Charles Witt would have been keen
witted enough to have discovered that he
had been buncoed without having to be
told so by a policeman. Witt lives at
Irving, Ky., and he was returning home
from a visit to some friends in Illinois.
Yesterday morning at 11 o’clock he was
waiting for his train and concluded to see
something of the city. In his stroll he met
a man w ho said he owned a hardware store
in Bloomington, 111., and wanted to employ
a man to drive a wagon. He was greatly
pleased with Witt's appearance and sug
gested that he was the very man for the
place if he would only take it. The wages
were to be $35 a month and board. This
just suited Witt and he agreed to take the
place.
The man then hurried off to get passes
for transportation and agreed to meet Witt
at Washington and Illinois streets at 13
o’clock. They met and the hardware mer
chant had everything arranged. Witt was
to meet him at the station at 3 o'clock.
Their train left at 4 o'clock. This was
satisfactory. The hardware merchant had
a good deal of business to transact and
must hurry to get through. Would Witt
let him have $5? He was a little short and
was buying a lot of goods. Witt gave up
the $5 and went whistling merrily down the
street dreaming of the position he was to
go to with his new friend.
At 2:30 he was at the station. He saw
Patrolman Dos Shafer pass by him several
times and feeling in a good humor with
himself and the world struck up a conver
sation. Nice town. Mr. Witt thought, and
went on to extol its beauties to the police
man. In confidence he told the policeman
of his own good luck in the city.
"I hear people talk of the hard times,”
he said, “but I don’t see that they are
any .worse than usual. They seem to be all
right here. I had not been in town an hour
until I was offered the best job I ever had
in my life.”
He went into details with the policeman
and would not believe Shafer when the lat
ter said the employer would not appear.
At 3 o’clock Witt began to think that his
new' employer had more business to attend
to than he had counted on and would take
the next train. He Inquired about the
trains and when he learned that there was
no train at 4 o'clock as the man had said
there was, he began to have doubts. At 4
o’clock he was satisfied something was
wrong; and when at 6 o’clock be began to
get hungry and found he had given the
stranger all his money he came to the con
clusion that things did not look as bright
as they had. Then he began to think of
home and found that he had been unwise
in not purchasing his ticket while he had
the money. At 7 o’clock, when he reported
the case at headquarters, he was firmly
convinced that he had been buncoed.
“I wouldn’t mind it so much.” he ex
plained, “if it wasn’t all the money I had,
and then it’ll get in the papers and the
fellers at home’ll find It out.”
He borrowed a dime from a policeman
and said he guessed he would camp in town
until morning and then start to walk home.
GRAND HOTEL'S NEW MANAGER
Col. “Dick’* Townsend, of Fort Wayne,
Will Take Charge.
Colonel “Dick” Townsend, who has for
six years presided over the destinies of the
Randall Hotel at Fort Wayne, and has
made it famous throughout the State,
comes to the Grand Hotel to-day in the
capacity of manager. Even since the pres
ent company took charge of the hotel Mr.
Taggart has devoted much of his personal
attention to its management, and has
brought it up from a losing venture to a
property that pays handsomely and shows
a full register even in this dull season. He
has, however, found his manifold duties
absorbing about all his waking hours, and
expects Mr. Townsend to relieve him of
the active duty of managing the hotel. The
latter brings to the service of the hotel
long and successful experience and a wide
popularity with the traveling public.
JUST RETURNED FROM CHURCH
Sudden Dentil of Mary Roberts, of
West Sixteenth Street.
Mary Roberts, wife of Edward Roberts,
died suddenly yesterday at her home, 316
West Sixteenth street. She had just re
turned from church when she began bleed
ing at the mouth and nostrils. A physician
was hastily summoned, but she died before
he arrived. Coroner Brayton found that
hemorrhage of the lungs caused death. Mrs.
Roberts was sixty-seven years old and the
mother of nine children.
Chased by the Thresher*.
Frank Smith and Charles Walker, col
ored, were brought to the jail Saturday
night by a posse from Pike township. The
men were caught robbing the house of a
farmer near New Augusta late Saturday
afternoon. They were In the act of leav
ing the house after having gone through
the rooms when they were seen by a num
ber of farmers who were tnreshing wheat
near by. The alarm was raised and the
threshers gave chase. The negroes were
lleet of foot, and led the farmers a hot race
of two miles before they were captured.
The prisoners were charged with burglary
and petit larceny. They are not local talent.
' 'U u
BIG FOLK ROUTE.
NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION,
Tuesday, July 20, 1807.
*7.00 ROUND TRIP—*7.OO.
*1 More to Toronto and Return—*s.so
More to Thousand Isle* and Return.'
Special train, composed of sleeping cars
reclining chair cars and elegant day
cofehes will leave Indianapolis 6:45 p . ni
Tuesday, July 30, running through without
change and arriving Niagara Fails 7:30 the
next morning. Returning special train
leaves Niagara Palls D p. m., Thursday,
July 22. but tickets will also be good to
leave Niagara Falls until Saturday, July 24
Thousand island tickets will be good to re
turn till Monday. July 26.
Sleeping-car rate-s, $3 per double berth ■
chair-car rates, $1.50 per chair, Indianapolis
to the Falls.
Sleepers can be occupied one night at the
Falls for $1 extra.
Call at Big tour offices. No. 1 East
Wa'shitigton street and Union Station.
H. M. BRONSON, A. G. P. A.
EXCURSION TO CHICAGO.
July 21, Yin Penn*> lvnnlu Line*.
Excursion tickets to Chicago will be sold
by Pennsylvania lines Wednesday, July 21,
account the unveiling of the Bogan monu
ment. Tickets will be sold to all applicants.
Half fare for children between the ages of
five and twelve years. The return limit
will include Monday, July 26, allowing five
days in the world’s fair city. See neatest
Pennsylvania lines ticket agent for particu
lars.
fMne Cutlery—*
Novelties in Pocket Knives, Scissors, Razors and Table
Cutlery
The Star Safety Razor —try one, it will please you.
Plated Tableware — the ver}' best at the lowest prices.
The very best Kitchen and Paring Knives.
Carving Sets and Steels, Bird Sets.
Fancy Hardware, Tools, Wrenches, Etc.
Charles Mayer 6c Cos.,
29 and 31 West Washington Street.
*7— NIAGARA FALLS AND RETURN—*T
\ In C., 11. A D. unil Erie Il’Jf*.
Thursday, July 22.
Train leaves Indianapolis 10:45; a. rr>.
Tickets good to return leaving Niagara
Fails July 26.
For tickets and detailed information call
at Union Station or 2 West Washington
street, corner Meridian.
*S.OO—CHIC AGO AND RETURN—*S.OO.
\ '.m Motion Route.
Account Unveiling Logan Monument.
Tickets on sale July 21, good to return
until July 26
Detailed information and tickets at Union
Station. Massachusetts avenue and 2 West
Washington street, corner Meridian.
*3.3O—CINCINNATI AND RETURN—*B.3O
Ain C.. H. A D. R’y.
Account German Epworth League.
Tickets on sale July 21 and 22. good to
return until July 26. Detailed information
and tickets at Union Station and 2 West
Washington street, corner Meridian.
$13 —Atlantic City nn*l Return—*l3.
Ain C M 11. A D.. B. A O. S. AA ~ H. & O.
Thursday, July 20.
Tickets good going on regular trains that
date; good returning until Aug. 9.
Details at Union Station and No. 2 West
Washington street, corner Meridian.
GEO. W. HAYLER, D. P. A.
*l2 ( lmntaaqua Luke and Return *l2l
Via C., H. A D. and Erie R'y*.
Monday, Aug. 2.
Trains leave Indianapolis 3:40 a. m. and 4:45
p. m. Tickets good to return until Aug. 31.
Details and tickets at Union Station and
2 West Washington street, corner Meridian.
Insure with German Fire Insurance of In
diana. General offices. 29 South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
Feed your horse JANES'S Dustless Oats.
McGilllard Agency Cos. Fire insurance.
Grand Excursion to the Seashore,
OLD POINT COMFORT.
Hiyr Four Route and C. A O. R*y.
On Thursday, July 22. round trip tickets will
be sold from* Greoncastle, Ind., CrnwfordsvlUe,
Greensburg, Anderson and Indianapolis and other
points on Big Four Railway to Old Point Com
fort and return at sl3. Tickets will be g*>od on
anv regular trains for the going trip and good
returning within fifteen days. Stop-over privi
leges at Richmond, Va„ Hot Springs, Va., White
Sulphur Springs. W. Va., Natural Bridge and
other mountain resorts.
For sleeping-car reservations and other in
fermation apply to H. M. BRONSON, A. O. P.
A., Indianapolis, Ind., or C. B. RYAN, A. G. P.
A.. Cincinnati, O.
For hot weather use French silk violin string*.
Ihey last. Carlin & Lennox. 31 East Market.
Fine harness. F. R. Herrington, SI E. Market st.
Silver = Plated Ware
At Half Cost
Beginning Monday, July 19, we
will offer our entire line of Plated
Toilet Articles at one-half
cost. Bargains worthy of atten
tion.
C. Wall^,
INDIANA'S LEADING JEWELERS.
NOTICE.
During the months of
Jane, July, Augustand September
The office hours of
The Indianapolis Gas Cos
Will be from
8 a. xxx. to £5 p. xxx.
Excepting on the Bth, 9th, 10th, 11th and
12th of each mouth, when they will be from
8 a. xxx. -to O jx. xxx.
By order of the PRESIDENT.
Look Out!
Don’t Be Imposed Upon l
eOur . . .
ed Crust
Bread
Is being imitated, just as our “DOMES
TIC” was and is ....
Ask for Parrott & Taggart’s “Crimped
Crust,” and see that our tag is on the loaf.
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Marble Tiling and Wainscoting,
Ne No. 219 North Delaware Street.
FURNITURE,
CARPETS
MESSENGER’S,
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OXEY Oc.
“BIG VALUE BOX” —containing 100
sheets linen paper and 100 envelopes to
match.
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140 (ttew No.) North Meridian St.
GARBAGE CANS
Galvanized iron—strongest and best
made. New supply just received.
Price, with covers —65c, 95c, SI.SS.
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