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accompanied her. He was evidently her husband.
He had temporarily left business cares down town
behind him and had sped up ON the elevated rail-
road to enjoy lunch with his wife. She had been
waiting some minutes for him. never saw
woman more completely tired out. Her pretty
face was haggard, and she hardly had strength
enough to unbutton her sealskin cloak The hus-
band regarded her with affectionate SOlic1tude as
she detailed the troubles OF the day and the sur
prtsing purchases that she had made. After run
for sJohnny' and 'the baby" She spoke Of those
that remained unbOught, and deucafely inSnuated
that she was out Of money.
s'DOn't run around any more to-day, dear" her
you're not careful you'll be down sick. Take my
advice and go home and rest. Let the Christmas
toys go until you're stronger"
The ruling passion was too fierce, however. She
able to shake on the shopping fever Her eyes
dilated she told OF the wonders that were yet to
be gathered in. The husband began to be pressed
for time. He looked at his watch every minute.
dinner as healthy stimulant, but she would have
nothing but strong coffee. Her c0OtngS became
softer and softer, and at times almost ipaudible.
At last she carried her point.
arose. .'Here ere SIS dear. must get back 70 the
ONCE. You may look Tor me at dinner at z. Don't
oyerdo yourself Goodbye"
Five minutes afterward the lady resumed her
patton. Last night sat in quiet conversation
with well-known physician ON an elevated train.
The same woman's husband entered the car and
had talk with the doctor. He left the train ct
.Poor fellowl" said the physician, che win have
q sad ChriStmaSn
"Whats the natter" inquired.
aHls wife Is down with the typhoid fever and
ping. feerSOrry for the two little oneSn
AMOS ]. CUMMINGS AND BLAKtLY HALL.
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Inc following is the personnel OF the regular
Seif1ert, Misses Mary F. Guss and Katie Putnam:
Alti, Misses Annie l. Kaiser and Nettie e HOW.
ard; Tenor Messrs J: Geo. Bright and 3. J.
Z. Bright, Frank ID. Seiffert and G. Eckhardt; Or
ganist, Miss Ella G. Butler; Cornetist, DR.. william
Long.
In the afternoon the Sunday schools connected
with the church will celebrate their usual Christ.
mas service, at which time some very choice selec-
the infant class appropriate to the Occasion. and
short addresses by eminent sunday school workers.
Il. Special music for Christmas WIN be rendered BY
the choir OF the Metropolitan n. T. church. Rev
Ing and evening as follows: MorninSMH I San.
Hssana se,d to me Son n% Of David Hasson
Credo: Evening-Anthem, TIE Deum Laudamus'
No u; stephen; solo, duett and chorus, Hark, the
Gray. The choir is composed as follows: sourani
Byington, Misses Hattie Holmes, Molie Mckee <,
Mollte Potter, with Nine. Kasper and Miss Sallie b
Redd assisting; alti, Misses Matte Gray, Lulie z
Burrough, Mary A. Barnes, Belle Twambly, Ber-
A. Preston, Lewis Thompson, q. B. ATKINSON. a. r.
Morse, E Burnes; bassi, Messrs. ]. C. CLARK, l. z.
wIs IS Dr. B ,, 4 GIBBS \: B Bolton, r. z
c. W. johnson; organist, Nj. K L shope. ~
At the Metropolitan A. N. T. church there win
De Christmas service OF song under the direction
Christmas services at McKendree N. 4 church.
Massachusetts, avenue, between 9th ana 10th
streets northwest, Rev. G. Herbert Richardson.
pastor. On Christmas day, praise and prayer
service at $50 q m For Sunday, December a6th,
the program Is as follows: IL q M, anthem Calm
Joy to the Wof1di the Lord = Come, arranged
from Handel; anthem. And there were Shepherds
Herald Angels sing, Barthoidy; sermon By pas as
tor, Christ, the Life, and the Light Of Men: an
them, Rejoice Israel Rossini; hymn, The star Of
aasSe a. ssS Ss
hymn, Waken. Christian children; essay, The
Those Holy Voices; reading. Christmas anthem.
eears; hymn, Bethlehem; reading, The Christmas
Sneed Phoebe Cay; anthem. M Came Upon the
Power q Jssns Mona To choir t1n b undeI
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TEE LAMENT OF wATcHAAN WHO LONGS FOR THE
GOOD OLD TnEs-THR SPECIALS AND THEIR
DuT1Es-rwo FREsUNPTIous SPECIALS WHO
WE'RE OVERCOME By THEIR UNIFORM
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acts creating or comforting any franchises upon
them.
But the subject under consideration is not an
application for the forfeiture Of any franchise
which these roads possess of entering the city of
washington or the dissolution OF these CORPORA
lions, but merely involves the repeal of an incl
dental privilege or concession granted to these
corporations, and to grant to them other privt-
leges commensurate with their several necessi-
ties but less injurious to both public and private
interests. 1t appears, therefore, that the only
things to be resumed are the franchises or prtyi-
leges granted by Congress to these corporations
and nothing to do with the private property ac.
the only question for doubt In the premises is not
whether there should, in these cases. be q pro-
vision for compensation to these CORPORATIONS but
whether Congress has really the right to aDprO-
pirate any money out OF the Treasury by way Of
compensation to these railroad companies for any
changes made? Indeed, there Is not q single
judicial authority, as far as am able to ind, and
Ihave consulted both European and American
authorities to show that these roads are entitled
TO or can set up any legal claim for compensation
In any contemplated contingency.
Why, then, should these roads be permitted
longer to occupy the public streets and avenues OF
these streets and avenues are kept in repairs at
the public expense; when there is so much vacant
territory along the eastern and southern sections
OF the city, and which may be purchased by these
roads and occupied by them without injury to any
one II the Vance- Harris 6iH, now before the SEN
taken up, considered (and modiflod IL found neces
saryi and passed into q law This bill places these
roads, after passing through the navy yard tun-
mel, on tramWay above the grade OF the streets
and provides for Union depot at the junction Oh
& and L and nth and Sd streets southwest. c.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23
MEXICO AND CANADA,

Scratch the head Of bully and you will
always find coward. This is ''the Gods
truth about the whole business" when applied
to the Democratic party. The United States
has never been so Inundated in her foreign
relations as by the Democratic administration
of Grover Cleveland. The foreign appoint
ments of Bayard have been rivaled only by
the postal appointments of Villas. From the
HOLSTERS the former has selected Bayless
Hanna to represent US abroad, while the Post
master-general lit upon Barney Conroy TO
improve the "rascally" Republican postofice
administration at home.
Mexico, we all know, is poor little infrm
nation, too weak to fight, and whom, in
lS46-S, the Democratic party robbed Of half
her public domain. Bayard therefore, struts
before her like turkey cock, and proposes to
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dictate to her local judges how they shall de-

dictate to her local judges how they shall de-
eide libel cases. Finding himself all awry as
to his facts, he sends to the capital OF the
Montezumas gilt-edged young maa from
in less than twenty-four hours, so befuddled
with liquor that he didn't know A from lizard
What humiliation! Shade of Daniel Webster!
Compare that grand letter of Webster con-
corning American citizens captured at Santa
Fe in 1912, with the drivel of the Democratic
Premier of 1886 in this Cutting 6asco.
Thus much for Mexico. Here is the bully
and the little sister. Nov look at the bully
when he meets the little sister with big
brother Canada is only another name for
England, and England has navy that could
sail up the Potomac and knock Mr.. Bayard's
State Department to smithereens. The last
words of Tilden were to remind the Demo
cratic party that their best hold was to put
the Republican party to shame by building
up navy to meet j. such an emergency as
this. Mr.. Bayard, when he comes to treat with
Canada upon the rights and wrongs of Amer
lean fisherman, is as mild as asses milk.
''Please, sir" says this Democratic bully,
won't you Canadians be kind enough to let
US Americans submit to arbitration" rights
that have immemorially belonged to American
fishermen? Hat-in-hand this Democratic ad
ministration-that stl uts and shows it's feath-
ers to poor Mexico-takes out it's pocket
handkerchief, wipes its perspiring brow, and
makes low bow to Canada. And the irony
Of the whole matter is that in the Mexican
fasco Bayard was, in the judgment of all
thinking men, wholly in the wrong. while in
the matter of the fisheries, about which with
Canada he is so mild and forbearing, he is
equally in the right.
Suppose Republican had been President.
cause under the protection of England, and
showed his teeth to Mexico because unable to
is the legitimate and logical outcome Of party
that keeps itself in power by robbing millions
solving that 'the right to a free ballot is the
right preventative of all other rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every part of
the United States"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

GEN. NEAL Dow has tried his writing hand
again in letter to the New York Tribune.
In this last effort he afirms that there is not
"the smallest inconsistency in my letters OF
utterances, written or spoken, at different
times"
Gen. Neal Dow wrote to the Portland
Argus, Democratic paper, less than two
weeks ago, letter i'll which he said:
''The volume of the liquor traffic has not
been at all reduced within the last twenty
years. In every city in Maine under Repub-
lican rule, except in Portland, the law has
been and is absolutely ignored, and the
authorities refuse to take any measures what
ever for the extinction of the low grog shops
which infest them, and infiict great suffering
upon large numbers of people"
In March, 1883, Gen. Neal Dow wrote:
''The quantity OF liquors sold in Maine is
not more than one-twentieth of what it was
before the law. Every dstillery and brewery
in the State has been suppressed; there is not
one remaining
In another letter Gen. Neal Dow wrote
ssThere is not word of truth in the asser-
contrary, it has been a great success from the
beginning. It has driven out every distillery
and brewery, and has reduced the volume of
the liquor traffic to at least one-twentieth of
what it was before"
In another letter Gen. Neal Dow wrote
''The Maine law is as we'll executed as any
other of our statutes"
In letter to the Boston Post, under date Of
April 90, 1884, Gen. Neal Dow wrote:
Gin more than three-fourths of our terri
tory. containing more than three -fourths of our
population, the liquor traffic is nearly or quite
unknown. and we are confident
that half million will pay for all the liquors
struggled into the State and sold in violation
of the law"
In the New York Independent of only last
week Gen. Neal Dow wrote:
s'The rum-shops are comparatively few, the
stocks of liquors are very small; quart or
two-at most gallon or two-of whisky kept
carefully hidden away and sold only on the
sly, or more openly only to those who are
known to be friends of the contraband trade
The entire State is wonderfully
changed for the better"
Gen. Neal Dow may we'll be left to the ten
der merces of Gen. Neal Dow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23
TIE LIQUOR LEAGUE aRRRYMANDER.

1t was tho boast of the last Democratic
LiquorLe Legislature that it had framed
a gerrymander bill whereby they would have
a majority Of about seventy on joint ballot.
According to this apportionment the Demo
cratic party should cast eleven. ffteenths of
the vote of the State. In the last general
election there was total vote of.494, TIA cast.
Of this number the Democratic party should
have cast not less than 359, 1893, while in truth
they cast but 244,99O, leaving balance Of
Ia, 90S disfranchised as completely as though
they had no political rights at ALL This is the
kind of 'fne work" the people of Indiana are
called on to indorse. It is to be determined
if this kind of trickery is to be made .legiti
mate here There are now ia, 908 voters in
this State who absolutely have no voice at all
in the selection of the next Legislature. The
Liquor League is defiant in its position be-
cause, by conspiring with the last Democratic
Legislature, it has arranged plan whereby it
will be impossible to pass any laws that shall
in any manner interfere with the illegal traffic
in liquors in Indiana. The conspirators are
jubilant in the belief that they have sue
ceeded in their scheme for muzzling public
sentiment in Indiana for six years to come.
AS it stands there are LA, 908 voters in the
State of Indiana who will have no voice IA
the selection of United States Senator. The
plan, therefore, reaches much further than the
borders of the State, and is intended to affect
national legislation as we'll. In the election
Of Congressman no less than 1876, 800 In
dianians are deprived of their rights as legal
voters, and in the business of electing legisla-
tors there are 114,9O8 legal voters in this
State who will have no voice. And this is the
work of that party which has made such a
parade of reform, while at the same time
most heartily despising and objurgating it.
What have the Democratic speakers to say Of
this gigantic and shameless steal of the suf-
frages of the people Of this State? Is there
one among them who dares to make defense !?
Let the people demand an answer to this
question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23
Mrs. Stowe in Poor Health

Washington Dispatch in Boston Herald.
A writer in the Capital says: "a friend tells
me that since the death of her husband Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has shown decline In
health and spirits that alarms all her friends.
There is now but little that binds me here. says
the anthoress, mournfully. I reserved all my
strength that might the better look after and
attend to the comfort of my husband, and now
that he has gone, we'll and with weary look
in the once lustrious eyes she signs as she con-
cludes with the words: My task is at an end.
Although the death eff Professor Stowe has been
expected by his devoted wife for many months,
the occurrence when it finally came, shocked
her entire system. She is bearing her loss with
calmness, but to those that are admitted to her
presence it is plain that it will not be long before
the historic Beecher family will be robbed Of its
most illustrious female member"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

The Democrats, under the lead Of Commits
sioner Oberly, the oleaginous 'fboss" of lii
nois, are making complete farce of the Civil
service Commission. A special to the Courier
Journal says: Commissioner Edgerton is
not in the city much of the time; in fact,
Oberly is the only man here at present. Ed
gerton is mild and easily managed.
Mr.. Oberly entertains the belief that the pub
lie is pretty certain to conclude that civil
service reform is a good deal of fraud"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

The proposition to run an Independent Re-
publican candidate against Mr.. j. B. Cheadle,
in the Ninth district, did not have enough
life in it to last one day. The Democrats,
yesterday, nominated a Mr.. Ham, from Gin
ton county. The Republicans of the Ninth
district will not be swerved from their allegi-
ance by the ambitious pretenses or the per-
sonal opposition of any body. Mr.. Cheadle
will receive, as he deserves, the cordial sup
port of the party whose nominee he is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

The Baltimore Sun, leading Democratic
paper, thinks the situation in Indiana has
changed. In an article printed yesterday it
says;
s'Of late, however, the political situation
in Indiana has so changed as to Undue the Re-
publicans with the hope that they can make
fight along the whole line The prospect
now is that the coming campaign in Indiana
will be fought as desperately on both sides as
in 1884. And while the chances still are that
the Democrats will be as successful as at that
period, and bear off, also, the prize of the SEN
atorship, they will have to give and receive as
many hard knocks as ever. Senator Voor-
hees, who has been here some time, will next
week enter actively into the campaign in the
State and he and all the other leaders of the
Indiana Democracy expect to have plenty of
work until the election. The Indiana Democ-
racy is not so harmonious as it might be-
There are various causes for discomfort, and
included among them is the fact of this very
gerrymander by their friends in the Legisla-
ture, which was so unjust and unfair as to be
too strong dose for the stomachs of MANY of
them, Notwithstanding theirparty allegiance. /"
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Upprofsssional and Indecent.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Attention has been drawn TO the un-American
policy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer In encourag.
ing boycott against its enterprising rival. the
Leader During the last year the Plain Dealer
has built up a reputation of being a thoroughly
unprincipled shee: in its methods of political
warfare. Its recklessness is absolutely without
limit, but much can be forgiven on the score Of
partisan zeal. There is not the shadow of a
decent excuse, however, for one paper system
atically seeking to foment and keep up qusrrels
between the proprietor and the employees of a
contemporary, and when paper gives aid and
comfort to the alien boycott for the purpose OF
iniurng the business of another, it forfeits all
considerations of respect PERTAINING to jour-
nalism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23
THAT METHODIST BuGARoo.

Of course, the story that an attempt was to
be made by the official leaders of the Meth
odist Church to swing that organization into
the support of third-party prohibition, was a
clumsy and foolish lie, as the Journal said so
soon as the canard saw the light. Since then,
some who may be presumed to know have
spoken freely upon the subject. First, Rev. DIR.
Buckley, of the New York Advocate, who was
alleged to be the leader in the scheme, de-
nounces it, saying that ''the church is not
partisan, and will not support the third party
as church." Rev. G. w. Smith, of the
Pittsburg Advocate, says the story "is a
tissue of falsehoods. Just the reverse is true.
The bishops of our church have no authority
to take such action, and even if they had they
have too much sense to do it." Rev. Dr. Hat
field says:
'This thing is all mistake. The reading
of the language of the conference resolution
THAT of the General Conference on the subject
of temperance will set the public right on that
question. 1t was adopted at Philadelphia It
is not rule nor law. 1t is only the express
sion of the opinion of the parties who partici-
pated in the conference. Emanating from
such body of men it is entitled to respect.
1t is in accordance, too, with the spirit of the
church, but it does not propose to set up the
Methodists as q political party, nor does it
propose to attach them to the third party
the Prohibitionists. In point of fact the
language guards against such an interpreta-
/ tiop."
At the Chicago Methodist ministers meet
ing the story was taken up, and Rev. DR..
Parkhurst said: 'The Methodist Church
cannot be committed to any party by resolu-
tions of conference Or editorial opinion
Another minister said ''The Methodists are
not committed to the Prohibition party nor to
any third party. That organization which
will best promote the cause of temperance is
the party which the individual members are
in duty bound to support. Members are sure
to differ in their views as to that" Rev. DR..
Bristol Rev. DR.. Williamson, and others spoke,
call repudiating the idea Of attempting to attach
the church to the Prohibition party" Thus
falls to the ground another effort of the Dem
ocrats and their third-party assistants to aid
the liquor power of the country. But there
was something almost sublime in the impu-
dence that attempted to hitch the great
Methodist Church to the Democratic free
whisky third -party-combination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

THE Louisville Courier-J ournal wants to
know eff the laws Of the land do not permit
so good and great man as Mr. Tilden to dis
pose of his property as he pleases, what can
ordinary men with property expect9" The
trouble with this great and good man was that
he did not know enough about the laws of the
land to properly draw will under the statutes
of New York. He should have written his
will in cipher.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

THE indianapolis Journal and other Repub-
lican papers are now citing instances of de-
layed letters and other mail matter for the
purpose of proving that the service under a
Democratic administration is not efficient No
wonder it is deficient when nine-tenths of the
present service are Republicans and are
trained to delay mails for political effect
Turn the rascals out and then we shall have
an honest administration. Demo
crat.
We have frequently remarked that if it is the
wicked Republican clerks who are responsible
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Bob TAYLOR the Democratic candidate fc

Bob TAYLOR the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Tennessee, says: . -sm not a
free trader and never was. The Democratic
party is not a free-trade party. We
are for tariff which is necessary to bring us
revenue and to meet the expenses of the
government, to pay the interest on the nation
al debt and at the same time give protection
TO the lsborer and our industries" Sheath!
Where is Henri Watterson. and where is the
Indiana Democratic resolution
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

A FAIR apportionment of the State would
give the Democrats seventy four votes on joint
ballot in the Legislature to seventy-six for the
opposition. The party has arranged to steal
thirty-six, giving it 10 members. Shall the
steal be Endorsed by the people?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

Mr.. WIGGINs is, presumably, in the pay of
the cyclone insurance men, from the profuse
manner in which they use his absurd pre-
dictions in their advertisements Might not
our genial old friend, Mr.. Love, find an open
ing for his budding meteorological genius9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

PAPERS like the Louisville Courier-J ournal
are in a serious dilemma. They cannot speak
approvingy of the condition of business with
out realizing that the ''robber" tariff is still
in full operation. And they cannot paint the
gloomy pictures they were wont to without
compromising the Democratic administration.
A large reward will be paid for solution of
this difficulty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

The more the Indiana Democratic gerry
mander is looked into the more the Democrat
ic party invites the people to look in some 9TH
er direction. Democratic orators do not care
to discuss that swindle on the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

THE Methodists of Indiana will be wise if
they unite the Indiana and Southeastern
conferences, so that their church interests
may be consolidated, particularly in Indian
apolis. This action would make strong con-
ference, and would give to the church at the
capital greatly increased correctional strength
and influence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-23

BY the last Democratic gerrymander not
Jess than 135, 600 legal voters in Indiana will
have no voice in the election of members of
Congress- la, 9O8 will have nothing to say
about the election of the next Legislature. No
wonder the Democratic voters of the Eighth
district are arranging to defeat Mr.. Lamb for
whose special benefit this stupendous swindle
was arranged