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about 60 indians, several of whom made
thrilling .and touching Christian addresses.
PLEA FOR IIGHT

about 60 Indians, several of whom made
thrilling .and touching Christian addresses.
PLEA FOR LIGHT.
Atthe Chillicothe Conference, in 1920, they
petitioned for regular missionary. For
Rev. Finley at Negrotown, and the women
addressed him first, followed by the braves.
The appeal OF the women was as follows:
We thank the old father for coming to see us
so often and speaking the good word To us, and
we want him to keep coming and never forsake
us; and we let him know that we love this re-
hglon too well to give it up while we 1--we, for
we think it will go bad with our people if they
quit this religion: and we want our good Brother
stewart to stay always with u.s. and our Brother
Jonathan, too. and to help us along as they
nave done Next we let the old fathers know
what our head chiefs and others have to say
They are willing that the gospel word should be
continued among them. and they will try to do
good themselves and help others to do so, too;
but as for the other things mentioned, they say
we give it all over to our speakers; Just what
they say we agree to; they know better about
these things than we do, and they may let the
old father know their mind.
This is perhaps the first instance In his
tory where the women were allowed to take
any part in the deliberations of the Indian
tribe. The advent of Christianity had al
ready raised the Indian women to level
with the men. After the squaws had re-
tired, the chiefs delivered the following:
We thank the fathers in conference for send
ing us preachers to help our Brother Stewart,
and we desire the old father to keep coming at
least another year when his year is out; and we
want our Brother Armstrong to come as often
as he can, and our Brothers Stewart and iona
than to stay among us and help us as they have
done: and we hope our good fathers will not
give us up, because so many of our people are
wicked and do wrong, for we believe some white
men are wicked yet, that had the good word
preached to them longer than our people; and
our great Heavenly Father has had patience
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and then we walked up to the ruins of the
old castle. The size OF the place and the
vast space the ruins still occupy show plain
ly that the old Schloss was once a great
palace. When we had had enough of silent
ruins we descended by another road to the
teeming town. We passed through a vii
lage whose inhabitants were resting after
their days work. It was rural village
scene we saw, calm and peaceful. There
were cows and horses in the sheds. women
were by the kitchen FIRE, men and bows were
talking to each other. Near to an old man
of grave and touching physiognomy stood
fine looking lad II. Old age is garrulous.
and this man gossiped. He had never
been away from his native town but twice,
that is 30 far as Carlsruhe. He never had
desired to wander anywhere, and as he was
never called on to be soldier he STAYED at
home. The boy was his grandson. and At
that age when life is still all love and ewes
are NOT yet fearful
We quilted this valley, walked swiftly
along the roadway, and soon came back
into the tumults of modern world. Car
riages were swiftly rolling by. and in them
sat women sparkling with precious Jewels.
We walked along the grand avenue of
Baden-Baden, into the Lichtenthall Alice
that everybody frequents of an afternoon
and evening. All around was now ioyous
noise. heromantic dreams of chivalry and
dismal dungeons deep had given way to
luxury and perfume.
HENRY HAYNIE.
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A CONsIDERATE BOSTON MOTHER

Calls Her Guests to Dinner to Prevent the
Children Eating too Much.
Arlo Bates in Providence Journal.
was amused by the story of party that
was recently given BY Well-known Boston
society woman at her cottage by the sea. She
is woman of the sort that furnish continual
stories to her friends. She never does any,
thing in just the way that is expected, and
she is never disconnected by anything that
happens. She has flock of children that
are not unlike her, and except that it has
apparently never entered into the scheme of
life of either parent TO do anything what
ever to check any of the natural impulses of
childhood.
On the occasion referred to the companv
had been hidden for o'clock, and of course.
in the usual social fashion, they came half
an hour or an hour later. They were, in
deed, not all assembled when the hostess
wassummoned from the parlors BY servant.
In few moments she returned with an ex-
preston of tragic woe struggling with
laugh on her handsome and always good
humored face.
Really" she said to the company in
general, and to those who chanced to be
nearest In particular, SIT is too provoking.
You will have to come out to supper now,
Tor the children have eaten up the biggest
part OF the ice-cream already, and II we
don't go now there won't be any left. Be-
sides, she added, as if it were a considera-
tion which had just struck her as an after
thought, "the children will be dreadfully
III tomorrow ii they eat any more"
And with laughter her friends trooped
out to secure whatever supper remained
undevoured by the children, and to save
those interesting prodigies from completely
running their digestion by further gorginS.
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his doorway to see the '1iniited" 60 by;
past town and village with slight check
only, and then on again into the country to
startle the grazing cattle and break the
sinmbers of the tired farmer, who ''cusses
the 'pesky keers'' as they dash
6oy his rural home. Over bridges, through
deep cuts, along the verge OF dizzy embank-
ments and through the dark woods. What
ride! Suppose that just around this next
curve big rock has fallen upon the track.
You grasp nervously at the edge of the cab
window and shiver at the thought. Or, per
maps, but a rod or two ahead rail is
broken, or may be the bridge, whose upper
tlmbers you see white and ghostly in the
glare of the headlight, waits but the pres
ence OF the train upon it to 60 down with q
crash and then-i ALI the accounts
you have ever read of railroad wrecks NIL
your mind and you ask how people who
travel on the cars can think of anything
butdanger and death. But they do, and
you likewise, when at Alliance you part
with pleasant good night and cordial
hand-shake from your companions IN the
cab, and resign yourself to the white coated
colored gentleman and your berth In the
sleeper. You, even a ter your experience,
forget it all, or remember it only as remote
possibility, so remote, indeed, as to be un-
worthy of thought.
Now and then when at your comfort
able home you allow yourself
to be narrowed by the newspaper reports OF
Another Railroad Horror" you recall
your night ride on the engine of the limited
express, OF what might have happened then,
of what is liable to happen always, and
again you see the picture OF him who braves
the what-mightbe, not one night, but every
night or day in the year, through light and
darkness, foul weather and fair, when the
snow is on the earth or nature bright with
summers bloom, and braves it with a care
and devotion to duty, which, were they lack
ing, would make that remote possibility of
yours hideous certainty more often than it
is. You think then of the hand that rests
upon the engine throttle. nor forget, either,
the brakemen, switchmen and the thousands
OF other faithful employees of the great rail-
road corporations who lead such lives OF toll
and danger that the public may travel in
comfort and safety. At such moments you
realize whata risks run by even short
journey on the cars. Z. w. <.
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with us all: and we letthe old father know that
we. the speakers, will not give over speaking
and telling our people to live In the rlgnt way;
and if any of us do W ong we will try 10 nelp
him do right, and let none 90 wrong; and we
will try to make our head chiefs and all our
people better; and we are in one voice with our
queens; and we will join in giving thanks 10
our good fathers that care tor our souls, ano
are willing to help our people; and we want
them all to pray for u.s. and we VIII pray loT
them, and we hope our great Heavenly Father
will bless us all; and this is the end.
EAGER TO BE CIVILIZED.
As result of these appeals Rev. Moses
Hinkle was sent bv conference as mis-
sionary to the Wyandots. He remained
but one year, and was succeeded by Rev.
James B. Finley, the Presiding Elder
whom the Indians had learned to love so
well. He came with instructions to start a
church and school, and was the right man
for the place. The Indians petitioned for q
school to their children in the arts of civil
ization, and here was established the first
manual training school on the continent.
A mission house was built in the spring
of 1871, being a two-story double log
structure located on the south bank of the
Sandusky river on a tract of 040 acres
ceded by Congress for that purpose. A
sawmill was built and farm started, and
in mill and shop, at bench and anvil, and
in fields of corn the Indian young men and
boys worked side by side with their
teachers, learning the ways of civilization.
In the mission house the Indian girls
were taught to cook, sew, read and write by
Jane Parker and Harriet Stubs. The latter
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THE FIERCEST BEAST OF PREY.
Mans Remorseless Cruelty Shown in the
Destruction of Harmless Animals.

Mans RemOrseless Cruelty Shown In the
Destruction of Harmless Animals.
Punxsutawney spirit.I
No, we will not go squirrel hunting this
year. We have been rejecting on the mat
ter and have concluded that the destruction
of happy, innocent lives should not be re-
garded as sport. The little hearts that beat
beneath the velvet coats of the gay and
frisky denizens of the forest are just as sus-
ceptible to Joy and pain and terror as those
that throb within our own breasts. They are
all Gods creatures, and have right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How
few of us think of the tens of thousands OF
animals that must die daily that man may
live. Man, the arch devourer, the mur-
derous and remorseless tyrant.
''The whole earth labors and lin violence
because of his cruelties, and from the am
phitheater of sentient nature there sounds
in fancy's ear the bleat OF one wide and uni
versal suffering-a dreadful homage to the
power of natures constituted lord" Man
is pre-eminent among the fercest animals OF
prey. Not content with satisfying his lux
urious appetite, this most ferocious, in
genious and implacable of the carnivora,
who revels in flesh and blood with glutton-
less glee, also makes sport of the destruc-
ton of life. When he wants day off-a
day of pleasure and recreation, he goes
forth to the woods, and, with the eager
ferceness of the hyena, watches for his prey!
The savage beasts Of the jungle only de-
stroy lie when hunger or fear drives them
to it, but man, the image of his Maker, kills
for sport, for the mere qualification it
affords him to take life. If animals have
souls, as many good and wise men believe,
what must the departed spirits of the
slaughtered hosts think of the proud princes
of creation who stalk rampant amid the
blood and groans and agony of their fellow
creatures,
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C0URTING IN CALABRIA.
The Suitor Makes Only One Visit and Never
Talks of Love.

The suItor Makes Only One Visit and Never
Talks Of Love.
In Calabria the middle and higher classes
do not marry for love. When a CaIabrese
thinks of taking wife he has list made of
all the young girls in the neighborhood,
with their expectations, etc. In some fami-
lies only one son can take a wife, for eco
nomical reasons. Fathers and mothers of
manageable girls know this, and warn
their daughters not to cast eyes on any but
the marrying sons. Only the eldest sons
are allowed to marry in many families. The
others may make love, but they must never
think OF marrying.
When the eldest son has decided to take
wife, he takes notes of all the girls of his
position in the neigkborhood, and when he
has selected one who he thinks might suit
him, he begs friend to ask the father Of the
girl permission to pay the family visit.
Then, and not till then, do the perhaps
future husband and wife see each other for
the first time; and the whole future of their
two lives depends on that one visit. No
suitor can present himself alone on such oc-
casions. He must be accompanied by
friend to stand by him, and sing his praises.
The girl, if she have mother, sits by her
side, and keeps her eyes on the ground all
the time. If she have no mother, near
relative, or friend. takes the mothers place.
The subject of love or marriage is not
once alluded to. Everything else may be
talked of. but not the object of the call.
Coffee, wine, sweetmeats and biscuits are
offered, and then, if the girl pleases, the
suitor finds the way of getting little closer
ment. The parents and friends present
then all plunge into conversation, SO as to
allow the two to say word or two together
without restraint. A second trial visit is
not allowed; this first must decide the ques-
tion. Before q second is made the offer
must be made and accepted, and the two
meet as betrothed.
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A LIVING FIRE ESCAPE.
How An Eel Helped Other Fish Out Of 4
Burning Hotel.

hO" An Eel Hetpeu Otutf FIbu OuL Oh ]
Burning Hotel.
Detroit News.l
A knot of travelling men were in the
lobby of the Cadillac Hotel yesterday after.
noon, smoking cigars and telling tfsh''
stories.
II saw remarkable thing at Goose Pond,
great fishing summer resort near Corning,
N. Y.," said heavy-built drummer from
New York. "I was out there for few
weeks recreationthis summer, and stopped
at two-story frame house. One dav ]
caught several eels, none of which weighed
less than 25 pounds, and one in particular
had two queer-shaped horns just back of his
head. They looked like corkscrews. Be-
sides the eels I caught number of perch,
pickerel and catfish, all good-sized.
''It being late at night when 1 reached
the boarding house, carried my fish up to
my room on the second floor and tied them
to the bed post. About 8 o'clock I was
awakened by the cry OF fire and hard
pounding at my door. I disliked being
walked up, but as it was getting quite warm
l hastily dressed and scooted, forgetting all
about the peril of my fish until it was too
late to rescue them. The flames were rap
idly devouring the building, and I went
under my window to inhale the aroma of a
fish bake. Ali at once was startled to see
the window sash raise and the head of the
horned eel appear. He looked down pite-
ously for an instant, then, with rare pres
ence of mind and great effort, he screwed
his horns into the sill and swung his tail out
of the window, I was still more surprised
to see that the eels had all tied themselves
together, making an excellent fire escape
that reached the ground.
IA pickerel soon made his appearance at
the window, grasped the eel rope and slid
down in safety. This was repeatedly done
by the fish until all were saved. Then the
eel unscrewed his horns, swung over to the
ground, the rest untying themselves, and all
crawled or Topped of to the pond"
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indeed is the Lichtenthall Alice, as the
main road of Baden-Baden is called, and if
there is another such avenue I know not
where to find it. 1t is quite four miles long,
and every foot Of it is finely shaded. Wide
is the way for vehicles; there are three or
four foot paths going in the same direction;
and here and there are benches, par
terres of flowers, fountains playing.
while the oos river, pretty stream
that courses its way down from the
hill toward the Rhine, straight through the
town, runs by the side of this avenue. Half
way up this promenade are three large trees
that used to be encased in stout mating,
but now they are as bare as all the others.
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were pushed quickly. They dropped down
and down and down, were broken to death.
and no cry for help or mercy ever reached
any human being. Some Of these dungeon
cells are closed by doors made Of one single
slab of stone. They open insideward and
move heavily on massive hinges.
These are the subterranean dungeons
where the secret tribunals of the Vehm Ge-
RIGHT were held, and where their bloody de-
crees were carried out. The Vehm Gericht
was secret association that had engaged
themselves to stand BY each other before
wives and children, fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters, before all that the sun
en- ightened, the rain moistened, or that
foated in the waters or between earth and
heaven. They sought their foes and those
whom they hated or feared everywhere.
They armed themselves with instruments of
torture and conyoked entire populations 70
be condemned. Sometimes their tribunals
were held in the light OF day, but usually
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TAKEN IN BY TIE TRAMPS.
The Clever Ruse by Which Buffalo Milk
man Was swindIed.

Buffalo Courier.I
1t was quite early when the Arounder
iourneyed homeward the other morning.
Day was Just breaking and the milk wagons
rumbled noisily over the pavements. One
of these early workers was stopped before a
house when two gentlemen in hard luck"
approached it. Saluting the milkman one
said, producing a tin pail: "Gimme
two quarts O. milk" As the milkman
took the pail he continued: "It's for the
City Chemist"
"Sh!" interposed his fellow tramp, che
said YOU mustn't tell who it's for"
But the milkman's eye Lit up with a
knowing look as he filled the pail with
choicest cream. So elated, in fact, was he
with his own supposed cunning that he did
not think about payment until the two were
ont of sight. A few blocks further the
Arounder came upon the colaborers regaling
on rolls and cream. I'VE had to get up
burned early to work it." was the remark
he heard.
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spirit in the NJ. E. Church, being
instrumental in the calling of the mem.
orable meeting in the Forsythe Street M. f..
Church in New York City on the evening Of
April 8, 1919, when the Missionary and
Bible Society of the church was organized
This society had been inspired BY the zeal.
Gus and sacrificing labors of Stewart, and at
once started out to aid him.
In August of that year, when the Ohio
Conference met in Cincinnati, Rev. J, b.
Finley was appointed Presiding Elder over
the Lebanon district, which included the
Upper Sandusky mission. Stewart was this
year licensed to preach, and thus became
the first regular missionary ever sent out by
the NJ. E. Church of America. On Novem-
Der 13 and IA Finley held quarterly meet
ing at Mad river circuit. 40 miles from
Upper sandusky, which was attended by
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lady was a sister-in-law of Chief Justica
Mclean, and left home of luxury and
refinement to do mission work among the
Indians, by whom she was reverenced and
considered "an angel from the great
father" The work of the mission was aided
by fund of $4,000 which Congress appro-
priated yearly Tor the assisting of all trade
schools established among the Indians: The
converts among the Indians continued to
increase, and soon a special place of worship
was needed. In 1924 Rev. Finley went to
Washington and held an interview with
President Monroe. A long consultation
was held, and as a result Hon. John C.
Calhoun, Secretary of War, appropriated
s., 1888 80 toward the support of the mission.
Thus it becomes a noteworthy fact that the
money to build this first Protestant mission
church in America was furnished by the
War Department of the Government.
THE OLD MISSION CHURCH.
The site chosen for the building of a mis-
sion church was on the high ground on the
south bank of the Sandusky river some dis
tance north from the Indian council house.
where services had been held at first.
The church was constructed of lime
stone, quarried from the river close by, the
stone being all sizes and shapes. The CELL
ing and walls of the building were plastered
and benches were placed for the audience.
The structure was finished late in the wear
1924, the first quarterly meeting being held
in it in January, 1925.
Here the Indians met for worship-in the
shadow of these walls they laid their dead
to rest-for nearly score of years. Stewart
died in 1926, beloved and mourned by all,
and was buried but a few feet from the
south end OF the church. Near him sleep
Between-the-Logs, Gray Eyes, Mononcue
and others.
In 1S42 the treaty was made by which the
Indians were to be moved beyond the Mis-
sissippi, where the last remnant of the tribe
now exists. The Indians did not want to
leave their pleasant homes, the scenes of so
many happy days. They longed to remain
and live about their beloved church and the
sleeping place of their dead.
The Government wanted them TO 90. and
used ever means, both fair and foul. White
men looked with envious eyes upon the
fertile acres of the Wyandots, and the poor
Indian had to go, whether he wished to or
not. Some Indians were bribed. white
scoundreIs swore falsely against others. and
it is charged upon good authority that Gov
ernment agents instigated the murder of one
of the most vigorous opposers of the treaty.
A NATIONS PROMISE.
The Government promised that the old
stone church and the graves around II
should never be desecrated, and the two
acres around the church were dedicated by
the treaty TO be forever used for religious
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HERE are green val
leys, picturesque for
ests, luxuriant vine
Yards, fragran n t
meadows, groves Of
oaks, pines and chest
luts, m u r m u rim g
brooks, rugged rocks,
parking c a sc a d es
leaping through deep
glens, and romantic
ruins in this Grand
Due hy. Beautiful.
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The First Protestant Mission
Church for Indian Wor-
ship in America
REBUILT AND DEDICATED.
A Negro Evangelist's Grand Work
Among the Ohio SaVageS.
THE GOVERNMENTS BROKEN PLEDGE.

A Historic BuildiuE-The Reception of the
First Indian lIissionary-The NJ. E.
Church Takes Up the Work-A Plea
From the Indian Women - The First
Manual Training SchOOl-A Church
Built by the War Department-Banish-
Services.
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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l

PPER SANDUSKY
o., September 2l.-
To-day the Central
Ohio Conference of
the NJ. E. Church re-
dedicated the old
Wyandot Mission
church here. This was
the first mission
church built west OF
the Alleghenies, in
fact, the first Protes-
tant mission church
built for Indian wor-
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Indians living in Ohio. She went West
with the Indians in 1S43, but afterward
came back to the land of her birth, and is
now ending her days in an unpretentious
little home on the banks of the Sandusky-
| a river that her people loved so we'll.
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they worked secretly, and this mystery gave
them greater power.
WHEN LIFE Is LOVE.
We left these gloomy dungeons gladly.
climbed again the dark and twisting steps
and entered shady garden. Before us lay
the uneven valley in which lies the town Of
Baden-Baden. We stood and looked awhile,
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In THE GRAND DUCHY.
The Romantic Ruins and Picturesque
Scenery Of Baden-Baden.
OUTWITTING THE RELIC CRANKS
Bottomless Dungeons for the Enemies Of the
Margrave.
TERRIBLY MYSTERIOUS TRIBUNAL

CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DIsPATcH.I
BADEN-BApEN, September 9, 1883.