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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20

tor of the church. preached the sermon. but
before he began he sang. by request. MY
Mothers Hands," His text was taken from
the sixth verse of the second chapter Of
the Second Corinthians.
Behold. now is the accepted time: now is the
day of salvation.
He said salvation is the greatest thing in
the world, because it cost the most. He
showed that In human experience there is
some day to which all others lead. and he
exhorted his hearers that the hour of the
service might be the accepted time for the
conversion of his unsaved hearers. He
was profuse In story and illustration. and
made deep impression on his audience.
When the cali for seekers to come forward
was made large Eumber responded. I'LL
ing the altar space. Prayers We're
offered for them, while earnest work.
ers walked through the aisles
encouraging others to seek the mercy-seat
The stirring revival hymns. There is a
Fountain Filled with Blood" Are you
Washed in the Blood of the Lambp and
many others. We're sang. Five persons
gave testimony as To being converted,
which was received with songs of rejoicing
The services continued until late hour
Meetings Will be held to-day, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. and at 8 o'clock and O'clock p. NJ.
DIR. Van Anda will preach tonight.
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MAILING OVER PENSIONS.
What Old Soldiers May Expect If Democrrc,
Gets Control OF Affairs.

Gets COnuOi OF Anairss
Memphis Appeal Avalanche (DemI
Gen. Raum. Pension Commissioner. says
he finds the movement of hisoffice too slow,
and will arrange to dump" as he expresses
it. $4,000 original cases on the agencies of
tho country by Dec. 81. This is not
patriotism, but politics. 1t is a part of the
game with which the Republican party has
closed twenty six years ago. There can be
no reason, right. or justice at this late data
of issuing $50. 600 original pension certiti-
Gates. 1t is nothing less than bold robbery
of the national treasury for the
fund. 1t is scheme to make the
government provide the money for bribing
voters. General Raum will dump" these
cases on the agencies this year for the
very simple reason that next year the pres
publican party Will need all the votes it can
buy. Is 1t any wonder that the farmers are
complaining, that wOrkingmen are dissat-
listed, that strikes occur. when the money
of the people Is thus squandered by the
gang of political jObbers now in possession
of the government at Washington Can
any right-thinking man believe that these
$4,000 beneticiaries of the treasury spOlia-
tiOn are entitled to the money by any act of
theirs in the service of the government Ev-
cry man who had a valid claim upon the
governments bounty in consideration of his
military service was placed on the pension
rolls years ago. The people have paid to
them hundreds upon hundreds of millions
of dollars. Their obligations have been
Cancelled. The whole pension business Is
now merely the work of political thieves
and there must be an end. The people
cannot endure this standing aud ever
has become as IntOlerable as the plumber
ing 10 infamous. The only weak point of
the Democratic platform in Ohio 10 the
reference to the pensions. There should
be the most unreserved and emphatic de-
nunciation of the robbery and jobbery.
The issue must be squarely faced. The
Democratic party should take hold of the
pension question with pnglOved hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
REVIVAL SERVICES.
Great Interest In the Meetings at blackboard
Street Church.

Great Interest In the Meetings at Blackboard
Street Church.
The home camp-meeting services at the
Blackford-street Methodist Episcopal
Church yesterday attracted congregations
which completely filled the house. The
meetings, morning, afternoon and night,
were of the series that began during tho
past week and will close Tuesday night.
The pastor. Rev. w. I. Walters, who has
had much success in increasing the men,
bership of.the church. had general charge of
the meetings. Rev. T.. p. s. Pepper. ID. d., ed
itor of the Christian Standard. of Philadel-
phia, preached the morning sermon, his
text being from the eighth verse of the
ninth chapter of Mark.
And suddenly, when they had looked round
about, they saw no man any more save Jesus
only with themselves.
The speaker dwelt upon the need of tull
vision of Christ as preparation for eter-
ing u believer from worldliness and said
that it alone could lift him above all human
and earthly influences. The sermon was
one of much power and led many persons tn
seek the altar. An altar service was held
after each discourse for such as would an
nOunce themselves seekers for salvation.
RThe afternoon sermon was preached by
Rev. f.. r. Walker. OF Fort Collins Col.
His text was the frst verse OF the four
teenth chapter of the First Corinthians.
Follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts,
but rather that you may prophesy.
The speaker said that the charity spoken
OF In his sermon was that re-
markable exposition of Gods love. which IL
different from all other human things being
the greatest ard most important attribute
OF the infinite tod. 10 made Him father
as well as iudge and gave the world sal
walton by the sacrifice of His only Son. 1t
is the supreme test of divinity. He closed
his discourse with an exhorfation for all to
pursue and gain this love.
In the evening the audience filed every
part of the church. chairs being placed in
sislrs to accommodate hundreds who could
find no place in the pews. and yet there
were many who couid not get into the
room. Rev. w. 4. Sheridan. former pas
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Death of Alfred Harrison.

Alfred Harrison died at o'clock yester-
day morning. He regained consciousness
during the night. and was able to recognize
those who were at his bedside. The funeral
will take place tomorrow morning. at 9
o'clock. from the residence. corner of Mich
igan and Meridian streets. Mr.. Harrison
leaves widow and three children-Mrs.
Rowland. of this city. James Harrison, of
Denver. and Edward Harrison. Neither of
the sons arrived i'll time to see their father
before he died. In accordance with his ex-
pressed desire, the funeral services will be
simple and brief. Rev. NJ. l.. Haines, d. d.,
Will officiate. and the pail bearers will be
chosen from the old friends who have
known Mr.. Harrison Lifetime.
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Doclkstader's Minstrels.

The sale of seats for the minstrel per-
formances next Friday and Saturday, will
begin at the Grand tomorrow morning.
Lew Dockstaders reputation as a fun
maker is a guarantee that he has surround
ed himself with clever people. hence the
coming performance is sure to be something
worth seeing. With Dockstader. George
Powers and Mcintyre and Heath on the
ends there ought to be first part of IN
ceasing fun. The singing is to be made a
feature. and this midsummer minstrelsy
VIII break the mOnotony very acceptably.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
Brown Again in Trouble.

Mike" Brown. the on-keeper ar
rested on Friday for drunkenness. was
again taken in last night by patrolmen
Ward and Wynn. He was charged with
assault and battery on his wife.
drunkenness and disturbing the peace.
The officers were called to the
house twice during the evening by reports
of trouble and the second time they heard
Browns wife crying murder" They
found Brown had knocked her down and
was pulling her hair. He was very quar-
relsone and defied the officere to arrest
min. His trial for drunkenness. which
caused his first arrest. was continued Sat
urdsy morning until tomorrow.
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Persnnal NIenfian

Messrs. Will l.. O'Connor and James
Broden have returned from four months
tour of England and the continent.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. HOvey and children.
and Mrs. Jennie e.. Case. left Saturday for
Silver Lake. y. y. to remain few weeks.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Mrs. Bette Eaton.
the venerable sister OF President Benjamin
Harrison, who was SO severely injured in a
runaway accident. at Cleves. some months
ag0. has so far recovered from her hurts
that she is able to travel Next Tuesday
evening she will leave for Cape May TO join
her distinguished brother. who is now go
iourDiDg in his cottage at that resort.
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ending Saturday last shows that while
everything was favorable TO tbreshing and
hayIng, growing crops. especially corn.
needed rain. Corn, however. stands Well,
is of good color and promises a good crop.
Reports from all sections of the State con-
tinue as TO the great yield of wheat. Hay
also is abundant and secured in good con-
dltion. Tobacco in the southeastern part
of the State promises better than last year
and Is of most thrifty growth.
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w. C. L. u. Lnnch- Room Closed.

The doors of the Woman's Christian
Temperance lunch-room on the Circle have
been closed and business suspended in
definitely. owing to rapidly accommodating
debts and small receipts. This lunch room
was at ono time very successfully naged
by Mrs. Finch. Mrs. DR.. Harvey. Mrs. NJ E.
Holloway. Miss Hay and others. but it
passed from their contrib some time ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20

About o'clock. yesterday afternoon.
Edward g. Brundage. while at Schofield's
stables on Wabash street. was stricken 10y
paralysis He was taken, in Kregelo &
Whitsetts ambulance. to the home of his
son, No. 1125 North Pennsylvania street.
Within an hour or two after reaching there
his symptoms became better, and it is
thought he will recover.
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The Court Record
INeic lSl6ifs Eiied.

Netc SttlS Fted-
John s. Patterson VS.. Anna Patterson;
kivorce. Duress and fraud.
Sarah T.. Bastion VS.. William H. Bastion:
divorce. Cruelty.
Sarah A. Gresh ct al. VS.. Martha A. Van
Scyoc ct al: partition.
Sarah Carlisle VS.. John Alexander
Downes ct al: PARTITION.
John Walker ct al. VS. August III. Carvel-
age ct al. Board of Trustees of Haughville
Injunction granted.
LOUIS Mussman va. Jacob Raab; dam
ages. Demand, 5000.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Nei0 SIsit FfIed.
Kate CHASER. Administrators Estate of
William Chaser VS.. Terre Haute X Indian
spolis Railroad Company; damages. De-
mand. $4,000.
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Summer Night Festival.

At Phoenix Garden, this even ing. a sum-
mer night festival will be given by the Ger
man order of Harugari. A music al pro-
gramme of solos, duets. quartets and
chOruses will be rendered, the M8nnerchor,
Liederkranz, Social Sengerbund and
Harugari Sac ngerchor taking part
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20

Philadelphia Press.
The difference between a statesman in
Office and q statesman out of office IS beau
tifuliy illustrated by the spectacle of Gov
ernor Tillman, of South Carolina, riding
free by virtue of railroad pass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20

The Shamrocks defeated the Lieber Ma
tionals, IL TO 8, yesterday. making three
straight victories for them. The batteries
were Rhodes and Heimbo. and Davis and
Davis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
Broke an Ankle.

Stoughton Gully fell down stairs at the
Brighton Beach clubhouse yesterday aft
ernOon and broke an ankle. He was re-
moved to the City Hospital.
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Condition of tho Cron.-

ana Weather Bureau. cooperating with
stat of the United States. for the week
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Parties building are invited 10 call and exam
Inc our stock of brass fire goods. Best assort-
ment aud lowest prices IA the state. Also agents
Tor Hilis sliding inside blinds. Can sell you
hardware at way-down prices. Call and see Us
before you buy. HILDERRASD ~ FUGATE.
% South Meridian street
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OFFICE desks at VIM. L. Elder's.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
ALL-AROUND JOTTINGS.

New Zealand is shipping butter to Eng
land
Michigan farmers are being swindled by
q glib canvasser, who is introducing a
thistle exterminator at $3.50 bottle.
Out of five bushels of potatoes brought
into Marceline, Mo-, the other day the
smallest in the lot weighed two pounds
A S20,0 home for the young women
attending the Peabody Normal college is
soon to be erected in Nashville, Tenn, by
the trustees of the University of Nashville.
The duchess of st. Adams new gown is
fastened with set Of family buttons
made of wonderful cat's-eyes, surrounded
with diamonds and set in gold. Remem-
bering that a cat's-eye recently found at
Ceylon is valued at $4,000, something OF
the value of the set of buttons may be
estimated.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
why They Fight.

1T is curious thing, and one which
/ could never satisfactorily account
for" said an old navy man the other
day. "but if the crews of an American
and British men-ot-war are given leave
at the same time in foreign port, the
result of broken heads and noses is no
more a matter Of speculation than the
calculation of the next eclipse. As
soon as they meet row is started,
which generally ends with all hands
being disabled or arrested, sometimes
both.
ut frequently happens that the
police interfere with the contestants.
The unwrittcn law in this case is for
the belligerents to join forces against
the common enemy. / have often
seen them come out victorious in their
contests against the officers OF the law,
and, after adjourning TO neighboring
saloon for refreshments begin again
their interrupted hostilities.
"But it is only on neutral ground
that these general engagements take
place. If they meet on English or
American soil each tries to outvie the
other in hospitality. New York
Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
WATERCREss AND ONIONS.
Two Wholesome Plants-How the Latter
Is Best Eaten.


The watercress is plant containing
very sanitary qualities. A curious
characteristic of it is that if grown in
a ferruginous stream it absorbs into
itself five times the amount of iron that
any other plant does. For all anamic
constitutions it is, therefore, specially
of value. But it also contains proper
tions of garlic and sulphur of iodine
and phosphates and is blood purifier,
while abroad it is thought a most
wholesome condiment with meat, roast
or grilled. The cultivated plant is
rather more easy of digestion than the
wild one. Botanically the onion be-
longs to the lily family.
The odor of the vegetable which is
what makes it so unpleasant, is due to
volatile oil, which is the same as
that in garlic. though in the onion it
is milder and naturally does not last so
long. There are, besides, easy ways Of
removing at once all unpleasantness
from the breath. A little parsley or a
few grains of coffee or even a swallow
or two Of milk, if taken after eating,
proves an effective remedy. Boiled
onions are the least Objectionable in re-
gard to odor, and are as easily digested
as any.
The oil in the onion passes off in the
water in which the vegetables are
boiled, and if the kettle be kept close
ly covered and the water changedafter
they have boiled five minutes, and then
again ten minutes later, there will be
no odor through the house, and tho
onions will be white instead of gray,
as they so often are. Besides being
rich in fesh-forming elements, raw
onions are especially good in breaking
up heavy cold; they are also stimu-
lating to fatigued persons, and are
otherwise beneficial
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
A Pavilion I'm slam.

The king OF Siam is said to have in
one Of his country palaces a wonder
full pavilion. 1t was built by Chinese
engineer as a refuge for the king dur
ing the extreme heat of the summer.
The walls, ceilings and floors are
formed of pieces of plate glass an inch
thick. These are so perfectly fitted to-
gether with transparent cement that
the joints are invisible and no fluid
can penetrate. The pavilion is % feet
long and II wide, and stands in the
middle of huge basin made of beauti-
fully colored marbles.
When the king enters the pavilion
the single door is closed and cemented.
Then the sluice-gates are opened, and
the basin is filled with water Higher
and higher it rises until the pavilion
Is covered, and only the ventilators at
the top connect it with the open air.
When the heat of the sun is so great
that the water almost boils on the sur
face of the freshet fountains this pa
vilion is deliciously cool. And this is
the way the king of Siam cools himself
off in hot weather. 1t sounds very de-
lightful. -Harper's Young People.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
HUNGER AT BREAKFAST.
That 1t Is Not Present Is the Eaters
Own Fault

That 1t Is Not Present Is the Eaters
Own Fault.
Breakfast is rather failure as q
meal with town men. That ought not
to be; there is something wrong when
man is not vigorously hungry in the
morning Where is the fault? asks
the hospital. Is it in the late dinner?
Not in the dinner, probably, so much
as in what is drank at dinner; in that
and in the nervous strain of the times.
1t does not matter whether we dine in
the middle of the day or in the even
ing, so long as we dine judiciously.
But the man who has much work to
do, and particularly brain work, cannot
dine in the middle OF the day. If he
does, he must make up his mind to
lose at least an hour of his most valu-
able time. A light luncheon at mid
day, with no stimulant stronger than
cup OF coffee or q bottle of ginger
ale, is the suitable thing. But this
must on no account be used as SUBJ
stitute for dinner. He who lunches
in this way at midday must dine in
the evening, and dine well. The bus
mess man should dine at half-past 6,
or at least half-past z. The lazy man
may dine when he likes. The man
who has earned his dinner should
have good one-not heavy but nu-
tritious; not too elaborate, but we'll
selected and well cooked. He should
drink, if possible, only one kind Of
wine, and that a light one, sparkling
or still. Spirits and beer he should
avoid. Dinner should be the last
meal OF the day, except for those who
cannot sleep without little food in
their stomachs. These may take
cup of cocoa, with little thin bread
and butter, just at the moment of GO
ing to bed. If attention be paid to
these suggestions, very few people
will fail to be hungry at breakfast.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
CURIOUS PARAGRAPHS.

A waterproof paper has lately been in
vented that will even stand boiling
New York for the year to June LIST, re-
ceived a total of 400, 900 immigrants.
Metals are found to corrode much faster
when in galvanic connection than other
wise.
A lady in Edinburgh experienced a
lurch in her carriage, and drove her hat
pin into her head with fatal consequences
Out of Co., 900 applications for patents
made during the past century, $50, 200, or
little over fifty per cent. have been is
sued.
A grain of fine sand will cover one Of
the minute scales of the human skin, yet
each one of these scales covers from 300
to 500 pores
The roots of timothy grass have been
traced to a depth of 215 feet, and clover
3 1-6 feet in a hard clay soil suitable for
making bricks.
The delicacy of the organs of smell
peculiar to the turkey, vulture and carrion
crow is something quite remarkable, they
being able to scent their food for a dis
lance of forty miles.
When the Mosque of st. Sophia in Con-
stantinople was built, more than 1000
years ago, the stones and brick were laid
in mortar, mixed with solution of musk,
and the building has been infected with
the odor ever since.
Every fourth English peer is a dealer in
beer. One hundred and fifty-two of these
noble lords, of whom one at least is lord
spiritual, receive the income from 1889
drinking places. What fate a prohibit
tory measure would have in the upper
housed
The agreeable odor of the SOIL the
''earthy smell" has been traced by Nj.
Berthelot, the distinguished French chem
ist, TO a minute trace of camphorated
body. He also concludes that the occa-
sional presence of alcohol is due to excep-
tional cases of spontaneous fermentation
of vegetable matter.
The number of arrests for drunkenness
in Massachusetts, for the year 1891 was
52,S14, of whom only $3.50 were women.
Forty-five thousand nine hundred and
eighty-two arrests were made in the TWEEN
ty-fve cities, and only 6591 in all the rest
of the state. The city population is 1897,
1874; the town population 911,779. The
number of arrests has increased since 1885
from 80, 4S0 to 52,sl4 in 1890, whatever
the figures may mean.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
which ana Tother.

A beautiful young lady and her once
beautiful mother were walking down
the street together when they met
two gentlemen whom the mother
knew.
"How much your daughter resem-
bles YOU" exclaimed one.
How closely you resemble your
daughter" exclaimed the other.
Now which of these two gentlemen
do you think was invited home to tea P"
-Somerville Journal.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-17
MATTED GRASS IN THE NILE,
Very Difficult TO Pass Through, But Has
It's Good Uses.

It's Good Uses.
The grass barriers through which DIR.
Junker passed measured from 100 feet
to mile and a quarter in width. and
frequently delayed him for hours on
stretches that he might have otherwise
put behind him in afew minutes, writes
correspondent Of Goldthwaite's Geo.
graphical Magazine. DIR. Junker di-
reefs attention to the fact, however,
that even grass barriers are not an I'M
mixed evil, since at high water their
thickly matted substance serves the
purpose of a filter in clarifying the
stream. So it happens that the White
Nile is "the clear" while the Blue
Nile, in which the conditions are UNI
favorable to the formation Of grass bar
riers, is 1.-THE dirty"
The grass is swept into the stream
at high water from the swamps and
stagnant ponds along the banks. This
grass grows together in great masses,
which, once foated in the stream, be-
come welded by nets Of innumerable
roots and smaller water-plants till a
barrier forms across the channel. The
force of the current increases the COM
pactness of the barrier thus formed and
brings it new material from above.
The barriers differ greatly as to COM.
pactness; through some the Ismalia
cut her way slowly, merely with her
PROV. Others were tramped down. cut
and loosened before her by natives.
Others, like felt" as DIR. Junker says,
were firm against such simple devices.
Wire cables were made fast to each
of these massive barriers near its edge
and at the same time to the prov of
the lsmalia. The steamship then
backed water with all her power, and
thus tore loose and set adrift down
stream great chunks of the barrier.
TO thus clear river of large bar
rier is a huge undertaking. Ernst
Marno, for instance, with four steam
ships and several hundred men, was
busy from September, 1879, till April,
1880, clearing his way in the Bahrel
Gebel. The piercing of barrier by
steamship bound down stream is fire.
quently exceedingly perilous, as the
loosened masses of matted grass, in
stead of floating off behind the boat,
are often driven back against her stern
until she becomes as firmly imbedded
in the grass as she would be in an ice
field.