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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30


Under the trees, In front OF one tent in
q little coffin, lay the dead baby.
i slipped behind a wagon, not escap ng
observation thereby, and put on nay
vestTnents. an act which excited some
rude and testing comment then step
ped to the side of the coffin, faced the
crowd nervously. asked them to be 81
ent, and began the service. At the usual
time 1 made the customary announce
ment that the remainder of the Office
would 1e said al the grave. AS | turned,
one of the women stopped me with the
statement that they had several babies
to be baptized. l urged that they be
brought to the church, but they refused
If l would baptize the babies then. all,
right: if not-they closed their sentences
with characteristic shrugs of their should
ers. l had made no preparation for bapt-
ism, but I decided on my course at once
They brought me an old chair. and l
placed horse bucket. bottom upward,
upon it, and covered it with d newspaper
On the bucketawas placed an old tin pam
filed with wafer from the river.
FIRST BAPTISM.
1.-THE parents were to be sponsors, but as
none Of them could read English I asked
if some one would mot read the responses
for them, and finally one of the hack
men and a woEEan in the crowd volunteer
ed. Fortunately / had en- extra prayer
book in my pocket, 50 we began the ser
, ivce. The crowd, which had swelied to
about a thousand people now. was quiet
and interested The first baby brought to
ne was a little black eyed, swarthy In
FAINT about tkee weeks old. When I asked
the name of this child the father said,
Major, Major what? I asked Just
Maori he replied. So the baby was
ehrfstened Major. Four other baptisms
followed in quick succession.
when the ceremony was over made
the previous announcement. again, and
was astonished when the mother OF Ma
jor said she had not been schurehed'
and would I mind doing it? / suppose
there are very few c1ergymen in the
United States who have used the whole
of the Office for the Churching of Wo-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
BELsHAzzAR A STANDBY.


The Sunday following, Mr.. Brady be-
gan his tour of duty:
Il preached on Belshazzar in the morn
ing in one place. and made h m do duty
at night in another. On Tuesday | went
to the third place, ard, Intoxicated with
my previous success, used the Assyrian
once more After the service a pleasant
looking man stepped up to me and We
shook hands, whereupon he said: THAT
is very fine sermon of yours. l was,
of course greatly pleased, and expressed
the hope that it had done him good
Yes he said, it has. / thought it was
a fine sefmon' when / heard it first two
Sundays ago; I liked it better when 1
heard it last Sunday morning, and as I
happened to go to the town where you
preached OH Sunday night heard it
there, also. When / made this town.
am travelling man-and saw in the
paper that you were to preach--I thought
] would come around and see If | could
not meet my old friend / have liked 1t
better each time 1 have heard it, he
added, with a merry twinkle in his eyes.
Won't you let me know when and where
you are going to preach 1t AGAIN. I'm
agine my horror. and shame, and confu-
sion! I confessed to him frankly that
Belshazzar was not only my best but nay
only sermon, and we became great
friends"
Of his first baptism, Mr. Brady says:
During the absence of the dean an
undertaken asked me ii 1 would go down
to the Bottoms low land on the banks
of the river, occupied by a few squatters'
nuts, and the resort, especially on Sun
day, of men and women of the baser sort
to conduct funeral for dead gypsy
baby. / agreed to do So of course, and
when / drove up to the rude eneamp-
ment / was astonished to find a gather
ing of perhaps five hundred people. 1t
was a very jocular and lively crowd of
men and women. the latter being from
the worst quarters of the city. There was
talking, laughing and singing; some ne
gIoes were playing on banjos, and al
together the assenblage was more like
low-class picnic than anything else
The gypies We're gathered in their wagons
and tents. sullenly confronting the crowd.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
HIS HAD 4 VARIED CAREER
RECoLLECTIONs OF CYRUS TOWN
SEND BRADY MAKE INTER
ESTING READING
WAS A FRONTIER MISSIONARY
Though Best known Now as q
Writer of Historical NoveIs-He
Preached the Gospel
Many Years.

Few of our novelists can look back upon
career so varied as Cyrus Townsend
Brady, whose latest volume, "Recollec-
lions of a Missionary in the Great West
Cd. Appleton & Coz, has just been
brought out. Born in Allegheny City in
1861, in his ninth year the family re-
moved to Kansas, then a sparsely settled
state, and there Mr. Brady spent his
youth and received his early education.
! When seventeen years of age he was for
tunate in receiving an appointment to the
naval academy at Annapolis, from which
J he was graduated in 1888. and where he
absorbed American history and acquired
that love of the sea and sea fights which
have been the inspiration of his novels.
Force of circumstances, however. kept
Mr. Brady from following the sea. A
good opportunity offered in railway enter
prise which he accepted, and for the next
lew years the work of road construction
took him through the toughest parts of
the West and Northwest Then again his
life underwent a sudden and complete
change He became strongly drawn to-
ward the ministerial profession. deter
mined to take orders. carried out his plan.
and in 1855 was ordained in the Episcopal
church. The next six years were spent
in missionary work in the Western states,
and his labors We're so untir!ng and the
results so far-reaehing in their benefits
that Mr.. Brady was made archdeacon Of
Kansas post which he held for period
of over three years; then he was called
East to Philadelphia. At the outbreak
of the Spanish-Amer:can war he lost no
time in trying to re-enter the naval serv-
ice which he had left some fifteen years
before As there was some delay in con-
sidring his Application, he joined the
First Pennsylvania regiment as chaplain
and served through the war in that ca
| pacity
Although So many professions have
| claimed part OF his life, 1t is a his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

/ ~1s silsssperedr into fragments. When |
( recoVsreu my eomposure-no, I never did
recover my cemposure- but when stop
pea coughing. abandoning the gnat TO its
iats' had no sermon j explained the
/ Iaet 10 the congregation something in
TINS lasnlon: Dearly beloved brethren,
4 have forgotten the sermon which 1,
prepared beg TO assure you that did
prepare ene-and instead OF that sermon
VIII tell You my experiences in the
Johnstown Hood, which 1 proceeded to
DO with great outward JUNCTION but iE-
ward misery. 1 never heard the last
or that effort, and / am sometimes re-
minded by my brethren, especially by the
ehief examiner. of the famous sermon
l preached on the 'Johnstown flood
That was the beginning of a missionary
life which took me into five Western
states and territories. and lasted many
years"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

and invited them again. and knelt down
IN the dust, most OF those near by knelt
with me. and the res we'd their heads
reverently. while MANY ioinad falteringly
at first. but more strongly as the sen
fences came, in the prayer of Our Father
Who "~t in heaven They fell back res
pectfully before Us as we took the faby
and walked TO the carriages; some Of the
women la d their hands gently on my sur
p-ice as with bowed head ] walked past
them | turned about as we drove off,
and saw the crowd break up into little
greuDs, and walk quietly and thought
fully away in different directions after
such Sunday afternoon as 1 have no
doubt many of them b~1 never spent be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

torical novelist that he is best known al
the present time His literary career be-
gan comparatively late in life, his frs1
novel, :For Love Of Country having
been published only two years ago. This
was followed by "Tne Freedom Of the
Sea" and The Grip of Honor" viii IN
have attracted marked attention and es-
tab.jshed Mr.. Brady as one OF the popular
writer's Of the day. His latest work, RE
collections of a Missionary in the Great
West" which has been running as "a
serial in the Ladies' Home Journal, is
collection Of rambling missionary REM
iniscepces Of his personal experiences on
the Western frontier, written without any
attempt at chronology, and giving a vivid
picture OF the life OF the average mis-
sionary-a life Of mingled work and plea $
ure, JOY and pathos. hardship and fun.
One of Mr.. Bradys first details was
to a little struggling church for celored
people in one of the Western states. He
says:
HIS FIRST CHARGE.
81 had written few sermons for sim
liar visitations, but due notice of this as
signment having been given me I deter
mined not to extemporize. 1 did not have
any great confidence in my ability to do
SC, but the dean, who was a most fluent
and easy extemporaneous speaker, en-
couraged me to attempt it. and | resolv-
ed TO try. The subject L selected WIS
'Belshazzar.' prepared the sermon
with the greatest care. shut myself up
in my study for days beforehand, and
preached it over and over again TO i'm
dgiuary congregations with great effect
At last the hour of service arrived The
little church. since grown into a strong.
Woodworking parish, was at that time In
q f1d l,od
boy choir. vested mostly in blue cassocks
with two aeolytes in red ones, and one
lone colored brother and myself in black.
The altar-cloths and other hangings be-
Ionged to different sets, and the co'or
scheme was striking not to say bizarre.
1t was ritHaistic church at that time.
and they did a great many things to
which l was not accustomed and which
greatly disconnected me. We managed TO
get through the service, however, in some
fashion.
LAS I stepped to the n CIT IF the cham
Gel to address my little congYrgation who
should come into the chapel but the chief
examiner of the diocese, a man whom
personally we all loved, hut whom off,
cially we feared above all other men.
for the severity with which he insisted
upon a literal compliance with the rigid
requirements before he passed a candi-
date Nnon he examined for the priest
hood lie came solemnly into the church,
sat down in a front pew, folded his arms
and fixed his eyes upon me. I returned
his stare with agonized interest. There
was long, dreadful pause Finally ]
opened my mouth despera tely--and swal-
lnwee a gnati / moved to reconsider.
but the motion was lost. There was a
violent coughing spell in which my care
fully prepared sermon on 'Belshazzar
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
Cardinals t.conndence, Com.

London Chronicle.
The story of the cyclist who found over
the door ola Cheshire church the cheer
ful text, This is the gate Of Heaven,
with the modifying postscript, ssThis door
is closed in the winter months, recalls
to ''The Tablet" another incongruity Of a
rather similar kind. Card nal Manning
went one day 10 his publishers for a
copy of a book of his own-"Confidence in
God The order was shouted down tn
the stoel1room, whence came the reply.
NManning's Confidence in God all gone )"
The cardinal heard and smiled. If han
pened that he was just then
ie very pess mistic mood. ow-
rg to the apathy as ne thought
Mr.. Stead's) with which he sympath ized
and they did not The cardinal took the
reply as an intended lesson, and he Jeff
richard street a wiser and happier
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMO.
CRATIC CLUBS.

indianapolis, Ind. Oct. Sd. 1900.
For this. great political gathering the
Chicago Great Western R. r. viii on
Oct. lst and End, sell through excursion
to return Oct. 18th. at one fare plus 81 On
for the round trip. For further inforn1aS
ton inquire Of ]. P. Elmer. G. a. P. d
cceerner Fifth and Robert streets, St. Paul
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
a Railway HAP.

New York Weekly
Mrs. Bibbs las the train gives a lurch)
My goodness! Are we off the tract
Mr.. Bibbs-No. we seem to be running
all right. Guess we went round fhe
curve We must be at Chicago
But Chicago was a thousand miles off
when we started, and we've only been
riding ar hour"
Cant help it. I looked at the man of
this railroad, and there amt a curve in
It tn it gets to Chicago Hunt up VIZ
things"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30
To Kansas City, West and South
west Via 'sThe milwaukee,

First-cIass sleeper service daiiv- be-
tween Twin Cities and Kansas civ
Leave Minneapolis S:G5 a. M. ST pauI
S.15 a. M, arrive Kansas CITY JFrfqn
Depot next morning
Quick and comfortable rot Calf
fornia. the West and Southwest
Apply to The Milwaukee, agents for
lowest rates.
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LADIES WAISTS.

We have one of the handsomest lines of la
dies silk waists ever shown in Vinita, black and all
the leading sh. des.
Nice line of percale lawn and Madras waists
all made strictly up-tO-date styles.
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HOSIERY.

Chidrens black ribbed hose SC
Childrens black ribbed seamless hose. .8Bc
Childrens heavy school hoes, regular 2oc
value, for Observation-Disclosures. ..I2Hc
Ladies seamless gray hose. ..................5 sc
aides seamless black hose, fast colors .8Bc
Nice grade ladies hose only. .12Hc
Ladies extra nice grade hose, regular CSC val
ue, per pair............... ..............25c
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CLOTHING.

We carry the celebrated Bray pants, guaran-
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All wool pants, worth 2.5o our price only IL SO
Extra nice line of pants, as good as any 45o to
500 pants, only ---- 8 so
Good all wool gray mixed suit for men, only a .oC
Black clay worsted suits, only - 5 90
Big line of mems suits, worth 1850 and 500.
our price ----- -------- 10 90
Some extra nice suits ranging from 1850 to
1850 that are worth at least one-third more than
we ask
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-03-01
ITEMS FURNISHINGS.

Good negligee shirts. s...................... so
Extra good percae shirt ....................75 Is
Mems seamless black and tan hose. So
Mems suspenders, only Observation-Disclosures.
One lot of mems hats worth $50 and 200;
choice of lot for - - - 81 o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

Of Newark. N. J., viii be made to-day.
The announcement IS TO be made at noon
at g elmer given by the parents OF the
ufldes Mr.. and Mrs Lehman, at their
home In Newark. Mrs. Dora Feibleman,
mother of the prospective groom. left yes
terday TO be present.
The chcir OF the First Baptist Church
viii render the following selections at to-
days services: Morning service, 1915, or
gan prelude, Prayer" Lemaigre: anthem.
'sYe Shall go out with Joy" j. Barnby:
quartet, incline Thine Ear" Attendorfer;
offertory. Melody in A, G. Delbruck: or.
gan postlude. Wely. Tonight at 1880, or
gan solo. Grand Onertoire De Saint
Cecile." j. Grison; professional, "For
Everything Give Thanks" Watson; So
prano solo, Il Heard the Voice OF Jesus
Say" Oscar Klein; quartet Fast Falls
the Eventide." Lansing; organ. Grand
Chorus" Alex. Guilmant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
TO BE BROUGHT TO TASK
LENOx PLAYERS BOISTEROUs
COACHING TO COME BEFORE I.B.I.
1t Is Claimed They Waved Their Caps
I'm Front of an Opposing Player
Averages of Rowling Leagues.

The officers and directors of the Indianapolis
Bowling League will endeavor to stop poisterous
roofing on the part Of members Of some Of the
teams IN that league. meeting Of the league
directors has been called for Wednesday. and it
is said that Of the questions 10 be con-
sidered Is the boisterous roofing OF the Lenox
team on last Friday night at the Independent
Turner alleys 1t is claimed that members Of
the Lenox team. who bowled In the second d.
vision. crowded along the alleys used by the
first division teams and waved their caps and
hats in front OF Captain Haveck, Of the Capt
tai City team, causing him TO miss an easy spare
and losing the game for the Capital Citys.
Members of the league say they do not object
to ordinary coaching but such boisterous work
as displayed by the Lenox players will have 20
ba eliminated.
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says upward A frenzied GO on! Go oni
Go on!' from the starter In a flash they
are Off
Gradually the snarl unravels. You can
Identify individual Jockeys. bouncing, with
their knees clamped 70 the horses withers.
They plunge around corner. body of rider
and barrel Of horse parallel with the cross
palings of the inner fence. Witnessed from
the level and without glasses it Is a toy
steeplechase game on mammoth scale
mere lesson in human machinery. Ii you
are not betting your interest grows lam
guild. Yet peer above your shoulder at the
teeming grand stand. Spectators to man
have risen, telescopes and glasses glued to
cheek. Does distant horse lag a neck,
forge foot ahead, they notice it, comment
upon IL. All have their finger on the race s
feeblest pulse beat. The jockeys approach.
draw higher still. No nursing now. Each
is fogging blindly. Tigers of encourage
ment from the stand. The spectators
blood Is racing. too. A woman's yell cuts
through the din. vision of quivering
Jockeys silks, the soaked pets of wild
eyed. sobbing horses. A batter of tints and
Chewing gum. Chewing gum!' resume
the sweet-stuff vendors. The race is over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
He Dramatized "knighthood."
Chicago Times-Herald.


The play in which Miss Ada Rehan APP
pears at the Illinois Theater. on Monday
evening, Dec. g. is entitled Sweet Nell of
Old Drury," of which Paul Kester is the
author. The work is not an experiment,
having recently created quite a sensation
in London, where it was considered almost
Sheridanesque in it's literary quality.
Mr.. Kester has recently dramatized
when Knighthood Was in Flower for
Julia Marlowe, and Ii is an interesting CO.
incidence that when Miss Marlowe APP
pears for the first time in this play next
Monday night in st. Louis Miss Rehan will
ter's other play, Sweet Nell of Old
Drury."
ii would be quite feather in the cap of
any dramatist to thus supply two leading
Hester is so young a man that his honor
seems all the more significant Yet, young
as he is, Kester has already enjoyed a
wide experience in connection with i'm
portant artists, although much of his work
thus far has been valuable only for the
practice which IL afforded. His "Zama''
was written for Alexander Salvini; What
Dreams May Come for Nine. Rhea, and
Meg Merrillies' for Nine. Janauschek. He
has also adapted THE Student of Salaman-
ca and Bulwer Lytton's Eugene Aram -
and is responsible for one version of "The
Three Guardsmen," while i'm collabora ton
with Mrs. Fiske he wrote The Countess
Roudine.''
Several years ago Mr.. Kester published a
book entitled Tales Of the Real Gypsy, y
and no doubt his pen has been responsible
for many fugitive literary efforts.
A cousin of William Dean Howells, IL
must be that he came honestly by this love
for writing. At all events he is working
honestly toward q recognized standing as
a dramatist, even If he has not achieved
that distinction. With Sweet Nell al
ready successful in Europe and likely to be
In this country, should "Knighthood" score
there viii no longer be any doubt in re-
gard to his standing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Mrs Jasper Finney has returned from a
visit 70 Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs J. J. Turner and family.
OF ST. Louis, will spend Thanksgiving with
Mrs +. NJ. Churchman.
The ladies of the Broadway M. L. Church
VIII serve luncheon in the church parlors
Tuesday and "Wednesday all day.
The ladies OF the board OF managers of
the Katherine Home viii be glad to receive
donations in the aid OF that charity on next
Tuesday at the Marott shoe store.
Charles Madden thirty-one years old. was
adjudged insane yesterday he was taken
q ST. Vincent's Hospital Nov 6, suffering
with delirium tremens. He IS addicted TO
the use OF alcohol and cigarettes.
Governor Mount yesterday honored a
r6quisition from the Governor OF Illinois
for the return OF John n. Jones' wanted
In Danviile, H.. on the charge of forgery.
Jones was under arrest in this city.
a few OF Mrs. G ]. Neligfi's friends en-
Joyed themselves at her country home yes
terday. the occasion being her birthday.
Inose present were: Mrs. Ed Wells. Mrs
.. r. COulon, Mrs. George Jolly and Mrs.
HOppirgs-
The following visiting nremen attended
the firemen's ball last "Wednesday evening:
Henry Armstrong. assistant chief OF Terre
aaute; John Faiby. Terre Haute, James
Moran, Greenfield; Mr.. Scott. OF Green
Held, and William Graham. OF Evansville.
A surprise was given Paul Uirich Fri
Gay evening, al his home. on Blaclxford
sueet- The guests were principally mem
Ders OF his turning-school class al the Ger
man House and other friends. The even
Ing was spent in playing cards and dane
ing 80
The members OF the Fourth Christian
church VIII hold a building fund fair In
the cnurch on North West street Nov. z TO
Dec. ]. from 10 10 D. m. Gaily. Articles
OF all kinds will be on sale the proceeds
tc go toward erecting new church next
year; dinner VIII be served Thanksgiy-
Ing day for Is cents
The formal announcement OF the engage
ment OF AIr. Joseph Felbleman. for many
years 81 this cify. and Miss Rose Lehman.
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with a clear conscience. The newspaper
notices ought certainly TO amaze us, and
the confidence of Miss Blank, who gives
"half-hour's coy chat on the Fall of
the Roman empire. the French revolution,
and other great world Epochs."
Is it possible that the public is willing
TO be gulled, or do these talks exist by
the courtesy of long-suffering friends who
buy the tickets and give them to the other
people who are obliging enough TO come
The thought makes or ought TO make us
blush. Before We stand up again we
should be sure that we have in some de-
gree the art of popular speech, and also
that we have something individual to say.
Ii is not enough TO talk down. to an
audience Chough az times we should like
to feel that the speaker has an elevation
from which. he might talk down.') We
should be able to talk to the people who
know our own subject, and leave them
indebted to us for something in the way of
personal Interpretation. Even if the pub
lie is willing to be fooled, we are in honor
bound not to fool them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

their going into literature-which, in the
beginning at least really amounts TO the
same thing as collecting 'rejections'-and
when they've seen my walls their faces
look as If they had beheld a memento mort.
They generally do some very subdued
meditating, and frequently decide that
they were cut out for something else.
He jumped lightly from the table and
smiled cheerily But, TO drop the nom
sense, this crazy collection really is of
some value TO me, for, as scribbler, I'm
always in danger of getting cocky and
spelling my work; but while L have this
style of wall paper around me I'm kept
properly humble of necessity, and have
to feel my place because L can't dodge it.
/ heartily commend the collection of re-
jections' 10 all who@would fee the snares
Of vanity"