Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 December 1890 — Page 5

DAMASCUS.

"THE NAME WHICH THRILLS CHRISTIAN SOULS.

'Commendable and Curaed* Featm-os of the Mohnmmedsn Faith—Blinding Scales Yet Drop from the Hyes of Humanity--

Dr. Talmage's Sermon.

Rev. Dr. Tulmago preached the fol•wing sermon, Sunday and Sunday +, at Brooklyn and New York. lets ix, 3. He said: stine we Bpent last night in a

Wii of one story, but camels and I—the basement. Yet never Me\ost brilliant hotel on any 8eom so attractive to me as are. If we had been obliged a tent, as we expeoted to do ai0nt, we must have perished, to. violent storm had opened upca UB its iVolleyB of hail and snow and rain and fwind, as if to let us know what the iBible means when prophet and evangelist and Christ himself spoke of the .fury of the elements. The atmospheric wrath broke upon UB about 1 o'clock lin the afternoon, and we were until tniglit exposed to it. With hands and Ifeet benumbed, and our bodies chilled Ito the bone, we made our slow way. JJVhile high up on the rooka, and the jgale blowing the hardest, a signal of 'aistress halted the party, for down in •tho ravines One of the horses had fallon and his rider must not be left alone •amid that wildness of scenoi-y and horror of storm. As then ight approached [the tempest thickened, blackened and /strengthened.

Some of our attendants going ahead had gaiued permission for us to halt lor the night in the-mud hovel I speak Of. Our first duty on arrival was the resuscitation of the exhausted of our (party. My room wag without a win'dow, und an iron stove without any top in the center of the room, the smoke selecting my eyes in the absence of a chimney. Through an opening in the floor Arab faces were several times thrust up to see how I was progressing. iBut the tempest ceasad during the night and before it was fully day we were feeling for the stirrups of our saddled horses, this being the day whose long march will bring us to that city, whose name can not be pronounced in the hearing of tho intelligent or tho Christian without making the blood to tingle and the nerves to thrill, and putting the best emotions of the soul into agitation—Damascus,

During the day we passed Csegarea Philippl, the northern terminus of Christ's journeyings. North of that He never went. We lunch at noon, seated on th,e fallen columns of one of Herod's palaces.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, coming to a hill-top, we saw on the broad plain a city, which the most famous camel-driver of all time, afterward called Mohammed.'the prophet, and the fotinder of the most stupendous system of error that has ever cursed the earth, refused to enter because he said God would allow man to enter but one paradise, and he would not enter this earthly paradise lest he should be denied entrance to the heavenly.- But BO city that I ever saw so plays hide and seek with the traveler. The air is so clear the distant objects seem close by. You oome on the top of a hill, and Damascus seoms only a little way off. But down you^go into a valley, and you see nothing for the next half hour but barrenness and rocks gurgitated by tho volcanoes of other ages. Up again and down again. But after your patience is almost exhaust ed you reach the last hill-top and the city of Damascus —the oldest city undo- the whole heavens, and built by Noah's grandson—grow? upon your vision. Every mile of the journey now becomes more solemn and suggestive and tremendous.

This is the very road, for it has been the only road for thousands of years, the road from Jerusalem to Damasous, along which a cavalcade of mounted officers went, about 1834 years ago, in the midst of them a fierce man whd made up by magnitude ot hatred for Christianity for his diminutive stature, and was the leading spirit, and though suffering from chronic inflammation of the eyes, from those oyes flashed more indignation against the followers of Christ than any one of the horsed procession. This littlo man, before his name was changed to Paul, was called Saul.

Well, that galloping group of horsemen on the road to Damascus were halted quicker than bombshell or cavalry charge ever halted a regiment. Tho Syrian noonday, because of tho clarity of tho atmosphere, is the brightest of all noondays, and the noonday sun in Syria is positively terrific for brilliance. But suddenly that noon there flashed from the heavens a light which made the Syrian sun seem tame as a star in comparison. It was the face of the slain and ascended Christ looking from the heavens, and under the flash of that overpowering light all the horses dropped with their riders. Human face and horse's mane together in the dust. And then two claps of thunder followed, uttering the two words, the second word like the first: "Saul! Saul!" For throe days that fallen equestrian was totally blind, for excessive light will sometimes extinguish the eyesight. And what cornea and crystalline lenB could endure a brightness greater than the noonday Syrian sunr I had road it a hundred times, but it never so impressed me bofore and probably will never so impress me again, as I took my Bible from the Baddlebags and read aloud to our comrades in travel: "As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined roundabout him a light from heaven, and he foil to the earth and heard a voice Baying unto "him: 'Saul! Saul! Why perBecutest thou me?' and he said: 'Who art thou, LordP' And the Lord said, -I am Jesus, whom thou persecutes!.'"

But we oan not atop longer on this

road, for we shall see this unhorsed equestrian later in Damascus, toward which our horses' heads are turned, and at which we must ourselves arrive before night. The evening is near at' hand, and as wo leave snowy Hermon behind us and approach tho shadow of 200 minarets and domes wecutthrough a circumference of many miles of gardens which embower the city. So luxuriant are these gardens, so opulent in colors, so luscious of fruits, so glittering with fountains, so rich with bowers and kiosks, that the Mohammedan's heaven was fashioned after what are to bo seen here of bloom and fruitage here in Damascus. At the right season are cherries, and mulberries, and apricots, and almonds, and pistachios, and pomgranates, and pears, and apples, and plums, and citrons, and all the richness of thejround world's pomology. No wonder that Julian called this city the "Eye of the East," and that the poets of Syria have styled it "the luster on the neck of

doveB."

We are awakened in the morning in Damascus by the song of those who have different styles of food to sell. It is not a street cry as in London or New York, but a weird and long drawn out solo, compared with which a buzz saw is musical. It makes you inopportunely waken, and will not let you sleep again. But to those who undorstand the exact meaning of tho song it becomes quite tolerable, for they

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"God is the nourisher, buy

my bread ''God is the nourisher, buy my milk "God is the nouriBher. buy my fruit." As vou look out of the window you see the Mohammedans, who are in a large majority in the city, at prayer. And If it were put to vote who should be King of all tho earth, 15,000 in that oity would say Christ, but 130,000 would

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worship. As he beginB he turns his face toward the city of Mecca, and unrolls upon the ground a rug which he almost always carries. With his thumbs touching tho lobes of his oars, and holding his face between his hands, he cries: "God is great!" Then folding his hands across his girdle, he looks down and says: "Holiness to thee, O God. and praise be to thee. Great is thy name. Great is thy greatness. There is no Deity but thee." Then the worshipper sits upon his heels, then he touches his nose to the rug, and then his forehead, these genuflections accompanied with the cry: "Great is God." Then, raising the forefinger of his right hand toward heaven, he says: "I testify there is no Deity but God, and I testify that Mohammed is the servant of God,and the messenger of God." The prayers close by the worshipper holding his hands open upward as if to take the divine blessing, and then his hands are rubbed over his face as if to convey the blessing to his entire body.

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historians said, "It is tho golden clasp which couples the two aides of the world together."

Many travelers express disappointwith Damascus, but the trouble is they have carried on their minds from boyhood the book which dazzles so many young people—the "Arabian nights," and they como to Damascus looking for Aladdin's lamp, and Aladdin's ring, and the genii which appeared by rubbing them. But as I have never read the "Arabian Nights," such

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being allowed around our house in my boyhood, and nothing lighter in the way of reading than "Baxter's Saints," "Everlasting Rest" and D'Aubigny's '•History of the Reformation," Damascus appeared to me as secular-history has presented it, and so the city was not a disappointment, but with few exceptions a surprise.

Linder my window to-night in the hotel at Damascus I hear the perpetual ripple and rush of the river Abana. Ah, tho secret is out. Now I know why all this flora, and fruit, and why everything is BO green and the plain one great omerald. The river Abana. And not far off the river Pharpar, which our horses waded through today. Thank the rivers, or rather tho God who made tho rivers. Deserts to tho north, deserts to the south, deserts to the east, deserts to the west, but here a paradise. And. as the rivers Gihon and Pison, and Hiddekel and Euphrates- made the other paradise, Abana and Pharpar make this Damascus a paradise. That is what made General Naaman, of this city of Damascus, so mad when he was told for the cure of leprosy to go and wash in the river Jordan, The river Jordan is much of the year a muddy stream and it is never so clear as this river Abana, that I hear rumbHng under my window to-night nor *as the river Pharpar that we crossed to-day. They are as clear as though they had been sieved through some eBpecial sieve of the mountains. General Naaman had great and patriotic pride in these two rivers of his own country, and when Elisha the prophet told him that if he wanted to get rid of his leprosy, he must go and wash in the Jordan, ho felt as we, who live oa the magnificent Hudson would feel ii told that we must go and wash in the muddy Thames, or as if those who live on the transparent Rhine were told that they must go and wash in the muddy Tiber. So General Naaman cried out in a voice as loud as ever he had used In commanding his troops, uttering those memorablo words, which every minister of the Gospel sooner or later takes for his text: "Aro not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?" Tlia-nk God we live in a land with plenty of rivers, and that they bless all our Atlantic Coast and all our Pacific Coast, and reticulate all the continent between the coasts. Only those who have traveled in the deserts of Syria or Egypt, or have in the Oriental cities heard the tinkling of the bell of those who sell water, can realize what it is to have this divine beverage in abundance. Water rumbling over the rocks, turning the mill wheel, saturating the roots of tho corn, dripping from the buckets, filling tho pitchers of tho household, rolling through the fonts or baptisteries of holy ordinance, filling tho reservoirs of cities, inviting the cattle to come down and slake their thirst, and the birds of heaven to dip thoir wing, ascending in robe of mist and falling again in benediction of shower—water, living water, Godgiven water.

There are two or three commendable things about Mohammedanism. One is that its disciples wash before every act of prayer.^ and that is live times a day, and there is a Gospel in cleanliness. Another commondable thing is,they don't care who is looking, nothing can stop them in their prayer, Another thing is that by the order of Mohammed, an order obeyed for 1,200 years, no Mohammedan touches strong driuk. But tho polygamy, the manywife hood Jof Mohammedanism, has made that religion the unutterable and everlasting curse of woman, and when woman sinks the race sinks. The propositionjrecently mad6 in high ecclesiastical (places for the reformation of Mohammedanism instead of its obliteration, is like an attempt to improve a plague or educate a leprosy. There is only one thing that will ever reform Mohammedanism, and that is its extirpation of the Gospel of the Son of God, which makes not only man, but woman freo for thiB life and free for the life to come.

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The spiritijof fjthe horrible religion which pervades the city of Damascus, along whose streets we walk

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of whose bazarB we make purchases and in whose mosques we study the wood-carvings and ^bedizlements, was demonstrated as late as 1860, when,in this city, it put to death 6,000 Christians in forty-eight hours and put to the torch 3,000 Christian homes, and those streetsQ we walk to-day |were red with the carnage, and the shrieks and groans of the dying and dishonored men and women made this place a hell on earth. This went on until a Mohammedan, better than his religion, d-ei-Kader by name, a great soldier who in one war had with'26,000 troops beaten 60,000 of the enemy, now protested against this massacre, and gathered the Christians of Damascus into castles and private houses and filled his own home with the affrighted sufferers.

But I must say that this city of Damascus as I see it now is not so absorbing as the Damascus of olden times. I turn my back upon the bazars, with rugs fascinating the merchants from Bagdad aud the Indian textile fabric of incomparable make, and the paanufactured saddles and bridles, gay enough for Princes of the Orient to ride and pull, and baths where ablution becomes inspiration, and the homes of thoso bargain-makers of today, marbled and divanded.and fountained upholstered and mosaiced and arabesqued, and colonnaded until nothing can be added,and the splendid remains of the great mosque of John, originally built with gates so heavy that it required fivomen to turn them and columns of porpyhry and kneelingplaces framed in diamond, and seventyfour stained-glass windows, and 600 lamps of pure gold, a single prayer offered in this mosque said to be worth 30,000 prayers offered in any other place. I turn my back on all these and see Damascus- as it was when this narrow street, which tne Bible call« Straight, was a great wide atreet, a Now York Broadway, or a Parisian Champs Elysees, a great thoroughfare crossing the city from gate to gate, along which tramped and rolled the pomp of all nations, There goes Abraham, the father of all the faithful. lie has in

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Mohammed,

Looking from the window you see on the housetops and on the streets Mohammedans at worship. Tho Muezzin, or officers of religion, who announce the time of worship, appear high up on the different minaret* or tall towers, and walk around the minaret, inclosed by a railing, and cry in a sad and mumbling way: "God is great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Come to prayers! Come to salvation! God is great. There is no other but God. Prayers are better than sleep." Five times a day muat the Mohammedan engage in

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brated slave. There goos Ben Uadad, of Bible times, leading thirty-two conquered monacrhs. There goes David, King, warrior and sacred poot. There goos Tamerlane,the conqueror. There goos Haroun al Raschild", once the commander of an army of 95,000 Persians and Arabs. There comes a warrion on his way to the barracks carrying that kind of a sword which the world has forgotten how to make, a Damascus blade, with the interfacings of color changing at every new turn of the light, many colors coming and going and interjoining, the blade so keen it could cut in twain an object without making the lower part of the object tremble, with an elasticity that could not be broken, though you brought the point of the sword clear back to the hilt, and having a watered appearance which made the biade seem as though just dipped in a clear fountain. A triumphof cutlery which a 1,000 modern foundry men and chemists have attempted in vain to imitate. On the side of this street, damasks, named after this city, figures of animals, and fruits, and landscapes here being first wrought into silk—damasks And specimens of damaskeeming by which in this oity steel and iron were first graved, and then the groves filled with wire of gold— damaskeeming. But stand back or be run over, here we are at the gates of the city,laden caravans from Aleppo in one direction,and from Jerusalem in another direction, and caravans of all nations paying toll to this supremacy. Great is Damascus!

But what moat stirB my BOUI ineither chariot, nor caravan, nor bazar, nor palace, but a blind man pass­

ing along the street, small of stature and insignificant in personal appears' ance. Oh, yes we have seen him before. He was one of that cavalcade coming from Jerusalem to Damascus to kill Christians, and wo saw him and his horse tumble up thero on tho road some Jistanco out of tho city, and ho got up blind. Yes, it is Saul of Tarsus now going along this street called Straight. He is led by his friends, for he can not see his hand before liis face, unto tho house of Judas: not Judas the bad, but Judas the good. In another part of this city one Ananuis, not Ananias the liar, but Ananais tho Christian, is told by tho Lord to go to this house of Judas on Straight street, and put his hands on tho blind eyes of Saul that his sight might return. "Oh," said Ananias, "I dare not go that Saul is a terrible follow. Ho kills Christians, and he will kill mo." "Go," said tho Lord, and Ananias went. There sits in blindness that tromendous persecutor. He was a groat nature crushed. Ho had started for tho city of Damascus for the one purpose of assassinating Christ's followers, but since that fall from his horse he has entirely changed.

Ananias steps up to the sightless man, pu's his right thumb on one eye and his left thumb on tho other eye. and in an outburst of sympathy and lovo and faith, says: "Brother Saul! Brother Saul! the Lord, even Jesm that appeared unto thee in tho way as thou cumest, has sent me that thou mayst receive thy sight and bo filled with tho holy ghost." Instantly some thing like scales fell from the blind man's eyes, and he arose from that seat the mightiest evangel of all the ages, a Sir William Hamilton formetaphysical analysis, a John Milton for sublimity of thought, a Whiteiiold for popular eloquenco, a John Howard for widespread philanthropy, but more than all of them put together inspired, thundorbolted, multipotont, apostolic. Did Judas, the kind host of this blind man, or Ananias, the visitor, see scalos drop from the sightless eyes? I think not. Hut Paul know they had fallen, and that is all that happens to any of us when we are converted. The blinding scales drop from our eyes and we see things differently.

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There are many people in this house to-day as blind as Paul was before Ananias touched his eye. And thero are many here from whose eyes the scalos have already fallen. You see all subjects and q,ll things differently—God, and Christ, and eternity, and your own immortal spirit. When I was a boy at Mt. Pleasant, one Sunday afternoon reading "Doddridges'a Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," that afternoon

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of the scales fell from my eyes and I saw a little. After I had been In the ministry about a year, one Sunday afternoon in tho village parsonago, reading the Bible story of the SyroPhenician's faith, other scales fell from my eyes and I saw better. Two Sunday evenings ago, while preparing for tho evening service in New York, I picked up a book that I did not remember to have seen bofore, and after I had read a page about reconsecration to God I think the remaining scales fell from my eyes. Shall nojfour visit to Damascus to-day result, JXe Paul's visit, in vision to the bajral and increased vision for thoso who saw somewhat bofore?

IXousenoTtf ITDUs,

A small piece of paper or linen moistened with turpentine, and pul into the wardrobo or drawers for a single day or two or three times a yoar, is a preventive ngalnst moths.

When you boil a cabbage tie a bil of dry bread in bag and put it in the kettle. French cooks say that all the unpleasant odor which makes a house smoll like an old drain will be absorbed by the bread.

An excellent way of cooking eggs is to break them in boiling milk without boating cook

slowly,

stirring now and

then. When done soft put into a dish and add a little popper, salt and butter. STZWED TOMATOES.—Open a can oi tomatoes, put in a saucepan and set on tho back of a stove cook one hour, add a teacup of breadorumb3, two ounces of butter, with salt and pepper cook half an hour.

CAUAMBL CAKE.—One cupful of sugar, onb cupful of milk, two cupfuis of flour, butter size of an egg, one toaspoonful of cream tartar, half-leaspoon-ful of soda, half-cake of chocolate grated. Bake in layers.

MUFFINS.—A home-made and welltried recipe for muffins is ono pint ol sweet milk, butter size of an egg (or littlo smaller), salt, one egg, three heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ana flour enough to make stiff enough to drop nicely in pans.

DKLJCATK INDIAN PUDDING.—One quart of milk scalded, two heaping tablespoonfuls of meal, cook twelve minutes stir into this ono tablespoonful of butter, then beat threo eggs with four tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half tablcspoonful of gingor, salt to taste mix all thoroughly, and bake one hour.

BKRAKKAST CAKES.—One and a-half cups of Indian meal, 1} cups of flour, half a cup of sugar, butter, teaspoonful of soda, milk, one egg stir cream o' tartar in tho flour nnd dissolve the soda in a little cold water mix all this quite soft with milk bake in shallow pans. To be eaten hot with butter, and is very nice.

IHgWorao than Headache. Mrs. Hearall (wno has dropped in for a minuto): "I suppose youc hus. band is suffering from a sick head* ache, Mrs. Tellall? I hear him groaning in the other room as if he wera having one of his bad spells." Mrs. Tellall: "No tho poor m&n is shaving himself."—New York Sua.

G»een castle wants the Monon shops. Laporto county needs a new court house The Alliance proposes to purchase tho Upton elevator.

Six buildings were burned at Montpelier on tho Sth, including tho postofllce. Total loss, $11,100.

A scheme is on foot to connect Laporto and Michigan City (twelve miles) by an electric railway.

Daniel H. Gilman. of Torre Haute, has sued tho C., C., C. & St. L. Railway Co. for tho loss'of a hand.

The barn and other buildings on the farm of Sheriff Brown near Seymour burned on the Tth. Loss $3,800.

Natural gas exploded at the resldonce Dr. J. it. Ruckor, of Shelby ville, and Mrs Ruoker and her two small childron were badly burned.

Diphtheria is exceedingly prevalent aj Indianapolis. More than 100 cases were reported on tho 0th, with the diseaso gradually spreading.

A Wabash engino crashed into a Chicago & Alton sleeper, at Jacksonville, 111., on the night of the 4th. Two passengers were killed and others hurt.

Dudley, Michener. Daniel MoCauly, Bruce Carr and H. M. LaFolletto have associated thomselves in a businoss enter«' prise—what, is not stated. "White Caps" have notified several persons in Heth and Washington townships Harrison county, that visitations may bo expected unless reformation is had.

William Dudley Faulko has been elected President of Smarthmore College, Pennsylvania. It is a high honor, and come to ono of Indianas widest known citizen.

Patents wero granted Hoosier inventors as follows: James' Spicklomire, Avon, grain drill Robert Watts, Shelby ville deviso for hanging maps or ourtains John Caven, Indianapolis, domcstio water purifier.

Two divorce cases at Lawronceburg in in which damages to the amount of $50,000 each were demanded, have been settled in court. In one of tho cases the wife was given the divorce, alimony and custody of the children, while the husband did not get any part of the $50,000. In -the other the trouble was compromised, the husband getting the divorce.

The White Caps have again been on a rampage in the southern part of Harrison county. Richard and David Lowe, Jerry Shuck and a woman wnose name could no bo learned, are the latest victims. The Lowes were severely dealt with, but Shuck and the woman were only slightly punished. Shuck is a Baptist preacher, and is regarded as partly demented.

Adjutant General Ruckle has ordered the discharged twenty-four members of the Fort Wayne Rifles, on the recommendation of Captain Bulger, of that company. These men have persistently failed to obey the Captain's orders to appear at drill calls and rigorous measures wero necessary to uphold the discipline of tho militia. The discharge will debar the men from any military service in the State.

In answer to an inquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gavo an opinion that children of school age who aro inmates'of the State Reformatory and benevolent institutions can not be logally included in tho enumer* ntion which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of tho school fund. Those children are given especial educational opportunities in tho institution which they occupy.

Joseph Wasson, of Montgomery county was accused of killing a pig valued at $12, by striking tho auimal with a fence raili and he was prosecuted before a peace lustice and appealed the case. Experts were called in tho hope of showing that the hog died because of a surgical opera tion by a veterinary surgeon in warm weathor, but after twelve months'litigation Wasson has been fined. Tho costs aggregate $150, to which must be added attorney fees and other expenses.

Tho Citizens' National Gas Company, of Anderson, determined to cut off the flambeaux with which the premises of nearly every resident in Auderson is ornamented, and 150 of them were dismantled in one day. The usual pressure at the regulator is fourteen ouuees, but the first night it showed forty eight ouncos, showing that thirty-four ounces was simply wasted in ornamental yard lights. This is three times the amount required for domestic purposes. Tho Legislature will bo asked to pass a law stopping similar waste of gas all over the State.

The dates for tho annual winter meetings of tho various State industrial associations have been fixed, and aro as follows: Fish and Game Association, Dec IS Board of Agriculture, Jan. 6 Cane Growers, Jan. IB Horse Breeders, Ja'a. 14 Jersey Cattle Breeders, Jan. 15 Bee Keepers. Jan. 10 Shorthorn Cattle Breeders, Jan. 'JO Wool Growors, Jan. 21 Florists, Jan. 21 Swine Breeders, Jan. 22 Tile Makers, Jan. 22. Poultry Breeders, Jan. 23. All of these bodies except the society of florists and tile makers will meet in tho rooms of the Agricultural Department in tho Capitol. The tile makers will moot in Masonic Hall and the florists at Lafayette.

Shortly after midnight on tho 4th,A dgust Brown of New Albany, was awakened by some ono rapping violently at his door. On answering tho summons he was confronted by three men, who asked to be directed to tho house of a neighbor. Mr. Brown stopped out to point out the house ajked for, when he was seized by two of the men one of whom pressed a revolver to his head and threatened to blow out his brains if any noise was made The other two raon then entered the house, nnd wMid one of them compelled the members ol the family to remain silent, the ctbsr rasG»cl:cd the bouso. About $75 in money on gold watch were found and pocketed by the burglar.

During tho past ten day Constable Cur-.' tis, backed by Prosecutor Carver, has been raiding tho Anderson gaming rooms. Gambling has been running wide open hore for tfao past ti.ve years, and it has been 'aimed that tha gamblers controlled the polioo force. Tho result of the recent

raids in the capture erf five roulette tables twelve stnd poker tables, fifteen poker, tables, nine keno twelve packs of cards and nearly two bushels of "chips." Ex* County Auditor James M. Dickson, ex* Sheriff Al. C. Ross, James Corbctt, James Moulden, Georgo Hoglo, Henry Hoover Ira Patton and John Dockter have pleaded guilty to "keeping for game certain gam« ing devices," and each wero fined $29.45. Tho devices were confiscated and will be1 burned.

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Burglars cartod away a load of goods from Perdue Knotts' store at Cowan Station.

HEAI.TII BOAMD SUGGESTIONS.

If health is more to be desired than goldr says the Indianapolis News,the utterances of a body of mon chosen by a State to look after the health of its citizens might nat» urally bo expected to havo weight. Hore aro the recommendations which tho Indiana State Board of Health will inako to the Legislature In its annual report, now almost completed

Tho passage of a law prohibiting the boating of railway trains by Btovcs. The provision of a contingent fund for use in case some great epidemic or disaster should occur.

The amendment of the law regulating the practice of medicine so as to allow a physician to practice in any county in the State when he has procured a license iu one.

Tho passage of a law vesting the appoint, ment of county health officers in the State Board of H'ealth, and making the position,, more important. A regular salary, instead of the present pornicious system in use in some counties of giving the places to tho lowest bidder.

The establishment of a laboratory at ono of the State institutions for tho study of bacteriology.

Some provision which will enable the State Board of Health to make an aualysis of water.

The report says that 400 deaths directly duo to la grippe were officially reported to the Board, but that the mortality indirectly resultant from that disease has been much greater. A very interesting artiolby Dr. J. F. Hibbard, of Richmond, give the number of cases of la grippe reported to him from Wayne county as 7,396. These with a reasonable allowance for cases not eported, show that about one person in our in that couuty contracted tho disease. Dr. Hibbard estimates that in Wayne couuty with a population of 43,000 tha money loss because of la grippe was over $80,000. At this rate the loss in tho State must have been millions.

UESPEKADO AND LAW.

Mcrvin Kuntz, the Indiana desperado who, a week ago, committed a horrible' murder at Fostorio, O., and is charged with many other crimes, killed polioo officer Johu Cornelley Saturday night Cherubusco.

Kuntz is one of the most desperate criminals in this State, and a large reward is offered for his arrest. At noon, on the 6th. he stepped of a train in Ft. Wayne, and was immediately recognized by the police, who have been on the lookout for him. He escaped arrest, however, and took flight through the country. He was followed up by police lieutenant Wilkenson and officer Cornelley, who caught their man at Cherubusco. When they attempted to place him under arrest Kuntz drew a revolvor and fired several shots, killing Cornelley instantly. Wilkenson followed the desperado up, but he got away in the darkness.

The thrilling tragedy is given in the following particulars: Kuhntz,after sauntering about the streets of Ft. Wayne, walked to Areola, eight miles west, and stolo a horse and road cart in which ho drove to Chorubusco, near which village his father lives. Mease and he made the round of the saloons, Kuhntz displaying a brace of revolvers and dofys ing arrest. Later they visited a farm house and-domandod money. The wojtiCn lied to the village and reported the occur ronce at the very moment when deputy sheriff Wilkinson and policeman Connelly arrived from Ft. Wayne. Tho officers started in pursuit and met the desperadoes returning. Connclley grasped Kuhntz about the neck and the latter drew his pistol. Mease began firing at Connelley and brought him down with a shot in tho abdomen.. The officer released his man, and Wilkinson, who had been endeavoring to wrest away his revolver, at onco seized him about the body and a battle to the death was bogun. From the ground tho wounded polioeman fired a ball through Kuhntz chest and Wilkinson,placing his revolver at the fellow's back, iired four times. Kuhntz nevertheless wiggled out of his overcoat, and, jumping into his road cart, made oil in the darkness. He was captured without resistance, at midnight, at the house of a farmer where be had sought slioltor. Mease was shot by ex-town Marshal Jack son. Kuhns declares that he is not guilty, of tho murder of Cum pan at Fostoria, but is unable to explain a partially healed wound on his hip.

When Kuhntz war. examinod by Dr Meyers it was found that he w.vt literally riddled with bullets. Ono had pierced his left lung, another his right breast,two hall, plowed through his intestines, and several bullets had lodged in his legs. The cour-. age displayed by tho desperado was wonderful. With wounds enough to kill a dozen ordinary men,Kuhntz sat upright in a chair, and nothing in his demeanor indicated that he was mortally wounded.

iliace Brnnswickers in Prussian Uniform*. Tho last traces of indepeudoqee io tho minor Gcrmtin states nre being obiitomted. Tho distinguishing uniform of tho Black Brunswickors is to be abolished and thoy will henceforth woar tho dress of tho Prussian line. The sable garb and skull and crossbones emblems were adopted to show tho Intense desire of the Brunswickers to avenge the death of tho father of "Brunswick's fated chieftain," and English papers are cruol enough to revive the story that at Waterloo, the first field upon which they had an opportunity to display thoir ferocity, thoy wore onLy remarkable for tho celerity and unanimity wi.ih which thoy quitted tho field at the first onset of tho French dragoons.