Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Page 3

IN TRUMPET SOUNDS.

fIEV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON FULL OF HOPE. tfelp for the Hopeless Through the .Name of Christ-The Need of Sympathy—Fulfillment of a Great Promfae—A Mighty Gathering. Capital City Sermon. This sermon sounds the note of triumph, • note that all will be glad to hear in these, times, when so many are uttering and writing jeremiads of discouragement. Dr. Tainiage took as his text Genesis, xlix.. 10, "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” Through a supernatural lens, or what I might call a prophescope, dying Jacob looks down through the corridors of the centuries until he sees Christ the center of all popular attraction and the greatest being in all the world, so everywhere acknowledged. It was not always so. The world tried hard to put him down and to put him out. In the year 1200, while excavating for antiquities fifty-three miles northeast of Rome, a copper plate tablet was found containing the death warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise: “In the year 17 of the empire of Tiberius Caesar, and on the 25th day of March, I, Pontius Pilate, governor of the Praetore. condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die between two thieves, Quintius Cornelius to lead him forth to the place of execution.” Scoffers as Worshipers. The death warrant was signed by several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi, Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet, a private citizen. This capital punishment was executed according to law. The nttme as the thief crucified on the right hand side of Christ was Dismae; tne name of the thief crucified on the left hand side of Christ was Gestus. Pontius Pilate, describing the tragedy, says the whole world lighted candles from noon until night. Thirty-three years of maltreatment. They ascribe his birth to-bastardy and his death to excruciation. A wall of the city, built about those times and recently exposed by archaeologists, shows a caricature of Jesus Christ, evidencing the contempt in which he was held by many in his day—that caricature on the wall representing a cross and a donkey nailed to it, and under it the inscription, “This is the Christ whom the people worship.” But I rejoice that that day is gone by. Our Christ is coming out from under the world's abuse. The most popular name on. earth to-day is the name of Christ. M here he had one friend Christ has a thousand friends. The scoffers have become worshipers. Of the twenty most celebrated infidels in Great Britain in our day sixteen have come back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their lives—sixteen out of the twenty. Every man who writes a letter or signs a document, wittingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ. We date evervthing as B. C. or A. D.—B. C., before Christ; A. D.. Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the crc#:s of the Son of God, B. C., A. D. Ido not care what you call him—whether Conqueror, or King, or Morning Star, or Sun of Righteousness, or Balm of Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother or Friend, or take the name used in the verse from which I take my text, and call him Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Trnnquilator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. I only want to tell you that “unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”

In the first place, the people are gathered around Christ for pardon. No sensible man or healthfully ambitious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool may think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. Ido not care who the thoughtful man is, the review of his lifetime behavior before God and man gives to him no especial satisfaction. “Oh,” he says, “there have been so many things I have done I ought not to have done, there have been so many things I have said I ought never to have said, there have been so many things I have written I ought never to have written, there have been so many things I have thought I ought never to have thought. I must somehow get things readjusted, I must somehow have the past reconstructed; there are days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible vociferation.” Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past by obliterating it. He does not erase the record of our misdoing with a dash of ink from a register’s pen, but lifting his right hand crushed, red at the palm, he puts it against his bleeding brow, and then against his pierced side, and with the crimson accumulation of all those wounds he rubs out the accusatory chapter. He blots out our iniquities. Oh, never be anxious about the future; better be anxious about the past. I put it not at the end of my sermon; I put it at the front—mercy and pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardoning Christ. “Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” “Oh!” says some man, “I have for forty years been as bad as I could be, and is there any mercy for me?” Mercy for you. “Oh!” says some one here, “I had a grand ancestry, the holiest of fathers and the tsnderest of mothers, and for my perfidy there is no excuse. Do you think there is any mercy forme?” Mercy for you. “But,” says another man, “I fear I have committed what they call the unpardonable sin, and the Bible says if a man commit that sin, he is neither tp be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there is any mercy for me?” The fact that you have any solicitfide about the matter at all proves positively that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? Oh, the grace of God Which bringeth salvation! For the Worst Sinners.

The grace of God! Let us take the surveyor’s chain and try to measure God’s mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one surveyor take that chain and go to the north, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the east, and another surveyor take that chain and go to thq west, and then make a report of the square miles of that vast kingdom of God’s mercy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eternity for the report of that measurement* It cannot be measured. Paul tried to climb the height of it, and be went height over height, altitude above altitude, mount tain above mountain, then sank down in discouragement and gave it up. for hd saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Matter l horns beyond, and waving his hands back to us in the plains he says, “Past finding out; unsearchable, that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.” You no* tice that nearly all the sinners mentioned as pardoned in the Bible were great sinners—David a great sinner, Paul a great sinner, Rahab a great sinner, Magdalene a great sinner, the Prodigal Son a great sinner. The world easily understood how Christ could pardon a half and half sinner, but what the world wants to be persuaded of is that Christ will forgive the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the oldest sinner, the most inexcusable sinner. To the sin pardoning Shiloh let all the gathering of the people be. But, I remark again, the people, .will gather around Christ as a sympathizer. Oh. we all want sympathy. I hear people

talk as though they were imdependent of it. None of us could live without sympathy. When parts of our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home! But, alas! for those who never come home. Sometimes it seems as if it most be impossible. What, will their feet never again come over the threshold ? Will they never again sit with us at the table? Will they never again kneel with us at family prayer? Shall we never again look into their snnny faces? Shall we never again on earth take counsel with them for oar work? Alas me, who can stand under* these griefs! OS, Christ, thou eanst do more for a bereft soul than any one else. It is he who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is he that comes to bid peace. It is he that comes to us and breathes into ns the spirit of submission until we can look up from the wreck and ruin of our brightest expectations and say, “Father, not my will, but thine, be done.” Oh, ye who are bereft, ye anguish bitten, come into this refuge. The roll of those who came for relief to Christ is larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympathy the gathering of the people shall be. Oh, that Christ would stand by all these empty cradles, and all these desolated homesteads, and all these broken hearts, and persuade us it is well. Need for Sympathy. The world cannot offer you any help at such a time. Suppose the World comes and offers you money. You would rather live on a crust in a cellar and hav* your departed loved with you than live in palatial surroundings and they away. Suppose the world offers you its honors to console you. What is the presidency to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie lies dead in the White House? Perhaps the world comes and says, “Time will cure it all.” Ah, there are griefs that have raged on for thirty years and are raging yet. And yet hundreds have been comforted, thousands have been comforted, millions have been comforted, and Christ had done the work. Oh, what you want is sympathy. The world’s heart of sympathy beats very irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when we do not want it, and often, when we are in appalling need of it, no sympathy. There are multitudes of people dying for sympathy—sympathy in their work, sympathy in their fatigues, sympathy in their bereavements, sympathy in their financial losses, sympathy in their physical ailments, sympathy in their spiritual anxieties, sympathy in the time of declining years—wide, deep, high, everlasting, almighty sympathy. We must have it, and Christ gives it. That is the cord with which he is going to draw all nations to him.

At the story of punishment a man’s eye flashes, and his teeth set and his fist clinches, and he prepares to do battle even though it be against the heavens; yet what heart so hard but it will succumb to i the story of compassion! Even a man’s sympathy is pleasant and helpful. When we have been in some hour of weakness, to have a brawny man stand beside us and promise to see us through—what courage it gives to our heart and what strength it gives to our ami.' Still mightier is a woman’s sympathy. Let him tell the story, who, when all his fortunes were gone and all the world was against him, came home and found in that home a wife who could write on the top of the empty flour barrel, “The Lord will provide,” or write on the door of the empty wardrobe, “Consider the lilies of the field; if God so clothed the grass of the field, will he not clothe us and ours?” Or let that young man tell the" story who has gone the whole round, of dissipation. The shadow of the penitentiary is upon him, and even his father says: “Be off! Never come home ajjain!” The young man finds still his mother’s arm outstretched for him, and how she will stand at the wicket of the prison to whisper consolation, or get down on her knees before the Governor, begging for pardon, hoping on for her wayward boy after all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the story who, under villainous alluremeut and impatient of parental restraint, has wandered off from a home of which she was the idol into the murky and thunderous midnight of abandonment, nway from God, and further away, until some timosne is tossed on the beach of that early home a mere splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her now? Who will gather these dishonored locks into her lap? Who will wash off the blood from the gashed forehead? Who will tell her of that Christ who came to save the lost? Who will put that weary head upon the clean white pillow and watch 'by day and watch by night until the hoarse voice of the sufferer becomes the whisper, and the whisper becomes only a faint motion of the lips, and the faint motion of the lips is exchanged for a silent look, and the cut feet are still, and the. weary eyes are still, and the frenzied heart is still, and all is still? Who will have compassion on her when no others have compassion? Mother! Mother! A Variety of Demons.

Oh, there is something beautiful in sympathy—in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy, motherly sympathy; yea, and neighborly sympathy! Why was it that a city was aroused when a little child was kidnaped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspapers filled with the story of a little child? It was because we are all one in sympathy, and every parent said: “How if it had been my Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary? How if it had been my Maud? How if it had been my child? How if there had been one unoccupied pillow in our trundle bed to-night? How if my little one—bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh—were to-night carried captive into some den of vagabonds, never to come back to me? How if it had been my sorrow looking out of the window, watching and waiting—that sorrow worse than death?” Then, when they found her, fvhy did we declare the news all through the households, and everybody that knew how to pray say, “Thank God ?*’ Because we are all one, bound by one great golden chain of sympathy. Oh, yes, but I have to tell you that if you will aggregate all neighborly, manly, wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found only a poor starving thing compared with the sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has ‘held in his lap the sorrows of the ages, and who is ready to nurse on his holy heart the woes of all who will come to him. 6h, what a God, what a Saviour we have!

But in larger vision see the nations in some kind of trouble ever since the world was derailed and hurled down the embankments. The demon of sin came to this world, but other demons have gone through other worlds. The demon of conflagration, the demon of volcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. La Place says he saw one world in the northern hemisphere sixteen months burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world burning. A French astronomer says that in 300 years 1,500 worlds have disappeared. Ido not see why infidels find it so hard to believe that two worlds stopped in Joshua’s time, when the astronomers tell us that 1,500 worlds have stopped. Even the moon is a world in ruins. Stellar, lunar, solar catastrophes innumerable. But it seems as if the most sorrows have been reserved for our world. By one toss of the world at Ticuboro, of 12,000 inhabitants only 26 people escaped. By one shake of the world at Lisbon in five minutes 60,000 perished and 200,000 before the earth stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switzerland, burying the village of Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in the night, when 2,000 people

are asleep, and they never a route. By a convulsion of the earth Japan broken off from China. By a convulsion of the earth the Caribbean islands broken off from America. Three M&nds near the mouth of the Ganges, with 340,000 inhabitants—a great surge of the sea breaks over them, and 214,000 perish that.day. Alas, alas, for our poor world. It has been recently discovered that a whole continent has sunk, a continent that connected Europe and America, part of the inhabitants of that continent going to Europe, part coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, and we ate finding now the remains of their mounds and their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the tablelands of the West. It is a matter of demonstration that a whole continent has gone down, the Azores off the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken continent. I’lato described that continent, its grandeur, the multitude of its inhabitants, its splendor and its awful destruction, and the world thought it was a romance, but archaeologists have found out it was history, and the Euglish and the German and the American fleets have gone forth with archaeologists, and the Challenger and the Dolphin and the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea soundings they have found the contour of that sunken continent. All to Christ. Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the flora and the fauna—astronomical trouble, geological trouble, oceanic trouble, political trouble, domestic trouble —and standing in the presence of all those stupendous devastations, I ask if I am not right in saying that the great want of this age and all ages is divine sympathy and omnipotent comfort, and they are found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ unto whom shall the gathering of the people be. Other worlds may fall, but this morning star will never be blotted from the heavens. The earth may quake, but this rock of ages will never be shaken from its foundations. The same Christ who fed the 5,000 will feed all the world’s hunger. The same Christ who cured Barfimeus will illumine all blindness. The same Christ who faiade the dumb speak will put on every tongue a hosanna. The same Christ who awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus will yet rally all the pious dead in glorious resurrection. “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” and that “to him shall the gathering of the people be.” Ah, my friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to lift this miserable wreck of a sunken world, it will not take him long to lift it.

I have thought that this particular age in which we live may be given up to discoveries and inventions by which through quick and instantaneous communication all cities and all communities and all lands will be brought together, and then in another period perhaps these inventions which have been used for worldly purposes will be brought out for gospel invitation, and some great prophet of the Lord will come and snatch the mysterious, sublime and miraculous telephone from rite hand of commerce, and, all lands and kingdoms, connected by a wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord may, through telephonic communication, in an instant announce to *t.he nations pardon and sympathy and life through Jesus Christ, and then, putting the wondrous tube to the ear of the Lord’s prophet, the response shall come back, “I believe in God, the Father ■Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son.” You and I may not live to see the day. I think those of us wlho are over 40 years of age can scarcely expect to see the day. I expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the hammocks of the old gospel ship as it goes sailing on. But Christ will wake us up in time to see the achievement. We who have sweated in the hot harvest fields will be at the door of the garner when the sheaves come in. That work for which in this world wo toiled and wept and struggled and wore ourselves out shall not come to consummation and we be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to come out and shake hands with the victors. The Great Victory. We who fought in the earlier battles will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened their feet in the last Armageddon. Ah, yea, those who could only give a cupful of cold water in the name of a disciple, those who could only scrape a handful of lint for a wounded soldier, those who could only administer to old age in its decrepitude, those who could only coax a -poor waif of the street to go back home to her God, those who could only lift a little child in the arms of Christ, will have as much right to take part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as a Chrysostom. It will be your victory and mine, as well as Christ’s. He the conqueror, we shouting in his train. Oh, what a glorious time it would be on earth if Christ would break through the heavens, and right here where he has suffered and died have this prophecy fulfilled —“Unto him shall the gathering of the ■ people be.” But failing in that, I bargain to meet you at the ponderous gate of heav<en on the day when our Lord comes back. Garlands of all nations on his brow—of the bronzed nations of the south and the pallid nations 6f the north—Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and the other continents that may arise meantime from the sea to take the places of their sunken predecessors—arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, arch of Triumph in the Champs Elysees, all too poor to welcome this king of kings and lord of lords and conqueror of conquerors in his august arrival. Turn out all heaven to meet him. Hang all along the route the flags of earthly dominion, whether decorated with •crescent, or star, or eagle, or lio«, or coronet. Hang out heaven’s brightest banker, with its one star of Bethlehem and blood striped of the cross. I hear the procession now. Hark! The tramp of the feet, the rumbling of the wheels, the clattering of the hoofs and the shout of the riders! Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. Put up in heaven’s library, right beside the completed volume of the world’s ruin, the completed volume of Shiloh’s triumph. The old promise struggling through the ages fulfilled at last, “Unto him shall the gath. ering of the people be.** While everlasting ages roll Eternal love shall feast their soul And scenes of bliss forever new Rise in succession to their view.

She Remembered the Cure.

Mr. N. B. Vesey, living in Durant, Miss., has an old black-and-tan terrier, named Tricksey, of which the following singular Incidents are related: It happened that early In her puppy dog state Tricksy suffered froin a serious attack of the mange which baffled for a long time all efforts for Its relief. At last a young negro boy on the place said that he could cure Tricksy by clipping off the tips of the dog’s ears and tail, which resulted efficaciously. It would appear that the dog never forgot the remedy which proved such a boon in her case, for since then every time she gives birth to a litter of pups almost her first attention to the young offspring is to bite off the tips of each one’s ears and tall. Not one of them was ever known to suffer from the mange.—Philadelphia Timea

THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIANA.

JAMES 11. JORDAN. L. J. HACKNEY.

DEATH FREES A SECRET.

The Cherished Ambition of William H. English of Indiana. The death of William H. Euglish releases to the public a surprising vanity ho had oecrctly cherished with a zeal not exceeded, possibly, by that behiuif his nmIbition for presidential honors. Y'ears prior to his deuth he imparted by diredt inference to a friend in Chicago that he “hoped a statue of the other end of the .11 aueoek and English presidential ticket would be allowed one of the four great fame points” set apart for statues of most illustrious American statesmen around the $300,000 soldiers’ and sailors' monument that Indiana dedicated at Indianapolis before the World’s Fuir. Death alone was to grant release to this secret, and even then It was to be mentioned guardedly. if at all. As early as 1884 he quietly let the remarkable contract for making

two bronze statues of himself, of the heroic height of eight feet and four ipches, at a cost of SI,IMX) each, with u specification permitting him others a-t the same price. It was the idea of Mr. English to present one of the two statues to the town of English, lud., only when, however, it had succeeded in getting tho honor of county soatship away from a certain rival town. A hot and prolonged fight resulted from the village of Ei.glish trying to win the heroic trophy offered by its godfather. The matter went from court to court until now It is lodged before the Supreme bench and the man who offered the disturbing prize is dead. The statue remains uncalled for, while the second one has just been finished. As for the four “great fame points,” one is now occupied by a magnificent representation of George Rogers Clark, of continental army fame, and after whom Clark street in Chieugo was named. For another, Chicago foundries are now casting a figure of Gen. William Henry Harrison. The occupants o-f the remaining two places of hppor <ire, well-informed report says, fully decided upon. However, the death of Mr. English just at this time may effect the realization pf his aspiring dream. In any event, one of the statues probably will go to adorn the English Hotel property at Indianapolis, and now that his death has occurred, the other statue will, it is thought probable, go to the family 'burial lot, while a third will be ordered by the family for the town of English should it win in the county seat litigation.

IN HONOR OF INDIANA.

The Bronze Tablets for Chickainauga Monuments Are Inspected. Chisf Ordnance • Inspector Thompson, U. S. A., representing the War Depart-

ARTILLERY TABLET.

ment at Chicago, inspected the memorial bronze tablets to be used in connection With bronze seals of the State of Indiana on the stone monuments marking the .positions of the Indiana troops in the battle of Chickamuuga, erected in Chickamauga National Military Park by the State of Indiana. The troops of Indiana and Illinois form'd a large proportion of the total number

INFANTRY TABLET.

engaged in that bloodiest of all modern battles, and these monuments are a tribute to the gallant mea who made .

JAMES M’CABE.

ground holy by dying there. No single struggle on any battlefield of the wart ttor on any battlefield of modern times, surpasses 4 in all there is of patriotic devotion and self-sacrifice. , There are thirty-nine of theso memorial tnblets, one for euch regitnout of infantry, mounted infantry, cavalry and buttery that took part In the engagement, together with a tablet bearing the seal of the State.

CAVALRY TABLET.

Each tablet bears in relief a representation of the arm of service commemorated by the tablet, and in raised letters a brief description of the movements of the regiment iu the battle, and the losses in killed, wounded and missing. The tablets are placed upon Ac atone monuments, erected on the spots where each particular regiment was engaged during the fight.

CANAL FOR INDIANA.

Congress Asked to Appropriate Money for Its Survey. The Legislature of Indiana by a memorial has asked Congress for au appropriation to enable the Secretary of War to pay the expenses of a commission to make a survey for'a ship canal from the south shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash river near Logansport, which is the nearest point and about seventy miles distant in nn air line. Lewis Cass ordered a survey when he was Secretary of War under President .laekson, and In 18111 Mr. Stansberry, a United States, euginepr, made a report, which still stands as evidence of its feasibility. It is claimed .that this canal would shorten the waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico nearly 400 miles in comparison with that of the great Illinois canal, and that it is a work of such importance and magnitude that it ought to be undertaken by Congress. Mr. Stansberry, in 1831, estimated the distunee to be 157 miles, the number of locks thirty-seven, and the coat. $3,041,800. He followed the valley of the St. Joseph to the valley of tho Tippecanoe, and thence to its junction with the Wabash river. Another route starting' from Michigan City by way of Trail creek to the Tippecanoe valley was found to be 118 twiles in length nnd forty-four locks necessary and the estimated cost was $3,44(1,470. A third route was from Michigan City by the Little Calumet, and -then down Crooked creek to the Kankakee. A fourth was by Wolf lake, from the Grand Calumet river, and another, 148 miles long, was from St. Joseph into the valley of the Kankakee and thence by way of Monon creek and Tippecanoe river. The

MAP OF NORTH WESTERN INDIANA.

post of This was estimated to be $3,045,*Ol. , ,

Wild Hogs in Arizona.

The wildest of wild hogs live both above aaid below the Yuma, on the Colorado River. When the lute Thomas Blythe was trying to settle a colony at Lerdo, forty-five miles below Yuma, on the Colorado, he sent down a largo number of very fine full-blooded Berk- 1 shire and Poland-China pigs and turned them loose on the banks of the river near Lerdo, where they lived on roots, grass, weeds, tub's and mesquite beans, bred and multiplied, kept fat and filled the low and tule lands with a large number of fine porkers. Never seeing a human being, except now and then a lone Indian, ffiey soon became wild, and wilder still, and scattered until the wood and lowlands were full of them. Notwithstanding that the coyotes slaughtered the little ones In great numbers, they have Increased, until it is estimated that at the present time there are more than 10,000 of them roaming up and' down the Colorado and Hardle Rivers, from their mouths up as high as the tide runs, or from sixty-five to seventy miles from the gulf. Their range gives them the finest of feed—wild sweet potatoes, tules, stay fish, clams, dead turtles and seaweed along the river bank at lowtide. They are unmolested except now and then by a hunter who finds his way down the river.—Montana Marnier. ;

In Stepniak’s last book he stated that Russia stands third among nations in the number of books published, surpass.ing Great Britain. , As but little fiction Is printed, the enormous output ,#£ serious literature Is the more remarkable. In the human subject the brain lathe 12$t;h part of-the whole bedy’s entire ‘weight. In the horse it is not more than 1-400tli part.

THOMAS E. nOWAIID. L. J. MONKS. ,|

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Big Real Katotepeal in Lake CountyIndtacretiaia Caasoajohn Winslow* LotoF Trouble — Oald Find on a Farm Jicur Anderson. Realty Sella for $2,000,000. A S2.OOO,(XX> deal iu I<ake County real estate went on reewrd Friday, The la ml purchased consist* of .over 2,000 acres in the sand-knob portion of Calumet township. It adjoin* the old stock yards tract and horders on the shore of Lake Michigan. The tract has been owned by George T. Cline, an eccentric bachelor who make* his home iu Chicago. He parted with his title to Theodore H. Sehintx, an attorney of Chicago, for $2,000,000. Ileal astute men say this deal (mints to another big boom in Glut part of Luke County. Three deeds were recorded—the first for $540,060, the second for $200,000 and the third for $1,21X1,000. The land has no improvements whatever. He Tries to Kiaa Hia Tenant. Mrs. Nettie Goodull, of Marion, was awarded $l5O damages against Jonathan Winslow for false prosecution. The ease has been in the Circuit Courts of several comities for some time. Mrs. Goodull is a young married woman, while Winslow Is nearly 80 years old. Two years ago the Goodatls were tenants of Winslow. One day he came to collect the rent and attempted to kiss Mrs. Goodull. She threatened to sue him, but a compromise was effected by Winslow paying $250. Shortly 'afterward Mrs. Goodull brought suit against Winslow for assault and battery. He was acquitted and retaliated by causing her arrest fortolltokniull. After a time the case was dismissed. Then Mrs. Goodull brought the false prosecution suit. It was tried plus', but the jury disagreed. The’ eotfts Will'amount to about sl.stX». Winslow was formerly a quuker. lie will appeal the ease. Indiana Farm Yield* Cold. Hebert Spaulding, an old California gold miner, now owner of n large farm north of Audersou, found S7O in gold ore protruding from a bluff on his farm Tim samples indicate it will run S7O or $75 to the ton. It was questioned whether ths gold was really found where he said it was, and people Hocked to the place to find that what he said was true. Several old miners were among those who visited tile find, and say that the prospects are splendit). An Anderson capitalist who has had mining experience made an offer of SSOO an acre for the twenty surrounding acres, but the offer was refused. Spaulding has the means and will develop it himself. He nulled all gales on his place und placed trespass signs everywhere.

All Over the State. Three fires hi twelve hours beat the record for Union City, Losses all small. Alvin Hailc.v ivns arrested at Ligoiilcr. He is wanted at Columbus, ()., where he is charged with forgery. It is also said he is wanted for bigamy at Curdington, <>., Where he has a wife and child living. The State Board of Finance decided to pay off $300,000 of State bonds due March 2, and $100,IXX) of the $700,000 due in 180!) and payable ut the option of the State. This leaves the total bonded debt of the State $0,0.3(1,00ft. Tho furniture firm of Coney, Wuller & Deprese, of Shelbyville, made tin asiigfi-j meat for the benefit of creditors. Their plant, which manufactured bedroom suites, bedsteads, stands, etc.', was one of the oldest in the West and was incorporated for SIOO,OOO. Charles G. Scannell was found dead ut Jeffersonville with a bullet in his brain. To all appearances the man lmd been murdered for his money and laid where ho was found, it having been learned he had $l7O in money, nnd when searched only 15 cents -was found. <lti ScauneliVtta't was found a discharge -front the Seventeenth United States infantry dated Feb. (i, 1800. On Feb. 10 he was paid In Chicago for services. He was representing u Milwaukee brewery film uml was engaged to be married to Miss May HazzartT,' of Louisville.

Since the news hns been spread broadcast cont'erning the big $4,000,000 fortune that Sqnire Van Winkle, of Grown Point, recently foil heir to, he lias been pestered by no fewer than 100 letters from Van Winkles throughout the United States,' writing for his biography, and also of oil his ancestors. In nine cases out of ton they are sure they ai)M, entitled to a share of it, and are going to place tlje matter in attorneys’ hands. Every mail brings tunny letters of inquiry. If this continues much longer Mr. Van Winkle will he forced to employ a stenographer to do his letter writing. In most every case the writer believes he.is the only Van Winkle, excepting Judge V*u Winkle, in existence, All thut arc now liviug -expected an-estate for half a century buck. The Cold wave was welcome over n large arCa of the West, which was literally mudfround for weeks. In most of the country -towns the work done by a pair of horses in hauling an empty buggy two or three miles has been more than an averugo day’s work on good roads in the summer. Many of the country roads huvo been in such a horrible condition as to prevent even the passuge of a pair of horses drawing a buggy with a single occupant. Such an experience ought to be sufficient to induce agitafiqn for road improvement by those who hitherto have held aloof because of the prospective cost of making reasonably good roadbeds. It (j* easy enough for some farmers to -think it dot's not cost them anything to drive through heavy mild during the soft weather usual in the early springtime, but when it stops the marketing of produce in the season which normally gives them little else to do it,is tt more serious matter. Now is a good time for the advocates of country road Improvement to renew their ugitation. Alfred E. Gibson, a section hand, has sued the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company for $lO,000 damages for injuries sustained in a head-end collision on the Pan-Handle, near Marlon, Jan. 10. At Laiwrte, J. A. Dennott was arrested for a peculiar crime. He deliberately threw n beer bottle through the large plate glass window of a leading store, smashing it to atoms. He was not intoxicated, is well dressed, and no inofive can be assigned for the deed. It developed that Dennott has a mania for breaking windows. Joseph Abbott, au old soldier of Staunton, returned iffomi..» visit to Pennsylvania ten days ago, and he told his friends that he would be dead in ten days. He was.apparently in good health; nevertheless, he : (lied on the tenth, day es heart disease. The deceased was 55 years old. The toils are said to be tightening around C. H. Howe, alias Howard, alias Wilmoth, alias Jackson, under arrest at Terre Haute as an alleged bigamist, and he Is being held pending further developments. It is asserted that under the name of Wilmoth he married Miss Ora Wilkens, of Seneca, Kan., and tiiat under the name of Howard he married Mrs. Belle Bnell, a young , widow of Effingham, 111.

FACING FREE SILVER.

THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, JUNE 24, TO BE A TEST. EfftVrt* in Committee to Postpone Date Meet Failure-Matthews Expected top Declare* fqr tho White Metal— Voorhces and Tnrple Urge It. ’ - Aht’d-Con4-entfon Talk, j, Indiana Bygij ootj-wpcndeiwe., (J<r The Democratic State Central Committee Thursday determined to hold the State nominating convention June 24. Cbairniau Holt was instructed to issue the for The basis of representation 1n the convenHhiiVrfif fiSeil at one delegate for every 150 vote* cast for Matthews in 1802, or fractional part of 150 over seventy-five. Chairman Clark, of the Indiana Silver League, preceded the members of the committee to the city and worked earnestly against a postponement, saying the fris' silver wing of the party would call a State convention if the holding of the regular convention was postponed till after the national Democratic convention, as that elemeut was determined to give expression to its views iu advance of the mealing of the national body. There are a number of gentlemen on the State committee who are iu favor of the gold standard, but they voted aguiiist iHistponing on tin' ground that it would be cowardly to change the date, ami if the free silver sentiment had to be met and a contest arisedt was better for the party that the question be disposes! of before the national convention meet*. When a vote was taken on the matter of postponement the unaninious voice of the committee was in favor of adhering to the dHte originally fixed by the committee. A resolution was adopted indoraing the action of Gov. Matthews in refusing to call a special tu*ssion of the Legislature and insisting that lie adhere to bis pur|M>So.

Matthews’ Expected Utterance. There have been intimations from the friends of Gov. Matthews that he will shortly give public utterance to hia views on the currency question, und it is not denied that he will express himself unequivocally iu favor of free silver. It is known that lie has hail a number of consultations with Senator* Voonhees and Turple during their visits to Indianapolis, and thut he has also communicated with them by letter und bus freely indorsed their supiHirt In tho Senate of the free coinage measure. There lias never been a time since liis friends begun to work for him for the presidential nomination Unit he bus felt that he could go'before the convention without his imsitiou being fully understood, nnd his friends now say that the declaration will be made within a few weeks at furthest.und certainly before tho national convention meets.' They do'not? deny that he is in favor of free coinugJT but just how far in' will go in his proposed utterance is not certainly known, but these who are suiqHised to lie in his confidence say that he will not mince his words when he feels called upon to speak. It lias lii'cii proposed In some quarters tlwit lie In* askisl to preside over the State convention and that iu his speech to that body lie outline his sentiments. The free silver men feel that this would insure a free silver platform for die Indiana Democracy, und they have urged this goursc.

Senators Vooriiees and Tui'iiie, both of whom want their records indorsed by the State convention, arc understood to favor this plan, but. others of the Governor's friend* think It would he too lute then to utilise Matthews' utterances iu the South, and West, and they ure anxious that he Should speak before the convention meet*. Those who urge this course say that tho free silver sentiment is dominant iu the South and West, where Democratic votes must come front to elect tile next President, und that the Governor has the opportunity to kNltjil before the country as an holiest and courageous politician nnd at the sumo time enhance his chances for the nomination by meeting the subject squarely and 1 letting ttbo country know on what platform he would be willing to accept tho Democratic nomination. ' The effect of auch a declaration upon the single standard men iM uncertain. Many ure his frieud* and are working earnestly iu his behalf. They realiee that the party might win in this State on such an. issue and they would not jeopardize State interests by getting up a factional fight against the Governor simply on account of differences regarding national finances. These friends, however, do not think that he will strengthen .himself by such a declaration, though they 'admit that the uncertainty regarding his position militates against his nomination quite as much as if he gave utterance to his views.

A friend of the Governor said that there is another and a potent reason why he felt called upon to make public his views. He said the Governor would net accept even a naitknial nomination on n platform that pledged the party to the single standard theory and he believed thut he ought to make his position known und not have his friends place hhn before the convention in any manner that could he misconstrued. He also felt that it was due to Senators Voortiees and Turpie, whose course in the Senate he has commended, that (t should be known from his public utterances that ho indorses them fully.

Minor State Matters. The tobacco factory in Rockport owned by A. C. Tompkins & Co. burned. The building contained 700,000 pounds of tobacco. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $30,000. The new M. E. Church at Williamsport, built entirely of stone, has been dedicated. The edifice is said to be the first stone structure built by the Northwest Indiana conference. At Greensburg, Mrs. Maggie Kuhn, charged with murdering her husband and tried with a hung jury a year ago, was dismissed bemuse the case had not been tried for three terms of court since the first trial. A South 'Bend paper says information was received from what -was considered an authentic source that Eugene V. Defoe, president of the American Railway Union, will accept the Populist nomination for Governor of Indiana on a platform favoring free coinage of silver and in opposition to corporations. At Terre Haute Mr. Debs, asked as to his alleged gubernatorial aspirations, said that under no circumstances -would he accept a nomination for a political ofliee. He said laboring men would rightly suspect anyone who had been a spokesman for them if he ran for office. Deputy County Prosecutor Charles S. Xazworthy, 25. committed suicide at Indianapolis by shooting himself. He hud been given until noon Tuesday to file his report in court as receive? for the American Lounge Company, He was an embezzler for about SI,OW, "and wheh he left court went dh-d&tly to his rtMin it the residence of Dr. T. M. Rowe and took his life.' Naiworthy was born in 'Sullivan, 111., gnwhilted at De Pauw University, and afterwards at the Chicago Law •School. Hie came from Chicago in. 1893. He left a note to notify Kitty Eggier, ot Sullivan, 111., of his death.