Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1893 — Page 12

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1. 1893 TAVELVE PAGES,

THE ' COMING ELECTIONS.

THE IlKV. im. TAI.MAGirS VIEWS OX A TIMELY Sl'IIJECT. The Politics nt a Popular Fnator ( hnrat-trr a a Test of Fitaens for O tlW? A Plea fur the Sacretlneaa of the Ten Commandments. BROOKLYN. Oc t. 29. The text of the Rev. Dr. Tal mage's ante-election sermon was Exodus xx, 13: "And all the people s aw the thunderir.gs and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking." lie said: "On the eve of elections in the sixty counties of this state, and in all the counties of most of the United States, while there are many hundreds of nominees to office, it i.s appropriate and important that I preach this before election sermon. "My text informs you that the lightnings and earthquakes united their forces to wreck a. mountain of Arabia Petraea in olden time, and travelers today finl heaps of porphyry and greenstone rock?, bowlder against bo-.vlder, the remains of the first law library, written, not on parchment or papyrus, but on shattered slabs of granite. The cornerstones of all morality, of dll wise law, of all righteous jurisprudence, of all good government are the two tablets of stone on which were written the tea commandments. "All Roman law, all French law, all English law, all American law that is worth anything, all common law, civil law, criminal law, martial law, law of nations were rocked in the cradle of the- twentieth chapter of Exodus. And It would be well in thest times of great political agitation If the newspapers would print the decalogue some day in place of the able editorial. The fact i.s that some people suppose that the law has parsed out of existence, and some are not aware of some of the passages of that law, and others say this or that is of the more importance, when no one ha$ any right to make such an assertion. These laws are the pillars of society, and if you remove one pillar you damage the whole structure. I luve noticed that men are particularly vehement against tins to which they are not particulaily tempted and find no special wrath against sins in which they themselves indulge. They take out one gun frm this battery of ten guns, and load that, and unlimber that, and fire that. They say, "This is an Armstrong gun, and this is a Krupp gun, and this is a Nordenfeldt five-barreled gun, and this Is a Gitling ten-barreled gun." But I have to tell thern that they are all of the same caliber, and that they shoot from eternity to eternity. Many questions are before the people in the coming elections all over this land, but I shall try to show you that the most important thing to be settled about all these candidates is their peronal, moral character. The decalogue forbids idolatry, image making, profanity, maltreatment of parents. Sabbath deaecration, murder, theft, incontinence, lying and covetous ess. That i.s the decalogue by which you and I will have to be tried, and by the same decalogue you and I must try candidates for office. Splitting: the Difference. Of course we shall not find anything like perfection. If we do not vote until we find an immaculate nominee, we will never vote at all. We have so many faults of our own we ought not to be censorious or maledictory or hypercritical In regard to the faults of others. The Christly rule is as appropriate for November as any other month of the year. "Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again." Most, certainly are we not to take the statement of redhot partisanship as the real character of any man. From nearly ail the great cities of this land I receive daily or weekly newspapers, sent to me regularly and in compliment, so I see both sides I see all sides and it Is most entertaining and my regular amusement to read the opposite statements. The one statement says the man is an ar.gel and the other says he is a devil; and I split the difference and I find him half way between. There has never b:en an honest or respectable man running for the United States presidency, or for a judgeship, or for the mayoralty, or for the shrievalty since the foundation of the American government. If we may believe the old files of newspapers in the museums. What a mercy it i3 that they were not all hung before they were inaugurated! If a man believe one-half of what he sees In the newspapers in these times, his career will be very short outside of Eloomingdale Insane asylum. I was absent two cr three years ago during one week of a political canvass, and I was dependent entirely upon what I . read in regard to what had occurred In these cities, and I read there was a procession in New York of C.000 patriots, and a minute after I read in another sheet that there were 17,000, and then I read In regard to another rroeession that there were 10,000, and then I read in another paper that there were 60,000. A campaign orator in the rink or the Academy of Music received a very cold reception a very chilling reception said one statement. The other statement said the audience rose at him. So great was the enthusiasm that for a long while the orator could not be heard, and it was only after lifting his hand that the vociferation began to subside! One statement will twist an interview one way, and another statement will twist an interview another way. You must admit it Is a very difficult thing In tims like these to get a very accurate estimate of a. man's character, and I charge you, as your religious teacher. I charge you to caution and to mercifulness rnd to prayer. I warn you also against the mistake which many are making and always do make of applying a different standard of character for those In prominent position from the standard they apply for ordinary persons. However much a man may have or however high the position he gets, he has no especial liberty given him In the interpretation of the ten commandments. A great sinner Is no more to be excused than a small sinner. Do not charge illustrious defection to eccentricity or chop off the ten commandments to suit special cases. The right Is everlastingly" right and the wrong 13 everlastingly wrong. If any man nominated for any office in this city or state differs from the decalogue do not fix up the decalogue, but fix him up. The law must stand whatever else must fall. Commandment UreaUlnn. I call your attention also to the fact that you are all aware of that the breaking of any one commandment makes it the more easy to break all of them and the philosophy is plain. Any kind of sin weakens the conscience, and If the conscience is weakened that opens the door for all kinds of transgression. If, for Instance, a man go Into this political campaign wielding scurrility as his chief weapon and he believes everything bad about a man and believes nothing good, how long before that man himself will get over the moral depression. Neither in time nor eternity. If I utter a falsehood in regird to a man I may damage him, but I get for myself tenfold more damage. That Is a gun that kicks. If, for instance, a man be profane, under provocation he will commit any crime. I say under provocation. For, Jf a man will maltreat the

Lord Almighty would he not maltreat his fellow man? If a man be guilty of malfeasance in office he will under provocation commit any sin. lie who will steal will lie and he who will lie will steal. If, for instance, a man be impure, it opens the door for all other iniquity, for in that one iniquity he commits theft of the worst kind, and covetousness of the worst kind, and falsehood pretending to be decent when he is not and maJtreats his parents by disgracing their name, if they were good. lie careful, therefore, how you charge that sin against any man either in high place or low place, either in office or out of office, because when you make that charge against a man you charge him with all villainies, with all disgusting proiensitks, with all rottenness. A libertine is a beast, lower than the vermin that crawl over a summer carcasslower than the swine, for the swine has no intelligence to fin against. Be careful, then, how you charge that against any man. You must be so certain that a mathematical demonstration is doubtful as compared with it. And then, when you investigate a man on such subjects, you must go to the whole lnpth of investigation and find out whether or not he has repented. He may hüve been on his knees before God and implored the divine forgiveness, and he may have implored the forgiveness of S'.Kriety and the forgiveness of the , world. Although if a man commit that sin at thirty or thirty-five years of age, there is not one case mi of a thousand where he ever repents. You must in our investigation see if it is possible that the one caoe investigated may not have lieen the exception. But do not chop off the seventh commandment to suit the case. Do not chancre Fairbnnk's scale to suit what you are weighing with it. IK not cut off a yardstick to Fult the dry goods you are measuring. Eet the law stand and never tamper with it. Above all, I charge you do not join in the cry that I have heard for fifteen, twenty years I have heard it. If you make that charge, you are a foul mouthed scandaler of the human race. You are a leper. Make room for th.it leper! When a man, by pen or type cr tongue, utters such a slander tin the human race th;U there is no such thing as purity, I know right away th.it that man himlf is a walking lazaretto, a reeking ulcer, and is fit for no society better than that of devils damned. We may enlarge our charities in such a case, but in no su"h case let us shave off the ten commandments. Let them stand as the everlasting defense of society and of the church of God. The committing of one sin opens the d'ior for the commission of other sins. You see it every duy. Those embezzlers, thos bank cashiers absconding as soon as they are brought to justie-e, develop the fact that they were in all kinds of sin. Xo exception to the rule. They all kept bad company, they nearly all gambled, they all went to places wher they ought not. Why? The commission of the one sin opened the gate for all the other sins. Sin go in flocks, in droves and in herds. You open the door for one sin. that invites in all the miserable segregation. The Letter of the Decalogue. Some of the campaign orators this autumn some of them bombarding the suffering candidates all the week, will think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All week hurling the eighth commnadment at one candidate, the seventh commandment at another candidate and the ninth commandment at still another, what are they doing with the fourth commandment, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy?" Breaking it. Is not the fourth commandment as important as the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth? Some of these political campaign orators, as I have seen them reported in other years, and as I have heard it in regard to them, bombarding the suffering candidates all the week, yet tossing the name of God from their lips recklessly, guilty of profanity what are they doing with the third commandment? Is not the third commandment, which says, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain" is not the third commandment as important as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find in ail departments men are hurling their Indignation against sins perhaps to which they are not especially tempted hurling it against inqulty toward which they are not particularly drawn. I have this book for my authority when I say that the man who swears or the man who breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God as those candidates who break other commandments. What right have you and I to select which commandment we will keep and which we will break? Better not try to measure the thunderbolts of the Almighty, saying this has less blaze, his has less momentum. Better not handle the guns, beter not experiment mich with the divine ammunition. Cicero said he saw the "Iliad" written on a nutshell, and you ami I have see . the Lord's prayer written on a five-cent piece, but the whole tendency of these times is to write th ten commandments so small nobody can see them. I protest this day against the attempt to revise the decalogue which was given on Mount Sinai amid the blast of trumpets and the cracking of the rocks, and the paroxysm of the mountain of Arabia Petraea. I bring up the candidates for ward and township and city and state office. I bring them up, and I try them by this decalogue. Of course they are Imperfect. We are all imperfect. We say things we ought not to say; we do things we ought not to do. We have all been wrong; we have all done wrong. But I shall find out one of the vandidates who comes, in my estimation, nearest to obedience of the ten commandments, and I will vote for him, and you will vote for him unless you love God less than your party then you will not. Herodotus said that Nitocris, the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with her beautiful village of Ardericca that she had the river above Babylon changed so it wound this way and wound that, and curved this way and curved that, and though you sailed on it for three days every day you would be in sight of that exquisite village. Now, I do not care which way you sail in morals or which way you sail in life if you only sail in sight of this beautiful group of divine commandments. Although they may sometimes seem to be a little angular, I do not care which way you sail, if you sail in sight of them you will never run aground, and you will never be shipwrecked. Society needs toning up on all these subjects. I tell you there is nothing worse to fight than the ten regiments, with bayonets and sabers of fire, marching down the side of Mt. Sinai. They always gain the victory', and those who fight against them go under. There are thousands and tens of thousands of men being slain by the decalogue. What is the matter with that young man of whom I read dying In his dissipations? In his dying delirium he said: "Now fetch on the dice. It Is mine! No, no! It is gone, all is gone! Bring on more wine! Oh, how they rattle their chains! Fiends, fiend. fiends! I say you cheat! The cardJare marked! Oh, death! oh, death! oh. death! Fiends! Iiend3! fiends" And he gasped his last and was gone. The ten commandments slew him. Charneter of Candidates. Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nineteenth century revise the ten commandments, but let them in society and at the polls put to the front those who come the nearest to this God-lifted standard. On the first Tuesday morning of November read the twentieth chapter of Exodus at family prayers. The moral or Immoral character of the officers elected will add 75 per cent, unto or subtract 7j per cent, from the public morals. You and I cannot afford to have bad officials. The young men of this country cannot afford to have bad officials. The commercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricultural, the manufacturing, the religious interests of this country cannot afford to have bad officials and if you.

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Price, Jiie. on looking over the whole field, cannot find men who in your estimation come within reasonable distance of obedience of the decalogne stay at home and do not vote at all. I suppose when in the city of Sodom there were four candidates put up for office and Lot did not believe in any of them, he did not register. I suppose if there came a crisis in the politics of Babylon, where Daniel did not believe in any of the candidates, he stayed at home on leection day, praying with his face toward Jerusalem. But we have no such crisis. We have no such exigency, thank (Jod. But I hive to say to you today that" the moral character of rulers always affects the ruled and I appeal to history. Wicked King Manassen depressed the moral tone of all the nation of Judah and threw them into idolatry. Good King Josiah lofted up the whole nation by his excellent example. Why Is it that today England Is higher up in morals than at any point in her national history? It is because she has the best ruler In all En tore all the attempts to scandalize her name a failure. The political power of Talleyrand brooded all the political tricksters of the last ninety years. The dishonest vice-presidency of Aaron Burr blasted this nation until important letters were written in cipher, because the people could not trust the United States mail. And let the court circles of Louis XV and Henry VIII march out, followed by the debauched nations. The higher up you put a bad man the worse is his power for evil. The great fabulist says that the pigeons were in fright at a kite flying in the air, and so these pigeons hovered near the dovecote, but one day the kite said: "Why are you so afraid? Why do you pass your iife in terror? Make me king, and I'll destroy all your eni.nles." So the pigeons made the kite kin:, and as soon as he got the throne his repular diet was a pigeon a day. And while one of his victims was waiting for its turn to come it said: "Served us right!" The malaria of swamps rises from the plain to the hight, but moral malaria descends from the mountain to the plain. Ee careful therefore how you elevate Into any style of authority men who are in any wise antagonistic to the ten commandments. As near as I can tell the most important thing now to be done is to have about forty million copies of the Sinaitic decalogue printed and scattered throughout the land. It was a terrible waste when the Alexandrian library was destroyed, and the books were taken to heat 4.000 baths for the citizens of Alexandria. It was very expensive heat. But without any harm to the decalogue you cculd with it heat 100,000 baths of moral purification for the American people. I say we want a tonic a mighty tonic, a corrective, an all powerful corrective and Moses in the text, with steady hand, notwithstanding the jarring mountains, and the full orchestra of the tempest, and the blazing of the air, pours out the ten drops no more, no less which our people need to take for their moral convalescence. The Closing Injunctions. Eut I shall not leave you under the discouragement of the ten commandments, because we have all offended. There is another mountain in sight, and while one mountain thunders the other answers in thunder, and while Mount Sinai, with lightning, writes doom, the other mountain, with lightning, writes mercy. The only way you will ever spike the guns of the decalogue is by the spikes of the cross. The only rock that will ever stop the Sinaitlc upheavals Is the Kock of Ages. Mount Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai. The English survey expedition, I know, say that one Sinaitic peak is 7.000 feet high, and another 8.000, and another 9,000 feet high, and travelers tell us that Mount Calvary is only a bluff outside of the wall of Jerusalem, but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops and overshadows all the mountains of the hemispheres, and Mount Washington and Mount Blanc and the Himalayas are hillocks compared with it. You know that sometimes one fortress will silence another fortress. Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against the mountain of the law I put the mountain of the cross. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die," booms one until the earth jars under the cannonade. "Sav; them from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom," pleads the other, until earth and heaven and hell tremble under the reverbatlon. And Moses, who commands the one, surrenders to. Christ, who commands the other. Once by the law our hopes were slain, But now in Christ we live again. Aristotle Bays that Mount Etna erupted one day and poured torrents of scoria upon the villages at the base, but that the mountain divided Its flame and made a lane of safety for all those who came to rescue their aged parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides its fury for all those whom Christ has come to rescue from the red ruin on both sides. Standing as I do today, half way between the two mountains the mountain of the Exodus and the mountain of the nineteenth of John all my terror comes into supernatural calm, for the uproar of the one mountain subsides Into quiet and comes down into so deep a silence that I can hear the other mountain speakaye, I can hear it whisper, "The blood, the blood, the blood that cleanseth from all Ein." The survey expedition says that the Sinaitic mountains have wadys or watercourses Alleyat and Ajelah emptying into Felran. But those streams are not navigable. No boat put into those rocky streams could sail. But I have to tell you this day that the boat of gospel rescue comes right up amid the water courses of Sinaitic gloom and threat, ready to take us off from under the shadows into the calm sunlight of God's pardon and into the land of peace. Oh, if you could see that boat of gospel rescue coming this day you would feel as John Gilmore In his book, "The Storm Warriors," says that a ship's crew felt on the Kentish Knock sands, off the coast of England, when they were being beaten to pieces and they all felt they must die! They had given up all hope, and every moment washed off another plank from the wreck.vand they sald.'We must die; we must die!" But after they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through the breakers for them, and the man standing highest up on the wreck said: "Can It be? It is, it is, it Is, it is! Thank God! It Is a Ramsgate lifeboat! It Is, it is. It is. it Is!" Anil the old Jack Tar, describing that lifeboat to his comrades after he got ashore, said, "Oh, my 1 ids, what a beauty it did seem coming through the breakers that awful day!" May God, through the mercy of Jesus Christ, take us all off the miserable wreck of our sin into the beautiful lifeboat of the gospel! Do not purge or weaken the bowels, but act specially cn the liver and bile. A perfect liver corrector. Carter's Littl Liver Pills.

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COXXECTICIT HAS MAXT ROCKCTG STORES. Glnelnl Ae Rrmnsiil Roelcln Stonen at Fort Hill That W eigh Ton and Almost Move with the Touch. The Norwich (Onrt) correspondent of the New York Advertiser writes: There are a large number of "rocking stones," so-called, in New England, but about two years ago a city geologist published the statement that he kn-rw of less than half a dozen of the kind in the region noted. There are bowlders enough in the New England states, he explained, that are set up on small bases, and some of them are more or less delicately balanced, but of "genuine rocking stones. that be made to rock, it is safe to say that there are not more of then! than the number I have named." The scientific man's statement was published far and wide, and in three months was contradicted forty times, mainly by dwellers in rural towns in all parts of New England. Three rocking stones were reported in one town In Massachusetts, and one or more of them were mammoth monoliths. Eis"ht or ten were reported in New Hampshire and several in- Maine, while no end of rocking stones were located in Connecticut and Rhode Island, since, it Is well known, these states, which evidently caught the greatest part of the rocky debris of tie glacial era, are thickly bestrewn wit It bowlders of all sorts and shapes. In this county alone rural observers cited not less than a dozen or more Instances of perfect rocking stones. Recently an influntial Mystic citizen has declared that there are no less than five perfect rocking stones In the little seashore hamiet of Quimbaug, near Mystic, in the southern end of this county. "The quiet little village," he says, "can boast of more rocking stones than any other town of its size in the United States can do. Good authorities say that only two good specimens exist in England, one in Massachusetts and one at the Haley farm, at Noank, a quaint little old-fashioned hamlet on a knoll at the seashore, not far from Mystic. It Is evident, therefore, that the present ones are not well known. "But there is no doubt that they are as excellent examples of the glacial period as any that can be found anywherev They vary in size from a stone weighing about three tons, on the land of Miss Nancy J. Moredock. to one weighing forty-five tons, on the farm occupied by James Lord. Another stone is found on the lands of Ellas Davis and two on the farm of Ambrose Miner. "Perhaps the best specimen in the whole lot is the rocking stone on the land of Miss Moredock. It is about four feet long, two feet wide and three feet high, and It oscillates about five Inches. It can be rocked by the pressure of two fing?rs. It ia set on a sloping ledge and it looks as if it could be easily rolled off and down the hill, but the combined strength of half a dozen men could not stir it an Inch out of its plaice. The rock has been a great playhouse for children, and the oldest inhabitants can remember the spot as their earliest playground." All of these rocking stones are in the immediate neighborhood of "Fort Hill." where the once powerful and illustrious Pequot Indians made their last stand against the whites, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, a region that is thickly dotted with lonely, isolated, sentinel-like, tall bowlders. At Ft. Hill, near Mystic, overlooking the ocean, the Pequots, with all their braves, squaws and papooses, were gathered in their longest and strongest fort, when Capt. "Jack" Mason and his band of Puritan braves, coming from Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut river, stormed the fort, burned the red men's wigwams and massacred most of the warriors, with the women and children who were not burned in the wigwams. The descendants of Capt. John Mason's soldiers the people of Mystic and Noank a year ago dragged a great bowlder, with thirty yoke of oxen, from Its resting place in a lonely pasture, near the famous rocking stones, and cut and carved it in a handsome monolith, which they erected amid a great concourse of people in honor of the Pequot massacre, on the summit of Ft. Hill. This great bowlder, handsomely polished and bearing on one of its finished sides an appropriate inscription in commemoration of the mighty deed of arms, is now one of the most conspicuous objects along the sound shore as seen from the ocean. It weighed In the rough not less than twenty-eight or thirty tons. In an open mead, near the old Norwich town green, two miles north of this city, there is a similar monolith that was erected a great many years ago at the grave of Capt. Mason. Bowlders, some of which weigh thousands of tons, are altogether too plentiful in Connecticut and Rhode Island to have any commercial value, but not many months ago a wealthy Ohio gentleman Journeyed to the Quonochontaug (R. I.) bowlder plain on the shore of the ocean, purchased a gigantic bowlder there and shipped it to his home In the West. Its weight was over thirty tons. In transporting it from Its site on the plain six miles to the Niantlc railroad station, several teamsters with fifteen or twenty yoke of oxen, were busy for six days. It cost the Ohio man about $1,000 to get the big stone home with him. It is now the central figure In his spacious city lawn. The array of bowlders on Quonochontaug plain, which are mainly oval in The Change of Life. Women nearing this critica period require strength, health and cheerful spirits. The sole aim of this timt should be'to keep well.. The invaluable aid always ii Lydia E. Pinkhams VegeiabU Compound. The girl about to enter wo manhood can find the same assistance from the same source Mrs. V. W. Culner, Palatka Fla., writes : 'i was in ill health frorr. youi well bes change of life. I took compound and am now I recommend it as the remedy for all through the many changes which all women have to pass weaknesj from early life to the grave.' f All druirinsts acll It. Address in confidence. LYDIA fc. I'INKHAM MaO. ft - Co., Lv nn, Mass. ff "SC: Lydia E. Pinkhtm's LPg. U vor mis, Ü 5 cu U. y0' ffJ'i

shapa and sit up II te penguins, often in parallel rows, or llk'e companies of soldiers on parade, Is - one of the most curious phenomena in New England. Although they were deposited there by nature in a haphazard way, with no orderly alignment, yet s o symmetrical is their shape as a rule, .so startling their posture and withal so n umerous are they they are said to be quitf as singular and impressive, in respect to the appearance

. they give the desolate plain, especially at dusk, as the famed, stone rows of Stonehenge, England. RIX IXTÖ M.VrniMO.XY. The Yodsk Man I)ldn"t Want to, Bat There Was Xo Escape. A slim Tjuilt young m?ai in clothes of a belligerent cut walked timidly into the m-irriage license office yesterday. Hi? was followed closely by a- resolute looking young woman in hollc'ay attire. TÄe young man glance.i around suspiciously for an instant ami then reached for .the clerk's ear. His companion assumt! an air of unostenta tious preoccupation, turned her back a d gazed far away at a corner of a. ceiling, but she was careful to keep betweon her companion and the door. "Ssh," hissed the young fellow, bending far over the counter in his effort to prevent his companion overhearing anything. "Ssh. say. can't we duck out of siKht somewhere ? Ssh. don't shout!" The clerk shook his head. The stranger continued h.'s cautious whisper: "Say," he said, "ssh, I'm in a hole, see? It's agin me to hitch to that she devil, see? How can 1 jump the game, eh?" The clerk shook his head. "There are courts all about here," he suggested; "try 'em." The stranger bent closer. "Say," he continued, with an apprehensive glance at the tack of his companion, "she'll land me dead to rights if you don't give me a lift. She's swore to give me a divorce after we're hitched, but what good'll that do, eh?" he concluded mournfully. The clerk remained silent. "Say," went on the visitor tn pleading tones, "t'row her out, and I'll fix it with you. Run her in; do anything; anything goos." T.he clerk shook his head. "S.iy," suddenly exclaimed the woman, wheeling about resolutely, "what game er you puttin' up on me now? Scratch out that license lively. "This here man's been keeping company with me for two years, and he's got to do some lively marryin' now, an' don't you orget it. Scratch along lively! His name's Westmure, Monroe L. Westmure, aa' he lives at 2G0 Jessie-st.. an he's twenty-six years old. 'n' my name's Cora C-o-r-a, Cora Gale." Monroe started. "Bust me if I everknew that befor?." "You'll learn lots when you've married me," was the answer given with calm superiority. " 'N' sometimes they call him West, 'n sometimes they call him Tommy Wl.dte. Put 'em all in, if you want to, an' charge the bill to hi3 nibs here." The clerk made out his bill and "his nibs" paid it with a sigh. " 'N' now start us for the nearest Justice, an' we'll get nearer marriage 'n' this fellow's ben since he was born." They were started, and ten minutes later they emerged a happy, beaming brich? and a woeful, disconsolate groom. San Francisco Chronicle. Lont und Fonnd. One day last week Mr. Eben Leeman of Starks went to Skowhegan and drew his pension check, which amounted to about eight hundred and fifty dollars. He went to the bank and got it cashed, put It In his pocket and went home. It was late In the evening when he itached there, and then he discovered that he had lost the pocketbook, money and all. Early the next morning search was made, and $."0 reward was offered to the tinder. Mr. Leeman remembered of having the wallet this side of Mercer village and just beyond the place where he had forded the Sandy river. On the third day of the search it was decided that the pocketbook must have dropped out of his pocket into the river, so a large crew of men and boys btgan to search there, and about one hundred rods below the ford Mr. Leeman found his wallet in the middle of the river lodged on a rock. The bills were wet, but were all right. That evening Air. L. called his neighbors and friends together that they might rejoice with him fT ha had found that which was lost, and gave them a good treat. Farington (Mv) Chronical. Madness at the Full of the Moon. The late Dr. Charcot is credited with saying a short time before his death that, although semi-scientists for more than fifty years had ridiculed the idea that the full of the moon is a dangerous time for mad people, better informed men are coming back to the old-time notion, as the result of increased learning on the subject of earth tides, similar to the oscillation of sea tides. No headache with Tutt's Liver P31s. THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, ipecial arrangements to supply

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POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL SEWING MACHIME Hue the latest deeifm of bent woodwork, with skeleton drawer cases, made in both walnut and oak, highly finished and iht most durable made. The stand i ruid and strong, having brace from over each nd of treadle rod to table, ban a large balance wheel with belt replace!, a very easy motion of treadle. The head is free of plate tensions, the machine Is po set that without any change of upi-er or lower teueion yon can lew Irom No. 40 to No. 150 thread, and by a very alijrhtcbangn of disc tension on face plate, you can sew from the coarsest to the fineet thread. It baa a aelf-aettinK needle and loose pulley device on hand wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. It is adjustable In all its bearines and has less sprines than any other sewing machine on the market. It is the quickest to "thread, being self-threading, except the eye of needle. It la the easiest machine in cnacging length of stitch, and ia very quiet and easy running.

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I I Attachments In bracket are all inttrchan-able into hub on presser bar. Fix Bobbins, Seven Ne-dle, One Larire Screw Driver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Every Machine is fully warranted for five yean. Any part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting need es, bobbins and shuttles.