Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 April 1899 — Page 3

TALMAG E'S SERMON.

"A STOUT GRASP" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From Second Hook of Samuel, Chapter Hill, Verse 10. ma Follow: "And II U Hand Clave Unto the Swurl-' Uavl.l and the rhilUtliie. What a glorious thing to preach the Gospel! Seme suppose that because I have resigned a fixed pastorate I will cease to preach. No, No. 1 expect to preach more than I ever have. If the Lord will, four times as much, though in manifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to declare the truth through the ear to audiences, and to the eye through the printing press. And here we have a stirring theme put before us by the prophet. A great general of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Thilistines opened battle against him. and his troops retreated. The coward.-? fled. Eleazar and three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are stronger than a whole regiment with God against them. "Fall back!" shouted the commander of tie. Philistine army. The cry ran along the host: "Fall back!" Kleazar. having swept the field, throws himself on the ground to rest; but the musdes and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hilt of his sword that the hilt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the hand, and he could not drop this sword which he had se gallantly wielded. "His hand clave unto the sword." That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it. I propose to show you how Eleazar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eieazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to the conclusion that he Uok the swore' with a very tight grip. The cowards wb fled had no trouble in dropping their swords. As they fly over the roclis I hear their swords clanging in every direction. It is easy enough for them t drop their swords. Hut Hleazar's hand clave unto the sword. In this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gcspel weapons, a tighter grap of the two-edged swo?d of the truth. U makes me sick to see these Chrisiian people who hold only a part of the truth, and let the rest of the tnuh go. so that the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them. The only safe thing for us to do is to put our thumb on tlie Pook of Genesis and sweep our hand around the Pook until the New Testament comes into the palm, and keep rn sweeping our hand around he Pi ik until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an infidel a great deal better than I do one of these namby-pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. Iiy miracle. tied preserved this Liib'e just as it is, and it is a Damascus bli:d?. The severest .3st to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun-barrel like a ribbon, ar.d then when the sword is let loose it Hies -ack to its own shape. So the sword o God's truth has boen fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way, and that way. but it always comes back to Jts own shape. Think of it! A Pook written near nineteen centuries ago. and rcme of it thousands of years ago. and yet in our time the average sale of this Pook is more than twenty thousand copies every week, and more than a million copies a year. I say now that a Pook which is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth hold ins a tight grip of. Pishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will tome along and try to wrench out of your hand the entire life of the Ird Jesus Christ, and your associates in the oflice or the factory or the banking house will try to wrench -ut of your hand the entire Pible; but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel, and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it. You give up the Pible, you give up any part of it. and you give up pardon and peace and life and heaven. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have the world k.iov. that you are a friend of the Pible. This Pook is the friend of all that is good, and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an Incident of a very bad man who stood in a cell of a Western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. The convict standing there at the window cf the rell. this writer says, "looked out and declared. I am an infidel.' lie said that to all the men and women and children who happened to be gathered there, 'I am an infidel. " and the eloquent writer fays: "Every man and woman there believed him." And the writer goe3 on to say: "If he had stood there saying, 'I am a Christian, every man and woman would have said: 'He is a liar!" This Pible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it Is the friend of all that Is good. Oh, hold on it! Do not take part of it and throw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is immortal, and they say: "I guess it Is; I don't know. Perhaps it i.-. perhaps it Isn't." Is the Pible true? "Well, perhaps it is. and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps It may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not

be at all." They despise what they call the apostolic creed; but if their own rrcol were written out. it would read like this: "I believe in nothing the maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing r.-hich it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing, ami which ncthint; was dead and buried and descended into nothing, and arose from Eo:h!r.?. ai.d now silteth at the tight hand cf nothing, frc::i which it will come to judge nothing. I believe in the holy agncstic church and in the communion of nothingarians, and in the forgiveness of nothing, and the resurrection of nothing, and in the life that never shall be. Amen!" That is the creed of tens of thousands of people in this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. "I believe in God the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the holy Catholic church, and in the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen." Oh, when I see Iveazar taking such a stout grip of the sword in the battle against sin and for righteousness. I come to the conclusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth the sword of righteousness. As I look at Eleazar's hand I also notice his spirit of self-forgetfulness. He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict he was so anxious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go ever so deeply into the palm of his hand, it could not disturb him. "Hi? hand clave unto the sword." O. my brothers and sisters, let us go into the Christian conflict with the spirit of self-abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises u or denounces us? What do we care for misrepresentation, or abuse, or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us formet ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his band hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not if you get the victory? Oh. how many Christians there are who are all the time worrying about th? way the world treats them. They are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are so tempted, when Eleazar did not think whether lie had a hand, or an arm. or a foot. All I.? wanted was victory. We see how men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen men who, in order to achieve worldly -noi-ess. will forget all physical fatigue and all annoyance and al! obstacle. Just after the batte of Yorktown. in the American Revolution, a musician, wounded, was told he must have his limbs amputated, and they were about to fa.-ten him to the surgeon's table for it was long before the merciful discovery of anaesthetics. He said, "No, don't fasten me to that table; get me a violin." A violin was brought to him, and he said: "Now go to work as I begin to play," and for forty minutes, during the awful pangs of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note, while e played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forSet ourselves and forget all pans and all sorrow and all per.e.-ution and all perturbation. We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for antagonism, or for hardship. You have admired Prcscott's "Conquest of Mexico." as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written; but some of yr:u may not know under what disadvantages it was written that "Conquest of Mexico" for Prcscott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and totally blind, with his pen between those pieces of wood he wrote, the stroke against one piere of wood telling how far the pen mint go in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go the other way. Oh. bow much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ. How many Christians there are that go around saying. "O my hand. O my hand, my hurt hand; don't you see there is blood on the hand, and there Is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt imbedded in the flesh of his right hand, does not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease. While others fought to win the prize, Or sailed through blocdy seas? What have we suffered in comparison with tho.se who expired with suffocation, or were burned, or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much persecution going on now in various ways. In 1849. in Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in anticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these baskets over the rocks they sann;: Jesus, lover of my soul, Pet me to thy bosom fly, "While the billows near me roll. While the tempest tili is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Oh, iiow much others have endured for Christ, and how little we endure for Christ. We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early to we can sleep all the way, the black porter of Death to wake us up

only in time to enier the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. I.et thrm bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all thr salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar docs not know his hand i.hurt. "His kar.tl clave unto the sword." A3 I lock at Eleazar's hand, I com" to the conclusion that he has done r great deal of hard httting. I am noi surprised when 1 see that these four men Eleazar and his three compan ions drove back the army of Phiiis tines, that Eleazar's sword el.we to hb hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword, the other end of the sword wounded him When he took hold of the sword, the sword took hold of him.

ANCIENT CITY IN KENTUCKY. KvMenee Fonnd Ne:ir CrliIe of a VreliUtor.c Town. In the course of excavations in search of water in the vicinity of Plue Lick Springs, near Carlisle. Ky.. inter esting discoveries have just been reported which ir.dicate that a large town was once located oa the site in some prehistoric peiiod long before the mastodon became extinct, thousands of years ago. The finds were buried quite deep, owing to the fact that Plue Lick Springs and Pig Pone Springs are situated in c-'ite low ground, and are subject to overflow from the Ohio every spring. Each overflow ha? caused the alluvial soil to cover the deposits deeper and deeper. Last summer, fiom some unaccountable reason. Blue Lick Springs almost ceased to flow, and the owners had to take recourse to a vein emanating from the opposite side of the river. Disconcerted at their loss, they began to cudgel their wits in the hope of restoring their lost fountain. Pumps from various places were put to work, and where formerly a vast, strong stream tha' would defy any known pump flowed forth, these hand pumps took the water away. In the course of the excavations they began to find at the depth of about eight feet skeletons cf deer, elk and buffalo, in some the bones and horns being in a splendid state cf p.eservatlon. Lower down they were astonished to come upon bor.es of colossal proportions, those of a monster mastodon that would tower above the elephant as the elephant does above the hog. A tuäk was exhumed which must have been ten feet long. It was taken out in two sections, a ran of the middle crumbling so that it could not be preserved. It is eight to ten inches in diameter, and must, to judge from the angle of curvature, have been a section midway between the points of the tusks and their articulation with a socket. Fragments of various bones were examined, all of gigantic size, and as a space of a few feet only was excavated, further work will no doubt bring to view much more of interest and value from this new mastodon graveyard. These mastodon bones were at a depth of about twelve feet. Lying immediately under a stratum of solid gravel. Just under this came the greatest surprise of all. Here at a depth of about fourteen feet a symmetrical stone pavement, evidently the work of man. man antedating the mastodon and the Indian. It was systematically laid; it had been quai.'cd: the und r side of the stones were - i the rough, while the top was more smooth, just as the stones forming the pavement of little village?. There was one stone about two feet long ard of four or five inches thickness that had a margin cf seven or eie;ht inches as unworn as the underside. This u:iworn side was evidently covered with another stone or pice of timber. This walk of the ancients to the springs was fo'Iovvcd but a few feet, so further excavations may reveal more of interest. Philadelphia Times. GUARDING THE POPE. The most important person in attendance on the pope is Pio Centra, the body servant of the aged pontiff. He is more than a privileged servant; he is a constant companion, sleeping in an adjoining chamber, with so thin a partition betwixt them that he can hear the pope's breathing. At all times, too, he can keep surveilance by the aid of a littl? glass window which is at the head of the bed; while by means of a telephone he is in communication with Prof. Lapponl, the doctor, who lives cut of the Vatican. Pesides this eminent physician there are two assistant doctors who live in the palace and have the care of the health of the ."00 souls comprising the population of the Vatican. In the days of Pius IX. there were many more who made their abode there. Py an arrangement between the police and the Vatican authorities a window next the papal apartment3 is kept open during the day and closed at night with a lighted lamp behind it. The shutting or the window in the day or the putting out of the light means that something unusual has happened, and that help is required. When the pope is ill this singular sign would mean that he is dead. An Italian sentinel is constantly watching this window. This, however, did not prevent the mistake of Gen. Delia Kocca, under secirtary cf .state in the Crlspi cabinet, who announced in the house the death of Pius IX. Jive hours before it took place. Ill vorel. Mrs. P'Cree, vf Chicago- Is he her husband? Mrs. A. P. Cante (also of that place) Well, rather her has been, I should hay. Philadelphia North American. The flesh of alligators pastes very like veal, and is regarded as a delicacy by many people in India.

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Another Fatal Fire in New York's Residence District, WEALTHY HOMES DESTROYED. Wallace V. Aulte-. ami Hit Wife .Vmon j ttie let i Ii - il r. (ieoricirtiia !. .Joint ami I Irr Three I'lii.ilreii Dead r'lu:ri-l:il l.o l.ijrdt. Thirteen liv's were lost April 7 in two tiies iu aiislocratic man-ions in New York city. The most disastrous blaze was that which destroyed the home of Wallace C. Andrews. pr-jA-deut of the New York Sieam Heaiing company. - East Sixty-seventh streu. Twelve lives were lost there, including those of Mi. and Mrs. Andrews. ;:nd Mrs. Andrews' sister-in-law, Mrs. G. C. St. John and her three little childteu. One- life was lost in the Adams hie. It is fairly well established that the bre in Mr. Adams' house was slatted ly sparks of burning fragments blown from the hie on Sixty-seventh street. It was impossible, however, for the tire marshal to find out how the lire in the Andrews house started. The loss by the tires will amount to $:;L'r.ooo. of which ::o ooo is on the Andrews bouse. The insurance on both is approximately $Im.oo. capital" 0$28OÖÖ0,000 Tool ami Cotton Interest of the Country to Combine. It is announced Horn 'hiladclim:i that the wool and cotton interests of tl- round ,.. j(i ming a snvs ot Mist.- that, will be capitalized at la not iin.ij., sum of $2S0 .turn 0;;. IV:e Helegate Are Naroel. Arnliew I). White, a uittassador at JUilin; Mr. Newell, minister to lb-' Net iM-rlands. Pi c.-diicut Seth Low oT ''oluiuliin university: Ca pi. Cioy.ier iimI t'.ipt. A. T Mahan will repr.-.scat Amern a at the peace conference. Will Ite llnwr MhV !. It. is iiiiothclaHv announce:! that the fine Hundred ;nil Sixlv Inst Indiana will be mtisleieil mit on .May I anil will be home on the 2d. angha t lav lie 'oi. The I'aiis Miiiin sas t'ardinal Yaiihan. an liln- hop of WVsl niinstei . i , ;i e ii.didale to, I he p.lp.n y ami 111 - election is assuied. Meli l'.jnk I n'i exoes Capital. The tianU i" London and Mexico w ill raise its capital $V. .'io oao. making it $ I 7 .."('O.iion. This i. in view of American compel it ion Sherman In Nr irlv Hell. Fx Sccielaiy Sherman has so Jar recovered from his lerent attack of ,:i:-.:-niouia that he is able to be up ;:".d about the house. (eo. Ilaslli tl:H I etl lnel. (It n. Itlissell Hastings h;is declined Ihr' pi "esiden Is appoint incut a dileiioi of the bureau ot American icpijnlics. Xew 'falttittl' IIT.T lle-l lueil. The itriiish .government h;is declined New Zealand's oder lo luruisii ttrops for service m Samoa Sllh UI-H-.AIKO Mr. James Mansfield, who h.i triumphed over her husband in the election for the school trusteeship of Iiio. Illinois, is in every way qu.iliti.'d for the position, and her choice by the voters by no means indicates I bat it was a spirit of chivalry that induced Can title In the l'hll I p pine. The casualties in the Philippines from Feb. 1 to April 4, 1 SUM. as reported to the adjutant-general, are: Kiacd, IS!; wounded. !)7i'; total, 1 .1 CO. Fire at I .n:; a import. Ind. Fire at Logiuspott, Ind.. cau-ed a To.-s of over ftlä.ooo. The insurance will cover about half the loss. Iteaily Ahotit June I. The paper mill combine will be in Operation about June 1. The capitalization will be $12,:.UÜ,0iM).

THE TRADE REVIEW. HarUwaril Sprint; Hat Somewhat Ke tnlel I! in! ii ess Few Failures Pradstreet's report of April S says: "The quieter tone of distributive trade is even more marked this week than last, testifying to the unfavorable effect upon retail trade and indirectly upon jobbing distribution of the told, backward spring and less favorable wheat crop advances. ' Failures in the tust quarter of lSCW were in number -.772. against 3.GS7 last year, and the liabilities $27.132,031. against $32.f;C..".Gr. a decrease of 17. 1 er cent. Xo other year of the twenty-four coveted by quaitcrly reports has shown as small failures during its quarter excepting 1SS0 and 1SS1. and no other except 1SS0 and ISS-j as small liabilities per failure. "Failures for the week have been 111 in the Fnited States, against 2.12 last year, and 17 in Canada, against 22 last year."

NOT ACANDIDATE. A'lmtral Dcwer Dt-rlare That He IIa No lrelilent lal Aspiration. Admiral Dewey has given to a New York newspaper an interview repudiating the iHigge-tion that the admiral be made a candidate for the presidency next year-. JUSTICE FIELD DEAD. Veteran of Iii I nitel MitH Supreme Court Passes Away. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United Stales Supreme court, retired, died in Washington, April 'J, at his home on Capitol hill. lStilloi Ciiiicrnii to Combine. Fou it ceii rubber fabric concerns are I to be combiti'd. It is proposed to issue i $s.coo.iou jn stocks. The syndicate will haxe ;i woikilig capital of $1,t;nu.Mio. Want (on ;! ! im KoherU Kipelled. 'I he Smiiliein .evv Kurland MethoJ dist onleience adopted a resolution 'ailing on con.ynss to expel Congress- ' man Koberls td l-tah. i . . i ! Heai of ieoisln F.mlea vorer. At I lie second day 's session of the Wisconsin Christian F.ndeavor convention W. 11 Starr, Fond du Lac. war t hosen president. Swrilm lo lnr-liie Amt. Tin Swedish riksdag voted the sum of 2.:!.sS.huo kroner lor tht purchase of riM'.v .! :iilt lilili In Im hvkuiwIi.iI iin- ! on fort ifirat ions. .1. II. I'ikIoii St-itt encetl. J II. Fastou of Deeorah. Iowa, conI v cti.l (,! fraudulent banking, was sentenced to live vciis in the penitentiary, lie has appeal d. Irlloit l-'eter Virilitm llarred. None of i he remains of yellow fever vi. -inns will be brought from Cuba to the I'nited States until cold weather i et it ins. S:tinaii t'seil (it-Mira n Shell. Tin it is evideii'-f that the Samoaiu in Mat aa fa's parly have been using shells furnished by (lermans. ICefiise lit lriioiiiir-e Toliaeeo. The Indiana I'resbytery of the I'nited 1'ieshv; rian church leiused to place a ban upon tobacco. IVos jtiis V;ir fii- Kjjypr, Kgypi has had another year of prosperity, the srrplus for 1-S'JS amounting l.i J'.Sl.'c-tM (Kg pliail). IIMI HUSBAND. men to vde for her. for it must be relucmbi ted that she received a larger voie than any candidate on the ticket's t I' r.:e KYnublicans and I lie Democrats. Mrs. Mansfield, by the way, ran tui I lie Dcmocraiic licket, and Mr. Mansfield, her husband, on the Hepub!ian. The race was an exciting one. I (nuiir' ill Cull I'liiiitiKiiiil. ! The Cuban generals held a convenI : I I : 1. I .1... M,... i..,,, I. I'll a I 1 1 1 1 lit I ,11111 llltll M'-ll. .tl.l.MUI'l (ionic rcpcM'tits the Cuban army. irit Itrltiio. II.im Agreed. Crcat Itiitain lias agreed to the Orman proposal for r.nanimity in (he decisions of the Samoan commission. I)"y'n Health I (Soixl. Admiral Yan Heypen, surgeon-general of the navy, says that Admiral Dewey ! in excellent hoalth.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KIL WINNING LODGE. No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M . ; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. P. H. 13. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMANDS Y, No. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, M. Mrs. Lou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zurr.baugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 14 99; meets the second and fourth Fridav evenings of each month in K. of 'P. hall. C. M. Slayter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. W. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. W I D E A W ARE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Ilahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. II I V E No. 2S, L. O. T. M; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hail Mrs. Y. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hai:. j. C. Jüson, Regent. U. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of 1. hall. J. (). Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No, 6: meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibbetts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBUETTS POST, (. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charles Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p.m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Reldon. Commander. Alon.o Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall. S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Kazcr, M. D., President. Novitas B. Aspinall. M. D., Sec