Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 June 1899 — Page 3

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T ALM AGE'S SEJIMOX.

WHICH CHURCH? THE SUDJECT FOR LAST SUNDAY. From C.en. 13:8 as Follows: 'I.et There It No Strife, I lr;y Thee, ICetweeii ami Thee aud He t ween My Herdsuieu uud Thy Herdsmen." (Copyright lSSt by Louis Klopsch.) Uncle and nephew, Abram and Lot, both pious, both millionaires, and with such large flocks of bleating sheep and lowing cattle that their herdsmen got into a fight, perhaps about the best pasture, or about the best water privilege, or because the cow of one got hooked by the horns of the other. Not their poverty of opportunity, but their wealth, was the cause of the controversy between these two men. To Abram. the glorious old M:sopotamian sheik, such controversy seemed absurd. It was like two ships quarreling for sea room in the middle of the At lantic ocean. There was a vast reach of country, cornfields, vineyards, harvests and plenty of room in illimitable acreage. "Now," says Abram. "let us agree to differ. Here are the mountain districts, swept by the tonic sea breeze, and with wide-reaching prospect, and there is the plain of the Jordan, with tropical luxuriance. You may have either." Lot, who was not as rich as Abram, and might have been expected to take the second choice, made the first selectiou. and with a modesty that must have made Abram smile, said to him: "You may have the rocks and th? fine prospect: I will take the valley of the Jordan, with all its luxuriance of cornfields, and the river to water the flocks, and the genial climate, and the wealth immeasurable." So the controversy was forever settled, and the great-souled Abram carried out the suggestion of the text: "Let there be no strife. I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" Well, in this, the last decade of the nineteenth century, and in this beautiful land, which was called America, after Americus Vespucius. but should have been called Columbia, aftpr its discoverer, Columbus, we have a wealth of religious privilege and opportunity that is positively bewildering. Churches of all sorts of creeds and of all kinds of government, and all forms of worship, and all styles of architecture. What opulence of ecclesiastical opportunity! Now, while in desolate regions there may be only one church, in the opulent districts of this country there is such a profusion that tl:ere ought to be no difficulty in making a selection. No fight about vestments, or between liturgical or noniiturgical adherents, or as to baptismal modes, or a handful of wat- as compared with a riven'ul. If Abram prefers to dwell on the heights, where he can only get a sprinkling from the clouds. let him consent that Lot have all tue Jordan in which to immerse himself. "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen. Is not the whole land before Especially is it unfortunate when families a'low angry di?c;:?sion at the breakfast or dining or tea table, as to which is the best church or denomination, one at one end of the table saying he could never endure the rigid doctrines of Prosbyterianism. one at th? other end responding that she never could stand the forms of Episcopacy, and one at one side of the table saying he did not understand how anybody could bear the noise in the Methodist church, and another declaring all the Baptists bigots. There are hundreds of families hopelessly split on eeclesiasticism. and in the middle of every discussion on such subjects there is a kindling of indignation, and it needs some old father Abram to come and put his foot on the loaded fuse before the explosion takes place and say: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen nl thy herdsmen. U not the whuie land before thee?" I undertake a suhject never undertaken by any o'hpr pulpit, for it is an exceedingly delicate subject, and if not rightly handled mtent give serious offense: but I approach it without the slightest trepidation, for I am sure I have the divine direction in the matters I propose to present. It is a tremendous question, asked all over Christendom, often askvd with tears and sobs and heart-breaks, and involving the peace of families, the eternal happiness of many souls. In matters of church attendance should the wife go with the husband, or the husband go with the wife? First, remember that all the evangelical churches have enough truth in then to save the soul and prepare us to happiness on earth and in heaven. I will go with you into any wellfo'.ected theological library, and I will show you sermons from ministers in all denominations that set forth man as a sinner and Christ as a deliverer from sin and. sorrow. That is the whole gospel. Get that into your soul and you are fitted for the here and hereafter. There are differences, we admit, and some denominations we like better than others. But suppose three or four of us make solemn agreement to meet each other a week from now In Chicago on important business and one goes by the New York Central railroad, another by the Erie railroad, another by the Pennsylvania railroad, another by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. One goes this way because the mountains are grander, another takes thi3 because the cars are more luxurious; another that because the speed 13 greater; another takes the other because he ha3 long been accustomed to that route, and all the employes are familiar. So far as our engagement to meet is concernel, it makes no difference if we only get there. Now, any one of the innumerable evangelical denominations, if you practice its teaching although some of their trains run on a broad gauge and some on a narrow gauge will bring you out at th city cf the New Jerusalem. Mighty God! In all Thy realm is

there one man cr woman professing religion, yet so stolid, so unfitted, so far gone unto death that there would be any hesitancy in surrendering all preferences before such an opportunity of salvation and heavenly reunion? If you, a Christian wife, are an attendant upon any church, and your unconverted husband does not go there because he does not like its preacher or its music or its architecture or its uncomfortable crowding, and goes not to any house of worship, but would go if you would accompany him somewhere else, change your church relations. Take your hymnbook home with you to-day. Say bood-by to your friends in the neighboring pews and go with him to any one of a hundred churches till his soul is saved and he joins you in the march to heaven. More important than that ring on the third finger of your left hand it is that your Heavenly Father command the angel of mercy, concerning your husband at his conversion, as in the parable of old: "Put a ring on his hand.' No letter of more importance ever came to the great city of Corinth, situated on what was called the "Bridge of the Sea." and glistened with sculpture, and gated with a style of brass the magnificence of which the following ages have not been able to successfully imitate, and overshadowed by the Acro-Corinthus. a fortress of rock 2,000 feet high I say no letter ever came to that great city of more importance than that letter in which Paul puts the two startling questions: "What knowrst thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou. O man. whether thou shalt save thy wife?" The dearest sacrifice on the part of the one is cheap if it rescue the other. Better go to the smallest, weakest, most insignificant church on earth and be co-partners in eternal bliss, than pass your earthly membership in a most gorgeously attractive church while your companion stays outside of evangelical privilege. Better have the drowning saved by a scow or a sloop than let him or her go down while you sail by in the gilded cabins of a Majestic or Campania. Second remark: If both of the married couple be Christians, but one is so naturally constructed that it is impossible to enjoy the services of a particular denomination, and the other is not so sectarian or punctilious, let the one less particular go with the other

who is very particular. As for myself. I feel as much at home in one denomination of evangelical Christians as another, and I think 1 must have been born very near the line. I like the solemn roil of the Episcopal liturgy, and I like the spontaneity of the Methodists, and I like the importance given to the ordinance of baptism by the Baptists, and I like the freedom of the Congregationalists, ?nd I like the gov ernment and the sublime doctrine of J the Presbyterians, and I like many of the others just as much as any I have mentioned, and I could happily live, and preach, and die. and be buried from any of them. But others are born with a liking so stout, so unbending, so inexorable for some denomination, that it is a positive necessity they have the advantage of that one. What th?y were intended to be in ceclesiasticisni was written in the siT.es of their cradle, if the father and mother had eyes keen enough to see it. They would not stop crying until they had put into their hands as a plaything a Westminster Catechism or the Thirty-nine Articles. The whole current of their temperament and thought and character runs into one sect of religionists as naturally as the James river into the Chesapeake. It would be a torture to such persons to be anywhere ottside of that one church. Now, let the wife or husband who is not so constructed sacrifice the milder preference for the one more inflexible and rigorous. Let the grapevine follow the rugosities and sinuosities of the oak or hickory. Abram, the richer in tlocks of Christian grace, should say to Lot, who is built on a smaller scale: "Let there be no strife. I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my hrrdmen and thy henlmen. Is not the whole land before thee?" As you can be edified and happy anywhere, go with your companion to the church to which he or she must go or be miserable. Take a hint from astronomy. The Ptolemaic system made the earth the center of the solar system, and everything was thought to turn round the earth. Hut the Copernican system came, anil made the sun the center around which the planets revolved. The bitcot makes his little belief the center of everything, but the largesouled Christian makes the Sun of Righteousness the center, and all denominations, without any clashing and each in its own sphere, revolving around it. Over the tomb of Dean Stanley in Westminster Abbey is the passage of Scripture: "Thy commandments are exceeding broad." Let no man crowd us on a path like the bridge Al Sirat, which the Mohammedan thinks leads him from this world over the abyss of hell into Paradise, the breadth of the bridge less than the web of a starved spider, or the edge of a sword or razor, off the edges of which many fall. No; while the way is not wide enough to take with us any of our sins, it is wide enough for all Christian believers to pass without peril into everlasting safety. But do not any of you depend upon what you call "a sound creed" for salvation. A man may own all the statutes of the state of New York and yet not be a lawyer; and a man may own all the best medical treatises and not be a physician; and a man may own all the best works on painting and architecture and not be either painter or architect; and a man may own all the sound creeds in the world and yet not be a Christian. Not what you have in your head and on your tongue, but in your heart and in your life, will decide everything. But let us all rejoice that, although part of our family may worship on earth in one church and part in another church, or, bowed at the same altar in a compromise of preferences, we are, if redeemed, on the way to a perfect church, where all our preferences will be fully gratified. Great -cathedral of eternity, with arches of arneytnysts and pillars of sapphire, with floors of emerald, and windows atflow with the sunrise of heaven! What stupendous towers, with chimes angel-hoisted and angel-run;?,' What

myriads cf worshippers, white-robed and coroneted! What an officiator at the altar, even "the great High Priest of our profession!" What walls, hung with the captured shields and flags, by the church militant passed up to be church triumphant! What doxologles of all nations! Coronet to coronet, cymbal to cymoal. harp to harp, organ to organ! Pull out the tremulant stop to recall the suffering past! Pull out the trumpet step to celebrate the victory! When shair these eyes thy heavenbuilt walls , And pearly gates behold? Thy bulwarks with salvation strong. And streets of shining gold.

RIDICULE Take All the Assurance Out of the MmU Frigid .Man. New Orleans Times - Democrat: "Strange how easily we are bowled over by ridicule." said the man at the cigar counter. "I was standing on the corner yesterday and saw a well-set-up portly gentleman saunter out of the postoffice and start up Canal street. He wore a beautiful light gray suit, every detail of his attire was elegance Itself, his mustache was curled carefully at the ends and he walked with the air of a conquering hero. He looked so cool, so confident and so exceedingly aristocratic that people instinctively made way for him as he approached. He had gone perhaps 30 yards when all of a sudden he stopped, hesitated a moment, and then put his right foot oa a box near the curb. His shoe had become untied and the strings were trailing. So far. however, he had lost none of his dignity, but when he attempted to stoop over he immediately became ridicrlous. To save his soul he couldn't reach the eyelets. It wa3 that unlucky embonpoint, y know, and although he puffed and strained and got as red as a lobster his finger tips were still four inches from the shoe strings. At that instant he happened to glance around and saw two ladies coming out of a shop. They were looking at him and giggling. That settled it! In the twinkling of an eye he had lo:-t every vestige of his assurance. His elegant aplomb vanished like magic. He seemed to collapse upon himself and actually got old while he was taking his foot off the box. He was an abject, pathetic spectacle. He hurried away, no longer a conquering hero, but a cringing, waddling, apologetic fat man, totally unnerved by the mere fact that he couldn't tie bis own shoes, and that women were laughing about It. Yes, my boy. a game man can stand anything except ridicule. That knocks him cut." WHERESHARKS ARE PRESERVED After all one lias tea 1 of the voracity of shark--, it .-ounds hardly credible that these monsters of the deep atv fed and kept as a means of public defense. This is. however, the case in the French colony of Porto Novo, on the west coast of Africa. The native King of Porto Novo, though receiving a yearly tribute of a couple of wagonloads of cowries from the French firm of Dc Regis in .Marseilles, is not powerful enough to prottvt the colonists against the predatory incursions of the blacks. The French factory is not situated on the coast, but some little distance inland, and is partly surrounded by a lagoon, in which a number of sharks are fed every day with meat and offal, to entourage them to stay, and thus prevent the negroes from attempting to swim across. The plan, though somewhat expensive, appears to work well, for since its adoption the colony has received no attack from that quarter. In Martinique also the sharks receive a daily allowance of food, but in this instance it is done to prevent desertion from the vessels in port, and the brave tars think twice before jumping into the water, as they know very well that they run a far liklier chance of being swallowed by a shark than of getting to shore. These finny monsters are termed "Watchers" by ths native population. Heading in lied. Heading in bt d used to be objected to in the old days on the score of danger, and one of the first injunctions of a hostess to her guest was in refereme to that prevalent but disquieting practice. lint in these days. when electric light has removed the risk of fire, the question is one solely of its benefit or harm to the prospecthe sleeper. "The Medical Press and Circular" is of the opinion that a short course of some standard author may act as a composing sedative, but books which contain extremes of wit, melodrama, comedy, tragedy or philosophy should be avoided. Like a good supper, the reading should be neither too heavy nor too stimulating. On the other band, most physicians are of the opinion that bed should be kept as much as possible for sleep. A habit of reading before putting out the light and (losing one's ryes is apt to grow and become a tyranny, and, like drugs, the more you indulge in it the longer has the reading to be to have the desired effect. It must be admitted, however, that the habit, to all but those fortunate beings who are asleep the moment their head touches the pillow, is very reductive, and that a good many people's most serious reading is done at that time. A Homemade ltef rlgerator. In a large dry-goodä box place sawdust a foot deep. Inside the large box place one a foot shorter on every side. Fill the space between with sawdust. On the bottom of the smaller box lay a removable crate of slats or lattice work, below which the ice Is to bo placed. I'emovable shelves are set on cleats on all four sides, and the refrigerator is ready for tho lid, or cover with hinges. When space in the cellar Ks limited, this box may be set In a cool place outdoors. In towns or villages where the ice man calls every day, or in homes which store their own ice. shelves and slat bottoms may be removed to receive frci-h ice every day. If it be kept outside, padlock the heavy lid.

IX WiLTISH MUSEUM.

A CHARIOTEER FROM ANCIENT CREEK SCULPTOR. Werk of Foremost Itcauty Tlie Origlral I VYM4 DKcotrred in Mity. 1.SSM in the Cdiirne Kick at iuu at Delphi by the French. (London Letter.) The latest important addition to our r atchless galleries of ancient Greek sculpture at the British museum Is, to t.uote the inscription on the pedestal, a "Cast of Bronze Charioteer at Delphi (4S2-472 H. C.).. Presented by the French Minister of Public Instruction. 1893." This cast, it is at the particular moment pleasant to record, is. by the special courtesy of our neighbors ncross the channel, the first reproduction of the statue which has been

granted to anv foreign museum. The j to the Itgnt wnicn mej nau ror m original was discovered in .May. 1S9G. I many centuries renounced, and were in the course of excavations at Delphi j adjusted once again into a unity livundertaken bv the French authorities ! ing and breathing with the life and and prosecuted under the able super- breath of Greek art on the verge of as intendence of M. Theophile Homolle. ! culmination in the hands and under principal of the Eeoie d'Athenes. In the influence of Phidias. Who could virtue of this discovery the Delphians describe the feelings with which its assert that thev are now on a par with : discoverers beheld it slowly washed

the Olvmnian and nossess. as the lat- ! ter do in their Praxitelean Hermes, a priceless and unique masterpiece which the whole civilized world is bound to go and see. lie this as it may. there A GHICFK CHAKIOTKEK. can be no doubt that it is a work of foremost beauty mil significance, and few amateurs of the unique will fail to enter into the feelings with which M. Homolle tells us he and his excavating party dug it from its hiding place in the Delphian soil. A legend says that j oa the very day of the Greek victory ! over the Persians at Salamis, the Car- j thaginians were no less crushingly defeated by the Greeks of Sicily. Tho ! spoils there taken were enormous, and a full share of offerings was naturaiiy tent to the national god at Delphi. Gelon, the founder of the Syracusan dynasty, and his brothers, Iliero. Polyzelos and Thrasybulus, were conspicuous by the magnificence of. their trib ute, part of which, we may imagine (in memory of some previous Syracusan success in the Pythian hippodrome), was formed by the chariot, group to which this figure belonged. The group itself was destroyed, at the beginning of the fourth century before our era. by the great earthquake which SVEDEN The Swedish pavilion at the Paris exposition of 1900, from its unique style, will be likely to attract nuch attention. The building is 1a be constructed from plans by Ferd'.nand Boberg, one of the most prominent architects of the kingdom, who won this new distinction in comptition with all the other prominent architects of Sweden. The pavilion will be built in the "Streets of the Nation." on the left-hand side of the Seine, but it will If like nothing around it. Only natural woods will enter into its conduction, and Its only decoration will

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overthrew the temple of the Aicmeon- !

ides. Stiück by the stones which rolled down from the top of the cliffs, the figure was broken, the chariot shattered, the horses reduced to fragments and the base itself dislocated. Such of the remains as were left at the surface of the soil, damaged past hope of repair, were thrown into the melting pot or rejected as rubbish. The rest reposed tranquilly under the earth and the rocks which had buried them, and even the memory of them perished. No ancient author has ascribed or spoken of the chariot group in question. This double covering of soil and of silence has. as it were. by miracle, preserved up to our own days the admirable charioteer figure of which !s here given the "picture in little." There had been for the excavators a week or so of intense and unfulfilled expectancy before at !ength the disjecta membra of our chariot driver returned beneath the action of the busy spades fee from its enve.opmg muu-cae. re vealing successively, as it did in the process, the noble drapery of long, symmetrical folds, the feet of an absolute natural truth, the arm of smiling grace? In the neignnorhood of the principal figure, M. Homolle tells us. there were further disinterred fragments belonging to the accessories of the group; a ripht hand still holding the reins, the pole of the chariot, two legs and a hoof ot one of the horses, an arm of a female ngure (probably a Victory such as we see on coins holding a palm branch, a wreath or a fillet), and. finally, one of the slabs which formed the plinth, with the remains of an inscription in Syracusan letters and the name of Polyzelos. the dedicator of the gift. For a time the hope was entertained that the entire composition might be recovered, but the disco.verers stopped short and nothing further was found. Little enough, we may feel inclined to say, in comparison with what remains lost; too little to enable us to imagine with any degree of certitude the lines of the complete work. The best critics seem to be pretty well agreed as to our charioteer's being the work of an Attic artist, and M. Pottier confesses the wish to go a step further and attribute it to Calamis. On this point M. Homolle. who sympathizes fully i-i nis friend's wish, advises caution. Calamis. we may say. lived at the date to which the work is assigned, he excelled in the representation cf horses, he was fond of executing two-horsed and fourhorsed chariots, he had worked for lliro on a group analogous to the one we are here concerned with. These, doubtle.-s. are indications favorable to the assumption that the new-found bronze came from his hand: but they cannot be regarded as decisive argui merits j j lh" "NVliat are tlie lrees ay;nR us they ! 5h'-' sai(l the ,cot' as he amI th9 I practical man pau,ed or. the banks of a river. "They are sayiig." said the practical man. "that a sawmill in this section .vould pay big dividend-." Then the poet said som.'tuing about the music in the river that rippled at their feet. "Yes." said the practical man. "I was just thinking that such a tine water power could turn enough mill wheels to grind all the ro-n in (leorgia to a first-class article of meal." "I don't think." said the poet, "that j you and 1 can pull together I know it." said the practical man. "So. I'm going to dinner. Where are you going?" "I'm going to wonder." said the poet, "just how and where I'll get a dinner!" Atlanta Constitution. AT PARIS. be fresh boughs, with their green leaves and berries. In one of the great halls natives of the various provinces of Sweden, dressed in their national costumes, will work at their characteristic trades. The "king's room," furnished in ancient Northland style -will contain objects of modern Swedish art and industry. Altogether the Swedish pavilion will be in the nature of a national museum, as the Swedish exhibitors will be proTided for in the various h illt of tha exposition proper.

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AVill Connect the T-akr. Indianapolis, Ind., special: Notwithstanding the defeat of the bill in the legislature to convert Wolf lake Into a harbor for the city of Hammond, by making a canal to connect Lake Michigan and Wolf lake, the people of that city are determined that the project shall not fail, and are preparing to force the railroad companies whose tracks cross the strip of land between the two lakes to provide for drawbridges and then make the canal by private enterprise. It is the intention of the city officials to seek an opinion from the attorney-general regarding power to force the railroad companies to erect the bridges, and if the opinion is favorable, the project will be pushed through. Itoud Holders Will l.oso. Milwaukee. Wis.. Special: The holders of $330.000 worth of bonds Issued by the Sny Island district of Illinois in 1S72 cannot recover their money frcm the present owners of the land, according to the Cnlted States Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The suit has been In the courts since 1S78 and was considered of such Importance that Justice Harlan of the Supreme bench came on from Washington to sit in the case. According to the ccurt's ruling the act of 1S71 authorizing the district to issue bonds was invalid and the numerous transfers of the land since that time left the creditors with no claim on those who now hold the property. More than 1.00) land-owners were named as defendants in the action and the amount involved was over $.",o0,000. l'oor Wheat Yield in Indiana. Anderson, Ind.. Special: Statistician Connor has just completed a compilation of reports on the Indiana wheat crop for this year, which he finds is but 40 per cent favorable on a basis of 1C0 for perfection. The condition in the northern division is but 20.60 per cent, in the central section but 32.10 per cent, and in the southern counties it makes the best showing, with a percentage of G7.25. There are about 2.700,000 acres in. It is estimated that the crop will fall below 20.000.000 bushels. It is the poorest crop in Indiana for many years. Monster Snake 3lade Captive. Mishawaka. Alexander McConnell and companion today captured a blue racer snake measuring S fe-t 3 inches in length and WV, inches in diameter at the largest part of the body. The two men were taking an afJer-dinn-.-r nap in the woods ami when they awoke the reptile had wrapped itself around the body of McConnell's companion, preparatory to administering a fatal squeeze. McConnell captured it with a rope and brought it to town, where it is now on exhibition. McConnell's companion was unharmed, but frightened badly. Admit IColtldiiK a IVt oftice. Wabah. -Sheriff Dan MrKahan tonight brought over from Gas Citv two burglars captured there. They gave their names as .lohn Doe ind Iviv.ard Johnson and ww making the rounds of the stovr s ofiering posta-e stamps for goods. The merchant-, aware cf the burglary of the pnsiolli'-a at Treaty, this eounty. this wcn. wired Capt. Waite at that, place, who went after the pair. Both confe-sed to the work and when ".'i0 stamps were found in Johnson's pockets he told ol other raids. Officials to lie I n wxtiguted. - Anderson. Ind., Special: Closely following the arrest of Councilman McMillen and Street Commissioner McCandliss on the charge of embezzlement of public funds a complete investigation of every city office and officer was begun by a committee appointed at the solicitation of taxpayers. The affair has created a decided sensation. and it ii stated that many arrests will follow. It is broadly asserted that tli3 city has been in the hands of a ring. (iiv. Mount Kcf-overing-. Indianapolis. Ind., Special: The condition of Gov. Mount is so far improved that no fears of pneumonia ara now entertained, and his speedy recovery is regarded as certain. Both lungs are now clear, or nearly so. His physicians still refuse to permit other than members of the family to enter his room. lttIlii:t llr-vl 1-. After a jury, of which T. K. Clark was foreman, had returned a verdict at Ft. Wayne, tlie usual formula was followed in pollin?; the jurors, when thforeman and one other answered that it was not their verdict. The court demanded an explanation, and the juror3 then reported that they had consent to an agreement in order to be relieved from the suffocating presence cf the jury room. Fred G. Willson. cashier of Willson bank, of Marion, has been appomte receiver of Kellar & Mead's electri: light plant at Marion. Tlie receivership is said to be the outgrowth of . refusal by the firm to accept $18.000 for the plant, after an agreement had been readied. A series of sociological meetings ili soon begin at Terre Haute, conduced by the Rev. J. Stitt Wilson and th Kev. J. Hollingsworth, of Chicago, and the Rev. W. H. Wise, of Greencastle. These gentlemen recently returned from Ixmdon, Fngland. where they met the leaders of the social movement abroad. The Princeton Coal and Mining company has signed the Chicago and Pittsburg scale, making the seventh company south of the B. &. O. raiiway line which has accepted the terms of striking miners. Frank Smith, a tramp, has been arrested at Colburn. charged with attempting to criminally assault the 11-year-old daughter of Tobias Smithcrcr, near Delphi. Mrs. Samuel Waggaman, of Kjkcmo. whose death is reported, was . years old. Recently herself and It it; bund celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. Burglars visited the gcnci.il store ci A. Swope & Co.. of Crothcrsville. but were unable to force the inside v?ulr. They secured $2 cash and r. diamond ring.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWIXNIXO LODGE, No. M9, I 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. 1 H. I). Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH CO M M A N D'RV, No, :6, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, L. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. L. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Hertha McDonald, V. M. Mrs. T-ou 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. Hushman, 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 Xumbaugh, Y. G. Miss N. Rerkhold, Sec. ICNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Win. 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 Friday evenings of each month in K. of "P . hall . C. M. Slay ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. V. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M.'hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; tr.ceU cyerv Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall." Mrs, W. Unrkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUTvL Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent. B, J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. (). Pomcroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, X0.6; meets every Friday evening: at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs Chas. Hammerel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - fleets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Ti!.:ts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIHBETTS POST, C. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Sitnon-j hall. W. Kelle-, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Iisell hall. Wert. Heldon. Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. 15. Fanning, Pic3. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSL CANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kaszcr, M. I)., President Novitas U. Aspinall, M. D., Sec

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