Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 June 1899 — Page 3

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TALMAGE'S SEH310N.

PICTURES COOD AND BAD, THE SUBJECT. tsahih, S:12 16, the Text: "The Lajr of the Lor.l Hosts Shall lie Upon All I'leaaant Pictures" Diviue Uission of l'aiotlugt. (Copyright by Louis Klopsch.) Pictures are by some relegated tu the realm of the trivial, accidental, sentimental or worldly, but my text shows that God scrutinizes pictures, and whether they are good or bad, whether used for right or wrong purposes, is a matter of divine observation and arraignment. The divine mission of pictures is my subject. That the artist's pencil and the engraver's knife have sometimes been made subservient to the kingdom of the bad is frankly admitted. After the ashes and scoria were removed from Herculaneum and Pompeii the walls of those cities discovered to the explorers a degradation in art which cannot be exaggerated. Satan and all his imps have always wanted the fingering of the easel; they would rather have possession of that than that of printing, for types are not so potent and quick for evil as pictures. The powers of darkness think they have gained a triumph, and they have, when in some respectable parlor or public art gallery they can ha ig a canvas embarrassing to the good but fascinating to the evil. It is not in a spirit of prudery, when I say that you have no right to hang in your art rooms or your dwelling houses that which would be offensive to gcod people if the figures pictured were alive in your parlor and the guests of your household. A picture that you have to hang in a pomewhat secluded place, or that in a public hall you cannot with a group of friends deliberately stand before and discuss, ought to have a knife stabbed into it at the top and cut clear through to the bottom, and a stout finger thrust in on the right side ripping clear througa to the left. Pliny the elder lost his life by going near enough to see the inside of Vesuvius, and the further you can stand off from the burning crater of sin the better. Never till the books of the last day are opened shall we know what has been the dire harvest of evil pictorials and unbecoming art galleries. Despoil a man's imagination and he becomes a mere carcass. The show windows of English and American cities, in which the low theaters have sometimes hung long lines of brazen actors and actresses in style insulting to all propriety, have made a broad path to death for multitudes of people. But so have all the other art3 been at times suborned of evil. How ha3 music been bedraggled! Is there any place so low down in dissoluteness that into It has not teen carried David's harp, and Handel's organ, and Gottschalk's piano, and Ole Bull's violin? What a poor world this would be if It were net for what my text calls "pleasant pictures!" I refer to your memory and mine when I ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightily augmented by the wood cuts or engravings in the old family Bible, which father and mother read out of. and laid on the table in the old homestead when you were boys end girls? The Bible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not gotten from the Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures. To prove the truth of it in my own case, the other day I took up the old family Bible, which I inherited. Sure enough, what I have carried in my mind of Jacob's ladxler was exactly the Bible engraving of Jacob's ladder; and so with Samson carrying off the gates of Gaza; Elisha restoring the Shunammite's son; the massacre of the innocents; Christ blessing little cnildren; the crucifixion and the last judgment. My idea of oil these is that of the old Bible engravings, which I scanned before I could read a word. That is true with ninetenths of you. If I could swing open the door of your foreheads I would find that you are walking picture galleries. The great intelligence abroad about the Bible did not come from the general reading of the book, for the majority of the people read it but little, if they read It at all; but all the sacred scenes have been put before the great masses, and not printer's ink, but the pictorial art, must have the credit of the achievement. First, painters pencil for the favored few, and then engraver's plate or wood cut for millions on riillions! What overwhelming commentary on the Bible, what reinforcement for patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and Christ, what distribution of scriptu.al knowledge of all nations, in the paintings and engravings therefrom of Holman Hunt's "Christ in the Temple," Paul Veronese's "Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ," Raphael's "Michael the Archangel," Albert Durer's "Dragon of the Apocalypse," Michael Angelo's "Plague of the Fiery Serpents," Tintoretto's "Flight Into Egypt," Rubens' "Descent from the Cros3," Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," Claude's "Queen of Sheba," Bellini's "Madonna" at Milan, Orcagna's "Last Judgment," and hundreds of miles of pictures, if they were put In line, illustrating, displaying, dramatizing, irradiating Bible truths until the scriptures arc not today so much on paper as on canvas, not so much in ink as ia all the colors of the spectrum. In 1823, forth from Strasburg, Germany, there came a child that wa3 to eclipse in speed and boldness anything that the world had ever seen since the first color appeared on the sky at the creation Gustave Paul Dore. At eleven years of age he published marvelous lithographs of hi3 own. Saying nothing of what he did for Milton's "Paradise Lost," emblazoning it cn the attention of the world, he takes up the Book of Books, the monarch of literature, the Bible, and in his pictures, "The Creation of Light," "The Trial of Abraham's Faith," "ihe Burial of Sarah," "Joseph Sold by His Brethren," "The Brazen Serpent," "Boaz and Ruth." 'The Transfiguration," "The Marriage in Cana," 'BabyIon Fallen," and two hundred and five scriptural scenes In all, with a boldness and frasp and almost supernatural af

flatus that make the heart throb and the brain reel and the tears start and the cheek blanch and the entire nature quake with the tremendous thing3 of God and eternity and the dead. I actually staggered down the steps of the London Art Gallery, under the power of Dores "Christ Leaving the Praetorium." Profess you to be a Christian man or woman, and see no divine mission in art, and acknowledge you no obligation either in thanks to God or man? It is no more the word of God when put before us in printer's ink than by skillful laying on of colors or designs on metal through incision or corrosion. What a lesson in morals was presented by Hogarth, the painter, in his two pictures. "The Rake's Progress" and "The Miser's Feast." and by Thomas Cole's engravings of the "Voyage of Human Life" and the "Course of Empire," and Turner's "Slave Ship"! Gcd in art! Christ in art! Patriarchs, prophets and apostles in art! Angels in art! Heaven in art! The world and the church ought to cone to the higher appreciation of the divine mission of pictures; yet the authors of them have generally been left to semi-starvation. West, the great painter, toiled in unappreciation till, being a great skater, while on the ice he formed the acquaintance of General Howe of the English army, who through coming to admire West as a clever skater, gradually came to appreciate as much that which he accomplished by his hand as by his heel. Poussin, the mighty painter, wa3 pursued and had nothing with which to defend himself against the mob but the artist's portfolio, which he held over his head to keep off the stones hurled at him. The pictures of Richard Wilson of England were sold for fabulous sums of money after his death, but the living painter was glad to get for his "Alcj-one" a piece of Stilton cheese. From 1C40 to 1643 there were four thousand six hundred pictures willfully destroyed. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth it was the habit of some people to spend much of their time in knocking pictures to pieces. In the reign of Charles I. it was ordered by Parliament that all pictures of Christ be burnt. Painters were so badly treated and humiliated in the beginning of the eighteenth century that they were lowered clear down out of the sublimity of their art, and obliged to give accounts of what they did with their colors. The oldest picture in England, a portrait of Chaucer, though now of great value, was picked out of a lumber garret. Great were the trial3 of Quentin Matsys, who toiled on from blacksmith's anvil till, as a painter, ne won wide recognition. The first missionaries to Mexico made the fatal mistake of destroying pictures, for the loss of which art and religion must ever lament. But why go so far back when in this year of our Lord, to be a painter, except in rare instances, means poverty and neglect; poorly fed, poorly clad, poorly housed, because poorly appreciated! When I hear a man is a painter I have two feelings one of admiration for the greatness of his soul, and the other of commiseration for the needs of his body. But so it has been in all departments of noble work. Some of the mightiest have been hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith had such a big patch on his coat over his left breast that when he went anywhere he kept his hat in his hand closely pressed over the patch. The world-renowned Bishop Asbury had a salary of $34 a year. Painters are not the only ones who have endured the lack of appreciation. Let men of wealth take under their patronage the suffering men of art. They lift no complaint; they make no strike for higher wages. But with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always characterizes genius, these artists suffer more than any one, but God, can realize. There needs to be a concerted effort for the suffering artists of America, not sentimental discourse about what we owe to artists, but contracts that will give them a livelihood; for I am in sympathy with the Christian farmer who was very busy gathering his fall apples, and sorco one asked him to pray for a poor 'amily, the father of which had broker, l is leg, and the busy farmer said: "I cannot ctop now to pray, but you can go down into the cellar and get some corned beef and butter and eggs and potatoes; that Is all I can do now." Artists may wish for our prayers, but they also want practical help from men who can give them work. You have heard scores of sermons that make pleas for the suffering men and women of American art. Their v. ork is more true to nature and life than some of the mastei pieces that have become immortal on the other side of the sea, but it is the fashion of Americans to mention foreign artist3, and to know little or nothing about our own Copley and Allston, and Inman and Greenough, and Kensett. Let the afuuent fling out of their windows and into the back yard valueless daubs on canvas, and call in these splendid but unrewarded men, and tell them to adorn our wails, not only with that which shall please the taste, but enlarge the minds and improve the morals, and save the souls of those who gaze upon them. All American cities need great galleries of art, not only open annually for a few days on exhibition, but which shall stand open all the year round, and from early morning until ten o'clock at night, and free to all who would come and go. What a preparation for the wear and tear of the day a five minutes' look in the morning at some picture that will open a door into some larger realm than that in which our population daily drudge! Or what a good thing the half hour of artistic opportunity on the way home In the evening, from exhaustion that demands recuperation for mind and soul as well as body! Who will do for the city where you live what W. W. Corcoran did for Washington.and what others have done for Philadelphia, and Boston, and New York? Men of wealth, if you are too modest to build and endow such a place during your lifetime, why not go to your iron safe and take out your last will and testament, and make a codicil that shall build for the city of your residence a throne for American art? Take soma of that oney that would otherr -re spell your children.

and build an art gallery that shall associate jour name forever, not only with Cm great masters of painting, who are gone, but with the great roasters who are trying to live; and also win the admiration and love of tens of thousands of people, who, unable to have fine pictures of their own, would be advantaged. By your benefactions build your own monuments and not leave it to the whim of others. Some of the best people sleeping in Greenwood have no monuments at all, or some crumbling stones that in a few years will let the rain wash out name and epitaph, while some men whose death was the abatement of a nuisance have a pile of Aberdeen granite high enough for a king, and euloglum enough to embarrass a seraph. Oh, man of large wealth, instead of leaving to the whim of others your monumental commemoration and epitaphology, to be looked at when people are going to and fro at the burial of others, build right down in the heart of our great city, or the city where you live, an immense free reading-room, or a free musical conservatory, or a free art gallery, the niches for sculpture and the walls abloom with tho rise and fall of nations, and lessons of courage for the disheartened, and rest for the weary, and life for the dead; and one hundred and fifty years from now you will be wielding influences in this world for good. How much batter than white marble, that chills you if you put your hand on it when you touch it in the cemetery, would be a monument in colors, in beaming eyes. In living possession, in splendors which under the chandelier would be glowing and warm, -and looked at by strolling groups with catalogue in hand, on the January night when the necropolis where the body sleeps is all snowed under! The tower of David was hung with one thousand dented shields of battle; but you, oh man of wealth, may have a grander tower named after you one that shall be hung, not with the symbols of carnage, but with the victories of that art which was so long ago recognized in my text as "pleasant pictures." Oh, the power of pictures! I cannot deride, as some have done, Cardinal Mazarin, who, when told that he must die, took his last walk through the art gallery of his palace, 'jaying, "Must I quit all this? Look at that Titian! Look at that Correggio! Look at that deluge of Caracci! Fartwell, dear pictures:" As the day of the Lord of hosts, according to this text, will scrutinize the pictures, I implore all parents to see that in their households they have neither in book or newspaper or on canvas anything that will deprave. Pictures are no longer the exclusive possession of the affluent. There is not a respectable home In these cities that has not specimens of wood cut or steel engraving, if not of painting, and your whole family will feel the moral uplifting or depression. Have nothing on your wall or in books that will familiarize the young with scenes of cruelty and wassail; have only those sketches made by artists In elevated moods, and nono of those scenes that seem the product of artistic delirium treinen3. Pictures are not only a strong but a universal language. The human race is divided into almost as many languages as are nations, but the pictures may speak to people of all tongues. Volapuk many have hoped, with little reason, would become a world-wide language; but the pictorial is always a world-wide language, and printer's types have no emphasis compared with it. We say that children are fond of pictures; but notice any man, when he takes up a book, 'and you will sec that the frst thing he looks at is the pictures. Have only those in your house that appeal to the better nature. One engraving has sometimes decided an eterrol destiny. Under the title of fine arts there have come from France a class of pictures which elaborate argument has tried to prove irreproachable. They would disgrace a bar-room, and they need to be confiscated. Your children will carry pictures of their father's house with them clear on to the grave, and, passing that marble pillar, will take them through eternity.

SECRETARY HAY'S WHITE SUIT Worn at a 'Wedding: It Causes Oulte a Little Commotion. Secretary Hay, writes a correspondent of the New York .Vail and Express, has started Washington society talking by attending a swell wedding in this city dressed in a white flannel suit. As the thermometer registered nearly 100 outdoors and several degrees above that figure in the church the secretary of state appeared to be the only cool person in the congregation. The president, who also attended the wedding, wore the regulation black frock coat, and so did Adjt.Gen. Corbin, who accompanied Mr. McKinley. In fact, all the men at the wedding and the breakfast, which followed it. had on the regulation morning costume, and, therefore, the secretary in his white flannel suit was most conspicuous. As Col. Hay has spent several years abroad at the court of St. James, Washington society is wondering whether the wearing of a flannel suit at weddings is an English custom or whether the American secretary of state wa3 paying more attention to his own comfort than to style when he broke all records by his appearance. Some are saying that, as women put on their coolest white dresses to attend a summer wedding, the men ought to be allowed to do the same, and that Col. Hay's example will be followed hereafter. AIlKlit II Iserul. Washington Star: "Mammy," said Pickaniny Jim, "I's gwinter be one er dese hypnotizers." "Yoh look somebody in de eye an he des nach'ly goes ter sleep." "Well, don't you go was'in' yoh time. Dah's sleepfulness 'nuff in disher worl', an " She paused suddenly, and after a moment of thought added: "Jimmy, does yoh 'magln you could do dat to a chicken?" A SatiRnge EfTrct. They say that President McKInley'i trousers are creased only from th knee down." "That must give 'em a sausage effect?" "Yes; below knee." Cleveland Plain Dealer,

COLONIAL EXPOSITION

I) ' 1 1X1 Ecinariable Achievement Tor the Eig Show That Is About to Begin. TKE GATES CO OPEN JULY 1, 1890. A Great Collection of Interesting Rshlblts Drought From Our New Colonial Puseftaions Vast Sums Spent to llrin? Together that Which Will Edify and Instruct. Never before in the history of exposition building have such grand results been accomplished in the same length of time as in the First Greaterer American Colonial Exposition, to be held in Omaha from July 1 to November 1. The buildings and grounds of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, AGRICULTURE which represent the expenditure of more than $2,000,000, have been leased by the present exposition company, but in all other respects the exhibition will be entirely different from that of last year. The dominant feature, in fact the key note, will be the magnificent and exhaustive exemplification of the resources, products, manufacGOVERNMENT tures and possibilities of those islands of the seas acquired in th recent war. The people of the Philippine islands,, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico will be represented in considerable numbers, and their home life, occupations, dress, customs, ceremonies and characteristics will be faithfully portrayed. The United States governm-it has materiLit ' i

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ally aided the exposition management in securing representatives types of these people and the splendid exhibits from the several islands. The great colonial exhibits building and portions of several other large buildings will be utilized for the display of the resources of our fai distant pos-

MANUFACTURES BUILDING.

sessions and the work of securing such an exhibit, which usually covers a period of two or three years, has, with government assistance, been accomplished in a few short months. The coming exposition is destined to fulfill aa educational mission, to bring to the people of this country informa-

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MACHINERY AND ELECTRIC BUILDING.

The giant see-saw and the shoot-the-chutes will be features of the Greater America Exposition Midway at Omaha this summer, with novel improvements over the same features oX last year. One of the attractions on the Greater America Exposition Mid-vay at Omaha this summer will be startling and realistic representations of purgatory and paradise. The visitor will go down Into the bowels of the earth to the former and will climb to reach the latter.

tlon on a vital question and to furntall enlightenment to thousands who are discussing territorial expansion and are inteLiely Interested In the outcome of the new policy which the nation is entering upon. Few are thoroughly Informed on any phase of this important issue and this fact la due to the general lack of definito knowledge of the several islands and their inhabitants. The First Greater America Colonial Exposition solves a perplexing problem. It would be Impossible for the majority of the people of the United States to visit these far away Islands, but it is comparatively an easy undertaking to bring to this country representatives of the native people and exhibits showing their resources, industries, and the possibilities of the islands wherein they live. This has been done, and when the gates of the Exposition cpen on July 1st those who are seeking facts upon which to base conclusions, will find that which could not be seen and learned in months of travel and research.

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BUILDING. Many improvements have baen made in the grounds and buildings. Thousands of trees, plants, shrubs and flowers from tropic and sub-tropic land3 have been added to the ground decorations, and the night illumination which won so much praise last year has been vastly improved upon. Several new and startling electrical efBUILDING. fects have been introduced, notably the fairy gardens and the lighting of the statuary upon the buildings. Three great events are promised for the opening week. On July 1 the formal ceremonies Instituting the exposition will be held. July 3 there will be exercises commemorative of the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. It will be known as Schley day and the gallant admiral will be present to receive the greetings of an admiring people. The nation's Natal day will receive fitting observance cn the following day, and the people of Iowa and Nebraska have been invited to join in the demonstration. On each of these occasions speakers of national prominence will be present in the capacity of orators. The enchanted island at the Orcatei America Exposition in Omaha thii summer will contain a ruarveloui troupe of marionettes performing amidst elaborate scenic effects. How many Americans who havfl read of the fierce slaughter inflicted by the Cuban patriot with his machete knows that that weapon very much resembles the big corn knife of this peaceful country? The Cuban warrior wad so dexterous In Its use that It was a really formidable weapon of warfare. The warrior and his machete will bo seen In the Cuban village at the Greater America Exposition, which opens in Omaha July 1 and continues four months.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. The Ilarrlson Plant Sold Purchased by the Iloston Syndicate Possessing: 15oud Option The Original li otitis Will lie Taken Up at Par. Terre Haute, Ind., special: The Russell Harrison street railway and electric light plant has been sold by order of the court, and the Boston syndicate is the purchaser.which has been a foregone conclusion since it became known that the syndicate had secured options on all the $100,000 of original bonds and a majority of the seconds issued by Russell Harrison as "firsts." Stone & Webster of Boston alone were known in the deal until recently. It is now known that they represent Iee, Higginson & Co., who in turn represent: a number of Boston capitalists who have been putting a great deal of money into such properties in the last few years. The aggregate price paid was $500,000, which includes $25,000 of receiver's certificates and about $40.000 of street improvement bonds, which it had been agreed should be considered as a first lien. Imported Negroes Sent Hack. Evansvillo, Ind., telegram: The scene of activity ef the coal miners' strike has been transferred from thr Sunny Side mine to the First Avenue mine. The reception of the imported negroes was too warm, and Manager Moody sent his men all back. Ten men were gotten to the First Avenue mines, and more are coming every day. Most of those en route are from Pana, 111. The strikers are congregating about the First Avenue mines and trouble is anticipated. Millers Kleot Officers. Evansville, Ind., special: The Fraternity of Operative Millers of America was slow in gathering this morning. About the only business was the election of officers, as follows: President, A. J. Weinet of Waterloo, 111.; vice president, Hugo Jacobi of St. Louis; second vice president, Robert J. Adams of Still well. 111.; secretary and treasurer, J. F. Mueller, re-elected; directors, E. H. Stepbain, G. W. T. Seifert, Galatia, 111.; S. A. Davidson, Marion, 111., and J. M. Starkard, Tamaroa, 111. Plague Spreads In Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., telegram: John N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, has returned from Corydon and Rockport, where he went to investigate the smallpox conditions. A case of hemorrhages bleeding smallpox was found at Corydon. Eighty per cent of these cases are fatal. At Rockport there were found twenty cases of smallpox. One death resulted here. Corydon has the same number of cases as Rockport. Strict quarantines have been established. Foreclosure Not Possible. New Carlisle, Ind., telegram: An important decision to building and loan associations of other states doing business in Indiana has been decided in the Elkhart circuit court. The act of 1S97 giving power to foreign building and loan associations which had not complied with the laws of the state to bring and prosecute foreclosure proceedings by their receivers was declared unconstitutional. Discuss Spread of Smallpox. Indianapolis, Ind., telegram: The health ollicers of the state devoted their closing session Thursday to a long and earnest discussion of the danger of the reappearance of smallpox throughout the state with the coming of cool weather. Means of preventing the ravages of the dread disease wer6 discussed in papers and various resolutions were offered. Twenty counties in Indiana are afflicted. I.ynri Imw for Fire lines. Muncie, Ind., telegram: The extensive barn owned by Nathan Lawson, residing near Gaston, was burned at an early hour Thursday morning. This makes the tenth building that has been mysteriously burned. The farmers will organize a vigilance committee and endeavor to run the incendiaries to earth. There is no question but what summary justice will be dealt to any member captured. Window Class Plants Close. Hartford City, Ind., telegram: At midnight last night the co-operative glass plants of the United States closed down. From now until the wage scale is signed for the next fire and the time set for resuming no window glass wih be made in this country. Just when that will be can only be conjectured, but it is thought that it will be not less than six months. No Smallpox tit Valparaiso. Valparaiso, Ind., telegram: The report of small-pox cases originating in this city is a canard. Every physician in the city claims there has been nothing but chickenpox here, and only twenty cases in three months. Mount Out of Politics. Importe, Ind., special: Gov. James A. Mount, for whom the politicians have developed a vice-presidential boom, has written to a personal friend that he will retire from politics at the close of his term of office. Condensed Telegrams. Hobart township, Porter countv. has to ted in favor of twelve additional miles of gravel road. Dr. Harry B. Kurtz of Letonia, Ohio, nnd Miss 2va Hazleton of Elkhart have been united in marriage. Lightning burned a barn and cremated three horses at Gwynneville, belonging to Harry Goldman. A call has been issued for a reunion of people joined in wedlock by Father Mec-3 of Auburn, to be held August 2G-27. William 0. Baker, superintendent of Morgan county, and Miss Amy Watson of Martinsville, have been united in marriage. Charles Berry of Alexandria, Insane through grief over the loss of his 'Wife, has been removed to his old home at Jeannette. Ta,

Society Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILVVIXNlNG LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets iirst 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. II. 1L 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 Tuesdavs of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, V. M. Mrs. Tou Stansbury, Sec. ODDFELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodire rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schcarcr, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec. SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebckah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zuxbaugh, 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 f rst and third Fridays of each mi nth. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No.i 199; 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. W. 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; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs, W. Bur. kett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. 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. O. Pomcroy, 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. V Meets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tiltts, Scribe. r G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.50 p. m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Provost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICLANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Sec Do You Think It That is the question asked of us so often, referring to advertising. If properly done we know it will pay handsomely. The experience of those who Have tried it proves that nothing' equals it

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