Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 July 1899 — Page 3

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THE NUMDER "SEVEN." LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. 1'rom Cirnrsis, tlmpler II, Verse 7, as lolluns: ';oJ Illrsst! the Seventh Hay" The Numeral Seven I lavoreil by Liviue Choice. (Copyright by Louis Klopsch.) Tue liiavUeiiiatics of tuu iUoie is noticeable: tiie geometry anl the arithmetic: the square in Ezekiel: the circle spokon of in Isaiah: the cttrve alluded to in Job: the rule of fractions mentioned in Daniel: the rule of loss and gain in Mark, where Christ asks the people to cipher out by that rule what it would "profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul.'' But there is one mathematical figure thrt is crow ned aLove ail ethers in the Bible: it is the nuaieral seven, which the Arabians got from India, and all following cges have taken from the Arabians. It stands between the figure six and the figure eight. In the Bible all the other numerals bow to it. Over three hundred times it is mentioned in the Scriptures, either alone or compounded with ether words. In Genesis the week is rounded into seven days, and I use my text because there this numeral is for the first time introduced in a journey which halts not until in the close of the Book of Revelations its monument is built into the wall of heaven in chrysolite, which, in the strata of precious stones is the seventh. In the Bible we find that Jacob had to serve seven years to get Rachel, but she was well worth it: and, foretelling the years of prosperity and famine in Pharaoh's time, the seven fat oxen were eaten up of the seven lean oxen: and wisdom is said to be built on &f:r Millars: and the ark was left with ilistines seven years: and Nar. the cure of leprosy, plunged .ordan seven times: the dead vhen Elisha breathed into its ., signaled its ar rival b: -o consciousness by sneezing . times: to the house that Ezekiel t 1 vision, there were seven Fteps: tho walls of Jericho, before they fell down, were compassed seven days: Zechariah describes a stone with seven eyes: to cleanse a leprous house, the door must besprinkled with pigeons' "blood seven times: in Canaan w overthrown seven nations: on one occasion Christ cast out seven devils: on a mountain he fed a multitude of people with seven loaves, the fragments left filling seven baskets: and the closing passages of the Bible are magnificent ana overwhelming with the imagery made up of seven churches, seven stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals, seven angels, and seven heads, and seven crowns and seven horns, and seven spirits, and seen vials, and seven plagues, and seven thunders. Yea. the numeral seven seems a favorite with the divine mind outside as well as inside the Bible, for are there net seven prismatic colors? And when God wi:h the rainbow wrote the comforting thought that the world would never have another deluge, he wrote it on the scroll of the sky in ink of seven colors. He grouped into the Pleiades seven stars. Home, the capital of the world, sat on seven hills. When God would make the most intelligent thing on earth, the human countenance, he fashioned it with seven features the two ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the mouth. Yea. our bod- lasts only seven years, and we gradually shed it for another body after another seven years, and so on. for we are, as our bodies, .septennial animals. So the numeral seven ranges through nature and through revelation. It is the number of perfection, and so I use it while I speak of the seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and tue seven thunders. The ministers are not all Pecksniffs ?nd canting hypocrites, as some would have you think: Forgive me, if having at other times glorified the medical profession, and the legal profession a:d the literary profession I glorify my own. I have seen then la their homes and heard them in their pulpits, and a grander array of men never breathed, and the Bible figure is not strained when it calls them stars; nnd whole constellations of glorious ministers have already taken their places on high, where they shine even brighter than they shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk, of the Congregational Church: Stephen H. Tying, of the Episcopal Chtirch; Matthew Simpson , of the Methodist Church; John Dowling, cf the Baptist Church; Samuel K. Tallage, of the Presbyterian Church; Thomas DeWitt, cf the Reformed Church; John Chambers, of the Independent Church; and there I stop, for it so happens that I have mentioned the seven stars of the seven churches. I pass on to another mighty Bible ecven, and they are the seven seals. St. John in vision saw a scroll vvi'h even seals, and he heard an angel cry, "Who -Is worthy to loose the seals thereof?" Take eight or ten sheets of foolscap paper, pasta them together and roll tnem into a scroll, and have the scroll ct seven different places sealed with sealing wax. You unroll the scroll till you coir.. to one of these seals, and then you can go no further until you break that seal; then unroll again until you come to another seal, and yo i can go no further until you break that seal; then you go on until all the seven fceals are broken, and the contents o! the entire scroll are revealed. Now. that scroll with seven seals held by the angel was the prophecy of whit. wa3 to coma on the earth; it meant that the knowledge of the future was with God, and no man and no angel was worthy to ope-, it; but the Bible saj3 Christ opened it and broke ail the seven seals. He broke the first teal and unrolled vho scroll, and ther? was a picture of a white horse, and that means prosperity and triumph for the Roman empire, and so it really came to pass that for ninety years virtuous emperors succeeded each other Nerva, Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke the second seal an 1 unrolled again, and there was a picture of a red horse, and that meant bloodshed, and so it really came to pass, and the next ninety years were red with assassinations and wars. Then Christ broke the third seal and unrolled it. and there was a picture of a black horse, which in all literature means famine, oppression and taxation; and

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on until he broke all the seven seals and opened all the scroll. Well, the future of all of us is a sealed scroll, and I am glad that no one but Christ can open it. Do not let us join that class of Christians in our day, who are trying to break the seven seals of the future. They are trying to peep into things they have no business with. There is another mighty seven of tin Bible, viz., the seven thunders. What these thunders meant we are not told, and there has been much guessing about them; but they are to come, we are told, before the end of all things, and the world cannot get along without them. Thunder is the speech cf lightning. There are evils in our world which must be thundered down, and which will require at least seven volleys to prostrate them. Vv'e are all dcing nice, delicate, soft-handed work, in churches and reformatory institutions, against the evils of the world, and much of it amounts to a teaspoon dipping out the Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell digging away at a mountain, or a tack hammer smiting the Gibraltar. What is needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them. There is the long line of fraudulent commercial establishments.evcry stone in the foundation, and every brick in the wall, and every nail in the rafter made out of dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing girls arms in every beam of that establishment; human nerves worked into every figure of that embroidery; blood in the deep dye of that refulgent upholstery; billions of dollars of accumulated fraud entrenched in massive storehouses, and stock companies manipulated by unscrupulous men, until the monopoly is defiant of all earth and heaven. How shall the evil be overcome? By treatises on the maxim: Honesty is the best policy? Or the soft repetition of th golden rui that we must "Do to others as we would have them do to us?" No, it will not be done that way. What is needed and will come is the seven thunders. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than in any other business. Intoxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. Good grain to the amount of 07,930,000 bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our nation spending annually seven hundred and forty millions of dollars for rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassination, death, illimitable woo. What will stop them? High license? Xo. Prohibition laws? No. Churches? No. Moral suas?on? No. Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven thunders! Yonder are intrenched Infidelity and Atheism with their magazines of literature scoring at our Christianity; their Hoe printing presses busy day and night. There are their blaspheming apostles, their drunken Tom Paines and libertine Voltaires of the present as well as the past, reinforced by all the powers of darkness from highest demon to lowest imp. What will extirpate those monsters of infidelity and atheism? John Brown's shorter catachism about "Who made you?" or Westminster catechism about "What is the chief end of man?" No. Thunderbolts! The seven thunders! For the impurities of the world empalaced as well as cellared, epauletted as well as ragged, enthroned as well as ditched; for corrupt legislation which at times makes our state and national capitals a hemispheric stench; for superstitions that keep whole nations In squalor century after century, their Juggernauts crushing, their knives lacerating, their waters drowning, their funeral pyres burning, the seven thunders! Oh. men and women, disheartened at the bad way things often go, hear you not a rumbling down the sky of heavy artillery, co ning in on o ir side, the seven thunders of the Almighty? Do not let us try to wield them ourselves; they are too heavy and too fiery for us to handle; but God can and God will; and when all mercy has failed and all milder means are exhausted, then judgment will begin Thunderbolts! Depend upon it, that what is not done under the flash of the seven candlesticks will be done by the trampling of the seven thunders. But I leave this imperial and multipotent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves it, imbedded in the finest wall that was ever built, or will be constructed, the wall of heaven. It is the seven strata of precious stones that make up that wall. After naming six of the precious stones in that wall, the Bible cries out "the seveuih chrysolite." The chiysolite is an exquisite green, and in that seventh layer of the heavenly wall shall be preserved forever the dominant color of the earth we once inhabited. I have sometimes been saddened at the thought that this world, according to science and revelation, is to be blotted out of existence, for it is such a beautiful worid. But here in this layer of the heavenly wall, where the numeral seven is to be imbedded, the strata of green is to be photographed, and embalmed, and perpetuated, the color of the grass that covers the earth, the color of foilage that fills the forest, the color of the deep sea. One glance at that green chrysolite, a million years after this planet has been extinguished, will bring to mind just how it looked In summer and spring, and will say to those who were born blind on earth, and never saw at all in thi3 world, alter they have obtained full eyesight in heaven: "If you would know how the earth appeared in June and August, look at that seventh layer of the heavenly wall, the green of the chrysolite." And while we stand there and talk, spirit with spirit, that old color of the earth which had more sway than all the other colors put together.will bring back to us our earthly experiences, and noticing that this green chrysolite 13 the seventh layer of crystalized magnificence, we may bethink ourselves of the domination of that numeral seven overall other numerals, and thank (iod that in the dark earth we left behind us we so long enjoyed the light of the seven golden candlesticks, and were all of U3 permitted to shine among the seven stars of more or less magnitude, and that all the seven seals of the mysterious future have been broken wide open for us by a loving Christ, and that the seven thunders

having done their work have ceaseo reverberation, and that the numeral seven, which did such tremendous work in the history of nations on earth, ha3 been given such a high place in that Niagara of colors, tho wall of heaven, "the first foundation of which is jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite." "When shall these eyes thy heavenbuilt walls And pearly gates beheld; Tay bulwarks with salvation strong, ..nd streets of shining gold?

GERMANY READY. Iioatls I.cailln from France Oue Continuous Fort. Metz and Strasburg, the outposts of the German army, face watchfully toward the west. From the gates of Metz the roads to Taris taper through wall after wall of entrenchments.which end with the heights above the stricken field of Gravelotte. Thence to tie frontier of France is only a short walk across the grave-covered ground. From Metz to France is one long "glacis," unassailable by the invader. Above it rise the five great sentinel forts which surround Metz, and from the high ground on which these stand can be seen, fifteen miles to the west, Verdun, the nearest French fortress, the threat of France. In Metz and Strasburg a great German army stands at attention, ready for war. Touch the right button in Berlin and in half an hour 30,000 men will be marching from Metz and within twelve hours 100,000 men the frontier field force of Alsace-Lorraine will be crossing the border; while the system in accordance with which the railway touches all the great cantonments of Germany and then converge on to the frontier, will land half a million men near Metz in three days. In a week 2,500,000 men will be on and beyond the frontier; in a week 4,000,000 Germans will be under arms. In Metz and Strasburg stores and food and fodder lie ready in magazines, the transport animals stand harnessed by the wagons. All the appliances and munitions of modern war are to hand, and would be on the road in a few minutes. When the troops go "route marching," they carry with them three days' food and three days' ammunition; their clothes are in their knapsacks. They can carry no more In war. A DELIGHTFUL LUNCHEON. Tli Hostess Put Fvery Woman at Her Fuse. The charming luncheon given by Mrs. Washington A. Roebling in honor cf Mrs. Daniel Manning, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was an outburst of spring hospitality, says Harper's Bazar. At this luncheon over 1C0 women, representing many different organizations, including patriotic, literary, civic and philanthropic clubs, were charmingly entertained and amalgamated, through the skill and tact of the hostess, into a sociable and thoroughly acquainted company of women. By a system of cards and index 'ists which hung in the reception room every guest knew her table as she entered the large ballroom at Dolmonico's, where the luncheon was spread. Intimate friends of Mrs. Roebling presided at the small tables, that, each holding eight, circled the large round one in the center of the room at which were seated Mrs. Roebling, Mrs. Manning and special dignitaries of the D. A. R. and Sorosis assembled to do her honor. When tho guests were all seated and before she had taken her own place, Mrs. Roebling went about from table to table, giving a word of welcome to every one and assuring herself that no one at any table was unknown to all the others of its company. When the coffee was served, Mrs. Roebling arose and in a few graceful words presented Mrs. Manning and welcomed her guests. Then, in the most informal and delightful way, she asked one and another of the ladies present to say a word, her lively challenges bringing out every time clever and absolutely impromptu speeches from those to whom they were addressed. SUMMER CUSHIONS. The Cottager Never Can Have Too Many 111 low. The cottager never has too many pillows for her hammocks, couches, piazzas, etc., but she sometimes complains that they are subjected to such hard usage during the summer that they are completely worn out by the autumn, and each spring she has to lay in a new stock, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. As feathers and down are expensive her cushion item is a heavy drain on her purse every season. This year she is going to try a new experiment. Her next-door neighbor confided to her that she grew the "feathers" for her pillows in her garden. Her pillows are not fill'.d w ith chicken wings or rose leaves either, but with soft, fluffy down, yielded by the eatttails when they are lipo in July and August. Milkweed and thistles also turn to silk and fluff and can bo used for pillow filling. The milkweed IK)d3 should be gathered in the autumn, put in paper bags and hung up to dry. They will burst open before the winter Is- over and can be made up into pillows early in the spring. Thistledown is like sipun silk. All that is necessary is to hang the thistles when gathered (the full-blown flowers) where they can rest undisturbed and dry In the sunshine. They will turn into silk without any other help than nature's. They make pillows to dream sweat dreams on. Burlaps and denim are cheap, serviceable and sightly 'abrics for summer curtains and pillows. They come in various colors and can bo adorned with white embroidery or loft plain, and they can stand a great many hard knocks before they lose their freshness. Considerate. Hilda That awful old hat, Ella! Why do you wear It? Ella (her younger sister) For your sake, dear. I mustn't be too attractive, you know! Punch.

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EXPOSITION

Almost "World-Wide in Scope and Uagnificent in Its Display. CHEAT AD rOPULAR ENTERPRISE Kringln Together a Comprehensive Ejliiblt of Our National Resources, Industrie, Manufactures and l'roducts-Vonr Months of Si ght-Si-eiug;, Commencing Julj 1, isyy. Perhaps there are comparatively few people who appreciate the vast scope of the First Greater America Colonial Exposition which opens its gates at Omaha on July 1st. The United States has become, within the rast year, a mighty empire whose possessions lie on either side of the globe, and it is a stupendous undertaking to bring together in one grand comprehensive exhibit the national resources, industries, manufactures and products, not only of the North American continent, but of several of the principal islands of the seas. The peoples of these far away sea-girt lands are cf different AUDIT races; their manners and customs, their language, dress and modes of life differ widely from those to which we are most accustomed, and both time and capital are required to secure all the things necessary to make up an exposition which will do them justice. That this feat has been accomplished is due not only to the push and energy of the Exposition management, but also to the material and FRATERNAL timely aid extended by the government and its representatives in the various islands. A grand opportunity is offered to the American people to become better informed as to the real character, resources, and possibilities of the islands of the Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico and the people who inhabit them. The village life of the natives will be faithfully portrayed, their indasFINE ARTS tries thoroughly exploited, even their daily occupations accurately reproduced. In the Colonial Exhibits and other buildings will be found comprehensive collections which will indicate the resources of the different islands and give an opportunity to judge of the riches and possibilities of our new possessions. PUDL1C The illumination of the coming Exposition will far surpass anything of the kind ever before attempted. The Omaha city lighting plant will furnish the current for the arc lights on the grounds and for the commercial lighting of the Midway, and this gives Superintendent Itustln thousands of additional lights for the illumination of the Court of Honor and Uluff Tract. The dark places of last year's Exposition have been touched with a wizard's wand of light and the effect will be a fairy scene, far surpassing In beauty the splendid display of last year. -. - c-v ' LAJOON, WITH FINE ARTS IN DISTANCE. N. B. Smith of Boulder, Colo., will make a display of several carloads ot the products of Boulder county f

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The government exhibit will surpass that of last year. The Libby Prison War Museum, an immense collection of historical relics, will be augumented by trophies from the war in tho Philippines and the campaigns in Cuba and Porto Rico. The various other exhibits in Agriculture, Mining, Electricity, Machinery. Manufactures and Art are superior to those cf last year and in almost every department will be new and interesting features.

The grounds and buildings have 1 been greatly improved, thousands of 5 trees, plants, shrubs and flowers from j tropic and sub-tropic, lands being used i in the dpcorations. In the Horticul1 ture exhibit are palms, orange trees and scores of tre es and plants frora our island possessions, many of which are new to the people of tho United States. The Electrical illuminaticrt will far surpass anything of the kind heretofore attempted and all that is newest and most novpl in electric effects will be shown. The Grand Court will i be a fairy city when the thousands of lights arc displayed and many of the effects are start iing in their novelty and wicrd beauty. Several features of tho coming Exposition have received more than usual attention and among th-s might be mentioned the Fine Ar collection which will be the grandest exhibit in this line since the World's Fair; the Indian Congress, in which the leading chiefs and warriors of the many tribes ORIUM. will participate; the Pain Fire Works company, which employs over three hundred people in its realistic reproductions of Dewey's famous victory at Manila, the Destruction of Cervera's Squadron at Santiago, the Sinking of the Merrlmac and the Storming of San Juan Hill. The famous Uritish Grenadier Band, with Dan Godfrey as leader, will nil a five weeks engagement beginning on July 1st, and as this i3 BUILDING. one of the finest musical organizations in the world, its concerts will be a rare treat for those who attend. There will be a number of special davs, notably the opening day July 1st and Schley day July 3rd. The glorious Fourth will be celebrated in a fitting manner and on these days many noted naval and military men will participate in tho exercises. The amusement section of the Ex BUILDING. position is on a much more elaborate scale than that of last year and the Greater Midway will be all and more than the name implies. The sinking of the Morrlmac by Ilobson and Iiis gallant crew will be reproduced on the Greater Amarica Exposition Midway at Omaha this summer, with realistic effects and accuracy of detail. COMFORT. Those who are interested in ethnology studies will not fail to visit the Indian congress. It is not probable that such an opportunity to study tho peculiarities of the North American Indian will ever again be afforded. Tho tribes are scattered far and wide and many of them will soon be extinct. Famous chiefs and warriors are passing away and those ancient customs and observances which have made tho Indian character so picturesque are fast becoming obsolete. The white man's civilization is fatal to the Indian in many ways and once mighty tr.jes are succumbing to its influence. The Cubans, chiefly insurgents, who will inhabit the Cuban village at the Greater America Exposition, will arrive in Omaha about June 1, which will leave them a month In which to establish the village and arrange the exhibit from Cuba Libre. The Daughters of the American Revolution are to have a special day at the Greater America Exposition at Omaha. The Invitation was extended the society at its annual meeting in Washington last February, and was unanimously accepted. The Omaha chapter has charge of arrangements. The date will be announced In a few Ays,

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A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECOfJD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Par. Il'inoU. Miners .Ire I:uly to Work in l"var.sille -'Mines ami TrouLIa l;sy Ucsult IMajor as Arbitrator Ilrkf Ttli-rrrams. To Work ia lvansiile't Mines. Evan.-ville, Ind., telegram: The Courier RNcived a dispatch night saying that fifty miners had left Pana, Iii., to work in the mines at this place. The men are all colored. Only nino of the fifty men from Pana reached here and wont to work at non in tho First Avenue mine. There was no demonstration by the strikers. Attorneys for the union officials v.-ere in court this morning trying to Ikivc set aside the In'.e injunction. Mayer Akin has tried to arbitrate the trouble, but the operators refuse to listen to him on any proposition that mi::ht lead to a meeting with the miners ar.d union officials. Mino Attaek Is Investigated. Evansville. Ind.. .telegram: The grand j:iry began an investigation of the attempt to blow up the First Avenue coal mine Monday night. Guards remain at all the local mines where nonunion labor is employed. Trouble la expected at any time. National VicePresident Thomas Davis of the United Mine workers said that he expected tha strike to last all summer. India nans Would FigM. New Carlisle, Ind., telegram: The work of re-enlisting the companies comprising the One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana has been begun and i3 progressing rapidly. The report that a call will be issued for ten regiments of volunteers has caued the present activity in military circles. Indiana will furnish one regiment if the call ij made. Tar From a Settlement. Evansville, Ind., telegram: The officials of the Mine Workers' union are finally satisfied that the operators wi'i not meet them in conference soon, and the strike is apparently as far from settlement as a month ago. The grand jury will investigate the reported attempt to blow up the 1st avenue minv last Tuesday. Indiana's Light Wheat Crop. - Indianapolis, Ind., telegram: Indianapolis grain dealers have completed their estimates of the Indiana wheat crop and report that the yield will not exceed 17,000,000 bushels. In February the estimate was 55,000.000 bushels. The yield will be the lowest is twenty years. Con'-lenetl Dispatches. The initiatory steps have been take at Vincennes, looking to the reorganization of the Historical Society. Notwithstanding its richness in historical associations the society once established there was suffered to die out, after a half century of existence. "While General Packard retires from editorial control or the New Albany Tribune to become commandant cf the Soldier's Home at Lafayette, he will continue editorial contributions to hia old paper. Fire-crackers exploded by boys started a fire at Ft. Wayne which destroyed Edward Kibiger's stable, Charlea Berndt's saloon and billiard hall, and Peter Beckes butcher shop. Total loss, $2,200. The Chandler coal mines near Evansville, have been sold to Patrick Bartley and Samuel P. Sears, Anderson capital being represented. The mines will to unionized and the capacity doubled. Judge Eulay, of Petersburg, called to preside at Jeffersonville in the Win-standley-Frcdericks perjury cases, has been prostrated by appendicitis, and the trial has been continued until July 5. Mrs. James Piatt, of Union Mills, Laporte county, gave birth to four daughters at one time. Three of the children died, but the fourth will live. The mother is but sixteen years Old. If the consent of the Milwaukee bishop can be secured, the Rev. Walter D. Cole, of Milwaukee, Wis., will accept the rectorship of the Tiinity (Episcopal) church, Lefayette. The residents of Moore's Crossing, in Spencer county, have petitioned for a potteffk-c and that the name of the village be changed to Schley, in honor ol Admiral Schley. Victor Marara, nine years old. was drowned at Jeftersonville after savins the life of his little companion. The new purchasers of the Terra Haute electric railway have voluntarily increased the wages of motorma from 14 to 15 cehts an hour. John A Linie, ex-clerk of Oranga county, has purchased the Paoli Republican, Alfred W Bruner, editor anJ publisher for the last twelve years, retiring. The Question of annexing the I. 0. 0. F. home by the city of Greensburg. will again be considered by the City Council on the 7th of July. George Dewald. a wealthy pioneer merchant of Ft. Wayne, died last evening. The police have stopped piano playing in the saloons at Muncie. A Sure Sign. Jenks That baby of yours ought to be a good tennis player later on. Jones What makes you think so? Jenks Oh, the way he keeps up hir racket. Boston Courier. Ilet rayed. fcne "Why haven't you told me that you bad been married?" He "Who said I was married?" She "I can tell by the way you take all the umbrella for youncair.,,- ladi&aapalis Journal.

oclety Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. M9, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conner, V. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M . ; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C.Jilson, II. P. IL B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 2f', 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, W. M. Mrs. Tou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOV7S. ' AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schcarer, 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, Y. 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, N0.1499; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of "r . hall . C. M. Slay ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. RL PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. W. Jacoby, Com. Frat 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 Ilahn, Con. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Kcper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; meets eyery Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hail. Mrs. W. Bur. kett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUIvL Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent, li. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. CT E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, X0.6; meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs, Chas. Hämmere), Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. Gove, Chief. Chas. W. Til.'j II. rtts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets very first and third Tuesday evenings in Simom hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. in., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon.Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second anil fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall S. B. Fanning, Pics. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Karzer, M. I)., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., SeQ Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question asked of ns so often, referring to advertising. If proprlj done we know it will pay handsomely. Tho experience of those who hare tried it prorea that nothing equals it.