Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 33, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 July 1899 — Page 3

TALMAGFS SERMON.

DIVINE SATIRE. THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. Te Blind Guides Tlhlck Strata at a Gnat and Swallow a ' Camel Matthew 23: 24 Great Minds Grapple with Great Undertaking. (Copyright 1303 by. Louis Klopsch.) A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text, he means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciation of great ones. In my text, a small insect and a lar?e quadruped are brought into comparisona gnat and a camel. You have in museum or on the desert seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high, and stomach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled "the ship of the desert." The gnat spoken of in the text, is in the grub form. It is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the gnat as we recognize it. But the insect spoken of in the text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water for my text is a misprint and ought to read "strain out a gnat." My text shows you the prince of inconsistencies. A man aftor long obserw has formed the suspicion tl cup of water he is about to e is a grub or the grandad gnat. He goes and gets a s' trainer. He takes the water a i it through the sieve in the b ,nt. He says, "I would rather d thing almost than drink this w until this larva be extirpated." Tnis water is brought under lnquisitioD. The experiment is successful. The water rushes through the sieve, and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the mail rarefuuy removes the insect and drinks the water in placidity. But going out one day, and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert," the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel's forefoot, and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back, and gives one swallow and the dromedary disappears forever. He strained out a gnai, he swallowed a camel. "While Christ's audience was yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of his illustration for smile they did, unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole Christ practically said to them, "That is you." Punctilious about small things; reckless about affairs of great magnitude. No subject ever winced under a surgeon's knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces, and put the pieces under a microscope for examination, so Christ finds his way to the heart of the dead Pharisee, and cuts it out, and puts it under the glass of inspection for all generations to examine: Those Pharisees thought that Chri.it would flatter them and compliment thfm. and how they must have writhed under the redhot words as he said: 'Ye fools, ye whited sepulchres, ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel." Tt'-re are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it is the object of this sermon to sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. First, I remark, that all those ministers of the Gospel who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance, are photographed in the text. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convocation. But there are illustrations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text, that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent audience. There are men like those blind guides of the text, who advocate only those things in religious service which draw the corners of the mouth down, and denounce all those things whicn have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men will go to installations and to presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a freat dormitory, and their somniferous uermons are a cradle, and the drawled-out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flie3 off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the for mer implies the indifferences of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes over power one; but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience, and find3 healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give out the doxology, or pronounce the enediction. The great fault of church services today, is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out; the other i3 a great, sprawling and sleepyeyed camel of tte dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in all oür Bible classes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christ-like vivacity as we find in the text. I take down from my library the biographies of ministers, and writers cf tne past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I find, that without a single exception, they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when he advised the Baallte3, a3 they could not make their god respond, to call louder 83 their god might be sound asleep, or 0,1 a-hunting. Job used it when he

said to h'3 self-conceited comforters: "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used it in the text, but when He ironically complimented the corrupt Pharisees, saying, "The whole need not a physician," and when, by one Herod, saying: "Go ye, and tell that fox." Matthew Henry's commentaries from the first page to the last corruscated with humor, as summer clouds with heat lightning. John Bunyan's writings are as full of humor, as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read Pilgrim's Progress, who does not remember, that while reading it, he smiled .s often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, George Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Ashael Nettleton, Charles G. Finney, and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and I say to all our young theological students, sharpen your wits until they are as keen as scimetars, and then take them into this holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to Hp, and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is as much religion, and I think a little more, in a spring morning than in starless midnight. Religious work without any humor or wit in it, is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments, and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down to such a banquet. By all means remove all frivolity, and all bathos, and all lightness and vulgarity strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination; but on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church today, conventionality, coming up from the Great Sahara Desert of Ecclesiasticlsm, having on its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom, and vehemently refuse to swallow that camel. Oh, how particular a great many people are about the infinitesimals, while they are quite reckless about the magnitudes. 'What did Christ say? Did he not excoriate the people in his time who were so careful to wash their hands before a meal, but did not wasn their hearts? It is a bad thing to have unclean hands; it is a worse thing to have an unclean heart. How many people there are in our time who are very anxious that after their death they shall be buried with their face toward the east, and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should face in the right direction, so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the just, whichever way they are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of the Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a way of measuring a gnat until it is larger than a camel. Described in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of grammar, and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve

of literary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo anj profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they misht better fracture every law of the language and shock their intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominative, and every noun for its government, and let every preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy ot the fourth ward of New York on election daj-, than to commit a moral inaccuracy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described Jn the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others, and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. There are in everv community, and in every church, watch dogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if this man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there i3 not some thing wrong about the other man They are always the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exception that those people who have the most faults themselves are the most mere! less in their watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and hypercriticisms. They spend their life in hunting for musk rats and mud turtles, instead of hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles, always for something mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors imperfections through a microscope, and look at their own im perfections through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors' Imperfections are like gnats and they 6train them out; their own imperfec tions are like camels and they swallow them. But lest too many might think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that we all come under the divine satire when we make the ques tions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Where shall I live now, greater than th question, Where shall I live for ever? How shall I get more dollars here? greater than the question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question, How shall I pay my debts to man greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the question, How shall I gain the world? greater than the question, "What if I lose my soul? the question, Why did God let sin come into the world? greater than the question, How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? the question, What shall I do ! with the twenty or forty or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question, What shall I do with the millions of cycles of my post terrestrial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former more insignificant in compcrlsoii with the latter than a gnat is In

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camel. We dodged the text. W said. "That does not mean me, and that does not mean me," and with a ruinous benevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let u3 all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What por preparations for a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle wer taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a min ute were longer than a century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by the crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future, the oncoming, overshadowing future. Oh, Eternity! Eternity! Eter nity! HER FIGHT FOR HER TREES. Great Aid to Forest Preservation A Woman's Efforts. Mrs. W. S. De Camp owned a tract of land on Moose river in the Adiron dack region through which the lumbermen wished to float logs from the forests above, says the Utica Observer. To make the stream capable of floating logs it was dammed below and the backing of the water was of great dam age and annoyance to Mrs. De Camp. It killed the timber on her land and destroyed the natural stream. She went to the courts and after indefinite litigation secured an injunction that prohibited driving logs through her property. Then the lumbermen went to the legislature and secured an act designating Moose river as a highway for the purpose of floating loss. The constitutionality of this law was promptly attacked by Mrs. De Camp and the Court of Appeals has sustained her contention. The decision halts lumbermen in their campaign of destruction against the Adirondack forests. The decision declares unconstitutional every law making Adirondack streams public highways for the floating of logs. It protects the forests by prohibiting the lumbermen from trampling all rights under foot in the pursuit of the logging business. It saves the streams for the fishermen and puts an end to the destruction of forests caused by damming streams. It is the most important aid to forest preservation that has been received for years. ANTI-FREAK LAW. To Prevent the Exhibition of Deformed Persons to lie Tested. Chicago Chronicle: George Middleton of the Clark Street Dime Museum has been arrested for violation of the new freak law, which went into effect July 1. A warrant sworn out by A. J. Dickson, a collector, was served upon Mr. Middleton yesterday morning while he was in conference with his manager in his office in the museum. Barney Nelson, the armless colored boy named in the bill as the freak in question, drew crayon portraits yesterday with as little concern as though his means ot earning a living were not up for final settlement. The freak and criminal law, which prohibits the public exhibition of deformed persons or those persons bearing criminal notoriety, is an outgrowth, it is said by museum proprietors, of a disagreement between Mr. Middleton and Representative Stephen Malato. During the anarchists' trial Nina Van Zandt gained considerable notoriety through her engagement to Anarchist Spies, a leader of the movement. Portraits of both Nina and her lover were bought and exhibited by the Clark street museum. Later, when the girl married Representative Malato, she regretted the hanging of her portrait and tried to have it removed from the public gaze. The museum people refused, knowing that the picture was among the most interesting of their collection. For many years the battle raged before it finally found expression in the antifreak bill, which was aimed as the death blow to the museum business. Where Ladles Cual Ships and Reseat Being Cuffed. From St. James Budget: Mary Kingsley tel'.s an amusing story about West Africz.n woman. There was a beautiful young black government offi cial, in uniform complete, and fate ordained one day that he should be told off to superintend the coaling of a lit tie gunboat. The coaling was beinj done by ladies. He, full of zeal and desirous of demonstrating it, shouted. talked and gave directions to those la dies, as he stood, uniform and all, un der the government flag, on the government quay. They went on with their work merrily and paid no atten tion to him. Presently, other government officials being about, he, still de sirous of demonstrating seal, cuffed one of the ladies and said something disagreeable. They turned upon him, threw him into the thin black batter that goes for water in that part of her majesty's dominions, and went on with their work. A sicker chicken than that man when he returned to society you never saw. His uniform you could not see for mud, and the other government officials behaved in an unfeeling way. They roared with laughter. Meteor Fall In Africa. A fine collection of meteorites has just been added to the department of minerals in the British museum. It consists of four stones which were seen to fall on January 23 In the native villages on the eastern slopes of Mt. Zombo, British Central ATrioa. Two of them weighed fourteen and seventeen ounces, respectively, and the other two twenty-nine and nineteen ounces. At Zomba a crash like thunder was heard, and the reverberations lasted for a few minutes afterward, and the detonation was heard at a place ninety miles dis tant. At one of the new villages the people were found squatting around the stone in a circle discussing the miracle, as they termed it. None would approach the stone, and it was still lying where it fell when the offi cials arrived. As far as It is at present known, the area over which the Zomba stones fell represented nine miles long and about three miles wide. Scientific American.

FOR DEMOCRATIC .

National Committee Holds a Meeting at Chicago. FRIENDS OF SILVER ACTIVE. Some Chances Made in the Plans for the Conduct of the Organization Enthusiastic Iteception Glren to William 7. Urjau. The democratic national committee met at Chicago May 20 to consider plans for strengthening the organiza tion of the party, and such other matters a3 might be brought before it. ae work done may be summarized as fol lows: Created the office of rice chairman and elected William J. Stone to fill it. Adopted new ruk-3 which add the ways and means committee to the list of standing committees. Thanked the bimetalllsts for their of fers of co-operation and agreed to call on them when their services are needed. Authorized the chairman to divide the states into groups for campaign work. Elected John I. Martin sergeant-at-arms for next national convention. Exponents of the radical silver policy were curbed temporarily in their attempt to bolt from the national democratic committee because that body believes that other issues than 16 to 1 should be brought to the foreground n the campaign of 1900. The partial pacification was accomplished by William Jennings Bryan, who urged moderation and submission to the will of the committee. P. J. Delin was mildly censured for the stand he took during the last mayoralty compaign in Chicago, and the committee provided for a press committee of five to attend to the dis semination of democratic literature. and directed the vice-chairmi.n to name its members. Ex-Gov. Altgeld said his understanding was that Mr. Devlin will be retained in the management of the bureau. At th3 meeting of the bimetalists a resolution declaring for a 16 to 1 ratio in coinage and for Bryan as the presi dential candidate of the next compaign was adopted. William J. Bryan was enthusiasti cally received at the Auditorium meeting in the evening. He spoke against imperiaism and trusts, touching upon silver, and urged local democrats to unite for the common interest of the party. Ex-Gov. Altgeld spoke from the audience and William J. Stone and others were also hear!. WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Evidences of Prosperity Continue Failures Are Verv Few. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade, say: "The general evidences of prosperity continue convincing. Failures are the smallest ever known for the season, railroad earnings the largest, and solvent payments through clearing-houses in July have been 48.6 per cent larger than last year and C2.3 per cent larger than in 1S92, the best of previous years. Official returns of the most wonderful year in the nation's commerce show a decrease of $Sj,900,0C0 in value of the great staples exported, largely owing to prices, but an increase of about $SO,000,000 in other exports, mostly manufactures. Failures for the week have been 143 in the United States, against 207 last year, and 23 iD Canada, against 17 last year." SAN FRANCISCO WINS PRIZE. Coast City the Next Meeting; Place of Kpworth Leaguers. San Francisco will entertain the Epworth league convention in 1901. The more important places considered, aside from the one chosen, were Denver and Los Angeles, Cal. The vote in the committee stood: San Francisco, 6; Los Angeles, 3; Denver, 1. Beautiful weather, hot but not sweltering, prevailed for the Epworth league convention at Indianapolis. It is claimed 20,000 visitors are in the city. Every service is largely attended and at most of the meetings many people have been unable to secure seats. STRIKERS JSE EXPLOSIVES. Street Car at Cleveland, .Ohio, lllown from the Tracks. At Cleveland, Ohio, July tS, a Euclid avenue car loaded with passengers was wrecked by an explosion of nitroglycerin or gun cotton. Four companies of the Fifth regiment from Cleveland, the First Ohio cavalry and the naval reserves are guarding the property of the street car company and patrolling the streets. Withdrawing Troops from Cnba. In order to rel'eve the exposure ol American troops to yellow fever and other diseases in Cuba the president has directed that five battalions of troops be withdrawn from the island. Losnes of Oregon Regiment. During the service of the Second Oregon regiment in the Philippines 208 men were discharged, sixteen were killed or died of wounds, thirty-three died of disease and two deserted. Dlsastron Cloudburst In Texas. A report from Childress, 200 miles northwest of Dallas, Texas, states that a cloudburst occurred in that region, with disastrous results. The property loss Is heavy. To Kxtemt Free Delivery. Rural free-mall delivery, which has been in successful operation in several points in Indiana for some months past, is to be greatly extended within the next year. Colliery Kzplnlon In Japan. By an explosion In a colliery at Wakmast, Japan, more than two hundred miners were killed. One hundred and forty-seven corpses have been recovered. Heiress Marries a Coachman. At Swampscott, Mass., Abbie Phillips, aged 17, heiress to $2,000,000, was married to Darnard D. Kennedy, who is employed by the family as coachman.

STRAUSS' DEATH. He Succumbed to Exhaustion from Service to Charity. Vienna Special to the London Telegraph: The Vienna opera house every year stages "Fledermaus" with its best artists, as does arso the Berlin opera house. Unfortunately this masterpiece was the indirect cause of its composer's sickness and death. On Whit Monday "Fledermaus" was played at the cpera, and Strauss was persuaded to conduct the overture himself, as the representation was for charitable purposes. Doctors had forbidden him to undergo any fatigue, as he suffered from chronic affection of the bronchial tubes. The master was always excited while conducting, and had been especially warned against any sudden change in temperature. He left the opera in a heated state, took cold and felt ill on returning home. Although astonishment filled the opera house at the freshness and vivacity of Herr Strauss, who was 74 years old, and the vigor with which he handled his baton. It soon appeared how weak he was, and how little fitted his nerves were any longer to bear the fatigue and excitement of public appearance. He war: soon afterward seized with general feebleness, and was unable after that day to leave his room, but nothing serious was apprehended. He worked, according to his custom, during the night, sometime3 till the morning, at the composition of a ballet, "Cinderella," to be acted at the opera house. This work gave Strauss much pleasure, and he caused the first act, which he had just concluded, to be played before him by his stepson, the pianist, Herr Epstein. He intended to finish the two other acts at Ischl, Salzkammergut, to which place he was to have removed soon afted for the summer. On a Friday he was seized with shivering and pronounced inflammation of the lungs, which pursued such a rapid course that the doctors declared the case hopeless on Saturday morning. During his delirium the great composer talked of his music, but when he partly recovered consciousness he expressed hopes for recovery and entertained no idea of death, of which he always during his lifetime was so afraid that Irhe word was never pronounced before him. His last words to the doctors were "Auf wiedersehen." He dieS painlessl', surrounded by his friends. His last thoughts were devoted to the progress of his music.

HAWAIIAN COMMERCE. It lias Had Its Development Under Protective System. The Hawaiian islands are an example of commercial development under a close or protected system. V. was in 1SG6 that the islands first touched an interest of $1,000.000 in our import trade, chiefly through the whale fisheries, as they made a convenient stopping place for American whalers. The interest was not doubled until the reciprocity treaty went into effect (1S77), and sugar became the great article of commerce, with rice as the second in importance, but representing only one-tenth the value of sugar. The granting of free entry into the United States for these two products was equivalent to remitting to the Hawaiian planters the sum of $1,000,000 a year, every dollar of which acted as a bounty on production. It was natural to find that so liberal a gift was soon appreciated, and the energies of the islands were directed into laying out plantations of sugar and rice. As rice proved of uncertain profit, the cultivation for export has not pros pered, although the domestic consumption increased through the influx of Asiatics. The exports of this grain were 2.230,000 pounds in 1876, attained I a maximum of 13.CS4.200 pounds in ( 1887, and are now about 5.500.000 pounds a year. Very different was the course of sugar, for which the only market was the United States. Beginning with an export of 20,000,000 pounds in 187C. it passed 100.000.000 in 1882, doubled itself within four years, passed 300,000.000 pounds in 1893, was 443,500,000 pounds in 1896, and in 1897 touched 520,000,000 pounds, giving no sign of halting or any absence of power to increase in the future. The annual bounty of $1,000.000 given in the first year of the operation of the reciprocity treaty was then more than $5.230.000 a little less than one-half the grant made to the Louisiana planters in the best season of the direct bounty in the tariff law of 1890. Harper's Magazine. A raylnc Iluslnes. San Francisco Bulletin: There is no singer in the world who can draw more than a $12,000 house. There is no orator who can much raise the $1 admission fee without exposing himself to the danger of speaking to empty benches. If the four most popular debaters selected by popular vote would advertise a discussion on any question of the day they would be fortunate if an audience could be gathered which would net each $1,000. Yet it is stated that there was $80,000 in the box office of the Coney Island Clubhouse on the night when Robert Fitzsimmons and James Jeffries met to see which could punch the other harder, and which could stand the most punishment. The best of any class of performers always represents a money value, but the best fighter carries off the largest prize. How She Was Looking. New York Evening Sun: "I must be looking pretty forlorn today," said a woman to her companion in a railway coach lately. "I can always see myself as others see me in the books the train boy leaves to tempt me. The first book he handed me today was "A Struggle For Existence." On his next trip through the car he tried me with "Alone in the World." Now he seems to feel he has found the very thing to suit my case. It's "The. Forsaken Bride." A Dear Victory. "In your little family arguments do you ever succeed in convincing your wife that she is wrong?" "Yes; but afterward I always deeply regret having done so." Harper's Bazar. Never lean with the back upon anything that is cold.

I Glass Workers to Combine. Muncie, Ind., telegram: At the flint glass workers international convention Monday a committee of nine was appointed to meet with a like committee representing the green glass workers, now in convention at Atlantic City, and report plans for the amalgamation of the two big trades, together with the Green Pressers' league. The pressers will meet as soon as it is expedient, and a special meeting for consolidating the trades at once will be called if it is deemed advisable. This action virtually decides that an amalgamation will be formed uniting 20,000 glass workers in the strongest labor organization in the world. Favor Shorter Work Day. Indianapolis telegram: In the iron molders' convention Monday two resolutions were submitted on the shorter work day and the abolishment of the piece-work system. Owing to an agreement between Iron molders and their employers, by which all differences must be settled by arbitration, it is probable, delegates say, that there will be no final settlement in this convention of these two questions. The sentiment of the convention is in favor of a shorter work day and of the total abolishment of the piece system. Men Iieturn to Work. Marion, Ind., telegram: There Is much rejoicing here over the settlement of the tin plate and the green glass wage scale. Monday over 1,000 men went to work in the tin plate mills and the United States glass factory. The tin plate workers started to work at an advance of 17 per cent over last year's wages and the glass workers at a small advance. Faith Healer Is Acquitted. Richmond.Ind., telegram: Mrs. Lydia Hazlett, the faith healer, who was arrested on the charge of practicing medicine without a license, was acquiUed by a justice. It was held that as the defendant did not use drugs or medicines in her practice she was not violating the statute in not having a li cense. HiS Flour Mill Iturned. Evansville, Ind., telegram: The Peerless Flour mill at Mount Vernon, Ind., the property of Kauffman Brothers of St. Louis, was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss, $110,000; insurance, $75,000. The mill was the largest in southern Indiana. The origin of the fire is unknown. General State News. Charles Overman of Amboy is charged with forging his father's name to several checks for small amounts each, which were put in circulation at Converse and other points. The senior Overman declines to honor them, and is reported as wanting his boy prosecuted. Blanche Litteral cf Rushville. who committed suicide, left a note addressed to George Hommel. saying she had killed herself becau.se he would not permit her to announce their marraige. which occurred in April. She signed this note as Mrs. George Hcmmel. Suit has been brought on behalf of Mrs. William Lane and her children against the sheriff of Kosciusko county for $30,000, growing out of the forceful dispossession of the plaintiffs on foreclosure of mortgage and their arrest for resisting service of the process. The great underground chambers left by the Standard Quarries company of Charlestown are under inspection, with a view of constructing an underground resort and place of amusement. The novel idea is backed by capitalists at Jeffersonville. Miss Maude Ray Baldwin, 20 years old, granddaughter of Aid. J. C. Barnes, took morphine to allay the pain of an old injury and died. She wa3 one of the most beautiful girls of that city. Frank Leech of Mishawaka, while fishing, punctured his hand with the fin of a black bass. Blood poisoning developed and he died, although his arm was amputated to save his life. Joshua Strange of Grant county, who was the Populist nominee for Congress in Major Steele's district, says that the Populists will not favor any alliance with the Democrats in 1900. Mrs. Allen Nibert of Vincennes left her baby with a nurse while she attended a circus. The child cried, laudanum was administered, and the little one died of an overdose. Charles Kinder, 12 years old, of Skillman, attempted to mount into a saddle borne by a mule, but his foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged to his death. President Mills of Earlham college sends word to his friends at Richmond that his health has greatly improved, and that he will soon return to Richmond. The twins born to Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman of Memphis, which were linked together much like the Siamese twins, are both dead. The Fayette county commissioners have abolished the orphans home at Connersvllle, in charge of Mrs. Wilson Cotton for several years. Alexander Skene, employed in the Diamond coal mine. Clay county, was fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast. The wood carvers employed in the furniture factories at Shelbyville are demanding an increase of wages. The next semi-annual meeting of the Southern Indiana Press association will be held a Jeffersonville early in October. John Gilbert of Mt. etna has been fined for thrashing the aged wooer of his mother, whom he had warned away. Mrs. Jack Prince oi' Louisville is reported as having been fatally gored by a cow which she was attempting to milk. Five hundred people attended the Abbott family reunion in CheUer township, Wabash counts-

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KIL WINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. H. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M . ; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C.Jilson, H. P. H. B. Reeve, Sec PLYMOUTH COMMANDER Y, No. 26, K. T.; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, W. M. Mrs. x-ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan 6treet. C. F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G, Miss Emma Zurr.baugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzcr, 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 P. hall. C. M. Slayter,C.R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. W. Jacoby, . Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. 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; meeti eyery 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. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No. 6; meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mr Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdayt in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. 5 Meets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibetts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES H. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets -very first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Dissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Com. mander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Pics. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSl CLANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Karzer, M. D., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Sec Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question asked of ua so often, referring to advertising. If properly done we know It will par handsomely. The experience of those who have tried it proves that nothing equals it