Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 August 1899 — Page 3

TALMAGES SERMON.

'CHRISTIANITY AS A DELUSION" THE SUBJECT. From the Text. Katelc., zxl, 21, as rollovrs: "He Made III Arrow Itright, lie CooHulted with Images, He Looked in the LiTer." (Copyright by L.ouis Klopsch.) Two modes of divination by which the king of Babylon proposed to find out the will of God: He took a bundle of arrows, put them together, mixed them together, then pulled forth one, and by the inscription on it decided "what city he should first assault. Then fcn animal was slain, and by the lighter or darker color of the liver, the brighter or darker prospect of success was inferred. That is the meaning of the text, "He made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver." Stupid delusion! And yet all the ages have been filled with delusionc?. It seems as if the world loves to -be hoodwinked, the delusion of the text only a specimen of the vast number of deceits practiced upon the human race. In the latter part of the last century Johanna Southcote came forth pretending to have divine power, made prophecies, had chapels built in her honor, and one hundred thousand diciplco came forward to follow her. About live years before the fcirth of Christ. Apollonius was born, and he came forth, and after five years being speechless, according to tradition, he healed the sick, and raised the dead, and preached virtue, and. according to the myth, having deceased, was brought to resurrection. The Delphic Oracle deceived vast multitudes of people; the Pythoness seated in the temple of Apollo uttering a crazy jargon from -which the people gressed their individual or national fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances were of such a nature that you could read them any way you wanted to read them. A general coming forth to battle consulted the Delphic Oracle, and he wanted to find out whether he was going- to be safe in the battle, or killed in battle, and the answer came forth from the Delphic Oracle in such words that if you put the comma before the word "never" it means one thing, and If you put the comma after the word "never" it means another thing just opposite. The message from the Delphic Oracle to the general was. "Go forth, returned never in battle shalt thou perish." If he was killed, that wa.3 according to the Delphic Oracle; If he came home safely, that was according to the Dflphie Oracle. So the ancient auguries deceived the people. The priests of those auguries, by the flight of birds, or by the intonation of thunder, or by the inside appearance cf slain animal, told the fortunes cr misfortunes of individuals or nations. The sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were supposed to be inspired women who lived in caves and who wrote the sibylline books afterward purchased by Tarquin the Proud. So late as the year 182. a man arose in New York, pretending to b a divine being, and played his part so well that wealthy merchants became his disciples and threw their fortunes into his keeping. And so in all iges there have been necromancies, incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries, magical arts, enchantments, divinations and delusions. The one of the text -was only a specimen of that which has been occurring in all ages of the world. None of theöe delusions accomplished any good. They deceived, they pauperized the people, they were a3 cruel as they were absurd. They opened no hospitals, they healed no wounds, they wiped away no tears, they emancipated no serfdom. Admiral Farragut, one of the most admired men of the American navy, early became a victim of this Christian delusion, and seated not long before life death at Lang Branch, he was giving some friends an account of Iiis early life. He said: "My father went down in behalf of the United States government to put an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion. I was a cabin boy and went along with him. I could gamble in every style of gambling. I knew all the wickedness there was at that time abroad. One day my father cleared everybody out of the cabin except myself and locked the door. He paid: 'David, what are you going to io? What are you going to be?' 'Well,' T said, 'father, I am going to follow the ea.' 'Follow the sea! and be a poor, miserable, drunken sailor, kicked and ouffed about the world, and die of a fever in a foreign hospital.' 'Oh, no! I said, 'father, I will not be that. I will tread the quarter-deck and command as you do." 'No. David,' my father sai'I, 'no, David, a person that has yo ir principles and your bad habits will never tread the quarter-deck or command.' My father went out and shut the door after him, and I said then: I will change; I will never swear again; I will never drink again; I will never gamble again.' Ajul.gentlemen.by the elp of God, I have kept those three vows to this time. I soon after that became a Christian, and that decided my fate for time and for eternity." Another captive of this great Christian delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on horseback at full gallop. Where is he going? To destroy Christians. He wants no better play spell than to Ktand and watch the hats and coats of the murderers who are massacring God's children. There goes the same man. Thirf time he is afoot. Where is he goin now? Going on the road to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to whip it out of him; they tried to scare it out of him; they thought they would give him enough of it by putting him into a windowless dungeon and keeping him on small diet, and denying him a cloak, and condemning him as a criminal, and howling at him through the stree; but they could not freeze it out f him, and they could not sweat it out of him, and they could not pound it out of him, so they tried the surgery of he sword, and one summer diy in he was decapitated. Perhaps the mightiest intellect of the f.,000 years of the "world's existence hoodwinked, cheated, cajoled, duped by the Christian religion. Ah! that is the remarkable thins about this delusion of Christianity it overpowers the strongest intellects.

Gather the critics, secular and religious, of this century together, and put a vote to them as to which is the greatest book ever written, and by large majority they will say "Paradise Lost." Who wrote "Paradice Lost"? une of the fools who believed in the Bible John Milton. Benjamin Franklin surrendered to this delusion, if you may judge from the letter that he wrote to Thomas Paine, begging him to destroy the "Age of Reason" in manuscript, and never let it go into type; and writing afterward, in his old days: "Of this Jesus of Nazareth I have to eay that the system of morals he left, and the religion he has given us are the best things the world has seen or is likely to see." Patrick Henry, the electric champion of liberty, was enslaved by this delusion, so that -he says: "The book worth all other books put together is the Bible." Benjamin Rush, the leading physiologist and anatomist of his day, the great med

ical scientist what did he say? "The only true and perfect religion is Christianity." Isaac Newton, the leading philosopher of his time what did he say? That man, surrendering to this delusion of the Christian religion, cried out: "The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the gospel." David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over uncovers his head David Brewster saying, "Oh, this religion has been a great light to me a very great light all my days." President Thiers, the great French statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he said: "I invoke the Lord God, in whom I am glad to believe." David Livingstone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delusion, this hallucination, this great swindle of the ages, so when they find him dead they find him on his knees. William E. Gladstone, the strongest intellect in England, unable to resist this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, went to the house of God every Sabbath, and often at the invitation of the rector read the prayers to the people. If those mighty intellects are overborne by this delusion, what chance is there for you and for me? The cannibals in south sea, the bushmen of Terra del Fuego, the wild men of Australia, putting down the knives of their cruelty, and clothing themselves in decent apparel all under the power of this delusion. Judson and Dot j and Abeel and Campbell and Wil liams and the three thousand missionaries of the cross turning their backs on home and civilization and comfort. and going out amid the squalor of heathenism to relieve it, to save it. to help it, toiling until they dropped into their graves, dying with no earthly comfort about them, and going into graves with no appropriate epitaph, when they might have lived in this country, and lived for themselves, and lived luxuriously, and been at last put into brilliant sepulchers. What a delusion! Yea. this delusion of the Christian religion shows itself in the fact that it goes to those who are in trouble. Now, it is bad enough to cheat a man when he is well and when he is prosperous; but this religion comes to a man when he is sick, and says: "You will be well again after a while: you are going into a land where there are no coughd and no pleurisies and no consumptions and no languishing; take courage and bear up." Yes, this awful chimera of the gospel comes to the poor and it says to them: "You are on your way to vast estates and to dividends always declarable." This delusion of Christianity comes to the bereit and it talks of reunion before the throne, and of the cessation of all sorrow. And then, to show that this delusion will stop at absolutely nothing, it goes to the dying bed and fills the man with anticipations. How much better it would be to have him die without any more hope than swine and rats and snakes! Shovel him under! That is all. Nothing more left of him. He will never know anything' again. Shovel him under! The soul is only a superior part of the .body, and when the body disintegrates the soul disintegrates. Annihilation, vacancy, everlasting blank, obliteration! Why not present all that beautiful doctrine to the dying, instead of coming with this hoax, this swindle of the Christian religion, and filling the dying man with anticipations of another life, until some in the last hour have clapped their hands, and some have shouted, and some have sung, and some have been so overwrought with joy that they could only look ecstatic. Palace gates opening, they thought diamond coronets flashing, hands beckoning, orchestras sounding. Little children dying actually believing they saw their departed parents, so that although the little children had been so weak and feeble and sick for weeks they could not turn on their dying pillow, at the last, in a paroxysm of rapture uncontrollable, they sprang to their feet and e.houted: "Mother, catch me; I am coming." The strong conclusion of every reasonable man and woman is that Christianity, producing such grand results, cannot be a delusion. A lie, a cheat, a swindle, a hallucination cannot launch such a glory of the centuries. Your logic and your common sense convince you that a bad cause cannot produce an illustrious result; out of the womb of such a monster no such angel can be born. There are many who began with thinking that the Christian religion was a stupid farce who have come to the conclusion that it is a reality. Why are you in the Lord's house today? Why did you sing this song? Why did you bow your head in the opening prayer? Why did you bring your family with you? Why, when I tell you of the ending of all trials in the bosom of God. do there stand trar3 in your eyes -not tears of grief, .but tears of joy such as stand in the eye3 cf homesick children far away at school when some one talks to them about going home? Why is it that you can be so calmly submissive to the death of your loved one, about whose departure you once were so angry and so rebellious? There is something the matter with you. All your friends have found out 'there is a great change. And if some of you would give your experience you would give it in schol

arly style, and others giving- their experience would give it in broken style, but the one experience would be ju3i as good as the other. Some of you have read everything. You are scientific and you are scholarly, and yet if I should ask you, "What is the most! sensible thing you ever did?" you would say: "The most sensible thing I ever did was to give my heart to God." But there may be others who have not had early advantages, and if they were asked to give their experience they might rise and give such testimony as the man gave in a prayer meeting when he said: "On my way here tonight I met a man who asked me where I was going. I said, I am going to a prayer meeting.' He said. 'There are a good many religions, and I think the most of them are delusions: as to the Christian religion, that is only a notion that is a mere notion, the Christian religion.' I said to him: "Stranger, you see that tavern over there?' 'Yes,' he said, I eee it.' 'Don't 3ou see me?' 'Yes, of course I see you.' 'Now, the time was when everybody in this town knows if I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket I could not pass that tavern without going in and getting ,i drink; all the people of Jefferson could not keep me out of that place: but God has changed my heart, and the Lord Jesus Christ has destroyed my thirst for strong drink, and there is my whole week's wages, and I have no temptation to go in there: and, stranger, if this is a notion, I want to tell you it is a nighty powerful notion; it is a notiou that has put clothes on my children's backs, and it is a notion that has put good food on our table, and it is a notion that has filled my mouth with thanksgiving to God. And. stranger, you had b'ter go along with me; you might ge. religion, too; lots of people are getting religion now.' " Well, we v:iii soon understand it all. Your life and mine will soon be over. We will soon come to the last bar of the music, to the lact cct of the tragedy, to the last page of the book yea, to the last line and to the last word, and to you and to me it will either be midnoon or midnight!

FOREIGN BODIES IN THROAT. Children, who act on the belief that the mouth was made before pockets, often make it a receptacle for objects of all shapes, sizes, and conditions of cleanliness pins, jackstones, marbles, coins, and other things innumerable. Usually such treasures are found when wanted, but sometimes they act as in other pockets with a hole in the bottom they drop out, or rather they drop in, and then trouble ensues. Older people may also suffer from swallowing things unintentionally while catinfc. A fish-bone is a peculiarly troublesome thing to escape into the gullet, but more dangerous still is a large piece of meat, which may slip down the throat accidentally while the person is talking, and cause suffocation by pressing on the windpipe. Of course this accident could only occur to one with table manners bad enough to allow him to take such a large piece of meat into the mouth, and then to talk while eating it. Most articles swallowed, either by children or adults, cause no trouble but if they are arrested in the gullet, they may cause most alarming symptoms of pain and suffocation. Many cases are recorded in medical literature of grave suffering, and even death, from the lodgement in the gullet of a jackstone, a ragged piece of bone, a raw potato, a set of false teeth, and so forth. The signs of an arrest of this sort are coughing, difficulty in catching the breath, pain and difficulty, or impossibility, of swallowing. When a small, sharp body, such as a pin or a fishbone, is causing trouble, it is better to try to bring it up first, rather than to force it down into the stomach. The latter course is usually the easier, but it exposes the patient to the danger of scratching or perforation of the stomach or intestine by the sharp body. If food has just been taken, vomiting may be induced by tickling the back of the throat with the finger or a feather. If there is no food in the stomach, the sufferer may drink a pint of milk and directly after take some rennet or a little vinegar to curdle the milk; then, if vomiting is induced, the curds may catch the foreign body and bring it up. Another plan is to swallow a loose ball of yarn the size of an English walnut, attached to a stout thread, and then to pull it up. If it is impossible by any of these means to bring up the foreign body, an attempt should be made to force it down by swallowing good-sized boluses of bread crumbs, mashed potatoes, mashed baked beans, or the like, and washing them down with copious draughts of water. The back of the throat should be examined in a strong light, for the body may be arrested at the entrance to the gullet, and if seen, can often be dislodged by the fingers of some improvised instrument. Photograph or I'oftt iimtr. Chicago Record: Postmaster Gordon has presented to the Chicago postoffice a collection of photographs of the postmasters of Chicago, accompanied by a biographical sketch of each. The only photograph missing is that of Jonathan Nash Bailey, Chicago's first postmaster, who, as far as can Le learned, never cat for a picture. The pictures are thirteen by eleven inches in size, and. with the sketches, fill a frame five and one-half by seventeen feet. The art work is sepia, ami the frame id made of mahogany from the old postofiice. The first. postmaster of Chicago was appointed in 1S31. In th C8 years since 22 men have filled the place, including the present incumbent. A majority of them have been military men, and several prominently identified with the newspaper business. Tlie Mmallent Dwarf. The smallest man who ever lived was the dwarf liehe, born in France in 1740. He was just twenty inches high and eight pounds in weight when tuU grown.

BUFFALO'S BIG SHOW.

MAY HAVE THE VERY BIGGEST BUFFALO. Some Queer Conceits That May Take Tangible Form at the ireat FanAmerican Show Ilelng Arranged for the World' Inspection. (Special Letter.) What will be the "dominant extraneous feature" of the Pan-American exposition which will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., on the Niagara frontier, in the summer of 1901, is not as yet known, but there will be several features of special interest, and at least three now contemplated will rival any of the great features of the past. For instance, the buffalo which an ardent concessionaire, who happens to be a loyal citizen of the Queen City as well, hopes to construct on one of the vantage spots within the exposition grounds, will not fall short of the Ferris wheel as an attractive feature, for the buffalo builder is ambitious. It is his desire to have constructed on an open lot of ground at the head of the "panoramble" a gigantic representation of the brute which stands symbolical of the city in which the exposition will be held. Two hundred feet in the air the shaggy head of the great beast will rise and from his soulful eyes, which will be turned toward the not far distant Canadian shore, gleaming searchlights will send their milky bars to the inner recesses of her majesty's domain. In that section of Ihe animal where the brains ought to be the prospective builder would place i restaurant of more than ordinary beauty, and in the body of the animal ;he contemplation is to place a vauderille theater with a seating capacity of ,000. In two of the legs winding Itaircases are to be erected and in the Dther legs electric elevators will make ronstant trips. Another idea, which as born in the brain of a man of Biblical mold, is that of the "Jonah" heater, and the submitted plan calls !or the construction of a mammou ivhale of iron and steel, which is to ie anchored in shallow water near the janks of the exposition. Dainty ferry)oate are to ply between the shore and :he mouth of the great whale, and .hose cheerful ones who love to enjoy themselves in strange ways are to be ferried from the höre to the tongue of the floater. There a smooth young man will have his hands crossed with silver, and after this transaction the passengers will be at liberty to walk down the whale's tongue to the room where for three days and three nights Jonah sat and mourned the day that he became a populist. In that section all will be light and cool and cheerful, and on a stage vaudevillians will kick and sing and cavort, and musicians wil add to the gayety of the scene and will make many believe that the ancient stories of Jonah's troubles were much overrated. THE DEVIL FISH. One of the Mounter taught Recently in l'ugrt Sound. The largest devil lish caught in many years in Puget sound was captured th.s week by rock cod fishermen at the Narrows, near Tacoma. The monster measures 14 feet from tip to tip. having 8 arms over G feet long and a body 2 feet in diameter. The rock cod are caught in water at least 300 feet deep, and it is in depths like this tnat the octopus, or green-eyed monster known as the devil-fish, is usually found. Rock cod fishermen use set lines, to which are attached several hundred hooks, all fastened three inches apart, and baited with herring. The devil-fish sometimes attach themselves to the bait, of the cod or salmon caught on the hooks. If the devil lish is above the bottom, or if the bottom be sandy or gravelly, he can be raised to the surface when the hooks are pulled up. If the bottom is rocky Mr. Devil Fish simply fastens himself to the rocks and allows himself to be cut to pieces before he will release his tentacle. from the rocks and come up. It frequently happens that they are torn apart in this manner. When the fishermen raise one of the surface great care must be taken that lie does not grab the bottom of the boat, in which event he might overturn a small boat, or, to get rid of him the boat must be taken ashore and overturned. The suckers, of the devil-fish are then released from the boat by the dexterous use of a large spade, whicu is shoved beneath them. The suckers and tentacles are fastened so tightly to the boat as to form a vacuum, and their release is attended by loud reports like those of a rifle. This is the manner in which the fishermen released the octopus recently caught. The wonderful sucking power of the devil-fish Is better understood when it is realized that each of the eight tentacles or arms is covered with 300 or more suckers, ranging in size from three inches in diameter near the mouth to the size of a lead pencil point near the ends. The devil-fish is of a light pink color and ha3 two bright green eyes. Its body is shaped like a spider, the eight tentacles radiating out from the head.

THE BIG BUFFALO.

The mouth Ir on the under side, xaet-

ly in the ceLter of the radiating arms. Inside the mouth is a beak or bill. shaped exactly liko a parrot's. Every thing caught by tb.3 tentacles is carri ed to the mouth jr.rt as the elephant performs the same act with his trunk. The stomach contains a crude digestive apparatus. The octopus has neither flesh, blood nor bone, but seems to be composed of gristle. The eyes and the small head are located on the opposite side from the mouth. The only use to which the octopus has been put so far is to make food for the Puget Sound Indians. The Siwashes take off the outside skin and boil the remain ing mass of gristle into a delectable stew. OVER TWO YEARS ASLEEP. This is the photograph of Sarah Young, a young lady, resident in War saw, who went to sleep Doc. 21, 189C, and has never been awakened, in the SARAH YOUNG, fullest sense of the term, ever since She lies in an almost dark room, because she is unable to bear any light. on account of the severe headache it causes her, and her bed is surrounded with a heav' curtain. During the protracted period of her slumber she has almost lost her hearing and she can only see in the afternoon toward 4 o'clock. She has no wish to eat and life iß sustained by nourishing her with milk. Her sister and widowed mother take it in turns to watch by her side, and they are obliged to wake her from time to time, otherwise she would sleep on forever. Strange to say, the awakening causes her dreadful agony, both mentally and physically, for then she has not only a recurrence of the headaches, but ehe realizes the hopelessness of her awful position. The physician who has attended her for a long time believes there is still some possibility of a cure being effected. WOMEN AS TRAVELERS. Not Alone for Ihe rieaxtire of It, Itnt for Ittisineits. As the world grows smaller the number of women travelers grows great. This is merely another form of saying that the greater security, economy and rapidity of travel have opened new opportunities for ambitious women. At the present time there are the traveling companion, the courier, the war correspondent, the foreign correspondent, the commercial traveler, the niiseionary and ihe student, who, paradoxically enough, is usually a teacher. I would leave out of consideration the traveling companion, because she is an annex or attachment to the traveler proper and is not a traveler per se. I might also add the woman explorer, because in the past ten years Mrs. Alice Le Plongeon and Miss Kingsley have won name and fame in this field of activity, says a writer in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Women are both fitted and unfitted for travel. They have less strength and daring than men, but, on the other hand, they have more tact and a greater regard for the rights of others. In many parts of the far east small mobs of criminals are apt to attack the stranger within their gates. When this occurs, the male traveler usually gets off better than the female. On the other hand, a far greater source of trouble springs from the wanton or ignorant violation of native customs and religious laws. Here men sin fifty times where women do once. Travel brings out the deep e'.hical difference between the two sexes. In London I have often noticed that the average American gentleman makes a bee line for the famous inns, pubs and music halls, while the average American woman goes to Westminster. St. Paul's and the Tower of London. In Paris the former patronizes the cafe chantant and the Moulin Rouge, and the latter the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Madeleine and the Hotel des Invali les. To be a successful traveler demands nothing more than the small virtues forethought, common sense, patience and, it may be, a little resignation." The Sick Man' llurden. Mr. Iceland, the proprietor of the Hotel Grenoble, New York, where Mr. Kipling lay during his illness, hjs had the originals of the physicians bulletins bound into an elaborate album bearing the title "The Sick Man's Hürden." He presented the volume to Mr. Kipling on the day that he sailed for England with his family.

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Acetjlcne Plant i Wrecked. Vv'abash. Ind. The gas works of ths Loganspru; and Wabash Valley Gas company were destroyed by a terrific explosion which shcok the city at 3 p. m. Aug. 7. Superintendent Courtier ;nd his assistant. Duncan Edwards, had just completed charging the tanks with calcium carbide and water, from which the acetylene gas is manufactured, and Courtier had stepped out the door. Edwards noticed an ominous bubbling in one of the tanks and shut off the water. There was a column of flame eighty feet high, surrounding which was the iron roof of the works, and then the bricks and roof settled back to the ground in a mas. Not a brick was left in position. The company installed the acetylene piant less than a year ago. it being the f.rst ever nut in for illuminating a city with the new light. Scores cf plate glass in the business part of town were broken by the ihock. Edwards was scorched and bruised, but is not seriously hurt. Last night the city v;'s without gas. and there will be none until the new works are constructed. The less is heavy. Kxpeet Mi-iiey Legislation. Indianapolis. Ind.. telegram: II. H. Ihinna. chairman of the executive committee of the monetary convention, has returned from a sojourn in the east, and expressed himself as entirely satisfied with the prospects for financial legislation at the next session. He said: "The bill agreed upon by the caucus committee of the house at Atlantic City is wisely conservative, and I am sufficiently familiar with the general principles upon which the senate committee is working to express great satisfaction over the outlook for very important gold-standard legislation during the next session of congress. I have excellent ground to believe that the majority in both houses will agree in shaping and enacting a law consistent in a broad and courageous way with the pledge offered the people in the money plank of the St. Louis platform." A Despondent tiirl Is MUaing. Rushville. Ind. Miss Lena Christine Dogood. IS years old, of Harrison, Ohio, an accomplished musician and a good singer, arrived here five months ago, but. failing to find employment in her chosen line, she took service as a domestic. Late Monday she instructed that hor baggage be delivered at a private hotel, since winch time she has been on the missing list. There is fear that she has committed suicide. The girl is an orphan, and she was despondent because of her inability to find work more to her taste than the drudgery of a housemaid. Settled by Ditorce. Mum ie. Ind. Mrs. Mary W. Spilker, probably the city's most prominent society woman, has been granted a divorce from her husband. Carl A. ?pilker. president -of the Union National bank. Mr. Spiiker is one of the wealthiest men in the count, all his father's large estate having been inherited by him a few weeks ago. when his father died suddenly. Statutory grounds of cruel treatment were set forth in the complaint. A compromise was effected out of court, whereby Mrs. Spilker was granted alimony in a liberal sum. Itolther M;i!e :l V.ie Haul South Whitley, 1;;J.. teiegram: Mrs. Morrell. a wealthy widow residing here, was at an early hour this morning the victim of brutal robbers, who secured a quantity of jewelry and 00 in money from a safe. Mrs. Morrell's earrings were torn from her ears and she was bound and gagged in such rough manner that she is seriously ill. A rc-se is in pursuit of the robbers. ifiierI State News. The state convention of United Urethren of Friendship, in session at Vincennes. elected Penjamin Alexander of New Albany grand master: C. I). Givens. Richmond, deputy; E. G. (Iresham. Mitchell, financial secretary, and Walter Jameson. Indianapolis, delegate to the national convention, which will be held at Cleveland. Ohio, in 1?00. Mrs. Mary E. Lease of Kansas, who has reported at the Chesterfield camp grounds to make her debut as a lecturer in Spiritualistic ranks, ha? dropped the name Mary Ellen, which has been distorted info Mary "Yel'iin." and will hereafter style herself as Mary Elizabeth Lease. The late James H. Turpie of Lafayette, who lost his life by a fall from a hotel window, was insured for $.".000 in the Maccabees, and also carried $3.000 in the Woodmen of America, besides several policies in straight-out insurance companies. W. T. Gooden. ormeiiy editor of the O.-good Journal, and more recently superintendent of schools at Charleston. 111., has purchased an interest in the Lawrenceburg Register, and he will be associated in the management. A company is organizing at Richmond to rebuild the Hradley operahouse, destroyed by fire some time ago. Daniel G. Reid. formerly of Richmond, now of Chicago, subscribed $1.000 toward that object. The largest family in Indiana, as the result of one marriage, is said to be that of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Manis of Madison county. They have twentynine e'.!ildren, several of whom are twins. William Hill, near Westfield. has been notified of the accidental killing of bis sou. "Ad" Hill, in the Klondike, where he had accumulated $110.000. He vas on his way home when shot. The Carman ringing societies of Ohio and Indiana will be entertained at the Wabai City park on the 20th inst. bv the Wabash Saengerbund. Fx-Ili(e Chief T. J. Secrist. who re cently lost a leg in the Kokomo depot through some untoward accident, irs dead. Of recent years he has been operating a hotel at Lafayette. Nicholas W. Duley of Iogansport. while bicycling, took a header, a big dog running in his way, and he was picked up unconscious and suffering from internal injuries. Mrs. Theresa Derr, while returning home from church services the other night, at Lafayette, was caught on the Ninth street crossingt by a "Wabash train and killed.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conger, 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 COMMANDTtY, No. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, M. Mrs. T ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91 meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C, F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec, 6ILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. 'Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G, Miss Emma Zuxbaugh, V. G. Miss X. 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 'P . hall . C. M. Slay ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. V. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Menday nicrht 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 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 haU. J. C. I'.lson, 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 UN rich, Worthy Guardian. Mr Chas. IIammcrel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Swit zer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. TiLtts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets ery first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charlci Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. in., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alotizo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. halt S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHAL COUNTY PHYSICLANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tue.iday in each month Jacob Karzer, M. D., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., SeQ Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question asked of us so often, referring to advertUiriff. If properly done we know it will pay handsomely. The experience of those who hare tritd it proTM that nothing' equals it