Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 September 1899 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SEBMON.

MUSICIN WORSHIP'SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. NehemUh 7: 67: "And Thy Had Two Hundred Forty and live Sinking Men a ul Singing Women Children of the Heavenly Klag. ' (Copyright ISM by Louis Klopsch.) The best music has been rendered tinder trouble. The first duet that I know anything of was given by Paul and Silas when they sang praises to God and the prisoners heard theru. The Scotch covenanters, hounded by the ?o?s of persecution, sang the psalms of David with more spirit than they have ever since been rendered. The captives in the text had music left in them, and I declare that if they could find, amid a'l their trials, two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women, then In this day of gospel sunlight and free from all persecution there ought to be a gieat multitude of men and women willing to eing the praises of God. All our churches need arousal on this subject. Those who can sing must throw their souls into the exercise, and those who cannot sing must learn how. and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to anthem, and the music shall swell jubilant with thanksgiving and tremulous with pardon. Have you ever noticed the construction of the human throat as indicative of what God means us to do with it? In only an ordinary throat and lung? there are fourteen direct muscles an! thirty indirect muscles that can produce a very treat variety of sounds. What does that mean? It means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who gives as such a musical instrument as that, intends us to keep it shut? Suppose some great tyrant should get possession of the musical instruments of the world, and should lock up the organ of Westminster Abbey, and the organ of Lucerne, and the organ at Haarlem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all the other great musical instruments of the world you would call such a man as that a monster; and yet you are more wicked if. with the human voice, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musical instruments that man ever created, you shut it against the praise of God. "Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God: But children of the Heavenly Kins Should speak their joys abroad." I congratulate the world and the church on the advancement made in this art the Edinburgh societies for the improvement of music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter Hall concerts, the triennial musical convocation at Düsseldorf, Germany, and Birmingham. England: the conservatories of music at Munich and Leipsie. the Handel and Haydn and Harmonic and Mozart socieities of this country, the academies of music in New York. Brooklyn. Boston, Charleston. New Orleans. Chicago, and every city which has any enterprise. Now, my friend.?, how are we to decide what is appropriate, especially for church music? There may be a great many differences of opinion. In some of the churches they prefer a trained choir; in others, the old-style precentor. In some places they prefer the melodeon. the harp, the come:; in other places they think these things are the invention of the devil. Some would have a musical instrument played eo loud yon cannot stand it, and others would have it played so soft you cannot hear it. Some think a musical instrument ought to be played only in the interstices of worship, and then with indescribable softness. while others are not satisfied unless there be startling contracts and staccato passages that make the audience jump, with great eyes and hair on end. as from a vision of the Witch of L'ndor. But. while there may be great varieties of opinion in rvgaid to music, it yeems to me that the genera! spirit of the. Word of God indicates what cugh: to be the great characteristics of church music. And I remark, in the firs;, place, a prominent characteristic ought to be adaptiven ss to devotion. Music that may be appropriate for a concert hall or the opera house or the drawing room may be inappropriate in church. Glees, madrigals, ballads, may be as innocen as psalms in their places. But church music has only one design, and that is devotion, and that which comes from the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hindrance to the worship. From such performances we go away saying: ' What splendid execution ! ' Did you ever hear such a soprano?" "Which of those solos did yoi: like the better?" When, if he had been rightly wrought upon, we would have gone away saying: "Oh, how my soul was lifted up in the presence of fjod while they were singing that rst hymn!" "I never had surh rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Savior as when they were singing that last djxology." My friends, there is an evr -acting distinction between music as an ;rt and music as a help to devotion. Though a Schumann composed it. though a Mozart played it, though a Son tag sang it, away with it it it does not make the heart better and honor Christ. Why should w? rob the program-iies of worldly gaiety when we have so many appropriate un&s and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations tunes no more worn out than they were when our greatgrandfathers climbed up on them f. oru the church pew to glory? Dear old souls, how they used to ting? When they were cheerful our grandfathers and grandmothers used to sing "Colchester." When they were very meditative, then the boarded meeting hous rang with "South Street" and "St. Edmund's." Were they struck through with great tenderness, they sang "Woodstock." Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the church, they sang Zion." Were they overborne with the love and glory of Christ, they sang "Ariel." And in those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old people, and we have no

right to divorce thaij. "What God hath Joined together let no man put asunder." Born as we have been amid this great wealth of church music, augmented by the compositions of artists in our own day, we ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian harmony and try to seek unconsecrated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. I remark also that correctness ougM to be a characteristic of church music. While we all ought to take part in this service, with perhaps a few exceptions, we ought at the same time to cultivate ourselves in this sacred art. God loves harmony and we ought to love it. There is no devotion in a howl or a yelp. In this day, when there are so many opportunities of higli culture in this sacred art. I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up knowing nothing about music. In some cf the European cathedrals the choir assembles every morning and every afternoon of every day the whole year to perfect themselves in this art. and shall we begrudge the half-hour we spend Friday nights in the rehearsal of sacred sens for the Sabbath? Another characteristic must be spirit and life. Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock clear, bright, sparkling. If all the ether part of the church service i? dull, do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling things to sing about, away with all drawling and stupidity. There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourths closed, and their lip. almost shut, mumbling the praises of God. During one of my journeys I preached to an audience of two or three thousand people, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark! People do not sleep at a coronation; do not let us sleep when we come to a Savior's crowning. In order to a proper discharge of this duty, let us stand up. save as age or weakness or fatigue excuse us. Seated in an easy pew we cannot do this duty half so well as when upright we throw our whole body into it. Lt our song be like an acclamation of victory. You have a right , to sing; dJ not surrender your prerogative. If in the performance of your duty, or the attempt at it, you should lose your place in the musical scale and be one C below when you ought to be one C above, or you should come in half a bar behind, we will excuse yon! S ill. it is better to do as Paul says, and sing "with the spirit and the understanding also." Again. I remark c hurch music must be congregational. This opportunity must be brought down within the range of the whole audience. A song that the worshipers cannot sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an easy kind of church it must be where the minister does all the pleaching and the elders all tl-.e praying and the choir all the singing! There are but very few churches where there are"two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women." In some churches it is almost considered a disturbance if a man let out his voice to full compass, and the people get up on tiptoe and look over between the spring hats and wonder what that man is making all that noie about. In Syracuse. X. Y.. in a Presbyterian church, there was one member who came to me when I was the pastor of another church in that city, and told me his trouble how that as lie persisted in ringing on the Sabbath day. a committee, made up of the session and the choir, had come to ask him if he would not just please to keep still! You have a right to sing. Jonathan I'M wards used to set apart whole days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in our families, sing in our schools, sing in our churches. I want to rouse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has never jet been exhibited. Come. now. clear your throats and get ready for this duty, or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing the Marseillaise" on the Champs Klysees. Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in lJ7u. 1 never saw such enthusiasm before or since. As he sang that national air. oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have you ever in an Fnclish assemblage heard a band play "God Save the Queen"? If you have, you know something about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell you that ther-e songs we sing Sabbaih by Sabbath are the national airs of the kingdom of heaven, and if you do not learn to sing them here, how do yru ever expec t to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb? I should no: be surprised at all if some of the. best anthems of heaven were made up ot some of the best songs of earth. May God increase our leverence for Christian psalmody, and keep us from disgracing it by our indifference and frivolity. When Cromwell's army went into battle he stood at the head of it one day and gave out the long-meter doxology to the tune of the "Old Hundredth." and that great host, company by company, regiment by regiment, division by division, joined in the doxology : "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly hostPraise Father. Son and Holy Ghost." And while they sang they marched, and while they marched they fought, and while they fought they got the victory. O, men and women of Jpsus Christ, let us go into all our conflicts singing the praises of God, and then, instead of falling back, as we often d:, from defeat to defeat, we will le marching from victory to victory. "Gloria in Kxcelsls" Is written over many organs. Would that by i:ur appreciation of the goodness of God rnd the mercy of Christ and the grandeur of heaven, we could have "Gloria in Excelsis" written over all our sruls. 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; a It was in the beginnii g. is now, and ever shall be, world without eml. Amen!'

llnnd of Friendship. "I never can forget Mabel Meadows, whom I went to school with." "Was she so studious?" "Xo, but she always brought such lovely cucumber pickles with her luncheon."

BACK FROM ICY LANDS

WALTER WELLMAN AND PARTY FAILED. Tliey Discovered Some Xew Plants of Interest However Resume of the Latest Arctic Expedition Start Made in June, 18i8. Walter Wellman and the survivors of the Polar expedition led by him, arrived in Europe Aug. 17 on the steamer Capella, having successfully completed their explorations in Franz Josef Land. Mr. Wellman discovered important new lands and many islands. The expedition brings a grim story of arctic tragedy. In the autumn of 1S98 an outpost called Fort McKinley was established in latitude 81 degrees. It was a house built of rocks and roofed over with walrus hide. Two Norwegians, Paul Bjorvig and Bert Pentsen, the latter of whom was with Xansen on the Fram, remained there. The main party wintered in a canvas covered hut called Harmsworth house, at Cape Tegethoff. on the southern point of Hall's island, latitude SO. About the middle of February, before the rise of the sun to its winter height. Mr. Wellman, with three Norwegians and forty-five dogs, started north. It was the earliest sledge journey on record in that high latitude. On reaching Fort McKinley Mr. Wellman found Bentsen dead, and Bjorvig, according to promise, had kept the body in the house, sleeping beside it through two months of arctic darkness. Notwithstanding his terrible experience the survivor was safe and cheerful. Pushing northward through rough ice and severe storms, with a continuous temperature for ten days between 40 and 30 degrees below zero, the party found new lands north of Freedom island, where Xansen landed in 1895. By the middle of March all hands were confident of reaching latitude S7 or SS, if not the pol itself. Then began a succession of disasters. Mr. Wellman, while leading the party, fell into a snow covered crevasse, seriously injuring one of his legs and compelling a retreat. Two days later the party was aroused at midnight by an icequake under them, due to pressure. In a few moments many dogs were crushed and the sledges destroyed. The members of the expedition narrowly escaped with their lives, although they managed to save their precious sleeping bags and some dogr, and provisions. On Mr. Wellman's condition becoming alarming, as inflammation set in, the brave Norwegians dragged him on a sledge, by forced marches, nearly 200 miles to headquarters, arriving there early last April. Mr. Wellman is still unable to walk and will probably be permanently crippled. After reaching headquarters other members of the expedition explored regions hitherto unknown and important scientific work was done by Lieut. Evelyn B. Baldwin of the United States weather bureau, Dr. Edward Hofma of Grand Haven, Mich., and A. Harlan of the United States coast survey. The expedition killed forty-seven bears and many walruses. The Capella arrived at Cape Tegethoff in search of the expedition July 27 last. Aug. 9 she met the Stella Polar, bearing the expedition headed by Prince Luigi, duke of Abruzzi, which had railed from Archangel to reconnoiter northwest Franz Josef Land and to meet, if possible, the Wellman expedition. Mr. Wellman and his companions found no trace In Franz Josef Land of the missing aeronaut, Professor Andree. The Wellman expedition was started in June, 1898, and is the second which he has led in search of the north pole, the first one having taken place in 1S93 and 1S9L On his first attempt Wellman's ship, the Ragnoald Jarl, was crushed in the ice, but he came back undaunted, and determined to make the trial again. Mr. Wellman went abroad in 1897, and laid his plans for the second expedition before Nansen, the explorer. He unfolded the details of a sledge trip of 110 days for 5."0 mile to the north pole by way of Franz Josef Land, which lies almost north from Nova Zembla, and had previously been explored as far as latitude 82 and said that he intended to establish a supply station at Cape Flora, in latitude 80. Nansen approved the plans, and after Wellman had returned to this country he also secured the approval of the National Geographical society, of which Professor A. Graham Bell was president, and that organization, as well as the United States coast and geodetic survey and the United States weather bureau, co-operated with him in the scientific preparations for the enterprise. 'You ought to hear our new rector read the service. He's right up to date." "How does he read it?" "In ragtime." Cleveland Plain Dealer.

X " WALTER 'wELLMAX.

TRACING A COUNTERFEIT. Governraent Employe's Wild Goose Chase on Track of Had Ulli. "The tracing of counterfeits back to the 'shover is curious and exciting work," said an ex-government employe. "One day back in the seventies a bank clerk in Cincinnati detected a queer $20 bill in the deposit of a small retail grocer. He sent for rne and I started to work. I found that the grocer had received the bill from a shoe dealer, who had it from a dentist, who had it from somebody else, and so on, until I finally traced it to an invalid woman who had used it to pay her physician. When questioned she said the money had been sent to her by her brother, who lived in Xew Orleans. I looked up her brother's pedigree and was certain I had my man. He had a bad record, was the proprietor cf a dive, and was just the sort of person likely to be a confederate of counterfeiters. I came here with the handcuffs in my pocket, but as things turned out I was a little premature. The man proved to ray complete satisfaction that he had received the money as rent for a small house he owned in Pittsburg. That was discouraging, but I couldn't give up after going so far. and took the next tram for Pittsburg. The tenant of the house turned out to be a traveling oculist, who spent most of his time on the road. He was then away in the west, but I saw him on his return, and he at once recognized tue bill. It had been given him by a patient in Cincinnati, the very point from which I had started. The patient was a boss carpenter. I got his address from the oculist and made a bee line for the city. I had a premonition that something very strange was going to happen, and I wasn't disappointed. The carpenter was an honest old fellow, and told me without hesitation that he had received the bill from Mr. for repairing his barn. Mr. was the small grocer in whose bank deposit the counterfeit had turned up. I flew for his store as fast as a cab could carry me, and found it closed. He had skipped. Afterward it was shown beyond question that he was the regular agent of a gang. His shop was a mere blind. That the bill which he gave the carpenter should get back again into his own till after traveling all around the continent was one of those miracles

of chance for which there is no explanation." Xew Orleans Times-Democrat. HOW IT IS DONE IN GERMANY. Tree Culture 1 One of the Most I'rizde Occupations of the l'eople. While congress and the several state legislatures have for years been flooded with petitions and proposed laws for the preservation of the forest trees of the country, nearly all cf them more or less defective, the people of Germany have solved the problem with very little ado. Germany is an old country. Centuries ago what we might call its virgin timber was exhausted and the country found itself with a dense population dependent on a limited area of land to supply its needs for wood material. What should they do? Should they stint their use in this direction to a niggardly amount? Should they call on the stock of newer countries for their supply? They did neither of these things. They went to work to develop the resources and capabilities of their own lands. The states and the nobles supported the work. Scientists labored and managers experimented. Forest schools were established to spread through the land the knowledge that had been gained. Finally they piled up a mass of exact information about trees and everything related to their life.and established a system of forest management that is one of the finest monuments of the thoroughness, the conservatism and the patience of the German race. And today the forest stands as one of the prime objects of the people's regard, a source of health, wealth and national independence. 31 me. d'.llma's riipleaimnt Adventure. Mme. Alma d'AIma, an American prima donna who has recently been singing with great success in Italy and at Monte Carlo, has just met with an unpleasant adventure. During a holiday trip to Morocco she took it into her head to disguise herself as a man, in order to penetrate into a particularly sacred mosque. She was almost immediately discovered and came near being killed. Fortunately she was rescued by the police in time and sent to prison. There she remained ten days, until the sultan, at '.he demand of the American consul, liberated her. Where He Fooled Her. From Town Topics: She I suppose It will break your heart for me to say I can be only a sister to you? He Not at all. my dear. I never knev a girl who didn't say the same thini; to me.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. r.Tort to Ilreak a V 111 Claim of Heirship Through an Ktrllr Marriage Woman Pretending: to lie a Daughter of Thomas Chapman. Kokomo. Ind. Mrs. Rebecca Dunning, of St. Mary, O., will bring suit in this city for a share in the estate of Thomas Chapman, of Union townFhip, who died twenty years ago, ana whose property, of very considerable value in farm lands, has since been enjoyed undisputed by his widow and a family of six children. Mrs. Dunning says she has proofs to establish her claim that she is a daughter cf Thomas Chapman by an earlier marriage, and that he abandoned her in infancy in Jefferson county, near Madison. She was born near that place, she says, and her mother died when she was t: years old. Her father left her in th? care of neighbors and went to Flatrock, Rush county. As a girl, she beard that he had married again, but he soon left Rush county, and she heard nothing of him until a few months ago. She grew to womanhood, married and moved to Ohio. Here she met a Howard county woman who gave her a clew which she followed. The widow Chapman and her children discredit her claims, and will resist them in the courts. They have employed legal counsel, and one of their lawyers, together with Mrs. Dunning's attorney, left for Madison today to investigate the story at that end of the line. Thomas Chapman came to Howard county thirty-five years ago, bringing with him a young wife. His neighbors say that it was well known at that time that he had been married before. He prospered and died, one of tin? largest land owners in this county. Claim the Trust Killed It. Indianapolis, Ind., telegram: The Mutual Savings Union and Loan association of this city filed an assignment Monday, with $40.000 liabilities. Hiram W. Miller, president of the State bank, is treasurer of it. It is stated that the association would have been able to dispose of its unproductive realty had not the talk of the trust's taking in and closing down the mills at Montpelier put a stop to the active land market in that place. The officers attribute the assignment largely to this cause. Indiana Corn Crop Is (ioon. Indianapolis, Ind., telegram: The weekly crop bulletin for Indiana says: "Corn is maturing and drying rapidly; it has been fired in several fields of the northern portion, and some has been cut; in the soutl.ern portion all corn will not be safe from frost until about Sept. 25; in the central portion within two weeks, and some is now safe in the northern portion: an exceedingly heavy and good yield is expected." Three Hurt Iy a Runaway. South Rend, Ind., telegram: In a runaway this morning Frank Rertholf, proprietor of a big cigar factory, was trampled and badly hurt. His wife's skull was crushed and she received other injuries that will, in all probability, result fatally. A young woman operator in the telephone office wa knocked down and severely injured. ISrevities. Good, stall-fed worms are in reat demand by fishermen at Hear like, and are quoted at $1 a pint, with light receipts during August. Caterpillars and thousand-legged worms are slow and quiet, with indications of a drop if the angle-worm market gets lucre buoyant. While thrashers were employed in John Denny's barn, near Hagerstown. a spark set fire to the straw, and several men in the mow were scorched while escaping. The machine, owned by Harry Cheesman. was destroyed together with the barn. Total loss, $2.200. W. S. Wright, formerly of the Logo import. Journal, as proprietor and editor of the Havana Herald, is rapidly coming to the front in the capital of the Cubas. Recently he was commissioned to report the San D'jmlnsu revolution for the Eastern press. Charlie Anderson, for forty years a resident of Laporte. and a war voieian. is dead. He was seventy years old, but managed to fish and do enough odd jobs to earn a living. He liven alone in an old tumble-down house, but had many friends. The four weeks' steamboat war on the Ohio, between Louisville and Cincinnati, is over, and the old rates will be resumed. Thousands of passengers reaped the benefit of cheap fares, but the steamboat companies made no money. Citizens of Jackson township, which Is said to have more good roads than any township in Cass county, are not yet satisfied, and will file a petition with the commissioners for another free gravel road, to cost $30.000. Riley Jones, in the suburbs cf Union city, fired a shotgun, into his patch of melons to frighten away trespassing boys, and Xew ton Tucker, fourteen years old, was probably fatally wounded. The six-year-old daughter of George Moore, a farmer near Perrysburg. while crossing a field, was attacked by a ram and was so seriously injured that she died in a few hours. During the consecration of St. Bonlface Catholic church at Iifayette, Sunday, September 21, the choir and a full orchestra will give Gioza's grand mass as one of the features. The Rev. W. C. Caleb, a full-blooded Indian, has been conducting evangelistic meetings in the smaller towns of Tipton county. He has a good education and talks entertainingly. South Rend Tribune: Can it be that Laporte Is back-sliding? Three of her leading pulpits are vacant at the present time; three large flocks without a shepherd to lead them. The retail clerks of Logansport are confident that they will win their fight to have the stores close at 6 o'clock every night except Saturday. They will know on Monday. Frank Blue, a well-known citizen B3ar Camden, accidentally dropped his revolver. The weapon was discharged, sending a bullet into the brain of his eighteen-year-old son.

GETTING ABOUT PARIS. The Street Cars and Omnibuses of th City and the Hates of Fares. The means of passenger transit in Paris is something that will interest a great many people the coming jear. in view of the throngs that will visit the exposition. It is effected by electricity, steam, compressed air and horsepower. There are three tramway lines serving Paris and the suburbs, and omnibuses are generally used throughout the city. One of the above-mentioned tram lines belongs to the Compagnie Generale des Omnibus, and the oth-r-two are practically controlled by the same company; so that it can be said to have a monopoly of the entire passenger transit, exclusive of cabs and carriages. It Ls a stock company, organized in 1S53, having obtained from the city the exclusive right to transport passengers from one point to another in the city of Paris. 'I he concession expires on the 31st of May, 1910. The omnibuses are of two sizes, and drawn by two or three horses, respectively. The smaller model i arranged for 28 to SO places (14 outside, 14 inside and two on the platform). The largt-r model affords accommodations for 20 on top and 20 inside, including four on platform. The fare on the top is IT centimes (near 3 cents): inside and on platform, CO centimes (nearly G cents). The payment of the last-mentioned fare entitles the passenger to a 'correspondence" or transfer ticket to another connecting or intersecting line. Xo passengers are taken on when the places are filled, either at a station or en route. At the starting points numbered tickets are handed to the passengers, and when there are more than enough to fill one conveyance the precedence is given to those holding the first numbers. The next omnibus or car starting begins with the number last uncalled on the vehicle. The same system prevails at the fixed stations en ror.te for vacant places. Xo standing in the aisle is allowed. The statistics for 1S9G show the number of passengers carried as follows: 33 lines of omnibuses (26 to 30 places). 00.030.034; 14 lines of omnibuses (40 places). 79,349,031; 3 lines of steam tramways, 12.862.990; 23 lines of horse tramways. 87,092,926; 4 lines of compressed air and electricity, 10.70.1.340; total. 240.040,291. The distances traversed by the divers lines vary from about two miles to a little over four miles.

HE SAID GOLF WAS SH1NNEY. Justice, Who Doesn't Know "I'ut" from "Call" Sits on tlie (ian-. Without regarding the feelings of devotees of golf. Justice Potts of Jersey City has brought the aristocratic game which cannot be played without cleeks, mashies. lofters, and drivers down to the level of "shinney," a game that only requires a crooked stick, any old thing that will serve as a ball, tough shins, and an opponent whom the player does not like. Mrs. Pauline Scharf! lives near the links of the Jersey City Golf club, and has filed objections to having her children swatted on the head by golf balls driven in an eccentric manner by beginners at the game. Despite the heat. Mrs. Schärft also objects to having the windows of her home suddenly fall to pieces in a most disquieting way. It was to stop these annoyances that Mrs. Scharff caused Albert L. Drayton, president of the club, to explain to Justice Potts not only how it happened, but also how he would stop it in the future. The elite of Jersey City crowded the courtroom yesterday, and listened to Mr. Drayton explain that the organization, through late recruit", had made some of the most wonderful strokes on record. He added that in a few days a new course would be arranged, and the beginners quarantined nine miles from any sign of civilization. Mrs. Scharff was willing to compromise, and even went so far as to express her admiration of the game when played in another state, and everything was settled. "Rut the game is shinney.' just the same." was the decision given by Justice Potts, and which caused the elite to loft their noses and foozle their glances as they left the putting green bound for the next tee. Xew York Press. SIX-YEAR-OLD. Girl Swims a .Mile in lie mark ah jr fast Time. Chicago Chronicle: Litt'e six-year-old May Huhn proved herself one of the greatest juvenile swimmers in the world at the north side natatorium. She swam a mile in 1:07:17 3-5. The girl made a world's record, for no child has ever accomplished the t'eat before in such a short time. The child is not large for her age, nor does she seem to have muscles developed to a much greater extent than other girls as young as she, but it is the opinion of all that if she keeps at the game she will in time Uc one of the greatest female swimmers in the world. George Gaidzik lowered another world's mark for boys tinder 16 years old when he swam two miles in 1:12:15. The record was formerly held by Ralph Uhlendorf, who made the same distance in 1:14:29 3-0. Other good performances by juveniles were as follows: Walter Horn, 12 years old. two miles !nl:25:54; Lottie Mayer, 12 years old. two miles in 1:40; Charles Arens, 11 years old, one and a half miles in 1:13:54; Arthur Gaidzik, 12 years old, one and a half miles in 1:15, and Robert Arens, 9 years old, one and a half miles in 1:35. Ingenious Kxpedient. A local correspondent says that the other day a friend of his brought him a chunk of ice which he threw into his jar. Rut here was a difficult problem for him. The quantity of water was too great to be sufficiently cooled by that piece, which was melting as last as our correspondent was himself doing In tears. At last a highly valued friend of his who had spent the best portion of his lifo in scientific researches on the most original lines came to his rescue and, after mature reflection, was of opinion that the best way out of the difficulty would be to evaporate the greater portion of aqua by heating while the ice would surely cool the remaining quantity. Lahore Tribune. If you have a mind for the work, God will provide the means.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Vm. H. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C.Jilson, II . P. II. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, 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 cf each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, W. M. Mrs. T-ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. ' AM ERIC US LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. 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. Win. F. Voung, 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. 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. YV. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE IILVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Coin. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. I ill X . j o, i . vy . a.. u , iiiiiu eyerv Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall." Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simon hall. j. C. Jilon, 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 al Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. MrsChas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday iti K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tilrtts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets cry first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kellev, Com. Charlci Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in V. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSL CIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Karzer, M. D., President; Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D.t SeQ Do You Think It Will Pay? That it the question asked of us so often, referring- to advertising. If properly done we know it will pay hand-wmely. The experience of those who have tried It proTes that nothing1 equal It