Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 September 1899 — Page 3

TALMAGFS SERMON.

THE QUEENS OF HOME, LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Prm the Text, Sot. Sons:. 0: 8, as Follows: There Are Three Score Queen" Many Sympathies Stirred and Memories Recalled. (Copyright 1S33 by Louis Klopsch.) So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a true Christian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a Eubordinate, but a queen. In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants, and imperial wardrobe were not necessary to make a queen; but that graces o the heart and life will give coronation Jy. any woman. I showed you at some length that woman's position was higher in the world than man's, and that although she had often been denied the right of suffrage, she always did vote and always would vote by her influence, and that her chief desire ought to be that ehe should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has already won. I began an enumeration of some cf her rights, and now I resume the subject. In the-first place, woman has the special and the superlative right of blessing and contorting the sick. What land, what street, what house. liii: 1IUL iriL nit; cininuo v..--.. . Tens of thousands of sick-beds! What shall we do with them? Shall man. with his rough hand and clumsy foot, go stumbling around the sick-room, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate the pains of the distressed patient? The young man at college may scoff at the idea of being under maternal influences, but at the first blast of typhoid fever on his cheek he says, "Where is mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment: O woman, in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. I think the most pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest Meld of Shunem and got sunstruck pressing his hands on his temples and crying out: 'Oh. my head! my head!" And they said: '"Carry him to his mother." And then the record is: "He sat on her knees till noon, and then died." It is an awful thing to be ill away from home in a strange hotel, once in a while men coming in to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bed. How loudly they talk. How you long for the ministries of home. I know one such who went away from one of the brightest of homes, for several weeks' business absence at the West. A telegram came at midnight that he was on his death-bed far away from home. By express train the wife and daughters went westward; but they went too late. Ho feared not to die, but he was in an ag:;y to live until his family got there. H ? tried to bribe the doctor to make him live a little while longer. He said: "I am willing to die, but not alone." But the pulses fluttered, the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The express trains met in the midnight; wife and daughters going westward lifeless remains of husband and father coming eastward. Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle! When we are sick, we want to be sick at home. When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at home. In our Civil War. men cast the cansen, men fashioned the musketry, men cried to the hosts, 'Forward, march!" men hurled their battalions on the Eharp edges of the enemy, crying, "Charge! charge!" but woman scraped the lint, woman administered the cordials, woman watched by the dying couch, woman wrote the last message to the home circle, woman wept at the solitary burial, attended by herself and four men with a s-pade. We greeted the generals tome with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild huzzas; but the story is too good to be written anywhere, save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the swamps of the Chickahominy; of Annie Ross, in the cooper-shop hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who came to men who had been for weeks with their wounds undressed some of them frozen to the ground, and when she turned them over, those that had an arm left, waved It and filled the air with their "hurrah!" of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago, with blankets and with pillows, until the men shouted, "Three cheers for the Christian Commission! God bless the women at home;" then sitting down to take the last message: "Tell my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well; tell her we shall meet again in the good land; teil her to bear my loss like the Christian wife of a Christian soldier" and of Mrs. Shelton. Into whose face the convalescent soldier looked and said: "Your grapes and cologne cured me." And so it was also through all of our war with Spain women heroic on the field, braving death and wounds to reach the faMr-n, watching by their fever cots in the West Indian hospitals, or on the troopships, or in our smitten home-camps. Men did their work with shot and shell ani carbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Scrip ture texts and gentle strokings of the hot temples and .stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said. "On which side did you flght?" Worn en knelt down over the wounded and said, "Where are jou hurt? What nice thing can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?" Tonight whilo wo men are sound aslrep in our beds. there will be a light in yonder loft; there will be groaning down the dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep, and women will watch. Again: woman nas a special right to take care of the poor. There are hundreds and thousands of them all over the land. There Is a kind of work that men cannot do for the poor, Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dorcas So ciety. They need to be clothed and provided for. Which of these directors of banks would know how many yards

it would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that little girl's head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the fruit cf a tree in the East, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. But woman glides so softly into the house of destitution, and finds out all the sorrows of the place, and puts so quietly the donation on the table, that all the family come out on the front steps as she departs, expecting that from under her shawl she will thrust out two wings and go right up toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down. O, Christian young woman! if you would make yourself happy, and win the blessing of Christ, go out among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle of socks may make a homely load to carry, but the angels of God will come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty will give his messenger hosts a charge, saying. "Look after that woman; canopy her with your wings, and shelter her from all harm;" and while you are seated in the house of destitution and suffering, the little ones around the room will whisper, "Who is she?" "Ain't she beautiful!" and if you will listen right sharply, you will hear dripping down through the leaky roof, and rolling over the rotten stairs, the angel chant that shook

Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will to men." Again, I have to tell you that it is a woman's specific right to comfort un der the stress of dire disaster. She ia called the weaker vessel; but all pro fane as well as sacred history attests that when the crisis conies she is bet ter prepared than man to meet the emergency. How often have you seen a woman who seemed to be a disciple of frivolity and indolence, who, un der one stroke of calamity, changed to a heroine? Oh. what a great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives! There comes some great loss to their store, or their companions in business play them a sad trick, and they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the household again and again: "What is the matter?" But he believes it a sort of Christian ir.ty to keep all that trouble within his own soul. Oh. sir! your first duty was to tell your wife all about it. She, perhaps.might not have disentangled your finances, or extended your credit, but she would have helped you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. Business men know what I mean. There came a crisis in your affairs. You struggled bravely and long; but after a while there came a day when you said: "Here I shall have to stop." and you called in your partners, and you called in the most prominent men in your employ, and you said: "We have got to stop." You left the store sudden!-. You could lardly make up your mind to pa&s through the street and over cn the ferry-boat. You felt everybody would be looking at you, and blaming you. and denouncing you. You hastened home. You told your wife all about the affair. What did she say? Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks and the ribbons and the fashions? No. She came up to the emergency. She quailed not under the stroke. She offered to go out of the comfortable house into a smaller one, and wear the old cloak another winter. She was the one who understood your affairs without blam Ing you. -You looked upon what you thought was a thin, weak woman. arm holding you up; but while you looked at that arm there came into the feeble muscles of it the strength of the eternal God. No chiding; no fretting; no telling you about the beautiful house of her father, from which you brought her ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. You said: "Well. this is the happiest day of my life. I am glad I have got from under i.iy burden. My wife don't care I don't care." At the moment you were ex hausted God sent you a Deborah to meet the host of Amalekites and scat ter them like chaff over the plain There arc sometimes women who sit reading sentimental novels, and who wish that they had some grand field in which to display their Christian powers. What grand and glorious thing3 they could do if they only had an opportunity! My sister, you need not wait for any such time. A crisis will come in your affairs. There will be a Thermopylae in your own house hold where God will tell you to stand. There are scores and hundreds of households today where as much brav ery and courage are demanded of worn en as was exhibited by Grace Darling, or Marie Antoinette, or Joan of Arc. Again, I remark it is woman's right to bring to us the kingdom of heaven It is easier for a woman to be a Chris tian than for a man. Why? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine love. She is in vast majority. The fact that ehe can more easily become a Christian I prove by the statement that three-fourths of the members of churches in all Christendom are worn cn. So God appoints them to be the chief agents for bringing this world back to God. I may stand here and say the soul is immortal. There 13 a man who will deny it. I may stand here and say we are lost and undone without Christ. There is a man who will contradict it. I may eland here and say there will be a judgment day after a whi!e. Yonder 13 some one who will dispute it. But a Christian woman in a Christian household, living In the faith and the consistency of Christ's gospel nobody can refute that. The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms; they are preached with an audience of two or three, and in private home life. A consistent, consecrated Christian service is an unanswerable demonstration or God's truth. Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. Oh, what a multitude of women in heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven! Elizabeth Fry in heaven! Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven! The mother of Augustine in heaven! The Countess of Huntington who 6old her

splendid jewels to build chapels In heaven! While a great many others.

who have never been heard of on earth, or known but little, have gone into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window (the glass broken out), and the aching side, and worn-out eyes, to the "house of many man sions"! No more stitching until twelve o'clock at night; no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work, to show it wa3 not done quite right. Plenty of bread at last! Heaven for aching heads! Heaven for broken hearts! Heaven for anguishbitten frames! No more sitting until midnight for the coming of staggering steps! No more rough blows acros3 the temples! No more sharp, keen, bitter curses! Some of you will have no rest In this world. It will be toil and struggle and suffering all the way up. You will have to stand at your door, fighting back the wolf with your own hand, red with carnage. But God has a crown for you. I want you to realize this morning that he is now making it, and whenever you weep a tear he sets another gem in that crown; whenever you have a pang of body or soul he puts another gem in that crown, until, after a while in all the tiara there will be no room for another splendor, and God will say to his angel: "The crown is done; let her up, that she may wear it." And as the Lord of Righteousness puts the crown upon your brow, angel will cry to angel, "Who is ehe?" and Christ will say, "I will tell you who she is. She is the one that came up out of great tribulation, and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." And then God will spread a banquet and he will invite all the principalities of heaven to sit at the feast, and the tables will blush with the best clusters from the vineyards of God and crimson with the twelve manner of fruits from the Tree of Life, and waters from the fountains of the rock will flash from the golden tankards, and the old harpers of heaven will sit there, making music with their harps, and Christ will point you out, amid the celebrities of heaven, saying. "She suffered with me on earth; now we are going to be glorified together." And the banqueters, no longer able to hold their peace, will break forth with congratulation. "Hail, hail!" And there will be handwritings on the wall not such as struck the Babylonian noblemen with horror but fire-tipped fingers, writing in blazing capitals of light and love. "God hath wiped away all tears from all faces!" DIFFERENCES IN WOMEN. An 0I1 Illustration of the Custom of Different Generations. It was a very hot afternoon on the Southeastern railway, says the Academy. In the carriage were two ladies who were j'oung and happy, a lady who was elderly and apparently single, and a little girl. At Orpington there entered a tall, fresh, loose-limbed boy, of 19 or so, carrying surveying poles and a large basket, who took the seat opposite the two ladies, who were young. As the train panted along and the carriage became more and more stifling, the boy was noticed to be growing restless and nervous. Twice or thrice he made as if to speak and each time thought better of it, and then, suddenly reaching out the basket and displaying its contents to the two friends, he gasped, indicating one of them with a timid eye: "Would you mind taking some of these? They've just been given me, but I couldn't eat them all, you know, and so very hot and, really, if you would be so kind ?" The basket was loaded with strawberries and he was quickly assured that his request was not an impertinence. He then turned to the little girl, who no sooner observed his Intention that she crossed over to the basket side, and, seating herself within range of the fruit, eaved him further trouble. To the elderly lady, however, he had to repeat his invitation. Frigidly accepting it, she took two strawberries from the basket with much ceremony. At New Cross the boy gathered together his property and jumped out. "What a dear boy!" said one of the two friends. The little girl looked wistfully after him. "I have never." said the elderly lady, tightening her lips and turning to the other two, "I have never been so embarrassed in my life." OFFICE-SEEKERS. Some Odd Specimens Who Write In Quest of I'onitions. The mail of congressmen has been doubled through the privilege accorded each of them of making tlx appointments in the census, and some of those servants of the people have begun to wonder whether it is a curse or a blessing, says a Washington letter to the New York Tribune. Some of the epistles received are of the most humorous description, while some are so pathetic it makes the recipient wish, as a Western member expressed it, that he had stayed behind the plow and never gone into politics. An amorous spinster of 20 writes to her member that she has been waiting since her school days to marry the chosen one of her heart, but cruel poverty had prevented; would he kindly get her a place in the census, and "if convenient, one for Bill my feller- -too, 'cause it will cost more to live in the city than it doea down here." Another eonstitucnt with social ambition and ideas of style petitions her member for a place "so as I can see a little of Washington society and get some clothes fit to wear." Then there are melancholy wails from disconsolate widows and requests from some who are not so disconsolate, in spite of their solitary state, as witness the following extract: "My husband died two years ago coming Septembei, b it I am only 42, and the folks horeaVats think I ain't so ugly. If I "OU..1 get a place in tho census, where I could see some one worth while, I miht find a second. I have got a farm of my own, but I never have supported myself, and I don't want to. 'Twasn't meant. So please see what you can do for me." A true love letter is written with ut ter disregard for future possibilities.

M. PAUL DE ROULEDE.

HE WOULD BE A ROBESPIERRE OF TODAY. Threatens to Overthrow the Republic and ICyut the Kotlisc-hHiU and Hanker Out of the Country Having :i Haid Time of It. Paul de Roulede, who has lately been arrested at Paris, was born Sept. 2, 1S46. At fifty-three his chief claim for distinction is that he is one of the most violent and most silly of all the enemies of Dreyfus and the French republic. When the Franco-German war broke out he went to the front, but was captured at Sedan. The Germans carried him to Breslau, but he escaped and returned to the French army, where h remained until peace was declared. Then he wrote novels and plays, preaching the doctrine against the Prussians, and tending to the apotheosis of that army which seemed to him more noble in defeat than it could have been in victory. He is tall and slight, wears a beard, and looks like an 1'nglishman. He is intensely PAUL DE ROULEDE, Under Arrest for Treason, patriotic, and makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of all foreigners. He hates Dreyfus, too, and on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1S0S, at a meeting to protest against the revision of the Dreyfus case, he presided and delivered a furious tirade against Prime Minister Brisson and all who had shown a desire for revision. He declared that it a revolution occurred and the scaffold was erected in Paris, the first head that ought to fall was that of Clemenceau. and that if Dreyfus ever returned to France he and his partisans would be lynched. This meeting was in furtherance of the reorganization of the L,eague of Patriots, which had been suppressed some years ago by the government. Of this reorganized league De Roulede became president. He hates so much that he hates also the constituted government of France, and at the death of President Faure undertook to overthrow the republic and establish a government with the army as a basis. He led a procession of kindred spirits through the streets of tho barracks, and was summarily arrested, not on the charge of treason, or attempted coup d'etat, of which he would have becn proud, but on the more common accusation of trespass. This almost disgusted him with the profession of patriot. He is, however, still intensely bitter In his enmity to Dreyfus, and the formation of the league of Patriots is largely his own work. Besides, he is an inspiring spirit of the anti-Semitic leagues that have lately been formed in Paris. Since the affair of the barracks Feb. 23, 1899 De Roulede has boldly proclaimed his purpose to overthrow the republic. His present was decided upon as a meai3 of checking what otherwise might in time become a dangerous organization. De Roulede may know more than he is willing to tell of the attempted assassination of Iabori, one of the counselors of Dreyfus, from ambush recently at Rennes. A "MECHANICAL HOOTER." Iowa Genius Contracted a Shriek Which lie Wanted ttie Currrnment to liny From the New Orleans Times-Democrat: "All sorts of freak devices have been submitted to the government since the beginning of the war," said an officer lately on department duty at Washington, "but the queerest of the lot was undoubtedly the 'mechanical hooter.' You never heard of it, of course, but you would if you had been within half a mile of the war office about a month ago. The hooter is the invention of an Iowa gentleman and consists of a wooden tube about the size of a 4-inch section of a bologna sausage. Stretched across BUCHANAN'S In Mercersburg. Pa., stands the old home of James Buchanan, president of the United States from 1S57 to 1SG1. Underneath the roof of this ancient structure Buchanan first saw the light of day and spent the period of his early boyhood. Soir.e fifty years ago tho house was moved to the present location from Stony Patler, several miles distant. One of the stories of Buchanan's early life in this neighborhood states that hi mother tied a bell around his neck when he was quite young so that she might be able to find iiim readily If he strayed into tho woods. The home of Buchanan was a trading post. It was on the line of the turnpike that ran from Chambcrsburg to Pittsburg, and as the father of the

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the aperture is a piece of perforated rawhide, and when blown into it emits a strange and blood-chilling howl something absolutely indescribable in words a sort of cros3 between the shriek of a buzz saw when it strikes a nail and the lower register of an adult steam calliope. It is the sort of noise I imagine a hippopotamus might make during an attack of membranous croup. But the scheme of. the inventor was really not so bad. He pointed out in his letter that the yell p'.ayed a very prominent part in all military operations. The demoralizing effect of the 'rebel yell' was freely admitted by all Northern generals during the civil war and history has repeated itself in the recent campaigns. It was the yell of the Rough Riders as they went up San Juan hill that scared the Spaniards out of their trenches and the Kans.is yell has spread more terror among the Filipinos than all the Catling guns put together. From these facts he argued very logically that a mechanical hooter, augmenting, magnifying and supplementing the natural voice would greatly increase the efiiciency of our troops. A company cn a charge, suddenly hooting in chorus, would strike dismay into the hearts of the bravest foe. An American soldier humping and hooting over a rice field would cause any Filipino alive to immediately lose interest in the sacred cause ot freedom and scoot for the far end of the archipelago. At least such was the claim of the inventor and after hearing the machine tried I am inclined to agree with him. A clerk was instructed to return the sample and say that in the opinion of the department it would be a cru?l and inhuman weapon and a violation of the rules of civilized warfare as laid down in tha conference of The Hague. You may think this is a fairy tale, by the way, but it isn't. It's cold fact."

AN OBJECT-LESSON IN WEALTH How an American (Jirl Is Teaching the l'ariahtns the 31; tie Power of a Fortune. Parisians had heard of the late Jay Gould and his high-piled millicns of money, but for the past two years they have been receiving a special object-lesson on the power of wealth in new-world hands, in the effort of his daughter, the Countess de Castellane, to reproduce in Baris the palace of the Grand Trianon, as built by the French Kings at Versailles more than two centuries ago. Three quarters of an acre of land was bought at the intersection of the Avenue du Bois do Boulogne and the Avenue Malakoff, at an expense of close to a million of dollars, this being the most costly residential site in Paris. Public intcreot has been made keen by the announcement that while the exterior would hold truo to the Fourteenth century, the interior was to be a blending of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth periods, if the Gould millions and the cunning of the French architects could compass this unique desire. The revival o! two historic periods in French architectural history was so remarkable an i undertaking that from its beginning the progress of this house has been followed with such a wide interest aa has been given to few purely private building project.-. In May the family was occupying the central portion, but the interior decoration of the two wings probably cannot be completed in less than two years more. When it became known such a mansion was to be attempted many of the French aid it would take twenty years to build and furnish with art treasures; but western enterprise and local ingenuity promise its completion in a fifth cf the time. The property will then have cost thirty millions ol francs, or six millions of dollars. Both the Count and Countess are collectors of rare art works and bric-a-brac, an J in a single year, it is said, they expended a million of dollars in purchases for their new residence. When the matter of ceilings was being arranged for the Castellanes went ta Italy and sought the splendid palace of Verona. They did not want the palace, but coveted the eleven ceilings it contained from the brush of Tiepob, and these could be secured only by the purchase of the old structure. Edward Page Gaston in the September Woman's Home Companion. A Paradox. Philadelphia Record: Harduppe Skinflint is a very close chap. Dedbroke Yes; he's close, and yet you can't touch him. Judas was probably a good female impersonator. BIRTHPLACE. ,'7AV "'' W A future president was a shrewd business man, he accumulated there what was considered a large fortune in thoso days. He i-cnt young .Tunics to Dickinson college, in Carlisle, from which he graduated in 1S1T. The house in which Buchanan was born is now rebuilt on Fayette street, Mercersburg. Before it was torn down all the logs were carefully numbered and when it was again erected it was made a facsimile of its former -df. The houso is a story and a half high, containing two rooms. It Is constructed of large, roughly hewn logs and is twenty feet wide on Fayette i-trcct and twenty-ono feet deep along an alley. There is a single window and a door in front and one window on the alley side, with a door at the rear.

I Mexican War Veteran. Indianapolis telegram: About fifty veterans, the youngest of whom has passed the three-score milestone, were assembled in the convention hall of the Grand hotel today when the annual gathering of the National Mexican War Veterans' association was called to order. The meeting was presided over by Gen. E. II. Hobson of Kentucky, president of the association. The report of Wilber Smith, secretary, showed that the ranke of the association have been thinned during the last year by the death of several members. The convention will conclude its sessions tomorrow with the annual election of officers. One Killed ami Five Hurt. Richmond, Ind., telegram: In a collision on the Pennsylvania railway Sunday night Freight Brakeman Clarkson was killed and five others injured. The injured are: C. C. Jenkins. Indianapolis, freight engineer; A. F. Hicks. Indianapolis, baggage master; Warren Gip, Fast Germantown, Ind., passenger engineer; John Pugh, Indianapolis, passenger fireman, and Frank Doll. Indianapolis, passenger conductor. The collision took place on the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania railroad, a few miles' west of here. The property loss is about S25.000. Indiana Town Radly Hurried. English, Ind., telegram: The town of Militowu, fifteen miles east of English, is on fire. Telephone information is cut off by the flames and there is no night telegraph oflioe at Milltown. At last reports T. K. Handcock's general store, the Odd Fellows' hall, J. F. Rawling's undertaking establishment, the Royer hotel, two cottages belonging to T. E. Handcock, C. W. Rawling's twostory residence, were burned, and a number of other houses were in danger. The loss at this hour will reach at least $20.0u0. There is no fire protection but a bucket brigade. Small Town Is Quarmit ined. Terre Haute, Ind., telegram: Carlisle, a town of 1,000, south of here, is quarantined on account of an epidemic of malignant diphtheria. Sunday schools and public schools have been suspended and children under 12 years of age are not permitted to go on the streets. Ncki In Hrlef. A west-bound Pig Four freight train broke in two on the Farmland hill and the tvo sections crashing together, a dozen cars were scattred in the mixup, some of them loaded with valuable merchandise. A number of tramps were on board, not one cf whom was hurt. The American District Telegraph company has applied for a franchise at Ft. Wayne, and is willing to pay a percentage on gross earnings for the privilege. The city wants 3 per cent after January, 1900, and the company offers 2 per cent after January, 1901. The six-year-old daughter of Nelson McCullough of Putnam county, after lying in an unconscious state, the result of an accident in April last, a few days ago recovered her senses, and her faculties now give promise of complete restoration. The "come-outers," a religious sect which originated in Grant county, have spread into Blackford and contiguous counties. They are converts who have "come out" of other churches, and they profess to believe in absolute holiness. Miss Harriet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Benham, has been appointed by the Presbyterian Homo Mission board as assi.-tant principal in the missionarv school at Ranches de Toas, New Mexico, and she will proceed at once to her station. Dr. White cf Indianapolis, who is drilling for oil at Terre Haute, struck a promising find at the depth of 1,609 feet. After oil tanks have been secured the drill will be sent deeper into the Trenton rock. Col. James E. Boardman of Boardman's Corners, Wabash county, who went to Washington as a watchman in the treasury department, has twice been promoted. He is known throughout the treasury building as "Wabash." Judge Winfrey of Evansvilie sentenced Henry Johnson, colored, to prison, but finding that the sheriff had kept him in jail for two weeks after sentence was pronounced, he granted the negro a new trial and released him on a fine. Several retail grocers at Ft. Wayne run saloons in connection therewith, and because they will not join the 6 o'clock closing movement the clerks will prosecute them for violating the Nicholson law. The city of Anderson forcibly annexed the Park Place suburb, but the residents refuse to be annexed, and have secured from the county commissioners the right to vote on the question of separate incorporation. The Union Traction company is now running electric motors between Anderson and Elwood, cars leaving the terminal points every hour. The Howard county commissioners have placed $2G,000 Jackson township gravel road bonds with the Duke Bros, of Kokomo, at a premium of $1,750. The bonds are - per cents, running twenty years. Fire in Hollnway's photograph gallery, Ij, D. Smith's book store and H. F. Schmidt's jewelry establishment at Terre Haute, caused $3,500 loss. C. B. Thompson, near Rushville, captured a spotted mole, the greater part of the fur being of light orange color, with patches of drab on head and body. The specimen is said to be rare. Adam Rupp. formerly a business man of Evansvilie, who was reported to have died while making a visit to a relative in California, is now Raid to be alivo and well, but unwilling to return home. The 13a rl ham lecture course at Richmond will begin Oct. 4, at which timo Booker T. Washington will lecture, his theme being "Solving the Negro Problem at Tuskegee." James B. Stillwell, 77 years old, of Jackson county, near llrownstown, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. During the civil war he served as lieutenant. Clyde Grace and Miss Georgia, daughter of Luther Martin of Madison, were married while visiting friends at Vevay, keeping the matter secret until last week.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODG E, No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conner, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. P. H. 13. 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 of each month. Mrs. Hertha "McDonald, W. M. Mrs. T-ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their loJge r oms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearcr, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Fiidav evening at I. O. O. F. hall. 'Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zuir.baugh, V. G. MissN. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Voting, 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. 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; meeta every Wednesday evening in K. 0. T. M. hall. Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simon hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent. U. 1. 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, Cleric WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH ÜHOVE, No. 6j meets every Friday evening al Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Hammerel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! m K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - Meets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tilsits, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets -ery first and third Tuesday evenings in Simom hall. W. Kellev, Com. Charlei Wilcox, AJjt. COLUMBLVN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Hissell hall. Wert A. Reldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. R. Fanning, Pies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kazer, M. D., President, Novitas 1$. Aspinall, M. D., Sea Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question asked of us 0 often, referring1 to advertising. If properly done we know It will pay handsomely. The experience of those who Have tried it prores that nothing' equals it