Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 October 1899 — Page 3

T ALM AGE'S SERMON.

LONGEVITY THE SUBJECT FOR LAST SUNDAY. From rsulmn, 91: 1G. n Follow: "With Lon Life Will I SatUfy Illni Religion, Sic!i-Iiel aad Uauve-Yards Mistakes of Zealot. (Copyright by Iouls Klopsch.) Through the mistake of its friends, religion has teen chiefly associated with sick-beds and grave-yards. The whole subject, to many people, is odorous with chlorine and carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is high time that this thing were changed, and that religion, instead of being represented as & hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It Is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. "When David, in another part cf the Fsalm. prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of it 26 a mild sickness, or an emaciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as 'the saving health of all nations"; while God. in the text, premises longevity t the pious, saying: "With long life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and women die too soon. It la high time that religion joined the hand of medical science in attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. As late in the history of the world as Vespasian, there were, at one time in his empire, forty-five people one hundred and thirty-five years old. So far down as the sixteenth century, Peter Zartan died at one hundred and eighty-five years of age. I do not 6ay that religion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say the length of lifa will be Increased. It Is said in Isaiah: The child shall die a hundred years eld." Now, if according to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old. may not the men and women reach to three hundred and four hundred and five hundred? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the fenerations that are to come. Take the African rare. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them a chance, and they develop a Frederick Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ouverture. And if the white race 6hall Ve brought from under the serfdom of sin. what shall be the body? what hall be the soul? Religion has enly just touched our world. Give it full power for a few centurie. and v,ho can tell hat will be the strength of man, and the beauty of woman, and the longevity of all? My design ia to show that practical religion is the friend of long life. I prove it, first, from the fact that it makes the care of our health a positive Christian duty. Whether we hall keep earl: or late hours, whether we Khali take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or Incomplete mastication, are questions very often deferred to the realm of whimsiciuty; but the Christian man Hits this whole problem of health into the accountable and the divine. He says: "God has giv:n me this body, and lie has called it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars, or mar its vralls. or crumble its pillars, is a God-defying sacrilege." He sees God's caIif,Taphy in every page anatomical and physiological. He says: "God has g ven me a wonderful body for noble purposes." That arm with thirty-two urious bor.es wielded by forty-six curious mirHos, and all under the brain's telegraphy; three hundred and fifty pounds cf blood rushing through the heart every hour, the heart in twenty-four hours beating 100.C00 times, during the twenty-four hours the lungs taking in fifty-seven hosiheads of air, and all this mechanism not rrore mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man rays to himself: MIf I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties. I insult God and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to ofTer to him In sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we arc to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through Irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health Is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why ihould such a great man as Paul be anxious about a thing eo insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the Church as with respiration ei.sy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God's protection, while at the same time he kept the windows of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going out on the bridge etween New York and Ilrooklyn. leaping off and then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as hjng as you refer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality or to the pastry cook, or to the butcher, or to the baker, you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces nervous, muscular. Lone, brain, cellular tissue for all you must be brought to judgment. Smoking your nervous system Into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stomach with wine lo.qjwoodfd and strychnined. walking with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinched at the waist until you are nigh cut In two. and neither part worth anything, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God. when they came from ycur own folly! What right has any man or womin to deface the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is the whispering gallery of the soul. What Is the eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens. What is the hand? An instrument so wonderful that when the earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his will 40.000 for treatises to be writ

ten on the wisdom, power and goodness of God, Sir Charles Bell, the great English anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest illustration ia the construction of the human hand, devoting his whole book to that subject. So wonderful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after different paris of them. His omniscience it is God's eye. His omnipresenceit is God's ear. His omnipotence it is God's arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens it is the work of God's fingers. His life-giving power it is the breath of the Almighty. His dominion "the government shall be upon his shoulder." A body so divinely constructed, let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a Christian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward longevity? If I toss my watch about recklessly, and drop it on the pavement, and wind it up any time of day or night I happen to think of it, and often let it run down, while you are careful with your watch, and never abuse it, and wind it up just at the same hour every night, and put it in a place where it will not suffer from the violent changes of . atmosphere, which watch will last the longer? Common sense answers. Now, the human body is Gou s watch. You see the hands of the watch, you see the face of the watch, but tne beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Be careful and do net let it run down! Again: I remark that practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a protest against dissipations, wheh injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men. but I do not know half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghl at thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions the horse that dashed with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at thirty-eight years of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his door was delirium tremens "Only this and nothing more." Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond mid-life, then died at St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerliti. the man v.ho by one step of his foot in the center of Europe shook the earth, killed by a snuff-box! How many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dissipations and indulgences! Now, practical religion is a protest against all dissipations of any kind. "But," you say, "professors of religion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have absconded." Yes; but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic, jumpj overboard and Is drowned. Is that auything against the White Star line's capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing that religion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case, if he had kept to the steamer his body would have been saved; In the other case, if he had kept to his religion hi3 morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead twenty-five years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who lie in the cemeteries today, slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and It was called congestion of the brain, or something else, but the snakes and the blue flies that seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Christian rr.an. walked along by that unhappy one until ycu came to the golden pillar of a Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the Iel't. That is all the difference between you. If this religion is a protest against all forms of dissipation, then It is an illustrious friend of longevity. "With long life will I satisfy him." Again: Religion is a friend of longevity In the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men, it Is worry. When a man becomes a genuine Christian he makes over to God not only his affections, but his family, his business, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul everything. Industrious he will be, but never worrying, because God Is managing his affairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy, and when to sell; and if he gain, that U best, and if he lose, that is best. Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who came In and said: "Sir, I want you to call on me in every exigency; I am your fast friend. I could fall back on 520.000.C00; I can foresee a panic ten years; I hold the controlling stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions of New York; whenever you are n trouble, call on me and I will help you; you can have ray money and you can have my influence; here is ray hand in pledge for It." How much would you worry about business? Why. you would say: "I'll do the best I can, and then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest." What do you want in the future world? Tell me and you shall have It. Orchards? Inere are the trees with .twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the Itiver of Liie from under the throne o; (lod. clear as crystal, and the fr a of glais mingled with fire. Do you want music? There Is th oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the Red sea led on by Moers, and the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Faul, while the archangel with swinging baton controls the one hundred and forty-four thousand who nake up th orchestra. Do you want reunion? There are your children waiting to ki?s yr.u, waiting to em I :ace you, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side the sepulchre. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you the under side cf tne grav?; the bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pall-bcarers let down your dfad. let them clear through into heaven.

Glory be to God for this robU3t,

healthy reigion. It will have a tend ency to make you live long in thif. world, and in the world to come you yrlll have eternal life. "With long life will I satisfy him." WHITE HOUSE Uadergoe Alteration with Ew!i Xw Presidential Family. During the absence of President and Mrs. McKinley from Washington, Col. Bingham, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, had a large force of workmen employed in renovating and repairing the executive mansion, and this work 1b being hurried to completion. It Is quite a noticeable and interesting fact that the white house bears in a measure the individuality of every lady who has had the honor to preside there, and by whom the expensive decorations and furnishings have been In a great measure planned. It has been sought to preserve the colonial appearance of tb mansion, but through the varying tastes for decorations very little of the colonial atmosphere of the interior remains. The historic traditions of the mansion could be as well preserved, perhaps, if the president no longer continued to reside there. There 13 scarcely any doubt the American people, in view of the interest which has always attached to the white house, would gladly bear the expense of keeping it as it now stands, as Mt. Vernon and Arlington are maintained. More historic traditions clustered around the old capitol than about the white house, but this fact did not prevent congress from altering it to suit Its convenience and needs whenever de-sj-able or necessary. If the white house had never been altered from the day of its erection to the present time. except to make necessary repairs, it . would be of much more historical interest than It is, or if it had received extensive rdditions from time to time, such as the great castles In England, it would then present an interesting appearance. But, as it Is, no extensive alterations have ever been made, but one president after another has snipped off a little here and added a little there, inside and outside, until the white -ouse is neither purely colonial cor modern, but a patchwork of both. 'DITTY" DOXES FOR SAILORS. Creir of the Onier Detroit Supplied with lUniliome One. Each member of the crew cf the second-class cruiser Detroit recently received the small box, or chest, familiarly known in the navy as a "ditty" box. Thiß is a necessary article which each marine carries with him on all his assignments, and although not regularly issued by the government. It it carried by the navy department free of cost for him. It is one of the few things which Is the personal property of the marine or bluejacket The "ditty" box is rot a new addition to the belongings of a marine, having been in use for many years. It Is about fourteen inches long, eight inches wide, and ten high. It is made of wood and divided into several compartments resembling somewhat the divisions in an ordinary trunk. The lid of the box contains receptacles, with a rack, which hangs midway in the other parts, and is intended for a blacking brush, a box of blacking, a tripley brush and scouring materials. The scouring materials are used to polish the brass buttons on the uniforms. Underneath this Is room for scouring rags, cleaning cloths, and other small belongings which the marine may wish to take along with him. In the cover o' the box he keeps scissors, pins and sewing materials. The "ditty" boxes furnished to the crew of the Detroit are made in the navy yard and are of exceptionally neat workmanship. All are stained a mahogany color and are highly prized by those who were fortunate enough to secure them. In this instance the recipients were not compelled to purchase the boxes, but will forfeit $1 each if they are not returned in good order when the men's enlistment expires. Brooklyn Eagle. Featu la Mountaineering. The greatest height ever reached by a climber in mountaineering is 25,314 feet, which was the height reached by Captain Lawson in his climb up Mount Hercules, in New Guinea. In January, 1S97, Mr. E. A. Fitzgerald's Swiss guide Zurbriggen, reached the summit of Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes and about 24,000 feet in height Mr. W. W. Graham, with two Swiss guides, in November, 18S3, ascended Mount Kabru, a peak that rises to a height of 23,500 feet above the sea level, In the western portion of the Himalayas, the range of mountains that forms the northern boundary of India. Sir William Martin Conway, during his Karakoram expedition, ascended on the 31st cf July, 1892, a height of 20.00 feet, which he named Crystal peak, and on the 25th of August a point 23,000 feet high, which he named Pioneer peak. On the Andes range of mountains, in South America, Mr. Edward Whymper, on the 3rd of January, 1880, reached a height on Chimbcrazo (perpetually snow-clad) of 20.545 feet, and on the 18th of February following a height of 19.6C0 feet on Cotopaxi. the loftiest active volcano in the world. On Man' Theory. Giles Statistics show that fewer men fill drunkards' graves than In former years. Miles What's the causeworld growing better? Giles No, I guess cremation has something to do with it. China's Trail Poaalbllltle. An estimate of the posbibilities of trade with China may be judged from the fact that only 3it) ruiles of railway have Leen built in the whole empire, with a population of 400.000,000. Africa Sniy l.ancC" Africa has nearly seventy different languages, und uns fact presents great dilucultics to missionary efforts. An autograph volume of music by Orlando Ui i.diiu, tue ieat cuaipoaer of sacred music of the sixteenth ceniuiy, lecently discovered in the Imperial library at Vienna, contains a hitherto unbnown portrait of the composer drawn when he was 28 years oM

ON WATER AND

Admiral Dewey Object of Largest Demonstration in New York's History.

Admiral Dewey on Friday for the first time in his career completely capitulated, but it was to an overwhelming force. Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck of New York formally accepted the surrender, and in the presence of the largest fleet ever assembled in New York waters turned the pre-eminent hero of the Spanish war over to his captors 4,000,000 patriotic Americans. Then followed the most imposing naval spectacle New York or America has known the greatest demonstration ever given in honor of an American warrior. With hills, buildings, streets and parks black with cheering admirers, with every sea-going craft in the harbor weighted down under the maximum burden of humanity, this is what modest George Dewey said to the expressions of praise voiced for the nation by Mayor Van Wyck: "Of course it would be needless for me to attempt to make a speech, but my heart appreciates all that you have said. How it is that you have overrated my work so much I cannot understand. It is beyond anything I can conceive of why there should be such an uprising of the country. I simply did what any naval captain in the service would have done, I believe." It was like the man, brief and honest. Yet he surrendered gracefully to his

million friends. He put himself in their hands. His geniality, his unostentatious bearing and his hearty manner won for him from the hosts that waited eighteen months to honor him fresh praise and greater admiration, if that be possible. Admiral Dewey returned the mayor's call and met the governors o? many states and the official guests of New York. He gripped the hands of Chauncey M. Depew, Richard Croker, Seth Low and a score of other well-known men; shook hands with near 1,000 or more, and returned to the Olympia to receive at long and short range the long pent up cheers of a mighty multitude, the like of which has seldom gathered on this continent. With Admiral Dewey on the quarterdeck the Olympia led the water pageant that for the first time compelled the admiral to realize his popularity. From the Narrows to Grant's tomb, far up the far-famed Hudson, followed the great warships of the North Atlantic squadron, the flagship Chicago, the vicious, black, rakish torpedo boats, the converted yachts, the revenue cutters, the transports and hospital ships, every type of merchant vessel, pleasure yacht and ocean-goinp; flyers. Mile after mile as far as the eye could reach, came an endless countless number a steady stream of vessels drawn as by a magnet to the Olympia. Above the decks, dense with men and women, hung an cver-chanRinK, never-ceasing cloud of color, fluttering, ragged, undulating. It was the flags. They floated everywhere. From the blue four-starred emblem which fluttered from the masthead of the Olympia to the signal flags that dressed the humble craft at the end of that great flotilla there were thousands upon thousands in all editions of old glory. Whipped out straight by the stiff September breeze or flaunting in the calm, the national colors were omnipresent. From every flagstaff on land or wave the colors floated. The riot of color was Indescribable. The day was almost Ideal. Bright skies for the most part dyed the waters of the bay and river blue and the sharp September sun caught all the brass and gold, the white and the steel on warship and yacht and dazzled the beholders. It wu bis kaleidoscopic picture, with

a backijround of faces that si: of'.icd away like billows up the Now Jersey hilU and the Manhattan slopes, that Admiral Dewey saw: It was this nicture, with Admiral Dewey the centra! figure, that the crowds saw. The almiral was astounded at the colossal dimensions of his welcome and the crowd Rloried in its vigorous surprise. With ponderous grace the Olympia led the way to Grant's tomb, where the great admiral bared his head to the memory of the great general, turned the stakeboat and thundered forth a salute cf twenty-one guns. Then the flagship dropped anchor and the hundreds of following craft passeü in review. Before thi3 there had been noise. Rut bedlam would have been a quiet place when the boats got opposite the admiral. Sirens. whistles, bells, bands, brass cannon and united cheers from sturdy lungs built up a din that could not b? outdone. Darkness came, and with it illuminations, fireworks and a marine spectacle in light scarcely less beautiful than the day parade. After the last rocket and bomb had 6Tent itself Admiral Dewey sought for sleep, the most weary hero In the world.

This was a long-range welcome, for the public could not surge in on the admiral and struggle for a grasp of the hand that undid Spain. But Saturday the admiral did not escape so eisily. A guard of cavalry and an escort of policemen was between him and Iiis friends, but he stood on land, and the human barrier must indeed be strong if it withstands the tremendous assault of admiration which Dewey's presence means. Th Lnnd Parade. The second day's ceremonies of the Dewey celebration started earl Saturday morning. At 7 o'clock a suo-com-raittc-e of the reception committee boarded the police boat Patrol at West Fortieth street and took Admiral Dewey oft the Olympia. They landed him at the battery about 8 o'clock. Troop A escorted the admiral up Broadway to the city hall. Here he was met by the mayor and the city's guests and the mayor presented to him the city's loving cup, while school children sang patriotic songs and waved flags. Without loss of time the admiral, the mayor and the city's guests were then escorted in carriages to the Warren street pier, where the Sandy Hook was in readiness to carry them to West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, where they landed and took their peaces in the land parade. Breakfast was served on the Sandy Hook. The laud parade started at 11 o'clock and Admiral Dewey reviewed it at Madison square. After the parade was over the admiral was given over to his immediate relatives who kept him until Monday morning, when he left for the capital. Like the naval parade the land parade was the largest of Its kind in the history of New York. Deep-Sea IMvInq; Apparat 11. An engineer in Tunis has invented a deep-sea diving apparatus which has been tried without accident at a depth of 174 feet near Cherbourg. The inventor declares his purpose of searching for the hull of the Alabama, which lies where she was sunk by the Keareage off Cherbourg harbor.

ON LAND

Tai mage and Hin "Copy." Probably no American preacher has knd his sermons more faithfully reported and more widely published than Dr. DeWitt Talmage, who has recently left his Washington pastorate to devote his whole time to writing and lecturing. Dr. Talmage believes the press is mightier than the pulpit, and is a most congenial companion when among newspaper men. "Many years ago when my sermons first attracted the attention of city editors," said Dr. Talmage in a recent conversation, "you reporters used to make me fume and fret, but since I have come to know you better I have transferred much of ray wrath to your adversary, the compositor. My eyes were opened when, after annoying blunders in print, I oetermined to report my own sermons for a certain New York morning paper. It chanced that the first time I reported myself I was preaching a eermcn on the Penitential Psalms, in which sermon I said with emphasis: 'You will notice that in these verses the name of God dees not appear once. Is not this significant? Calm and confident that this time the sense of my sermon would not be distorted by careless reporting I picked up the paper on Monday morning and read: 'You will notice that in thd?e verses the name of God does not appear once. Is not this magnificent?' " Philadelphia Post. Flogging In the Narj. Flogging in the English navy, although popularly supposed to be abolished, is still pursued in training ships. although only administered in a mild form. This free use of the cane is regarded as tyrannical, and to its frequent imposition can be traced most of the mutinous outbreaks that have occurred during the past two years. A court of inquiry assembled on the Impregnable at Davonport recently to inquire into the complaints of some boys cf the brig Liberty. One day when the quartermaster of the Liberty had the morning watch, either through a mistake of forgetting the routine of the day, he turned "hands up" an hour too Boon. The lads, numbering over one hundred, discovered the mistake as soon as they had stowed away their hammocks and, naturally enough, grumbled audibly. The quartermaster overheard the remarks of three boys, gave them a thrashing with a stick, and afterward reported them to their commander, by whom they were again punished for insulting the quartermaster. The boys complained, and an investigation was begun. The court ordered the quartermaster who thrashed the lads to be disrated to the rank cf able seaman and dismissed his ship, and that the gunner's mate and ship's corporal, who were also on duty at the time, be dismissed their Bhips. Iteea riiaoetl Ulm. La Crosse (Wis.) Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean: John Martinek of this city had a terrible experience with bees that may cost hira his life. He was attacked by two swarms, and they kept at him so persistently that he was forced to seek refuge in the Mississippi river, but a few rods distant. The bees pursued him and he plunged headiong into the water, only showing enough of his face above water to give hira opportunity to breathe from time to time. Finally the bees flew away after Mantinek had been in the water more than an hour. He returned to his home, and the doctors found on his face, neck and hands over l'O distinct bee stings. He is in a critical condition. Alinioiift Iftd Mine. Eight thousand men are engaged in mining lead and zinc In Missouri. The total output for 1898 was 74,000 tons of lead and 140,000 tons of line. Pittaburg Post. I

irectory. LIASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODG E, No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. I. II. IL Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 26, K. T. ; mecs fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, W. M. Mri. xou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. ' AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91 ; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Scheurcr, 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 Zuxbaugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night ia Castle Hall. Wm. F. Voung, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rath, bone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mri. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.T499; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of 'P . hall . C. M. Slu) ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 371 meets every Tuel.iy 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 niht at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. zS, L. O. T. M; meeti every Wednesday evening in K. O. t. M. hail. Mr. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent, B J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meet9 first and tl ird Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. ball. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No, 6$ meets every Fiiday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena UI rich, Worthy Guardian. MrsChas. Ilammcrel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shuuk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - - Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Cnas. Tilwrus, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets -ery Mist and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Chat let Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. HcMon. Commander. Alouzo SicveiiMjn, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meet econd and fourth Wednesday evening in V. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Fies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kazer, M. I)., Piwuh-nt Novitas 15. Aspinall, M. D., SeQ Do You Think It Will Pay? That in the question asked of us so often, referrinp to advertising. If .rperlj done we know it wilt py bandsomeiy. The exprri nee of those who hare tried It proves that nothing' equals It

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