Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 November 1899 — Page 3

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THE STRONG SWIMMER LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From Isi., 25:11, as Follows: "lie Shall Spread Forth Ills Hands In the Mldtt of Tbera, as He That Nwlmmcth Spreadeth Forth Ills Hand." (Copyright 1S39 by Louis Klopsch.) In the summer season, multitudes of people wade into ponds and lake3 and rivers and seas, to dive or float or swim. In a world the most of which is water, all men and women should learn to swim. Some of you have learned the side stroke, introduced byGeorge Pewters in 1S50, each stroke of tuai kind carrying the swimmer a distance of six feet, and some of you may use the overhand stroke, invented by Gardener, the expert, who by it won the 000-yard ehampionrhip in Manches ter in 1S62, the swimmer by that stroke carrying his arm in the air f r a more lengthened stroke, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been born to walk the sea; but most usually take what is called the breast stroke, placing the hands with the backs upward, about five inches apart under the water, tue insides of the wrists touching tLo breast, then pushing the arms forward coincident with the stroke of the feet struck out to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illustrate the meaning of my text: "He shall spread forth his hands In the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The fisherman seeks out unrrequented nooks. You stand all day on the bank of the river in the broiling sun, and fling out your lines, and catch nothing, while an expert angler breaks throu-h the jungle and goe3 by the shadow of the solitary rock, and, in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, throws out his line and comes home at night, his face shining and his basket full. I do not know why we ministers of the gospel need always be fishing in the same stream, and preaching from the same texts that other peopi? preach from. I cannot understand the policy of the minister who. in Blaekiriars. London. England, every week f ?r thirty years preached from the epistle to the Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me when I come across a theme which I feci no one else has treated; ami my text is one cf that kind. There are piths in God's j word that are well beaten by Christian feet When men want to quote scripture, they quote the old passages that every cne has heard. When they want a chapter read, they read a chapter that all the other people have been reading. fo that the church today is ignorant or three-fourths of the Bible. You go into the Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. As you come out, your friend says to you: "Did you see that Rembrandt?" "No." "Did you see that .Rubens?" "No." "Did you see that Titian?" "No." "Did you see that Raphael?" "No." "Well." says your friend, ' then you did not see the Louvre." Now, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one of the great corridors of s?ripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who has ever noticed the all-suggestive and powerful picture in the words of my text. This text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. '-'tic shall spread forth his hands in the midst cf them, as he that swimmeth speradeth for41; his hands to swim." The figure i- bold and many-sided. Most of you know how 'o swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, where this art is tau?;bl; some of you in boyhood, in the river near your father's house; some of you since you came to manhood or womanhood while summering on the beach of the sea. It is a good thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you will, after a while, perhaps, have to help others. I do not know anything more stirTing or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who had dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and crew. If a man has not enthusiasm enough to cheer in such circumstances, he deserves himself to drop into the sea end have no one to help him. The Roya' Humane society of England was established in 1774, its object to applaud and reward those who should plucx up life from the deep. Any one who has performed such a deed of daring has all the particulars of that bravery recorded in a public record and on his breast a medal done in blue and gold and bronze, anchor and monogram and inscription, telling to future generations the bravery of the man or woman who saved some one from drowning. But if it is such a worthy thing to save a body from the deep. I ask you if it is not a worthier thing to save an Immortal soul? And you shall see, this hour, the Son of God step forth for this achievement. "He shall spread irth his hands in the nidst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim.' In order to understand the full force of this figure, you need to realize that our rac; is In a sinking condition. You fcometimas hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our language. One man says It is "home"; another says it is the word 'mother"; another says It is the word "Jesus"; but I tell you the bittere3t word In all our language, the word most angry and baleful, the word that accounts for all the loathsomeness and the pang and the outrage and the harrowing, and that word is "sin." You epell It with three letters, and yet those three lettesn describe the circumference and pUr the diameter of everything bal In the universe. Sin Is a sibilant rord. You cannot pronounce it withwtt giving the sisa of the flame or the SS3 of the serpent. Sin! and then if tKra add three letters to that word, it fir-ribes every one of us by nature saner. We have outraged the law of Ood, not occasionally, or now and then, bet perpetually. The Bibles declares to. Hark! It thunders two clap3: "The tfa rt Ig deceitful above all things, and Aasnaritoly wicked." "The soul that

sinneth, it shall di3." What the Bible

After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death, his conscience troubled him so much far the deed that he became insane, and all through his Insanity he kept saying: "Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!" It was ?ae roce of conscience. And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but his conscience brings that matter before him. and at every step of his misbehavior it says, "Wrong, wrong!" Sin is a leprosy; sin is a paralysis; sin is a consumption; sin is pollution; sin is death. Give it a fair chance, an it will swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, forever. In this world it only gives a faint intimation of Its virulence. You seo a patient in the first stages of typhoid fever. The cheek is somewhat flushed, the hands somewhat hot. preceded by a slight chill. "Why," you say, "typhoid fever does not seem to be much of a disease." But wait until the patient has been six week3 under it, and all his energies have been wrung out. and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect gone, then you see the full havoc of the disease. Now, sin in this world is an ailment which is only in its first stages; but let it get under lull sway and it is an all-consuming typhoid. Oh. if we could see our unpardoned sins as God sees them, our teeth would chatter and our knees would knock together, and our respiration would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven, they are bearing you down, and you are sinkingsinking away from happiness, sinking away from God. sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. Then what do we want? A swimmer! A strong swimmer! A swift swimmer! And, blessed be God! in my text we have him announced. "He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim." You have noticed that when a swimmer goes to rescue any one he puts off his heavy apparel. He must not have any such impediment about him if he is going to do this great deed. And when Christ stepped forth to save us he shock off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free, and then he stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came up over his wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in his side aye, it dished to the lacerated temple, the high-water mark of his anguish. Then, rising above the flood. "He stretched forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when in the last day the water is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where lue harpooners went down. There is where the line of battleships went down. There Is where the merchantmen went down. There is where the steamers went down a long line of wrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day, when the water is drawn off! But oh, how much more solemn if we had an eye to see the spiritual wrecks and the places where they foundered! You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful catastrophe, putting out for their souls, "spreading forth his hands as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim"; but they thrust him in the sore heart, and they smote his uir cheek and the storm and darkness swallowed them up. I ask you to lay h-vd of this Christ and lay hold of him now. You will sink without him. From horizon to horizon not one sail in sight. Only one strong swimmer, with head Huns back and arms outspread. I hear many saying, "Well, I would like to be a Christian. I am going to work to become a Christian." My brother, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning, and a strong swimmer comes out to help him, he says to him: "Now be quiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shoulder, but don't struggle, don't try to help yourself, and I'll take you to the shore. The more you struggle, and the more you try to help yourself, the more you impede me. Now, be quiet, and I"l take you ashore." When Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the sinner says: "That's right. I am glad to see Christ, and I am going to help him In the work of my redemption. I am going to pray more, and that will help him; and I am going to weep extravagantly over my sins, and that will help him." No; it will not. Stop your doing. Christ will do ail or none. You cannot lift an ounce; you cannot move an inch, in this matter of your redemption. This is the difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the kingdom of heaven. It is because they cannot consent to let Jesus Christ begin and complete the work of their redemption. "Why," you say, "then is thera nothing for me to do?" Only one th'.r.g have you to do, and that i3 to lay hold of Christ and let him achieve your salvation, and achieve It all. I do not know whether I make the mat ter piain or not. I simply want to show you that a r.ian cannot save himself. but that the Almighty Son of God can do it, and will do it if you ask him. Oh. fling out your two arms the arm of your trust and the arm o! your love around thi3 omnipotent swimmer of the Cross. Have you ever stood by and seen some one under process of resuscitation alter leng submergence? The strong swimmer has put him on the beach after a struggle In the waters. To excite breathing In the almost lifeless body, what manipulation, what friction of the cold limbs, what artificial movement of the lungs, what breath of rescuer blown into the mouth of the rescued! And when breathing begins, and after a whiie the slight respiration becomes the deep sigh, and the eyes open and the blue lips take on a smile, what rejoicing, what clapping of hands all up and down the beach! What congratulation for the strong swimmer and for all who helped In the restoration! What shouting of "He lives! He lives!" Like this Is the gladness when a soul that has been submerged In sin and sorrow Is "coming to." What desire on the part of all to help, and, when under the breath of God, and under the manipulation by the wounded hands of Christ, the life-eternal of the

soul begins to show Itself, all through the ranks of spectators, terrestrial and celestial, goes the cry, "He lives! Rejoice, for the dead 13 alive again!" May the living Christ this moment put out for your rescue, "spreading hi3 hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreaaeth forth hi3 hand3 to swim!" Pink Satin. A pretty anecdote of a revolutionary bride is related by Ellen D. Lamed in a recent little volume upon the local deeds and traditions of a Connecticut county. The incident occurred soon after the first successes of the rebel privateers. A beautiful young girl, betrothed and shortly to be married, admitted one day to the house a wandering peddler, who undid his pack and displayed his wares. She expected, doubtless, to purchase some pretty trifle to add to her wedding outt; but time3 were hard, there was littie money to spare, and, moreover, it was many months since all imported finery had been so frowned upon that no patriotic young woman could venture to buy it.

nor any dealer to sell it. Unat, then was the young woman's amazement and delight when the peddler unrolled a voluminous piece of the most beautiful pink satin satin, too, quite innocent and inoffensive to the most ardently patriotic eye, since he explained that it was a trophy of war, the booty of one of our own privateers! She gazed upon it in fascination. What a wedding dress it would make! But the cost she could not, she dared not, ask so much money of her father. Nor did she. But, unrolling the exquisite fabric yet further, she draped the rosy folds flowingly about her stipple young figure, and, crossing the room to where all the time her father, a stern and silent man, hid sat writing at his accounts, observing nothing, she sank upon her knees at his feet. A hand was laid on his knee; he looked down, wondering, and she looked up, pleading and then he understood. Not a word was spoken on either side, but the old man's hand went quietly into his desk, drew out a purse, opened it. and laid in his daughter's hand forty silver dollars. At the wedding that soon ensued the bride's gown and the bridegroom's waistcoat were both of pink satin, and there wr.s one more pretty storv to hand down of a real Daughter of the Revolution. A IJH1 ctlv' I'.uII I'll p. The following story, iohi by a correspondent of the Sp ctator (London) is piven by the owner of the dog as an example of a very high order of intel ligence in an animal; of a power cf rea soning as distinct from any acquired instinct. He bases this upon his opin ion that "the puppy went and asked the old dog to show her how;" but it seems as though nothing more than the common faculty of imitation was needed to explain the matter, which is sufficiently noteworthy without going too far afield for the reasoning process This is the story: "I have a bull-pup, aged ten months, and another bulldog four years old, both of which live in the house and are great pets. A short time ago my wife was ill, and, though the older dog, owing to his quiet, sedate ways, was allowed to enter her room, the puppy was never admitted. The nurse could always tell which dog was at the door because the older dog gave cne single and gentle scratch and then remained quiet, while the puppy scratched violently and frequently and whined. The puppy apparently could not understand why she was not ad mitted, and felt her exclusion sorely. One day she scratched furiously as usual. No notice was taken. Presently she was heard going Hop. flop down stairs. In a few minutes the single gentle scratch cf the old dog was heard, the door was opened, and there were both dogs, and, strange to say, from that time the puppy so imitated the scratch of the other dog that it was impossible to tell which was at the door." Improvement In Luncheon Dishes. From the Boston Transcript: Of course, it is being trite to say it, but we do eat altogether too much meat. A good many are coming to this conclusion and trying to reform, so an observing person remarks, by eating no meat at luncheon. They aren't thinking of becoming out-and-out vegetarians, but they are thinking that a luncheon menu made up of two or three kind of vegetables, wound up with a fruit salad or with a peach or pear eaten from the hand, is conducive to a physical sense of well-being that makes life seem worth the living. And have you noticed that the leading restaurateurs are doing themselves proud in catering to this sensible demand of their customers? Ten years ago, if your memory can take you back so far, you will recall the fact that the most comprehensive menu at your favorite lunching place offered you tomatoes in nothing but just the most straightforward and unadorned guise, but today it's very different. They are fried and broiled and roasted, with or without stuffing, and as a general thing served with a sauce that you are accustomed to having with steaks and chops, which, of course, makes them seem so much more a "dish." What you have noticed in regard to tomatoes is as true of other vegetables, though very few lend themselves to the elaborating process as they do. And to think that now and then you run across a barbarian who declares he "had to learn to like tomatoes!" Newspaper Wood Pulp. In the manufacture of newspaper wood pulp, according to present methods, a cord of spruce wood Is estimated to equal 516 feet of board measure, and this quantity of raw material will make half a ton of sulphite pulp or one ton of ground wood pulp. Newspaper stock Is made up with 20 per cent of the sulphite pulp and 80 per cent of the ground wood pulp. Now, 3 figured by experts, the best of spruce land, virgin growth, possesses a stand of about 1,000 feet to the acre; on twenty-t'.vo acres, therefore, of this beat spruce linl there Ul ZxsA 154,000 feet of timber, which an averago company of loggers will cut in about eight days. But this entire quantity j of wood, turned in at any one of the I large mills, will in a single day be converted Into about 250 tons of such pulp as goes to wake up newspaper stock, and this amoint of oulp will make an equal weight of paper.

FRIEND OF THE BOERS

OLIVE SCHREINER IS ACTIVE IN THEIR BEHALF. Wants the Tyranny of Ilrltalu Clirly Understood Sketch of a Peculiar Woman Lire From South African Farm to Merit.. J Fame. One of the most peculiar of contemporary writers Is Olive Schreiner, who suddenly leaped into great popularity over ten years ago by her strong romance, 'The Story of an African Farm." Since then she has never produced another sustained bit of imaginative work, but in several smaller books sbe has shown creative power of a rare kind. Her father was a German missionary and her mother an English woman, and all her girlhood she spent at a remote station in Cape Colon)-. This lonesome life she has reproduced with startling fidelity in her book, which was a powerful protest against the world's failure to permit a girl to enjoy the same training as a boy. Her sketches of Boer life were as graphic as Rider Haggard's in "Jess" or "Swallow." Olive Schreiner feels deeply the wrongs of the Boers, and her pen has been active for months in presenting their side of the controversy with England. HOW WASHBOARD WON FAVOR Mrs. William Warreu Saj She Had Much to Do with It. Mrs. William Warren of ETastina place, Mariuer's Harbor, Staten island, claims that she was the first woman to introduce the washboard into the interior part of England. Mrs. Warren, who is of English birth, says she returned to Gloucestershire some twenOLIVE ty-six years ago, and it was ;hen that she first noticed the primitive mode of washing there. When she saw the long, collin-shaped tub and noted the great labor made over a wash, she to'.d about the American washboard. Some utilized huge barrels, with pounders; the clothes were put in and ;oft toap was poured on. After two hours' pounding the clothes were rinsed in brooks or streams, and then bleached in the sun. Others used large tubs and rubbed each part of the garment with the open palm of the hand; some had "slid" boards, through which the clothes passed back and forth '.n a slow manner. Mrs. Warren sent for a washboard, and when it arrived a holiday was taken. Everybody trial it, and a great rubbing took place. Mrs. Warren, to show how the board was used, traveled from house to house. Everybody bought one, and the villages around soon caught the fever. All oldfashioned designs were put aside, and the Yankee washboard found its first friends among the country people of England. New York Tribune. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED. Ituling of a Country Judce Which Ala do Lawyers iai. "Church congregations are always mightily well pleased to see their pastors in their pulpits after the summer season is ended, but not as thoroughly gratified as are members of the bar when the judges return from their vacations." remarked a prominent Brooklyn lawyer. "Why do you make the distinction between the emotions of church congregations and lawyers?" I asked. To which my friend replied: "Well, a congregation is not forced to accept the views of a poorly informed country parson who comes to the city as a substitute for a brighter man who has gone to the mountains or seashore. But it is different in the courts. You've got to knock under, at least until an appeal can be heard; have got to submit to the rulings of this and that second-class country judge who comes to the city to make a show of his unfamiliarity with law, until the regular judges return to their seats. During last summer a case came under my observation which will Illustrate the incompetency of some of these country judges who visit us in vacation time. In a surrogate's case an order had been Issued for the arrest of two executors on the ground that they had failed to turn over certain moneys as directed by the court One of these executors did comply with the order of the court, but, nevertheless, was arrested and locked up. His counsel appeared before one of the country judges sent down to this section temporarily, and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. Whereupon the judge made the remarkable decision that a Supreme court judge could not grant the writ called for; that the Supreme court could not Interfere with a case under

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so the poor prisoner had to sweat in jail because this countryman did not know the law. That ruling made every lawyer in the courtroom gasp for breath." Brooklyn Eagle. M1SSINC BASTION. Search has been made at Oxford. England, for the missing bastion of the city wall. An extraordinarily fine piece of the wall surrounds the garden of New college, and makes it really the most beautiful in Oxford. But between this and the bastion which formerly existed in the garden of the rector of Exeter college all trace had been lost except th-3 fine mediaeval carving in the house facing the Bodleian, which was, as known from documentary evidence, abutting on a bastion. Excavations now being made in the angle between the Bodleian and the Sheldonian theater reveal ample traces of the missing bastion and a number of ancient tobacco pipes and glass bottles, resembling those in which benedictine is sold, with a protuberance on the top of the bulb to receive a seal. The next bastion was, as has been mentioned, in the garden of the rector of Exeter; the next is in the premises of the furniture-maker opposite Balliol; and the next adjoins the ancient church of St. Michael's, in the Cornmarket, famous for lis perfect Saxon tower. The bastion opposite Balliol is particularly interesting as having formed the prison of Latimer and Ridley before their martyrdom. MEXICAN SECRETARY OF STATE Although President Diaz of Mexico was prevented from visiting the United

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States this fall on account of the illness of his wife, his minister of foreign affairs came. Senor lgnacio Mariscal stands closer to President Diaz than does any other official at present connected with the government of Mexico. Before h: accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs in 1SS4 he had been minister of Mexico to Great Britain. Senor Mariscal is said to be the best informed man on either side of the water in regard to the intricate nature of Spanish-American politics, being thoroughly conversant with the situation in every republic in all Central and South America. This is by no means an easy task when one considers the frequency cf revolutions everywhere else but in Mexico. Senor Mariscal has a great admiration for the United States, and every plan for more cordial relations between the two republics has had his cordial approval. IGNACIO MARISCAL. while, indeed, many of them originated in his active brain. Cleveland to lecture. Princeton's one hundred and fiftythird year was formally opened In Marquand chapel by prayer, scripture reading and an address by President Francis L. Patton. Dr. Patton commended to the undergraduate body the new dean of the university. Dr. Samuel Winans. Dr. Patton made formal announcement of a gift to the college of $100,000 for the endowing of a chair of political science. This chair will be filled as soon as a suitable man can be found. The president also announced that Grover Cleveland, cxpresident of the United States, has been prevailed upon to deliver a few lectures on some phase of public life. After the many rumors, regularly denied, of Mr. Cleveland identifying himself In some way with the university, the announcement of the lectures came as gratifying news to the students. The subjects on which Mr. Cleveland will lecture are not yet announced. The principal part of Dr. Patton'8 speech was directed to the freshman class, being in the line of an exhortation.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Going to Iowa Harlan Family IIa Ueea Warned to Leave Tlptau County Kept the Guardians of the Law Uusy for Year. Tipton, Ind. Mrs. Artiissa Harlan of Sharpsville has sold her landed possessions in this county and will re move to Iowa. This is said to be ow ing to threats by her neighbors, who had become incensed over the operations of the Harlan boys. They made the home of their grandmother a ren dezvous. Buck Harlan is perhaps bet ter known in Shelby county, where he joined a gang of counterfeiters. Event ually he was arrested and convicted by the government, and is now serving a fifteen-year sentence. Louis Harlan, another brother, was shot by Sheriff McCreary of this county, while resisting arrest, several months ago. Charles Harlan has become insane and is now under treatment at the Central Indiana insane hospital. Milo Harlan, the youngest brother, enlisted In the Spanish-American war, and he lost a leg in the charge on San Juan hill. He is now in Iowa, where he will be joined by his grandmother. Failed to Pas. Kokomo, Ind. An ordinance granting a fifteen years' franchise to the New Long-Distance Telephone company in this city failed to pass the city council. The ordinance provided for maximum rates one-third less than now charged, a bond of $3,000 guaranteeing the completion of the line to Indianapolis and other Indiana cities within ninety days, and a forfeiture to the city of the company's property in event of a sale or a combination with any competing company. The restrictions are unusual. The demand for competition in this city is strong, and citizens are at a loss to understand why the new company is denied admis sion. The city council will meet in adjourned session, when such pressure will be brought as it is thought will pass the ordinance. Arrested in Lima. Portland, Ind. Harry Chavous. the colored cook who shot his white wife, last Sunday night, has been arrested at Lima, Ohio, and a Portland officer has gone after him. The woman is still suffering greatly, but says she will not prosecute her husband, and if he is sent to prison she will go to her grave. She insists that if she is made to appear in court she will not say a word. Chavous was burning her clothing when the shooting began, and he used the woman's own revolver. After the shooting he swallowed the contents of a bottle, which, he said, contained morphine, but it proved of no effect on him. Condensed Telegrams. A cluster of diamonds belonging to Lavina La Cazette, a wealthy Cuban woman, were found in a pawn shop at Marion, where they had been placed by Michael Seibel, who reports that he found them at Muncie. The diamonds were lost while their owner was at Muncie. The burial of the late William Stanton occurred at Washington. During services at St. Simon's church, five priests officiated, all nephews of the dead, being sons of his only sister, Mrs. Hicke-y, of Cincinnati. A stolen flock of geese ied to .t search of Daniel Miller's homo, at Hartford City, and much goods, alleged to have been stolen, were uncovered. William Lenen. Bert Hess and Daniel Miller were arrested. Millard Clark, engineer of the Fairmount electric light and water plant, was badly burned by an explosion of natural gas, too much having accumulated under the boilers when he applied a match. r Members of the order at Jeffersonville propose to test the validity of the new law passed by the grand lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor, providing for a higher rate of insurance assessment. George W. Colclazier, a constable of Van Buren township, Shelby county, dropped dead while conducting a sale. He was 70 years old and during the civil war served in Gen. Harrison's regiment. Cards have been issued at Richmond announcing the approaching marriage of Paul Miller of Indianapolis and Miss Mary Newman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newman, of that city, Nov. 1. There is a probability that William H. Butts of Cincinnati will be appointed superintendent of Spring Grove cemetery, Terre Haute, vice the late James Bain, who also came from that city. Jess E. Montrose of Peru has been convicted of stealing ?G3 from his employer at Springfield, 111., in order that he might wed Miss Myrtle Dunlap of that city, to whom he was betrothed. Thomas C. Jones of Columbus, injured in a railway wreck at Delhi, Ohio, has recovered a verdict calling for $12,000, in a suit at North Vernon. A workman at Montpclier hunted for a natural gas leak with a lighted match. In the explosion following Samuel Kirkwood and William Jamieson were painfully burned. Mrs. Flora Ruddick of Indianapolis !s dead at the home of her father, Wilburn Hancock, at Tampico. it is the sixth death In the Hancock family within six months. Mahlon Haines.whose death occurred at Carmel, was S6 years oVd. He was identified with many religious and educational movements during his long and useful life. Mrs. Carrie Shea, operating a 5 and 10 cent store at Knightstown. has made an assignment. Assets and nihilities about $700 each. Mrs. George Ballenger of Richmond has been elected president of the Y. P. C. U., United Presbyterian church, Ohio Presbytery. The Rev. W. R. Covert has resigned the pastorate of the Church of God at Anderson to look after mining interests In Colorado. Every manufacturing concern at Wabash is preparing to substitute coal for natural gas as a fuel.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Win. H. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, H, P. II. 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. Bertha McDonald, V. M. Mrs. Tou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91 j 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 Zuxbaugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cai Switztr, 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, No. 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. 271 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 everv 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; meets everv Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. 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. 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. 6j meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday in K.of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Swit zer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibetts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets - ery first and third Tuesday evenings in Simoni hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Provost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meet second and fourth Wedneday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSl CIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Sea Do You Think It Will Pay? That la the question a&ked of us so often, referring- to advertising. If properly done we know It will pay handsomely. The expertno of those who hare tried It proves that nothing equal lk