Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 November 1899 — Page 3

TALMA GE"S SERMON.

"SALVATION" THE SUBJECT OF LATEST DISCOURSE. 'Seek and Ye Shall Fine, Knock and It Shall He Opened Unto Ye" "Seek the I,ord While II May I5e Found" Ist iah 55:1. Isaiah stands Lead and shoulders above the other Old Testament authors in vivid descriptiveness of Christ. Other prophets give an outline of our Savior's features. Some of them present, as it were, the side face of Christ; others a bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives us the full length portrait of Christ. Other Scripture writers excel in some things. Ezekiel more weird. David more pathetic, Solomon more epigrammatic, Habakkuk more sublime; but when you want to se Christ coming out from the gates of prophesy in all his grandeur and glory, you involuntarily turn to Isaiah. So that if the prophesies in regard to Christ might be called the "Oratorio of the Messiah." the writing of Isaiah is the "Hallelujah Chorus," where all the batons wave and all the trumpets come in. Isaiah was not a man picked up out of insignificance by inspiration. He was known and honored. Josephus and Thilo, and Sirach extolled him in their writings. What Paul was among the apostles, Isaiah was among the prophets. My text finds him standing on a mountain of inspiration, looking out into the future, beholding Christ advancing, and anxious that all men might know him; his voice rings down the ages: "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." "Oh," says some one, "that was for olden times." No, my hearer. If you have traveled in otter lands you have taken a circular letter of credit from some banking house in New York, and in St. Petersburg or Venice, or Rome, or Melbourne, or Calcutta, you presented that letter and got financial help immediately. And I want you to understand that the text, instead of being appropriate for one age, or for one land, is a circular letter for all ages and for all lands, and wherever it is presented for help, the help comes: "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found." I come today with no hairspun theories of religion, with no nice distinctions, with no elaborate disquisition; but with an urgent call to personal religion. The gospel of Christ is a powerful medicine: it either kills or cures. There are those who say "I would like to become a Christian. 1 have been waiting a good while for right kind of influences to coL '.nl still you are waiting. You are wiser In worldly things than you are in religious things. If you want to get to Albany you go to the Grand Central depot, or to the steamboat wharf, and, having got your ticket, you do not sit down on the wharf or sit in the depot; you get aboard the boat or train. And yet there are men who say they are waiting to get to iaven waiting, waiting, but not with ntelligent waiting, or they would get on board the line of Christian influences that -rou!d bear them into the kingdom of God. Now you know very well that to seek a thing is to search for it with earnest endeavor. If you want to see a certain man in this city, and there is a matter of $10.000 connected with 3'our seeing him, and you cannot at first find him. you do not give up the search. You look in the directory, but you cannot find the name; you go in circles where you think, perhaps, he may mingle, and, having found the part of the city where he lives, but perhaps not knowing the street, you go through street after street, and from block to block, and you keep on searching for weeks and months. You say: "It is a matter of $10,000 whether I see him or not." Oh, that men wore as persistent in seeking for Christ! Had you one half that persistence you wojld long ago have found him who is the joy of the forgiven spirit. We may pay our debts, we may attend church, we may relieve the poor, we may be public benefactors, and yet all our life disobey the text, never seek God, never gain heaven. Oh, that the spirit of God would help me, while I try to show you. in carrying out the idea of my text, first, how to seek the Lord, and in the second place, when to seek him. I remark, in the first place, you are to seek the Lord through earnest and believing prayer. God is not an autocrat or a despot seated on a throne, with his arms resting on brazen lion3, and a sentinel pacing up and down at the foot of the throne. God is a father seated in a bower, waiting for hi3 children to come and climb on his knee, ?.nd get his kiss and hi3 benediction. Prayer is the cup with which we go to the "fountain of living water," and dip up refreshment for our thirsty soul. Grace doe3 not come to the heart as we set a cask at the corner of the house to catch the rain In the shower. It i3 a pulley fastened to the throne of God, which we pull, bringing the blessing. I do not care so much what posture you take in prayer, nor how large an amount of voice you use. You might get down on your face before God, if you did not pray right inwardly there would be no response. You might cry at the top of your voice, and unless you had a believing spirit within, your cry would go no farther up than the shout of a plow-boy at his oxen. Prayer must be believing, earnest, loving. You are in your ho.ise some summer day, and a shower comes up, and a bird, affrighted, darts into the window and wheel about the room. You seize it. You smooth its ruflled plumage. You feel its fluttering heart. You say, "Poor thing, poor thing!" Now a prayer goe3 out of the storm of this world into the window of God's mercy, and he catche3 it, and he feels its fluttering pulse, and he puts it in his own bosom of affection and safety. Prayer Is a warm, ardent, pulsating exercise. It is an electric battery which, touched, thrills to the throne of Ood! It Is the divinsbll in which we fro down Into the depth3 of God's mercy and bring up "pearls of great price." There was an Instance where prayer made the waves of the Gennesaret solid as stone paver5t. 02. how xw-ay wondorful things

prayer has accomplished! Have you ever tried it? In the days when the Scotch Covenanters were persecuted, and the enemies were after them, one of the head men among the Covenanters prayed: "Oh, Lord, we be as dead men unless thou shalt help us! Oh, Lord, throw the lap of thy cloak over these poor things!" And instantly a Scotch mist enveloped and hid the persecuted from their persecutors the promise literally fulfilled: "While they are yet speaking I will hear." Have you ever tried the power of prayer? God says: "He is loving, and faithful and patient." Do you believe that? You are told that Christ came to save sinners. Do you believe that? You are told that all you have to do to get the pardon of the gospel is to ask for it. Do you believe that? Then come to him and say: "Oh, Lord, I know thou canst not lie. Thou hast told me to come for pardon, and I could get it. I come. Lord. Keep thy

promise and liberate my captive soul. Oh. that you might have an altar in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the store, in the barn, for Christ will be willing to come again to the manger to hear prayer. He would come to your place of business, as he confronted Matthew, the tax commissioner. If a measure should come before congress that you thought would ruin the nation, how you would send in petitions and remonstrances! And yet there has been enough sin in your heart to ruin it forever, and you have never remonstrated or petitioned against it. If your physical health failed, and you had the mean3, you would go and spend the summer in Germany, and the winter in Italy, and you would think it a very cheap outlay if you had to go all round the earth to get back your physical health. Have you made any effort, any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health? Oh, that you might begin to seek after God with earnest prayer. Some of you have been working for years and years for the support of your families. Hive you given one half day to the working out of your salvation with fear and trembling? You came here with an earnest purpose, I take it, as I have come hither with an earnest purpose, and we meet face to face, and I tell you, first of all. if you want to find the Lord you niüst pray, and pray, and pray. I remark again, you must seek the Lord through Bible stud'. The Bible is the newest book in the world. Oh. you say, "it was made hundreds of years ago. and the learned men of King James translated it hundreds of years ago." I confute that idea by telling you it is not five minutes old. when God, by his blessed spirit, retranslates it into the heart. If you will, in the seeking of the way of life through scripture study, implore God's light to fall upon the page, you will find that these promises are not one second old. and that they drop straight" from the throne of God into your heart. Oh. my friends, if you merely want to study the laws of language, do not go to the Bible. It was not made for that. Take "Howe's Elements of Critl- ' cism" it will be better than the Bible for that. If you want to study metaphysics, better than the Bible will be the writings of William Hamilton. But if you want to know how to "have sin pardoned, and at last to gain the blessedness of heaven, search the scriptures, "for in them ye have eternal life." When people are anxious about their souls, there are those who recommend good books. That is all right. But I want to tell you that the Bible is the best book under such circumstances. Baxter wrote "A Call to the Unconverted." but the Bible is the best call to the unconverted. Phillip Dodridge wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," but the Bible is the best rise and progress. John Angell James wrote "Advice to the Anxious Inquirer." but the Bible is the best advice to the anxious inquirer. Oh, the Bible is the very book you need, anxious and inquiring soul! A dying soldier said to his mate: "Comrade, give me a drop!" The comrade shook up the canteen and said: "There isn't a drop of water in the canteen." "Oh," said the dying soldier, "that's not what I want; feel in my knapsack for my Bible," and his comrade found the Bible and read him a few of the gracious promises, and the dying soldier said: "Ah, that's what I want. There isn't anything like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there, my comrade?" Oh. blessed book while we live! Blessed book when we die! Sin is an awful disease. I hear people say with a toss of the head and with a trivial manner: "Oh, yes, I'm a sinner." Sin is an awful disease. It is leprosy. It is dropsy. It is consumption. It is all moral disorders In one. Now you know there is a crisis in a disease. Perhaps you have had some illustration of it in your family. Sometimes the physician has called, and he has looked at the patient and said: "That case was simple enough; but the crisis has passed. If you had called me yesterday, or this morning, I could have cured the patient. It is too late now; the crisis has passed." Just so it Is in the spiritual treatment of the soul there is a crisis. There are some here who can remember instances In life when, if they had Lought a certain property, they would have become very rich. A few acres that would have cost them almost nothing was offered them. They refused them. After a large village or city sprung up on those acres of ground, and they see what a mistake they made in not buying the property. There was an opportunity of getting it. It never came back again. And so it Is In regard to a man's spiritual and eternal fortune. There Is a chance; If you let that go perhaps it never come3 back. Certainly, that one never comes back. A gentleman told me that at the battle of Gettysburg he stood upon a height looking off upon the conflicting armies. He said It was the most exciting -noment of his life; now one army seeming to triumph and now the other. After awhile the host wheeled In such a way that he knew that In five mlautes the whole question would be deebjed. He said the emotion was

almost unbearable. There Is Just sucn a time today with you. The forces or light on one side, the forces of death on the other side, and in a few moments the matter will be settled for eternity. There Is a time which mercy has set for leaving port. If you are on board before that, you will get a passage for heaven. If you are not on board you miss your passage for heaven. As in law courts, a case Is sometimes adjourned from term to term, and from year to year, till the bill of costs eats up the entire estate, so there are men who are adjourning the matter of religion from time to time, and from year to year, until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the man will have to pay for It. Why defer this matter, oh, my dear hearer? Have you any idea that sin will wear out? That it will evaporate? That it will relax Its grasp? That you may find religion as a man accidentally

finds a lost pocketbook? Ah. no! No man ever became a Christian by accident. The embarrassments are all the time increasing. The hosts of darkness are recruiting, and the longer you postpone this matter the deeper the path will become. I ask those men who are before me now whether in the ten or fifteen years they have passed in the postponement of these matters, they have become any nearer God or heaven I would not be afraid to challenge this whole audience, so far as they may not have found the peace of the gospel, In regard to the matter. Your hearts, you are willing frankly to tell me, are becoming harder and harder, and that if you come to Christ it will be more of an undertaking now than it ever would have been before. The throne of judgment will soon be set; and, if you have anything to do toward your eternal salvation, you had better do it now, for the redemption of your soul is precious, and it ceaseta forever. Oh, if men could only catch one glimpse of Christ, I know they would love him! Your heart leaps at the sight of a glorious sunrise or sunset. Can you be without emotion as the sun of righteousness rises behind Calvary, and sets behind Joseph's sepulchre? He is a blessed Savior. Every nation has its type of beauty. There is German beauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty, and English beauty; but I care not in what land a man first looks at Christ he pronounces him "chief among ten thousand and one altogether lovely." FASTING FOR INVALIDS. It is a strongly implanted idea that when a person is ill feeding up must be necessary, and all the more so when no appetite for food exists. This is quite an error in many cases, for it may be that abstinence is needed so that the digestive organs should have rest in order to do their work as well as ever again. Nature may generally be trusted not to lead one astray, so when theie is a lack of appetite or even a feeling of repulsion for food it is, as a rule, wise to abstain from eating until the desire for food returns. A person suffering acutely from in digestion cured himself by a fast lasting several days, during which he sat isfied his thirst with water, but took nothing else. On the second day he experienced the pain of hunger, but he persisted in his fast, and though it lasted six days he was able to do all h's work as usual, and without th slightest inconvenience. Then when he took food again he found that his dyspepsia had vanished and hs .yaj able to digest ordinary food, u&ic'fr hS b had not done for a long ttfSe .O" . x The man sim ment advocated more the att non or last lieeueu. $r pm 'ii&ee to six days will be foundliaSie tirn indicated- lmt nne tv?v iVVn thafrp - - - , a "TJ Q weeks' fasting will be fotufl advi3ule in L'Aiituie cases. 1 l isuiipsb u. u-r soluteiy trusted. When thesitfant ha been denied food lone enoughS.avf-$5 come the inflammation, which lJrliable to be mistaken for appetite, then give nourishment as soon as and no sooner than the patient craves for food." Father and Son. The London Chronicle credit a happy reversal of words to Mr. Edward Bui wer Lytton Dickens, who is the son of Charles Dickens, and has been recently appointed a rabbit-inspector by the governor of New South Wales. When Mr. Dickens was in the Sydney parliament, he represented "Wilcannia, a constituency out on the Darling river. There were two seats, and Dickens colleague was Mr. Willis, who had been a bushwhacker about the Darling country, and was widely known and popular. Willis was, to use a, colonialism, a "great jawster," and on one occasion when the two candidates were together vioiting the various townships in the Wilcannia constituency to give an account of their stewardship, Willis went in first. He spoke for two hours, leaving Dickens little time to have hjs say. During his colleague's speech Dickens turned to a friend on the platform and remarked: "My father made a saying, 'Barkis is willing,' and I can't help making another Willis Is barking!" Choice of the Ited Iteggarman. Semii3 Mac Manns in the Philadelphia Press: In times gone, In Ireland, til o Protestant minister collected tithe3 in the harvest, while the Catholic priest got in his stipends at Christmas. Father Edward and Rev. Sandy Montgomery were one day riding together, in l heir usual friendly -way, through Inver, r.nd bantering each other about their callings. "Here's the Bacach Ruadh," said Father Edward; "let us have his opinion." The Bacach Ituadb. (or Red Beggarman) was an arrant knave, too clever to work while ha could live on the fat of the land without. "Jamie," said Father Edward to hiin, "if you had a son, would you rooner make a priest or a minister of him?" "If I had a son, yer reverences, I shoul-1 have him a mlnisther In tht harvest an' a priest at Chrissmas." Wha'. has become of the old-faah-loned tVoman who had a "tl1y" pinned on evey chair in the houfta?

WALES IN BIKE SUIT.

THE PRINCE SUBMITS HIS DEMOCRACY TO 'CAMERA. Futur Kins: of England Illustrates the Leveling Tendency of the Wheel The Favorite Dog Ii Always with II U Royal Highness. Whether H. R. H. had this lecture taken in a sudden burst of sinful pride, or whether he had it made to show the world that even he unbends occaslonly, is locked as a secret in the royal archives of his breast. But the world should be thankful to him for it, his impelling reason may have been, for it shows in truly warning manner the leveling tendencies of the bicycle suit. The stout, disappointed person who is portrayed here is the Prince of Wales, indeed, but he might be almost anybody else. There is no distingue air about him at all. This leads one to the awesome thought that perhaps it was not the dignity of royalty or blue blood or rank that made him the landmark of fashion, but just plain clothes. But such a thought is not only awesome, but absolutely immoral. It might have pleased the author of Sartor Resartus to ponder over it, but far be it from us. One cannot, however, shut his eyes to the fact, made cruelly and unequivocally apparent by the camera, that it is good for H. R. H. that princes do not wear silk tights and thing3 like that any more. There is a democratic thickness about the royal ankles here depicted that would interfere sadly with the symmetrical beauty of his form, if he had to wear fancy shoon and long ringlets. It will be observed that both the dog and the master wear an air of patient boredom which is only superficially supercilious. The observer who views these things carefully and with reflection will be sure to note that beneath this outward appearance of languid calm there is disappointment maybe imagination, but the dog certainly looks as if he were gloomy at the probability of never belonging to a king PRINCE OF of England and an emperor of India at this rate and, on second thought, if this Is so, that makes it unnecessary to wonder at the prince's looks. Cat Made Over. "If you want a Persian cat bring me any common kitten you like, and within six months I will return it to you with a coat which would put to shame that of the shah's favorite pus?y," said a cat fancier to the writer. "No torture or fake is employed. Some time ago it was brought to my notice that, the cats living in refrigerating chambers got coats of enormous thickness, and also that they grew to nearly double the size of the ordinary pusey. The idea being given, the rest was eas3'. I had a small refrigerator fitted up in my premises, and made an experiment. It was so successful that I have since made a profit, by turning common pussies into genuine Persians, of $2,500 a year. Again, I now have only one cure for cats, never mind what disease they are suffering from. I freeze them, and am by this remedy able to return them to their owners, within a week, perfectly happy and well. Again, for the last two years the majority of show cats have come to me in the early autumn to have their winter coats made by my method, so that they shall not catch a chill owing to any sudden change In the weather." Strange Honeymoon Iteanrt. In an article on "Colonial Memories," in Cornhlll, Lady Broomo tells of a strange kind of honeymoon resort, more of the type that poets dream of than matter-of-fact young couples generally select: There are many islets, some five miles or more away from Trinidad, and towards the Bocas or mouths of the great river. These little islands are a great feature of Trinidad, and splendid places" for change of air or excursions. They all have houses on them, and one tiny islet may. I think, claim to be the smallest spot of earth which holds a dwelling. It la Just a rock, on the top of which Is perched a small, but comfortable and compact house. Beyond Its outer wall Is. on one side, a minute

plateau about ten or twelve feet In length, and is all the exercise ground on the island. I was assured it was the favorite honeymoon resort, which certainly seemed putting the capabilities of companionship of the newly-married couple to a rather severe test! Fishing, boating, and bathing are the resources at the command of the islet visitors, and the air is wonderfully fresh and cool on these little fragments of the earth's surface. Whenever I could make time, it was my great delight to take the government launch with tea and a party of young friends to one of these islets, and it was certainly a delightful way of spending a hot afternoon.

THE DAHLIA'S HISTORY. Its Wonderful Development Since Its Discovery 100 Years Ago, More than 100 years ago Baron Humboldt discovered the dahlia, a small, single flower, in Mexico, says the London Globe. Could some prophetic vision have revealed to him the dahlia of today in its dazzling hues and varied forms he might, perhaps, have been prouder of that discovery than of all his other scientific achievements. It was sent by him to the Botanical gardens, Madrid, where it received the name of dahlia, in honor of the botanist. Prof. Andrew Dahl. The same year it was introduced into England, where it was cultivated under glass. For a few years it wat? lost to cultivation, then reintroduced into England. Cultivation soon developed the double form and every color except blue. For many years the ideal dahlia of the cultivators was a perfectly double, ballshaped flower. Those who remember the compact flowers of thirty or forty years ago knew how nearly that ideal was realized, and remember the deserved popularity of the dahlia of that day. But people soon tired of the regularity of that type, and for a few yearc it w-as neglected. Florists were giving time and labor and thought to the development of the rose, carnations, chrysanthemums and other popular flowers. At last some far-seeing cultivator recognized the possibilities of the dahlia, and in new, improved and WALES. more beautiful shades of color it resumes its sway, and today greets us in so many varied and attractive forms that every taste may be tsuited. OUR POPULATION IS 75,000,000 Fifty Thousand Kiiuiuerators Mutt Gather the Census In Ji Month. In June of next year the people of the United States will be counted for the twelfth time since the establishment of our government. "It will require about fifty thousand enumerators," writes Clifford Howard in the November Ladles' Home Journal, "to take the census, and their work must be finished in one month's time, or by the first week of July, 1100. That means that about seventy-five million people must be recorded In thirty days, or at the rate of two ami "a half n.llliou a day. The rate will be even greater than this, however, for In towns and cities of eight thousand inhabitants the enumeration must be completed within two wcckB. The enumerator will not be permitted to have any assistance in the work; It must be done by them in person, except in such sections of the country as contain a great many foreigners, where the employment of interpreters will bo allowed, as otherwise it would be next to impossible to secure the necessary data. The enumerators will be paid for their services in accordance with the amount of work they are called upon to do." Technical lMucatlon In (irrmanjr. The great Interest in technical high schools recently shown by Emperor William calls attention to the fact that for 6ome years Germany has led tho world in manual training schools. As a result of this training Germany has been transformed from an almost purely agricultural country to a great manufacturing and Industrial community. As far back as 1891 there were nine technical high schools and polytechnic institutes, under the control of the government, thirty-one schools of agriculture, fifteen schools of mining, fifteen schools of architecture, niti of forestry, twenty-three of art industry, and seven for public Instruction In music.

A WEEK IN INDIANA. RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS.

A Despondent Lawyer Undergoes an Operation for Appendicitis and Then Commits Suicide Was Well Known in and About Lngansport. Logansport, Ind. J. E. Sutton, proprietor of the Daily Reporter, received a telegram last Sunday, apprising him of the sudden death of his brother, C. E. Sutton, a prominent lawyer of Bozoman, Mont. His brother had recently undergone an operation for appendicitis, but was thought to be on the road to recovery. The next day Mr. Sutton discovered a brief telegraphic notice in a state paper saying his brother had committed suicide. A telegram was sent in inquiry, and the answer verified the report. A letter was also received, giving details to the i effect that he had shot himself in a fit of despondency. He was born here, and a father, brother and sister, all ol this city, survive. Alleged M.ilpmctioe. Evansville, Ind. The Gibson county authorities are investigating the case of a young woman who died in a hospital in this city a few nights ago. Several months ago Miss Flora Nelson came here from Carmi. 111. Two weeks ago, it is alleged, the young woman was taken to Princeton, where she submitted to a criminal operation. She grew worse and was brought to this city, where she died in a sanatorium Friday night, Nov. 10. Before she died Miss Nelson regained consciousness. ?nd, it is said, told her brother the story. Marshal Haley of Princeton was here investigating the case, and the matter will be brought before the grand jury. General State News. The Anderson Free Kindergarten association has been organized, with Mrs. Luella Kinnard, president; Mrs. Will Norton and Mrs. A. Morganroth, vice-presidents; Mrs. O. Ritchie, secretary; Mrs. H. W. Bennett, recording secretary; Mis. Bertha Durbin, treasurer, and Mesdames M. M. Dunlap. J. W. Lovett, J. F. MtClure, Jehu Haugh and B. L. Bing and Miss Retta Brown executive committee. Although I). Beyerle has formally retired from the editorial control of the (loshen Times, after twenty-four years' active managerial work, he daily reports at the desk for at least eight hours' labor. He is 70 years old. but the years rest lightly on his shoulders. Patrick H. Sweeney, the well-known contractor of Jeffersonville, was stricken with paralysis while seated at the pupper table with his family. He i G years old. Recently he secured the contract for the new cellhouse at the Indiana reformatory. Ph. Matter of Marion, who has returned from the Pittsburg conference ot members of the newly organized window-glass trust, says that the re- ! opening has not been definitely fixed. but the factories at least will not resume before Dec. 1. The Rev. J. A. Parker, representing i the world-wide missions of the German Baptist church f America, is at Wabash. He says that the society began two years ago to raise $1.ik)0.o00 for missionary purposes, and $l.j0.t'00 has so far been secured. A force of men on horseback came riding into Kokomo in the early morning hours, and the alarm spread that they were bent on lynching William Busby, who killed Orin Springer. They proved to be wood-choppers, en route lor y. new field. An event at Lafayette was the marriage of Dr. W. H. Miller, a wellknown young physician, and Miss Jessie M. Grieve, a favorite in Lafayette social circles. The llev. Dr. Cole of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church officiated. Harry S. Chester of Elkhart has written a new song. "My Indiana Home." which threatens to outrival "On the Banks of the Wabash" in popularity. The music is by Barnie Young of the same city. The I'nion Traction company, upon the opening of the lndianapolis-Muncie division, will put on motor cars tapable of making fifty miles an hour. These will be us.ed on the through trains. A social event at Vincennes was the marriage of Miss Lorena Duesterberg and Joseph Risch. The Rev. M. Fleischnian. priest of St. John's (Jcrin.iii Catholic church, of that city, ofiiciated. The Rev. Daniel Hill of Richmond, a conspicuous member of the Society of Friends, is alarmingly ill. He is S4 ears old and secretary of the Peace Association of Friend.- of America. Mrs. William S. O'Brien of Lafayette, whose husband is the founder of the O'Brien wagon works, and is wealthy, has sued for divorce, alleging ill treatment and abandonment. Miss Zella Thomas and Charles W. Harrison, both of Shelby ville, have been united in marriage, the Rev. Thomas Harrison, grandfather of the bridegroom, officiating. The construction of the new $10,000 clubhouse by the Anderson Elks has begun, to be completed in February. Do i Chandler of Farmland is under arrest, accused of forging a check for $0 on the Delaware County bank. Mrs. Frederick Weber of Fort Wayne gave her child a morphine tablet by mistake and the little one died. Several hundred patrons at Crawfonlsville were left without natural gas fuel by a break in the mains. The Twentieth Century club of Elkhart has inaugurated a movement looking to a free public library. The Wakarusa Mill and Elevator company has made an assignment, with $5,000 assets and $15.000 liabilities. The Dorner Truck company of ClöTeland has begun the removal of its plant to Logansport. Proof of (Ireatnet. Kansas City Independent: Mistah Smiff Dat Aggernaldo am a wondahful man! Mistah -Mose Indeed he am! I can't fo ds life ob me see how dat nlggah glU his wool to stan' up pompadour.

Society Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conger, V. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. P. II. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, W. M. Mrs. T-ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91 ) meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zu:r.baugh, 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. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each mouth. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.T499; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of "P . hall . CM. Slay ter, C R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. V. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday niht 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 every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. lull. Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C JiUon, Regent. B. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No. 6; meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mr. Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Ccusul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. - Meets every Tuesday. W. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. TiUrtts, Scribe. G. A. RMILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets -ery first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charles Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p.m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Com. mander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets Kecond and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSl OANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kazcr, M. I)., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Seo Do You Think It Will Payr That is the question aslcd of us so often, referring' to advertising-. If properly done we show it will paj kandsomelj. The experience ol those who hare tried It prores that othImg equals Is.