Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 January 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

HEAVEN AWAITS TRUE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. Telia What May Be Ei pre ted In tho N'rx World by Thoe Who Faithfully bene toi and Help Their i'ellow Mru Iteward of Self Sacrifice. (Copyright. 15C1. by Louis Klopsch. N. T.) Washington, Jan. 13. In a very novel way Dr. Talmage in this discourse describes what may be expected in the next world by those who here bend all their energies in the right direction; text, II. Peter i.. 11: "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly." Different styles of welcome at the gate of heaven are here suggested. We all hope to enter that supernal capital through the grace that is ready to save even the chief of sinners. But not now. No man healthy of body and mind wants to go now. The man who hurls himself out of this life is either an agnostic or is demented or finds life insufferable and does not care where he lands. This is the best world we ever got into, and we want to stay here as long as God will let us stay. But when the last page Cf the volume of our earthly life is ended we want enrollment in heavenly citizenship. We want to get in easily. We do not want to be challeng-xl at the gate and asked to show our passports. We do not want the gatekeeper in doubt as to whether we ought to go in at all. We do not want to be kept in the portico of the temple until consultation is made as to where we came from, and who we are. and whether it is safe to admit us, lest we be a discord in the eternal harmonies or lower the spirit of heavenly worship. When the apostle Peter in the text addresses people, "For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly," he implies that some will find admission into heaven easy, rapturous and acclamatory, while other will have to squeeze through the gate of heaven, if they get In at all. They will arrive anxious and excited and apprehensive and .wondering whether it will be "Come!" or "Go!" The Bible speaks of such persons as "scarcely saved." and in another place as "saved as by fire," and In another place as escaped "by the skin of the teeth." The Mercy of Clirlt. Sometiires in our pulpits we give a wron? turn to the story of the dying thief to whom Christ said. "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." We ought to admire the mercy of the Christ that pardoned hin. in the last hour, but do not let us admire the dying thief. When he was arrested. I think his pockets were full of stolen coin, and the coat he had on his back waa not his own. He stole right on until he was arrested for his crimes. He repented, and through great mercy arose to paradise, but he was no example to follow. What a gigantic meanness to devote the wondrous equipment of brain and nerve and muscle and bone with which we are endowed, these miracles of sight and hearing and speech, to purposes unworthy or profane, and then, through hasty repentance at the last, enter heaven! Cheating God all one's lifetime and then taking advantage of a bankrupt law and made free of all liabilities. I should think that some men would be- ashamed to enter heaven or would prefer some medium place in the wide universe where the palaces are not o effulgent and the trees bear not more than six instead of twelve manner of fruits, and the social life is not so exalted. Again, the bigot will not have what my text calls an abundant entrance. He has his bedwarfed opinion as to what all must believe and do in order to gain celestial residence. He has his creed in one pocket and his catechism In another pocket, and it may.be a good creed and a good catechisra.and he uses them as sharp swords against those who will not accept his theories. You must be baptized in his way or come to him though apostolic succession or be foreordained of eterniay, or you are in an awful way. He shrivels up and shrivels up and becomes more splenetic until the time of his departure is at hand. He has enough of the salt of grace to save him, but his entrance into heaven will be something worth watching. What do they want with him in heaven, where they have all gone into eternal catholicity, one grand commingling of Methodists and Baptists and Episcopalians and Lutherans and Congregationalists and Presbyterians and a score of other denominations Just as good as any I have mentioned? They all join In the halleluliah chorus, accompanied by harpers on their harp3 and trumpeters on their trumpets, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power!" Nerelty of Denomination. Denominations of Christians on earth were necessary in order to better work and to suit preferences as an armj must be divided into regiments, yet one army; as a neighborhood must be divided into familb s, though one neighborhood. But there is no need for such divisions In heaven, and therefore all belong to one denomination of sainthood. Christ said In one of his sermons that there would be laughter In heaven. "Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh." And what could cause more merrlraent among the glorified than a rehearsal of the early differences between Christians, differences once seeming of such vast Iraportance.but differences unknown amid the heavenly worshipers? What will be the bigot's amazement when he sees seated side by side on the banks of the rirer of life Calvin and Arminius.Archbishop Cranmer and some dissenting preacher of the gospel who never graduated, one who on earth was robed and urpliced ecclesiastic, and a backwoods minister who In the log cabin meeting house preached In a linen duster? Among the great surprises of heaven for the bigot will be the celestial friendliness of those who on earth op posed each other in wrathiest polemics. He will get through the gate, for he has a spark of divine grace In his heart, but there will not be an inch f room to spare on either side of him. It will not take long for heaven to educate him into a glorious big heartedB06S.

Christian Henevolence. For thirty years this man has been practicing an economy which prided itself on never passing a pin without picking it up. and if he responded at all in church would put on the collection plate so insignificant a coin that he hold his hand over it'so that no one could discover the smallncss of the denomination. Somewhere in the fifties or sixties of his life, during a revival of religion, he became a Christian. He is very much changed in most respects, but his all absorbing acquisitiveness still influences him. To extract from him a gift for an orphanage or a church or a poor woman who has just been burned out is an achievement. Yoti and I know very good men. their Christian character beyond dispuie.and yet they are pronounced by all as penurious, and they know it themselves and pray against it. We all have our bad habits, and yet expect to get to heaven, and this skinflint has hi3 mighty temptation. The passion of avarice well illustrated its strength, when in one of the houses of exhumed Pompeii was found the skeleton of a man who was trying to escape with 00 coins and a silver saucepan. For those valuables he dared the ashes and scoria of Vesuvius, which overwhelmed him, and many a good man has been held mightily by avarice. But the day is oming for that penurious Christian's departure from the world. He has an awful struggle in giving up his government securities. The attorney wh? drew his last will and testament saw how hard it was for him to leave his farm or his storehouse or investments, especially those that in the maikets are called gilt-edged. Those that yield

only 3 per cent he easily resigns to the care of his executors, hut those that yield 8 or 9 or 10 per cent, how can he give them up while the market is still rising? Reward of fself Sacrifice. But that brings me to the other those who will, when they leave this life, bound into heaven amid salutations infinite. "For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly." Such exultant admission will await those who enter heaven after on earth living a life for others and without reference to conspicuity. On the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa or the Androscoggin is a large family, all of whom have been carefully and religiously reared. In the earlier stages of that family there were many privations. The mother of the household never had any amusements. Perhaps once in a year a poor theatrical play was enacted in the neighboring schoolhouse or a squawking concert in the town hall, and that was all the diver sion afforded for the winter season. I askf d the manager of an insane asylum in Kentucky. "From what class of per sons do you get most of your patients?" and he said. "From farmers' wives." I asked the same question of the mana ger of an insane asylum in Pennsylva nia, and the same question of the man ager of an insane asylum in Massachu setts, and got the same reply, "We have on our rolls for treatment more farmers' wives than persons coming from any other class." That answer will be a surprise to some; it was no surprise to me. The simple reason is, farmers' wives as a general thing have no diversion. It is breakfast, dinner, and supper, sewing, scouring, scrubbing, knitting, mending, year in and year out. That mother is the milliner, the mantua maker, the nurse, the doctor, the accountant of the whole family. She plans the wardrobe of spring, of summer, of autumn, of winter, cutting, fitting, completing garments, out of which the children soon grow and must have something else. The newspaper does not come, or, if coming, there is no time to read it. No selection of good books. The neighbors calling in are full of the same grinding routine. No wonder so many of them go into dementia! Oh. the country is beautiful to look at and a recuperative place in which to spend summer, and if you have the means to bring yourself amusements or go where they are or you can surround yourself by inspiring social life it is a good place to stay all the year round. But. alas for the thousands of good and noble women who are dying by inches in its solitudes! Gladly Welcomed to Heaven. Now, the mother of whom I speak as living on the banks of that great river in Ohio or Alabama or Maine has gone through all the drudgery mentioned, and her children have turned out well, good and useful men and women, ornaments of society, pillars in the house of God, and that whole family, after the years have passed by and their work is done, will meet in the heavenly country. From such a family some will certainly have preceded her, and the time of her expected arrival will be announced to all the members of that family already glorified and to the old earthly neighbors who put down their toils a little sooner than she did, and she will have the warmest kind of home coming, and she will go through the gate as easily as ever she lifted the latch of her front door coming from the old country meeting house where she u?ed to worship. Go in, mother! Heaven has been waiting for you a good many years. Got rid of all your aches and pains and weariness, have you? Go anywhere in heaven, and they will bo glad to see you. On the highest throne you will find one who said, "Behold thy mother." Sit anywhere you please. You will be at home anywhere. Tak your pick out of that sheaf of scepins. What! The wrinkles have all gone out of your face, and the once rheumatic step has become like that of the bounding roe. Just as I expected, you aged, glorified soul, you had an abundant entrance. Consecrated Affluence. Well, this man of consecrated affluence is about to go out of the world. He feels in brain and nerve the strain of the early struggles by which he won his fortune, and at 60 or 70 years collapses under the exhaustions of the twenties and thirties of his lifetime. When the morning papers announce that he Is gone, there Is excitement not only on the avenues where tho mansions stand, but 'all through tho hospitals and asylums and the homes of those who will henceforth have no helper. But the excitement of sadness on earth is a very tame affair compared with the excitement of gladness In heaven. The guardian angel of that

good mwn'ß life swept by his dying pillow the night before, and on swift wing upward announced that in a few hours he would arrive, and there is a mighty stir in heaven. "He comes!" cries seraph to seraph. The King's heralds are at the gate to say, "Come, ye blessed," and souls who were saved through the churches that good man supported and hundreds who went up after being by him helped in their earthly struggle will come down off their thrones and out of their palaces and through the streets to hall him into the land which they reached some time before through his Christian philanthropy. "Why, that is the man who, when I was a-hungered, gave me bread!" ."Why, that is the man," says another, "who encouraged me when I was in the hard struggle of business life!" "Why, that is the man," says another, "who paid my rent when I had nothing with which to pay!" "Why, that is the man through whose missionary spirit I hoard the gospel

call in Bombay!" "Why, that is the man." says another, "who helped send the gospel of Christ to the aborigines of America and caused me to exchange the war whoop of the savage for the song of Christian deliverance!" "Stand back," commanded the gatekeeper of heaven, "all ye throng redeemed through th-is man's instrumentalities! Make way for him to the feet of the King, where he will cast a crown, and then make way for him to the throne, where he shall reign forever and ever!" Now, that is what I call an abundant entrance. You see. it is not necessary to be a failure on earth in order to be a success in heaven. Demand of Filial Devotion. After years of filial fidelity on the part of this self-sacrificing daughter, the old folks go home. Now the daughter is free from marital alliance, but the damask rose in her cheek Is faded, and the crows feet have left their mark on the forehead, and the gracefulness is gone out of the figure, and the world calls her by a mean and ungallant name. But, my Ixrd and my God, surely thou wilt make it up for that girl in heavenly reward! On all the banks of the river of life there is no castle of emerald and carbuncle richer than that which awaits her. Its windows look right out upon the King's park, and the white horses of' the chariot are being harnessed to meet her at the gate, and if there are no oth to meet her, father and mother will be there to thank her for all she did for them when their strength failed and the grasshopper became a burden, and they will say: "My daughter, how kind you were to us even until the last! How good it is to be together in heaven! That, is the King's chariot come for you. Mount and ride to your everlasting home!" Now, that is what I call an abundant entrance. The Stranger In Heaven. But imagine one of these "scarcely saved" Christians entering the shining realm! He passes in a stranger. Saint says to saint. "Who comes there?" And angel says to angel, "Who Is that?" He moves up and down th streets and meets no one whom he helped to get there. He goes into the great temple and finds among the throngs of the white robed not one soul whom he helped to join the doxologles. He goes Into the "house of many mansions" and finds not one spirit whom he helped to start for that high residence. I am glad that he got in, but I am amazed that in the 30 or 40 or 70 years of his life he did nothing for God and the betterment of the world which woke the heavenly echoes. Oh, child of God, if you had never thought of it before, I present the startling fact that you are now deciding not only the style of your heavenly reception, but the grade of your association and enjoyment of the world without end. Are you satisfied with yourself that you can afford to throw away raptures and ignore heavenly possibilities and elect yourself to lower status and classify yourself amid the less efficient when you may mount a higher heaven? NEW EYELASHES. Languishing Eyes and Arche! II rows by Transplanting Process. Trnni.n1nl iiauspiai'.uug eyeiasnes ana ey orows is the latest thing in the way of p'ersonal adornment. Only the brave and rich can patronize the new method at present, for, besides being painful and costly, it takes a long time to accomplish. In Paris and London there are specialists who make a hand some living out of the process of transplanting hair from the head to the eye brows or eyelashes. The specialist works by putting in, not on, the new eyelashes and brows wherever they ara absent or grow thin and so cunning Is he at his work that not even üie clos est scrutiny can detect any difference. By means of the new process, it is said. eyes which are at ordinary time3 only passable become languishing in their expression, while eyes which were previously considered ugly have their beauty much enhanced. Most of the hairs that have been transplanted take root and grow, 'but a f aw of thcra fall out, and have to be attended to. For the first month it is necessary to curl the new eyelashes every day, but after that they are said to become properly assimilated, and it Is not necessary to give them further attention. "As Quick as a Wink." "As quick as a wink," is a proverb of comparison. The rapidity of the wink is, however, of more Interest to scientists in Germany, who have lately computed that in our waking hours by winking onco a second on an average man performs the involuntary function no less than 50,000 Units in a day, or in a year something like 19,000,000 times. Measuring the distance that both eyelids travel as a quarter of an nzh, it is seen that the total distance traveled In a lifetime of fifty years is no lesa than 7,200 miles, or one-third way around the globe. Lightning and Thunder. Lightning is visible at a distance of 150 miles. Opinions differ as to how far away thunder can be heard. A French astronomer who has made observations declares that thunder cannot be heard at a greater distance than ten miles. An English meteorologist has counted up to 190 second! between the flash and the thunder, which would give a distance of twenty-seven miles from the place irhtr the lightning occurred.

I GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

Principal Recommendations to the State Assembly. CONDITION OF FINANCES The First Subject Tom-lied Upon Condemn Flection Bribery and Suggests That oth the teller and Buyer of Vote lie l'uiiished. THE MKSSAUi: AT A GLANCE. Governor .Mount'.-: message to the General Assembly is ov.e of the longest ever sent to ;ui Indiana Legislature. The stales affairs are reviewed and numerous recommendations made. He condemns election bribery and suggests that boih the seller and buyer should le punished. He recommends that the judiciary of the state be revised; speaks ot" the pood effect of non-partisan control of slate institutions, and recommends that the Indiana stale prison be placed under non-partisan management. He would make a law requiting non-residents to lake out a license before huntinpr in Indiana; condemns the professional legislative lobbyist, and suyests that in so far as possible Indiana laws be made uniform. lie wants the state to take good care oi i uruue university: approves tne county and township reform laws, and makes some recommendations for the getting of better roads. Lynching is condemned and the legislature is asked to consider the subject carefully. The hope is expressed that the legislature will do something on the trust piestion and it is recommended that the lawmakers go after the lire insurance combination. The governor woidd intlict capital punishment in extreme cases of kidnapping. The State' Fiuanrea. Some of the principal points in the message are as follows: The condition of the public finances of the state of Indiana is certainly a matter of congratulations to every citizen of the commonwealth. The debt-paying policy has continued during the past two years until at the present time it can be safely predicted that all of the states indebtedness that admits of payment will be paid within a time not exceeding four years, should the specific appropriations of the coming legislature not be abnormally large. The amount of the state debt January 10 of the present year was as follows: 3 per cent, refunding school fund bonds, series 139 ?2, 930, CM). 00 3Vj per cent refunders, series 1895 OSo.OOO.OO s'i per cent State House, series 1S95 500.0o0.tiO 5.C13.12 State stock certificates est stopped) (inter5 per cent bond. Purdue Uni versity 310MJ0.1 i per cent bond. Indiana Lnl verslty 141.00.0 Total ..$1,304,615.11 Flection Hrlbrry. The corruption of the ballot, throuyl the purchase ot votes, is a m nace to free government. This danger. us evil is Krowingr. and has already reached alarm ing conditions, success In a campaign is becoming more and more contingent upon boodle instead of principle and merit. JLhe number or m-n who put their votes on the market are increasing. What is the fruitage of this deplorable tendency? Men of wealth, instead of ability, have the preference. Syndicates. inunoiolies, trusts, corporations are solicited for larg campaign contributions, thus placing the parties their debtor. Wealth has undm influence in molding laws. Hence the tendency of legislation is not so much in the interest of the man who holds the plow or wields the hammer, who works in the mine or factory, as in the interest of the men who furnished the "boodle" In the campaign. The present dangerous and disreputable methods must be stopped. Both the seller and the buyer of votes should be punished by disfran chisement, by tine and Imprisonment. Labor Commissioner. With commendable wisdom and zeal. the state labor commissioners have dis charged their responsible duties. But little disturbance over scale of wages has occurred. The workingmen of the various industries and interests of the state are industrious and law-abiding. The commissioners have been a potent faotor in securing an amicable adjustment of all labor troubles. The public has an Interest in the peaceable adjust ment of industrial disputes, and where the public Is made to suffer loss and incon venience, where public carriers are stopped, travel and traffic suspended, perishable commodities in transit to market endangered, life and property jeopar dized, the power of a court of arbitration should be enlarged. It is against public policy to allow local differences to menace the general safety and welfare of communities at large. Live Stock Sanitary Commission. There is great need of better protection to the live stock interests of the state from infectious and contagious diseases. The loss annually sustained in this state amounts to more than three million dollars. A bill prepared with much care was introduced in the last session by Senator Guthrie, which was a great improvement over the present law. In the passage of this bill, wool growers were much interested, as it had stringent provisions for stamping out the infectious disease known as scab. From the state statistician I learn that this disease now prevails in fifty-six counties of the state. The present law makes no provision for stamping out this growing menace te the sheep industry of our state. The Lobbyist. The lobbyist is becoming more and more an element of danger in our lawmaking assemblies. They are often the paid agents of promoters of questionable schemes, the hired tools of syndicates, corporations working not for public weal, but for the promotion of the ambition or greed of adventurers, whose servants they are. The professional lobbyist is a foe to good government, and merits the righteous condemnation of those who have uppermost in their desires the good of the people. Public Schools. It is most gratifying to note that the educational interests of the state are making substantial progress. In the common schools the country finds its anchor of safety. These should always receive the fostering care of the state. The Indiana University and the State Normal, under the splendid and ellicient management of their presidents and faculty are making commendable progress. Instruction for Farmen. I recommend a liberal appropriation for Improved building and facilities for agricultural instruction, and a strict provision that the amount annually paid to Purdue under the act of isys be used along the line of Industrial education, as contemplated by law, and not in the line of the work carried on in our public schools or higher institutions of learning, but that Purdue be made a great agricultural and mechanical university. The Insane. A long step was taken by the last legislature toward providing for the Insane of the state. Still larger provisions must be made. It Is the duty of the state to provide for its unfortunate wards. The speedy administration of treatment to thosf bereft of reason always increases the chances for recovery. Delay in such attention is attended with unfavorable results. The aggregate number of inmates In the four insane hospitals is 3,502, divided as follows: Central 1.C3!) Northern f.:l Kastern 6!3 Southern 579 Tloth the condition and management of these institutions are to be commended. They are controlled by able and expe rienced superintendents. Non-l'artisan Control of Institutions. In the management of the state Institutions the welfare of the inmates, the good name of the state, has been kept constantly In view. Tho maximum In efficiency with the minimum in cost have been the objective points. The merit and not the spoils system now dominates. The per capita cost has been reduced. The secretary of the Slate Hoard of Charities, when asked ns to the difference in th cost of the present iion-p.i rt isa n control as compared with partisan rule, reports a per capita saving amounting In the aggregate to over $.Mj.itMt annually, and the Inmates receiving better- care than ever before 1 recommend the enactment erf a law placing the Indiana state prison under non-partisan management. Th!s rule now obtains there, but not by direct prucbsd of law.

STREET LIGHTING. lteao9 Why the Expenditures of KeW York for TliU Purpoxe Are Large. Chicago spends $000,000 a year ia street lighting; Boston, $C;0,0G0; Cincinnati, $425,000; Baltimore, $350,000; San Francisco, $215,000; Providence, $230,000; New Orleans, $230,000; Cleveland, 5325,000, and Washington, a city of long distances, low houses and wide streets, $235,000. New York will expend for street lighting in 1901 $2,745,000 for gas and electricity. Of this total Manhattan uses $9G0,000; Brooklyn, $950,000; The Bronx, $350.000; Queens, $355,000, and Richmond, $130, 000. By comparison with the expenditures of other American cities for illumination. New York's annual payment may seem to be abnormally high, but there are various reasons why the cost of public lighting should be proportionately much larger here than elsewhere. New York has a larger waterfront than any other American city. While other cities have usually one public market. New York has a

dozen, and the eight Included within the borough of Manhattan use on an average 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas in a year. Many other American cities rent the premises they require for public departments, whereas New York owns most of her public buildings, and the gas bills, which in some other cases are met by private individuals, are in most cases here paid directly from the appropriation, which, while nominally for street lighting, actually includes all forms of illumination for which the city is responsible. New York has in all nearly C0.000 lamps, gas and electric. There are 30,000 in New York and The Bronx, of which 24,286 are gas lamps, 4,538 electric, and the others naphtha lamps. Brooklyn has 11,015 gas lamps and 4,603 electric lamps. Queens borough, the most extensive division of New York to be lighted, has 3,839 gas lamps and 2,106 electric lamps. Richmond, the most progressive of the boroughs of New York in this particular, has all electric lights no gas. Of these, 2,883 are Incandescent lamps and 382 are arc light. There are, moreover, 100 oil lamps in use In Richmond borough. The extent of the territory to be covered and the peculiar conditions existing In New York explain to a great extent the reasons for so large an appropriation for illumination, nearly 3 per cent of the entire budget of the city, which is $100,000,000 for next year. Though the most expensively lighted city in the country, the assertion is not made for New York that it Is the best lighted American city. New York Sun. FROM A POORHOUSE. A Wayside Iloueymoon from Portland to IIoMon and Separation. Social circles of the Deering Poor rarm were startled recently by the elopement of two inmates of the institution, Mary Furillo and Harry Rockwood, says the Portland Daily Press Miss Furillo has seen some thirty-six summers, while Mr. Rockwood's knowl edge of the world covers a period of Just half that time. Neither of the young persons are very strong mental ly, but when they met It was a case of love at first sight, and as the rules of the Institution which sheltered them did not permit marrying and giving In marriage, they decided to leave its roof together. Joining hands they took their departure unbeknown to the superintendent and the other inmates. Nothing was heard of the departed couple until about five days after their disappearance. Then word came from the authorities in Boston that they were in that city and expressed a desire to see Portland once more. The authorities directed that they be returned and the Boston people were glad to comply. Miss Furillo and Rockwood had walked from Portland to Boston, making the trip in five days. They slept wherever night found them and begged their meals from the good-natured country people living along the route they were traveling. By the time they reached the Hub, however, some of their romantic notions had been dispelled, and they were ready to return to the more prosaic.and less adventurous poor farm life. Upon the return of the erring wanderers it was deemed best by the poor authorities that they be maintained at separate Institutions. Accordingly the Furillo woman was sent out to Deering and Rockwood to the Portland street home. WORTH FORTUNES. Mention of Some of the World Coat. Heat Pictur. "The Ansldel Madonna," by Raphael, holds the distinction of being the most expensive picture In tho world. It was purchased out of parliamentary grants from the Duke of Marlboronsrh for 1350,000, which Is equal to $60 per square inch. In repose, coloring, draw ing and technical achievement it is one of tho finest of Raphael's paint ings, but there was much dispute con cerning the advIsaibLlity of the English nation paying for It such an unprece dented sum. Aonther costly Durchase from the Duko of Marlborough's colection was the portrait of Charles r. by Van Dyck. This picture was sold for a pretty sum 'by the parliament after the death of Charles I., anl the parliament of 18S3 paid $87,500 to get It back. The Family of Darius," said by Ruskln to be "the most precious Paul Veronese in the world," was bought by the London National gallery a few years ago for $68,250. Terbergs "Tho Peace of Munster" sold for $44,000, which was about $120 per square Inch. "La Vlerge au Panier," by Corregglo, soCd as long ago as 1825 for $19,000, a sum which it was said at the time would cover this little panel with sovereigns 27 times over. Other pictures for which fortunes have been paid are the "Portrait of a Man," and "Portrait of an Old Lady," toy Rembrandt, for $62,500, and "The Two Ambassadors," by Holbein; "Admiral Pareja," by Velasquez, and "An Italian Nobleman," by Moroni. For these throe pictures was paid the princely sum of $125,000. I see in this world two heapsone of human happlnc&s and one of misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second and add it to the first I carry a point If a child has dropped a halfpenny, and by giving It another I can wipe away its tears, I have done lomething. John Newton.

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Both Houses in Session at Irtdianaoolis. GOV. MOUNT'S LAST MESSAGE, He Condemn-- lllerlion bribery and mij. geit That Both the t-llr ai.d Ittivrr blioultj tin i'utu!il I.jrm Inn- J Coudeuiiied Kidnaping M en ti. tried. TIIK (ll'KMMi I ns!0. The sixty-second s -sion of the general assembly of Indiana open, d at Indianapolis Til ui. -day. At the clus- or me ciay the niüui turns weiv thai the session would be a busy ono. The Hepublicans have a I arg.'? n;uority in both branches of the legislature. T U . i ; ... iue ivauing oi uov .loan, a message, which was his last, one, as lie retires from .rl:ce Muu.iay. and the. leech cf Samuel Ii. Artuun. .-jn-akc ,f tU. . . liit- auiise oi i enresfir.aii vi"-, amsumed a large part oi the day" bed sion. lo .-!, lfurnnr'4 Hilary SH.OOO The state fee aud salary couiuustiua nas prepared ton. üillr-, which. altogether, complexly reoiganiz; in icr- uuu salary system ul tlie state, iu one of the bills, a i ouunjiueudaiiuu, it duopi-fd, will raise the salary of the governor of the statt- from $i.uuu to s.uuu a year. A provisiou ot tho that the salary of the g.-veiuor can not be raised so as to affect the gov ernor in orhYtv The Kepubluan can ms iuis anernuou decidt-d that :i would ! unwise to pass a bill under a suspension of the jules. and (Jov Durbin's salary will remain at f ,.ouJ iov. Mount s luessag is one of the longest ex-er seut to an Indiana legislature. The state's affairs -hp reviewed nnd numerous reeotmiif ndations made. Cinlnin Ktnc-t ton llrlr He condemns election bribery and suggests that both the seller and buyer should be punished, lie recommends that the judiciary of the state be revised; speaks or the good effeet of non-partisan control of slate institutions, and recommends that the Indiana state prison be pleaed under non-partisan management M" would make a law requiring non-iesidents to take out a license before hunting ;n Indiana; condemns the profess. onal legislative lobbyist, and suggests mat in so far a.s possible Indiana iaws be made uniform He want? the state to take good earc of Purdue university; approves the county and township reform laws and makes some recommendations for getting of better roads. Lynching is condemned and the legislature is asked to consider tho subject carefully. The hop is expressed that the legislature will do something on the trust question and it is recommended that the lawmakers go after the fire insurance combination. The governor would inflict capital punishment in extreme cases of kidnaping. FrMtf, .tfanoary Jl, A protest went up against the Indiana senate for flagrantly violating the compulsory educational "aw. which it helped enact two years ago. The senate has organized with a half dozen pages who are under 14 years of age, and one of these is a sou of Senator Lindley of Xoblesville. Samuel R. Artman. speaker of the house, was born in Augusta. Marion county. Ind.. in 1SCG He is the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Dunlap Artman, both of whom were born in Indiana county. Pa. He was given a common school education, later attend. ng the Indiana State Normal School, from which he was graduated. In 1SS9 he was married to Miss Aduie A. Cobb Among the public offices that Speaker Artman has held is that of surveyor of Lebanon and a school trustee He is now serving his second term in tho general assembly. NOTES OK THE SESSIONS. Representative Lawrence, who was prominent in the House of 18(. has been returned from Allen county. Ha will introduce a bill to amend the road law. Senator Harrison of Shelby and Johnson, has a bill prepared to correct the law relating to legal executions. It is asserted that the lawchanging the names of the prisons did not designate where the executions should take place. Senator llarripon's bill will provide that the executions shall be at the Indiana state prison, and shall be by electricity instead of by hanging. Representative Sparks of Rush county has a bill prepared to make a judicial circuit of Rush and Fayette counties, another of Franklin and Union counties and to riake Shelby county a circuit by itself. Tbe lawyers of Shelby enmity want a criminal court established in that county. Newspaper publishers of the stale, especially those outside of the larger cities, have prepared a bill concerning the printing of legal advert isemen is which they will push. Governor Mount, who retired from office Monday, on Saturday pardoned William IV. Kennedy, who was sen tenced to prison for life in lSSf for the murder of David ilaker at Cireensburg, Ind. Kennedy was pirolcd in 1M7 and has for several months been attached to the sanitary service In Havana Th case attracted national attention hecause of the efforts of Kate Kennedy, the convicted man's sister, to secure his pardon. The sister has appealed to every brother since- her brother's conviction, but without success until today. llywhiH.1 FnlU to Kill Ct. A Maltese cat of Sheboygan Wis., took a two and one half hour ride tnslde the rim Qf a fly wheel and lives It jumped in the wheel at the Plymouth Refrigerating Company's plant. When the engines wen slopped 8hwas alive, and well, except fr a liMle lameness. The wheel is tvlve ferr Jn diameter, and makes eighty-sewn revolutions a minute. Consequently during the two and one-half hours the cat covered a distance of about l-il mllei.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS.

Til Rar Trouble. at Ntwliurjf Ar Not hii.I V hit r ; Armed Mis Jennie Creek to Jolt. Attempt to Itol a lot oiTW Entering through a v a thrt-e men made a :"..-iie it the Franklin pu.-U'f!'. . Thtioa on the outer J ;: i-f ihr broken off and dri :i le v. ::i .OY ;: t to r i on: b :mby means of a heavy that had been .stolen 1mm g--ua:n::i i i cai b e smith shop. With a drill üü i J-. .; an opening hug? sertion of a chart. e-.ir-g'i t: e of ii v:i.i:'-if : :iw;t ; :; : ) r uc.'.llt. hromade. The combination 1 l.'K or. two doors wa blown o an opene-a. i ins gave t:i- ni no o tion, except the but gia: -proof v. Surrounding the a"A: are s v compartments. Th'-se were eith'-r ken open or unlock' d. with the cx .;)- tion of the privat; box of Deputy I.)tmaster John N. Hunter. In this drawer was about $1'" ! longing to him; also his keys to the tttire o:!ice. Nothing was misled, and when the erü ; clerks invoiced they w-re surprised to lind that there was nothing at all t iken. The work is b die v. -d to have b. ea done by local roughs, who were frightened away before completing the j b. The contents of the oflice were sti- wn about on the floor, ami everything wad in a turmoil when Deputy Hunter opened the office. Th safe wa- d imaged to the extent of about i't'J1). Kare Conflict I Imminent. The whites and blacks at Newburg are still going ar.-ned. and the trouble Is by no means settled. "Jim" Crow, the leader of the blacks, has received another letter warning him to leave th town under penalty of death, but he declares he will remain. The town marshal has sworn in several deputies to help preserve order an i they have been on duty. At a mating of the citizens nothing was don. The negroes in the river towns are greatly alarmed uwr the repot t that a war of extermination is to be made on them. Crow is barricaded 1:1 hi cabin with about twenty other negroes, and they declare they are rady for the whites if they dcire to attack them. Clnu'.f Sandefur, wh n Crow's main licn:;nant, walked tim streets of the town making threat, i I is an Evansville negro, and nays hi has figured in many race wars in the south. Crow, in an interview, said hj would appeal to (lovernor Mount iu case he was driven from New burg. Keith Stitetirel to llitnir. Joseph Ü. Keith was sentenced at Princeton to hang for the murder ot Nora Keif er at Clberfeld on April 3, 1900. The verdict was returned after the Jury had been out nearly four hours. When the verdict was read the prisoner gazed at the jurors, and there wai not the slightest indication of nervous ness, not a muscle of his face moved, and he at as though he had no interest in the verdict. Mrs. Keith, wha has been so faithflully at his .side dur ing the twleve days of the trial, wai not in court, neither was the son. Joseph. Keith's attorneys tiled notice that motion for a new hearing would be made, in two weeks. Keith was composed when asked for a statement. He said: "The verdict i.s a terribk surprise to me; but 1 am innocent, and for thLs reason alone I am able to endure this ordeal. 1 am confident 1 will vindicate myself. I don't expect to dlf on the scaffold. At fluent of Legion of Honor. It is announced that Miss Jennl Creek of Millviile. the young woman who became famous in lSi:5. when shi flagged the world's fair train, saving large number of lives, among the passengers being a number noted Frenchmen, has decided to accept the invitation of the Legion of Honor and will visit Paris. She has often been invited to do so by the grateful Frenchmen. Mit:s Creek will leave next week for New York, accompanied by an aunt, and a week later will start for Europe. Miss Creek will write a description of her train flagging expetience for the Pall Mall Gazette. Deole lllg 4'un ( lult Story. Hempstead Washburne denied at Chicago the rumor from frown Point. that he, with Mayor Hamon and fifty representative men of that city, had closed a deal with Rrowu Uros. ol Crown Point by whuh. they come inta control of lO.uoO acres of marsh land on the Kankakte which they would use as a game juoerve. "There may have been some talk at s une dinner about a proposal to buy that land fjr hunting purposes." said Mr. Washburue, "but I am sure no action waa ever taken, nor do we contemplate iL" Solomon Ilexr to 11 Trld for Mnnlrr. The trial of Solomon Rear will b held in the Whitley county circuit court this week. Rear last August shot and killed his son Levi and then attempted to kill his son-in-law, Isaac (Irawcock. He will make a plea of insanity. LWs at the Af- of 104 Year. Elizabeth Parrigin. who still lives In Clinton county, is 104 years old. Shi has lived under every president of the United States. General c.ate w. Gaa rates will be advanced at Hartford City. The Presbyterians of Ossian will build a new church, costing $5,000. The Muncio public library loans about two thousand books a month. C. S. HinchelilTe succeeds W. S. Card of Frankfort, as editor of the (.Kshca Times. The Anderson Trust company will Increase its capital stock frooi $50.UW to $100.000.