Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 March 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGES SERMON.

MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. On Chrlatlaa Fleroisin The Great II ward That Comes to the Faithful pniUier of the Cross Heroes and MarWf of Everyday Life. Copyright. 1001, by Louis Klopsch.) Washington, Feb. 24 In this discourse Dr. Talmage praises Christian heroism and tells of great rewards. The i text is Galatians vi., 17, "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." We hear much about crowns.thrones, rlctories, but I now tell the more quiet story of scars, honorable and dishonorable. There are in all parts of the world people bearing dishonorable scars. They went into the battle of sin and were worsted and to their dying day they will have a saerification of body or mind or soul. It cannot be hidden. There are tens of thousands of men and women now consecrated to God and living holy lives who were once corrupt; but they have been regenerated, and they are no more what they once were than rubeseence is emaciation, than balm is vitrol. than noonday is midnight. But in their depleted physical health or mental twist or style of temptation they are ever and anon reminded of the obnoxious past. They have a memory that is deplorable. In some twinge of pain or some tendency to surrender to the wrong which they must perpetually resist they have an unwholesome remin1?cenre. They carry scars, deep scars, ügnobTe scars. But Paul in my text shows us a scarification which is a badge of honorable and self sacrificing service. He had in his weak eyes the result of too much study and in his body, bent and worn, he signature of scourgings and shipwrecks and maltreatment by mobs. In my text he shows those scars as he declares. "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Notice that it is not wounds, but scars, and a scar is a healed wound. Before the- scar is well defined upon the flesh the inflammation must have departed and right circulation must have been restored and new tissue must have been formed. It is a permanent indentation of the flesh a cicatrix. Paul did well to show those scars. They were positive and indisputable proof that with all his body.mind and soul he believed what he said. They wer his diploma, showing that he had graduated from the school of hardship for Christ. They were credentials proving his right to lead In the world's evaneelization. Not Ashamed of cars. Men are noi ashamed of scars got in battle for their country. No American is embarrassed when u ask him, "Where did you get that gash across your forehead?" and he can answer, 'That was from a saber cut at San Juan." When you ask some German, "Where did you losfc your right arm?" lie is not ashamed to say, "I lost it at Sedan." When you ask an Italian, '"Where did you lose your eye?" he is not annoyed when he can answer, "1 suffered that in the last battle under our glorious General Garibaldi." But I remind you of the fact that there are scars not got in war which are just as illustrious. We had in this country years ago an eminent advocate who was called into the presidential cabinet at attorney general. In raid-life he was in a Philadelphia courtroom engaged in an important trial. The attorney on the opposite side of the case sot irritated and angry and in a most brutal manner referred to the distinguished attorney's disfigured face, a 'ace more deeply scarred than any face I ever saw. The legal hero of whom I am speaking in his closing argument said: "Gentlemen of the jury, when I was a little child I was playing with my sister in the nursery, and her clothes caught fire, and I ran to her to put out the fire. I succeeded, but I myself took fire, and before it was extinguished my fac was awfully burn--ed and as black as the heart of the scoundrelly counsel who on the other iele of the case has referred to my misfortune." The eminent attorney of whom I speak carried all his life the honorah'r- .-v nr njs lister's rescue. Hvarlnt; a Family. But why do we go so far for illustration, when I could take right out of the memories of some whom I address instances just as appropriate? To rear aright for Go j and heaven a large family of children in that country home was a mighty undertaking. Far away from the village doctor, the garret must contain the herbs for the cure of all kinds of disorders. Through all infantile complaints the children of that family went. They missed nothing in the way of childish disorders. Busy all day was the mother in every form of housework and twenty times a night called up by the children all down at the same time with the same contagion. Her hair is white a long while before it is time for snow. Her shoulders are bent long before the appropriate time for scooping. Spectacles are adjusted, some for close by and some for far off, years before you would have supposed her eyes would need reenforcement. Here and there is a short grave in her pathway, this headstone bearing the name of this child and another headstone bearing the name of another child. Hardly one bereavement lifts its shadow than another bereavement drops one. After thirty years of wifehood and motherhood the paths turns toward the setting sun. She cannot walk so far as she used to. Colds caught hang on longer than formerly. Some of the children are In the heavenly world, for which they were well prepared through maternal fidelity, and others are out in this world doing honor to a Christian ancestry. Martyr All Around Us. People think they must look for martyrs on battlefields or go through a history to find burnings at the stake and tortures on racks when there are martyrs all about us. At this time in this capital city there are scores of men wearing themselves out in the public service. In ten years they will not hare a healthy nerve left in their body. In committee rooms, In consultations that involve the welfare of the nation, under the weight of great responsibilities, their vitality Is being subtracted. In almost every village of the country you find some broken down state or national official. After exhausting him

self in the public ervtce, rough A.aertcan politics kicks him out of congress or cabinet or legislative hall, and he goes into comparative obscurity and comparative want, for he has been long enough away from home to lose his professional opportunities. No man that was ever put to death by sword or instrument of torture was more of a martyr than that man who has been wrung to death by the demands of official position. The scars may not be visible, for these are scars on the brain and scars on the nerves and scars on the heart, but nevertheless are they scars, and God counts them, and their reward will be abundant. The Cunrfo Scar. In all lands there are veterans of war who may not have had their face scraped with one bullet or their foot lamed by one bursting shell and who could not roll up their sleeve and show you one mark suggestive of battle, yet carry with them weaknesses got in exposures to disease along malarial swamps or from many miles of marching, and ever and anon they feel a twinge of pain, each recurrence of which is sharper or more lasting, until after awhile they will be captured for the tomb by disorders which started 20 or 30 or 40 years before. And their scars are all unseen by human eyes. But those people are as certainly the victims of war as though they had been blown up in an undermined fortress or thrust through with a cavalryman's lance. What I want to make out is that there are scars which are never counted except as God counts them, and I want to enlarge your sympathies. There is a woman who has suffered domestic injustice of which there is no cognizance. She snvs nothing about it. An inquisitor's machine of torture could not wring from her the story of domestic woe. Ever since the day of orange blossoms and long white veil she has done her full duty and received for it harshness and blame and neglect. The marriage ring, that was supposed to be a sign of unending affection, has turned out to be one link of a chain of horrible servitude. A wreath of nettle and nightshr.de of brightest form would have been a more accurate prophecy. There are those

who find it hard to believe that there is such a place as hell, but you could go right out in any community and find more than one hell of domestic torment. There is no escape for that woman but the grave, and that, compared with the life she now lives, will be an arbor of jasmine and of the humming bird's song poured into the ear of the honeysuckle. Scars! If there be none on the brow showing where he struck her arriving home from midnight carousal, nevertheless there are scars all up and down her injured and immortal soul which will be remembered on the day when there shall leap forth for her avengement the live thunderbolts of an incensed God. When we see a veteran in any land who ha3 lost a limb in battle, our sympathies are stirred. But, oh, how many have in the domestic real lost their life and yet are denied a pillow of dust on which to slumber? Better enlarge your roll of martyrs. Better adopt a new mode of counting human sacriflcations. A broken bone is not half as had as a broken heart. Marks of Christian Service. There are many who can, in the same sense that Paul uttered it, say, "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus" that is, for the sake of Christ and his cause they carry scars which keep their indenture through all time and all eternity. Do you think that Paul was accurate when he said that? If you have studied his career, you have no doubt of it. In his youth he learned how to fashion the hair of the Cicilian goat into canvas, i quiet trade, and then went to college, the president of which was Gamaliel, an institution which scholars say could not have been very thorough because of what they call Paul's imperfect command of Greek syntax. But his history became exciting on the road to Damascus, where he was unhorsed and blinded. His conversion was a convulsion. Whether that fall from the horse may have left a mark upon him I know not, but the mob soon took after him and flogged and imprisoned and maltreated him until he had scars more than enough to assure the truthfulness of his utterance. "I boar in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." All of Paul's sufferings was for Ohrit's sake. He had intellectual powers which could have achieved for him all worldly successes. You see what he could do in a courtroom when with extemporaneous speech he made the judicial bench tremble; when on Mars hill he confounded the Athenian critics; when he preached amid the excitement of a tumbling penitentiary; when in a storm at sea he took command of the ship, the only one on board cool headed. With his inspired logic, and his courage of utterance, and his power of illustration, and his capacity to move audiences, and his spirit of defiance, there was no height of worldly power he might not have gained. Army or ChrUHan Sohl lern. All ye who bear in your body the marks of the Lord Jesus, have you thought what use those marks will be in the heavenly world? What source of glorious reminiscence! In that world you will sit together and talk over earthly experiences. "Where did you get that scar?" saint will say to saint, and there will come back a story of hardship and struggle and persecution and wounds and victory through the grace of the gospel. Another spirit will say to listening spirit, "Where did you get that hurt so plainly marked?" And the answer will be: "Oh, that was one of the worst hurts I ever had. That was a broken friendship. We were in sweetest accord for years, together in joy and sorrow. What one thought the other thought We were David and Jonathan. But our personal interests parted, and our friendship broke, never to be renewed on earth. But we have made It all up here, and misunderstandings are gone, and we are In the same heaven, on neighboring thrones, in neighboring castles, on the banks of the same river." Practical Application Now what is the practical use of this subject? It is the cultivation of Christian heroics. The most of us want to say things and do things for God when there is no danger of getting hurt We are 11 ready for easy work, for popular work, for compensating work, but

we all greatly aeef more corrage f brave the world and brave satanic at sault when there Is something aggres sive and bold and dangerous to be undertaken for God and righteousness. And if we happen to get bit what an ado we make about it! We all need more of the stuff that martyrs are made out of. We want more sanctified grit, more Christian pluck, more holy recklessness as to what the world may say and do in any crisis of our life. Be right and do right, and all earth and hell combined cannot put you down. The same little missionary who wrote my text also uttered that piled up magnificence to be found in those words which ring like battle axes on splitting helmets: "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us, for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God. which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." How do you like that, you cowards, who shrink back from aggressive work and If so much as a splinter pierce your flesh cry out louder than many a one torn in auto da fe? Many a soldier has gone through a long war.been in twenty battles, led a regiment up a hill mounted by cannon and swept by musketry and yet came home without having been once hit and without a mark upon him. Rut it will not be so among those who pass in the grand review of heaven. They have all in the holy wars been wounded, and all bear scars. And what would the newly arrived in heaven do with nothing to show that he had ever been struck by human or diabolic weaponry? How embarrassed and eccentric such an one in such a place! Surely he would want to be excused awhile from the heavenly ranks and be permitted to descend to earth, crying "Give me another chance to do something worthy of an immortal. Show me some post of danger to be rinrrd. some fortress to be stormed, some difficult charge to make. Like Leonidas at Thermopylae, like MiltriaJes at Marathon, like Marlborough at Blenheim, like Godfrey at Jerusalem, like Winkelried at Sampach gathering the spears of the Austrian knights into his bosom, giving his life for others, show me some place where I can do a brave thing for God. I can not go back to heaven until somewhere I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." My hearer, my reader, quit complaining about your misfortunes and disappointments and troubles and through all time and all eternity thank God for scars!

A HISTORIC HOME. Koaaceau's Famous Lee Charmettet" Heady for a Furchaser. In all literature there is hardly any house more famous than Les Charmettes, that modest dwelling in Chambers' where Jean Jacques Rousseau, the renowned French philosopher, spent the happiest years of his life.and therefore it is no wonder that the reading public of Europe was considerably surprised and somewhat shocked when it heard the other day that it had been advertised for sale, says the St. Louis Star. The advertisement read as follows: "For Sale Les Charmettes, the historic home of Jean Jacques Rousseau, together with furniture, fields, and orchard." In 1600 the house was built, but it first became historic on July 6, 1738, that being the day on which Mme. de Warens, Rousseau's friend, purchased it, together with "a barn, meadowland, orchard, plowland. vineyard, two oxen, two cows, ten sheep, seven hens, and a cock." The new owner occupied it at once and Rousseau joined her there later in the same year. Of his life there one of his French biographers says: "To Mme. de Warens the world is infinitely indebted since it was she who provided this man, the son of a Geneva watchmaker, with a home in which he had ample opportunity to improve himself and to develop his many talents. Since 17SZ. the year in which Rousseau's "Confessions" were published, Les Charmettes has been a Mecca for thousands of his admirers from all parts of the world, not a year since that time passing in which hundreds have not visited it and reverently taken away from the little flower garden some buds or leaves in memory of him. Training Hoys in Cermany. A writer describing in a Philadelphia daily the methods of schools in Germany, states that the manual training schools in Germany are especially intended for the class of boys who idle away their time before and after school on the street. The regular session closes at half past two o'clock in the afternoon, and after this time, t he boys who are not properly and healthfully employed must attend tho industrial school for the rest of the day. In summer time the boys, divided into classes, each under the supervision of a teacher, are trained systematically in all the branches of gardening. At other seasons of tho year the boys are engaged at various light crafts in workrooms, such as tho making of baskets, brushes and brooms, and plain carpentry, where the use of tools is taught. Typesetting and bookbinding are taught to the advanced and older classes. Eacli boy receives a small remuneration for his work when it is faithfully and obediently performed. The money, however, is not paid to him directly, but is put into a saving bank for him, and from time to time he receives his certificate of de-posit. The girls are taught knitting and all kinds of sewing in the same systematic manner. Every lesson is made a class drill. The children work by dictation, all in the room doing the same work at the same time. Youth's Companion. New York's Social Settlements. There are thirty social settlements in New York "which are in touch with more than 60,000 people. In the settlement houses are 233 classes and 238 clubs, with a membership of 17,650. Social pursuits are the object of 102 clubs, while recreative and instructive features are combined in the others. In 25 settlements there are 29 kindergartens with 1,882 children. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curst on all inaction. Coathe.

Commoner Extracts from W.

BY WHAT AUTHORITY. We are told that an extra session oi: congress will be necessary in order that the Cuban constitution may be "ratified" or "rejected." By what authority does the American congress presume to pass upon the Cuban constitution? Unless the United States has sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the Island of Cuba, r.o such authority exists. And it will be remembered that the war resolutions distinctly stated that the United States would not exercise "sovereignty jurisdiction or control over said isiai d except for the pacification thereof." With the adoption of these resolutions congress delivered the Cuban question over to the executive who is charged with the disposition of that question according to the terms of tho war resolutions. Since the Spaniards were driven out, all authority in the island of Cuba has been exercised by the president, or by men deputized by him. The people cf that island were able to choose members of a constitutional convention at an orderly election: if that constitutional convention adopts a constitution molded on the lines of republican form of government, and an improvement in some respects over our own constitution, it certainly must be admitted that 'pacification" has taken place. The Cuban people alone have the authority to adopt or modify their constitution. When a government in compliance with that constitution is organized it will be the duty of the president to withdraw the military forces of the United States from that island, and leave its people to work out their own destiny, overcoming obstacles in their own way exactly as other peoples have been required to do. The withdrawal of the United States from Cuba and delivery of power there to the constituted authorities of that island. Is purely an executive act. The question of pacification involves a very simple fact. The executive knows, as the world knows, that Cuba has been pacified. But if congress should assume the authority to approve, reject or modify the Cuban constitution, the United States would be assuming sovereignty, jurisdiction and control over the island of Cuba, things which the United States expressly disclaimed. It is contended by some friends of the administration that it is essential that the United States shall be given suzerain powers in that constitution that the Cuban people shall obligate themselves not to enter Into treaties with foreign countries without the United States' consent. It is further claimed that it is necessary, that the constitution shall declare that there shall be no interference with "vested rights" in the island of Cuba. In the first place, the claim to suzerain rights is a distinct violation of our disclaimer that the United States would not seek to exercise sovereignty, Jurisdiction or control over said island, except for the pacification thereof. It Is a distinct violation of our pledge that after pacification is accomplished it is our intention to leave the government of that island to the Cuban people. In the next place there are no such things morally or legally as "vested rights" in the island of Cuba accruing during our military occupation of that island. It is true that since our military forces took possession there, syndicates having the favor of the administration have rushed in and have obtained valuable franchises, but those franchises are the property of the people of Cuba. Our military forces were there for the purpose of aiding in pacification, and were not given authority to vest any rights in administration favored syndicates. The anxiety of these syndicates to maintain possession of valuable franchises is perhaps the explanation of the disposition manifested by the administration politicians to violate the Eolemn pledge of this nation with respect to the island of Cuba. It may be that congress will insist upon passing upon the Cuban constitution, but this will be mere assumption. It may be that congress will Beek to modify that constitution according to the whims of administration politicians and for the benefit of administration syndicates, but congress will be treading on dangerous ground. In law and in morals it will be acting without authority. In fact. It will be trifling with a people whose history repudiates the presumption that they will submit to imposition at the hands of American syndicates and American politicians any more willingly than they would submit to Imposition at the hands of Spanish tyrants. The president has been very quick to encroach upon congressional prerogative in the selection of a Philippine commission empowered by him with authority to make laws and to collect and disburse revenues in the Philippine Islands. He now sHms to be equally ready to surrender a plain and exclusive executive prerogative in carrying out the war resolutions with respect to Cuba. The Morgan-Rockef el ler-Hari man railroad syndicate is prepared to show the evils that would follow the control of all the railroads by the government. The first evil they won id point out is that of having such an immense power given into the hands of a f9w. A larse number of gentlemen who appeared at banquets on February 12 and talked about the patriotism and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln claim '.o be thorough patriots and altogether wise for promoting the very principles that Abraham Lincoln denounced. Congress is considering the matter of organizing a "National Standardizing Bureau." If organized properly it will probably be run with Standard oil. If tho ship subsidy bill does not pass It may bo necessary to have a special Bession of congress to consider tho Cuban question. Senator Jones of Arkansas describes the ship subsidy bill as "a jimmy with which It is proposed to break Into the United States treasury." Senator Jones has a habit of calling things by their right names, and on this occasion he did not change his habit. The democratic senator or congressman who is deluded into supporting the subsidy steal will have a difficult time proving his democracy. It will be noted that when t man does not want to respect a law he begins to Insist that It is a failure.

Comment f J. Bryan's Paper. J

THi: REPRESENTATIVE'S DUTY. The action of Hon. Seth W. Brown, a republican member of congress from Ohio, in introducing a Philippine resolution antagonistic to the policv of hi3 pait raises the question: Wha: is the duty of a representative? If Mr. Brown had been elected upon a platform declaring in favor of the permanent retention of the Philippines he could not have introduced the resolution that he did (a resolution promising independence to the Filipinos when a capable and stable free government is established) without repudiating the promises made to his constituents. A platform is worse than usaless if it is not binding upon the conscience of the representative, for if it is not obeyed it deceives the voters. So long as the people are the sovereigns and the representatives are the servants chosen, not to think for them but to act for them, a platform pledge should be sacredly observed. But Mr. Brown was elected to congress in 1S98 and was not re-elected last year. At the time of his election the treaty with Spain had not been made and his party had not announced any policy on the Philippine question. The introduction, therefore, of a resolution In line with the democratic position, but antagonistic to the position of the administration cannot be considered as a betrayal of the confidence of his constituents. Mr. Brown alro warns his party against any attempt to repudiate the promise of independence made to Cuba. Speaking of the resolutions adopted by congress, he says: "The man who says we should have resorted to this double dealing in April, 1S0S. now very logically and very naturally goes a step further and says, we ought to violate the pledge we then made and take Cuba whether she wants to come to us or not. What more miserable, more inhuman, more unpatriotic course could be advocated? It is the climax of greed, without one spark of conscience. It is the acme of avarice, without a single redeeming feature. It is the doctrine of a freebooter of the world. It is a code of the pirate of all the seas." In administering this warning the representative from Ohio is also within his legal rights because his party unanimously approved of the pledge made in April. 1MS. and has never openly repudiated the pledge. As late as last summer the republican national convention formally renewed tho promise. It is encouraging to find a republican member of congress farsighted enough to spe the dangers into which the administration is hurrying the country. MUS. NATION'S CRUSADE. Mrs. Carrie Nation, as her name would indicate, has succeeded in making herself more than a state affair. Her attempt to cure lawlessness by lawlessness has aroused discussion everywhere. She has already reached a degree of eminence which has excited the attention of cartoonists, and hatchet brigades are being organized in various cities in her honor. Kansas has a constitutional amendment as well as a statute prohibiting the sale of liquor, but, as is well known, prohibition is not inforced in communities where the local sentiment is against it. Mrs. Nation acts upon the theory that the saloon is an outlaw in Kansas and that saloonkeepers cannot invoke the protection of the law when they themselves disregard it. While no defense can be made of lawless methods in enforcing law, those who condemn Mrs. Nation must. In order to be consistent, also condemn the violation of the liquor laws. The Kansas crusado has already served a useful purpose in that it has brought out the fact that prohibition is a dead letter in that state, and now that public attention has been directed toward the subject, it is probable that the law will either be enforced or the question resubmitted. A law that is not enforced bieeds contempt for law. It sems that after all Mr. Roberts, director of the mint, is not Infallible, when it comes to figures relating to tho gold supply. Mr. Maurice L. Muhleman. who is himself something of an authority on figures. has discovered a serious error in the government figures reiating to the supply of gold. Mr. Muhleman claims that there has been duplication in the foreign gold, coin imported being registered on arrival at the custom house and then re-re-Istered when minted into United .States coin. Mr. Muhleman has traced these errors up to year 1S9S and he estimates that the gold stock has in this manner eben exaggerated to the extent of $125.000.000. When General MacArthur reported that "the expectations of the administration have not been realiztd" ho did not mean it. What he meant was that while the expectations of the administration have been realized the claims of the administration have not been. Hut MacArthur is not the only official in the Philippines or in Washington, either who realizes with joy that language can be used to conceal thoughts. A test has at last been discovered for determining when a paper is under corporate influence If the editor becomes violently agitated when any reference is made to the common people the chances are sixteen to one that his paper is a defender of every scheme whereby the organized few seek to obtain an advantage over the masses of the people. American politicians, who profess to believe that we can whip the Filipinos into friendly relations with us. have forgotten what Chatham said of bayonets as agencies of reconciliation: "How ran America trust you," said Chatham, "with the bayonet at her breast? How can she suppose that you mean less than bondage or death?" Some predict that Texas will rival Pennsylvania as a producer of oil; it is to bo hoped, however, that she will not rival Pennsylvania in her political methods. We can use more oil, but wo do not need any more Pennsylvania politics. Word comes from Japan that an oil monopoly is '.icing formed over there. Our enterprising and imitative little neighbor in the Orient seems disposed to copy our faults as well as our virtues. Possibly the failure of Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller to agree upon terms is due to a laudable desire on the part of each to keep the other from dying disgraced. It is to he regretted that the ship ping subsidy bill did not see itl shadow.

THE llliMGISlilE Reports of Proceedings and Bills Introduced,

MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. The Honse Faes the Cooper Antl-Trmt BUI The arae Ilranch of the Legislature Kills the Vtacennes t'uiv-rity Claim for S 120,000. Tuesday, February 19. The senate of the Indiana general assembly gave a second blow to faith-curls ts and Dowkitcs by voting to accept a favorable report on Senator Wood's bill requiring believers in faith cure to call medical aid in the illness of children and dependents. The bill makes it a felony to withhold medical aid from children and Other dependents when such dependents die for the lack of medieul aid. The bill was reported favorably after a hot argument in the senate today. The prospects are now favorable for the passage of the bill. The house passed the Cooper anti-tru?t bill. It is regarded as a harmless measure and is not nearly so drastic as Senator Agnew's bill. The house killed the bill appropriating JUO.wm for the payment oi tne claim ot lncennes university based on the sale by the state of certain j lands ceded by the United Stated govern- j ment for university purposes. j Wednesday, February 20. The house passed the bill w hich pro- : vides for a .special tax of 1 cent on each j Jluy of property for the support of fro 1 kindergartens. The bill applies to all j cities of the state having a population of S,0a. The bill establishing boards of chil- j dren's guardians was also passed. ! The con gr na 1 reapportionment bill, which makes .Ma: ion county a sep-j arate district. was also passed. It i strengthens some of the republican districts, but does not make any radical j changes, and four districts are left to the ! democrats, as at present. ' The bill authorizing the construction of ; a ship canal from hake -Michigan to the ' Calumet river will be repotted favorably j in the houe. as the result of a linai j meeting- of tie cities ar.d towns commit- j tee. There will probably be a minority j report also. The railroads have not Kiven up the light against the measure, and will j attempt to thiottle it when the amended j measure returns to the senate. The stata ' is not asked to donate f-.r the work, as- j sessments for benefits being made aprainst ! the property one and a half miles on each side of the canal. j Thursday. February 'il. Sworn testimony of a startling charac- j ter was heard by the senatorial commit- I tee of the Indiana legislature investigating charges of cruelty at the Indiana In- j dustrial school for cirls and woman's i prison in this city. The witnesses were two former inmates ot the school, Mrs. Zoa Dare and Miss Flora Crawley, both of this city. For refusing to obey an order, Mrs. Dare testified, she was imprisoned in a box in which there was vermin, cockroaches, rats and the like. Clad only in a night dress, she was kept there five days. She knew there were rats in the box because they ran over her body while she was imprisoned. It was too dark she could not see her hand before her. All that she had to eat was bread and water, supplied morning- and evening. Mrs. Dare testhied further that Cora Skinner, an inmate sent from Lawrenceburg, had been so brutally whipped that blood from her wounds ran down and filled her shoes. Her skin was literally cut to pieces by the blow of the leather thongs. The next day after the whipping witness testified she had seen the victim's limbs, which were ccered with clotted blood. Miss Keely. the superintendent, she testilied. had struck girls often with a large bunch of keys. Friday, February '2The Calumet canal bill advanced by the adoption of the majority report, favoringit. The debate was very bitter. One member pronounced it "damnable." Others charged bribery ami declared the Standard Oil Company is in a deal with it. Railroad members fought it to the end. The corporations won again by Fortner's quo warranto bill being reconsidered and killed. Corporation lobbyists were as thick as fleas. The bill permitted a citizen, on giving- bond, to bring quo warranto proceedings when the prosecuting attorney fails to act to determine whether a franchisehas been violated. NOTES OF LEGIS LA T U 1 1 K. House bill Xo. 278 (Whitcomb). amending the Fewer assessment provisions of the Indianapolis charter, making the assessments on a basis of benefits, and providing for an appeal, was put on its passage. This bill is intended to obviate the constitutional objections to the Barrett law. The tirst roll call on the passage of the bill revealed the fact that there was not a quorum present. The absentees were called, and a sufficient number of members were obtained to pass the bill by a vote of 71 to 0. Senator Lambert denies the story told by Representative Clem in regard to the agreement which Clem says was entered into between them. Senator Lambert says Mr. Clem either misunderstood him or must have been misquoted, 'lern says that Lambert was to work against the i Muncie bill in the s nate. in considera- j tion of Iiis eClem's services for the Co- j lumbus epileptic hospital bill in the house. Lambert voted for the Munde bill and then Clem withdraw his support of the epileptic bill. Senator Lambert says he distinctly told Mr. Clem that he could not work against the Munde bill, and he thought Mr. Clem so understood him. The debate the other day on the Mil of Senator Wood, detining the practice of medicine and prescribing who shall practice medicine, attracted a throng of visitors. Senator Inman said every man should have the right to worship Hod as he saw lit. but religion should not over ride good judgment in the protection of j health 'When I have a chill." he said. "I don t want any one standing praying over me. 1 want quinine. Senator Thompson made a strong speech faoring the bill speaking- in answer to Senator Kittinger's declaration that lawyers had no protection. lie said that lawyers had tried to protect themselves by offering an amendment to the state constitution, but the people of the state voteei the amendment down. Senator Stillwell spoke rather dramatically against the bill. He said a similar bill had been declared unconstitutional in Rhode Island. The Pritchard oil bill, which is to determine who shall have the power of appointing the oil inspector, is before th legislature. The agriculture committee submitted two reports on senate Mil Xo. IS (Guthrie), establishing the office of state veterinarian and abolishing the State Live Stock commission, the majority recommending passage and the minority indefinite postponement. Mr. Roberts of Jefferson spoke against the minority report. The ayes and nays were demanded on the vote to concur in the minority report. The vote stood 42 to 42 and the report was not concurred In. The majority report then failed to pass by a vote of 38 to 42. The situation was veculiar one. Republican leaders In the house say their expectation is that the Cooper anti-trust bill, which was passed by the house, will go through the senate and become a law. They say there is no reason why it should not, since it is not regarded as a stringent measure, and there has been no opposition to it, except from those who have thought it too weak. In the house Mr. Adamson, of the committee on temperane-e, submitted a minority report on ths saloon remonstrance bill, protdinjr that a remonstrance shall stand for six months. The bill, as reported by the majority, provided that a remonstrance shall be pood for two years. The house voted down a motion to table the Adamson amendment.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN CAYS. Hellet Kxcttement In the Vicinity mt Harlingtou mil Jfeir London SeventySecond Anniversary of Wrdtiiug Day It oi dj Oll and tia Laad. Must Answer for Old Monier. George and John Reeves, charged with murdering Deputy Sheriffs John E. Gardiner and William Cox in Dubois county, Jure 1, ll, are now confined in the county jail at Jasper. Sheriff Herman Castrup and a d- p lty having received th prio:iers from the authorities at Frankfort, Ky., vk ri they had just boon rel.-a.-d from tLo penitentiary. On the day of the murder the two deputy sheriffs came upon the Reeves boys on a country road ar:J attempted to arrest tin m for rubVry. The officers wore pounced upon by tip two brothers, who took th-ir revolvers from them, and after emptying the contents into the bodies of the deputies, stole a couple of horses aiici Hod. They were not heard of until i a years later, when it was learned th.u they were in the K htin ky p.-nit-n-tiary string a sentence for burring the towa of Cadiz. A rcipiisit-on was secured, but before it oouM L- rv. 1 the Reeves boys brol-:e out of pri?on and were at liberty until rrv-cnüy.wiv n they were arrested by the s'-.criff at Mount Vernon, in. Gov. I)!ir:.;:i i.u-d a requisition on tho rrov. : nor of Illinois for their return, but ihe Ke::tue';y authorities were ahead and the prisoners were taken to Fran, fort, wl.cv. they had two wef-ks or tl.-ir o: U::ul term to serve. Await "Coming of CürUt." The vicinily of Ruriington and New London, ten miles northeast of Frankfort, made notable by the destruction of saloons and tollhouses by mobs aji i dynamite, is at the present time in the throes of a new and peculiar religious excitcn-.ent. A strange woman, who refuses to give her name, haa been going about the country preaching what she terms "Christ's t mp )ral kingdom.'' Her work, at tirst c.Ji.iinel to family visits in the home, h;ls mad such progress th;tt s!i- i.s now holding day and night meetings and many people are in a religious excitement bordering upon frenzy and are contributing large amounts for the construction of a great temple, in which, they are to await the coming of Christ" to take charge of this "temporal kingdom." Those who hae not. become converts to the new religion think the woman crazy, and it is likely that steps will be made to take her into custody. The woman hows evidence of a splendiel e-ducation, is richly garbed and more than ordinarily good looking. Her speeches are not mere harangues, but are delivered in an impressive, oratorical style. Wedded for .Many Tear. The most noteworthy marriage anniversary celebration that is known to have occurred in Indiana was celebrated at tlie home of Mr. and Mrs. Eiisha Brown, a half mile from Hagerstown. It was the seventy-second anniversary of their wedding and every one of their relatives and descendants to the fifth generation was invited to participate in the festivities. Klisha Rrown was born in Kentucky in 180S. Mrs. Rrown is two years j'ounger than her husband. They raised a family of eleven children, all of whom reached maturity. All of their children niarrieel early in lif and raised large families in nearly every instance. There were sixty-one grandchildren born and lifty greatgrandchildren. There is one gre.it-great-grande hild. who is ä years old. Both of the old people are in good health. Death of Father Bemimk. The ltt.-Rev. Mgr. Bessonies died In Indianapolis at the residene of Bishop Chatard of the Catholic diocese of Indiana, where he h:id mad;' his home for years. Born in Al.ac. France. June 17, 1815. he came' to Vincennes. Ind., in 18;f. at the instance of the first -bishop of Vince lines, who died the same year. He kihorod among the Indians in this state for ten years, was appointed postmaster at Leopold. IVrry county, under President Polk, and came to Indianapolis in 1S"7. He was vicar-general of the diocese, and in 3SS4 Pop.1- Leo XIII. appointed bin Roman prolate. His diamond jubilee, or sixtieth anniversary of his elevation to the priesthood, was celebrated here one year ago by prominent clergymen from all parts of the country. Hooiu OH and ;.. Land. in twenty-live leases, ranging from , , , ' . 1UH IU 1TO lUII'S ..11.11. IUI f Ut t. LI Li ItrH in the Blackford county recorder's office by Ion A. Baxter. These leases are drawn to include both oil and gas and were secured by Baxter's agent in four weeks. The terms made were better than those secured bjT land owners until lately and presage a boom in the development of new territory this spring. Boy Ciang Koh Mail Boxen. John Cook. Oscar Hay worth, 16 years old, and William Sherry, 11 years old, were arrests! at Muncie. charged with nibbing post-eRlce mail boxes. A United States detective made the arrests after several weeks' Investigation. He says the bojs extracted currency and checks from Utters. They were held in $.".00 bail. Sherry made a partial confession, lmplicatins Bert Williams, Frank Burnette and William Overs as composing an organized gang. All are under arrest. Inan Man fttabs Father. Linas Brown, aged 25, attacked fcts aged father with a shoo knifo and stabbed him several times at Chandler, in Warrick county. The old man cannot survive. Fleht with Tramp. A hard-fought battle between the citizens of North Bedford and a large number of tramps occurred, resulting in the flight ot the "Weary WTilliea." A large aumber of shots were fired by both tides, but no one vr& Injured,