Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 July 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

BE YE ANQRY AND SIN NOT" EPH. IV: 26. 4fee Sin of Alcoholism The Spirit of rambling Aid for the Unbeliever Indignation Orer Fraud Mercy for the Erring One. Copyricht, 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, June 30. A delicate And difficult duty is by Dr. Talmage In tills discourse urged upon all, and especially upon those given to quick temper; text, Ephesians Iv, 26. "Be ye Angry and sin not." Equipose of temper, kindness, patience, forbearance, are extolled by most of the radiant pens of inspiration, but my text contains that which at first ei" t is startling. A certain kind of aner i3 appioved -aye, we are commanded to indulge in it. The most of us have no need to cultivate high temper, and how often we say things and do things under affronted impulse which we are sorry for when perhaps it Is too late to make effective apology! Why, then, should the apostle Taul dip bis pen in the ink horn and trace upon parchment, afterward to be printed cpon paper for all aces, the injunction, Be ye angry and sin not?" My text commands a wholesome indignation. It discriminates between the offen?? and the offender, the sin and the sinner, the crime and the criminal. To Illustrate: Alcoholism has ruined more fortunes, bla.-ted more hemes, deatroyed more souls, than any evil that T think of. It pours a river of poison and fire through the nations. Millions have died because of it. and mililons are dying now, and others -will die. Intemperance is an old sin. The great Cyrus, writing to the Lacedemonians of himself, boasted of many of his qualities, among others, that he could drink and bear more wine than his distinguished brother. Louis X and Alexander the Great, died drunk. The parliament of Edinburgh in 16C1 Is called in history "the drunken parliament." Hugh Miller, the first stone mason and afterward a world renowned geologist, writes of the drinking habits of his flay, saying: "When the foundation Was laid, they drank. When the walls wore leveled for laying the joists, they drank. When the buildings were finished, they drank. When an apprentice Joined, they drank." In the eighteenth century the giver of an entertainment boasted that none of the guests went away sober. Noah, the first ship captain, was wrecked not in the ark, for that was safely landed but he was i wrecked with strong drink. Every man or woman rightly constructed will blush with indignation at the national and international and hemisphere and planetary curse. It is good to be aroused against it. You come out of thr.t condition a better man or a better tvoraari. He ye ancry at that abomination, and the more answer the more exaltation to character. But that arcus d fe-cling u come? sir.ful when it extends to the victim of this great evil. Drunkenness you are to hat" with a vivid hntred; but the drunkard you are to pity, to help to extricate. Prostrated br Alcoholism. Just take into consideration that there are men and women who once were as upright as yourself who have been prostrated by alcoholism. Perhaps It came of a physician's prescription for the relief of pain, a recurrence of the pain calling for a continuance of the remedy; perhaps the grandfather was an inebriate and the temptation to Inebriety, leaping over a generation, has swooped on this unfortunate; perhaps it was under an attempt to drown trouble that the benumbing and narcotic liquid was Bought after; perhaps It was a gradual chaining of the man with the beverage which was though! to be a servant, when one day Ii annouaced iteelf master. Be humble now, and admit that there is a strong probability that under the same circumstances you yourself might have been captured. The two appropriate emotions for you to allow are Indignation at the intoxicant which enthralled and sympathy for the victim. Try to get the sufferer out of his present environment; recommend any hygienic relief that you know of and, above all, implore the divine rescue for the struggle in which bo many of the noblest and grandest have been worsted. Do not give yourself up to too many philippics about what the man ought to have been and ought to have done. While your cheek flushes with wrath at the foe that has brought ruin, let your eye be moistened with tears of pity for the sufferer. In that way you will have fulfilled the Injunction of the text, "Be ye angry and sin not." The Spirit oT Gambling. In Spain a don lost in 24 hours what equals 112,000,000. Twenty years ago it was estimated that the average gambling exchange of money throughout Christendom exceeded 1123,100,000,000 a year. But statistics 20 years ago -ould be tame compared with the present statistics if we could find any one able enough at figures to tabulate them. It is all the same spirit of gambling, whether the instruments are cards or the clicking chips or the turning wheel or the bids of the Stock Exchange, where people sell what they never owned and fail because they cannot get paid for it. A prominent banker tells me that he thinks 50,000 people financially prostrated by the recent Insanities in Wall street. Here and there a case i3 reported, but the vast majority Buffer In silence. The children ere brought home from school the wardrobo be denied replenishment, the table will have scant supply, wild generosity will be turned into grim want. Forty years from now will be felt the disaster of last month's black Thursday. Can you hear the story of the unprincipled manipulators of stocks and of the devices of the gambling saloon to entrap the verdant and unsuspicious without having your pulses tingle, and your heart thump, and your entire nature shocked with the villainy? If so, you are not much of a man or much of a woman. You ought to be angry, for there is no sin In such vehement dislike. You ought to be so angry that you could not repress your feelings In the presence of young men who are Just forming their life theories. In every

possible way you ought to denounce I such stupendous robbery. Let It be known that the only successful game in which a man plays for money is the one which a man loses all and stops. Indlgaatlon Over Fraud. There is another sin that we are oftentimes called to be angry with, and that is fraud. We all like honesty, and when it is sacrificed we are vehement in denunciation. We hope that the detectives will soon come upon the track of the absconding bank official, of the burglar who blew up the safe, of the clerk who skillfully changed the figures In the account book, of the falsifier who secured the loan on valueless property, of the agent who because of his percentage wrongfully admits a mam to the benefit of a life insurance policy when his heart Is ready to stop and who comes from an ancestry characteristically short lived. One act of fraud told of in big headlines in the morning papers rightfully arouses the nation's wrath. It is the interest of every good man and good woman who reads of the crime to have It exposed and punished. Let it go unscathed, and you put a premium on fraud, you depress public morals, you induce those who are on the fence between right and wrong to get down on the wrong side, and you put the business of the world on a down grade. The constabulary and penitentiary must do

) their work. But while the merciless ! and the godless cry: "Good for him! I i am glad he is within prison doors!" I be it your work to find out if the man ! is worth saving and what were the I c a us e.3 of his moral overthrow. Perhaps he started in business life under ; a tricky firm, who gave him wrong notions of business integrity; perhaps there was a combination of circumj stances almost unparalleled for tempi tation; perhaps there were alleviaI tions; perhaps he was born wrong and I never got over it; perhaps he did not : realize what he was doing, and if you are a merciful man you will think of other perhaps which, though they ; may not excuse, will extenuate. FerI haps he has already repented and is washed in the blood of the Lamb and is as sure of heaven as you are. What an opportunity you have now for obeying my text. You were angry at the misdemeanor, but you are hopeful for the recovery of the recalcitrant. Blessed all prison reformers! Blessed are those governors and presidents who are glad when they have a chance to pardon! Blessed the forgiving father who welcomes home the prodigal. Blessed the dying thief whom the Lord took with him to glory, saying. "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise! " Help for th Unbeliever. Have a lightning in your eye and a i flush in your cheek and a frown on ; your brow for a dastardy that would ! blot out the sun and moon and stars of j Christianity and leave all things in an I arctic night, the cold equal to the i darkness. You do well to be angry, but ' how about tho?e who have been Hung of scepticism, and that is more millions than you will ever know of until ; the judgment day reveals everything. Ah, here comes your opportunity for gentleness, kindness, and sympathy. I The probability is that if you had been plied with the same ini fluence a3 this unbeliever there ; would not be a Bible in all your i bouse from cellar to attic. Per all your house from cellar to attic. Perhaps he was in some important transaction swindled by a member of the church whose taking of the sacrament was a sacrilege. Perhaps he read agnostic books and heard agnostic lectures and mingled in agnostic circles until he has been befogged and needs your Christian help more than any one that you kno- of. Do not get into any labored argument about the truth of Christianity. He may beat you at that. He has a whole artillery of weapons ready to open fire. Remember that no one was ever reformed for this life or saved for the life to come by an argument, but in humblest and gentlest way, your voice subdued, ask him a few questions. Ask him if he had a Christian parentage, and if he says yes ask him whether the old folks died happy. Ask him if he has ever heard of any one going out of this life in raptures of infidelity and agnosticism. Ask him if it Is not a somewhat remarkable fact that the Bible, after so many years, sticks together and that there are more copies of it In existence than ever before. Ask him If he knows of any better civilization than Christian civilization and whether he thinks the teachings of Confucius or Christ are preferable. Ask him if he tninks it would be a fair thing in the Creator of all things to put in this world the human race and give them no direct communication for their guidance and. If they did wrong, tell them of no way of recovery, I think if a famous infidel of our time, instead of being taken away instantaneously, had died in his bed after weeks and months of illness lie would have revoked his teachings and left for his beloved family consolations which they could not find in obsequies at which not one word of Holy Scripture was read, or at Frf hh Pond crematory, where no Christian benediction was pronounced. I do not positively say that in a prolonged illness there would have been a retraction, but I think there would. The Work f an Instant. A man thoroughly mad can say enough In two minutes to damage him for 20 years. It took only five minutes for the earthquake to destroy Caracas. One unfortunate sentence uttered in affront in a speech in the United States senate shut forever the door of the White House against one of the most brilliant men of the last century. You can never trust a horse that has once run away, and you do not feel like trusting a man who has just once lost his equilibrium. You need to drive your temper as a man drives a fractious span amid the explosions of a Fourth of July morning or the pyrotechnics of the Fourth of July night. With curbed bit, taut rein, commanding vole mastering yourself and mastering what you drive. If you are naturally high tempered, do not unnecessarily go among irritations and provocations. Do not build a blast furnace next to a gunpowder mill. Then, also, euch demonstrations of ungovernability belittle one. Men take out their lead pencils and In estimating such a one take 50 per cent off. About the

most hideous spectacle on earth Is en angry man or woman burning not with anger commanded In my text, but with the sin represented. After such a display of gall, irrascibility, virulence, his influence with many 13 forever gone. Tht world is full of politicians, doctors, lawyers, merchants, mechanics, ministers, housewives, who have by such explosions been blown to pieces. I -say to all young men hoping to achieve financial, moral or religious success control your tempers. Do not let criticism or defeat rebuff yon. Verdi, the great musician, applied to become a student in the Conservatory of Music at Milan and he was rejected by the director, who said that he could make nothing of the newcomer, as he showed no disposition for music. But the criticism did not exasperate or defeat him. The most of those who have largely succeeded in all departments were characterized by self control. In battle they would calmly look at the bomb thrown at their feet.wondering whether It would explode. In commercial life, when panics smote the city, these men were placid, while others were yelling themselves hoarse at the Stock Exchange. While othera nearly swooned because a certain stock had gone 100 points down they calmly waited until it would get 100 points up. While the opposing attorney in the courtroom frothed at the mouth with rage because of something said on the other side, he of the equipoise put a glass of water to his lips In refreshment and proceeded with the remark, "As I was saying when the gentleman interrupted mo." Self control! What a glorious thing! We want it in the doctor feeling the

pulse of one desperately 111, we want it in the engineer when the heaalight of another train comes round the curve on the same track. We want It In Christian men and women in times when so much in church and state seem going to demolition self control! What are you going to be good for, O man or woman in a world like this, ever and anon your dander up, and so often in the sulks? We admit taat you have many things to stir your blood and fill you with wholesome indignation, but going to such extremes you offend my text, which says you must discriminate and not lose your selfcontrol, "Be ye angry and sin not Merry for the Sinner. Surpassing all other characters In the world's biography stands Jesus Christ, wrathful against sin, merciful to the sinner. Witness his behavior toward the robed ruffians who demanded capital punishment for an offending woman denunciation for their sinful hypocrisj". pardon for her sweet penitence. He did not speak o Herod as "his majesty' or "his royal highness," but dared to compare him to a cunning fox, saying "Go ye and tell that fox." But, alert to the cry of suffering, he finds ten lepers, and to how ; many of the ten awful invalids did he I give convalescence and health? Ten. i Rebuking Pharisiaism in the most ; compressed sentence in all the vocab- ; ulary of anathema "Ye serpents, ye I generation of vipers, how can ye escape I the damnation of hell?" yet looking i upon Peter with such tenderness that I no word was spoken and not a word ' was needed, for the look spoke louder i than words. "And the Lord looked upi on Peter, and Peter went out and wept bitterly." Oh, what a look it must have been to break down the swarthy fisherman apostle! It was such a hurt look, such a beseeching look, such a loving look, such a forgiving look! Was thero in any other being sinre time began such a combination of wrath against wrong and compassion for the wrong doer? "Lion of Judah's tribe!" Hear that! "Lamb of God w.o taketh away the sins of the world!" Hear that! Fhonojrrnphlc Knapiiark. The phonographic knapsack is the invention of an Iowa genius. His idea is to place an ordinary phonograph that has been fixed to play waltz music in a ksrapsack that can be carried on a man's back. The phonograph has two sete of receivers to be placed at the ears. These receivers are fitted nto an arangement so that they can be retained at the ears without being held bjt the hands. The phonographic knapsack has been designed for use at dances. The young men carry them on their backs. In beginning a waltz a man places one set of receiver at his own ears and the other at the ears of his fair partner. By pulling a cord dangling from the phonographic knapsack the machine is set in motion and a waltz is played to which the young man and his partner merrily dance. The inentioa will do away with orchestras and tin sounding pianos, each male guest furnishing his own music for himself and his partner. Philadelphia Times. Corn Oll Voran Olive Oil. The industrial and commercial papers of Continental Europe are calling attention to the approaching competition of American corn oil. It is stated that this oil is greatly appreciated from an industrial point of view, and that its fine golden color and agreeable taste make it a possible rival for older and better known varieties of table oil. Well-directed efforts have beeL made for some time, notably at the Paris Kxposition, to establish this product In foreign markets, and from present indications it would appear that they have been successful. Formr Iady of White TTona. Miss Ietitia Semple, daughter of President Tyler, and so a former mistress of the white house, is living in Washington and was present at tho reception given to Mrs. Daniel Manning and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was spoken of as "tho little lady in black, with a quaker bonnet," for few knew her. She has for years, been an inmate of the Ixniise home, established by Banker Corcoran in memory of his wife and daughter and endowed for the benefit of gentlewomen of southern birth who are in reduced circumstances. Many old houses in Holland have a epeclal door which Is never opened savo on two occasions, when there is a marriage or a death in the family. The bride and groom enter by this door; It is then nailed or barred up until death occurs, when It Is opened and the body is removed by this exit Marriages are not as they art mad but as they turn out.

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PASSING OF ".MANNISH WOMAN." Backward and forward swings the pendulum of fashion. We fancy we have put away certain frivolities forever, and, presto! here they are again as pronounced as ever. The fact is that the man and woman in esse have not changed at all. A baby born now or before the Christian era has practically the same nature, the lattpr day infant having no more capability for development than his mediaeval protot ypo. Our boasted civilization of today, as far as the individual is concerned, is like the coral reefs that help to build up a continent it. Is tho accumulated work and production of each insect that creates the great r.sutt, the Insect itself remain inp always exactly the same. Circumscribed as we are, therefore, by the limitations of our humanity, we find in our orbit that now, as in the days of Solomon, "there Is no new thing under the sun," and fashion must, perforce swing around In an erratic circle of periods the Viotorlan, the Napoleonic, the LouIb XVI., tire Renaissance, the Grecian, etc., to trail fy the love of change. Tilts may seem like a rather elabo

ly recognized that the common cold is most infectious. The germs, whatever they may be, have a way of running through a household. The first Infected member of a family ought, if it were practicable, to be put into quarantine, so as to save the rest of the clan, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Unluckily, colds may be caught in the trolley or on the train, or any place of public assembly. Sad to say, places of worship are great breeding places of colds, because the ventilation i3 not usually of the be6t, and the air, being overmuch used by the congregation, becomes of low quality, so that the respirer of such air often falls an easy prey to the germs which are responsible for colds. The unlucky man who, wiser than his generation, insists on opening windows, often gets much abused for causing a cold by creating a draught. But the mischief was probably done before the breeze began to blow.

rlAXT VFKSUS MOOUITOE. In Venezuela, the castor-oil plam growing around houses is believe J to keep mo-quitos away. In that country the plant grows to the size of a tree and is perennial, whereas in more temperate climates it attains a height of only four or five feet. But United States Consul Plumacher at Maracaibo thinks the plant would be equally effective against mosquitoes anywhere. By keeping the branches and seeds of the plant in a room, he says, the pests are driven away. OUR COOKING SCnOOL Cnnol Tea. Shell ripe peas and lay them in cold water for an hour. Drain, cover with cold salted water and bring to a boil. Lou until leiuin im- ..ot. broken. Set cans in hot water, drain the peas from the liquor, return the liquor to the fire, fill the cans with the peas, and when the liquor boils again fill the cans to overflowing with this. Screw on the tops Immediately. Canned I5ean. String young beans and cut In pieces three-quarters of an inch long. Put them In a kettle, sprinkle with salt and cover with boiling water. Boil until tender. See that your cans and rubI bers are in good condition when you i fill them. Dip the beans out of the pet ! with a split spoon, fill the cans, bring the liquid again to boil, and fill the cans to overflowing. Seal immediately. rate preamble to an analysis of the coming summer girl of 1901, but It is curiously apropos to observe that the athletic girl's prestige is on the wane, and that a soft, feminine creature, like her grandmother, of fifty years ago, who does nothing but look supremely pretty in her muslins and laces and make herself entertaining, is coming very much to the fore, says the New York Tribune. A couple of years ago it was generally thought that the athletic movement which was so pronounced all over the country, would develop a new woman, and that the fluffy summer girl of yore had vanished forever, but to tho great joy of the maidens (and they are not a few) who have all along secretly detested sport, K seems now quite on the tapis that they may be as much in the fashion this summer as their more Amazonian companions, and may openly avow their preference for shady corners and tete-a-tetes without incurring; disapprobation. The Plagues of Agriculture" Is the title of a work of whioh 100,000 copies are to be distributed free among Mexican farmers.

CHECKS FIRE ON SHIPS. Berlin CheaaUt Invention Impregnate Air with CarbenJo Acid Gat. It is well known that fire cannot burn In an atmosphere strongly impregnated with carbonic acid gas. This fact has been utilized by inventors, with the result that we have hand fire grenades in many public buildings and factories, and experience has repeatedly demonstrated their value. Some experiments have recently been made in Bremen In connection with a mode of extinguishing fires on board ship, invented by a Berlin chemist named Gronwald, that Is based upon the theory of the hand firt grenade. The objects aimed at and said to have been attained by the new system are: First, to give timely notice, by means of a special apparatus, of any fire which may break out in the hold of a ship; and, second, to extinguish promptly the fire by pumping carbonic acid gas into the hold. Two piles of wood were built up in the forehold of a lighter. The large logs were mixed with smaller blocks of wood and a quantity of wood shavings soaked in petroleum. On the tops of the piles of wood was spread about a fourth of a ton of coal, and in the hold was placed an iron basket filled with coke heated to a perfect glow. The two piles of wood were set alight simultaneously at 4:07 o'clock In the afternoon. The fire developed quickly with the hatches open, and at 4:21 the hatches were closed. Then carbonic acid gas was pumped" Into th. hold for twenty-one minutes, and ten minutes later the hatches were opened. The fire was found to be extinguished completely. The fire alarm worked perfectly, and the thermometer on

i deck showed correctly the rise and fall 1 of the temperature in the hold. The I inventor claims that when a fire breaks out In a ship's hold, if his system Is followed the firo will be announced automatically on deck; it will be kept under observation from the deck and extinguished by operations carried out on deck. Tho Lachrymal Flnld. Tears have their functional duty to accomplish, like every other fluid of the body, and the lachrymal gland la not placed behind the eye3 simply to fill space or to give expression to emotion. The chemical properties of tears consist of phosphate of lime and scda, making them very salty, but never bitter. Their action on the eye is very beneficial, and here consists their prescribed duty of the body, washing thoroughly that sensitive organ, which allows no foreign fluid to do the same work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a good, salty shower bath, and medical art has followed nature's laws In this solution for any distressed condition respect, advocating the invigorating of the optics. Tears do not weaken the sight, but Improve it. They act aa a tonic on the muscular vision, keeping the eye soft and limpid! and It will be sympathetic tears gather quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs than others. When the pupils are hard and cold, the world attributes it to one's disposition, which is a mere figure of speech implying the lack of balmy tears, that are to the cornea what salve is to the skin or nourishment to the blood. A Drinking Orchid. A strange species of orchid has been found in South America along the Rio de la Tlatte, the land of peculiar plants and flowers. This particular orchid whenever it feels thirsty takes a drink by letting down a tube Into the water. When the tube is not In use it is colled up on the top of the plant. It is highly interesUg VatcH the working of this plant. When it feel3 that it needs water the tube gradually unwinds itself until it dips into the water. Then it slowly coils round and winds up, carrying with It the amount of water contained in that part of the tube which hv.d been immersed, until the final coil is taken, when the water is dumped Into the heart of the plant Then the tube remains colled until more water is required. The plant grows at the edge of a stream directly over the water or where the water has been. Where the water has dried away it is almost pathetic to see the tube work its way over the ground in search of moisture to nourish the plant Insane Worker' SkllL There can be no presumption that the inmates of a lunatic asylum are dangerous or unskillful workmen from the fact alone that they are insane, holds the Supreme court of California, in the case of Atkinson vs. Clark (64 Pac. Rep., 7G9), and a superintendent of an Insane asylum who allows some of the inmates to assist in tearing down a brick wall Is not liable for an injury received by a regular workman, who was also engaged in the work, unless the evidence shows that the superintendent wras careless or unskillful in the selection of the inmates. Urn. Moth rr-t1oa1 .Joke. A good story is told of the meeting between Botha and Kitchener when they tried to arrange terms of peace. At the end Botha said: "Well, I must be going." Kitchener replied: "No hurry; you haven't got to catch a train." "But that's Just what I have got to do," said Botha. And two days afterward a train was held up and looted on the Delagoa line, not very far from the place of meeting. What Money Cannot Hoy. But pretty nearly every one has forgotten that even if Carnegie money paid the student fees In the Scottish universities, the students would still have to furnish tho midnight toil, the wet towf l and the brains to comprehend. There is still no royal road to learning. Detroit Journal. Carnegie" Flnt Library llt. Andrew Carnegie's first gift of a public library was to his birthplace. Dunfermline, Scotland. He said at the time that it was a good place to begin, because "the first public library the little place ever had was the collection of three weavers, one of whoa was my father." K. 1Mb r Iba Unarm. The use of the "E Pluribus Unnra" on coin was never authorized by law. Its first known use was in a New Jcr cey cent struck off In 1778.

A. WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINQS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Waiters Tf rlten at Wlaona TJttea to Ips aad lou from Dlrt Fatfc Crk L?e Break and llaoy Har Xarrow Ecaps. Indlaaa Stat Normal Crdt The final examinations at the Indiana state normal school closed and the names of the members of the graduating class are known. The following are the graduates, the name of the county from which they come also being given: Charles E. Agnew, Franklin; H. M. Appleman, Steuben; Monta, Anderson, Franklin; Corrol Beard, Vigo; lone F. Beem, Owen; Joseph Briggs, Benton; Eliza G. Clarke, Spencer; Loretta Douthitt, Sullivan; James O. Ingleman, Carroll; A. U. Ingleman, Carroll; Josephine Evans, Vigo; Orville Fidlar, Vigo; John W. Figg, Hendricks; Blache Fuqua, Edgar, 111.; Emma Gresley, Allen; Mary Hall, Henry; Mary S. Hill. Vigo; William IL Hill. Hamilton; Arthur W. Hillyer, Warren; Margaret Hines. Fulton; John W. Holdoman. Elkhart; Ilarley Holten, St. Joseph; Elmer E. Howard, Sullivan; Martha E. Harrison, Ruh: John Jeffers, Vigo; L. M. Johnson. Randolph; Thc.mps F. Johnson, fencer; Chester Y. k'plly, Clark, 111.: F.stolle It. King, Kipley; Lizz;.-- Kir! y. Hendricks; Iner.;3 Lenhart, Alien; Chas. II. Mark'ey. Wells; Lamma Majori. Marion; Richard McCla&koy. Vigo; Etta McCloskey. Vi so: Caroline Norton, Marion; EIr.a O'D.-'l. Futnam: Edgar Packard, Cass; Otto Pharos. Howard; Jean A. Schmidt, Vigo; Martha Smith, Vigo: Robert D. Smith, Morgan; Edward C. Snarr, Washington; Myrtle Van Cleave, Vitro; Ana Wallace, Clark; Albert Wheeler, Knox; Arthur B. Wright, Washington. Indiana Maiie Teacher. The Indiana mu?ic teachers' annual meeting at Terre Haute wa3 largely attended by delegates. In his annual address President Oliver Willard Pierce of Indianapolis referred to the new constitution authorized at the meeting in Columbus a year ago, and adopted at a special meeting in Indianapolis last December. The change in the law is to promota the purpose of the association to become a genuinely representative body of the musical interests of the state. He sali he had sent letters to every ladies' matinee musicale or similar club, inviting each society to elect two delegates. He also sent letters to conservatories cf music and educationxl institutions in which ruuic is Includel in the curriculum. He also endeavored to appoint a musician in each county in the state to act as a delegate to the fcUito body. Mr.K k hy a Train. Hon. D. W. Wood.-, cx-prosecutlnf attorney and one of the leading members of the Madison county bar, was instantly killed by a Big Four passenger train in the yards of the company at Anderson. Attorney Woods was returning from a call upon a client and entered the yards of the company. He stepped from one track on which a switch engine was approaching only to be caught by the fast mail train la the rear. Both engines were whistling and Mr. Woods, who carried an umbrella, evidently did not note the train behind. He was prominent In the polltics of Indiana was defeated in the election X ?wge a few years ago.' He ww voairman of the Republican ceBtral committee in the last campaign. He has been a member of the national council in Odd Fellows and Sons of Veterans. Read Tbelr Own Sketches. The program of Western writers, now holding their sixteenth annual convention at Winona, included sketches by F. F. Oldham of Cincinnati and Miss Mary E. Cardwill of New Albany. This was followed by a poem, Lee O. Harris of Greenfield being it author. The Rev. H. W. Bennett of Anderson read a paper entitled "Some Literary Wonders Among the Prophets," and Colonel Mark L. Demotte of Valparaiso led a discussion, of the preceding day's work. The writers then "went into executive session," heard reports of committees, and transacted miscellaneous business, A characteristic poem was Eivea by W. W. Pfrimmer of Kentland. Creek I.evee HroUe. The levee along Feather creek broke and the entire northwest of the city of Clinton was Hooded to a depth of from two to fivo feet. Tho section is thickly settled, and for a time there was a reign of terror. Few men were at their homes, and the women averted fatalities by carrying and dragging children to the hifilihimls. a hundred yards distant. One woman was carried by the force of the water beyond her depth, and was saved only after a dasperate effort. Cardens were destroyed, chickens drowned and many homes flooded. Tho damage will aggregate several hundred dollars. Their SntfTohilnS Fell. Sylvester Hadley. William Whltington. Walter Hadley, Frank Sutton and Newton Hadley, carpenters, were seriously injured at Brazil by a scaffold falling on which they were standing erecting a mine shaft for the SeclerMclellan Coal company. Ohio l.ntherau Symwt. The north Ohio and Indiana conference of the Ohio Lutheran synod convened at Fort Wayne for a two-days' conference. About forty ministers were, in attendance. Rohertft-IIu 1elion We!llnq The wedding of Earl Roberts and Miss Hettie Hudelson, well-known people of Kuightstown. was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hudelson, the bride's parents, near. Shiloh, in Rush county. ! DecUlon Against Cnllen. Barney Furey of Cincinnati was given the decision over Jack Cnllen of Indianapolis in a twenty-round go before the Interurban, Athletic Association at Muncie.