Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 July 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. "itehold the Days Com, Saith tb Lord, That th Plowman Shall 0r tak the Kaaper Auios, lx., 13 Tbm Force of thm Elble. (Copyright, iroi, Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, July 7. Although Dr. Talmaga waa hindered from attending the great annual meeting or the Christian Endeavor society at Cincinnati, his sermons show him to be in sympathy with the great movement; text, Amos ix.. 13, "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." Unable because of other Important duties to accept the invitation to take part in the great convention of Christian Endeavorers at Cincinnati, began last week, I preach a sermon of congratulation for all the members of that magnificent association, whether now gathered in vast assemblage or busy In their places of usefulness, transatlantic and cisatlantic, and aa it is now harvest time in the fleld3 and sickles are flashing in the gatherings of a great crop. I find mighty suggestiveness in my text It 13 a picture of a tropical clime, with a season so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time, and the swarthy husbandman, busy cutting the grain, almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow, preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." When Is that? That is now. That is this day, when hardly le you done reaping one harvest of reii ii ii i i j&iuus result, uiia me yiuw iu.iu 10 getting ready for another. In phraseology charged with all venom and abuse and caricature I know that infidels and agnostics have declared that Christianity has collapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church is on the retreat. I shall answer that wholesale charge today. (Growth of Chrlt?anlty. But now let us see whether the book is a last year's almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing all the way. The great English historian Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelming statistic in regard to Christianity and in regard to the number of Christians in the different centuries: la the first century, 000,000 Christians; in the second century, 2,000,000 Christians; in the third century, 0,000.000 Christians; in the fourth century 10.000.000 Christians; in the fifth century 15.000,000 Christians; in the sixth century 20,000,000 Christians; In the seventh century 24,000,000 Christians; in tho eighth century, 20.000.000 Christians: in the ninth century 40.ooo.oco Christians; In the tenth century SO.OöO.OOO Christians; in the eleventh century 70.000,000 Christians; in the twelfth century 80,000,000 Christians; in the thirteenth century 75.000.000 Christians; in the fourteenth century SO.000,000 Christians; in the fifteenth century 100,000,000 Christians; in the sixteenth century, 123,0009 Christians; in the seventeenth century 133.000,000 Christians; in the eighteenth century 200.000,000 Christians a decadence, as you observe, in only one century, and more than made up in tho following centuries, while it Js the usual computation that there were at the close of the nineteenth century 470,000,000 Christians, making us to believe that before this century 13 closed the millentu-a will have started its boom and lifted its hosanBa. Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! How lonesome it must be! Who will take it out of the poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Four hundred millions in one century. In a few weeks cf this year 2.500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. Why. the earth is like an old castle with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Fee how heathendom is being surrounded and honeycombed and attacked by this all conquering gospel. At the beginning of the nineteenth century 150 missionaries: at the close of that century 81,000 misionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were only 50,000 converts. Now there are over 1,000,000 converts from heathendom. The Fore of th IMbln. Suppose the congress of the United States should pass a law that there should be no more ttibles printed in America and no Bibles read. If there are 60,000,000 grown people in the United States, there would be C0.000.000 people In an army to put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the congress of the United States should make a law against the reading or the publication of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you get fi0.000.000 people to go out and risk their lives in defensj of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's "History cf England?" You know that there are a thousand men who would die In. the defence of this book whrre there Is not more than one man who would die In the defense of any other book. You try to insult my common Bens. by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It i3 the most popular book of the centuries. How do I know it? I know it Just as 1 know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that history are published? Well, you say C.000. How many copies of another book are published? A hundred thousand. Which Is the more popular? Why the one that has the hundred thousand circulation. And If this book ha3 more copies abroad In tho world, if there are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book amons civilized nations, doci not that show you that the most popular book on earth today is the word Of God? "Oh." say poopl", "the church is a collection of hypocrites, and it Is losing lta power, and it is fading ont from the world." Is ii? A bishop of the Jiithodlst church told me that that denomination arerages two new church

es every day. In other words, they

build 730 churches In that denomination in a year, and there are at least 1,500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Does that look as though the Christian church were fading out, as though it were a defunct institution? What stands nearest to the hearts of the American people to day? I do not care in what village or what city or what neighborhood you go. What is it? Is it the postoffice? Ts it tho nntol? T If ha 1wtiirn hall? Ah, you know it Is not! You know that that which stands nearest to the hearts of the American people 13 the Christian church. In th llnnr of lltrM. You may talk about the church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The post master, the attorney-general, the hotelkeeper, alderman? No. You send fcr a minister of this Bible religion.. And if you have not a room in your house for the obsequies, what building do you solicit? Do you say, "Give me the finest room In the hotel?" Do you say, 'Give me that theater?" Do you say, "Give me that public building where I can lay my dead for a little while we say a prayer over it?" No. You say, "Give us the house of God." And if there is a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What does anybody want? The "Marseillaise Hymn?" "God Save the Queen?" Our own grand national air? No. They want the hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sung the Sabbath school hymn which their little girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was out before she got that awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your common sense. You know the most endearing instiutiton on earth, the most popular Institution on earth today is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. A man Is a fool that does not recognize it. The Infidels say: "There Is great liberty now for infidels; freedom of platform. Infidelity shows its power from the fact that It Is everywhere tolerated, and it can say what it will." Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day as it was in the dys of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of our fathers there were pronounced infidels in public authority, and they could get any political position? Let a man today declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion and what city wants him for mayor; what state wants him for governor; what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and be cannot get a majority of votes in any state, in any city, in any country, in any ward of America. TThat ChrUtUnlty Dnoo. A distinguished infidel years ago riding in a rail car in Illinois said. "What has Christianity ever done?" An old Christian woman said: "It has done one gcod thing anyhow. It has kept an Infidel from being governor of Illinois." As I stood in the side room of the opera house of Peoria. Ills., a prominent gentleman of that city said, "I can tell you the secret of that tremendous bitterness against Christianity." Said I, "What Is it?" "Why," said he, "in this very house there was a great convention to nominate a governor, and there were three or four candidates. At the Mime time there was in a church in this city a Sabbath school convention, and It happened that one of the men who was in the Sabbath school convention was also a member of the political convention. In the political convention the name highest on the roll at that time and about to be nominated was the name of the great champion infidel. There was an adjournment between ballots, and in the afternoon, when the nominations were being made, a plain farmer got up and said: Mr. Chairman, that nomination must not be made. The Sunday schools of Illinois will defeat him.' That ended all prospect of his nomination." The Christian rel-;Ion Is mightier today than it ever wa.. Do yea think that such a scene could be enacted now as was enacted In the Jays of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elevated to the dignity of a goddess and carried in a golden chair to a cathedral where incense was burned to her and people bowed down before her as a divine being, she taking the place of the Bible and God, while In the corridor of that cathedral were enacted such scenes of drunkenness and debauchery as had never before been witnessed? Do you think such a thing could possibly occur in Christendom today? No. The police of Washington, or of New York, or of Paris would swoop upon it. I know Infidelity makes a good deal of talk in our day,. One Infidel can make great excitement, but I can tell you on what principle it i?. It Is on the principle that if a man jumps overboard from an ocean liner he makes more excitement than all the 500 who stay on board. But the fact that he jumps overboard does not ctop the ship. Does that wreck the 500 passengers? It makes preat excitement when a man jumps from the lecturing platform or from the pulpit into intldelity, but does that keep the Bible or the church from carrying iuill.ons of passengers to the shores of eternal safety? rorfretlon of Christianity. What do they agree oa? Herschcl writes a whole chapter oa the trrors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was not put in' the right place. He says if it had been put four Ume3 farther from the earth than it is now there would be more harmony la tho universe, but Lionville comes up Just in time to prove that the moon wa3 put in the right place. How many colors woven into the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. Ninety miles, say other scientists. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy six million miles, says Lacallc. Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles, says Mayer. Only a little difference of 28,000.000 miles! All spilt up among themselves not agree ing on anything. Here these inndel scientists have Im paneled themselves as a jury to decide tni trial between Infidelity, the plain tiff, and Christianity, the defendant. and after being out for centuries they

come in to render their verdict. Gen

tlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict? No, no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor miserable wretch in the city prison tomorrow that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on anything. Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ Instead of falling back is on the advance. I am certain it is on the advance. I see the glittering of the swords; I hear the tramping of tho troops; I hear the thundering parks of artillery. O God, I thank thee that I have been permitted to see this day of thy triumph, this day of the confusion of thine enemies! O Lord God, take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the victory! Secular anil Religion Fres. And then I find another most encouraging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and the pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every banker in this capital tomorrow, every Wall street banker tomorrow in New York, every State street banker tomorrow in Boston, every Third street banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, ev ery banker in the United States and every merchant will have in his pock et a treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or 0 passages of Scripture in the reports of sermons preached throughout the land today. It will be so in Chicago, e in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so in Cincinnati, so everywhere I know the tract societies are doing a grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth today equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which aro preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Mondoy Horn ing and Monday evening scattering that truth to the millions. What an encouragement to every Christian man! Then you have noticed a more sig nificant fact if you have talked with people rn the subject, that they are getting disgusted with worldly philos ophy as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything uhen you have a dead child in the house. They tell you when they were sick and the door of the future seem ed opening the only comfort they could find was the gospel. People are having demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy cannot so lace the troubles and woes of the world, and they want some other re ligion, and they are taking Christianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world.. You iust take a scientific consolation into that room where a mother has lost her child. Try in that case your splendid doctrine of the "survival of the fit test." Tell her that ohil! tiled hnuco it was not worth as much as the other children. That is vour "survival nf tue fittest." Not Aahnmed of the Rlbl. Young man. do not be ashamed to be a friend of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as yoimr men sometimes do. and swagger about talking of the glorious light of nature and of there being no need of the Bible. They have the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places of the earth. Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them comfort for their trouble? They have lancets to cut and juggernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah. mv frler.ds, you had better stop your skep ticism, buppose ycu are put in a crisis like that of Colonel Ethan Allen. 1 ww the account and at one time mentioned it In an address. A descendant of Ethan Allen, who is an infidel, said it never occurred. Soon after I re ceived a letter from a professor in one of our colleges, who is also a descend ant of Ethan Allen and is a Christian. He wrote me that the incident is ac curate; that my statement was au thentic and true. The wife of Colonel Ethan Allen was a very consecrated woman. The mother Instructed the daughter In the truths of Christianity The daughter sickened and was about to die, and she said to her father "Father, shall I take your instruc tion or shall I take mother's instruction? I am going to die now; I must have this matter decided." That man. who had been loud in his infidelity ßaid to his dying daughter, "My dear. you had better take your mother's re ligion." My advice is the same to you. O young man! You know how religion comforted her. You know what she said to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother s religion. Itoaeen by Soup and Water. At one of their joint discussions, which took place in Kentucky some years ago, Tom Stuart, then editor of the Winchester Democrat, gave his opponent, I. N. Boone, a descendant of the great Daniel, a blow that fairly knocked him out of the race for the legislature. Boone was making his regular speech, and at the proper place In it he referred to the matter of his relation to the toiling masses. My friends," said he, holding up a pair of hands that looked as if they had not been washed in a week, "to let you see for yourself that I am a homy-handed son of toil, I ask you to leolc at these hands, and," turning to Stuart, "I would ask my pale-faced young friend from the city what he thinks of them?" Stuart was on his feet in a minute. "I do not desire to embarrass my distinguish d opponent. ladles and gentlemen," he said with a bow, "but I would say that I think that they need soap and water." It was such an apparent case that the crowd took ho'd at once with a shout, and F.oone was completely floored, and later Stuart was elected. Argonaut. Kkoll Capacity. In the proceedings of the Royal So ciety Miss Iee gives the results of some recent investigations upon skull capacity, according to which the theory that brain weight either in the individual or tho sex la associated with Intellectual power is not sustained. She found that one of the most distinguished anthropologists has less skull capacity than 50 pfr cent of the women students of Bedford Collere, and one of the leading English anatomists less than 25 per cent of tb same students.

WIJJVETR. Of A

(QUE HENRY FOURNIER Henri Fournier the winner of the automobile race from Paris to Berlin, has long been known on the continent as the king of automobilists. He first used a petroleum tricycle for his road work. With a machine of 1 horsepower he made an average of more The Whufiy Famine in Guam. There comes a tale of woe from distant Guam. This is the remote island in the Pacific where for some time Captain Leary of the navy was a benevolent despot, forcing lazy Guamites to work and unmarried ones to wed. He appealed to the department for a brass band to aid in the civilizing of the Inhabitants, but was unable to get it. It is not a lack of music, however, which causes unhappiness in Guam. It is a scarcity of whisky. The last barrel of "commissary" has been stolen and drunk up by bad marines on duty in the island. This sad news is given in an order irsued by Commander Seaton Schroeder, U. S. N., Governor of Guam. In it he calls the attention of the command to the "hoodlumism and lawlessness which are rampant in it." Perhaps this language is not too strong when the dastardly character of the crime which has been committed is taken into consideration. The Commander says excitedly: "There is reason for alluding to the theft a few weeks ago tf a barrel of whisky from the naval hospital that was the last and sole supply of the medical department for medical purposes. An officer on duty here has since then boon so reduced by climatic fever that a certain amount of whisky was considered necessary to keep him from titter prostration. Fortunately, a small supplv was obtained from a passing vessel. Had that accidental supply not been forthcoming. nnd had that oflieer succumbed, his death would have rested upon the heads of the scoundrels who committed the theft." The percentage of Illiterates among army conscripts in Italy is thirty-six. Ordered Steel PRESIDENT SHAFFER OF Theodore J. Shaffer, who, in his ca pacity as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, gave out the sheet iron ma chinists strike order, is himself one of tho most skillful sheet iron rollers in the trade. He is unique among labor leaders the world over. A college Letter-Copytng Machine. While tho copying of letters by means of tho dampened shorts and handpress Is a comparatively rapid operation and allows copies of letters to be filed away in book form for future reference, yet the machine il lustrated herewith has advantages over the former method both in speed and in the convenience for preservation of the copy in connection with the letter to which it replies. The copying paper Is in tho form of a continuous roil, wmcn is loosely mounted on a splndlo inside tho cabinet, where Is also located a tray of water, through which tho sheet pass es cm its way to the pressure rollers. A crank is tised to turn the rollers. and the original letter is (slipped be tween the two pressure rolls, where it comes in contact with the dampened sheet and leaves Its copy, the letter passing out at the opposite side of the rollen and the copy ribbon falling

AT A XTO 'MACE,

WINNER OF THE AUTOMOBILE RACE than forty miles an hour at a time when automobiles were the merest novelties. Thus it will be seen that he was no new hand in the big race which has just been won at Berlin. Fournier is a veritable spectacle on his machine. He flies along with bulging eyes

Boston T hit ant hr opinis Vlan. Edwin Ginn, a prominent real es- I comfort, light, and luxury compared täte owner of Boston, will try an with the old style now in vogue, and original experi-

ment in tenement houses next spring. Ho proposes to build several large fireproof structures in the West End, which will replace the dingy, unsafe, and unhealthful habitations which are now used by the working classes in that part of the city. Mr. Ginn made a careful investigation of the facts before ho decided to make his experiment. He visited the people living in the tenement d 1 s t r i c,ts, counseled them as to the kind of houses they would most desire for the rents they could afford to pay, and then had his architects arrange plans accordingly. Mr. Ginn says that at the present time a man with $16 a month to spend for rent could not secure a place fit to live in. His new houses will be marvels of WorKers' Stritte THE SHEET IRON WORKERS. graduate, a former clergyman and a most earnest and eloquent pulpit orator, Mr. Shaffer may lx considered out of his sphere in a rolling mill, but the theological iron worker prefers that trade to the church. He is a native of Pittsburg, 43 years old, and began his career as an iron worker when through a slot into the botton of the cabinet. In filing the copy away the endless sheet is taken up and clipped to separate letters, which are then placed with the letter to which the original is the reply, the two being filed together and making it unnecessary to look in both the letter file and copying book when information is desired. The "Religious Fight in France. The French Associations bill is now safely through the legislature, and tho debate, which has occupied the greater part of a year, is closed. During the progress of the discussion several amendments to the measure have been Introduced and passed, and the government has receded on fome points, the most Important of which was tho project to confiscate the property of the religious congregations under certain conditions for the benefit of a superannuation fund. A Hundred years Aflozt. Reviewing some famous ships that fly the British flag, a London paper tells anew the story of the fight in.)

FROM PARIS TO BERLIN, cast groundward, hair streaming in the wind, and his motor puffing liko mad under him. He is so accustomed to these hazardous trips that he is perfectly cool while traveling over a country road at express train speed. A second race may be run.

the rents, if anything, will be lower. It is estimated tint from 7 to 10 per cent interest will be cleared on these improved tenements he was still under 20. He next went to college, studied theology, took a church and preached with great success for several years. Oddly enough his health was not to robust in the pulpit as in the mill, and he gave up his charge to return to his trade, to which he has since devoted himsei. Ho was first elected president of the Amalgamated Association at its convention in Cincinnati. Lincoln and John "Brotvn. A Kansas paper says an old citizen of that state attended a meeting h'-ld at Atchison in 1859 at which Mr. Lincoln made a ppeech. According to this old citizen, some one in the audience asked, "How about John Brown," who had been hanged a few days before, to which Mr. Lincoln replied: "He was harged and he deserved it. I don't know much about Brown's history in Kansas, but John Brown violated the laws of his country, and Governor Wise lid right in hanging him." Whether Mr. Lincoln actually siid this, it is impossible to decide. The memories of old men play them sad tricks sometimes. They sincerely believe often that they heard at first hand what they may have heard at second hand, or may not have heard at all. But whatever Mr. Lincoln may have said or thought of the execution of John Brown, he certainly disapproved of what John Brown did at Harper's Ferry. Chicago Tribune. The Rev. Edward S. Tead, pastor of Prospect Hill Congregational church, Somerville, Mass., has been elected secretary of the Congregational Educational society in Boston, to sue ceed the Rev. Charles O. Day, the new president of Andover Theological Sem inary. General Lew Wallace is at work upon his autobiography. He mado a trip to Kentucky recently to confer with some veterans on certain features ol the battle of Shiloh which will be included In the work. WW which four British vessels overcame and captured the water-logged frigate President, commanded by Captain Stephen Decatur. The Ixjndon papei adds the interesting Information thai the President, after nearly a century of service in war and peace, is still useful as a "drill ship of tho fourth class for the royal naval reserve ic the southwest India dock basin, where THE PRESIDENT, she has lain for a quarter of a century, though very few Iondoners have seen her." The illustration given herewith shows the famous old fighting ship a she arpears in her last days.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. A Tonnt Woman of Twenty Year I Hume I to Death Ol.lent Man in the fctte 14 Dead Catting Vilieat bj Mo n ghu Indiana School Fand. 'ine three t-tate institutions for higher education who?e support by taxation has caused years of ant.monL-m on the part of the friends of the denominational, or church collets, havt just received $123.00u from th suite treasury; being the sf-miannual collections of the special tax levy. The Indiana university received SU.'J"' and. the Indiana state normal s'-hool aii'l Purdue university each Th'i June semiannual Apportionment of school funds an.; ;ntfd to 51,1 1.1. :" t the Ü2 counties. v.hich is a i.t -:i;it:t apporiionr.U'iit of ?1.47. Th .'pin:; m hool enumeration i-hovr 757 O'O persons of s; h'iol a;,-, l.ftu- n 0 and 21 years. Fifty-two counties recrm.l more than they collected for ti e school fund. As a ru'.c, tri' co linier with lar;-r( populations collect nure than they are allotted in the apportionment, notahly Marion county, in which Indianapolis is situated, where tho collections wen $117.943, and tiie apivortionment $70.--C0. The attendance at the summer term of the Indana state normal is running far above the number expected when the term hpan Monday. So far 5C5 students have ben enrolled. Indiana Son of Veteran. The fifteenth annual encampment ct the Indiana Sons of Veterans and Indies' Aid Society elected the following officers at Muncie: Commander. fJeorEo W. Krientenstein of Terre Haute, custodian of the state house at Indianapolis; senior vice commander, J. Harve L flier. Muncie; junior viccommander, McClure Tate of Nobhsville; quartermaster. E. E. Fiiendlins; of Jonesboro; division council. Oral Jones. Shelbyville: IZ. E. Wooden, Greensburg. I-adies Aid society: President, Mrs. Sophia Price. Muncie; division council. Miss Nettie Rice, Fort Wayne; Mi.?? Dyke HeaK Fort Wayne; Miss Mattie Ott. Richmond; chaplain. Mrs. Lulu Helms. Fl wood; treasurer, 'Miss Maggie McKinnt-y. Shelbyville; divi-ion inspector. Mi.ss Sarah M. Vauter, ElwoDd; mustering cn l installing oHicer, Mr?. George Kriviten?tein. Ter:e Haut-?; division pecret ary. Miss Rertha Shurin. Shelbyville: juilce advacate. W. W. Hirans, Shelbyville; chief of the staff. Miss dram Luce. Terro Haute. The Uisins: Sun w:is selected for the next encampment. I'alrlrnk f r I!aker. So f.ir as it can he settled a this time. Judpre John II. I'.aker of tb- T'rutcd Stairs District Court, i.s to be prk'Mimoted to the Circuit Court of Indianapolis to take the place of th late Judjre William A. Woods. It is understood that Senator Fairbanks will recommend to President McKinley that Judge Raker be promoted. s-'enntor 'Reveridize i? in Europ but he has :i warm personal friendship for .Tudsr Raker, and will, it is said, encouragt the promotion. W 10 Year OM. John Burk, believed to be th oldest man in Indiana, died at his home at Lake Cicott. near Lop.msport. aged 102 years and nine months In :t'l his life Rurk never was sick, and until a year aco was strong and hearty Then he began to decline and finally died from old ase. He was horn in the county Tipx'erary. Ire'and. in 17'J'J. and came to America in 1S4S. Yonnar H'rl Irnt to !-, th. Miss May Harding 20 years oM. was burned to death in a farmho-jj thre. miles west of the city. She tried r start a f.re with coal oil while ahv.f in the house and her clothing was ignited. Tho house was entirely consumed, and only the bor.es of the voting; woman were found in the ruins. l'nrled Money I Soujht. The wife ami six children of Ira Smith of Younpstown, who was Ril' I by lightning ten days ago. are searching for $15.000 which Smith had hidden on the farm. On his person w in n he was killed lu had $l.CoO. He never told of his hiding place, savins iu: would do so shortly before his death. Kinsing: Acln KIvm1. Within the past few days a number of citizens of Hartford city have htm bitten on the upper lip by a strange bug. which is thought to bo the fallings kissing hug. The small child of Fid ltrown was attacked by this b;m. bring stung on the lip. The child suffered great pain, but will recover. Cntlln? Wheat lr Mnonlictit. Owing to the extreme heat, horses in Wayne county are dropping dead in the harvest field, and the farmers .-it suffering heavy losses. To avoid su. h trouble, wheat in tho locality of Dahlia will be cut by moonlight. Whip Wir on Mr". Fred Meisner of Springfield, O.. is in jail at Logansport for publicly whipping his wife with a willow switch. Meisner plied the rod over the wo man's held and shoulders and the flesh open on her face. laid 1)1 front Intense Hrt. The heat on the Fourth at Valparaiso was intense and two mo a die I from its effects. The drad arc: D. A. Smith, aged "0 years, of Holurt. lud.; Luther Houghton, aged GO yeu;s 1M of I.orkjatv. Clyde Anspaugh. an employe of II. C. Adams t-tone quarry at St. I'aul. has his foot crushed one week aso. Tho bruise, which did not seem very scrions at first, resulted in lockjiw, from which he died. Heat Victim at Rormnar. Caleb Hayes, aged C5. employed at the Seymour woolen factory, was over come with heat while at work. Ho died within five minutes after he was prostrated.