Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 July 1901 — Page 3

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TALMAGE'S SERMON.

FINANCIAL PANICS THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. Trom tb Reranteenth Chapter f mlb, Vn 11 The RiQatmiati of Llf od Unneceuarx Expenses of the Hem anil Family Lire Economically. Copyright. 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. Y. Washington, July 14. In this discourse Dr. Talma ge shows the causes f great financial disturbances which take place every few years and arraigns the people who live beyond their means; xt, Jeremiah xvii, 11, "As the patriae sitteth on egg.s and fcatcheth theni not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave theia In the midst of hid days and at his end shall be a fool." Allusion is here made to a well known fact in natural history. If a patridse or a quail or a robin brood the eggs of another species, the young Will not stay with the one that happened to brood them, but at the first opportunity will assort with their own ipecles. These- of uswho have been brought up in the country have seen the dismay of the farmyard hen, having brco d aquatic fowls, when after awhile they tumble into their natural element, the water. So my text tuggests th at a man nay gather under Us wings the property of others, but It will rut v awhile escape. It will leave the man in a sorry predicament and Eike him feel very silly. What has caused all the black days Cf financial disasters for the last 00 years? ho; ae say it is the credit system. Something back of that. Some say It 13 the spiriL of gambling ever and anon I "'vnting epidemic. Something tack of th-.r. Some say it is the sudden ihrnka;-- in the value of securities, whi.h even the most honest and intelligent rre-n could not have foreseen. Somethirg hr.ck of th-.it. I v.-ill give you the primal cause cf all these disturbances. I v- the extravagance cf mod- in iociety which impel a man to spend more :rv ': than he can honestly Snake. ar..l he goes into wild speculation in :-.r to gft the means for inordinate display, and sometimes the Can is t - I.-: a mo and sometime his wii and often':- loth. Five thousand dollars ia.-omc, 510.Ö'..', ?"20.0u0 income, is not enough for a man to keep up the Etyle of li'-ing he proposes, and therefore he c e;s his bark toward the taaelstro; i. Other men have suddenly snatched up $.10,000 or $100.000. Why rot he? The present income of the man not being large enough, he met mov3 earth and kdl to catch up with his rclghhors. Others have a country seat; O ra-dcrt re. Others have an extravagant caterer; so must he. Olhcr.s have a palatial residence; so must lie. Extiavaganee is the cans'; of all the defalcations of the 'at '.0 yeirs, and. if you -.vii; go through the history of nil the gre.i: : anics and the great financial ditarhar. s, no sooner have you found tve story than right back of it ycu v.!: i-:A th story of how many horses rlages raan had. how many caj man t.o w unnv rr:udenccs the (o-.ntry the man had, how ra ban-j-'ets tna man gave- a!-"ray.-. and r.ot or.; exception for the last CO y'-ars, ruber directly or indirectly -".'at e the cause. I'tr T:11ii men i s of I..Ift. Now ; t il-.o eaganncs and the re-ne::.-r;s and the :-orations of life. I cast my V: Whil'? I am eor;JiderJng t .1 . . :hj:et a baskei of i'ov.ers is har ! dlowrs paradisiacal in their i- :..-.iy. ".Vinte- call a with a green Izclizi'-.J.. of goni.i. A cluster of 1 eliotrop -: te-lla.g in ponie geranium, fiepal a vi peiiauta 'Kiripg on them the mar its of God's finger. When I see that basV t of flowers, they persuade nie thai 'iod loves beauty and adornment a:i''i df .'-oration. God might have cade th - earth so as to supply the gro?-- demand? of sense, but left it without a lurnment or attraction. Instead of the variegated colors of the seasons the earth might have worn ?n uncharging dull bro'n. The tree might have put forth its fruit without the prophr-ry of leaf or blossom. Niagara mtgr.t have come down in gradual 'descent without thunder and winged pray. Look o - t of your window any morning at:-: there has teen a dew and see whether God loves jewel3. Put a crystal i tr.ow lü' ir,- a microscope and see what nr-i thinks of architecture. God eornn.r. d the priest of olden time to tave hi.: rob- a'lorned with a wreath cf gold ar.d the hem cf his garment to Le eir.b, o; re 1 iu pomegranates. The earth ? ?. and God blankets it with the hri ilia r.t of the n??ht sky. The world w and God washes it from the b".rri'.; l. d Uver of the sunrise. S ) I have :et much patience with a man who talks as though decoration and adornment and the elganee.s of life are a in when they are divinely recommend d. Rut there is a line to bo drawn i -tween adornment and decorations that we can afford and those we cannot afford, and when a man crosses the line he becomes culpable. I cannot tell you what is extravagant for you Tou cannot tell me what Is extravagant for me. What is right for a queen may be squandering for a duchess. What may be economical for you, a man with larger income, will be wicked waste for me, with smaller income. There is no iron rule on this subject. Every man before God and on his knee3 must Judge what is extravagance, and when a roan goes into expendltureg beyond bis mans he Is extravagant. .MUn- Ono'i Obligations. Of course sometimes men ar flung of misfoitur.es and they cannot paj. I know men who are just aa honest In bavlng failed as other men are honest In succeeding, r suppose there Ijb hardly a man who has gone through life but there have been some times when he bas been so hurt of misfortune he could not meet his obligations, but all that I put aside. There are a multitnde of people who buy that which they never intend to pay for, for which there is no reasonable expectation they will ever be able to pay. Now, if you hare become oblivious of honesty and xaean to defraud, why not save the merchant as much a.s you can? Why BOt go some day to his store and when nobody Is looking just shoulder a ham er the spareib and in modest silence deal away? That would be less criminal, because in the other way 70a

take not only the man's goods, but you taikO the time of the merchant and tha time of his accountant, and you take the time of the messenger who brought you the goods. Now, If you must steal, steal in a way to do a3 little damage to the trader as possible. John Randolph arose in the American senate when a question of national finance was being discussed, and, stretching himself to his full height, in a shrill voice he cried out, "Mr. Chairman, I have discovered the philosopher's stone, which turns everything into gold pay as you" go!" Society has got to be reconstructed on this subject or the seasons of defalcation will continue to repeat themselves. You have no right to ride in a carriage for which you are hopelessly in debt to the wheelwright who furnished the landau, and to the horso dealer who provided the blooded span, and to the harness maker who caprisoned the gay steeds, and to the liveryman who has provided the stabling, and to the driver, who, with rosetted hat, sits on the coach box. Oh, I am so glad it is not the absolute necessities of life which send people out into dishonesties and Hing them into misfortunes. It is almost always the superiluities. God has promised us a house, but not a palace; raiment, but not chinchilla; food, but not canvasback duck. I am yet to see one of thes'3 great defalcations which is not connected ia some way with extravagance. Extravagance accounts for the disturbance of national finances. Aggregations are made up of ' units, and when one-half of the people of this country owe the other half how can we expect financial prosperity? Again and again at the national election we have had a spasm of virtue, and we said, "Out with one administration and in with another and let us have a new deal of things and then we will get over our perturbation." I do not care who is president or who is seclttary of the treasury or how much breads tuft's go out of the country or how much gold is imported until wo learn to pay our debts and it becomes a general theory in this country that men must buy no more than they can pay l'ur. Until that time comes there will be no i inaneiit prosperity. Look at the pernicious extravagance. Take the one fact that New York every year pays $3.uu0,0i0 for theatrical amusements. While once in a while a Henry Irving or an Edwin Booth or a Joseph Jei'ferson thrills a great audience with tragedy, you know as well as I do that the vast majority of the theaters are as debased as debased they tan be, as unclean as unclean they can be and as damnable as damnable they can be. Three million dollars, the vast ma. srity of thoe dollars going in the wron' direction. Harmful nl I'nut'oi'Mary Ex pent. Over a hundred millions paid in this country for cigars and tolacco a year. About $2,000.000,000 paid for strong drink in one year in this country. With such extravagance, pernicious extravagance, can there be any permanent prosperity? Business nv-n, (Ool headed business men, is such a thins a pos.-ibility? These extravagances a. so a' ccunt, as I have already hinted, lor the roitive ( rimes, th-' forger! s. the ub.-.condir.gsof theoific'Ts of the banks. Th store on the business street swamped by the residence on the fashicaablo avenue. The father's, the husband's craft capsiZ'd by carrying too mach domc.--ti;"- sail. That Is what ?;:ri:igs the hak in the merchant's :f.;ney till. That is what cracks the pistols of the suieid.es. That is what tirrs down the banks. That is what :-t -i s insurant-? companies. That is what halts thi; nation again and ap;a:n in its triumphal march of prosperity. In the presence of the American people so far as" I can ge; their attention I want to arraign this monster curs of extravagance, and I want yo;i to pelt it with your eoorn and hurl at ij; your anathema. How many fortunes every year wrecked on the wardrobe. Things have got to such a pass that when we - y over our sins in church we wipe the tears away with a $150 pocket handkerchief! I show you a domestic tragedy in five acts: Act tho first A home, plain and beautiful. Enter newly married pair. Enter contentment. Enter as much happiness as ever gets in one home. Act the second Enter discontent. Enter desire for larger expenditure. Euier envy. Eut-r aieusy. Act the third Entr. the queenly dress-makers. Enter the French millin rs. Eüter -ill costly plate and all great extravagantes. Act the fourth Tiptop of society. Princes and princ s-es of upper tendom floating in and out. Everything oh a largo and magnificent scale. Enter contempt for other pioj)!e. Act the fifth .and last. Muter the assignce. Eater the sheriff. Euter the creditors. Enter humiliation. Eater the wrath of God. Enter the contempt of society. Enter ruin and death. Now drop the curtain. The play is ended and the lights are out. I called it a tragedy. That is a misnomer. It is a farce. Providing: for (Ino'i Own. I know it cuts close. I did not know but some of you In high dudgeon would get up and go out. You stand it well! Some of you make a great swash in life, and after awhile you will die, and ministers will bo sent for to come and stand by your coffin and lie about your excellences. But they will not come. If you send for me, I will tell you what my text will be: -He that provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own household, is worso than an Infidel." And yet we find Christian men, men of large means, who sometimes talk eloquently about the Christian church, and about civilization, expending everything on themselves and nothing on the cause of God, and they crack the back of their Palais Royal glove in trying to hide the one cent they put Into the Lord's treasury. What an apportionment! Twenty thousand dollars for ourselves and one cent for God. Ah, my friends, this extravagance accounts for a great deal of what the cause of God suffers. And the desecration goes on, erea to the funeral day. You know very well that there are men who die solvent, but the expenses are so great before they get underground they are insolveat. There are families that go Into

penury In wicked response to the 4mands of this day. They put In casket and tombstone that which they ought to put In bread. God's Cas InapOTrUhU And then look how the cause of God is impoverished. Men give so much sometimes for their indulgences they have nothing for the cause of God and religion. Twenty-two million dollars expended in this country a year for religious purposes! But what are the twenty-two millions expended for religion compared with the hundred millions expended on cigars and tobacco and then two thousand millions of dollars spent for rum? So a man who had a fortune of $730,000 or what amounted to that, in London spent It all in Indulgences, chiefly in gluttonies, and sent hither and yon for all the delicacies and often had a meal that would cost $100 or $200 for himself. Then he was reduced to a guinen, with which he bought a rare bird, had It cooked In best style, ate it, took two hours for digestion, walked out on Westminster bridge and Jumped into the Thames on a large scale what men are doing on a small scale. Oh, my friends, let us take our stand against the extravagances of society. Do not pay for things that are frivolous when you may lack the necessities. Do not put one month's wages or salary into a trinket, just one trinket. Keep your credit good by seldom asking for any. Pay! Do not starve a whole year to afford one Relshazzar's carnival. Do not buy a coat of may colors and then in six months be o it at the elbows. Flourish not, as some people I have known, who took apartments at a fashionable hotel, and had elegant drawing rooms attached and then vanished in the night, net even leaving their compliments for the landlord. I tell you. my friends, in the day of God's judgment we will not only have to give an account for tho way we made our money, but for the way we spent it. We have got to leave all the things that surround us now. Alas. if any of you in the dying hour felt like tho dying actress who asked that the casket of jewels be brought to her and then turned them over with her pale hand and said, "Alas, that I have to leave you so soon!" Detter in that hour have one treasure of heaven than the bridal trousseau of a Marie Antoinette or to have been seated with Caligula at a banquet which cost its thousands of dollars or to have been carried to our last resting place with senators and princes as pallbearers. They that consecrate their wealth, their time, their all, to God shall be held in everlasting remembrance, while I have the authority of this book for announcing: that the name of the wicked shall rot.

SOUP AND STOCKS. Omens 'Which (;av Warning to a üfaty ?nliitor. A New Yorker in London during the recent time of excitement on the stock exchange attributes his fortunate issue from a series of heavy speculations to an incident that was connected with nothing more occult and supernatural than a plate of soup. He was at dir. 'er when the recent crisis was at its height. The soup was vermicelli, with the customary letters floating in it. In the conversation the New Yorker was contending against the general argument that the existing high pries were not likely to decline but re. te 1 on a business basis which made it certain they would be maintained. He was lifting the 3poon to his lips a Ter a very spirited utterance on the st.bj'Ct, when he saw that the four letters in his spoon .-p It the word "Sell." lie i.? not a supeisJtious man, but the incident set him thinking, lie swal'owed the omen without mentioning it. He continued to eat, and the party confined its tails chiefly to the condition of the stock market in this city. When he dipped his spoon in the soup for the last mouthful, " the New York operator saw that only six of the flour letters remained in the plate, but they spelt the word "Unload." This coincidence was too much even for the doubting stmk broker, who excused himself from the table and went to the cable el'ace of the hotel. He sent word to his broker to close out all his railroad holdings, and the difference ia time brought tho message here for the opening of the market on the day of t!i" panic. His broker followed Iiis directions, and he came out a heavy winner. It is not surprising that his favorite s np i.-; now vermicelli, especially when he is operating heavily in j-tock.-. Xew York Sun. CURIOUS CHINESE TWINS. liny Am .iurl Wer, tho Km inn us Plr Krom Si.ut. Curious Chinese twins are now being exhibited in Europa. Like tho famous Siamese- twin;-, they are joined io.eiher at the lower part of the chest. Thes3 twins are boys and they were born in China a few years ago. They are of normal intelligence, and each weighs twenty-nine pounds. Four years ago they had smallpox, the infection passing in twenty-four hours from one to the other. One day whisky waa given to one of them and yet It was the other who first began to show signs of intoxication. They go to sleep about the same time, but it is possible to awaken one without arousing the other. They can walk and run with ease, and when they lie down they very quickly find a comfortable position. M. Chapot-Provost, a scientist, who has given much attention to monstrosities of this kind and who successfully performed an operation some time ago on two girls who were similarly joined, recently examined these twins and concluded that the ligiment uniting them could he severed without much. If any, risk. He therefore suggested that this be done, but those in charge of the twins said that this wa3 Impossible, as it was the will of the Chinese god, Khango, that the boys should be born thus, and his will must be respected. Pennsylvania Grit. Former Oorrnor of Ohio. Excepting President McKinley and Senator Foraker, whose ofllclal residences itTe in Washington, a majority of the surviving former governors Of Ohio are now residents of New York city.

D IT IS NOT A FAILURE... (Auburn, Ind., Letter.) One thous?nd five hundred couples in thirty years is the proud record of the Rev William L. Meese, the marrying parson of De Kalb county, Ind. Last week at his behest many hundreds of people who had been joined by him in matrimony, left their labors in various parts of the state, and j journeyed to Waterloo to testify their ! friendship for and devotion to the ! aged parson. Not many other minis- ; ters could do what Mr. Meese ha3 dorn? during the seventy-three years of his j life. The father of eleven children, ! ho has seen the earth close over aT ! but three of them.as well as over their mother. Yet he Is as earnest and untiring in his work as he ever was. Tarn Many Away. The great fame that has come to Mr. Meese rest3 not alone on the numMR. MEESS'S HOME, bar of marriages he has performed. For all that he is known as a "marrying parson," he has turned away almost as many as he has united. Ho will not marry a couple if he know3 either one has been divorced. Ho will not marry a girl who looks to bo a mere child, no matter what the legal license may say. Hi3 Meese Matrimonial association stands rledged for a uniform divorce law In the United States. Thero are few more picturesque characters than Meese. Though seventy-three, he is agile and quickwitted. He has not a biblical phrase upon his lips at every turn of events. The great social reforms in which ho Is now thoroughly wrapped up can, he THE ItEV. DEADLIEST OF REPTILES. Compared with th ler-Ut- Lxnoa th Kaitlor In a Gentletnar. The most deadly snako in the world is thi fer-de-lauce. Comparatively little Is known of the venomous reptile oueside of tho French West Indian Islands of Martinique, Guadaloupa and tho British possessions of Saint Lucia, Martinique 13 especially unfortunate in possessing them in -largo numbers. The natives, taught by dear experience, regard It with deeply rooted hatred and fear, and rightly, too, for It can be truthfully said to rein supreme in the forests and byways, ofttimcs being found on the moro frequented paths and roads, but rarely venturing into the cities or towns. There are about eight varieties, the most common being of a grayish black, and by Its color, so resembling tho underbrush and stumps, is scarcely distinguishable at times. Tho head, as the name implies, is lanco shape, flat, with reddish eyes, changeable liko an opal, which become very bright at night and can be seen for some distance away flashing out defiance at an intruder, whether man or beast. Its length rarely exceeds five feet, with a body the size of a man's arm, and not of lead pencil thickness as imagined by some people. Quite unlike the "rattler" of the United States, who, to do him justice, is a gentleman compared to the "fer-de-lance," this snake never givs warning, but at once when approached becomes the aggressor, quickly gets Into battle array, darting forward its triangular head with lightning-like rapidity so quickly, in fact, that the human eye can scarcely follow the movements, and woe to the unlucky mortal or animal that It rtrikes. It Is almost certain death, and If the services of a physician cannot be secured within an exceedingly Bhort time the venom does its deadly work, causing the flesh to spot, after -which comes death. If the strlko has been made upon a vein or an artery there Is absolutely no cliance for life unless the limb be amputated at once, and often then It Is too late, as the venom has gained too much headway through the blood system to be checked or the victim" succumbs to the heroic treatment. ISve- n I Cnmrn'rifi In a recent issue the New Tork

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thinks, be brought about only by hard work and practical means. II Become Famous. In August, 1S0C, the first session of the Matrimonial association, composed of couples married by Mr. Meese, was held at Auburn, Ind., the home of the parson. Nearly 4,000 couples responded to the invitation. They all agreed to work for reform of the marriage and divorce laws. An annual reunion was determined upon, the story of the session went broadcast over the country and the Rev. Mr. Mtrse found himself famous outside the limits of De Kalb county. It was thought that this last reunion, held at Waterloo, would far surpass all of the preceding ones in enthusiasm and results, and so it would have, had It not been for the rain, which caused many to stay at heme. But the day brightened np and the reunion was held. Parson Meese, in his black Sunday clothes and derby hat, flitted around the grove, attending to a thousand details, greeting newcomers, showing them where to register, chucking children under the chin and playing ho3t to the b!g gathering. Among the resolutions passad by the members were: Daplorea IJlvoroe Uncord. "That we deplore the alarming increase in divorces a3 compared with marriages in our community and that wo view with disgust the evident Insincerity with which many of our young men and women enter Into their marriage vows. That marriage is not a failure and he who declares the contrary questions the rectitude of the creative scheme of Almighty God. That we believe the strength and safety of the republic are dependent upon the morals of tho people,and that no nation whose peop'e show fidelity to their marriaga institutions can far depart from tho principles of liberty, justice and equality. We therefore, invoke the aid of all patriotic and Christian men and women in creating a sentiment against the present loose divorce laws and the lack of solemnity with which tho marriacp state is invested." W. L. MEESE. Marino Journal remarks that "the present century seems destined to bring the steamboat as a means of transportation to an equality with the railroad train." That paper says that great as is tho volume of traffic on tha lakes a greater business is conducted on American rivers, amounting to 100,000,000 tons a year, exclusive of boats plying on the arms of the ocean Inland. At least half of the interior commerca of the United States is transacted by boats. Though rdrv.ost every navigable river In 1 1: i 3 country is paralleled by a railway tho busincFs for both increases. Th-j two great systems of inland waterways In tho United States, the Marino Journal remarks, are tho great lakes and tho valley of the Mississippi, and of the two tho latter i3 foremost. ToWnooo Li'tiid of Ani-rlr:i. There are in the United States 700,000 acres of land devoted to tobacco, of which 11,000 acres are in New England. The annual yield of all kinds in tho country is about 500,000,000 pounds, of which New England raises about 19,000,000.' The average yield per acre throughout the country la 700 pounds, but in Cew England it Is 1,700 pounds. It is Interesting that all tho tobacco raised in tho country belongs to two or three botanical species, yet there are more than CO varieties grown commercially all of them quite distinct In shape, color, and quality of leaf. De tht of I'rl;fntft' Wlvra. The wives of only two presidents have died while their husbands wer in the high office. The first death was that of Mrs. John Tyler. She died in September, 1S42, and her husband remarried before the expiration of his term In 1S43. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died in the White House in October, 1892, a little over four months before the expiration of her husband'a term. Langt? of Ap. Ttie Bushmen, or low-grade Hottentots, on the plains of South Africa have a language which has been proved by Garnier to be a close approximation to that of the higher apes. rt consists of hissing, clicking and grant 'ng sounds.

BOV rOOK IO.OOO VOLT9.

Rtntcltttel a'cl in a Fair War to Oct VfflU Walter Budds, 9 years old, had a current from an electric cable carrying 10.000 volts of electricity pas3 through his body recently. That he was not killed is considered miraculous, but the physicians at the Hartford hospital, where the boy is now suffering from the effects of the shock say that ho will recover, says the Hartford Courant. Young Budds started out with Johnnie Farrell and Willie Cosgrove. young chums of his, to see the circus parade. They went to Main street near the tunnel and at'trr waiting for some time without the parade's coming In sight, they -ot uneasy. On Albany avenue, just above the Main street junction, the Hartford Electric Light company has a terminal tub through which the cables that bring the electric current in from the Farmington river pass into the underground system cf the company. One of the boys suggested that they climb upon the roof of the terminal tub to see if the parad was coming down Albany avenue. They made a run for the tub. A ladder Etood in the rear of the tub, and the tub is built several feet above the surface of the ground. Young Budds was in advance of the others. He was the first to mount the ladder and as he climbed up the rounds he turned to' the other boys and said that he could pet to the top flrt. The parade was not In sight and that he might havo a better view of the surroundings he reached from the top of the tub to one of the cables with the heavy voltage for the purpose of pulling himself onto the pole which carried the cables down through the tub. In taking hold of tho cable he instantly connected himself with tho electric current. His feet were jerked from beneath him, his body became ricrid and blue flames shot out from the cables underneath the boy's hand?. What appeared to the big crowd to have been a dead boy was brought back to life, and then tho little follow was taken to the Hartford hospital in an unconscious condition, lie was very wep.k on bring received at the institution, but during the afternoon, he gair.ed more strearth and had a long sleep. Both his hands were badly burned and the index ringer of his left hand wa- burned off. TO FOIL CHECK RAISER. Ntr fditnt for rrVfiitln;r Any Alter iitiou in t'lirc-t. More than 2').C0i00.'.nG0 of checks ire used annually in the 1'nited States, and of this amount southing like 1S.OUU are "raised," the loss falling on the drawer, for the drawer of a che. k is chargeable with the amount paid on it, provided his signature is genuine, no matter for what amount he has previously filled it in. Many devices hoe Leen planned for foiling th (hec-v-raiser, but the security check i t e most perfect prut ctiou the ir.g.w.uiiy of man has yet unfolded. The cluck has been briefly de- rib d as follows.: "On the left of th- -he.-k is printed th safe-guarding sJ.edule. The words directing tho payi::e:it of :ao..ey are qualified by the fo. lowing pr.nte.i into the body of the pipe.-: i,rovidoi amount co?s not exceed tnur express i in words and figures at en i seit 1ule.' AUer the drawer has we;tt a in the amount cf money to b-- pal l he adjusts a small paper niter to that lini of the up;:r half ct the -J.olil-which bound.- the maxiu!?!:! au.oavt 10 be paid in dollars, t- us. hundreds, or thousand.;, and teJi 0:1 the check down as far as the small ring In tho center of the yue-dule. Then ho revolves his ruler, adjusting it to th .t line of the lower half : the ehedu e which bounds the number of d'-dar.". tens of dollars, hundreds or thousand :. to be paid, and then roinplete.-. loa.hig the check from the stub aaeii: that line. This leaves in the hands of the drawer the check absolutely saf eguarded from alteration, for the 1 et hand margin expresses in words and figures the amount not exceeding which it has been drawn." The device is used by sco;es of banks and by hundreds of prominent firms, although it has been before the puhlLbut a short time. It is used net only on checks but also note-, receipts, drafts, bills of lading, and other papers, and is suited for use of money orders and tickets. III ('neck fr Four On!. It is not often that a business man gets a check for money that he wo aid rather be with out, but that U whit happened to a wholesale lumber dealer of t Iiis city tho other day. The check was sent to him by the receiver of a defunct Huston hardware concern ami he was entitled to the money as a creditor. Made out on a Boston bank it called for the payment of four cents as the first and final dividend. After recovering from his surprise the recipient sat down to reckon it all out. There was the two-cent revenue stamp and a two-cent postage stamp on tho letter. That made four ccnU? to send it to him, not counting the cost of paper and envelope and printed form of acknowledgment. To acknowledge its receipt and cash the clunk would involve an outlay of about 12 cents more, as banks charge for out of town collections. He was still thinking it over when a friend entered the offic and offered twice the face value of the check to secure it as a curio. He sold it in a hurry. New York Sun. lortagl'a Plelhor of Monfjr. Portugal is suffering from a plethora of money just now. Not gold, of course; nor silver; but copper. So vast is the supply of this inferior metal that ordinary people are exceedingly chary of changing such few gold coins as they may come into possession of. The copper coinage is big and cumbersome, and it is also depreciated, so that, in order to avoid being burdened with it, it has become the custom, in the larger cities at all events, to use street car tickets as currency. In the provinces postage stamps are mads to eerve a similar purpose. Meanwhile the government at Lisbon goes on serenely minting the obnoxious coins which nobody will use at the rate of some 80 tons a, n.ontn. The man who has never written a foolish love letter has not yet taken all the degrees.

a WEEK IX INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Itat Department eek .Jatlc for Italian Hurt In the Wreck ar Fem Ilx-l'uagreJisiuan A. X. Maitiu I DeaJ. Ask AM of Governor. Governor Durbin was called 0:1 by fhe depa: tm-.-nt of statt at Washingtoa : int' rvene in hiÄ oilh-iai capacity ia 1 eoati)-.e!V b( twe n fiej Vanish, Ihnlro-d Con: any anJ the Italian 20Vr:;im:it. hi--h had l...n la; a Leloia Hi tv . an a 1 : t hoi it i s. letter to :he -t, . ; -.y.- thai k ie;ir T.talive oi lie- Italian e-anal at C.ie.igo went to th..- Waha.-h ruihoad hospital it Peru for th- purpose, of seeing tho laborer.-? who had ien injured iu the Wa. as.: railioad wreck la.ar Cass and that "this repia.-entntive of the consul at!;. v. as denied any communication whatever with the m'-n (the Italians) by the agent of tZie railroad lompany." The 1 tier a .-lis (lov, rr.or Imibin to take what a-tin he ieüü b-'-t under 1 he ri:vum.--Ta4.cr-s to aid "a friendly fcov rnnu-'.t." I le Men U v II urr. Break i:)..ue as3 works ar Kokomo inr.!'-:. 1 frightful injuries on live of thV lev. me- who wer carrying the h .et uptight from the annealing oven to the Frieding table. The injured are: I!er:::.;!i Mfyer, Anthony Jlcllale. Allein r.ruello, William Ahm-y. I's-t- r Van Ryan. The plat which measured 1-2 by l:-" ' inches and weighed L20u pounds, broke and cams showering down an the tads and snouhlers of the worl-m-n. The victims' scalps wer, c it from side to side and the flesh literally .-tripped from the bones of thtir shoui-h-rs au.l arms. All five will loss their arms If not their liv tVoman A:iH mi 1 o n;. I Imltj. Within live minutes ;.;'.er y:.ry la the William Therp c. v.a, . hatg-d by Jadse L-M- r at M ;:., the foreman reported that a x- "di'-t of guilty had been reached. The ; en ally is f:om two to fourteen year- la .-tate's p!i-:on. Young Tharp was th-"1 ;lrs: of the assailants of ZT :.-S L'tllia Puek-.'tt to b tri- d. He received the rta li-g of the verdict without any ' parent agitation. The trial of Charle., .cmith. another of the alleged assailant.-, was begun, a jury being setaied at't-v four hours. Ill-Con jrHiniaa Mwli;i Dlt. Ex-Congr. .-.-.man A. X. Martin died In the ho.-piial at the Saldi ;.-' noma at Marion, of con.-umptiou. He repre1 sen ted tho Marion dh-trut a; a D.t.ioerat in the National llo.:.-? of it' pra- : sentatives th reo ierms--3Sc's 1S-L-0 and liv'2 during which tita was chair- ! n;sn of the eo!u:nitt.,. on pausier.. ; During pria;o lifo h - pra- tu ! law at I Blnffton. where his wife Had daughter i survive him. I So v. as ;. a.:rs oid. I'Ijih Iiri'-4 fit- T'it!e,ri. ; Grant Mi'ca. r. r of V it: .pel is, ; ho. der of the ei- ! to. 1 th.;-... hi?- tor Valpar.ii.-o v :. i'o eouv.ty an':.l j bsr .'.ill. .' -:rM !" l;g tV :a Indianap.li- 1'. v.'.-'-ra ae.l t lira v.' ill I le- 'i aht. : i -r ah r . v.-.-: - : ., l'ort r i eoeutv v.ita CI 1 :-. ; ' i ... thern In- : da-!; i c:t -. ! 1 wili 1 ' ' torton. r- L ! : o . or : !. ar -Jhtö- ! Wiii;..m M,-rer...;. :; sahool : teacher and ! :iei " r : ::imnd" of th- 1'. "'! C :.ty iVorLo-se, I reached Mi-ha,,ea f i M ; Jeaj nie Yin ae:.;. V a :!: let - for the I ceremony arriv d the ;.'.': h was doj clared off. The woman ;-a: .: McCormick I c-aimed to be vi y. ;;. old. and that instead he is S'h He a-.-'-rt : ae represented herself as worth S'.' 00. F!r to Hol! Ni;!il "Oonn. The Andersun. fa;.- a--e,-! ;;o:i has resolved to attempt th- nov-1 ep--rl-r.vnt of giving 'ait-raluvf,nt each night of ti e fair in v hi ch 11 re woika, spcvhl midway at t: a; : a -a.- a:: 1 show of various hinds will . " opened t the public. Kb ctric lights will he swung around the track ami racing by electric light will be added to thy lit of sports. Men and TVhjiik T'lr -n-'i J!-l !:. YThile Samuel V';'.- a and Samuel Mace, farm-rs re:id.:vj :oa:h id Brazil wee driving to town the bridge over Birch creek gave way and the mon and their teams v. vre pre. -ipit.it M into the water. tw.-;ty-:i v l'"t Pelow. Mace was fatally hurt and Wilson was badly injured. Trle;ralir Drowiii-tl lit Mln'txnak. While a company of young men were bathing in St. Joseph's river at Mishawaka, Eugene Ik Ocker, a Western Union operator, w;l missed by his companions. They thought he had returned to the city, but later his body was found at the bottom of the stream. Fouml DxtiU la I ot Itlver. Homer Reed, aged eighteen years, was found dead in the Lost river near his home east of Orleans. His neck was broken, but in what manner no cne knows as there were no marks on the body. Spt1r" ;rrltjr Tight m Draw. "Spider" Garrity of Chicago and Jack Ryan of Indianapolis, welter weights, fought a six-round draw at Andre's hall, Hartford City. The bout was a fierce one while it lasted. Traction Conpanr SH1 Ont. The Fort Wayne and Southwestern Traction Company lias sold its Fort Wayne-Marion line to a syndicate composed of W. B. McKinley of Illinois, Governor J. F. Hill of Maine and other eastern capitalists. T. P. C V. Program Issued. A program has been issued from Richmond for the national convention of the Young People's Christian Union of the United Presbyterian church, which will meet at Winona. July 14-28.