Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 33, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 July 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SEHMON.

BRILLIANT FAULT3 LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Th Sanaa Hoar YTm th Thlag Fol flllad on Nebaehlnir and II W Drlirtn fron Maa ant Did Kat Cru Oxu" D-4H. IVi 33. ICopyrfjht. 1501. by Ixmla Klopach. N. T.) Washington, July 21 In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that there U a tendency to excuse biiiiiunt faui.s because they are brilliant, when th-j lame law of right and wrong cuht to bo app led to high places and low; Uxt, Daniel Iv, 33, "The saui- hour was the thins fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from rasa and did not eat gras3 as oxen." Here is the mightiest of the Babylonish kings. Look at Lira. Ho did Dure for the grandeur of the carnal than did all his predecessors or successors. Hanging gardtns, reservoirs, aqueduct, palace, all of hl3 own planning. The bricks that are brought up today from the ruins of Babylon have his name on them, "Nebuchadnezzar, ion of Nabopolassor, king o! Babylon." Ha was a great conqueror. He stretched forth hl3 spear toward a nation, and It surrendered. But he plundered the temp:e of the true God. He lifted an idol. Bel Merodach, and comp lied the people to bow down before it. and if they refused they must go through the red hot furnace or be crunched by Hon or lionesg. So God pulled him down. He was smitten with what physicians call iycanthropy and fancied that was a wild beast, and he went out and pastured amid the cattle. God did Dt excuse him because he committed the In in high pTaces or because the transgressor was wide resounding. He measured Nebuchadnezzar In hlr;h places just as he would measure the humblest captive. But in our time you know as well ft I that there i3 a disposition to put ft halo around iniquity if it is committed in conspicuous place and If it is wide resounding and of large proportions. Ever and anon there has been an epidemic of crime in high place3, and there is not a state or city and hardly a village which has not been called to lok upon astounding forftery or an rbsconrling bank cashier or president o tho waiting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. I propose in carrying out the suggestion of my text ftfi far as I can. to scatter the fascinations ".round iniquity and show you that sin is sin and wrong is wrong whether In hi.-rh place or !ow place anl that it will be dealt with by that Goi who dealt with lmpa'aced Nebuchadnezzar. Kaedi to Fa Praieuted. A missionary In the island of the Pacific preached one Sabbath on honesty and dishonesty, and on Monday he found his yard full of all styles of goods, which the natives had brought. He could not understand It until a native told hin, "Our gods permit us to purloin gooda. but the God you told cs about yesterday, the God of heaven and earth, It seems. It against these practices, and so we brought all the goods that do not belong to us, and they are in the yard, and we want you to help us distribute them among their rightful owners." And If in all the pulpits of the United States today rousing sermons could be preached, on honesty and the evils of di3hon-sty and the sermons were b'essed of God and arrangements could be made by which all the goods which have been Improperly taken from one man and appropriated by another man should be put In the city halls of the country there Is not a city hall In the United States that would not be crowded from cellar to cupo'a. Faith of the gospel; that we must preach and we do preach. Morality of the gospel we must Just as eertainly proclaim. Now.look abroad and see the fascinations that are thrown around different tylcs of crime. The question that very man and woman has been asked has been. Should crime be excused because it Is on a large scale? Is Iniquity g-ullty and to be pursued of the law in proportion as it 13 on a small scale? Bbali we have the penitentiary for the man who steals an overcoat from ft hatrack and all Canada for a man to range In If he have robbed the public of millions? Tha Way to Gat Money. There has been an Irresistible Impression going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money Is to earn it. The young man of flaunting cravat says to the young man of humble appearance: "What, you only get $1.800 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep me in pin money. I spend $5.000 ft year." "Where do you get it?" asks the plain young man. "Oh, stocks, enterprises all that sort of thing, you know." The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board and has to wear clothes after they are out of fashion and deny himself all luxuries. After awhile he gets tired of his plodding and he goes to the man who has achieved suddenly large estate, and he says. "Just show me how It Is done." And he is shown. He noon learns how, and, although he is almost a!l the time Idle now and has resigned his position in the bank or the factory or the store, he has more money than he ever had. trades off his old silver watch for a gold one with a flashing chain, sets his hat a little farther over oa the side of his bead than he ever did, smokes better cigar and more of them. He has his hand In! Now, If he can escape the penitentiary for three or four years he will get Into political circles and he will get political Jobs and will have something to do with harbors and pavements and docks. Now he has got so far along he is aafe for perdition. It Is quite a long road sometimes for a man to travel before he gets Into the romance of crime. Those are caught who are only In the prosaic stage of it. If the sheriffs and constables would only leave them alone a little while, they would steal as well aa anybody. They might not be able to steal a whole railroad, but they ould master a load of pig Iron. Now. I always thank God when I find txx estate like that go to smash. It

Is plague Struck, and tt blasts the nation. I thank God when It goes Into such a wreck it can never be gathered up again. I want it to become so loathsome and such an insufferable stench that honest young men will take warning. If God should put Into money or its representative the capacity to go to Its lawful owner, there would not be a bank or a safety deposit In tiie United States whose walls would not be blown out and mortgages would rip and parchments would rend and gold would shoot and beggars would get on horseback and stock gamblers would go to the almshouse. Tha Temptation to rtt!iontr. How many dishcnesrls in the making out of Invoices and in the poster

ing of false labels and in the ft chir.g of customers of rival no".scs and In the making and breaking of contracts! Young men are indo:trInatcd in the idea that the sooner thy get money the better, and the getting of it on a larger scale on'y proves to them their greater In anility. There 13 a glitter thrown around about all th-se thlngi. Young men hav trot to find out that God looks upon sin in a very different light. A young man stood behnd a counter In New York selling silks to a lady. and he said before the sale was consummated, "I sea there is a fiaw In that silk." The lady recognized it. and the sale was not consummated. The head man of the firm saw the Interview, and he wrote home to the father of the young man, living In the country, saying: "Dear sir. come and take your boy. He will never make a merchant" The father came down from the country home in great consternation, as any father would, wondering what his son had done. He came into the store, and the merchant said to him, "Why, your 6on pointed out a fiaw in some silk the other day and spoiled the sale and we will never have that lady probably again for a customer, and your son will never make a merchant." "Is that all?" said the father. "I am proud of him. I wouldn't for the world have him another day under your influence. John, get your hat and coat; let us start." There are hundreds of young men under the pressure, under the fascinations thrown around about commercial iniquity. Tho'isand3 of young men have gone down under the pressure; other thousands have maintained their Integrity. God help you! Let me say to you, my young friend, that you never can he harpy in a prosperity which comes from 111 gotten gains. "Oh." you say, "1 might lose my place. It 13 en?y for you to stand there and talk, but it Is no easy thing to get a place when you have lost it. Besides that, I have a widowed mother depending upon my exertions, and you must not be tco reckless In giving advice to me." Ah, my young friend, It is always safe to do right, but it is never safe to do wrong. You go home and tell your mother the pressure under which you are in that store, and I know what she will say to you, if she is worthy of you. She will say: "My son, come out from there. God has taken care of us all these years, and he will take care of us now. Come out of that" MliQi af Trust Fände Oh, there is such a fearrul fascination in this day about the use of trust funds. It has got to be popular to take the funds of ethers and speculate with them. There are many who are practicing that iniquity. Almost every man in the course of his life has the property of others put In his care. He has administered, perhaps, for a dead friend; be Is an attorney, and money passes from debtor to creditor through hi hands; or he Is In a cemmercial establishment and gets a salary for the discharge of his responsibilities; or he Is treasurer of a philanthropic institution, and money for the suffering goes through his hands; or he has some office in city or state or nation, and taxes and subsidies and supplies and salaries are In his hands. Now, that Is a trust. That is as sacred a trust as God can give a man. It is the concentration of confidence. Now, when that man takes that money, the money of others, and goes to speculating with it for his own purposes, he is guilty of theft, falsehood and perjury and in the most Intense sense of the word Is a miscreant. There are families today widows and orphans with nothing between them and starvation but a sewing machine, or kept out of the vortex by the thread of a needle red with the blood of their hearts, who were by father or husband left a competency. You read the story In the newspaper of those who have lost by a bank defalcation, and It is only one line, the name of a woman you never heard of, and just one or two figures telling the amount of stock she had, the number of shares. It is a very short line in a newspaper, but it Is a line of agony long as time; it Is a story long as eternity. Dangac of Llbartlnlani. So there has been a great deal of fascination thrown around libertinism. Society Is very severe upon the impurity that lurks around the alleys and low haunts of the town. The law pursues It, smites It, Incarcerates It, tries to destroy it. You know as well as I that society becomes lenient In proportion as impurity becomes affluent or Is In elevated circles, and finally society is silent or disposed to palliate. Where Is the judge, the Jury, the police officer that dare arraign the wealthy libertine? He walks the streets, he rides the parks, he flaunts his iniquity In the eyes of the pure. The hag of uncieanness looks out of the tapestried window. Where Is the law that dares take the brazen wretches and put their faces in an iron frame of a state prison window? Sometimes it seems to me as If society were going back to the state of morals of Herculaneum, when it sculptured It3 vllene8s on pillars and temple wall and nothing but the lava of a burning mountain could hide the Immensity of crime. At what time God will rise up and extirpate these evils upon society I know not, nor whether he will do It by fire or hurricane or earthquake; but a holy God I do not think will stand it much longer. I believe the thunderbolts are hissing hot and that when God comes to chastise the community for these sins,

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I the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will I be tolerable as compared with the fate : of our modern society, which knew better, but did worse. Tha Saerdnaa af Ufa Then look at the fascinations thrown around assassination. There are In all communities men who have taken the lives of others unlawfully, not as executioners of the law, and they go scot free. You say they had their provocations. God gave life, and he alone has a right to take it, and he may take It by visitation of providence or by an executioner of the law, who Is his messenger. But when a man assumes that divine prerogative he touches the lowest depth of crime. Society is alert for certain kinds of murder. If a citizen goin? along the read at night is waylaid and slain by a robber, we all want the villain arrested and executed. Ter all garrottef, for all beating out of life by a club or an ax or aslungshot, the law ha3 quick spring and heavy stroke, tut you know that when men get affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of others, great sympathy i3 excited, lawyers plead, ladles weep, judge halts. Jury Is bribed and the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him. & new trial is called on through some technicality and they adjourn for witnesses that never come, and adjourn and adjourn until the community has forgotten all about It, and then the prison door opens and the murderer goes free. Now, if capital punishment be right, I say let the life of the polished murderer go with the life of the vulgar assassin. Let us have no partiality of gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do not let us float back to barbarism, when every man was his own Judge, Jury and executioner, and that man had the supremacy who had the sharpest knife and the strongest arm and the quickest step and the stealthiest revenge. He who willfully and in hatred takes the life of another is a murderer, I care not what the provocation or the circumstances. He may be cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom, he may be sent by the government of the United States as minister to some foreign court, or modern literature may polish the crime until It looks like heroism; but in the sight of God murder is murder, and the Judgment day will so reveal it. Socio I'lalu Qal!on, There are hundreds of young men who have good blood. Shall I ask three I or four plain questions? Are your habi its as good as when you left your fa ther's house? Have you a pool ticket in your pocket? Have you a fraudulent document? Have you been experiment- : ing to see how accurate an Imitation ' you could make of your employer's signature? Oh, you have good blood. He- ! member your father's prayers. Remember your mother's example. Turn not In an evil way. Have you been going astray? Come back. Have you ven tured out too far? As I stand in pulpits looking over audiences sometimes my heart falls me. There are so many tragedies present, so many who have sacrificed their integrity, so many far away from God. Why, my brother, there have been too many prayers offered for you to have you go overboard. And there are those venturing down Into sin, and my heart aches to call them back. At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you have seen men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out farther and farther, and you got anxious about them. You said, "I wonder If they can swim?" And you then stood and shouted: "Come back! Come back! You will be drowned!" They waved their hand back, saying, "No dangv." They kept on wading deeper down farther out from shore, until after awhile a great wave with a strong undertow took them out, their corpses the next washed on the beach. So I see men wading down into sin farther and farther, and I call to them: "Come back! Come back! You will be lost! You will be lost!" They wave their hand back, saying, "No danger; no danger." Deeper down and deeper down, until after awhile a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them off forever. Oh, come back! The one farthest away may come. CLUBS MADE UP OF FREAKS. Association of Qarar InilTltaal la Soma Parts of Europa. There have been associations of all sorts of individuals formed in this country, but none of them would bear comparison for freakishness with some of Europe's clubs. At Hoogstraelen, a small Belgian town, a baldheaded club, to secure admission to which a calvous area of twenty-one square centimeters, or eight and one-quarter square Inches, is imperative, has lately been founded. Its antithesis exists In the Ixng-IIaired club of Ghent, whose members must wear either a beard of thirty centimeters (one foot) or hair of twenty centimeters (eight inches) la length. "Les 100 Kilos," ft Parisian club for which no one weighing less than 100 kilos (232 pounds) Is eligible, la in striking contrast with "Les Fifty Kilos" of Marseilles, to which entrance is alone permitted to such as are over 170 centimeters (5 feet 7 inches) in height and under fifty kilos (118 pounds) In weight For several years the president of this club was a Mr. Be., who, though nearly 6 fert. weighed less than 98 pounds. Two years ago. however, he took unto himself a wife, under whoso solicitous care he so rapidly gained flesh that In less than twelve months he was compelled to resign his membership. Berlin boasts of ft Big Mouth club. In the club room Is kept a wooden ball as large as a medium-sized orange which every candidate for admission is required to insert In his mouth before his name can go for ballot In the same city, too, there Is a One-IIanded club, composed only of such as have suffered the loss of a hand. Mrs. Winneld Taylor Durbln, wife of the governor of Indiana, Is an admirer of good pictures and has a aplendld collection of paintings wh'ch she gathered during several trips abroad.

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LoVe and Figures That love will find a way through all difficulties Is Illustrated by the recent experiences of Philander Simon and Iiertha Karger, both of Patersoa, N. J. Philander had been keeping company with Bertha about two years, when for some un explained reason his love bgan to cool. Simultaneously Bertha began to fret and pine away. The.ro had been no actual engagement between them, so that a suit could not be brought for breaking tho marriage promise, but v: Bertha's mother, wtio Is not only a woman of expedients but a thrifty soul, decided upon a plan for punishing the faithless Philander. She figured that he had eaten sixty hearty dinners at her house, upon the occasions of his Sunday wooings, which at 25 cents each amounted to $15. BeEides this in a rash moment she had lent him $10. She accordingly began suit for $23. Meanwhile, Philander, who la aJso thrifty and a man of expedients, began to do a little figuring on bis own side, and promptly came in with a counterclaim for $SG.80, which left Mrs. Karger $61.80 in his debt, If the claim were pressed. Bertha, as girls go, had not been expensive. In two years 6he had consumed but one box of chocolates, twelve pounds of candy, thirty ice creams, and 100 sodas, amounting to $9.55. She had only been once to Coney Island, but had had 100 trolley rides, transportation footing up $12.60. Bouquets for two. birthdays cost $5 and two books 63 cents, a total Investment of $27.S0, which shows that Philander had the advantage of $2.80 in actual expenses over Mrs. Karger. This margin Philander increased by putting in a claim for his time, charging 50 cents for each Sunday evening's wooing for two years, or t52. In the cour.-e of tho preparations for th.3 suits Philander and Bertha were thrown much together, and encouraged by the artful lawyers on both sidas, as wtll as by thrifty Mrs. Karger, who was appal'cl by the counterclaims, tho Came broke out anw and with greater ardor than before. An actual engagement was effected, a day for the marriage fixed, and both suits were dropped, and Philander and P.ertha are happy, all owing to Philander's skill in figuring. I Figured in Moltneujc Case. j Justice White of the New York SuI prema court at Buffalo last week MRS. FLORENCE ROGERS. granted a divorce to Mrs. Florence E. Rogers from Edward F. Rogers, thus confirming the report of the referee. The Judge allowed Mrs. Rogers $2,250 in lieu of all alimony. Mrs. Rogers is the daughter of the late Mrs. Kate Adams, and a distant cousin of Harry Cornish. Roland B. Molineux was found guilty of causing the death of Mrs. Adams by poison, which he was accused of sending to Cornish at the Knickerbocker A. C, New York city. Cornish had a room in Mrs. Adams apartments In West SGth street. New York. Mrs. Rogers lived there, and was there on the morning her mother died, after finding the dose of cyanide of mercury. Mrs. Rogers and her husband have been separated for some time, she living in New York, he In Buffalo. WTien she brought her suit she applied for alimony. One of her lawyers stated, pathetically, that she had to "live in a New York hash house," while her husbanu dwelt in luxury at the Iroquolse hotel. It was shown, however, that Mr. Rogers paid his wife money for her support, although he lived apart from her. Ttain TalK. to Tirithhers. Mr. Barber, the president of the Diamond Match company, talked with wholesome frankness to the dissenting stockholders of that English match company tho control of which has Ju-st been secured by hla company. He said to these Englishmen, who had spoken of "Yankee trickery" and who had boasted of their intention to fight to the death to retain for English capital the business of making matches for British use, that "I may as well talk frankly to you people. Unless you come to terms we will whip you out of your boots. We know that we are able to beat the world in the manufacture of matches, and we intend to keep our advantage. How long do you think you cau compete with us with machinery that America discarded sixteen years ago?" The salary of the young king of Spain 150.000 a year.

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A RATTLER ON HIS BRSAOT. a Ramartrabla Fight IVitnasaad by a Prospector La Arlaona. A rattler, a king snake, and a road runner recently figured In a battle p;:rt of which was waged on the breast of Herbert Housland, a prospector in Arizona. The king snake is a deadly enemy of the ratt'er. The experience cf Housland wa3 had In the Brad3havr mouatains. He was guarding h's pirty's camp for the day and had laia down to sleep when h? was suddniv aroused to find a great rattler coiled upon hi3 breast. "I almost suffocated from fearing to breathe lest I shculd be bitten." he said. "The snake was greatly excited and in a minute I saw the cause. A king snake was trying to excite the rattler to combat, and my person wa3 the chosen battle ground. The k!ng snake had probably forced the rattler to refuge upon my b-dy. and fo'lowing up his a-'rrss've tart'es was running In a cire'e around the rattler very rar'ily. He crossed my breast from left to right and my thlsM from right to left, .ind within less than a foot of the rattler's body. The velocity of th snake was most wonderful. It

j seemed to be one continuous ring, and part or the time I could seemingly see three or four rincrs at once. I made a slight movement with my right foot which attracted the rattler's attention for an Instant, and that was fatal to him. At that one false movement of his eyes, the king snake darted in and seized the rattler by the throat, close up to his head and began Instantly to coil around his victim. They rolled off me in their death struggle and became one tangled masi for ten minutes, when the rattler's sounds died away gradually. While I lay exhausted from my fright a road runner darted out of a bush and grabbing the two 6nakes In his beak, began to drag them away. The weight was too great, but he killed the king snake by a blow from hl3 long bill, and ran away as I arose. I threw the two reptiles Into the bushfs, and there the bird and his mate devoured them." FOR A BEET COLONY. Falratlon Arvnj to Start a MllllaniAera One In Colorado. The Salvation Army I3 about to enbark iu a great commercial enterprise which involves th3 colonization of a tract of land in Colorado. Hsra will be started a practically new Industry in that tcclion the raising of eugar beets. While in a sonse the scheme is commercial rather than religious, officers cf tha army in New York think they can do much ood through the enterprise. A large corporation has bought up and procured options on over 1.000,000 acres of ground. The Salvation Army will act as the agentä of this corporation in procuring and guaranteeing the integrity of tha colonists. Commander Booth-Tucker, who is now in Cleveland, will return to New York soon. When he arrives the plans for starting the work will be laid before him for his approval. Directly that is obtained, offices will be opened on Fourteenth street, opposite the present headquarters of the organization. Staff Officer McPhee will be put in charge. The reason that outside offices will be established i3 that the present charter of the army will not admit of such an enterprise being carried on at its headquarters.. The tract covers the greater part of three counties Kiowa, Bent and Prowers. It is skirted by tho Arkansas river and Interested by irrigating cana's, which are fed from reservoirs having a capacity of 3.570,2S3,520 cubic feet. It is at Amity, Col., that a flourishing Salvationist colony is now established. The new colonists will not be required to raise the sugar beets unless they so elect If they do, the sugar refining company will pay th?m the market value. It is understood that mmy wealthy capitalists of Colorado are behind the plan. New York Mall and Express. When HerHacr Were Plasty. In former days herring were so abundant In Newfoundland waters that the most wanton slaughter of them waa permitted without any restriction whatever. Seines were allowed to retain 1,000 or 2,000 barrels of the fish until they perished, and then the net was freed and the whole contents fell to the bottom to pollute the ocean for miles around. When a poaching smack was captured the herring It had on board were all thrown Into the sea, and frerraently boats when chased resorted to the same means to get rid of Incriminating evidence. The fish then fetched only fifty cents a barrel of 500 herring, or 10 for a cent; they sell now In American cities sometimes for five centa the single fish. Such wauton waste gradually had Its effect, and now the colonial fishing laws safeguard the Industry more vigilantly, and fishermen of all classes know better how to husband their resources In this connection. Today herring bait nsually brings $5 a barrel, and sometim twice that, and the smuggler who plans to land a cargo at St. Pierre contracts for $10 a barrel before bt touches a rope on his boat. A LucVy Arctdent. Jerry Cooper considers himself one of the luckiest men in Englaad, and not without reason. He usrd to be a gymnastic instructor in the navy. Then he went into the merchant marine, and five years ago while on a trading vessel off Newfoundland the donkey engine on board blew up, killing four men and knocking Jerry speechless and deaf. Yet a man even In this condition must live, and to gain a means of livelihood when ha returned to Eng'and he gave exhibitions of conjuring and contortions. A week or two ago he had a bad fall, which made him unconscious, and upon regaining himself he found that speech and hearing had come back to him. And in all Britain there's no one happier than Jerry Cooper. r.timbar Cnpaclty of California. Timber experts tell us that California alone has a capacity of lumber la her standing forests of over 100,000,000,000 cubic feet A drowning man will catch at ft) straw and so will a mail who 3 thirsty.

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JVordau A.sjaiU Trusts. Dr. Max Nordau. who has lately turned hi? attention to the consolidation of large companies of capitalists, is one of the most skillful and learned physicians of Europe. Ills very widerpread fame Is diw, however, not to his scientific ability, but rather to his brilliance as an author. In 1S83 he sl.ocked and delighted two continents with hi3 rarely analytical book, "Conventional Lies of Society." In 1SS3 he published h'J5 "Paradoxes." and in the work by which he Is best known. "Deg-i.era-tlon." In this remarkab'.y original bock Dr. Nordau atetni ts to sliuw oa purely psycho-physiological grcundi that all modern tendencies are toward degeneration. He fortiS s his position by examinations into art. literature and life, and claims that deneracy Ls seen In all mental and moral phenomena. Dr. Kornau i3 descended from a well-known Jewish family cf Buda9 VL& MAX NORDAU. pest He began writing to the newspapers on many topics even while he was a lad at school. He is 52 years old. Women Shculd He Harred. One reads with a shock of surprise that aa many women could crowd into the room were present on Monday when the trial of a Pr&sbyt-srlan preacher was begun before a committee cf the presbytery on charges wlilch involve his staudii'- as a Je.eat mac Lä Tveil as a minister. The turprisc la not occasioned by the fact that so many women were present, for there will always be plenty of r-eple anxious to attend any hoarirj at which prurient or fenvationa! testimony is expected. But a-3 it in certainly within the power of the members of the committee to bar out of the courtroom women who havo no direct interest in the case one would certainly expect that they would be the first to take such action. Nothing but morbid and unhealthy curiosity can possibly lead women to flock to a hearing of the kind. j A ISO Mile an Hour. j A society of mechanical engineers ! representing the principal European machine shops, has recently been organized abroad for the purpose of developing railroad engines of phenomenal speed. The accompanying illustration shows a railroad electric motor lately built by Siemans and Halske, in connection with the organization. which, by order of Emperor William NEW SPEEDY lfLECTRIC ENGINE, was tested preliminarily a short time since on the military railroad at Berlin-Zossen, when, according to reports, it gave an exhibition that promised remarkable results. Wireless Telegraphy. A report comes through Consul General Gunther of Frankfort to the effect that the captain of a channel mail steamer, whlcn is provided with a wireless telegraphy apparatus, states tnat on his last trip he received a message from the officer of the French lightship, anchored about twenty-five miles from Dunkirk, stating that he would be unable to light up the r.ext night unless help arrived from the shore. The captain at once sent a wireless message to La Tanne, on the Belgian coast, from which point it was forwarded to Dunkirk by the regular telegraph line, whence a boat was sent to the lightship and the necessary repairs were made. 'Railroad Signal. Many a serious railroad accident Is caused by the washing down on the roadbed of masses of earth or rocks from the ir.llsides above. While the railroad companies realize that the cuts are liable to become filled from this cause it is hardly to be expected that they will keen ratrols at every dangerous point, but the Illustration hows an apparatus lately patented by John K. Haddinott, of Baltimore, Md., which will constantly guard the cut or other section of track which It parallels. It Is simply a pair of contact rails so placed that a fall of rock or earth which incloses them, and throw the rails together to complete a circuit and set the danger signal. By placing a set of the apparatus close to each rail It would be next to impossible for any seriou.s obstructio 1 to occur without the danger be'pointed out by the signal.

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A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR ! SEVEN DAYS. Cnhin IT a Mrt"ry In tha Cava of a Pretty iirl Milet-n tr t)l f, Wbo TelU a Strung Story l'ouuli't' 1'laas. Trtty Girl I Myt rr. There is no further c!ew to the identity i:f Ir'ne C.ni.ii.g, th b- a t::ul ar;d rahiy drc- J girl cf 1C w!.. was four.. I near Go.-hen walintr f-oia .Mi idl'!..:ry to Go.-Lea ai.d w:io c:.;:r.:-d to b- a Galveston h ires 5 v.'.-.; .-. ;: -0 '''. A tel. -gram -:t to IWv. G- o:-e TariTX of ir'avar.:;.-::. v.'Iioia , :a::.:s 's 'nor gua:il:a 11, lo ::i ur .: .':'.. e I. lln- s-'sry r.::rg an aVe.vpi to hypr-.r.' ire Iv : w: Pe cn re :::.; irra r.:?t!e C: " !: to :V .th IV r. 1 ly Dr. G o: .-" P'-a.- of lU-'yr.'-o. M ;., a ii".i'.i r c-iitf.r of ha? L -:n yartly (or::i: !,;;;. cn:i;. t bo f KT.i. Wcv-o It 1.-,: ; ;, rv;." ;.:e of extreme c il ;-.:;v an.i r :';r. -writ i.nr rory '.vo 'Id not be l.elir veil. Si.e , oV.b!y a girl of wr a'th w' o 1::. ) f : o:n a pri vate a In.; sr.cn. v..-1. ?:.o !.s 1 en remove-! from i!. jail to a private bor.r-Jing ho'!? whero ?!: vi-l if main until an answer is I'-ifiveil to a telegram which she sent to friends in Galveston, Tex. Comml ilon Mni Vun'ih. H. C Hurley and Lot 's E. Jonon, who, .ince February Inst, hav? o;, -rated a commission house at Indianapolis, have disappeared. The an.oant of claims presented against tlv ra so far exceeds $t.""0, and it is tho-.i-ht this amount will be i:.t r'-a-e i $".; by the time the a hairs of the firm are s .tiled, On July 11 an Indianapolis lav. firm, informed Hurley & JoLlsou tl at unless claims, whi h ha i b"cn pla ed In their hands for cull-v' iu:;, were sr-tt'ed that day tho firm wouM ir;siifJto k-jal proceedings. Both mc-:. - is. of the con;rn;s-ion firm kft th-1 city that night. Sir.ce then th-- ei-ilms have been po-iti;g in f : on: Kmsis, Minnesota, Wis-o::sin, Illinois. Or.io. MisFouii, and other places about the country. T7HI Change ptrfv Nime. Tho Pn- ! " .1 '.-.vr-etV.T the p?rty rorh,:'-' ;h'l. r rr.::v' or t a n- v or -1 , ; : : v t'.t f 1 - ? COT. :-.tv o.i r g :-:ate '- ir.üioa at Ia . e 'i or of th o i in t'ich i t'r-n. TLH i - t '.: iv.'.t cf 0. w c-to -uity or-!u. with tho rarlv and fib of tin organization. The eonfer nve 1 1 to b- hij at Kn i:.-:-! 5 Ci:y. font. 17. IS : i 13, says Mr. Walter, will rl t p-issibly upon a r.ov: name. K pr senttivei from all over the party will asemt!i at the conference and Indiana will FC-nd a large delegation. The conference will be composed of delegates from the silver repuMicanij, social democrats, union r- fonrists, populist! and silver demoerats. Run on ShihIht Knnrrilt. The Jay County Ministerial association has placed a ban on Sunday funerals, this action being agrea upon at a meeting h-hl at Larson Park, Tortland. The move is eml-.i i:e 1 in thi following resolution. whit-h wai passed: "Whereas, Sundny func-rali have for some time by inaiiv Christian people, especially the minister, been looked upon as mostly ani:Av.sary( and a detriment to the best iateresti of the proper obi-ervarn" cf the- Sabbath; thrroforc, HrsJv. d. That ttd the Ministerial Assoi-'ati-:i of Jaj County. Ind.. most earnestly request the people of our various ron mit nations and communities to unite with ns In the effort to suppress this custom. CI1T KxplOfteil With a rrncranc. The family of James .Tamil, neai Kempton. were alarmingly prostrated from the effect of drinking eider which had been sealed iu a t;n can. Afterward Mr. Jarvin went to the col'nr ta examine the eider, but upon holding a lighted match over the top of the can there was an explosion, in which he was severely burned about the hands and face. Ivep Iarria; a ro-fc News of a secret marriage contracted at Goshen June between Henry C. Calloway, a wealthy banker of Elkwood, and Mr. Pora Ellithorp has leaked out. They met at Goshen, Thursday by agreement, sought a lawyer, had ante-nuptial contract drawn, were married and left the city within two hours. Cane tit littwaon Two Kalla, Otis Pickering, age nineteen, was struck by an I. & V. passenger train at Ylneennes and instantly killed. He was walking between the rails, when the engine whistled he stopped In front of It. He is a cousin of Pan Pickering, lcit fielder of the Cleveland ball club. Svt tti I,lorr, rook tha CI Irl. During a storm in the northern part of Allen county, Mary, youncest daughter of Mr. Ixingenaeher, an Amish farmer, was struck by lightning ami instantly killed. Tho girl was with a party cf harvesters in a wheat field. Drink. (ialiiif ami Die. The 1 -year-old child of Andrew Clark at Lakcton, got hold of a vessel containing gasoline and drank a considerable quantity of the liquid. The littK one died in terrible agony twenty minutes later. Inlln .Tnttlnga. Jeffer.-on ville While Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Bottorff were picking blackberries a burglar entered their home and secured $300 in diamonds. "Mr. and Mrs. I.antz" of Chicago made a hasty departure from Elkhart when their scheme to dupe matrimonially inclined young men was exposed. Columbus The frame building erected by John C. Hubbard for tavern purposes in 1S21, Is to be torn away to make room for a modern blcck.