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Hte -Record From Farm to the White House. HOW A COUNTRY BOY ROSE. Student, Soldier, Lawyer, Congressman, Governor und Finally Nation's Chief Executive The Road that U Free to All American Hoys. Here is the chronological story of the life of William McKinley, twentyfifth president of the United States: 1843. Jan. 29. William McKinley, on of William and Nancy (Allison) McKinley, is born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, bein the seventh of a family of nine children. 1S52. The McKinley family removes to Poland, Mahoning county, O.. where "William studies at the Union seminary until he is 17. 1859. Becomes a member of the Methodist Episcopal chuich in Poland.

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lSüü. Enters the junior class in Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., but poor health prevents the completion of the course. Sub-equently teaches In a public school near Poland and later becomes a clerk in the Poland postofilce. Enlists As a Private. 1SC1. June 11. Enlists as a private In Company E of the 23d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 1S62. April 13. Promoted to commissary sergeant while in the winter's camp at Fayette. W. Va. 1SC2. Sept. 21. Promoted to second lieutenant, in recognition of services at the battle of Antietam. Wins the highest esteem of the colonel of the regiment. Rutherford B. Hayes, and becomes a member of his staff. 1SC3. Feb. 7. Promoted to first lieutenant. 1S64. July 23. Promoted to captain for gallantry at the battle of Kernstown. near Winchester, Va. 18C4. Oct. 11. First vote for President cast, while on a march, for Abraham Lincoln. 1864. Shortly after the battle of Cedar Creek (Oct. 19). Capt. McKinley serves on the staffs of Gen. George Crook and Gen. Winfield S. Hancock. 18C5. Assigned as acting assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Samuel S. Carroll, commanding the veteran reserve corps at Washington. President Lincoln Brevets Illm. 1865. March 13. Commissioned by President Lincoln as major by brevet In the volunteer United States army "for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill." 18C. July 26. Mustered out of the army with his regiment, having never been absent from his command on sick leave during more than four years service. 1865. Returns to Poland and at once begins the study of law. 1SG6. Enters the Albany (N. Y.) Law School. 1S67. Admitted to the bar at Warren, O., In March. Accepting the advice of an elder sister teaching in Canton, he begins the practice of law in Canton and makes that place hi3 home. flit First Office. 1869. Elected prosecuting attorney TESTING NAVIES. Maaearerlng of- French and English Fleets for a Purpose. Ths English and French naval maneuvers took place recently at almost the same time. The French maneuvers were planned to represent conditions which might arise If there were war between Fiance and England. In that event, it was assumed that the English channel or home squadron would try to join itself to the English Mediterranean squadron. The French Mediterranean fleet would endeavor to prevent the junction. This was the problem set to the French commanders In the maneuvers. A certain number of French battle-ships and cruisers represented the English channel squadron, and another fleet of war-ships the English Mediterranean squadron. A third fleet, representing the French Mediterranean fleet, was sent out to prevent the Junction of the two English squadrons; and a smaller group, representing the French Northern or Channel fleet, sailed out to cooperate In the movement. The details

of Stark county on the Republican ticket, although the- county had usually been Democratic. 1871. Jan. 23. Marries Mist Ida Saxton of Canton. (Two daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Katie In 1S71 and Ida In 1873 and both lost In early childhood.) 1871. Fails of re-election as prosecuting attorney by forty-five "Totes, and for the next fire years devotes himself successfully to the practice of law, and becomes a leading member of the bar of Stark county. 1S72. Though not a candidate, rery active as a campaign speaker In the Grant-Greely presidential campaign. 1S75. Especially active and conspicuous as a campaigner in the closely contested state election in which Rutherord B. Hayes i3 elected governor. Elected to Congress. 1S7C. Elected member of the House of Representatives by 3.000 majority, his friend Hayes being elected to the presidency. 1S7S. Re-elected to Congress by 1.234 majority, his district In Ohio having been gerrymandered to his dis-

advantage by a Democratic legislature. 1550. Re-elected to Congress by 3.571 majority. Appointed a member of the ways and means committee to succeed President Garfield. 1SS2. The Republicans suffer reverses throughout the country in the congressional elections and McKinley is re-elected by a majority of only 8. 1551. Prominent in the opposition to the proposed "Morrison tariff" in congress. 1SS4. As a delegate at large to the Republican national convention in Chicago, actively supports James G. Blaine for the presidential nomination. Again Elected to Congress. 18S4. Re-elected to Congress by a majority of 2.000. 18S6. Re-elected to Congress by a majority of 2.550. 18S6. Leads the minority opposition in Congress against the "Mills tariff bill." 1S88. Delegate at large to the national convention In Chicago that nominated Benjamin Harrison, and serves as chairman of the committee on resolutions. Many delegates wish McKinley to become a nominee, but he stands firm in his support of John Sherman. 1888. Elected to Congress for the seventh successive time, receiving a majority of 4,100 votes. 18S9. At the organization of the 51st Congress, is a candidate for speaker of the House, but is defeated on the third ballot in the Republican caucus by Thomas B. Reed. Chairman f Ways and Mean Committee. 1890. Upon the death of William D. Kelley In January McKinley becomes chairman of the ways and means committee and leader of his party In the House. He introduces a bill "to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of revenues." known a3 the "customs administration bill." He also introduces a general tariff bill. The bill becomes a law on Oct. 6. 1890. As a result of the gerrymandered congressional district and the reaction against the Republican party throughout the country, caused by th? protracted struggle over the tariff bill. McKinley is defeated in the election of this great naval game could be understood only by naval experts, but the result was that the fleets representing the English squadrons effected the desired union. In the case of the English maneuvers, in which one hundred and seventy vessels participated, the problem v.as to defend the English channel and its approaches and St. George's channel from the attack of a hostile fleet, bent on destroying commerce. Here, as In the case of ihe French maneuvers, the victory rested with the enemy. According to the calculated results, the attacking fleet lost only three cruisers, three torpedt-boat destroyers and three torpedo-boats, while It sunk a dozen cruisers, two gunboats and eight torpedo-boat destroyers or the defending fleet, and captured an Indefinite number of merchantmen. Both in England and France there has been sharp criticism recently on the efliclency of the navy. The disappointing result of these maneuvers is likely to strengthen the demand for Improved construction and a reformed administration. Youth's Companion.

for Congress by 300 rotes In counties that had previously gone Democratic by 3,000. Elected Governor of Ohio. 1891. Nov. 3. Elected governor of Ohio by a plurality of 21,511, polling the largest vote that has ever been cast for governor in Ohio. His opponent is the demoeratiö governor, James E. Campbell. 1S92. As delegate at largt to the national convention at Minneapolis, and chairman of the convention, McKinley refuses to permit the consideration of his name and supports the renomination of President Harrison. The roll call results as follows: Harrison 535, Blaine 182, McKinley 182. Reed 4. Lincoln 1. 1892. Death of William McKinley, Sr.. in November. 1895. Unanimously renominated for governor of Ohio and re-elected by a plurality of S0.9?.". this majority being the greatest ever recorded, with & single exception during the civil war, for any candidate in the history of the State. 1596. June 18. At the Republican national convention at St. Louis McKinley Is nominated for president on the first ballot, the result of the voting being as follows: McKinley 661. Reed S4V, Quay CO . Morton 53. Allison 35V2, Cameron 1. Is Elected President. 1896. Nov. 3. Receives a popular vote in the presidential election of 7,104.779, a plurality of 601.854 over his Democratic opponent, William J. Bryan. In the electoral college later McKinley receives 271 votes, against 176 for Bryan. 1597. March 4. Inaugurated President of the United State3 for the twenty-eighth quadrennial term. 1S97. March 6. Issues proclamation for an extra session of Congress to assemble March 15. The president's message dwells solely upon the need of a revision of the existing tariff law. 1S97. May 17. In response to an appeal from the president Congress appropriates $30,000 for the relief of the destitution in Cuba. 1S97. July 24. The "Dlngley tariff bill" receives the president's approval. 1597. Dec. 12. Death of President McKinley's mother at Canton, O. 1S9S. Both branches of Congress vote unanimously (the House on Mar. S by a vote of 313 to 0 and the Senate by a vote of 76 to 0 on the following day) to place $50.000.000 at the disposal of the president, to be used at his discretion "for the national defense." Ills Clll ma turn to Spain. 1S9S. March 23. The president sends to the Spanish government, through Minister Woodford at Madrid, an ultimatum regarding the intolerable condition of affairs in Cuba. 1898. March 28. The report of he court of inquiry on the destruction of the Maine at Havana, on Feb. 15, is transmitted by the president to Congress. 1893. April 11. The president tends a message to Congress outlining the situation, declaring that intervention is necessary and advising against the recognition of the Cuban government. 1598. April 21. The Spanish government sends Minister Woodford his passports, thus beginning the war. 189S. April 23. The president issues a call for 123.000 volunteers. 1S98. April 24. Spain formally declares that war exists with the United States. 1S98. April 25. In a message to Congress the president recommends the passage of a joint resolution declaring that war exists with Spain. On the same day both branches of Congress passed such a declaration. 1898. May 23. The president Issues a call for 75,000 additional volunteers. 1S98. June 29. Yale university confers upon President McKinley the degree of LU D. 189S. July 7. Joint resolution of Congress provided for the annexation of Hawaii receives the approval of the president. 1898. Aug. 9. Spain formally accepts the president's terms of peace. 1S98. iAug. 12. The peace protocol is signed. An armistice is proclaimed and the Cuban blockade raised. 1898. Oct. 17. The president receives the degree of LL. D. from tat University of Chicago. 1898. Dec. 10. The treaty of peacs between Spain and the United States is signed at Paris. 1900. March 14. The president signs the "gold standard act." 1900. June 21. The Republican national convention at Philadelphia unanimously renominates William McKinley for the presidency. 1900. June 21. The president's amnesty proclamation to the Filipinos la published in Manila. 1900. July 10. The United States government makes public a statement of its policy as to its affairs In China, 1900. Sept. 10. Letter accepting th presidential nomination and discussing the issues of the campaign is giren to the public. 1900. Nov. 6. In the presidential election Wrilliam McKinley carries 23 states, which have an aggregate of 291 votes in the electoral college.

Asruzzi Trove His Mettle. The Duke of Abruzzi last summer again proved his mettle. In the first week of August he succeeded In getting on top of one of two peaks In the Mont Blanc group, which have heretofore been considered inaccessible the "Dames Anglaises." He gave It ths name of "Ioland peak." The natives of Courmayeur, who had watched ths aicent with spyglasses, gave him a rousing reception on his return. Denmark Would P. terminate Hat. a war of extermination has been going on in Denmark for some time against rr.ts, which have caused much damage to property. A number of new inventions in the way of rat traps and the like have been offered to the public, and this has suggested the idea in Copenhagen of an exhibition. IV I no Production of World. The Italian ministry of agriculture has figured out that ths total wine production of the world last year was 163,000,000 hectoliters of which Europ supplied all but 13,000,000.

T ALM AGE'S SERMON.

"CHURCH DECADENCE" LAST SUN- j DAY'S SUBJECT. Says That Chnr.-b. Attendance Is on the Increase ot Forsaking the Assemblingof Ourselves Together" Hebrew xt 25. Copyright, 1001, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y. Washington, Sept. 15. Most encouraging to all Christian workers Is this discourse of Dr. Talmage while denying the accuracy of statistics which represent Sunday audiences as diminishing; text, Hebrews x: 25, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Startling statements have been made In many of the pulpits and in some of the religious newspapers. It Is heard over and over again that church attendance in America is in decadence. I deny the statements by presenting some hard facts. No one will dispute ! the fact that there are more churches . in America than ever before, one denomination averaging two new cnurehes every day of the year. The law of demand and supply is as inexorable in the kingdom of God as it is in the world. More churches supplied argues more church privileges demanded. More banks, more bankers; more factories, more manufacturers; more ships, more Importers; more churches, more attendants. In all our cities within a few years churches have been built large enough to swallow up two or three of the oldtime churches. I cannot understand with what kind of arithmetic and slate pencil a man calculates when he comes to the conclusion that church attendance In America is in decadence. Take the aggregate of the number of people who enter the house of God now and compare it with the aggregate of the people who entered the noue of God twenty-five years ago, and the present attendance is four to one. The facts are most exhilarating instead of being depressing. That man who represents the opposite statistics must have been most unfortunate in his church acquaintance. Ue of Modern 31 et hod 9. Churches are often cleared of their audiences by the attempt to transplant the modes of the past into the present. The modes and methods of fifty year., ago are no more appropriate for to-day than the modes and methods of to-day will be appropriate for fifty years hence. Dr. Kirk. Dr. McElroy, Dr. Mason, Dr. De Witt, Dr. Veimilyea and hundreds of other men just as good as they were never lacked audiences, because they were abreast of the time In which they lived. People will not be interesting in what we say unless we understand the spirit of the day in which we live. All the woebegonish statistics are given by those who are trying in our time to work with the wornout machinery of the past times. Such men might just as well throw the furnaces out of our church basements and substitute the foot stoves which our grandmothers used to carry with them to meeting, and throw out our organs and our cornets and take the old-fashioned tuning fork, striking it on the knee and then lifting it to the ear to catch the pitch of the hymn, and might as well throw out our modern platforms and modern pulpits and substitute th wineglass pulpit up which the minij-ter used to climb to the dizzy height of Mont Blanc solitariness and then go in and out of sight and shut the door after him. When you can get the great masses of the people to take passage from Albany to Buffalo in stage-coach or canalboat in preference to the lightning express train which does it in four hours, then you can get the great masses of the people to go to a church half a century behind the time. Sympathies of the People. At a meeting of the general assembly Of the Presbyterian church of the United States a clergyman accustomed on the Sabbath to preach to an audience of two or three hundred people. In an audience room that could hold fifteen hundred, was appointed to preach a sermon on how to reach the masses. I am told the incongruity was too much for the risibilities of many of the clergy in the audience. Now, a young man coming out from such bedwarfing Influences, how can he enter into the wants and the woes and the sympathies of the people who want on the Lord's day a practical gospel that will help them all the week and help them forever? Young ministers are told they must preach Christ and him crucified. Yes. but not as an abstraction. Many a minister has preached Christ and him crucified in such a way that he preached an audience of live hundred down to two hundred, and from two hundred to one hundred, and from one hundred to fifty, and from fifty to twenty, and on down until there was but little left save the sexton, who was paid to sfay until the service was over and lock up. There is a great deal of cant about Christ and him crucified. It Is not Christ and him crucified as an abstraction, but as an omnipotent sympathy applied to all the wants and woes of our Immortal nature; a Christ who will help us In every domestic, social, financial, political, national struggle a Christ for the parlor, a Christ for the nursery, a Christ for the kitchen, a for the banking house, a Christ for the street, a Christ for the store, a Christ for the banking house, a Christ for the factory, a Christ for the congressional assembly, a Christ for tbe courtroom, a Christ for every trial and every emergency and every perturbation.. Meeting Public Needs. Ah, in; friends, churches will be largely attended just in proportion as we ministers can meet their wants, meet their sufferings, meet their bereavements and meet their sympathies. If there be a church with small help, small audience, medium help, medium audience; largo help, large audience. If there be a famine In a city and three depots of bread and one depot has 100 loaves and another 500 loaves and another depot 10,000 loaves, the depot that has 100 loaves will have applicants, the depot that has 500 loaves will have far more applicants, the depot that has 10,000 loaves will have throngs, throngs, throngs. Oh. my brethren In the Christian

ministry, we must somehow get our shoulder under the burden of the people on the Lord's day and give them a good stout life, and we can do it. We have it all our own way. It is a great pity if, with the floor clear and no Interruption, we cannot during the course of an hour get our hymn or our prayer or our sermon under such momentum we can, by the help of God. lift the people, body, mind and soul, clear out of their sins, temptations and troubles. I think that ministerial laziness often empties the church of auditors. Hearers, who are intelligent through reading newspapers and by active association in business circles, will not on the Sabbath sit and listen to platitudes. Hearers will not come to sermons which have in them no important facts, no information, no stirring power, no adaptation, no lire. The pewwill not listen to the pulpit unless the pulpit knows more than the p?w. Ministerial laziness has cleared out many churches. Such ministers saunter around from parlor to parlor under the name of pastoral visitation and go gadding about through the village or the city on errands of complete nothingness and wrap their brains around a cigar and smoke them up, and then on Saturday afternoon put a few crude thoughts together and on Sunday morning wonder that the theme of Christ and him crucified does not bring a large audience, and on Monday sit down and write jeremiads for the religious newspapers about the decadence of church attendance. Churchgoing as a Duty. People will not go to church merely as a matter of duty. There will not next Sabbath be a thousand people in any city who will get up in the morning and say: "The Bible says I must go to church. It is my duty to go to church, therefore I will go to church." The vast multitude of people who go to church go to church because they like it, and the multitude of people who stay away from church stay away because they do not like it. I am not speaking about the way the world ought to be. I am speaking about the way the world is. Taking things as they are, we must make the centripetal force of the church mightier than the centrifugal. We must make our churches magnets to draw the people thereunto, so that a man will feel uneasy if he does not go to church, saying: "I wish I had gone this morning. I wonder if I can't dress yet and get there in timp. It is 11 o'clock; now they are singing. It Is half-past 11; now they are preaching. I wonder when the folks will !o home to tell us what was said, what has been going on." When the impression is confirmed that" our churches, by architecture, by music, by sociality and by sermon, shall be made the most attractive places on earth, then we will want twice as many churches as we have now, twice as large, and then they will not half accommodate ihe people. Vicarious Suffering:. Why should we go away off to get an illustration of the vicarious suffering of Jecus Christ when at Bloomfield, N. J., two little children wer? walking on the rail track and a train was coming; but they were on a bridge cf trestlewcrk. and the little girl too': her brother and let him down through the trestlework as gently as she could toward the water, very carefully and lovingly and cautlou ly. so that he might net be hurt in the fall and picked up by those who were standing near by; while doing that the train struck her, and hardly enough of h?r body was left to gather into a funeral casket? What was that? Vicarious suffering. Like Christ. Pang for ethers. Woe for others. Death for others. WThat Is the use of our going away off to find an illustration in pist ages when in Michigan a mail carrier on horseback, riding on, pursued by those flames which had swept over a hundred miles, saw an old man by the roadside, dismounted, helped the old man on the horse, saying. "Now. whip up and get away" The old man got away, but the mall carrier perished. Just like Christ dismounting from the glories of heaven to put us on the way of deliverance, then falling back into the flames of sac:ifice for others. Pang for others. Woe for others. Death for others. Vicarious suffering. What is the use of our going away off in ancient history to find an illustration of the fact that it is dangerous to defy God when In the Adirondacks I saw a flash of lightning and bolt so vivid I said, "That struck something very near?" A few hours afterward we found that two farmers that Monday morning had teen 6eatcd under a tre the one boasting how the day before on the Lord's day he had got his hay In and so cheated the Lord out of that part of the time anyhow, and both of them laughing over the achievement by which they had wronged the Lord of his holy day. when the lightning struck one dead Instantly, and the other had been two weeks in bed when we left the Adirondacks and has become an Invalid. I suppose, for life. He did not make as much out of the Lord as he thought he did. Was It any less an Illustration for my soul because I met the clergyman on his way home from the funeral, and he told me of the facts and said the body of the man who had been destroyed was black with electricity? The Hlessed Rest. What is the use cf going away off to get an illustration when In a house on Third avenue, Brooklyn. I saw a woman dying, and she sa'd, "Mr. Talmage, heaven used to be to mo a great way off, but it now is just at the foot of the bed?" What is the uo of your going away off to get Illustrations of a victorious deathb d when all Wales was filled with the story of tbe dying experience of Frances Ridley Havergal? She got her feet wet standing on the ground preaching temperance and the gospel to a group of boys and men, went home with a chill, and congestion set in, and they told her she was very dangerously sick. "I thought fo," she said, "but it is really too good to be true that I am going. Doctor, do you really think I am tfolng?" "Yes. "Today?" "Prob ably." She said. "Beautiful, splendid, to be so near the gate of heaven." Then after a spasm of pain she nestled

down In the plflows and said, "Tnert now, It is all over blessed rest." Then she tried to sing, and she struck one glad note, high note of praise to Christ, but could sing only one word, "He," and then all was still. She finished It in heaven. Jfo Need for Apologies. It is high time that the church of God stopped writing apologies for the church. Let the men who are on the outside, who despise religion, write the apologies. If any people do not want the church, they need not have it. It is a free country. If any man does net want the gospel, he need not have it. It is a free country. Bui you go out, O people of God, and give the gospel to the millions of America who do want It! It Is high time to stop skirmishing and bring on a general engagement. I want to live to see the Armaggedon, all the armies of heaven and hell in battle array, for I know our conqueror on the white horse will gain the day. Lot the church of God be devoted to nothing else, but go right on to this conquest. When Moses with his airny was trying to conquer the Ethiopians, profane history says, it was expected that he would go in a roundabout way and come by the banks of the river, as other armies had done, because the straight route was infested with snakes, and no army and no man had dared to go across this serpent infested region. But Moses surprised them. He sent his men out to gather up .bises. The ibis is a bird celebrated for serpent slaying, and these ibises were gathered into crates and into baskets, and they were carried at the head of the army of Moses, and, coming up to the serpent infected region, the crates were opened, and the ibises flew forth, and the way was Cleared, and the army of Moses marched right on and came so unexpectedly on the Ethiopians that they flew In wild dismay. 0 church of God, you are net to march in a roundabout way, but to go straight forward, d pending upon winged influences to clear the way. Hosts of the living God, march on, march on! Church attendance, large now, is going to be larger yet. The sky is brightening in every direction. I am glad for the boy and girl five years old. I think they may see the millennium. The wheel of Christian progress has never made one revolution backward. The world moves, the kingdom advances. AH nations will yet salute the standards of Prince Immanuel. To him be glory in the church throughout all acres! Amen.

ABSENT-MINDED SCIENTIST. The Professor's Remarkable FeaU of Lack of Memory. Hie absent-mindedness of Dr. Alfred FmerLon, the archeologist, formerly of tht Johns Hopkins University, and who is now abroad making a collection of antiquities for the museum of tha University of Carfornia. is well krown among his Baltimore friends. The memorable occasion when, booked for a public lecture at the Hopkins, he jet his audience wait in ghastly supns3 while he, all unconscious of the engagement, was found busily employed unpacking a box of ca.ts. will long bn remembered. His carefully adjusting a fresh collar over one already on, his going to the station and forgetting to take his train, are historic in university lore; but it remains for his friend and co-laborer, Joseph Thatcher Clark of the British Museum, to tell the following story. The pair weie on routo to make some important excavations ar.d had reached Southern Europe, when Dr. Emerson appeared with an indignant face and a letter from America in his hand. He explained that the letter was from one of his several brothers, accusing him of having absent-mindedly carried off several shirts belonging to the brother when starting abroad. "To prove hom basely false and unjust his suspicions are," said the troubled doctor, "I will get all my shirts and spread them out before you and see if you can find a single one bearing any initial other than my own." The shirts, eleven in number, were produced, and consternation followed when they were found to be variously labeled Arthur Hale, G. Emerson, H. Emerson, I. Z N. F. K. In fact, all except two these bearing no label at all, and presumably Dr. Emerson's bore initials other than his own. Baltimore Sun. The Baby Was Hungry On a Darby car a young woman witn a square chin and a determined look dandled a crying baby on her knee. "Now, darling, mamma wills you to be quiet. Mamma wills you to go to sleep," she repeated over and over again. But the Infant was not In the least susceptible to Christian science, hypnotic suggestion or any other form of psychological Influence. It screamed lustily and tried to get all of its chubby little fist In its mouth at once. "Madam," said a man who was reading a newspaper, "I was a father before you were born. You are cn the wrong tack. That baby is hungry. I advise you to feed it." London Times. Effect of IJght Vpon Sex. Some curious experiments with silkworms made recently in France may be used as the basis of a new sex theory even more remarkable than that of Dr. Schenk of Vienna. The experiments were made by M. Camllle Flammarlon, the celebrated French astronomer, and were described at a meeting of the Academle des Sciences by M. Bouquet de la Grye, who declared that tests made on a great number of silkworms showed that tkose bred under natural light produced an equal number of male and female worms, while those bred under a glass of light violet color produced 77 per cent, of males. Ills Departed. Jenkins Whose photograph Is that In your watch. Jobson That's a likeness of my departed wife. Jenkins (dolefully) Alas! In heaven? Jobson (more dolefully) She must be, from the size of the hotel bills I receive weekly. Leslie's Weekly. "What Is the name of that book that shows the social standing of the aris tocratic families?" inquired the seeker after knowledge. " 'Bradstrcefs' " promptly replied the man wha knew.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Trial of a Family at Vlncennes Charged With Burning a Methodist Church Couple Wed While Riding Fifty Mils an Hour. Meeting of Miniter at Brazil. Bishop Fitzgerald opened the fiftieth session of the Northwest Methodist Episcopal conference at Brazil and the roll call showed 225 ministers present. A devotional service was held and prayers were offered for McKinley. The presiding elders of the various districts reported all the ministers in good standing and a vast number cf new churches built this year. Rev L. C. Buckles, who has been an effe."tiv3 member of ti:3 conference for thirtyfive years, was plaed on the superannuated list and the stewards were Instructed to make him a claimant. A resolution was adopted instructing the secretary to send J. H. Hollingsworth 01 South Bond, who i? dangerously ill, a telegram assuring him oi the prayers of tne conference. Bev. E. W. Laughlin of Boswell was attacked with heart disease and was carried from the conference-room to the basement and medical aid summoned. He is in a serious condition. Auditor Will Tlclit Order. The city council of B uffton and Auditor Marsh are having a controversy which if it cots into court will ba looked forward to with interest by every city and town in Indiana. June 1 City Clerk Kojntz filed a certified copy of the tax levy adopted by the city council with the auditor, who h.13 refused to place on the tax duplicate without compensation. Heretofore the auditor received $-00 a year for placing city taxes en the "I'lp icate ani the treasurer $1L0 for collecting th same, but City Attorney S:u;g's' opinion is that ti.e audit-ir unde- tbe state law is compelled to plac-? the same on the duplicate, and as no compensation is stated, he is not entitle I to pay. A writ of mandate will be issued if Auditor Marsh d cs not cinnze his attitude. If a tet ca?3 takes place it will be of vitnl importance to all cities in the state. The iuprem? court has never pa?sed on such a cas ;. Bought by a Chioaco Finn. The Collier Shovel and stamping company of Washington. Ind.. has been consolidated with the Chicago Steel Manufacturing company of Chicago, the deal having been consummated Thursday. The price pail for the Washington plant was $130.0.0. the capital stock of which is to be Increased from $000.000 to $050.000. The officers of the company will be: President. F. S. Hutchinson of Chicago; first vice president. V. M. Baldwin of Indianapolis: second vice president, A. F. Cabel of Washington; treasurer, M. S. Denslow of Chicago; secretary. L. H. O'Donnell of Washington. Ind. The Washington plant employs about seventy-five men. It will probably be removed to Hammond. Ind.. within the next few months and consolidated with the rolling mills of the Chicago company, which are located in that city. Charged With Firing Chnrch. The trial of Isaac Ilirckman, his wife. Lucy, and their daughter. Miss Helen Barekman. was begun in th? Circuit Court at Vinrennes. The Barckmans are charged with burning Earekman Chapel, a Methodist Church, east of that city, last March. Th? Barekmans were arrayed against practically the entire congregation. Mr. Barekman had donated the site for the church. On the morning after the fire, it is alleged, a horse and cart were tracked Trom Barekman's gate to Ihr church and back. Wed at Fifty Mile an Iloor. John Sanderson and ML-s Josephine Breitenbach of Greentown were married on the Clover Leaf passenger train between that place and Kokomo. At a given signal of the engineer, while the cars were going fifty miles an hour, the couple stood up and was married by Mayor Rogers of Greentown, that official having accompanied them to Kokomo to procure the license. New Electric Line FlannedThe Cincinnati & Indianapolis Traction Company, organized for the purpose of building an electric line from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, has been incorporated. The route will be through Marlon, Shelby, Decatur, Franklin and Dearborn counties touching Shelbyville. Grecnburg and other county seats. Thieves Beat and Rob Woman. Mrs. William Haberkorn was attacked at Valparaiso by two unknown men, whom she refused something tu eat. She was found unconscious twe hours later by her hu.-band. The thieves ransacked the house and secured $100 and some jewelry. Her injuries may prove fatal. Two Prison OfticlaU Besten. Harry L. Henderson, chaplain and State agent, and Dr. A. L, Spanning, physician of the State's prison at Michigan City, have resigned and are no longer connected with that Institution. They resigned at the request of Warden Shideler. who declines to make public the reason except to say that he asked for their resignations for the betterment of the prison. Warden Shideler tendered his resignation to Governor Durbin a few days agj and It has been accepted. Struck by a Switch Engine. While walking between two tracks of the Monon road Legrande Lawrence, a well known and popular young man of Bedford, was struck by a switch engine and It is feared he may be fatally Injured. Golden Wedding at Valparaiso. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holstein of Valparaiso, observed their golden wedding anniversary Thursday. They are both 74 years old, and pioneer set-ilera.