Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 October 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

THE CHARM OF EXALTED RELIGION THE SUBJECT. From Job XXVIII "The Crjstal Cannot Equal It" Preparation for Eternal Treasures Should Itogiu Early In the Material World Open the Door to ClirUt. Copyright, 1901, by Loul3 Klopscb, N. Y. Washington, Uct. C.Tiie charm of an exa.ted religion is by Dr. Talmage in this discourse illustrated and cjjimended; text, J b xxviii, 17, "The crytal cannot equal it." Many of th- pi ecu us srones of the Bible have c-me to prompt recognitlon. Hut for the p.e-ent I take up the less valuable crystal. Job, in my text, compares savirg wi.-djm with a specimen of topaz. An infidel chemist or mineralog.st would pronounce the latter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at religion and then lookat the crystal and pronounces the former as of far superior value to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my text, "The crystal cmnot equal it." Now, it is not a part of my sermonic design to depreciate the crystal, whether it be found in Cornish mine or Ilaiz m. u: tain or Mammoth cave or tinkling among the pendants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal ia the star of ti e mountain; it is the queen of the cave; it is the eardrop of the hills; it finds its heaven in the diamond. Among all the pages of natural history there is no page more Interesting to me than the page crystallography. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in ore hand and the crystal In the otheis. he declared that the former is of far more vi'ue and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all people and to all the ags. declaring "The crystal cannot eqial it." God's I in mutable I.aw. In the first p. ace, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal agaii.st v-hieh you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city There are s x styles of crystallization and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God's geometry reaches through It, and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some way it has a mathematical figure. Now. religion beas that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material accuracy. God's attributes are exact, God's laws exact. God's decrees exact, God's management o the wo.ld exact. Never counting wrong, tlK.'Uh he counts the giass blades and the stars and the sands and the cycles. His providences never dealing with us perpendicularly when those pruv.'i.ces ought to be oblique, nor laterally when they ought to be vertical. Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six-headed prism. Born at the right time; dying at the right time. There are no "happen so's" in our theology. If I thought this was a slipshod universe, I would be in despair. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect circle. The edge of God's robe of government nevr frays out. There are no loose screws in the world's machinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with indigestion at Borodino so that he became incompetent for the day. It did not just happen thit John Thomas, the missionary, on a heathen Island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received that outfit and those ordeis in a box that floated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box. were never heard of. I believe in a particular providence. I believe God's geometry may be seen in all our life more beautifully than in crystallography. Job was right. "The crystal cannot qual it." More Tranparant Than Crjstal. Again I lemaik that religion is superior to the ci Vital in t ansparency. We know not when cr by whom glass was first discovered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vase, of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it 3000 years ago those adornments found now attached to the mummies of Egypt. A great many commentators beMeve that my text means glass. What would we do w.thout the crystal? The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let in the day; the crystal over the watch, defending its de icate machinery yet allowing U3 to see the hour; the crystal of the telescop, by which the astronomer brings distant worlds so near he can inspect them. Oh the triumphs of the crystals in the celebrated windows of Rouen and Salisbury! But there is nothing so transpar nt in crystal as in our holy religion. It is a transparent religion. You put it to your eye and you see man his sin, his soul, his destiny. You look at God and you see something of the grandeur of his character. It is a transparent religion Infidels tell us it i3 opaque. Do you know why they tell us it is opaque? It is because they are blind. -The natural man receivrth not the things of God becaus? they are spiritually discerned." There 13 no trouble with the crystal. The trouble is with the eyes which try to look through it. We pray for vision. Lord, that our eyes might be opened! When the eye salve cures our blindness, then we find that religion is transparent. Preparation for Kterinl Treasures. The providence that was dark before becomes pellucid. Now you find God is not trying to put you down. Xow you understand why you lost that child and why you Inst your property. It was to p-ep.ne you for eterrvi treasures. And why sickness came, it being the precursor of immortal Juvenescence. And now you understand why they lied about you and tried to drive you hither and thither. It was to put you In the glorious company of such a man as Ignatius, who, when he went out to be destroyed by tho lions; said, "I am the wheat, and the teeth of the wild beasts must first grind me before I can become pure

bread for Jesus Christ Or the company of such men as "that ancient Christian martyr" who, when standing in the midst of the amphitheater waiting for the lions to come out of their cave and destroy him and the people in the galleries jeering and shouting. "The lions!" replied, "Let them come on!" and then, stooping down toward the cave, where the wild b a-ts were riaring to get cut, again cried, "Let them come on!" Ah. yes. it is perse

cution to put you n glorious company. and while there are many things you will have to postpone to the future world for explanation I tell you that it is the whole tendency of your religion to unravel and explain and interpret and illuminated and Iradiate. Job was right. It is a g'orious trasparency. "The crystal cannot equal it." Ilnmiony ami Symmetry. Beautiful in its symmetry. When it presents God's character, it docs not present him as having love like a great protuberance on one side of his nature, but makes that love in harmony with his justice a love that will accept all those who come to him, and a justice that will by no means clear the guilty. Beautiful religion in the sentiment it implants! Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and emparadisc an immortal spirit. Solomon says it is a lil Paul says it is a crown. The Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed by the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a brie'e. While Job in the text takes up a whole vase of precious stones the topaz and the sapphire and the chrysoc ras us he holds out of this beautiful vase just one crystal and holds it up until it gleams in the warm light cf the eastern sky, and he exclaims. "The crjstal cannot equal it." Oh, It is not a stale religion; it is not a stupid religion; it Is not a toothless hag. as some seem to have represented it; it is not a Meg Mcrrilies with shriveled arm come to scare the world: it is the fairest daughter of God. heiress of all his wealth; her cheek tne morning sky. her voice the music of the south wind, her step the dance of the sea. Come end wot her. The Spirit and the Bride say come. and whosoever will, let him come. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is a crown? Then let this hour be your coronation. Do you agree with the Apocalypse and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slake the thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foiiaged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord and King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then put it on votir hand like a ring, on your neck like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God's word you acknowledge, "The crystal cannot equal it." Superior to I'rytttal. Again, religion is supuerior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization. Carbonate of lime rises till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octahedrons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our homes and our museums have only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examining these wonderful transformations. But I tell you in the gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron God, by his comforting grace, stoops and says, "They shall be mine in the day when I make up my jewels." "What!" say you. "Will God wear Jewelry?" If he wanted it, he could make the stars of the heaven his belt and have the evening cloud for the sandals of his feet, but he does not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. When God wants jewelry, he comes down and digs it out of the depths and darkness of sin. These souls are all crystallizations of mercy. He puts them on, and he wears them in the presence o the whole universe. He wears them on the hand that was nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on the tem pies that were stung. "They shall be mine," saith the Lord, "in the day when I make up my jewels." Wonderful transformation! Where sin abounded grace shall much more abound. The carbon becomes the soli taire. "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, I have no liking for those peo ple who are always enlarging in Chris tian meetings about their early dissi pation. Do not go Into the particu lars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make no display of your ulcers. The chief stork in trade of some ministers and Christian work ers seem to be their early crimes and ftfeef nntlftne rT Ii n niimltai f .aa.-. 1 . . . .. ( LlM, A lie I1UUIU.I Kßl lßJ. IVCTIO ; you picked and the number of chick- ! ens you stole make very poor prayer ! meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it dis ! courages other Christian people who I never got drunk or stole anything. But j it la pleasant to know that those who , were farthest down have been brought highest up. Out of infernal serfdom j Into eternal liberty. Out of darkness j Intc light. From coal to the solitaire. "The crystal cannot eqtul it." I'ower of the ion pel. But, my friends, the chief trans forming power of the gospel will not be seen in this world, and not until heaven breaks upon the soul. When j that light falls upon the soul, then ! you will see the crystals. What a I magnificent setting for these jewels of ! eternity! I sometimes hear people i representing heaven In a way that is j far from attractive to me. It seems ; almost a vulgar heaven as they rep ; resent it. with great blotches of color and bands of music making a deafen ing racket. John represents heaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three crystals! In one place he says, "Her light was like a precious stone, clear as crystal." In another plac he says, "I saw a pure river from under the throne, clear as crystal." In another place he fays, "Before the throne there was a sea of glass clear as crystal." Three crystals! John says crystal atmosphere. ' That means health. Balm of the eternal June. What weather after the

world's east wind! No rack of stormclouds. One breath of that air will cure the worst tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves, crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the temples. Crystal light tossing in the plumes of the equestrians of heaven on white horses. But "the crystal cannot equal it.' John says crystal river. That means joy. Deep and ever rolling. Not one drop of the Potomac or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it. No one tear of human sorrow to imbitter it. Crystal, the rain out of which it was made. Crystal, the bed over which

it shall roll and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. But "the crystal cannot equal it." John says crystal sea. That means multitudinous vast. Vast in rapture. Rapture vast as the sea. deep as the sea. strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea. Billows of light. Billows of beauty, blue with skies that were never clouded and green with depths that were never fathomed. Arctics and Antarctics and Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pacifies in crystalline magnificence. Three crystals! Crystal light falling on a crystal river. Crystal river roll ing Into a crystal sea. But "the crys tal cannot equal it." Open tlie Duor to Clrit. "Oh," says some one, "it is just the i doctrine I want. God is to do everything, and I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctiin? you want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain and it comes to crystallization; hut your heait resists. The trou ble with you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay coal. I do not ask you to throw open the door and let Christ in. I only ask that you stop bolting it and barring it. My friends, we will have to get rid of our sins. I will have to get rid of my sins, and you will have to get rid of your sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere would display our pollution. The crystal river would be befouled with our touch. Transformation must take place now or no transformation at all. Give sin full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. Instead of crystal it will be a cinder. ROUSSEAU WAS MODEST. II Refused to Expose an Impostor Posing In 111 Shoes. Jean Jacques Rousseau was not troubled greatly by conscientious scruples, yet he posse, sed the rare virtue of a broad, human sympathy in an eminent degree. Perhaps it was the consciousness of his own weaknesses that made him so sympathetic toward others. An anecdote is related of him which places this viitue of his In a strong light. On one occasion he had composed an opera, which was performed before the king, Louis XV., and met with the royal approval. The kirg sent for him and if he had put in an appearand he would probibly have obtained a pension. He was, however, of a retiring disposition and could n)t brirg himself to face the court. To his friends he gave as a reason his republican opinions, but his real reason was his shyness. Accordingly he fled from the court and sought the privacy of a public inn. While he was there a man came in, who began telling the company that he was the celebrated Rousseau, and proceeded to give an account of his opera, which, he said, had been performed before the king with great success. Most men in Rousseau's position would have felt nothing but contempt for the impostor, but this extraordinary man felt only pity and shame. "I trembled and blushed so," he tells us in his ' Confessions." for fear the man should be found out, that it might have been thought that I was the impostor." He was afraid that somebody might come in who knew him and expose the pretender. At last he could bear it no longer and slipped out unobserved. Very few people would treat an impostor like that. Detroit Free Press. WOMEN FORSAKE KITCHEN. I.att'.tt Fad of Feminine Emancipation Wollten in France. The latest fad of the feminine emancipation women in Fiance is that tho fair sex should no longer supervise what goes on in the household kitchen. This campaign against home cookers is led by Mme. Schmal, who contends that cookery should in the present age of progress, be the work of specialists. Trained cooks, it is proposed, outside the domestic circle, might prepare the various meals, and women, thus relieved of their duties as mistress of the house, would have more leisure to devote to higher pursuits. Washing such Is the argument is rarely done at home in France, nor mending, nor dressmaking. Why should not the kitchen be suppressed, and with it the daily drudgery of marketing or preparing meals? Mme. Scnmai appears to believe that matters would be excellently arranged by the foundation of culinary waiters, to which families would subscribe so much per month, and in return be provided with their daily food. The ambition of home life In France, particularly in Paris, we are all well aware, differs essentially from the notions on the subject in England. It may be doubted, however, whether the average Frenchwoman of the period would be happier were she relieved of one of the most important of her domestic functions. Daily Messenger. What Secretary ICoot Said. "Senator, you seem to forget that war itself is a hard, a dreadful thing; yet our old men clamor for It and our young men rush into it as if it were a holiday amusement. The executive does not declare war. Whn our wise men and popular leaders in the Congress of the United States plunge us into it, do they pause to think of the aged mothers and their tears and their b eaking hearts?" Boston Evening Transcript. A Hustler. Madge Why did she Insist on g?ing to South Dakota to spend the honeymoon? Maijorie So that in case they failed to agree the month could be counted in with the time necessary to secure a residence when she sued for a divorce.

I Current Topics $ "Debut of Miss "Roose-Oelt. Miss Alice Roosevelt, the new "daughter cf the white house," will make her debut late this fall, and society Is awaiting the event with great Interest, says a Washington dispatch. When it was first planned to introduce Miss Roosevelt in Washington this winter all the details of her debut were most carefully planned. These will of necessity be somewhat changed, but an effort will be made as far as possible to follow the lines that were laid down and one may be sure that Mrs. Roosevelt intends to fulfill to the letter her duties as chaperon and mother. Of course .there Is- no time set as to

'1 . tA'-4tyi r ' Us k ' ' MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT. when the formal introduction of Miss Roosevelt will take place, but it may safely be assumed that she will have an unusually brilliant winter for a debutante, and Mrs. Roosevelt has most carefully planned her trousseau, which now will simply mean some additions. Already what Miss Roosevelt is to be is being talked over, showing that the personal interest is not to be lost 9ight of in the sudden accession of public interest that must needs come in such a tremendous change of circumstances. Ufte Old and the JVew. Turn from the Herald, the Sun, the Tribune or the Times of today and glance over an issue of the same journals during the month of September, 1851. It is the paucity of personal news in the old n? w.-paper, the overflowing abundance of it today, that arrest the attention and denote the contrast; the great siace now given to reports of minor events, petty things, of which no one may hive interest for many persons, but which in the aggregate make the modern newspaper Indispensable to legions of readers', while the best and greatest of the newspapers of fifty years ago were easily dispensed with by the larger part of the community. New York Times. General Cor bin to IVed. Announcement has been made in Washington that the marriage of MaMISS EDYTHE PATTEN. Jor General II. C. Corbin, adjutantgeneral of the army, and Miss Edythe Patten will take place in that city z.t the residence of the bride Nov. 6. "Plea for the Chinese Minister Wu Ting-fang is right. There should be no bar to the admission of Chinese students in this country. We stand at the gate of Pekin demanding that China shall civilize herself, yet when the picks the best of her youth and sends them to this land to learn civilization, we send them back without even permitting them to land. There is a deal of humbug about this. Brooklyn Eagle. Duty as to Lynching. It is none too soon that the governors of the lynching states (only five states are now free from the crime) are endeavoring to arouse public sentiment against such outgrowths of barbarity. Such an awakening is a promising sign for the south, and will be hailed with satisfaction by the country. Boston Globe. After JWetu Jersey's Governorship. Franklin Murphy, whom the Republicans of New Jersey have nominated for the governorship, is an eminent and successful business man of Newark, where he heads a great company engaged in the manufacture and sale cf varnish. Mr. Murphy is a man of varied experience as a soldier, legislator and business man. Though but fifteen years old at the outbreak of the -1 .. : i i a p civil war, ne enA)V 1$ Ustotl a year or i. i. w ...ti l 1 HIV? Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteers, and saw much service. After the war ho entered tho varnish business In a modect way, and the present great establishment has grown from those beginnings. Though a resident of Newark, in Essex county, since his tenth year, Mr. Murphy Is a native of Jersey City, and on that account Hudson county claims him.

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LETTERS TO THE CHINESE. Postman I More Reverenced 1 China town Than Policeman. No Interpreter is required to assort the mail that comes to the resldenls of the Chinese colony In any of the larger cities of the country. The fact is due to the precautions- taken by the celestials themselves or their correspondents in the land where the ''boxer" thrives. A letter to a Chinaman is generally consigned to some wellknown person whose name is written in English. When a celestial writes to his family in China he invariably Incloses a directed envelope. Chinese names are a puzzle ev"ii to Chinamen. Every Chinaman has several entirely dissimilar names, his "birth name" and "marriage name" being instances. Then he has a clan name, or society name, and a business name and perhaps another name or two for variety sake. The larger firms have their addresses printed on envelopes which are supplied to their regular customers. The Chinese consider handling mail in the light of an honorable trust, and th'-re has never been any complaint that letters are delivered to the wrong person. A Chinese may have a serious' falling out with a firm and may have transferred I113 business to a rival, but mail addresred in care of his former connection always reaches him. The Chinese are great letter writers. Of course, there is a great deal of business correspondence between Chinatown and Chinese rorts, but much of tho mail matter is of a social nature. Many Chinese who have a good command of the intricate written language of the dragon erapira make a good living writing letters for others of their race who don't know how to write. When a Chinese in this city writes to his relatives in China he incloses an addressed envelope. The postman is more reverenced In Chinatown than the policeman. In fact, that hardly expreses it, for the policeman only gets the reverence which comes from fear of the law, while the postman, as the link which connects the inhabitants with the land of their birth, is most popular. - He is a fortunate man every Chinese New Year's week, for he receives mans presents. If he tried to drink all the Chinese wine offered to him on his rounds in the holiday week, he would never live through It. One does not have to consult a shipping guide in Chinatown to learn when the next mall is due from the far East. The Chinese know to a day when every mail arrives and figure to the hour rgarding the posting of China-bound letters. They know that it takes thirty-two days for a letter to go from Chicago to Hong Kong if it is sent by the Vancouver steamers. They also know that it takes a little longer if sent by the San Francisco or Seattle routes, consequently, the Vancouver mail is always the heavier.

PERSUADED WITH A CAMERA. How m Young .Man Won Over His Prospective Fnther-Iu-Law. "It was simply bull-headed luck," said the young man with the red shirt waist. "Papa declared that it would be a warm day when he consented to my marrying his daughter, and as the weather record had been broken several times after he had made that remark, I was beginning to lose hope. When all-the-wcrld-to-me went on her vacation I went to the same place and put up at the same hotel. Now, papa-in-law-to-be is an old blowhard, and it made me tired everybody else, too the way he bragged about the fish he caught in former years. Finally, some one hinted that it would be a good plan for him to make good and give us an example of his skill as a fisherman. He accepted the challenge and spent three days getting his tackle ready. He went alone, as he said he didn't want to be bothered by having any greenhorns along, and we waited with bated breath for him to return. Now, I am something of a camera fiend and late in the afternoon I started out to take a picture of a little wooded dell when the shadows were well down. I was making my way to the road through some thick brush when I discovered my daddy-in-law-to-be standing In the middle of the road bargaining with a small boy for a long string of magnificent fish. Quick as a flash I took a snap shot of him just as he was holding onto his pocket with one hand and digging into it with the other. I let the old man brag around the hotel for three days about the fish he had caught. Then I showed him the picture, told him if he didn't consent to my marrying his daughter I would spread it broadcast over the hotel, and pointed out where his reputation would be. He wilted, gulped hard and surrendered. He isn't a bad sort when you know how to handle him." Detroit Free Press. Saved th l.lttle Bottie. " I have a patient who is wonderfully considerate of my interests," said a prominent physician lately. "A few weeks ago he had malaria, and I prescribed quinine for him, giving him four-grain capsules, so that he might take the drug without discomfort. He came out of his attack and a few days later called to eee me at my offlce. Judge of my surprise when he exhibited the empty capsules and said, 'Doctor, I thought you might like the little bottles, so I saved them and brought them back.' He had emptied each fourgrain dose of the bitter powder, and then essayed the rather hopelese task of washing it down with water: 1 couldn't do otherwise than to take the 'little bottles' from him without a word and next time I'll give him quinine In another ' form." Philadelphia Public Ledger. Miss Kulcher Did you ever go In for literature, Mr. Gay? Mr. Gay Weiler not exactly, but once when I was at college I wrote a short story and got $100 for it. Miss Kulcher Really! What was it? Mr. Gay Dear Father: I'm broke. Please send me a hundred. After a woman comes home from church she has the same sort of guaranteed credit feeling that a man has just after he makes a fat bank de posit.

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More carelessness of the Icderal census-takers Ls manifest. This week I);!eville, a populous town of Delaware county, reported that no one had taken j t..' census there. A dispatch co:us from Kempton that that town was j mi--ed. No satisfactory explanation j h:; ever been heard. Kempton lias J l')vTi" 1 ('tt)l nonulot Ion Ttn' . t huii'iing? and two mile.-; cf brick sidewalks are a part cf this year's improvements. The town has a bank and two newspapers and much building is in prospect. George llamerlem, aged S3. pro!a!! the oldest justice of the peace in Indiana, committed suicide at Evansvillc by hanging himself at his home U'.ar Jas; er. He was wealth.;,-. Two boys, ag( (i 7 and 9 years, respectively, .sons of Jaeob tloolwine, living iear Kokomo. proved themselves he:oes by eapturina. a g :ng f tramps and saving a surning Kchoolnouso to which the ;neu l ad set are With buckets the Dil! 1 arnei water frou the p'inip, and an r saving tho sli uct uro one mounted a horse without saddle or bridle and rode into town for oJiieei's, while the other Mood pamrd with :: air una over the sang. When re- nforcenients tramps were locked i:p. came the In a iar end eoüi.-ion cf freight trains on the i'anhandie Railroad at j Onward, foiatn miles som! tst of Loganspoit, four trainman io; their lives, H11! bodies being recovered hadiy mutilated, while the fouith had leer, almost consumed before the wrecking crew could subdue the Hames. The dead are: Thomas II. Bro-dus flagman; S. A. Galbrcath, brakeman; Ei'nert Greeley, conductor; John Hutchinson, fireman. The injured: Frank Patterson. The wreckage promptly caught fire and the tlames kept at bay the uninjured trainmen and the men gathered from near by farmhouses. A special train conveyed a part of the Logansport fire department to the scene. The wreck was the most disastrous the panhandle has had for years near there. Six cars were burned from the third .section, which, with tho two cabooses and the ruined engines, makes the loss quite large. The prize drill contest which the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, j was advertised to hohl at Anderson on Sunday was called off. General Carnahan of Indianapolis, who is at the head of the I'aii'orm Rank in the United States, informed the Anderson lodge that the proposed contest em Sunday was absolutely in violation the organic law of Knights of Pythias and must be abandoned. Subsequently a geneial order from (hand Chancellor Bookwalter was received to the same effect. A large number ef the

members at Anderson opposed the en- an mdus tral institute. Christian, n it terprise. ! nt -cetarian. but will give complete Irving Xeller of Washington town-' intrut!ion in any trade or profession, ship, Whitley county while assisting ! The endowment will be over Sl.OoO.in thrashing oats Saturday fell into the j 0o and will be increased by the anseparator. His right arm and shou!- j nual income of ?cr..000 from the Milllder were torn off. exposing his lunss. I -t',t-- The university is to be He died soon afterward j completed by September, 1902. ProfesSouth Bend's new I- pworth hospital, j S" R' T?-v,or. lat; Present th ...a -nnr.n 1... Kansas state normal, will be presi-

m ini tK l wl n tXLUjut pli'.;n'v, just been opened. It is probably the finest hospital of its -ize in America, being provided throughout with the latest equipment. It isva real brick, steme-trimmed structure etf thseo stories and basement and is fireproof. It is situated at Main and Xavanv streets. net far from the business center. The hospital is in charge of Miss Margaret Brennan as superinte-ndemt. Miss Clara Carr has charge of the nurses. A portion of the money used in the construction of the hospital was raised bv public subscript! blie subscription. The heaviest individual suIim riber was (Tem Studebaker, the manufae turer. who gave $3.000. Members of his family contributed $3,000 more. Len Byers, the famous Purdue back, has gone te Montana to accept a position with a drug company. While at Purdue he took a course i" )!iaru.aey, and last year was assistant professor in ..e chemical laboratory. He has bee-n at his home 111 this county since .June. The laige drainage canal, known as the Yellow river ditch, is now undei contrail te a reliaMe elr?dge company, and it will extend from the east 'ae ef Stalks county to the Kukee river, eighteen miles, thus straightening Yellow river and reclaiming many hundred acres ot land. There is a belief at Bedford that Hale Roberts, who died of morphine poisoning, had t:. drug administered to him in whisky by an enemy. Iteeently. while working in a coal chute, a would-be assassin t.heu at him. The Rev. A. C. Ormond of Chariton. la., has accepted a call to the pastorate ef the Presbyterian church in Kendallville. and will begin the discharge of los new duties in two weeks. Columbus C. Cain, a well-known farmer, residing near Kendallville, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities are over $4,000. and assets t'M). While sinking a well near Topeka. Ii Grange county, shale gas was struck at a depth of 200 feet. A company has been formed to sink the we'll to t rent on rock. The American Tin Plate company announces that, while it cannot revognizo the Amalgamated Association, it wjiI allow no eliscriminatiem npainst the old men when hey return to work. James Case, accused of entering the post office at Deep River ami escaping with $300 cash, has been arrested. There was still considerable money in his possession. Judge Fox at Richmond sustained a motion to quash the indictment against Wilbur Wood of Knightstown for alleged blackmailing, bedding it was net sufTicir.tly spec fir-. The blacksmith (epartment of the ear-works at Tcrrc Haute was destroyed by fire entailing a loss of $20.000. covered by Insurance. Captain Andrew J. Cochran, who was femnd dead in bed at Brookstem, eluring the civil war served as captain of Company F. Ninety-ninth Indiana. William R. Steele, a leading Republican politieian here, died at Princeton from the effects of an accident. In attempting to .set a monument at the grave of his wife the stone fell on him, crushing his chest and head. He lived four hours in terrible agony.

The directors of ihe People's National Bank at Washington, Ind., isued a statement today showing that Richard

C. Davis, the defaulting cashier, had appropriated $71.915 to his own use. Tu meet this shortage property haa been transferred to the bank ana money paid in aggregating J7Ü.244. Pitt.-ficld defeated Winchester at football in a one-sidd game, t'ecre: Pittsfield. 21; Winchester. 0. Tho city council of laiuport passed an anti-spitting ordinance, and the. same will be enforced on the streets o Lcgansport. The ordinance prohibit expecto! ativ:g on the sidewalks cf th city and the movement is backed by J the v. C. T. U. and the Ca -3 County j Medical vSoeiety. Numerous arresta are expect. d until the pew orJinanca is thoroughly p-'.Mi.-hed. Maj. G-oig" TV. St - le, .-eeretary of tho board of managers of the National ?o!i!i' !'?' Hm;ie nt Marion, v ho has rej turip-d home frui.i a tour ci iiiipeitioa t I with the hr; that a wrong interpreta'ion was-.nivi 11 to the interview with President MeMahon at Mil-wauk'-e eor:cei ni.ig caiio-ens. That In terview implied that e :n:i r.s would bo -staUish.'d in atl hram h ThU is wro!'. for they wi'l mnintair -d in the homes wk e they a;e now conducted only. The Or.t'a! -täte Wa'ervorhs' As1 "Nation h- Id th- iir.-.' s- s-ion cf th ; fifth :-nm;n' av triou at the Busi ness M r.'s .V--.-a-.dat ic n hall in Eva:.ivilie, with ;. :iiy one hundred d legates in at' n-iance. The convention was calle I to order by Pre-i 1-nt Harvey Cockre'l. of Columbus. O. After the add.e.-s of welc me by Mayor "cvert, whh h was res pen led to by th president of thr as ocia'ion, the g- acral business was tik'ii up. M ica time was giv. n up to a carefully propared paper on ele :t: o'.ysl-, which has create, I so much concern. The discussion pertained particularly to tha electrolysis of water and gas mains in cities, traced in lirge degree to tha electrical waste from the electiic street car service. Danville. Ind.. was chosen as tha next meeting place by the Indiana synod of the Cumberland Presbyteriaa church before the clcj.e of the synodical meeting at Vincenr.es. The date was fixed on the first Tuesday in October, 1902. The committee on education submitted a report on the proposed Milliken university at D.vatur, III. This university and Lincoln university will he e(mbined under ona management and will be superintended bv the Indiana, lillinois and Iowa svnj Milliken, the trillio-iair banker ef Decatur, has phased over $0.M'0 for the ostab'i.-hment of the ur.iversitv at Decatur, wlreh is to ha dent. Gov. Durbin's mail is burdened with letteis bearirg on the Taylor and Finley requisitions. The governor also lias received numerous telegrams f 1 m all parts of th s-ate, aal ev.n from other states, asking him not to h nor the r quisiiicn-. It is thought probable. Secretary Wilson says, that the goveine)r will 10 eh a dc'..-don on th reqni-itions this w ek. At the 1; vj s ' in 1 kidnaping either Taxi, r or rin.ey is j -"-cmited. Tue fust snr.w of the season fell at Wabash. 1 hursday. the II ikes melting as they fell The board of county commissioners of Allen county received the resignatiem of the defaulting county auditor. William Meyer. The bemdsmen were allowed to draw the salary elm1 Meyer for the last quarter, and paid over to the county the net amount ef the shortage, $1.931.04. George Orthib, acting chief deputy auditor, was appelated eatunty auditor. The Rev. T. C. Smith. Baptbd minister at Windfall has tendered his resignation, to take effect at one He will remove within a few days to Carroll, where he has been called in his pastoral work. It is probable that he will be suceeeded at Windfall by the Rev. Mr. Morgan of Idaville. William Potvl. Philip Bullen. John James, Joe Griffin, Isaac Pate. Edward Payne. Chales Moore. Eugene Moore. William Brown. Harvey Hodson. Spotford Clark, Charles McPorman. tteorge ! Armstrong. Fred Kcnby, Daniel Gilbert, Ü. W. Wiggins, O. F. Limit and O. H. Wilhams made up a hunting party and left New Castle for Elkmont. Ala. to spend two weeks fishing and hunting. The board of trustees of the Metho list church at Bunker Hill, is receiving bids fer wrecking and rebuilding the church. The place of worship now in use was built thirtyfive years ago. It is the intention to build a church, modern in every particular. The Rev. Mr. Cans is pastor. Frank Martin deputy auditor of state, has been selecteel warden of tho Michigan City prison to ft 1 the vacancy caused by the resignation several weeks ago of Warden Shidelcr. Mr. Martin has b?en In the state auditor's office a number of years. His selection was whol'y unexp cted, and, it is said, he will not accept the position. Dr. Ho n. of B tiff tin, ha been selected as prison physi- lan. As a result of family elifferences, James Church stabbed Charles bunbert. his brother-in-law, at Sullivan, cutting him In tho fic? nnd side. Judg John H. Baker of the United States court will gei from Indianapolis to Chicago in November to sit with thi United States Court of Appeals. II 4 will eee upy the vacancy en the bncn caused by the death of W. A. Woods. On Wedne.-day morning the Vandalia officially took possession of their new property, the Eel River railroad. Tl e first train sssmI over the line on Monday, conta.niug officials of the road and Supt. Gould o! the Wabash. Impiovcments will be begun at once, Vandalia headquarters will be movej from Terre Haute to Log.msporL