Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 49, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 November 1901 — Page 3

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TALMAGE?S SERMON. BAN VERSUS EVIL THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY.

Trmm FroTerbs XXI III 35, at Follows! "When Shall I Awake? I Will Seek It Yet Again The Return of the Prodigal Surmounting Obstacle. Copyright, 1301, by Louis Klopsen, N. Y. WasLlngton, Nov. 10. In this discourse Dr. Talmage depicts the struggle of a man who desires liberation from the enthrallment of evil and hows how he may be set free; text, Proverbs xxiii. 35: "When shall I iwake? I will seek it yet again." With an insight into human nature such as no other man ever had Solomon In these words Is sketching the mental processes of a man who has ftepped aside from the path of rectitude and would like to return. WishIns for something better he says: "When shall I awake? When shall I fet over this horrible nightmare of iniquity?" But seized upon by unradicated appetite and pushed down hill by his passions, he cries out: "I will seek it yet again. I will try It once to ore!" About a mile from Princeton, N. J., there is a skating pond. One winter day, when the ice was very thin, a farmer living near by warned the young men of the danger of skating at that time. They all took the warning except one young man. He, In the rplrit of bravado, said. "Boys, one round more." He struck out on his kates, the Ice broke, and his lifeless body was brought up. And In all matters of temptation and allurement It Is not a prolongation that is proposd. but only Just one more indulgence, Just one more sin. Then comes the fatality. Alas, for the one round more! "I will seek it yet again." Our libraries are adorned with elefant literature addressed to young men pointing out to them all the dangers and perils of life complete maps ef the voyage of life the shoals, the rocks, the quicksands. But suppose a young man is already shipwrecked, suppose he Is already off the track, suppose he has already gone astray, how can he get back? That is a question that remains unanswered, and amid all the books of the libraries I find not one word on that subject. To that class of persons I this day address myself. Surmounting Obstacles. So far as God may help me I propose to show what are the obstacles to your return and then how you are to surmount those obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of your return is the force of moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which brings flown to earth anything you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding mörai gravitation. I never shall forget a prayer I heard a young man make in the Young Men's Christian Association of New York. With trembling voice and streaming eyes he aid: "0 God, thou knowest how easy It Is for me to do wrong and how hard it is for me to do right! God help me!" That man knows not his own heart who has never felt the power of moral gravitation. In ycusr boyhood you had good associates and bad associates. Which most impressed you? During the last few years you have heard pure anecfiotes and impure anecdotes. Which the easiest stuck to your memory? You have had good habits and bad habits. To which did your soul more easily yield? But that moral gravitation may be resisted. Just as you may pick up anything from the earth and hold it in your hand toward heaven, Just so, by the power of God's grace, a fallen soul may be lifted toward peace, toward pardon, toward salvation. The force of moral gravitation is In every one of us, but also power in God's grace to overcome that force. Slavery to Habit. A physician tells his patient that he must quit the use of tobacco, as it is destroying his health. The man replies, "I can stop that habit easy enough." He quits the use of the weed. lie goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cannot add up a column of figures; he cannot leep nights. It seems as if the world had turned upside down. He feels his business is going to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging he is scolding and fretful. The composure that characterized him has given way to a fretful restlessness, and he has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent In the heavens? He has quit tobacco. After awhile he says: "I am going to do as I please. The doctor does not understand my case. I am going back to my old habits." And he returns. Everything assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten. The world becomes an attractive place to live in. His children, seeing the difference, hail the return of their father's genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue Into vhe sky, and greenness into the mountain foliage, and the glow of sapphire Into the sunset? What enchantment has lifted a world of beauty and Joy on his soul? He has resumed tobacco. The fact is, we all know In our om n experience that habit Is a taskmaster. As long as we obey it it does not chastise us; but let us resist, and we find that we are lashed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cable and thrown Into the track of bone breaking Juggernauts. Th Prodigal' Iteturn. The prodigal, wishing to get into good society, enters a prayer meeting. Some good man without much sense greets him by saying: "Why, are you here? You are about the last person that I expected to see in a prayer meeting. Well, the dying thief was saved, and there is hope for you." You do not know anything about this unless you have learned that when a man tries to return from evil coursos of conduct he runs against repulsions Innumerable. Wo say of some man, "He Urea a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the church. In all our great cities there are men who are 6.000 miles from church vast deserts of indifference between them and the house of God. The fact is we most keep our respectability though thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners, but If there com to

! the house of God a man with marks

of dissipation upon him people are almost sure to put up their hands In horror, as much as to say, "Is it not shocking?" How these dainty, fastidious Christians In all our churches are going to get into heaven I do not know, unless they have an especial train of cars cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They cannot go with the great herd of publicans and sinners. Oh, ye who curl your Hp of scorn on the fallen! I tell you plainly that if you had been surrounded by the same influences Instead of sitting today among the cultured, and the refined, and the Christian, you might have been a crouching wretch in a stable or ditch covered with filth and abomination. It is not because we are naturally any better, but because the mercy of God has protected us. Those that are brought up in Christian circles and watched by Christian parentage should not be so hard on the fallen. First Get Ashore. Why, it reminds me of a man drowning In the sea, and a lifeboat puts out for him, and the man in the boat says to the man In the water, "Now, if I get you ashore, are you going to live in my street?" First get him ashore and then talk to him about the nonessentials of religion. Who cares what church he Joins if he only joins Christ and starts for heaven? Oh. you, my brother of illumined face and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from his evil way, take hold of the same hymnbook with him, though his dissipation shake the book, remembering that he that "converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins." Now, I have shown you these obstacles because I want you to understand I know all the difficulties in the way. But I am now going to tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps and how the shackles may be unriveted and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all, throw yourself on God. Go to him frankly and earnestly and tell him these habits you have and ask him, if there is any help in all the resources of omnipotent love, to give it to you. Do not go on with a long rigmarole, which some people call prayer, made up of ohs and ahs and forever and forever aniens! Go to God and cry for help. Healing ltalm for Wounds. I remember that while living in Philadelphia, at the time I spoke of a minute ago. the Master Street hospital was opened, and a telegram was received, saying: "There will be 300 wounded men tonight. Please take care of them." From my church there went out twenty or thirty men and women. As the poor wounded men were brought in no one asked of them from what state they came or what was their parentage. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how to take oft the rags most gently and put on the cool bandage and administer the cordial. And when a soul comes to God he does not ask where you came from or what your ancestry was. Healing balm for all your wounds; pardon for all your guilt; comfort for all your troubles! Then, also, I counsel you, if you want to get back, quit all your bad associates. One unholy intimacy will fill your soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed among the 1,600.000,000 of the race, not one instance. Give up your bad companions or give up heaven. It is not ten bad companions that destroy a man nor five bad companions nor three but one. What chance is there for the young roan I saw along the street, four or five young men with him, in front of a grogshop, urging him to go in, he resisting, violently resisting, until after awhile they forced him to go In? It was a summer night, and the door was left open, and I saw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to his Hps. and they forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for such a young man? Surrendering to CJimI. Some of you, like myself, were born in the country. And what glorious news might these young men .send home to their parents that this afternoon they had surrendered themselves to God and started a new life! I know how it is in the country. The night comes on. The cattle stand under the rack, through which burst the trusses of hay. The horses have just frisked up from the meadow brook at the nightfall and stand knee deep in the bright straw that invites them to lie down and rest. The perch of the hovel is full of fowl, their feet warm under their feathers. When the nights get cold, the flames clap their hands above the great back log and shake the shadow of the group up and down the wall. Father and mother sit there for half an hour saying nothing. 1 wonder what they are thinking of? After awhile the father breaks the silence and says. "Well, I wonder where our boy is in town tonight?" And the mother answers: "In no bad place, I warrant you. We always could trust him when he was at home, and since he has been away there have been so many prayers offered for him we can trust him still." Then at 8 or 9 o'clock Just before they retire, for they go early to bed, they kneel down and commend you to that God who watches in country and In town, on the land and on the sea. Some one said to a Grecian general. "What was the proudest moment of your life?" He thought a moment and alJ, "The proudest moment was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory." And the gladdest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents that you have conquered the evil habits by the grace of God and become eternal victor. Honor to Taren U. God pity the young man who has brought disgrace on his father's name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heart! Better that he had never been born. Better if In the first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sepulchered. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart

of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave and who wanders

about through the dismal cemetery rending the air and wringing the hands and crying, "Mother, mother!" Oh, that today, by all the memories of the past and by all the hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God I May your father's God and your mother's God be your God forever! This hour the door of mercy swings wide open. Hesitate not a moment. In many a case hesitation Is the loss of all. At the corner of a street I saw a tragedy. A young man evidently doubted as to which direction he had better take. His hat was lifted high enough so you could see he had an intelligent forehead. He had a stout chest and a robust development. Splendid young man! Cultured young man! Honored young man! Why did he stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is that every young man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mastery of his spirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of the street. "Come with me," said the good angel. "I will take you home. I will spread my wings over your pillow. I will lovingly escort you all through life under supernatural protection. I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter. I will consecrate your tears when you weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave Into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. I have been sent of the Lord to be your guardian spirit. Come with me," said the good angel In a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph breathes on It "Oh, no," said the bad angel. "Come with me. I have something better to offer. The wines I pour are from chalices of bewitching carousal. The dance I lead Is over floors tessellated with unrestrained Indulgence. There Is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows daisied and prlmrosed. Come with me!" Hesitation Is Rain. The young man hesitated at a time when hesitattlon was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings through the starlight, upward and away, until a door swung open In the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man's history, for, the good angel flown, he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening, but blasted at last. The bad angel led the way through gate after gate, and at each gate the road became roigher and the sky more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the gate slammej shut it came to with a Jar that indicated it would never open. Past each portal there was grinding of locks and a shoving of the bolts, and the scenery on each side the road changed from gardens to deserts, and the June air became a cutting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the fountains that at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears of foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel, "What is that serpent?" And the answer was, "That is the serpent of stinging remorse." On the lett side of the road there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel, "What is that lion?" The answer was, "That Is the lion of all devouring despair." A vulture flew through the sky, and the man asked the bad angel, "What is that vulture?" The answer was, "That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of the slain." And when the man said to the bad angel, "What does all this mean? I trusted in what you said at the street corner; I trusted it all. Why have you thus deceived me?" Then the last deception fell off the charmer and he said: "I was sent from the pit to destroy your soul. I watched my chance for many a long year. When you hesitated that night at the street corner 1 gained my triumph. Now you are here. Ha. ha! You are here! Come, now, let us fill the chalice and drink to darkness and woe and death. Hail hail!" Oh. young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ or the bad anel sent forth by sin get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending for your soul, as above the Apennines eagle and condor fight in midsky. This hour decides eternal destinies. JAIL USED AS RESERVOIR. Nevada Town IIa Utilized the Walle of the State Prison. Some years ago the state of Nevada had need of a prison, and tor that matter it has great need of it now. But at that time the necessity was deemed so great that the legislature made an appropriation for the construction of a place at Reno, where dangerous characters might ue kept in restraint. The walls were built good and strong. They were thick and high, for they were intended to prevent any possibility of escape by the craftiest of convicts. The work was finished in due season, but exigencies had arisen since the beginning that made It seem .esirable to confine the prisoners elsewhere. So the walls were never used, although 118,000 .of hard cash had n v.ii .spent on them. There they stood year alter year, as useless as a barren fruit tree. Not long ago Dr. Patterson, superintendent of the Nevada insane asylum, an institution now far from the unused walls, figured that they would hold water, lie consulted with others, and the result is that the stockade, instead of being a corral for prisoners, has becomo a fountain of health, of comfort, almost of life, for Dr. Patterson and tho unfortunates under his care. More than this. As the walls ure twenty feet high and only six feet are needed for reservoir purposes, the rest is being torn away and the material used for repairs an! new buildings at the state university and the asylum. If this Isn't gathering figs from thistles it comes aboul as close to It as anything that feai come under observation in yean. Chicago Chronicle,

ca r I'M THE CORRECTED RETURNS Figures Given in (he Doubtful States. MARYLAND VOTE IS CLOSE. hepard Talks of HU Defeat la New York Sayi That the People Meant to Hst Good Government Labor Mayor Prom ! e. Plurality. New York city, Republican 29,864 Ohio, Republican 5,000 Iowa, Republican 92.000 Pennsylvania, Republican 50,000 Nebraska, Republican' 5,000 Massachusetts, Republican 70,000 Rhode Island, Republican 5,000 Connecticut, Republican 3,000 South Dakota, Republican 7,000 New Jersey, Republican 8,000 Maryland, Democratic 1,200 Kentucky, Democratic 20,000 Virginia, Democratic 40,000 Mississippi, Democratic 65,000 The above list includes corrections made from the earlier returns, as disolosed in the dispatches which follow: Vow Wim la New York. New York dispatch: Seth Low, former president of Columbia university, and four years ago the Citizens' Union candidate for the first mayor of Greater New York, was elected the second mayor of Greater New York by a plurality of about 28,000 to 40,000, defeating Edward M. Shepard of Brooklyn, the Democratic nominee. The campaign was an exciting one, and the rote, though somewhat less than at the presidential election a year ago, was the largest ever polled In a municipal contest in this country. In addition to the canvass for mayor public interest largely centered In the nomination by the fuslonlsts of William Travers Jerome for district attorney, and Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck, by the DemoSETH LOW. crats for justice of the supreme court in the territory contained in New York county. Jerome was elected by a plurality of about 10,000 and Van Wyck was defeated, running behind his ticket from 15,000 to 20,000. Returns also indicated complete triumph of the Greater New York fusion ticket, Charles Vincent Fornes, the nominee of the Citizens' Union and the Republicans for president of tLe board of aldeVmen, defeating George M. Van Hoesen, the Democratic nominee. E. M. Grout, for the last four years Democratic president of the borough of Brooklyn, now the fusionist nominee for comptroller, has also defeated W. W. Ladd, Jr., Democrat Results In Maryland. Baltimore, Md., dispatch: The latest returns received in the city and including every county in the state, partly official and partly estimated, Indicate a result In the legislative contest which is almost without parallel in Maryland. The most careful estimates and calculations give the Democrats forty-six delegates and seven newly elected senators, which, combined with the ten who hold over in the senate, assures the friends of Gorman a total of 63 on joint ballot. The republicans, it appears, have elected forty-nine delegates and six senators, which, added to their three hold-over senators, gives then a total of 5S on Joint ballot. These figures indicate that the republicans will be able to organize the house of delegates, and may unseat sufficient democrats in the lower branch, substituting for them members of their own party, In order to procure a majority on joint ballot. Democratic leaders freely assert that this Is the intention of the republicans. and do not hesitate to say that they will use every means In their power to prevent such a step. Interview with Shepard. New York dispatch: Edward M. Shepard In speaking of the result of the election said: "I think that the people are sometimes wrong, but I think, too, that they exercised good sense and were animated by most patriotic motives in voting as they did. I'm feeling very well, exceedingly well, but I do not mean by that that I am pleased with the result I srtill adhere to my own judgment. Ohio Man Slain by Ilarglars. John Shively, whose home was at Kossuth, southwest of Lima. Ohio, was killed by burglars, who entered his house early Wednesday morning. The robbers shot him three times, one of the bullets penetrating his neck. The murderers are supposed to be from Lima, where thieves have been holding high carnival. The thieves escaped In a rig stolen from a farmhouse near Lima, and they turned tt loose several miles from Kossuth. Presidential Appointments. Washington telegram: The President has appointed John R. Bonnell of Crawfordsville, Ind., collector cf Internal revenue for the Seventh Indiana district John W. Riddle of Minnesota was appointed secretary of the United States embassy at St Petersburg. Riddle was formerly secretory of the United States legation at Constantinople and is an accomplished diplomatist and linguist Senator Culloia of Illinois presented to the President Dr. Gill of Springfield, III. who is candidate for chaplain in the army.

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but I have no doubt of the good that will come out of Mr. Lowe's election. I have no doubt that the majority of the people who have determined the result meant to have good government I think they voted for good government I have great confidence in the integrity and purpose and the good sense of the general public after as fair a campaign as this has been. I think I have been treated with more consideration than I was entitled to. I have been treated kindly, and I have no fault to find; quite the contrary. I think the people voted for a destructive rather than a constructive programme, and I shall not say the people were not right I have so much confidence on the whole in their judgment after a fair campaign that I simply shall not assert my own judgment against theirs, although I still hold to my own judgment." Labor Mayor's Tromise. San Francisco, Cal., dispatch: Mayor Elect Schmitz has issued the following statement: "I wish to say to the mer chants and financiers of the city that they need entertain no fears whatever of any action upon my part tending to inaugurate a radical or revolutionary policy of municipal government. In vested capital will be given the con sideration it deserves, and it will be my aim to see that business interests suffer nothing. I will consider all classes and try to harmonize all Inter ests which stand for the upbuilding of San Francisco." The success of the union labor party brings a new and important factor into California poll tics. The union labor party was organized as a result of the strike of teamsters, stevedores, marine firemen and other water-front employes last summer. Democrats Sweep Kentncky. Louisville, Ky., dispatch: The gener al assembly that was elected in Ken tucky with the exception of half the senate, which holds over, will be Dem ocratic on joint ballot by an increased majority, according to the latest re turns. This general assembly will elect a successor to United States Senator William J. Deboe (Rep.), for the term beginning March 4, 1003. The returns indicate that the senate will stand 26 Democrats to 12 Republicans, the same as the old senate, and the house 77 Democrats to 23 republicans, a Democratic gain of 17. For the first time in years the returns do not show the election of a single Populist to the as sembly. In the city of Louisville the Democrats elected Charles F. Grainger (Dem.), mayor over John A. Stratfon (Rep.), by about 5,000 majoritv. The Democrats also elected the city, county, and legislative tickets. IteiMihlica ri Curry Ohio. Columbus dispatch: Returns indicate a Republican plurality of 00,000 and that the DVmocratic gains are confined to Franklin county, where Kilbourne, for governor, will have not less than 2,500 majority as against a majority of 1,728 for Nash two years ago. The result is due to the popularity of Kilbourne here at home and the fight put up by the saloon interest against Thomas H. Clark, one of the Republican nominees for the general assembly, who fathered the local option bill at the last session of the Legislature. Democrat Carry YlrglnUu Richmond dispatch: AltSugh In the election the Democrabfp'olled only about 75 per cent of their vote, the result surpassed their most sanguine expectations. The negroes took little interest in the contest, and the indications now are that the Democratic majority for the state ticket will be more than 25,000. The ticket elected is as follows: Governor, Andrew Jackson Montague; lieutenant-governor, Joseph E. Willard; attorney general, William A. Anderson. Governor Crxiif K ilet el. Boston, Mass., dispatch: W. Murray Crane of Dalton, Republican, was reelected governor of Massachusetts for the third time by a plurality of 7O.40S over Josiah Quincy, the Democratic candidate. The ticket elected is as follows: Governor. Winthron Murray Crane; lieutenant-governor, John L. Bates; secretary of state, William M. Olm; treasurer. Edward S. Bradford; auditor, Henry E. Turner; attorney general. Herbert Parker. Iowa Republican by 90,000. Des Moines. la., "dispatch: With a marked falling off in the vote throughout Iova, the loss in some precincts being 40 and 50 per cent in the total vote, and the average loss for the state being one-fifth the total of two years ago, A. B. Cummins, the Republican candidate, has been elected by a pluiality of something like 90.000. the largest ever given a governor in this state. Vote In Pennsylvania. Philadelphia dispatch: Practical ly complete returns from the state give Harris (rep.), for state treasurer, 52,3C0 plurality, and Potter (rep.), for supreme court judge, 47,933 plurality. The official totals from the new counties in which the vote is incomplete will not materially alter the foregoing pluralities. Closed for Lack of Coal. Altoona, Pa., telegram: The Altocna Iron Company, the largest industry outside of the Pennsylvania railroi d company's shops in this city, employing several hundred men, has closed down indefinitely because it Is impossible to secure coal. This Is due to the car famine existing on the Pennsylvania lines occasioned by the enormous freight traf nc. The local car shops are working double time to supply the demand. Thomas Nolan Asphyxiated. Omaha, Neb., dispatch: Thomas Nolan, who came to Omaha from Chicago several years ago as local freight agent for the Union Pacific, ?md George Collins, a hack driver, were asphyxiated. It is believed the hackman was caring for Nolan and the gas was turned on by accident. The tragedy occurred at a local hotel. Pretoria dispatch: It Is now knows that the Boers got away with the twe guns captured from Colonel Benson'i column In the recent engagement neai Brakenlaagte, eastern Transvaal.

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Ill, Newton Innes was shot anl instantly killed by William Möhler, the city marshal of Atlanta, a town twelve miles south of Noblesville. Innes had been drinking and when the marshal attempted to send him home, Innes drew a knife and slashed the officer across the arm. Möhler drew his revolver and fired, the bullet piercing Innes heart Sitting up in a buggy on her way from Monticello to Kokomo to visit her brother, C. N. Hart, Mrs. Charles Helton died from heart trouble. Her husband, thinking that she had fallen asleep, drove several miles, not knowing she was dead. Leander J. Monks, who, it is believed, will soon be named as successor to the late Judge Woods on the United States circuit bench, is a lawyer residing at his native town of Winchester, where he was born July 10. 1843. The opening services at the new Grace Episcopal church at Oak Park, 111., were held Sunday, Bishop John Hazen White of Michigan City, Ind., delivering the address at the morning service. George W. Fryhoffer, who was cashier of the Bank of Ellettsville, which made an assignment several months ago, has been indicted for embezzlement The charge is that he collected notes for the American Reduction Fertilizer company from about twenty farmers and did not send the money to the company. Fryhoffer is said to be In Chicago and was a business manager for Edmond Palmer, wfio owned a chain of banks. Professor Newton E. Yost, superintendent of schools of Porter, dropped dead. He was 48 years old. The wedding of Miss Blanche Harris, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Harris, to U. S. Briggs, a wellknown jeweler, was celebrated at Plainfleld. A meeting of the twenty-odd independent window-glass manufacturers of the country was held at Indianapoll Thursday, for the purpose of making overtures to the trust and its allies. The two organizations propose to take the products of the independents. From the Indianapolis Journal: The Benjamin Harrison Monument association lias been organized, with Senator Fairbanks at its head, for the purpose of erecting a worthy monument to the memory of Indiana's only president. We commend this project to our readers and venture to hope that eacli will bo disposed to contribute, however small an amount. A postal card addressed to Evans Woollen, Indianapolis, stating the amount subscribed and the name of the subscriber, will be sufficient. Each of our sister states. Illinois and Ohio, has erected a magnincciit monument to the memorv of her president. Surely it would be unworthy for our state to show less appreciation. The purpose is in no sense partisan. Those who differed with General Harrison politically will agree with those who supported him in recognizing the distinction he brought to Indiana by his services as soldier, lawyer, senator, president, citizen. We are gratified to learn that the contributions already in 'band, no appeal having been made hitherto in Indiana outside of Indianapolis, aggregate about thirtj' thousand dollars. The hope of the organization is that the contributions from all sources, including the other states, will amount to one hundred thousand dollars. Every school boy and girl in Indiana should bring 10 cents to school with them Nov. 22 Harrison Monument day in all the schools of Indiana. John D. Sarnighausen. publisher of the Indiana Staats Zeitung of Fort Wayne and one of the oldest German editors In the country, died at the ago of S2. He had been editor of the Staat.s Zeitung forty years. He served in the Indiana legislature as a Democrat. Mrs. George Gilligan, who with her baby was stranded in Chicago while en route from Michigan City, Ind.. to Fargo, X. D., to join her sick husband, was sent on her way happy. Before boarding the train at Chicago she had been given a ticket to Fargo and ?100 in money. Mr. Gilligan was a soldier in the Philippines, and was shot m the back. It is believed he Is dying. United States Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota telegraphed Assistant States Attorney Barnes to investigate the case, and if found genuine to forward to Fargo at his expense. Many persons called at the Harrison Street Annex when they heard of Mrs. Gilligan's case and contributed to the purse which Matron Mary Keegan presented the unfortu nate woman. The committee of the ministers' association has arranged for Thanksgiving services at Torre Haute as follows: Central Presbyterian church, Rev. C. D. Case of the First Baptist church; Plymouth Congregational church. Rev. S. E. Iong; Grame Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. N. E. Tinkham; Tabernacle Baptist church, Rrv. L. E. Sellers, of the Central Christian chuich. Mrs. Nelson Hubbard, wife of Henry Hubbard of Linton, was arrested charged with stealing $10 from her husband's brother, but it is alleged that the charge is really preferred to compel her to surrender her child to its father, husband and wife having separated. The woman clung to her child, and was transferred to Linton. Joseph Straughan, bookkeeper for the Parke County Coal Company, who committed suicide by hanging, was singing a song only a moment or two before attaching the fatal nooso and swinging off. The new telephone company at Indianapolis bas arranged to give Its long-distance operators lessons in elocution at the expense of the company In order to improve their enunciation. The comp my officials s.y that Its longdistance patronage demands this in order to make the service better. While youngsters were playing In the streets of Shoals Hiram Todd, ten years old, opened his pocket-knife with the remark: "111 stick a knife in you," and plunged the blade into the breast of Harley Franklin, nine years old. causing fatal in jury.

George Roddy of Cincinnati, representing the L. B. Pierce Mercantile Company of Kansas City, was arrested at Vincennes accused of embezzling $12 of the firm's money, but he after ward escaped from custody. The fate of Charles Dunn, charged with assault upon and the murder of ten-year-old Alice Cothrell, was in the hands of the Jury at Fort Wayne, Wednesday. The Chicago & Alton railway company is settling the claims at Covington of Christian Endeavor excursionists Injured in the wreck several months age. L. A. D. Harry and daughter Zola, who were terribly scalded and scarred, will receive about $10,000, and Mr. Harry may receive $5,000 growing out of the death of his wife. The Adsifc; of Hoopeston are booked for 53,500 because of the death of Mrs. Adsit and the injuries sustained by Mr. Adsit. Fire destroyed the large tube and pump manufacturing plant operated by A. D. Cook, the largest and most valuable industry In Lawrenceburg. Loss, 575,000; partially insured. The large factory of the Harrison & Rudd Pants Company, on Water street. Evansville, was destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the stockroom, about the center of the fourth floor, and spread so rapidly that in a few moments the entire building wa, enveloped in a blaze. The excellent work of the firemen saved the adjoining buildings from destruction. The loss on the stock is estimated at $70.000; building. $8,000. The Marion Owls defeated the Hartford City eleven at the baseball park at Marion, 30 to 0. This Is the seventh game the Owls have played this season by electric light, and no eleven has been able to score against them. The divorce evil in Terre Haute reached the climax when Thomas Rhoads asked for a marriage license, and when told the decree in his first wife's suit for divorce from him had not been entered, asked to have it done at ence, offering to pay all the court costs at the same time he paid for the marriage license with which be was to marry ä second wife. He said he had defaulted in the suit against him purposely. A few days ago a man paid the costs in a suit for divorce brought by the woman whom be was to marry, and in which a decree had been entered the day before, but under a ruling of the court marriage licenses can not be issued to persons when either has been a p:irty to a divorce proc ding in which the court costs had not been paid. The costs In this caso. were assessed against the defendant husband, but tho second husband paid them, along with the $2 for his marriage license. One couple married ;j

ijv uaa a.mj weie ooui unacr .u years of age, but each had been married three times. In October there were twenty-two divorce c-ses and sixty-six mairiage licenses. The Detroit A. C. and the South Bend A. A. elevens battled at South Bend for the western athletic championship. The contest was fierce and exciting throughout, but was played without a mishap, ending in South Bend's favor, 11 to 0. The local team displayed superiority at all times and offered its opponents but one opportunity to score. Both touchdown.-? were earned by straight, hard football, and at no time were gains of more than six yards mado. Pat O'Doa's playing was about the best in his career. Peter Matyaczko, a Hungarian boy 17 years old. whose home was at SO Rawlins avenue, Cleveland, and who had been a member of Notre Dame manual training school for the la?t three months, committed suicide at that institution Thursday. As the boys were going from tho refectory to the recreation field young Matyaczko. who was quite an athlete, engaged in a friendly bout with Tom Canty, a chum. In the contest young Canty's foot caught on some obstacle and his leg was broken at the aikle. It is thought that Matyaczko believed he had seriously injured his friend and that the thought temporarily unbalanced his mind. He left Iiis playfellows and ran to the garret of St. Joseph's hall, secured a C2-caliber revolver and shot himself through the head. The coroner's inquest was hold. The body was sent to the dead boy's parents in Cleveland. Thirty-five years ago John Kaough left Fort Wayne for the west, after telling his brother William that if he made a fortune they would hear from him, but not before. Thursday Mr. Kaough. who has since been postmaster and become prominent in business and politics, received a letter from John stating that he has made a rich strike in mining claims In southwest ern California, and asking about his mother. The aged woman is still living and is overjoyed at hearing from her long-lost son. Two of the fire cisterns in connection with Indianapolis were wrecked by a gas explosion and two members of the city repair gang were fatally injured. A boat accidentally overturned and, precipitated Dr. E. E. Rhodes and George Goss into the water at Rochester. They clung to the sides until their cries alarmed Frank Rader. onehalf mile away, who reached them barely in time. The daughter of John II. Lewis of St, Louis, who committed suicide at Jffersonville several weeks ago. Is Investigating her father's death. Her father left home with good clothing and considerable money, and his body was found shabbily dressed and penniless. Joseph Steinmetz, fifty-seven yeart old of Evansvillo was accidentally burned to death at Waukegan. 111. The William Downs sawmill, near Rochester was destroyed by fire, entailing several thousand dollars' loa. One year ago John Volk dropped two $10 silver certificates while plowing la his field, and they were covered by dirt While working in the same field a few days ago he uncovered the bills, badly Injured because of their twelve montha burial. The bills were forwarded through the Batesville bank to Wash lngton and redeemed at face value.