Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 November 1901 — Page 3

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TALMAGE'S SEKMON.

DESPONDENCY THE SUBJECT OF SU.nDAYS DISCOURSE. Xrom Hebrews, Chapter VI, Vere 19, as Follows: "Which Hope, We as an Anchor of the. Soul Iloth Sure auil Steadfast." Copyright, 1301, by Louis Klopsen, N. T.) j Washington, Nov. 17. In this discourse Dr. Talmage would lift people out of despondency and bring something of future joy into earthly depression. The text is Hebrews vi, 19, -Which hope." There is an Atlantic ocean of depth And fullness In the verse from which my text is taken, and I only wade into the wave at tha teach and take two words. We all have favorite words xpres.-üve of delight or abhorrence, "Words that easily find their way from brain to lip. words that have in them mornings and midnights, laughter and tears, thunderbolts and dewdrops. In all the lexicons and vocabularies there are few words that have for me the attractions of the last word of my text, "Which hope." Theie have in the course of our life been many angels of God that have looked over our shoulders, or met us on the road, or chanted the darkness avay, or lifted the curtains of the great future, or pulled us back from the precipices, or rolled down upon us the rapturous music of the heavens, but there is one of these angels who has done so much for us that we wish throughout all time and all eternity to celebrate it the angel of Hope. St. Paul makes it the center of a group of three, saying. "Now abideth faith, hope, chanty." And. though he says that charity is the greatest of the three. h dees net take one plume from the wing, or one ray of luster from the brow, or one aurora from the cheek, or one melody from the voice of the angel of my text. "Which hope." An Ample Deposit. When we draw a check on a bank We must have reference to the amount of money we have deposited, but Hope makes a draft on a bank in which for her benefit all heaven has been deposited. Hope! May it light up tvery dungeon, stand by every sickbed, lend a helping hand to every orphanage, loosen every chain, caress every forlorn soul and turn the unpictured room of the almshouse into the vestibule of heaven! How suggestive that mythology declares that when all other deities fled the earth the goddess Hop? remained! It was hope that revived John Knox when on shipboard near the coast of Scotland he was fearfully ill. and he was reqaested to look shoreward and asked it he knew the village near the coast, and he answered, "I know it well, for 1 see the steeple of that place where God first opened my mouth in public to ais glory, and I am fully persuaded how weak that ever I now appear I shall not depart this life till my tongue shall glorify his holy name in the same place." His hope was rewarded, and for twenty-five more years he preached. That is the hope which sustained Mr. Morrell of Norwich when departing this life at twenty-four years of age he declared. "I should like to understand the secrets of eternity before tomorrow morning." That was the kind of hope that the corporal had in the battle when, after several standard bearers had fallen, he seized the flag and turned to a lieutenant colonel and said, "If I fall, tell my dear wife that I die with a good hope in Christ and that I am glad to give my life for my country." That was the good hope that Dr. Goodwin had In his last hour when he said: "Ah. is this death? How have I dreaded as an nemy this smiling friend!" AkHuranrrg of Heaven. Many have full assurance that all is right with the soul. They are as sure of heaven as if they had passed the pearly panels of the gate, as though they were already seated in the temple of God unrolling the libretto of the heavenly chorister. I congratulate all such. I wish I had it, too full assurance but with me it is hope. "Which hope." Sinful, it expects forgiveness; troubled, it expects relief; bereft, it expects reunion; clear down, it expects wings to lift; shipwrecked, it expects lifeboat; bankrupt, it expects eternal riches; a prodigal, it expects the wide open door of the fathers farmhouse. It does not wear itself out by looking backward; it always looks forward. What is the use of giving so much time to the rehearsal of the past? Yv.ur mistakes are not corrected by a review, your losses cannot, by brooding over them, be turned into gains. It is the future that has the most for us. and hope cheers us on. We have all committed blunders, but does the calling of the roll of them make them the less blunders? Look ahead in all matters of usefulness. However much you may have accomplished for God and the world's betterment, your greatest usefulness is to come. "No," says some one. "my health is gone." 'No." says someone, "my money is gone." "No." says someone, "the most of my years are gone and therefore my usefulness." Why, you talk like an infidel. Do you suppose that all your capacity to do good is fenced in by this life? Are you going to be a lounger and do nothing after you have 5 quit this world? It is my business to tell you that your faculties are to be enlarged and intensified and your qualifications for usefulness multiplied tenfo'.d. a hundredfold, a thousandfold. Freed From Limitation. Am I not right in saying that eterbrlghtening landscapes, other transfigurations oi color, new glories rolling ver the scene, new celebrations of victories in other worlds, heaven rising into grander heavens, seas of glass mingled with fire, becoming a more brilliant glass mingling with a more flaming fire. "Which hope." Return of Lost Sheep. On the following evening he came. He said that he was the black sheep of the family flock. He had wandered the world over and been in all kinds of wickedness, but a few night before after reading a letter from his mother In Scotland, he had retired for sleep.

but In the adjoining room he heard some young men in such horrible conversation he could not sleep. He was shocked as he had never before been by the talk of bad men. He arose, struck a light, took out the letter from his mother and knelt down by the bedside and said. "O Lord. God of my mother, have mercy on me!" He said that since that prayer he was entirely changed and loved what he before hated and hated what he before loved and asked what I thought it all meant. I replied, "You have become a Christian." He said he might be called at any time to leave the city. I never saw him again, but it seemed to me that he had turned his back upon his wicked past and had started in the right direction. And it may be so with your boy. Write him often. Tell him how you are thinking of him at home, and, it may be, your letter in hand, he may call upon his mother's God to help and save him. Hope, you of the gray hairs and wrinkles! Heaven has its thousands of souls who were once as thoroughly wrong as your boy is. They repented, and they are with the old folks in the healthy air of the eternal hills, where they may become young again. Hope on. and, though you may never hear of your son's reformation and others may think he has left this life hopeless, who knows but in the last moment, after he has ceased to speak, and before his soul launches away, your prayer may have been answered and he be one of the first to meet you at the shining gate. The prodigal in the parable got home and sat down at the feast, while the elder brother, who never left the old place, stood pouting at the back door and did not go in at all. Take the Hand of Hope. But if you will not take the hand of Hope for earthly convalescence let me point you to the perfect body you are yet to have if you love and serve the Lord. Death will put a prolonged anaesthetic upon your present body, and you will never again feel an ache or pain, and then in his good time you will have a resurrection body about which we know nothing except that it will be painless and glorious beyond all present appreciation. What must be the health of that land which never feels cut of cold or blast of heat and where there is no east wind sowing pneumonia on the air, your fleetness greater than the foot of deer, j'our eyesight clearer than eagle in sky perfect health in a country where all the inhabitants are everlastingly well! You who have in your body an encysted bullet ever since the civil war, you who have kept alive only by precautions and self-denials and perpetual watching of pulse and lung, you nity can do more for us than can time? What will we not be able to do when the powers of locomotion shall be quickened into the immortal spirit's speed? Why should a bird have a swiftness of wing when it is of no importance how long it shall take to make its aerial way from forest to forest and we, who have so iniu-h more important errand in the world. ;et on so slowly? The roebuck outruns us, the hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait until God lets us loose from all limitations and hinderments. Then we will fairly begin. The starting post will be the tombstone. Leaving the world will be graduation day before the chief work of our mental and spiritual career. Hope sees the doors opening, the victors foot in the stirrup for the mounting. The day breaks first flush of the horizon. The mission of hope will be an everlasting mission, as much of it in the heavenly hereafter as in the earthly now. Shai; we Lave gained all as soon as v enter realms celestial nothing more to learn, no other heights to climb, no new anthems to raise, a monotony of existence, the same thing over and over again for endless years? No! More progress in that world than we ever made in this. Hope will stand on the hills of heaven and look for ever of the deafened ear and dim vision and the severe backache, you who have not been free from pain for ten years, how do you like this story of physical construction, with all weakness and suffering subtracted and everything jocund and bounding added? Do not have anything lo do with the gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed in her dying words: "I have no reason to believe in another world I have had enough of life in one and can see no good reason why Harriet Martineau should be perpetuated.' Would you not rather have the Chri ! ian enthusiasm of Robert Annan, who, when some one said. "I will be satisfied if I manage somehow to get into heaven." replied, pointing to a sunkr-,: vessel that was being dragged tip th river Tay: "Would you like to lr pulled into heaven with two tugs likethat vessel yonder? I tell you I won d like to go in with all my sails et and colors flying." ;r intt runic nt. Those pessimists do not realize ih.i. two inventions of our times are go.nn to make it possible under God to b.,ng this whole world into solvable and millennial condition within a fewweeks after those two inventions shall be turned into the service of God ,t'i i righteousness, as they wi 1 be. I ief i to the telegraph and the telephone. If you think that God allowed tho-e two inventions to be made merely to ret rapid Information concerning the p icrof railroad stocks or to cal' U', a Tri ud and make with him a business engagement, you have a very abbreviated Idea of what can be done and will be done with those two instruments. The intelligence of the world is to be expanded, and civi.ization will overcome barbarism, and illiteracy will be extirpated, and the promise will be literally fulfilled. "A nation born in a day." Iet Hope say to the foreboding: Do all you can with Bible and spelling book and philosophic apparatus, but toil with the sunlight in your faces or your efforts will be a failure. The pallor in the sky is not another phase of the night, but the first sign of approaching day, which . is as sure to come as tonight will be followed by tomorrow. Things are not going to ruin. The Lord's hosts arc not going to be drowned in the Red Sea of trouble. Miriam's timbrel will play on the high banks "Israel Delivered." High hope for the home! High hope for

the church! High hope for the world! Angel of Ilope Is Near. Open that closed instrument of music in your parlor that has not been played on since the hand of the departed player forgot its cunning. Put up before you on the music board the notes of the hymn of Isaac Watts and sing "There is a Land cf Pure Delight" or James Montgomery's hymn, "Who Are These in Bright Array?" or Filmore Bennett's "Sweet Bye and Bye" or "Jerusalem the Golden." Take some tune in the major key "Ariel" or "Mount Pisgah." While you play and sing the angel of Hope will stand by you and turn the leaves and join in the rapturous rendering. Reunion with the loved and lost! Everlasting reunion! No farewell at the door of any mansion! No goodby at any of the twelve gates! No more dark apparel of mourning, but white robe of exaltation! Hope now is on its knees, with face uplifted, but Hope there will be on tiptoe or beckoning you to follow, saying: "Come and hear the choirs sing! Come and see the procession march! Come and see the river of life roll! Come with me over the hills that rise into everlasting heights." Celestial Alps and Himalayas hoisted into other Alps and Himalayas! From this hour cultivate hope. Do so by reading all the Scriptural promises of the world's coming Edenlzation and doubt if you dare the veracity of the Almighty when he says he will make the desert roseate, and the leopard and the kid will lie down in the same pasture field, and the lion, ceasing to be carnivorous, will become graminivorous, eating "straw like an ox," and reptilian venom shall change into harmlessness, so that the "weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den, and there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God's holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." So much for the world at large.

A WEAK PROPOSITION. Italian Fails to Get Money for Monkey's Iteturn Trip. A wrinkled Italian jerked a monkey from his hind iegs from the sidewalk to the top of his hand organ with a scowl. "Coma backa." he called. The monkey rapidly removed and replaced a jaunty cap with a feather thereon and blinked his beady eyes with rapidity. "Twenty centa to see tha monka clima de tree," said the Italian to the assembled children. "Clima way high." Straightway the little ones began gathering in the money from parent and companion. Finally the sum was turned over to the wandering organist. "Jacka getta de tree, vit!" He pointed to a tall limb and shook the cord. Jacko obeyed, scrambling up tho tree trunk with meekness and dispatch. The Italian counted the coins he had received and dropped them into his pocket. "Jacka the monka great animal; he educate." He ground a discordant lay. whole passages of which were either fiat or missing. The children were watching the monkey when the Italian again addressed them. He pointed an unclean finger up at the animal and said: "Ten centa to see monka come down." He didn't get it. The Time of a Wink A German scientist has given another proof of the painstaking nature of his race in obtaining perfect accuracy and the most minute detail of all things. This savant has measured the time that is occupied by a wink. He used a special photographic apparatus and fixed a piece of white paper on the edge of the eyelid for a mark. He found that the lid descends quickly and rests a little at the bottom movement. Then it rises more slowly than it fell. The mean duration of the downward movement was from .075 to .091 of a second. The time from the instant the eye rested till it closed varied from .15 to .17 of a second. In rising the lid took .17 of a second. The wink was completed in .4 of a second. A Kefrigeratlng; Kgjf. One of the oddest of recent Inventions is a refrigerating egg, as it might be called. It is an ovoid capsule of nickel-plated copper, about the size mil shape of a hen's egg, hollow and nearly filled with water. For use It is frozen, so that its contents become ice. If you have a glass of milk that is not cold enough, you do not like to put Ice into it. because dilution with water spoils the beverage. But, if you have one of these eggs handy you may drop it into the glass and in a few moments the liquid is reduced to the desired temperature. Tim Oite-Sliled. Sam Jones, in one of his sermons, ook women to task for spending more ime in prinking than in praying. "If here's a woman here," he flnally reimed. "who prays more than she irinks. let her stand up." One poor !d faded specimen of humanity. In h so ri it, shabbiest of clothes, arose. You spend more time praying than prinking?" asked the preacher, taking hr all in. The poor old creature said vi e did prayed all the time, prinked not at all. "You go straight home," adn onished Jones, "and put a little time on your prinking." Fear Not ICenllzetl. He ' Clarice, you know I have always thought a great deal of you. and I have fluttered myself you think not unfavorably of me. May I will you be my wife?" She "What a start you gave me, Hairy! Do you know, I thought you were going to ask me to lend )ou some money." Boston Transcript. ClKiltioiie's Home Trnliilng. One reason why Gladstone was such a ready debater is said to have been due to the fact that his f ather, John Gladstone, trained his children to give a reason for every opinion they offered. Phonetic. "How do you spell 'security?" asked Badleigh Mlldude, laboriously writing a letter to Andrew Carnegie to ask him for a loan of 50,000. "With a 'c' an 'q, of course," responded Tuffold Knutt. "Can't ye tell by the sound of It?"

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AS THE WORLD REVOLVES GOVERNORS IN A ROW. Governor Beckham of Kentucky has addressed to Governor Durbin of Indiana a letter replying to the criticism y that executive of the courts and officials of Kentucky in his recent letter efusing to honor the requisitions for Taylor and Finley, wanted for alleged complicity in the assassination of Senator Goebel, says a Louisville dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. He severely arraigns Durbin for his refusal charging that in doing so he violated his oath of office to support the constitution of the United States, and that he became "a party after the fact to GOV. DURBIN. the most infamous crime in the history of thi3 State, the cold-blooded and dastardly murder of an eminent and distinguished citizen of Kentucky." The Kentucky executive also charges that Durbin's action in refusing wa3 the result of the political bargain made before his election to office, and characterizes his charges against the courts and officials of Kentucky as slanderous and inexcusable misrepresentations. He takes the stand that the Governor of a State has no discretionary powers, but only ministerial power in the honoring of legally drawn requisitions from other States, and this is taken as an indication that steps will shortly be taken in the courts to compel Durbin by mandamus to honor the requisitions. If such proceedings are instituted they will be in the courts of Indiana and taken on appeal to the Supreme Court. HALL CAINE'S WIFE. The wife of the author of "The Christian" came out from Greeba Castle when her husband began his campaign for a seat in the Manx Parliament a month ago and has made herself a familiar figure to all in the Ramsay district, which her husband has been elected to represent. She spent the most of a month driving around In the district, visiting factory workers and fishermen, whose votes and influence the novelist sought. Mrs. aCine is a pretty woman, charming In manner and graceful, and Is believed to have won her husband many votes which he otherwise would not have MRS. HALL CAINE. got, despite his name and the Isle of Man's pride in him. NO WAR ON AMERICAN GOODS. The fact that our exports of manufactures in the first eight months oi this year were about 136,000,000 les than in the same months of 1900 has led some to believe that the muchmooted "European alliance" against our goods has been effected and Is now in operation. In the current North American Review O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, demonstrates that this belief is without foundation. In the first place, the reduction is partly due to the fact that Hawaii's and Porto Rico's annual purchases of about $5,000,000 are no longer counted as exports. In the second place, the decline is not general, but is practically confined to refined mineral oil, copper, and iron and steel products. As to mineral oil, the decline was in price alone. We actually exported for the compared eight months 47,693,272 gallons more this year than last, but we obtained $3,250,200 less for it Watne's Policy Far-Reachlag. The congress now being held In Mexico Is a continuation of the policy inaugurated by James G. Blaine, when Secretary of State, to bring about closer relations between the United States and the Central and South American republics. Mr. Blaine's efforts in this dir e c 1 1 o n brought about the first international congress, which was held in the city of W ashington In 1889-90. In 1884 Congress took steps to realize the idea of bringing together representatives of the different governments. There are 165.000 Britons living In the United Kingdom at present who were born in the colonies.

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I Indiana State JVet&f j

The dead body of Miss Bessie Decker, aged 21, was found in the orchard in the rear of her mother's home at an early hour Sunday morning. There were no marks of violence, and the cause of the girl's death is a mystery. Miss Decker was the daughter of a respectable German family and bore an excellent reputation. She kept company with no one, as far as her family knew. The Decker home is in the edge of the woods northeast of Hartford City. Miss Decker was at home last evening, and when the family retired she was seated at the organ singing sacred songs. They did not know that she Intended to leave the house nor when she went out. Sunday morning the family arose at the usual hour, the girl remaining, as supposed at the time, in her room. Her brother started for his day's work and found her body in the orchard. The dead girl was neatly dressed and over her head wore a white fascinator. It was then discovered that the girl's bed had not been occupied. In her room was found nothing to indicate that she contemplated self-destruction. Ol Klinger, a farmer near Winamac, is a disciple of John Alexander Dowie, and acting on the advice of Mr. Dowie, has just sacrificed his winter supply of pork that he may recover from consumption. Klinger has been ill for some time, and went to Chicago to consult Dowie, who gave him to understand that he could be cured if he would kill all the hogs on his place and bury them. Klinger tried to get the neighbors to kill and bury the animals, but they refused, as the Klinger family is in straitened circumstances and needed the hogs. They offered to kill the porkers if Klinger would pack the meat, but he refused. Mrs. Klinger then hunted up William Whitaker a prophet of Zion, living near Star City, walking the entire distance, and besoiTjht him to fill the Dowie prescription. Whittaker came to the Klinger home, prayed with the sick man, and then went out and killed and buried the hogs. Klinger's health is not improved. Latest investigations into the strange cases of Mrs. Rainer and Lena Renner, who were murdered at Evansville, apparently by the same man, only serve to show that the circumstances of each death were all but identical. It is worthy of comment that a murder occurred at Evansville last May and which was very similar is marked by the fact that the body was laid within a few feet of the place where Miss Renner was found dead. The idea that the murder was committed by one of the inmates of the lunatic asylum near by is disposed of by the fact that it has been proved that at the hour when the crimes were committed none of the inmates was out of the building. Miss Floy Gilmore, formerly of Elwood, opened a law office in Manila. The Wooley coal mines, at Petersburg, idle for a long time, are again running full-handed. Mr. and Mrs. Ratio Smalley of Cambridge City have celebrated their golden wedding day. Congressman George W. Steele of Marion states that the government has taken up the case of Lemon Porter, who is aboard a British ship, bound for Cape Town, South Africa, where the British will compel the lad to take up arms against the Boers. Major Steele says that the United States consul at Cape Town will take charge of him as soon as the ship arrives there. Major Steele says the state department is of the opinion that the forced enlistment part of the story is without foundation. Mrs. Sol Hoover of Kokomo was recently stricken with paralysis, and then her sister, Mrs. Fred Hoover, died of internal tumor. Sol Hoover has just died of a peculiar malady, large kernels appearing over his body. Benjamin Tucker, a brother-in-law, is fatally ill of cancer. The fami'y is wealthy and well known. A new swindle was worked in Frank fort, and the man who taught the people that there was something new under the sun got away with his pockets bulging with silver. A number of his victims are searching for him. The graft was advertised as an auction sale of uncalled-for express packages. The man who boosted the scheme, claimed to represent the Western Express Company, of Missouri. At the appointed time the buyers were given the packages represented by numbers previously bought, and then a howl went up. They saw how they had been swindled. The grafter had wrapped up old rags, cast-off hats, wornout shoes or anything that would make a bundle. A midget was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Seidling of Tipton county. The midget is perfectly formed and weighs but 9 ounces. A ring worn by the mother was easily slipped over the foot nearly to the knee. The physicians report that the little boy will live. The parents are of German descent. The father weighs 185 pounds and the mother 160. Miss Nina Savage, the honor graduate of the Covington high school, clans 1901, is dead of consumption. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Savage, and during her entire time in school she was neither absent nor tardy. Dr. T. L. Hickman of Fort Wayne, who sold a $G claim against John B. Burns, a Nickel Plate railway employe, has been fined $20 and costs by a 'squire for selling a claim i i r the state. The claim buyers will appeal to the higher courts in order to test the law. Two women found mysteriously murdered in the suburbs of Evansville. Both had gone buggy riding and were choked to death. Bodies found miles apart, but both believed to be victims of the same murderer. The Bristol postoffice was robbed of $500 in stamps and $1,200 In money by robbers, who put up a fight while the postoffice safe was blown. Mrs. C. E. Bickel was shot in the arm and Ray Shaner was shot In the nose. The robbers escaped Police failed to find any traces of the murderers of two women at Evansville.

Michael Johnson, one of the wealthiest farmers In Lake county, was tortured, beaten, and robbed by masked men. Johnson's home is in an isolated place about a mile from the village of Highlands and about six miles from this city. Because of his age he has retired from active farm work, but from choice he remains on his farm. With him live his aged wife and a servant girl. The crooks were rewarded by finding a roll of money amounting to $17S. Kenyon college, at La Porte, has been made richer by an addition of $100,000 to its endowment fund and a gift of $rü,0üö for a new dormitory. The announcement was made at the Episcopal diocesan convention at La Porte by Rt. Rev. John II. White. B. A. Palmer, a retired banker of New York, has made a gift of $20.000 to Union Christian college at Merom. Colonel George W. Trigg, age'd 55 years, died at Richmond, after a lingering illness. Colonel Trigg was formerly president of the Missouri Press association, had been prominent in Missouri politics and was a well-known temperance advocate. Joseph Keith, the Warrick county farmer who sent Nora Kifer to an untimely grave, was hanged shortly after midnight Friday morning within the walls of the northern Indiana prison. Thursday his last hope perished at 2 o'clock when a message was received by Warden Reid from Governor Durbin, stating that he had denied the application for a change of sentence. Keith manifested little feeling when the message was read to him. He had steeled himself for an unfavorable decision. He spent his last hours on earth praying and singing. The Indiana law requires that hangings must take place between midnight and sunrise, and at 12:10 o'clock Friday morning Keith, preceded by Warden Reid, Deputy Warden Bernard, the prison physicians, spiritual advisers and prisoner guards, walked upon the gallows, which had been erected thirty feet from his cell. The trap was sprung by either Warden Reid or Deputy Bernard, both of whom were in concealment, and Keith fell eight feet to his death. Before going to the gallows Keith confessed his crime. He said that Nora Kifer annoyed him much, and fearing her much, he put the girl out of the way for the sake of his wife. Simon Deeds, a farmer, procured a license at South Bend to wed Birdie Gladys Hettel. whom he claimed to be cf marriageable age. The ceremony was performed in La Porte county. When the bride's father learned what had taken place, he secured a warrant for Deeds' arrest on a charge of perjury, claiming the girl was but 14 years old. Deeds, who is C2 years old, is now under arrest. Gov. Durbin returned to Indianapolis from a three days quail hunt in Jennings county and found awaiting him the letter from Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, criticising him for refusing the Taylor extradition. He had seen references to the letter in the papers, but did not see the text until after his return. He read it very carefully, and then perused some parts of it a second time. When asked if he had anything to say in reply to the Kentucky's executive strictures he shook his head. He was then asked if he would reply to the letter, and said: "No, I shall not. The incident, so far as I am concerned, is closed forever. As far as the letter of Gov. Beckham itself is concerned the more people who read it the better satisfied I will be."

! I A number of puddlers have qr.it their I jobs at the South rolling mill, says a I report from Terre Haute, to work at ! the new Highland Iron and Steel com- ! pany's plant. The equipment of this mill is said by ironworkers to be the most modern of any mill in the country. The men want to work there especially because the mill is expected to ; be operated year in and year out with- ' out regard to market prices. The mill j is to be independent and will not be j subject to the manipulations of trust I influences. Most of the backing for i the plant, which cost several hundred j thousand dollars, came from the Sim- ' mons Hardware company, which will : use the k rger part of the product. The ! hardware company did not like the 1 variable conditions that followed the ! transfer of rolling mills to the Re- ! public Iren and Steel company, and j with some of the men who had been j manageis for trust mills organized the j Highland company. j Colonel R. ..i. Johnson, a prominent j lawyer and Democrat, died in Goshen j of heart failure. He served through j the civil war as colonel of the One I Hundredth Indiana regiment. He was appointed clerk of the United States I court of New Mexico in 18S6 and ; served four years. During an altercation several months ap;o between William Schäfer and Charles Shoaf, the latter was struck on the lower jaw, the injury developing inflammation and causing the loss of all the teeth. Shoaf sued for $5,000 damages and the trial is now progressing in the Circuit Court at Petersburg. Madison Lodge, No. 36t. Rebekah degree, at Madison has surrendered its charter. It was organized ten years ago. A great gas well has been struck on the S. S. Carroll farm, near Hartford City, by the Union Oil Company. Alfred Medlock, while driving Into J. S. Hunger's barn at Spencer, knocked a beam from place and his skull was crushed. Will Kelvie, superintendent, and John McCourtney, foreman, were severely burned by an explosion in the gas regulator bouse at Kokomo. While Leonard Nuddle and Ed Laheman were hunting at Brownstown the former accidentally shot his friend, one shot penetrating his eye. Mrs. Rebecca H. Goehenour. whose death occurred at Roann, was the mother of State Senator Goehenour of Wabash and Fulton counties. She was born in 1820. The managers of the recent street fair at Terre Haute expended $9.000 and report receipts within a few dollars of that amount. It is estimated that during the week 58,000 s ranger visited the city.

m WEEKLY PANORAMA A DESCENDANT OF FRANKLIN. There recently passed away in Philadelphia Mrs. Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. Her home was notable for the great collection of relics of the scientist-publisher-pati lot descent from whom gave her a place among the most distinguished people of Philadelphia. These relics are of priceless value and consist of wood carving, china, silver, paintings and various other articles which were presented to him by foreign governments and individuals. Mrs. Gillespie made it her life work to search out all facts concerning her MRS. ELIZABETH D. GILLESPIE. great ancestor, as well as to collect and preserve all manner of mementoes. Theio was a strong resemblance in the features of this woman and those shown in the pictures of Franklin. KING EDWARD'S MUSICAL PROJECTS London Truth credits King Edward with the intention of reviving music at his court, but the details of his program only go to show the low conditions of English music when compared with its earlier glories. His program includes visits to the opera in semistate, with beef eaters on duty at the box doors and along the corridors; a oronation concert at Albert Hall; private performances at Buckingham palice and Windsor castle; "commanded" performances before the royal family; ind more frequent playing by the King's private band. Sir Walter Parratt has been gazetted master of the oiusic. and Dr. Creser, composer to the :hapels royal. Who Parratt or Creser ire the world little knows or cares. On the whole, though music will be less neglected by King Edward than it was by his mother, there is no prospect that it will rise out of its low rondition. Now that Sir Arthur Sullivan is dead there is hardly a British composer of prominence left. Sir Herbert Oakeley, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir Frederick Bridge, and Hamish MacCunn remain, but with the exception of Mackenzie their works are unknown out of England. None of the members of the royal family, except the late Duke of Edinburgh, has been much interested in music except as an accompaniment to royal functions or matters of fashion. The king himself has been indifferent. HOBART'S TOMB. The massive mausoleum which will contain the remains of the late Vice President Garret A. Hobart is now rapidly nearing completion in Cedar Lawn Cemetery at Paterson, N. J. The design was prepared by Brite & Bacon, the New York architects, and all the work has been done under their direct supervision. The tomb will cost about $S0.000. Its material will be principTHE HOBART TOMB, ally of white granite, surrounded by fluted columns of the purest white Parian marble. The entrance is guarded by heavy bronze doors, ornamented with piece work. All of the interior is lined with white marble. The dimensions of the building are: Length, 3S feet 8 inches; width, 21 feet 2 inches; and height, 22 feet 7 inches. The re mains of the Vice President will repose under the heavy dome in a marble sarcophagus beside another of similar make destined for the last resting place of Mrs. Hobart. In addition to these receptacles will be six catacombs for the other members of the Hobart family. Her Fortune Gone. Love has led to misfortune In the case of the Princess Elvira of Bourbon, daughter of Don Carlos, the much advertised pretender to the Spanish throne. In 1896 she eloped with Signor Folchi, an artist and a married man. She first met Folchi in Rome and became inf atuated with him. She had then a fortune in her own right of $400,000 and could easily have secured a more advantageous alliance. Her family used every Influence It could bring to bear to induce her to break off her friendly relations with Folchi, but she persisted In her course and eloped with him.

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