Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 22, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 October 1900 — Page 7

ACTIVITY OF PAUL. Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson from Work of the Disciple. FoInU Oat Places of Usefulness Hot Yet Pally Occupied—Heed of Store Worker. Church a. a Lifeboat. [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, Sept. 30. In his discourse Dr. Talmage points to fields of usefulness that are not yet thoroughly cultivated and shows the need of more activity. The text is Homans 15:20: “Lest I should build upon another man’s foundation.’’ In laying out the plan of his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city famous for splendor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sanhedrim were ready to leap with both feet upon* the Christian religion. He feels he has especial work to do, and he means to do it. What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that a man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build on other people's foundations. If we erect a church, we prefer to have it filled with families all of whom have been pious. Do we gather a Sabbath school class, we w ant good boys and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this day is apt to be built out of other churches. Some ministers spend all their time in fishing in other people's ponds, and they throw the line into that church pond, and they jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into another church pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious row in some neighboring’church, and a whole school of fish swim off from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What is gained? Absolutely nothing for the cause of Christ. What strengthens an army is new recruits. While courteous to those coming from other floefes, we should build our churches not out of other churches, but out of the world, lest we build on another man’s foundation. The fact is, this is a big world. When in our schoolboy days we learned the diameter and circumference of this planet we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diameter and circumference of want and woe and sin that no figures can calculate. This one spiritual continent of wretchedness reaches across all zones, and if I were called to give its geographical boundary I would say it was bounded on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of God's sympathy and love. Oh. it is a great world! Since six o’clock this morning 60,800 persons have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to be reached by the Gospel. In England or in our eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but in western America 500 acres is a small farm, and 20,000 acres is no unusual possession. There is a vast field here and everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room more, not building on another man's foundation. We need as churches to stop bombarding the old ironclad sinners that have been, proof against 30 years of Christian assault. Alas for that church which lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending on one chandelier enough to light 500 souls to glory, and in one carved pillar enough to have made a thousand men “pillars in the house of our God forever,” and doing less good than many a log cabin meeting house with tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets and a minister who has never seen a college and does not know the difference between Greek and Choctaw. We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. “No!” says some fastidious Christian. “I don’t like to be crowded in church. Don’t put anyone in my pew.” My brother, what will you do in Heaven? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the select few to-day assembled in the Christian churches compared With the mightier millions outside of them? Many of the churches are like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than toothache or “runrounds,” but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though a man had a farm of 3,000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat, he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised splendid men and women in that small inclosure, but the field is the world. That means North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the islands of the sea. It is as though after a great battle there were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the field and three surgeons gave all their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes in and says to the doctors: “Come out here and look at the nearly 50,000 dying for lack pf surgical attendance.” “No," say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patients; “we have three important .cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the files off." In this awful battle with sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen on millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few people, and when the command comes: “Go into the world,” say, practically: “No, I cannot go; I have here a few choice cases, and 1 am busy keeping off the flies,”-There, are multitudes to-day who have uever bad

any Christian worker look them in the eye and with earnesiness in the accentuation say: “Come,” or they would long ago have been in the kingdom. My friends, religion is either a sham or a great reality. If it be a sham, let us disband our churches and Christian associations. If it be a reality, then great, populations are on the way to the bar of God unfitted for the ordeal. Comparatively little effort as yet has been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptics, and he who goes to work here will not be building upon another man’s foundation. There is a large number of them. They are afraid of us and our churches for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One of this class met Christ. And hear with what tenderness and pathos and beauty and success Christ dealt with him: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it. namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to him: “Well, master, thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and to love Him with all the heart and all the understanding and all the soul and all the strength is more than whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly lie said unto him: “Thoff art not far from the kingdom of God.” So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the pinchers of ecclesinsticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Christianity. I have known men skeptical from the fact that they grew up in houses where religion was overdone. Sunday was the most awful day in the week. They had religion driven into them with a trip hammer. They were surfeited with prayer meetings. They were stuffed and choked with catechism!. They were often told that they were the worst boys the parents ever knew, because they liked to ride down hill better than to read Banyan's “Pilgrim’s Progress." Whenever father and mother talked of religion, they drew down the corners of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thing will send a boy or girl to ruin sooner than another, that is it. If I had such a father and mother I fear I should have been an infidel. Others were tripped up to skepticism from being grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Christian. They had a partner in business who turned out to be a firstclass scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith by what happened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced; but the president of the company was a Presbyterian elder, and the treasurer was an Episcopalian vestryman, and one director was a Methodist class leader and the other directors porminent members of Baptist and Congregational churches. Circulars were gotten out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this company. Innocent men and women who had a little money to invest, and that little their all, said: "I do not know anything about this company, bujt so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and taking stock in it must be almost ns good as joining the church.” So they bought the stock and perhaps received one dividend so ns to keep them still, but after awhile they found that the company had reorganized, and had a different president ar.d different treasurer and different directors. Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the company, with many regrets, to resign. And all that the subscribers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beautifully ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suggestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the president and trustees and directors of that oil company professed. Os course, their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I am told that many of the United States army desert every year, and there are many court-mar-tials every year.. Is that anything against the United States government that swore them in? And if a soldier of Christ deserts, is that anything against the Christianity which he swore to support and defend? How do you judge of the currency of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Now, you must have patience with those who have been swindled by religious pre-* tenders. Live in the presence of others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life, that they may be attracted to the same Saviour upon whom your hopes depend. Remember, skepticism always has some reason, good or bad, for exu’.ing. Goethe’s irreligion started when the news came to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, November 1, 1715. That GO,OCOpeople shopld have perished in that- earthquake and in the after rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sympathies that he threw up his belief in the goodness of God. If I addres such men and women today, I throw out no scoff. I implead them by the memory of the good old days when at their mother's knee they said: “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and by those days and nights of scarlet fever in which she watched you', giving ytu the medicine in just the right time and turning your pillow when it

was hot, and with hands that many years ago turned to dust soothad away your pain and with voice that you will never hear again, unless you Join her in the better country, told you to never mind, for you would feel better by and by, and by that dying couch where she looked so pale and talked so slowly, catching her breath between the words, and you felt an awful loneliness coming over your soul. By all that I beg you to come back and take the same religion. It was good enough for her. It is good enough for you. Nay, I have a better plan than that. I plead by all the wounds and tears and blood and groans and agonies and death throes of the Son of God, who approaches you at this moment with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped back, and saying: “Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heayy laden, and I will give you rest.” Again, there is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those who are astray in their habits. All northern nations, like those of North America and England and Scotland—that is, in the colder climates—are devastated by alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm they are not tempted to tier}' liquids. The great Roman armies never drank anything stronger than water tinged with vinegar, but under our northern climate the temptation to heating stimulants is most mighty, and millions succumb. When a man's habits go wrong the church drops him, the social circle drops him. good influences drop him, we all drop him. Os all the men who get off the track but few ever get on again. Near my summer residence there is a life-saving station on the beach. There are all the ropes and rockets, the boats, the machinery for getting people off shipwrecks. One summer I saw there 15 or 20 men who were breakfasting after having just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up and down, our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mariners know it, and they feel that if they are driven to the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many life-saving stations, not so much to help those who are in smooth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats! And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such men; we have not enough faith in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear us we are laboriously trying to show the difference between sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism, while they have a hundred vipers of remorse and despair coiling nround and biting their immortal spirits. The church is not chiefly for goodish sort of men, whose proclivities are all right and who could get to Heaven'praying and singing in their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases are the cases that God likes to take hold of. He can save a uig sinner as well as a small sinner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for help he will go out to deliver such a one. If it were necessary, God would come down from the sky, followed by all the artillery of Heaven and a million angels with drawn swords. Get 100 such redeemed men in your churches and nothing could stand before them, for such men are generally wntm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers then. No heartless singing then. No cold conventionalisms then. Destitute children of’the street offer a field of work comparatively unoccupied. The uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. When they grow up, if unreformed, they will outvote your children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch out other whisky rings, and grog shops will kill with their horrid stench public sobriety unless the church of God rises up with outstretched arms and infolds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools cannot do it. Art cannot do it. Blnckwell's island cannot do it. Almshouses cannot do it. Jails canont do it. Church of God, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it! Get somewhere, somehow to work! The Prussian cavalry mount by putting their right foot into the stirrup, while the American cavalry mount by putting their left foot into the stirrup. I do not care how you mount your war charger if you only get into this battle for God and get there soon, right stirrup or left stirrup or no stirrup at all. The unoccupied fields are all nround us, and why should we build on another man's foundation? I have heard of what was called the “thundering legion.” It was in 179, a part of the Roman army to whic\ some Christians belonged, and their prayers, it was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and bail, and tempest, which overthrew an invading army and saved the empire. And I would to God that our churches might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. Launch the Gospel ship for another voyage. Heave away now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail 1 Come, O Heavenly wind, and fill the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the shore will welcome us into harbor. Father's Essny Writing. Teacher—l am sorry to say it, Henry, but your composition is not worthy of you. The rhetoric is faulty, the logic weak, the statements are based upon misinformation, and the style Is lamentnbly crude. Henry—My! Won't my dad be mad when I tell him that? Teacher—But you can tell him you did your very best. Henry—Did my best nothing. Dad wrote the whole of it himself.—Boston Transcript.

MODERN ELEGANCE. Expensive Bathrooms and Swimming Pools In Some Fine City Residences. Bathrooms in dwelling-houses are a Comparatively modern convenience, but public bathing places are as old as civilization. The Greeks and Romans spent large sums in fitting up public baths, which were popular resorts for all classes, but a private bathroom in one's own house would have been hard to find. Even to this day the people of India consider bathing in anything other than a river or smaller stream of running water to be a disgraceful act. Pent water was considered defiling to the body by the ancients and the public baths of Greece and Rome were so constructed that the outflow of water was equal to the inflow so as to secure as nearly as possible pure water for every bather, says a Chicago exchange. The bathroom in hotels and dwellings passed rapidly from the realm of luxury t;; hat of necessity: to-day a house without a bathtub is the exception. But with the belief, or knowledge, rather, that cleanliness is next to godliness came a sort of rivalry in bathroom furnishings and sanitary engineering skill and inventive genius were called upon to do their best. A few years ago a little room in an obscure corner with a zinc tub was something to boast of. but in these days of great individual wealth and palaces the bathroom often involves a large expenditure of money. Many of the wealthy construct their bathrooms on lines that are as far removed from the old tub style as it Is possible for the ingenuity of the architect and plumber to construct them. Instead of a $25 zinc tub a pool 6xß feet or larger is constructed of porcelain in the center of a large room, say 14x29. Entrance to the pool from the curbing level is by marble steps, and the depth of the water may be as much as four or five feet. The curbing is of marble and the walls and ceiling of the room are lined with tile or onyx. The windows are of cathedral shape and great palms and smaller plants are placed about where they will give the room “all the comforts of home" and the picturesqueness of a garden. But that is not ail that is required of such bathrooms. There must be another, but smaller, room adjacent. lined throughout with marble. with the floor inclined to the center. for the shower bath. Then there must be another small room at hand for a porcelain font tub and still another for a wash basin, to say nothing of nn elaborately appointed dressingroom All the floors should be in tiling. done in mosaic pattern, with rugs here and there. Such a bathroom costs from $5,000 to $7,000, and it is said there are a few of them in Chicago. In most modern mansions in Chicago the cost of the bathroom and accessories range from S7OO to $2,000; the latter includes a pool instead of a tub. Cathedral windows are dispensed with, the pool is porcelain lined, the shower is o\er the pool, and. in fact, one room serves for everything except the dressing apartment. It is a fad with some Wealthy people to have the tub hewn from a solid block of marble, but such folks are few and far between. There is another style of tub that is liked. It is solid “steel porcelain lined, sets on the floor without legs and when in place looks as if it might have grown out of the wall. These tubs are low and roomy, but the shower lias to be a separate work of art stationed on a marble slab in another part of the room. There are many private houses in Chicago that have bathrooms costingfrom, SSOO to $1,500. and some dwellings have one on each floor, as well as a lavatory, but as a rule from $l5O to S3OO is all house owners care to invest in that department. A few swimming sadists have pools occupying most of the space in the cellar. Os course the cellar must be constructed to admit of such a thing and also to give the pool the required depth. “The correct house for a gentleman to live in has a swimming pool in the cellar and a billiard-room in the top story,” says a man who has both. Plumbers say that few zinc-lined tubs are used these days. An iron body with enamel lining costs Utile more and outlasts a dozen zinc tubs. A gentleman who has a costly bathroom says the way to enjoy a bath is to submerge oneself in the water to the chin, then light a cigar and sip ice-cold champagne between puffs. Keep it up until the cigar and the wine are used up. then go to bed and dream of fairy lands.’ Almonds nnd Klee. Cook half a pound of rice in a quart of milk (atld a little more milk, if necessary, but only enough to cook the rice). Cook slowly and add a pinch of salt, four ounces of butter, half a pound of sugar, six ounces of well-pounded almonds and the beaten yolks of five eggs. Cool, butter a plain mold (butter it well, else the contents will not come out whole), line it with blanched almonds, halved lengthwise, and pour on the rice. Set the mold in a larger pan of cold water, plnce in the oven and bake slowly for one hour; then remove from ! the oven, plHce in a pun of cold water for a few minutes, then invert onto a round platter. Serve hot with a rich fruit compote.—Ladies’ World. R'nrrnnled. “Got any fresh hen's eggs?" asked the storekeeper at Hikup's Corner. “Yep,” replied the farmer. "Here's 11 or eight, laid by the freshest hen in the business." —Philadelphia North American. In the Til runic. Ida—Do you see that man with mut-ton-chop whiskers? Doesn't he look bold ? May—He looks very sheepish to me. “Chicago Evening News.

FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.

PROBABLY FATALLY SHOT. The Mayor's Son Received the Ballet That Was Intended For Edward Ryan at Jeffersonvllle. Jeffersonville, Ind., Sept. 27.—RaJph Rader, the 16-year-old son of Ma/or Thos. B. Radfer, was acidentally nnd probably fatally shot at a late hour at night here by Charles Fogarty. ! The bullet; was intended for Edwafd Ryan, who had knocked Fogarty down earlier in the afternoon. Ry*n and Rader are good friends, and were together when Ryan decided that Fogarty had not received sufficient punishment at his hands. He told Rader that he intended going after Fogarty again, and Rader went along. Ryan met Fogarty near the electric light station and started toward him, when the latter drew a gun and fired the shot, missing its mark and striking Rader in the back, penetrating a lung. WAGE CONFERENCE. A Committee of American Flint Glnsn Workers* Association Meet the Manufacturers. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 29. —The wage conference committee of the American Flint Glass Workers’ association Friday conferred with officers of the Union Machine-Made Fruit Jar Manufacturers’ association and settled the scale for the coming year’s work. Last year's wages will be paid on the long list, with some slight alterations in the rules of the factories, the workmen securing their demands. The settlement affects factories at Marion, Redkey and Muncie, Ind.. Lockport, N. Y., and Elmer, X. J. All will at once begin preparations to resume work, giving employment to 3,000 hands, making 90 per cent, of the fruit jars produced in this country. Bank Robbed of Thonsnndn. Ivendallville, Ind., Sept. 29. —Wolf Bros.’ banking house, of Centerville, Midi., just north of this city, was robbed early Friday morning. Ten thousand dollars in currency was taken, and the vault and building were entirely wrecked by dynamite. Not the slightest clew can be found. Citizens knew nothing of the robbery until Friday morning, and the affair is a mystery. A large reward will be offered by the bank and county officials. Plant 111. mantled. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 27. —The Eureka steel works here, which began a few months ago in opposition to the steel trust, has ascended the flume and relinquished business. The promoters were Edward Hardemeyer and W. A. Hile. The plant has been dismantled and the- machinery shipped away. Local stockholders are heavy losers. The cause of the collapse has not been explained. Indiana Pen.loners. Washington, Sept. 29. —Pensions have been granted to the following Indiana people; Restoration and Increase—Henry Ayers, dead, Collett, sl6. Increase—Special September 14> Marion Remson, Sheridan, $24. Original Widows, etc.—Julia A. Ayers, Collett, sl2. War With Spain (Widods, etc. —John Rambo, father, Clarksville, sl2. She Swallowed Poison. Noblesville, Ind., Sept. 29.—Miss Mary Griffith, aged 19, committed suicide. In a dying statement she said that she was betrothed to Yern Smiley, who was married to another girl. Within an hour after she learned her lover was married she swallowed paris green. Will Slnrt the Plnnt. Marion, Ind., Sept. 27.—Walter C. Ely, manager of the Republic iron and steel plant in this city, received orders Wednesday to start one of the plants Thursday. The second one will be started as soon as workmen can be secured. Canitht In n Poker Raid. Bedford, Ind., Sept. 27—The city police at an eariy hour raided a gambling house on the west side and succeeded in pulling nine citizens, among whom were two prominent attorneys, who were engaged in a poker game. New Indiana Po.tnin.ter., Washington, Sept. 28. —The following postmasters were commissioned in Indiana Thursday; Strouse. Noble county, Daniel A. Harlan; West Union, Parke county, Daniel W. Browsher. Veteran.' Reunion. Centerville, Ind., Sept. 27.—The annual reunion of the 57th Indiana regimental association will be held October 3 and 4. Indtnnlnn Killed In Cntm. Now Albany, Ind., Sept. 29.—Richard Childs, colored, was notified Friday of the death of his son, Harry Childs, a soldier in the regular army in Cuba. He was confined in a guardhouse and tried to escape, when he was Bhot by a guard. Tlie Game at Rniell. Brazil, Tnd„ Sept. 29.—A fast game of ball was played between the Terre Haute team and the Brazils here Friday. Darkness stopped the game in the Beventh inning, with the score standing 1 to t.

RELEASED ON BOND. C. 9. Knight Arrested on the Chars:* of Attempting to Influence the Vote of a Councilman. Jeffersonville, Ind., Sept. 28.—Chas. S. Knight, president of the Wayne Construction Cos., of Fort Wayne, Ind., was arrested On a passenger train in Jeffersonville, Ind., Thursday, while en route to Indianapolis, on an indictment returned against him by the grand jury of Clark county, Indiana. The indictment charges that Knight offered SI,OOO to Councilman George J. lleuser, of Jeffersonville, to influence Heuser to not oppose a proposition for the sale to the city of Jeffersonville of the Jeffersonville Light and Water Cos., in which ixnight is interested, and to resign his office as councilman. Mr. Knight, who is well known in his line of business, was released on bond. He said be could not imagine what his arrest meant. AT INDIANAPOLIS. Anthracite Coni Advances Another SO Cents—llrnzil Block Coni Advances 25 Cents a Ton. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 29.—Anthracite coal advanced another sl> cents a ton Friday morning. Only a few days ago the price had been increased from $6 to $6.50, and the advance Friday morning makes the price $7. The retail coal dealers say that this second advance is due to the strike, and that another 50 cent increase may be expected within the next ten days if the conditions snow no sign of improvement. Brazil block coal also was advanc >d 25 cents Friday. The advance thus far affects only the dealer who is obliged to pay 25 cents more ea :h ton. The price paid by the consumer, $3.25, has not yet been advanced. FINISHED HIS RUN. fixpvemi Messenger George Willis Committed Suleide In the Busenient of the Ofllee. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27. —George Willis, a messenger employed by the United States Express Cos., and running between this city and Cincinnati, made his usual trip to this city Wednesday, arriving about noon. In the evening he walked into the express office and passed to the basement, where the sound of a pistol shot attracted .attention. He was found unconscious, with a bullet wound in his left eye. Willis has been in the employ of the company for many years, and was assigned to the C., H. & D. route. The cause is a mystery. He is 60 years old aud a widower. Southern Indiana Veterans. Rising Sun, Ind., Sept. 28.—The Southeastern Indiana veterans’ reunion and campfire was held at the Switzerland and Ohio intercounty fair grounds at East Enterprise, near ! here, Thursday and Friday, Septem--1 ber 27 and 28. Several thousand people are present, and speeches were made by Department Comander Beam and It. M .Smock, of Indianapolis: Hon. Marion F. Griffiths, lion. Nathan Powell, Rev. Charles Lee, Rev. Sam Brumblay and Rev. William Tedford. Penitentiary for Life. Noblesville, Ind., Sept. 28.—Tlie jury in the case of Frederick Ixettlehake, charged with the murder of Frederick Simon, returned a verdict of guilty Thursday morning, and fixed the punishment at imprisonment for life. Kettlehake shot and killed Simon on April 4 last in Indianapolis over trouble which Kettlehake had with Simon. The case came here on a change of venue. The plea was insanity. A Victim of Unreqolrted Love Indianapoils, Ind., Sept. 29. —Frank Scott, a train boy on the Big Four railway, was brought here Friday afternoon from Bellefontaine, 0., suffering from what was diagnosed as strychnine poisoning. With his spasms he frequently called out, “Tell her I'm dead.” The train men believe that he is the victim of disappointed love. Late Friday evening indications pointed to his ultimata recovery. Block Coni Boosted. Brazil, Ind., Sept, 27.—The operators representing all the companies producing block coal met here on Wednesday and raised the selling price of coal 25 cents on the ton, making coal $2.75 in the local market, which is from 25 cents to 50 cent* higher than at any time for the past 20 years, regardless of the scale of prices paid the miners. The raise has caught the majority of the laborers here with empty coal bins. Methodist Missionary Convention. Logansport, Ind., Sept. 29. —Thfl fifth annual convention of the Women’s Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church of the Kokomo district convened here Thursday afternoon aud adjourned Friday night. Slnln by Two Brothers. Terre Haute, Ind., Sept, 29.—0n Jaa. Schee’s farm, west of this city. Geo. and Fred Smith quarreled with a man named Howard. The latter had his skull crushed with a piece of rajI road iron, causing death.