Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

Gladstone's life motto has been: “Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with thv might.” “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands; enter into his gates with thanksgiving. For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. ” Boston dry goods stores now “check” babies along with umbrellas, extra parcels and other superfluous baggage. The infants are carefully looked after by experienced matrons for a specified time, greatly to the relief of weary mothers when on shopping bent. An extensive system of moveable sidewalks is proposed for Chicago to connect the various elevated roads on the belt plan. The walks will be elevated on posts on the street curb line and will be operated on the same general plan of the moveable sidewalk on the big pier at the, World's Fair.

The bottom of the Pacific Ocean from the California coast to the Sandwich Islands has been surveyed and the surface has been found to be so level that for stretches of five hundred miles, if on dry land, a railroad train could be run at sixty miles an hour without the grade being altered at any point. A chart of the survey has been made and now hangs in a newspaper office at Honolulu. The women of Colorado are devoting tlieir energies to the study of politics since the,right of suffrage has been granted them. The sex in the Centennial State are said to be enthusiastic over their newly acquired right and it is probable that the majority will prize it more highly than the men do at present. The right of suffrage is a privilege that is held too lightly by the majority of American citizens, and it is probable that they would more highly appreciate it if deprived of its exercise for a number of years.

Stage names afford a curious stud}' and are often assumed for no apparent pood reason, for they deceive nobody but the great mass of newspaper readers, who are in any event but slightly if at all interested in the artists who thus seek to hide their identity. For instance, Lillian Russell—the actress who has acquired fame and fortune—otherwise Miss Helen Leonard—of whom few people have ever heard—was married January 21 to Signor Peruginl—the singer of whom a great many people have read —otherwise Mr. John Chatterton, a persoh bf lrreat obscuritv. This is a custom of the stage celebrities that is not infrequent. It docs no particular harm, but makes a marriage notice like this somewhat complicated and unsatisfactory. Im agine Edwin Booth trying to sail under a fictitious name! People of ail parties have long been accustomed to think of New York City as a badly governed municipality, where municipal officers regardless of party affiliations rapidly grew rich at the expense, of the helpless taxpayer. Nevertheless it is stated for a fact that, the per capita taxation has been steadily declining some years. This however, is a very misleading statement, and does not necessarily imply that taxation has been reduced. The probable infer ence is that the poorer classes have increased so rapidly in numbers as to produce an apparent reduction in the per capita taxation. The per centage on the SIOO valuation is not Siven, but it is probable that it has ot been materially reduced, although it is stated that the running expenses of the city government do not keep pace with the growth of population, which is certainly creel itable to the officials as far as it goes.

Why He Went Hungry.

Mr. H'lrdfigt (to beggar)—“There I* no excuse foi being hungry in Now York. Thera ere plumy of chenp resluurante where you cun vet a good dinucr at a mere nominal coat." Beggar— “Bit I haven't the mere Doraiual.io meet the coat."— l'cxai Bifr

A TALMAGIAN DREAM.

Tho Eloquent Brooklyn Divine in a NoW 'Role; —t —— His Impression* of Heaven and the Great Beyond—Pr. Talmagc’s Sermon. Rev. T. DeWitt. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday on the topic of "A Vision of Heaven.” the text being Ezekiel i. 1, "‘Now it came to pass as I was among the captives by the river of C,hebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.” Expatriated" and in far exile on the banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of the Euphrates, sat Ezekiel. It was there he had an-immortal dream, and it is given to us in the holy scriptures. He dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. He dreamed of Christ and the coming heaven. This exile, seated bv that river Chebar had a more wonderful dream than you or I ever had or ever will have seated on the banks of the Hudson or Alabama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber or Danube - _. r Such a dream 1 had this morning! It was 5:30. and the day was breaking. It was a dream of Gqd—a dream of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on the banks of the Chebar. I had mv dream not far from the banks of the Hudson. The most of the stories of heaven were written many centuries ago, and they tell us how the place looked then or how it will look centuries ahead. Would you not like to know how it looks now? That is what 1 am going to tell you. 1. was there this morning. I have just got back. How I got into that city of the sun I know not. Which of the twelve gates I, entered is to me uncertain. But mv first remembrance of the scene is that I stood on one of the main avenues, looking this way and that, lost in raptures, and the air so full of music and redolence and laughter and light that I knew not which street to take, when an angel of God accosted me and offered to show me the objects of greatest interest, and-to conduct jme from street to street, and from mansion to mansion, and from tera- ! pie to temple, and from wall to wall. I said to the angel, “How long hast I thou been in heaven?” and the an- ' swer came, “Thirty-two years, acI cording to the earthly calendar.”

There was a secret about this angel’s name that was not given me, but from the tenderness and sweetness and affc-clion and interest taken in rny walk through heaven, and more than all in the fact of thirtvtwo years’ residence—the number of years since she ascended —I think it was my mother. Old age and decrepitude and the tired look were all gone, but I think it was she. You see, I was only on a visit to the city, and had not vet taken up residence, and I could know only in part. I looked in for a few moments at the great temple. Our brilliant and lovely Scotch essayist, Mr. Drummond, says there is no church in , heaven, but he did not look on the right street. St. John was right when in his Patmosic vision, recorded in the third chapter of Revelation, he speaks of “the temple of God.” I saw it this morning—the largest church I ever saw, as big as all the churches and cathedrals of the earth put together. And it was thronged. Oh, what a multitude! I had never seen so many peopl e - together. All the audiences of all the churches of all the earth put together would make a poor attendance compared with that assemblage. There was a fashion in attire and head-dress that immediately took my attention. The fashion was white. All in white save one. And the head-dress was a garland of rose and lily and . mignonette, mingled with green leaves culled from the royal gardens and bound together with bands of gold. And I saw some young man with a ring on the finger of the right hand and said to my accompanying angel, “Why those rings on the fingers of the right hands?” and I was told that those who wore them were prodigal sons and once fed swine in the wilderness and lived on husks, but they came home, and the rejoicing father said, “Put a ring on his hand.”

But I said thei*e was one exception to this fashion of white pervading all the auditorium and clear up through all the galleries. It was the attire of the one who presided in that immense temple the chiefest, the mightiest, the. loveliest person in all the place. His\cheeks seemed to be I flushed with infinite beauty and his lips were eloquence omnipotent. But his attire was of deep colors. They suggested the carnage through which he had passed, and I said to j my attending angel, “What is that ; crimson robe he wears?" and I was ! told. “They are dyed garments from | Bqzrah,” and “He trod 'the' wine press alone.” Soon after I entered this temple ' they began to chant the celestial litany. It was unlike anything I had over heard for sweetness or power, and 1 have heard the most of the gi cat organs and the most of the oratories, t said to my accompanying angel, “Who is that standing yonder with the harp?” and the answer was, “David.” And I said, “Who is that sounding that trumpet?" and the answer. 4 was, “Gabriel." And I said, “Who is that at the organ?” and the answer was “Handel." And the music rolled on till it came to a doxology extolling Christ himself, when ail the worshipers lower down and higher up, a thousand galleries of them, suddenly dropped on their knees'and chanted, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.” Under the

overpowering harmony I foil back, I said: “Let us go. This is too much for mortal ears. I cannot bear the overwhelming symphony.” But 1 noticed as 1 was about'to turn away teat on the steps of the altar was something like the lachrymal, or tear bottle, as f. had seen ft In the earthly museum*, the lachrymals, or tear bottles, into which ' the used to weep their griefs and set tjieru away as sacred. But. this ’lachrymal, or tear bottle, instead of earth, a ware as those the j orientals used, was lustrous ami fiery, with many splendors, and it was towering and of great capacity. And j I said to my aHendiug angel. “ What is that great lachrymal, or tear bottle, standing on. the step of, the ~al* tar?” and the angel said: “Whv, do you not know? That is the bottle to which David, the psalmist, referred in his fifty-sixth psalm when he said, ‘Put thou my tears into thy bottle.' It is full of tears from earth—tears of repen*mice, tears of bereavement, tears of joy, tears of many centuries.” And then I saw how sacred to the sympathetic God are earthly sorrows, As I was coming out of the temple T saw all aiong the pictured wails there were shelves, and golden viais were being set up on all those shelves. And I said, “Why the setting up of those vials at this-time? They seen just now to have been filled.” And the attending angel said: “The week of prayer all around the earth, has just closed, and more

supplications have been made than have been made for a longtime, and these new vials, newly set up. are what the Bible speaks of as ‘golden stars full of odors, which are the prayers of saints.'” And I said to the accompanying angel, “Can it be possible that the pravers of earth are worthy of being kept in such heavenly shape?” “ Why," said the angel, “there is nothing that so moves heaven as the prayers of earth, and they are set up in sight of these infinite multitudes, and. more than all, in sight of Christ, and he cannot forget them, and they are bWire him world without end.” say some of my hearers, “did you see alivthingof our friends in heaven?” Oh. yes, I did. “Did you see my children there?” says some one, * : and are there any marks of their last sickness still upon them?” I did see them, and there was no pallor, no cough, no pain, no fever, no languor about them. They told me to give their love to you, that they thought of you hour by hour, and that when they could be ! excused from heavenly playgrounds | they came down and hovered about ! you, -and kissed your cheeks, and j filled your dreams with their glad I faces, and that they would be at the | gate to greet you when you aseend- | ed to be with them so.-ever. “ But,” say other voices, “did you see our glorified friends?” Yes, 1 saw them, ana they are well in the land across which no pneumonias or palsies or dropsies or typhoids ever sweep. The aroma blows over from | orchards with trees bearing twelve ! manner of fruits, and gardens corti- ! pared with which Chatsworth is a | desert. The climate is a mingling j of an earthly June and October, the ! balm of one and the tonic of the j other. The social life in that realm ; where they are is superb and per- ; feet. No controversies or jealousies ! or hates, but love, universal love, ! everlasting love. And they told me j to tell .you not to weep for them, ' for their happiness knows no bound, and it is only a question of time : when you shall reign with them in i the same palace and join with them j in the same exploration of planets ; and the same tour of worlds. AS I walked through those streets I appreciated for the first time what j Paul said to Timothy, “If we suffer iwe shall also reign with Him.” It | surprised me beyond description j that all the great of heaven were j great sufferers. “Not all?” Yes, i all. Moses, him of the Red sea, a j great"sufferer. David, him of Absa-

lorn’s unfilial behavior aifd Ahithophel’s betrayal and a nation’s dethronement, a great sufferer. Ezekiel, him of the captivity, who had the dream on the banks of the Chebar. a great sufferer. Paul, him of the diseased eyes, and the Mediterranean shipwreck, and the Mars Hill derision, and the Mamertine endungeonment, and the whipped back, and the headman’s ax on the road to I Ostia, a great sufferer. Yea, all the aposties after lives of suffering died i by violence, beaten to death with fullers’ clnbs or dragged to death by mobs, or from the thrust of the sword, or by exposure on barren island, or by decapitation. My walk through the city explained a thousand things on earth that had been to me inexplicable. When I saw up there the superior delight and the superior heaven of j many who had on earth had it hard with cancers and bankrupeies and | persecutions and trials of all sorts, I ! said: “God has equalized it all at j last. Excess of enchantment in ' heaven Jias more than made up for the deficit? on earth.” Reflection the first: The superiority of our heaven to all other heav- ! ens. The Scandinavian heaven: The 1 departed are in everlasting battle except as restored after being cut to pieces. They drink wine out of the skulls of their enemies. The Moslem heaven as described by the Koran: “There shall be houris with large black eyes like pearls hidden in their shells." The Slav’s heaven: After death the soul hovers six weeks about the body then climbs a steep mountain, on ,the top of which is paradise. The Tasmanian’s heaven: A spear is placed by the dead that they may have something to fight with, and after a while they go into a long chase for game of all

sorts. The Tahitian’s heaven: The departed are eaten up of the gods. The native African heaven: A land of shadows, and in speaking of the departed they say, “All is done forever.” The American aborigine's heaven: Happy hunting groiTsds,to Which ! the soul goes on a bridge of snakes. The philosopher's heayen: Made out of a thick fog or an indefinite don’t know. But harken an l behold our heayen, which, though mostly described by figures of speech in the Bible and by parable of a dream in this discourse, has for its chief characteristics separation from all that is vile, absence from all that can discomfort, presence of all that can gratify. No mountains to climb, no chasms to bridge, no night to illumine, no tears to wipe. Seandluavlanheaven. Slav’s heaven. . Tasmanian heaven. Tahitian heaven. Moslem heaven. African heaven. Aborigines’ heaven, scattered into tameness and disgust by a glimpse of St. John’s heaven, of Paul’s heaven, of Christ's heaven, of your heaven, of mv heaven. . Reflection the second: You had better take patiently and cheerfully all pangs, affronts, hardships, persecutons and trials of earth, since if rightly born they insure heavenly payments of eestacy. Every twinge of physical distress, every lie told about you, every earthly subtraction if meekly born,, will be heavenly addition. If you want to amount to anything in heaven and to move in its best society you must be “perfected through suffering.” The only earthly currency worth anything at the gate of heaven is the silver of tears. At the top of all heaven sits the greatest sufferer, Christ of the Bethlehem caravansary and of Pilato’s’dyer and terminer and of the Calvarean assassination. Oh, ye of the broken heart, and the disappointed ambition, and the shattered fortune, and the blighted life, take comfort from what I saw in m.v Sabbath morning dream. Reflection the third and last: How desirable - that' we all get there! Start this moment with prayer and penitence and faith iu Christ, who came from heaven to earth to take us from earth to heaven.

A BAR OF IRON.

Preliminary Processes That Are Necessary to Its Production. Harpers Magazine. Iron-making is a kin of cookery on a huge scale. The earthy impurities must be “roasted” or melted out from iron ore; necessary carbon must then be properly mixed in from the fuel, or the unnecessary carbon burned out. This is of manufacture. A wrought-iron bar or plate is always obtained from a puddle ball, an aggregation of grains of iron in a pasty, .semi-fused condition, interspersed with a greatsror less amount of cinder or slag. Under the powerful action of the rolls the grains are welded together, and a large part of the cinder is squeezed out, but enough remains interposed between the iron granules to prevent them from welding thoroughly and forming a homogeneous mass. The welded lumps elongate under the process of rolling, and the resulting bar resembles a buuch of iron fibres or sinews with minute particles of slag interpspersed here and there. Such iron varies.in resistance according to whether the power is applied with or against the fibres. Steel is the result of a fusing process. It mav be crucible, Bessemer, or open-hearth steel, but iu all cases it ha« been cast from a thoroughly melted and fluid state into an ingot mould, whore it solidifies and is ready for subsequent treatment, such as hammering or rolling. The slag being lighter than the steel, it rises on top of the melted bath, and does not mingle with the metal, which remains clehn and unobstructed, and, after being cast in the mould, cools into a crystalline homogeneous mass in which no amount of rolling ' can develop a fibre. Thus steel possesses a structure more regular and compact than wrought iron. Its resistance to strains and stresses is more equal in all directions, and its adaptability to structural use is vastly increased.

An Unfinished Story.

Chicago Daily Tribune. “It was so thoughtful of you, Herbert,” said his young wife, meeting him at the door, “to send a man for your overcoat; you knew there wa3 a cold wave coming and —” “What are you talking about, Marie?” said Herbert. “I didn’t send a man for my overcoat.” “Why, yes. Herbert, you did. Don’t you remember? About the middle of the afternoon you sent a very pleasant and nice-appearing young man to tell me T must let him have your best overcoat, and you hadn’t time to send a note, but it was hanging on the hall rack and you would need it before dark, and of course I let him have it, and—-why. Herbert, what is the matter, and why haven’t you got it on, snd can it be possible that —” But there are scenes too sacred to be profaned by the presence of listeners. Herbert has begun to speak. Let us hasten to retire. Miss Dorothy Klumpke took her degree as Doctor of Mathematical Science at the Sorbonoe the other week. During the last century there have been many proofs of the ability of women to earn distinction as students of higher mathematics, but before the present occasion no woman student ever took her degree in the department of mathematical science in Paris. For some time past Miss Klumpke has held an honorary post at the Paris Observatory.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Investigation showsCOO idle men at Columbus. Tho Mod egg] ass-works at Cicero will »tart, Feb. 15. with about 300 hands. Vickery Bros.! grocery house, Evansville, burned, Sunday. Loss, $12,003. The new postoffice in Nottingham township. Wells county, is christened Petroleum. Hamlet is to have a curled grass plant that will use hundreds of tons of hay yearly. “The Midway Plaisance,” at Crawfordsville, managed for the benefit of the poor, realized about $4031 The Hotel Ingram was formally opened at Hartford City. Tuesday night. It is one of the finest in the State. Congressman Conn, through his business manager, presented his employes with $12,533.30 at tho Elkhart opera house, Tuesday night. Winfield Richards, of Needmore, has patented a machine to work the gold fields of Brown county. Last week he had great luccess, one day taking out S4O. Deputy Revenue Collector Pierce, of Lake county, discovered an illicit distillery near Plymouth, Tuesday, and destroyed the outfit, together with six barrels of whisky. Presiding Elder W. C. Wolfert, of the Elkhart district of the Northern Indiana Methodist Conference, lias resigned, Tho Rev. B. A. Kemp, of Mishawaka, is a possible successor. A big sensation has been created at Huntington by tho discovery that the A. P. A. records, containing names of all the members of that city, had beeq stolen from the lodge room. Tho Indianapolis free food market for for the deserving unemployed is run now at an expense of $1,200 a woek. Two hundre.l and two names were added to the list of applicants last week. The White county commissioners have resolved to sell tho old court-house at Konticello, over which there his been so much litigation. This is interpreted as meaning a new structure in time. Mrs. Ann Roust, of Huntington, hoarded $250 in gold in her cellar, burying it with great care and concealing tho hiding place, Tuesday she discovered that her bank had been plundered of its treasure. Philip Williams, of Huntington, who has been sentenced to prison for two years for forgery, has a wife and seven children. He claims that his family were starving, and to supply their wants he was driven to crime. While George Lee, of Jefferson county, was milking a restive cow, his head resting against her Hank, the animal gave a sadden lurch, bending him almost double and dislocating his spine. His death occurred Tuesday. ■i As the result of a quarrel at Stipp’s Hill between M. F. George and Stephen Dilks, over a shoulder of meat which Dilks had purchased and failed to pay for, Dilks used a dirk knife, stabbing George to death. Dilks was arrested for murder.

Finlay S. Collins, proprietor of the Seymour Democrat, is dead of consumption, lie was thirty-ode years old. The deceased was a Mason, and member of the Columbus Commandery, Knights Templers, He was also prominent in Pythian circles. Mrs. Cecilia Stone, wife of the condemned murderer of the Wratten family, with his children and father, paid a visit to the prison south, Sunday, for a final farewell. The scene was very affecting. Even the children realized the gravity of the occasion. E. S. Lancaster, of Jonesboro, worked out a method of manufacturing ico by tlio use of natural gas, but somebody patented ihoidea and is now prospering. Since then he lias devoted himself to the construction of a refrigerator, in which nat ural gas takes the place of ice. The following concerns are running in full or part at Elwood: Diamond plateglass works, MclJeth chimney factory, McClay factory, American tin plato works, EJwood iron works, Rodefer & Hoffman Window-glass Company and Nivison & Wieskoff bottle works. An eight-hunJred-barrel oil well has been struck five milos northwest of Montpelier. The lease is owned by the Standard. Two years ago the Manhattan Oil Company ran in a dry hole on the same farm and abandoned the lease, which was quickly snapped up by the Standard. W. J. Holt, superintendent of the Central Union Lifo Insurance Association of Fort Wayne, while in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, dropped his overcoat, and a revolver in one of the pockets was discharged. The bullet struck Mr. Holt in the back, causing a wound thought to be fatal. The farmers near Elwood hayo suffered so much from thieves during tho last few months that they have organized two thief catching companies and two bloodhounds have been secured. Tho trespassers will be tracked down, as the farmers despair of bagging them in any othor manner.

Ernest Perkins and Miss Emma Huddleston, of Somerset, were married, and a gang of rowdies assembled finder their window, firing shots into tho house, pounding tho weatherboarding with clubs, and otherwise annoying tho occupants. Tho bridegroom retaliated by causing the arrest of eighteen of tho party for rioting. H. W. Perkins,of South Bend, was a soldier of thelatowar and was shot in tho palm of tho left hand. Tho bullet was never cut out. It gave him no Inconvenience until recently, when he experienced a stinging pain at tho base of tho mlddlo finger. Examination showed the bullet under the skin.it having worked down from tho pain?. Ho had it cut out. The validity of the foe and salary law having been affirmed by the Supreme Court, county officers throughout the State are In something of a panic. At Wabash the county officials talk of resigning. Under tho law It is estimated that the Recorder of Wabash county will receive MOO per annum after paying nocessary expenses. The Sheriff will realize 8350. Tho other officers claim to bo in nearly as bad a predicament. Uoury Aailwurm, of Crown Point, has been appointed receiver of tho estate firm: of Lano & Lane, of Chicago. During the 1890 boom tho firm invested in real ostato In tho vicinity of Tolleston, subdividing it into town lots. Slnco thon one of the partners has died, and his widow seeks to force a sale of tho holdings, which the surviving partner says can only be done at a great sacrifice. The estate is valued at 160.000. The Ft. Wayne Street Railway Company donated its receipts oa Christmas Day to

the poor of the city, to be distributed by the city. The mayor of that city refused to receive the girt, insisting upon its distribution by the relief societies. Ths mayor explained that the city could not afford to place itself under obligation t« any corporation whose filter esti were in- * ter woven so closely with those of the municipality. Oscar Thrall, near West Liberty, while driving home from church with two young ladies was killed in a peculiar manner. The horse not moving to suit him, he struck the animal a sharp blow in the flank. The horse jumped, and almost instantly Thrall’s head was seen to fall forward and he was found to be dead in his seat. The sudden jerk had dislocated his heck. He was hut seventeen years old. A young fellow, styling himself Harry Owens, of Colorado, called upon William Hendricks, a substantial old farmer in the vicinity of Whitestown, representing himself as a nephew, and so cleverly did he play part that Mr. Hendricks was deceived and entertained his guest royally. Tho bogus nephew succeeded in getting his supposititious uncle to advance him SSOO on a gold brick, valued at $5,000, after which ho disappeared. Mr. Hendricks still has the brick. ; Trouble is brewing in the Indiana coal district over the prospect of a material lowering of the wage-schedule to meet reductions in the Ohio and Pittsburg fields. It is understood that the operators will ask for 15-cent reduct’on for the coming year, beginning May I. and it is the understanding that if the Ohio miners accept the 50-cent rate now offered, that this reduction will be called for before May 1, oi else the mines will shut down. Receiver Hawkins, of the Haughey Indianapolis Bank, has been authorized by Judge Baker of the United States court, to receive $25.00) in cash, In full settlement, from Mrs. Colfax and her son Schuyler Colfax, Jr., the amount having been furnished and tendered by a friend of the late Vice-Presi-dent, who will take a second mortgago on the Colfax es:ate and save it from being sacrificed to meet the assessment made by the receiver upon the stockholders of the wrecked institution. The arrangement is considered advantageous to all parties concerned.

Sheiman Wagoner, the wife-murderer, is still at large. He has so completely covered his tracks that no trace can be found. He was reported as located near his father’s house in Lawrence county, but hs could not be found. He was afterward reported to have been seen near the residence of his uncle, Newton McDemed, io the southern part of Martin conntv. but no further trace of him could be found. He is a well educated, shrewd, sharp manamt with tiie start lie has win ue liaru to find. His wife’s people are poor and un* ablo to offer any reward for ins apprehension, and no one seems willing to start on an uncertain hunt without somo hope of remuneration of expenses. The Hon. John Yaryan died at Richmond, at 3 p. m., on Saturday. He had been In feeble health for several months, but ho was at his office on Thursday last* On Friday ho complained of feeling badly, and he soon after, became unconscious Mr. Yaryan was a pioneer of Indiana. A* the last session of tho General Assembly he attracted much attention, being at that time tho oldest legislator in the world. He was born in Blount county Kentucky, in 1802. Mr. Yaryan had voted for eighteen Presidential candidates, be-

JOHN YARYAN.

ginning with John Quincy Adams in 1824. He was a life-long Whig and Republican. The Montgomery county grand jury returned indictments againt several score of citizens of Crawfordsville for engaging in games of chance. It appears that for the past two months there havo been numerous “raffles,” the proceeds of which were devoted to charity. The prosecutor warned tho projectors that the raffling must stop, but it was persisted in. The defendant* include a number of prominent peoplo, and there is one local philanthropist who has twenty indictments against him. A number of defendants have given notico that thoy will stand trial, under the impression that no Jury can be found to convict, inasmuch as tho offense was solely in tho name of charity and no profit accrued. For somo time it has been known that the G< man Lutheran pastors of Fort Wayno were opposed to members of their congregations joining secret societies, and this has led some of tho Lutherans of that city to sever their relations with that church. Recently there was a Union meeting of tho four Lutheran congregations belonging to the synodical conference, at which time the Rev. H. G. Hauer submitted a paper giving the reasons why the pastors were a unit in opposing secret society membership. Tho position of the Bible on socrotism was liberally quoted, and the ground was taken that the Bible being opposed, the church hat no choice, because secret socictylsm and true Christianity were irreconcilably opposed one to tho other. Patents were Issued to Indiana Inventors, Tuesday, as follows: A. L. Baughman and D. L. Baughman, Albion, drill attachment for planters; C. F. Bettman, Jr., New Albany, fan attachment for rocking chair*; E. H. Goalln, Washington, wrench; L- G. Gustave), Monticollo. hamo tug; A. N. Hanna, Fort Wayne, pencil holder; G. J. Hcrth and G. Boncnborjer, Evansville, mlno trap door; J. L. Hutchinson, assignor to E. F. Bowman, Lancaster, Pa., jewel chuck; H. Kinzlcy, Indianapolis, hair structure; O. M. Pilcher, ditching machlno; F. W. Heaver, Bennington, saw clamp; G. Thomas and F. Kies, South Bend, minnow pail; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, journal bearing.