Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — Page 2

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

“Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may." “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” The Chicago man continues to “get there”. One of “him” arrived at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the other day, dead broke. Desiring to cross the Hudson river, he secured two soap boxes, attached them to his feet and proceeded.to paddle his way over the stream. A tug captain discovered him in the middle of the stream and went to his relief.

The Field Columbian Museum will have a railway branch in which will be exhibited and tested every new device oertaining to the service that is brought out J. G. Pangborn will have charge of this newly organized department and will devote the next two years of his life to the work. Ample means to carry out the work are now available.

The Methodist Episcopal church builds an average of two new churches a day in the United States. At least 1,500 Protestant churches are built annually in America. “Sin” of all descriptions is rampant, but still the “salt of the earth” appears to keep up its end of the swingle-tree pretty well. There are a great many very good people in the country who are quite indifferent as to religious matters, but there are very few indeed who would willingly consent to the destruction of all of our church edifices,

Our Indiana farmers are not greatly interested in cotton, but those with a statistical turn of mind will find tbe following figures of value: Tbe visible cotton supply of the world is about 1,300,000 bales. The weekly consumption in Europe is 169,000 bales. Fifteen years ago tbe visible supply was 2,450.000 bales with a weekly European consumption of 99,000 bales. The American crop of 1894 is estimated at 7,500,000. The changes in the Indian tariff may improve values in eon sequence of taking off the duty on cotton goods.

Ip you contemplate ■ a Mexican tour, a heavy life insurance policy will prove a great addition to y r our comfort. A good many tourists in the land of the Montezumas have recently died, and in more than one instance SI,OOO has been charged for embalming the remains so that the body could be sent home. ConsulGeneral Crittenden, our representative at the City of Mexico, has published a vigorous protest against the extortion, but Mexican physicians claim the charge is reasonable, as the old Egyptian method of embalming is still in vogue in Mexico,

Senator Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, has been converted through the efforts of Evangelist Moody, who has been conducting a revival at Washington City for some time. Senator Blackburn mailed a package of tracts to each of his colleagues, inscribed “Compliments of J. S. C. Blackburn,” and this device was understood to mean that the genial Kentucky statesman, who has been a typical Kentuckian, with all that that implies, had abandoned his worldly life. Moody's meetings have attracted unusual attention from Senators and public men generally at the National capital, and geneyous contributions have been made by them for their continuance.

Tiie railway business of the United States outranks all other branches of enterprise. One-tenth of all the laboring men employed are on the pay-rolls of the railway companies in one branch or another of the service, while another army of equal magnitude is engaged in producing railway, supplies of various kinds. One-fifth of the population of the American continent is maintained by an interest which was organized less than sixty years ago. The gross earnings of American railways reach the enormous sum of $10,100,000,000 annually and they pay to labor $750,000,000 each year. The value of all the railway stocks and bonds of the various lines far exceeds the value of all the gold, silver and paper money of the United States in banks, in circulation and in the hoards of the people. A New York swell indulges in charity from purely selfish mptives. His theory is unique and original. While he admits that indiscriminate giving tends to increase beggary and Is often an injury to the pauper who begs, he regards any outlay

that he may make in answering to the calls, of city vagrants as a good investment. He alleges that if he encounters a woe begone beggar on a stormy night, after he has himself dined in style, and fails to give him something, that he is haunted by the face of the miserable pleading wretch to such an extent as to destroy his own comfort, whereas if he contributes relief he finds a serene satisfaction which adds imto his own comfort. The swell does not wish to be regarded as a philanthropist, nor as a generous man even, but avers that he gives to the poor solely because by so doing he adds to his ovfn peace ol mind. This can hardly be called a new discovery, but rather a verifies tion of the. scriptural saying that “il is more blessed to give. than to receive.” The same feeling probably actuates a great many people who pose as philanthropists and great benefactors of the human race Yhere is nothiiig so comforting to ! man as to be fully convinced in hi! | own mind that he is a real good fellow.

It is hardly good taste to maks sport of the afflictions and misfortunes of others, yet the vagaries ol the insane are sometimes so ridiculous that people, in wfhom thd .disposition.; „ to....laugh at thtj amusing side of even the saddest circumstance can hardly be 1 repressed, will draw from them the in l spiration for a feast of mirth. In the absence of the unfortunate vie' tims of strange hallucinations and their immediate friends this may bo pardoned, and this is our excuse foi* giving to the public the utterly absurd ideas of an Indianapolis book : keeper which have resulted in his incarceration in the Central Hospital. The deluded man became imbued -with the idea that he was vastly wealthy. He owned a dog which he valued at SIO,OOO, and he pawned a valuable watch for $2 to get money to buy ribbons to decorate the “purp,” after which he started to the city offices stating that he intended to rent Tomlinson hall in order that he might exhibit the canine phenomenon to the public at so much per head. He was placed under restraint and enroute to the asylum confidentially told the officer that he had repeatedly refused $lO,000 for the animal. Such incidents are sad indeed, but we can laugh at the humorous side of the matter when by so doing we will not offend the parties most interested.

Reliable in Some Respects.

Detroit Free Press. “Before I reached the dignity of a position in the national Legislature,” remarked a Southern Congressman to a group of listeners, “I represented my county in the State Legislature. During one of my canvasses I got over into a rough part of the county, where I knew very few people and thought they didn’t know me, in which regard I found later I was slightly in error. As I rode along the bed cf a creek I overtook a man riding a hard looking mule, and I began to give him some, talk. I got around at last to personalities and I began to ask him about his ruble. “ ‘What’s such an animal as that you are on worth?’ I asked. “ ‘ ’Bout S4O er sitch a matter.’ “ ‘Will he work?’ “ ‘Course.’ ‘Got auy speed?’ “ ‘He kin walk ’round a corn field a good many times ’tween sunup and dark.’ “ ‘Can he run?’ “He looked at me rather curiously I thought. ' “ ‘Well, mister,’ he said, ‘I can’t say ez he’s reliable in that line. Fer instance, he ain’t wurth a dern to run in a hoss race, but I reckon he couldn’t be beat es he ran fer the 1 egislater,’ and thereupon I chauged the subject to something more agreeable.”

The Mexican Puncher.

Harper's Magazine The Mexican “punchers” all use the “ring bit,” and it is a fearful contrivance. Their saddle-trees are very short, and as straight and quite as shapeless as a “saw-buck packsaddlo.” The horn is as big as a dinner plate, and taken altogether it is inferior to the California tree. It is very hard on horses’ backs, and not at all comfortable for a rider who is not accustomed to it. They all use hemp ropes which are imported from some of the southern states of the republic, and carry a lariat of hair which they make themselves. They work for from eight to twelve dollars a month in Mexican coin, and livfe on the most simple diet imaginable. They are mostly peoned, or in hopeless debt to their patrons, who go after any man who deserts the range and bring him back by force. A “puncher”, buys nothing but his gorgeous buckskin clothes, and his big silver-mounted straw hat, his spurs, his riata, and his cincha rings. He makes his teguas or buckskin boots, his heavy leggings, his saddle, and the patron furnishes his arms. On the round-up, which lasts about half of the year, he is furnished beef, and also kills game. The balance of the year he is kept in an outlying camp to turn stock back on the range. These camps are often the most simple things, consisting ol a pack containing his “grub,” his saddle, aqd serape, all lying under a tree, which does duty as a house.

A CITY’S INIQUITIES.

The Stranger Within the Gates. Goud Advice Frojtn / One Wlia Knows Whereof He Speaks—Or. Talmage’s Sermon, At the Brooklyn, Tabernacle, Sunday, Dr. Tal mage preached to a large audience, from the text, Matthew xxv, 35 —“I was a strauger, and ye took me in.” He said: It is a moral disaster that jocosity has despoiled so many passages of scripture, and my text is one that has suffered by irreverent and misapplied quotation. It shows great poverty of wit and humor when peo~ple~take thr sword of divine truth for a game at fencing or chip off from the Kohinoor diamond of inspiration a sparkle to decorate a fool’s cap. My text is the salutation in the last judgment to be given to those who have shown hospitality and kindness and Christian helpfulness to strangers. There have glided into this house those unknown to others, whose history, if told, would be more thrilling than the deepest tragedy, more exciting than Patti’s song, more bright than a spring morning, more awful than a wintry midnight. If they could stand up here and tell the story of their escapes; and their temptations, and their bereavements, and their, disasters, and their victories, and their defeats, there would be in this house such a com mingling of groans and acclamations as would make the place unendurable. There is a man who, in infancy, lay in a cradle satin lined. Out yonder is a man who was picked up, a foundling, on Boston Common. Here is a man who is coolly observing this religious service, expecting no advantage and caring for no advantage for himself, while yonder is a man who has been for ten years in an awful conflagration of evil habits, and he is a mere cinder Qf a destroyed nature, and he is wondering if there shall be in this service any escape or help for this immortal soul. Meeting you only once perhaps face to face’ I strike hands with you in an earnest talk about your present condition and your eternal well being. St. Paul’s ship at Melita went to pieces where two seas meet, but we stand today at a point where a thousand seas converge, and eternity alone can tell the issue of the hour.

A walk through Broadway at 8 o’clock at night is interesting, educating, fascinating, appalling, exhiliating to tbfe last degree. Stop in front of that theater and see who goes in. Stop at that saloon and see who comes out. See the great tides of life surging backward and forward and beating against the marble of the curbstone and eddying down into the saloons. What is that, mark on the face of that debauchee? It is the hectic flush of eternal death. What is that woman’s laughter? It is the shriek of a tost soul, . Who is that Christian man going along with a vial of anodyne to the dying pauper on Elm street? Who is that belated man on the way to a prayer meeting? Who is that city missionary going to take a box in vvirch to bury a child? W T ho are all these clusters of bright and beautiful faces? They are going to some interesting place of amusement. Who is that man going into the drug store? That is the man who yesterday lost all his fortune on Wall street. He is going in for a dose of belladonna, and before morning it will make no difference to him whether stocks .are up or down. I tell you that Broadway, between 7 and 12 o’clock at night, between the Battery and Central park, is an Austerlitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where kingdoms are lost or wo i, and three worlds mingle in the strife.

I meet another coming down off the hotel steps, and I say, “Where are you going?” You say, “I am going with a merchant of New York who has promised to show me the underground life of the city. lam his customer, and he is going to oblige me very much.” Stop! A business house that tries to get or keep your custom through such a process as that is not worthy of you. There are business establishments in our cities which have for years been sending to destruction hundreds and thousands of merchants. They have a secret drawer in the counter where money is kept, and the clerk goes and gets it when he wants to take these visitors to the city through the low slums of the place. When one of these western merchants has been dragged by one of those commercial agents through the slums of the city he is not fit to go home. The mere memory of what hehassegn will.be moral pollution. I think you had better let the city missionary and the police attend to the exploration of New York and underground life. You do not go to a small pox hospital for the purpose of exploration. You do not go there, because you are afraid of contagion. About sixteen years ago as a minister of religion I felt I had a divine commission to explore the iniquities of our cities. I did not ask counsel of my session, or my presbytery, or of the newspapers, but asking the companionship of three prominent city police officials and of two of the elders of my church I unrolled my commission and it said: “Son of man, dig into the wall, and when I had digged into the wall behold a dpor/and he said, go. in and see the wicked abominations that are done here, and I went in and saw and behold!”

Just as in the sickly season you sometimes bear the bell at the gate of the cemetery ringing almost in-

cessantly, so I found that the bell at the gate of the cemetery where ruined souls are buried was tolling by day and tolling by night. I said; “I will explore.” I went'as a physician goes into a fever lazaretto; to see what practical and useful- information I might get. That would be a foolish doctor who would stand 1 outside the door of an invalid writing a Latin prescription. When- a lecturer in a medical college is done with his lecture he takes the students into the dissecting room and shows them the reality. 1 went in and saw and came forth to my pulpit port a plague and to tell how sin dissects the body, and dissects the mind and dissects the soul. Now I, as an officer in the army of Jesus Christ, went on that exploration and onto that battlefield. If you bear a like commission, go; if not, stay away. But you say. v ‘Don’t you think that somehow the description of those places induces people to go and see for themselves,?” I answer, yes, just as much as the description of yellow fever in some scourged city would induce people to go down there and get the ’pesti-

some stranger already destroyed. Where is he, that |I may pointedly yet kindly address him? Come back and wash in the deep fountain of a Saviour’s mercy. A young man comes in from the country bragging that nothing can do him any harm. He knows about all the tricks of city life. “Why,” he says, “did not. I receive a circular in the country telling me that somehow they had found out I was a sharp business man, and if I would only send a certain amount of money by mail or express, charges prepaid, they w >uld send a package with which I could make a fortune in two months, but I did not believe it. Mv neighbors did, but I did not. Why, no man could take my money. I Carry it in a pocket inside my vest. No man could take it. No man could cheat me at the faro table. Don’t I know, all about the ‘cue-box’ and the dealer’s box, and the cards stuck together as though they were one, and when to hand my chocks? Oh, they "can’t cheat me. I know what lam about,” while at the same time, that very moment, such men are succumbing to the worst satanic influences in the simple fact that they are going to observe. Now, if a man or woman shall go down into a haunt of iniquity for the purpose of reforming men and women, or for the sake of being able intelligently to warn pecple against such perils; if, as did John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thomas Chalmers, they go down among the abandoned for the sake of saving them, then such explorers shall beGod protected, and they will come out better than when they went in. But if you go on this work of exploration merely for the purpose of satisfying a morbid curiosity I will take 20 per cent, off your moral character.

Sabbath morning comes. You wake up in the hotel. You have had a longer sleep than usual. You say: “Where am I?” A thousand miles from home? I have no* family to take to church to-day. My pastor will not expect my presence. T think 1 shall look over my accounts and study my memorandum book. Then I write a few business letters and talk to that merchant who came in on the same train with me.” Stop! You cannot afford to do it. “But,” you say, “I am worth $500,000.” You cannot afford to do it. You say, “I am worth $1,000,000.” You cannot afford to do it. All you gain by breaking the Sabbath you will lose. You will lose one of three things—your intellect, your morals, or your property—and you cannot point in the whole earth to a single exception to this rule. God gives us six days and keeps one for Himself. Now, if we try to get the seventh, He will upset the work of all the other six. I remember going up Mt. Washington, before the railroad had been built, to the Tip-Top house, and the guide would come around to our horses and stop us when we were crossing a very steep and dangerous place, and he would tighten the girth of the horse and straighten the saddle. And I have to tell you that this road of life is so steep and full of peril we must at least one day in seven stop and have the harness of Hfe adjusted and our souls reequipped.

How few men there are who know how to keep the Lord’s day away from home! A great many who are consistent on the banks of the St. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the Mississippi arq not so consistent when they get so far off as the East river. I repeat —though it is put: ting it, on low ground—you cannot financially afford to break the Lord’s day. It is only another way of tearing up your government securities and putting down the price of goods and blowing up your store. Oh, strangers, welcome to the great city. May you find Christ here, and not any physical or moral danger. Men coming from inland, from distant cities, have found God and found Him in your service. May that be your case to-day. You thought you were brought to this place merely for the purpose of sight-seeing. Perhaps God brought you to this roaring city for the purpose of working out your eternal salvaticfn. Go back to your homes and tell them how we met Christ here—thq loving, patient, pardoning and sympathetic Christ. Who knows but the city which has been the destruction of so many may be your eternal redemption? A good many years ago Edward Stanley, the English commander, with his regiment took a fort. The fort was manned by some 300 Span-

iards. Stanley came close up to the fort, leaving his men, when a Spaniard thrust at him with* spear, intending to destroy his life, but Stanley caught hold of the spear, and the Spaniard, in attempting to jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifted him up into the battlements. No sooner had Stanley taken his position on the battlements than he swung his sword, and Jits whole regiment leaped after him. and the fort was taken. So it may be with you, O stranger. The city influences which have destroyed so many and dashed Them dowh forever shall be the means of lifting you up into the tower. of God’s mercy and strength, your soul more than conqueror through the grace of Him who has promised an especial benediction to those who shall treat you well, saying, “I was a stranger, and ye took me in.”

UNCLE SAM IS RICH.

Property Valuation in 1800 Reached a Total of $65,031,001,197 Indiana’s Share. Washington Special Indianapolis Journal April 2. A bulletin has just been issued by the Census Bureau giving interest■ing figures of die wealth of the United States. The total true valuation of the real and personal property in the country at the close of the census period, 1890, amounted to $65,037,091,197, of which amount $39,544,333 represents the value of real estate and improvements thereon and $25,492,546,864 that of personal property, including railroads, mines apd quarries. At the same time the total assessed value of real and personal property taxed was $25,437,173,41% of which amount $18,846,556,675 represented real estate and improvements thereon and $6,516,616,743 personal property. The true valuation of property for 1890 is classified as follows: Real estate, with improvements -thereon $39,544,544,333 Live: stock on farms and ranges, farm implements and machinery 2,703,015,010 Mines and quarries, including, product on hand .' 1.291,291 579, Gold and silver coin and ...bullion... 1,158,771,918, Machinery of mills and product on hand, raw and manufactured..., 3,058,593,411 Railroads and equipments, including *243:898,5195treet railroads.-.. .8,685,407-,883 Telegraphs, telephones, shipping and canals 701.755 712 Miscellaneous 7,893,708,821

T0ta1..... $65,037,091,197 The figures for Indiana being now nearly four years old, are of interest principally for purposes of comparison with other States. The total valuation of all property in the State as returned in 1891) was $2,095,176,626, divided up as follows: Real estate, with improvements thereon 1,288,163,737 Live stock on farms, etc 114,533.677 Mines and quarries. 15,102.469 Gold and sliver coin and bullion... 35,610,877 Machinery of mills and product on hand... 54.920,912 Railroads and railways 310,172,111 Telegraphs, telephones, shipping and canals 9177.161 Miscellaneous 267,525,014 Indiana, with her $2,095,176,626 of property, stands tenth in the family of States. New York stands at the head of the list with $8,576,701,991. Then follows Pennsylvania with nearly $6,200,000,000, Illinois with $5,000,000,000 and Ohio with nearly $4,000,000,000. Her remaining riv-* als are Massachusetts with $2,800,000, California with $2,533,000, Missouri with $2,391,000, lowa with $2,287,000,000, Texas with $2,105, 576,766, Michigan presses Indiana closely,as she is worth $2,095,016,272. It is a striking fact that in tin amount of gold and silver coin and bullion, Indianajsurpasses California, the El Dorado, by about $3,000,000, from which it may be inferred that the old coffee-pot and rural sock are still popular in the Hoosier State. In the value of real estate and improvements, Indiana stands eighth, being exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, California and Missouri. The growth of the wealth of the State is best shown by the fact that in 1850 the total valuation of real and personal property was $202,650,264; in If 60, $528,835,381; in 1870, $1,268,180,543; in 1880, $1,681,000,000; in 1890, $2,095,176,626. Thepercapita valuation rose from $205 in 1850 to $956 in 1890. v

Good Roads Without Stones.

Colman's Rural World. The advantage of properly built and well maintained dirt roads seems to have been largely overlooked in the movement for the improvement of our country roads, and it has been said, with some reason, that the movement in favor of good roads lias been hampered to some extent by a somewhat .too enthusiastic advocacy of broken stone roads, either ipacadam or telford. The cost of such stone roads is absolutely prohibitive of their adoption in many parts of the country where, perhaps, improved roads are urgently needed. Comparatively little is said about dirt roads in the discussion on improved construction, but it is certain that very excellent roads may be made of earth by a proper system of construction. Both surface drainage and sub-drainage are essential in obtaining a durable road, and intelligent maintenance is another essential, which latter is rather difficult to insure. The mere dumping of piles of earth in wet spots or low places is not maintenance, but is a waste of energy due to carelessness or misdirected zeal. With a good dirt road once completed, it would probably be found economical and advantageous to intrust its maintenance to (a few skilled and intelligent men paid for their services, instead of leaving the maintenance to the spasmodic attention of the farmers and their hired men.

G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.

Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Indiana Departments Lafayette Give* the Veterans a Royal Welcome—The "Star’' CUv in Hollday Attire, The fifteenth annual Encampment G. A. R.. Department of Indiana, convened at Lafayette, Wednesday, April 4, at the Grand Opera House. Department Commander Johnson presided. As he called the Encampment to order tho venerable form of General Manson was seen and the delegates stqod to their feet and gave him a soldiers’ welcome. A committee representing the Commercial Club of Louisville was introduced, bearing a gavel made from an oak taken from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. This was presented by Marmaduke li. Bowden, president of the club, who paid a glowing tribute to the great emancipator. The morning session was devoted to hearing officers’ reports. The Commander in his annual report reviewed the work of the yean at length. Ho recommended that permanent Grand Army headquarters be established at the State Capital, and the Gen-i oral Assembly be requested to set apart a room for tho preservation of records in

COMMANDER-IN CHIEF A. O. MARSH.

the Capitol tmuding. The question of seniority of departments yet pending in the National Encampment was discussed and thcJDepaftment was urged to select delegates to the Pittsburg Encampment who would be sure to attend and look after the interests of Indiana. Reference was made to the report of the assistant quartermaster general relative tot ho condition of the department finances. Although additional expense was growing out of the National meeting last .September, the cash on hands and receipts for the year showed a total of $9,481.43, and the expenditures $7,195.08; leaving cash on hand, $2,338.85. The assets, including first mortage loans, interest due, etc., were $10,069.01—an increase of $1,099,99 during the year. While the statistics showed a slight increase in membership during the year, the commander regretted that the increase had not been as great as was desirable. The proposition to erect and maintain a State Soldiers’ Home., indorsed by previous encampments, was enthusiastically commented upon, and, on behalf of the. department, the Commander returned thanks to the generous citizens of Lafayette who had made a magnificent donation of land and money for the home. The citizens propose to convoy to tho encampment 240 acres of land and $5,000 cash, and the commander regretted that no assistance was secured from tho last Legislature. Reference was made to the Soldiers’ Monument, and the Encampment was congratulated upon the success of the ’ light upon the Mexican dates. A feeling tribute to departed comrades was paid, and especial mention made of the death of C. A. Zollinger, of Ft. Wayne. The general observance of Decoration Day was recommended. ■ Tbe State Encampment of tho W. R. C. was held at Trinity church. An address of welcome was made by Mrs. Oscar Craig. Mrs. Julia S. Conklin, Department President, .submitted her annual report, which showed number of corps organized during the year to bo fifteen; members April 1, 1894, 7,331; total numbor of corps, 183; expended for relief durlni the year, $4,211.70. The great event of t.heday was the annua) parade. In addition to tho great gathering of Grand Army men and their friends, th« surrounding cities contributed large delegations and the country people for mileo around came in, until tho streets of the Star City were thronged as they never had been before. The Grand Army wai elated with ail the attention shown, ani the “old boys” marched their best. Th« city schools were dismissed for tho occasion, and two thousand children wort mobilized on tho steps on all four sides ol the courthouse to review the parade Each child was provided with a flag and lusty lungs for cheering, which they did with great enthusiasm. The parade was said to be one of tho largest tho Stats Department over gave. All the fraternal societies of the city were out in uniform as an escort and guard to tho voterans, making a very showy appearance. The infantry connanies of Purdue also took part, and called forth the applause of the veterans for their soldierly bearing. A closo contest developed at tho business meeting between several cities for the next Encampment. On the second ballot Muncio was selected. At night tyrojuusing camp fires were held and numerous receptions wero given by hospitable citizens. The Department unanimously indorsed Col. I. N. Walker for commander-in-chief of the National G. A. R. The final session was hold, Thursday. The committee on resoiutins reported. The resolution suggesting that tho statue of Gen. Manson bo chosen to represent the Mexican war period at tho Soldiers’ Monument was indefinitely postponed. Other resolutions wero adopted approving the action of the Mayor of Brooklyn In refusing to substitute the Irish flag for the Stars and Stripes on St. Patrick’i Day; recommending the payment of pensions by checks or drafts sent to tho postoffice of pensioners; looking to the preservation of the rolls of membership; thanking tho*city of Lafayetto for hospitality extended; disapproving general laws on tho subject of pensioning widows; holding that a pension is a vested right. Albert O. Marsh, of Winchester, was elected department commander, and James Barney Shaw, of Lafayette, senior vice-commander; both by acclamation. A similar compliment befell 11. H. Reagon, of Lowell, junior vice-commar.der, and Dr. Charles S. Boynton, of Indianapolis, medical director. John A. Maxwell, of Delphi, and C. B. Strickland, of Huntington wero nominated for chaplain, and Maxwell was elected on the first ballot Irvin Robbins, of Indianapolis,was chosen delegate-at-large to the National Encampment, with William P. Drlle, ol Peru, alternate. The Encampment adjourned at 1 o’clock, after selecting a council of administration.