Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

TALKS OF THE EYE’S MARVEL OUS CONSTRUCTION. He Also/jSliows How. Much Mere Overwhelming la the Indescribably Searching Eye of God—The Kiss of the Resurrection—Sight Restored. ■_ Wonders of the Eye. Bev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his summer preaching tour in the West and Southwest, prepared for last-Sunday a sermon on “The All Seeing,” the text selected being Psalm xciv., 9, “He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” -The imperial organ of the human system is the eye; All up and down the Bible God honors it, extrols it, illustrates it, or arranges it.—Five hundred and thirty-four times it is mentioned in the - Bible. Omnipresence—“the eyes of the Lord are in every place.” Divine care — “as the apple of the eye.” The clouds—“the eyelids of the morning.” Irreverence —“the eye that mocketh at its —father.” Pride—“Oh, how lofty are their eye?!”" Inattention—“the fool’s eye in the ends of the earth.” Divine inspection—“wheels full of eyes.” Suddenness—“in . the twinkling of an eye at the last trump.” Olivetic sermon —“the light of the body is the eye.” This -morning’s text —“He that formed the eye, shall ho not see?” The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists and the physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of the human face, but the vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom, he would have failed In creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see wonderful sights, but the most wonderful sight that we ever see is not so wonderful as the instruments through which we see it. It has been a strange thing to me for forty years that some scientist, with enough eloquence and magnetism, did not go through the country with illustrated lectures on canvas thirty feet square to startle and thrill and overwhelm Christendom with the marvels of the human eye. We want the eye taken from all its technicalities and some one who shall lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary fissures, and the sclerotica, and the chiasma of the optic uerve, and in common parlance, which you and I and everybody can understand, present the subject. We have learned men who have been telling us what our origin is and what we were. Oh! if some one should come forth from the dissecting table and from the classroom of the university and take the platform, and asking the help of the Creator demonstrate the wonders of -what-we are! The Surpassing Human Eye. If I refer to the physiological facts suggested by the former part of my text, it is only to bring out in a plainer way the theological lessons of the latter part of my text, “He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” I suppose my text referred to the human eye, since it excels all others in structure and in adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple things, because they have not much to do. There are insects with a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have less faculty than the human eyes. The black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes tmder water and two eyes above the water, but the four insectile are not equal to the two human. Man, placed at the head of all living creatures, must have supreme equipment, while the > blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky have only an undeveloped organ of sight, an apology for the eye, which, if through some crevice of the mountain they should get into the sunlight, might be developed into positive eyesight. In the first chapter of Genesis we find that God, without any consultation, created the light, created the trees, created the fish, created the fowl, but when he was about to make man he called a convention of divinity, as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the achievement. “Let us make man.” Put a whole ton of emphasis on that word “us.” “Let us make man.” And if God called a convention of divinity to create man I think the two great questions in that conference were how to create a soul and how to make an appropriate window for that emperor to look out of. See how God honored the eye before he created it. He cried, until chaos was irradiated with the utterance, “Let there be light!” In other words, before he introduced man into this temple of the world he illuminated it, prepared it for the eyesight. And so, after the last human eye has been destroyed in the final demolition of the world, stars are to fall, and the sun Is to cease its shining, and the moon is to turn into blood. In other words, after the human eyes are no more to be profited by their shining, the chandeliers of heaven are to be turned out. God, to educate and to bless and to help the human eye, set in the mantel of heaven two lamps—a gold lamp and a silver lamp—the one for the day and the other for the night. To show how God honors the eye, look at the two halls built for the residence of the eyes, aeven bones making the wall for each eye, the seven bones curiously wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory is considered rich, but the halls for the residence of the human eye are richer by so much as human bone is more sacred than elephantine tusks. See how God honored the eyes when he made a roof for them, so that the sweat of toil should not smart them and the rain dashing against the forehead «hould not drip into them, the eyebrows mot bending over the eye, but reaching to the right and to the left, so that the rain and the sweat should be compelled to drop upon the cheek, instead of falling into this divinely protected human eyesight. See how God honored the eye in the fact presented by anatomists and physiologists that there are 800 contrivances in every eye. For window shutters, the eyelids opening and closing 30,000 times a day. The eyelashes so constructed that they have their selection ns to what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, “Stay out,” and saying to the light, “Come in.” For inside-curtains the iris, or pupit of the eye, according as the light is greater or less, contracting or dilating. The eye of the owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at night, but the human eye, so marvelously constructed, can see both by day and by night. Many of the other creatures of God can move the eye only from side to side, but the human eye, so marvelously Constructed, has one muscle to lift the eye and another muscle to lower the eye, and another muscle to roll it to the right, and another muscle to roll it to the left, and another muscle passing through a pulley to turn it round and round—an elaborate

gearing of six muscles as perfect as God eould make them. There also is the retina, ga.thering4he rays of light and passing the. visual impression along the optic nerve, about the thickness of the lamp wick — passing the visual impression on to the senorium and on into the soul. What a delicate lens, what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions, what wonderful chemistry of the human eye! The eye washed by a slow stream of moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling imperceptibly over the pebble of the eye and emptying into a bone of the nostril. A contrivance so wonderful that it can see the sun 95,000,000 miles away and the point of a pin. Telescope and microscope in the same contrivance. The astronomer swings and moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the telescope until he gets it to the right focus. The microscopist moves this way and that and adjusts and readjusts the magnifying glass until it is prepared to do its work, but the human eye, without a touch, beholds the star and the smallest insect. The traveler imong the Alps with one glance takes in Mount Blanc and the face of his watch to see whether he has time to climb it. The Tear Gland.

Oh, this wonderful camera obscura which you and I carry about with us, so to-day we take in our friends, so from the top of Mount Washington~we can take in New England, so at night we can sweep into our vision the constellations from horizon to horizon. So delicate, so semiinfinite, and yet the light coming 95,000,000 of miles at the rale of 200,000 miles a second is obliged to halt at the gate of the eye, waiting for admission until the portcullis be lifted. Something hurled 95,000,000 of miles and striking an instrument which has not the agitation of even winking under the power of the stroke. There, also, is the merciful arrangement of the tear gland, by which the eye is washed and from which rolls the" tide which brings the relief that comes in tears when some bereavement or great loss strikes us. The tear is not an augmentation of soryow, but the breaking up of the arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity to weep is madness or death. Thank God for the tear glands, and that the crystal gates are so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful hydraulic apparatus of the human eye. Divinely constructed of the immortal soul, under the shining of which the world sails in and drops anchor. What an anthem of praise to God is the human eye! The tongue is speechless and a clumsy instrument of expression as compared with it. Have you not seen it flash with indignation, or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand with devotion, or melt with sympathy, or stare with fright, or leer with villainy, or droop with sadness, or pale „wish envy, or fire with‘revenge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with love? It is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you not seen its uplifted brow of surprise, or its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the eye say one thing and the lips say another thing, you believe the eye rather than the lips. The eyes of Archibald Alexander and Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part of their sermon. George Whitefield enthralled great assemblages with his eyes, though they were crippled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has with a look hurled a regiment to victory or to death. Martin Luther turned his great eye onan assassin who came to take his life, and the villain fled. Under the glance of the human eye the tiger, with five times a man’s strength, snarls back into the African jungle. But those best appreciate the value of the eye who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian by accident, put out the bye of his servant, and he said to hiseervant: “What shall I pay you in, money or in lands? Anything you ask me. I am so sorry I put your eye out.” But the servant refused to put any financial estimate on the value of the eye, and when the emperor urged and urged again the matter he said: “Oh, emperor, I want nothing but my lost eye.” Alas, for those for whom a thick and impenetrable vail is drawn across the face of the heavens and the face of one’s own kindred! That was a pathetic scene when a blind man lighted a torch at night and was found passing along the highway, and some one said, “Why do you carry that torch when you can’t see?” “Ahl” said he, “I can’t see, but I carry this torch that others may see me and pity my helplessness and not run me down.” Samson, the giant, with his eyes put out by the Philistines, is more helpless than the smallest dwnrf with vision undamaged. All the sympathies of Christ were stirred when he saw Bartimcus with darkened retina, and the only salve he ever made that we read of was a mixture of dust and saliva and a prayer, with which he cured-.the eyes of a man blind from his nativity. The value of the eye is shown as much by its catastrophe as by its healthful action. Ask the man who for twenty years has not seen the sun rise, Ask the man who for half a century has not seen the face of a friend. Ask in the hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the man whose eyesight perished in a powder blast. Ask the Bartimcus who never met a Christ or the man born blind who is to die blind. Ask him. This morning, in my imperfect way, I have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses of the human eye, and I stagger back from the awful portals of the physiological miracle which must have taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry out in your ears the words of my text, “He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” Shall Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as much as his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdau not know as much as his microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not know as much as his micrometer? Shall the thing formed know more than its master? “He that formed the eye, shall he .not see?” The Eyes of God. The recoil of this question is tremendous. We stand at the center of a vast circumference of observation. No privacy. On us, eyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim, eyes of archangel, eyes of God. We may not be able to see the Inhabitants of other worlds, but perhaps they may be able to see us. We have not optical instruments strong enough to descry them. Perhaps they have optical lustnxments strong enough to desefy us. The mole cannot see the eagle midsky, but the eagle midsky can see the mole midgrass. We are able to see mountains and caverns of another world, but perhaps the inhabitants of other worlds can see the towers of our cities, the flash of our seas, the marching of our processions, the white robes of our weddings, the black scarfs of our obsequies. It passes out from the guess into the positive when we are told in the Bible that the inhabitants of other worlds do come as convoy to this. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister

to those who shall be heirs of salvation? But human inspection, and angelic infection, and stellar inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar inspection are tame compared With the thought divine inspection. "You converted me twenty years ago,” said a black man to my father. “How so?” said my father. ‘Twenty years ago,” said the other, "in the old schoolhouse prayer meeting at Bound Brook you said in your prayer, Thou, God, seest me,’ and I had no peace under the eye of God until I became a Christian.” Hear it. “The eyes of the Lord are in every place.” “His eyelids try the children of men.” “His eyes were as a flame of fire.” “I will guide thee with mine eye.” Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of power, so full of love, so full of indignation, so full of compassion, so full of mercy! How it peers through the darkness! How it outshines the day! How it glares upon the offender! How it beams on the penitent sdiill Talk about the human eye as being indescribably wonderful —how much more wonderful the great, searching, overwhelming eye of God! AH eternity past and all eternity to come on that retina. ~ The Asterisk. The eyes with which we look into each other’s face to-day suggest it. It stands written twice on youit face and twice on , mine, unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated. “He that formed the eye, shall he not see?” Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them, sees our wants to sympathize with them. If we fight him back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask his grace, the eye of an'everlasting friend. You often find in a book or manuscript a star calling your attention to a footnote or explanation. That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all thestars of the night are asterisks calling your attention to God, an all observing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting. Our every muscle a pulley divinely swung. Our bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our every eye a reflection of the divine eye. God above us, and God behind us, and God within us. What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! No such thing as hidden transgression. A dramatic advocate in olden times, at night in a court-room, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of the guilt of the witness who was trying to swear the poor man’s life away—that advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust them close to the face of the witness and cried, “May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the murderer!” and the man, practically under that awful glare, confessed that he was the criminal instead of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden sin is under a brighter light than that. It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling for thb step of his chariot. Are you wronged? He sees it. Are you poor? He sees it. Have you domestic perturbation of which the world knows nothing? He sees it. “Oh,” you say, “my affairs are so insignificant I can’t realize that God sees me and sees my affairs." Can you see the point of a pin? Gan you see the eye of a needle? Can you see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation and does he not possess it himself? “He that formed the eye, shall not he see?”

A Legend. But you say: “God is in one world, and I am in another world. He seems so far off from me, I don’t really think he sees what is going on in my life.” Can you see the sun 95,000,000 miles away, and do you not think God has as prolonged vision? But you say, “There are phases of my life and there are colorsshades of color—in my annoyances and my vexations that I don’t think God can understand.” Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades of color in the rainbow? And do you suppose there is any phase of any shade in your life he has not gathered up in his own heart? Besides that, I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle. That eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned and strung and hinged and roofed, will before long be closed in the last slumber. Loving hands will smooth down the silken fringes. So he giveth his beloved sleep. A legend of St. Fortobert is that his mother was blind, and he was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by miracle she saw everything. But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resurrection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went groping through this world under perpetual obscuration, or were dependent on the hand of a friend, or with an uncertain staff felt their way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be said that “they which look out of the windows are darkened” when eternal daybreak comes in! What a beautiful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: “Here reposes in God, Katrina, a saint, 85 years of age and blind. The light was restored to her May 10, 1840.”

Why the'Woman Screamed. The screams of a woman with her head and shoulders thrust out of the fourth story window of a. lodging house ou Kearny street attracted the attention of passers. The woman was squealing at the top of her voice, and for a moment It was the firm belief of the people below that some brute was trying to throw her out of the window. Closer observation revealed the fact that while hanging her canary bird out in the sun the bottom had dropped out of the cage and the bird was fluttering around the top of the prison frightened half to death. “Oh, he’ll fall; he’ll fall! My poor little bird!" screamed the woman. Then with great pf-esenee of mind she turned the cage bottom side up so that her pet would not be mangled on the cruel stone pavements beneath. The bird sailed away over the buildings, followed by a most. heartrending and earsplitting screech. The poor woman was comforted, however, by the knowledge that the bird did not fall.—San Francisco Post Alclblades had a cunning trick of remembering people's children, and often greatly' pleased fond fathers by alluding to their sons, whom he would inquire after by name. It was said of him that be knew all the boys and young men in Athens, and was, consequently, Immensely popular among them.

REAL ISSUE REMAINS.

tariff question the one to be DECIDED. None Other Cun Obliterate It Unless the Democrats Are Prepared to Make Unconditional Surrender — Business Failures Continue. Cannot Conceal It. There is a great deal of fermentation going on in regard to money everywhere. Europe and bur own land .are agitating the subject, and perhaps the whole matter will be virtually settled before another Presidential and Congressional election. But aside from that it Is well known where the two great parties stand. —The Issues all center about the vital question of a protective tariff. The Republicans of Kentucky could make no mistake in making a heroic proclamation on a question which is of the life of “the Republican party as protection is. But it may be considered presumptuous for the Republicans of any- one State, es-

pecially of a State that has never gone Republican, to assume to set the pace of the party on a question which is undergoing the process of development. The doctrine of the Republican party is bimetallic and will be until changed by a national convention, and we undertake to say that 1896 will make no such change. The two parties may or may not present a contrast next year on the silver question. No prophet can foretell how that will be. But unless the Ethiopian changes his skin the tariff will be as much the dividing line in 1896 as it was in 1892. No other issue can obliterate that line, unless the Democrats are prepared to make unconditional surrender, which is not likely. There is no reason to suppose that either the Cleveland and Palmer faction or the Altgeld and Bryan faction has any idea of abandoning free trade. They will not express themselves so foolishly as they did three years ago, “Larry” Neal and his plank have floated into the sea of oblivion and been lost, but the African is of the same complexion, whether playing the banjo or quietly dozing in the shade of the woodpile. If the par.ty which brought on the business paralysis of 1893 thinks it can make the people forgetful of that record by clamor over what was done twenty years before it is greatly mistaken.—lnter Ocean.

Business Failures Continue. The statistics of trade failures In the United States having been compiled for tlie first half of the current year, It is well to compare them with corresponding periods in former years, which we do, since 1890, as follows: Number of Year. failures. 1895 6,597 1894 6,528 1893 6,239 1892 5,351 1891 .. . 6,037 1890 5,466 From all that our free trade friends have been te!’sxg us we base-coma., to the conclusion that business had recently been so prosperous that trade failures w’ere almost unknown in the community. After the panic of 1893,we were assured that the business atmosphere had been cleared, that all the weak business houses had gone to the wall and that, as business improved, it would be on a solid and substantial basis, with credits unimpaired and securities excellent. What is the result? The number of trade failures throughout the country have been steadily increasing. During the first half of 1893 tl.erc wore SSB more failures than during the corresponding period In 1892. In 1891 there were 289 more than In 1893; In 1895 the record has been broken with GO more than in 1894, a total of 6,597 trade failures. This business barometer affords an Interesting study. If the weak had all gone to the wall long ago, then the continuation of this free trade administration must be dragging down some of the stronger houses.

A Study of Eggs and Hay. The free trade editors are not the only people who want to look further backward than 1894 to compare the workings of the Gorman and McKinley tariffs. Farmers have been looking backward and asking us to Investigate the tariff question as affecting their eggsand hay. We have done so. Taking the first eight months of each tariff period, tlie McKinley act from October. 1890, to the end of May, 1891, and the Gorman act from September, 1894, to the end of April, 1895, we have the quantities and values of our Imports of eggs for each eight months, as follows: Quantities of imports of eggs for eight months: Oct 1. 1890- Sept. 1, 1894May 31, 1891. April 30, 1895. McKinley tariff. Gorman tariff. Eggs, d0z1.098,366 2,159,047 Average McKinley price, 15% cents per dozen. Value* of imports of eggs for bight months:, Oct. 1, 1890- Sept. 1, 1894May 31,1891. April 30, 1895. McKinley tariff, Gorman tariff. Egg 55257,541 $278,301 Average Gorman price, 13 cents per dozen. This shows that, during the first eight mouths of the Gorman tariff. Rnr imports of foreign eggs Increased by nearly 500,000 dozen. The amount of money that was sent abroad for Gorman tariff eggs was only $20,000 more than in the McKinley period, because the larger Importations of Gorman eggs reduced the average price from 15% to 13 cents per dozen, a fact that our farmers will not forget. Turning next to the hay crop we find that, during the first eight mouths of the Gorman tariff, we imported 114,000 tons more hay than during the first

eight month* of the McKinley tariff period, nearly SBOO,OOO more money being sent out of the country to pay for foreign hay than under protection. These details are: Quantities of imports of hay for eight months: Oct. 1,1890- Sept. 1,1894May 31,1891. April 30, 1895. . McKinley tariff. Gorman tariff; Tons. Tons Hay .. . ........ .25,420 139,157 Average JdcKinley price, $7.30 per ton. Values of imports of hay for eight months: Oct. 1,1890- Sept. 1,1894May 31.1891. April 30,1895. McKinley tariff. Gorman tariff. Hay $182,333 $976,973 Average Gorman price, $7 per fen. Free Trade's Marked Feature.

Tobacco Growers Suffer. The tobacco growers are looking backward toward the early McKinley tariff times, and they do so with regret They are willing to compare the workings of the present tariff with any period of the McKinley law. Then they were getting good prices; now they are not Taking the quantities of foreign tobacco imported during the first eight months of each tariff they find them to have been as follows: Quantities of imports of tobacco and manufacturers for eight months: Oct. 1,1890- Sept. 1,1894MaySl, 1891. Apr. 30,1895. McKinley Gorman Tariff Tariff. Leaf tobacco, lbs. .12,100,300 18,240,688 An increase of more than 6,000,000 pounds In our imports of tobacco has had a depressing effect upon American grown tobacco, the price of American leaf now being much lower than it was in the early days of the McKinley tariff period. The values of our imports during the two periods were as follows: Values of imports of tobacco and manufacturers for eight months: Oct, 1, 1890- Sept. 1,1894May 31,1891. Apr. 30,1895. McKinley Gorman Articles. Tariff. Tariff. Leaf tobacco... .$5,034,810 $8,682,223 Cigar, cigarettes and cheroots... 1,748,601 1,506,716 All other manufacturers 0f.... 52,864 42,616

Total values. .$6,836,275 $10,231,555 The net Ibcreased imports during the eight months of the Gorman tariff period were worth $3,400,000. Of leaf tobacco we 'imported over $3,600,00Q worth more in Gorman tariff times, and if this extra $3,600,000 had been distributed among our own tobacco growers It would have been better for them, better for their farms, better for the labor they employ, better for the stores where the farmers trade, and better for manufacturers and their employes. The “St. Louie” and the British Free* If any attack has been made upon this American built ship, American readers may expect to see it copied in the New York Evening Post and other Journals that have for years attacked the laws under which it Is possible to build great ships in American yards. President Cleveland will also have a copy to gloat over and aid him In further attacks upon our shipping laws and American shipbuilding. The only unpleasant thing about the “St. Louis” is that the President condemned the laws under which she was built, at her launching. As an enemy of American enterprise and progress the President should be studiously Ignored at future launchings of American ships. He should go to the Clyde, and speak to his British supporters, whenever he feels like condemning American shipbuilding.—Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y. Yale’s All Right. Even the colleges have caught the ground swell. Yale this year will graduate 104 Republicans, 40 Democrats and 6 Prohibitionists. Formerly most college graduates were free-traders and therefore naturally Inclined toward the Democratic party, though they wero quite likely to drift Into the Republican camp after a little practical experience. But free-trade doesn’t “go” now, even with college boys.—Times, Troy, N. Y. The seventy-four w’lndows In the yacht Standard ordered by the late czar and Just finished cost SIB,OOO. The vessel is one of great beauty. Patronize the American Girl.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS QF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbor* are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Beath«—Accidents and Crime*—Personal Pointers About rndlanlana. “ Minor State New*. r A telephone rate war is on at Frankfort. Mishawaka is toliave a new Christian" church. I John Hide of Staunton, was killed by a Vandalia train. John Steven’s barn, near Martinsville, was destroyed by lightning. Milo Thom as’ hard ware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. 7 Ben Lapidl's robbed four clothing stores in daylight at Madison, and nearly escaped. -Madison County is infested with robbers. Supposed to have headquarters near Elwood. -The twenty-fn st annit ersavy of the oM settlers and the soldiers reunion will be held at Quincy, Aug. 8. A darn belonging to Frank Owens, seven miles west of Monticello, was struck by lighting and destroyed. The old settlers of Eaglestown will bold their twenty-fifth annual meeting in the grove near that place on Aug. 10. a picnic at Mbnroe~t3ty, recently, colored woman 111 years of age was given the prize for being the oldest person on the grounds. Every business house in Brazil closed Its doors during the funeral of County Clerk Wherle, who was accidentally shot by Bon. G. A. Knight. Frank E. Hall, of the Standard oil company, was murdered at Whiting, and his body placed on the B. &O. tracks. He was robbed of his watch and S6OO in cash. Wm. M. Davis, near Franklin, swallowed carbolic acid for cough medicine and will die. His brother, who made the mistake by handing him the acid, is crazed with grief. Death came in a peculiar manner to David Troyer of Peru. He was sitting on the porch at his home, and bis nephew, Hiram, was trying a revolver in a shed. The weapon was fired and the ball passed through the boards and entired Mr. Troyer’s head. | IWillie Hoover, 7-year-old-son of A. A. Hoover, principal of the Ohio side schools at Union City, met with a painful accident recently. While playing around Snooks’ tile factory he, in some manner, got caught in the ten-foot fly-wheel, cutting several large gashes in bis head. The contract of the Amazon Hosiery Company will expire at the Northern Prison December 1, and the board has been informed that the company will make other arrangements. This will throw about 200 men out of work. Secretary Hicknell, of the Board of State Charities, believes that the only remedy lies with the Legislature. The next General Assembly, he thinks, will be compelled to solve the problem of furnishing employment to the prisoners. Fire at Tyrone, destroyed the general store, saloon, billiard hall and liquor storage house of James Gee, also two dwellings and an icehouse. Loss, $25,000. The whisky was stored in barrels in the second story and James Gee took the bungs out' of two barrels and lighted a match to inspect them. They exploded and caused the fire. Mr. Gee is so badly burned as to render his recovery uncertain. John Berry, his clerk, was seriously but not fatally burned in rescuing Mr. Gree. Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Elias C. Atkins, Indianapolis, and N. H. Roberts, j’asadena, Cai., rotary plow; John T. and 8. W. Collins, Kokomo, bank cutter and seeder; John R. Etter, Crawfordsville, electro-medical apparatus; Sebastian C. Guthrie, Evansville, dispensing case or cabinet; Anton Hulman, Terre Haute, shutter fastener; James J. Keyes, Peru, basket; Britton Poulson, Fort Wayne, road grader; Rudolph H. Ripking, Aurora, extension table. The estimates of State Statistician Thompson as to the wheat crop in Indiana are that his ante-harvest figure of 20,000,000 bushels was not far from right. He thinks that one-fourth the crop will be required for seed, and one-half consumption, which will leave only 5,000,000 bushels for sale, as compared to 35,000,000 bushels last year. Fred P. Rush, authority on the wiieat crop, says the yield in the State is not more than 18,000,000 bushels, or about 40 per cent, of the ayerage crop. He says the wheat will grade 20 percent. A dozen or more old soldiers of Clinton County are making arrangements to attend the dedicatory ceremonies on the Chickamauga battlefield, to be held Sept. 19 and and 20. They propose to travel tlie entire distance with team and covered wagons and will start on tlieir journey the first day of August, taking their time to it, hunting and fishing on the way and having a good time generally. Their outfit will be elaborately painted in tlie colors of “Old Glory,” with the names of the companies and regiments In which each of the party served during the war, printed where it can be conveniently read by comrades on the way?

Nearly every day the Governor and other state officers are besieged by convict* returned to Indianapolis for release under the new law, and there are many pitiful scenes as the discharged men beg for food and clothing, so that they may go out in thgworld and make their own living. Frequently they are sent home still wearing the prison shirt with the prison number stamped on it and the poorest and shabbiest clothing, and under such circumstances they find every door closed against them. When released they are not provided wish money, and this adds to tlie forlornness of the situation. The more the operations of the new law are noted the more generally is it condemned as an utterly heartless and a most wretched enactment. Its effect will be to drive men back into crime. David Gapen, a well-known fanner residing north of Thorntown, dropped dead at dinner, in O’Rear’* restaurant. L IBs dinner had just been placed before him, when he was noticed to lean suddenly forward and when assistance reached him lie was beyond the power of medical skill. The deceased was a'ed 48, year* and wu unmarried. This death takes another member from a family whose history is closely Interwoven with that of Boone and Montgomery counties. Zachariah Gapen, the father of the deceased, WM one of the pioneer settler* of Montgomery County. Later, with bis family, he removed to Tborntpwn