Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Page 7

THE SAIL IN A STORM.

REV. DR. TALMAGE’S LESSON ON THE SEA OF GALILEE. * ■ - i*?? • ~ ■ • & .. Christ Hushing the Tempest—Necea- ' sity for Christ on the Rough Voyage of I.ife —Nothing- to Re Frightened About —The World Moves. Necessity of Faith. In his sermon Sunday Rev._Dr. Talmage discoursed on' a dramatic incident during the Savior's life among the Galilean fishermen and draws from it a stinking lesson for tile men and women of the _ present dayr~ The" subject was “liough Sailing,” and the text Mark iv., 3(5, 37, “Anti there wore also with him other little ships, and there aro3e a great storm of ' -wind/ 1 _ _ . ■— Tiberias, Galilee and Gannesaret were three names for the same lake. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance. The surrounding—hills,—high, terraced, sloping, gorged, were so many hanging gardens of beauty. The streams rumbled down and flashing from the hillside bounded to the sea. In the time of our Lord the valleys, -headlands and ridges were covered thickly with vegetation, and so great was the variety of climate that the palm tree of the torrid and the walnut tree of rigorous climate were only- a little way apart. Men in vineyards and olive gardens were gathering up the riches for the oil press. The hills and valleys were starred and crimsoned with flowers, front which Christ took his text, and the disciples learned lessons of patience and trust. It seemed as if God had dashed a wave of beauty on all the scene until it hung dripping from the rocks, the hills, the oleanders. On the back of the Lebanon range the glory of ~the earthly scene was'carried up as if to set it in range with the hills of lieav&n. A Smooth Sea. No other gem ever had so exquisite a Setting, as -beautiful GennesuVet. The waters were clear and sweet, and thickly inhabited, tempting innumerable nets and affording a livelihood for great populations. Betlisnidn, Chorazin and Capernaum -stood on the bank, roaring with wheels of trnflic and flashing with splen- _ their vesselsacross the lake, bringing merchandise for Damascus . and passing-great cargoes of wealthy product. Pleasure boats of Homan gentlemen and fishing smacks of the country people who had come down to cast a net there passed etch other with npd and shout of welcome, or side by side swung idly at the mooring. Palace and luxuriant bath and vineyard, tower and shadowy arbor, looked off upon the calm sweet scene as the evening shadows began to drop, and Hermon, with its head covered with perpetual snow, in the glow of the setting sun looked like a white bearded prophet ready to ascend in a chariot of fire. I think we shall have n quiet night! Not a leaf winks in the air or a ripple disturbs the surface of Gennesaret. The shadows of- the great headlands stalk clear across the Water. The voices of eveningt'de, how drowsily they strike the car —the splnsh of the boatman’s oar and the thumping of the captured fish on the boat’s bottom, and those indescribable sounds which fill the air at nightfall. You hasten to the beach of the lake a little ,way,.jmd. there yau find au excitemcnt-as of nn embarkation/ A flotilla is pushingout from the western shore of the lake—vffifft- a asqaadeefi iritL Heady arnwiv^'jA, - not a clipper to ply with valuable mernot piratic vessels with grappling hook to hug to death whatever they could seize, but a flotilla laden with messengers of light and mercy and peace. Jesus is in the front ship; his friends and admirers are in the small boats following after. Christ, by the rocking of the boat and the fa:igues of the preaching (xer, ises of the day, is induced to slumber, and I see him in the stern of the boat, with a pillow perhaps extemporized out of a fisherman’s coat, sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the locks of the wornout sleeper, and on its surface there riseth and falleth the light ship, like a child on the bosom of its sleeping mother. Calm night. Starry night. Beautiful night. Hun up all the sails and ply all the oars and let the boats, the big boat and the small boats, go gliding over gentle Gennesaret. Calming .the Sen. The sailors prophesy a change in the weather. Clouds begin to travel up the sky and congregate. After awhile, even the passengers bear the inoan of the storm, which comes on with rapid strides s and with all the terrors of hurricane and darkness. The bout,'caught in the sudden fury, trembles like a deer at bay, amid the wild clangor of the hounds. Groat patches of foam are,flung through the air. The loosened sails, flapping in the wind, crack like pistols. The small boats poised on the white cliff of the driven sea tremble like ocean petrels, and then plunge into the trough with terrific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder crack, and overboard go the cordage, the tackling, and the masts, and the drenched disciples rush into the stern of • the boat and shout amid the hurricane, “Master, carest thou not that we perish?” That great Personage lifted his head from the fisherman's coat and wniked but to the prow of the vessel and looked upon the storm. On nil sides were the small boats tossing in helplessness and from them came tls* cries of drowning men. By the flash of lightning I see the calmness of the uncovered hrow pf Jesus nud the spray of the sea dripping from his beard. He has two words of command—one for the wind, the other for the sea. Ho looks into the tempestuous heavens and he cries, “Pence!” and then he looks down into the infuriate waters and he says, “Be still!” The thunders bent a retreat. The waves fall flat on their faces. The extinguished stars rekindle their torches. The fonin melts. The storm Is dead. And while the crew are untangling the cordage and the cables and hailing out the water from the hold of the ship, the disciples stand wonder struck, now gazing into the calm sky, now gazing into the calm sea, now gazing into the calm face of Jesus and whispering one to another, “JVhat manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sen obey him?” Christ on the Ship. I learn, first from this subject that when you ure going to take a voyage of any kind you ought to have Christ in the ship. The fact is, that those boats wonld ail have gone to the bottom if Christ had not been there. Now, you are about to voyage out into some new enterprise—into some new business relation. Yon are going to plan some grent matter of profit. I hope it is so. If yon are content to go along io the treadmill

course and plan nothing new, yon are not fulfilling your mission. What you can do by the utmost tension j>f body, mind and soul, that you are bound to do. You have no right to be colonel of a regiment if God calls you to command au army. You have no right to be stoker in a steamer if God commands you to be admiral of the navy. You have no right to engineer a ferryboat, from river bank to river bank if God commands you to engineer a Canarder from New York to Liverpool. But whatever enterprise /on undertake, and upon whatever voyage you start, be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here are men largely prospered. The seed of a small Enterprise grew into an accumulated and overshadowing success. Their cup of prosperity is running over. Every day sees a commercial or a mechanical triumph. Y°t they are not puffed up. They acknowledge the God who grows the harvests and gives them all their prosperity. When disaster comes that destroys others, they are only helped into higher- experiences. The coldest winds that yver blew down from, snowcapped Hermon and tossed Gennesaret -into foam and agony could not hurt them. Let the winds blow until they crack their cheeks. Let the breakers boom —all is we[i, .Christ fa in the ship. Here are other men, the prey of uncertainties. When they succeed, they strut through the world in great vnnity and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness of others. Disaster comes and they are utterly down. They are good sailors on a fair day, when the sky is clear and the sea is smooth, but they cannot outride a storm. After awhile the packet is tossed abeam’s end, and it seems as if she must go down with all the cargo. Push out from the shore with lifeboat, longboat, shallop and pinnace. You cannot save the crew. The storm twists off the masts. The sea rises up to take down the vessel. Down she goes! No Christ in tbatjship. I speak to young people whose voyage in life will tJe'lT mtifgting"of sTTnshine and of darkness, or arctic blast and of tropical 'tornado, You will have many a long, bright day of prosperity. The skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew exhilarant. The lioat, stanch, will bound merrily over the billows. Crowd on all the canvas. ’Heigh, ho! Land ahead! But suppose that sickness puts its bitter cup to your lips; suppose that death overshadows your heart: suppose misfortune with some' quick turn of the wheel hurls you backward; suppose tlmt tlm_ wave -es -trial strikes you athwart ships, and bowsprit skivered, and halliards swept-into the sea, and gangway crowded with piratical disasters, and the wave beneath, and the sky above and.the darkness around are filled with the clamor of the voices of destruction. Oh, then you will want Christ in the ship.

Storms Will Come. I learn, in the next place, that people wiio follow Christ must not always expect smooth sailing. When these disciples got into the small boats, they, said: “What a delightful thing this is! Who would riot be a follower of "Christ when he can ride in one of these small boats after the ship in which Jesus is sailing?” But when the storm came down these disciples found-put that following Jesus, did not always make smooth sailing. So you have found out and so I have found out. If there are any people who you would think ought to have a good time in getting out of this world, the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever noticed how they got out of the world? St. JamesTost-his head. St. Philip was hung to death against a pillar. St. Matthew was struck to denth by u halberd. St. :Mark»»ais l thraegh streets. St. James the Less had his brains dashed out with u fuller's elub. St. Matthias was stoned to death. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. John Huss in the fire, the Albigenses, the Wnldenses, the Scotch Covenanters—did they always find smooth sailing? Why go so far?

There is a young man in a store in New Y'ork who has a hard time to maintain his Christian character. AU the clerks laugh at him, the employers in that store laugh at him, and when he loses his patience they say, “You are a pretty Christian.” Not so easy is it for that young man to follow Christ. If.the Lord did not help him hour by hour, he would fail. There are scores of young men to-da.v who would be willing lo testify that in following Christ one does not always find smooth sailing. There is a Christi in girl. Iu her home they do not like Christ. She Ims hard. work to get a silent place in which to say her prayers. Father opposed to religion. Mother opposed to religion. Brothers and sisters opposed to religion The Christian girl does not always find it smooth sailing when slie tries to follow Jesus. But be of good heart. As seafarers, when winds are dead ahead, by setting the ship on starboard tack and bracing the yards, make the winds that oppose the course propel the ship forward, so opposing troubles, through Christ, veering around the bowsprit of faith, will waft you to heaven, whew, if the winds had been abaft, they might have rocked and sung you to sleep, and while dreaming of the destined port of heaven not have heard the cry of warning and would have gone crashing into the breakers. Tlie World Moves. Again, my subject teaches me that good people sometimes get very much frightened. From the tone nnd manner of these disciples ns they rushed into the stern of the vessel and woke Christ up, you know that they are fearfully scared. And so it is now that you often find good people wildly ngitatod. “Oh!" says some Christian man, “the infidel magazines, the bud newspapers, the spiritualistic societies, the importation of so many foreign errors, the church of God is going to be lost, the ship is feeing to founder! The ship is going down!” Whnt are you frightened about? An old lion goes into his cavern to take a sleep, and he lies down until his shaggy mane covers his paws. Meanwhile the spiders outside begin to spin webs river the mouth of his cavern and say, “That lion cannot break out through this web," and they keep on spinning the gossamer threads until they get the mouth of the eavern covered over. “Now,” they say, “the lion’s done, the lion’s done.” After awhile the lion awakes and shakes himself, and he wnlks out from the cavern, never knowing there were any spiders’ webs, and with his voice he shakes the mouhtain. Let the infidels and (he skeptics of this day go on spinning their webs, spinning their infidel gossamer theories, spinning them all over the place where Christ seems to be sleeping. They say: “Christ can never again come out; the work is done. He can never get through this logical web .we have been spinning.” The day will come when the Lion of Judah’s tribe will rouse himself and come forth and shake mightily the nations. What then all your gossamer threads? What is a spider’s web to an

aroused lion? Do not fret, then, about the world’s going backward. It is going forward. Haskins the Tempest. I learn from this subject that Christ can hush the tempest. Some of yon, my hearers, have a heavy load of troubles. Some of you have wept until you can weep no more. Perhaps God took the sweetest child out of your house, the one that asked the most curious questions, ,th© one that hung around you with greatest fondness. The gravedigger's spade cut down through your bleeding heart. Or perhaps it was the only one that you had, and your soul has ever since been like a desolated castle, where the birds of the night hoot amid the failing towers and along the crumbling stairway. Or perhaps it was an aged mother that was called away. Yon Used to send for her when you had any kind of trouble. She was in your home to welcome your children into life, and when they died she was there to pity you. You know that the obi hand wiH never do any more kindness for you, and the lock of white hair that yon beep so well in the casket of the locket does not look so well as it did on the day when she moved It back from the wrinkled forehead under the old-fashioned bonnet in the dntrch in the country. Or perhaps your property has gone. You said, “There, I havb so much in bank stock, so much I have in houses, so much I have in lands, so much I have in securities.” Suddenly it is all gone. Alas! for the the man who once had plenty of money, but who has hardly enough now for the morning marketing. No storm ever swept over Gen- . nesaret like that which has gone trampling its thunders over your quaking soul. But you awoke Christ in the back part of the ship, crying, “Master, carest thon not that I perish? ” And Christ rose up - and quieted you. Jesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we must all run. When a man lets go this life to take hold of the next, I do not care liow much grace ho has, lie will want it all. What is that out wonder? That is a dying Christian rocked on the surges of 4 death. Winds that wrecked magnificent flotillas of pomp and worldly power come down on that Christian soul. All the spirits of darkness seem to be let loose, for it is their last chance. The wailing of kindred seems to mingle with the swirl ofthe waters,, and the scream of the wind, and the thunder of the sky. Deep to deep, -“DlllOW TO UIIIOW. X„Gi no lx emui, no giuuuT, no terror, no sighing for the dying Christian. The fact is that from the back part of the boat a voice sings out, “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.” By the flash of the storm the dying Christian sees that the harbor is only just nhead. From heavenly castles voices of welcome conic over the waters. Peace drops on the angry wave as the storm sobs itself to rest like a child falling asleep amid tears and trouble. Christ hath hushed the tempest. < o

CURIOUS ISLANDERS.

The Cave Dwellers of Bering Straits Are Without Equals. In Bering Straits, thirty miles off Fort Clarence and the shpres of Alaska, there are about two hundred of the most curious islanders that ever were s eu. The island or rock they inhabit is about half a mije wide aud a little more than that distance long, ami the islanders are cave dwellers and live on whale blubber, seal and walrus meat. One abode is built over and under the other nnd to the right and left, giving them.lTVtrahge motley appearance. not unlike the recesses inhabited by b.«ld eagles. There are 'harrow caves excavated into the side of the crumbling volcanic rock, and iu the bottom of each is some short, native grass, forming a bed in which to sleep. At the month of the cave aud just In the interior fires are lighted, and here they warm themselves in the winter. Skins of different kinds are also suspended outside to keep out the snow aud cold. In the summer the hardy natives leave their holes and live In odd houses made of pel s, constructed near at hand on the edge of the cliff. These strange people are usually as strong aud vigorous as can be found anywhere. Moreover, they are entirely contmted and happy. They have no government, no chief, and no need of laws. Living In families and setting forth every day in their kiaks for the whale, pe:U and walrus, they return each night to their caves, or pole tents, caring nothing for the outside world. Odd to relate, however, the prestige of. the native is determined by the clothes he wears. As these consist of skins and constitute the wealth of the islanders, it will be seen that they are not In this respect so much unlike civilized people. But the man with more clothes than anybody else lias no more authority. He Is respected for his sagacity, but that is all.

Rip Van Winkle in China.

A Chinese writer, Tcheng-Ki-Tong, describes Chinese chess as a game of patience. It is played with three hundred and sixty-one pawns, and the player sometimes deliberates half an hour before moving one of them. Literary men aud ladies are said to be fond of it, and what sounds more likely, “people who have retired from business.” There are three sounds, the writer says, which help to turn one’s thoughts toward what is pure and delicate; the sound of falling water, the murmur of wind In the trees, and the rattle of chess pawns. In the time of the Telling dynasty, as the story goes, a wood cutter who had gone to the top of a mountain for a day’s work, found two young men there playing chess. He stopped to look on, and presently became deeply Interested, and after a while one of the players gave him a piece of candied fruit to eat. The game grew more and more exciting. The wood, cutter forgot his work, and sat hour after hour with his eyerTm the board. At last he happened to look at his ax. The handle of it had rotted away. That frightened him. He jumped up, and hastened down the mountain to the village. Alas, among all the people in the street be recognized not one, and he found on inquiry that several centuries had passed since be started out with his ax.

MUSTY OLD THEORIES

MODERN DEMOCRATS DIFFER FROM THEIR DADS. - •; - if. V ~r--.- —t; Buncombe About Markets of the World and Free Raw Material— Cleveland Administration Ignores Just Debts. Free Trade Fallacies. The free raw material Idea received an impetus In 1854 because of Secretary Guthrie’s recommendation In his finance report of that year. The conditions, however, then and now were dissimilar. At that time we had a surplus which the Secretary was endeavoring to get rid of, while we now have a deficit. Mr. Guthrie proposed a free list modeled upon that of England.' His theory was that English manufacturers had aii advantage over bur own because they obtained from abroad certain raw material free of duty, and lie desired to remedy this, as he claimed, by an economic panacea. For instance, under the tariff act of 1846, wool was dutied at 30 per cent., and the Secretary proposed a 25 per cent, rate on all wool then costing over 16 and not over 50 cents a pound—the coarser wools. The Ways and Means Committee bill proposed a 15-cent flat rate and no grade to be free. The fact is that all the free articles were then used in the arts, but coal was not there, tallow was dutiable, and so were tin and terne plates and barley. In fact the English free list scrupulously avoided listing agricultural products free, except wool. In his report as Secretary of the Treasury in December, 1855, Mr. Guthrie returned to what was evidently a favorite theory of his. He suggested a reconstruction of the free list so as to include all the raw materials used in our manufactures, as proposed in his report of December, 1854, his reasons being the same—to enable our manufacturers to compete with those abroad who enjoyed free raw material. He was careful, however, not to include in his free raw material category anything, except coarse wool, that was the product of our agriculturists, grown on our soil.

His policy was not to place any such agricultural products on the free list, ns none of them were placed there in his proposed bill. In other words, aside from certain grades of coarse wool, his bill did not propose to give* the manufacturers free raw material at the expense of our farmers, as was done iu the law of 1894. Mr. Guthrie said: “If the free list shall be adopted, establishing fi'ee trade in the raw material. our manufacturers using this raw material, thus placed in equal competition with the manufacturers of other countries, will gradually and more and more possess themselves of a home market, exclude the foreign article aud reduce the revenue.” Now, suppose they did ? Suppose all these things did happen, what would become.of the great Democratic thewy of ttariSHsftie -of-fee mavti.t'ts I Wc the world for our raw products, and what would become of that other Democratic theory of cheap goods if we excluded the foreign dutied ajtlcle? We can understand what the learned Secretary would have us infer, but from the modern free-trade standpoint the success of his plan would demolish two very old and musty freetrade theories.

In 1824, when it was proposed to let in the coarser wools, Mr. Wright of Ohio said: “Only say in plain words, to the people, that you intend in all practicable cases to prefer the raw material from abroad to that raised at home, and the people will soon speak to you in a language that you will not be able to misunderstand. Laws are not for manufacturers alone, they must be for agriculturists also.” (Annals of Congress, 18tb, 2d, page 1746.)

The Administration’s 'Wool Policy. President Grover Cleveland was inaugurated in 1893, and the wool clip of that year was 364,000,000 pounds. During the two years of free wool agitation it fell, in 1895, to 264,000,000 pounds—a decline during Mr. Cleveland's administration of 100,000,000 pounds. The declared policy of the administration was made known at once in March, 1893. Among other features recommended was the removal of the wool duty, which was accomplished later by the enactment of theGorman tariff. The flock masters immediately became alarmed, the free trade price of wool was at once anticipated, and wool dropped between March, 1893, and March, 1595. measured by the standard grade of XX Ohio, from a little over 30 cents to about 15 cents. The wool growers, believing that there was no future for the wool industry, sold their (locks In countless numbers to the butcher*, so that the clip of 1894 fell off lo 328,000,000 pounds and that of 1895, just clipped, to only 264,000,000 pounds -a decrease, therefore, In the two since Mr. Cleveland's inauguration of* 100.000,000 pounds. TO make up for this deficit in the American clip we have been compelled to import wool to take the place of the American wool destroyed. Instead of only 55,000,000 pounds of raw jvool imported iu 1894, we imported 203,000,000 pounds iu 1895, and for the fiscal year of 189(5 will probably lrare to go to foreign nations for 268,000,000 pounds of raw wool. This takes no account of the Imports of shoddy, rags, waste, etc., which are entered as manufactures of wool. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894>whieh was the last fiscal year uuder die McKinley law, we Imported only 173,774 pounds of shoddy, rag Siwaste, etc., but during, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and almost all of it In ten'inonths after the passage of the Wilson law, we imported 14,772,090 pounds of shoddy, waste, etc., an Increase of pver 1,900 per cent

These larger Imports of shoddy were made necessary, first, by the destruction of the American clip, and second, by the low dntle9 upon manufactures of wool and their ad valorem feature which permitted undervaluation compelled American manufacturers to increase their use of shoddy. Never In the history of the wool business in America has It been necessary to use so many cheap admixtures In order to prevent our manufacturers from being driven out of their home market by the shoddy goods admitted under the ad valorem rates of the Gorman tariff law.

Its Just Debts Ignored.

The shifting expedients of the treasury department to preserve from month to month the fiction of solvency are something heretofore unknown in our governmental financiering. It may be that by the aid of a Republican Congress this sort of progressive fraud can be kept up without ultimate disaster,

but it is a dangerous experiment. It can only be done by securing a better income before the bottom falls out. The hope is held out that with the Increased purchasing powers of the people the Income of the government from its various sources of revenue will soon put the treasury on a self-sustaining basis, but new devices must be employed at every turn to preserve appearances until the volume of receipts shall meet the demands of the situation. The statutes are strained in. every direction to accomplish the end, but there must be a culmination of the strain, and the prospects are that it will come before the conspirators are ready for it. If they can keep up the deception until after the fall elections their object will be accomplished. If the overdue indebtedness of the government had been paid at maturity the balance sheet for July would have shown a shortage that would have spread consternation through the ranks of the faithful. There is no doubt of this whatever. There is the amount of twenty millions due to Importers for ed by Congress at its last session; these are items of account which do not belong in the column of assets, and it is a fra ltd upon the people to keep them there. And there are an infinite number of claims of contractors which have been approved but which remain unpaid because Mr. Carlisle commands that the money shall be the treasury. Where the law cannot be construed to serve the purpose it is done by might. But a settlement has got to come, and when it does come there will be a necessity for some extraordinary apologies on the part of the treasury officials, for the people will demand to know why they have been trifled with in that manner.

Protection in Kurland. Manufacturers of matches In the United Kingdom appeal to their customers to buy only English matches, by placing a little printed slip inside th» cover of the box, asking the people td “patronize home industry, use English 'Brttish 'ia-brir/' Large signs bearing the same views can now be seen throughout the country districts of England. This is exactly what the Republican party urges—namely, that the American people should patronize American home industries, use American made goods, and employ American labor. The English and American manufacturers thus have precisely the same Ideas. Following the plan of the English match manufacturers, we find in another line of goods the following announcement on the outside of a cover of a package of British goods: ***•*•»*«•• * IMPORTANT. * * Why Support the Manufactures of * * Other Countries' When You * * Can Obtain as good an * * Article • * MADE BY HOME INDUSTRY? *

*********** This is the appeal made by a London and Nottingham cigarette manufacturing concern which finds that Its offer to give a “tube to each cigarette, matches and photo in each package” is not sufficient to secure all the trade it desires. Possibly the English dudes prefer American made cigarettes and do not find that they “can obtain as good an article made by home Industry'” In England. The belief in a policy of protection, how’ever, is taking very generally throughout the United Kingdom. Grover to Tax the Growler. Mr. Cleveland lias considered several means for augmenting the financial returns, among which is the beer tax. The natural way for the recovery of the receipts is a tariff that will "produce sufficient sums to replenish the treasury. That tariff cannot be too soon re-estabHsbed. The treasury is paying the price of the loss of protection. Protection to American industries is, from experience, likewise protection to the nation’s finances. A reasonable tariff hr the only solution of the disastrous problem brought on by the obstinate enforcement of Mr. Cleveland's theories. Protection is an issue that cannot be dodged. Its suspension has demonstrated Its necessity to the government as well as to enterprises anil to the people.—Daily Saratogian, Saratoga, N. Y.

Importer* Get Together. We are told that within the past Tew weeks there has been formed In New York an organization composed wholly of importers, one of the main objects of which is the establishment of values abroad of textiles for Importation to this country, and that ten meetings have already been held. The existence such an organization may render it more difficult than over to arrive at actual market values of merchandise at the time of export, which is the important thing to ascertain In passing the goods at the custom house.—American Wool and Cotton Reporter.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Snmmnrj of tbs Mors Important Doing* of Our Nelghbon-Wed. dlng»und Deaths—Crime*. Casualties and Gan oral News Kota*. Condensed State News. Minor State Hews. Terre Ilaute has been chosen as the next meeting place ol the Northwest Indiana conference. — —'—— Jacob Kckman of fioekport, a baggageman, lost a hand while making a coupling at Rockport. The total amonnt given away to the poor by Indiana township trustees during 1894 wMtcakga&g?. • t ' v -~ John Leisure, of AHngton, was kicked to death'!)) horses after being joltet} from his seat on a wagon. i./. Henry Hale, who has been missing at Goshen, has been found dead in the woods. He committed suicide.Knightstown is enjoying an oil boom. Major Dotty of Anderson, is said to have made a rich strike there. The old Masonic Temple at Logansport was torn down, and several old coins were found in the corner stone. Fort Wayne will celebrate her Ceptennail anniversary, Oct. 15, 1(5, 17, and 18, and will celebrate it right. August Koscncrahz, a Laporte carpenter, hanged himself. lie had been married three times, and leaves two children. John Barillo and Michael Sabo, employed by the Standard Oil Works at Whiting, were suffocated by escaping gas. Terre Haute coal dealers have raised the prices of anthracite 25 eents a ton, and It is expected that they will advance the rate of soft coal. The American Plate Glass Works at Alexandria, the largest plant outside the . trust, lias resumed operations with 600 hands, An epidemic of diphtheria is prevailing in Yorktown, and the opening of the public schools bus been indenfiniteiy post- — poned. - — Tlie Home Land and Improvement Company, with a capital slock of $(50,000, has been incorporated to build houses at Alexandria for-factory-employes. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Judge Hackney, held that the statute under which (he humane societies of the State kill hors s and other animals is invalid. By a surgical operation 14-year-old Blanche Bigham of Laporte, was relieved of a hair-pin that had found lodgment in her body, causing her acute suffering for ten years. A small child of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Bishop, of Elwood, while playing around a tub half filled with scalding' water, tumbled in, and was blistered in a horrible manner.Mrs. Fouts, the first female white child born in Wayne county, still lives on the old Fouts farm, five miles from Richmond. She is eighty-eight years old and in very good health. The City Council of Elwood passed an ordinance compelling the railroad companies to maintain flagmen at all crossings, and limiting speed of trains within the jg&v&mULiimite.r. There has been a fair strike ofpetroleum near Upland by the Upland Gas and Oil Company. Two wells have been drilled in there within the last week, each yielding about fifty barrels of high-grade oil daily. Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort Branch while trying to board the midnight E. & T. 11. train. He had both legs ground to pieces. lie was taken to St. 3lary’s Hospital, Evansville, Jand the legs ampu- . tated, death following in two hours. The entire family of Charles S. Krueger, of Michigan City, father, mother and five children, now lie bnried in the cemetery. The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork, and one after another they succumbed, the last one dying this week.

A curious accident occurred at the Marion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped out of a large tank, spUling and rendering worthless a mass of molten glass weighing 120 tons. It will be necessary for the factory to shut down two weeks for repairs A well-to-do farmer near Eminence,was run over by a wagon and almost instantly killed. He was hauling his winter coal home, and in going down a hill his hand slipped from the brake, throwing him under the wheels. lie leaves a large family. A man by the name of Anderson and two young women were probably fatally injured in a runaway at Wiillamstown. The team dashed down a hill, throwing the party out and injuring all three. The horses were ruined and the vehicle wrecked. Well drillers near Brownsbnrg drilled through a twenty-foot layer of substance resembling India rubber. At a depth of 85 feet they struck a piece of-pine timber in good preservation, then came a black deposit resembling very coarse gunpowder, followed by an indigo-blue substance, the water also being blue. A lease war is said to be waging near Van Bnren between the Grant County Oil Company and the Ohio Oil Company. Both companies claim a particular lease, and both have rigged timbers. The firstnamed company took out ten teams to remove the opposition company’s timbers, but were repulsed with shotguns. Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: James B. Baird, Elwood. tinning machine; John J. Gaynor, Indianapolis, self-binding attachment for reaping machines; George Cross, Plymouth, bicycle frame and finishing; Emsley Harper, Lawrence, earth anger; Francis A. Hedges, Vera Cruz, bundle binder; John Uetberington, Porter, insect powder distributor; Albert 11. Kennedy, Rockport, ba.l bat: Thomas Neisom, embossing machine; John E. Kouth, Jeffersonville, mail bag carrier; 'Washington F. Walb, Greencastle, harness. Roscoe Kimble, receiver of the Citizens* Bank, of Converse, which went to the wall in Jane, 1893, has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, to depositors, payable Sept. 21. This will make a total of 62 1-2 per cent, paid thus far, and there are enough assets to pay all Claims in fail. The corn crop in Wabash county is now gathered and is one of the largest yields the county has ever known. The grain has ripened without frost, is well developed and is drying so rapidly that it can be cribbed! with safety next month. In former years much corn has been shipped In for feeding purposes, but this year there will be a great deal of com shipped ouL - .