Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Page 7

TAKES A NEW CHARGE

TALMAGE MOVES FROM BROOKLYN TO WASHINGTON. Installed as Co-Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Where Presi- „ dent Cleveland Worships Gives Reasons for Accepting the Call. . ; SermonofLa st The installation of the Rpv. T. DeWitt Talmage as a eo-pastor with the Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington city, took place recently. The exercises were held in the evening. The moderator, the Rev. Mr. Allen, presided and put the constitutional questions. The-First Church is the “President's Church,” the worshiping place of the President being thus •familiarly huffWn.-T)r.Newman’s elrurch, during the Grant regime, became very famous as the General’s place of prayer. place, a few blocks from the Capitol. Years ago the fashionable set moved a way ©£f to w a I'd th e AV hi t e House and left the plain little brick church to the care of surrounding boarding-houses and _ encroaching shops. Its life was languishing wh en roves Oievela nd. m It«G', 70 scovered in the Rev. Byron Sunderland an old friend and took a pew in his church.

REV. DR. TALMAGE.

The calling of Dr. Talmagein September „._last was the result of an inspiration of ‘ Dr. Sunderland, who,’for a generation, has been pastor. — ' Dr. Talmage in giving -reasons for Tchanging thu scene of his lirtTOrs said : ‘‘l feel that this is a national opportunity. In Washington much of the intellect and thought of the country settles, not to speak of the vast incoming and outgoing throng. Yes, I had that in New York, but the work there was different, and I missed the warmth and support only to be found in parish work. The finger of Providence seemed to point to Washington, and Providence is always my guide. I had a number of other calls, or rather invitations. to consider. One of the greatest I had this summer was to go to London. Every inducement was offered me, but I felt that for 200 years we had been Americans, and I could not live away from this country. . Another opportunity was in connection with the Red Cross work. Twenty thousand dollars was raised and I was asked to take it to the suffering Armenians. I wished very much to undertake the task, and asked protection from the Turkish Government. It was very courteous to me, but, after asking what cities I should visit, they could only say: ‘Come to Constantinople and the money will be distributed from there for you.' That was hardly the —ldea, you know, but to-havg-started out without Government protection and all that money about me would have been [.-pimply an invitation to the brigands. If M had gone there it would not have interwith my pastoral work, as I would j* have taken but two or three months.” Dr. Talmage preached his second serISnon' in his new pulpit last Sunday. If possible the audience was even larger than the previous Sunday. The subject wns “The Disabled.” the text selected being I. Samuel, xxx, 24 r “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” If'yoii have never seen an army change quarters, you have no idea of the amount of baggage—twenty loads, fifty loads, 100 loads of baggage. David and his army were about to start on a double quick" march for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekites. So they left by the brook Besor their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who shall bo detailed to watch this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on swift militaryex-" peditions, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch the baggage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to march thirty miles in a day and then plunge into a ten hours’ tight who is able with drawn sword lifted against his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are 200 of those crippled and aged and wounded soldier detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them, I suppose, had bandages across the brow, and some of them had their arms in a sling, and some of them walked on crutches. They were not cowards shirking duty. They had fought in many a fierce battle for their country and their God. They are now part of the time in hospital and part of the time on garrison duty. They almost try because they cannot go with the other troops to the front. While these sentinels watch the baggage the Lord watehel the How Battles Have Been Lost. There is quite a different scene being enacted in the distance. The Amalekites, having ravaged and ransacked and robbed whole countries, are celebrating their success in a roaring carousal. Some of them are dancing on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are examining the spoils of victory—the finger rings and earrings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands, diamond starred, and the coffers with coronets and carnelians and pearls and sapphires and emeralds and all the wealth of plate and jewels and decanters, and the silver, nnd the gold banked up on the earth' in, princely profusion, and the embroideries, and the robes, and the turbans, and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The banquet has gone on until the banqueters aue maudlin and weak and stupid and indecent nnd loathsomely drunk. What a time it is now for David nnd his men to swoop on them! So the English lost the battle of Bannockburn, because the night before they were in wassail and bibulous celebration while the Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians were overthrown in their carousal by the Israelites. So Chedorlaomcr and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So in our civil war more than once the battle was lost

because one of the generals was drank. Now is the time for David and his men to rfwoop upon these carousing Amalekites. Some of the Amalekites are hacked to pieces on the spot, some of them are just able to go staggering and hiccoughing oft the field, some of them crawl on camels and speed off in the distance. David and his men gather together the wardrobes, the jewels, and put them upon the back of camels and into wagons, and they gather together the sheep and cattle that had been stolen and start back toward the garrison. Yonder they come! Yonder they come! The limping men of the garrison come out-and greet them with wild’huzza. The Bible says David saluted them —that is, he asked them how they all were. “How is your broken arm?” “How is your fractured jaw?” —“Has the stiffened limb been unlimbered ?” “Haveyouhad another chill?” “Are you getting better?” He saluted them. t - Garrison Duty. But now came a very difficult thing, the distribution of the spoils of victory. Drive up those laden camels now. Who shalt liaVe the spoils.?: Well, souie sei fi sh soul suggests thgtJhese treasurhs~'ought all to belong to those who had been out in active service. “We did all the fighting while these men st aid at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures.” But David looked into the worn faces of these veterans who had staid in the garrison and he looked round and- saw how cleanly everything had been kept, and he saw that the baggage was all safe, and he knew that these wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have been at the front if they had been able, and the little general looks tip from under his helmet and-saysr “No, no, let ns have fair play,” and he rushes up to one of these men and he says, “Hold your hands together,” and the hands are held together, an he fills them with silver. And he rushes up to another man who was sitting away back and had no idea of getting any of the spoils and throws a' Babylonish garment over him and fills his hand with gold. And he rushes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving God and his eouiitfy years before, and he drives up some of fh<s cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekites and he gives two or three of the cattle and three of four of the sheep to this poor man, so he shall always be fed and clothed. He seqs a man so emaciated and worn out and sick he needs stimulants and he gives him a little of the wine that he brought' front the A malekites. Yonder is a mail who Jias jo appetite for the rough rations of the army, and he gives him a rare morsel front the Amalekitish banquet, and the 2t)o crippled and maimed and aged soldiers who tarried on garrison duty get just as much of the spoils of battle as any of the 200 men that went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” The impression is abroad that the Christian rewards are for those who do conspicuous service in distinguished places—great patriots, great preachers, great philanthropists. But my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays at home and minds his own business and who, crippled and unable to go forth and lead in great movements and in the high places of the earth, does his whole duty just where he is. Garrison duty is as important and as remunerative as service at the front, “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Rewards are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do, but according to whether you work to your full capacity, according to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphere where God has placed you. * Each as to His Part. Suppose you give to two of your children errands and they are to go off to make purchases, and to one you give $1 and to the other you give S2O. Do you reward the boy that you gave S2O to for purchasing more with that amount of

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

money than the other boy purchased with $1? Of course not. If God give''wealth or social position or eloquence or twenty times the faculty to a man that he gives to the ordinary man, is he going to give to the favored man a reward because he has more power nnd more influence? >Oh, no. Iji other words, if you and I were to do our udrole duty and you have twenty times more talent than I have, you will get no more divine reward than 1 will. Is God going to reward you because he gave you more? That would not be fair; that would not be right. These 200 men of the text who fainted by the brook Besor did their whole duty; they watched the baggage, they took care of the stuff, and they got as much of the spoils of victory as the men who went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shnll his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” There is high encouragement in this for all who have greatitesponsibility and little credit for what they do. Y’ou know the names of the great commercial houses of these cities. Do you know the names of the confidential clerks—the men who have the key to the safe, the men who know the combination lock? A distinguished merchant goes forth at the summer watering place nnd he flushes past and you say. “Who is that?” “Oh,” replies some one, “don’t you know? That is the great imported, that is the great banker, that is the great manufacturer.” The copftdential clerk has his week off. Nobody notices whether he comes or goes. Nobody knows him, und after awhile bis week is done, and he sits down again .at his desk. But God will reward his fidelity just ns much us he recognizes the work of the merchant philanthropist whose investments this unknown clerk so carefully guardedf 8 ** Hudson River Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York and New Haven Railroad —business men know the names of the presidents of these roads and of the prominent directors, but they do not know the names of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of the flagmen,

the names of the brakemen. These mert have awful responsibilities, and sometimes, through the recklessness of an engineer or the unfaithfulness' of a switchman, it has brought to mind the faithfulness of nearly all the rest of them. Some men do not have recognition of their services. They have small wages and much complaint. I very often ride upon locomotives and I very often ask the question, as we shoot around some curve or under some ledge, of rocks, “How much wages do you get?” And lam alwayssurprised to find how little for such vast responsibility. Do..you suppose God is not going to recognize that fidelity? Thomas Scott, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, going up at death to receive from God his destiny, was no better know.n in that hour than was known last night the brakeman who, on the Erie Railroad, was jammed to death amid the car couplings/ “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be.t hat tarrieth by the stuff.” ■- -—Unpretending Service—=■ . A Chri&tittn women was seen going along the edge of wood every eventide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother with so -many cares and anxieties should waste so much time as to be idly sauntering out evening -by evening. itjwas.found out afterward that she went-there to pray for' her household, and while there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: I love to steal tfWhile'away 7777 From every cumberitig-care- —- And spend the hours of settingilay In humble, grateful prayer.

Shall there be no reward for such unpretending everlasting service? Clear back in the country there is a boy who want's to go to college and get an education.' They call him a bookworm. Wherever they find him—-in the. barn or in the house—he is reading.a book. “What a pity it is,” they say, “that Ed eannot get a n education.” His father, work as hard as he will, can no “more than'support'fhe family bylhe product of the farm. Orfe night Ed has retired to his room and there is a family conference about him. The sisters say;VFather, I wish you would send Ed to college. If you will, we will work harder than we ever did, and we will make our old dresses do,” The mother says: “Yes, I Will get along without any hired help, although I am not as strong as I used to be. I think l ean get along without any hired help.” The father says, “Well, I thi n k by li uski n g corn nights I ca n ge t along withotttg-anv assistance.” Sugar is banished..fromthe tnbTe, bntter is bnnished from the plate. That family is put down on rigid—yea, suffering—economy that the boy may go to college. Time passes on. Commencement day. has come. Think not that 1 mention an imaginary case. God knows it happened. Commencement day has come, and the professors walk in on the stage in their long gowns. The interest of the occasion is passing on, and after awhile it comes to a climax of interest as the valedictorian is to be introduced. Ed has studied “so' hdfd fthd worked so-well that he has had the honor conferred upon him. There are rounds of applause, sometimes breaking into vociferation. It is a greatday for Ed. But away back in the galleries are his sisters in their plain hats and their faded shawls, and the old fashioned father and mother—dear me, she has not had a new hat for six years, he has not had a new hat for six years —and they get up and look over on-the platform and they laugh and they cyy, and they sit down, and they look pale and then they are very much flushed, Ed gets the garlands, and the Old-fashioned group in the gallery have their full share of the triumph. They have made that scene possible, and in the day when God shall more fully reward self-sacrifices made for others* he will give grand and glorious recognition. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.”

Veterans in Work. There is high encouragement in this subject, also, for those who once wrought mightily for Christ and the church, but "through sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced years cannot now go to the front. -These 200 men of the text were veterans. Let that man bare his arm and sliow how the muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the turban and see the mark of a battle ax. Pull aside the coat and see whore the spear thrust him. Would it have been fair for those ifiyn, crippled, weak and old, by the brook Besor, to have no share in the spoils of triumph? Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by tke?stuff and wait for your share of the spoils. Yonder they are coming. 1 hear the bleating of the fat lambs and I see the jewels glint in the sun. It makes me laugh to think how you will be surprised when they throw a chain of gold over your neck and tell you to go in and dine with the king. I see you backing out because you are unworthy. The shining ones come up on the one side, and the shining ones come up on the other side, and they push you on and they push you up -and they say, “Here is an old soldier )af Jesus Christ,” and the shining ones will rush out toward you and say, “Yes, that man saved my soul,” or they will rush out and say, “Oh, yes, she was with me in the last sickness.” And then the cry will go round the circle, “Come in, come in, come up, come up. We saw you away down there, old and sick and decrepit and discouraged because you could not go to the front, but ‘As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.’ ” Cheer up, men and women of unappreciated services. You will get your rewanh- if not here, hereafter. Oh, that will be a mighty day when the Son of David shall distribute ( the garlands, the crowns, the scepters, the chariots, the thrones. And then it shall be found out that all who on earth served God in inconspicuous spheres receive just as much reward as those who filled the earth with uproar of achievement. Then they shall understand the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the pillared and domed magnificence of my text, “As liis part is that geeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.”

Ashes.

Wood ashes Is a fertilizer partlcuularly adapted to dry weather. In dry seasons no fertilizer produces better results on strawberries ot potatoes. As we cannot forecast the seasons. It Is a satTsfactlon to know that they have no bad effect should the season be wet. This is one of the things which can be used on almost any crop, or any land, at any tliirf*. A dude in Philadelphia was tm ned out of the club to which he belonged because he paid his tailor’s bills two days after he got the clothes.

PIONEERS OF A PARTY

SURVIVING REPUBLICAN DELEGATES OF '56 MAY MEET. Such an Assemblage Would Be a Practical Celebration of the .Fortieth Anniversary of the National Republican Party-General Political Notea - A Republican Anniversary. It has been proposed in the East to assemble on the 17th of next Juneaconvention of the surviving delegates to the Republican convention held in Philadelphia in- that month-of 1856. The proposal has much to commend it, and has met with such warm approval that it may be falrjy counted dmong the politicai probabilities of the coming year. The only objection to the proposition as it has been stated is that a convention thus Constituted would be too small for the occasion. Such ameeting would be practically a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the National Republican party in the city where its foundations were so widely and patriotically laid, and in such a celebrationeveryohlßepubliean who has survived from that time should have a representative. The survivors of the original delegates must be few in number. There were but 600 of them originally. In the natural order of events most of these must bfe dead, for forty years is a long time in the life of an individual, and a'mong the survlvofs many are too worn with years or with disease to make a long journey, even to attend so glorious a reunion as that would be. A better plan would be to call upon all Republicans throughout the Union who indorsed the action and the platform of that historic conypntion and supported Fremont in the campaign that followed to organize in their various States and elect from among their number a full, list of delegates to the convention designed to celebrate the anniversary of a date so important in the history not of our country only, but of liberty and republican tnstltutions throughout the world.

A convention of this kind could not fail to renew’ the ardor of the old pion-' eers of the party and would be an inspiration to all the patriotic youth of the land. It would recall to public attention the early history of the great party organized for freedom and the Union, and remind men of the fidelity with which those early pledges have been kept and the arduous labors by which so much has been done to accomplish them, to maintain them and to render them the inviolable heritages of the American people. The platform adopted by the convention of ’56 pledged the party to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, declared it to be the duty of the people to oppose any attempt to introduce slavery into any territory of the United States, denounced polygamy and slavery as tw-in relics of barbarism, condemned the Democratic administration of the time for the crime against Kansas, called for the immediate admission of that territory as a free State, proclaimed the foreign policy embodied in the “Ostend circular” as a disgrace to American diplomacy, called for the construction of a railroad to the Pacific ocean and Indorsed a policy of public improvements of rivers and harbors by the general government. Sudh is the early platform of the party that ever since its foundation represented true Americanism at home and abroad. It Is certainly worth while celebrating the fortieth anniversary of such an event, and the old pioneers of the party will have the earnest support of the younger members if they undertake to carry it out. Our Portrait Gallery.

This Is a good picture of the man who sees po harm to the United States In free trade. * Some Good Ideas. We ara in favor of protection Co the manufacturer, the mechanic and laborer, as well as the farmer and business [man. We believe In protecting our money by just and wise laws. We have Always believed in not only protecting Old Glory, but also the men who saved the tin ion. We believe in protection to every American industry, no matter iwhat that industry may be or where It is located. We believe that free trade Is a curse to this country, and a detriment to every man, woman and child living in it. We are Republican because the Republican party Is in favor of proftectlon to all American interests.—Mar!lon, Ind., Republican, Democrats Promote Trusts* In spite of the fact that the duties on glass have been reduced nearly lone-half by the provisions of the new -tariff, the manufacturers have formed a trust. The trust has already advanced prices nearly 18 per cent And an-

other advance of 5 per cent Is likely to follow. What becomes of the argument that a protective tariff fosters trusts, and that a revision of duties according to,Democratic ideas would be a death blow to such combinations?— The Rise and Fall of Wages.

How the Wilson Bill Works. Exports are growing smaller and imports are increasing. The consumption of foreign wool is increasing and that of domestic wool is declining. Larger quantities of dry goods are being brought into the country from foreign lands, and few'er domestic dry goods are being manufactured in the United States. These are some of the results of the Wilson tariff bill, which was to have increased exports of American manufactured articles and thus promote the prosperity of the country.— San Francisco Chronicle. The Price of Wheat. The wheat crop of 1895, as given by Dornbtisch’s list, was 305,7115,000 quarters? This is less than 5,000,000 quarters larger than the world’s wheat crop of 1892. On July 1, 1892, the price of wheat in New York was 89% cents, but on July 1,1895, the price was only 73% cents, a decrease of 15% cents a bushel. Does the increase of 1% per cent In the world’s wheat crop between the two periods account for the decrease of 18 per cent in the value of wheat within the same period? Exports of Wheat. Year. Value. 1892 (McKin1ey)5299,363,117 1895 (Gorman) 114,604,780 Decrea5e,^1895......... .$184,758,337 Not Free Breakfast. “Rwjßfy reform,” deprived the Amemata wage earner of the free breaknaA table which the McKinley act gavg iiin. > Ho Is a Humbug. The renegade Protectionist is always overzealous. He makes a display of his supposed sincerity. Had Too Much. No more experiments in free trade are desired. The country has had enough of that sort of thing. . The Selfish Man. The man is narrow minded and foolish who asks Industrial protection only for his own products. Political Notea. Democracy has always objected to everything national.—New York Recorder. The Allison boom ventures to open a gun or two outside of lowa.—Detroit Tribune.

President Cleveland's third-term boom Is still In the bands of his enemies. —New York Press. The Monroe doctrine and the Cleveland doctrine continue to be on exceedingly bad terms.—New York Advertiser. David B. Hill now says he “points With pride.” He will “view with alarm” after the returns come in.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If Gen. Lamont has not lost all his influence in traction circles he must begin at once to labor with Mr. Whitney. —New York Advertiser. The Hon. Carl Schurz has come out from under the bed and again claims to be in command of the German-Ameri-can vote—Atlanta Constitution The Republican party has always had to make good the deficits of the Democratic party, both in the State and nation. It will have to do so again.— Detroit Journal. Ex-Gov. McCreary says Carlisle will be nominated for the Presidency, which shows how easy it is for a Kentuckian to talk through his “nightcap.”—Kan-saSl-City Journal. The Increase in the national debt under President Cleveland’s administration, as sho'wn by official records, is now $306,004,978. The nation longs for a chance to pay Its respecta'To such a record as this.—Boston Journal. Senator Allison's friends are giving it out cold that the Senator will have the first place on the Republican national ticket, or none. No vice presidency h'js; he would rather remain V* Xhft , Senate,—MluueapolU Tribune. «•'

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. \ 7 -7; .■ ■■■ < Bad Failnr « Thorntown Firm— Mrs. Loomis Gets a Divorce from Her Dangerous Husband —Carious Operation of Big Paper Mills. Thirteen Cents on the Dollar. Last April Aaron Mossier, of Thorm town, a dry goods and clothing dealer, made an assignment. The final report of 11. (X Ulen, trustee, has just been filed. The unsecured creditors receive verylittle. The available assets were sll,207.51. The preferred claims of Lew Mossh-i-. koi> of the assignor, amount to $2,300; Of Joseph Franklin, son-hr-taw; S!MJI; of Bettman Brothers, of Cincinnati, $1,000; taxes,“s3oO. The assignee charges SI,OOO, while his attorneys ask for SSOO. The unpreferred creditors have_ ciainis pending for $12,737.61, with but $1,765.02 with which to pay it, making about IX! cents on the dollar. Indiatiapolis wholesale men are among the nnpreferred creditors. Divorced from an Insane Assassin. Mrs. Eliza J. Loomis, of Shanghai, has been granted a divorce and alimony from Horace Loomis. It was in evidence that the defendant was serving a life-sentence for assassinating his cousin. .James Gregory, as the latter, while acting ns nurse, was administering a dose of medicine to the assassin’s sick mother. It was also in evidence Jhat Loomis had been in the insane asylum eight times since their marriage, /sixteen years ago, and had frequently threatened to kill his wife and children. Loomis has been the terror of , Shaughai -neighborhood or jnany years. He is an expert marksman, and his favorite pastime during his crazy spells was to mount an unbridled horse and while ridtrigatbreakheckspcedshoOtcverythiiig and everybody in sight. . The Drough t A ffeclln g she he at. Although the wheat crop in Wabash County has not yet suffered seriously from lack of rain, it is in a condition where moisture is needed, if damage is to be averted. There have been a few light showers, but the autumn winds have dried out the soil and carried it away from the roots of the plants, and the situation of the wheat is precarious. In some of the adjoining counties, notably. Kosciusko, where there have been no rains, tfie wheat is being damaged. It is spindling in itiTgrowth. of bad coldr. and in some fields the plants scarcely show above the ground. Drenched Into Subjection. The in the Frankfort jail built a tire of their bed clothing. The Sheriff’s family gave the alarm and the fire was extinguished. An hour later the match was applied again, and this time the. fire department was ordered out and —under the direction of City Marshal Baird the jail was flooded. The prisoners begged for mercy, but the stream was not turned off until they were thoroughly drenched. This was their fourth offense, and the authorities considered their sport a trifle monotonous. Pumping the River Dry. It is said that the large paper mills along the headwaters of the Mississinew-a River, at Hartford, Eaton and other points ate literally pumping that stream dry. A. C. Trentman, of the Hartford City Paper Compand, says that his company alone is using nearly all the water in the river, and that some establishments are unable to run because of the lowstage. Unless rain soon falls there will be absolutely no water reach the lower river, all being absorbed in Blackford and counties cast. A Serious Runaway»Acci<lent. While John McCarthy and Miss Deila Huffman were driving to their homes, a few miles south of Ix-banon, their horse became frightened and began to rear and plunge forward, finally upsetting the buggy and falling and breaking its neck. The young lady suffered a broken limb apd was otherwise seriously injured. The young man was considerably bruised, but out seriously hurt. All Over the State. Rollin Stibbins, of Kokomo, is dead, the result of a fall from a roof. , Joseph Hill, of Steubenville, Ohio, fell from a train at Blornington, losing a leg. He claims he was pushed off by a brakeman.

Ebner. Weaver, who was arrested at Waterloo, charged with arson, has beeii adjudgedjnsane. Weaver has a mania for starting fires, nnd his arrest was the outgrowth of his work in burning a house and barn. The sixty-third annual session of the Indiana Baptist State convention was held at Terre Haute in the First Baptist Church. The Rev. S. C. Fulmer, of Elkhart, vice president, was chairman. Reports showed 585 churches in the State, 416 ministers, 58,090 members, 483 Sunday schools, with 35,610 pupils and teachers. The church property includes the college at Franklin, the grounds and buildings of which arc valued at $65,000, with an endowment fund of $225,000. During the past year SBO,OOO was contributed for salaries and other church expenses; $16,000 went to missions, and $37,500 was "otherwise expended. The largest crop of potatoes ever grown in Fulton County is being harvested. Until five years ago the farmers did not undertake the field culture of this popular tuber, and one seldom found a “patch” covering an acre. The first field planted contained eight acres, and was viewed by hundreds of people. It netted the owner SIOO i»er acre. The yield this year is a great surprise to the growers, many of whom reported in July that the crop was being ruined by the drought, and they are digging from 100 to 250 bushels per acre. Some have been marketed where it only required from twenty to forty tubers to weigh a bushel. The price has fallen to 25 cent* a bushel, but the large yield makes it the beatpaying crop the farmers have harvested this season. At English triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McMahel, two dauglC ters and one son. The father has named the children Patience, Constance and Courage, saying that he. himself, will have need of these virtues. Joseph Brown, a miner, employed in the’ Brazil mine of the Jackson company, had gotten into the cage to ascend from the ■atine, and, while the cage was in motion, his kit of tools eaught in the machinery in some manner, drawing him between the cage and the. wall of The shaft, crush* ing his body into » shapeless, bloody