Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Page 3

THE OISE EIGHT ROAD

REV. DR. TALMAGE POINT* IT OUT TQ LIFE'S TRAVELERS. \ "" He Shows the Road of Righteousness to Be Safe, Plain, Pleasant, Broad, Smooth, and with a Gloriona Ter* " minus at Last. V- . Sermon at the Capital. ■ Rev. I)r. Talmage’s sermon in Washington last Sunday was a picture of the road that many ha.ve traveled and others are tfymg fd'jge'f o'if and'Ts no more appropriate for the capital Of the nation than for all places. The text chosen was Isaiah xxxv., 8.11, 10: “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the Wayfaring men, tfiough fools, shall not • err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, It shall not be found there, but~the re- . deemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord shall return trod come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” There are hundreds of people in this house who want to find the road. You sometimes see a person halting at •cross roads, and you can tell by his looks that lie wishes to ask a question as to what direction he had better take. And I stand in your presence conscious of JJic, sac-t that there are many of you here who Realize that there are a thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that opens widely, but I have not much faith in it. There are a great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that wav. Indeedat every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in genuflexions, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, yon have to pay your own way. and since this differs so much from whatd have heard in regard to the right way, I beliete it is the wrong way. Here is another road. Oil either sideuf it are houses of sinful entertainment and Invitations to come in and* dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand •on the piazza I am certain it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses’ hoofs clatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin nlong the highway, until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they seize the bit in the month of the fiery steed and cry: “Ho! Ho!” But it is too late, and, crash! they go "over the embankment. We shall turn and see. if we cannot find a different kind of road. Yoii have beard of the Appian way. It was 350 miles long It was 24 feet wide', and on either side of the road was a path for foot passengers. It was made out of rocks cut in hexagonical shape ami fitted together. What a road it must have been! Made of smooth, hard rock, 350 miles long. No wonder that in the construction of it the treasures of a whole empire were exhausted. Because of invaders, and the elements, and time —the old conqueror who tears up a road as he goes over it—there is nothing left of that structure but a ruin. But I have to tell you of a road built ’before the Appian way, and yet it is as good as when first constructed. Millions of souls have gone over u. Miltons more will come. The prophets and apostles, too, Pursued this road while here belo\y. We therefore will, without dismay, Still walk in Christ, the good old way. The King’s Highway. First, this road of the text is the king's highway. In the diligence you dash on over the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile after mile, and there is not so much as a pebble to jar the wheels. You go over bridges which cross chasms that make you hold your breath, under projecting rock, along by dangerous precipices, through tunnels adrip with the meltings of the glaciers, and perhaps for the first time learn the majesty Of a road built and supported by governmental authority. Weil, my Lord and King decided to build a highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the chasms of human wretchedness. It should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty. It should be wide enough and strong enough to hold 50,000,000,000,000 of the human'race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should he blasted out of the “Rock of Ages.” and cemented with the blood of the cross, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent his Son to build that road, lie put head and hand and heart to it, and after the road was completed waved liis blistered hand over tke way, crying, “It is finished!” Napoleon paid 15,000, 000 fruffes for the building of the Simplon road that his cannon might go over for the devastation of Italy, but our King at a greater expense has built a road for a different purpose that the banners of Ivta.vepJyjJoiJiinioM might conic down- overit. Being a kiug's highway, of course it is well built. Bridges splendidly arched and nbuttressed have given . way and crushed the passengers who attempted to cross them. But Christ the King Would build no such thing ns that. The work done, he mounts the chariot of his love and multitudes mounf with him, and he drives on and up the steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gazing worlds! The work is done—well done—gloriously done —magnificently done. - A Clean Road. Still further, this road spoken of is a dean road. Many a fine road lias become miry and foul because it has properly cared for, but iny text says the unclean shall not walk on this one. Room on either side to tliro>\w away your sins. Indeed, if you want to carry them along, you are not on the fight road. That bridge will break, those overhanging rocks will fall, the night Will come down, leaving you at the merey of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turn of the road you will perish. But if you are really ou this clean road of which I have been speaking, then you will stop ever nmi anon to wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the joufney you will be crying out, “Create within me a dean heart!” If you have no aspirations as that, it proves that you linTc mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the finger board above your head you may read upon it the words, “There is a way that aeemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is don|h.” Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you have any idea that you can carry albitg your sins, your lusts, your worldliness, and yet get at tha

end of ,the Christian race, yon *re so awfully mistaken that, in th«<name of God, I shatter the delusion. , 1 A Plain Road. Still further, the road spoken of is a plain road. “The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein”—that is, if a man is three-fourths an idiot, he can find this road just as well as if he were a philosopher. The imbecile boy, the laughing stock of the street, and followed by a mob hooting at him, has only just to knock once at the gate of heaven, and it swings open, while there has beed many a man who could lecture about pneumatics aqd chemistry and tell the story of P&raday’s theory of electrical polarization and yet has been shut out of heaven. There has been many a man who stood in an observatory and swept the heavens with his telescoi»e and yet lias not been able to see the morning star. Many a man has Been familiar with all the higher branches of mathematics and yet coilld not do the simple sum, “What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Many a man has been a fine reader of tragedies and poems and yet could not “read his title clear to mansions'in the skies.” Many a man has botanized the continent and yet not known the Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the Valley. Blit if one shall come in the right spirit, asking the way to heaven, he will find it a plain way. The pardon is plain. The peace is plain. Everything is plain. He who tries to get on the road to heaven through the New Testament teaching wilTget oiTbeautifully. He who goes through philosophical discussion will not get on at all. Christ says, “Come to me and I will take all your sins away, and I will take all your troubles away.” Now, .>vbat is the use of my discussing it any more? Is not that plain? If you wanted to go to some city, and I pointed you out a highway thoroughly laid out, would I be wise in detaining you by a geological discussion about the gravel you will pass over, or a physiological discussion about the muscles you will have to bring into play? No. After this Bible has pointed you the way to heaven, is it wise for me to detain you with any discussion about the nature of the" human will, or whether the atonement is limited or unlimited? There is the road —go on it. It is a plain way. “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ .Tesus came into the world to save sinners.” And that is ygu and that is mo. Any little child here can understand this as well as I can. “Unless you become as a little child you cannot see the kingdom of God.” If you are saved, it will not be ns a philosopher; it will be as a little child. “Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Unless you get the spirit of little children you will never come out at their glorious destiny. A Safe Road. Still further, this road to heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveler in those ancient highways would think hiraself perfectly secure, not knowing there was a lion by the way, burying his head deep between his paws, and then, when the right moment came, under she fearful spring the man’s life was gone, and there was a mauled carcass by the roadside. But, says my text, ;“No lion shall be there.” I wish I could make you feel your entire security. I tell you plainly that one, minute after a man has become a child of Gpd he is as safe as though he had been 10,000 years in heaven. He mdy slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but he cannot be destroyed; kept by the power of God, through faith, unto complete salvation, everlastingly safe. The severest trial to which you can subject a Christian man is to kill him, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child of God is heaven. The body is only the old slippers that he throws aside just before putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires can consume it; no floods can drown it; no devils can capture it. Firm and unmoved are they Who rest their souls on God • 1 - Fixed ns the ground where David stood, Or where the ark abode. His soul is safe.- His reputation is safe. Everything ft safe. “But,” you say, “suppose his store burns up?” Why, then it will be only a change of investments from earthly to heavenly securities. “But,” you say, “suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?” The name will be so much brighter in glory. “Suppose his physical health fails?” God will pour into him she floods of everlasting health, and it will not make any difference. Earthly subtraction is heavenly addition. The tcar| of earth are the crystals of heaven. A.s they take rags and tatters and put them through the paper mill, and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly destitution, under the cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written eternal emancipation. There wns one passage of Scripture the force of which I never understood until one day at Chamouuix, with Mont Blanc on one side and Montanvort on the other, I opened my Bible and read, “As the mountains are around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about them that fear him.” The surroundings were an omnipotent commentary. Though troubles assail and dangers affright, Though friends should all fail and foes all unite, Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, The Scripture assures us the Lord will provide. A Pleasant Road. Still further, the road spoken of is a pleasant road. God gives a bond of indemnity against all evil to every man that treads it. “All things work together for good to those who love God.” No weapon formed against them can prosper. That is the bond, signed, sealed and delivered by tlie president of the whole universe. What is the nse of your fretting, O child ox God, about food? “Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your Heavenly. Father feedeth them.” And will he take care of the sparrow, will he take care of the raven, will he take care of the hawk and let you die? What is tho use of your fretting about clothes? “Consider the lilies of the field. - Shall he not much more clothe you, O'* ye of little faith?” What is tho use o{ worrying for fear something will happen to your home? »“He blesseth the habitation of the just.” What ia the use Of your fretting lest you will be overcome of temptations? “God ia faitbfnl, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may bo able to bear R,” Oh, this King's highway! Trees of life on either side, bending over until their branches interlock and drop midway, their fruit and shade. Houses of entertainment pn either side the road for poor pil-

grims. Tables spread with a feast Of good things, gnd walls adorned with apples of gold in pictures of siWer. I start out on this King’s highway, and I fifld a haiper, and I say, “What is yoyr name?” The harper makes no response, but leaves mo to guess, as with his eyes toward heaven and his hand upon the trembling strings this tune comes rippling on'the air: “The Lord i 8 my light and my salvation. Whom shall Ifear? The Lord is the strength' of, my life. Of whom shall Ibe afraid?* 1 + I go a little farther on the same road and meet a trumpeter of heaven, and T say, “Haven’t you got some; nm**9 f° r a tired pilgrim?” And. wiping his lips and taking a long breath, he puts his mouth W the and jQpurß forth this strain,; shall hunger no morernelfHer'shair they tliirst any more, neither shall thej sunlight on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the thronq shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tearsj from their eyes.” I go a little distanco farther on the same road, and I meet maiden of Israel. She has no harp, but! she has cymbals. They look as if they; had rusted from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Israel: “Have you no for a tired pilgrim?” And, like the clang of victors’ shields, the cymbals clap Miriam begins to discourse: “Sing ye Ho the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and she rider hath he thrown into the sea.” And then I see a white robed group. "They come bounding toward me, and I say, “Who are they? The happiest, and the brightest, and the fairest in all heaven—-who are they?” And the answer comes, “These are they who came Out of great tribulations and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” The Terminus. I pursue this Bubjeet oaly-ona alep far-_ tlier. What is the terminus? I do not care how fine a road you put me on, I want to know where it comes out. Myj text declares it, “The redeemed of thq Lord come to Zion.” You know what Zion was. That was the king’s palace. It was a mountain fastness, lc was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has long enough range to shell those towers. Let all the batteries of earth and hell blaze away. They cannot break in those gates. Gibraltar was taken, Sevastopol was taken, Babylon fell, but these walls of heaven shall never surrender either to human or satanic besiegement. The Ix>rd God AF mighty is the defense of it. Creat capital of the universe! Terminus of the King’s highway! Dr. Dick said that, among other things, he thought in heaven we would study chemistry and geometry and conic sec* tions. Southey thought that in heaven he would have the pleasure of seeing Chaucer and Sliakspeare. Now, Dr. Dick may have his mathematics for ail eternity, and Southey his Sliakspeare. Give me Christ and my old friends—that is all the heaven I want. Christ and his people that I knew on earth —that is heaven enough for me. Oh, garden of light, whose leaves never wither, and whose fruits never fail! Oh} banquet of God, whose sweetness never palls the taste and whose guests are kings forever! Oh, city of light, whose walls are salvation, and whose gates are praise! Oh', palace of rest, where God is the monarch and everlasting ages the length of his reign! Oh, song louder than the surf beat of many waters, yet soft as the whisper of cherubim! Oh, glorious heaven! When tlier last wound is healed, when the last heartbreak Is ended, when the lust tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when the redeemed of the Lord shall come to Zion, then let all the harpers take down their harps, and all the trumpeters take down their trumpets, and all across heaven let these be chorus of morning stars, chorus of white robecj victors, chorus of martyrs from under the throne, chorus of ages, chorus of worlds, and there is hub* one song sung, and but one name spoken, and hut one throne honored—that of Jesus only. .

Mother-Wit.

A pretty long list might be made of men who have owed their advancement in life to a smart answer given at the right moment One of Napoleon’s veterans, who survived his master many years, was wont to recount with great glee how he had once picked up the Hmperor’s cocked hat at a review, when the latter, not noticing that he was a private, said carelessly, 'Thank you, captain,” “In what regiment sire?” instantly asked the ready-witted soldier. Napoleon, perceiving his mistake, answered with a smile, “In my Guard, for I see you know liow to be prompt.” The newly made officer received his commission the next morning. A somewhat similar anecdote Is related of Marshal Suvoroff, who, when receiving a dispatch from the hands of a Russian sergeant .who had greatly distinguished himself on the Danube, attempted to confuse tlie messenger by a series of whimsical questions, but found him fully equal to the occasion. “How many fish are there in the sen?” asked Suvoroff. “All that are not caught yet,” was the answex*. “How far is it to the moon?” “Two of your excellency’s forced marches.” “What wbuld yon do If you saw your men giving way in battle?” “I’d tell them that there was a wagon-load of whisky Just behind the enemy’s line.” f Baffled at all the marshal ended with “What’s the difference between your colonel and myself?" \ “My colonel cannot make me a lieutenant, but your excellency has only to say the word.” “I say It now then,” answered Suvoroff—“and a right good office* you’ll be.”

A New and Light Metal.

The metal glucinium, hitherto a chemical rarity, Is likely to come forward as a useful material, especially in electrical work. It is only twice as heavy as water, and is, tnerefere, even lighter than aluminum. It Is a good deal less extensible than iron and has an electric conductivity greater than that of copper. It Is more durabfc. than Iron. At Its present price, $17.83 per pound, It Is one-tenth the prlctf of platinum, weight for weight, and oneone hundred and sixtieth the price volume for volume.

TO BUILD A HEW CITY.

1 : •; j. j 1 OLD WAft VETERANS GOING TO THE SOUTH. ' : .'l' ** i i • . ''** (L A OrsnaArmy Colonjr In Georgia Which Promises to Be a Big Success— Emigrants Flocking In with a Western Rash. , The First Town. A Fitzgerald, Ga., correspondent, writing of the new G. A. R, colony being founded there, say*: The men who followed Sherman to the sea are once more “marching through Georgia.” But the people of this State do not look upon the present invasion with stich consternation as they did on that of over thirty years ago, for this is one of pea«£—the invaders have come to live with the invaded. The movement to colonize members of the G. A. R. in the South has made a fine start and already Fitzgerald, the “metropolis” of the colony, has a population of several thousand. Fitzgerald is in Irwin County and not five miles distant from the spot where Jefferson Davis was captured. The original plan of this colony was to provide a home in a milder climate for the veterans of the Federal armies. The project started with Philip Fitzgerald, a pension attorney and wealthy property owner of Indianapolis. At least 4,000 veterans have put their money into this co-operative

FIRST HOUSE IN THE G. A. R. COLONY.

movement and decided to come South. These old soldiers and their families make a total of about 10,000 persons. It was at first intended to defer the opening of the colony until next spring, but the immigrants could not hold back and they are now coming by hundreds and thousands from all over the country north of the Ohio ri~er, and between the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains, fleeing from the rigors of Northern winter. The immigration is a reminder of the rush to the West before the day of railroads. Wagon trains are climbing the mountains and crossing the valleys. Of the 3,000 settlers who have arrived at' Fitzgerald in the last thirty days a large proportion came overland by wagon. There are immigrants who drove ail the way from the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska. and one family was six monthson the journey from the State of Washington. These people drove every mile from the far northwestern corner of the country to the extreme southeastern corner. The movement- has gone far beyond the Grand Army and thousands of young meh and a great many men who pioneered in the West have joined it. But old soldiers are in the majority. The pension dis-

THE G. A. R. COLONY AT FITZGERALD, GA.

bursements at the colony will exceed $50,000 a month. Ohjo, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri are represented by a class of sturdy young men who have come to farm. They say that the farms in their native States have been cut up so small that their fathers cannot afford to further subdivide. The boys, upon coming of age, have to strike out for themselves. Hitherto they have set their faces toward the land beyond the Mississippi and the Missouri, but they prefer a more genial climate. The colony has bought 35,000 acres and has options on 05,000 more. The shareholders in the co-operative company get their land at cost, which, however, includes the outlay for surveying and grading the entire tract, c:ity lots nnd all. Ex-Gov. William J. Northen, of Georgia, Bold the land to the colony at $3.50 an acre, although' some of it coat him «•> great deal more. One thousand acres were laid off for a city site. Like an Oklahoma Town. At present the town site resembles Oklahoma City or Guthrie thirty days after the‘public lands were thrown open. While most of the little pine board shacks are grouped in one corner of the reservation, they are found straggling through the forest for two miles. At night the woods are illuminated by huge bonfires of pine logs around whicb-the settlers assemble to discuss the future of the colony. The tract of land upon which the colony Is located is a high, roiling ridge about twenty-five miles wide nnd 150 miles long, extending through half a dozen counties in Georgia to the gulf coast in Florida. It is thickly wooded with the long-leaf pine. The turpentine manufacturer has worked some of the forest, but irbt all of it.’ The lumberman has not yet made an impression on it. The soil is not oftbe sandy character so common in south "Georgia, but is ’dark, somewhat resembling the prairie soil, except that this has an iron pebble, which indicates a fine fruit Soli. That the land will raise splendid fruit has been shown by the success of some Connecticut men,, the Tifts, and a colony of Pennsylvanians who have settled on the western edge of tiro ridge. All who were at the eolony believe firmly in its future. There are 54.000 men, women and children already in the movement Every train brings {resh arrivals and the population is growing at the rate of from 50 to 200 a day.’ Next month a 'railroad will be completed to the colony, and by spring there will be another! ..The ■oil is unquestionably fine and the climate healthful. Artesian wells strike water at a depth of 150 feet. The settlers sny when the tutecesa of the colony is demonstrated there will be a great movement from the Northwest. The three men who floated away from Cleveland on an Ice tioe in Lake Erie are bettered to hare been lost.

BLOW TO THE G. A. R.

Western, Railroad* Refuse to Grant Trefle Concessions. -' The next national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic may go to Buffalo. St. Paul was the prize winner at last year's national encampment, lnit the Western Passenger Association will not make a rate satisfactory the Grand Army of the Republic, which fact may change the place of meeting. ‘A delegation from St. Paul was in Chicago to try to “argue it out,” and they brought the Commander-in-chief' of the’Grand Army of the Republic with them, but the Western Passenger Association was obdurate and held out -for a high rate of fare. So Commander-in-chief Walker will call a council - ;of war to determine whore the next encampment shall be held. At last encampment, which was held in Louisville, It«was voted that the next encampment Should be held in St. Paul. A stipulation, however. Was made that it should go there only in case a satisfactory,! rate could be obtained from the railroads. The Western roads bid for the patronage of the O. ;A.*R. encampment at St. Paul by authorizing a rate of E-cent. per mile for the round trip, with a seven-day limit. At the same time a rate of one fare for the ronnd trip to the Knights of Pythiaa conclave, to be held in the same city in August, was granted nud a thirty day limit authorized. Commander-in-chief Walker and prominent citizens of St. Taul immediately took issue over the seven-day limit placed on the G. A. R, excursion tickets, and every effort has been made to get the Western Association to reconsider its action and deal as fairly with the G. A. R. as with the Knights of Pythias. With one exception the tickets to ail ths Grand Army of the Republic reunions based on a thirty-day limit. The exception was the reunion held in Milwaukee. A similar dispute took place at that time, the Western roads refusing to deal liberally with the veterans. Only one excuse is put forward by the railroads for the decided stand taken on the question. This is that the thirty-day limit,-: If granted, means a complete demoralization of rates in Western territory and a rich harvest for the scalpers.

CUBANS IN THE SEA.

The Filibustering Steamer J. W. Hawkins Sinks Off Long Island. Till* steamer J. W. Hawkins, bound from New York to Cuba on a filibustering expedition, was abandoned at sea off Long Islnnri Sunday night in a terrific gale, and i f the 170 men on board only 113 are accounted for. Ten are known to have been drowned, and it is believe'd fif-ty-three others met a like fate.The Hawkins wns of 125 tons net, and was built at Kennebunk, Me., in 1880. She was for years engaged in the fishing business, but ns she had proved unprofitable she had for a long time lain idle in Baltimore harbor. Two weeks ago a man representing himself as a Mr. Tinsley approached the owners with an offer, saying he wished to buy the craft for a Mr. Smith of New York. There was no haggling over the price, nnd it did not taka him long to become the owner of the steamer. There was an old account of the crew hanging fire, but he at once paid it. Then a local ship yard came forwnrd

with a bill, whicu was also paid on the spot. Obstacles seemed to melt away before his haste, for when two firms threatened to bring libel suits against the steamer their claims were paid in full as soon ns a figure was named. She was at once taken to New York, where a little band of men was gathered in rendiness to get on board, their intention being to join the Cuban army and tight in the ranks. In spite of the vigilance of the Spanish -emissaries a Dress cannon worth $5,000, ammunition that cost $25,000 and 176 men were taken safely on board. Sunday night she sailed from that port, commanded by a Cnpt. Woodrow. Unfortunately, however, the boat \v:is unfit for sea,- and the hasty preparations had allowed no time for n thorough, examination of her bottom, for she had proceeded only as far as the eastern end of Long Island when sprung n dangerous teafc tuwi began to settle in the water. In spite’of all the crew could do the leak gained with fearful rapidity, and within twenty minutes all had to take to the five small boats.

McAuliffe’s Bad Wing.

Lightweight champion. Jack McAuliffe, has determined to make one more effort to condition himself to re-enter the ring. But before he can make this,effort he will

M’AULIFF'S WRIST—FALSE GROWTH.

hove to .undergo a course of rigorous training to get his physical condition into such shape (hat a surgical operation may be performed, that may restore to MeAnliffo the use of his left arm. or may leave it a useless cripple. The lightweight champion broke his arm in" a fight with Owen Zeigler, and as now known it Was a transverse fracture of the radiua and was improperly treated. Calculi hare formed around the fracture, owing, it ia

M'AULIFF'S WRIST-RESET.

said, to the rapid gnit at which McAuliffe has been traveling of lute, and these make the case more complicated. McAuliffe haa been (dainty told what he would be compelled to undergo, and haa accepted the chance.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

• C . . 'i - v RECORD OF EVENTS OF TH6> PAST WEEK. ■'■ i ~ i ” ■ ~—r — * \ Flinty-Hearted landlord at Barling;* ton—Mr. Hayes Indifferent to that Concord of Sweet Sounds, but Succumbs to a Poker. A Hard Law. ( A sensational case of ejectment is reported from Burlington. Andrew Isaac* owed two Jponths’ rent, and failing to pay it his landlord proceeded by law to have him and his family ejected. His tvife was sick at the time, and there were five little half-starved and half-clothed 'children set out in the road, along with the few pieces of housdiold fifcniturw the .family possessed. Before night, under an order of a justice of the peace, all the family belongings Were sold at auction to satisfy hungry creditors. Even tho family Bible, containing the record of tho family births and deaths, was not spared. Young Lutz Is Released. Charles Lutz, who was sent to jail at: Terre Haute for thirty days and fined $25 for kissing girls on the street, was released by Mayor lloss on payment of the fine, which was paid by the Order of Red Men, oft which he was a member. His fellow members still contend that tho young women who identified him in court were mistaken. His employers arc to restore him to his position, receiving clerk in a large wholesale house. A picture of the riian arrested in Evansville for kissing girls and women, and who said he was from Terre Haute, has been received by the police. It represents a wpn about Lutz’s age and size, but lie has different colored liair. The young women who identified Lutz in court had him pull his cap down over his head, because that is the manner in which “Jaek the hugger" wore his cap when he accosted them. Capture ofmt Indiana Forger. James Dalgarn, who forged William Davis! name to a uofc at Coal City Thursday for SSO, was captured near Cory by a posse of citizens of Coal City, beaded by the sheriff. In the fight vyith the officers .Thursday night, whan the forger made his escape, he was shot in the arm, and, becoming exhausted from the loss, of blood, he sought shelter in an abandoned officers to track him- Drops of blood occasionally found on the snow was conclusive evidence that the tracks vH*e made by the escaped convict. Dalgarii surrendered- and was taken to Spencer. It has since developed that Dalgarn, under the name of Everett, endeavored to pass a forged note for S3OO at a bank at Worthington a few days ago, but failed in his scheme and quickly left the -town-to-escape arrest.

Farmer Is Opposed to Music. William Hayes, an eceenV>c farmer, lies at his home near Cravyfordsviiie, dangerously injured and a warrant tfHk issued for the arrest of his wife as his assailant. Ilayes was almost insanely religious, and, being of the old school, did not believe in musical instruments. His wife and daughter did not agree with him. and by saving money secured from tho sale of chickens nnd butter they mani)g(ed to buy r piano, which was installed in the parlor during Hayes’ absence. When he returned home he was terribly angry and proceeded to smash the instrument. While he was thus engaged his wife struck him on the head with a poker, almost killing him. All Over the State. John P. Morris, living near New Castle, who had been addicted to the nse of intoxicants, and who despaired of reformation, climbed to the top of a straw stack near his home, set the straw on fire and then attempted suicide by firing a bullet into his brain. He fell in the burning straw, but was rescued by members of his family. It is believed that he cannot re cover.

The esses against members of the Amish religious sect were taken up at Decatur and resulted in seven convictions and six acquittals. The fines were each $5 and costs, the minimum, on account of the offenders’ ignorance of the laws and these cases being the first offense. They say they knew they would be ’’persecuted” this year, as it had been foretold by their fathers. John R. Haines, living seven miles from Indianapolis, during the absence of bis children at school, assaulted his wife with a club, leaving her unconscious and dying, after which he committed suicide by hanging. The woman was still alive when" the children returned, but she was unconscious, and died before surgical aid could be procured, The murderer was 59 years old and his wife 53. He was a man of dangerous temper and for several years he had frequently quarreled with his wife, often, it is said, threatening to kill her. There are eight children, but only three of them, two of tender age, lived at home. Aside from his ungovernable temper, Haines stood well in the community, and the murder and suicide have caused great excitement. Friday afternoon Samuel Vnnton, an attorney, was found dead in his office at Frankfort. The lawyer’s decision to die was the result of an unhappy marriage. On July 3, 1595, Yanton, who had been a widower for many years, married Mrs. Frankie A. Meeker, a wealthy society woman of Quincy, 111., and two months later his wife deserted him, returning to her old home. Later she filed a suit against her husband, claiming that he had misappropriated $1,500 of her funds. The suit ivas finally dismissed, but the loss of his bride weighed very heavily on Vanton’s mind, and he frequently talked to his friends of death. In the dead man’s hand was a brief note, telling where his funeral garb and clean linen could be found. Mr. Vantou was about 53 years of age, and came in 1875 from Middletown, X. 'if. He had a son living In Middletown, and it was his desire that the son should have his property. At the opening of the trial at Terre Haute of Dan Keller, his wife and his sister, on the charge of murdering Clara Shanks, the court and the counsel were dnmfounded to find that oje of the jurors, Mr., Soules, was drunk. Ju the jury box he blinked and grinned for an hour, whilo the crowd stared at him and the judge and lawyers consulted as to the best meth-' od of proceedin'? without the danger of a mistrial. Finally the defense, by agreement, made a motion to discharge the jury, and excuse permanently Mr. Socles. Then the eleven were resworu and a new juqpj