Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Page 7

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

THEY THAT USE THIS WOrfLD AS NOT ABUSING IT. tteir. Dr. Talinage Diacusaes Good aad Bad Recreations—The Force of Music —Outdoor Sports—Foundations for Soul Building —The Last Hour. Social Diversions/ In his sermon Sunday Dr. Talmage»discussed a subject of universal interest—viz., “Our Social Recreations.” His text was chosen from L Corinthians vii. f 31: “They that use this worhFtfirn'dt abusing it.” Judges xvL, 25:' “And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for Samson, that he may make us spo^-t.” There were 3,000 people assembled in the temple of Dagoh. They had come to make sport of eyeless.SAmson. They were all ready for the entertainment. They began to clap and pound, impatient for the amusement to begin, and 1 , they cried, “Fetch hihi out, fetch him'out!” Yonder I see the blind fold giant coming, led by' the hand of a child into tife very midst of the temple. At his first appearance there goes up a shout of laughter and derision. The blind old giant pretends he is tired, and wants to rest himself against the pillars of the house. -So he says to the lad who leads him, “Show me where the main pillars are!” The lad does so. > Then the strong man puts his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on another, and, with the mightiest push that mortal ever made, throws himself forward untit the whole house comes down in thunderous crash, grinding like grapes Ta a wine press. “And so it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house, and ho made them sport.” In other words, there are amusements that are destructive, and bring down disaster and death upon the heads of those who practice them. Whilethey laugh and oheer, they_die.. The 3,000 who perished that day in Gaza are as nothing compared to the tens of thousands who have been destroyed by sinful amusements. Lawful Pleasures. But* my first text implies that there is a lawful use of the world as well as an unlawful abuse of it, and-the difference between the man Christian and the man tin-; Christian is that in the former case the man masters the world, while in the latter case the World masters . him. For whom did God make this grand aud beautiful world? For whom this wonderful expenditure of color, this gracefulness of line, this mosaic of the ground, this fresco of the sky, this glowing fruitage'of orchard and vineyard, this full orchestra 6f the tempest, in which the tree branches flute, and the winds trumpet, and the thunders drum, and all the splendors of earth and sky come clashing their cymbals? For whom did God spring the arched bridge of colors resting upon buttresses of broken storm cloud? For whom did he gather the upholstery of fire around the windows of the setting sun? For all men, but more especially for his own dear children. '' If you build a large mansion and spread a great feast after it to celebrate the completion of the structure, do you allow strangers to come in and occupy the place, while you thrust your own children in the kitchen, or the barn, or the fields? Oh, no! You say, “I am very glad to see strangers in my mansion, but my own sons and daughters shall have the first right there.” Now, God has built this grand mansion of a world, and he has spread a glorious feast in it, and while those who are strangers to his grace may-•-come in I think that God especially intends to give the advantage to his own children—-those who are the sons aud daughters of the Lord Almighty, those who through grace cau look up and say, “Abba, Father.” You cannot make me believe that God gives more advantages to the world than he gives to the church bought by his own blood. If, therefore, people of the world have looked with dolorous sympathy upon those who make profession of religion and have said, “Those new converts are going down into privation and into hardship; why did they not tarry a little longer in the world and have some of its enjoyments, and amuscments and • recreations ’ —l say to such men of the world, “You are greatly mistaken,” and before I get through I will show that those people who stay out of the kingdom of God have the hardships and self denials, while those who come in have the joys and satisfactions. . of tha,.JwOg- <>X hßa*«s and , earth, I serve a writ of ejectment upon all the sinful and polluted who have squatted ou the domain of earthly pleasure as though it belonged to them, while I claim, in behalf of the good and the pure and the true, the eternal inheritance which God has given them. Hitherto Christian philanthropists, clerical and lay, have busied themselves chiefly in denouncing sinful recreations, but I feel we have no right to stand before men and women in whose hearts there is a desire for recreation amounting to positive necessity, denouncing this and that and the other thing, when we do n«t propose to give them something better. God helping me and with reference to my last account, I shall enter upon a sphere not usual in sermonizing, but a subject which I thiuk ought to be presented at this time. I propose now to lay before you some of the recreations which are not only innocent, but positively helpful and advantageous. _ Influence of Music. In the first place, I commend, among indoor recreations, music—vocal aud instrumental. Among the first things created was tile bird, so that the earth might have music at the start. This world, which began with so sweet a serenade, is finally to be demolished amidst the ringing blast of the archangel’s trumpet, go that as there was music at the start, there shall be music at the close. While this heavenly art has often been dragged into the uses of superstition and dissipation. wo all know it may be the means of high moral culture. Oh, it la a grand thing to have our chililreu brought up amidst the sound of cultured voices and amidst the melody of musical instruments. There is in this art an indescribable faseinatiou for the household. Let all those families -who have the means to afford it have flute or harp or piano or organ. As seea as the hand so large enough to compass the keys teach it how to pick out the melody. Let all our young men try this heavenly art upon their nature. Those who have gone into it fully have found in it illimitable recreation and amusement. Park days, stormy bights, seasons of sick-

SeM, business disasters* will do tittle toward depressing the soul which can gallop off over musical keys or soar in jubilant toy. It will cure pain; it will rest fatigue; it will quell passion; it Wil! revive health; it will reclaim dissipation; it Will strengthen the immortal soul. In the' battle of Waterloo Wellington saw that the Highlanders were falling back. He said, “What is the matter there?” He was told that the band of music had erased playing, and he called up the pipers and ordered them to strike up an inspiriting -»ir*Jind no sooner did they strike- the air than tfie- Highlanders wege-Taßied and helped tq win .the day. Ctfe, ye who have been routed in the conflicts of life, try, by the force of music, to rally your scattered . battalions. '• ■ ' . - I am glad to know tfiat in onr great cities there is hardly a night in which there are not concerts where, With the best musical instruments and the Sweetest voices, people may fii,d .entertainment. Patrottizp such entertainments when they, are afforded you. Buy season tickets if you can for-the Philharmonic and the Handel and Haydn societies. Feel that the $1.50 or $2 that you spend for the purpose,of hearing an artist play or sing Is a profitable investment. Let your academies of music roar with-the acclamation of appreciative audiences assembled at the concert or the oratorio. Physical Culture. Still further, I commend, as worthy of their support, the gvm a a slum. This institution is gaining in favor every year, a-*l I know of nothing more free from dissipation, or more calculated to recuperate the physical and mental energies. While there are a good many people who have employed this institution, there is a vast number who are ignorant of its excellencies. There are men with cramped chests and weak Sides and despondent spirits who through the gymnasium might be roused up to exuberance and cxliiliaration of life. There are' many Christian people despondent from year'to year, who might, through such an institution, be benefited in their spiritual relations. There are Christian people who seem to think that it is a good sign to be poorly; 'and because Richard Baxter arid' Robert Hall were invalid They think that by the same sickliness they may come to the same grandeur of character. I want to tell the Christian people of my congregation that God will hold you responsible for your invalidism if it is your fault, arid when,' through right exercises and prudence, you might be athletic and welL The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition upon the animal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while his blood will -ehange-tts chemical proportions. It will become like unto the blood of the lion, or the tiger, or the bear, while his disposition will change, and become fierce and unrelenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. Parlor Games. Still further, I commend to you a large class of parlor games and recreations. There is a way of making our homes a hundredfold more attractive than they are now. Those parents cannot expect to keep their children away from outside dissipations unless they make the domestic circle brighter than anything they can find outside of it. Do not, then, sit in your hopie surly and unsympathetic and with a half condemnatory look because of the sportfulness of your children. You were young once yourself; let your children be young. Because your eyes are dim and your ankles are stiff, do not denounce sportfulness in those upon whose ej-es there is the first luster, and in whose foot there is the bounding joy of robust health. I thnuk God that iu onr drawing rooms and in our parlors there are innumerable games and sports which have not upon them the least taint of iniquity. Light up all your homes with innocent hilarities. Do not sit down with the rheumatism, wondering how children can go on so. Rather thank God that their hearts are so light, and their laughter is so free, and their cheeks are so ruddy, and that their expectations are so radiant. The night will come soon enough, aud the heartbreak, and the pang, and the desola tion—it will come soon enough for the dear children. But when the storm actually clouds the skv it will be time enough for you to haul out your reef tackles. Carry, then, into your homes not only the innocent sports and games which arc the inventions of our owu day, but the. games which come down with the sportfulness of all the past ages—chess and charadcs and tableaux and battledore and calisthenics and lawn tennis, and all those amusements which the young people of our homes know so well how to contrive. Then there will be the parlor socialities —groups of people assembled in your homes, with wit and mimicry and joviJ°y from door to mantel, and from the carpet to the jceiling. Oh, is there any exhilaration like a score of genial souls in one room, each one adding a contribution of his own individual merriment to the aggregation of general hilarity? Suppose you want to go abroad in the city, then you will find the panorama, and the art gallery, and the exquisite collections of pictures. You will find the museum and the Historical Society rooms full of rare curiosities, and scores of places which can stand plainly the test of what is right and wrong in amusements. You will find the lecturing hall which has been honored by the ntfmes of Agassiz in natural history, DorCmus in chemistry, Boynton in geology, Mitchell in astronomy, John B. Gough in moral reform, and scores and hundred of men who have poured their wit and geuius and ingenuity through that particular channel upon the hearts and consciences and imaginations of men, setting this country fifty years farther in advnnco than it would have been without the lecture platform. I rejoice in the popularization of outdoor sports. I hail the croquet ground, and the fisherman’s rod, and the sportsman’s gun. In our cities life is so unhealthy and unnatural that when the census taker represents a city as having 400,000 inhabitants there are only 200,000, since it takes at least two men to amount to one man, so depleting and unnerving and exhausting is this metropolitan life. We want more fresh air, more sunlight, more of the abandon of field sports. I cry out for it in behalf of the church of God as well ns In behalf of secular interest*. I wish that our ponds and our rivers and our capitoline grounds might be all aquake with the heel and the shout of the swift skitter. 1 wish that when the warm weather comes the gracetol tmr imght -dtp the-arrearn.' fSCTSe evening tick* be resonant with boatman’s song, the bright prow splitting the crystalline billow. - - We shall have the smooth and grassy lawn, and we will call Out the people of all occupations and professions and ask them

to Join In. the ballplayer’s sport Tan will come back from these outdoor exercises and recreations with strength in your arm and color in your cheek and a flash in your eye and courage in your heart. In . this great battle.that is-upeuiug against the kingdom of darkness, we want not only a consecrated soul, but a strong arm and stout lungs and mighty muscle. I bless God that there are so"Bmny recreations that have net on them any taint of iniquity—recreations in which we may' engage for the strengthening of the body, for the clearing of the for the Ultt&inhtion of the soul. There is still another form of recreation which I corn-mend to you, and that is the pleasure’of doing good. I have seen young ifaen. weak and cross and sour and renel•ling iu their disposition, who, by one’ heavenly touch, have wakened up and become blessed and buoyant, the ground under their feet aqd the g,\y aver .their heads breaking .forth into /Tusic. “Oh,” says some young man in the house to-’ day, “I should like tbftt recreation above, all others, but I have-not the means.” My dear brother, let us take an account of stock. You have a large estate, if you only realize It- Two hands, two r feet You will have, perhaps, during the next year at least slo’ for charitable contribution. You will have 2,500 cheerful looks, if you want to employ thrm. You will have 5,000 pleasant words, if you want to speak them. Now, what an amount that is to start with!,. - You go our to-morrow morning, and you see a case of real destitution by the wayside. You give him 2 cents. The blind man hears the pennies rattle in his hat, and he says: “Thank you, sir! God bless you!” You pass down the street, Jtrying_ to look indifferent, hut you feel from the very depth of your soul a profound satisfaction that you made that man happy. You go on still farther and find a poor boy with a wheelbarrow, trying to get it upon the eurbstone. He fails in th.e attempt. You say: “Stand back, my lad. Let'me try.” You push it up on the curbstone for him and pass am He wonders who that well-dressed man was that helped him. You did a kindness to the boy, but you did a great joy to your own soul. You will not get over it all the week. Oh the street to-morrow morning will see a sick man passing along. “Ah,” you say, “what can I do to make this man happy? He certainly does not want money; he is not poor, but he is sick.” Give him one of those 2,500 cheerful looks that you have garnereckup for the whole year. "Look'joy and hopefulness into his soul. It will thrill him through, and there will be a reaction upon your own soul. Going a little farther on, yon will come to the store of a friend who is embarrassed in business matters. You will go in and say: “What a fine store you havg! I think business will brighten up, and you will have more custom after awhile. I think there is coming a great prosperity to all the country. Good morning.” You pass out. You have helped that youpg man, and you have helped yourself. The Greatest Joy. Col. Gardiner, who sat with his- elbow on a table spread with all extravagant viands, looking off at a dog on the rug, saying, “How I would like to change places with him, I be the dog and he be Col. Ghrdjuer,” or those two Moravian missionaries who wanted to go into the lazaretto for the sake of attending the sick, aud they were told: “If you go in there you will never come out. We never allow any ope to come out, for he would 'firing the. contagion.” Then- they made their wills and went in, first to help the sick and then to die. Which was the happier—Col. Gardiner or the Moravian missionaries dying for otners? Was it all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted to bring the gospel to the negroes at the Barbadoes and, being denied the privilege, sold themselves into slavery, standing side by side and Jying side by side down in the very ditch of suffering, in order that they might bring those men up to life and God and heaven? Oh, there is a thrill in the joy of doing good! It is the most magnificent recreation to which a man ever put his hand, or his head, or his heart. y But before closing I want to impress upon you that mere .secular entertainments are not a fit foundation for your soul to build on. I was reading of a woman who had gone all the rounds of sinful amusement, and she came to die. She said, “I will die to-night at 0 o’clock.” “Oh,” they said, “I guess not! You don't seem to be sick.” “I shall die at 0 o’clock, and my scul will be lost. I know it will be lost. I have sinned away my day of grace.” The noon came. They desired her to seek religious counsel. “Oh,” she said, “it is of no usq! My day is gone. 1 have been all the rounds of worldly pleasure, and it is too late. I shall die to-night at G Unlock.dav wore away, and it came to 4 o’clock anil to 5 o’clock, and she cried out at 5 o’clock, “Destroying spirits, you shall not have me yet! It is not o—it is not G!” The moments went by, and the shadows began to gether, and the clock struck G, and while it was striking her soul went. What hour God will call for us I do not know—whether G o’clock to-night, or 3 o’clock this afternoon, or at 1 o’clock, or at this moment. Sitting w-bere you are, falling forward, or dropping down, where will you go to? The last hour of our life will soon be here, and from that hour we will review this day’s proceedings. It will be a solemn hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a life spent in sinful amusement, there..will be a dart that will strike through our soul sharper than the dagger with which Virginius slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake tike Macbeth. The Iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Merrilles. Death, the old Shylock, will demand and take the remaining pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood, and upon our last op- ! portunity for repentance and our last chance for heaven the curtain will forever drop.

James Russell Lowell’S Home.

There Is concern in Boston about the future of James Russell Lowell’s magnificent old home in Cambridge, at the gateway of Mount Auburn Cemetery. The house Is the property of the poet's daughter, hut the laud adjoining It is In the hands of real estate agents, and the fine estate will soon he cut up Into building lots unless the property is rescued. - v- —— _.Sfl®*datoQ£ County., Maine, is expect, Ing to'make about $5,000 out of prohibition sbortly. Forty-eight Indictments for violations pt the liquor law have been found In the county, and It is figured the fines will amount to tbe sum named. •

CAPTURING (?) THE WORLD’S MARKETS.

ANANIAS ON CARPETS.

McKinley newspapers tell their readers thaUthe imports of carpets have been largely increased under the present tariff. This is not true. Compare last year!s total of $1,301,465 with the total of $1,580,814 in 1893, under the McKinley tariff. Why, the annual average for the first three years of that tariff was $1,413,211, or more than last year’s total. How McKinleyism' has encouraged the industry of lying! —The New York Times, Feb. 10/1896. Tile Free Trade Ananias of the New York Times is getting all tangled up with his carpets and tacks. The facts won’t indorse his theories. He twists and turns his figures, but still bis carpet lies won’t keep down. His FreeTrade tacks won’t stand against good, strong protection points. The statistical abstract issued by the Treasury

Department gives the quantities and values of our imports of carpets during the four McKinley tariff years, as follows: Imports of carpets: Year ending June 30. Square yards. Value. 1891 .. . (558,009 $1,373,1(52 1892 . (522,982 1,285,(557 1893 (588,3(54 1.580,814 1894 421,758 959,020 S - “ Protection - average 507,778 $1,299,790 1895 873,558 81,428,(5854 Free-Trade increase 275,780 $128,894 The 1895 figures are for the calendar year, this being the only complete twelvesflfcoatha mulor i'red Trade in wool. We leave our readers to Imagine in what direction “the industry of lying’’ has been encouraged. Again we quote: “But a very large part of the imports classed as carpets is composed of Eastern hand-made rugS. The value of real machine-made carpets brought into this country is small.’’ We suppose that the “Eastern handmade rugs,” made possibly by labor that Is even cheaper than the miserably paid British help, do not take the place of American carpets, that people buy both when they need only one, placing the rugs on top of the carpets, or, perhaps, feed them to moths In the little. No matter where the rugs or carpets coihe from, each one of them takes the place of an American product. —How let us see how “smalt" is the proportion of machine-made carpets. Last year the United Kingdom sent us 556,267 square yards out of a totaj of\ 873,558 square yards of carpets imported, over 00 per cent, of the whole. Other European countries sent us 240,(596 square- yards, leaving only 71,500 square yards sent here from Japan and other countries in the Orient and elsewhere. As for ou? exports of carpets they were 75,000 square yards less Under free woo! In 1895 than In 1894. There used to he some display of skill and artifice in the mendacious methods of the X'ew York Times, but we are sorry to note that it has now degenerated into nothing belter than a blundering, dou’t-carc-i»-hang, everyday sort of liar, so that * ready reference .la Ihe ofllcla] .Democratic- stalls: ties promptly exposes the fraud. But wo -suppose it must He for a living— American Economist. No Good for Farmer*. Every condition In American life is affected by the question of a protective

tariff, and every man under the flag receives in a greater or lesser degree its benefits. It is no exaggeration to say that under the provisions of the bill (Wilson) under discussion the foreign manufacturer and foreign laborer would receive these benefits, and the American farmer at the same time would be deprived of his home markets; while the factory operatives, deprived of their means of livelihood, would be forced to the farm, thus increasing the supply of agricultural products and further lowering the price of the same. —Hon. J. W. Babcoek, M. C., of Wisconsin. What North Carolina Want*. We need a man who, although living north of Mason and Dixon’s line, commands the admiration and respect of every Southern voter, and while living in a manufacturing State had .the courage and patriotism to take care of the interests of the Southern people. In my judgment we should nominate that man whose name is identified with the prosperous times of the past and, as a consequence, has become a household word aud a synonym for prosperity throughout the length and breadth of this land. I refer to the Hon. William McKinley, of Ohio. With such a platform and with Gov. McKinley as our standard bearer; North Carolina, Tennejsee, Virginia and - perhaps other Southern State are sui;e to give their electoral votes to the Republican party. The opportunity of effectually breaking up the solid South is now presented to the Republican party of this nation. Therein lies the hope of the South.—Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, U. S. S., of North Carolina. Speaker Reed on Labor. I confess to you that this question of wages is to me the vital question. To insure our growth in civilization and wealth we must not only have wages as high as they are now hut constantly and steadily increasing. (Loud applause on the Republican side. ) No applause for this sentiment I notice on the Democratic side. * This desire of mine for constantly increasing wages does not have Its origin in love for the Individual, but in love tor the whole nation in that enlightened selfishness which recognizes the great truth that your fate and mine, Mr. Speaker, and the fate of your descendants and mine are so wrapped up in tin* fate of all to then- progress gives to us ail a nobler future and a higher hope.—Hon. Titos. B. Reed. How Nebraska Feels. The workingmeu of this country can no longer be driven from the Republican party by the promise of a cheaper dinner pail. They have discovered that the cheaper dinner pail rests on the shelf; they have discovered that the farmers and mechanics can both afford to have the price of American products fixed by American competition; they have discovered that the prosperity of one is the prosperity of all, and that no disaster can he visited upon one class of American producers In which all other rlasser do not share.—Hon. John M. Thurston, U. S. S., of Nebraska. Money Talks. Better coast defenses and a larger navy are among the needs of the country* But we cannot have them without a tariff for protection aud revenue. Some Congressmen seem to forget this. RaE-Bag Wilson's Load.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, Remarkable Matrimonial Career of Alexander Rhimes—C. Miller’s Heirs Dig- Up Two Cans Full of GoldClever Jail Breakers Are Foiled. Has Been Married Nine Times. Of all the renaSrkable matrimonial careers Jhat of Alexander Ithinies, who recciillylivediaF ulton tow a ship. Indiana, exceeds anything yet come to notice iu

this line. This gentleman, who a few months ago celebrated his Toth birthday, baa,- been married nine times, has been divorced from eight of his wires, and has now petitioned the court to 'untie' the marital knot that binds him to his ninth spotlse. The oft-repeated q ue s-

ALEX. RHIMES.

l. > »_■ J»V UIV W IJ u v .7 tion, “Is marriage a failure?” caii be more satisfactorily answered by him than by any other living person. The names of his various spouses follow: Emaline Gaudy, Martha Robbins, Samantha Bengal, Lavinia Straw, Anna Rowland, Sarah Overtree, Rachel Magnum, to whom he was married twice; Stella Bloomhagen. Rhimes now Jives in Berrien County, Mich., and it is said contemplates another conquest when the courts shall set him at liberty. His Treasure Diagram Correct. C. Miller, a pioneer of Decatur, aged 70 years, died Friday night. He was known by his family-and neighbors to be quite wealthy. In his vest pocket he carried a small paper on which was a diagram showing the location o.f the places in which he had placed his gold. The family, following the directions on the paper, brought to light $3,000 imgold that was hid in coffee essence cans. In some places there was oiily one S2O gold piece in a can. The family took the money to town in a gripsack and placed it in the bank for safe keeping until the estate is settled. All Over the State. Fred Ivaler, of Glen wood, while attempting to board moving train at Rushville, fell between the cars and-was instantly kiJed. The coroner holds that Wesley Linville. found dead in the dynamo room of the American carbon factory, died of natural causes and. not from a shock of electricity. John Miller, who says that his mother. Mrs. Mary Pretz, of No. 1013 Fifty-first street, Chicago, is worth about $20,000, was arrested at Terre Haute for passing 'three forged cheeks. He coufessed that he is the man.who in the last two months passed maiiy forged checks in Indianapolis. He telegraphed to his mother to come to his rescue. In the Curtis murder case at Lafayette the State sprung a sensation by introducing a witness, Everett Moline, who is serving a jail sentence for stealing paint, who swore that White had confessed the murder of Mrs. Curtis to him. Moline’s statement covered every point of the crime and the defense conld not trip him in any way. White listened to the damaging evidence without emotion. T. G. Grose has deeded a valuable lot to the Church of Christ of Marion upon curious conditions. If an organ or other musical, instrument is used or kept on the premises, or if a church fair, festival or any form of entertainment unauthorized by the’ New Testament is held on the grounds, the property will pass to the control of those members of the church who oppose organs and cnurch fairs. Mr. Grose is a member of the church and is somewhat eccentric. The properly was accepted. *

A phenomenon that is puzzling physicians is the case of S. G. Pipper, of Milroy. Mr. Pipper is 85 years old and has been blind for twelve years. He suddenly lost his sight while reading a newspaper and has never been able to distinguish day from night since. The other night during "the regular family worship he prayed and asked that the Lord return his sight. He opened the Bible and his vision returned to him as suddenly as it had departed and he was able to read several favorite passages. He has been a constant member of the Baptist Church siuce childhood. A double tragedy occurred on the farm of William Frost, seven miles uorth ,pf X’oblesvHie, Monday. James and Henry McCoy, brothers, have been living in the neighborhood for a year. Monday moruing Henry left his home to haul some wood. When he returned be was met in the yard by James, who, without a word, emptied the contents of a shotgun into his body. The murderer then killed himself with the same weapon. James" and Henry were both feeble-minded, but were regarded as inoffensive and harmless. It was evident that James did the shooting, but the cause of the quarrel will never be known.' , , Never before have hard times had such a depressing influence upon the ship building industry of the great rivers as during the present prostration. One of the few yards which has been able to keep most of its men steadily at work is the great one of Capt. Ed Howard, in Jeffersonville. It has now been in operatlou for over sixty years, and most of the fine boats that plleS the river in ante-bellum times were built there,. Speaking of the dullness of times, Capt. Ed Howard remarked that there was almost absolutely uo work in near sight, and there have .never been so few boats built as just now. The yard, during its long existence, had never shut down, but there was no telling what might happen. What is true of the yards at this point is true also of those at Mound City, Paducah, Cincinnati, Madison and Pittsburg. The only work, which is offer* ing how is in the way of repairs. C. J. Wood, aged 9**, and Miss Maggie Barger, aged 18, were married at Greensburg. It was Wood’s si.\tli marriage, and he urged a reduction of the license fee, as he had been Such u "good customer; and he also said he might come again. The Chicago and X'ashville limited train an thoCbicago and Easternlilianla.raad. dashed into an oil tank car at Hillsdale while rutfning thirty-firs miles an hoar, igniting the oil, and for a time; it waa thought the train would be burned. The passengers were badly shaken np. The engineer and fireman jumped to aav* their lives. ‘