Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — Page 3

THE THREE TAVERNS

TALMAGE DISCUSSES THE DISSIPATIONS OF THE DAY. * flu Bailor* Who Come Ashore and Are Wrecked in Harbor—The College of Degradation—Paul and His Example —The Mysterious Barrooms. Our Weekly Sermon. In a unique way Dr. Talmage here discusses the dissipations of the day and ■eulogizes the great reformers of the past and present. His text is Acts xxvih., 15, “They came to meet us as far as Appii forum and the three taverns.” Seventeen miles south of Rome there was a village of unfortunate name. A tavern is a place of entertainment, and in our time part of the entertainment is a provision of intoxicants. One such place you would think would have been enough for that Italian village. No. There were three of them, with doors opened for entertainment and obfuscation. The world has never lacked stimulating drinks. You remember the condition of Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail’s husband, Naand the story of Belshazzar’s feast, and Benhadad, and the new wine in bld bottles, and whole paragraphs on prohibition enactment thousands of years before Neal Dow was born, and no doubt there were whole shelves of inflammatory liquid in those hotels which gave the Dame to the village where Paul’s friends came to meet him —namely, the Three Taverns. In vain I search ancient geography for some satisfying account of that village. Two roads came from the seacoast to that place—the one from Actium and the other from Puteoli, the last road being the one which Paul traveled. There were no doubt in that village houses of merchandise and mechanics’ shops and professional offices, but nothing is known of them. All we know of that village is that it had a profusion of inns—the three taverns. Paul did not choose any one of these taverns as the place to meet his friends. He certainly was very abstemious, but they made the selection. He had enlarged about keeping the body under, though once he prescribed for a young theological student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic disorder, but he told him to take only a small dose —“a little wine for 'thy stomach’s sake.”

Few Escape the Tree Taverns. One of the worst things about these three taverns was that they had especial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had just landed at Actium or Puteoli were soon tempted by these three hotels, which were only a little way up from the beach. -Those who are disordered of the sea—for it is a physical disorganizer—instead of waiting for the gradual return of physical equipoise, are apt to take artificial means to brace up. Of the 1,000,000 sailors now on the sea, how few of them coming ashore will escape the three taverns! After surviving hurricanes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wrecked in harbor. Bui notice the multiplicity. What could that Italian village, so small that history makes but one mention of it, want with more than one tavern? There were not enough travelers coming through that insignificant town to support more than one nouse of lodgment, that would have furnished enough pillows and enough breakfasts. No. The world’s appetite is diseased, and the subsequent drafts must be taken to slake the thirst create! by the preceding drafts. Strong drink kindles the fires of thirst faster than it puts them out, There were three taverns. That which cursed that Italian village curses all Christendom to-day—too many taverns. There are streets in some of our cities where there are three or four taverns on every block—aye, where every other house Is a tavern. You can take the Arabic numeral of my text, the three, and put on the right hand side of it one cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers, and that re-enforcement of numerals will not express the statistics of American rummeries. Even if it were a good, healthy business, supplying a necessity, an article superbly nutritious, it is a business mightily overdone, and there are three taverns where there ought to be only one. The Down Grade. The fact is, "there are in another sense three taverns now —the gorgeous tavern for the' affluent, the medium tavern for the working classes, and the tavern of the alums —and they stand in line, and many people beginning with the first come down through the second and come out at the third. At the first of the three taverns the wines are of celebrated vintage, and the whiskies are said to be pure and they are quaffed from cut glass at marble side tables, under pictures approaching masterpieces. The patrons pull off their kid gloves and hand their silk hats to the waiter and push back their hair with a hand on one finger of which is a cameo. But those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not the money that a man pays for drinks—for what are a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to a man of large income—but their brain gets touched and that unbalances their judgment, and they can see fortunes in enterprises surcharged with disaster. In longer or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down to tavern the second, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion, and the small table is rougher, and the caster standing on it is of German silver, and the air has been kept over from the night before and tfiat which they aip from the pewter mug has a larger percentage of benzine, ambergris, creosote, henbane, strychnine, prussic add, coculus indicus, plaster of parte, copperas and nightshade. The patron may be seen almost every day and perhaps many times the same day at this tavern the second, but he is preparing to graduate. Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving away. That tavern the second has its dismal echo in his business destroyed and family scattered and woes that choke one’s vocabulary. Time posses on, and he enters tavern the third; a red light outside, a hiccoughing and besotted group inside. He will be dragged out of doors about 2 o’clock in the morning and left on the sidewalk because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim has taken the regular course in the college of graduation. He has hte diploma written on his swollen, bruised and blotched physiognomy. He te a regular graduate of the three taverns. As the police take him up and put him in the ambulance the wheels seem tt rumble with two rolls of thunder, one of which says, “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it rnovsth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth Mke a stepent and etingeth like an adder.” The other thunder roll says, “AD drunk-

aids shall have their place in the lake that burneth fire and with brimstone.” Paul’s Good Example. I am glad to find in this scene of the text that there is such a thing as declining successfully great tavernian temptations. I can see from what Paul said and did after he had traveled the following seventeen miles of his journey that he had received no damage at the three taverns. How much he was tempted I know not. Do not suppose he was superior to temptation. That particular temptation has destroyed many of the grandest, mightiest, noblest, statesmen, philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apostles of law and medicine and government and religion. Paul was not physically well under any circumstances. It was not in mock depreciation that he said he was “in bodily presence weak.” It seems that his eyesight was so poor that he did his writing through an amanuensis, for he mentions it as something remarkable that his shortest epistle, the one to Philemon, was in his own penmanship, saying, “I, Paul, have written it with my own hand.” He had been thrown from his horse, he had been stoned, he had been endungeoned, he had had his nerves pulled on by preaching at Athens to the most scholarly audience of all the earth and at Corinth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by the Ephesian worshipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by Festus with behig iiisane. had crawled up on the beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and much of the time had an iron handcuff on his wrist, and jf any man needed stimulus Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion he got past the three taverns undamaged and stepped into Rome all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he was subjected. The Mysterious Barrooms. An awful mystery hangs about the barrooms of the modern taverns. Oh, if they would only keep a book upon the counter or a scroll that could be unrolled from the wall telling how many homesteads they have desolated and how many immortal souls they have blasted! You say that would spoil their business. Well, I suppose it would, but a business that cannot plainly tell its effect upon its customers is a business that ought to be spoiled. Ah, you mysterious barrooms, speak out and tell how many suicides went out from you to halter or pistol or knife or deadly leap from fourth story window; how many young mpn, started well in life, were halted by-you and turned on the wrong road, dragging after them bleeding parental hearts; how many people who promised at the marriage altar fidelity until death did them part were brought by you to early and ghastly separation; how many madhouses have you filled with maniacs; how many graves have you dug and filled in the cemeteries; how many ragged and hungry children have you beggared through the fathers whom you destroyed. If the skeletons of all those whom you have slain were piled up on top of each other, how high would the mountain be? If the tears of all the orphanage and widowhood that you have pressed out were gathered together, how wide would be the lake or how long the river? Ah, they make no answer. On this subject the modern taverns are as silent as the oriental three taverns, but there are millions of hearts that throb with most vehement condemnation. The Plague Is Mighty. But what a glad time when the world cornea to its last three taverns for the sale of intoxicants. Now there are so many of them that statistics are only a more or less accurate guess as to their number. We sit with half closed eyes and undisturbed nerves and hear that in 1872 in the United States there were 1,964 breweries, 4,849 distilleries and 171,669 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures may be truthfully doubled. The fact is that these establishments are innumerable, and the discussion is always disheartening, and the impression is abroad that the plague is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and the most of sermons on this subject close with the book of Lamentations and not with the book of Revelation. Excuse me from .adopting any such infidel theory. The Bible reiterates it until there is no more power in inspiration to make it plainer that the earth is to be not half or threequarters, but wholly redeemed. On that rock I take my triumphant stand and join in the chorus of hosannas. One of the most advantageous movements in the right direction is taking this whole subject into the education of the young. On the same school desk with the grammar, the geography, the arithmetic, are books telling the lads and lassies of 10 and 12 and 15 years of age what are the physiological effects of strong drink, what it'does with the tissue of the liver and the ventricles of the brain, and whereas other generations did not realize the evil until their own bodies were blasted we are to have a generation taught what the viper is before it stings them, what the hyena is before it rends them, how deep te the. abyss before it swallows them. Oh, boards of education, teachers in schools, professors in colleges, legislatures and congresses, widen and augment that work and you hasten the complete overthrow of this evil. It will go down. I have the'word of Almighty God for that in the assured extirpation of all san, but shall we have a share of the universal victory? The liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into the score of thousands, and. then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from the hundreds into the tens, and from the tens to three. The Two Natural Beverages.

The first of these last three taverns will be where the educated and philosophic and the high up will take their dram, but that class, aware of the power of the example they have been setting, will turn their back upon the evil custom and be satisfied with the two natural beverages that God intended for the stimulus of the race—the Java coffee plantations furnishing the best of the one and the Chinese teafields the best of the other. And some day the barroom will be crowded with people at the vendu and the auctioneer’s mallet will pound'at the sale of all the appurtenances. The second of these last three taverns wDI take dowp its flaming sign and extinguish its red light and close its doors, for the working ctesees will have concluded to buy their own horses and furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daughters instead of providing the dtetillera, the brewers and liquor sellers with wardrobes and poirrors and carriages. And the next time that second tavern is opened it will be a drug store, or a bakery, or a dry goods establishment, or a school. Then there will be only one more of the three dissipating taverns left I don’t know in what country or city or neighborhood it wiR be, but look at ft, for ft to the very last The fast Inebriate wiH have

staggered up to its counter and put his pennies for his dram. Its last horrible adulteration will be mixed and quaffed to eat out the vitals and inflame the brain. The last drunkard will have stumbled down its front steps. The last spasm of delirium tremens caused by it will be struggled through. The old rookery will be torn down, and with its demolitioii will close the long and awful reign of the mightiest of earth’s abominations. The last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly blotted out as were the three taverns of my text. But One Neal Dow. With these thoughts I cheer Christian . reformers in their work, and what rejoicing on earth and heaven there will be over the consummation! Within a few days one of the greatest of the leaders in this cause went up to enthronement.* The world never had but one Neel Dow and may never have another. He has been an illumination to the century. The stand he took has directly and indirectly saved hundreds of thousands from drunkards’ graves. Seeing the wharfs of Portland, Me., covered with casks of West Indian rum —nearly an acre of it at one time — and the'city smoking with seven distilleries, he' began the warfare against drunkenness more than half a century ago. His whole life having been for God and the world’s betterment, when he left his home on earth and entered the gates of his eternal residence, I think there was a most unusual welcome and salutation given him. Multitudes enter heaven only because of what Christ has done for them, the welcome not at all intensified, because of anything they had done for him. But all heaven knew the story of that good man’s life and the beauty of his deathbed, where he said, “1 long to be free.” I think all the reformers of heaven came out to hail him in, the departed legislators who made laws to restrain intemperance, the consecrated platform orators who thrilled the generations that are gone, with “righteousness, temperance and judgment to come.” Albert Barnes and John B. Gougn were there to greet him, and golden tongued patriarch Stephen. H. Tyng was there, and John W. Hawkins, the founder of the much derided and gloriously useful “Washingtonian movement,” was there, and John Stearns and Commodore Foote and Dr. Marsh and Governor Briggs and Eliphalet Nott, and my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the Christian senator, and hundreds of those who labored for the overthrow of the drunkenness that yet curses the earth were there to meet him and escort him to his throne and shout at his coronation. Great Souls Departed.

God let him live on for near a century, to show what good habits and cheerfulness and faith in the final triumph of all that is good can do for a man in this world and to add to the number of those who 'would be on the other side to attend his entrance. But he will come back again. “Yes,” say some of ypu, with Martha, about Lazarus to Jesus, “I know he will arise at the resurrection of the last day.” Ah, Ido not mean that Ministering spirits are all the time coming and going between earth and heaven—the Bible teaches it—and do you suppose the old hero just ascended will not come down and help us in the battle that still goes on? He will. Into the hearts of-discour-aged reformers he will come to speak good cheer. When legislators are deciding how they can best stop the rum traffic of America by legal enactment, he will help them vote for the right and rise up undismayed from temporary defeat. In this battle will Neal Dow be until the last victory te gained and the smoke of the last distillery has curled on the air and the last tear of despoiled homesteads shall be wiped away. O departed nonagenarian! After you have taken a good rest from your struggle of seventy active years, come down again into the fight and bring with you a host of the old Christian warriors who once mingled in the fray. In this battle the visible troops are not so mighty as the invisible. The gospel campaign began while the supernatural—the midnight chant that woke the shepherds, the hushed sea, the eyesight given where the patient had been without the optic nerve, the sun obliterated from the noonday heavens, the law of gravitation loosing its grip as Christ ascended, and as the gospel campaign began with the supernatural, it will close with the supernatural, and the winds and the waves and the lightnings and the earthquakes will come in on the right side and against the wrong Side, and our ascended champions will return, whether the world sees them or does not see them. I do not think that those great souls departed are going to do nothing hereafter but sing psalms and play harps and breathe frankincense and walk seas of glass mingled with fire. The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post mortem mission, with faculties quickened and velocities multiplied, and it may have been to that our dying reformer referred when he said 1 , “I long to be free!” There ffiay be bigger worlds than this to be redeemed and more gigantic abominations to be overthrown than this world ever saw, and the discipline got here may only be preliminary drill for a campaign in some other world and perhaps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander achievements in greater, spheres, will not forget this old world where they prayed and suffered and triumphed. Church militant and church triumphant, but two divisions of the same army—right wing and left wing. One army of the living God, At hte command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. > Copyright, 1897.

Short Sermons.

Intelligence.—(Men are not born equal intellectually. There are those who cannot, strive as they may, reach high .Intellectual attainments. They are neither architects, poets nor painters; they are neither philosophers, historians nor orators.—Rev. Jaimes Roberts, Preftbyterlan, Philadelphia, Pa. Drink.—What shall we do when we feel downhearted? Drink, says some one. Drinking will make us laugh, perhaps, for awhile, but not the next morning. The laughter It causes is like the sparkle or the foam of the liquor Itself —ft sqon grows stale.—Rev. Charles Wood, Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pa. Motherhood.—The greatest honor which God can bestow upon woman te that of motherhood. Some one has Mid, “God could not attend to everything, so he made mothers.” It would have been better said, “God wanted helpers, so he made mothers.”—Bev. J. K. Montgomery, Presbyterian, Cta. cinnatl, Ohio.

TAGGART IS ELECTED.

Present Mayor of Indianapolis to Be Nominee for Governor. Thomas Taggart was re-elected Mayor of Indianapolis by 3,500 plurality. The 'Democrats also elected Charles E. Cox judge of the police court; Charles H. Stuckmeyer, city clerk, six coumcslmen at large and a majority of the fifteen ward councilmen. It is the first time since the adoption of the new efty charter that a Mayor has succeeded himself, and it is also the first time the city has elected officers since all the suburbs were annexed. The success of the Democratic ticket is said to mean that Taggart will be the Democratic nominee for Governor two years from next fall. His friends have been informed all along that his candidacy depended upon the result of his election. Two years ago Taggart was elected Mayor by 3,722 plurality, and it is probable that the official returns from all the precincts will show that he has received that large a plurality this time. Last November McKinley received, within the limits of the old city (the suburbs had not been annexed at that time) a plurality of 6,603.

JUSTICE FIELD TO REST.

Venerable Supreme Court Jurist Is to Leave the Bench. Associate Justice Field of the Supreme Court, having now broken all records for length of service upon the bench, has made formal application to be retired Dec. 1 next. Attorney General McKenna is to be his successor, and Judge Day, now assistant Secretary of State, will probably be appointed Attorney General. These changes have all been decided upon and will be effected as soon as Congress meets, so that the Senate may confirm the appointment. At the same time there may be other changes in the cabinet. But the

JUSTICE FIELD.

of 70 years. Since that time there have been frequent rumors that he was about to leave the bench. There was no foundation for any of them, however, and it was not until a week ago that he decided to take the step. He then called upon the President and formally presented hte letter asking for retirement. Efforts were made during the Cleveland administration to induce him to retire, but he would not consent to do so. It was on Aug. 16 last that Justice Field broke the record for length of service on the supreme bench, as it was on that day that he exceeded the term of service of thirty-four years five months and six days to the credit of Chief Justice Marshall, whose service had up to that time been the longest in the history of the court. The total length qf Justice Field’s service up to the time when hte retirement will take effect,- Dec. 1, will be thirtyfour years seven months and twenty days. Under the law Justice Field will receive the full salary of an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court —$10,000 per year—for the remainder of hte life.

A KLONDIKE GRUB STAKE.

Reasonably Accurate Estimate for One Man One Year. What te a “grub stake”? It is money enough to get to the mines of the Klondike or any other country and start work. But the “grub” to eat te another story. The following estimate for one man one year, in the Klondike, is believed to be as near the proper quantities as it is possible to guess in advance: Articles. Wt. Ibs. Articles. Wt. lbs. 7 sacks flour 350 Sundrled apples... 20 1 sack cornmeal.. 50 Sundrled peaches.. 20 Rolled oats 30 Sundrled apricots. 15 Beans 100'S’ndrled ptd plums 10 Rice 20 Sundrled prunes... 10 Evap’d potatoes.. 25 Raisins 5 Evap’d onions.... 5 Figs 5 Bacon 150 Coffee 20 Sugar 50 Tea 10 6 pkgs yeast cakes 2 Butter, 14 bricks.. 28 7 lbs bkng powder 7 Pepper 1 3 lbs soda 3 Mustard 1 25 lbs salt 25 Ginger 1 1 box (120) candles 15 Soap 10 1 gross matches.. 5 Dried beef 15 Total 1,010 Extract beef 2 The first thing to do is to get the goods, to be sure, but it is equally important to get them from civilization to the mines. This food supply costs according to the locality of purchase.

CUBAN SILVER DOLLARS.

Three Million of Them Are Now Being Coined in New York. A New York silver manufacturing company is coining 3,000,000 silver dollars for Free Cuba. They are coined under the direction of the Cuban Junta of that city, and are beautiful specimens of numismatic art. The new dollars cost the junta about 65 cents each for silver and manufacture, so that there is a profit of 35 cents on each

“FREE CUBA” SILVER DOLLARS.

of them for the Cuban cause. If the whole issue is sold at face value the profit will be $1,050,000. Many of the coins have been privately sold as souvenirs at a uniform price of $1 each. They will be put on public sale at the American Institute fair. They bear a beautiful Liberty head on their obverse and the Cuban coat-of-arms on the reverse. They have the word “souvenir” on them. Thi» was necessary to bring them inside the United States coinage laws, which are exceedingly strict. Carl Faber, defaulting cashier of Oelrichs & Co., was taken into custody when the steamship Barb rosea from Bremen arrived at New York. Faber said he was willing to pay what he owed and that everything would be fixed up all right Faber te accused of embezzling at least SIO,OOO, and ft te said that it may reach three times that figure. Fire destroyed the plant of the Zimmerman Packing Company, naear Portland, Ore. Low on building, $55,000; on meats, $25,000. A few live sheep were cremated. ’

retirement of Justice Field, the appointment of Attorney General McKenna to the vacancy and the promotion of Judge Day to a seat in the cabinet are the only changes now decided upon. Justice Field has been eligible for retirement ever since Nov. 4, 1886, when he reached the age

WORLD’S YIELD OF GRAIN.

Deficiency in the Wheat Crop Will Bo 50,000,030 Bushels. Following is an abstract of the monthly report of the Agricultural Department on the European crop situation, summarizing the reports of European correspondents to Statistician Hyde: Recent information, while it may in some cases modify estimates for particular countries, does not essentially change the situation as regards the deficiency in the principal cereal crops of Europe. The outlook for wheat in the Australasian colonies continues good, but the prospects in Argentina are somewhat less bright, owing to drouth and frosts. Accounts from India are quite favorable, both as to the Kharif crops harvested, or to be harvested this fall, and as to the seeding of the Rabi crop, to be harvested next spring, which latter includes the wheat crop. The annual estimate of the world’s wheat and rye crop issued by the Hungarian ministry of agriculture gives the following revised results for 1897, compared with 1896: Wheat production, fanporting countries, 800,771,000 bushels for 1897, 886,639,000 for 1896; exporting countries, 1897, 1,341,806,000; 1896, 1,452,902,000; total wheat production of both importing and exporting countries in 1897, 2,142,577,000; in 1896, 2,339,541,wnnet deffcitmTß97, 202,895;000; 1896, 130,534,000. The world’s rye crop is put down by the same authority as follows: 1897, 1,163,457,000 bushels; 1896,1,203,185,000 bushels. Against the net deficit of approximately 203,000,000 bushels of wheat estimated by the ministry, they estiiffhte that there is a residue of from 145,000,000 to 170,000,000 bushels out of former crops, leaving in round numbers from 58,000,000 down to 83,000,000 bushels as the quantity by which it would be necessary to curtail consumption if these estimates should prove to be correct. It is of course quite likely that under the influence of high prices consumption will be curtailed by more than this amount and that existing stocks will not be reduced to near the point of complete exhaustion. Extremely pessimistic reports as to the extent of the crop failure in Europe have been circulated, but the liberal quantities coming forward for shipment have led dealers to receive such reports with incredulity. It is probable, however, that much of the Russian grain going to western European markets is out of the more liberal harvests of former years, and there is evidence tending to show that the crop of 1897 is at any rate considerably below the average. The markers of Europe will apparently be inadequately supplied with good clear j barley suitable for malting purposes, com- ! plaints on this score being common among growers in large parts of Germany, Aus-tria-Hungary and other countries, including the province of Ontario, in Canada, in which such barley is usually an important product. The European potato crop is apparently a short one, and the fruit crop is also defioient Consul Eugene Germain of Zurich, Switzerland, after an investigation of the European fruit prospect, expresses the opinion that there will be a good market for American apples and dried fruits this season If growers will be careful to put up choice stock qnlj. IJg says: smaller tha® eighties in French prunes will pay to snip to Europe, and all other dried fruit must be uniform in size and attractively packed.”

LONDON’S NEW MAYOR.

Something About the Successor of Sir George Faudei Phillips. Horatio David Davies, the new lord Mayor of London, was born in that city in 1842. He is a son of H. D. Davies of the ward of Bishopsgate, city of London, and was educated at Dulwich College. He has served as lieutenant colonel of the Third Middlesex artillery volunteers, was

HORATIO DAVID DAVIS.

sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1887 and was an aiderman, representing Bishopsgate ia 1889. Mr. Davies is a justice of the peace for the county of Kent. He unsuccessfully contested Rochester in 1889, was returned for the same borough in 1892, but was unseated on petition. At the last general election Mr. Davies defeated R. H. Cox, liberal, by 583 votes. He began life as an engraver’s apprentice.

There will be at least seventy-five batomen in the .300 class. Delehanty fell off amazingly in his batting the latter part of the season. St. Louis succeeded in finishing just about 25 games lower than any other club. Indoor baseball will flourish again in Chicago this winter. Dahlen, Pfeffer, Long, Griffith, Parker and Ryan are a few of the stars at this work. Milwaukee has had a very profitable season. It te said the profits were $25,000—a good tribute to the excellent management of “Connie” Mack. McGraw and.CoUins are undoubtedly the finest third basemen in the business when it comes down to a question of fielding bunts, says the Baltimore Herald. Young Callahan of Chicago has ripened into one of the finest all-round players in the country. In fact, it may well be doubted if be has an equal on the diamond in playing all nine positions. Frank Donohue’s victory in the last St Louis game was worth S3OO to him. Chris Von der Ahe held out that sort of reward to him. Every Brown played ball to save the sorrel-topped twirler, and save him they did.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Death of One of the Btndebaker Broth* era—Bloodhounds Trailing a Criminal—Strawstack Fire Nearly Causes the Death of Two Children. ."’3 P. E. Studebaker Dead. Peter E. Studebaker, second vice-presi-dent, treasurer and general manager of the Studebaker Bros.’ Manufacturing Company at South Bend, died in the sanitarium at Alma, Mich., of heart disease. Children on a Burning Stack. Two sons of Daniel Bowman, living a few miles north of Hagerstown, while playing with matches set fire to a large straw stack. The children climbed to the top before the fire gained much headway. Suddenly the immense pile of straw was enveloped with fire, and the children were fast being suffocated. The older boy threw himself off the stack, and the younger was rescued by a neighbor. Her Scalp Torn Off. Kate Shane, while washing her hair in a laundry of the Indianapolis Surgical iftstitute, met with a serious accident. Throwing her hair above her head, it was caught in the shafting, and all the hair on the top of her head, with the skin, and all the skin on her forehead, the eyebrows and part of the nose and cheeks, was torn off. The woman will probably die. ’ Bloodhounds on the Trail. Joseph Horton shot Albert Dian at Amity. Horton called at Dima’s to buy some hogs. Dinn said it was too dark to look at them. Horton was intoxicated and a quarrel ensued, in which Dinn was shot. Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail, and Sheriff Weddle has ordered all suspicious characters arrested. A Miner Fatally Stabbed. Art Lents was fatally stabbed by Tom Walker in a quarrel at Montgomery. Both men are miners. All Over the States Windfall is to have an opera house. Silas Green shot himeelf at the home of his aged father in Fort Wayne. Bishop Ninde of Indiana dedicated ft new Methodist church at Anderson. Mrs. Banda Barely, aged 55, was killed at Wolfe lake in a runaway accident. Charles Roulden and Fred Cook were arrested at Frankfort, charged with counterfeiting. Several cases of scarlet fever have broken out in Brooklyn, and the public schools closed indefinitely. Flames caused a $5,000 loss to the Henry lumber plant and adjacent property at South Bend. Daniel Shene field, employed at the Holland radiator works in Bremen, was caught in one of the ratling machines and horribly mangled. Bread at Elwood for the past six years has been sold for 2 cents a loaf, but the price is now raised to 5 cents, the bakers having combined, At Franklin, a 5-year-old son of James F. Brown was instantly killed while playing in the barn. A hay frame fell on him, breaking his neck. The court has declared the office of Elkhart county treasurer vacant and Delos N. Weaver of Elkhart was at onoe elected to fill out the unexpired term. At Jeffersonville, the occupants of the county jail claim that the ghost of William Dailey, who committed suicide by hanging, comes back and haunts them. The Windsor Hotel, the leading hostelry of French Lick, was wrecked by fire. The loss will reach $40,000. No casualties among the guests or employes are reported. Judge Hefron of Washington holds that the law passed by the last Legislature fixing Jan. 1 as the time for county treasurers to take their offices is unconstitutional. Mrs. Mary Shannon is the only female section boss in the United States. She has a section between Hartford City and Muncie on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. The Akron steam forge factory at Elwood and the land belonging to the forge company were sold to George W. Crouse and George W. Perkins of Akron, 0., for $30,000. Major Butler of Greenwood received notice from attorneys at Boston that an nnele had died, leaving $1,000,000 to be divided among the heirs. Mr. Butler will get $12,000. Charles E. Breckinridge and Miss Stella L. Wise, prominent young people of Knightstown, gave their friends “the slip” and were married in Rushville by Elder W. S. Campbell. • . ' The Monon Railroad Company has purchased the Chicago and Southeastern Railway and the proposed extension of the road from Anderson to Muncie, which is partially graded, will be completed at once. . At Patriot, during the past three weeks four barns have been mysteriously burned. Port Oaks of East Enterprise, while trying to save his horses, was dangerously burned. Circumstantial evidence points to incendiary work. At Martinsville, a verdict in the case of John Ferriter for the murder of Policeman Ware, April 27, was readied after the jury was out for seven hours, a verdict of murder in the second degree was rendered, fixing the penalty at imprisonment for life. Charles Sitzell, aged 30, committed suicide at his home in Donaldsonville by cutting his throat seven times with a razor. Sitzell was infatuated with Mrs. Carrie Lloyd, a comely widow, and some trouble arose between them and Mrs. Lloyd sent Sitzell about his business. Robert S. Scott is to be the next postmaster at Thornton. A serious shooting affray occurred at Asherville in which Mrs. George Church and Lewis Gumm were badly wounded. Gumm and Church are neighboring farm* era, and it is alleged that the trouble woe the result of a long-standing feud. A C., H. & D. train bad a close call at Arlington. The train is the limited mail and makes very fast time. An incendiary set fire to the bridge over Little Blue river at Arlington, and before the blase was noticed the tram was almost on the> trestle. The engineer turned on all steam and the limited passed over the burning bridge in safety.