Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Page 7

SINS OF THE TONGUE.

TALMAGE PLEADS FOR HONEST WORDS AND DEEDS. . '■ - p ' 'He Speaks of Agricultural, Commercial, Mechanical and Ecclesiastical Lies - A Plain Plea for Telling the Truth-The Masquerade Ball. Our Weekly Sermon. Dr. Talmage in this discourse gives a 'Vivid classification of the vices of speech and pleads for honesty in all that is said and done. His text is Acts v„ 1-10, “A •certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,” etc. A well-matched pair, alike in ambition and in falsehood, Ananias and Snpphira. They wanted a reputation for great beneficence, and they sold all their property, •pretending to put the entire proceeds in the charity fund while they put much of it in their own pocket. There was no necessity that they give all their property away, but they wanted the reputation of so doing. Ananias first lied about it and dropped down dead. Then Sapphira lied about it, and she dropped down dead. The two fatalities a warning to all ages of the danger of sacrificing the truth. There are thousands of wars of telling a lie. A man’s whole life may be a falsehood, and yet never with his lips may he "falsify once. There is a way of uttering falsehood by look, by manner, as well as by lip. There are persons who are guilty • of dishonesty of speech and then afterward say “maybe,” calling it a white lie when no lie is that color. The whitest lie • ever told was as black as perdition. There are those so given to dishonesty of speech that they do not know when they are lying. With some it is an acquired sin, and with others it is a natural infirmity. There : are those whom you will recognize as born liars. Their whole life, from cradle to :grave, is filled up with vice of speech. Misrepresentation and prevarication are as natural to them as the infantile diseases and are a sort of moral croup or spiritual -scarlatina.

Then there are those who in after life ■ have opportunities of developing this evil, and they go from deception to deception and from class to class, until they are regularly graduated liars. At times the air in our cities is tilled with falsehood, and lies cluster around the mechanic’s hammer, blossom on the merchant’s yardstick and sometimes sit in the doors of churches. They are called by some fabrication and they are called by some fiction. You might call them subterfuge, ■ or deceit, or romance, or fable, or misrepresentation, or delusion, but as I know nothing to be gained by cove ring up a God ■defying sin with a lexicographer’s blanket, I shall call them in plainest vernacular, lies. They may be divided into agricultural, commercial, mechanical, social and ecclesiastical. ' Agricultural Falsehoods. First of all, I speak of agricultural falsehoods. There is something in the presence of natural objects that has a tendency to make one pure. The trees never issue false stock. The wheat fields are always honest. Rye and oats never move out in the night, not paying for the place they occupy. Corn shocks never make false assignment. Mountain brooks are always current. The gold of the wheat fields is never counterfeit. But while the tendency of agricultural life is to make one honest, honesty is not the characteristic of all who come to the city markets from the country districts. You hear the creaking of the dishonest farm wagon in almost every street of our great cities—a farm wagon in ifhich there is not one honest spoke, or one truthful rivet, from tongue'to tailboard. Again and again has ■domestic economy in our great cities foundered on the farmer’s firkin. When New York and Washington sit down aSd'weep -over their sins, let Westchester County and the neighborhoods around this capital sit down and weep over theirs. The tendency in all rural districts is to suppose that sins and transgressions cluster in our great cities, but citizens and ‘merchants long ago learned that it is not safe to calculate from the character of the apples on the top of the fanner’s barrel what is the character of the apples all the way down toward the bottom. Many of •our citizens and merchants have learned that it is always safe to see the farmer measure the barrel of beets. Milk cans are not always honest. There are those who in country life seem to think they ‘have a right to-overreach grain dealers and merchants of all styles. They think it is more honorable to raise corn than to deal in corn. The producer sometimes practically says to the merchant, “You get your money easily anyhow.” Does he get it easily? While the farmer sleeps—and he may go to sleep conscious of the fact that his corn and rye are all the time progressing and adding to his fortune or his livelihood —the merchant tries to sleep, while conscious of the fact that at that moment the ship may be driving on the rock or a wave sweeping over the hurricane deck spoiling his goods, or the speculators may be plotting a monetary revolution, or the burglars may be at that moment nt his money safe, or the fire may have kindled on the very block where his store stands.

Easy, is it? Let those who get their living in the quiet farm and barn take the place of one of our city merchants and see whether it is so easy. It is hard enough to have the hands blistered with outdoor ■work, but it is harder with mental anxieties to have the brain consumed. God help the merchants. And do not let those who live in country life come to the conclusion that all the dishonesties belong to < city life. Commercial Kies. I pass on to consider commercial lies. ' There are those who apologize for deviations front the right and for practical deception by saying it is commercial custom. In other words, a lie by multiplication becomes a virtue. There are large fortunes gathered in which there is not ■ one drop of the sweat of unrequited toil, and not one spark of bad temper flashes from the bronze bracket, and there is not one drop of needlewoman's heart's blood on the crimson plush, while there are oth- - er fortunes about which it may be said that on every doorknob and on every figure of the carpet and on every wall there is the mark of dishonor. What if the hand wrung by toil and blistered until the skin comes off should be placed on the cx- ■ quisite leaving its mark of blood—four fingers and a thumb? Oh if in the night the man should be aroused from his slumber again and again by his - own conscience, getting himself up on - elbow and crying out into the darkness, ' “Who is there?" There are large fortunes upon which

God’s favor conies down, and it is just aa honest and just as Christian to be affluent as it is to be poor. In many a house there is a blessing on every pictured wall and on every scroll and on every traceried window, and the joy that flashes in the lights and that showers in the music and that dances in the quick feet of the children pattering through the hall has in it the favor of God and the approval of man. And there are thousands and tens of thousands of merchants who, from the first day they sold a yard of cloth or firkin of butter, have maintained their integrity. They were born honest, they will live honest and they will die honest. But you and I know that there are in commercial life those who are guilty of great dishonesties of speech. A merchant says, “I am selling these goods at less than cost.” Is he getting for those goods a price inferior to that which he paid for them? Then he has spoken the truth. Is he getting more? Then he lies. A merchant says, “I paid $25 for this article.” Is that the price he paid for it? All right. But suppose he paid for it $23 instead of $25? Then he lies. But there are just as many falsehoods before the counter as there are behind the counter. A customer comes in and asks, “How much is this article?” “It is $5.” “I can get it for $4 somewhere else.” ®an he get it for $4 somewhere else or did he say that just for the purpose of getting it cheap by depreciating the value of the

goods? If so, he lied. There are just as many falsehoods before the counter as there are behind the counter. A man unrolls upon the counter a bale of handkerchiefs. The customer says, “Are these all silk?” “Yes.” “No cotton in them?” “No cotton in them.” Are those handkerchiefs all silk? Then the merchant told the truth. Is there any cotton in them? Then he lied. Moreover, he defrauds himself, for his customer coming in will after awhile find out that he has been defrauded, and the next time he comes to town au'd goes shopping he will look up at that sign and say, “No, I won’t go there; that’s the place where I got those handkerchiefs.” First, the merchant insulted God, and, secondly, he picked his own pocket. Who would take the responsibility of saying how many falsehoods were yesterday told by hardware men, and clothiers, and lumbermen, and tobacconists, and jewelers, and importers, and shippers, and dealers in furniture, and dealers in coal, and dealers in groceries? Lies about buckles, about saddles, about harness, about shoes, about hats, about coats, about shovels, about tongs, about forks, about chairs, about sofas, about horses, about lands, about everything. I arraign commercial falsehood as one of the crying sins of our time. Mechanical Lies. I pass on to speak of niechanical falsehoods. Among the artisans are those upon whom we are dependent for the houses in which we live, the garments we wear, the cars in which we ride. The vast majority of them are, so far as I know them, men who speak the truth, and they are upright, and many of them are foremost in great philanthropies and in churches, but that they all do not-belong to that class every one knows. In times when there is a great demand for labor it is not so easy for such men to keep their obligations, because they may miscalculate in regard to the weather or they may not be able to get the help they anticipated in their enterprise. lam speaking now of those who promise to do that which they know they will not be able to do. They say they will come on Monday. They do not come until Wednesday. They say they will come on Wednesday. They do not come until Saturday. They say they will have the job done in ten days. They do not get it done before 30. And when a man becomes irritated and will not stand it any longer then tiiey" go and work for him a day or two and keep the job along, and then someone else gets irritated and outraged, and they go and work for that man and get him pacified, and then they go somewhere else. I believe they call that “nursing the job.” Ah, my friends, how much dishonor such men would save their souls if they would promise to do only tlurt which they know they can do! “Oh,” they say, “it’s of no importance. Everybody expects to be deceived and disappointed.” There is a voice of thunder sounding among the saws and the hammers and the shears, saying, “All liars shall have their place in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.”

I pass on to speak of social lies. How much of society is insincere? You hardly know what to believe. They send their regards. You do not exactly know whether it is an expression of the heart or an external civility. They ask you to come to their house. You hardly know whether they really want you to come. We are all accustomed to take a discount off what we hear. “Not at home” very often means too lazy to dress. I was reading of a lady who said she had told her last fashionable lie. There was a knock at her door, and she sent word down, “Not at home.” That night her husband said to her, “Mrs. So-and-so is dead.” “Is it possible!” she said. “Yes. and she died in great anguish of mind. She wanted to see you so very much; she had something very important to disclose to you in her last hour, and she sent three times to-day, but found you absent every time.” Then this woman bethought herself that she had had a bargain with her neighbor that when the long protracted sickness was about to come to an end she would appear at her bedside and take the secret that was to be disclosed. And she had said she was “not at home.” .Social life is struck through with insincerity. They apologize for the fact that the furnace is out; they have not had any fire in it all winter. They apologize for the fare on their table; they never live any better. They decry their‘most luxuriant entertainment to win a shower of approval from you. They point at a picture on the wall as a work of one of the old masters. They say it is an heirloom in the family. It hung on the wall of a castle. A duke gave it to their grandfather! People that will lie about nothing else will lie about a picture. On small income we want the world to believe we are affluent, and society to-day is struck through with cheat and counterfeit and sham. How few peope are natural! Frigidity sails around, iceberg grinding against iceberg. You must not laugh outright. That is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash quickly across the roorri. That is vulgar. You must glide. Much of society is a round of bows and grins and grimaces and oh’s and ah’s and he, he, he’s and simperings and namby-pambyism, a whole world of which is not worth one good honest round of laughter. From such a hollow scene the tortured guest retires at the close of the evening, assuring the host that he has enjoyed himself. Society is become so contorted and deformed in thia respect that a mountain cabin where the

rustics gather at a quilting or an apple paring has in it more good cheer than all the frescoed refrigerators of the metropolis. Ecclesiastical Lies. I pass on to speak of ecclesiastical lies, those which are told for the advancement or retarding of a church or sect. It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Calvinist what an Arminian believes. He will tell you that an Arminian believes that man can save himself. An Arminian believes no such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Arminian what a Calvinist believes. He (Will tell you that a Calvinist believes that God made some men just to damn them. A Calvinist believes no such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask a Pedo-Baptist what a Baptist believes. He will tell you a Baptist believes that immersion Is necessary for salvation. A Baptist does not believe any such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask a man who very much hates Presbyterians what a Presbyterian believes. He will tell you that a Presbyterian believes that there are infants in hell a span long, and that very phraseology has come down from generation to generation in the Christian church. There never was a Presbyterian who believed that. “Oh,” you say, “I heard some Presbyterian minister twenty years ago say so.” You did not. There never was a man who believed that. There never will be a man who will believe that. And yet from boyhood I have heard that particular slander against a Christian church going down through the community. Then, how often it is that there are misrepresentations on the part of individual churches in regard to other churches, especially if a church comes to great prosperity. As long as a church is in poverty, and the singing is poor, and all the surroundings are decrepit, and the congregation are so hardly bestead in life that their pastor goes with elbows out, then there will always be Christian people in churches who say, “What a pity; what a pity!” But let the day of prosperity come to a Christian church and let the music be triumphant, and let there be vast assemblages, and then there will be even ministers of the gospel critical and denunciatory and full of misrepresentation and falsification, giving the impression to the outside -world that they do not like the corn because It is not ground in their mill. Oh, my friends, let us in all departments of life stand back from deception. But some one says, “The deception that I practice is so small that it doesn’t amount to anything.” Ah, my friends, it does amount to a great deal. You say, “When I deceive, it is only about a case of needles or a box of buttons or a row of pins.” The article may be so small you can put it in your vest pocket, but the sin is as big as the pyramids, and the echo of your dishonor will reverberate through the mountains of eternity. There is no such thing as a small sin. They are all vast and stupendous, because they will all have to come under inspection in the day of judgment. You may boast yourself of having made a fine bargain—a sharp bargain. You may carry out what the Bible says in regard to that man who went in to make a purchase and depreciated the value of the goods and then after he had got away boasted of the splendid bargain he had made. “It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way then he boasteth.” It may seem to the world a sharp bargain, but the recording angel wrote down in the ponderous tomes of eternity, “Mr. So-and-so, doing business on Pennsylvania avenue or Broadway or Chestnut street or State street, told one lie.”

Speak the Truth. May God extirpate from society all the ecclesiastical lies, and all the social lies, and all the mechanical lies, and-all the commercial lies, and all the agricultural lies, and make every man to speak the truth of his neighbor. My friends, let us make our life correspond to what we are. Let us banish all deception from our behavior. Let ns remember that the time comes when God will demonstrate before an assembled universe just what we are. The secret will come out. We may hide it while we live, but we cannot hide it when we die. To many life is a masquerade ball. As at such entertainment gentlemen and ladies appear in garb of kings or queens or mountain bandits or clowns and then at the close of the dance put off their disguise, so many nil through life are in mask. The masquerade ball goes on, and gemmed hand clasps gemmed hand, and dancing feet respond to dancing feet, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow, and the masquerade ball goes bravely' on. But after awhile languor comes and blurs the sight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulchral echo. Music saddens into a wail. Lights lower. Now the masquerade is hardly seen. The fragrance is exchanged for the sickening odor of garlands that have lain a long while in the damp of sepulchers. Lights lower. Mists fill the room. The scarf drops from the shoulder of beauty, a shroud. Lights lower. Torn leaves and withered garlands now hardly cover up the ulcered feet Stench of lamp wicks almost quenched. Choking dampness. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands folded. Eyes shut. Voice hushed. Lights out. Copyright, 1897.

Short Sermons.

Unbelief in the Church.—The failure of the church Is due to the faults of the church. The problem of unbelief Is largely a problem of the shortcomings of the church. Works should be the great work of the church. It should be over every church door. We have talked enough about God—how he will save sinners and relieve the poor and comfort the mourner. Beyond the talking about it, the church has fallen short in this mighty work. Men are as unfortunate as they ever were, and they need assistance badly. They want the brotherhood of man demonstrated to the world.—Rev. Lyman Ward, Unlversalist, New York City. Enmity with God.—The real reason why people do not go to church is because they are at enmity with God, and do not love the worship carried on by his church. Man in his unregenerated state hates God, and so he does not love the Institutions of the church. One of three things is bound to happen to a man who attends the services of the church. Dither he will give in to the truth, or he will stay away from the services. If he does not do one of these things he will be in danger of becoming callous to the truth, and he will have to answer for bls neglect of these privileges in the day of judgment.—Rev. W. C. Webb, Methodist, Philadelphia, Pa.

PULLMAN IS NO MORE.

PALACE CAR MAGNATE DIES OF HEART FAILURE. End Cornea Suddenly In the Early Morning-Started a Poor Lad at S4O a Year and at Death Was Reputed Worth $40,000,000. Career Is Closed. George M. Pullman, president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, died at 5:30 o’clock Tuesday morning, at his home in Chicago. Death was sudden, and is attributed to heart failure. Monday night Mr. Pullman retired at 11 o’clock, after entertaining a party of friends at his home. At that time he made no particular complaint regarding his health. During the past month Mr. Pullman had been ailing, but the trouble was not sufficient to interfere with his business, and Monday he was at his office as usual. Early Tuesday morning a friend, who was stopping with Mr. Pullman, heard a slight noise from his host’s bedchamber and entered to see Mr. Pullman make his way to a safe, where he fell gasping for breath. Physicians were summoned, but the sick man had expired before a doctor could reach his side.—His very sudden death came as a shock to his relatives and friends, and as it became known throughout the city formed the chief topic of conversation in business circles. Mrs. Pullman was in New Y’ork at the time of her husband’s demise. Founder of a City. George Mortimer Pullman, one of Chicago’s most distinguished citizens and founder of the city which bears his name, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., March 3, 1831. At the age of 14 he was

GEORGE M. PULLMAN.

a clerk in a country store at S4O a year and his board. Three years later he went to Albion, N. Y., where he was employed as a cabinetmaker. During the following ten years he was engaged in contract work of various kinds. In 1859 he went to Chicago. Between 1859 and 1862 he remodeled several passenger coaches into sleeping cars. These .cars were first run over the Chicago and Alton and Galena and Chicago railroads. In 1865 the first complete sleeping ear, “The Pioneer,” was finished at a cost of SIB,OOO. He then organized the Pullman Palace Car Company and established the plant at the town of Pullman, which was a plan of his own creation, and has grown to splendid proportions and is known the world over as a model city. At the time of his death Mr. Pullman is reputed to have been worth $40,000,000. The Pullman Palace Car Company ia the largest railroad manufacturing interest in the world. It employs a capital of $40,000,000 and has assets exceeding $45,000,000. About the time of the World’s Columbian exposition it had in its service 2,239 ears and employed 13,885 persons, whose annual wages aggregated $3,331,527, being an average of $6lO per capita. At present, however, both the number of employes and their wages are lower than then. But, although Mr. Pullman was the moving spirit of this vast enterprise, his capacity for business was not fully satisfied in any single venture. Among the important interests with which he was identified were the Eagleton iron -works of New York, and the New York Loan and Improvement Company, which he organized and which built the Metropolitan Elevated Railway on Second and Sixth avenues. He had also been interested in the Nicaragua canal plan since its inception. At the time it was constructed, in 1884, the Pullman office building, where the business headquarters of the car company are maintained, was probably the finest business and apartment block in Chicago, and it does not stand behind many to this day. His home, a mansion of brown stone on Prairie avenue and Eighteenth street, is one of the finest appointed residences in Chicago. In business Mr. Pullman was prompt but never hasty. Socially, he was courtly in manner, but his formality was not such as to make him unapproachable. In 1867 he married Miss Hattie A. Sanger, daughter of James T. Sanger of Chicago. Their four children are Florence, Harriet, George M. and Walter, the last two being twins.

Notes of Current Events.

The Norwegian fruit steamer Belvernon arrived in New York from Port Morant, Jamaica, after a tempestuous voyage lasting six and a half days. A man suspected of being one of the Moorhead train robbers was arrested at Winnipeg Junction and taken to Fergus Falls, Minn., by a Pinkerton man and a constable. A company has been formed in St. Pau) to dig for gold in the bottoms of Alaskan rivers and creeks. The plan is to mine o» the Yukon and its tributaries by hydrau lie power. Gen. John Wettshorn, prominent h Grand Army and political circles, died at Baltimore. He was one of the first met in Maryland to take an active interest ia the Union cause. Mary Ortez, an Indian woman, died San Diego, Cal., from her extreme age, ■which is variously estimated at from 102 to 146, her daughter believing her to have been at least 130 years old. Two Chinamen who have been mining in the Casaiai district, B. C., have arrived an Victoria.' They took out $40,000 and hive drafts on the Hudson Bay Company to show for it

PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOR.

Simple Method of Securing Very " Pleasing Effects. Tourists returning from abroad are bringing with, them samples of finely colored photographs of various points of Interest in the old world. This coloring of photographs has usually been a very complicated process and requires an artist in order to bring about the best results. A recent American invention, however, promises to make the coloring of photographs a very simple matter, even for the amateur, and no great artistic talent Is necssary. By this process, known as the “Kalos art,” ordinary prints may be made considerably more attractive at small cost and with no great expenditure of time. All that is necessary is a box of ‘,‘Kalos colors,” a dish of clean water and a camel's-hair brush and sponge. These colors are transparent, and the shades and lights of the photographs show through. Any desired tints may be secured by mixing or diluting with water. To color any print apply the shades with the brush and wash the surface of the picture with a wet sponge, so that all superfluous color may be removed This prevents running and insures—amore even distribution of the colors. Rinse the brush or the sponge in clean water, after using each color, sponge the w’hole picture after the coloring is finished. It is better to make the colors a trifle stronger than is desired in order to allow for a slight fading in the mounting process. The picture should then be allowed to dry thoroughly, so that the colors may become firmly fixed before mounting. These color prints may be mounted on cards or transferred to glass, in imitation of porcelain paintings. The miniature may be set in pearl or gold for lockets, brooches, sleeve buttons, watch charms, etc. Tlijs process is warranted to work on photographs of a gelatinous nature, and gives excellent results on platinum prints. Collodion prints may be colored by first giving them a gelatinous surface. This may be done by adding one-quarter ounce of water to one ounce of sheet gelatine, and the mixture heated until the gelatine Is thoroughly dissolved: then, with a wide, soft brush, apply the dissolved gelatine to the film side of the print, giving It a smooth, even surface. Heat it gently over a lighted lamp until dry. The advantage of the “Kalos” process is that it may be used by an amateur photographer or by a skilled artist, and the result is certainly pleasing. The finer the blending of shade, of course, the more artistic the result.—Philadelphia Record.

European Labor Congress.

During the recent labor congress at Zurich a sharp controversy arose between the socialists and Roman Catholics on the question of women’s work. A Catholic member of the Belgian Parliament, M. Wiart, proposed a resolution to the effect that the work of women ought to be gradually abolished in lange industries. After three hours’ debate in section and five hours in congress, M. Decurtins, Catholic member of the Swiss Parliament, and Herr Bebel, socialist member of the German Parliament, were selected to close the discussion. The Catholics urged that equality of the sexes led to immorality. The sanctity of the family was the basis of society, wlli ch fa>*to ry 1 ife destroyed. The socialists argued that women were as badly treated in small trades, shops, and home work as tn large mills. M, Wiart’s proposal was rejected by 165 votes against 98. At an extra afternoon sitting the debate was resumed. The congress voted in favor of strengthening the law's protecting women in all forms of employment, resolving that the maximum hours of labor for women should be eight per day and forty-five per week, with a rest of fortytwo hours from noon on Saturdays. It was further resolved that after confinement women should not be required to work for six weeks, but should receive an indemnity equal to their wages from the State or municipality; that domestic servants and agricultural workers ought to have the right of combination, and that the laws permitting corporal punishment in Germany and Austria ought to be abrogated. A proposal favoring the abolition of home work was defeated by 70 votes to 68, the congress preferring an amendment to the effect that home work causes serious social and sanitary evils, but that the question is too complex for immediate settlement. New York Evening Post.

Peculiar Russian Custom.

It is said to-day that there is only one happy condition for women in Russia. “As happy as a priest’s wife” is a common saying there. Strange to relate, her husband's position depends upon her. If she dies he is deposed. He then becomes a layman, his property is taken from him and distributed half to the government and the other half among his children. This state of things makes the Russian priest very careful of his wife, and he takes great care of her, waiting upon her, looking after her, and keeping her in health, comfort and happiness. Although selfinterest rather than love underlies his motive of solicitude and consideration, the Russian woman gains the benefit of this curious law and it is not surprising to learn that to marry a priest is the highest ambition of a Russian girl. She even prefers him to a nobleman,—American Queen.

Rome's Great Cemetery.

The most extensive cemetery in the world is that of Rome, in which over 6,000,(XX) human beings have been interred. It’s bad enough for a min when he has a stiff bosom shirt on, and wants to scratch, but imagine a woman with a corset on!

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK. * 1 Shoots His Inamorata and Then Him»elf—Hammond Man Dies of Lockjaw —Found Dead in a Well—He Decline* a Consulship. ' Murder and Suicide. A double tragedy occurred in Logan*» port, at the home of ex-Councilman Schaefer. Miss Laura Bopp, a domestic, was shot by Charles Ward, a young machinist, who then fired two bullets into his own body. One of the shots penetrated his heart and his death was instantaneous. The couple were engaged to be married. Shot by a Boy. At Maulridge Church, four miles west of Bedford, a fight occurred, resulting in the death of William Pierce and the serious wounding of his brother Walter. The Pierces were shot by Alonzo Roach, who went to Bedford and asked to be locked up. The tragedy is the result of a feud of long standing between the Pierce and who live in —the same ■ neighborhood. Declines the Consulship. James S. Dodge of Indianapolis has announced that he prefers the position of department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Indiana to the consulship at Nagasaki, Japan, and he sent to the State Department a letter declining the appointment. He is the third to decline the appointment. Lockjaw Kills Henry Huehn. Henry Huehn, former city treasurer and one of Lake County’s most prominent citizens, died at Hammond of lockjaw. Oct. 1 he stepped upon a rusty nail. He appeared to be recovering until three days before his death, when his jaws set. Took Away About $30,000. The Indianapolis police have not been able .to get any trace Of P. A. McDonald, the absconding “banker and broker.” An investigation indicates that he took about $30,000 out of the city.

Found Dead in a Well. Peter Cary was found dead in a well in Taylor township. It is supposed that he was cleaning the well and that his death was caused by “damps.” Bloody Fight Ends a Dance. At a dance at Smyrna there was a bloody battle in which one man was killed and several fatally hurt. All Over the State. All the business part of Center was burned. Loss, $16,000. Thirty sheep were burned to death on a Wabash train near Fairmont. Samuel Mattingly has disappeared from Washington, and is believed to have killed himself. The dry goods store of Onnemous & Owlin at Vincennes has been closed on an attachment. The new St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church, erected at Lowell at a cost of $6,000, has been dedicated. At Wabash, the phaeton of Mrs. M. A. Newman ran over Herman Simon and hurt him so that death resulted. Clyde Montgomery of Scottsburg fell beneath a train near Marshfield water station and was instantly killed. Judge Hiram Brownlee of Grant County created a record for himself by disposing of forty divorces in one day. George Doyle and James Tyler got a three-year sentence at Kokomo on the charge of stealing 40 cents’ worth of beer. Edward Stiffler, a young man of Selma, crazed by jealousy, killed himself by shooting in the presence of the girl he loved. Mrs. C. E. Burns, while fishing at Broad Ripple, found in a mussel shell a pearl weighing six and one-quarter carats and valued at SI,OOO. John Ferriter, who murdered Policeman Charles Ware of Indianapolis, has been taken to the prison at Michigan City to serve a life sentence.

At Princeton, Walter Raney, a young farmer, suddenly became demented. He imagines demons chase him. His mother and sister are now in the asylum. The Christian Church in Marshall has been formally opened and dedicated. More money was raised than was necessary to provide for all the indebtedness. Congressman C. L. Henry, who represents the gas belt district, has officially announced his withdrawal from the congressional race, which is already on. There are 400 cases of Texas fever in Vigo County, and while the death rate so far has not been heavy, there is danger of serious results from the epidemic. A “quart” shop at Greenwood gave the villagers much offense, and a charge of dynamite was placed under the building and the structure and contents were scattered broadcast. Mrs. Sallie Stier, residing east of New Albany, committed suicide by inhaling chloroform on account of a quarrel with her husband, Alonzp Stier. The suicide’s mother was a niece of president James Buchanan. James Ray, colored, was shot and probably fatally wounded at New Albany by Dr. Botany Jones, during a dispute over a doctor's bill. Jones tried to escape, but was caught. The bullet entered Ray’s spinal column, and he is partially paralyzed. Anderson has the littlest humane society in the country and the members have begun their first prosecution. They are tots whose ages run from 5 to 10 years. A week ago they found Patsy List beating his horse over the head. They worked up the case perfectly, and five of the tots appeared and filed an affidavit against him. They have all of their witnesses and evidence. Mrs. Emma Keesling, the divorced wife of Levi Keesling, committed suicide at her home in Mechanicsburg by taking carbolic acid. William Messinger, who shot and killed Charles Nelson, an inoffensive Stark County farmer, in the streets of San Pierre, Aug. 11, was captured by a posse of officers two miles north of Marion. Guy Tate, charged with placing seven sticks of dynamite in a brick kiln, on Benjamin Simpson's place, a few months ago for the purpose of destroying the plant, was acquitted in the Circuit Court at Brazil.