Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — Page 7

MARTHAS AND MARYS

REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON HOUSEHOLD CARES Martha in the Kitchen and Maryin the Parlor—The Trials,of the Good House* keeper—How They May Be Overcome —Home Influence. ’ Our Washington Pulpit. Dr. Talmage’s- sermon in Washington Sunday goes through home life with the tread of one Who has seen all its departments and sympathizes with all he sees and has words of cheer for all wives, mothers, daughters and sisters; text, Luke x., 40: “Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she help me.” Yonder is a beautiful viiluge homestead. The man of the house is dead, and his widow is taking charge of the premises. This is the widow Martha of Bethany. Yes, I will show you also the pet of the household. This is Mary, the younger sister, with a book under her arm and her face having no appearance of anxiety or care. (Jbmpany has come. Christ stands outside the door, and of course there is a good deal of excitement inside the door. The disarranged furniture is hastily put aside, and the hair is brushed back, and the dresses are adjusted as well as, in so short a time, Mary and Martha' can attend to these matters. They did not keep Christ standing at the door until they were newly appareled or until they had elaborately arranged their tresses, then coming out with their affected surprise as though they had not heard the two or three previous knockings, saying, “Why, is that you?” No. They were ladies and were always presentable, although they may not have always had on their best, for none of us always has on our best. If we did, our best* would not be worth having on. They throw open the door and greet Christ. They say: “Good morning, Master! Come in and be seated.” Christ did not come alone! He had a group of friends with him, and such an influx of city visitors would throw anj’ country Iwme into perturbation. I suppose also the walk from the city had been a good appetizer. The kitchen department that day was a very important department, and I suppose that Martha had no sooner greeted the guests than she fled to that room. Mary had no worriment about household affairs. She. had full confidence that Martha could get up the best dinner in Bethany. She seems to say, “Now let us have a division of labor. Martha, you cook and I’ll sit down and be good.” So you have often seen a great difference between two sisters. Mary and Martha. 'S’ There is Martha, hard working, painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some new pastry or discovering something in the art of cookery and housekeeping. There is Mary, also fond of conversation, literary, so engaged in deep questions of ethics she has no time to attend to the questions of household welfare. It is noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ. Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better if they had divided the work, and then they eould have divided the opportunity of listening to Jesus. But Mary monopolizes Christ while Martha swelters at the fire. It was a very important thing that they should have a good dinner that day. Christ was hungry, and he did not often have a luxurious entertainment. Alas me, if the duty had devolved upon Mary, what a repast that would have been! But something went wrong in the kitchen. Perhaps the fire would not burn, or the bread would not bake, or Martha scalddd her hand, or something was burned black that-bought only to have been made brown, and Martha lost her patience, and forgetting the proprieties of the occasion, with besweated brow, and, perhaps, with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the other, she rushes out of the kitchen into the presence of Christ, saying: “Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?” Christ scolded not a word. If it were scolding, I should rather have his scolding than anybody else’s blessing. There was .nothing acerb. He knew Mar- r tha had almost worked herself to death to get him something to eat, and so he throws a world of tenderness into his intonation as he seems to say: “My dear woman, do not worry. Let the dinner go. Sit down on this ottoman beside Mary, your younger sister. Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful.” As Martha throws open that kitchen door I look,in and see a great many household pMTflexilies and anxieties.

First there is the trial of non-npprecia-tion. That is what made Martha so mad with Mary. The younger sister had no estimate of her older sister's fatigues. As now, men bothered with the anxieties of the store and office and shop, or # comiug. from the Stock Exchange, they say when they get home: “Oh, you ought to be in our factory a little while! You ought to have to manage eight or ten or twenty subordinates, and then you would know what trouble and anxiety are!” Oh, sir, the wife and the mother has to conduct at the same time a university, n clothing establishment, a restaurant, n laundry, n library, while she is health officer, police and president of her realm! She must do a thousand things, and do them well, in order to keep things going smoothly, and so her brain and her nerves nre taxed to the utmost. Housekeeping Cares. You think, O man of the world, that you have all the cares and anxieties. If the can's and anxieties of the household should come upon you for one week, you would l>e tit for the liupuie asylum, 'fluhalf rested housekeeper arises in nie morning. She must have the morning repast prepared at an Irrevocable hour. What if the fire will not light; what if the marketing did not come; whnt if the clock has stopiwd-no matter, she must have the morning repast nt nn irrevocable hour. Then the children must lx- got off to school. Whnt if their garments are torn; what if they do not know ‘their lessons', whnt if they have lost h hat or Msh -they must be ready. Then you have all the diet of the day and perhaps of several days, to plan, but whnt if the butcher has sent ment unmasticnble, or the grocer has sent articles of food adulterated, nnd whnt if some piece of silver be gone, or some favorite chalice be cracked, or’ the roof leak, or the plumbing fail, or any one of n thousand things occur—you must be ready. Spring weather comes, nnd there nrast be a revolution in the family wardrobe, or nutumn coiim's, and you must shut out the northern blast, but what if the moth has preceded you to the chestj what if, during the year, the chil

dren have outgrown the apparel of last year; what if the fashions have changed! Your house must be an apothecary’s shop; it must be a dispensary; there must be medicines for all sorts of ailments —something to loosen the croup, something to cool the burn, something to poultice the inflammation, something to silence the jumping tooth, something to soothe the earache. You must be in half a dozen places at the same/ime, Or you must attempt to be. If, under all this wear and tear of life, Martha makes an impatient rush upon the library or drawing room, be patient, be lenient! O woman, though I may fail to stir up an appreciation in the souls of others in regard to your household toils, let me assure you, from the kindliness with which Jesus Christ met Martha, that he appreciates all your work from garret to cellar, and that the God of Deborah, and Hannah, and Abigail, and Grandmother Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah More is the God of the housekeeper! Severe Economy, Again, there is the trial of severe economy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine households out of the thousand are subjected to it, some under more and some under less stress ofj circumstances.’ Especially if a man smoke very expensive cigars and take very costly dinners nt the restaurants he will be severe in demanding domestic economies. This is what kills tens of thousands of women —attempting to make $5 do the work of $7. A young woman about the enter the married state said to her mother, “How long does the honeymoon last?” The mother answered, “The honeymoon lasts until you ask your husband for money.” How some ipen do dole ont money to their wives! “How much do you want?” “A dollar.” “You are always wanting *a dollar. Can’t you do with 50 cents?” If the husband has not the money, let him plainly say so. If he has it let him make cheerful response, remembering that his wife has as much right to it as he has. How the bills come in! The woman is the banker of the household. She is the president, the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk, and there is a panic every few weeks. This thirty years’ war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this lifelong attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts innumerable housekeepers. Oh, my sister, thia is a part of the Divine discipline! If it were best for you, all you would have to do would be to open the front windows, and the ravens would fly in with food, and after you had baked fifty times from the barrel in the pantry the barrel, like the one of Zarephath, would be full, and the shoes of the children would last as long as the shoes of the Israelites in the wilderness—forty years. Beside that this is going to make heaven the more attractive in the contrast. They never hunger there, and consequently there will be none of the nuisances of catering for appetites, and in the land of the white robe they never have to mend anything, nnd the air in that hill country makes everybody well. There are no rents to pay; every man owns his own house, and a mansion at that. It will not be so great a change for you to have a chariot in heaven if you have been in the habit of riding in this world. It will not be sy great a change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life if in this wbrld you had a country seat, but if you have walked with tired feet in this world what a glorious change to mount celestial equipage! And, if your life on earth was domestic martyrdom, oh, the joy of an eternity in which yoir shall have nothing to do except what you choose to do! Martha has had no drudgery for’eighteen centuries!

Sickness and. Trouble. •There are many housekeepers who could get along with their toil if it were not for sickness and trouble. The fact is. Onehalf of the women of the land are more or less invalids. The mountain lass who has never had an ache or a pain may consider household toil inconsiderable, and toward evening she may skip away miles to the Felds aud drive home the cattle, and she may until 10 o’clock at night fill the house with laughing racket. But, oh, to do the work of life with wornout constitution, when whooping cough has been raging for six weeks in the household, making the night as sleepless as the day! That is not so easy. Perhaps this comes after the nerves have been shattered by some bereavement that has left desolation in every room of the house and set the crib in the garret because the occupant has been hushed into a slumber which needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, she could provide for the whole group a great deal better than she edn for a part of the group, now the rest are gone! Though you may tell her God is taking care of those who nre gone, it is motherlike to brood both /locks, and one wing she puts over the flock in the house; the other wing she puts over the flock in the grave. There is nothing but the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ that will take a woman happily through the trial of home life. At first there may be a romance or a novelty that will do for a substitute. The marriage hour has just passed, and the perplexities of the household nre more than atoned by the joy of being together nnd by the fact that when it is late they do not have to discuss the question as to whether it is time to go. The mishaps of the household, instead of being a mutter of anxiety and reprehension, are a matter of merriment—the loaf of bread turned into n geological specimen, the slushy custards, the jaundiced or measly biscuits. It is a very bright sunlight that falls on the cutlery nnd the mantel ornaments of a new home. But after awhile the romance is'all gone, and then there is something to be prepared for the tnbic thnt the Isxik calles! “Cookery Taught in Twelve lessons” will not tench. The receipt for milking it is npt a handful of this, a cup of that and n spoonful of something else. It is not something sweetened with ordinary condiments or flavored with ordinary flavors or baked in ordinary ovens. It lathe Io if of domestic hap|dncM, ami nil the ingredients come down from heaven, and the fruits nre plncked from the tree of life, nnd it is sweetened with the now wise of the kingdom, nnd it is baked in (Ire oven of home trial. . Solomon wrote out of his own experience. He had n wretched home. A innn 1-nniiot be hnppy wltti two wives, much less (UK), and he snys, writing out of his own experience, "B«<ter is a dinner of herbs where love ts than a stalled ox ami hatred therewith.*’ Home Influence. How great are the responsibilities of housekeepers! Sometimes an indigestible article of food by its effect upon a king hns overthrown an empire. A distinguished statistician says of unmarried men there are 38 criminals, and of 1.000 married men only 1H are criminals. What a suggestion of home influences! Lbt the

mnst be made of them. ' Housekeepers by the food they provide, by the couches they spread, by the books they introduce, by the influences they bring around theii home, are deciding the physical, intellectual, moral, eternal destiny of the race. You say yoqr life is one of sacrifice. 1 know it. But, my “'sters, that isthe only life worth living That was Florence Nightingale's life; that was Payson’s life; that was Christ’s life. We admire it in others, but how very hard it is for us to exercise it ourselves! A rough teacher in a school called upon a poor, half starved lad who had offended against the laws of the school and said, “Take off your coat directly, sir!” The boy refused to take it off, whereupon the teacher said again, “Take off your coat, sir!” as he swung the whip through the air. The boy refused. It was pot because he was afraid of the lash—he was used to that at home—but it was from shame —he had no undergarment—and as at- the third command he pulled slowly off his coat there went a sob through the school. They saw thvn whj’ he did not want -to remove his coat, and they saw the shoulder blades had almost cut through the skin, and a stout, healthy boy rose up and went to the teacher and said: “Oh, sir, please don’t hurt this poor fellow! Whip me. See, he’s nothing but a poor chap. Don’t hurt him. He’s poor. Whip me.” “Well;” said the teacher, “it’s going to be a severe whipping. lam willing to take you as a substitute.” “Well,” said the boy, “I don’t care. You whip me, if you will let this poor fellow go.” The stout, healthy boy took the scourging without an outcry. “Bravo!” says every man. “Bravo!’! How many of us are willing tq take the scourging, and the suffering, and the toil, and the anxiety for other people? Beautiful things to admire, but how little we have of that spirit! God give us that self-denying spirit, so that whether we are in humble spheres or in conspicuous spheres we may perform our whole duty, for this struggle will soon be over. The .Christian Housekeeper. One of the most affecting reminiscences of my mother is my remembrance of her as a Christian housekeeper. She worked very hard, and when we would come in from summer play and sit down at the table'at noon I remember how she used to come in with beads of perspiration along the line of gray hair, and how sometimes she. would sit down at the table and put her head against her wrinkled hand nnd say, “Well, the fact is, I’m too tired to eat.” Long after she might have delegated this duty to others, she would not be satisfied unless she attended to the matter herself.’ In fact, we all preferred to have her do so, for somehow things tasted better when she prepared them. Some time ago in an express train I shot past that old homestead. I looked out of the window nnd tried to peer through the darkness. While I was doing so one of my old, schoolmates, whom I had not seen for many years, tapped me on the shoulder and said, “DeWitt, I see you are looking out at the scenes of your boyhood.” ‘jOh, yes,” I replied, “I was looking out alt the old place where my Wiother lived and died.” That night in the cars the whole scene came back to me. There was the country home. There was the noonday table. There were the children on either side of the table, most of them gone rover to come back. At one end of the table, my father, with a smile that never left his countenance even when he lay in his coflin. It was an 84 years’ smile—not the smile of inanition, birt of 'Christian courage and of Christian hope. At the other end of the table was a beautiful, benignant, hard-working, aged Christian housekeeper, my mother. She was very tired. I nm glad she has so good a place to' rest in. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.” Copyright. 1897.

Short Sermons.

Society and Religion.—Religion is for man. Man is society. Religion is not for God. He doesn’t need it. We can not add to or detract from the glory of God. It Is older than the human race. —Rev. T. B. Gregory, Episcopalian, Chicago, Ilk Impatience.—Man are far too anxious for the lichee of the world. Young men ’are in 100 great a hurry to get through school and college, too impatient to get into the swim of active business life. —Rev. W. C. Richmond, Baptist, Boston, Mass. A Kinship with Divinity.—lt is the moral and spiritual nature that the dignity of man appears to possess an advantage of his kinship with divinity based upon his Immortal nature. This links him to the chain of endless being. —Dr. Kerr B. Tupper, Baptist, Chicago, 111. The Supreme Religion.—The untoward things In life bring out the religious element of man. The religion that take's recognition of this fa« will always be the supreme religion, ami the church that demount raft's that religion to the world will Im* the supreme church.—Rev. Lyman Ward, Unlvcrsul--Ist, New York City. Sight,— The majority of us are shortsighted. Wp see little beyond our clrcumacrllied horizon. Our vjslon scarce falls outside the circle of our friend*. In consequence' we Incline to be narrow nnd selfish. Few see clearly. Fewer ace J. K. Montgomery. Presbyterian, Cincinnati, OJilo. Biblical Knowledge.—The practical results of Bible knowledge nre multiplying. We are fortified by Biblical doctrines. By the Bible, If we only re celve It In faith, we are reproved and corrected for nil our sins and follies, we nre Instructed In righteousness, do bring forth works meet for’Yepwitance nnd will become at lasit complete in being and character.—Rev. E. L. Lee. Methodist, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Such an Impressive Sermon.

“Our minister preached a sublime sermon Inst Sunday,” observed madnine. “I did* enjoy It so much. And right in the middle of It 1 hit on Im»w to have my black serge fl ted over. The whole scheme came like a miracle nnd will work out no end of swell. Th»t frock has been such a torment—l have had no good ol It at all. It hung In tho wardrobe,, n reproach and a waste of material. Bannons are so beneficial. You really ought to go to church oftener. lam ashamed that you missed that one last Sunday.”—Chicago Post.

THE FOUR SUITS.

Some Facts About Cards that Are Not According'to Hoyle. They were sitting around the table, waiting for the rest of the party to arrive, when a new man in the game picked up the cards and began to spread them before him on the cloth. “Of course,” he said, in a half soliloQuy, “you all know that cards were invented in 1390 to divert the mind of Charles IV. of France, who was dreadfully in the dumps with a torpid liver, or something of the kind, but possibly you don’t know about the figures of the four suits. Well, the Inventor proposed by them to represent the four states or classes of men in France. By the Caesars (hearts) -are meant the Gens de Choeur, choir men or ecclesiastics; the nobility or military piirt are represented by the points of liinces or pikes, which we, in our ignorance of the meaning or resemblance of the figure, call spades. The Spaniards have espadas (swords) instead of pikes, which means the same thing. The diamonds (earreaux, square stone tiles or the like) designate the order of citizens, merchants and tradesmen. The Spaniards have a coin, dlneros, which answers to it, and the Dutch call the French word carreaux, steineen, stones ami diamonds, from the form. Treste, the trefoil leaf or clover, corruptly called clubs, alludes to farmers and country folks generally. It is not known how this figure came to be called clubs, unless the name was borrowed from the Spanish game, which has staves or clubs instead of the trefoil. “The history of the four kings is that of David, Alexander, Caesar and Charles, names which were ami still are on French cards. These names are those of the great monarchies of the Jews, Greeks, Romans and Franks under Charlemagne. By the queens are intended Arglne, Esther. Judith and Pallas, typical of birth, piety, fortitude and wisdom, the qualifications residing in each, and. I may add, most of those necessary in a good poker player. I may also explain that Arglne is an anagram for regina, meaning queen by nature. By the knaves were meant the servants to knights, the old definition of knave being servant. There are some, however, who think that the knights themselves were intended by those cards, because Hogier and Lahire, two names on French cards, were famous knights at the time cards were invented. “Now,” continued the new player, warming to his subject, “If you will take the history of cards from the time of ” but ho was never allowed to finish, for the other members of the party came in then, and who ever heard of a lot of,poker players delaying the game for anything, historical or otherwise?

Efficacious Prescription.

A lady who had suffered tortures from a corn upon one of her toes called on a professional chiropodist, He soon relieved her of the hardened little offender, and besides paying him his fee, she thanked him heartily. “Please tell me, doctor,” she said, “how I can prevent another one coming in its place.” “Well, madam,” he replied, after a moment’s reflection, “I am doctor enough, perhaps, to give you a prescription that will always prevent a corn from coming." He tore a leaf, out of n note-book, wrote a few words upon it, and handed it to her. It read: “Looshoo. Apply One a day.” “You can get it at almost any place,” lie explained.. “There is no charge. You are welcome.” After inquiring in vain at several drug stores for “looshoo,” she showed the prescription to a friend, who studied it a moment and said: “Why, that is plain enough. It means ‘loose shoe!’ ” The prescription was tried, and proved effective.

Value of the Egg in Sickness.

The value of egg albumen im food in certain (Hseased conditloiw is pointed out by Dr. C. E. Boynton. When fewer is present and appetite is nil, he-Kiiys, what we want Is an aseptic article of diet; the white of an egg, raw, served both as food and medicine. The way to give it is to drain off the nlbumen from an opening nlxmt half tin inch iy. diameter at tb.p rimtill end of an egg, the yolk remaining Inside the whell; add a Little stilt to this and direct the patlcmt to awffllow It. In typhoid fever the mode of feeding materially helps us in carrying out an antiseptic plan of treatment. Fur thermore, the allMimcn to a certain extent may antidote the toxines of the disease. Patients may nt first rolwl at the idea of eating a but the quickness with which It goes down without the yolk proves It to be less dlsagrceuldo than they snp|M»sed, and they are very ready to take a Hceond dose. —Pacific Medical Journal.

Neither Native Nor Foreign.

A citizen stepped into one of the election booths In'the lower part of the city the other day to register. “Are you native born, or sforclgn born?” Inquired the Inspector. “I’m naythur,” replied the citizen. "I was Ixirn In Ireland.”- Buffalo Commercial.,

Freak in Apples.

Eleven well-develo|>ed and good-sized apples, all growing from a single bud, nnd all forming a globular piece bigger than a big pair of double fists, was a freak displayed in Corvallis, Ore,, recently.

Quicker Mail Transfer.

The pneumatic tubes which are to connect the New York nnd Brooklyn jsmtoffices will carry letters between tho two points in three minutes nnd a half. Wagons require half an hour to make the transfer. ‘

FRANCE STEPS IN.

Tricolor Hoisted Over the Island of Hai-Nan. Shanghai advices say that the admiral of the French fleet has hoisted the French flag on Hai-Nan island. The Chinese offered no opposition. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Singapore confirms the report of the seizure of HaiNan island by the, French. Hai-Nan island is off the south coast of China and separates the Gulf of Tonquin from the China sea. It has an estimated, area of 12,000 square miles and a population of Chinese, exclusive of wild tribes in the interior. According to the Neueste Nachrichten of Leipsic, Prince Bismarck disclaims all responsibility far Germany’s policy in China, but he approves Itaud wishes it executed with energy, on the assumption that it implies an entente with Russia. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai, the British admiralty has requisitioned three of the empress’ steamships, belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The Tagliche Rundschau, on what it alleges to be the “best authority in London,” declares that Russia and China have been negotiating for many months; that China consented last October to*a temporary Russian occupation of Port Arthur, and that England, hearing of this, demanded a cession of the islands at Hong-Kong, a strip of coast opposite Kow Loon and the mouth of the River Canton; but, knowing that France also wanted compensation, England suggested that she should take Hai-Nan island.

SLAIN BY A MOB.

lowane’ Attempt to Tar and Feather Ends in Murder. White caps have been at wqrk in Lee County, lowa, and as a result one man is dead and a warlike spirit has been aroused in the neighborhood that threatens further trouble. Abe Balm and his two brothers are well-to-do farmers, living near West Point. Not far away lived their father in the most abject poverty, and it was declared his sons refused to help him. When the old man died a few days ago it was claimed he had starved to death, and the alleged cruel treatment of the sons was generally denounced. After the father was dead the sons re-fused-to pay the expenses of his burial or even to see the body. This so enraged the neighboring farmers that they decided to rid their neighborhood of the "brothers. They determined to tar and feather them, and Tuesday night a mob of about thirty marched to the home of the Balm brothers and called for Abe, the oldest. Abe stepped to the door, and, seeing the crowd outside, retreated into the house before the mob could lay hands on him. He called to his brothers, and all three opened fire on the visitors from the open door of the house, inside of which were Abe's wife and children. The mob returned the fire, and after the smoke had cleared away it was found that. Abe hud l>een mortally wounded. The farmers retreated in the darkness. They were all masked, but Abe gave his brothers the names of seven neighbors, whom he declared he recognized in the mob. The brothers swore out warrants against the seven neighbors, charging them with murder. The entire neighborhood is up in arms.

TEACHERS IN SESSION.

Federation of Educational Associations Meet in Chicago. In Chicago Wednesday afternoon the Federation of Educational Associations held the first session of its second annual meeting. . The attendance at the opening was nearly two hundred. The Federation of Educational Associations is an outgrowth of the Western Penman’s Association. At the tenth annual meeting of that body, held in Chicago in December, 1895, it was thought that the interests of the teachers of shorthand and ty;»ewriting, the teachers df writing and drawing in the public and parochial schools, and the teachers of the general commercial branches in the business colleges and commercial departments of all other schools demanded special and separate consideration. Three new bodies were formed, and with the .existing association were made to comprise) the federation. A clash between the adherents of the different styles of handwriting taught in the schools took place. The argument arose in the discussion of a paper by A. N. Palmer of Cedar Rapids, lowa, entitled “Copy Books Condemned.” While the discussion was at its hottest chance reference was made to the vertical style of (mndwritiug introduced recently. A score of excited pedagogues were soon arrayed against one another in spirited debate. The argument was decidedly in favor of-the exponents of the old system of slanting chirography. R[»eed, the essential element in handwriting to-day, it was declared, coujd not Im* attained by -the vertical system.

BANKERS OPPOSE THE PLAN.

New York Financier* Declare Against a Postal Havings Scheme. The postal savings bank idea is not a popular one in New York banking circles. A canvass of presidents of prominent institutions showed that all practically agreed with President E. S. Mason'of the Bank of New York in the statement that there were already so many banks in existence that rates for money had been cut to n point where there was little profit in banking. F. D. Tappen, president of the Gallatin National Bank, thought that possibly in thinly populated districts postal savings banks might prove beneficial to the people, but he was confident that the residents of large towns and cith-s had nil the banking accommodations they desired. Oliver H. Carter of the Bunk of the Republic said that the .time had not come to discuss the proposition. Mr. Dumont Clark, president of the American Exchange National Bank, agreed wi(h Mr. Carter. J. Edwards Nimmons, president of the Fourth National, was also of the same opinion.

Notes of Cu rr e nt Events.

A terribk* gale did Immense damage to the fishing establishments of Newfoundland. • Youngstown, <)., desires,to secure the location of the Government nnnor plate factory. Fire at Baltimore damaged the plant of Crook, Horner & Co. to the extent of $150,000. The body of William Welsh was found In the woods nt Cumberland, Md., through the Imrking of his dog that had kept watch since hia death.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THt PAST WEEK. Monon Train Struck Their Carriage — Aerial Warship to Be Investigated . by the Government-They Nearly Killed Their Teacher. Death Ends Honeymoon. A fatal accident occurred at Terhune. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore and Miss Clara Brattain were returning from an entertainment, when a freight train on the Monon struck their carriage. Miss Brattain’s skull was fractured and she died. Mrs. Moore cannot recover. Mr. Moore was slightly injured. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were married two days before, and this was the first time they had been away fronj home together. Roberta’ Aerial Warship. William S. Roberts, an employe of the Hartford City Glass Company, has forwarded to Robert Craig, chief of the United States signal service, the plans and specifications of his aerial' warship. Roberts has been at work for fifteen years on the problem of aerial navigation. He visited Washington and succeeded in interesting the Government in his invention and later forwarded his plans to Washington at the request of the Secretary of War. Scholars Nearly Kill a Teacher. , William Miller, teacher of Woodland School, in Clay township, reproved a 13-year-old son of Bryant Robinson for refusing to read a Christmas essay. The lad attacked him with a knife. An older brother then struck the teacher on the back of the head with a stick of wood. Mr. Miller received a frightful scalp wound and his shoulder is broken. School was dismissed. The teacher may die. ___________ * Goes to Reform School. Charles Cane, charged with wife desertion, was taken to the reform school for boys from Anderson. Though married he was not beyond the reform school limit, being scarcely 19.: He has been confined in the institution and was out on parole. He is probably the first boy ever taken in for wife desertion. ' Killed by a Train.’ Winfield Haymond of Liberty township went to St. Paul to purchase his children Christmas presents. On his way home he was struck by a Big Four train and his body horribly mangled. Ten Brakemen Are Promoted. Ten Vandalia brakemen were called before Trainmaster Raidy at Terre Haute and notified that each one had been promoted to be a conductor. •• Within Our Borders. • John Kinnie committed suicide at Fort Wayne. At Huntington, Louis Meyer fell deal while eating breakfast. The Bowser Oil Tank Works nt Fcrt Wayne were damaged by fire to the extent of $35,000. Mrs. Seneca Chambers and child were fatally burned by an explosion of gun powder in their home near Anderson. At Brazil, John Smith, an old peddler, shot ami wounded Harry Joseph, proprietor of the Central Oil and Tank lii.e. John Classen, who lived near Reimer, committed suicide by taking poisou. Business troubles is the supposed cause. ‘August Johnson of Babcock was hurt in a runaway and gave his injuries no attention. Lockjaw set in and he is dead. M. K. Michaels was drowned In Devil’s Lake, near Butler. His l>ody was recovered about two hundred feet from shore. A warehouse at Hagerstown belonging to Cheesman & Co. was partly destroyed by fire. The loss is $3,000; insured for SI,OOO. W. Paul Stratton of De Pguw University won the medal by a close margin in the oratorical contest given by the Lyceum League of Sullivan. At South Bend, Charles S. Chapman and his wife died within fifty-five minutes of each other, the former cf apoplexy nnd the latter from pneumoniM. At Fortville, Miss Effie Webb, nged 20, committed suicide bj hanging herself with a rope in the smoke house. No cause for the rash act is known other than ill health. People who purchase meat in Mnrion now pay the regular prices ns existed before the retail stores of Armour & Co. were opened to meet the boycott of union labor. Armour’s stores have been closed. . While dressing a duck Councilman Jas. Marshall of Hartford City discovered two small gold nuggets In the fowl's craw. The duck is supposed to have swallowed them while searching for food in a nearby stream. Dr. E. Chittenden nnd Dr. M. V. Hunt, medical men known throughout Indiana, met nt the Big Four depot nt Anderson. There was a clash and with one accord both drew knives and started at each other. Friends separated the combatants. The Dobson gang of horse thieves was just ready to step out of the Anderson jnil the other night when Sheriff Starr accidentally discovered flint they had sawed the heavy steel liars. The saws were smuggled to them by the wife of the lender. Th<* remains of Albert Giersohki, a young Fort Wayne cigarmaker, were cremated at Lindenwood. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital a week before suffering with n deranged stomach. He sank rapidly and died. The ’reading of his will revealed the fact that he hud swallowed IMiison with suicidal Intent because he find l»een jilted in love by Emma North, n domestic. The, will leaves n Cigarmakers' Union benefit policy of SSOO to the girl. This she bus refused to accept, as she snys she never cared for Giersohki and had frequently ordered him nwny from the house. The Krug-Reynolds company, wholesale grocers nt Lndhuuqsilis, have l*en forced to assign. The liabilities are fix tn I nt $350,000; the assets will reach $400,000. The cause of the failure was the effort of the company to do a large business on limited capital. Very Rev. William Corby, C. R. C., head of the order of tlw Holy Cross in the United States, chaplain of the Indian* comiunndery of the laiyal I-egion, postmaster nt Notre Dame and commander of Notre Dame Post, G. A. R., died nt Routh Bend after n ten days’ IllucM withi pneumonia.