Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — Page 3

TALMAGES SERMON

IN this sermon of Dr. Talmage the character of a wise, sympathetic and self-denying sister is set forth as an example, and the story will set hundreds of men to thinking over old times; text, Exodus ii., 4, '"And his sister stood afar off to wit what would be dbne to him'.” Princess Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh, looking out through the lattice of her bathing house, on the banks of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the river. It had neither oar nor helm, and they would have been useless anyhow. There was only one passenger and that a baby boy. But the Mayflower, that brought the pilgrim fathers to America, carried not so precious a load. The boat was made of the broad leaves of papyrus, tightened together by bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of that material, as we learn from Pliny and Herodotus and Theophrastus. all the Hebrew children born,” had been Pharaoh’s order. To save her boy, Jochebed, the mother of little Moses, t had put him in that queer boat and launched him. His sister Miriam stood On the bank watching that precious craft. She was far enough off not to draw attention to the boat, but near enough to offer protection. There she stands on the bank— Miriam the poetess, Miriam the quick wilted, Miriam the faithful, though very human, for in after time she demonstrated it. Miriam was a splendid sister, but had her faults, like all the rest of us. How carefully she watched the boat containing her brother! A strong wind might upset it. The buffaloes often found there might in a sudden plunge of thirst sink it. Some ravenous water fowl might swoop and pick his eyes out with iron beak. Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might crunch the babe. Miriam watched and watched until Princess Thermutis, a maiden on each side of her holding palm leaves over her head to shelter her from the sun, came down and entered her bathing house. When from the lattice she saw that boat, she ordered it brought, and when the leaves were pulled back from thp face of the child and the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he was hungry and frightened and would not even let the princess take him. The infant would rather stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Miriam, the sister, incognito, no one suspecting her relation to the child, leaps from the bank and rushes down and offers to get a nurse to pacify the child. Consent is given, and she brings Jochebed, the baby’s mother, incognito, none of the court knowing that she was the mother, and when Jochebed arrived the child stopped crying, for its fright was calmed and its hunger appeased. You may admire Jochebed, the mother, and all the ages may admire Moses, but I clap my hands in applause at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful,. brilliant and strategic sister.

A Nonsuch in History. “Go home,” some one might have said to Miriam. “Why risk yourself out there aloue on the banks of the Nile, breathing the miasma and in danger of being attacked of -wild beast or ruffian? Go home!” No. Miriam, the sister, more lovingly watched and bravely defended Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty centuries of the world's history have never had so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen! Its one passenger was to be a nonsuch in history—lawyor, statesman, politician, legislator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer. He had such remarkable beauty in childhood that, Josephus says, when he was carried along the road people stopped to gaze at him and workmen would leave their work to admire him. When the king playfully put his crown upon this boy, he threw it off indignantly and put his foot on it. The king, fearing that this might be a sign that the child might yet take down his crown, applied another test. According to the Jewish legend, the king ordered two bowls to be put before tire child, one containing rubies and the other burning coals, and if he took the coals he was to live and if he took the rubies he was to die. For some reason the child took one of the coals and put it in his mouth, so that his life was spared, ulthough it burned the tongue till he was indistinct of utterance ever after. Having come to manhood, he spread open the palms of his hands in prayer, and the lied Sea parted to let 2,500,000 people escape. And he put the palms of his hands together in prayer, and the lied Sea closed on a strangulated host. Miriam the Faithful. Oh, was not Miriam, the sister of Moses, doing a good thing, nn important thing, a glorious thing when she watched the bout woven of river plants and made water tight with nsphaltum, carrying its one hnssenger? I>id she not put all the ages of time and of n coming eternity nn3er obligation when she defended her helpleas brother from the perils aquatic, reptilian and ravenous? She it was that brought that wonderful babe and his mother together, so that he was reared to be the deliverer of his nation, when otherwise, if saved at all from the rushes of the Nile, he would have been only one more of the God defying pharaohs; for Princess Thennutis or the bathing house would have inherited the crown of Egypt, nnd as she had no child of her o\yn this adopted child would have come to coronation. Had there been no Miriam there would have been no Moses. What n garland for faithful sisterhood! For how many a lawgiver nnd how many a hero and how many a deliverer ami how many a saint are the world and the clpirch indebted to a watchful, loving, faithful, godly sister? Come up out of the farmhouses, come up out of the Hfconspicuous

homes, come up from the banks of the Hudson and Penobscot and the Savannah and the Mobile and the Mississippi and all the other Niles of America, and let us see you, the Miriams who watched and protected the leaders in law and medicine and merchandise and art and agriculture and mechanics and religion! If I should ask all physicians and attorneys and merchants and ministers of religion and successful men of all professions and trades who art? indebted to an elder sister for good influences and perhaps for an education or a prosperous start to let it be known, hundreds would testify. God knows how many of our Greek lexicons and how much of our schoolings were paid for by money that would otherwise have gone ’ for the replenishing of a sister’s wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for a resounding sphere, the sister watched him from the banks of self-de-nial. The Elder Sister’s Guiding Hand. Miriam was the eldest of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were younger. Oh, the power of the elder sister to help decide the brother’s character for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brothel- more evils than Miriam could have driven back water fowl or crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The older sister decides the direction in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness, by good sense, by Christian principle she can turn it toward the palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy God, and a brighter princess tlign Thermutis should lift him out of peril, even religion, whose ways sire ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! Born while yet the family was in limited circumstances*she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is anything that excites my sympathy it is a little girl lugging round a great fat child hud getting her ears boxed because she cannot keep him quiet. By the time she gets to young womanhood she is pale and worn oulfe and her attractiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, and she is consigned to celibacy, and society calls her by an unfair name, but-fin heaven they call her Miriam. In most families the two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and the last—the first l>ceause she is worn out with the cares of a home that cannot afford to hire help, and the last because she is spoiled ns a pet. Among the grandest equipages that sweep through the streets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest Of the Apocalyptic white horses, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass, the charioteer crying; “Clear the way! A queen is coming!”

Blessing or Curse. Let sisters not begrudge the time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy that you know so well as your brother can ever turn out anything, very useful. Well, he may not be a Moses. There is only one of that kind needed for 0,000 years. But I tell you what your brothel' will be—=-either a blessing or a curse to society .and a candidate for happiness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses, have the choice between mines and living coals, and your influence will have much to do with his decision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer of a nation, but he may, after your father and mother are gone, be the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes to-day are piloted by brothers! There are properties now well invested and yielding income for the support of sisters and younger brother because the older brother rose to the leadership from the day the father lay down to die. Whatever you do for your brothers will come back to you again. If you set him an ill-natured, censorious, unaccommodating example, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated and despoiled nature. If you, by patience with his infirmities and by nobility of character, dwell with him in the few years of your companionship, you will have your counsels reflected back upon you some day by Jiis splendor of behavior in some crisis where he would have failed but for you. Don't snub him. Don’t depreciate his ability. Don't talk discouragingly about his future. Don’t let Miriam get down off the bank of the Nile and wade out and upset the ark of bulrushes. Don’t tease him. Brothers and sisters do not consider it any harm to tease. That spirit abroad in the family is one of the meanest and most devilish. There is n teasing that is pleasurable and is only another form of innocent raillery, but that which provokes and irritates and makes the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended. It would be less blameworthy to take a bunch of thorns and dra\g them across your sister’s cheek or to take a knife and draw its sharp edge across your brother's hand till the blood spurts, for that would damage only the body, but tensing is the thorn and the knife scratching and lacerating the disposition and the soul. It is the curse of innumerable households that the brothers tease the sisters and the sisters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color of the hair, or the shape of the feutures or an nffnir of the heart. Sometimes it is by revealing a secret or by a suggestive look or a guffaw or an “Ahem!” Tease! Tease! Tease! Tease! For mercy's sake, quit it. Christ says, “He thut hnteth his brother is a murderer." Now, when you, by tensing, make your brother or sister hate, you turn him or her into a murderer or murderess. -Beware of Jculousy. Don’t let jealousy ever touch a sister's soul, ns it so often does, because her brother gets more honor or more means, i Even Miriam, the heroine of the text, was struck by that evil passion of jealousy. She had possessed unlimited influence over Moses, and now he marries, and not only so, but marries a black woman from Ethiopia, and Miriam is so disgusted and outraged at Moses, first because lie had married at nil, and next because he had practiced miscegenation, that she is drawn iuto a frenzy, and then begins to turn white and gets white as a corpse and then whiter than a corpse. Her complexion is like chalk—the fact is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother whom she had defended on the Nile comes to her rescue in a prayer that brings her restoration. Let there be no room in nil your house for jealousy either to sit or stand. It, Is a leprous abomination. Your brother’s success, O sisters, is your success! His victories will be

your victories. For while Moses (he brother led the vocal music after the crossing of the Bed Sea, Miriam the sister, with two sheets of shining brass uplifted and glittering in the sun, led the instrumental music, clapping the cymbals till the last frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry horse was smothered, in the wave and the last Egyptian helmet went under. Do Your Part. If you only knew it, your interests are identical. Of all the fafuilies of the”earth that ever stood together perhaps the most conspicuous is the family of the Rothschilds. As Mayer Anselm Itothschild was about to die, in 1812, he gathered his children about him—Anselm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles and James —and made them promise that they Would alwaysrbe united on 'Change. Obeying that injunction, they have been the mightiest commercial power on earth, and at the raising or lowering of their scepter nations have risen or fall* en. That illustrates how much, on a large scale and for selfish purposes, a united family may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as the object it be doing good and making salutary impression and raising this sunken world, how much more ennobling! Sister, you do your part and brother will do bis part. If Miriam will lovingly watch the boat on the Nile. Moses will help her when leprous disasters strike. When father and mother are gone—and they soon will be, if they have not already made exit—the sisterly and fraternal bond will be the only ligament that will bold the family together. How many reasons for your deep and unfaltering affection for each other! Booked in the same cradle; bout over by the same motherly tenderness; toiled for by 1 the same father's weary arm and aching brow; with common inheritance of all the family secrets and with names given you by parents who started you with the highest hopes for your happiness and prosperity, I charge you be loving and kind and forgiving. If the sister see that the brother never wants a sympathizer, the brother will see that the sister never wants an escort. Ob, if the sisters of a household knew through what terrific aud damning temptations their brother goes in city life, they would hardly sleep nights in anxiety for his salvation! And if you would make a holy conspiracy of kind words and gentle attentions and earnest prayers, that would save his soul from death and bide a multitude of sins. But let the sister dash off in one direction in discipleship of the world, and the brother flee off in am other direction and dissipation, and it will not be long before they will meet again at the iron gate of despair, their blistered feet in the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alas, that brothers and sisters though living together for years very often do not know each other, and that they see only the imperfections and none of the virtues! Know Thy Brother.

General Bauer of the Russian cavalry had in early life wandered off with the army, and the family supposed he was dead. After he gained a fortune he encamped one day in Husam, his native place, and made a banquet, and among the great military men who were to dine he invited a plain miller and his wife who lived near by and who, affrighted, came, fearing some harm would be done them. The miller and his wife were placed one on each side of the general at the table. The general asked the miller all about his family, and the miller said that he had two brothers and a sister. “No other brothers?” “My younger brother went Off with the army many years ago and no doubt was long ago killed.” Then the general said, “Soldiers, I am this man’s younger brother, whom he thought was dead.” And how loud was the cheer and how warm was the embrace! Brother aud sister, you need as much of an introduction.to each other as they did. l'ou do not know each other. You think your brother is grouty and cross and queer, and he thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely. Both wrong. That brother will be a prince in some woman’s eyes, and that sister a queen in the estimation of some man. That brother is a magnificent fellow, and that sister is a morning in June. Come, let me,introduce you: “Moses, this is Miriam. Miriam, this is Moses.” Add 75 per cent to your present appreciation of each other and when you kiss good morning do not stick up your cold cheek, wet from the recent washing, as though you hated to touch each other's lips in affectionate caress. Let it have all the fondness and cordiality of a loving sister’s kiss. To Part No More. Make yourself as agreeable and helpful to each other os possible, remembering that soon you part. The few years of boyhood aud girlhood will soon slip by, ami you will go out to homes of your own and into the battle with the world and amid ever changing vicissitudes and on paths crossed with graves and up steeps hard to climb and through shadowy ravines. But, Omy God and Saviour, may the terminus of the journey be the same as the start—namely, at the father's and mother's knee, if they have inherited the kingdom. Then, as in boyhood and girlhood days, we rushed in after the day's absence with much to tell of exciting adventure, and father and mother enjoyed the recital as much as we who made it, so we shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse to them all the scenes of our earthly expedition, and they shall welcome us home, as we say, “Father and mother, we have come and brought our children with us.” The old revival hymn described it with glorious repetition: Brothers and sisters there will meet, Brothers and sisters there will meet, Brothers and sisters these will meet, Will meet to part no more. Copyright, IMW.

Short Sermons.

Take Away the Pain.—fc<et us take away the pain from the heart of Go.I by removing It from the souls amt h idles of men. Let us remember that "to lift the Inirdcii of humanity Is to lift the burden of God.”—Rev. \V. W’Tfllams, Baptist, Denver, Colo. The Truth of Christ.—Christ Is tins living truth, not a string of formulas Intellectually {lerfeet, however venom hie. He Is emliodliHl truth, the knowledge of whom Is better than the discipline of sacred metaphysics. Rev. I)r, Barrowe, Presbyterian, Chicago, 111. A Vast Problem.—Every generation of the world's history Is confronted by some Important problem to the solution of which the boot minds and the truest hearts must lend their every .energy. Our time has a vast problem*—Rev. Father Dueey, Roman Catholic, Now* York City.

PRESIDENT M’KINLEY SPEAKS IT.

Uses Plate Words in Addressing the National Association of Manufacturers.

HANGS HIS BANNER ON THE OUTER WALL. —Chicago Record.

PRESIDENT M’KINLEY, in addressing the Nationnl Association of Manufacturers in New York, said: “I recall that as Governor of the State of Ohio it was my pleasure to welcome you to the city of Cincinnati on Jan. 22, 1895, at the initial convention of the Manufacturers’ Association. I well remember the occasion. Your speeelies and resolutions at the first convention were directed mainly to the question of how to regain what you had lost in the previous years, or, if that was found impossible, then how to stop_further loss. But your object now, ns I gather it, is to go out and possess what you have never had before. You want to extend, not your notes, but your business. I sympathized with your purposes then; lam in full accord with your intentions now. I ventured to say at the gathering referred to, ns reported in your published proceedings, speaking both for your encouragement and from a profound conviction: ‘This great country cannot be permanently kept in a state of relapse. I believe we will reoccupy the field temporarily lost to us and go out to the peaceful conquest of new and greater fields of trade and commerce. The recovery will come slowly, perhnps, but it will come, and when it does, we will be steadier and will better know how to avqid exposure hereafter.’ I have abated none of the faith I then-ex-pressed, and you seem to have regained yours. “Nationnl policies can encourage industry and commerce, but it remains for the people to project and carry them on. If these policies stimulate industrial development and energy, the people can bo safely trusted to do the rest. The Government, however, is restricted in its power to promote industry. It can nid commerce, but not create it. It can widen and deepen its rivers, improve its harbors and develop its great national waterways, but the ships to sail and the traffic to carry the people must supply. The Government can raise revenues by taxation in such a way as will discriminate iu favor of domestic enterprises, but it cannot establish them. It can make commercial treaties, opening to our manufacturers and agriculturists the ports of ojfcer nations. It can enter into reciprocal arrangements to exchange our products with those of other countries. It can aid our merchant marine by encouraging our people to build ships of commerce. It can assist in every lawful manner private enterprise to unite the two oeenns with a great canal. It can do all these things and ought to do them, but with nil this accomplished the result will still bo ineffectual unless supplemented by the energy, enterprise and industry of the people. It is they that must build and operate the factories, furnish ships and cargoes for the canal and the rivers and the seas. It Is they who must find the consumers and obtain trade by going forth to win It. “Much profitable trade is still unenjoyed by our people because of their present insufficient facilities for reaching desirable markets. Much of it is lost because of a of information and ignorance of the conditions and needs of other nations. We must know just what other people want before we can supply their wants. We must understand exactly how to reach them with least expense if we would enter into the most advantageous business relations with them. The ship requires the shipper, but the shipper must have assured promise that his goods will have a sale when they reach their destination. It is a good rule If buyers will not come to us for us to go to them. It is our duty to make American enterprise nnd industrial ambition ns well ns achievement terms of respect- and praise, not only at home but among the family of nations the world over. For Currency Reform. “There is another duty resting upon the national government—‘to coin money a nd regulate the value thereof.’ This duty requires that our Government shall regulate the value of its money by the highest standards of commercial honesty and national honor. The money of the United States is and must forever bo unquestioned and unassailable. If doubts remain they must be removed. If weak places are discovered they must be strengthened. Nothing should ever tempt us —nothing ever will tempt us—to scale down the sacred debt of the nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contrnet, the United States will discharge nil its obligations in the currency recognized ns the best throughout the civilized world nt the times of payment. Nor will we ever consent that the wages of labor or its frugnl saviugs thall be scaled down by permitting payment in dollars of less value that* the dollars accepted ns the best iu every enlightened nation of the earth. V' “Under existing conditions our citizens cannot be excused if they do not redouble their efforts to secure such financial legislation ns will place their honorable intentions beyond dispute. All those who represent, as you do, the great conservative and the progressive business interests of the country owe It not only to themselves but to the people to insist upon the settlement of this great question now, or else to face the alternative that it must be again submitted for arbitration at the polls. . Command from th* People. “This is our plain duty to more than 7,000,000 voters, who fifteen months ago won a grent political battle on the issue, among others, that the United States Government would not permit a doubt to exist anywhere concerning the stability nnd integrity of its currency or the inviolnbiHty of its obligations of every kind. That is my interpretation of that victory. Whatever effort, therefore, is required to make the settlement of this vital question clear nnd conclusive for all time we are bound in good conscience to undertake and if possible realize. That is our commission—our present charter from the people. It will not suttl;e for citizens nowadays to say simply that they are iu favor of sound money. That is not enough. The people’s purpose must be given the vitality of public law. Better an honest effort with failure than the avoiding of so plain and commanding a duty. “Ilalf-heartedness never won a battle. Nations nnd parties without abiding principles nnd stern resolution to enforce them, even if it costs a continuous struggle to do so and temporary sacrifice, are never in the highest degree successful lenders in the progress of mankind. For us to attempt nothing in the face of the present fallacies nnd tiie constant effort to spread them is to weuken the forces of sound money for their battles of the future. The financial plonk of the St. Louis platform is still ns commanding upon Republicans and those who served with them iu the last campaign ns on the day it was adopted nnd promulgated. Happily, the tariff part of the platform has already been ingrafted into public statute. Hut that other plunk, not already builded into our constitution, is of binding force upon nil of us. What is it? ••‘The Republican parly is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1H79» since then (very dollar hns been ns good ns gold. Wo are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase ou» currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, nnd until such agreement enn be obtained the existing gold standard must bo preserved. AH our silver nnd paper currency must Ik* maintained nt parity with gold, nnd we favor nil measures designed to inniutain inviolably the obligations of the United Btntes, and all our money, whether coin or paper, nt the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the party now in power, nnd who are still anxiously waiting for the exeeution of their free and omnipotent will by those of us who hold commissions from that rente tribunal. The country Is now emerging from trying conditions. It is only lust beginning to recover from the depression In certnin lines of business, long continued and altogether unparalleled. Progress, therefore, will naturally be slow, but let us not be Impatient. Rather let us exercise a just patience, and one which In time Will surely bring its own. high reward.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Driven to Death by MaUcious^tumors -One Man Killed by a Boiler Explosion Convict Accidentally Breaks His Neck-Stabbed by a Companion. 7 i Trouble Drove Him to Death. W. A. Meyer, a hat dealer in Fort Wayne, hanged liinmylf in the cellar of his store. His stock had been damaged by fire a few days before. The insurance adjusters called at the store and found it locked. They sent for Mrs. Meyer and she unlocked the store. She went down cellar nud there found Meyer’s body hanging by a rope from a gas pipe. Meyer was despondent over a report that certain persons believed that he had set fire to his store. Big: Boiler Explosion. The Victor mine of the Parke County * Coal Company, near Fontanet, was the scene of a serious explosion. A mammoth boiler used nt the mine exploded, killing George Markle, the engineer, outright. Two other men, whose names are unknown, were seriously injured. Markle’s body was blown a distance of IOG feet and mutilated in a horrible manner. Escaped from Sullivan Jail. Daniel Peak, forger, and Charles Lancaster, attempted murderer, made their escape from the jail at Sullivan. They procured fine steel saws and sawed the hinges from the cell door and pried them open. They then sawed two of the iron bars from a window in the jail, from which they made their escape. Lancaster was caught iu a barn near the city. Accidental Death of a Convict., “Doc” Hall, a convict from Martinsville, was found lying,on the floor of his cell with his neek broken, at the Jeffersonville reformatory. He had complained of ty*ing ill and weak, nnd was excused from work. It is supposed that he attempted to rise from his cot, and, being so weak, fell and received the fatal injury. Klondike Near La Porte. A sensatioh has been caused by the finding of gold on the farm of John Jones, northeast of La Porte. The metal was found Iu considerable quantities in drilling a well. Particles were assayed by local experts, and a sample has been sent to the State geologist at Indianapolis for an expert opinion. Boy Stabbed in a Quarrel. Willie Liudawood, aged 17, and Glenn Ralston, aged 18, of Crawfordsville, quarreled on their way home from a meeting of the Salvation army nnd Lindawood stabbed Ralston several times in the side, leaving his knife sticking in the flesh. The boy is badly injured. Within Our Borders. Peter Roth of Shelb.vville died from injuries received in a lull. At Elwood Emmett Limpus fell from a fifty-foot ladder and was killed. Harry Warvel, aged 18, has mysteriously disappeared from North Judson. Daniel Meltzer, a prominent Shelbyville farmer, died while at his breakfast table. ItolK>rt Fisher, n farmer, aged <57 years, living near Greensburg, committed suicide. The State Board of Agriculture fixed the third week in September as the time for holding the Stute fair. At Fort Wayne, Thomas Mannix dropped dead. lie had been connected with the’mail service many years. Near Pierceton, James Norris, a farmer, committed suicide in his barn, hacking his neck to strings with two razors. At Princeton, Otto Anderson attempted to commit suicide l(y taking an overdose of chloroform. He and his young wife had qunrreled. Jus. Woods, n worker at the National tin plate plant at Anderson, was found dead in bed. It is thought that his henrt was affected. At Butler Andrew Casebeer, aged 92 years, was granted a divorce from his wife, Mary Jane Casebeer, who is a few years younger. The truant officers of LaPorte County united in an appeal to the Board of County Commissioners for the establishment of a home for incorrigible school children. The new residence of Elmer Ramie, in n suburb of Muncie, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,500; fully insured. A natural gas jet caused the fire. Some of tin* lending farmers of Peru are taking advantage of the oil boom that hns Ik*cu going on there stir six months and lire using the crude product to feed their herds of swine. Oran Yin Russell, a well-known Elwood man, while intoxicated, swallowed a large* dose of arsenic, unknown to anyone. He died in five hours. Russell leaves a young wife and two children. At Terre Haute Mrs. William Stewart was fatally scalded while her husband was helping her carry a wash boiler filled with boiling water. A handle entne off ami the water poured over her. Mrs. Jennie Fnltze, a young married woman of Martinsville, swallowed two and a half grains of morphine with suicidal intent. A physician’s prompt service has made it possible for her to live. A stranger was discovered robbing risnns of students on College hill, Valparaiso. lie was captured und gave his name ns Frank Moore of New Orleans, but later it was learned that he was James Vanhyde of Ohio. The Indiana Labor Commission effected a settlement for one year among the thousand workmen in the Elwood and Kokomo plate glass plants nnd the Pittsburg Glass Company. The works at Elwood have resumed o|M*ratldiiM. Harry G. Gibson of Abbydell© was convicted at Mississippi City, Miss., of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Pnrkhnrst of Oskaloosa, lowa, at Back Hay, a suburb of Hiloxi. on the night of Oct. 21 Inst, nud sentenced to be hanged on March 8 next. A panic prevailed for a time at the county infirmary, three miles from Huntington. The hospital building caught fire, and the fifty inmutes became terror stricken. Several were slightly injured nud bifnied, but none seriously. The city* tire department extinguished tK» fljv. Th» Vss is $1,090, fully insured.