Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1898 — Page 7

TALMAGES SERMON

IN this wintry season Dr. Talmage refreshes us with this glowing pastoral until we can almost hear the bleating •of the flocks in green pastures. The text is Psalms xxiii., 1, “The Lord' is my shepherd.” f What with post and rail fences and our pride in Southdown, Astrakhan and Flemish varieties of sheep, there is no use now of the old time shepherd. Such a one had abundance of opportunity of becoming a 7>oet, being out of"'doors twelve hours a day. and ofttimes waking up in the night on the hills. If the stars or the torrents of the sun or the flowers had anything to say, he was very apt to hear it. The Ettrick Shepherd of Scotland, who afterward took his seat in the brilliant circle ■of Wilson and Lockhart, got his wonderful poetic inspiration in the ten years in which he was watching the flocks of Mr, Laidlaw. There is often a sweet poetry In the rugged prose of the Scotch shepherd. One of these Scotch shepherds lost liis only son, and he knelt down in prayer and Avas overheard to say, “O Lord, it has seemed good in thy providence to take from me tlie staff of my right hand at the time when to us sand blind mortals I seemed to be most in need of it. and how I shay climb up the hill of sorrow and auld age without it thou mayst ken, but 1 dinna,” David, the Shepherd Boy. David, the shepherd boy., is watching his father's sheep. They are pasturing on the very hills where afterward a Lamb was born of which you have heard much, “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” David, the shepherd boy, was beautiful, brave, musical and poetic. I think he often forgot the sheep in his reveries. There in the solitude. he struck, the harp string that is thrilling through all ages. David the boy was gathering the material for David the poet and David the rpau. Like other boys, David was fond'of using his knife among the saplings, and he had noticed the exuding of the juice of the tree, and when he became a man he said, “The trees of the Lord are full of sap.” David the boy, like other boys, had been fond of hunting the birds’ nests, and he had driven the old stork off the nest to find how many eggs were under her, and when he became man he said, “As for the stork, the fir trees are lieu - house.” In boyhood he had heard the terrific thunderstorm that frightened the red deer into premature sickness, and when he became a man he said, “The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve.” David the boy had lain upon his back looking up at the* stars and examining the sky, and tp his boyish imagination the sky seemed like a piece of divine embroidery, the divine fingers working in the threads of light and the beads of stars, and he became a man and wrote, “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers.” When he became an old man, thinking of the goodness of God, he seemed to hear the bleating of his father's sheep across many years and to think of the time when he tended them on the Bethlehem hills, and he cries out in the text, “The Lord is my shepherd.” If God will help me, I will talk to you of the shepherd's plaid, the shepherd’s crook, the shepherd's dogs, the shepherd’s pasture grounds, and the shepherd’s flocks. The Shepherd's Plaid. And first the shepherd’s plaid. It would bo preposterous for a man going out to rough and besoiliug work to put on splendid apparel. The potter does not work in velvet. The servant maid does not put on satin while toiling at her duties. The shepherd does not wear a splendid robe in which to go out amid the storms, and the rocks and the nettles; he puts on the rough apparel appropriate' to liis exposed tvork. The Lord our Shepherd, coming out to hunt the lost sheep, puts on no regal apparel, but the plain garment of our humanity. There was nothing pretentious about it. I know, the old painters represent a halo around the babe Jesus, but I do not suppose that there was any more halo about that child than about the head of any other babe that was born that Christmas eve iu Judea. Becoming a man, he wore a seamless garment. The scissors and needle had done nothing to make it graceful. I take it to have boon a sack with three holes iu it, one for the neck and twojfor the arms. Although the gamblers quarreled over it, that is no evidence of its value. I have seen two rag pickers quarrel over the refuse in an ash barrel. No; in the wardrobe of heaven he left the sandals of light, the girdles of beauty, the robes of power, and put on the besoiled and tattered raiment of our humanity. Sometimes he did not even wear the seamless robe. What is that hanging about the waits of Christ'/ Is it a badge of authority/ Is it a royal coat of arms/ No; it is :) towel. The disciples' foot are filthy from the walk on the long way and are not fit to be put upon the sofas on which they arc to Yocline at the meal, and so Jesus washes their feet and gathers them tip in the towel to dry them. The work of saving this world was rough work, rugged work, hard work, and Jesus put on the raiment, the plain raiment of our flesh. The storms were to beat him, the crowds were to jostle him, the dust was to sprinkle him. the mobs were to pursue him. () Shepherd of Israel, leave nt home thy bright array! For thee, what streams to ford, what nights nil unsheltered! He puts upon him the plain raiment of our hunt unity. wears our woes, and while earth and heaven and hell stand a maxed nt the abnegation wraps around him the shepherd's plaid. Cold mountains and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of his prayer. The Shepherd's Crook. Next I mention the shepherd's crook. This w as a rod with a curve at the end,

which when a sheep was going astray was thrown over its neck aud in that way it was pulled back. When the sheep were not gping astray, the shepherd would often use it as a of crutch, leaning on it, but when the sheep were out of the way the crook was always busy pulling them back. Ail we, like sheep, have gone astray, and had it not been for the shepherd’s crook wo would have fallen long ago over the precipices. Here is a man who is making too much money. He is gettiug very vain. He says: “After awhile I shall be independent of all the world. O my soul, eat, drink and be merry!” Business disaster eomes to him. What is God going to do with him/ Has God any grudge against him?_ OK; TOT Gbflis throwing 1 over Kirn tlie’ shepherd’s crook and pulling him back into bettor pastures. Here is a man who has always been well. He has never had any sympathy for invalids. He calls them coughing, wheezing nuisances. After awhile sickness comes to him. He does not understand what God is going to do with him. He says, “Is the Lord angry with.me/” Oh, no! With the shepherd’s crook he has been pulled back into better pastures. Here is a happy household circle. The parent does not realize the truth that these children are only loaned to him, and he forgets from what source came his domestic blessings, Sickness drops upon those children and death - swoops upon a little one. He says, “Is God angry with me/” No. His shepherd’s crook pulls him back into hotter pastures. I do not know what would have become of us if it had not been for the shepherd's creek. Oh, the mercies of our troubles! You take up apples and plums from’under the shade of tlie'trees, and the very best fruits of Christian character we find in the deep shade of trouble. Uses of Adversity. When I was on the steamer coming across the ocean, I got a cinder in my eye, and several persons tried to get it out very gently, but it could not be taken out in that way. I was told that the engineer had a faculty in such cases. I went, to him. He put his large, sooty hand on me, took a knife and Wrapped the lid of the eye around the knife. I expected to be hurt very much, but without any pain and instantly he removed the cinder. Oh, Jhere come times in our Christian life when our spiritual vision is being spoiled and all gentle appliances fail! Then there comes some giant trouble and black handed lays hold of us and removes that which would have ruined our vision forever. I will gather all our joys together in one regiment of ten companies, and I will put them under Colonel Joy. Then I will gather all your sorrows together in one regiment of ten companies and put them under Colonel Breakheart. Then I will ask, Which of these regiments has gained for you the greater victories? Certainly that under Colonel Breakheart. In the time of war, you may remember at the South and North, the question was whether the black troops would fight, but when they were put into the struggle on both sides they did heroically. In the great day of eternity it will be found that it was not the white regiment of joys that gained your greatest successes, but the black troops of trouble, misfortune and disaster. Where you have gained one spiritual s'uecess from your prosperity, you have gained ten spiritual successes from your adversity. There is no animal that struggles more violently than a sheep when you corner it and catch hold of it. Down in the glen I see a group of men around a lost sheep. A plowman comes along and seizes the sheep and tries to pacify it, but it is more frightened than ever. A miller eomes along, puts down his grist and caresses the sheep, and it seems as if it would die of fright. After awhile some one breaks through the thicket. He says, “Let me have the poor thing.” He comes up and lays his arms around the sheep and it is immediately quiet. Who is the last man that comes? It is the shepherd. All, my friends, be not afraid of the shepherd’s crook! It is never used on you save in mercy, to pull you back. The hard, cold iceberg of trouble will melt in the warm gulf stream of divine sympathy. There is one passage I think you misinterpret, "The bruised reed he will not break.” Do you know that the shepherd in olden times played upon these feeds? They were very easily bruised, but when they were bruised .they were never mended. The shepherd could so easily make another one, he would snap the old one and throw it away and get another. The Bible says it is not so with our Shepherd. When the music is gone out of a man’s soul, God does not snap him in twain and throw him away. He mends and restores. “The bruised reed he will not break.” When in the o’er hanging heavens of fate The threatening clouds of darkness dwell, Then let us humbly watch and wait. It shall be well, it shall be well. And when the storm has passed nway And sunshine smiles oil tlood and fell llow sweet to think, how sweet to say, It has been well, it has been well! The Shcpherd’B IlogH, Next I speak of the shepherd’s dogs. They watch tin 1 straying sheep and drive them hack again. Every shepherd has liis dog—from the nomads of the Bible times down to the Scotch herdsman watching his flocks on the Grampian hills. Our Shepherd employs the criticisms ami persecutions of the world ns his dogs. There arc those, you know, whose whole work It is to watch the inconsistencies of Christians and bark at them. If one of God’s sheep gets astray, the world howls. With more avidity than a shepherd's dog ever caught a stray sheep by the flanks or lugged it by the ears worldlings seize the Christian astray. It ought to do us good to know that we arc thus watched. It ought to put us on our guard. They cannot bite us, if we stay near the Shepherd. The sharp knife of worldly assault will only trim the vines until they produce better grapes. The more you pound marjoram and rosemary, the sweeter they smell. The more dogs take after you, the quicker you will get to the gate. You have noticed that different flocks of sheep havo diferent marks upon them; sometimes a red mark, sometimes a blue niiirk.. sometimes a straight mark and sometimes a crooked mark. The Lord our Shepherd has a mark for ids sheep. It is a red mark—the mark of the cross. “Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,”

Furthermore, consider the pasture grounds. The old shepherds used to take tlie sheep upon the mountains in the summer and dwell in. -the valleys in the w,inter. The sheep being out of doors perpetually, their wool was better than if they had been kept in the hot atmosphere of the sheep cot. Wells .were dug for the sheep and covered with large stones, iu order that the hot weather might not spoil tli.e water. And then the shepherd led his flock wherever he would; nobody disputed his right. So the Lord-our Shepherd has a large pasture ground. He takes us in the summer to the mountains and in the winter to the valleys. Warm days of prosperity eoute and we stand ou sun gilt Sabbaths, and on hills of transfiguration. and we are so high up we can catch a glimpse of the pinnacles of the heavenly "city. Then cold, wintry days of trouble come, and we go down into the 'valley of sickness, want and bereavement and we say, “Is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow?” But, blessed be God, the Lord'*, sheep can find pasture anywhere. Between two rocks of trouble a tuft -*~of succulent promises; green pastures beside still waters; long, sweet grass between bitter graves. You have noticed the structure of the sheep’s mouth? It is so sharp that it can take up a blade of grass or clover top from the very narrowest spot. And so God’s sheep can pick up comfort where others can gather none. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” Rich pasture, fountain fed pasture, for all the flock of the Good Shepherd!

The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets. Ttle Shepherd’s Fold. Lastly consider the shepherd’s fold. The time of sheep shearing was a very glad time. The neighbors gathered and they poured wine and danced for joy. The sheep were put in a place inclosed by a wall, where it was very easy to count them and know whether any of them liad been taken by the jackals or dogs. The inclosure was called the sheepfold. Good news I have to tell you, in, that our Lord the Shepherd has a sheepfold, and those who are gathered in it shall never bo struck by the storm, shall never be touched by the jackals of temptation and trouble. It lias a high wall — so high that no troubles can get in, so high that the joys cannot get out. How glad the old sheep will be to find the lambs that left them a good many years ago! Millions of children in heaven! Oil, what a merry heaven it will make! Not many long meter psalms there! They will be in tlie majority and will run away with our song, carrying it up to a still higher point of ecstasy. Oh. there will be shouting! If children on earth clapped their hands and danced for joy, what will they do when to the gladness of childhood on earth is added the gladness of childhood in heaven?

It is time we got over these morbid ideas of how w'e shall get out of this world. You make your religion an undertaker planning coffins and driving hearses. Your religion smells of tlie varnish of a funeral casket. Rather let your religion to-day come out aud show you tlie sheepfold that God has provided for you. Ah, you say, there is a river between this and thgt! I know it, but that Jordan is only for the sheep washing, and they shall go 4ip on the other banks snow white. They follow the great Shepherd. They heard his voice long ago. They are safe nowone fold and one Shepherd! Alas for those who are finally found outside the inclosure! The night of their sin howls with jackals. They are thirsting for their blood. The very moment that a lamb may be frisking upon the hills a bear may be looking at it from the thicket, Tlie Joy of Victory. In June, 1815, there was a very noble party gathered iu a house in St. Janies square, London. The prince regent was present, and the occasion was made fascinating by music and banqueting and by jewels. While a quadrille was being formed, suddenly all the people rushed to the jvindows. What is the matter? Henry Percy had arrived with the' nows that Waterloo had been fought and that England had won the day. The dance was abandoned, the party dispersed, lords, ladies and musicians rushed into the strpet, and in fifteen minutes from the first announcement of tlie good news the house was emptied of all its guests. Oh, ye who are seated at the banquet of this world or whirling in its gayeties and frivolties, if you could hear the sweet strains of the gospel trumpet announcing Christ’s victory over sin and death and hell, you would rush forth, glad in the eternal deliverance! The Waterloo against sin lias boon fought, and our Commandor-in-Chief hath won the day. Oh, the joys of this salvation! 1 do not care what metaphor, what comparison, you have. Bring it to me, that I may use it. Amos shall bring one simile, Isaiah another, John another. Beautiful with pardon. Beautiful with peace. Beautiful with anticipations. Or, to return to the pastoral figure of my text, come out of the poor pasturage of this world into tlie rich fortunes of the Good Shepherd. The shepherd of old used to play beautiful music, and sometimes the sheep would gather around him and listen. To-day my heavenly shepherd calls to you with tlie very music of heaven, bidding you to leave your sin and accept his pardon. Oh, that all this flock would hear the piping of tlie Good Shepherd! Copyright, 18U8.

Short Sermons.

The Greatest Sin. If I were called to point out the most alarming sins of 10-<lay—those which are tlie most deceitful in their influence anti the most soul-destroying In their ultimate effects —I would not mention drunken* ness, with all its fearful havoc; nor gambling, with its crazed victims; not harlotry, with all its hellish orgies, but tin* love of money on the part of men, and the love of display on tlie part of women.—Rev. C. L. Thtirgwd, Disciple, Pittsburg, I’a. Reason. —God has made us In his Imago and given the power of reasoning. In a large sense, man Is the only earthly creature capable of constructing an argument, and from premises to come to a correct conclusion. Mm-li of our thinking must'lie of necessity about material' things what we shall eat, what we shay drink and what we shall put on. But a large portion of our thought might Is* devoted to God and concerning thd welfare of our fellowmen.—Rev. F. M. Munson, Wilmington, Delaware, l You never lose by doing a good act.

SPEECH BY M'KINLEY.

T HjE PRESIDENT TALKSTO PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS. Tlie Father of Hia Country a I’attcrn for All Patriots, Both in His Private and I public Life—Peerless as aStitesman, Soldier and Citizen. Example for All Americans. President McKinley addressed a large ami appreciative audience, coin).used of the faculty and students of the' University of IVnnsylvani a-‘ar.d their frieftiis. on tjic afternoon of Fob. till, at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Mr. McKinley was introduced by Provost Chase C. Harrison. The utterances of the President were greeted with frequent applause, lie said in part: lu its entirety 'Washington's public life is its familiar hi flic AhiefliM'ti .student us the history of the United States. They are associated in holy and indissoluble bonds. With enduring fame as a great soldier the world recognized his equal accomplishments in tin- paths of statesmanship. As a soldier lie was peerless in the time in which lie lived, and as a statesman his rank is fixed with the most illustrious in any country or in any age. From the hour when Washington declared in his Virginia home he would raise a thousand men and equip them at his own expense to march to the defense of Boston, lie became the masterful spirit of the continental nrhiy and the mightiest single factor in the'continent's struggle for liberty and independence. Apparently without personal ambition, spurning royal honors when they were suggested to him, he -fulfilled a still .more glorious destiny" hs the guiding force of a civilization freer and mightier than the history of man has ever known. Slaveholder himself, he yet hated slavery, and provided in his will for ( Jhe emancipation of his slaves. Not a college graduate, he was always enthusiastically a friend of liberal education. Ho used to on-every suitable occasion impress upon Congress and the country the importance of a high standard of general education and characterized a diffusion of knowledge ns the most essential element of strength in a system of free government. And how reverent always was this great man, how prompt and generous his recognition of the guiding hand of Divine Providence in establishing and controlling the destinies of the colonies and the republic. At the very height of his success and reward as he emerged from the revolution. receiving by unanimous acclaim the plaudits of the people dud commanding the respect and admiration of the civilized world, he did not forget that his first official act as President should be a fervent supplication tojdie Almighty Being who rules the universe. But Washington on this occasion went further and spoke for the people, assuming he but voiced the sentiments of the young nation in thus making faith in Almighty God and reliance upon his favor and care one of tlic strong foundations of the Government then inaugurated. And proceeding, Washington states the reasons for his belief in language so exalted that it, should be graven deep upon the mind of every patriot. I

In an ago of great activity, industrial commerce, strife and perplexing problems we should never abandon the simple faith in Almighty God as recognized in the name of the American people by Washington and the first Congress. Blit if a timely lesson is to be drawn from the opinions of Washington on assuming the office of President, so also much practical benefit can be derived from a present application of portions of his farewell address, a document in which Washington laid down the principles which appeared to him “all important to the permanence of your felicity ns a people.” In that address Washington contends in part (1) for the promotion of the institutions of learning; (2) for the cherishing of the public credit; (3) for the observance of good faith and justice toward nil nations. A hundred years ago free schools were very little known in the United States. There were excellent schools for. the well-to-do, and charitable institutions far the instruction of boys and girls without means; but a free public school, open alike to the children of rich and poor, supported by the State, awaited creation and development. The seed planted by the fathers soon bore fruit, llich as are the collegiate endowments of the old world, none of them excel in munificence the gifts made to educational institutions by the people of the United States, and by their government in conformity with the "influence which sound learning has on religion and manners, on government, liberty and laws.” I have' had peculiar satisfaction in the fact that Washington in those early days, when engrossed with mighty governmental problems, dhr not forget his contributions for the education of the poor anil left in his will a becpiest to be dedicated to free public instruction. Nothing better tells the value lie placed upon knowledge ns essential to the highest and best citizenship. “Cherish the public credit.” flow much of both reflection and instruction are combined in this simple admonition of the father of his country. The United States emerged from the bitter and prolonged struggle of the revolutionary war exhausted financially, with a hundred existhig perplexities and difficulties which remained to be solved before the liuaneial credit of the new nation could bo established at home and demonstrated abroad. Hut Washington knew lmw to gather around him and pine? in positions of greatest trust able financiers and economists whose ,names the country still vcnorutoH and whose great work it still enjoys. Hamilton, Morris, Gallatin and others were successful in establishing the treasury and inaugurating the financial operations of this Government upon principles .which recognized that the most enduring basis of national credit was national honor, and that w hatever other assets we might have or netpiire that was indispensable first, last and all the time, if we .would cherish th'c public credit. We have been f..|ly rewarded nil along ottr history by adhering to the principles of Washington in keeping public faith. Before half the century passed we had paid off our national debt and had a balance'll^, thp treasury. Another debt, the greatest in our history, was incurred in the civil war for the preservation of the Union. But this did not exceed tlic resources or discourage the intentions of the American people. There were those who suggested repudiation. but the people ilcpudiated them and went on unchecked, discharging the obligations of the i Government. in coin of hon•r. From the day oifr (lag was unfurled

to the present hour no stain of a just obligation violated has yet tarnished the American name. This must and will be true in the future as it has been in the past. Some part of the column may waver and wander away from the standard, but there will-ever rally around it a mighty majority to preserve it stainless and in honor; To-day, nearly a century from \\ ashing, ton's death, we turn reverently to the study - of the lending principles of that (comprehensive chart for tije guidance of the people. It was his unflinching, immovable devotion to these perceptions of duty which more than anything else made him what lie was and contributed so directly to make 11s what we are. Following the precepts of Washington we cannot err. The wise lessons in government which lie left us it would be profitable to heed. He seems to have grasped all the possible conditions,and pointed the way to safely meet them. He established danger signals all along the pathway oi’ the nation’s march. We have every incentive to cherish the memory and teachings of Wasliingnm.-" — —: — l

DUTIES OF THE RICH.

Ex-President Harrison Addresses Chicago Union League Club. .Ex-President Benjamin Harrison spoke tit the central meeting of tin* annual celebration of the Union League Club in honor of Washington's birthday in the Auditorium in Chicago. The ex-Prcsident took for his subject, “Obligations of Wealth.” He said: Monuments and birthday anniversaries should be commemorative, not creative — commemorative of deeds tliht evoke wide gratitude and of virtues that art* still imitahle. Scientists have reproduced some of the gigantic animals and reptiles of the world’s early history. We look tit them with fear and wonder, and congratulate ourselves that they are extinct types. So there have been among men monsters of power and violence; Wo cannot forget them, but we are glad they lived in another epoch. But there are men who have so won our hearts that we would recall them if we could. We feel the need of them. We assemble on this anniversary of the birth of Washington, not so much, if at all, to bring tribute to him, as to learn at his feet the lessons of a conscientious citizenship. The imitable qualities of Washington’s character and life; those that did not exhaust themselves on a locality or a period; that are instructive not only to military command- 1 ers and chief magistrates, but to the unofficial citizen; the lessons that lie taught, not for the march* and battle, but l'or quiet days when no drum bent calls to duty—these are the qualities and lessons that should engage our thought to-day. In choosing for my theme “The Obligations of Wealth,” I am not wresting this anniversary from its legitimate use. The word “wealth” fill its modern use luis suffered n limitation if not a perversion, Originally and. strictly it means weal nr welfare, external happiness. We live in a time of great agitation, of a war of dashing thoughts and interests. The scants which mar the fitee of the social landscape seem to be widening chasms, and If these gulfs are to be tilled we must establish dumps on both sides of them.- It will aid the work if those on either side use the bridges to get view of it from the other side. Wealth should neither he the object of our enmity nor the basis of our consideration. The special purpose of my address today is to press home this thought upon the prosperous, well-jo-do people of our community, and especially of our great cities: That one of the conditions of the security of wealth is a proportionate and full contribution to the experts of the State and loeal governments. It is not only wrong, but it is unsafe, to make a show in our homes and on the street that is not made in the tux returns. Eunnlity is the golden thread that runs all through the fabric of our civil institutions—the dominating note in the swelling symphony of liberty. Equality, not of conditions, not of natural endowment, but of rights, is the foundation stone of our governmental structure. And ns a corollary, necessary and imperative, to this doctrine of an equality of right, is the doctrine of a proportionate and ratable contribution to the cost of administering the government. The duty of the State to protect life, liberty and property is conditioned upon 11 fair contribution to the cost of government. A full and conscientious discharge of that duty by the citizen is one of the tcsls of good citizenship. To evade that duty is a moral delinquency, an unpatriotic fact, For very many years an opinion has been prevalent that the great bulk of tin* personal property of the State's, especially of the class denominated "securities,” including stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages and such like, has escaped taxation. With a very few exceptions tin* great fortunes in this country are invested in such securities. The delinquency appears to lie located largely in our great cities. Recent investigations of students of political .science, and recent tables prepared by State officials have disclosed an appalling condition of things. The evil seems to have been progressing until. In some of our great centers of population and wealth, these forms of personal property seem to l have been almost eliminated from the j tax list. Taxes are n debt of liighcst’obligation, and no casuist can draw a sound moral distinction between the mail who hides his property or mnk.s a false return in order to escape the payment of his .debt to the State, and the man who conceals his property from his private creditors. When to this enormous and crying evil is added the corruption which it is alleged has characterized the appraisements of real estate, we have a condition of things with which we dure, not palter. Wo mtisl j inaugurate, and tit once, a system that j shall equalize tax burdens. The men-of j wealth in our great communities should lead the movement. It is not within the purpose of this n'Mross to propose in detail the needed reforms in our tax laws, but rather to emphasize the need ainlNo suggest tlipt our men. es wealth and tin* mu tin gem of our great corporations should themselves come forward and take the lead lit those reforms; that they should not. only show a willingness, luit a zeal, to bear tludr full proportionate share of all public burdens. If they do• not, tin? sense of injury is so strong that ways will he found to exact more than is equal,, To do justice is the host safeguard against Injustice.

Circumstances Alter Cases.

Teacher (class in grammar)—“Ntm, Miss Ethel, will you decline “to love?” Miss Ethel (sweet 10)—Not If the right uuua Uisists.

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. New Supreme Court Decision Very Favorable to Laboring; Men—General Lew Wallace Challenged to Fight a Duel—Killed in a Laporte Saloon. Victory for Labor Men. _V The decision of the Indiana Supreme Court that a railroad company is liable for damages in a personal injury case, where the accident was caused by the negligence qf a fellow employe, is attracting attention. The decision upholds the constitutionality of the so-called co-em-ployes liability act passed by the Legislature. There is much rejoicing.among labor organizations over the decision, as they have been demanding the rule now laid down for many years, ,nnd succeeded in lobbying through tlie new law. The decision, attorneys point out, is contrary to the old common law rule, which up to this time governed in this State. In connection with the main decision the court decided that an employe who becomes a member of a railroad benefit association, and in doing so signs an agreement that he will not sue for damages in case of personal injury, does not bar himself from , the right to sue. Wallace Asked to Fight. Gen. Lew Wallace has been challenged to a duel by George E. Oakes of Indianapolis for remarks reflecting on Gen. George B. McClellan during a recent Lincoln day address, in which he said that Lincoln visited Harrison landing to prevent McClellan from surrendering the Federal army. Oakes served under McClellan. In a letter to Gen. Wallace he denounces the story as untrue and asks the hitter to meet him upon the field of honor, at such time and place and with such weapons ns the general may choose. Fhot n Fellow-Student by Accident. While several Valparaiso students were preparing to take a flashlight photograph of their room, Hayes T. Smart of Detroit, 111., entered the -room and Frank Rosenherger, a fellow student from Petersburg, 111., pointed a revolver at him as a joke with an order to throw up his hands. He accidentally pulled the trigger and Smart dropped to the floor with a bullet in his brain. Smart died foifr days later.

Victim’s Neck Was Broken. James McClelland, a laborer, was murdered in the saloon of Sehoof & Bark, in Laporte, his body being found in the rear yard of the place by Policeman Zees. The neck of the victim was broken by the force of a blgw on the head. The proprietors, William Dust, Bertha Krull, May Lewis and Blanche Cogle are in jail awaiting the sitting of the grand jury. Within Our Borders. Mrs. John Mille is heir to pu estate in New England valued at $200,000. Guy Van Tassel and Herbert Gorham sawed the bars to their cell and escaped from the Martinsville jail. George C. Bodge, a farmer of Delaware County, dropped dead on the street at Hartford City of heart disease. f The frozen body of William Burns, a prominent young man who lived near Columbus, was found along QJifty creek. • At Vincennes, Isaac R. Conway, an old soldier, and his family were poisoned by eating candy, said to have contained strychnine. ' j Mrs. Samuel Umbcnhour, a farmer's wife living near Fortville, drew SSOO from a battle. .She was robbed of the money and was probably seriously injured. The largo stock nml dairy ham belonging to George Sheets, west of Nora, was destroyed by fire, Sixteen line dairy cows and five horses were destroyed.

A buggy in which Col. Richard P. De Hart, the well-known lawyer, and Thos. Lonergn.ll were.riding was run into at Lafayette, badly injuring the occupants. Mrs. Frank Cory of Shelbyville is contesting the will of her brother, the late W. Scott Ray, tlie well-known newspaper editor, who loft a large estate to his four single sisters. The sophomore and freshmen classes of Wabash College at Crawfordsvilie have been having numerous “rushes.” In one of these skirmishes a sophomore got a shoulder broken and two others fainted. The widow of Oliver P. Morton, the war Governor of Indiana, and his son, Oliver T. Morton, have approved a plaster model for a statue of the late Senator by Sculptor Niehaus of New York to be placed in statuary hall, Washington.

A few days ago a mad dog was chased from Princeton to Hasclton, and on the way it bit many domestic animals. As a result there is a widespread hydrophobia scare and many horses, mules, cattle, hogs and sheep have been killed. Farmers are watching their stock day and night to prevent a spread of the disease. Mrs. Mary Beach of Porter County garnisheed the wages of Samuel Pomeroy, under the law of 1H))7. Pomeroy defended on till* ground that he is a householder and could claim exemption up to sfloO. The Porter Circuit Court decided against him and the Supreme C<*irt reversed the decision, holding the law constitutional, but iiiiisl Is* construed in connection with the exemption law. The l.’ulmer children, recently taken to the Mndisoii County infirniatory from Anderson, arc attracting a great deal of attention among Indiana medical men. The children are 10 and 12 years old respectively, and there seems to he virtually no connection between the brain and the muscles. They do not even have a desire to cut. When started to walking they will continue to walk until Htop[>cd, or if seated or standing they will stay that way until changed. They are considered freaks of the first water in every respect and are strange enigmas for medical men. This is one of the few known eases where animal* of high or low degree did not have desire for food. They demand constant eu re. In a head-end collision between two freight trains on the Chicago aud Calumet Terminal road, near East Chicago, Conductor Melvin Smith was killed. Fireman Funkhouscr and Engineer Golding escaped by juiitpiug. v A 2-ycnr-old daughter of W, n. Newkirk, a traveling showman of Kokomo, died from the effects of a gasoline explosion in the show wagon u few' days ago. New kirk Ad his frank show in one end of the wagon and his family in the other. Other members of the family were seriously hurt by the horses running awayj after the explosion.