Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 March 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SEKMON.

PRINTER'S INK THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. Jnflaanra of SVewtpapers nd Book Th Fabll CoDitltnm I Xaally AkDd Letter-Writing m Good Xlablt for th Too nr. COoprright, 1501, by Louis Klopsen, N. T.) Washington. March 17. In a new way and from a peculiar text Dr. TaltatLge discourses of pood influences brought to bear for the world's improYMnent. The text s Kzekiel ix., 2, "And one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn fcr his side." The poem from which my text Is taken ie epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It is more than Homeric or Dantesque. No on ever ; fcad such divine dreams as Ezeklel. In a vitdon this prophet had seen wrathful angele, destroying angels, each with sword, but In my text he sees a merlful angel with an inkhorn. The receptacle for the ink in olden time was made out of the horn of a cow or a ram or a roebuck, as now it is made out of metal or glass, and therefore sra called the inkhorn, a3 now we say inkstand. We have all spoken of the power of the sword, of the power of health, of the power of office, of the power of social lnfiuer.ee, but today I peak of the power for good or evil in the inkstand. It is upon your table?, holding a black or blue or red liquid. It i a fortress, an armory, a gateway. ransom or a demolition. "You mistake," says some one; "it Is the pen that has the power." No, my friend. What is the influence of a dry pen? Pass It tip and down a sheet of paper. and it leaves no mark. It expresses no opinion. It pives no warning. It spreads no intelligence. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inkstand that does the work. Here and there a celebrated pen, with which a Declaration of Independence or a Magma Charta or a treaty was signed has been kept in literary museum or national archives, but for the most part the pens, whether, as of old. made out of reed or later of wing of bird or still later of metallic substance, have disappeared, while the liquid whirh the pens took from the inkstand remains in scrolls which, if put together, would be large enough to enwrap the rounl world. For practical, for moral, for religious, for eternal purposes. I speak of the rni-sion of "the writer's inkhorn'' Writing to ll Folk at l!oni. O ye who have with rcveut years .et 'ip homes of your own, out of the new homo inkstand write often to tlr: old folks, if they be still living! A letter means more to them than to us, who are amid the activities of life ami to whom postal correspondence is more than we can manage. They await the coming of the letter. Undertake no great thing in life without their advice. Old people for counsel; young people for action. Even though through decadence they may be incompetent to give valuable opinions on important affairs, compliment them by asking their counsel. It will do them good. It will make their last dajs exhilarant. Make that home inkstand a source of rejuvenescence to those who are near the terminus of the earthly journey. Domestic correspondence is not attended to at once. The newspaper, joining with the telegraph, bears the tidings of all the neighborhood, but swiftest revolving wheel of modern printing pres. and quickest flash along the electric wires can never do the sympathetic work of the home inkstand. As the merciful angel of my text appeared before the brazen altar with the inkhorn at his side in Ezekiel's vision, so let the an?el of filial kindness appear at the altars of the old homestead. The .tut tier's Responsibilities Furthermore, the inkstand of the business man has its mission. Uctween now and the hour of your demise, O commercial man, O professional man, there will not be a day when you can not dip from the inkhorn a message that will influence temporal and eternal destinv. There is a rash young man running into wild speculation, and with as much ink as you can put on the pen at one time you may save him from the Niagara rapids of a ruined life. On the next street there is a young man started in business who. through lack of patronage or mistake in purchase of goods or want of adaptation, is on the brink of collapse. One line of ink from your pen will save him from being an underling' all his life and start him on a career that will win him a fortune which will eiyible him to become an endower of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. Furthermore, great are the responsibilities of the author's inkhorn. Ail the people, or nearly all the people, read, and that which they read decides their morals or immorals, their prosperity or failure, their faith or their unbelief, their purity or corruption, their heaven or hell. Show me any man's library, great or small, and after examining the books, finding those wnn leaves uncut, but displayed for sake of the binding, and those worn with frequent perusal, and without ever seeing the man or knowing his name, I will tell you his- likes and his dislikes; his morals, good or bad or indifferent; his qualifications for business or artistic or professional or mechanical life. The best index to any man's character is the hook he prefer.? above all others. Oh. the power of a book for good or evil! Tlie Iitfineriee of llonkt. 'i inoiiL'li boks we sit down and talk with the miirurkst spirits of all th ? a'.s. We art oir.pr;y Tennyson on his saii-time walk as he falls upon Yh knees' in the meadows, crying Jo '. . companion: "Violets, man. vioVts! Sni'il th Tii." Or we rid.- with Tra'r.i in bis triuuphal march, or t ir.d " i'i; flndf'ev at I he 't;;k!n;' of Jem -ah-ir.. -r with areti' explorer i;ir the erase , the iC'-V-igs. or .-ire rc ived with Hernando i'r.vl s in th" halls of Montezuma. r;r watch in the observatory as Ilerseh! witli ins tele-eopr capture-: another star, or the ink in the inkhorn turn? red as blood, and we are a Marengo and Arbela, and Eylau and Ilorodino and Lipsic: or we fail with Hamilcar from Carthage to Palermo, or we see Galilei fighting for the solar system, and around us gather for con

versation Aristotle and Plato and Robert South and Sydney Smith and Lock and Samuel Rogers and Chaucer and Paul Richter and Swift and Haalltt and Leigh Hunt and Talleyrand and Burke and Ed-ward Irving, while, to make music for u. Handel and Moxart and Mendelssohn come In, and we traten Columbus landing, and see John Harvard's legacy of S00 paid over for the founding of Harvard university, and Joshua Reynolds and David Wllkie ünd Rembrandt tell us of their pictures. Oh, the books! Thank God for the books, and thanks be to all the authors! May the Inkhorn ever be under divine inspiration! When a bad book is printed you do well to blame the publisher, but most of all blame the author. The malaria rose from his inkstand. The poison that caused the moral or spiritual death dropped in the fluid from the tip of hi? pen. The manufacturer of that ink could tell you that it is made of tannin and salt of iron and nutgalls and green vitriol, but many an author has dipped from his inkstand hypercriticism and malevolence and slander and salaeiousness as from a fountain of death. Hut blessed be God for the author's Inkstand in 10,000 studies which are dedicated to pure Intelligence, highest inspiration and grandest purpose. They are the inkstands out of which will be dipped the redemption of the world. The destroying angels with their swords seen in Ezeklel's vision will be finally overcome by the merciful angel with the writer's Inkhorn. ?e-Tjpaper Impre-tslon. A wrong theory is abroad that the newspaper impression is ephemeral. Iiecau.se we read and cast it aside in an hour and never see it again tv'e are not to judge that we are parted from its influence. No volume of 500 papes makes such Impression upon the people as the daily newspaper. It is not what we put away carefully upon the shelf and once in awhile refer to that has as close relation to our welfare as th? story of what the world is now doing or haß recently done. Yesterday has more to do with today than something occurring a century previous. The engineers who now guide the rail trains, the captains who now command the ships, the architects who now

design the huildings the batons that now control the orchestras, the legislators who now make the laws, the generals who now march the hosts, the rulers who now govern the nations, the inkhorns that now Hood the world with intelligence these are what we have most to do with. You have all seen what is called indelible ink. whirh is a weak solution of silver nitrate, and that ink you can not rub out or wash out. Put it there, and it stays. Well, the liquid of the editorial and reportorial inkstands is an indelible ink. It puts upon the souls of the passing generations characters of light or darkness that time cannot wash out and eternity cannot efface. Forever indelible. Re careful how you use it. The impression made with it will be resplendent or repulsive on the day for which all other days were made. Hut how shall I speak of the inkhorn of the world's evangelization? Oh. how many loving and brilliant and glorious pens have been dipped into it! Thomas a Kempis dipped into it and brought up his "Imitation of Christ." Horace Hushnell dipped into it and brought up "Every Man's Life a Plan of God." Thomas Hinney dipped into it and brought up his "Weigh House Chapel Discourses." Conybeare dipped into it and brought up the "Life and Epistles of Paul." Archbishop Trench dipped into it and brought up the "Epistles to the Seven Churches." Stuart Robinson dipped into it and brought up "Discourses of Redemption." Austin Phelps dipped into it and brought up "The Still Hour." Mark Hopkins dipped into it and brought up "Evidence of Christianity." Thomas Guthrie dipped into it and brought up "The Gospel in Ezekiel." John Cumraing dipped into it and brought up "The Apocalypse." Oh. the opulence of Christian literature! Oh, the mighty streams of evangelistic power that have poured from the writer's inkhorn that appeared in Ezekiel's vision' The Mother Letter. While you recognize the distinguished ones who have dipped into the inkstand of the world's evangelization do not forget that there are hundreds of thousands of unknown men and women who are engaged in inconspicuous ways doing the same thing! How many anxious mothers writing to the Loys in town! How many sisters writing encouragem nt to brothers far away! How many invalids bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at their side, writing letters of condolence? to those worse off than themselves! They are Hying all the time kind words, gospel words, helpful words, saving words. Call th? evangelistic inkhorn into service in the caily morning, when you feel well and you are grateful for the protection during j your sleeping hours, and write before I you retire at close of day to those who all night long will be saying, "Would to God it were morning!" How many bruised and disappointed and wronged souls of earth would be glad to gt a letter from you! Stir up that consolatory inkhorn. Tim Inkhnrii of 'oi.4 Merrv The other angels spoken of in my text were destroying angels, and each had what the Bible calls a "slaughter weapon"in his hand. It was a lance or a battleax or a sword. (Jod hasten I the time when the last luiee shall shivered and the la-t battleax dull -si and the last sword sheathed, never again to leave the scabbard, and the angel ,f tlie text. who. Matthew Henry : says, was the Lord .b-su-; ''hnst. shall. from the ful! iükhorn of bis mo.-cy, giv a savin:- ni! to all nnJi'iiis, That day vr.uy he far off, hut it is Ivlufn! to think of its eoj-iitig. As Dr. Ualeig! "'f ( im d, tint wh'n v.v)' a sea ff t coast of New Eiur: ":'! I. eat in f-cni.'d the clover ou ! te w i: igI Hi'! hüls, 'o w.-. amid !! fii to-sinT v.',. ves of word's (' t 'T've: sir. in-a-i! the redoh i:v of , white lilies of univers ! ; e ;. , r the ;::: -fed invention of r.e-v :.d mor 'ph,s:ve a :d more w: :!'.'.- ' " .: jnt weapons of d' alb be j-t : p I forever, and the gospel have a hanc-' and th question be not a-ked. How mauy ilrM can be fired in a minute" but. How many souls may be random pd in a'day" The world nfeds l?ss powder ,?nd

more grace, fewer fortresses and more churches, lag power to destroy and more power to save. Oh, I am sick of the war cris and the extinguished eyesight and the splintered bones and the grave trenches and the widowhood and orphanage and childlessness which ob and groan and die in the wake of the armies on both sides of the sea! Oh, for less of the slaughter weapon and more of the evangelizing Inkhorn! Oh, for the stopping of the science of assassination, that crime of crimes, that woe of woes, that horror of horror, that hell of hells war, which this moment stands reeking with blood and washing itself in tears and blaspheming the heavens and pushing off the edge of this life men who have ax much right to live as you and I have, and blasting homes in which there dwells as much loveliness as la our own! Would that the merciful angel of my text take the last weapon of war and fling it off and fling it down with such forte that it shall clang on the lowest round of the perdition where the first keen edge of human strife was sharpened! War! In the name of Almighty God and of all the homesteads it ha3 destroyed and Is now destroying, I hate it, I denounce it, I curse It!

Moenm' Spry. England, it seems, has something to learn from America, even in the matter of boat building. Capt. Joshua Slocum, author of "Sailing Alone Around the World," has just received a letter from a stranger, bearing an East Indian stamp, and postmarked Berbera (Africa), Ix)ndon, and New York, in which his correspondent expresses a desire to possess a boat built on the lines of the famous sloop Spray. "I have an Island in the Indian ocean," the Englishman writes, "separted by some 40 miles from the main group at which steamers call. Its produce has to be ferried twice a month to the steamer station. Often, in the monsoons, the seas run high, and a stout hoat is necessary, as well as one that can sail well to windward, and do something in light airs. A boat like the Spray would just do, and would also be a great pleasure, for there ar numbers of neighboring island? one would like to visit, and sometimes a run to Bombay, or Ceylon, or Mombasa, or Maritius, would be possible." Needless to say. the gallant captain lost no time in forwarding the Spray's specifications, in answer to this flattering request. "etv Kliifi of noii(ii-raili. At the last meeting of the Berlin Polyteehnic soeiety an engineer named Leisner explained a new kind of phonograph for service at srea, writes a Uerlin correspondent. Hy coupling together membranes, between each of which a microphone is fixed, he has succeeded in so strengthening the tone emitted by all sound that any noise can he heard for a distance of three sea miles. It is suggested that by means of this invention a commander at sea will be able to issue his orders to all the ships in his fleet, and that in the same manner ships will be able to communicate with each other in the densest fog. Of course, it would be equally useful on land, and railway accidents, it is thought, may be also greatly diminished, as warnings could be given at long distances apart. Tennlpl'M SMieceMor. Of Linley Sambourne, Sir John Tenniel's successor on Punch, it is said that he is short and stout and would easily be taken for a prosperous gentleman farmer, whose only thought was crops and horses. He lives In a charming and artistic house in Kensington, one of whose features is a vast collection of photographs to be used in his works as a cartoonist. They are assorted, we are told, into scores of departments. Kings, queens, soldiers, sailors, judges, members of parliament, actors, actresses, celebrities, notorieties, animals there are thou sands of them in these drawers. There are also photographs of the uniforms of the armies add courts of all European countries. Westerner's I'rescilptlon for Grip. We don't know much about the effect of materia mediea upon the human system, but we did write, fill and take the following prescription, which knocked la grippe higher than Kilroy'a kite: "Four quarts of whisky, Into which were dissolved four ounces of loaf sugar. To this we added a tea-.-poonful of water and another quart of whisky, and then placed over a hot tire and let boil sufficiently long to boil out all the water. We then stirred in a little more whisky to cool, and gulped it down without batting an eye. In older to remove the taste from our mouth, we took a little more whisky." Glenwood (Cal.) Avalanche. Cupper I'nxliifl inn of : Century. The copper production of th entire world is the subject of an exhaustive study by M. Ieon Demaret of Lelgaim. says the New York Sun. The following table summarizes his statistics: Copper production. 1800-1900: Metric tons. Pnited States 2,725,00(1 Chili. Holivia. Peru 1,870,600 Spain and Portugal 1.1S9.CO0 England 855,800 Germany. Sweden, Norway.... C11.CO0 Australia 443,800 Japan 292,600 All other countries 800,400 Total i ..8,850,00(7 i'riim .lu'lg to Constable. Daniel U. Magrudcr, former judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, is a constable at Annapolis. To the protc.L of the citizens th:;t constables had not been appointed the hoard in (barge of the matter replied that : xn could not be found to accept the ' ilice. Wh n .liule Magruder staged ibat p'enty of good men could be found it was suggested in banter that be judge should accept, and he did. Vre Ca!U It "KoMiery." The pustoLice authorities of Switzerland, who last year issued the now well-known jubilee stamps, recently announced that they will not receive i:or exchange that now canceled iMin. The press is up in arms against the decision, which it calls "robbery.' The jubilee stamps were Issued up to Dec. 31, 1900, nd many people hart larse stocks on hand.

I Summary of Legislation in National Body. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. Senator Frye of Maine Re-Flrtedf Unanimously, President Tro Tempora of the Banata Senator Mwrgan Auk for Abrogation of ClaftoM-Buiwar Traaty. Monday, March 11, Great Britain has declined to accept the senate amendments to the HayPauncefote treaty. The notification of this attitude toward the amended convention has been received. The longexpected answer to the state department's communication was returned at noon Monday. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassador, had acquainted Secretary Hay with th; fact that he had received a communication from his government on the subject, and it Is believed It had been ki his possession for several days. Secretary Hay had acquired a general knowledge of the character of the British response. TnNciar, ."March 12. Forto Rican commissioners to Washington working to continue system whereby landowners escape taxation. Secretary of War Root forced to have a guard to protect him from ofüceseckers. Senators remaining in capital Fay Clayton-llulwer treat' will be abrogated, tear Admiral Schley relieved from duty to await retirement in October. New official map of United States shows insular possessions. Urdorxliir. Ir-h 18. Increasing demand for postage stamps making overtime work in Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Senator Cullom ready to pay off old scores in the way of presidential postoffice appointments in Illinois. Kx-Itepresentative Rodenberg of Illinois not likely to be appointed commissioner to St- Louia fair. Friday, March !.". C. II. Duell of New York, sent his resignation as commissioner of patents to the president. Senators Piatt anil Depew will probably name bL successor. John G. Johnston, Philadelphia, said to have been offered United States attorney generalship. Rear Admiral Sampson received a check for $s. prize money for defeat of Ccrvera's lleet. One man killed and four injured in fire in Merchants' hotel in Pennsylvania avenue. Post office department to remove j few fourth class postmasters as possible. American troops, except legation guard of 1Ö0, ordered from China to Manila. Only 10,000 recruits accepted up to date for additional regiments. Minister Wu started on his trip to Buffalo and Chicago. Kxplolon Kills Fight. Eight persons are known to have been killed, four are mI-oin?r, and nearly two score sustained injuries more or less severe as the result of a boiler explosion which occurred in a laundry at No. 4."S West Madson street, Chicago. The explosion occurred at 8:14, and the roar made by it could be heard for nearly a mile away. The force of the explosion completely wrecked the building occupied by the laundry and damaged adjacent structures. The roof of the laundry building was lifted high above the tops of the walls and when it settled down it buried the inmates of the place beneath a mass of debris, from which the dead and maimed were taken with difficulty. Most of the victims were young women, many of them scarcely out of their teens, who had been employed in the laundry. Those who were not killed outright were unable to release themselves from their perilous positions, because of the tons of weight upon their limbs and bodies. Indians and Wild 1teat Killed. In a roundup of wild animals that has just taken place on the cattle ranches of Colin Campbell, in Cachise county, Texas, a count of the dead animals showed the number killed to be twelve black bears, seven grizzlies, and nineteen mountain lions, two lynx, and about a hundred and fifty coyotes. Four Indians were killed by the beasts and several Injured. Dozens of dogs were killed. One hundred Indians belonging to the Pima tribe and about twenty cowboj's composed the roundup party. They were aided by about two hundred dogs. Slarrohl Sur of Succ. "Wireless telegraphy is my business." eaid G-uglielmo Marconi, the Anglicized Italian inventor, as he stepped ashore from the Majestic at New York Friday, "My invention has passed beyond the experimental stage. I can hold communication with my apparatus for 200 miles with as much surety as over a wire. My apparatus has been installed on the ships of all continental navies. I am not here, as on my pr envious visit, to make experiments'." Glaas Work Clone Down. The factory cf the Diamond Flint Glass company at Hartford City, Ind., has closed down, making the third factory of this kind to shut down within the last several weeks in that city. The plant had been in partial operation for two weeks. Altogether about 600 men and boys are out of employment as a result The flint glass market Is said to be in a stagnant condition and factories are closing down in many of the towns and cities of the Kaa belt. Train flit Homm. Th Big Four's White City special for Chicago struck two horses and a wagon at Thirtieth street, Indianapolis, Thursday evening. The train was going at high speed. Two coaches were derailed. No one was Injured. The coaches that left the track were in the middle of the train. The rear sleeper kept the track and railroad men say this is all that kept the train from rolling down the embankment. The train was stopped only a few feet from the White river bridge.

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FAD FOR THE BRIDE. OlrtDg Wedding Ring to Groom Z Now Fashionable. It has been rumored that capricious Madame la Mode Is wearying of the solitaire diamond as an engagement ring and that she favors diamonds combined with gems of color. So far, however, Madame has kept her thoughts to herself pretty well, for little consequence of their expression has been noticed in the jewelry shop3. To be sure, colored atones of many kinds are used as a betrothal pledge, and in various forms, frequently with a colored slone in the center and diamonds surrounding. The engagement ring of the new Mrs. Vanderbllt was set with two stones, a sapphire and a diamond, with the familiar diagonal setting. The solitaire diamond ring has found favor for eo long a time as an engagement pledge that it has become traditional, and to all appearances it still has the stamp of approval from Dame Fashion. The mounting for the diamond Is a high setting, receding slightly toward the base, without a display of much gold to obtrude upon the rainbow scintillation of the dazzling white stone. Wedding rings are narrow and high, some being perfectly round so that if the ring were straightened out the form would be cylindrical. A ring of this shape goes by the name of the Tiffany wedding ring, and It is much more elegant than the wide, barbarous-looking wedding bands of times past. Nowadays it Is a fad for the bride to give a wedding ring to the groom when he gives hi?, and since "Wilhelmina did this the fashion will probably receive a new impetus. A rintt given by the bride Is exactly like the one she receives, being, in fact, a typical wedding ring enlarged to fit masculine fingers. Some fond. Impassioned lovers present their sweethearts with a betrothal bracelet which is locked on with a padlock and kept on the arm "until death do them part." Philadelphia Times. Children' lt. If one may ever stato a general truth applying to all children, surely a Fafe one to veniuiM would ! that they have, without exception, a passion for animals. Dr. K. K. Hale, in speaking to the friends of The Animal Rescue league recently, put in a pa fcr pets among city children. It has been said that persons who live in cities are less human than those who live in the country because the form' r are unused to liaing anima'.s about them. A lon.inc; for is is strong in the heart of every child. Kvcrywhere children yi-arn for something alive which shall tlx lr v ry own. Florentine babies guard car -fully the wire cage that holds a, thirping cricket, the little ones of Japan d'-biit in their captive lirefib-s that Hash their lights .through boxes of phiited grass, the tiny, fur-clad Esquimaux rolls about on the Moor of his igloo with a bearcub, the African child frolics with his parrot, the East Indian with his mongoose, and our little people are never so happy as with their white mice, rabbits, doves. dots. rats and canaries. The parents, watching, with interested eyes, the fraternizing of his boy or girl with the animals of wood and lield, has a duty laid upon him of of seeing that the creature in question is well cared for, according to his peculiar needs. No normal child would willingly hurt his pet, but might neglect it. and if he forgets the needs of a living thing, whose earthly Providence he is. he should be deprived of it until he shows an altered mind. Mod a a l ife Saver. In I-fOiulon it was noticed that when the streets were muddy there was a marked diminution of diseases that were prevalent when dust is blowing. Bowel troubles are plentiful when people are compelled to inhale dust. Consumption, too, often gets its start from the dust. Other illnesses almost equally grave follow from the breathing of flying particles of tilth. Add sufficient water to transform the dust into mud, and the power for harm is gone, for mud is not inhaled. The germs that infest dry dust become inert in mud, because these germ.-, vicious as they are, are too lazy to go anywhere unless they are carried. Moreover, mud is very likely to get ultimately into the drain pipe, and the germs are carried off where they can do no harm. Even when mud dries on the clothing and is brushed off the dust that arises therefrom does not appear to be as dangerous as that which has not been recently wet. Eeslie's Weekly. Ha Fouclit Many Dnel. A story which is going the rounds of the European press ilustrates the absurdities of the French duel. Two men of Paris arranged to fight a duel at Calais. They were highly pleased at least one of them was at the prospect, for It meant public proclamation of their bravery at the cost of only a scratch or two, and, what was more serious, a few coppers for coffee. But one of the duelists, as it turned out, really wanted to kill and be killed, for he had made up his mind to commit suicide. On learning this the other man fainted and had to be carried off to bed. This seemed to be a great disappointment to the one with snlcidal Intentions, and after vainly trying to pick a quarrel with his second he went and drowned himself. A New Fuel Found. Near Rio Grande City, Texas, an Immense deposit of unknown gaseous substance has been discovered. Pieces of It Ignite quickly and give out a strong flame, which lasts for a remarkably long period. It Is said by scientists that the substance is either an unknown mineral or ordinary clay highly charged with natural gas. In either case the value of the deposit as fuel Is immense, as it covers .many thousands of acres and is of Immense depth. Girl In Wieker Cape. In Polynesia baby girls of a year old are placed in wicker cages, and '.n wicker cages they remain until the time they are married. Happily, the children do not seem to mind much, and they grow fat and henlthy. At the ace of 12 years or thereabouts most of the little damsel lp-ive their cages to b married

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, DesDerate Men Try to Get Freei dorn AT NEBRASKA PENITENTIARY. Crawl Through a Ventilator Fla at Llocola and Make Their Way to tha I'rlion Kof Uuabla to liet l'att Sentinels. Only the presence of the Nebraska militiamen on guard at the Nebraska state penitentiary, Lincoln, prevented the escape of twelve desperate convicts from thtre early this morning. Muuling from the Hour of the cvllhouse to the top of the roof through a ventilator Hue, after lirst rawing through an iron grating and b:g :ron bars at the lower end, the twelve prisers looked over the tup edge of tha front wall down to the road below only to see four vigilant guardsmen patrolling ceaselessly along the front of the building. Though the criminals had rope ample to lower them to the grouad, they dared not risk a meeting with the Springfield ritie.s and steelcapped leaden pellets awaiting them, cowed from the accomplishment of their purpose, they huddled down together in the great drain trough along the edge of the roof just behind the abutting wall and lay there shivering some without .shoes, others only in their underclothing, till they were discovered by Deputy Warden Dow rs shortly after G o'clock a. m., and marched down to dark dung'.-oiis below. Cowering in the big rain gutter behind the parapet at the edge, the criminals nearly froze, and one of them weakened early this, morning, wishing to be discovered and taken back to the warm cellhouse, hut, fearlug his companions h stealthily threw a bottle and then a stone at the nearest patrolman. The soldier surmised the missile must have come from the. roof, but could see no orw. He reported the matter, and orders were given the guard to shoot any one on the roof on sight or any convict showing himself outside the walls. A roll call was then taken in the tollhouse aIa twelve absentees discovered. The deputy warden and a gua:-u mounted to the roof and found tin; men, half frozen. They were utterly cow.-J and came down without a murmur th- dark c. Us for pr.ni-hm nr. Two were clothed only in tle l!.inkf ? from their beds. Another had cithv n' c! !':; s. obtained from yonie source. K. w had shoos. All twelve v,ie robbers, with sentences ranging from two to thirteen years. Throe Trfth In Nwi:i p-r l'ir-. Three lives were sar rihV d. nearly a dozen men were ,njurd. and, many thousands of dollars' damage was sustained as the result of a lire in the Boston Daily Advertiser and Record seven-story granite front building in Xewpaper Row Friday niuht. The dead are: Craft. .Jmbon. proofreader, of Cambridge. Luseomhe. Walter, proofreader, of Salem. Richard.-on, .lames. Sr., proofreader, of Roston. The lire .-tarted in the pre-sroom, spread to the I elevator well, and darted to th" top of the building so rapidly that before the occupants of the two upp r eO"rs were aware that the building vn.; on tire their rooms were filled with flames an 1 .smoke. In the editorial room on the sixth floor there w. ie five men, All bad to run for their live?. On the upper floor, oocupi d by the composing-room, were eichte n compositors and proofreaders, whose situation was most critical. They ru.-hed for the windows leading to the tire escapes, and all but three of them succeeded in gaining the loof of an adjoining building. Ii u n on MKarli-tl Hank. A run on the Natbk (Mass.) Five Cents Savings bank started Friday and a large number of depositors from Natick, Farmingham. and Saxonville appeared at the bank's doors to draw out their money, a rumor having gained currency that the institution was insolvent. The bank has assets of $2.1SS,GSS.24 and is regarded as one . the strongest banks in New England.. The rumor arose through offering foi salo of some of the bank's shares. According to an officer of the institution, the bank has been desirous of disposing of several shares which It had held for investment. From this, it appears, a report spread that the bank wa.s in need of cash and was offering shares to obtain it. The bank Is . entirely solvent. Tr1e Outlook I ltrlght. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow says: "Improving wheat crop reports, a pigiron production seldom exceeded, strong cash prices for all iron and steel products that can be delivered, heavy gii ii exports at good prices, activity in minor industries and a money market that Imposes no hardship upon business, omprle the bright side of the picture of the week. Threatening labor troubles seem more remote." Capture Out law In Arizona. Six members of a gang of counterfeiters and moonshiners have been cap tured at Clifton, Ariz. United States Attorney Robert E. Morrison is organizing a posse which will try to complete the rout of the outlaws. The Clifton combination has exchanged several thousand spurious silver dol lars for legal tender in the copper I camps of Clifton and MorencI, Ariz. The men captured are agents for a large gang of counterfeiters and moonshiners, with a rendezvous In the San Francisco mountains. Morn Necro nt Stake. Revolting savagery characterizee tie burning at the stake at Corsicata, Texas, of John Henderson, a negro who murdered Mrs. Conway Younger a few days ago. It could hardly be called the work of a mob. It was a county event in which every resident who could do so took part. It was not the result of a passing fit of fury, done by men whose passions were aroused before they had an opportunity to form a better judgment A day wm given over to the torture.

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Monday, March lj. The r'osSi.tf houry of the f-ixt y-eeon4 Kneil assembly wre :rwukfd with a. treat ! a! of horse-; lay or. tfcr. part of ;. !t i;i-!at..rs. (J.iver:.or 1 ejrt.'.r.. how e-.-r, r. :;:.!!;.. ,j ; .;s U'e at M-! ! k .,t-; ;-. ,:,- h;!S. tk- Woo ti. .!!:,: : ,; -!cr. 1 Tbi .'.;! a!:.w xt:;i ,;,-..-rs hr!fTe '"!. ul-o .i i ;:i r , ,,:,w n ;;;. t-.-r'.r. j !'.UTi..-! .rt:,:z.- nr.T :.i! :rar.e'i::;eir.i- v T? !:;: r.r rr :: c r:ie v. a siuii'-.i. !i;i.k r Artir.ar. w.t nti w:th a w.iuu .;. r-se'.iir reer üir.iT ;.---r:! IIa!:;-:; ji. r. .- wert 'JM'-.i. Tue1T, Man h I?. Vv. rn-r !: :r: h.,. i tVe W'l p. --!! bv t: I' i'. ti. t '.. K!-i!. .!!: !:.!- tut ti..- Luv r :.i:iv t.i .-.r.d-.-.r.-v.ai s t .t t -::i - i a.s ;!:t?.. ::; - tl.a: i iai - : ,t : . r ; s w.'.l hr;r" i. . is ;e V i.-' !i-.-e'; j y-..f w,!! !.. lfi-.-i.:t : '. .:-(! 1 !' a- us ;. i T'if ;.ri-' !.' !.(. ?:-.- ;ii;.t v.-,:: : to :. ! i : - a p. r. .: ? ! tax -t.i!- i:;. -t- ,-.s U fere. SAILORS AND THEIR KNIVES. orwflniM Are Not Mow In the l'e of 'lt steel. "I wonder why if is," said a Ntc Orleans cotton s.-tmpler, who prid himself on his keen and wr--t.rain-d observation, "th.u Italians ar reputed to ! f.ir- ahead of other national;! ie in th' i;.-e of knives as weapons. I have iie, n kuo. ki"g around th wh, eves for a good in .my years -nid huv.- ee;i plenty of f;irhin;r anions 'Ulors. ro'i-siubo ;t and de.-p-r.it' :noa :if iitl kin is. A.- far as my ( :.se: vat.ion. the p-op;e :aosi ad,!; '.! !o cold ttef'l in th s. ttlern-nt of their littli .1:uV;-mu s ar N'ovw-f;;;in s.iüorr. The most, fonni'htby i:ife-w:. Mr I yr met in my !. i::r-d to that h.i. He w;us a Ms. yellow-haired, rati; t nit Iancho'y-;. okii.ir chap, who -aiu h'-te on a IJverp,,,,! tramp, anil invent!'J son:-4 s:;kiI! suvi::gs in a loig::;;n.vr far fr.m the oM fruit wharves. -.;t acqu.-iintl with fclra' soon after h- set mj in hu-5ress an i took quite a fancy To the Ilovr. I:ko many a-farinir nun of ni nationality, he was paio!i.it-ly fond of music, aild. .-tr.UliJre TO S.JV, he ;,, 5;e;;rd li.vir. ly all tie- ur.at. ,:n.-rs and was. familiar with mos! of !'.. f.-n.o'is p. r,jt a'.t hoiuih lie w , r !, : vis- ::. : i and could '.. ai . v ; . ,t. sizM him up a- . l-.-.t' oj id a nt. and lahor.-d and w:.e 3u--!o:: : -tut: I v.i r;d'- y -;,r !! ! ! y :r.!?nr f v.bi. a I i : : i ! to :i ax a I v. : : i.c ::i'-n dro;.;--! i::!.- Iiis pi , , . :i IUS th" a V-e. e.J i;T. .;;,:; i.f - ins: a row. ;;?,! one ,f !;.;:; ;.. e rolIirvr y UieUimr .v-r th- st. .v... tn-ovf-r a litte eor.r. r, a t he am t:nw drawing an . irht-in. w:v h.te-k of hi- : work on i : t : h . T .. ami A;:;' to :ra. is , e':pi"-l possiMy half a minnf, . a th- n : of which time the sailor.- had disapp. ire and everyi hint; in the room w;is m ror I-ss spattered with -ror. I n.-vr-r 'arrn d how badly th y vero hurt, hut the;-, was eertainly some promisi uou-. carving while th" row lasted. l.-tt.r on the lodging ho'.; ;.;r, p,-r show.-d :in how he carried his n i Hpkpt it in a sheath se-e, to t It inner ;de of. Iiis vet. ju-t 'ind-!- the coll.vr. It e nied an outlandish ph.ee tor a w ap- ... hu -e ,-o-iM draw it like lihtnint;'. and, ;s lie remarked, it was apt to ly overlooked in a search. ' Oueen ll'i.-lmiim's AVllt. Q;:"eu Wilhelmina even as a child possessed inflexibility of will and in those early days a eon.-ciou-ness that she would one day he queen of tho -.Netherlands; "I do r.of allow you to entertain your l'ri nds in my pre.-mre" she remarked at th1- m;!t::r age of 4 to a lady in waiting, upon whom an acQiiaintaniv had call.-1 o:. day. When she was abont I'.) years of a. therwas an atnu.-ing scene between the queen regent and her little ilaii.trht. arising out of a strong desire of tho latter to be present, at a banqu. t ;dven in honor of the German emperor. To all the pleading. of l.er dauzht- r the queen r-gent turned a deaf e-ir, but there finally remained for th- regent one ; Iternativ to h rseif conduct the recalcitrant voting lady to her 'bedroom. This, h- did. but not without one final enigetjc protest from the disappointed queen of the future. "I will go on the balcony and tdl the Dutch people how you nbu.-e their queen!" Variety In Toed. While it is true that "variety is the spice of life." the best judgment i f careful stu lenhs is in the line of simplicity in the matter of food. Havt an adequate supply, have it thoroughly and intelligently cooked, but let it be plain, simple. i i crest iip,.. n thi connection a western health journal pertinently remarks: "Never hae a great variety at one meal, hut make the variety from one meal to the next. Did jou ever stop to think what a conglomerated mass your stomach contained after eating a great variety at one meal? If not, just imagine what you have eaten and drank being mixed up In a bowl, and then ask yor.r.seif the question whether it is any wonder that people have dyspepsia." Ex-Pre.ident IlurrUon' Deliracj. Ex-President Harrison was requested to sign a petition asking congress to appropriate $50.000 for a monument on Tippecanoo battlefield, the scene of William Henry Harrison's victory In 1811. Mr. Harrison declined to siyai saying that, though he should be pleaded at the success of such a movement, he uniformly declined to sign all petitions to congress. In this cae besides he felt that It would be indelieate in him to take such action on account of his ancestor's prominence in the battle. BITS OF INFORMATION. Attar of roses sells at $100 an ounce, which is exactly five tinier the value of gold. Last year 79.S0., men were employed In thr- fisbinc industry In Canada, the value of their catch being about $22,000.000. C. K. McKenney, the enrolling cWK of the house of rrpresentatives, ifl the owner of a bust of Lincoln which is made from gun mountings taken from, the battle-ship Maine.