Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 July 1895 — Page 10

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Around the house rank weeds are thickly growing. Tall sunflowers fill the field; Yet oa thjs calm young lives, once, hopes vere sowing all the years might yield. And in strong hands, the sturdy hoofs pursuing, A plow share turned the sod The toiler brave drank deep the fresh air's browing And sang content to God. A woman fair and sweet has smiling striven Through long and lonesome hours. A blue-eyed babe a bit of earthly heaven Laughed at the c:e and flowers. A bow of promise made the prairie splendid This home their pride. But what began so well alas, soon ended. The promise died. Green is the spring when rich her gifts bestowing An hundred fold. But when hot winds are 'cross the parched earth blowing. Young hearts turn wan and old. Their plan and dreams their cheerful Iab;r wasted In dry and misspent years. The sp.-ing was sweet the summer bitter ta steil, The autumn salt with tears. Now weeds and sunflowers hide their sometime yearning 'Twas theirs, ''is past God's ways are strange we take so long in learning To fall at last. Oklahoma Magazine. I MY CUT BY EMiL ZOLA AX aunt of mine left mo an Angora cat, the most stupid animal I over knew. Listen to a tale bo told me one winter eve before the glowing embers: 'I was at the time 2 years old and I was the fattest and most Ignoraut cat Imaginable. At this tender age I still showed all the presumption of the creature who disdains the luxuries of a home and hearth, notwithstanding the gratitude I owed kind Providence for placing me with your aunt, for the good woman adored me. I had in a closet ecrner a veritable bod-chamber, a down cushion with soft quilted coverings. The food was as line as the sleeping; no bread; no soup; nothing but meat lovely rare meat. 'Well! Amid all these comforts I had but one desire, one dream, and that was to slip from the half-opened window and escape over the roofs. Caresses were stale to me; the softness of my bed nauseating; and I was so fat as to turn my own stomach. I sighed for freedom the day long. "I must tell you that once in looking out I had seen on an opposite roof four cats fighting with ruffled fur and bristling tails. They rolled on the blue slates In th warm sun, screaming with joy. mm 1 IIAI SKKX FOIT. C ATS FIOHTI'0. Never had I contemplated so extraordinary a spectacle. From that time my beliefs were lixed. True happiness was on that roof, on the other side of that window they closed so carefully. As proof of this I remembered how they also closed the door of the closet where the meat was hidden. "I conceived the project of escape. There must be more in life than raw meat. It was the unknown, the ideal. One day they forgot to close the kitelfen window and I jumped from it to a little roof beneath. "How beautiful the roofs were! Largo putters bordered them, exhaling deliclous odor. I followed these gutters, my iaws sinking in a soft pine mud which wns iiitinitely warm and agreeable. It soomwl as though I were walking on velvet. And the sun's boat was bo good; a beat that melted my fatness. I will not conceal from you that I trembled iu every limb; there was fear In my joy. I especially remember a terrible emotion that nearly caused nie to spring over on to the pavements. 'Three cats who had been rolling on a house-top came rushing towards me miaowling frightfully, and as I stood quaking they guyed mc and said it was all for fun, so I joined them and miaowled too. These jolJy fellows were not clumsily fat like me, and they chaffed me when I rolled like a ball over some pieces of zinc which had grown hot in the sunshine. "One old tom-cat of the band was particularly friendly. He offered to undertake my education and I accepted eagerly. "Ah! how far away did the luxury of your aunt seem! MI drank from the gutters and never was sweetened milk so sweet. Everything was good and pleasant. A cat

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passed ns, a ravishing cat; she filled me with delight. Only in my dreams had I so far seen these exquisite creatures so adorably supple of t pine. We dashed forward to meet the newcomer, my three comrades and I. I distanced them and was about to compliment the lovely charmer when I was most cruelly bitten in the neck by one of them. " 'Bab!' said the old tom-cat, drawing me away; 'there are others.' "After an hour's promenade I felt a

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ferocious appetite. 'What do you cat on the roofs?' I asked my friend. " 'Whatever you lind,' he replied shortly. This embarrassed me, for I had been looking and had found nothing. At length I perceived in an attic window a young woman preparing her breakfast. On a table under the window was laid a beautiful chop, appctizingly red. "There is my affair!' I thought innocently, and jumping to the table I seized it, Jnit the young woman had seen me and I got a terrible whack on my back from her broom. I dropped the meat and lied, swearing my worst. "'Are you just from the country? said the tom-cat. 'Meat which is on tables is only to be desired. You must hunt in the gutters.' "Never could I comprehend that meat in kitchens does not belong to cats. The tom-cat helped to dishearten me by saying that we must wait till nightfall; then we could descend to the street and rummage in the garbage. 'Wait foi night!' He said it tranquilly, like a hardened philosopher. As for me, I felt my self weakening at the thought of this prolonged fast. "Night came slowly, a night of fog which froze me. Itain fell, fine and penetrating, whipped by sharp gusts of wind. We descended by a sheltered stair. How ugly the street seemed! No longer the welcome heat, the great sun, and the airy roofs where one might stretch so delicously. "We were hardly in the street when my friend began to tremble. He made himself small, small, and crept slyly along the houses, telling me to follow swiftly. He took refuge in the first doorway and heaved a purr of satisfaction and relief. "I questioned him about our flight. " 'Did you see that man with the club and the great basket on his back?' he asked. " Ves.' " 'Well, if he had seen us he would have stunned us, and we would have been eaten in brocbettes. " 'Eaten in brocbettes!' I cried. 'Let us leave, the street. We do not cat, but are eaten here. "Meanwhile garbage heaps had been emptied in front of the houses. I searched them despairingly. I found two or three lean bones covered with ashes. Then I realized how succulent fresh meat is. My friend, the tom-cat, scratched the rubbish piles like a professional. He kept me running till morning, visiting each side of tho way and not hurrying at all. For nearly ten hours I shivered in the rain awful street! Awful rain! ' "At daybreak the tom-cat, seeing that I staggered, asked me, with a strange air: 'Have you had enough?' " 'Oh, yes, said I. " "Do you wish to return home?' " 'Certainly; but bow find the bouse? " 'Come. This morning, on seeing you start out, I realized that a cat as fat as you was not made for freedom's rough joys. I know your house, and I will drop you at the door. He said thij simply, the worthy fellow! and wheu we arrived, without the slightest emotion, he said adieu! " 'XV I cried, 'we will not part thus. You must come with me. We will share the same bed and tho saraa meat. My mistress is a kind woman "T.e still, he said brusquely; 'you are a fool. I should die of your silly high living. Your life is all right for such as j' oil, but a free cat would never buy your down cushion at the price of a prison. Adieu! "He climbed to the roof, and I saw his great gaunt silhouette quiver gratefully under the caress of the rising sun. "When I entered your aunt took a switch and administered a correction, which was received by me with deep joy, for the feeling of being warm was pleasant. While she was beating me I thought with delight of the meat I would have afterward. "You see," concluded my cat, stretching out before the embers, "true happiness, true paradise, my dear master, is to bo shut up and beaten In a place where there is meat." I am speaking for cats. Translated by Lucy Martin. A Dance Alphabet. A dance alphabet has recently been Invented by a Russian professor, who has devoted Z years of his lifo to teaching dancing in the Russian Imperial College. His invention consists If minute figures which reoresent every conceivable position the human legs can assume. This Year's Knvnges of Flames. Fire losses iu this country and Canada so far tliis year are $37,-74,000. May's record was small, the losses being only $7,761,350, some $3,000,000 below the record of last year; but the aggregate so far in 1S05 exceeds 1894, same time, by about $4,000.000.

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS.

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF ENDEAVORERS. Nearly One Hundred Thousand Young People la Attendance-Great Hall and Two Tents Filled While Thousands Overflow. Bis Meet In Boston. HE fourteenth annual convention of ?'J W tne "oun People's y'',U Society of Christian W''rv Kn"cavorf held iu t''0 Boston, exceeded in sizo any national convention, either political or r e 1 i g -ious, ever witnessed in this country. The exact number in attendance cannot be itated, but it is estimated that it was near to 100,000. The young Christians poured into Boston from all directions by train loads of hundreds and thousand. Every State delegation was given a church as headquarters, and the delegates were quartered ns far as possible in the immediate neighborhood of the church. Fifty-seven churches were thus apporTIIE CHRISTIAN EN'DEAVOR tioned, and at each every comfort was provided for visiting Eudeavorers. There wer place3 for them to rest, a room where they might check wraps or small bawage, and where writing paper, ink, tables, stamps and numerous conveniences might be found. Every church wu th postotSce for the delegates of the Btata quartered there, while members of the local societies were at all times at their respective churches to entertain their guests, give directions how to get to this or that place, or to accompany the :! i . l. . fyf n thev mi "lit v" wish. Each church also had its emergency hospital, so to speak. Arrangement! ha J been made with near-by physicians so they night be called in, and in some cases two or three trained nurses were cngnged. The main auditorium was Mechanics Hall, with n seating capacity of over 10,000. Here the principal meetings were held. Other meetings were held in two Immense, tents on OFFICIAL KADGK Boston common and in different churches. Three choruses, comprising over ."i.lKJO voico3, selected from various singing societies in Boston and vicinity, led the singing. The grandest feature of the week was the mass meeting on Boston common Sat unlay. This was Good Citizenship clay, and at this open jiir gathering Gov. Greenhale. Mayor ('urtis. and Iter. Donald McLaurin, D. D., of Detroit, were heard in patriotic discourses. Rot. Samuel Francis Sznitli, . ai il.or of "America," prepared an original poem for this occasion, and through the generosity of Miss Helen Gould, of New York, souvenir copies of "America" were given to the delegates. The Eudeavorers marched in a body from Mechanics Building to this big gathering, and they made a picturesque sight with their banners and flags flying. A feature of the convention were the "sunrise" prayer meetings each day in several of the churches. The masses could not hope to go to th Fudeavorers meetings, so the Endcavorers went lo the masses. In other words, companies of delegates, reprcseating different States, held model prayer meetings in big factories, stores and car stations (luring tho noon hour. Tho greatest enthusiasm prevailed everywhere. In ECKET.iKY IIA EU. tho n-arket nlnces flhj'ng the wharves, in lumber and coal yards tho young Eudeavorers penetrated, and they were welcomed wherever they went. At tho hospitals some pathetic scenes occurred, which were in striking contrast with the gayety and good cheer at other places. The street scenes were unique, with marching young people singing Sunday school songs, crowds upon the electric cars waTlng their crimson and white flags and the throngs of sightseers. Three times during the first day Me-

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chnnics nail held an audience of 13,000, and a more interested audience, more beautiful decoration and greater unity of thought and purpose were never known on any public occasion. Long before the exercises began every foot of room where persons were allowed to stand was occurred. The crcnt chorus sunsr histilv. the

a - -f- i noise of the great organ welled out grandly and led the singers and above all could bo heard the silvery tones of the four cornets played by the Park sisters. Tho Rev. Francis E. Clark presided at the opening session, and devotional exercises were conducted by the Bev. Smith Baker, D. D., of East Boston, and 13,000 joined in reciting tho Lord's prayer. The Bev. A. S. Flunib, D. D., extended the greeting from the city pastors, and the welcome of the Boston '95 committee was by the chairman, the Hon. Samuel 15. Capen. Tho greeting extended to Gov. Greenhalgo which followed was inspiring in its enthusiasm. The thousands upon the floor, in the gallery and in the balcony sent forth cheer after cheer, while white handkerchiefs buttered like a great cloud of doves. The Governor greeted the Endeavorers as brethren and sisters. Response to the address of welcome was made by the Rev. E. R. Dills, D. D., of San Francisco, in earnest and eloquent words. Dr. Henry O. McCook, of Philadelphia, next made a short but telling address. He said the letters "C. E." had a new significance CONVENTION IN SESSION. for hira this morning after what he had heard. lie felt now that they stood for not only Christian Endenvor, but also "country evangelized," "cities emancipated" and "Christ enthroned." Report of the General Secretory. The great audience listened attentively to the reading of the annual report of the general secretary, J. W. Baer, frequently interrupting with applause. Secretary Baer said the total membership of the Christian Endeavor organization was now 2,473,740. In tho United States the Presbyterians still lead, with 5,JS3 Young People's societies and 2.2G9 Junior societies; tho Congregationalists have 3.090 Young People's societies and l.DOS Junior societies; the Disciples of Christ and Christians, 2.GS7 Young People's societies and SG2 Junior societies; the Baptists, 2.GSG Young People's societies and ISO Junior societies; Methodist Episcopal, 031 Young People's societies and 391 Junior societies; Methodist Protestants, SÖ3 Young People's societies and 217 Junior societies; Lutherans, 70S Young People's societies and 24. Junior societies: Cumberland Presbyterians, GOD Young People's societies and 231 Junior societies, and so on through a long lUt. Tho Presbyterians held forth in the hall during the afternoon and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The Bev. George B. Stewart, D. D., of Harrisburg. presided, and the speakers were William M. Benham of Pittsburg, the llev. James T. Black of Boslon, the Uev. Pleasant Hunter of Minneapolis, J. Howard Breed of Philadelphia, Miss Elizabeth M. Wishard, the Bev. Thornton B. Penfiel 1 and Robert E. Speer of New York; the Itev. John B. Campbell of Baltimore, the ltev. J. A. Itondthaler of Indianapolis, President Ethel bert D. Warfield of Easton, Pa.; the Kev. J. Wilbur Chapman of Albany and Trof. and Mrs. J. J. Lane of Philadelphia. The evening meeting opened with a prayer and praise service conducted by Secretary Baer. Tho annual address was delivered by President Clark. He was frequently interrupted by the applause, and on concluding the vast audience rose and gave him an ovation long to be remembered, closing with the Chautauqua salute. After singing "Hallelujah." Evangelist Dwight L. Moody talked to the young people in a fatherly way. So great was the crowd at Mechanics' Hall that 10,000 were unable to gain admittance and a big open-air meeting was held in Huntingtjii avenue, addressed by President Clark and Mr. Woollcy. Thousands at Tent 1'iidcavor. At Tent Endeavor on Boston common the sound of fervent prayer was mingled with the strains of music wafted over from Tent Williston and the hum of the busy city's trade. -Not loss than D.OOG persons greeted Lieut. Gov. Woleott when he rose to welcome the delegates in behalf of the State of Massachusetts. The Kev. Y,. II. Albright of Boston conducted the devotional services, and after referring to the occasion as a day of pentecost ho called for testimony from thos present. The Baptists filled the tenr. during the afternoon. The llev. II. C. Vedder tf Chester. Pa., was the chairman, and the

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speakers were the Bev. L. A. Crandall of Chicago, the llev. Clarence A. Barbour of Kochester, the Kev. II. C Mahle of Boston, the Iter. Henry L. Morehouse of New York and the Rev. Wayland Hoyt of Minneapolis. The speeches savored of patriotism and called forth great applause. The Rev. J. Z. Tyler of Cleveland presided at the evening praise

service, and following an address on "Washington, 90," by W. H. PennelL the annual address of President Clark was read by Prof. James D. Howe of Lexington, Va., and John G. Woollcy of

FRANTH E. CLAHK, T. P., Pounder of the Y. 1. S. C. K. Chicago delivered an interesting temperance address. The great Tent Williston was an inspiring sight all day, the canvas sheltering 10,000 poop'e at each of the three meetings. The services were introduced by a season of song by the chorus, in which the congregation joined with splendid effect. The Bev. Vv'a viand Hoyt, D. D., of Minneapolis, presided in the morning, wielding a gavel made from three historic buildings of Boston the old South Meeting House, the old State House and Faneuil Hall. After the singing of the hymn of welcome George W. Coleman of Boston delivered the welcome of the committee of '00. The Kev. A. S. Gumbart made the address of welcome for the city pastors, and Alpheus Sanford, chairmairof the Board of Aldermen, in the absence of Mayor Curtis, greeted tho Endeavorers. Ilcsponsos wire made by the Bev. W. X. Page. I). D.. or Leavenworth, Miss Cora I. Kockford of B;ddeford, the Kev. Walter II. Brooks of Washington, the Kev. Gilby C. Kelly of Texas and G. Tower Ferguson of Toronto. W. II. Strong of Detroit presided over the Congregational rally in the afternoon and the most prominent of the speakers were the Kev. I). M. Pratt of Portland, Me.; tke Bev. George A. Gates of Iowa, Congressman Elijah Morse, the Kev. F. B. Doe of Ashland, Wis.; the Kev. I). M. Fisk of Toledo, Miss T. Sibley of Belfast, Me., and the Kev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton of Boston. The evening service, as in the other tent, was devoted largely to "Washington. 'OO." the K.-r. Tennis S. Hamlin being the chief speaker. The r MILLSTOX ClirnCII, rOKTLAND, MK. The Church Home of the First Y. V. S. C. E. closing address was by the Bev. Bussell II. Conwell. I. D., of Philadelphia. The Methodists, to the number of 2.000, rallied at the People's temple and listened to the Kev. Wallace McMullen of Philadelphia, Dr. James Boyd Brady, the Bev. John Potts of Toronto and others. The Kev. K. M. Kussell, D. D., of Pittsburg, the Bev. W. W. Lawrence of Bellevue, Pa., the Bev. I). C. Stewart of St. Louis, the Kev. II. C. S wen ringen of Allegheny City and tho Bev. J. T. McCrory, D. D.. of Pittsburg addressed the united Presbyterians at the First Church, Cambridge. There was unbounded enthusiasm for tho church of one's birth or adoption at each of the twenty-seven denonmtion1: rw in iVi5j on ji i -" BIN K Kit 1111.1 SiOM'MKXT. al rallies during the afternoon, but at none was there a betrayal of the least sectarian bitterness. Some of the strongest men in the different denominations spoke their best thoughts, and in several cases significant resolutions were adopted. The trustees meeting in the evening was devoted to hearing delegations from the Pacific slope, and on the first ballot it was voted to hold the convention in 1S07 in San Francisco. William Best, the most notorious resident of the Paint Iick of Kentucky, was Miot ni:d instantly killed in a quarrel by 1 Speed Xunn. The killing of Best wipes out the last of a family of outlaws who have been tho terrors of the section for many years. Richard Allen was struck on the h?ad by a heavy auger while cleaning out a well at Portland, Ind., and his skull fractured.

-J " V They say that J. B. Walker, of the Cosmopolitan, is going to publish an illustrated weekly. Friends and admirers of Frederick Locker-Lampson will be glad to know that the report of his death, cabled to this country a few days ago, is unfounded. Hans Ereitmann, otherwise Charles Godfrey Leland, has collected from the people and retold a quantity of "Legends of Florence," and propose to bring them out in a book immediately. The title of Miss Winnie Davis novel, which Is soon to be Issued, is "The Veiled Doctor." It is described as telling the story of an over-sensitive man, whose married life with a not very sensitive young woman was a tragedy to both. Max Xordau says. In reference to the requests of American magazines asking him to contribute articles, that he has no intention of publishing additional work on degeneration. He is at present writing a novel, also a drama for the Lcsing Theater In Berlin. Rudyard Kipling's "Many Inventions," seems to have taken its place as the strongest volume of stories which he has issued. It contains examples of his best work in various fields, and the range of subjects imparts to this volume a special value. John Hollingshead's autobiography, soon to be issued in Loudon, will havo tho title, "My Life Time." The frontispiece will be a inn-trait of the author, who is now a manager in Liverpool. Among the famous men of whom the author writes is Dickens, Thackeray, Charles Mathews, and Phelps. Jerome K. Jerome, the author of "Three Men in a Boat," etc., has sohl his weekly paper, To-Day, to a syndicate for one hundred thousand dollars. To-Day was started about a year ago, directly after Mr. Jerome's retirement from the Idler, which he launched a year before. The sale of his paper will leave him free to take up regular literary work once more. Inspired, doubtless, by the tremendous success of Edward W. Townsend's "Chimmie Faddec," which is now in Its twenty-sevenlh thousand, James L. Ford, the author of that lively little book, "Tho Literary Miop," is preparing to publish a volume of sketches and stories of New York life presumably including "Little Eva, Swallowtail; or, The Society Reporter's Christmas," and other sketches. Alphonse Daudet has invented a new form of authorship. He is to put forth a volume of reminiscences the story of his youth without, however, setting pen to a paper. Ho is to talk of these things in French to Robert II. Sherard, who will take notes and then write the matter down in English. The reason for this arrangement is a desire that the book shall appear first In the English language, with which M. Daudet is unacquainted. Influence of Science. The best that we gain from the pursuit of research, Prof. C S. Miuot writes, Is our characteristic optimism. We are engaged in achieving results, and results of the most permanent an 1 ?nduring quality. A business man may achieve a fortune, but time will dissipate it. A statesman may be the savior of a nation, but how long do nations live? Knowledge has no country, belongs to uo class, but is the might of mankind, and it is mightier for what each of us has done. e have brought :ur stones and they are built Into tho edifices and into its grandeur. My stone is a small one. It will certainly be forgotten that it is mine, nevertheless it will remain in place. How different Is the pessimism toward which literary men are scon to tend! Harvard University lost Jum-.v Russell Lowell in 1801 and Asa Cray in 1SSS. The letters of both these eminent men have been published. Lowell's letters grow sad and discouraged, and he gives way more and more to thi pessimistic spirit. Cray Is optimstio steadily to the end. The difference was partly due to natural tempera men.. but chietty, I think, to the Iniluenee of their respective professions. The subject material of the literary man is familiar human nature and familiar üuman surroundings, and his task is to express the thoughts und dreams which these suggest. He must compete with the whole past, with all tho genius that has been. There is nothing new under tho sun, he exclaims. But to us It is a proverb contradicted ly our daily experiecce. Popular Science Monthly. Tlie Spot on the Sun, "Do you know, deah boy," said Chnllie. "that there is a report In the beastly papers that Wale? actually ;aid only $42 for a suit?" "A fellaw can get ery correct suits ovnh tho watch for that small price," said Chappie. It isn't that, deah boy. It says he actually paid for It What are we to do?" Cincinnati Tribune. Indignant Parisians. A great scandal has been created In Paris by the discovery that the wealthy Prlnc Do Sagan has obtained a part cf the Bois De Boulogne as a site for a 7rlvate cycling club and has secretly cut down some COO trees to make room or his sport. So many affairs that open with a band are closed byihe sheriff. We sometimes think that the surest way to obtain peace la to fight.