Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 August 1898 — Page 2

H E W S OF INDIANA.

MINOR HAPPENINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK. A ! 'armer Living Near Otto Shot by a Neijjlilvor Bed Bugs, O !! and Coutlagrat.on Pensions fr Indianuin Priest in Annual Retreat. Parmer D. nirerou v shot. Jefferson ille, lad. Henry Forward, living near Otto, this county, was ihot Thursday by V. K. Rüs, and may ü ie. Ross came to this city ami surrendered :j Justice Keigwein. who placed hira under bonds to await tit velopments. Ir. Ross reports that the trouble originated from a mis-sing log chain. Forward and Ross live on adjoining farm?. When the chain was missed, Ross went to Forward's barn to look for it, and was ordered off the premises. He started toward the division fen e. followed by Forward, and after be had reached his own land Forward leased over the fence and threatened to brain him with a hoe. Ross then shot him. It iß nearly twenty miles from here to the scene of the shooting. That neighborhood is still excited over the murder of Thomas Raits, and Rosa thought it best to leave. He its highly connected, and in April last he married Miss Libbie A. Adams, whose father. William Adams, lives BCftr this city, and is known all over the state on account of his writlcgo on farm statistics. Iteri HugK ami OwHift Knox. Ind. Messrs. Bronse fc Frccmbaugh are contractor! for widening and deepening a ditch in this county, and they use a large dredge and employ a number of men. Accompanying the dredge KM a boat for the accommodation of the employes. Samuel Blai k was cook and general purveyor. Finding that bed bugs "were disputing possession of t..e boat, he used several gallons of gasoline in an endeavor to get rid of the pest. Several men were on the boat at the time. Suddenly there wan an explosion, followed by flame, which destroyed the loat. All of the men 'were severely burned before they escaped. Mr. C. Black particularly so. His- left arm is permanently crippled, even if he recovers. Pension for IndteaiMMh Washington. D. C Pensions havt -eeen granted to Indianlans as follows: Original- Isaac Maiden, Vineennea, $8: Franklin Burns. Guy, 6; William B. Morgan. South Bend. Theodore P. Kesler. Brimfield, $!2. Additional Edmund A. Locker, Kendallville. $6 to $12. Increase- William B. Wicker, Weetfeld, 17 to $.r-:0: Farria Zimmerman. GtcJQt. $6 to $10; William Stoops. Markland. $12 to $17: John E. Screech, Crantsburg. $10 to $14; Michael Hubbard. Farmland, $14 to $24; Henry W. Arnold. National Military Home, Grant. $16 to $17. Reissue Charles P. Noble, Vevay, $20. Original Widows. Etc. Minors of James Fleenor. Little York. $12. New lleef Killing FtttablUh ment. Hammond. Ind. Plans have been prepared by the G. H. Hammond Company of Hammond, for the construction of a new beef-kil!ing establishment at St. Joseph. Mo., where the concern recently acquired possession -of the Moras plant. The new house will cost $!'-0.000 and will have a "capacity of 900 cattle a day. Kossuth H. Bell, assistant general manager of the company, says that the new concern may be in ope ation this winter. For Cashing an Order. Muncie. Ind. Dr. J. Nelson Ross, a young physician of DeSoto. east of this city, was arrested by Inspector Fletcher and a deputy Fnited States marshal, on charge of collecting a money order calling for $90. which had been aent to Nelson B. Ross, an entirely different individual. The defendant could not furnish bond and was taken to Indianapolis. He is the son of Dr. J. C. Ross, an old physician of this city, and but recently married. Set the W'ni;iu on Fire. .feffersonvilie, Ind. A lot of young people had a hay-wagon ride at Memphis, near here, in honor of the birthlay of the little daughters of Phillip Fisher. A gang of roughs stoned the party, fortunately not striking any of them. The wagon was then set on fire, and the children escaped injury by the action of Rudy Schmiffs. a former Jeffenon Tille policeman, who smothered tbe flames. Priontn In Annual Ketreut Iaporte. Ind. The priests of the Ft. Wayne (Catholic) diocese will go into annual retreat at Notre Dame. August 29, and continue the remainder of tbe week. The Sisters of the Holy Ooe are at St. Mary's this week, making their retreat, and fully five hundred sistert are congregated at thmother house. Kill. I In lraflk. La port e, Ind. A telegram has been received, stating that William Brock of this city was killed in a railway "wreck In Nebraska, he being the engineer of the train, and dying with his hands on the lever. An Industry WIpcmI Ott. Lngansport, Ind. The Ixgan heeding factory, owned by D, C. Shirk. J. H. Tyner and Addison Haskit, burned last night. boss, $20,00'; insurance, $9.000. The factory mployed forty men, and was one of the hief industries of this city. Colonizing I'orto o. Elwood, Ind. A colony is being organized in this c ity for Mtt lernen t in Porto RUu as soon as the terms of peace have been arranged and soon as the island is under control of tho United States authority. .

LONDON'S DOCKS. They Cover 2.UOO Are and

Twenty Mile of Qnay. The Ixmdon do ks oer an area of about 2,000 acres, with upward of twenty miles of quay for discharging ships anil more than 15.000,000 square feet for storage purposes. All this iR under the guardian care of the London and India docks joint committee, which, in its present amalgamated form, has existed since 1888. This deck company, however, it should le understood, does not itself trade; It exists to facilitate the negotiations of those who do. by keeping tbe quays, docks and warehouses in proper condition, for which advantages merchants and shippers are charged certain rentals. The London docks were opened in 1S05 and the St Katherine docks fn 1825. To begin with the wool warehouse, it is estimated that about 20,000.000 worth of wool arrives annally in London alone. But the shorn locks of sheep, till converted into fashionable cloth, baffle the description of tbe uninitiated, and we pass on to survey the drugs." a term which here Includes many things not usually admitted to the 'British pharmacopeia." To traverse the "drug" floor alone means a walk of a quarter of a mile. So many and various are the things stored in this warehouse that a museum of specimens has been fitted up for the convenience of merchants and visitors. Opium, agrimony, hachis; kola nuts and cocoa leaves are shown; also cochineal beetles (for dyeing), the tiny beetles having been scraped ofT The leaves of trees into bags and dipped into boiling water; coffee, straw plaits from Japan, charcoaled bones for sugar refining, ebony, malacca and snakeswood sticks: sticklac. a resinous substance formed on trees by inserts' and used not only in dyeing, but to fasten silk on high hats. Besides these you will be sure to be shown three grewsome objects, a long snake, a scorpion and a centipede, each preserved in alcohol as specimens of the sort of unregistered passengers occasionally found among the goods on arrival at the port of London. Also you see a mummified cat and rat found among the bottles of quicksilver. Cats, by the way. are a great feature of these warehouses, for their daily cost for meat and drink forms a distinct item in the company's books. The wine ami spirit vaults contribute another extraordinary series of pictures of the docks, and, indeed, of underground London. You can walk about in them literally for miles; to be exact, the actual length of gangway is twenty-eight and a quarter miles. Though situated far down the line in the deserted region of the Victoria docks, a passing word must be given to the thirty chambers, probably the largest in the world, where frozen meat from America and New Zealant is stored till redistributed to all parts of Great Britain. Prosen chickens and ducks with heads and beaks swathed in coarse muslin are also received here from Russia. These chambers are built with double wooden walls, the intervening one or two feet being filled in with charcoal, which is a non-conductor of heat. They are in total darkness, except when the electric light is turned on. when it is seen that tho walls and roof are thickly covered with ice crystals, w hile piled up on all sides are various carcasses with muslin coverings to keep them clean. The outside air may be bitterly cold when one enters, but on passing out again from the ice chambers the change gives the impression that currents o. warm air are lapping one's cheeks. Charm of the Crimea. In the late Mr. Charles A. Dana's "Eastern Journeys," there is a fine word picture expressive of the charm of the Crimea, and the delight it has in store for travelers, who are not too much in a hurry: "Starting in the morning from Sebastopol. and driving with one or two changes of horses, we traversed the southern projection of the peninsula, and at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon passed through the Gates of Baidar. as the passage through the Iaila mountains is called, and looked dow?n upon one of the noblest spectacles in the world. Immediately before us lay the boundless sea, the short rocky and broken. with villages, churches, Castle and little seaports, all made accessible by the great road cut into the mountain side here and there, and then built out upon walls over some abyss or valley below, alone enough to make the name of Prince Michael Worontzoff forever memorable in all southeastern Russia. The vegetation on the mountain slopes toward the sea is wonderfully varied and interesting. The prevailing trees are oaks and beeches, with pinion pines, cypresses, myrtles, mulberry trees and occasionally fig trees mingled among them." Fftklmo I.ampa. It is not generally known that the Eskimos have from earliest times been acquainted with a primitive form of lamp. Some authorities regard V a.a an independent invention. The rudest form consists of stones collected on the beach with natural cavities into which oil or fat can be poured, and the wick laid at the side. Tn other forme the cavities were artificially produced. At St. Lawrence Island pottery lamps prevail, and the size and shape bear so remarkable a relation to the isothermal lines that it is possible by comparison ! to assign its geographic position to any specimen. With one doubtful exception, no lamp of ancient form existed in America south of tho Eskimos. Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of the world; it Is the cheapest in China. The greatest of all discoveries is when a man fluds God. Principal Dalrna.

PICTURESQUE AMERICA.

Tbe Overland Route and the Grand Hernie Beauty IJnooutitpred. The story of the "Overland Route" has been told In prose and poem by those who have a right :o claim best knowledge of it: those who toiled over the plains driving oxen In sp.ms. I which pulled great caravans of freight; those who hopefully bore the heat and burden of the day. buoyed up ;:nd encouraged by the hope of an El Dorado in the mountains of the west gut at, noble hearted men who sought in the glorious west the reward which seemed never to come near their door- in the populous east. They were brave and kind hearted, bold and gentle, and the story writer loves to dwell on l heir adventures and depict their hair-breadth escapes, and tell of their hopes and their disappointments. En one sense theirs is the story of the lives of many who read, and a chord of sympathy is touched by the skillful tilling of the story. Everyone who has read these tales of the west has felt an instinctive desire to see the spots, hallowed at least in memory by some stoiy. which has served to pass an hour away; and each one has longed for an opportunity. Those of the present day have the best of the earlier members of this mutual admiration society, for they u now make the trip in comfort, free from peril, and surrounded by all the luxuries incident to modern travel. In stead of toiling over the calcined track of those who preceded them, the traveler of the day simply selects "The Overland Route," the 1'nion Pacific system, and, as much at home as though in the quiet of some New Lugland village, glides swiftly over a splendid roadbed, and allows bis eyes to feast on the magnificent scenery afforded. The highest point on this "Overland Route'' across the continent is .-"T feet, at Sherman; hence those who fear the results of great altitudes are relieved of that apprehension, as very little difficulty is experienced. "Echo Canon," says an English traveler, " is a superb defile. It moves aloi like some majestic poem in a series o! incomparable stanzas. There is nothing like it In the Himalayas nor in the Sullivan Range. In the Bolan Pa ;s, on the Afghan frontier, there are intervals of equal sublimity: and even as a whole it may compare with it. Bat taken for all in all its length (some thirty miles), its astonishing diversity of contour, its beauty as well as graadeur I confess that Echo Canon Is one of the masterpieces of nature." Such is the verdict of one observer, and another in describing it is equally emphatic: "So far in our overland journey we have met with no striking instance of that most frequently occurring feature of these regions- the canon. What in the far west is so termed is sometimes a narrow chasm in the mountains. the bottom of which is often the bed of a stream of water, the cliifd on either sides being nearly perpendicular or even inclining towards each other. Echo Canon has every feature of impressiveness strong, determinate color, majestic forms and a novel weirdness. Usually the descent into the canon begins soon after leaving Evanston; the air coming from tbe mountains is inspiring; the afternoon light is growing mellower, and all the conditions are favorable to the highest enjoyment. At Castle Rock may be said to be the true beginning of the exciting ride. "He must be a very close observer, indeed, who can comprehend all the varied beauties and curiosities that follow. The high abrupt wall on one side, so smooth that it might have been cut with a saw, the lofty hills on the other side, and the glimpse of mountains whose snows never melt, are inspiring and interesting. But they are not the only things that make a journey through Echo Canon memorable for a lifetime." The Castle is one of the most perfect of all those striking objects whose vaat proportions show them to be the wora of nature alone, and yet whose symmetrical forms and adherence to architectural rules seem to stamp them as the works of man. At first the cliffs are neither very lofty nor precipitous, though always picturesque. The slender stream creeping along beneath them is fringed with the hardy willow, and on every shelf, and up to the summits of the rocks, the dwarf cedars have obtained a footing, their russet foliage and dark spots of shadow giving a mottled appearance to the landscape. It is almost Incredible, the tenacity which these cedars have on life: give them the narrowest ledge on the smallest cranny in the parched rock, and they go on growing, making up in hardihood and fantastic curve in trunk and limb what they lack in size. Soon the cliffs grow higher, more barren, more savage in form. In color, also, th-y change. At the canon head they are of a yellowish gray, in some plates even ashen; now they stand up. stalk and bare, and of almost a blood-red color. At one point we :ro whirled past a chaos of tumble rock; the whole face of a lofty cliff has fallen at once, leaving the part yet standing of a fresh, bright hue. that it will take l thousand years of summer sunshine and winter frost to tone hack into the general color of the surrounding: heights. O.ie can well Imagine the roar, the volume of sound, that went rolling across the hills when fell that mass. During the so-called Mormon war, when Johnson's army was on its way to Utah there were a number of stonework fortifications en cted on the crests of the ( lift's. From these old rock works, perched like crows' nests on high, a splendid view of Ihc canon may be obtained. W. H. Eideing. whose language we have used before, has written a beau

tiful description of this view, which we cannot do better than quote: "Erom such a point of view as Hanging Rock, or the ridges above it, a much better idea of what one may term the tumultousness of the surrounding country can be obtained th:;n from the bed of the canon. The earth is split by a sc ore of transverse ravines, which extend like blue veins from th" main artery and mar the face of the country with shadow; isolated columns, positive and brilliant in color, stain! alone in thir chromatic glory, without a visible connection with the main rock from which they were originally detached: obi group? of conglomerate, much like inverted wine-glasses in shape, and plainly banded with several strata of color, sprout like so many monstrous mushrooms: and. clasping all within their basin, are the circling mountains of the Wahsatch and Uintah Ranges.'' Shrill blows the whistle as we cut across the pioneers' road, and the echoes are prolonged, striking against the red cliffs to rebound from height to height and die away up in the shaggy ravine. We have passed the "Steamboats.'' the "Rock of Gibraltar." and the "Monument Rock," standing lonely in its lonely ravine. As we flash by wonders numerous and unnamed. iue afternoon sun is streaming down slant lays and lighting up the southern side of the cliffs and casting long blue shadows across our path. The somewhat harsh and incongruent colore of rock and foliage are brought in:o harmony, and the mind suddenly receives the impression that the wonderful picture presented by the cliffs of Echo Canon is one to dwell in the memory for a lifetime. At last the locomotive, giving another resounding whistle, passes round a sharp curve; Pulpit Rock, famous the world over, is on our right hand: we can almost touch it. We have entered a valley running at right angles to the canon; this is the Weber. A few moments more and the train slackens its speed at the cluster of houses called Echo City. Pulpit Rock is so (ailed both from its shape and from the supposition that Brigbam Young preached from it his first sermon in Utah, addressed to the pioneers then on their way to Salt Lake Valley in 1S47. Weber Canon! To those who have made the great transcontinental trip over the Union Pacific railroad, the name will revive the memories of a host of imposing scenes- the Devil's Gate and Slide; the Wilhelmina Pas,;;; the turbulent Weber River sweeping onward and awakening with its angry voice the echoes from cliff to gorge; the long, black tunnels; the dizzy bridges, a kaleidoscopic change of wonders of nature and art. To these who have not yet made the notable tour, who have yet to learn from actual sight the peculiarities and grandeur of western scenery, the name will serve to put their expectation on tiptoe, for. of all the canons passed through by the rail between the Missouri river and the Pacific ocean, this one has earned the reputation of containing the most wonderful scenes, the strangest sights, some that will be long remembered for their wildness and grandeur alone; and others, because they are most striking examples of some of the distinctive features in western scenery. It is a trip which everyone should take, varying the climate, the altitude and general environments of business and care, and it can be taken so comfortably and at such reasonable expense in the splendid cars of the Cnion Pacific system that it should be decided upon at once as the one next to be undertaken. F P. BAKER,

Willi a Wull of Water. The idea of protecting buildings against fire from without by means of a water curtain, to be made to fall all around the structure, appears to be gaining favor, having the indorsement of some of the most experienced professional experts in this line, and the plan is exciting special attention in Chicago, where it is being applied to the great public library building. The arrangement is extremely simple. A seven-inch steel water main is laid around the top of the structure, upon the broad stone table formed by the top of the coping, this pipe having connection with force pumps situated in the basement, and. through perforations properly arranged, insures the introduction of a substantial sheet of water from cornice to pavement, around the whole or any imperiled portion of the building. The arrangement of the system of piping is such as to enable operating in prescribed sections; additional relays of smaller pipes are also placed in position above windows and doors, In order to complete the curtaining of those ioiuts in the most serviceable manner, should the curtain in the main be broken by wind impingement against the building. How to Pronounce Alger. "How do you pronounce the namo of the Secretary of War?" is a question asked many times every day, and as in most cases people do not know, a different pronunciation is given by each, "Allger," hard g, "Awejar," and "Aljer" have been the most frequent pronunciations. As Camp Alger has caused the nam" to he on the tongue of BO many, the private secretary was asked to give the correct pronunciation, so ull may BOW rest Hüll I oil thai they have it right if they say Ahljer," pronouncing the first two letters as in the exclamation "ah," bringing in ttH 1 in the only way it can be enunciated and tbe last three letters as in jerk The first syllable la not as if spelled "awl." although this error is made frequently. Richmond Timca.

MAKING OF A LORD.

CANADA "HONORED" BY ANOTHEE BIG TITLE. tr Arthur Lawrence Ilalllx; rton, G. C. B., now Lord Ilnliburtnti of tVimlsor. the First Native CaanJhie to lte Raised to the ltritish Peerage. RTH.FR la WREXCE HALLIBURTON, who has just been raised to the peerage as Lord Haliburtou. is the youngest son of the late Mr. Justice II a 1 i b u r ton. th 1 a m o u s "?am Slick." who may be described as the first of Canadian writer! and the pioneer in what is known as American humor. Born at Windsor. Nova Scotia, on Sept. 26, 1832, he wa educated at the Collegiate school there, and was L called to the bar of his native province in 1858. Being offered an appointment in the commissariat of the British army, he gave up law and removed to England. Subsequently he was stationed in Canada, and about the period of the Trent affair was a treasury clerk in Montreal. Of handsome person and winning rranners he was an immense favorite in society, "young Mr. HaliburtonV name being still a household Tord in many families. He early gave evidence of business talent, and afterwards, as assistant director, and, as director, of Supplies and Transports at the War Office, developed powers of administration of the highest order. For bis services in connection with the prosecution of the Ashantee and Zulu wars he received a C. B.. and. later, was advanced to the Knight Commander of that order. In 1888 he was promoted Assistant Fnder Secretary of State for War, becoming Permanent Fnder SecLORD HALIBURTÖN. etary in 18S5. On the occasion of the queen's diamond jubilee he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and shortly afterwards retired from the public service owing to illhealth. Within the paet three months he has been very prominently before the public owing to the controversy in the Ixmdon Times with Mr. H. O. Arnold Forster on the subject of the condition of the British army. In this discussion he was completely triumphant. His peerage is the first to be given to a native of the British colonies, and marks a new departure In the policy of the imperial authorities In the distribution of honors of this character. The peerage revives a title which was in the Haliburton family for nearly two hundred years. Sir Walter Haliburton. Lord High Treasurer of Scotland (1439-49). who married a daughter of the regent Albany, having been created Lord Haliburton of Dirlton in 1440. The sixth Lord Haliburton left no eons, and as was common in Scotland in those days his lands and titles descended to his eldest daughter. She married Ixrd Ruthven. and carried the title and estates into that family. Their son was created Earl Gowrie in 15S1. and in 1600 the Gowrie conspiracy ended in his titles and estates being forfeited with his life. The title of Lord Haliburton thus reverted to the crown. and has never been restored. Sir W7alter Scott wrote "A Memorial of the Haliburtons" to prove that he. through his grandmother, a Haliburton. was the sole representative of an extinct family, and that he was. therefore, entitled to the burial place of the Haliburtons in Dryburgh Abbey, where his bones now rest. He was apparently unaware that a branch of the family bad gone to America and still survived there. Ixrd Haliburton has an only brother living in Canada, Robert Grant Haliburton. Q. C. D. C. L.. formerly of the Ottawa bar. Hrs elder sister is married to Win. Cunard. Esq.. a son of the late Sir Samuel Cunard. Bart, of ocean steamship fame. Another sister was married to the late Mr. Justice Weldon. of New Brunvwick, and another to the Venerable Archdeacon Gilpin, D. C. L.. of Nova Scotia. Navajo Simkc Worshiper. At a recent meeting of the Anthropological society in Washington Dr. Matthews described the snake worship of the Navajos. A Navajo, he said. never kills a snake. If he finds one coiled In his path he gently lifts it with a stick and tosses it aside. The Navajos think snakes are very wise and understand the language of men. At the same time they believe snakes are evil and will employ the information they get by listening to men for their disadvantase. Accordingly the Navajos hold their most sacred rites and recite their myths in winter, when th snakes are hibernating and cannot overhear them. Tf vour harvest is a failure, reraemI ber you selected the seed.

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SINGULARLY SILENT PEOPLE. It is scarcely conceivable that a man and his ife can live together for a lengthened period without speaking to each other, but we came across a cane a few days ago whore such a silence had been maintained for eighteen years. The couple in question did not agree on certain points, and as argument led to quarrels, the Avife concluded that it would be a good plan not to speak to each other. The husband agreed, and the difficulty was then how to communicate with one another, seeing that they continued to live in tbe same house. A cat became tri ir "go-bet wi en ."' Of rather several of these animals during the long period of their silence. If the husband wanted anything he told the cat. in his wife's hearing, and she, in like manner, apprised the same animal when her husband's dinner was ready. Rather an unsatisfactory way of doing business, one would imagine. How long such a silence will be continued it is difficult to say: but after eighteen years of it. it is not too much to expect that they are somewhat tired of their peculiar system of married life. Another married couple kept silence for twenty years. The man had a violent temper, and one day. after having a row with his wife, he vowed that he would never speak again. The couple continued to live together in the same house, but no conversation passed between them for the period stated. At the end of that time, however, the man fell ill, and relenting of his rash vow, he broke through the long silence. The illness immediately preceded his death, and. as may be expected, the. wife nursed the husband, who for 20 years had not spoken tc her, in the most faithful manner. In another ease two schoolboys who were great friends quarreled, and as a result they vowed that they would never speak to each other again. These resolutions were kept for sixty years, but last year, when attending a holiday gathering of their old school to which former pupils had been invited, they decided to forget the past, and at once entered into conversation. They recounted their experiences to each other, and appeared to be two of the happiest old schola-s at the gatherWe have heard of prisoners being condemned for a short period to the "silent system," but this, although an unenviable position, is not to be compared with that of the Trappist monks in Italy, who take a vow of eternal silence. In Fiance, too. there Is a convent where between forty and fifty women have taken shelter, and lead a remarkably silent life. They never speak to each other, never lift their eyes, except when in prayer or at work, and never leave their silent home. Tit-Bits. THE NEW PREMIER OF FRANCE. Eugene Henri Brisson had occupied the chair of the presidency of the chamber of deputies longer than any other person when he was defeated for reelection on the second ballot on June 2 by the government candidate. M. Deschanel. M. Brisöon was elected to tho national assembly Feb. 8. 1ST1. He had previously been defeated In 19. in an attempt to enter the corps leglslatif. An honorable career in the chamber followed. It was after the fall of the cabinet of Jules Ferry. March 31, 1885. and after the ineffectual attempts of M. de Freycinet to form a cabinet, that the president called upon M. Brisson to be premier. The task seemed then hopeless Nevertheless M. Brisson succeeded, and his cabinet went into office April 6. 1885, he occupying the premiership and the portfolio of the minister of justice. His cabinet might have been called a moderate republican one. In the winter of 1885, his cabinet nearly sustained a defeat, owing to a formidable coalition in the chamber against the government's policy in Tonkin and Madagascar. He gave way to the more liberal policy advanced by HENRI BRISSON. M. de Freycinet in 1886 and retired from the ministry. In 1895 he was an important candidate for the presidency of France. Doubting Trlenfii Home. The Abbe Bourrier of Marseilles, who recently became an agnostic, has established a eort of a doubting priests home at Sevres. He wishes to prove that priests do not always abandon their calling or live freely. The daily routine is that of a religious community. The aim of the institute is to bridge over the period of discouragement through which the fallen priest has to pass. The movement is supported by fundß from the French Reformed Protestant consistories, but the fullest freedom of conscience is allowed. DeceptlTe Appen ran em. "She says he is an ideal husband." "He don't look such a fool, either." Indianapolis Journal.