Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 July 1899 — Page 3

TALjIAGE'S SEIüION.

THE SIN OF GOSSIP. LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. of i:nvy, Murtler, I)-I:ite, Deceit, Mal:::ity, lsi.;-rf r" Kmnaiis Chapter 1, erse 'J The lire of U iniiUii Spirit. (Copyright lSfO by Loirs Klopseh.) Paul viiä heie calling the iuug roll of the worid's villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called because they generally speak under voice and in a confidential way, their hand to the side of their mouth acting as a funnc-l tu keep the precious information from rdering into the wrong car. They sA .It softly, not be--auie they nave lac.'c of lung force, or because they are overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, but because they want to escape the consequences of defamation, if no one hears but the person whispered unto and the offender be arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, f-)r whisperers are always first-class liars! Some people whisper because they are hoarse from a cold, or because they wish to convey some useful information without disturbing others; but the creatures photographed by the apostle in my text give muilled utterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibilant sound as the lette "S" drops from the tongue into the listening ear, me brief hUs of the serpent as it projects its venom. Whisperers are masculine and feminine, with a tendency to majority on the sides of those who are called "the lords of creation." Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashier, and are heard in all countinsrocms as well as in sewing societies and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They are the worst foes of society; responsible for miseries innumerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and today, I hold up for your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. From the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles, I conclude that he must have suffered somewhat from them. His personal presence was very defective, and that made him, perhaps, the target of their ridicule. And beside that, he was a bachelor, persisting in his celibacy down into the sixties, indeed, all the way through, and some having failed In their connubial designs upon him, the little missionary was put under the raking fire of these whisperers, lie; was no doubt a rare morsel for their scandalization; and he cannot keep his patience any longer and he lays hold of these miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down in my text among the scoundrelly and the murderous. "Envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers." The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should in a plain way. calling you by name, charge you with fraud, or theft, or murder, or tine-leanness, tomorrow morning t .ht have peremptory document. ...d on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for She damage I had done your character. But these creatures spoken of in my text are so small that they escape the fine-tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy and they start on another. You cannot by the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat under the force of moral sentiment. They are to be found every where, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about one or two thousand people where everybody knows every body. But they also are to be found in large quantities in all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look into the basement window.7: at the tables of their neighbors, and can tell just what they have morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people can see with a door wide open. They can hear conversation on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything. Some morning a wife descends into the sreet, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a Stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "I guess that husband and wife don't live happily together. I wonder if he hasn't been abusing her? It's outrageous. He ought to be disciplined. He ought to be brought up before the church. I'll go right over to my neighbors and I'll let them know about this matter." She rushes in all out of breath to a neighbor's house and says: "O! Mrs. Allear, have you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, came down off the steps in a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, it's just as I ex pected. I saw him the other afternoon very smiling and very gracious to some one who smiled back, and I thought then I would just go up to him and tell him he had better go home and look after his wife and family, who jrobably at that very time were upstairs crying their eyes out. O! Mrs. Allear, do have your husband go over and put an end to this trouble. It'3 simply outrageous that our neighborhood should be disturbed in this way. It's awful." The fact is that one man or woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood aboil. It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisition if that the woman have a small family or no family at all, because, if she have a large family, then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It is very important that she be single, or have no children at all, and then she can attend to all the secrets of the

neighborhood all the time. A woman with a large family makes a very poor whisperer. It is astonishing how these whisperers gather up everything. They know everything that happens. There are telephone and telegraph wires reaching from their ears to all the houses in the neighborhood. They have no taste for healthy new?, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there is a new scandal in the newspapers, they have no time to go abroad. On the day when there are four or five columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case, she stays at home and reads and reads. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find time to run cut a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satan does not have to keep a very sharp lookout for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. He has let out to her the whole contract. She gets husbands and wives into a quarrel, and brothers and sisters into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock and the fleck with the pastor, and she makes neighbors, who before were kindly disposed toward each other, over suspicious and critical, so when one of the neighbors passes by in a carriage, they hiss through their teeth and say: ' Ah, we could all keep carriages if wc never paid our debts!" When two or three whisperers get together they stir a caldron of trouble, which makes me think of the three witches of Macbeth dancing around a boiling caldron in a dark cave: Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog. Wool of bat, and tongue of dog. Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting. Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell both boil and bubble. Double, double, toi! and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble, Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy; maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon's blood; Then the charm is firm and good. I would only change Shakespeare in this, that, where he puts the word "witch" I would put the word "whisperer." Ah, what a caldron! Did you

ever get a taste of it? I have more respect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight, with no home and no God for she deceives no one as to what she is than I have for these hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with a fine shawl, and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin! The work of masculine whisperers is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose, there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result of some whisperer's work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you had no use for them, anil the whisperer said: "Sold his horse and carriage because he had to sell them. The fact that he sold his horse and carriage shows he is going down in business." One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: "I wonder if he can stand under all this pressure? I think he is going down. I think he will have to give up." You borrow money out of a bank and a director whispers outside about it, and after a while the suspicion gets fairly started, and it leaps from one whisperer's lips to another whisperer's lips, until all the people you owe want their money and want it right away, and the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your liabilities, crash! went everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much business men have suffered. Are any of you given to this habit of whispering about others? Let me persuade you to desist. Mount Taurus was a great place for eagles, and cranes would fly along that way, and they would cackle so loud that the eagles would know of their coming, and they would pounce upon them and destroy them. It is said that the old cranes found this out, and before they started on their flight they would always have a stone in their mouth so they could not cackle, and then they would fly in perfect safety. O! my friends, be as wise as the old cranes and avoid the folly of the young cranes. Do not cackle. If there are people here who are whispered about, if there are people here who are slandered, if there are people here who are accused in any circle of life, let me say for your encouragement that these whispers soon run out. They may do a little damage for a while, but after awhile their detraction becomes a eulogy and people understand them just as well as though some one chalked all over their overcoat or their shawl these words: "Here goes a whisperer. Boom for the leper. Boom!" You go ahead and do your duty and God will take care of your reputation. How dare you distrust him? You have committed to him your souls. Can you not trust him with your reputation? Get down on your knees before God and settle the whole matter there. That man whom God takes care of is well sheltered. Let me charge you, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. It i3 loose at one end and can swing either way, but it is fastened at the other end to the floor of your mouth, and that makes you responsible for the way it wags. Xanthu3, the philoso pher, told his servant that on the mor row he was going to have some friends to dine, and told him to get the best thing he could find in the market. The philosopher and his guests sat down the next day at the table. They had nothing but tongue four or five

courses of tongue tongue cooked In

this way, and tongue cooked in that way, and the philosopher lost his patience and said to his servant, "Didn't I tell you to get the best thing in the market?" He said: "I did set the best thing in the market. Isn't the tongue the organ cf sociability, the organ of j eloquence, the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?" Then Xanth'.is said: "Tomorrow I want you to get the worst thing in the 1 market." And on the morrow the philosopher sat at the table, and there was nothing there but tongue four or nve courses or tongue tongue in this shape and tongue in that shape , -and the philosopher again lost hi3 ; patience and said: 'Didn't I tell you to I et the worst thing in the market?" j The servant replied: "I did; for isn't the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defamation, the organ of lying?" Oh, my friends, employ the tongue which God so wonderfully created as the organ of taste, the organ of deglutition, the organ of articulation, to make others happy, and in the service of God. If yeu whisper, whisper good encouragement to the fallen and hope to the lost. Ah, my friends, the time will soon come when we will all whisper! The voice will be enfeebled in the last sickness, and though that, i voice could laugh and shout and sing and halloo until the forest echoes an swered, it will be so feeble then wo can only whisper consolation to those whom we leave behind, and only whis per our hope of heaven. While I speak this very moment there are hundreds whispering their last utterances. Oh, when that solemn hour comes to you and to me, as come soon it will, may it be found that we did our best to serve Christ, and to cheer our comrades in the earth ly struggle, and that we consecrated not only our hand but our tongue to God. So that the shadows that fall around our dying pillows shall not be the evening twilight of a glittering night, but the morning twilight of an everlasting day. This morning, at half-past four o'clock, I looked out of ray window. and the stars were very dim. I looked out a few moments after, and the stars were almost invisible. I looked out an hour or two afterward. Not a star was to be seen. What -was the matter with the stars? Had they melted into darkness? No. They had melted in to the glorious light of a Sabbath morn. SEASIDE CURLS. A Vexed Problem to tlio Women at the Resorts. The crumpled roseleaf of the seaside woman's life is straight, hair. She will not believe that she looks well with plain tresses and she is unhappy when straight wisps that once were curls blow around her face at the first breath of dampness, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. She has experimented with curling fluids and patent hair wavers and she has stayed up late nights evolving bandeaux that do not require Madonnaesque features to set off their beauty. But she always gives way in the end and does one of three things packs her trunks and goes to a high, dry, curl-respecting atmosphere; throws vanity to the fogs and makes no attempts at ringlets; or remains in doors whenever possible and devotes at least three hours a day to evolving a curly coiffure and repairing damages to the same. When the last alternative is accepted the victim is given to mysterious disappearances. Immediate ly after a sailing trip, a bicycle ride or a walk she vanishes to appear an hour or two later with frizzes galore crowning her triumphant brow. Between dances she does not roam around on the piazzas or frequent dim, damp corners where women with naturally curly hair may sentimentalize in peace. Wrhen she goes in bathing her scarlet cap is tied on with a gay kerchief, and beneath these double wrappings are pigtails tightly plaited, waves done up in kid curlers and ripples firmly skewered on metal pins. The hairdressers and the women with broad, low foreheads, who look well with uncrimped hair, have little feeling for these seaside martyrs. The hair-dressers recommend toupees, and bring out for inspection little arrangements of "real hair" and tortoise shell that would make Buffalo Bill smile. Tho high-class coiffeur whose customers think that face enameling, false teeth and false hair are all in the same category, suggests a simple means of keeping neat and presentable without frizzes. Have the hair shampooed and brushed regularly. It responds more quickly to treatment of any kind in summer than in winter, and now is the time to get it in good condition for the winter. The brushing and washing, with singeing every four weeks, when the moon is full, keep the hair bright in color and soft and silky in texture. It also makes it strong. To keep it neat and attractive wear it in braids at the back of the head, and brush it straight back from the front and sides. A hat that comes over the face can be worn most of the day, and for evening a few little ringlets can be coaxed into being with a curling iron, or papers. Some women manage to have a soft, fluffy pompadour for the evening by wearing a hat tipped over the eyes all day. The hat, of course, covers a multitude of curling pins. "Klnger" In a Kunnlnx Rare. From the Chicago Post: "What's the matter?" demanded the crowd when there seemed to be a hitch in tho proceedings at the athletic carnival. "We have just discovered a 'ringer in the long-distance running race," answered the manager. "His experience Is such that he outclasses them all." "Who is he?" was the cry. "A Filipino in disguise," was the reply. Tho Touring of the Worm. Mrs. Knpcck "The paper states that Dr. Pillsbury and Miss Golding are to be married this evening. You know I was engaged to him before I met you." Mr. Enpack "Yes, I know. Anyway, the doctor is to be congratulated." Mrs. Enpeck "Why, I waar' vare that you knew Miss Golding." Mr. Enpeck n don V

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PADEREWSK! WILL NOT TEMPTED BY CUPID. DE The Rumor Recently Circulated Founded on a I1 vor Case Ho Is More Interested in Agriculture Than lie Is iu Marriage. The latest rumor of Ignace Paderewski's marriage had as little foundation as the various reports of his engagement to the American women he met on his visit to this country three year3 ago. His relations with the Gorski family have long been well known. His invalid son lived with the Polish violinist and his wife during the years that followed the death of his mother, and he has been their intimate friend, at times making his home with them when in France. When Mme. Gorski and her husband were divorced, there was no change In the famous pianist's relations with the family, and his son has lived with Mme. Gorski recently, and her life has been in a large measure devoted to the care of him. It is not believed by any of the pianist's friends in New York thr.t he has been married secretly or In any other way to Mme. Gorski. who is somewhat older than he. The rumor of his engagement to a New York woman was so persistently reported three years ago that her father had to make a formal denial of it, says the New York Sun. As a matter of fact, the acquaintance between the two was slight. The pianist has little more taste for society PADEREWSKI. than the average musician of his eminence. His only appearances in that way during th5 recent visit to London were in the drawing room of a man of wealth, when he received $5,000 for his contribution to the program of a muslcale and at the farm of a titled agriculturist. He is more Interested in agriculture than in anything else save his profession. One of the mistaken reports concerning his American tour is the statement that he is to receive $250,000 from a manager here for 4) concerts. Ever since his first tour here the pianist has come on his own responsibility, and will continue to do so in the future. Paderewski is now at his Poland estate. He was hastily summoned there by his lawyer as a consequence of the defalcations of one of his principal clerks, whose books show a deficit of several thousand pounds. THOMAS G. SH AUCH NESS Y. Thomas G. Shaughnessy, the new president of the Canadian Pacific railroad, Is a native of the Third ward of Milwaukee. lie left that city In 1831 with William Van Horne, to whose chair as president he succeeds. Milwaukeeans are looking forward to the queen's knighting of Mr. Shaughnessy as she knighted Mr. Van Horne. The new president of the transcontinental steam highway is only 46 years old. After leaving school he entered the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, and in ten years he had worked his way up to the position of storekeeper. In 18S2 Mr. Shaughnessy became purchasing agent of the Canadian Pacific and began the circumspect, economical and saving policy that has won him the presidency. From purchasing agent he rose to the posts of assistant general manager, assistant to the president and director of the T. G. SHAUGHNESSY. road. Few railroad men are more efficient than the new head of tho dominion line. American Spanish. Manila Correspondent New York Tribune: What seems remarkable tc me is the ease with which Americans pick up Spanish and the confidence they seem to have in their llnguistk abiltlies. Many of them appear tc think they are more masters of Spanish than it would be possiblo for anj Spaniard to become master of English. Mr. has only been in Manila a few months, not more than a half dozen all told, and the ease with which h rattles off Castilian is something amazing, as the following will show: Mr. (to a jeweler on the Escolta) Me watchee muchee brokeen, muchee dir tee, me wantce watchee fixee. You sabe, see? Jeweler Yes, I understand. The gentleman over theie will fix youi watch. Overdoing It. "They say that Perkins loved his neighbor as he did himself." "He did more than that. He loved his neighbor's wife and got a horsewhipping."

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1 M nltncv Confession Doubted. Indianapolis, Ind. .telegram: The stats authorises do not take much stool: in the alleged confession of "Kid" Whitney, an inmate of the state reformatory, ti.at he, Noah Baney and a third man unnamed, murdered the wife of the Rev. William E. Hinshaw at Belleville in January, 1SP5. The affidavit made by Whitney is now in the possession of J. 0. Parker of Evansville, one of the minister's attorneys, and it will be brought here for inspection by the governor. The minister's attorneys say they do not intend to ask for a pardon for him at this time. No request in his behalf will be made, they say, until it has been clearly demonstrated that he is innocent of the crime for which he is serving a life sentence. Smallpox at Hammond, Ind. Hammond, Ind., telegram: A welldeveloped case cf smallpox was discovered in the heart of the city this morning, G. A. Latsch, residing at 31 South Hoffman street, being the victim. The man was found to be badly broken out from head to foot and his physician states that the victim has smallpox in as bad a form as any at Valparaiso. A pesthouse will be provided immediately in the outskirts of the city, where Latsch will be placed under the care of a special nurse and physician. No State I.eaeru in Indiana. Anderson, Ind.. special: The decision of the supreme court in i ef using tJ grant the Indianapolis Sunday baseball case a rehearing has dealt a death blow to the proposed Indiana league. It will also put the Indianapolis league out of business, as it means that Sunday ball is at an end in Indiana. No baseball league organized with Indiana cities can pay without Sunday ball, Indianapolis excepted. It is probable there will not be any more state league games. Leonards Are 'ot Clnllty. Rushville, Ind., telegram: A verdict of not guilty was returned Friday by the jury in the case cf Abner and John Leonard, 18 and 22 years old, respectively, on trial for the murder of George Palmer. Condensed Telegrams. Louis C. Fisher of Brookville went to Dayton, Ohio, to re-enlist in the army, and there he was recognized by Major S. H. Lincoln of the recruiting office as one of three soldiers who periled their own life in bearing the wounded major from off the battlefield of San Juan. An effort will be made to secure a medal of honor for Fisher. George Myers of Wapokanetta, Ohio, was attacked at Muncie by John Sullivan, who slashed him with a knife, cutting him across the face and neck in an effort to reach the jugular vein. It is supposed to be a case of mistaken identity on part of Sullivan, who escaped arrest. The Wayne county coroner has made a return in the case of Sylvester Patridge of Richmond, holding that ha died of paralysis of the heart, and that while in life he did not receive proper medical treatment. He was under care of a faith-healer. John Nelson Smith, a tramp, arrested at Huntington for alleged criminal assault on a little girl, and who narrowly escaped lynching, has been given a new trial and released. He was first sentenced to twenty-one years' imprisonment. Isaiah Courtwright, deputy prosecutor of Blackford county, who went to Alaska last year, is reported to be fatally ill of scurvy. Courtwright served twelve years as clerk of Blackford county and two years as recorder. The insanity case of Fowler Chase, pending at Lafayette and set down for the 5th inst., will go over until October. Mr. Chase, Sr., is said to be suffering from nervous prostration, and in no hurry to force matters. John H. Lenhart of Decatur, clerk of Adams county, with his family, drove to Payne, Ohio, on a visit to friends, and while there, his son James died of stomach trouble. The plant of the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, located at Coldwater, Ohio, but with its Offices at Portland, this state, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company has begun work on the great pumping station in Liberty township, Grant county, with which to pump gas to Chicago. While thrashing wheat on the farm near Brookville, owned by Edgar C O'Hair of Brookville, a hot box set fire to the straw and a loss of $4,000 was occasioned. A stranger, with a bullet hole in nis skull, was found dead on the banks of the Wabash river, near Terre Haute. The body is that cf a man about 50 years old. The Rev. J. F. Floyd of Winchester has accepted a call to the Main Street Christian church, Kokomo, the Rev. Henry Ward Hoover of Chicago declining. Ira Sanders, a prominent, young man of Daviess county, was struck by a train at Loogootee and instantly killed. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Linville Wilkinson, convicted at Warsaw of forgery, and who was awaiting transfer to prison, escaped last Saturday from the county jail. Michael Smith of Decatur attended morning religious services, ate a hearty dinner and then dropped dead. The Rev. R. A. M. Johnson of Clermont county, Ohio, has accepted a call to the church at Blue Ridge. Word is received at Madison that Charles II. C. Kerner of Company A, Twelfth infantry, has been fatally wounded at Manila. The South Bend militia have been mustered by Adjutant-General Gore. They are captained by George W. Freyermuth. Employes of the American plateglass works at Alexandria have received an advance of 10 per cent in wages. James Merritt, brakeman on tho Erie railway, fell from his train at Spencerville and was instantly killed.

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III MMN IIB Good Growth of Christian Endeavor Society Last Year, OLD OFFICERS HE-ELECTED.

X Changes Made in tlie Central Governing P.ody Keport of tlie Treasurer of tlie rublUhin;; Department Shows a Dalanee of ,',4 The work of the international convention of ihs Christian Endeavor society began at Detroit July 5. President Clark's annual report showed that the growth of the society in the past year had been 100,000 in round numbers. The present officers were re-elected as follows: The Rev. Francis E. Clark, president; John WKIis Baer. secretary, and William Shaw, treasurer, all of Boston. The annual report of the treasurer of the publishing department showed that the receipts were 30O.CC7.2."j. and the disbursements $00,023. leaving a balance of $2,4o9.2.). The Western publishing branch had a balance of SCol.CS on hand, after spcrding $12,003, and the treasurer had ?:iö2.02 in the treasury, with s"cs receipts of $10.031.30. The place for the convention of 1001 is left to the next annual meeting in London. At Thursday's meeting of the United Society of Christian Endeavorers, Rev. W. M. Paden. pastor of the First Presbyterian church at L. Lake City, urged tho 3.Q0.000 members of the society to use every means in their power toward unseating B. II. Roberts, the recently elected congressman from Utah. Dr. Francis E. Clark, president of the United society, and Mr. Baer, the secretary, gave their regular annual report. The secretary reported a growth during the year of 2,000 societies, with over 100,000 new members. -The oflicial enrollment." he said, "is 53.S13 societies, with a total membership of 3.300,000." Rain interfered seriously with the work of the Christian Endeavorers at Detroit, July 7. President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin college made a plea for ''Christian training" in the colleges of the country. Largely attended evangelical services were held during the noon hour at factories, public squares and wharves throughout the city. The afternoon was given up to conferences in the larger churches. A great general out-door "international peace and arbitration" gathering, perhaps the chief event of Christian Endeavor convention week, was held at Detroit July 8. The "Christian Endeavor peace memorial" was adopted, a copy of which will be sent to the international peace conference at The Hague. There were no general meetings in the Christian Endeavor tents at night. The Christian Endeavorers walked to services at Detroit Sunday and the men who preached walked with them. The antagonism of the society to all forms of Sunday m"bor resulted in the practical boycotting of the street cars. The most noted and eloquent of the divines among the delegates were selected to preach at the meetings in honor of the day. STORMS SWEEP LUZON ISLAND. Ships I'nable to Leave Port Soldier Suffer from Exposure. Storms of exceptional violence have swept Manila and all the central part of the island of Luzon for several days. Because of the storm's violence nc ships have been able to leave the harbor since the 5th inst. The soldiers in the trenches at the front are suffering from exposure. Speelal Kleerlon Is Ordered. Gov. Stevens has ordered a special election to be held Tuesday, Aug. 29, to fill the vacancy in the Eighth Missouri district caused by the death o! Congressman Richard P. Bland. Yellow Fever Is Spreading. The yellow-fever epidemic at Santiago, Cuba, has gained in virulence. There have been thirty deaths. All the victims, with the exception of one American civilian, are soldiers. I'aper for Christian Kndeavorera. The Christian Endeavorers havt been asked by the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kan., to raise $1,000,000 with which to found a Christian daily newspaper in Chicago. Minnesota Hank in Difficult irn. The bank examiner of Minnesota has taken charge of the Savings Bank of St. Paul, the -oldest savings institution in Minnesota. The bank has deposits of slightly less than $1,000,000. Spanish Capital Leaving Cuba. By October fully $130,000,000 of Spanish capital will have been withdrawn from Cuba, as Spaniards are afraid of the coming into power of professional Cuban politicians. Six of Family Killed. All but one of the seven members of the family of William Reinhard were killed and the remaining one was baaiy injured by a Big Four passenger train at Cleveland, Ohio. Valuable Copper Ledge Loeated. A copper ledge, outcroppings of which have been traced a distance of sixteen miles, has been located at Williamspoint, Alaska, by a San Francisco syndicate. Alliance iu South America. An alliance between Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay against any foreign intervention in that part of South America is being formed. "Kissing Hug" Causes Death. Helen Lersch, the 2-ycar-old daughter of Frank Lersch, died at Trenton, N. J., from the effects of a "kissing bug" bite. Wheeler Sent to Manila. Brig.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been ordered to report to Gen. Otis at Manila for duty in the Philippines. CJueen Keoelve Women Delegates. Queen Victoria received the delegates to the international council of women at Windsor castle.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH K I L V I XX I XO LODGE, Xo. 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conner, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, Xo. 9 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C. Jilson, II. P. II. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAXD'RY, Xo. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, Xo. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdavs of each month. Mrs. Berth:-. McDonald, V. M. Mrs. T-ou Stan&bury, Sec. CDD FELLOvS. AMERICÜS LODGE, Xo. 91; meets every Thursday evening- at their loJe r oms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearcr, X. G. Chas. Uiishman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rehekah; meets every Fridav evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Eliis X. G. Miss Emma Zumhaugh, V. G. Miss X'. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.1499; meets the second and fourth Fridav evenings of each month in K. of "P . hall . CM. Slayter, C R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TEXT, Xo. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. V. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M.'hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; mecti every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs, W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets' first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent. B. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C C E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No. 6; meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena UI rich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs, Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tilitftts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TI BRETTS POST, G. A. R., meets "very first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kellev, Com. Charlei Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 73 P n1 m Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commandcr. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall, S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSL CIANS ASSOCIATION Meets first Tuesday in each month Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Sec Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question asked of us so often, referring to advertising-. If properly done we know it will pay handsomely. The experience of those who tiave tried it proves that nothing1 equals it