Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 September 1899 — Page 3

TALM AGE'S SERMON.

EASY DIVORCES, LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. 'What Tlierrforp :! Hatli .Toinea Together Let Not Mun l'ut AsunOer" Matt. 19: Skeleton All Over llio House a Htll m iu the Closet. Trat there are lra'reda and thousands of infelicitous hoiae in America no one will tluubt. If there were oniy one skeleton in the elcsc-t, that might be locked up and ahandoL'ed; but in many a home there is a skeleton in the hallway and a skeleton in all the apartments. 'Tnhappily married" are two vorus tkxtripiive of many a homestead. It needs no orthodox minister to i :ove to a badly mated pair that there is a hell; they are there now. Sometimes a grand and ;;racious woman will be thus inoarci rated, and her life will be a crucifixion, us was the case with Mrs. Sluuniey, the great poetess and the great soul. Sometimes a consecrated man will be united to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a vixen, as was John Milton. Sometimes, and generally, both parties are to Llarne, and Thomas Carlyle is an intolerable grumbler, and his wife has a pungent retort always ready, and Froucie, the historian, pledged to tell the piain truth, has to pull aside the curtain from the lifelong squabble at Craigenputtcek and 5 Cheyne row. Some say that for the alleviation of all these domestic disorders of which we hear, easy divorce i3 a good prescription. (Jed sometimes authorizes divorce as certainly as he authorizes marriage. I have just as much regard for one lawfully divorced as I have for ono lawfully married. But you know and I I:nov that wholesale divorce is one of our national scourges. I am not surprised at this when I think of the inhuences which have been abroad militating against the marriage relation. For many years the. platforms of the country rang with talk about a free-love millennium. There were meetings of this kind held in the Academy of Music:. Urooklyn; Cooper institute, ;W.v York; Tremont temple, Boston, and i II over the laud. Some of the v.omcn who were most prominent in that movement have since 'oven distinguished for great promiscuity of afl'ection. Popular themc3 for such occasions were the tyranny of man. the oppression of the marriage relation, women's rights, and the affiaities. Prominent speakers were women with short curls ami short dress and very long tongue, everlastingly at war with God because they were created women; while on the platform sat meek men with soft accent and r 'ed demeanor, apologetic for aiascvhr.ity, and holding the parasols whiN the termagant orators went on pre;-, hing the gospel of free love. That c-npaign of about twenty years set more devils into the marriage relation than will be exorcised in the next fifty. Men and women went home from such meetings so permanently confused as to who were their wives and husbands that they never got out of the perplexity, and the criminal and the civil courts tried to disentangle the Iliad of woes, and this one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mother kept the children on condition that the father could sometimes come and look at then, and these went into poorhouscs, and those went into Insane asylums, and those went into dissclute public life, and all went to destruction. The mightiest war ever made against the marriage institution was that free-love campaign, sometimes under one name and sometimes under another. Another influence that has warred upon the marriage relation has been polygamy in Utah. That is a stereotyped caricature of the marriage relation, and has poisoned the whole land. You might as well think that you can have an arm in a state of mortification and yet the whole body not be sickened, as to have any territories or state3 polygamized and yet the body of the nation not feel the putrefaction. Hear . it, good men and women of America, that so long ago as 1S62 a law was passed by congress forbidding polygamy in the territories and in all the places where they had jurisdiction. Thirty-seven years have passed along and nine administrations. Yet not until the passage of the Edmunds law in 3SS2 was any active policy of polygamic cuppression adopted. Armed with all the power of government, and having r.n army at their disposal, the first brick had not till then been knocked from that fortress of libertinism. Every new president in his inaugural tickled that monster with the straw of condemnation, and every congress fctultilied itself In proposing some plan that would net work. Polygamy stood In Utah and in other of the territories, more entrenched, more brazen, more imissant, more bragart and more Internal than at any time in its history. Jamc3 Buchanan, a much-abused man of his day, did more for the extirpation of this villainy than all the subsequent administrations dared to do up to 18S2. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and although it was halted in its work, rtill he accomplished more than the subsequent administrations, which did nothing but talk. talk. talk. Kxen at thi3 late day, and with the I'dmunds act In force, the evil has not been wholly extirpated. Folygamy in Utah, though outlawed, is still practiced in secret. It has warred against the marriage relation throughout the land. It is impossible to have such an awful sewer of iniquity sending up its miasma, which is wafted by the winds north, south, cast, and west, without the whole land being affected by it. Another influence that has warred against the marriage relation in this country ha3 been a pustulous literature, with its millions of sheets every week choked with stories of domestic wrongs, and Infidelities, and massacres, and outrages, until it is a wonder to mo that there are any decencies or any common sense left on the subject of marriage. One-half of the news stands of our great cities reek with the filth "Now," say some, "we admit all these evils, and the only way to clear them out or to correct them is by easy divorce." Well, before we yif Id to that cry, let us find out how easy it is now. I hare looked over the laws of all the states, and I find that while in some states It Is easier than in others. In every state it is easy. The state of Illinois, through its legislature, recites a long list of proper causes for divorce and then closes up by giving to th' courta the right to make a decree of

divorce In any case where they deem it exneu.ent. After that you are not surprised at the announcement that in one county of the state of Illinois, in one year, there were S33 divorces. If you want to know how easy it is, you have only to look over the records of the states. In Massachusetts. COO divorces in one year; in Maine. 47S in one year; in Connecticut, 401 divorces in one year; in the city of San Francisco, S33 divorces in one year; in New England, in one year, 2,113 divorces, and in twenty years in New England. 20.000. Is that not easy enough? If the same ratio continue, the ratio of multiplied divorce and multiplied causes of divorce,, we are not far from the time when our courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will nave to prove against a man will bo that he left his slippers in the middle of the Moor, ar.d all you will have to prove against a woman will be that her husband's overcoat was buttonless. Causes of divorce doubled in a few years, doubled in France, doubled in England, and uoubled in the United States. To show how very easy it is. I have to tell you that in Western lieserve, Uhto, tnc proportion of divorces to marriages celebrated was in one year one to eleven; in Rhode Island, one to thirteen; in Vermont, one to fcurtcen. Is not that easy enough? I want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dissoluteness of society. Rome for 500 years had not one case of divorce. Those were ter cays of glory and virtue. Ihcn the reign of vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If you want to know how rapidly the empire went down, ask Gibbon. Do you knowhow tho Utit,a of Terror was introduced in France? By 20.CC0 cases of divorce in one year in Paris. What we want in this country, and in all lands, is that divorce te made more and more riillicult. Then people before they enter that relation will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it, except through the door of the sepulchre. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation, until they are fully satisfied that it i3 best, and that it is right, and that it is happiest. Then we shall have no more marriages in Tun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with t he idea it is enly a trial trip, and if they do not like if they can get cut at tha first lauding, then this wheb question will be tünen out of the frivolous into the tremendous, and there will be no more joking about the blosoms in a bride's hair than about the cypress on a coffin. What W2 want, is that the congress of the United States move for the changing the national constitution so that a law can be passed which shall be rniform all over the country, and what shall be right in one btate shall be right in ail the states, and what is wrong in one state will be wrong in all the states. How is it now? If a party in the marriage relation gets dissatisfied, it is only necessary to move to another state to achieve liberation from the domestic tie, and divorce Is effected so easily that the first one party know3 of it is by seeing it in the newspaper that Uev. Dr. Somebody a few days or weeks afterward introduced into a new marriage relation a member of the household who went off on a pleasure excursion to Newport or a business excursion to Chicago. Married at tho bride's house. No cards. There are states of the union which practically put a premium upon the disintegration of the marriage relation, while there are other states, like the state of New York, which has the preeminent idiocy of making marriage lawful at 12 and 14 years of age. The ceng ss of tho United States needs to move for a change of the national constitution, and then to appoint a committee not made up of single gentlemen, but of men of famines, and their families in Washington who shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, comprehensive uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hcok to Golden Gate. That will put an end to brokerages in marriage. That will send divorce lawyers into a decent business. That will set people agitated for many years on the question of how they shall get away from each other to planning how they can adjust themselves to the more or less unfavorable circumstances. More difficult divorce will put an estoppal to a groat extent upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men who go into the relation just as they go into Wall street to purchase shares. The female to be Invited into the partnership of wedlock is utterly unattractive, and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows it, but this masculine candidate for matrimonial orders, through the commercial agency or through the country records, finds cut how much estate is to be inherited, and he calculates It. He thinks out how long it will be before the old man will die, and whether he can stand the refractory temper until he dors die, and then he enters the relation; for he says, "It I cannot stand it, then through the divorce law I will back out." That process is going on all the time, and men enter into the relation without any moral principle, without any affection, and It is as much a matter of stock speculation as anything that was transacted yesterday in Union Pacific, Wabash, and Delaware and Lackawanna. Now. suppose a man understood, as he ought to understand, that if he goes into that relation there is no possibility of his getting out, or no probability, he would be more slow to put his neck In the yoke. He should say to himself. "Rather than a Caribbean whirlwind with a whole fleet of shipping in Its arms, give me a zephyr off fields of sunshine and gardens of peace." Rigorous divorce law will also hinder women from the fatal mistake of marrying men to reform them. If a young man, by 25 years of age or 30 years of age, have the habit of strong drink fixed on him, he Is as certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as that a train starting out from Grand Central depot at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning Is bound for Albany. The train may not reach Albany, for It may be thrown from the track. The young man may not reach a drunkard's grave, for something may throw him off the Iron track of evil habit, but the probability is that the train that starts tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will ret there, and the probability Is that the young man who hag the habit of 5trong drink fixed on him before 25 or 30 years of age will arrive at a drankird's grave. She knows he drinks, alhough he tries to hide it by chewing loves. Everybody knows he drinks.

Tarentrj srarn, neighbors and friends warn, fine will marry him; she will reform him. If she is unsuccessful in the experiment, why then the divorce law will emancipate her. because habitual drunkenness is a cause for divorce in Indiana. Kentucky. Florida, Connecticut and nearly all the states. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If you will show me the poverty-struck streets in any city. I will show you the homes of the women who married men to reform them. In one case out of ten thousand it may be a successful experiment. I never saw the successful experiment. But have a rigorous divorce law and that woman will say: "If I am affianced to that man it Is for life, and if now in the ardor of his young live, and I the prize to be won. he will et g've "P ni3 cups, when he has won the prize surely he will not give up his cups." And so that woman will say to the man: "No, sir, you are already married to tho club, and you are married to that evil habit, and so you are mairiod twice, and you are a bigamist. Uo!"

DID HIS OWN MARRYING. A Soutli Caro In;t M:t;Ut ruti I trail lit Own it moiiv, John G. Thomason, 72 years cf age, of Summcrville, S. C, is probably the first and only man who has officiated at his own marriage service. Mr. Thomason recognizes that he has done something remarkable and worthy of notice. He was net phased in the slightest. He said he wanted a wife and he immediately began to try to get one. He found several girls whom he thought he could love and finally he centered all his affections upon one, Miss Emily Alice Lamb, who resided about seven miles from Summcrville. She agreed to marry him and arrangements for the marriage were immediately begun. Mr. Thomason said that the magistrates and ministers had frequently expressed their sympathies for him and their willingness to officiate when he got a girl who would be willing to marry him, but when he finally produced her, ihey all flunked and would not perform the ceremony. Mr. Thomason was not again to be outdone, so he decided to officiate at his own marriage. He secured a number of witnesses for the appointed time, which was on the afternoon of April 23. Miss Lar.ib v.;is present and when the time amo, hp said he called her and told her to stand at his left, lie then read tho servier, and at the proper place took her hand. He made his own responses, and at the conclusion he told the gathning that he and Miss Lamb were now Mr. and Mrs. Thomason, and they were congratulated. Mr. Thomason said that he had been marrying people fur twenty-five year;; and lie saw no reason why ho should not marry himself. Ho said that he had discarded his former wife, who deserted him last summer, and he lives happily v. Uh Iiis present wife, who by tho way, is the third woman to whom he has been married. Mrs. Thomason is C2 j ears cf age. UNIQUE SCHEME. Ily Wlihli a Clever Man M.ulo si Living ly Kating Oyster. New Orleans Times-Democrat: "T u.-ed to know a young man iiere who made a living by eating oysters," said one of a little group aLout the counter of the Grunewald. "Ate them on a wager, oh?" asked an Englishman In the party. "No," replied the first speaker, "he had a much Letter scheme than that. He would stroll into an oyster bar you know how many there are in New Orleans and order a dozen on the deep shell, always selecting a time when several customers were present. After swallowing two or three he" "Two or three customerf.?" interrupted the Englishman. "Xaw!" said the story-teller, frowning, "two or three oysters. After he put them away he would stop all of a sudden and feci in his mouth. 'Look here!' he would sing out to the bartender, 'what kind of things do you keep in your oysters, anyhow? I've nearly broken a tooth!' With that he would take a beautiful big pearl from between his lips. Of course, there was no questioning the genuineness of a gem in that way, and everybody in the crowd would look envious. Some one was morally certain to make a guess as to its value. 'Oh, well.' the oyster-eater would say, 'I don't know anything about pearls, and I'd be glad to sell this one for $3 I don't think he ever failed to make a trade on the spot, and as soon as he got the five in his inside pocket he would saunter out and work another bar. He used to find about four pearls a week, and as long as he kept it down to that game was perfectly safe. But he grew avaricious at last, and found so many that folks got suspicious and he considered It healthy to leave for another fishery. He bought the pearls by the gross from a house in New Jersey. They were very pretty pearls, and cost him about Q's cents apiece net. I have one in a scarf-pin now. How Tney Rewarded Madime Sterling. Madame Antoinette Sterling, tho contralto singer and evangelist, had an experience in the Dombay presidency, India, which is as quaint as any of Kipling's tales of the hills. She wa3 campaigning with Pundita Ilamabal, and through her magnificent voice wa3 drawing thousands of natives to her meetings. They had never seen th t kind of a missionery before, and had never heard a voice like hers. They were so pleased with her work that they said to themselves: "This is a foreign woman guru, and for fear of giving offense to us she has omitted to put her begging-bowl outside of her door for us to put in tho customary contributions." In India, every guru or holy person carries a brass, wood or clay begging-bowl into which the devout put some small sum of money. Madame Sterling walked out upon the veranda of her bungalow one morning, and there, to her amazement, found two begging-bowls. One, a little one, with a few annas in It Intended for ths Pundita, and one, an enormous affair, containing a handsome sum of annas and rupees for herself. The only explanation she could ever extract from the servant was this: "Little bowllittle money for the little Pundita with little voice. 13ig bowl big money for big Missahib with big voice." Madam Sterling was one of thi principal speakers among tho American women at the International council recenfJ held in London.

for mit cues. RecommendaFcns Adop'cd by the St, Lcuis Conference.

RESTRAINT OF TRADE ACHIME. The Assembly I'avon the ras.age of IVUeral ami State t.;iws Whuli Will l'miis'i Attempted Monopolization of Industries. The governors and attorney-generals attending Gov. Savers' anli-trust conference at St. Louis adopted resolutions by which, if they are transfer med into laws, ail trusts, pools and combinations in ro.-tru'.nt of trade will be: clashed as criminal, an 1 "tramv corpL.ratinr.s" will Had e.LUuce a matte' of eihica'ty. The chief reccir.inc ndat:or.3 are as follows: "The enactment and enf.vrrrrv-;::. both by th'? several states cn;I the nation, of Inclination thai shall a .V.'i. lately and f.;.!y dcline as i-:im?s any attempted ir.'jno'jlitati-'iii or revliaint of trade in any lire of industrial activity, with previsions for adequate punishment both of the individual or th. corporation that ch.i'A bo found gnilfy thereof; punishment to the eotpotation to the extent of its dissolution. "The enactment of state legislation declaring that a corporation created in one state to do business exclusively in other states than where created shall be prohibited from admission into any state. "That no corporation should be fcrmed. in whole or in part, by an' corporation." IN HONOR OF UNION SOLDIERS. Wilder MoinM.wpt I)eilic;inl on tlio 1'U Iii of C'iit-.v. ic i. The 113 Indiana nuaiatnfPts and markers anil the Wihl' r bviraiV monument at Ckirhnivu.usa prrk were dedicated Pc-;,t. 20 in the j.rescnce cf 10,000 people. Cov. Mannt of I."liar.a delivered the address, fo::naIly turning the monuments ocr to the government. I.t:-. S-'ioii TVot I.iU.-Iy. Although there is gnat pre.-5 arc being brought to l.cr upon the president by currency reformers to call an extra session to aac t financial legislation, it is the general belief these demands will not be acceded to. Ier,r,t;i.i"' f imernor to Attend. Gov. Alien t'andicr of (leorgia has accepted an imitation for him elf, his wife and his staff to participito in tho Bine and (Iray celebration to be held in Kvamsville, Ind., 'beginning Oct. 10. C:iit. Orryfir SfHmmly 111. The excitement of meeting his children has produced a serious reaction in the condition of Capt. Dreyfus and it is feared that it may be necessary to send him to Malta or Madeira. No oaia-ial Continuation Kce'Ivl. No olliciai confirmation has been received of the report that AguinaMo's envoy has re.i'-i-.fd Manila and that conferences an? in progress between him and lien. CKta. I'.liic and (iriy Kcunlon. All arrangements have boon complettd and the invitations issued for the national reunion of the blue and gray to be held at Kvansvillc, Ind., on Oct. 10 to 13. I'rw !): Iih lit I'Siilippliifi. The weekly death report from Can. Otis shows a remarkably low rate of diser.se amonp; the men. Only twelve deaths were rcporti u for the week ending Sept. L'3. Actrrsn Kill S:isre ?.I:nasrT. At Chattanooga, Tenn., Julia Morrison, an actress, shot and killed Frank Leiden, stage manager of the company. Miss Morric-on claims Leiden had Insulted her. f.onl Inswrrspii Supremo Command rr The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythiao elected Louis Ingwersen, New York, supreme commander. The next meeting will be held in 1901 in Chicago. Allow Women to Vote. The Episcopal diocesan council in session at Milwaukee, by a vote of 27 to 23, aeeorded to women the right to vote on all c hurch i:nu parish matters. Krncft-r Itxpcrts l'eaceful Settlement. Writing to an intimate friend. President Krugcr says: "Tilings are serious and will become graver, but a peaceful settlement will be attained." iol-l Iln-s f 'losing Down. Dispatches from Johannesburg report a complete dislocation of the Itand mining industry. The exodus continues and all the mines are closing. To Compete with A iiierlrn. Australian merchants have begun tho enterprise of shipping tinned meats to Germany to compete with the tinned meats from the United States. S:iy Aguinablo Will Surrender. A report is current at Madrid that Aguinaldo is about to surrender to the Americans, but this report is denied by the Filipino committee. Wreck Near l lkliart. III. The Chicago & Alton limited express was wrecked near Klkhart, 111., by the rails spreading. One passenger was killed and one injured. Kxpetlltion Agalnnt ttie Khallfn. The London Telegraph's Cairo correspondent says that preparations are making for an immediate expedition against the Khalifa. OtU Munt Admit Ctiinene. Gen. Otis has been ordered by the .administration to reverse his position in regard to the admission of Chinese into the Philippines. Refused to Amend DUelpllne. The Illinois Free Methodist conference refused to strike out of the church discipline the article declaring against human slavery. Itjnn to Meet McCoy. A match between "Kid" McCoy and Tommy Ryan for a purse of 10,000 at the Lenox Athletic club is assured for the near future.

WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. nnslness Situation Miow o Sijjns of :t Ili-artion. R. G. Dan &. Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "The reaction in the stock market i3 not a sign of anything outside that market, but has ect many to look for signs of a reaction elsewhere. Such signs have been hard to find. The deniand for products docs not appear to aLate, and the rise in prices continues, a partial explanation is that scarcely any class of products directly consumed by individuals ha3 advanced as much as the wages and employment cf labor. Products used in manufacturing and transporting have advanced much more, U cause of the enormous increase in volume of business done and in ant id -a ted hi:slr-e?s for tho future. Higher priecrj cause shrinking drmand, other things being erjaal, luu this yo.ü' otli'r third's are not equal. Failures f.;r the vc k have been V in the r-iitcl S;:.ies. against ITC iat year. a::J IS in Can.::la, against 1G last year." H 03 AR I rr.AY N0T PRESIDE. Yi-t-rri'sint Vf'ül I't ,-;i:i-s Il.ive to Star Aw:iy from tin- S-ri:!p. It is r.n--?i;:o that Vi? -President Ilabart may !,,. unaale to prer-ide over the next .c-'?ien of the Fnited .-rates Senat. More than that, it now is recogni:."d tlv.it h will not be in physical comiitian to n'.cent a renominaticn as the runain-r m.-.te of Provident Mclvinley in the rr:;t national campaign. A M E R I C SAILOR W 0 UNDED. Guiitxiats II Mil::r! :in! lctroy a Strong I ? ' i ';i- l'if ion. The T'ritctl ta:rs eruh-c-r Charleston, the ri .'iiitor Monterey, the gunboat Concord and the supply thip Zafiro attacked O'.uu.-.apo, on Suhlg bay. Th? wars-ups, alter l-ii-'aly bombarding Olanga;.o. l:;.v:'--l J.'a sailors, who d -si.iv cd th? i.'.-:nrgr' position. One

Air.? r.can wr. C:ll Trust MM-tiv I'artSsan. Fcven governors and six attcrnygenerals, representing nine stales, were ia attnndirtce on the anti-trust conference at He. ljuis. Gov. Shuv of Iowa e'alnic l tl-r meeting was a d?riocratiu I artisan scheme, am! returned home, as did Atfy.-Ccn, Taylor cf Indiana, a republican. ":irlr illo .I:irl:l l im! r .Irrest. Thre-o more prisoners held for participation in tlv; Carterville riot of Sept. IT were locked up in jail at Marion. 111. They are City Marshal fienrge Walker, A. O. C.lidewell and Robert Winning. Tour Kl'. tf, I'onr Injured. Pour men were killed and four otherj severely injured, one fatally, by a collision between passenger and freight trains on the St. Louis Sc San Francisco road near Kansas City. Kccplion for Iowa Volunteers. The soldiers of the Fifty-first Iowa volunteers, it In thought, will be homo in time for the November state election. Flaborate receptions have been planned in their honor. II-ct-itH S'liotr :i Surplus. The treasury statement Sept. 22, for the first time this fiscal year, showed a surplus over expenditures. The Eurplus was SM0.031. as against a deficit of $2U2,752 the day before. OftVr to Help 'lr:invaal. It is s.ud in official quarters that large numbers of Danish, German, French and American resident have offered their services to the Transvaal in the event of war. It car Admiral Montr jo I'untshed. Hear Admiral Montejo, who commanded the Spanish naval forces in the battle of Manila hay, has been condemned to retirement without tho right of promction. S-arclili.!ftit I'Jicr-s Iit Mile. Searchlight, the great son of Dark Night, paced the most remarkable mile of the year at the state fair grounds at Indianapolis, Sept. 22, going the distance in 2:02 flat. Coal Miner Strike (Jrows. Almost a thousand more miners have joined the strike in West Virginia. But two collieries in the New River district are now in operation. Die of Yellow Fever. rrivate C. Olsen of the First infantry, who arrived from Cuba aboard tho transport Ibiford, ill of yellow fever, died at Swinburne island, New York. Mar Ilavo to Intervene Unless conditions improve in Santo Domingo and the people quiet down to peaceful pursuits, the United States government may have to intervene. Cut) Secure I'nouli Transport. Secretary Koot has received information which give assurance that enough ships can be secured to land all the troops in Manila by Christmas. Denounce War with Transvaal The German Peace society at a meeting in Uerlin adopted resolutions protesting against a war between Great llritain and the Transvaal. Demand Intervention of fjerniany. At a nationalist meeting in Berlin a telegram to the emperor, demanding intervention in behalf of the Transvaal, was voted unanimously. Storm Interferes with Arrangements. A severe storm has delayed the sailing for home of the Iowa volunteers, and detained the Tennessee regiment in the southern islands. (Jen. Miles for l'resident. There is a strong movement on foot in Massachusetts to put Gen. Nelson A. Miles before the country as a candidate for president. 53,000 Men In Headine.. Latest advices from the Transvaal and Orange Free State show that 52,000 burghers are ready to take the field at short notice. Mast Not Impress Americans. The United States government will not allow the Transvaal to impress American citizens into the military service. Refnsed to Abolish Uniform. The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows refused to abolish the unifornj of the royal purple degree.

POPULARITY OF CORAL. Troduet of the Huslost Uttlo Creatures That Live in the Sea. The popularity of coral is growing, both in Europe and in this country, and those best qualified to speak on the subject express thi belief that the demand for coral jewelry this fall v. ill Le very considerable. The beautiful cameos and craved pieces which formerly were fashionable are no longer sought, the demand being confined to si!:Pe form?;. Almost ail the valuable coral at the present day comes from Italy, and no.-t of it is cut there, althcuch a not inconsiderable part is cut in Gem: any. It is hr.port-d into this country ready for mounting. It is i i:t cither round, p?ar-shapcd or en cabochor., round or ov.:l. Heart-shaped pieces are rio cat to iyjiv.o extent. The round pieces arc st J chiefly in the for:u cf r.t ckl'v-'. guard and l -: -:v tt ha !::.. sr.mctir alte : v.aring ::h-r 'it! i r! nv with turn;: ;r; t!:? j-o:r-sha; ;: pic es aiv n.-ed hi'ly for s -avj i-T,d la: c p'.;:s. and pe, :1a ii::'; b",j. tor s. st :.!. ar.d r:a;;s !r-o::nt'! with r.l-fv h:T.-cut rioe-H. Th- g' whi,-h '"r.i to ccr.iH:;a wllh ti e 1 -- t e:Tc. t with o:t! ni e diar.-onds nr.d pear. In rinc-: i ate : -t cither sir.sly

T in (".:! irnt tn rr r five graduated. fiTn-vtiy in tomb: nation with diamonds and p-arls. The favorite color is a i.ale shade: of pink. For mounting. Ib-man gold is " uliarly effut'tve. C'M")!. as is wr'.l known, is an animal produ-t. cor..-i!irg ol a chalklike deposit ra.ido by a colony e f myriads of minute polypi. It is found in a shnna re:-cn.Llirg a tr" with branches sprr a. ling in all dire ticn-. The present m ply is nlmo;i ex.Insivo'y pro;li;:'d in tho ?d".!itrrraean. ah;ng the o;..-t of Iia'y, Franco. S!:iin. Algiers and Tunis. While ?'TK' co v is found at a dpth of 4.) f. t. mot of the brst -:;, 1 is found at a depth .f from J' so tf I' t fee-t K'-w the- sun'rue of iho water, firmly at: a. -bed t.) s;::n"? ether objc'( t near the bottom. The " '.'th is iro f..rr-at ta : it. p.-ihle for dive rs to w ork proftta'.'y, and a"tordincly a spc i 1 oy;. o, -r t i "-;-1 : Ti tt of two bars' of wood l. 'in.ty la d'.rd together in th-- sh-p- of a .toss and --:jn-plicl wi!li a large r.um?- r cf i ts. is used by the (oral fshcrs. This anr.aralus is heavily v.-iu!-. 1 and .li-p-j-ed cvrrboa:':! fn.ra '.ho I;:rl:s u -e.l for the purpese. The coral 1 oni s enf'ill r'i.' i t-i irirt lie tr -i ill ?v- ('in ri-i''..' ! W4.4w4- . (. IL' .I."'! i. I 11 t. t'.:it44 from it:-' an .or:-r by rv in frce. Th" darh-rcd oral, whi'h is more plentiful than the pink vaiudy, is largely used for anklets and necklaces among uncivilized tribes; sometimes it is cat into larrcr pieces, which are strung into girdles or used as ornaments in the Orient. White and very pale pink coral, although very scarce, and consequently expensive, are bat little uel for jewelry. Jewelers Weekly. EMPEROR'S BROTHER COMING. Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Kmpcror William II.. will be America's guest of honor some time this fall. Prince Henry is at present in charge of the German squadron in Asiatic waters, and he expects to set out for San Francisco within the next few weeks. From S:m Franei.-co he will journey across the continent to Washington, IX C. where he will be entertained by President McKinley. Though bred in tho purple of royal ear.?. Prince Henry ;ö one of tho best naval coniraan;Icrs cn the globe. lie is a fine disciplinarian end a thorough tactician. He knows the Oriental waters as well as he knows the German fatherland, and he possesses the loyal esteem of the gallant tars who serve under him. Pilnce Henry could secure tho rank of admiral merely by asking for it, but he docs not care for promotion, except upon the ground of merit, and he preftrs to wait patiently untir the honor in bestowed upon him in due season. On f7 m 3-w Vtf THINGE HEN It Y OF PRUSSIA, account of his genial traits of character Prince Henry is universally popular at home. An Old Indian Custom. Near the town called The Needle.?, about twelve milcs across the Colorado river, on the California side, writes W. K. Curtis, from Flagstaff, Ariz., to the Chicago Record, is an area of about 1.000 acres, more or less, where the Hualapais Indians rake up the stones in winrows in a most mysterious manner and for a reason that has never teen satisfactorily explained to the white citizens in that section. It is a dreary and dusty desert. Itain seldom falls. The surface of the ground, a hard clay that has been baking in the sun for centuries, is covered with broken lava and pumice stone, which at some time was discharged from one of the great volcanoes, whoise silent craters can be seen in the San Berdardino mountains. This is the ordinary appearance of the country for leagues around. You can travel an hour, or ten hours, for that matter. In any direction away from the river bed, without seeing anything green or any plant or thing of life, except a cactti3 or a sage brush. Under the shadow of a group of mighty hills Is a mesa, or tableland, that Is almost level, and there, once a year, upon, some anniversary whose significance Is not understood, and cannot be ascertained, the Hualapais tribe gather at night and rake the lava and pumice stones Into winrows. Some of the winrows are two miles long. They are regular In length and in Intervals, and the average height Is about twelve or fifteen Inches, Just about the height ot a winrow of hay left by a horserake in a meadow.

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I.TASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWIXXIXO L OIK IE , So. io, F. ant! A. M.; mccib rit and third Friday evenings tif each month. Wm. II. Conner, W. M. John Cor bale', Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 9 R. A. M.; meets second Friclav evening of each month. J. C.'lilson, II. P. II. 13. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMANIVRY, No. z'", II. T. ; mccs fourth Friday cf each mot.tb. John C. Gijnl-.;::, E. C. L. Tanner, Rtc. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 2, O. E. S.; meets tir.-t and third Tr.od.tys of each m uith. Mrs. Hertha Mt I). j.j.ild, V. M. Mrs. Leu S la- bury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91 meet-, every Thursday evening" at their Itu'.e m-r.s on Michigan street. C. F. S cheater, N. G. Cl:a. Ilubhmau, Soc. SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of ivel-ckah; metis every Fi i lav eei.i.i at I. O. O. F. hail. "Mis. L E. Eiiis N. G. M:-s Emma Zu.r.bauh, V. G. MissN. Ectkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF FYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 1171 meets every Mor.dav nigdit in Cas-Je Hall. Wm. F. Voting, C. C. Cal S'.vit.cr, K. of R. .und S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rath-bom-Si-ders; meets t;rt and third Ft Idas s of each mfnth. Mrs. Cli.'b. McLaughlin, E. C. FOFvESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No.i 199; meets the second and fourth Friday cvcninjjs of each mouth in K. of 'P. hall. ' C. M. Slay ter, C.R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. IL O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuodav evening et IL O. T. M. hall. D. W. Jacoby, Coin. Frank W heeler, Record Keeper. WIDE A W A K E 1 1 1 V E , No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets ecrv Monday night at IL O. T. M.'hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Ressie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; mcct3 every Wednesday' evening in K. O. i- M. hall.' Mrs, W. Bur. kctt, Com. ROYAL ARCAJNTvJT.L Meets fust and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jiisoxi, Resent. B. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evcuings of each montli in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No. 6 meets every Fiiday evening" at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. IL'tntiurel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. T. A. Shunk, Ventrable Consul. C L. bwitzer, Clerk. BEN HUIL Meets every Tuesday. W. II, Gove, Chief. Clus. TiLVtts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIB BETTS POST, G. A. R., meets ery first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kellev, Com. Clurlci Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7-3 p- m., in Bisscll hall. Wert A. Bcldon. Commander. 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 CLANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each montr Jacob Ka-zer, M. I)., President "Novitas B. Aspinall, M. D., Seo Do You Think It Will Pay? That ia the question asked of us so often, referring to advertising. If properly done we know it will piy handsomely. The .x perlene of those who hare tried It prores that nothing" equals ii.