Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 December 1899 — Page 7

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FMLLARS OF SMOKE. LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Tm!: lomou' ' Who l Thi That toiuftli Out f the V IWIe-r u fi4 Like I'ltlar. f iiiUe-? uneriii' of liotl lliarrii. T:i architecture of th-? smoke is .wr-drous, whether lio.i wiih bis lintr . urv.'s it into a cloud or rounds it into a dorne, or points it iu a spire, or :-p- vds iL in a wing, or, as in the text. ho:-.r.s it in a pillar. Watch it wiud-lu-up from the country farmhouse in tii- early moinir.g, showing that the t.-:toral industries have begun; or, soe it aeiidins from the chi:i.aeys of the i iiy. telling of the homes fed. the faetorios turning nut valuable fabrics, the printing prcsse.s preparing book and newspaper, and 11 the ten thousand wheels of work in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mounts with such buoyancy and spreads such a delic.it veil across the sky. ami traces such graceful lines of circle and semicircle and waves anil tosses and sinks an.! soars and scatters with such affluence of shape and color and suggestivcr.ess, that if you have never noticed it you are like a man who has all his life lived in Paris and yet never teen the Luxemburg, or all his Hie in Kome and never seen the Vatican, or all his life at Lockport and never seen Niag.ira. Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about lime that, somebody preached a sermon recognizing this strange, weird, beautiful, elastic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the Hible sk floats the smoke of Sinat, the smoke of SoioRi, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit. the ftnokc of the volcanic bills' vvhi God tauche.; them, .ind in my t.t the glorious church of God coming up o';t of t.:e wilderness like pillars o: MliOke. la the first pi a :?. thes pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffering fhr- ,-hu-('i nf H.vl lew r twill red. What do 1 mean by the ehur. h? I man not j a b-::2ding. not .a t. but thue who. I In all ages, aid a!! lands, and of all be liefs, love Cad. and are Irving to do right. For many centuries the heavens hive b?en black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set side by side you could girdle the arth with the fires of persecution. Rowland Taylor burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at Oxford; John Rogers burned at Sraithfieid; John Hooper barred at Gloucester; John Huss b.iraed at Constance; Lawrence Saunders burned at Coventry: Joan of Are b'irr.oJ at Rouen. Protestants have represented Catholics as having a monopoly of persecutors, but both Protestant and Catholic have practiced Infamous cruelties. The Catholics, during the reign of Hunneric, were by Protestants put to the worst tortures, stripped of their clothing, hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights suspended from their feet.then let down, and ears and eye?, no.se and tongue were amputated, and red-hot plates of iron were put against the endere.st parts of their bodies. George Rantroft. the historian, says of the state of Maryland: "it; the land which Catholics had opened to Protestants mass might not be said publicly; no Catholic priest or bishop might utter his faith in a voieo of persuasion; no Catholic might tach tho young. If a wayward child of a Papist would not become an apostate, the law wrested for him from his parents a share of th?ir property. Such were the methods adopted to prevent the growth o Popery." Catholicism a? well a? Protestantism has Lad its martyrs. It does setm a? if when any one sect gor. complete deminancy in any land, the deil of persecution and cruelty took possession of that sect. Then see the Catholics after the Huguenots. S:e the Gentiles after the Jews in Touraine, where a great pit was dig and fire lighted at the bot- j torn of the pit. and one hundred and ; sixty Jewish victims were consumed. See the Presbyterian parliament of Fnglanu, more tyrannical in their treatment of opponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Baptist by Paedo-P3p-tists. Persecution of the Established Church against thr Methodist church. Persecution against the Quakers. Persecution against the Presbyterians. Un der Emperor DioHtian one hundred A forty-four thousand Christians ere massacred, and seven hundred ar were thousand more of them died from banishment and exposures Witness the su ft e rings of the Waldenses, of the Albigenses. of the Nestorian3. Witness St. Hartholomew's massacre. Witness thv Iuke of Alva j driving out of UU-. eighteen thousand . . ... i Christians. Witness lierod. and Nero, and Decim-. and 11:1 lebrand, and Torquemada, and Earl of Montfort, and Lord Claverhouse, who when told that he must give, account for his cruelties, said: "I have no need to account to man, and an for Clod I will take him in my own hands." A red line runs through the church history of nineteen hundred years, a line of blood. Not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions must we count those slain for Christ'3 sake. No wonder John Milton put the groans of the unrtjrs to an immortal time, writing: Aveage, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lb- .-..attered on the Alpine moanl;ins COM." The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies if rolling : nil at once would have eclipsed the noonday sun, and turned the brightest day the vorld er tW Into a midnight: "Who A eve ? riat eometh out of the wild, rues.-. like n liars of smoke?" Has erseoution ceased? Ask that young eian who is trying to be a Christian in store or factory, where from morning to night he u the butt of all the :neari witticisms of unbelieving employes Ask that wife whose hi.sband mal.s h-r fondness for the ho.Me of God. and even her kneeling prayer by the be.l-i.de a derision, and Ia no more fit for her holy companionship than a filthy cr ovv would be fit companion for a robin or a golden oriejle. Compromise with the world and surrender to its conventionalities and it may !t yon alone, but all who will live RoiU in Chi.-U Jesus must suffer persecution. I Je a thtutcr-KfiiP?. card-r-Iaying. wine- lrinTwing. neind-dancins hristian. aril yo.i may ct.cap'i critieism and eor.inl p:eure P.at be an up and down, out and out fol'owr of Christ, and worldling will wink to worldling un he speaks your name, and

you will be put to many a doggerel, and snubbed by those not worthy to blacken your oldest shoes. When the bridge

at Ashtabula broke, ant let down the J most of the carload of passengers to j instant death. Mr. P. P. Bliss was ! seated on one side of the aisle of the e i g , car writing down a Christian son which he was composing, and on the : ether side a group of men were playing cards. Who.-o landing place in eternity would you prefer that of P. P. IJliss. th Gosm.'I singrT. or of the card-players? A gre.it comp!.1 int mines from the theaters aboi:t ladies' high hats, because they obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady reporter asked me what I thought about it. and I told her that if the indecent pictures of actresses in the show windows were accurate pictures of what goes on in many of the theaters, night by night, then it would be well if the ladies' hats were a mile high, so as to completely obstruct the vision. If professed Christians go to such places during the week, r.o one will ever persecute them for their religion, for they have none, and they are the joke of hell. Hut let them live a consecrated and Christian life and they will soon run against sneering opposition. For a compromise Christian character an easy time now. but for consecrated behavior, grimace and caricature. For the body, thanks to the God of free America, there are now no swords or fiery stakes, but for the souls of thousands of the good, in a figurative sense, rack and gibbet and Torquemada. The symbol of the domestic and social and private and public suffering of a groat multitude of God's dear children, pillars of smoke. What an exciting scene in India, when, during the Sepoy rebellion, a regiment of Highlanders came up and found the dead body of on of General Wheeler's daughters, who had been insulted and mauled and slain by the Sepoys. So great was the wrath against these murderers that tin Scotch regiment sat down and, cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of Gen. Wheeler, they divided it among them, and each runted the number of hairs given Mm. and each one took an oath winch was executed, that lor eacu nair oi the murdered daughter they would dash out the iiie of a bestial Sepoy. Hut as we look over the story of those who in all ass have suffered for the j truth, while we Wv vengeance to the Lord, let us band together in on solemn vow, one tremendous oath, after having counted the host of the martyrs, that for each one of those glorious men and women who died for truth an immortal shall live live with God and live forever. Hut as 1 already hinted in the find sentence: of this sermon, nothing can be more beautiful than the figures of smoke on a clear sky. You can see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor, now enchanted castles, now troops of horsemen, now bannered procession, now winged couriers, now a black angel of wrath under a spear of the sunshine turned to ku angel of light, and now from horizon to horizon the air it-: a picture gallery filled with mastej pieee.- of w! ich God is the artist, morning clouds of smoke born in the sunrise, and evening clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulchres of the sunset. The beauty of the trans figured smoke is a divine symbol of the beauty of the church. The fairest of all the fair is sh'j. Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke the church. They are j the parasites of the church, not the ; church itself. Her mission is to cover j ! the earth with a supernatural gladr.es-, j j to open all the prison dehors, to balsam i all the wounds, to moss all the graves, to burn up the night in the fireplace of a great morning, lo change iron j handcuffs into diamonded wristlets, to ! turn the whole race around, and where- ! as it faced deaih, commanding it, -Rieht about face for heaven!" According to the number of the spires of J the churches in all our cities, towns ; and neighborhoods, are the good homes, the world pro.-peritb'S, and the pure morals and the happy souls. It is demonstrated to all honest men

that it is not so certain that William j hen:-ia, an 1 usually attended an affair Cullen Rryant wrote "Thanatopsis," or j v. jHj :.u yV 0? enjoyment that often Longfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as that j -iV.,s d-cid-l!y displeasing and enibarCcd, by the hand of prophet and apos- j :-tl:,sing to his adversary. Hut he was tie, wrote the Hible. Ail the wise n.cr. , MTVMi ;t bi-t with that sauce which in science and law and medicine and j p,OVerij explains is for the gander literature and merchandise ura gead- j He wv.lt as r,ir (,. oose. It was when

nalty coming to nein-ve in unnstiaiory, j anrt so"n th"re v'iS1 be ri'le v ho ! ,1Uhelk'vo pt those conspicu ous for lack of brain or men with two families, who do not like the Hible because it rebukes their swinish propensities. The time is hastening when there will be no infidel left exce pt liber tles and harlots and murib re rs. Millions of Christians where once there were ; thousands, and thouoands where onca there were hundreds. What a bright evening this, the evening of tue nine-tec-nth century! And the twentieth, ; century, which is about to daw n, will, i in my opinion. 5r:ng universal victory for Christ and the church. th.t now is marching on with step doubli-quic.k, or, if you prefer the figure of the tevt. is being swept on in the mighty gales of bles-ing, imposing and grand and majestic and swift III.? pillars of fcineike. Oh. come into the church through Christ the door u door more glorious i than that the temple of Hercules. ' which had two pillars, and one was . gold, and the other fire raid! Conic in today! The world you b-uve behind is a poor world, and it will bum and pass . off likv pillars of srnoke. Wh-ther tlie ' final coiiihiL-raliott will start in the coal i r,iil,ts ? Pennsylvania, whb b. in some ! I,, ,,'f's. have for many years been burnR and eating into the heart of the i '-""'""'ns. or whether it siiaii ie,m j n',r California geysers, or win-thcr j from ut the furnaces of Cotopaxi. and j Vesuvius, and Stromboli. it shall burst forth upon the astonished nations, I j make no prophecy: but all geologists t'di us that we idarid on the lid of a world the heart of which is a raging. roaring, awful llame, and some day 1 !od will let the red monstcra out of their imprisonment, and New York on fire in 1S.5, and Charleston on fire in 18G.", and Chk-ao on fire In 1871. and Poston on fire in 17.1. were only like one spark from a bb.ck?mith'.-i forgo as compared with that last universal blaze, which will be seen in other world; Hut gradually the flames will lessen, and the world will become a Ri'tat min coal, and that will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined I-'lanet Will bogjn tf Kinokc. and thu mountains will smoke, and the valleys

will smoke, and the islands will smoke, and the seas will smoke, and the cities will srnoke, and the five continents will

be five pillars of smoke. Hut the black vapors will begin to lessen in height and density, and then will become hardly visible to those who look upon it from the sky galleries, and after a while from just one point there will curl up a thin, solitary vapor, and then even that will vanish, and there will be nothing left except the charred ruins of a burned-out world, the corpse of a dead star, the ashes of an extinguished planet, a fallen pillar of smoke. Hut that will net interfere with your investments if you have taken Christ as your Savior. Secure heaven as your eternal home, and you can look down upon a dismantled, disrupted, and demolished earth without any perturbation. "When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow. And heaven's last thunders shake the earth below. Thou, undismayed, shalt o'tr the ruln3 smile. And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile." Tlie Oneeii Ht n Mother. The queen, although kind, has been a despotic mother and grandmother, and has concerned herself, says "M. A. P.," more than the average parent with the bringing up of her descendants. Hesides carefully supervising her children's education, selecting or approving their friends, and providing their husbands and wives, she has rigorously controlled their pin money, of which there never has been any wasting in the precincts of old Windsor. Toys and gewgaws in the royal nursery were limited, but there never was any lack of bocks. Each child had its own miniature book case, and was responsible for Keeping it in order, as well as for a periodical repeat showing just how rr.ii ny and what books had been read. The report was submitted to the qufen at the end of every month. The children frequently preferred to pass the time playing, making out their list at random, but were invariably caught. In this respect Princess Louise is reported te have proved the worst delinquent, and it is said that on an averse e her royal highness spent a. whole j cay of each month in an empty room. as punishment for this offense alone. On one occasion, when a child of 8, sho reported that her literary food for the month had consisted of a few "fairy j tales," "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" and "The Life of ZwingU." The queen's suspicions being aroused, she questioned her daughter as to who these, personages were. Unhesitatingly came the reply that Marcus Aurelius had discovered America aud ZwingU was a iamou.s German actor! Mittle 1 Ijjnre XI u. A curious coincidence is netted In the faet .:bat nearly all the great mining di:-cover i-?;. of recent timc have been nie.!- in years ending with the magic rV-.U!" niri'-. Thus the famous gold ind in California fell in the year !V.. TV ii y-iii.i later, in JS.",i. remarkaide lüseoverie; of the am metal were made MUiidt.oieourdy in Australia and Hri'i di Columbia, canning a great, rush, of buiunc hunters to these points-. In .m;:i tiie faiuttiis Comstnek lode Hud became known T the world; in 1ST'. the gold-beating region around I-eadville and Tomtsl'ei. . Ariz., betai: to attract iitferi: ion. and in INS th- diggings at lv and in ler California, i ;. ii the o!..e t v e .oints of jiivat multitud s of evcid ami anxious s . kei s after i udden wealth. And no .v :ig;ii;i. at ihe end of f. not her tloeade. h:to: .'pens itelf oiue mere. Tin- remarkable gold tinds recently made ji Cape Xome. surpassing in richn and exoT.t anything yet dis"u rr : l'"' Yul.on district, bid fair to ' Cm.-, vear. as noiaoie as tie annuls oi old mining. L--liVs V.'n k!y IIom . (iruiii I !! V:e Slaved Off. Iauu Maren (afterward the Marquis of Qiieensberry) was net accustomed to view a duel with unbecoming appre- , h,. Vii... challenged to fight an Irish sportsman. Lord March appeared on the ground accompanied by a second, a Mjrge.ut and either witnesses. His opponent arrived soon afterward with a similar retinue, but idd-el to by a person aIio star.: red under the weight e-f a polished nak coifin. which he deposited on the ground, end up. with iv.i lid facing Lord March una his party Lord March became decidedly un- ' comfortable when ho lead the Inscrip tion plato, e ngraved with his own nams ati.i Iii e anil rne narr ana vear tiile. and the dato and year of .l 1 L . ...1 ... un,, ,1(1:U(, , llflf,h.l( n A story told me the other day certainlv told for new, but good enough j to be old: j On one of the recent warm days a sour-visageil. middle-aged, fussy lady ' ot on one of the smoking seats on an open car in the subway. Next, her sat a Tuan -Abo Wds smoking a cigar. More than that, Ike lad', snitllng, easily mad.- out that the man had been eating onions. Siill more than that, she h'nl the strongest kind of suspicion that he had been drinking beer. The lady fussed and wriggled, and Pivu' ang'ier. and looked at the man ieorrfi:llv. Presently fche could en,iun. ,L lu, )rw.r. she looked squarey ;U lli?u aIn ' If you were my husband, sir, I'd give you a dose of j.oison!" The man looked at her. "If I were je.ur husband." said he, Pd take it." Poston Transcript. From Prooklyn Lifo: Wife I reicived a letter from our country cousins today saying three of them would like to visit us for a month or so. I sent a reply this afternoon. Husband (anxiously) What did you tell them we had? Wife Smallpox! Husband fJreat Scott! You'vo put your foot iu it now. That's what you told them hist year when thy Ihri-atpnod tC come. The higher we rise, tho more l:oluted we beeome; all elevations ur coid. De DouHiCCS.

11 SOUTH HCl!

Cron je Reuses lo Hold Communication with alethutfn. LADYS IYI ITH IIEPÜRTED SAFE. Town Said to It Wril Supplied wilh Kool Miel Ammunition I'nitvU Mate Wilt Not Allow Kt-t rui tbi to 1' recced iu This Country. Monday, Dec. 18. Roberts pails Saturday; Kitchener leaves Khartum today; volunteers offered England; K'.OOo rough riders to bo enrolled. Australia offers 1,000 mounted troops.- P.riiish losses to dat": Dead. wounded. :..?.Si; mbsins. 2.-'o'. Uulier reported to have crossed Tuireia. Tiicly, Dee. 10. Memorial service for so.'dierr. killed in South Africa held at St. Paul s cathedral. United States marshal arrested man recruiting troops at Rochester for Pritlsh. IVster Lloyd. ienna journal, says peace of world demands Iloer defeat. Report th:t j Puller crossed Tugela rive r is not be- j lieved in London. Two eat prayer I r,.f! .r I .... linj,.-. ,u iv i lei ( i.i in ii: in-null in i l.oers. Doms strongly intrvncl hed nlonj;; Modder liver.- Methueri ctit :Y trom communication. I liedi.etri.iv. iee. o. Rush fo volunteer iu rough rider j regiments; iluuo of Murlborouuh and I Conan Dovle among those who have enlisted. Lord Robeits arrived in London and -ouferied with war odb e. luglamj said to l-e seeking recruits in Hungary. Kr.ipp working overturn on Cnglish orders. Total streugth of reserves is S2.0..". men. War oflhe rereived l.n'Mi-woid nu-ssttge from Mullor at l a. tn. Contents not made jublie. IUjci's V-nve dämm.! Tugela river. making it tinfordal.de. Kniiottü. nls of Cape Colony Dutch in lim r army continu.-". Fo) eigner:- a; riving via Dcbigoa bay. iliurt'li), I'ec. ;. Crr.ii' reiused to hold ceuniiiuui-.-a-tion wiih Mt-thueu. Pehtted stories from "fr.gda tell of liritish lu av c-ry and woiden'ul work -gainst olds. Mt linen believe! safe. -I'niied States gov-e-vnniei.t will prevent organization of forces in America to help either Roers or Rritish. Lord Roberts insists upon being given carte blanche if be command0 the forces. Lord Kitchener's train derailed near Luxor. Si:t!ar escnped hijury.--Report-d that Ladysrnith is well supplied with iood and ammunition. Sp.-ein tejoioing at Ilritish reverses. HONOR LAWTON'S MEMORY. fruVstatilial Tribute, titbit Kee cited from All Sections. Substantial practical tribute to the memory of (Jen. Lrvwton is boins paiel throughout the country. North, south., cast and west. ao fwelling the fund with which to raise ti e mortga"! on his lato iioin.- in California. Fully $2",Uitti aü'eady b(eu raised. M'.ill Str t I lurry Ovr. j Action of the treasury department and clearing-hoi.se heckeil furry in Wall r-treet. linpioeme-nt is shown in spec ulativ stocks. X- further failure's li.'ive occurred and fail-id f:rms may resume. fomiCiit Si.ieiuc .'it Uaeblriclell. ! lames Jiuano Taylor of New York, secretary und treasurer of the Wagner Palace Car company, committed suicide at Wellington. l!i'Ui:il.r y I)ig(',(it Ii Sttlei. The Kwang Chanwan boundary diapute be.-i-r beiwei 11 France, and L'bina ban amicably settled.

THE MAXIM AGAINST THE MISSIONARY.

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One of the interesting buildings destroyed hy artillery during the sortie about Kimberley was the little native church shown in the accompany ins illustration. This little; mission church was kept up by English missionary f-ocietics and used icgulatly to have its Sunday congregation of blacks, to whom the missionary at the post would give instruction and spiritual advice. In South Africa, just at present, tiie Maxim lias superseded the missionary.

Would lorlirv lifiieli fedemif. The French gove-vnment has asked a vote ef r..U:)OeX' francs extra credits to bo used to fortify the colonies during the political ten-don. .itrt tiiMit Merc Am rphal. The Illinois Supreme court declared Chicago anti-departmtnl store ordinances void. Sit teen 11 TrT I 'a torn hl r Kporl. Samoa 11 titaties wcte favoiab!7 roporteel by tcnate foieign affairs committee. ('e-r iiven flu-; In Sumom. Advices from Apia, Samoa, under date or Ic-c. 1'J. show that the German flag was lormally hoi. ted on the courthouse on thiit date. filxir'4 V ii i ( "I ru.. The American l-ederattou of Lahor elcclared trusts h.t ii.Tnl. but bplleve their c.ttt n:iii itioti will come only by natural proie;- es. Ulprri l'r. McJi!Trr V Teachlnj, New York Presbytery disapproved teachings of the Uuw A. C. McUillert, but took no avt'on.

SAMUEL GOMPERS IS CHOSEN. Hl Ke-lrrtloi President of Labor Keile rati on l'n.iiiimttu.

The nineteenth annual convention j of tlie American Federation of Labor adjuurmd ?o m t the f:r.-t Thursday after th-' f;it Monday in December. ! P.'Oi, iu Loui.-vilV.

Feu- the sev. nt e.jiu time Famuei i l"'n' 'Kions: a striuir answer to Cumn-.p: A':!tbis uue.st ion lias just l..- n criver. by

of the oilier old oHice: were returned i by unanimous vote. The rid boycott ii.---r. i to i) droppod at the end of February. It is understood, however, that unions havinc grievances will be at liberty to reinstate tiieir boycotts if they desire. The convention favored a sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the Fluted Stat-. s suffrage. providing for woman MICHIGAN SOLONS IN SESSION. Iett Prepare Uailwiv Tav I for tlie Nest Klectimi. j The Michigan legislature met in tp- ! cial session Dee. is, iu response to j call of Gov. Pinuree. The governor's I object is to secure passage of a joint J resolution providing for submission to j the people at the geni tal election next November of an amendment to the' state ';,, -tiiut ion placing railways nnr.n the s.ire.,- i. fur t.iv.itii.n r. all ' "'"PI- iUOpilV mini J ' l v J Ii. . t i ! t , i i. int. i .ii i- ' reiaus; pa soccjric la :es uron crass pa earning. s t.ii-u:iit n in'. ''haiiM.in Jones dinounces as fals.1 the -intimaticn in a NV.v York dispatch that William .1. Dr -an com niplafe dropping the bimetallic isue aud urgiing the adoption of a paper curtemy j pi;:uk tlie pk'tform of P.mm). j C .ill for National C.'e.r. tenl iotu j Ameiiean Political league lets : i--t:;.d call foe a national couveuit'on ; for the nomination ti candidates for! pte-i.i' n!. i vie e-presiib nl of theFniti d s'liO.-s. to be le !u iu Rosto:t, !a-.. d'dv I. i;i'U. lim krllr' Ciuk I I Hk.tre. I. S i :u 'J.mc- has designated the National Cit ..ink, contredled by John D. lb" k' iiei- ;;nd Standard Oil company int .--;-:is of New York, a depositeu: of to-' ieu rnal revenue receipts. ICoiir(4 KeeeaU IIU Defence. During the examination of witues-es btdore iii- committee Congressrnan-ej.-et lle!-( si revealed his defense would be denial of jurisdiction over Iiim p iov to his election. ).tr Seitm In Miwnnurl. It is rumored Gov. Stevens will cull an e xtra M-ssion of the Missouri legislature son:- time in January to secure i-e enactment of a law for the taxation oi franchise's-. ih iiiliii Jour I. Con Ilde nt. Chsirman Jones ;f the democratic national committee declares himself conmient of vic tory next year, and denies reports of disagreement in party mrtti-icoment. Itli; ScuniiAl Iii Ilelilcitit. Michigan's htato military board is said to have sohl epiarterrnaster supplies to Illinois Supply company lor $lo..VO nm! bought same geods back for ?eO,f-i '. Keen i.oi I i;c re-air IepoU. The increase in bank depo:-its in Kansas for three months will approximate ?,Ond.o:0. The total bank deos.its. in the state r.gyregate 0,On'. .oüu. Uine re'Uil lU-imrt from Sh -.ea. Our stale department has had do j riessagr! from our consul at Apia ta confirm reports of fresh trouble in Samoa, ;md tho report:-; ate discredited. Vt jiOHjlit.r. Will IS !!adv. lirt-ai.it.g fto.t has allowe-d work to be rcsuind on Pari.; exposition buildings, which ate now certain to bo ready in. time leu the opening. 'Ihe KepuMira-i I'rei lJurcatu First Assistant Postmaster-dencra! Perry S. I bath is chairman of the rep'lblieYin press bureau.' The other membeis are Senator Shoup of Idaho and Comptroller Charles i. Dawes. lln f the l)emirrt. Democrats will support Senator Picon's resolution disclaiming intention to hold permanent dominion in Philippines, although Ameriey.i must lOfctor." iuac? and otd;u. Flrf lrli iv- Hiieh! t'illK. At Akron. Ohio, fire caused the total destruction ed Pnchtel college. No lives weic 1. but the property loss will aggre.,..u out ?-'7..,'jOi). laTiirn a ( iiillti:tioii I ri:irn t Inn Gen. Let ii jnimittiug the Cubans to ho.-1 a e on:-' ii utional convention when the ccns"s 1.- (oniputcd.

l.ed I il" In 1 rn lice. The French ihamber of deputies passed a Ur.v pel lui'toig gir'.s to work eleven hour., a nay.

ESKIMO SURGERY.

Whe.4 a tlre 1'reer a l.iit.l i T Cut OtT Without riiiiinm'l ion or ( arc, What becomes of a badly wounded man on board of a .ailiror ship -7.-or.--t eif all. a sailing shin in resrious f::r troni ,ler humyn help, like tho.e vi.--ited by whalers in the Arctic and AntSurgeon S. J. Call of the revenue cut ter .ervice of the Fnited States in his re port just published of the trip of t.ie overland relief expedition to Point liarrow, Alaska, to succor tin whalers who were froen in there, says the Philadelphia Press. The vast difficult h s- intending the overland journey made it absolutely impossible to carry .-ny except dsperately needed medical stores, and Surgeon Call's outfit consisted id a pocket surgical ::se. a hynoJern.ic syringe, a stet es.- ope. a half-pound package of lint, a roll of adhesive rubber plaster, a fever thermometer, a dozen assorted bandages, a half roil of isinglass plaster, one-ball" dozen J pairs snow glasses and one-tnird of a dozen tooth brushes. On account of the low temperature lo be met. the lhpiid preparations were reduced to a win;- , mum. and were e igbt ounces of special ! anesthetie mixture, tour ounces tincture chloride of iron, four ounces of friar's balsam, and one-third do7.. u of extract oi ginger. At Fnaktolik. iu high latitutbs. the first ease of rude surgery was found by Dr. Call, in a hunt occupied by an old man. an old i woman and their .son be saw that tie- ( Iii man's legs were cut off below the knees,. lie learned that a few years before he had frozen his legs and fet. '1 he old womnn L:d chopped off the frozen parts vwth a long knife, whi.b J she showed to ihe surgeon. Tlie b gs had he-aled fairly well, d .spite the roughness of the job. Later he ton. id many similar instances. Thus he save: "There are natives hobbling around in Point Harrow with the loss of one or both legs, hands or arms, who had no assistance from white men eir a surueon, I'm! I might suy that almost all of these eases are due to the frost hire. In time the dead and frozen stump, having no sensation, is ehopped away by some niv ruber of the family, and. ! after a long and slow process of gran ulation and sloughing, healing follows. For some reason the Eskimo refuses to wear artificial limbs. Cases operated on nearly ten years ago are on their knees still, and the amount of work and traveling they do is astonishing. Serious surgical cases, it was found, had occurred on the froze-n-in whalers before the revenue cutter expedition arrived there. All these had been operated on by Capt. Tilton and Capt. Newport, saiiormen who had no previous experience of the kind, having no knowledge of medicine or surgery. Operations of the most grave kind were performed with rude instruments by theso men in a manner which calls out praise." An I'ii(;IIhIi Ileal anraiit. Different countries produce diflereot foods. Perhaps that is the reason why a description of a railway restaurant in England sounds m curious lo American ears. This terminus re.-taurant corresponds to the American lunch counter where pie and coffee are the ! staple refreshment of hurried hungry man. Patrons crowd the English place three deep and wait for tho front row to finish eating and elf part. One elderly woman drink bed spirit and j water ami eats skuiKy ichev ; luide per I a country couple devour huns and milk how Pritish "buns" sounds! and a busy man eats sponge cake and drinks a - : jioii, Mie. c au eine imagine a cmcago Preiker rushing into a quiekluncli counter with a demand for sponge cake? lie? might as we-li ask for a coach find four. In this London restaurant a mother of a family regales herself and her meek husband with ginger beer and cakes, and a nervous young clergyman asks for a glass of milk. Puns, sponge cake, milk and beer the menu a little different from titele mi this side nf the water. epiitkly SellleU. The ma vor of a western city i said to have a neat and "Xpedii ions method of attending to complaints, which is leading io a whoU'Sonie regard to the lavs of health and cleanliness among his people. A mark? t man was brought before him under a charge of depositing (ilth in the e it y streets. The man pleaded "Xot guilty," upon which the following dialogue took place between the mayor ami the chief witness for the proseeutior.: ' Office r, what did the elefend'-nt do! asked the mayor. "Threw rotten eggs into the street, your honor." "How many did you see him throw into the street?" "One, your honor." "If he'd had two hundred would he have thrown them into the street?" "1 think he would, your honor." "That shows the intent to violate the ordinance," said the mayor, briskly. "Te-n dollars and cost P." l.tH-the's I.sxt T.uve. Fraulein llrike vou Levetzmv, Goethe's last love has died at Triplitz (Hohemio) aged 91. U was to her inspiration that the (lerman nation ones the "Trioleigy of Pas-don." The everyouthful CoetUe was already 73 when, at Marieabad and Carlsbad, he tirt met llarone-ss von I.e vetzow, who was then only a girl of IS, though endowed with every charm ef mind and body. She never married, her life being devoted to the memory of her affection for the poet. Her castle at Triplitz was a Mecca for all who wrote on (loethe, and she herself has been the subject of dozens of volumes of (lerman literature. rrleiiilly Aelvice. Huff I'd have you know, sir, that I'm a self-made man. ("ruff Well, I'm sorry for you; but keep it dark and elcm't worry, and perhaps you'll get alon all right.Chic.igo News. Already In 'ei.toily. Clancy Is ho foiKhtin' for the cu tody of Iiis children? C;isey No; the police have alrbbly attinded to that. Kansas City Independent. irarUly the- .iivtp Sh llxnect el. Landlady Isn't Hits a c;ooil clijckn Hoarder It way have been a s;ooi nicken morally, hut rdiysie-ally it was a wreck. Stray Stories.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILVVINN'IN'O LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M.; meets iirst end third Friday eve-ninrj-s of each month. Wra. II. Conger, W. M. Johr. Corbalcy, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Fritlav evening eif each month. J. C.'jihon, II . P. IL Ii. Reeve, See. PLYMOUTH COM MAND'RY, No. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No, 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays cf each month. Mri. Bertha "McDonald, M. Mr. ou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. iVMERICUS LODGE, No. 911 meets every Thursday evening t their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec. SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Renekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F hall. "Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zurr.baugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HYPERION LODGE, No. 1x71 meets every Monday night itt Castle Hall. Wm. F. Younjj, C. C. Ca! Switzcr, K. cf U. and S. HYPERION" TEMPLp;v-7tath. bone Sisters; meets iirsc and third Fridays of each rr.cinth. Mm. Chas. McLaughlin, Ii. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.14991 meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of 'P. hall. C. M. Slayter.C.R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 971 meets every Tuesdaj evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D.W. Jacobs Com. Frank VheIert Reccnf Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets everv?nday night at K. O. T. M.'hall oa Michigan street. Mrs. Cor-r. Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE N'o. 28, L. O. T. M; racsU every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. halt. Mri. W. Bur. kett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wedncsdaj evening of each month in Simom hall. J. C. Jtlson, Regent, a J. Lauer, Sec. Tv7CN3DMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first find third Wednesday evenings of each mouth in K. 0! P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk WOODMEN CIRCLE PLYMOUTH ("-ROVE, No. 61 meets every Friday evening at Woodmen "ha!!. Mrs. Lena Ul rich, Worthy Guardian. Mr. Chas. Hamm-jrel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second ard fourth Thursday! in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk( Venerable Consul. C. L. Svv itaer, Cierk. BEN HUR. - Meet every Tuesday. W. IL Gove, Chief, Chas. TiUie:t Scribe. G A R. MILES IL TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets -cry first nd third Tuesday evenings in Simoni hail. W. Keller, Com. Charle Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBLN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, everj other week, 7.30 p. m.t in Bisell hall. Wert A. Bcldon. Commander. Alonzo Stevenicn, Pro. vost. MODERN SAMARITANS Meets -second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. V. hall S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYS1 CIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets Iirst Tuesday in each month Jacob Ka-rer, M. I)., President 'Xovitas B. Aspiniil, M. D., Sec Do You Think It Will Pay? That is the question L-d of us so often, referring to adrertbing. If properly done we kmow it will pj handsomely. The expertno cf those ho haret trltd It prore that notiiing- quäl lt.