Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 March 1900 — Page 3

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TALMA UK'S SERMON.

DRAMATIC ART THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. Sli Teit I I. CrlntliTn VII.. 31 They llml I IhU World an Not .4lutloz It Tatitj but Lo Not upir- It. Cc-pyriäht. HJOO. by Louis K ;;sc'.i. The text is 1. Corinthians iL. 31. "They that use this world as no. abusing it." My reason for preaching this discourse is that I have teen kindly Invited by two cf the leading newspapers of this country to inspect and report on two of the popular plays of the day to go some wci.ks ago to Chicago and se the drama "(Juo Vadis and criticise It with respect to its moral effect and to go to Now York and see the drama "Den-Har" and write my opinion of it for public use. Instead of doing this I propose in a ermon to discuss what we shall do with the dramatic clement which God has implanted in many of our natures, not in 10 or 100 or 1.000. but in the vast majority cf the human iace. Some people speak cf the drama as though it were something built up outside of ourselves by the Congrcves and th; Goldsmiths and the Snakespeares and the Sheridans of literature, and that then we attune our tastes to correspond with human inventions. Not at all. 'the drama is an roho from the feeling which God . , implanted in our immortal souls. It is seen first in the domestic circle araorg the children three cr four years of age.playlns wita their dolls and their cradles and their carts, some ten years after in the playhouses cf wood, ten years after in parlor charades, after that in the elaborate impersonations in the academies of music. Thespis and Aeschylus and Sophocles and Euripides merely dramatized what was in the Greek heart. Terence and I'lautus and Seneca merely dramatized what was in the Roman heart. Congrsve and Farquhar merely dramatized what was in the English heart. Racine. Corneille and Alf.eri only dramatized whai was in the French and Italian heart. Shakespeare, only dramatized what was in the great world's heart. Th-3 dithyrambic and classic drama, the sentimental drama. the romantic drama, v. ere merely echoes cf the human soul. I do not speak of the drama on tho poetic shlf. nor of the drama in tho playhouse, but I speak of the dramatic element in your soul and mine. We make men responsible for it, but not for the original implantation. God did that work, and I suppose he knew what he was about when he made us. We are ceariy all moved by the spectacular. When on Thanksgiving day we decorate our churches with the cotton and the rice and the apples and the wkeat and the rye and the oats, cur gratitude to God is stirred. When en Easter morning we see written in letters of flowers the inscription, "lie Is Risen. " cur emotions are stirred. Every parent likes to go to the school exhlbitloa with its recitaücns and its dialogues and Its droll costumes. The torchlight procession of the political campaign Is merely the dramatization of principles involved. No intelligent man an look in any secular or religious direction without finding this dramatic element revealing, unrollmg, demonstrating Itself. What shall we do rith it? Shall we suppress it You can as easily suppress its Creator. You may direct it, you may educate it, you may purify it, you may harness it to multipotent usefulness, and that it is your duty to do. Just as we cultivate tho äste for the beautiful and the sublime by bird haunted glen anJ roistering stream and cataracts let down in uproar over the mossed rocks, and the day lifting its banner of victory in the rast, and then setting everything on f.re as it retreats through the gates of the west.and the Austerlitz and Waterloo of an August thunderstorm blaring their batteries into a sultry afternoon, and the round, glittering tear of a world wet on the cheek of the night as in this way we cultivate our taste for the beautiful and sublime, so in every lawful way we are to cultivate the dramatic element In our nature, by every staccato passage in literature, by antithesis and synthesis, by every tragic passage in human life. Now, I have to tell you not only that God ha Implanted this dramatic element In our natures, but I have to tell y cm In the Scriptures he cultivates It. he appeals to it, he develops it. I do not care where you open the lllble. your eye will fall upon a drama. Here it is hi the book of Judges, the fir tree, the vine, the olive tree, the bramble They all make speeches. Then at the lose of the scene there i ; a coronation, end the bramble is proclaimed king. That Is a political drama. Here It la in the book of Job: Enter Ellphaz. Ilildad, Zophar, Elihu and Job. The opening act of the drama, all darxness; the closing act of the drama, all sunshine. Magnificent drama Is the book of J'.h! Fifty es . & abjut the sorrows of the poir coul'j not affect me as a little Jrama of accident and suffering I saw one slippery morning In the streets of Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a lad, wretch 4 in apparel, his limb amputated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy'a cheek, the amputation not long before. He Lad a package of broken food und r his arm food he had Pegged, I supi- e. at the door3. As he passed on ovt- the slippery pavement, cautiously and carefully, I steadied him until hL crutch slipped and ha fell. I helped him up 2.4 well as I could, gathered up the fragments of the package as well as I could, put them under one ;rm and the crutch under the other arm. Hut when I saw the blood run down bis pale cheek I burst into tears. Fifty essays about the sufferings of the poor could not touch one like that little drama of accident and suffering. Oh, we want in all our different departments of usefulness more of the dramatic element and less of the didactic. The tendency in thl3 day is to drono religion, to whine religion, to cant religion, to moan rellglr.n, to croak religion, to sepulcharize religion, when we ought to present It In animated and spectacular manner. Lat me ay to all younj ministers

of the gospel: If you hive this dramatic clement in your nature, use it for God and heaven. If you will go home and look over the history of th? church, you will find that tnose men have brought more souls to Christ who have been dramatic. Rowland Hill. "dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic: Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; Robert McCheyne. dramatic: Christmas Evans, dramatic: George Whitefleld. dramatic; Robert Hall, dramatic: Robert South, dramatic; UourdalDi. dramatic; Fene'on. dramatic; John Mtsrn. dramatic. When you get into the ministry, if you attempt to cultivate that element and try to wield it for God, ou will meet with mighty rebuff and caricature, and ecclesiastical counsel will take your case In charge, and they viU try to put you down. Uut thi Ood who starts you will help you through, and great will be the eternal rewnids for the assiduous and the plircky. What we want, ministers and layn.n. is to pet cur sermons ani sthortations and our prayers out of the old rut. The old hackneyed religion, phrases that come snoring down through the centuries will never arrest, the masses. What we want today, you in your sphcie. and I in my sp'u'te. !.; to fn shen up. People do not want in their sermons the sham flower 3 bought at the millinery she p. but tfc J.ponUa.-. wet with the morning dew; not the heavy bones of extinct megath-rium of past ages, but the living reindeer caught last August at the edge of Schroon lake. We want to drive out the drowsy. and the prcsale. and the? tedious, and the bumdiuin. and intr-j-duce the brightness and the vivacity, f.nd the holy sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, and the epigrammatic power, and the blocd red earne-tn'-ss. and th fire of religl-'us zrp.l. and I do not know of any way of doing it as well as through the d:amatic. But mw let is turn to the drama as an amusement and entertainment. Rev. Dr. Rellows cf New York, many years ago, in a veiy brilliant but much criticised sermon, took the positina that the theater might be renovated and made auxiliary to the church. Many Christian people are of the sameopinion. I do not agree with them. I have no idea tint success is In that direct'on. What I have said heretofore en this subject, as far as I remember, is my sentiment now. Rut today I take a step in advance of my former theory. Christianity is going to takefull possesion of this world and control its maxims, its laws, its literature, its science and its amusements. Shut out from the realm of Christianity anything and you give It up to sin and death. If Christianity is mighty enough to manage everything but the amusements of the wnr'd. then it is a very defective Christianity. Is It capable of keeping account of the fears of the world and incompetent to make record of its smiles? Is it good to follow the funeral, but dumb at the world's play? Can it control all the other elements of our nature but the dramatic element? My idea of Christianity is that it can and will conquer everything. In the good time corning, which the world calls the golden age and the poet the elyslan age and the Christian the millennium, we have positive announcement that the amusements of the world are to be under Christian sway. "Holiness shall be upon the bells of the horses." says one prophet. So. you see, it will control even the sleigh rides. "The city shall be full of boy. and girls pitying in the streets therecf," .'ays another proph-t. So. you ste. It is to control the hoop rolling and the kite Hylug and the ball playing. Now, what we want is to hasten that time. How will it be done? Uy the church going over to the theater? It will not go. Ry the theater coming to the church? It will not come. What we want Is a reformed amusement association iu every city and town of the Cmu-d States. Once ancounced and explained and illustrated, the Christian and phihinthtoplc capitalist will come forward to establish it, and there will be public spirited nre-n everywhere who tflll do this work for the diamatic element of our natures. We need a new institution to meet and recognize and develop and defend the dramatic element of our rature. It. needs to Le distinct from everything that is or has been. I would have this reformed amusement having In charge this new Institution of the .spectacular take possession of some hall or academy. It might take a smaller building at the start, but It would soon ne-eu- the largest hail, and even that would not hold the people; or "he who opens before the dramatic element In human nature: an opportunity of gratification without compromise and without danger does th mightiest thing ef this century, and the tides of such an institution would rise as the Atluntic rises at Liverpool docks. I would go to such an institution, such a spectacular. I Bhould go onco a we'k the rest of my life and tak2 my family with me. and the majority cf. the families cf the earth, would go to such an institution. I expect 'thp time will come when I cau. without bringing upon myself criticism, without being an inconsistent Christian, when I, a minister of the good old Presbyterian church, will be able ?o go to some new Institution like this, the spectacular, and see "Hamlet" and "King Lear" and tho Merchant of Venice." and the ""Hnnchback" and "Joshua Whltcejmb." Meanwhile many cf us will have this dramatic dement unmet and unregaled. For my love of pictures 1 can go to the art gallery, for my love of mu?lc I can go to the concert. fr rny love of literature I ran go to tin lyceum lecture, but for this dramatic element in my nature, as strong as any other passion of the soul, there is nothing bu Injunction and prohibition. Until, slr3. you can establish a spectacular or u similar institution, with as much purity and with a3 much entertainment as this one of which I speak until you can establish some such Institution you may thunder away against evil amusements until the last minute of the last hour of the last day of the world's existence, and without avail. We want this Institution Independent of the chunh and Independent of the theater. The church tries to compromise this matter, and in many churches then ae dramatic exhibi

tions. Sometimes they call them charades, sometime3 they call them magi-: lantern exhibitions entertainment? for which you pay fifty cents, the fifty cents to go to the support of some charitable Institution. An extemporized stage is put up in the church or in the lecture room and there you go and see David and the giant and Joseph sold into Egypt and the little Samuel awoke, the chief difference between the exhibition in the church and the exhibition in the theater being that the exhibition In the theater is moie skillful. Now let us have a new Institution, with expurgated drama and with the surroundings I have spoken of an Institution which we can without sophistry and without self deception so uncompromisingly good that we support and patronize an institution can attend it without any shock to our religious sensibilities, though the Sabbath before we sat at the holy sacrament. The amusf merits of life are beautifa! and they are valuable, but they cannot pay you for the los3 of your soul. I cou'd not tell your character. I could cot toll our prospects for this world or the next by the particular churcn ycu attend. I tit if you will tell me where you were last night, and whero you were the night before anil where )n have b-cn the nights of the lau month. I think I can guess where you wi 1 spend eternity. As to the drama of your life and mine, i: wi!l scon end. There will be r.o nrore to bring us Lack. At th beginning of that drama of life stocd a cradle, at th end of it will stand a gave. The first act, welcome. The its: act. farewell. The intermediate ids. banquet and battle, processions 'tidal and funeral, songs an I tears, laus liter and groans. Ir wa not rizinal witl Shakespear when he said. "All th world's a stage .i.d all the men and women merely plaxers." He got it frcrn St. Paul, who f.fteen centuries before that had written, "We are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men." A spectacle !n ä coliseum fighting with wild beasts in an amphitheater, the galleries full, looking down. Here we destroy a lion. Here we grapple with a gladiator. When we fail, devils fhout. When we ri.;e. angels sing. A spectacle before gallery above gallery, gallery above gall-ry. Gallery of our departed kindred, looking down to see if we are faithful and worthy of our Christian ancestry, hoping for our victory, wanting to throw us a garlanJ. glorified children and parents, tvltii cheer and cheer 01 ging us on. Gallery of the martyrs looking down the Polycarps and the Ridlrys and the McKaila. and the Theban legion ana the Scotch Covenanters and they of the Krüssels market place and of Riodmont crying down from the galleries. "God rave us the victory, and he will give It you." Gallery of angels looking down rheiubic, feraphic. arehangellc clapping their wings at every advantage we gain. Gallery of the King from which there waves a scarred hand and from which there comes a sympathetic voice saying. "Re thou faithful unto death, and I will &nc thee a crovn of life." Oh, the fpee'tacle in-which you and I are the acters! Oh. the piled up galleries looking down! Scene: The last day. Stage: The rocking earth. Enter: Dukes, lard?, kings, -beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown. For footlights: 'ihe kindling flame of a world. For orchestra: The trumpets that wake the dead. For applause: The clapping floods of the sea. For curtain: The heavens rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy: "The Doom of the Profligate. For the last scene of the fifth act: The tramp of nations across the stage, seme to the right, others to the left. Then the bell ef the last thunder will ring, and the curtain will drop! EGG-EATING SNAKE Sw!lTAft Ilo.ly Lnrgfr tti.tn Ittclf hut Work Ifrt. Now, how does it manage to get down its throat .such a thjng : as a duck's egg. not only so much larger than Itself, but also hard and perfectly smooth? We know that a common snake Is aided In swallowing a toad by its hook-iike teeth, which hold the prey whilo the upper and lower jaws glide over It alternately and thus puh it backward. Lizards, boas, the Het-c-rodon of Madagascar, etc., are said to place the egg of a canary or other Email bird, that is agaiust an Irregularity of th ground or within ono of their own folds, which enables thm to ram it Into their mouths. In the cas? of our "dasypettis" and its duck's eggs, however, these explanations do not suffice, this genius being destitute cf true tee:h. We can. therefore, only suppose that a couple of membranous folds, which have been discovered, one on each side of its mouth, lay hold of the shell like cupping glasses, anl thus work it Into the throat. Rut here we meet with another difficulty. After the egg has passed between the prodigiously distended Jaws and upper esophagus, it would seem as if Its bulk and Bolidity, when lodged in a comparatively inelastic part of the. digestive tube, whose juices are unable to dissolve the shell, imut quickly prove fatal to the animal. A remarkable instance of natural adaptation Is afforded by the manner In which this danger is provided against. The anodon, as already observed, has no true tectlx. So-called gular teeth, however, are present, these being really the tips of the long interor spines of the first eight or nine vertebrae,' protruding through the esophagus wall. When the shell Is broken by thn gular teeth it Is ejected and the fluid passes Into the stomach. Cincinnati Enquirer.

Th Color. The new color in Paris is line. Its possibilities as a background were discovered by a French artist, who posed many of his models against a zinc screen, the color tending to bring out tho most beautiful tones In his model's complexion and hair. Cloth in this shade Is especially beautiful, and will give tone to even sallow complexions. it Is promised. I om- tic Iroublen. Mistress "Why did you get steak for breakfast, when I told you to oi-iir pork chops?" New Cook- "SLcr, ma'am, Ol nlver eat. nork at all, at alL"

A Gil HAT RUSSIAN.

TOLSTOI BRAVELY AWAITS THE ANGEL OF DEATH. Sy II I K !.- tu in at Amt Tim. That Iii LUV Work 1 4 Dane Ku! 1 lletter That II IIa Lire! l'rlen! of the Czar. Count Tolstoi is reported to have said recently that he felt the approach of his last hours drawing algh, and that looking into the future he was conscious of no such thing as the fear of death. All his life Tolstoi has been trying to get at the bottom of things, and while he has changed much from period to period, and expressed his advanced views sometimes more radically than at others, he may well feel now In his seventy-second year that he has accomplished much of permanent value for the world, and that even measured by his own high Ideals, his life has been worth the living. The last twenty years of his career have been very different from the years that preceded them. There came a time when he changed from the pare literary man full of ideas about the right and the wrong and the worthless and the valuable In society, but expressing them always in novels and other forms of a primarily literary natui? and began to preach and practice a life of Christianity modeled on the New Testament as he Interpreted it, COUNT far different from the ordinary Christianity of the churches. In his last book, however, "The Resurrection," he has presented In story form the fruits of his life experience of the various type of love. Tolstoi's family was very wealthy at one time, and the estates which he Inherited were very large. In his early days, after service !n the Crimean war, he lived for :i time a wild life in St. Petersburg, reveling in all forms of dissipation. Wearying of it all, he married and settled down, but the more sober he grew the wider he opened his eyes to condit!oQ3 of social life which he abhorred. After his novels, especially "Kreutzer Sonata," which dealt with moral problems, he wrote works giving his view3 of Christianity and religion. In (he early SO's he was very radical in his mode of life, working dally with his hand?, desiring to give his whol property to the poor and encouraging a 6imple and direct morality In those around him. He wa3 almost intolerant In the vigor of hi3 beliefs, but since then, though he has not changed his ideals, he has re spected the mode of life in others in greater degree. Tolstoi has been of the greatest service to the Russian people at many times, and especially In the years of famine in 1891-92. For a time he administered the national relief fundi. Despite his radical views, he long held the confidence of the czar. That did not save him, however, from a severe .conflict rwith tha holy synod of Russia over his religious views three years ago. The views of Tolstoi about war and his belief in non-resistance are well known, and It has been no surprise to hear from him lately as an ardent friend of the Roers, desirous of the humiliation of England. EXTERMINATING WILD HORSES f'.roat llnl of th Nrtliwt Arm lUptdly Yielding to CUIlltMtion. The wild horse of the west seems destined to thare the fate of the buffalo. Slowly, but surely, the great herds of these beautiful animals which roam the plains of Washington. Idaho and Montana are being decimated. In the last two years at least 65,000 head of horses have been removed from tho ranges of eastern Washington alone. Their disposition has been approximately as follows: Shipped to Chicago and other eastern markets 20,000, sent to AJaska during Klondike rush 8.000, canned Into horse meat at Linton, Ore., for shipment to France 9,000. driven to Idaho. Montana, Wyoming. Colorado and Utah, large); for pack ard saddle horses 10,000, broken for ub jy new nettlers in Washington 10,000. died in the last two .winters 8.000. This I023 has been double the natural Increase. reducing the number of wild horses in that state from about 125,000 to 80,000 or 90,000. At this rate of decrease thy would last for some years, but the fu.-t H that the horses are being confined to a smaller area each successive year, thereby increasing their chances of destruction. At least 5,000 horses died of starvation last winter in the districts north and south of the Snake river. New York Journal. . Misery lores company, but the com pany seldom returns the complimtat

ICE HILL PARTIES. rputr Winter Amarmnt la ilia Cfr5 I lumaln. Variation from the ordinary form of toboggan run is to be found in the Russian "ice hills." The rigors of winter in northern Europe practically compel the Inhabitants of that region to find some form of amusement with which to while away the dreary hours of those ice-bound months. Hence, "ice hill parties" are now a national institution throughout the czar's dominions, and cheery functions they are, too. The "ice bill" itself is pitp.ired as follows: They erect a high wooden scaffolding having a rather steep slope from the top to the ground, and it is then covered with huge symetrically shaped blocks cf ice placed side by side and constantly watered until they become one solid smooth mass. This artificial slide is terminated by a long, narrow plain of ice. Just broid enough to allow of three sledges passing each other and of sufficient length to enable a sleigh to run by its own impetus to the foot of the next hill. The hills and runs are usually bordered by flr trees, which are thickly hung with colored lights at night. On the day of the party the guests are conveyed to their host's house in special sleighs, and there supplied with rugs, furs and warm drinks, the better to fortify them against the intense cold. They then proceed to the ice hills and seat themselves by twos in the long, narrow iron sides, which

T0LST0L are rendered exceedingly comfortable by reason of the quantity of cushions spread over them. Arriving at the end of the descent each man chooses a different partner for the return run, and keen is the competition among the men. each of them striving to secure the belle of the party as his companion. A good dinner Is alwaj's provided by the host, and the post-prandial sport by artificial light is often the most enjoyable and certainly the most picturesque portion of the whole entertainment. HEAD OF CANADIAN MILITIA. The head of tne Canadian militia in South Africa, Major-Gen. E. T. H. Hutton, has been on duty In Canada since August, 1S98, and has been most energetic lu.the discharge of his official duties. Previous to his appointment as commander-in-chief in Canada he was a colonel in the Rritish army and an QEN. IIUTTON. aide-de-camp to the queen. He was at one time employed, as Commander of the military forces in New South Wales, where he was instrumental in bringing forward the question of Australian federation. For this service the government of New South Wales gave him a vote of thank?, and in consideration of the work he did In that colony he was appointed . honorary colonel of the mounted rifles. Ills present rank is that of major-general. DlitMi In tU Dutch Nr. Uncle Sam's sailors In Philippine waters seem to have beeu particularly fortunate in escaping for the most part the diseases which prey upon sailors of other navies in tropical waters. In the marine service In Holland in 1397 there were admitted to the hospitals 20,904 malarial cases in an average strength of 60,107. The record for that year was unusual, the average for the four preceding years having been only 16,000. In 1897 choir aused ICt ad-. missions to the hospitals, with 106 deaths among the Europeans. Ier Mat In Anifrlrn. Seven out of every 10,000 Inhabitants of the United States are deaf and dumb. The affliction is much less common among the negroes than among the white).

INCOME OF A NAVAL OFFICER.

,Iut How tho Yuan? Clerk Mast Pr4i and Art In (irnrntl. On about the salary of a young clerk an ensign of our navy must dress well, his wife and children must; they must live in a presentable part of any city; the children mut be educated, and well, somehow. The very nomadism of their lives is a great source of ex pense, and there is no escape from ! unpaid bills, no living on from year to year in debt, as do a recognizable number of people in civil life; for a tradesman has but to send his authenticated bill to the navy department and the delinquent will be curtly reminded of it through official channels, resulting in a court-martial if his shortcoming is so often repeated as to be "unbecoming to an oincer and a gentleman." Rut even all this sordid counting of dollars and debts seldom succeeds in subduing, certainly not in breaking, tho spirit of people naval. "Everybody knows what everybody has," and this fact at once lift off a social burden which is responsible for half the misery of poverty of the "genteel" degree. Then, too, to have even a little, if that little comes regularly and with absolute certainty, is a rest in a country where leisure is still looked at askance. In return, however, an officer gives up his whole life, very often smothers his talents and ambitions, and is "oa guard" every hour 01 his existence. Politically he Is practically dif ranch ised, must always be for the government an.l remain discreetly silent in a Kind given over to "oratory" and in a time of extreme individualism of opinion. Woman's Home Companion. l'twcl for the Chrt. The exchange of air in the lungs depends as much on the elasticity of tha air cells and of the chest resuming its normal capacity a-s upon the formation of tii!? space which first receives tho air. To perfect the breathing power we must avoid whatever endangers the elasticity of the air cells.such things, for instance, as pounding over tho lnngs when they are distended with air. or su-Hen forced expirations. We should use exercises which .strengthen the expiratory muscles. The backward flexions accomplish this purpose. Ail exercises are respiratory; but in addition to this, e.ich one should htve time set apart for special breathing exercises. Hearing the Importance of good breathing in mind, teachers can introduce 110 posvtiircj which contract the chest nor applaud any gymnauic feat performed which causes thi chest to be less flexible, or make it immobile. Those movements which bend the chest forward, backward, sideways, etc.. contribute directly to chest expansion if properly executed. They should bo made so gradually that the heaving movement be not incompatible with erect head and free breathing. The energy of our food can only become converted into action in presence of oxygen. We need to replenish this supply constantly, und the more generously we do so the more working power we will have. To MWr (loth l'lieproo'. The American consul at Freiburg Germany, reports an interesting discovery by German scientists, the application of which will render cloth and wood fireproof. The materia! used to bring "about this result is now being manufactured by a Herman firm, and great things are expected of it. The American consul declares that he has experimented with the discovery, and has found that curtains, carpets, clothing, draperies and wood to which the liquid has been applied refuse to yield to flame. Fven when cloth was covered with kerosene and the oU burned out the fiber of the goods was only charred, while tne piece remained intact. It is claimed that with the use of this chemical application hotels may be made abse!ute!y fin prdof, and that it will reduce lire risks on inside property very greatly. The chemical is soluble, and is, therefore, impracticable for outdoor u?"c. Carmcnts, curtains, or carpets that pass through a laundering process must be treated again. It is claimed, however, that the scientists who have worked out the process believe they can render it waterproof in time. The Ileal of th Sun. The mechanical energy of one squart yard of the sun's surface would keep an ocean steamship under full headway. If all the coal in the earth wer put into one large heap and kindled with an unlimited supply f oxygen for its combustion, it would not givi out heat sufficient to replace that lost by the sun in one-thousandth part of a second of time. In the ball of flaming matter which we oall the sun, clouds o! carbon are continually rk-ing to the surface, and remain there to grow with inconceivable intensity. l?y the help of pltotography, aided by the spectroscope, the cloudy .surface of the sun can now be examined. Previously, the corona, which really Is a crown of fiery tongues of flame many of them 00,000 miles In length could only be seen during an eclipse, but now we have photographs which show these flames to be ever darting forth and flickering from the sun's disk. These mighty flames occupy a quarter of an hour la performing a single flicker. Wrench Jferier l'.nterprl. Ie Matin, founded in Paris by two Americans ten years ago. has now grown to be one of the most powerful newspapers In the French metropolis. Six mouths ago it raised enough money In one week to build two submarine boats Ia Francaise and IAlgerien which it -presented to the government. Now the paper devotes 5200,000 to equip a surveying mission for the trans-Sahara railroad, declining to accept any help In equipping. Ill Tract lr I a ml' Ail. Father My boy, don't you know that when you tell me a lie it makes me ashamed to own you as my sem? Son Well, dad, I shouldn't think you'd expect a little boy like me to lie as good as you can. Judge. In 1S30 the United States did 5.4 per cent of the world's commerce, la 189$ tt did 9.5.

A WKKK IX INDIANA. RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOIt SEVZN DAYS.

Mruck by a foMrr I a on - Malcet Um I Ir.t A-ult - W -r Whirl. He 1 Kert.lere.l I'.m. nerton n.i-1 ltounl na I iZe.l by (lit lluriar. Laporte. P.:ge Lc.rie. K vers old. an office, boy in the d 'ntal purir.;s of Dr. Washer, found a safe robber .u work at 7 o'clock tbo other irorr.;:! . when l e entered the o!!L e. Ho crpt behind him and with his fist dealt him a blow over the car, at the same tim with rare presence of mind closing th. door of the sr.ife and tinning the combination. The robber gained his feft and attacked the boy, knocking him unconscious with a blow from soni blunt insuument, and then binding and gagging him. He was unabl". however to again open the safe, and successfully made his escape. Lowri ; was found an hour later by other attaches of the office, and was released The robber is described as a well-dres.-od man, small in stature and well disguised. The plunder secured consisted of notes valued at $S';0 and a quantity of gold filling. Minor Happening. Dr. John F. Glover has been appointed superintendent of the Southern Indiana Insane hospital at IJvansvllle, vice Dr. George C. Mason, who tendered his resignation b' cause of nl health. The coroner's inquiry into the caus leading to the di-ath of Mrs. Franklin Parish of Noblesville. in which cas.. there was a suspicion of foul play, shows that she was a ictim of apoplexy. Police Superintendent Mradcn of Klkhart has gone to Toronto, Ont.. for Charles Graham, who is accused cf forging A. R. Spoffcrd's signature to a check Issued in favor of SpofTord. The Cincinnati Southern Railway company has settled with the mother cf the late Virgil Sand rs of Uloomington, who was suffocated in the King's mountain tunnel, paying $l.K(.i. Dr. 1). C. Stunkard, who has returned to Terre Haute, after service as a surgeon in the Philippines, says that th reports relative to insanity among the soldiers arc groundless. The late Allison U. Cartwright of Delphi was an active business man cf that city Tor many years, and a brothe-r of J. S. Cartwright cf the banking firm cf A. T. How-en & Co. The Ministerial association of Richmond condemns the pros-ecuting attorney of Wayne county, who want-i to be re-elected, because he defended a saloon keeper. The churches and Sunday schools at Clay City have re-opened and commercial travelers are again to be seen drumming for trade among Clay City Lusdness men. Mrs. Ellen Curran, who recently died at Mishawaka, emigrated to America seventy-three years ago. She clalmet to le 1 00 years old at the time of hor ceatli. The Question of municipal ownership of the electric-light plant will ban Issue in the coining election cf touncilmen at JefTersonvillc. The reorganization of the Montpeli-r State Lank has resulted in the election of Dr. Shull as president ami A. I). Uryson as cashier. The buildings at the mouth of the i-'haft of the Ncvin coal mine at Khrmandale have been destroyed by fire, entailing heavy less. The steamlMiat men along ihn Ohio are preparing for a busy period in both passenger and freight traffic this spring i.iid summer. Nathan S. Iimer. who is preparing to retire, has served twvlve years a record r and deputy recorder of Wayne county. J. K. I.aytcn, near Frankton. upset a kettle filled with hot pitch, severely burning himself and destroying hi, home. The late Capt. J. C. Will'ams or Crecncast'e s-.rved in the civil war and was seven ly wounded at Chancel! orsville. Joseph M. Nelson, principal of th Gliead scheo'.s, accused of unnecessarily whipping a pupil, has been acauiited. A number of skilled laborers In th Sterling Electric works at I-afayette are striking for an advanie In wages. A Jewish chinch i trgmizlng at Logansport, over which Rabbi Ieiser of Lafayette will minister semi-monthly. IJ. Frank Townsend. whose death occurred at New Albany, was a well known steamboat engineer. A merchant at Mltch?-1 publishes a card, denying that he mires store sugar with maple molasses. Stephen Hill of Richmond, lä year old, has been sent to jail for violating the curfew ordinance. The new militia mustered at Greencastle will be known as the Kightevnth Separate company. Klva Iketer, 11 years, daughter of Warren Teeter of Rochester, weighs ISfi pounds. Charles Martison of New Albany Is dead of nasal hemorrhage. Jacob Sieike, a hermit, supposed ta be 90 years old, was found dead In his cabin In Yandcrburg county. It was tradition that Speike was a general in the German army, throwing up his commission and ahjuring the world because of disippolntmcnt !n love. After his death several hundred dollats were found In hia hnt. South Bend boasts of being the metropolis of northern Indiana. The city has 1(0 mile tf public streets, nineteen notes of paths, r.00 business nous s. and 120 manufactories that pay their employes over f.VH0,'-00 a year. Fml Canken. the Canadian tramp, accused of criminally assaulting Mrs. Henry Wise, near (lis City, and hurried away to WaUuh for safekeeping, has been returned to Marion for more effective identification. The Nashville college at Nashville, Tern., has offered a free scholarship In its law department to one young man from each county in Indiana, the applicant to be selected by the county superintendent. Women are not barrc4. Major J. H. Spahr of Jeffersonvllle is a candidate for department commander, G. A. U. ,