Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 March 1900 — Page 3

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TALMAUES SERMON.

HOME LIFE THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY. The Dntle or Tarrnts to Ihclr Child ren A Wie Son Maketh m Glad Father; bat a FoolUh Kon I the Ils4viues4 of 11U Mother. Copyright. 1300, by Louis Klopach. In tais grapnie way Soiomon sets forth the idea that the good or evil behavior of children blesses or blights the parental heart. I know there are persons who seem to have no especial Interest ia the welfare of their children. The father says: "My boy must take the risks I took in life. If he turns out well, all right; if he turns out 111, he will have to bear the consequences, lie his the same chance that I baa. He must take care of himself." A shepherd might just u3 well thrust a lamb into a den of lions and say, "Little lamb, take care of yourself." Nearly all the brute creation are kind fnough to look after their young. I waa goin through the woods, and heard a shrill cry ia a nest. I climbed up to the bird's nest, and I found that the old bird had left the brood to starve. P,ut that is a very rare occurrence. Generally a bird will pick your eyes out rather than surrender her young to your keeping or your touch. A lica will rend you if you ccme too near the whelps; even the barnyard fowl, with its clumsy foot and heavy wing, will come at you if you epproach it3 young too nearlj-, and Gcd certainly intended to hue fathers and mothers as kin l as the brutes. Christ comes through all our household today, and he gays: "You take care cf the bodiC3 of your children and the minds of your children. What are you doing for their immortal souls?" I read of a ship that foundered. A lifeboat was launched. Many of the passengers were in the water. A mother with one hand beating the waves and the other hand holding her little child out toward the lifeboat cried out, "Save ray child!" And that impassioned cry is the one that finds an echo in every parental heart in this land today. "Save my child!" That man out there says: "I have fought my own way through life. I have got along tolerably well. The world has buffeted me, and I have had many a hard struggle. It doesn't mako much difference what happens to me, but save my child." You see, I have a subject of stupendous import, aid I am going, as God may help me, to show the cause of parental Eolicitude and then the alleviations of that solicitude. The first cause of parental eolicitude, I (hink, arises from the imperfection of parents on their own part. We all somehow want our children to avoid our faults. We hope that if we have any excellences they will copy them, but the probability is they will copy our faults and omit our excellences. Children are very apt to be echoes of the parental life. Some one meets a lad in the bark street, finds him smoking and says: "Why, I am astonished at you. What would your father say if he knew this? Where did you get that cigar?" "Oh. I picked it up on the street?" "What would your father say and your mother say if they knew this?" "Oh." he replies, "that's nothing. My father smokes." There Is not one of us today who would like to have our children copy all our example. And that is the cause of solicitude on the part of all of U3. We have so many faults we do not want them copied and stereotyped In the lives and characters of those who come after U3. The Matter of Discipline. Then solicitude arises from our conscious insufficiency and unwisdom of discipline. Out of 20 parents there may be one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to discipline; perhaps not more than one out of 20. We, nearly all of us, err on one side or on the other. Here is a father who says: "I am going to bring up my children right. My sons shall know nothing but religion, shall see nothing but religion and hear nothing but religion." They are routed out at 6 o'clock ia the morning to recite the Ten Com- j mandments. They are wakened up from the sofa on Sunday night to recite the Westminster catechism. Their bedroom walls are covered with religious pictures and quotations of Scripture, and when the boy look3 for the day of the month he looks for It In a religious almanac. If a minister comes to the house, ho i3 requested to take the boy aside and tell him what a great sinner he is. It is religion morning, noon and night. Time passes on, and the parents are waiting for the return of the son at night. It is 9 o'clock. It is 10 o'clock, it is 11 o'clock, it is 12 o'clock, it 13 half-past 12 o'clock. Then they hear a rattling of the night key, and George comes in and hastens up stairs lest he be accosted. His father says, "George, where have you been?" lie says, "I have been out." Yes, he has been out, und he has been down, and he has Btarted on the broad road to ruin for this life and ruin for the life to come, and the father say9 to his wife: "Mother, the Ten Commandments are a failure. No use of Westminster catechism. I have done my very best for that boy. Just see how he has turned ouL" Ah, my friend, you have stuffed that boy with religion. You had no sympathy with innocent hilarities. You had no common sense. A man at midlife said to me: "I haven't much desire for religion. My father was as good a man as ever lived, but he jammed religion down my throat when I was a boy until I got disgusted with It, and I haven't wanted any of it since." That father erred on one side. Then the discipline is an entire failure in many households because the father pulls one way and the mother pulls the other way. The father says. "My son. I told you If I ever found you guilty of falsehood cgain I would chastise you, and I am going to keep my promise. The mother says: "Doa'L Let him off this time." A father says: "I have seen so many that make mistake by too great severity In the rearing of their children. Now, I will let my boy do as he please3. He shall have full swing. Here, my son, are tickets to the theater and opera. If you want to play cards, do so. If you don't want to play cards, you need not play them. Go when you want and come back when you want to. Have a good time. Go it!" Give a boy plenty of ctoney and ask him not what 24 VVf 1 you, ya.y his -way

straight to perdition. But after awhile the lad thinks he ought to have a still larger supply. He has been treated, and he must treat. He must have wine suppers. There are larger and larger expenses. Itenlt of I ax Discipline. After awhile one day a messenger from the bank over the way calls in and says to the father of the household of which I am speaking: "The ofUcers cf the bank would like to have you step over a minute." The father steps over, and a bank cfUcer says, "Is that your check?" "No," he says, "that Is

not my dies I never make an H' in that wjy. I never put a curl to the 'Y In that way. That is not my writing; that is not my signature; that is a counterfeit. Send for the police." "Stop," says the bank oScer, "your eon wrote that." Now the father and mother are waiting for the son to come home at night. It is 12 o'clock.lt is half-past 12 o'clock, it is 1 o'clock. The son comes through the hallway. The father says: "My son, what does all this mean? I gave you every opportunity. I gave you all the money you wanted, and lure in my old days I find that you have becomo a spendthrift, a libertine and a sot." The ton says: "Now. father, what is the use of ycur talking- that way? You told me to go it, and I just took your suggestion." And so to strike the medium between severity and too great leniency, to strike the happy medium between the two and to train our children for God and for heaven is the anxiety of every intelligent parent. Another great solicitude is in the fact that so early is developed childish sinfulness. Morning glories put out their bloom in the early part of the day, but as the hot sun comes on they close up. While there are other flowers that blaze their beauty along the Amazon for a week at a time without closing, yet the morning glory does its work as certainly as Victoria regia, so there arc some chilldren that just put forth their bloom, and they close, and they aro gone. There is something supernatural about them while they Larry, and there is an ethereal appearance about them. There is a wonderful depth to their eyand they are gone. They are too delicate a plant for this world. The Heavenly Gardener sees them, and he takes them in. But for the most part the children that live sometimes gt cross and pick up bad words in the street or are disposed to quarrel with brother or sister and show that they are wicked. You see them In the Sabbath school class. They are so sunshiny and bright you would think they' were always so, but the mother looking over at them remembers what an awful time she had to get thcra ready. Time passes on. They get considerably older, and the son comes In from the street from a pugilistic encounter, bearing on his appearance the marks of defeat, or the daughter practices some little deception in the household. The mother says: "I can't always be scolding and fretting and finding fault, but this must be stopped." So in many a household there Is the sign of sin, the sign of the truthfulness of what the Bible says when it declares: "They go astray a3 soon a3 they be born, speaking lies." 1'lcV.lne at Hoy. Some go to work and try to correct all this, and the boy is picked at and picked at and picked at. That always is ruinous. There ia more help in one good thunderstorm than in five days of cold drizzle. Hetter the old-fashioned style of chastisement if that be necessary than the fretting and the scolding which have destroyed so many. There is also a cause of great solicitude sometimes because our young people are surrounded by so many temptations. A castle may not be taken by a straightforward slege.but suppose there be inside the castle an enemy, and in the night he shoves back the bolt and swings open the door. Our young folks have foes without, and they have foes within. Who does not understand it? Who is the man here who is not aware ; of the fact that the young people of this day have tremendous temptation.? Some man will come to the young people and try to persuade them that purity and honesty and uprightness are a sign of weakness. Some man will take a dramatic attitude, and he will talk to the young man, and he will say: "You must break away from your mother's apron strings. You must get out of that puritanical straltjacket. It I3 time you were your own master. You are verdant. You arc green.1 You are unsophisticated. Come with me; I'll show you the world. I'll show you life. Come with me. You need to see the world. It won't hurt you." After awhile the young man says: "Well, I can't afford to be odd. I can't afford to be peculiar. I can't afford to sacrifice all my friends. I'll just go and see for myself." Farewell to innocence, which once gone never fully comes back. Do not be under the delusion that because you repent of sin you get rid forever of its conseq"nces. I say farewell to in nocence, which once gone never fully comes back. Ncelty of K:trjr Tralnlg Begin early with your children. You stand on the banks of a river and you try to change Its course. It has been rolling now for 100 miles. You cannot change it. But just go to the source of that river, go to where the water Just drips down on the rock. Then with your knife make a channel thi3 way and a channel that way, and it wiil take it. Come out and stand on tho banks of your child's life when It wa3 20 or 40 years of age. or even 20, and try to change the course of that life. It is too late! It is too late! Go further up at the source of life and nearest to the mother's heart, where the character starts, and try to take it In the right direction. But, oh, my friend, be careful to make a line, a distinct line, between Innocent hilarity on the one hand and vicious proclivity on tho other. Do not think your children are going to ruin because they mako a racket. All healthy children make a racket. But do not laugh at your child's sin because it is smart. If you do, you will cry after awhile because it is malicious. Remember it is what you do more than what you say that Is going to affect your children. Do you suppose Noah would have get his family to go into the ark if he staid out? No. His Fon3 would have said: "I am not going Into the boat. There's something wrong. Father won't go in. If father stays out I'll stay out." An officer may stand in a. castle and look off upon an army fighting, but he cannot brt uuch of an officer, he cannot excite

much enthusiasm on the part of his troops standing in a castle or on hilltop looking off upon a fight. It Is a Garibaldi or a Napoleon I. who leaps into t-e stirrup3 and dashe3 ahead. And you stand outside the Christian life and tell your children to go in. They will not go. But you dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God, and they themselves will become good

soldiers of Jesus Christ. A PeraoiiAl Appeal. Are your children safe? I know It Is a stupendous question to ask, but I must ask it. Are all your children safe? A mother when the house was on fire got out the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask until too la:e, "Are the children safe?" When the elements are melting with fervent heat and God j.hall burn the world up and the cry of "Fire, fire!" shall resound amid the mountains and the valleys, will your children be safe? I wonder if the subject strikes a chord in the heart of any man who had Christian parentage, but has not lived as he ought? God brought you here this morning to have your memory revived. Did you have a Christian ancestry? "Oh. yes," says one man. "If there ever was a good woman, my mother was good." How she watched you when you were sick! Others wearied. If she got weary, she nevertheless was wakeful, end the medicine was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned It. And, ch, then when you began to go astray, what a grlsf it was to her heart! All the scene comes back. You remember tho chairs, you remember the table, you remember the doorsill where you played, you remember the tones of her voice. She seems calling you now, not by the formal title with which we address you, saying, "Mr." this or "Mr." that, or "Honorable" this or "Honorable" that. It 13 just the first name, your first name, she calls you by this morning. She bids you to a better life. She says: "Forget not all the counssl I gave you, my wandering boy. Turn into paths of righteousness. I am waiting for you at the gate." Oh, yes. God brought you here this morning to have that memory revived, and I shout upward the tidings. Angels of God. send forward the news! Ring! Ring! The dead Is alive again, and the lost is found! CHILDREN OF ACTORS. Most Stffo Folk Don't Want Their Offspring to Imitate Them. It is interesting to observe that few of the noted people of the stage have children or relatives on the boards with their permission. Mrs. Kendal comes of a family of actors, but she says firmly no daughter of hers shall ever be an actress with her consent, because the work is too hard and the struggle too great. James A. Herne has four daughters, and two of them last season were seen with their father cn the stage, but the situation was different, inasmuch as they were in his company. Sarah Bernhardt put her son on the stage, but in regard to her little granddaughter she has other ideas. It is her wish that the girl should marry some good man and settle down into domestic life, which she says 13 a great enough career for any one. Eleanora Duse's daughter has never seen her mother act, and that mother intends she never shall. She wants her daughter to be a cultured, thinking woman, but to keep off the rtage. Lillian Russell's daughter Is about 16 now, and is at school. She has talent, It is said, but her mother does not want her to adopt a stage career. May Irwin is proud" of her two boys, but she has no stage ambitions for them. They are destined for the army and for business. Annie Russell opposed, a stage treer for her brother Tom cf Fauntleroy fame, and Margaret Anglin refuses to allow her younger I Sister to accent several off ts mnd her Eaima Nevada h,3 a d.lllghter vho bids fair to be a brilliant singer, but she does not want the child to be tta'ned for the stage. Memphis Schulter. HOME FOR HORSES. Permanent Ajlnm fr Kqnlnr Thai IIve Ontlired Their t'ftefnlne.. Horses were the sole guests at a recent dinner given by a company ol English men and women who journeyed from Iondon into the country for the sole purpose of entertaining their four-foot?d dependants. The scene of the banquet was the Home ol Rest for Horses. Friar's place farm, Acton. It 13 an institution presided over by the Duke of Portland, and patronized by many of the best-known horselovers in the United Kingdom. Primarily its object is to enable poor people to obtain a few weeks' rest anj recuperation for their overworked ami underfed beasts of burden, but It also I afford; a permanent asylum for old fa vorites that have outlived the'r use fulness. The menu Included choppel upple.-i and carrots, and slices of white j and brown bread, mixed with a few : handfuls of loif sugar. Nothing could j have been more to the taste of the : guest. Judging from the eagerness I with which they plunged their noses Into the delicate pot-pourri. There are forty-three horses at the home tw?nI ty-three cf them in the "old favorite" or "pensioner" class and two don- ! keys. The most famous Inmate is i Boxes, nn eld charger of the Horse ; guard, who survived the battle ol j Tel-el-Kehlr. and was afterwards j bought by Dorothy Hardy, the artist . who used him as p. model. He has been j in the home six years. Then there is ; a superannuated brown gelding, whose owner, a woman, provides him with pillows and blinkcta, and has established her home at Acton In order tc be in constant attendance upon him. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I'tMulnlitn Mratejjjr, A "Have you noticed that when J Ml-s Gettingold goes out. for a wall with gentlemen she always Invite3 them to that large oak tree?" D "Yes; while there she tells them of the great number of centuries the oak has stood, and what are her twenty-five (!) years in comparison?" Fliegende Blaetter. In many parts of Europe it is at tht present day considered an omen of III luck for a hare to cross the road in front of a traveler.

CONGRESSMAN HITT.

THE FRIEND OF LINCOLN IN YOUNCER DAYS. And Later TVa ürratly Attached to Jllalns The Greatest American Authority on International Qu tious. One of the most Interesting men In American political life today is Congressman Robert Roberts Hitt, of Illinois, the chairman of the house committee on foreign afftirs. Not only has he figured prominently In national and interrational aflcirs fcr nearly a generation.but he has enjoyed personal relations of a peculiarly clo.se character with more men o! eminence perhaps than any other man of the day. Away back before the war, when a mere boy, he was attached to Abraham Lincoln in a way that gave him enviable facilities for studying the processes of Lincoln's mind. He was a stenographer and a newspaper leportsr for the Chicago Tribune, at that time r gi eat Republican organ of the west, and throughout the memorable debate between Lincoln and Do-.'slas, preceding the latter'a election to the UniicJ CONGRESSMAN R. R. HITT. States senate, young Hitt followed Lincoln, taking down in shorthand every word that publicly fell from his lips. These famous addresses, which made Lincoln's national reputation, and which more than anything else contributed to his election as president, owe their permanent and enduring form to the youthful reporter's notes, the originals of which the congressman still hoards among his literary treasures. Lincoln called him "Bob," and was fond of the boy. After the war Hitt went to Washington as clerk of a congress committee and had an opportunity to become acquainted with the great statesmen of the reconstruction era. His good luck sent him to Paris in 1874, just after the Franco-Prussian war, as secretary of legation and charge d'affaires ad interim. History was being made rapidly In tho French capital in these days.and Hitt spent seven years in Paris, a period which was closely packed with important events. He returned to Washington in 1SS1 to become assistant secretary cf state, and the next year was elected a member of the house of representatives. All through his career in Congress he has been conspicuous ia the discussion of international questions, and now, as chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs, he is regarded as a diplomatic authority beside whom there is no peer. Hitt has had the good fortune to cement friendship more firmly than almost any other man now in public life. He was Blaine's closest friend in Washington. In the concluding years of Blaine's life Hitt was the man in whom he confided most often and was often to be found in the historic old mans'on on Lafayette square. At the same time that he enjoyed these affectionate relations with the great secretary of state he was the best friend of Speaker Reed. Blaine's bitterest enemy in puMic life. And no finer tribute could be paid to the delicate tact of the Illinois representative than that he should have continued for years such a relationship with two such men without losing the confidence of either. In Hitt's house in K street is a room which is devoted to the memory of Blaine. The walls are covered with pictures of the Maine leader.with autograph letters and with all sorts of relics which bring Blaine to mind. Elsewhere in the house are Lincoln relics, and stored away somewhere in places where they will be found sometime and brought to light are scores and hundreds of confidential letters from men whose names will figure in history. Mr. Hitt is of medium height.of modest bearing and one of those In public life, not any too numerous, who is a gentleman always. His voice is Eoftly, modulated; his manner is frank and friendly, although he never forgets the diplomatic proprieties; his conversation is stored with information and anecdotes, and yet he has never been known to reveal a thing which was to be kept in confidence. He makes no pretension to oratory, and is not much of a politician. CilnNcnx la Vermont. Considering that ginseng hunting has been a source of income to some in this state, and that effort has been made to cultivate the root here. It may bo of interest to give a few details concerning diggers of ginseng in Tennessee, where the plant 13 indigenous In certain sections. Demand for the root i3 constant, and the price high. It has been a mystery as to vhat the Celestials have made of the root perhaps a substitute for opium. Later authorities claim it is used as a medicine for nearly all the ills to which the Celestial ia heir to. The United States i3 now dividing honors with the Chinese empire in consumption of ginseng. It is made Into medicine here and considered one of tho greatest remedies of tho day for gastric disorders. Great sums have been expended In its cultivation, but success has not been nattering. One young man in Newfanc gathered in the fall 26 pounds of ginseng at about $4 per pound. Burlington, Vt, Free Press. Marriageable women often go to the seashore In anticipation of a title ware.

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A CASE OF NERVE, A Tonne Man Who Did Not Car to Live 1'iiterritied by Dancer. When the New York Yacht Club squadron was at Cottage City la it Eummer, the writer met one of the most prominent members of the club, a nan who had just returned jfrora. a trip around the world. The conversation turned on daring and courage, and this drew forth the remark from the yatchsraan that a friend of his who was on beard the Dauntless in her race across the ocean showed the greatest nerve of any man he heard of in year3. It seems that when the boat was in mid-ocean a hurricane came on, and all about was blue. The Duntles was hoe to and making bad weather. The wind and sea were something fearfu!, and It looked for two days as if the yacht would founder. Cap. Sarmic'3 told all hands that it looked very bad. and he did not think she would rida it through. All hands were on dsek for tours, save own pucst bel-jw, wlv during all this lime lay in his berth rending a novel. With the idea ot iuti mating to thf young man that bed hotter pi-pnire for t ! worst, thl captain said to him: "We are all liable to be !o3t." The giie.t rfp'KvI: "I'nc'er tl e c:rcum3:ances. wo are just woil here- as in a lifeboat or anywhere !.?. and he resumed his reading. Cat Snmuela vent cn dnk. ?nd he told (be oth?r ;r:rv,t! that tic nan d'wn in the cabin was either the bluest fool he ever saw or the bravest m; n. "H i has no far. and pr?f-?rs rad!ir bis novel to mafc'ng p epirati ns U)T a las; chance. I don't know what to n:iki cf him. KesIJ.'s. he waits to kno.v when dinner will be rKidy." II"p;iiv, the wind and sta went d'j'.vn. and tit Dauntless reached port. There were facta in the ae that dpt. Sar.r.1?! did not know. Tho f-avb ss ri?st. st seems, had for a long ti:iv brn a source of i;rctt concern to hi frh n li lest he might do away with bimso'r. lie had melancholia, wuxh tho greit excitement cf the trip, it was though, might cure. So, In fact, he did not care whether ! e lived or died: in fact, it is believed that he hored the oi l ship would go down. He is now in excellent health and at prtsent making a trip around the world. Boston Herald.

COSTLY POLITICS. Immense Samt Paid by Quay and Clark to KntT tlie t'nitr. Probably Clark, of Montana, and Qua', of Pennsylvania, have spent more money than any other two men in the country trying to get into the senate, writes Walter Wellman. It is said upon reliable authority that in his contest for control of the state of Pennsylvania five years ago, the contest which resulted in a Quay victory and the election of Boies Penrose to the senate, Quay spent $90,000. He had to go into debt for a good part of this money, and then attempted to recoup by speculation in devious ways. A sample of his methods is found ir. the fact that some yeara ago, needing the help of a man who had been appointed to a consulate in a distant land, he had that man brought thousands of miles, leaving his official duties, to control a certain member of the legislature of Pennsylvania. Another man was given $20,000 with which to take a trip to Europe in order to get him out of the way. In all such tricks as these in the working of corporations and sale of franchises and privileges. Quay is a past master. How much money Clark spent to defeat his enemies in Montana and gain a doubtful title to the senatorship 13 a matter of guesswork. Some estimates are as high as $1.500,000. At one time It 13 admitted Clark had from 130 to 2Ö0 men under pay at the capitol of Montana. GEN. KELLY-KENNY. Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, who has figured conspicuously in tho south African war dispatches, is now engaged in the most important work he has had to do since he entered the army forty-two years ago. The general GEN. KELLY-KENNY. Is sixty years old, but he has had comparatively little experience as a fighting soldier. As a raw lieutenant he was attached to one of the regiments that took part in the Chinese war, and he was one of tho officers in Napier's expedition to Abyuslnia In 1S67. These were tho only two warlike affairs In which Cronje's pursuer ever engaged. He was promoted to the rank of majorgeneral In 1897. His intervening years had been spent in administrative work, but when he was promoted to his present rank he was made Inspector general of auxiliary forces and recruiting. He is now commander of tho sixth dl visinn of Gen. Buller's army corps. Tran-At1:nt In Telephon -fnllc. The talk of a trans-Atlantic telephone has taken on so much seriousness that the managers of the Paris exhibition were recently asked whether arrangements could be made for President McKinley to open the fair by telephone. It was answered that the French government would be able to attend to that without help. Large views, high hopes, and unselfish alms dissipate a whole army ot petty trials, annoyances and lrrltationi and even greatly reduce real anxieties and solicitude.

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HOSP1TAELE CANNIBALS.

Kind to IVhlte Strauber, Though The Occ"lanally Kit a IllKclt Man. Rev. Dr. It. H. Kassau expects to return in the spring to his field of missionary work in equatorial Africa. This is Dr. Nassau's fourth visit to the United States since, as a young man, he was sent to Africa as a missionary 33 years ago. Daring the last five years he has been stationed at Liberville, Gaboon province (French), engaged la translating 14 books of tho Bible into the Fang language. Tbee translations are being printed by th2 American Bible society. The Fangs are a tribe of cannibals, numbering about I.OOOjOO, and inhabiting the ccuntry lying far up the Ogove river. They are large of stature, w.irll:e, and represent much the strongest tribe in that portion of the country. Dr. Nassau said bcfoic leaving Baltimore that he could not call the natives tat ho rncvts in Africa saw. pes; th?y arc crr.el, he said... but not biooarhir? ty; th:ir desire Ij kill is more for sup.-vstitkius rt-asons. Tht re aro c;-.pniba:. be s;:id anion:; them. lie has s-crn thm boiling human arms for food and offering for sale with other treats hun'au hands; "and ! one duy," continued, tl.n doctor, "while iloating ('.own t'oe river in a tanoe. accompanied by my little girl and twji' natives to row the we were tall el to from a rrrouo cf n iked if j?t:idin on the .shore to know if we wished to l.;:y any mf-at, Jir.d. holding tip a human yr:i:, they inforiYicd u in ti . ir language that they had j ist killed two ir.cn Le'.or.ging to a basilic tribe not far from tbrre. This was a' out thirty i:iik-3 l.cio-.v ray hw.'.-rr." The cniy means tf tr:r;sp..ri-u:on tb.rfuj-'h that portion f tl " country. Dr. NFsau said, is by bor.t. Trad? is r:r:id 0:1 without 1r.0r.cy. a rvl.a of sc.-.p or a piece of ralk'O or I, "ids 1 I that is nece.-sary. "The- ir.fii tl."ro are polygamiFts, their i :r port i nee in the community being estimated according to the number of wives." said the doctor. They fire, kird to th:-r mothers, but abuse their wive?. Oar mission has succeeded in bringing about 1.00 cf them into the Presbyterian church. If before coming Christians they hod married more than one wife we require them to set all free (all their wives are slaves, bought and sold) but one the one they might prefer. The African is very hospitable. No medicine ever gave me more benefit than the Christian kindness of these heathen friends of our little mission. They have a religion they are more religious than you or I. They feel honored to receive us as their 'official' guests, and so we can depend upon their protection." ANTf-TREATERS. Tliry Organize In IIiltlmrc, Md.. nnd Irops to Save Lot of Money. The latest movement of the antltreaters has its headquarters in Baltimore, Md., where an anti-treat circle, with a president, officers and twentyeight members has been formed. Its object Is, of course, to bnak up treating. The members meet at their hall once a week, but no one ever dares to say, "Have one on mo," for if he should he would be penalized with a fine of 25 cents for each treat. Some cf the reason which led to the formation of this circle may be gained from this lucid statement from one of the members, who draws a picture whose fidelity to truth will be recognized from Maine to Manila: "You and I go into a saloon with the intention cf having one drink perhaps two. We meet eight or ten friends who insist upon our joining them. We do so. Then you and 1 reciprocate. Finally every man in the crowd insists on everybody else having 'one with him. The consequence is that each man takes eicht or ton drinks of whbky or beer, and after the bout is over there is not one. but who would have preferred a halt at the lir.H drink. This custom, repeated several times a day, year in and year out, will ruin a xuan physically and financially." Too Dun! Tarkey. A produce dealer who deals in both live and dressed poultry, says the Albany Argus, sent to the consignee of bis dressed poultry a letter intended for the shipper of the live turkeys, as follows: "Dear Sir: We regret to advise you that four of the turkeys in your consignment of December reached here dead. Please make deduction for same and return corrected account. Yours truly." The poultry man communed with himself and replied thusly: "Dear Sir: I am sorry to say that I find it impossible to make concession requested. I have established a rule requiring all customers who desire live dressed turkeys to notify us in advance, so we can send them In heated cars. Turkeys without their feathers and insides arc liable to catch cold If shipped In thef ordinary manner. The mortality among dressed turkeys was very large this year. Yours mournfully." A Cmitloa Prophet. Weather bureaus are seldom safa from public criticism, for mistakes are sure to occur; but we must give these modern prophets credit for an outspokenness which their forbears were too shrowd to risk. Mr. Samuel Clough, who edited the New England Almanac at the very beginning of the last century, was a good example of a prophet who Intends to make no mistakes. "Perhaps," says he, predicting the weather from January loth to the 23d, 1702, "It will be very cold weather, if it fresse by the fireside or on the sunny side of a fence at noon." In April he hazards: "Perhaps wet weather, if It rains. Now, fair weather, if the sun shines. Windy or calm." And in July he ventures a small advertisement for the town of his residence: "If now the weather do prove fair. People to Cambridge do repair." A Wut Ont of the nilfmmn. Professor's Wife (to her husband's friend) Oh, doctor, I've spoiled the V7hole supper! Will you kindly engage jny beloved in some interesting scientific subject so that he will not notice? Fliegende Illactter. 1llr .rowln(f Tim. Tho hair grows considerably faster In winter than In summer.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Ctmrgvd ltli i:iecrl lty SlnzoUr Ri t-rlMir of ?t I urn. If Nenr l)ilflll Ihrlr Clothing Kuiit Klectrlc parkl When Jubj.rt-d to trlctlouDaievük Mrs. Mary Corneli'-s. TO years old, and two children, occupy a fctory-and-a-half frame house in the Middletowa pike. The house is within a f.w fv(t of an abandoned cc:nettry, not far from the. ecr.tfr of I)3leviiic. Tl.tie has b'on a sti untie phe-i;on;r.(-n in Thar homf f.;r several vcks. The i'ot!:inu cf the family seei;:s to be charted th electricity. Sparks t'.y from ih-. ir arparel, even in the daytime, and when i:; contact with otba- c'.othipg thtro ij : crackling found. Wl-.t n pitied av.ay the tv.o girtnezit.s hold to.geti.er ft nut iousiy and en.it a found as if being tern. Th clot bins l.aiirii.s ia wardrobe ig similarly charged. Tl.r l.y. by holding out bis hanäs. can produce a shower of spark. Thue are no electric wires nbovt th. Louse. The tiUi.!y is not frlr.b'eTud, kit is tibhcyed by tU fctranjie happenings. r.'viiv.iNorv IM neu Hon eut1oiifit. Portbtr.ti The Circuit court, in fiu.'tsbiv.jr the information airainst Sheridan r..;i!ry for an uli-;::d violation o the compal.-ory equation law, made a ruling that the qiotif,n t, the deftitive title of tho law is Miüieient V justify its bans P'issd upon and ad-jmli;-.t;d ay ih- Soprnr.e court. TLa asc- v- iil Lo cirri'-. 1 up iu.r üat?Iy. Mrn; i:u!:litC Hl Mirlettf. En?r.th Tbe- Mormoi.s v. ill bui'd 'hun-h iU Marietta this spring sr.iS-ei-:U to accommodate Ö0 ppcple. The iworiiM r.s, or as they stylo themselves, the T.-.f : r-l)r.y Haints, in contradistinction to the Utah Mormons, were f'jrmciiy ahr.ot boy.-otted in this section, but they are becoming quite popular. A Dtniite Suit )!mU.H. New AlbanyThe $.",,0G') dam:? suit of Miss Alice Dyerly of Corydon ngaim-t Samuel Lnnp:. a wealthy Harrison county f.iirr.rr. vas dismissed id tho Floyd Circuit court. She alleged she had been criminally assaulted by Lang. The grand jury refused to indict, and she filed the damage suit. Yti1ppI l.y Ilrothern-in-1-aw. Knglish Marcus Clayton, a wellknown farmer in the vicinity of Sodom, was drafsd trom his wagon while driving homeward, cud wa given a severe beating by three disguised men, whom he claims to have recognized as his brothers-in-law. I'unnfN Adopt tin Trt-)thnne. Elkhart Fifty farmers of Clinton county have organized a tele-phone, company. Twenty miles of wire will be strung, connected with s venty-fiva homes. There will be r.o profit to the company, cadi member cot;ibut;ns annually for its support. Cirnrral Siüt Nm. The people of Grccnsburg think tbey are; repaid for the entertainment they gave the Southern Indiana Press association by the auvcztiing the visitors gave the city in their newspapers. In the franchise granted to the Shelbyville Klectric Railway company tho company is required to give SIO.O'.'O bond for the completion of the road to Indianapolis within three years. A portion cf the wall of the new building erected by tho Peru Steel Casting company collapsed and bevor;:! laborers lardy escaped. A dog en which tax has not been paid loses its life in Marlon. The authorities have killed of thes? canines in the la:-t sixty days. For two mcnths after April 1 Frankfort will be in darkness. At the end of that time the city will have its own electric p'.ant. The farmt ic in the northern counties of the slate are bnn ling together to prevent hunting of any kind on their l ir.il. There is no jealousy In Seymour toward tho capital of Indiana. One or the streets is named Indianapolis avenue. The Sanatoriums of M.iriinvil!e are preparing for more summer visitors than they hae over bad before. The Marion City council has reduced ras rates about i'" per cent, and tho companies say they will lesist. A militia company has been organized on the Indiana side at I'nion City, with W. Arthur as captain. The new postof.iee building it Shelhyville will be one ef the handsomest structures in the ity. There is no longer significance in the name cf llourbon. There is cot a saloon in the town. The young people cf New Albany are preparing to give the opera. "The Pohemian Girl." The wife cf a Terre Haute minister has made a quilt containing C.54J pieces. Mr. and Mrs. Slnvin Graham, married for forty years, have separated because of a quarrel over property rights, and Mrs. Graham Is suing for divorce in the Madison Circuit court. Fire nt Diüsboro destroyed the frame building owned by Miss Anna Camping, and occupied by William Kwing. druggist, and Dr. Miller. Difficulty was had in saving the Lutheran church, immediately adjoining. The pumping station at Windfall, owned by the Indianapolis Natural Gas company, broke down and Lafayette and West Lafayette were short cf fuel. Charles De itc hier of Indianapolis was beaten in his suit against the Southern Indiana Railway company, tried at Seymour. The plaintiff was riding on a hand-car and was washed off during the Hood of 1S9S. He demanded $5.000 damages. Martin L. Addingtcn cf Anderson has brought suit against the Richmond Gas company, claiming 2.400 for the livery hire of a small rig. He nlleges Hint the company used hi horse and buggy from November, 1805. to the ICth of last month, for willed not a cent has been paid.

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