Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 April 1900 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

VICTORY OF RETREAT. LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Mach Arrompttihril by Wal till for iportanltie .lo-ibuj' Plan of Auitmv ade l'ltl a Sticvafut Oh for lh Klghteou. Copyright, ZTs by Louis Klepsch.l Text: Joshua viii. 7, "Then shall ye rise up from the ambush and seize upon the tlty." Oae Sabbath evening, with my family around nie, we were talking over the scene of the text. In the wide open eyes and the quick interrogations (

and the blanched cheeks I realized j 5Pn, b:ick from Jerusalem to Golgotha, what a thrilling drama it was. There j back from Golgotha to the mausoleum is the old city, shorter by name than ! in the rock, back down over the preciany ether city in the ages, spelled with j pice of perdition until he walked amid two letters, A. I, Ai. Joshua and his i the caverns of the eternal captives and

men want to take it. How to do it is j the question. On a former occasion, j in a straightforward, face tu face light, they had been defeated, but now they are going to take it by ambuscade. General Joshua has two divisions in his army. The one division the battle worn commander will lead himself, the other division he sends off to encamp j in an ambush on the west side of the i cuy ci ai. o totencs, no lanterns, j no sound of heavy battalions, but 30,000 swarthy warriors moving in si- j ience, speaking only in a whisper; no clicking of swords against shields, lest the watchmen of Ai discover it and the stratagem be a failure. If the roistering soldier in the Israelitish army forgets himself, all along the line the word is "Hush!" Joshua takes the other division, the j one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai, and then spends the night in reconnoiterir.g in the valley. There he Is, thinking over the .fortunes of the coming day with something of the feelings of Wellington the night before

Waterloo or of Meade and Lee the i Heihaven. So it always is. The trinight before Gettysburg. There he Umph of the wicked is short. You stands in the night and says to him- j make $20.000 at the gaming table. Do self, "Yonder Is the division in am- ! you expect to keep it? You will die in bush on the west side of Ai. Here is : the poorhouse. You made a fortune by the division I have under my especial j iniquitous traflie. Do you expect to command on the north side of AI. i keep it? Your money will scatter, or There is the old city slumbering in its j jt will stay long enough to curse your

sin. Tomorrow will be the battle. Look! The morning already begins to tip the hills. The military officers of Ai look out in the morning very early, and, while they do not see the division in ambush, they behold the other division of Joshua and the cry, "To arms! To arras!" rings through all the streets of the old town, and every sword, whether hacked and bent or newly welded, Is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an infuriated torrent, and their cry is. "Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops: A Seeming Kepnl-ir. 'n Rooner had these neonle of Ai come out against the troops of Joshua j than Joshua gave such a command as ! he seldom gave "Fall back!" Why, they could not believe their own ears! Is Joshua's courage failing him? The I retreat Is baten and the Israelites I are flying, throwing blankets and can- ! teens on every side under this worse than Bull Run defeat. And you ought I to hear the soldiers of A I cheer and ; rWr nnH eheer Ruf fhev h.i77n mo i

roon. The men lying in ambush are ! and make a gTeat splash in the newsstraining their vision to get some s!g- ! papers, but after awhile It all dwindles nal from Joshua that they may know j down into a brief paragraph: "Died what time to drop upon the city. Josh- j suddenly. April 8. 1000, at 33 years of ua takes his burnished snear. elittcrine age. Relatives and friends of the fam-

ln the sun like a shaft of doom, and points it toward the city, and when the men tip yonder in the ambush see it with hawklike swoop they drop upon AI and without stroke of sword or stab of spear take the city and put it to the torch. So much for the division that was In ambush How about the division ' under Joshua's command? No sooner ! does Joshua stop In the flight than all his men stop with him, and as he ; wheels they wheel, for in a voice of j thunder he cried "Halt!" one strong I Arm driving back a torrent of flying ' troops. And then, as he points his ' spear through the golden light toward ; that fated city, his troops know that j they are to start for it. What a scene 1 it was when the division in ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on tho one side, and the troops under Joshua doubled on their enemies from the other side, and the men of A I were caught between these two hurricanes of Israelitish courage, thrust beforr and behind, stab'.xn In breast and oack. ground between me upper and tne netner mubiones oi uoa s muigna- . tion: woe. lo my oi ur j for Israel! j irtoriu lutreat. There is such a thing as victorious i retreat. Joshua's falling back was the i first chapter in his successful besiege- j inenL And there are times In your j life when the best thins you can do Is ! to run. Yon were once the victim of strong drink. The demijohn and the i decant r wer your fierce foes. They came own tii ow you with greater fury ' than the men of Ai came upon the men j of Joshua. Your only safety Is to get away from them. Your dissipating ; companions will come around you for j your overthrow. Run for your life! ! Fall back! Fal! back from the drinking saloon! Fail back from the wine party! Your fiv-ht is your advance; your retreül is yo ;r victory. There is a saloon down on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then why do you p.i along that street? Why do you r.'t pass through tome other street rather than by the place of your calamity? A spoonful of brandy taken for medicinal purposes by a man who 20 years before had been reformed from drunkenness hurled Into Inebriety and the grave one of the best friends I ever had. Retreat Is Tictory! Here Is a converted infidel. He Is ?o strong now In his faith In the goppel he says he can read anything. What re you reading? Bollngbroke? Andrew Jackson Dayls' tracts? Tyndall'a Glasgow university address? Drop them and run. You will b an infidel before you die unless you quit that. These men of AI will be too much for ou. Turn jour back on the rank and

file of unbelief. Fly before they cut you with their swords and transfix you with their javelins. There are people who have been well nigh ruined because they risked a foolhardy expedition in the presence of mighty and overwhelming temptations, and the men of AI made a morning meal of them. K-ann for Rtr. Hut there is a more marked illustration of victorious retreat In the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First falling back from an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling from celestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from throne to manger; yet that did not seem to suffice him as a retreat. Falling; hick still farther from Bethlehem lo Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jerusa-

drank of th wine of the wrath or At- J mighty Gd. amid the Ahabs. and the j Jezebel and the Helshazzars. Oh. mn j of the pulpit and men of the pew. ; Christ's descent from heaven to earth j does not mea-üre half the distance! It was from glory to perdition. He de- , cn ir.i inn hti ah the records of earthly retreat are as nothing com pared with this f illing back. 1 short. I Triumph iirir. t he triumph of the wi kod i rjjd you ever see an army in a panic There is nothing so uncontrollable. If you had stood at Long bridge. Washington, during the opening of our sad civil war. you would know what it is to see an army run. And when these men of Ai looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede they expected easy work. They would scatter : them as the equinox the leaves. Oh. the gleeful and jubilant d-scent of the men of Ai upon the men of Joshua! ; But their exhilaration was brief, for I the tide of battle turned, and these quondam conquerors left their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of

children after you are dead. Call over ( mercies and judgments. The mercy the roll of bad men who prospered and i of God Is first to be tried upon this see how short was their prosperity, j nation. It will be preached in the pulFor awhile, like the men of Ai. they j pita, in theaters, on the streets evwent from connuest to conquest, but i erywhere. Feople will be invited to

after awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and they were divided into three parts. Misfortune took their property, the grave took their body and the lost world took their soul. I am always interested In the building of the palaces of dissipation. I like to have them built of the best granite and have the rooms made large and to have the pillars made very firm. God is going to conquer them, and they will be turned into asylums and art galleries and churches. The stores in which fraudulent men do business, the splendid banking institutions where the president and cashier put all their property in their wives' hands and then fail for ! . . . . .... i $500.000. all these Institutions are to ! become the places where houest Chr:stian men do business. j How long will it take your boys to j get through your ill-gotten gains? The wicked do not live out half their days, j For awhile thev swagger and strut ! ily are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday at 2 o'clock from the late residence on Madison square. Interment at Greenwood or Oak Hill." Some of them Jumped off the docks. Some of them took prussic acid. Some of them fell under the sn::p of a Der- : ringer pistol. Some of them, spent their days in a lunatic asylum. Where are William Tweed and his associates? j Where are Kefcham and Swartwout. I absconding swindlers? Where are James Fish, the libertine, and all the other misdemeanants? The wi?ked do not live out half their days. IV.sem- 1 bogue, O world of darkness! Come ! up, Hildebrand and Henry II. and J Robespierre and. with blistering and ! blaspheming and ashen lips, hiss out. ! -The triumph of the wicked is short." i Awnltlng 0xrf uultuHow much may be accomplished by : lying in ambush for opportunities. Are J you nypercruicai oi josnua s maneu- 1 ver? Do you say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambus- j cade? Was it wrong for Washington ; to kindle campfires on Jersey heights, j giving the impression to the opposing I force .that a great army was encamped j tltre when there was none at all? I j answer if the War U;LH rishf then ! i nun n i . ii hit- nni w i i&ui. Liirii Joshua was right in his stratagem. He violated no flag of truce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of Ai. Oh, that we all knew how to lij in ambush for opportunities to serve God. The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted. By tact, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, you may take almost any castle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a regular besiegement of argument, and you will be defeated, but just wait until the door of their hearts Is set ajar, or they are off their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop In on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has been many a man up to his chin in scientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no divine revelation, his pen a sclmeter flung into the heart of theological opponents, who nevertheless has been discomfited and captured for God by some little 3-year-old child who has got up and put her snowy arms around his sinewy neck and asked some simple question about God. ImporUnr of flood Aim. The Importance of taking good aim. There Is Joshua, but how are those people In ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop on the city, and how are these men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their flight and advance? There must be some signal a signal to stop the one division and to start the other. Joshua, with a spear on which were ordinarily hung the colors of cattle, points toward

the city. He stands in such a conspicuous position, and there is so much of the morning light dripping from that spear tip. that all around the horizon they see It. It was as much as to say: "There is the city. Take It!" Goi knows and we know that a great deal of Christian attack amounts to nothing simply because we do not take good aim. Nobody knows and we do not know ourselves which point we want to take when we ought to make up our mind? what God will have us to do and point our spear In that direction and then hurl our body. mind, soul, time, eternity at that one target. Tli ! of Cournc. I have hoard it said: "Look out for a man who has only one idea; he Is Irresistible." I say look out for the man who has one idea, and that a determination for soul saving. I believe God would strike me dead if I dared to point the spear in any other dlrec-

unn. un. ior some ui 1Hf .wu..i and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flun?; two armies irom me tip or mac spear, It is sinful for us to rest unless it is to pet stronger muscle and fresher brain and purr lnart for (Sod's work, I foI on my head the hands of Christ in a new oidinaticn. Do you not feel ' i 1 A O TU me Sam oi'inipoiem pressure; iucii.is a work for all of us. Oh, that we might stand up side hy side and point tne j;P'?-'r toward the city! It ought to be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drifting off toward loose religion or what is called "liberal Christian!; ." which is so liberal that it gives up all the cardinal doctrines of the Hible: so liberal that it surrenders the rectitude of the throne of the Almighty. That is liberality with a vengeance Let us decide upon the work which we as Christian men have to do and in the strength of God go to work and do it. . Yiir of Mrrl. I believe that the next year will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coining of God. It will be a year of success for the men of Joshua, but of doom for the men of Ai. You put your rar to the rail track, anil you can hear the train coming miles away. So I put my ear to the ground, and I hear the thundering on of the lightning train of God's accept the mercy of the gospel, and the story and the song and the prayer will be "mercy." But suppose they do not accept the offer of mercy what then? Then God will come with his judgments, and the grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcations will swallow the money markets, and the fires will burn the cities, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments; year of Invitation and of warning; year of Jubilee and of woe. Which side are you going to be on with the men of Ai or the men-of Joshua? Pass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Is1 1 ... 1 J . 1 1 A. A . ran. i uum ciap my nanus at tne fry of your coming. You will have a Poor chance for this world and the world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to tome upon you and upon the world unless you have the pardon and the comfort and the help of Christ. Come over! On this side are your happiness and safety; on the other side are disquietude and despair. Kternal defeat to the men of Ai! Kternal victory to the men of Joshua! Kavrd hy Doll. An exchange gives a story told by an Indian agent of the manner in which a doll averted an Indian war. On one occasion Gen. Crook was trying to put a band of Apaches back on their reser vation, but could not catch them with out killing them, and that he did not wish to do. One day his men ciptuit'd a little Indian girl and took hr to the fort. She was quiet all day. savins; not a word, but her bea lv black eve r watched everything. When night came, however, she broke down and sobbed, just as any white (hilld won! 1 have done. The men tried in vain to comfort her, until the agent had an Idea. From an ollicer's wife he borrowed a pretty doll that belonged to her little daughter, and whfa the Apache was made to understand that mi couiu iiim- u, nf. sous cease u ami she fell asleep. When m.;rninir cane the doll was still clasped in her arms. She played with it all day, r.ml apparently all thought of getting back to her tribe left her. Several days ppsucri nnd then the little Apache girl, with her doll still in her possession, was sent fmpt in her nonnt WK t.h'AA reached the Indians with the pretty doll in her chubby hands it made a great sensation among tlvm, and the next day the mother came with the child to the post. She was kindly re ceived and hospitably ireate.I, aiid through her the tribe was persuaded to move back to the reservation The Kl!lr MittAkf. F.ditors have their troubles. One of these men, who presides over the destinies of a western newspaper, is mourning the loss of two subscribers. No. 1 wrote asking how to raise his twins yafely, while tho other wanted to know how he might rid his orchard of grasshoppers. Tho answers went forward by mail, but by accident the editor put them into the wrong envelopes, so that the man with the twins re ceived the answer: "Cover them care fully with straw and feet fire to it, and then the little pests, afti-r jumping In the flames for a few minutes, will be speedily settled." And the man with the grasshoppers was told to "give castor oil and rub their gums with a bone." The Columbian. An Annual IM orlnrt. Politician How are things up In your country? Farmer Waal, I tell you, the country's likely to be consld'able disturbed most any time now. Politician So? Expansion or silver, I suppose. Farmer Spring plowln. Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. R. Ü. la gersoll.

FOR WOMEN AND HOME

ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. EogM-h Murntn; Collum trench III cms el for .Ummer Drrtt Tli Shirt Waint ltr-n thins, ltatiiln-; miiU Keltlug The IltmUtiful Itrdroouj. Th I'Alry Hell. (Old Favorite Series.) I dr. -nrnt 'twas bui u dream thou wert my bride, love! I dreimt that we were wand' ring side by Me, love! I, tarth's h:ppl"!. son, and thou, her loveliest daughter, While fairy btlls came tir.klir.g o'er tha vat or; Merrily it Ml. The echo of that fairy brll. That vi.-ion pass'd away, and thou hast To mourn the hop s thy falsehood hath berrft nie. No more I cl?.itn thy piomised hand. No more in dreams I poo tho stand. While soft, sweet, soft, and low, Pofl. fwwt, ami low it fU. The echo of that fairy bU. Now. when I'm musiri; sad and lonely. With but my harp and thy remembrance only. In vain as o'er thore chords I bond, One Joyful note 1 try to send. For Mtl. sad, and enansd tney seem. The fairy bel's of thnt dear dream. Hon. Mr. Norton. Th Shirt WaUL Very inviting are the displays of Oxfoids, cheviots, zephyrs and madras cloths for the shirt waist, and th? xnade-up mode's hive already pushed out of place their winter representatives In clotr, velvet and fine tlannels. We shall wear the comfortable wools, aye, and evei buy them for some timo to come, brt already we are casting speculative yes upon the thinner successors. A pretty feature in the wash wjtlüt for next summer Is their simplicity. The human form divine is to have a chance to breathe once more, for the voluminous starchy fronts are no more. Even these nrotessinc to be loose have no surplus material, and ! the greater number are unquestionably j l erfevtly plain, lilted over s-nculders j and bust and buttoned simply down the j back. Red dotted swiss has the entire front rrossed In diamonds of white val insertion, the undarted front just puckered a little at the belt, the plain back closed with bullet-shaped pearl buttons. The close sleeves have a tight cuff, and the simple, unlined collar has little oblong turnovers of Swiss and Valenciennes lace. Another style for these button-up-the-batk waists is to have the fiont entirely of tucking and inserting. This is of the style which is purchased ready tucked and joined, and saves infinite labor, besides being nicer than the most eareful home seamstress could make it. Madras waists, also so fastened, have a slender vest of tucking, running down to a point at the waist, and have little revers from the neck to the bust on each side. These are also of tucking and simply finished with a frill of narrow lace. Iarge collars and full, fussy revers are not shown at ad. There is every evidence that the 1900 summer girl proposes. aboe all. fo be sweetly cleanly. Her waists say plainly enough that it will be a simple matter to wash and iron thfm. .?nd there need be no lack in their number for that reason. One feature which marks them as new and far prettier than the old shirt waists is the entire absence of yokes of any kind, even in the back. The only semblance of a yoke is the one which is trimmed and applied to the shoulders, forming a little epaulet over the sleeves. The backs of the semifull front waists are tucked and plaited to correspond with the fron: Th?;re are stiff linen cuffs, with rounded corners and detachable collars, which can be discarded altogether for the more becoming stocks, and long silk scarfs tied twice around the neck. V rH thine-It thing- Kent inf. A few breathing exercises every day, taken in the open air, if possible, will accomplish wonders in warding off dis-Nii-e, particularly colds. Stand erect, with the arms at the sides of the body, or the hands laid loosely on the hips. LCxpand Ihe cavity of the chest to its full extent hy raising the ribs, thereby allowing air in abundance to stream into the lungs. When at the height of the inspiration, the greatest expansion of the chest is reached, and it should be maintained for a moment. Then ths ribs should be allowed to recede slowly but completely, so that the cavity of the chest becomes narrowed and the air is expelled. In this way inspiration and expiration should alternate regularly. The Inspiration should take place chiefly through the nose, with the mouth shut. A cold plunge can be borne only by the robust, and a cold plunge before breakfast should be taken by none but the very vigorous, ('old baths should never be taken when the body is exhausted, niderly poplo should not take a hath below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The best time for a warm bath Is Just before retiring, since It Increases the flow of blood in the skin and openthe pores. If a woman is strong enough, after taking a warm bath she may turn on cold water, thus gradually reducing the temperature of the water until it Is cold, or she may follow the hot bath with a cold shower bath. The woman who wants to accomplish the most and best work possible will find that one hour's rest at a fixed hour every afternoon will do far more for her than stimulants. In order to obtain the greatest good from this hour's rest she must disrobe, as If it were night, and then lie down In a darkened room and sleep for a half hour or even less. She will arise refreshed and Invigorated. One whole day out of ten spent in absolute rest is a great restorer of strength and beauty as well as cheerfulness. Comfort fr IdvmIUI. It is often the case that invalids and persons Infirm from age or other cause fuffer serious discomfort from the 111 adaptation of their clothing. One feeble gentleman has by experiment succeeded in contriving and having fashioned for him a dress which Is quite satisfactory. Though long averse to having any woolen fabrics touch his skin, he is now clad in wool from neck to toes. First Is a sort of waistcoat or sack reaching to and covering the hips, buttoned down in front and having a row of six large, flat buttons fc'otrat the waist-line for supporting the etsy-fitting drawers. Both garments

ENGLISH MOURNING COSTUME.

Mourning gown of pi-att-de-suie, with with Jet and folds of. cupe. are made of very soft, licht-weigat flannel. The two ph-n-s are preferred to the "combination suit"' - waist and drawe rs road in one - as (he wearer perspires profusely and changes the waistcoat several times a day. with no need of change ot drawers. Ilesides. he likes the added covering over the hips and lower part of th .-pine. This suit, with soft socks and a short flannel outer sack, constitutes the nigh: dress as well as tha day underwe.tr. lluve Von x. 11 v Window? Nothing affords so great an opportunity for decora tiou as a window in a recess. A low seat running around it, the cushions upholstered with some artistic tapestry, is suggested at once. After that growing plants should be hung from above and curtains arranged to make of the window a veritable cozy corner. Of course, this is simple if the re-cessed window is built in the house. Hut the appearance of a recess may be given to any window, and it is advisable often in the case of tne in a large bare room. Place a couple of brass arms so they will jut out from either side of the window and connect them in the fiont with :i brass pole, over which some curtains are draped. Curtains may alo be hung from the side arms, and the inner side of them partially concealed by tall palms. The decorations should be finished, of course, with a window seat. French Model for Summer I)rr. Made with bodice and tunic of bands of white lace over pleated yellow inotisseline de soie. Th Healthful tlrttrtMim. A lady noted for her geiod taste and her unusxial ability as a housekeeper rays that everything about a sleepingroom should be simple, immaculate and easily kept so. I ted rooms may be either carpeted with matting or the floors oiled and rugs placed beside the beds. If the walls are papered the colois should be modest and the pattern subdued. The windows should be curtained so as to bo uniform with the rest of the house, hut too much drapery Is an abomination and it should be entirely dispensed with in a sick room. The bedroom is what its name Implies, a place of repose, and everything about It should be conducive te the onp purpose of sleeping. Ptures and garish furniture, or articles not actually necessary to the comfort of the occupant, should be entirely Ignored Above all things, a signing apart'nrut should be flooded for at least Of. hour during the day with sunlight "'5 have In Pt night an abundance of fie.-h air. taking care the while that the sleeper is not exposed to a draft. OUR COOKING SCHOOL. PtnrT1 Applet. Select an many apples as required, being careful to have them of the samt

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flounce of .repe de (hine. It is trimmed size. With a long, slim knife, take out the core. Prepare a filling of grated bread crumbs, a small lump of j butter, sugar to taste and a little cinnamon or liiitimg. Hub all well toj gethcr. Jill V.i hollow in the apples j with It, and hake it, and bake in a hot i oven, i Iguana I'liddm?. One box of gelatine, five bananas, one quart of milk, one pint of cream, two eunfuls of sugar, one cup of water. Dissolve gelatine in the water, and scald milk, to which the sugar has been added. Strain the gelatine and stir into the milk. Let simmer ten minutes. Cool. Hrcak bananas, after peeling, into small pieces, and stir into the jell3' before it is stiff. Served with whipped cream flavored with vanilla. Tinrappt Cake. Peel a small pineapple and grate it. Iieat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, with a pound of powdered sugar; add the yolks of twelve eggs to it. and the grated pineapple. Sift a level teaspoonftil of salt and two heaping toaspoonfuls of baking powder with a pound of flour, and then quickly beat the flour into the cake batter. Put the hatter at once into molds, and bake. This is very good. TV:ter find It 1". "I wish," said Col. Stil well of Kentucky, very gravely, "that you would contradict all this nonsense alK;t:t my having a settled and unreasoning aversion to water. Water is a great institution, sir." "Of course, the remarks you allude to are Intimi'! merely as goo l-natured cxa ggeration." "Of course. Hut f don't want w.it r mentioned disrespectful in rny presence. I understand that the fire engines recently cheeked the flames in i distillery where thousands of barrels of liquor were in danger of being consumed."--Washington Star. Took a Mran . d v;i ri t h c "Can em tell iim who Ananias was?" asked the old man of the proprietor of the bookstore. "Of course I can." was the reply. "II was the champion liar of the world at one time. Did any one call you Ananias?" "Yes. sir. Yes. called me Ananias, and durn my buttons if I didn't think he was giving me a bushel of praise. Next man calls me Ananias won't know what house fell on him!" Washington Post. rtd. The Ceurt Was there nothing about ihe dead man to identify him? Otlker No, sir. All tha: we found was a few dollars, an empty flask, a tlx-shooter and a dirk. The Court- I'm! I'ndoubledly from Kentucky.- Philadelphia North American. Ilitptiliieofi. "What." she asked the man who had written a famous poem, "is your greatest pleasure In life?" "(letting others to understand what a miserable let they are," he replied through his tears.--Chicago TimesHerald. .Iot of Matrimony. The Count It's strange, madam, that I failed to discover how very tart you were before our marriage. The Counters Oh. there's nothing strange about It. at all. You had no taste for anything but papa's "sugar." Chicago News. Ua llv All M1 Hint. "What sort of a fellow la Hohberg in a social way?" "Oh. be Is one of those Idiots who would sar 'sweets to the sweet' whe he was passing the plcklea to a lady ot ucTTtaln age." Indianapolis Press,

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR ! SEVEN DAYS. ! Ilrldjre I'.lnnn Co aod 1 w Ilm I licirnral a ih Kult f Itltter ri;lit Acalmt III Toll llurjfd ua 1.1 0 3?tUe.J Men i.i : Mo'.t. One hundred and fifty marked n;e:i blew up two bridges and burned twu toll houses on the Logansp-irt ani Burlington pike near l,oganport at midnight Wednesday. A family in one of the toll houses moved and tho mob ordered the family in the other to get out before the torch was applied. The road is the only toll piks in the county, and those obliged to patronize it have Ken in a hostib! mood fur a year. The HurHngtun bridge was burned three months ago. and the company refused to rebuild it. Protest. hav been directed against the excessive toll and the alleged bad condition of tb roadway. Th ni.! last nicht was well organized and proceeded with its work without confusion. It hoi be-n rumored that a mob would destroy th property, and a watchman whs placed In one house. 11 offered no resistance when he saw the size and noted the determination of the intruders. A reward of $2!o has boon offered fur the apprehension of the parties whj burned the first bridge. Gov. Mount said "Ail such ptoredure has the umiualifiej condemnation of this office, and whatever can be dun. by the state to put a stop to it will be done. Such lawlessness should uot be permitted. I am determined and fixed against it. Grievances like thod the raiders seem to have thought they had should be setthd in the. courts, nd not by violence." CliftDKf In Iii Pulpit. At the Methodist Conference of Northern Indiana in session at KIkhart this week it w.ls Icanud that a number of opportunities will be given to tome of the oung-r and more ambitious men of the denomination within and without the conference. A number of the older men will, from various causes, change their relationship to the conference cr entirely have it. Three, and perhaps four, of the presiding elders will come ficm the untried ranks to this new field. A number of the ministers from same of the best churches will either go to new work or will leave the ministry. This will open doors to many of the young men, whose excellence in the work of the ministry has made itself known. K.rrtric Koud I'm m hiar. The city council of Noblesville has ( granted the Central Traction Railway I Company a right of way through Noj bJcsville. and the county connnisiioners bave made similar grants over county roads to Atlanta, Arcadia, Westfield and other points. The Noblesville franchise is for forty years, and the company is to build its power house here, and to furnish the city with electric light. This is the road that is to reach from Kokomo to Indianapolis. It is said the line from Noblesville to Indianapolis will ba built this üu miner. Indiana vv in Itrlrf. The county superintendent of Jay county who has, during the last year, been experimenting with the consolidation of district schools, thinks that work t;f a higher standard has been the result, and patrons in nearly all the townships approve f the system. The Shelbyville Klectric Railway Company has obtained a franchise in Shelby county along the Michigan road, reaching from Marion to the Decatur county lin-. Jt is the intention to connect ibis line with one running fron Madison to Indianapolis. The health authorities have quarantined the home of W. 11. Campbell. editer of the Ande rson 1 lei aid. under the belief that Mrs. Campbell is suffering with sina!ipex. '1 If family assert that the ailment is simply "piutj bleach." The editor is indignant. The Kev. l'di.-ar .Macliil! has been iusJalhd paftor c,f the First Presbyterian church of Madison. The Kev. Dr. Cowan of Indianapolis, the Kev. Paul Stewart of Springfield, and the Kev. W. K. Thompson of Shiloh. Olli dated. While loading ears with shelled corn from his elevator at West Madison. Frank Hoyd found the chute from tho I'unnel-thapeel hopper e.Isd. His son, Charles Koyd. 1:5 yeais old. had fallen into the hopper and was smothered. Frank Shulty, a sawmill operator and farmer of C.khart county, is dead of injuries ree-cived by a knot. w!i.--h was torn oft a log by a saw and buried against his heul. 11- was a man of family. A great scare ity of skilled workme n continues to be reported among the window gla?s factories in the g i belt. At Hartford City there ar less than were employed last year. C.eorge Clark. 11 eats old. of Marion, fell from a hayloft, striking upon a broke n pitehfotk handle, which pe netrated his leg ad body several inches. The boy soem elicd. T. M. Howe, the nation il organizer for the American Flint Olass Workers' Union, reports that the organization has elecided to locate its preiposed flask, factory at Summitville. New Indiana postmasters: Arctic. Dekalb county. V. S. Dicht, vice Jeseph Hell, dead; New lyondon. Howard county, Jerge N. Taylor, vice Cary (I. Taylor, resigned. William Holton. postmaster at Henry ville. was removed yestertlay by the department at Washington, and W. K. McCoriuiek was appointed to the vacancy. Another case of smallpox wa reported to the Indianapolis city board of health Tuesday. The victim Is Charles .1. Durand, a paper haqger. The aged John Holbrook of Shelbyville. dropped dead ot the feet of his son. remarking. "I see mother." His wife died three years ago. The body of a 6-months-old Infant with Its skull crushed was found near Iake Station a few miles from Crown Toint. Seven heirs divided $1.?00 found in a tin box after the death of. Andrew Binkard of Miami county.