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REWARDS OF ENDEAVOR SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From the Following Teit "I Have Finished the Work Which Thou (invest ile to Do" John XVII. 4 The Fruits of Well Woo Victory. Copyright, 130, by Louis Klopsen. There is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we havp undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation, while, on the other hand, there is nothing more disappointing than aft?r having toiled in a certain direction to find that our time is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw tip a highway on which the whole world might, if it chose, mount into heaven. He did it. The foul mouthed crew who attempted to tread on him could not extinguish the sublime satisfaction which he oxpressed when he said. "I have finished the work which thou gavest me 10 do." Alexander the Great was wottnded. and the doctors eouM not medicate his wounds. and he seemed to dying.and in his dream tho sick man saw a plant with a peculiar tlower. and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician, and ihe physician wandered out until he found just the kind of plant which the sick man had described, brought it to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghastliest of all wounds that of sin It was the business of Christ to bring a balm for that wound the balm of divine restoration. In carrying this business to a successful issue th dirTiruil.es were stupendous. The Spiritual I ptmiMiiijt. In many of our plans we have our friends to help r.s: some to draw a sketch of the plan, others to help us in the execution. Hut Christ fought rery inch of his way against bitter hostility and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat. In his father's shop no more inter;om was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men that have work to do: yet Christ, with hands hard from ns of tools of trade, wa called forth to become a public speaker, to preach in the face of mobs, while some wept and some shook their flats and some gnashed upon him with their teeth and many wanted him out of the way. To address orderly and respectful assemblages is not so easy as it may seem, but it requires more energy and more force and more concentration to address an exasperated mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard the pounding of his hammer, but all the wide reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke of his spiritual upbuilding. So also the habits of dress and diet were against him. The mighty men of Christ's time did not appear in appare: without trinkets and adornments. None of the Caesars would have appeared in citizen's apparel. Yet here was a man. here was a professed king, who always wore the same coat. Indeed, it wits far from shabby, for after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but still it was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary man might hi'.ve worn on an ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in his diet. No cuplearer with golden chalice brought him wine to drink On the seashore he ate fish, first having broiled it himself. No one fetched him water to drink; but. bending over the well in Samaria, he begged a drink. He sat at only one banquet, and that not at all sumptuous, for to relieve the awkwardness of the host one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. .Man Without a Diploma. All this was against Christ. So the fact that he was not regularly graduated was against him. If a man come with the diplomas of colleges and schools and theological seminaries, and he has been through foreign travel, the world is disposed to listen. Hut here was a man who had graduated at no college, had not in any academy by ordinary means learned the alphabet of the language he spoke.and yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded the mightiest intellects. John says: ' The Jews marveled, saying. How hath this man letters, having never learned?" We. in our day. have found out that a man without a diploma may knowas much as a man with one and that a college can not transform a sluggard into a philosopher or a theological seminary teach a fool to preach. An empty head after the I tying on of hands of the presbytery is empty still. Hut it shocked all existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretensions und no graduation from a learned iait.fution toset himself up for a teacher. It was against him. So also the brevity of his life was against him. He had not come to what, we call mid-life. Rut very few men do anything before 33 years of age. and yet that was the point at which Christ's life terminated. The first 13 years you take in nursery and school. Then it will take yon six years to get into your occup.it ion or profession. That will bring you to 21 years. Then it will take you ten years at least to get established in your life work, correcting the mistakes you have made. If any man at Z? years of age gets fully established in his life work he is the exception. Yet that is the point at which Christ's life terminated. "JUesM-d Are the Poor. Popular opinion declared in those days, "Blessed is the merchant who has a castle down on the banks of Lake Tiberias." This young man sai!. "Blessed are the poor." Popular opinion said in those days. "Bless,;. I are th.ise who live amid statuary and fountains and gardens and congratulations and all kinds of festivity." This young man responded, "Blessed are they that mourn." Public opinion

in those days said, "Blessed 13 the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wing startler nations and the plunge of whose iron beak inflicts cruelty upon its enemies." This young man responded. Blessed are the merciful." Popular opinion said. "An eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth." In other words, if a man knocks your eye out knock his out. If a man breaks your tooth break his. Retort for retort, sarcasm for sarcasm, irony for irony, persecution for persecution, wound for wound. Christ said. "Pray for them that despitefully use you." They looked at his eye. It was like any other man's eye. except perhaps more shaking. They felt his hand, made of bone and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjectswhat supernatural demands, what strange doctrine! They felt the solid earth under them, and yet Christ said. "I

1 bear up the pillars of this world." They looked at the moon. He said. "I will turn it into biood." They looked at the sea. He said, "I will hush it." They looked at the stars. He said. "I will shake them down like untimely fiss." Did ever one young 6ay things so bold? It was all against him. After the battle of Antietam. when a general rode along the lines, although the soldiers were lying down exhausted, they rose with great enthusiasm and huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from his captivity his first step on the wharf shook all the kingdoms, and 'jr.O.OOO men flocked to his standard. It took 3.000 troops to watch him in his exile. So there have been men of wonderful magnetism of person. Hut hear me while I tell you of a poor young man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has never been excited by any other. Napoleon had around him the memories of Marengo and Austeiiitz and Jena, but her- was man who had 'ought no battles, who wore no epaulets, who brandished no sword. He had probably never seen a prince or shaken hands with a nobleman The only extraordinary person we know of as being in his company was his own mother, and she was so poor that in the most delicate and solemn hour that comes to a woman's soul she was obliged to lie down among drivers grooming the bea.4s of burden. The One t ion of Lineage. I imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man descended from high lineage is standing beside him. and says: "My father was a merchant prince. He had a castle on the beach in Galilee. Who was your father?" Christ answers. "Joseph, the carpenter." A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation and says to Christ, "Where did you go to school?" Christ answers. "I never graduated." Aha. the idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the attention of the world! As well some little nshing village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sooner does he set foot in the towns or cities of Judaea than everything is in commotion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for a day. yet are so fascinated with Christ that at the risk of starving they follow him out into the wilderness. A nobleman falls down flat before him and says. "My daughter is dead." A Ih-ggar tries to rub the dimness from his eyes and says. "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." "A poor. sick, panting woman presses through the crowd and says, "I must touch the hem of his garment." Children who love their mother better than any one else struggle to get into nis arms, ami to kiss his cheek, and to run their fingers through his hair, and for ail time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nursery in Christendom from which he does not take one. saying, "I must have them. I will fill heav?n with these, for evry cedar that I plant in heaven 1 will have ."0 white lilies. In the hour when I was a poor man in Judaea they were not ashamed of me. and now that I have come to a throne I do not despise them. Hoi.' it not back, O weeping mother! Lay it on my warm heart. Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Victory Over Nature. See him victorious over the forces of nature. The sea is a crystal sepulcher. It swallowed the Central American, the President and the Spanish armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Some of us who have sailed on it know that Lake Galilee, when aroused in a storm, is overwhelming, and yet that sea crom bed in his presence, and licked his feet. He knew all the waves and the wind. When he beckoned they came. When he frowned, they lied. The heel of bis toot made no indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes in lheumati. limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no human power can restore them, and when a limb is once dead It is dead. But here is a paralytic his hand lifeless. Christ says to him, "Stretch forth thy hand." and he stretches it forth. In the eye infirmary how many illseases of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind. "Be open!" and the light of heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with ;i word. Chemistry may do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wedding when the wine gave out could ( hange a pail f water into a cask or wine? What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here is a voice that marshals the scaly tribes, until in a place where they had let down the net and pulled it up with no fish in it they let It down again., and the disciples lay hold and began to pull, when by reason of the multitude of fish the net broke. Nature Is his servant. The flowers he twisted them into lii3 sermons; the winds they were his lullaby whn he slept in the boat; tho rain It hung flitteringly on the thick foliage if the parables; the star of Bethlehem it sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks they beat a dirge at his death. Behold his victory over the grave! The hinges of the family vault become very rusty because they are

never opened except to take another in. There is a knob on the outside of the door of the sepulcher, but none on tho inside. Here conies the conqueror of death. He enters that realm and says, "Daughter of Jairus, sit up!" and she sits up. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and he came forth. To the widow's son he said. "Get up from that bier!" and he goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatehe I up the keys of death and hung them to his girdle and cried until all the graveyards ot the earth heard him, "O Death, I will be thy plague! O Crave, I will be thy destruction!" The tieriiat nral Nature. No man could go through ail the obstacles I have described, you say, without having a nature supernatural. In that arm. amid its muscles and nerves and bones, were Intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal Cod. That foot that walked the deck of the ship in Gennesaret shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias, owned al! the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down into its water, owned all the earth and ail the heavens. To him of the plain coat belonged tho robes of celestial royalty. He who walked the road to Km mans the lightnings were the fire shod steeds of his chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn water into wine, and they say. "If was sleight of hand!" And they see Christ raise tha dead to life, and they say, "Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead." And they see Christ giving sight to the blind man. and they say, "Clairvoyant doctor." Oh what shall they uo on the day when Christ rises up in judgment and the hills shall rock and the trumpets shall call, peal on peal? C hrist a yniat hicr. My subject also reassures us of the fact that in all our struggles we have a sympathizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new about hardship. I do not think that wide ages of eternity will take the scars from his punctured side and his lacerated tempics and his sore hands. You will never have a burden weighing so many pounds as that harden Christ carried up the bloody bill. You will never have any suffering worse than he endured, when with tongue hot and cracked and inflamed and swollen, he moaned, "1 thirst.' You will never be surrounded by worse hostility than that which stood around Christ's feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling clown his prayers, and snuffing up the smell of blood. O ye faint hearted, O ye troubled, 0 ye persecuted one, here 13 a heart that can sympathize with you!

Stylish llairtlrcHsiiinWhile fashionable women are wearing their hair carelessly disposed about the face and drawn to a high knot atop the head, there is talk of a return of the Mme. de Maintenon coiffure. This will bring down the locks to curve about temples and cheeks in. let us hope, becoming ringlets, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Something is sure to happen to make women cut their hair, now that it has grown long and even. Women with whom time and money are a-plenty give much attention to their hair. One week it is washed, the next it is singed, then it is brushed, and next it is treated with tonic or again brushed. After a few months of such care the hair becomes shining, pliable and greatly improved n color. Hair thoroughly washed, dried and immediately waved will keep its wave for two weeks. A late notion is to confine the freshly dried hair in a loose silk mop-cap lined with cheese cloth. A layer of cotton between cheese cloth and silk is thick with violet, sachet. An hour's wear suffices to impart to the hair a delicate perfume. The same cap may be donned at night. Stich caps may be bought, made and perfumed, but it is much cheaper to make them, and the homemade ones are sure Jo b- prettier. Ahead f America. I know it would be wrong to explain our being three years ahead of a New England boy merely from the scholarly preparation of our teachers, says Professor Hugo Munsterberg. A second factor, which is hardly less important, stands clear before my mind, too; the help which our school found in our homes. I do not mean that we were helped in our work, but the teachers were silently helped by the spirit which prevailed in our homes with regard to the .school work. The school had the right of way, our parents reinforced our belief in the work and our respect for the teachers; a reprimand in the school was a shadow on our home life; a word of praise in the school was a ray of sunshine for the household. The excellent school books, the wise plans for the upbuilding of the ten years' course, the hygienic care, the external stimulations, have all. of course, helped toward the results; and yet I am convinced that their effect was entirely secondary compared with those two features, the scholarly enthusiasm of our teachers, ami the respect for the school on the part of our parents. Atlantic Monthly. Ilel Wauled to l'e Hie Seeds. A member of congress from an agricultural district in the west read a letter recently received from one of his people. It read thus: "To the Very Honorable Mr. Blank: Kind sir and esteemed friend -1 have the seeds. They came this morning and stilt very well, specially the cabbage seed which grows well in this soil, pleas send me 2 loads of fertiliser and a new harrer (mine is broke so it ain't rio good) and if you could send me a man for a couple of days I would lie obliged. With this help I know the garden stuff will turn out al rite and I will send sonn to you and the president. Your grateful well wisher and Supporter." ; New York Tribune Power or the ISIti IT. It is surprising how a man's self-respect increases when he carries a : checkbook, even though he has but $7 I in the bank. Lincoln (Nb.) Newa.

I Proceedings of Last Six Days in St. - Louis IMPORTANT TO WHOLE CHURCH Revision of the West minster Confession of Faith I One of tho leading Subject I inter Consideration Many Presbyteries Kc presented by Leaders. UV A Sl'Kt I A I. COKfiKSl'ON DENT. St. Louis. May 2$. The following is a condensed report of the week's proceedings of the Presbyterian general assembly: The overture came from the presbytery of Westchester in the New York Synod, and will affect chiefly the presbyteries of large cities, where, as in New York, those not in the pastorate outnumber the pastors. If a majority of the presbyteries approve the new plan. past oi s.stated supplies.secretariea of the boards and professors of institutions under the care of the assembly, with one ruling elder from each congregation in the presbytery, will compose the active membership. The blow is aimed directly, according to those who secured the adoption of the overture, at ministers who are book agents, insurance solicitors, secretaries of undenominational societies, and others engaged in purely secular employment, but it is felt by some that the plan will fail of approval. They say that it is unjust to deprive men who have served faithfully in the ministry of the right to vote on questions with which they may be far more conversant than some one recently graduated from a theological school: and that it plat es a stigma upon those whom many congregations have set aside simply because the gray hairs have appeared. The battle for the revision of the Westminster confession of faith began in the committee on bills and overtures. The opinion prevails among members of the assembly that the matter will not be discussed by this session without definite settlement. In its report on a revision of the confession of faith the committee on bills and overtures will have considerable work. Overtures on the subject from about forty presbyteries have been referred to the committee. Two of the overtures oppose revision, while thirty-eight favor various forms of revision. Dr. Robert F. Sample of New York city is chairman of the committee. The other members are Revs. Francis A. Horton. Herrick Johnson, Joseph O. Kea-se-r. George R. Spalding, A. A. T. Taylor. Hugh K. Walker.Ezra S. Ely. William D. Thomas. John M. Worrall. William M. Hind man. and Elders Abraham R. Perkins. Edwin S. Miller, D. S. Crason. Lafayette Mc Williams, D. E. English. Oscar E. Boyd. J. C. Gray, Charles R. Hubbard. W. R. Gladson and R. S. Lawrence. Revision or a new creeil, alternative or supplemental, was lefore the general assembly to-day. It was reported that of the total number of presbyteries, thirty-seven o vertu ring this assembly on the subject, eight ask for revision as their first preference; one asks for a declaratory statement; nineteen ask for a new and shorter creed and nine :usk for a committee to consider the whole subject and report to the next assembly. The Presbyterian church through Its general assembly has given its verdict in regard to :ts confessional standards. A committee of fifteen, with Rev. Dr. Charles A. Dickey or Philadelphia, the moderator of the assembly, as its chairman, has been ordered to consider the whole matter of a restatement of the doctrines held by the church, and which are substantially embodied in the Westminster confession of faith. Thursday the assembly voted to drop the Warzawaik case and asked for a constitution amendment against polygamy. Moderator Dickey appointed the special committee on creed revision which is to consider the various overtures from the different presbyteries and report its conclusions to the next national assembly for action. This committee consists of the moderator, the Rev. Charles A. Dickey of Philadelphia, and the Revs. Herrick Johnson. Chicago: Samuel J. Nicolls. St. Ixuis: Daniel Fisher. Indiana: William B. McKibbin. Ohio: George B. Stewart. New York: Stephen W. Dana. Pennsylvania: Samuel P. Sprecker, Cleveland. O.; Benjamin B. Warrield, Princeton. N. J.: Elders Benjamin Harrison. Indianapolis: Daniel R. Noyes. Minnesota: E. W. C. Humphrey. Kentucky; William R. Crabbe. Pennsylvania: John E. Parsons. New York; Elisha Eraser. Michigan, and Judge John M. Harlan. Baltimore. Intellectual Outlay. "Isn't your son's college education expensive?" "Oh, very. You see. he has to have silver monograms on every base ball bat he owns." Indianapolis Journal. Ni iiu wir. "What does she say?" asked the crafty politician, who had referred the committee to his wife for information as to his intentions. "She refuses to talk." replied the spokesman of the committee. "Then it wasn't my wife you met. gentlemen." he rejoined, with great positiveness. "It was somebody else." Chicago Tribune. Horse in Hie Soup. During the siege of Uidysmith 4.000 horses of the cavalry brigade were converted into soup or sau:-v.gcs in a single month. Wanted an Annual .lob. Mr. Muggs Want work, eh? Well, that's encouraging, at any rate. What can yoti do? Tramp IM like to hire myself out as a reminder, sir. "A reminder? What's that?" "W'y. sir, every year I'll remind you that it's your wife's birthday, so you kin git her a present, an' not be made miserable fer six months." Stray Stories. Hot Tear. "Oh. come, now. you know you did not actually weep scalding tears." "I did. They actually cracked mj glasses." Vanity Fair.

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England, in place of the marquis of Lome, who resigned on the death of his father when he assumed the title of d'.tke of Argyll, and who has gone to the house of lords, was fought on a "khaki" platform and resulted in a very large increase of the I'nionist vote. William Peel, son of Viscount Peel, the Unionist candidate, bing returned by a majority of 2.03!. Secure a Saliliatli Ket. Saloonkeepers of Miles City, Mont., petitioned the common council for permission to close their places of business on Sunday. The petition was finally granted, after a heated debate, one or two members having raised the objection that some of the citizens might feel the need of a drink and would be compelled to go to a neighboring town to get it. An ordinance was passed allowing the saloonkeepers to close until Sept. 1. UaimH SlOO.OOO li.uk laxes. At Toledo. Ohio, Tax Inquisitor V. H. McFarland tiled with the county auditor statements purporting to show the valuation returned by the Milburn Wagon company since lb!l. under which claims will be made for back taxes amounting to over $100.000. The officials of the company treat the matter lightly and say there is no doubt that their returns can be successfully defended. They will tight the case in the courts. Save Neijro from I.vnili inirSheriff Porter, of Athens county. O.. Thursday niffht. for the second time in 24 hours, saved the life of Richard (lardiner. the negro murderer of Kthei Long, of Ross county. The jail was surrounded by MOO armed men, who hoarsely demanded "the nigger." They were told that he was gone, but they refused to believe it. After a committee had examined the jail and reported the prisoner gone the mob dispersed. Lutheran League in Session. The fourth annual convention ot the Lutheran League opened at Cincinnati Tuesday with almost I'.OOO delegates present. The society is like the Christian Endeavor, the Ep worth League and corresponding societies of other churches. The president is E. F. Ellert, of New York, and the secretary YV. O. Olson, of Chicago. A chorus of iro voices has been rehearsing for weeks for the song services. Fail lo Proe a Fenian Pint. At Welland. Out.. Thursday the crown concluded its case against the alleged WeMands canal dynamiters Strong evidence was produced against thf prisoners Karl Pullman. .Joe Walsh and John Nolin. Ilowiver, no evidence touching t lie character of the prisoners previous to their appearand in Canada was offered. The crown apparently found it impossible to introduce evidence to show that the plot was one concocted by Fenians. Oueer Injunction Dissolved. The injunction by which Menr Momsen, .Ir., and Airs. Mina Olsen were restrained from marrying each other was dissolved by .fudge Pereletat Milwaukee. Wis. The court held that the Circuit court had no jurisdiction and pointed out the great abridgement of personal liberty thai would ensue if such injunction shouh become the rule. Name Socialist lilior Ticket. The Social ist-La bor party met aPeoria. 111.. Saturday, making the following nomination of state officers: (Jovernor, L. Hoffman. Jacksonville; lieutenant governor. William Cox Edwardsville; secretary of state Frank dale. Collinsville; state treasurer. Thomas R. Allen. Peoria: statt auditor. Valentine Marlis. Jacksonville. TliiMiHitmlM t C'M Nome. It is reported that since the opening of the Nome rush, including Monday's sailing.forty-sevenciaft have left Seattle for the north, carrying ceilUied lists of passengers amounting to 7.21U. Five steamers are yel to go in lite initial rush. Astronomer Will I-Veil IkAstronomers are arranging for observation of I he sun's eclipse on Monilaj. Kood will be ollered to a starving dog to see if tie will eat during the eclipse. slious I la tiller In Milk. In an address delivered before the Chicago Modioli society Health Commissioner Al l hur R. Reynolds declared formaldehyde to Im the most dangerous adulterant ever placed in milk. It Is especially injurious to children, the doctor says. McKinley at Memorial Services. The president and Ins cabinet attended memorial services of the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg. Va. Daniel E. Sickles declared Great Britain is a I hem! win in. we cannot fight.

E Interesting Proceedings at Quadrennial Meeting. LEGISLATE AND REORGANIZE. I Executive anil Adiisory Departments of i the Denomination I'm mini; and KnactinK Ijtw Work Ajjuressi ve and Progressive. BY A SPKC1A1. COI'.r.KSI'OMIKNT. Chicaso. May 3. The following is a condensed report of the past week's proceedings of the Methodist general conference: The conference Monday accomplished two things. It decided to hold afternoon sessions in Studebaker hall, beginning with Wednesday, in order to make sure of completing the work before May 29. and it elected, as expected, the two missionary bishops, E. W. Parker and F. W. Warne. The total number of votes cast wa,s 67. necessary to choice 44ä. The result was Parker öäS, Warne 490. The election of home bishops was not accomplished. Dr. Berry withdrew to help break the deadlock of the ballots. During the progress of the voting a number of attempts were made to indefinitely postpone the election, which would mean no new bishops until 1904. David H. Moore and John W. Hamilton were elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the seventeenth ballot Tuesday morning. They will be ordained at special services to be held in the Auditorium next Sunday afternoon. After the last ballot was announced Dr. Hamilton stood in the corridor, tears running down his cheeks, while his friends pressed around to congratulate him. The Methodist Church has had in its history forty-four bishops, the present election increasing the number to forty-six. The number of effective bishops is increased from sixteen to eighteen. As it has be-n decided that two of the general bishops are to go abroad, one ) Zurich for Europe, and one to Shanghai for eastern Asia, the number in this country will remain the same as in the last quadrennium. There is no longer a law in the Methodist church declaring that a pastor may not remain longer than live years in one charge. On the contrary he may. if the church so desires, remain with the congregation till he t'ies. This is the result of Wednesday's action abolishing the time limit by a vote of 433 to 23S. The vote was not secured without hours of desperate debate on the part of those opposed to the majority report of the itinerancy committee. Amendment after amendment and substitutes by the score were offered by delegates clamoring for reiognition. but all were finally laid on the table and the original report adopted. Tho portion of the discipline amended is section 3 of paragraph 1":. which prescribes the duties of bishops. Subsection 1 provides for the five-year limit. This is stricken out in its entirety, and for It is substituted: "1. He shall appoint the preachers to the several pastoral charges annually." The conference Thursday resolved to elect two secretaries for Freedman's Aid society. One will be M. C. 13. Mason, a colored man. The secretaryship of Epworth league was abolished. Conference adjourns on May 2J. The following assignments of hi; hups were made: Rishop Stephen M. Merrill. Chicago: Rishop Edward (I. Andrews. Mew York: Bishop Henry YV. Warren. Denver: Bishop Cyrus D. Foss. Philadelphia: Bishop John F. Hurst. Washington: Bishop YY X. Ninde. Detroit: Bishop John M. Waiden. Cincinnati: Bishop YVillard F. Mallalieu. Boston: Bishop Charles H. Fowler. Buffalo: Bishop John Y'incent. Zurich. Switzerland: Bishop Janus N. Fitzgerald. St. Louis: Bishop Isaac YV. Joyce. Minneapolis: Bishop Daniel K. (toodsell. Chattanooga; Bishop Charles E. McCabe. t'opeka. Kas.: Bishop Earl Cranston. Portland. Ore.; Bishop David M. Moore. Shanghai. China: Bishop John W. Hamilton. San Francisco. Cal. The general conference committee favors rescinding the penalty clause in paragraph censuring dancing, card playing and theater going. This would put into the form of advice what is now a rule. bv Kent for Doctors. ' Young Physician But isn't $7 a week rather exorbitant rnt for such a small room? Landlady Oh. dear, no; not for a doctor. Young PhysicianAnd why not for a doctor, pray? Landlady Because this is a very un healthy house, and there is never .1 week passes but what half a dozen of mv roomers are ill. -Chicago News. Art Ulatlnotlon. Fair Amateur Yes. 1 painted this. What school of painting would you call it? Artist tgently) Hoarding school. It ober ts a Chens IMayer. Ixird Roberts is a clever chess player, but dislikes all card games. Chess mav be called his favorite recreation. The Newest Hone. A happy accident, backed up by months of hard work and careful experiment, has finally succeeded in producing a light pink American beauty rose, a consummation which has been the despair of florists for years. The new rose has been developed in Philadelphia, and is a true American beauty in everything but color. Some of the light pink blossoms produced this season measure five inches in diameter. It will be at least two years befo;e th? new rose Is generally on the market. Chicago Tribune. Horte Karen In a II omelet. City. Venice, where the only horse are the bronze ones in front of St. Mark's, is to have a race meeting this year. The idea was started as a joke, hut the Ä'enetians took it up enthusiastically and $8.000 was collected for prizes in a few days. A committee headed by the may of. Count Grimani. has thj matter in h ind and has laid out a race course cn the Campo di Marte, tho old drill ground near the railroad station. It will be the first horse race Venice has ever seeo

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NATION'S LONELIEST WOMAN.

Lives Most of the Year Out in tli Oeean. Wherever a man must go a woman will surely follow him without counting the cost of peril, loneliness or hardship. Without doubt the loneliest woman that is to say. the one farthest removed from her kind in all these United States of America is Mrs. Clark, the wife of Major E. W. Clark, government agent of the Pril.yl.d' or Seal islands, in the Reining sea. This group, composed of the two small islands of St. Paul and St. C.eorge. ar the homes of nearly all the sals remaining in existence, and they are about 1.S00 miles west of the entrance to Puget sound and about 20" northwest of the Aleutian islands. In'-in-ning at Cnimak pass. St. Oorg. which is the smaller of the two. being about six by twelve müps in extent, is forty miles from St. Paul, aad it has a population of about 100 Meats and four or fiv whites, consisting of Major Clark and his wife, a physician and two or three clerks for the North American Commercial company, which controls the seal business ami has stores and warehouses on both islands. The little village of St. Oeorge contains twenty-five or thirty houses, including the company's buildings, the agent's home and a Greek church. There are no other houses on the islands. a "id Mrs Clark is th only white woman. Her home is a small -ottage of four rooi-3. very ozy tnd comfortable, with books and pictures, and a fine outlook owr the sea. She does no cooking in her own house, as the government officials take their meals at the company housnear by. Mrs. Clark's nearest neighbor is the wife of the agent on St. Paul, who is less lonely, because she has with her her two small children. Mrs. Clark's children being grown an4 having their own homes in the suites. There is no communication between the islands except by one of the company's ships and by revenue cutters, as other ships are not permitted to visit the islands. These ships cori only in the summer, and from October until June Mrs ("ark Joes not expect to see any one or hear anything from tie- t'niie.l States or to send word home, no matter what happens. Sicknes.-.. death, disaster may come to her far off in that forbidding sea. or may visit her own at home, but no word may come or g until navigation is resumed. St. George is absolutely without trees, hut its rolling surface and mountains, l.ooo feet high, are beautifully green with coarse grass and moss, and wild flowers of brilliant hues dot the level stretches near the sea. -Chicago Chronicle. CAPE COLONY'S PREMIER. Cape Colony's premier. YY'. P. Schreiner, who is now threatening to resign his ofln-e. has had a very difficult plate to till during the BritishBoer war. As leader of the Afrikander element in the ("ape. he was ostensibly opposed to war. although doubtless in sympathy with the Boer states. He made many efforts to preserve th peabetween the peoples, and was mora than once called a traitoi while negotiations were under way. As to hi intellect, he is certainly clever enough to have been for many years an adroit and not entirely unsuccessful opponent of Cecil Rhodes. Mr. Si hrein r was born in Cape Colony, is of Dutch descent, and was educated in England He studied at London and Cambridge universities, and after taking Iiis degree returned to South Africa a a barrister. Soon winninu a reputation for shrewdness, he became attorneygeneral of Cap Colony when Rhodes was prime minister. For a time h was Rhodes' right-hand man and intimate friend, but the Jameson raid caused a rupture which was :evet healed, and the two ni-11 were long at "daggers drawn" with each other In V. P. SCHREINER. appearance Mr. Schleimt is a hue looking man. He has a large head, joined to a pur of broad shoulders ; a thick neck. He is a brother of Olivt Schreiner, the novelist. Vtlurul Irre ereile-. One small 11 1 111 a si.. urban town is a member of a large family. Not only has he several older brothers and sisters but she has aunts and uncus galore. It's a pleasant enough state of affairs on most occasions, bu' there are times when it might be convenient to be an only child and these limes ate when sleepy ami tirod. she beg in the Son v. petition in which all these near relatives figure by name and which stands between her and her downy couch. The other nichi she attempted a reform. After get tins through the "Bless papa and mamma." she paused only to add. sleepily, "and the whole business, you know it." Detroit Flee Puss. .lewele! I'tirMn. The oblong square purses, w'oh open with an ordinary clasn. are n .orepopular now than the envelope-shaped purses, which have jeweleu buttons. These purses are studded with jewels in gold ring settings, in some the jewels outlintnig the edges of the pur.-es. ami in others dotting the whole of the side. One. for instance, has the entire side covered with amethysts, cut diamond-shape. ,sct at tegular intervals. The pulses with stud.s hae one advantage the studs tan be removed aud used for collar buttons or to close the neck bands of blouses.

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