Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1900 — Page 3

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TALMAGE'S SEBSON.

DRAWS A LESSON FROM A NOBLE WOMAN'S LIFE. To Those Engaged in Allovlatlag II u roan DUU-ea Self EfcicriUi-lng AVurk Assred of a Kith Reward llereafter Iral for the Needle. (Copyright. 1DC0, by Louis Klopsen.) Dr. Talmage, who is still traveling In northern Europe, has forwarded the following report of a sermon in which he ntter helpful words to all who are engaged in alleviating human distresses and shows how such work will be crowned at the last; text, Acta ix, 39, "And all the widows stood by him weeping and showing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them." Joppa is the most absorbing i ity of the orient. Into her harbor once floated the rafts of Lebanon cedar from which the temples of Jerusalem were huilt, Solomon's oxen drawing the logs through the town. Here Napoleon had 500 prisoners massacred. One of tha most magnificent charities of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with her needle embroidering her name ineccably into the beneficence of the world. I see her sitting in yonder home. In the doorway and around about the building and in the room wher; she sits are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to their plaint, she pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the nianufac-t ared articles to suit the bent iorm of this invalid woman and to the crippla that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one, she gives sandals to that one. With the sifts she mingles prayers and tears and Christian encouragement. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by those whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard, "Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully Into her face a-s she puis her hand on the burninz brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as though an angel had addressed them, and as she goes out the lane eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow and a trail of glory in he pathway. That night a half paid shipwright climbs the hill and reaches home and sees his little boy well clad and says. "Where did these clothes come from?'' And they tell him, "Donas has been here." In another place a woman is trimming a lamp. Dorcas brought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for many weeks are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pause in that woman's ministry. They say: "Where Is Dorcas? Why we haven't seen her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?" And one of thse poor people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness the news comes. "Dorcas is sick!" No bulletin flashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king's disease is more anxiously waited for than the news from this benefactress. Alas, for Joppa there is wailing, wailing. That voice which has uttered so many cheerful words is hushed; that hand which has made so many garments for the poor is told and still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is dimmed by the blinding mists that go up from the river of dath. In every forsaken place In that town, wherever there is a sick child and no balm, wherever there Is hunger and no bread, wherever there is guilt and no commiseration, wherever there Is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing look3 and streaming eyes and frantic gesticulations as they cry, "Dorcas is dead!" The Miracle of rVter. They send for the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of the place, stopping with a tanner of the name of Simon. Peter urges his way through the crowd around the door and stands in the presence of the dead. What demonstration of grief all about him! Here Staad some of tha poor people, who show the g:iriüents which thin poor woman had made for them. Their grief cannot be appeased. Tha apostle Peter wants to perform a miracle. He will not do it amid the excited crowd, so he orders that tha whole room be cleared. Tha dor is shut against the populace. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, It is a seriou3 moment, you know, when you are alone with a lifeless body! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the lifeless form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of him who is the resurrection he cries, "Tabitha, arise!" There ia a stir in the fountains of life; the heart flutters; the nerve thrill; the cbeek flushes; the eye opens; she sits up! We see in this subject Doreau the disciple, Dorcas the benefactress, Dorcas the lamented, Dorcas the resurrected. If I had not Keen that word disciple In my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is not chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needlework of this woman I want to show you her regenerated heart, the source of a pure life and of all Christian charities. I wish that the wlve3 and mothers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would Imitat Dorcas In her discipleship. Before you cross the threshold of the, hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of tomorrow, I charge you in the name of Ood and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, O women, that you attend to the first, last and greatest duty of your life the seeking for God and being at peace with him. When the trumpet shall sound. thre will be an nproar and a wreck of mountain and continent, aad no human arm ca hejp you. Amid the rising of the krt and amid the boillair of yander sea aad amid tha llvo, leaping thunders of tbt flying heavens calm Md &fid wilJ ba every woman's heart wyo hnth put her trust in Chris cal riot withstanding all tho tumult, as ttough the ttr In th heavens were only the gildings of an autumaal sunset, a though th pal of the trumpet wre onjr the a armem r of an orthestw m thoujh the ft" ftu voices of the sky were tut a group of

friends bursting through a gateway at eventlme with laughter and shouting, "Dorcas the disciple!" Wrould God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feet of Jesus! Fraise of the Needle. Further, we see Dorcas the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; epic poet has sung of tha sword; the pastoral poet, with Ms verses full of the redolence of clover tops and a-rustle with the silk of the corn, has sung the praises of the plow. I tell you the praises of the needle. From the fig leaf robe prepared in the garden of Eden to the last stitch taken on the garment for the poor the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generosity, and benefaction. It adorned the girdle of the high priest, it fashioned the curtains in the ancient tabernacle, it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon, it provided the robes of Queen Elizabeth, and in high places and in low places, by the fire of the pioneer's backlog and under the flash of the chandelier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness, it has preached the gospel, it has overcome hosts of penury and want with the war cry of "Stitch, stitch, stitch!" The operatives have found a livelihood by it. and through it the mansions of th employer are constructed. Amid the greatest triumphs in all ages and lands, I set down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crimes; I admit its cruelties. It ha3 had more martyrs than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter's field; it has pitched whole armies of the suffering into crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, I sha41 speak only of th charities of the needle. This woman was a representative of all those who make garments for the destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepare bandages for the lacerated, who fix up iKjxea of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering and destitute, bearing that gospel which is sight for the blind and hearing for the deaf, and which makcti the lame man leap like a hart and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benevolence of tnis woman, and a great d?al of the charity of this day! This woman did not spend her time idly planning how the poor of the city of Joppa were to be relieved; f-he took her needle and relieved them. She was not like thos persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows, and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the beuevoleat platform and goes out to kick the beggar from the step, crying. "Hush your miserable howling!" Woman' Jlenevoleiice. I am glad there is not a page ol the worid's history which is not a record of female benevolence. God says to all lands and people, Come now and hear the widow's mite rattle down into the poor box. The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of Louis VIII. of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incarcerated iu the prisons, went out amid the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prison door, and out came the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife of Henry I., went down amid the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. Retson, at Matagorda, appeared on the battlefield while the missiles of death were flying around and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil war in America who has not heard of the women of the sanitary and Christian commissions or the fact that before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, forgetting all their animosities while they bound up the wounded and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas, the benefactress. I come now to speak of Dorcas, the lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in the town of Joppa! I suppose there were women there with larger fortunes, women, perhaps, with handsomer faces, but there was no grief at their departure like this at the death of Dorcas. There was not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean sea, dashing against the wharfs at that seaport, than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There are a great many who go out of life and are unmissed. There may be a very large funeral, there may be a great many carriages and a plumed hearse, there may be some high sounding eulogiums, the bell may toll at the cemetery gate, there may be a very fine marble shaft reared over the resting place, but the whole thing may le a falsehood and a

sham. The church of God ha3 lost nothing, the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated. It is only a grum-bler cea-sing to find fault. It is only an idler stopped yawning. It is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar, while on the other hand no useful Christian leaves this world without being missed. The church of God cries out like) the prophet, "Howl, flr tree, for the cedar has fallen!" Widowhood comes and shows the garments which the departed had made. Orphans are lifted up to look Into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed It away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning mourning because Dorcas is dead. When Josephine of Franc was carried out to her grave, there wertf a great many men and women of pomp and pride and position that went out aftw her, but I am most affeoted by the story of history that on that day ther wer ten thousand of the poor of France who followed her coffin, wpiriK and Trailing until the wir rang afjaln, because when thy loat Josephine thy Wl their last eerthly frTend. Oh, rtw would not rather havo wich obuV than all thi tars that were evr poorM in the lachrymals that have Wn exhumod from ri-nt eitle? There may be no ma for tho dead; theno may bo no costly jarcophagua; thora may 1 no slabonite mausoleum, but in the damp cel

lars of the city and through the lonely huts of the mountain gien there will b mourning, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas Is dead. "Bleesed are tha dead who die ia the Lord; they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." Keeurrection of Dorcas. I speak to you of Dorcas, the resurrected. The apostle came to where she was and said, "Arise, and sh-3 sat up!" In what a short compass the great writer put that "She sat up!" Oh, what a time there must have been around that town when the apostle brought her out among her old friends! How the tears of joy must have started! What a clapping of hands there must have been! What singing! What laughter! Sound it all through that lane! Shout it down that dark alley! Let all Joppa hear it! Dorcas is resurrected! You and I have seen the same thing many a time; not a dead body resuscitated, but the deceased coming up again after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to fifty years of age, serving God, and then dies we are apt to think that his earthly work is done. No. His influence on earth will continue till the world ceases. Services rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian woman toils for the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, throujh many self dealils, with prayers and tears, and then she dies. It is 15 years since she went -way. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church, hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ. Has that Christian woman, who went away fifteen years ago, nothing to do with the.se things? I see the flowering out of her uoble heart. I hear the echo of her footsteps in all the tongs over sins forgiven, In all the prosperity of the church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrected! After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making garments for others, some one will make a garment for them; the laet robe we ever wear the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come In worn out from your last round of mercy. I do not know where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be, but there will be a lamp burning at that tomb, and an angeJ of God guarding it. and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb the drst. Sleep on. sleep on! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed rtposo! Sleep on! Asleep in Jesus! Messed sleep From which none ever wake to weep!

THE CORDIAL WOMAN I Hare. frr Women Are Sl!tv o4 Conventionality. Sometimes, as we hurry along the crowded streets we meet the womau who understands the knack of the cordial bow. We smile back at her, and are glad that we have met her, even though p. crowd s panned us from her. There is so mtidi in her how. It says as plainly as words possibly could: "It is such a pleasure for m to see you, even though it is ju&t for a .second." And tin- best part of it all is that she is sincere in the impression she wishes to convey, for be It said right neie and now, the cordial woman is the sincere woman. The cordial woman is the kind-hearted woman, the woman who likes to put people at their ease. And one never finds cordiality and sarcasm coupled in the same woman. I have made note of the lack of cordiality in women and there is lack and have quite come to the conclusion that the because of it all lies in the fact that womankind is a bond edave to conventionality. Many times she will not be as frankly cordial as her heart prompts her to be because of that grim old fear of being "misunderstood." A regard for conventionality is a good thing provided it is not carried too far. It is not unwomanly or unmaidcn ly to be honestly cordial. There are some women, that you and I have met, who pride themselves upon their ability to "keep people at a distance." Some one may have preached you a little ?crmon about how necessary and beautiful is "poise of manner in a woman." But poise- of manner does not mean, or should not mean, the stifling of all sincere emotion, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Take care lest in cultivating poi you drop into the habit of indifference. I grant you that sometimes indifference saves one a lot of petty cares that interest will bring about, but somehow a woman seams the happier when she is interested in the comings and goings and sayings and doings of others. NEW KIND OF FLY. Spiil r, Tooled by Tuning Fork Dnnced on It. An astonished, but apparently satisfied spider, was oue upon which a gentleman recently made an experiment. The result of his investigations is told in Public Opinion. While wacching some spiders one day, it occurred to him to try what effect tbe sound o a tuning fork would hae upon them. lie had a strong suspicion that they would take it for the buzzing of a fly. Selecting a large, fat spider that had long been feasting on flies, he sounded the fork and touched a thread of th spider's web. The owner was at one edge of his web. and the thread selected was on the other side. Over his wondwrful telephone wires the buzzing sound was conveyed to the watching spider, but from his position he could not tell along which particular line the gound was travelin. He ran to the center of the web In hot haste, and felt all round until he touched the thread against the other end of which the fork was sounding. Thon, taking another thread along with him aa a preeaulhmary niwusure, ke ran oat to the Tork and sprang ipon it. At this point he found out hie mistake. He ratrtated for a hört distaaoe, and stopped to survey this ne-w buemlng creature which should bare been fly, but was tranrely unttk uny inaeot he bad ever cn. At leotk, apparently convinced that the oteoi at the outer ede of hl3 wb we more' ulVable for amusement than fpr an- article of diet, h tfot oa M again and danoa with pleasure. II ws OTideoi that tte sound of tlx fork was mwV u him.

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BISHOP When Trinity College, Dublin, confers the degree of doctor of divinity upon IU. Rev. William Crosswell Doane, according to its announced intention, it will make the third time the bishop of the diocese of Albany has been honored by educational institutions in Great Britain. He now holds a similar degree from Oxford, while Cambridge has dubbed him doctor of laws. Bishop Donne is a son of I)oton, having been born there in 1832. His father, Rev. George Washington Doan, became the second bishop of New Jersey, and at his son's birth was recto, of Trinity, Phillirps OUR FOREIGN CITIZENS. Vearly 3,000,000 Germans Irish in All Occupations. Germans have come to America in great numbers, according to an article in Ainslee's Magazine. The last census stated wo had 2,784,894 Germans, and they have been of incalculable benefit industrially. They have made borne of our best tradesmen, they supply skilled artisans and have introduced and monopolized many manufactures. They are also famous farmers and gardeners. To them we partially owe the fact Americans are a music-loving people. Illinois has nearly 350,000 Geilnau cltizrus. Irish immigrants have done much to build up the wealth of this country. Railroads and other great public works have been built through their personal toil. They are gregarious, have a taste for politics and in large and small ways enjoy the independence to accumulate and spend which they were denied at home. Their occupations range all the way from laboring on the streets to millionaire financiering. The Irish farmers of this land are among the most prosperous and valuable to the community. Italians constitute an important part of our foreign population, and as they are still coming in great numbers their presence is the cause of much interesting speculation. In 1890 the Italians were only 182,580. Of these 118,100 were in the north Atlantic states; 4.S3I in the south Atlantic; 21.S37 in the north central; in the south central, 12,314, and in the western, 24,914. There is a general impression that these Italians, most of them men, come here to work hard tor a few years and then to go back to live ia easy idleness on their savings. There may be something in this, for they do go back and forth a great deal. These Italians are the public-works laborers of the time. They work diligently with the pick and shovel, and the bosses make them perform prodigious tasks with these simple implements. Probably 80 per cent of the Italian Immigrants are unskilled laborers. But they take to other things kindly. They have actually driven the negroes out of the bootblacking field, and even the Irish porters now at the best hotels no longer have a monopoly of polishing the boots of the guests. They are an amiable people, and apt to be law-abiding. Fact Abont the Hydra These are the pleasant ways of the fresh water hydra: If you cut him in two, each half promptly lengthens Into a completa hydra. Turn him inside out aad in a few hours his skin is his stomach and his stomach is his skin, and he is ready to do business as before. The hydra ia scarcely more than a bag with feelers about the mouth of It. It can replace a feeler in twenty hours. It makes a somewhat longer Jeb when its body is cut in two, but Is equally successful. If cut In two lengthwise, the cut sides of each half sack close up, forming a complete onem. If cut In two lengthwise each end matches itself more slowly, with a new head or tall, as may be needed. Where the Stove Went. A fa&aiouable French physiclar called lately ou one of his patients. Baroness de II., who was complaining of headache and general prostration. "I will tell you what is the matter with yon. madam." he said promptly; "it is that American stove you have over there. These coal-burning stoves are I rewrvolrs f poison, the deadliest thior In the world." -Hut that stove coet me 5.!" protested the barons. "Never ralnd tbat; better lose any amount of money than your life. I will !Jl you whet I'll do; ni glve you a fuinwi for ft. aiul find soma way of retting rid of the pernicious ohjeet." The lady consented, ai4 the doctor removed the stove. A few doysvkiter I the patient, who thought of caaLaa

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DOANE. Brooks future church. When young Doane was two years old the family removed to Burlington, N. J. He was graduated from Burlington College in 1S30, was ordained to the deaconate in 1SÖ3, and advanced to the priesthood in 1856. In 1SG3 he became rector of St. John's church, Hartford, Conn. After four yesrs he went to St. Peter's church in Albany, and in 1S69 was consecrated as first bishop of the new Episcopal diocese of Albany. He has ben a great builder. The cathedral at Albany is his work, as is the St. Agnes school for jirls. He ha.s also founded many charitable institutions. her residence, went out to inspect a suite of rooms, and the first thing that mot her gaze was the stove. "Who lives here?" she asked of the servant who was showing her over the rooms. "Mme. A., madame," said the servant respectfully "Dr. B's mother-in-law! CARE OF A CUN. Some Fractlral Advice From an Old Hunter. A veteran hunter lays this down as a point which must be carefully attended to: Never under any circumstances lay away your gun at night without cleaning it. Never mind how tired you are, attend to it at once. There should be no 'next day about it." Not a few of the older hunters would profit by accepting this advice. The veteran quoted above says he got this idea from his father, who loved his guns and dogs almost as well as he loved his children. The old man gave his boy a single barreled muzzle loader, which was for many a day the youngster's treasure of treasures, and was never allowed to get rusty. Before being put away for the winter it was carefully cleaned and oiled and was once in a while taken down and examined. If a speck of rust appeared anywhere it was at once removed. After an outing among wild pigeons, squirrel or grouse he removed the barrel from the stock, swabbed it out with hot water and wiped it out with a clean rag. Then he fired a little powder, just to be sure that no moisture was left, after which an oil rag was used assiduously. Then stock and barrel were rejoined and the weapon was put away for the night. The breech-loader is much less troublesome, but the same principle obtains in both cases. By using care such as is indicated this hunter has for fourteen years kept a gun in first class condition, though it has done a great deal of work. In New York's Chinatown. Echoes of the boxer troubles in China are being heard in New York's Chinatown. Of the Chinese who come to this country only a very small proportion have any intention of making it their permanent abiding place. To them the American is still a "foreign devil" to be despised and hated.though regarded with a salutary fear. 01 course, any Indication of ill-feeling toward the Americans would bring down swift and condign punishment, so the residents of Pell and Dojrer streets conduct themselves with making matters unpleasant for their fellows who are known to be in sympathy with American ideas. New York Sun. Hope for Government Ships. Nearly all the rope used by the United States navy is manufactured in the government ropewalk at the Charleston navy yard. The plant has just been thoroughly overhauled and electrical motive power has been installed there. At the time of the outbreak of the Spanish war the government ropewalk had been allowed to deteriorate, and the navy department was obliged to buy large quantities of supplies outside, but the improvements made since then, at a cost of over $100,000, have so that it is now one of the largest in the world. One Method of Saving Tree. The most novel street sight ever witnessed In Saratoga ended at I) o'clock last night, when the forestry committee of the village closed a five hours' period of worm buying, says the Rochster Post-Express. Several sugar barrels of the squirming forest tent caterpillars were purchased at 20 cents a quart, sad ?60 was paid out to several hundred worm-pickers. Thia raethwl was adopted as the most ellectivo way of protoctlns the beautifull foKagu of Saratoga against the ravages Of ttvo pet.

I'KIM Jffi NOTICE That He Has Been Nontiftited for President

WAS A BIG DAY AT CANTON. Selection from the Chitllrniaa'd ftpeeoh Mr. .McKinley' Keply Gov. lUoevl? at Oyster liay, N. Y., Also Hears OlMciaUy of Ills domination. The second notification of TYIUiam McKinley that he had been selected as the nominee of the Republican party for president was made at Canton, 0., on Thursday, at th same pla.ee as the first, and all the accessories were similar to the occasion four years ago. Then the chairman of the committee was Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska, who had been permanent chairman of the convention. Today, Senator Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was the spokesman. All Canton turned out to witness tha ceremoaiea which took place ou the famous front porch. Senator Lodge aid, in part: "Mr. President: This committee, representing every täte in the union and the organized territories of the United States, was duly apioiuted to announce to you. formally, your nomination by the Republican national convention, which nK-t ia Philadelphia on June 19 last, as the candidate of the Republican party i'or president of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1901. "This nomination come to you, sir, under circumstances which give it a higher significance and make it an even deeper expression of honor and trust than usual. With the exception of the period in which Washington organized the nation and built the state, and of those other awful years when Lincoln led his people throush the agony of civil war, and waved troai destruction the work of Washington, there never has been a presidential term in our history so crowded with great events." Replying to Senator Lotlce, President McKinley accepted the nomination as "a summons to duty," adding: "If anything exceeds the honor of the office of president of th United States, it is the responsibility which attaches to it. Having hx invested with both, I do not undrapprai'e either. Any one who has born the anxieties and burdens of the presidential office, especially in time of national trial, cannot contemplate assuming it a second time without profoundly realizing the severe exactions and the solemn obligations which it imposes, and this feeling is accentuated by the momentous problems whii'h now press for settlement." lloosvt'lt ALio Notified. Governor Roosevelt also was officially notified of his nomination for the vice-presidency at his country home, Sagamore, near Oyster Bay. The notification committee appointed by the Republican wonventiou at Philadelphia left New York ou a special train at 10: SO o'clock and made a quick run to Oyster Bay,whcre carriages were in waiting to convey them to Sagamore. A number of the members of the notification committee were not present. Several invited guests accompanied the party, most of them prominent New Yorkers. IJIcyele Car. Several of the railroads havo introduced bicycle cars, which have taken the place of the cumbersome and heavy old fashioned handcars, and according to the railroad men, the bicycle cars are giving excellent satisfaction. These cars are generally used for road inspection, yet heavy loads can be carried on them when necessary. The bicycle car is made of the regulation tubing and contains two drop frames side by sidc connected oy tubing, and having four wheels. The wheels are made of sheet steel, with regulation bicycle spokes, and the rims are covered with solid rubber tires. The machines complete weigh between seventy and eighty pounds, and rail In1 easily lifted from the track 10 uiake way for an approaching train. Th" machines are all ball bearing, and are generally geared from eighty to ninety-six. There is no steering, of course, and this will confuse the average wheelman when he mounts the machine for the rtrst time. ltoal Toll Tax. Th( Michigan division of the Teagu of American Wheelmen is preparing ft bill for introduction in the legislature providing for a road poll tax. uys the Detroit Free Press. It will provide that every able-bodied man in the tate between and inclusive of the ftges of 21 and 00 shall pay this tax. and the receipts will be used to build and repair roads in the county in which It la collocted and where th prtrtioneiu for such roa-ds will asreo to py their whole road taxes in cash instead of in work. The plan has received satisfactory approval. Stadl' MlMHing; I. ink. Prof. Krnst Ilaeckel, th distinguished German naturalist at Jena, though 66 years of age, has decided to make once more the long trip to Java and the Celebes, where he will spend the winter studying the fossil anthropoid ape,some remains of which were found not long ago in those islands. Ha hopes to be able to show that this monkey is the missing link betwoeu dryopltheous. the extinct anthropoid, and man. With this discovery he is willing to close hi.s scientific rowrches. A I'roniinont Attorney. Robert A. FriHlrich. United State attorney for one of th throw new districts of Alaska, haa hitherto held that position for tho whol territory. H is a Kentuckian by birth. and el1Ud in the Union army at the ace of 1$ in 1SC2, though hia parents wr ftkveowncrs and anient iVmoerata. Im 1873 he movd to Kanea and a bcaa prominent-in Topoka. wt?re h lieutenant-colonel, brlc21er-tarl and luljutant-gejMfPiil ia Vara tn tk National Guard of Uuat

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Woman Takes Away Her Meoe .Hr. Mollis tepliati, of Oil aiio. lirr4 with Aiiutiou WeaHliy Vurw Farmer Kill lliinMlf. Woman Takes Away Her Niee. Mrs. Mollie Stephan went to Shelbyville from Chicago and arranged t take with her to Chicago Carrie Meikel. 15 years old. daughter of Mrs. Harry Meikel, her divorced sister. Mikel, hearing of this, procured a restraining order from Judge Morris. This wa served on Mrs. Stephan, who informed the sheriff that she would drop th matter. The otlicer had hardly got out of sight, however, until Mrs. Stephan, with the girl, left for th depot, and boarded the train for Chicago. Word was telephoned the Chi. -age authorities and the woman will he returned here t answer to the charge of abduction and for contempt of court. . - Trniple 1 Nt.irl.i at Mum if. Ti.e first tcinple Kniuht.- of Khorassan. aaxiiliary to tie Knigiif.- of Pythias, iii rn Indian t v,.; st.tMis.hd at M'lti.-i.- wiih e i i Ii :; it -r :r.e:ubcis by Imperial i'rinee of ti.e Cnited Stat-i. of Ave-rica C. A. H;aiey of Chi ago ; :ul traiv.s brought ia more t :.,.r, i.tn a grand st.-e- -T'a t e fi re wo: k s of the evening visititiC t'M'Ti't'ers a:id parade, w an tlaboisplay. was a feature After ti.f obligatory woik sa. concluded by the Sidney. 0 team an elaborate b ainiu. t wa. given. Plates were laid for .o at first table. Collision at I ml i.iutolM. A collision between a Blake street car and eight freight cars attached to a Big Four engine at the West street crossing of th1 Big Four railroad switch, near Military Park. Indianapolis, resulted in the serious Injury of several paisenger. The injured are: Mattlews. .1. U.; D: airfield. Mrs. Anna; Suylu k. Miss (irovie; S'iylock.MUs Daisy; Malfy. F. O.; Iugan. Mrs. Nora. Other passengers on the err were slightly bruised and all were badly shaken up. Mau -hot sun for Dtiuace. San ford C. Cam ) has sicl .Jo-.-ph Reese at Lebanon for Sl'i'.nuu damages for personal iujarb-. !, shot Campbell in the 'k' -k and ;d jtr.eu last April as lie was wal!:in; road, firing the shots from a ':imzy. They ies:d- on adjoining farms and had disagreed over chart h and domestic affairs. Campbell has not fully recovered and alleges permanent injuries. Reese is a union veteran anl owns one of the best farms in Boone county. Deal in Oil lirnl K ortet. A deal is said to be practically completed by which the Mississinnewa Mining company disposes of its Marion natural gas plant and iM.h-m u-res of the most valuable undeveloped gas and oil territory in the state, surrounding Marion, to the Indianapolis Gas company. A reporr is u:re;it that the Indianapolis company is purc hasing the property for the Standard Oil company. The consideration iu the deal is said to be $Su0.000. Hum I'olice Captain' IIoup. After three attempts within a week incendiaries succeeded in destroying the residence of Captain John Roach of the Muncie police department. Mrs. Roach and two small daughters wein at home alone. The building was tired in two places. The two children wer injured while fleeing from the burning building. Several colored men who were seen lounging around thi Roach residence are suspected. Men .il an H !. Ii. r. J. M. Candless. an old soidb r. w ho has b' t :i practicing magnetic laaliag at Viiii-ennes, was found uiu oi.scloxs i:i lie street at Vineoiines. and died soun afterward. He had been assaulted by unknown persons, who fractured his skull. farmer rriiik (';irlxill- A-i1. William Davis, op.ee a wealthy farmer, living three miles saith of Warsaw, committed suicide by taking c.ubolv. acid. He had lost his large fortune recently. (.t nrril Mal- New. Seiners are playing havoc with fish in Wayne county. The smallpox at Anderson has been stamped out. John Zeller. a young business man of Hra.il. dropped dead. H. F. C. Neitert. a pioneer of Ft. Wane. eighty years old. is dead. Drilling for oil is being raj idly pushed in the vicinity of Foriville. Miss Kebeeea Heller of Knox, attempted suicide with carbolic acid. The gambling and wine rooms at Anderson have again been closed by the police. '1 he Franco-Belgian carnival at Matthews will begin on the 23d inst lasting one week. The Rev. F. S. Chapman of Kirkville. Mo., has accepted a call to tho St. Paul's P. H church at Jeffersonville. Jay Collins and Teddy Mene attempted to jump from a moving train at Hasslake, and Mene was fatally injured. The three-year-old daughter of Mrs. James IJorders. near Indian Springs, was burned to death while playing with matches. The City Light and Power Company of Dunkirk, has been incorporated. Capital stock $S.OO0. The Wabash Valley Protective Association is being organized, with headquarters at Andrews. D. U. purvlance is president. The Fortville Tribune has been sold to Ora V. Pogue of Pendleton, and it will be hansred from a Republican to an independent paper. The Anderson authorities have notified dealers that the discharge of tireworks will not be permitted in th business sections of the ity.