Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 November 1900 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

DEPLORES PREVAILING SPIRIT OF UNREST. tfapP Ih it ilirrstian L.lf Thr Cnut of Discontent Fixed Spiritual Condition. (Copyright. 1000, Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, No. Lö. r iciiu an unusual text Dr. Taimage in this discourse rebukes the spirit of unrest Which characterizes so many people and shows them the happiness and usefulness to Tie found in stability; text. Jer.'m'ah ii,. Zt", "Why gaddfst thou about so much to change thy way?" Homely is the illustration by which this prophet or' t'ars deplores the vacillation of th nation to whom he wrote. Now they wanted alliance with Egypt, and now with Assyria, end now with I'.abylon, and now they dld not know whit they wanted, and the behavior of the nation reminded the prophet of a man or woman who, not satisfied with home life, goes from place to place gadding about, as we say, never settled anywhere or in anything, and he cris out to them, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change the way? Well, the world has now as many gad-abouts as it had in Bible times, and I think that that race of people is more numerous now than it ever was. Gad-abouts among occupations, among religious theories, among churches, among neighborhoods, and one of the greatest wants of the church and the world is more steadfastness and more fixedness of purpose. Kxnilne Your Temperament. While seeking divine guidance in your selection of a lifetime sphere examine your own temperament. The phrenologist will tell you your mental proclivities. The physiologist will tell you your physical temperament. Your nemies will tell you your weaknesses. If you are, as we say, nervous, do not become a surgeon. If you are cowardly do not become an engineer. If you are hoping for a large and permanent Income, do not seek a governmental position. If you are naturally quick tempered, do not become a minister of the gospel, for while any one is disadvantaged by ungovernable disposition there is hardly any one who enacts such an incongruous part as a mad minister. Can you make a fine sketch of a ship, or a rock or house or face? He an artist. Do you find yourself humming cadences and do the tn Me clef and the musical liars drop from your pen easily, and ran you make a tune that Charms thosr Unit hear it? Be a znti.sif ir a. Are you born with a fondIless fur argument? lie an attorney. Are you nat:;r:t!!y a pood nurse an ! especially interested in the relief of pain? Ee a physician. Are you interested in all questions of traffic and In bargain making? Are you apt to be successful on a small or large scale? Be a merchant. Do you prefer country life, and do you like the plow, and di you hear music in the rustle of a harvest field? Be a farmer. Are you fond of machinery, and are turning wheels to you a fascination, and can you follow with absorbing interest a new kind of thrashing machine hour after hour? Be a mechanic. If you enjoy i.;i!yzing the natural elements end a laboratory could entertain you all day and all night, be a chemist. If yon are inquisitive about other worlds and interested in all instruments that would bring them nearer for inspection, be an astronomer. If the grass under your feet and the foliage ovr your head and the flowers which shake their incense on the summer air are to you the belles lettres of the field, be a botanist. loHnwln God' Call. Last summer a man of great genius died. He had the talents of twenty men in surgical directions, but he did not like surgery, and he wanted to be a preacher. He could not preach. I told him so. He tried it on both sides of the sea, but he failed, because he turned his back on that magnificent profession of surgiry, which has in cur time made such wonderful achievement that it now heals a broken neck and by the X ray explores the temple Of the human body as if it were a lighted room. Fur forty years he was padding about among the professions. Do not imitate him. Ask Clod what you ought to be, and he will tell you. It may not be a.s elegant a style of work as you would prefer, it may callous and begrime your hands ;md put you In suffocating atmosphere, and tand you shoulder to shoulder with the unrefined and may leave your overalls the opposite of aromatic, but remember that if Cod calls you to do one thing you will never be happy in doing something else. All the great successes have been gained through opposition and struggle. Charles Goodyear, the inventor, whose- name is now a synonym all the world over for fortune added to fortune, waded many years chin deep through the world's scorn and was thrust In debtor's prison and came with his family to the verge of starvation, but continued his experiments with vulcanized rubber until he added more than can be estimated to the world's health and comfort, as well as to hi3 own advantage. Columbus and John Fitch and Stephenson and Robert Bruce and Cyrus W. Field nd 500 Others were illustrations of what tenacity and pluck can do. "Hard pounding." said Wellington at Waterloo, "hard pounding, gentlemen, but we will see who can pound the longest." Ys, my friends, that is the secret, not flight from obstacles in the way, but "who can pound the longest." The child had it right when attempting to carry a ton of coal, a shovelful at a time, from the sidewalk to the cellar, and some one asked her, "Do you ever expect to get all that coal in with that little shovel?" And she replied, -Yes, sir, if I work long enough." By the help of God choose your calling and stick to it. The gadabouts are failures for this life, to gay nothing of the next. Tlwnl Spiritual Condition So also many are unfixed In regard to their spiritual condition and day after day and year after year go gadding about among hopes and fears and

anxieties. They sing with great emphasis that old hymn which we have all sung: 'Tis a point I long to know; Oft it causes anxious thought; Do I love the Lord or no? jLm I his, or sjv I not? Why do you noi find out whether you are his or not? There are all the broad invitations of the gospel. Accept them. There are all the assurances. Apply them. There are all the hopes of pardon and heaven. Adopt them. There is the King's highway. Stait on it. Traveling any road, j'ou are not satisfied until you have found out whet'... r it is the right or the v.;ipg road, and you climb up In the darkness to read the words on the finger 1..! rd at t li roadside to see if It be the right road, and if it be the wrong read you cross over to the right road. If you are on the sea, you want to know into what port you will run or upon what rocks you are in danger of crashing. This moment you have all the information pointing to the road that terminates at the gate of the Golden City and the voyage that anchors in the haven of eternal rest. Why go on guessing when you have all the facts before you? You ought to know by examination of chart and compass and thermometer in what latitude and longitude you are sailing, whether in the arctic or the tropics. A man who does not know whether or not he is a Christian is like a man who does not know whether he is a millionaire or a pauper. Better go to the records and find out. The Scriptures are the records. -If you cannot there read your title, it is because you have no title, and you ought to begin anew. Start a new prayer, sing a new song, open a new experience. So, alas, there are those who gad about among particular churches. No pastor can depend on them for a single service. At some time when he has prepared a sermon, after all prayer and all research, putting nerve and muscle and brain and soul into its every paragraph, these intermittent attendants are not there to hear it. While an occasional absence is excusable for the gratification of some wish to hear that which is consecrated or religiously oratoric in come other pulpit, when the pastor of a church with his eye calls the roll of attendance, by your presence in the old place practically answer, saying: "I am here to get the benefit of all the useful thoughts you may utter and of all the hymns that you may give out and of all the prayers you may offer. I, a soldier of Jesus Christ, am in my own place in the company, in the battalion, in the regiment, and when you command 'March! I will march, and when you command 'Halt!' I will, halt, and when you order 'Ground arms!" I will ground arms." V. f.l....l i.... 4 1

j Among the race of gadabouts are ! those who ih gleet their homes in or der that tlii-y may attend to institutions that are really excellent and do not so much ask for help as demand it. I am acquainted, as you are, with women who are members of so many boards of direction of benevolent institutions ?nd have to stand at a booth in so many fairs, and must collect funds for so many orphanages and preside at so many philanthropic meetings, and are expected to be m so many different places at the same. time that their chiMien are left to the care of irresponsible servants, anil if the little ones waited to say their prayers at their mother's knee they would never say their evening prayers at all. Such a woman makes her own home so unattractive that the husband spends his evenings at the clubhouse or the tavern. The children of that house are as thoroughly orphan as any of the fatherless and motherless little ones gathered in the orphanage for which that gadabout woman is toiling so industriously. By all means let Christian women fester charitable institutions and give them as much of their time as they can spare, but the first duty of that mother is the duty she ovfs to her home. Hired help is a great advantage to the homestead that can afford it, and we have all had in our homes a fidelity on the part of such employes as will stir our gratitude as long as life shall la.st. How they watched in time of sickness and always gave the medicine at the right time, and but for their vigilance there are members of cur families now living who would long ago have disappeared from the home circle. Hlessed the ships that brought those employes to our shores! And who will ever do justice to those who were affectionately called. and I believe are still called the "mammies" of the south? I have had governors and senators of the United States with tears in their eyes talk to me about those old colored women of the south who rocked them in their cradles and bound up their wounds when they got hurt, and wept with them at graves, and looked in from the hall floor at the weddings, and greeted them home from colbg" or from the wars with motherly endearment. Ask those who know theni best altout those old I "mammies." We have all had in our employment those so near and dear to us that we went to them in childhood and told them all our griefs and all our joys, and they sympathized with copious tears and resounding laughter. The Mlntako of Mot Nerd. But no one can take a mother's place, and it is an awful mistake that that mother makes who sacrifices home duties for any church meeting, however important, or any hospital, however merciful, or any outside beneficence, however glorious and grand. Not understanding this, we mistake when we try to give statistics as to how many Christians there are in our churches in the world. We understate the facts. We look over our church audiences on the Sabbath or our weekly service and conclude that they represent the amount of piety In that neighborhood. Oh, no! There are many most consecrated souls that are not found in churches. Look into tpose houses with large families of children and little or no hired help. For much of the year there Is some one ill, and a special guardian care is requisite. How much time can that mother give to churches and prayer meetings when most of the family are down with scarlet fever or have

colds that threaten now one kind of disease and now another? That mother watching at home as much pleases the Lord as the mother who at church takes the sacrament or in the mission school tells the waifs of the street how they may become sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. That mother at home is deciding the destiny of the state by the way she leads that boy Into right thinking and acting and Is deciding the welfare of some future home by the example she is setting that girl, and though the world does not appreciate the unobserved work heaven watches and rewards. On the other hand, you have known women who are off at meetings humanitarian and philanthropic, planning for the destitute and the outcast, while their own children went unwashed and unkempt, their garments needing repairs, their manners impudent and themselves a general nuisance to the community in which they live. The Iitri!.utiiu of Scaaidal. One bad habit thi.se gadabouts, masculine or feminine, are sure to get, and that is of scandal distribution. They hear so many deleterious things about others and see so much of wrong behavior that they are loaded up and loaded down with the faults of others, and they have their eyes full, and their ears full, and their hands full, and their mouths full of defamation. The woman who Is endowed of gossip can so easily untie her bonnet strings and sit down to spend the afternoon. A man can afford you a cigar as a retainer if you will patiently hear all he has to say about those who cannot pay their debts, or are about to fail, or are guilty of moral mishap, or have aroused suspicion of embezzlement. All gadabouts are peddlers, who unpack in your presence their large store of nux vomica and nightshade. Such gadabouts have little prospect of heaven. If they got there, they would try to create jealousy among the different ranks of celestials, and make trouble among the heavenly neighbors, and start quarrels seraphic, and would be on perpetual run, now down this street and now up that, now in the house of many mansions, and now in the choir of the temple, and now on the walls, and now in the gates, until they would be chased down and pushed out into the pandemonium of backbiters and slanderers after Jeremiah had addressed them in the words, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?" Practical Suggestions. Now, what is the practical use of the present discourse? This: Whereas, so many have ruined themselves and ruined others by becoming gadabouts among occupations, among religious theories. among churches, among neighborhoods; therefore, reFolved that we will concentrate upon what is right thought and right behavior ;,nd waste no time in vacillations and indecisions and uncertainties, running about in places where we have no business to be. Life is so short we have no time to play with It the spendthrift. Find out whether the Uible is true and whether your nature is immortal, and whether Christ Is the divine and only Savior, and whether you must have him or be discomfited, and whether there will probably ever he a more auspicious moment for your becoming his adherent, and then make this 12 o'clock at noon of November 25, lyoo. the most illustrious minute that you will ever have passed since the day of your birth until the ten millionth cycle of the coming eternity, because by complete surrender of thought and will and affection and life to God through Jesus Christ you became a new man, a new woman, a new squl, and God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and all angeldom, cherubim and seraphim, and archangel became your allies.

OLIVER W. HOLMES. A Near Vier of the New England Autocrat. Physically he was a very small man, holding himself stiff erect his face insignificant as his figure, except for a long, obstinate upper lip ("left to me," he said one day, "by some illcondU tioned great-grandmother") and eyes full of a wonderful fire and sympathy. No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked with interest ever forgot the look or him. lie attracted all kinds of people as a brilliant, excitable child would attract them. But nobody, I suspect, ever succeeded in being familiar with him. Americans at that time seldom talked of distinction or class or descent. You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were clad of it. But the Autocrat was patrician enough to represent the descent of a Daimio, with two thousand years of ancestry behind him. He was the finest fruit of that Brahmin order of New England which he first had classified and christened.He had too keen an appreciation of genius not to recognize his own. Ho enjoyed his work as much as his most fervent admirers, and openly enjoyed, too, their applause. I remember one evening that he quoted one of his poems, and I was forced stupidly to acknowledge that I did not know it He fairly jumped to the bookcases, took out the volume and read the verses, standing in the middle of tho room, his voice trembling, his whole body thrilling with their meaning. "There!" he cried at the end, his eyes flashing, "could anyWly have said that better? Ah-h!" with a long. Indrawn breath of delight as he put the book back. Mrs. Robecca Harding Davis in Scribner's. Cliinee Helle Well Tainted. A Chinese belle on special occasions will entirely bedaub her face with white paint, adding rouge to the lips and cheeks in such profusion that she looks more like a painted mask than anything human. Her eyebrows are blackened with charred sticks and arched or narrowed in accordance with her Idea of beauty. Opens PuMlo School to Girl. Andorra, a little republic In the Pyrenees, has marked the end of the century by opening its public school to girls for the first time. The French government contributes $200 to the schools' support.

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Current v V JC C VJwJv j "iJC VJ George W. Jmallcy. George W. Smalley, whose strictures in the London Times on the Chinese policy of the United States government has caused indignant comment in official circles, now represents "The Thunderer" as its correspondent in America, Mr. Smalley became prominent as a journalist during the civil war, and ! afterward went to London to organize j the foreign service of the New York t Tribune. For many years over his well-known signature of G. W. S.." he discussed in the Tribune all important British and international questions and became noted a bearing an extreme friendship for England. Some GEORGE W. SMALLEY. time ago the famous writer severed his association with the New York paper and came to America to write of American affairs for the Times. He has numerous friends among the public men of Great Britain. Oar treaty tvtth Spain. Congressman George V. Itay said in an interview: "We are bound to an open door in the Philippines." The Paris treaty of Dec. 10, 189S, has no provision as to trade or the open door except this: "The United States will, for a term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ehips and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the Uniteil States." This was a concession to Spain, which would be no concession if the ports were thrown open on the same terms to all other nations. Electric Cme Itarm. When the bell of an ordinary alarm clock begins to ring the sleeper is apt to wake up sufficiently to think it will stop soon and as he Is not compelled to arise and stop it the result is often another nap, with its consequent delays throughout the day. This objection has led to the designing of the continuous ringing alarm, of which several are already In use The electric alarm, which we show in the accompanying picture, has just been patented in Germany, and has at least one novelty to recommend it. It is directly connected to the bed and it Is Impossible for the sleeper to stop it until he gets up to stay. Underneath the bed is a series of contact points, one of which is shown in the picture, the "weight of tho person forcing them together. A clock is used in connection with the apparatus, and as soon as the hour of rising is indicated the remaining opening or break in the wire is KINGS UNTIL SLEEPER ARISES, closed, the current passing through the contact points underneath the bed and causing the bell to ring continuously until the sleeper, by leaving the bed, breaks the circuit Should he lie down again the circuit is again completed, and the bell rings until the second rising. " ecK yitd of XOomen. The New York Socialists have commenced a crusade that has for Its object the enlistment of women in their cause. To this end they have incorporated a Woman's Socialist society, which has just held a session in Brooklyn. All the orators were women. Their purpose Is to set on foot a movement for the incorporation of like organizations in all the states. "Bates to Widen the Juez. Linden W. Bates, an American hydraulic engineer, has been asked to undertake the widening of the Suez canal. He will leave London for the Mediterranean In the latter part of November at the canal company's Invitation, which bears the indorsement of the British colonial office. The company is uwivua ui rentierlng it available forUnden Wthe passage of ships of greater draught than can now be accommodated. It proposes to accomplish Its object by colossal drodging. The Cunard company has decided on building several steamships which will be expected to wrest from Germanbuilt vessels the speed championship now held by the latter. Other Enfll3h lines will probably foLjw suit in the attempt to outdo the Deutch-land.

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Toptcs Ik yjx feto Life TrcacrtJer. The picture shows a rather novel form of life-saving suit which has just been patented and which is intended to preserve the life of a wrecked passenger for several days if need be. The suit may be made of rubber or other water-proof material and is provided with a number of pockets for the storage of provisions, etc. A large fioat ring is formed of cork rings cov ered with canvas, and the portion of the suit below this is entirely waterproof. Above the float is the opening through which ac cess is gained to the interior, there being room inside for the wearer to move comfortably. The opening is through the button cloak in front, and to facilitate entrance the vizor of the helmet is thrown back. The vizor is intended to be closed only in cold or rough weather, and in calm weather the capes can be thrown back to allow movement of the arms. In addition to , containing food the pockets are provided with matches and a tiny stove which serves to give a signal at night. In addition to its ordinary uses. The air channels in the legs can be pumped full of air by a small bulb conveniently placed, when the suit will tilt on its back and allow the person some measure of rest in calm weather. The chances of preserving life until a rescue is effected seem to be much greater with this result than with the ordinary circular float, which does not protect the wearer from either wind or water. " mith tn no Hurry. Congressman Henry C. Smith, of the Second Michigan district, who promised the people of the Second district that he would be baptized if re-elected, must now pay his forfeit, and the ladies of Woodstock are going to se : rim HON. HENRY. C. SMI ' H. that he is properly immersed. Mr. Smith is a Quaker, w?;o has i een practicing law iit Adrian, his bjme, since 1S80. He has been a conspit: ious stump orator in every Republic? a campaign for the past twenty years, and labored for the party under Ztch ChandleT when Mr. Chandler was caairman of the state central committee. He attended the Republican convention at St. Louis in 1896 as alternate, and was elected to congress two years ago as a Republican. Mr. Smith is In favor of postponing his baptism until the water is less chilly than it is at present "Sure Grip" Ftsh Gaff. Below we show in operation a fish gatT recently designed, which is intended to automatically grip the fish and securely hold it until safely lodged in the boat or on shore, as the case may be. This purpose is accomplished by mounting a pair of sliding rods on the face of n metallic casing, the latter containing springs which control the movement of the rods. These rods are provided with curved prongs which project toward each other, and are separated by a very small space where the gaff is closed. To Automatic Gaff. set the gaff ready for use the hooks are grasped in the hands and drawn apart until the spring controlled block at the center locks them open. - Then the slightest touch with the block on the back of a fish will release the rods, which are instantly drawn together by coiled springs contained in the casing, fixing themselves in the fish. To prevent the fish forcing the hooks out a ratchet is attached to lock them shut. "Boundary Line 'Recurs) eyed. The boundary line between the United States and Mexico has recently been resurveyed and marked by some stone monuments in the form of obelisks located about five miles apart. The shafts are ten feet high, four feet square at the base and two feet at the top, built on foundations five feet square and rising six inches above the surface of the ground. Considered from a purely physical standpoint, many European royalties may fairly be set down as squatty. The czar of Russia is only 5 feet 2 Inches tall, the king of Italy Is 5 feet 3 Inches and the Prince of Wales la but 5 feet 4 inches, though he weigh! 247 pounds. The fat king's prize goes to his majesty of Portugal, who tips the beam at 308 pounds; he Is 6 feet 6 inches tall. Ambassador Choate's reputation for scholarship appears to bo Impressing England. A London paper reports that he always goes about with a volume of some classical author In his pocket.

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FINGER NAILS, A Fro?eaor Stadles Flnr Tip mt Bov erden. Some ens hag been studying finger nails as an index to character, and, according to this authority, an abnormal development of the nails in a man indicates strength of muscle and character, but in a weman, individualism, not to mention sensuality. One mil professor has taken the trouble to study the finger tips cf sovereigns, and gives the world the tenefit of his deductions. Kaiser Wilhelm has a slight hand, a stumpy thumb, flat, colorless n;.ils, which indicate a brain wdnti:i-' in takjce. How c'.cvcr! It didn't need fir.j-fr nail.-i, however, to discover that. Then the Emperor of Austria h;"& o pa'r cf sensible, rather hairy Jitts, tu; the long thumb denotes Lis Hue blued, the naiis are pearly hued much incurved, showing a well taianccd mind. Victor Emmanuel ill. has a spoon-shaped thumb nail, t-ügvj.'siing a gloomy, relentless character. Tlie sultan, the monster, has a lovely, dclu;te, white hand. King Leopold is cursed with a plebian thumb Lv.ci squat and square-shaped nail. Of course. The young Queen of Holland has a large hand for a woman of her height, with short nails cf common mold. It would seem by all this that there is no telling whose blood is blue or whose is red by the hand. The most "aristocratic" hands ever beheld on woman were a perfect pair that did up a small package for me in a small shop not many days ago. The girl to whom they belonged didn't look as if she knew they were fine, and the above theory instantly went all to flinders in my mind. To all outward appearances she had no right to the lost hands, to say nothing of the lost arms of the Venus di Milo, but there they were. Boston Herald.

PEOPLE MARRY OLDER. Interesting Farts Gleauert at a Missouri County Court IIout. Ages given in marriage licenses in the recorder's office show that men and women are marrying later in life than ten or twenty years ago, says the Kansas City Journal. The average age is considerably above that of ten years ago and very much above that twenty, thirty or forty years ago. Formerly it was the rule rather than the exception for brides to be seventeen or eighteen and grooms twenty or twentyone. Now it is almost reversed. Figures for several mouths show that the average bride's age is between twentyfive and twenty-six and the groom's between twenty-eight and twentynine. The average age of the first six couples applying for license at the recorder's office Saturday was 33 -2 for the men, and 32 for the women. When the number of couples had reached nine the figures were reduced to 30 for the men and 2S for the women. These figures, however, are not a good criterion, the couples applying Saturday happening to be a little older than ordinarily. Figures also indicate that couples marrying in May are younger than the average, than those marrying in the fall of the year. "I don't know to what to attribute the tendency to marry later in life," said the marriage license clerk, "unless it is that it takes the young man longer to get i start in the world than it did twenty or thirty years ago. The country is more developed, there are not so many opportunities open to him, and he must wait longer before he finds himself in a position that would warrant his taking the responsibility of supporting a family. In other words, men no longer marry young because they can not afford it." WOMEN HUNTERS FEWER. The Adirondack Woods Like a Lounging Flare In These lay. Woodswomen are growing fewer in number, relatively and absolutely. The women who find pleasure in tramping over the mountain ridges with a gun in quest of deer, in following the windings of the stream with a rod alluring the trout, or casting for ba-ss, are disappearing before the women who come into the woods with big trunks and many of them. True woodswomen are not confined to the Adirondacks. They may be found in any of the localities where there are good hunting and good fishing. They enjoy outdoor life and growing strong in roughing it. The membership of the Adirondack League club contains many women who are devoted to hunting deer and fishing, tramping through the forest and withstanding hardship. But the number of women who have entered the forests this fall to hunt deer has been smaller than usuail, and it " Is seen that the number grows smaller each year. The conversion of the woods into a fashionable lounging place has had its effect upon the woodswomen. While there are woodswomen today, the majority have grown timid through the display of fashion about the hotels and are now rarely seen in short hunting skirts and high boots. When floating was permitted In the Adirondacks women hunted deer much more than they do now. Latter day conditions have decreased the number of women hunters greatly. lilt Kil t the Snake. Binghamton (X. Y.) special New York Journal: The habit of whiskr drinking saved the life of Wüliat Vandermark, of Ilalbstead, Pa., wh was bitten by a vicious rattlesnake h was exhibiting at the Harford V&f The thousand spectators who were watching his performance saw u Irfij;? rattler dig its fangs into his arm. Vandermark was well filled with whisky when the accident occurred, but, several flasks were at once produced and he tulped down the liquor. His arm Is somewhat swollen, but the whisky saved his life. After being replaced in its den the rattlesnake acted strangely and soon died from the effects of biting: Vandermark. Offlee Halldlnff Bis: Population. The daily population of a leading office building In New York Is 3,100, and the mall averages about 18,000 pieces a day. Every forty-five minutes mall M-agons run over from the postoffice and carry back with them seventy-five pounds of outgoing maiL

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPHNING3 IFOR SEVEN DAYS. Kentnrky Girl of Weallliv t'smllj Wlni m Man "ii i:i tioii l; t lie I flnirj; Kthloue llt-cently of l'riuctjtun, lu.l. Win- Man on I UiMoii IleU Miss Anita Bertranu .'.a- thf right o disposal of Ceoro 1 ;: : ! '.u.'!! a w.vlknown busin na:,, hu jy I'ruK----ton. Ii.2. .Miss 15 :s L,.'l':sville, Ky.. ;.. He. .M : . i'ryan'.- d.-f. at IS Mpoi..-!.,ie. li t! ! t,;, , (j wag.-r hinx-if a.--;- ; '-. box o: candy that i.!::.v v.. ;M be defeaied. The wj-.-v w a- .;.v -pt.-d, and nw K..;h'on' .-ta:: !- :rady o luaiie MHid his h.-s. .Mi !' r; :' ird'.s motin r i.s oppo-ed :o tit'- p:;y;:) nt t the t on a mat:-::.; .,i :l ia-i ;:i account of her daau yea:';;. M:-s Bert rand declares .-! pas r: -'!;; i!y won and will marry hui T;.'.' Ii rtrands have a beau;: fa! old K-nta ky home t.'ii miles from Louisville. Ti.ey are pe.rsor..- of vt altii and promin m-e. Itathbotu' recently mvcd to Lo li.vSM; from Pri ucet on av pur-. -has ! h.rgj manufacturing intsavc'.s thvr Died from 1 1 il rilxli:t. William (leoig' a f:trm--r n-:ir Warsaw, died of hyd;-p;;o:r:a. He was bitten in thA hand s-.-;-aI w-.:s ago, but, although h- v,.-- constantly in fear, no bad result.- w re notP-M until he was .-oized wkh . Ttv::l-:or.s. These occurred every ft V; miuutes till death came to his relief. trnggb.s wer terrihle. and he had To be bound hand and foot to prevent his biting those about him. He w:is a man about 40 years old. Several othr persons were bitten by the dog. but none of them has shown any symptoms of the terrible disease. Tells of Philippine Plan. Congressman .lariie.-; A. Hemenway in an interview ;it Hvansville stated that the Philippines would be given, a colonial furra of government, similar to that given the island of Porto Rioo, after the rebellion had been put down. A tariff will he levied on the imports from th- Philippines, he said. Congressman Heuienw.iy is a member of the appropriation committee and stands close to the administration, and It is believed he voices the sentiments of the administration. Mammoth Strer lt at Fan-y Price. W. C. Welbovn of Knightstown shipped to the Pittsburg fat stock show a ste r w h : h w.MghM 3.7C3 pounds. It wa of t!:- shorthorn variety, and wa.-; hi-. 1 in Vermilion co-,in-ty. The animal caused nr. ich comment among stork men. and was sold at a fancy figure. Charles Stuart, also of this city, took first prize on individual steers. Mrs. El wood Ray of Madison county, realizing that d'-ath is near, strenuously insisted upn being baptized, and at her suggestion iiei husband purchased a large bath tub, in which immersion was had. Harry Paris, tenor vocalist, of Muncie, has contracted with the Lenora Jackson Concert troupe for an ex;en !ed tour, and he will replace Tor Van Pyk, the Swedish tenor, in that combination. William George of Warsaw, who recently settled there from Payne, 0., Is dead of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a small dos some months aco, the disease developing on" Saturday last. The Henry county commissioners have granted E. J. Uinford aul others a franchise, looking to the extension of the Indianapolis-Greenfield electric line from Greenfield to Knightstown. Capt. B. E. Long is presiding over the Jackson Circuit court this week at Seymour because of injuries received by Judge Buskirk of Paoli, the result of an accidental fall. Louis Jaquith of South Bend, who shot Patrolman Cooper while the policeman was trying to arrest him for robbery, has been indicted by the St Joe grand jury. Harry Blazer, of Captain Allen's company, Thirty-eighth Infantry, is en route home from the Philippines, minus one leg, the result of a wound In battle. Chris Badger, fifteen years old, ol Jeffersonville, ran away to join the army in the Philippines, but was headed off before he readied San Francisco. John Harrold is lefending a claim in the Laporte Circuit Court, tiled by Mrs. Minnie Fuenstm-k, in which she demands ?2.91MI for eleven years' board. John I Bright, a fireman, of Bedford, wants $20.000 damages from the Southrn Indiana railway "localise of Injuries received while on his run. Dr. Joseph Iutzi. of Richmond, crippled with paralysis, although able to walk, was still further disabled by a fall whn-h broke his hip. Congressman Overstreet will recommend H. J. Martin for the Franklin postoffice, and W. E. Downs for reappointment at Edinburg. Joseph Glisten pleaded guilty, at Blufiton, of passing a forged check, and lie has been committed to the Reformatory at Jeffersonville. Henry Wausman. of Cleveland. O., was robbed by highwaymen at Muncie, who relieved him of his watch and money. Jefferson Coleson, Sr., of Bloomlngton, was prosecuted, convicted and committed for failure to send his boy to school. Daniel Zeck, of Young America, whose death is reported, was seventyeight years old and a pioneer. Floyd Davis, near Knightstown, Is dead of blood poison, contracted from a wound received while hunting. The quarantine established by Munde against Wheeler, because of a smallpox scare, has been lifted. Barauel George, a farmer, of Kosciusko county, is reported to be suffering from acute hydrophobia. George Fowler, of Richland township, Whitley county, is minus a lip, torn off by a vicious horse. James E. Wilson, a resident of Vernon since 1815. has celebrated his ninety-first birthday.

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