Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 January 1901 — Page 3

TO LIFE OF SS. ...tiny Jty I! Changed by m Fitly Spoken Kntnce S; mpathy for th Troubled Like Apple f Ciolii In Baskets of Sllter.

tOopyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Jn this discourse Dr. Talmage shows an open door for any one who desires to be useful and illustrates how a little thing may decide one's destiny. The text is Proverbs xxv., 11 (revised version), "A word fitly epoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver." A filigree basket loaded with fruit is put before U3 in the text. What is ordinarily translated "pictures" ought to he "baskets." Here is a silver network "basket containing ripe and golden apples, pippins or rennets. You know how such apples glow through the openings of a basket of silver network. You have seen such a basket of fruit oa many a- table. It whets the appetite as well as regales the vision. Solomon was evidently fond of apples, because he so often speaks of them. "While he writes in glowing terms of pomegranates and figs and grapes and mandrakes, he seems to find solace as well as lusciousness in apples, calling out for a supply of them when he says In another place, "Comfort me with apples." Now you see the meaning of my text, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver." You see the wise man eulogizes just one word. Plenty of recognition has there been for great orations. Cicero's arraignment of Cataline, the philippics af Demosthenes, the five days' argument of Edmund Burke against Warren Hastings. Edward Irving's discourses on the Bible, and libraries full of prolonged utterance, but my text xtois the power of one word when it refers to "a word fitly spoken." This may mean a single word or a mall collection of words something you can utter in one breath, something that you can compact Into one sentence. "A word fitly spoken" an encouraging word, a kind word, a timely word, a sympathetic word, an appropriate word. I can pass right down the aisle of any church and find between pulpit and front door men whose temporal and eternal destinies have ben decided by a word. Chooftias: n Occupation. I tell you what is a great crisis In very man's history. It is the time when he is entering an occupation or profession. He is opposed by men in middle life, because they do not want any more rivals, and by some of the aged, because they fear being crowded off and their places being taken by I younger men. Hear the often severe i and unfair examinations of young law- j yers by old lawyers, of young doctors ; by old doctors, of young ministers by ! old ministers. Hear some of the old merchants talk about the young merchants. Trowels and hammers and ecales often are jealous of new trowels and new hammers and new scales. ! Then it is so difficult to get introduced, j How long a time lias many a physician j had his sign out before he got a call j for his services, and the attorney be- j fore he got a case! "Who wants to risk ; the life of his family to a young physiclan who got his diploma only a.t ! spring and who may not know measles ! from scarlatina, or to risk the obtain- j tng of a verdict for 520.000 to an attorney who only three years ago read i the first page of Blackstone? The eel of Cnnrage. There are so many men who have all the elements of usefulness and power except one courage. If you tan only under God give them that you give them everything. In illustrating that one word show them that every man that ever amounted to anything had terrific struggle. Show hira what ships Decatur had to fight, and what a mountain Hannibal had to climb, and what a Iwe fooi WrliC. otott Lad to walk "on, and that the greatest poet who ver lived Miltonwas blind, that one of tho grandest musicians of all the ages Beethoven was deaf, and that Stewart, in some respects the greatest merchant that America ever saw, begin In his small store, dining on bread and cheese behind the counter in a anatched Interregnum between customers, he opening the store and closing It, sweeping it out with his owa broom and being his own errand boy. Show them that within ten minutes' walk there are stores, shops, and factories, and homes where as brave deeds have been done as those of Ieonidas at Thermopylae, as those of Horatius at the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell at Balaklava. Tell them what Napoleon said to his staff oflVer when that odcer declared a certa military at tend fc Lc- invunswiC. "Impossible!" 151 d the great commander. "Impossible is the adjective of fools." Show them also that what is true in worldly directions is more true in spiritual directions. Call the roll of prophets, apostles ard martyrs and private Christian from the time the world began and ask them to mention one man or woman greatly good or useful who was not depreciated and flailed and made a laughing stock. Racks and prisons and whips and shipwrecks and axes of beheadment did their worst, yet the heroes were more than conquerors. With such things you will Illustrate that word "courage," and they will go out from your presence to start anew and right, challenging all earth and hell to the combat. Word of Comfort. That word "courage" fitly spoken with compressed lip3 and stout grip of the hand and an Intelligent flash of the eye well, the finest apples that aver thumped on the ground in an autumnal orchard and were placed In tho most beautiful basket of silver network before keen appetites could not he more attractive. Furthermore, a comforting word fitly poken Is a beautiful thing. No one but God could give the inventory of tick beds and bereft homes and broken hearts. We ought not to let a day pas3 without a visit or a letter or a message or a prayer consolatory. You could call five minutes on your way to the factory, you could leave a half hour earlier in the afternoon and fill a mission of solace. You cmld brighten a sickroom with one chysanthemum. Xcu could send your carriage and fire

an afternoon airing to an Invalid on a neighboring street. You could loan a book with some chapters most adapted to some particular misfortune. Go home today and make out a list of things you can do that will show sympathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly bestead. How many dark places you might illumine! How many tears you could stop, or. If already started, you could wipe away; How much like Jesus Christ you might get to be! So sympathetic was he with beggary, so helpful wa3 he for the fallen, and so stirred was he at the sight of dropsy, epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that whether he saw It by the roadside, or at the sea beach, or at the mineral baths of Bethesda. he offered relief. Cultivate genuine sympathy. Christlike sympathy. You cannot successfully dramatize It. False sympathy Alexander Pope sketches in two lines: "Before her face her handkerchief she spread To hide the flood of tears she did not shed." A Word of Warning. So also is a word of warning. A ship may sail out of harbor when the sea has not so much as a ripple, but what a foolhardy ship company would they be that made no provision for high winds and wrathful seas. However smoothly the voyage of life may begin wi; will get rough weather before we hartor on the other side, and we need ever and anon to have some one uttering in most decided tones the word "beware." There are all the temptations to make this life everything and to forget that an inch of ground is larger as compared with the whole earth than this life as compared with our external existence. There are all the temptations of the wine cup and the demijohn, which have taken down as grand men as this or any other century has heard of There are all the temptations of pride and avarice and base indulgence and ungovernable temper. There is no word we all need oftener to hear than the word "beware." The trouble is that the warning word is apt to come too late. We allow our friends to be overcome in a fight with some evil habit before we sound an alarm. After a man is all on fire with evil habit your word of warning will have no more effect than would an address to a house on fire asking it to stop burniug.no more use than a steam tug going out to help a ship after it has sunk to the bottom of the ocean. What use in word of warning to that inebriate whose wife was dying from wounds inflicted by his own hand? As he held the hand of his dying wife he made this vow: "Mary, I will never take another glass of strong drink until I take it from this hand which I now hold." In an awful way he kept the vow, for when the wife was in her coffin he rilled a glass with brandy, put

the glass into the dead hand, then took i the glass out of the baud, and drank I the liquid. Too late does any warni come to such an one. But ninny " j 1 i man now high up in usefulness and honor was stopped on the wrong road j by a kindly hand put upon the shou!Cer and a word fitly sroken. Ah. yes, i , . . 4 4, . . . x I htly spoken that is. at the right time, with the right accentuation, right emphasis. , I and the i Speak with l'Ht leiw-e. There must be no impatience in the warning we give others. We must

reahze that but for the kindness of j rrnce and solemnity. On It are figures God to us we would have been in the jn relief representing czar and cmsame rapids. That man going wrong j mess and Christ and Mary and the may be struggling with a tide of evil j evangelists. But as I stood before it inherited from father and grandfather I just summer I bethought myself of a

ana greai-granuiaier. me present temptation may be the accumulated force of generations and centuries. "No," you say, "his father was a good man. I knew him." But did you know his grandfather? Evil habit is apt to skip one generation, a fact reeuut:U ui, uuiu1(uiu mtuis, : . l ; v.. r.., r. .1 wmcu euK tu in'.' iniru aim iourin generations, but say nothing of the second generation. Or the man astray may have an unhappy honi?, and that is enough to wreck any one. We often speak of men who destroy their homes, but do not say anything about the fact that thero are thousands of wives in America who by petulance and fretting and inconsideration and lack of economy and all ; j, , i ,v. , ' , . that thousands of liin spend their evenings in club houses and taverns is because they cannot stand It at home. I know men who are thirtyyear martyrs in the fact that they are awfully married. That marriage was not made in heaven. Without asking divine guidance they entered Into an alliance which ought never to have been made. That is what is the matter with many men you and I know. I hey may be very brave and heroic and R.1V nntlunr nhrmf it hnf all tho I np.izhhor know vw if'n. mr.n . I ing wrong has su?h domestic misfor tune, be very lenient and excusatory in your word of warning. The difference between you and him mav be that von would hae gone down faster than he is going down if you had the same kind of conjugil wretchedness. . . , Art of Dninc ood. In mentioning fine arts people are apt to speak of music and painting and sculpture and architecture, but they forrPt to mention thp finest nf nil tho fine arts the art of doing good, the art of helping others, Ihe art of saving men. An art to be studied as you study music, for it is music in the fact that it drives out moral discord and substitutes eternal harmony; an art to be i studied like sculpture, for it is sculp- j ture In the fact that it builds a man, not In the cold statue, but in immortal I shape, that will last long after all ptntelican marble has crumbled; an art to be studied as you study architecture, for it Is architecture in the fact that it builds for him a house of God, eternal i:i the heavens, but an art that we cannot fully learn unless God helps us. Otherwise saved by graco divine, we can go forth to save others, and with a tenderness and compassion and a pity that we could not otherwise exercise we can pronounce the warning word with magnificent result. The Lord said to the prophet Amos, "Amos, what seest thou?" And he answered, "A basket of summer fruit." But I do not think Amos saw In that basket of summer fruit anything more Inviting and luscious than' many a saved man has seen In the warning word of somt

hearty, common sense Christian adviser, for a word fitly spoken is "like apples of gold In baskets of silver." So also is a word of invitation potent and beautiful. Who can describe the drawing power of that word, so small and yet so tremendous, "Come." It is a short word, but Its influence i3 as long as eternity. Not a sesquipedalian word, spreading its energy over many syllables, but monosyllabic. Whether calling: in wrong direction or right direction, many have found It irresistible. That one word has filled all the places of dissipation and dissoluteness. It is responsible for the abominations that curse the earth. Inquire at the door of persons what brought the offender there, and at the door of almshouses what brought the pauper there, and at the door of the lost world what was the cause of the incarceration, and if the inmates speak the truth they will say, "The word 'Come! brought us here." Come and drink. Come and gamble. Come and sin. Come and die. Pronounce that word with one kind of inflection, and you can hear in it the tolling of all the bells of conflagration and woe. The chief baker in prison in Pharaoh's time saw In dream something quite different from apples of gold In baskets of silver, for he said to Joseph, "I also was in a dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head, and in the uppermost basket there was all manner of baked meats for Pharaoh, and the birds did eat them out of the baskets upon my head." Joseph interpreted the dream and said It meant that the chief baker should be beheaded and the birds would eat his flesh. So many a man has Jn his own bad habits omens of evil that peck at him and foretell doom and death. But oh, the power of that word "Come" when aright uttered! We do well when we send young men into schools and colleges and theological seminaries and by nine years of instruction and drill hope to prepare them to sound aright that sweet and enrapturing and heaven descended word "Come." The gospel we believe in is a gospel of "Come!" That word speak all the churches. That word is now building thrones for conquerors, and burnished coronets for kings and queens. That word is to sound so clearly and impressively and divinely that the day is advancing when all nations shall respond. "We come!" "We come!" And while the upper steeps toward God and heaven will be thronged with redeemed nouls ascending there will not be one solitary traveler on the road to sin and death. The ;nprl I1U. In the Kremlin at Moscow. Russia, is wsat is called the "king of bells," but it is a ruined bell, and it has rung no sound for near 200 years. It is 67 feet in circumference and in height it is more than ten times the height of the average man. and it took a score of men to swing its brazen tongue. It

weighs 200 tons. On the 19th of June, 1706, in a great fire it fell and broke. It broke at the part which was weakened by the jewels which the ladles of Moscow threw into the liquid metal at a i as !. : e . i . i it lue casting. i ne hirts tu mat Den , . , , T, . aic IUI r hi uii5.n'i. it, inn ivi.i i ilia . ... , . again, eimer at wcuuiuk ui uuscquy or coronation. What majestic and overpowering silence! Enthroned and everlasting quietude! ODe walks around It full of wonder and historical re.ninisgreater bell and one still ringing. It Is the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the beam of the cross. It has vaster circumference and with mightier tongue sounds across spas and continents and awakens echoes amid Alpine and Himj alayan and Sierra Nevadan ranges. ,fhf, jewf.,s of affet.tlon thrown into it j at its casting by ransomed souls of i earth aud heaven have not weakened it, but made it stronger anu mora glorious. Evangelists and apostlei rang it, and martyrs lifted their hands through the flames to -give it another mounding. It will ring on until all nations hear it and accept its Invitation, "Come! Come!" It will not fall, aa did that of Moscow. No storm can stop It. No earthquake can rock it down. When the fires of the last day Hate into the heavens, amid the crash of mountains and the groan of dying seas, its clear, resounding voice will be heard calling to the last inhabitant of the burning planet, "Come! Come!" MISSHAPEN PEARLS. i T'aaltioiiiiUl Folk Vrvfcr tho Imperfect I Cent at Present. It is quite the fad for men returning i from n,irn:n to wear l.irire. mistinnen pearls mounted as a scarfpin These pearls are frequently of large size and sometimes of excellent color. They aro so,(1 in Par5s as 8"ilne pearls, though a less PrUe than a Perfect of I the K'imc size wouU1 ring. A young j man wr5n one wnkh was nearl.v " I larSe as 1he end ot hls umb cam I into a down town office on Saturday, , savs the I'Madelphia Telegraph. The I atl was mountd on Ä scarfpln. It ! was 1(Psidp1 an(l Kerally out of drawing. "Why don't you get a good imitation? They are cheap," said a man who noticed, "nils is the real thing and not an imitation," said the ! wearer. An even bet was made on it, ! aml Vihtn tllC exI,ort who examined it pronounced it a genuine pearl the critic was forced to pay. They are one of the abnormal features of the Paris exposition, and Americans have brought them home as souvenirs. Another craze of which returning tourists tell, though as yet few are adopting it, Is the fashion of stringing one's self about with common glass beads, like the veriest savage. Two well-known representatives of the best society have been seen thus adorned, but in each case the chains were broken by pieces of turquoise cabochon. Cabochon or no. however, they are decorative details most elementary and barbaric in appearance, truly a relic of primitive countries. It is not likely they will have much vogue, however.ln exclusive circles here, for they are too easily Imitated. A woman Is never satisfied so long as there is anything she can't set.

THE WOODED REGIONS,,,,

St. Paul Letter. One of the important industries of Minnesota is lumbering, and the work of gathering the timber harvest and bringing it to market affords employment for thousands upon thousands of people. The first step is to cut down tho trees, which average 150 years of age. The cutting is generally done by means of cxoss-cut saws about six feet long. operated by two men. As scon as the tree has fallen, the branches are trimmed from the trunk, and the tree is cut into sections of convenient length, ranging from 10 to 30 or more feet, according to the uses to which the lumber to be cut from the tree is- to be put These sections of trees are hauled through the woods on low sleds, called "go-devils," that deliver the logs at a common dumping ground, where they are pulled up on railroad cars by means of inclined frameworks called sfcld,Mde A LOGGING ENGINE. (The front wheels are fitted with teeth to grip the ice road.) ways, and are then drawn through the woods to the nearest river and rolled down upon the snow-covered bosom of tho frozen stream. The logging engines are on runners1. The road . through the wood is sprinkled, and a heavy coat of ice formed. Tracks are then worn or cut into the Ice in place of rails. In these tracks the runners of the engine and cars run. The large wheels in front are fitted with steel teeth, which grip the Ice firmly in front of the engine. It is a new device, and one of the curi HEADQUARTERS OF ICEBERG FOR CRADLE. Thrill I nr Adventure of Crew While Stocking Ship With Ice. A thrilling btory of a vessel's encounter with an iceberg is told by Capt. Chester of the schooner Elwood. While the schooner was on a fishing cruise in the northern waters Captain Chester sighted an immense iceberg apparently fastened on a reef known to exist just off Hoonia. "It's a lucky find!" thought the captain, as he headed tho Elwood for the berg, that he might fill the hold with ice to preserve the fish he expected to catch. When the schooner was within a few yards of the berg the anchor was dropped. The vessel swung around until she came alongside the berg, to which she was made fast with lines. The tide was at the full; a gangplank was thrown over to a ledge on the ice, and the men began breaking off chunks of ice and hoisting them aboard. All went well until evening, when thirty tons of ice had been stowed in the hold. Meanwhile the falling tide had caused the berg to settle upon the reef and to tip toward the side opposite the vessel. The gangplank rose in the air and had to be made fast to a ledge nearer tho water to keep it horizontal. Capt. Chester suspecting that all was not going to be well, ordered the crew to make sail. Before they could man the halyards the iceberg, with a grinding roar, rolled off the reef and started to turn over. A jagged spur of Ice, which had formed the bottom of the berg, rose on the starboard side of the vessel and beneath it. The ice struck the keel, and the vessel, lifted out of the water, rested in an ice cradle. Chester ordered his men to get into the boats and out of harm's way. Cutting the lines that held the schooner to the berg, the men pulled to a safe distance and waited. The anchor held fast, and the schooner tugged at the chain. The tide dropped a few more inches, the iceberg careened still further, and the Elwood rose higher. This- proved the schooner's salvation. The tendency of the iceberg to roll over and raise the vessel brought such an enormous strain upon the anchor chain that something had to give way. Something did, and to the joy of the fishermen it was not the anchor of the chain. The iceberg lurched and the schooner was seen to slide several feet along the crevice in which it rested. There was another lurch and another slide. Then the vessel reached a downward grade, and the next Instant shot off the iceberg and Into the sea, bows on, like a rocket. She shipped a heavy sea as the result of plunging her nose beneath the surface, but quickly righted, and after stumbling over her anchor chain and tugging viciously to get away, settled down to her original state of tranquility, to all appearances unhurt. San Francisco Chronicle. Meaning of JimtnntaneotM Death. "The instant of death," says the Indian Lancet, "is a vague and Indefinite expression when viewed from the point of physiology. An animal or plant cannot be considered dead until It has

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GAYHEF1NG HUGE TIMBERS IN THE NORTH ous and eminently practical features of modern lumbering. In the spring the logs, either in rafts or loose, are floated down the streams to the mills-, where they are sawed. The men who cut and ship the logs are of many nationalities, Scandinavians being most numerous. They go into the woods in the early autumn and remain until late in the spring, seeing practically nothing of the outSide world during all the winter months. They live in temporary houses built frequently of pine logs, with a large common sleeping room and a main dining room supplied with coarse pine tables. When the great rafts containing millions of feet of lumber have been floated down the small rivers out upon the broader Mississippi, and then on down to the city of Minneapolis, they are diverted through what are called "boom" channels, sluiceways, bound by logs fastened together, up to the "slit," which is an inclined plane leading the log to the jagged teeth of the saws. The log is drawn up this slit to an endless toothed chain, and is quickly whisked along on a sort of tramway in the mill, and held in readiness for its turn at the teeth. The saws are of variou3 types, some of them great circles of steel, perhaps five or even six feet in diameter; others arc known as "gang" saws; a series of 15 or 20 short saws rapidly running up and down and eating their way through a massive log together, completely sawing up in a few moments a log three feet in diameter. There is another style known as the band saw, a continuous piece of steel like a largo belt, say a foot in widtth, with teeth on one edge. It passes over a framework like a belt, continuously cutting thorugh the log. When the boards the lumber, as they are called reach the end of the mill, they arc sent forward to the piling yards, where they are piled up and left exposed to the weather, that they may properly be seasoned. These piles are sometimes higher than an averaged dwelling house, with long lanes or streets between them. From the piling yards tha lumber is delivered to various point by rail, or may be sent on for the foreign export trade. LUMBER CAMP IN WINTER. reached that period in disintegration where it is impossible to revive life. Some physiologists still further restrict the definition to that point in decay where every cell in the body of an animal or plant hap ceased to contain or consist of living protoplasm in other words, each cell must have lost beyond recall its life powers. Probably one of the most striking examples of instantaneous death was that of the person who accidentally fell into a large vat of boiling caustic potash, which at once consumed the entire body, leaving only the metallic plates from the heels of his shoes and a few buttons from the clothing as remains. Death from electric shocks also border on the instantaneous process. It has been found that living cells taken from t.he body can be preserved in a normal state for a long time and then have life processes revived if they are properly treated. Comforts of Home. Comfort ought to be the first consideration of home. If a rocking chair brings that to the wife, then a rocking chair let it be, despite changing fashions. The big armchair may not be beautiful to look upon, but keep It if the masculine head of the house feels a fondness for it. He might never find another to fit him as perfectly. If carpets are more comfortable than wood floors and nigs, stick to them, even though you admire your neighbor's rooms more than your own. It is difficult to locate comfort we feel it but cannot describe it. To one woman it means a wrapper and loosely flowing hair; to another a couch, and so on through a long list of things. To one woman it is compressed into this hot water, a hot fire and hot coffee. She is a great woman, a famous one, and among the many advantages fame and wealth have brought her are none to equal those three. The higher we rise the larger become our ideas. It is like the pos session of money the more we hav the greater our wants, and only ii rare instances are we much better of In a mental way. Boston Jonrnal. On the Kent f Hrlbery. A Primrose dame, canvassing a London constituency, called upon a Mri. Smith and asked for her husband's vote. Mrs. Smith expressed repro m was afraid her husband would vtte for the Liberals. "The fact is." she said, "he has been promised a new fv.it of clothes if he votes for the other fide." The Primrose Dame wa3 in-an etttasy of curiosity. Who had made tie, promise Mrs. Smith mustn't tell. Half a sovereign was offered for the information; but Mrs. Smith was of opinion that she couldn't tell for that. "Woll, look here, I'll give you a sov reign if you tell me," said the lady ct I rt. Then Mrs. Smith succumbed o the tempter. Having received the money she revealed the secret. "If ycu will know, ma'am, it's me as told' hiu that if he'd vote for the Radical IV give him a new suit of clothes; and thank you for helping to pay foW lt!M The London Chronicle.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. W. C. T. C TreparlBg" to Fight ftr an Ameadment to the State Constitution Thomas Webb Jr Charced with Embezzlement. Arrested for Embttzle nient. Thomas Webb Jay, Indianapolis manager for the Frick Manufacturing company of Waynesboro, 111., and champion bowler of the state, was arrested on the charge cf embezzlement. His shortage is variously estimated at from $8,000 to $12,000, but cannot bo definitely determined until a thorough examination of his books has been made. The arrest was made at the instance of S. H. Itinchart, president of the company, who came here last Saturday nigbt to make an investigation of the branch. Mr. Rinchart was not inclined to give out any information concerning the discrepancy in Jay's accounts, but said he thinks the shortage will not reach more than $3,000. To Work for Wonmu' SunTmce. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is preparing to make an aggressive fight for the passage of an amendment to the state constitution giving women equal suffrage rights with men. It is proposed to place petitions in each of the ninety-two counties of tho state and to have the most representative women in the state lobby for the passage of the measure. Mrs. Mary Ballin, who originated the prayerchain crusade of the recent presidential campaign, is foremost in the movement. A Krfraitory Inm.ite Dying. Word comes from tho county infirmary, two miles north of Portland, that Harvey Stafford, who has b?en an inmate for over a quarter of a century in fact, was the first inmate is dying of cancer. Stafford has caused the infirmary superintendents a world of trouble during his days. When he became a little incensed over some matter he would immediately run away, aud it would perhaps bo days before he wot Id be again picked up by police authorities. Tran ft-r Houne Iturjrlar SiilucI The first conviction for the burglary of the railroad transfer house in Portland has been made, John Berry, twenty-two years old, pleading guilty. He was sentenced to the Indiana reformatory. There are cases pending against .six other boys, Berry bin the eldest. A Statue of Wtr. The Woman's Literary club, the leading woman's club of Tcrre Haute, has presented to the public library a statue of Hebe, as a tribute to the memory cf Mrs. R. S. Tennant, who died one year ago, and who was a charter member of the club. The statue is live feet tall, niul is a line piece of highly-polished plaster. A i:tiat at South lrtlii.l. A stirring revival is in progress at the Congiegational church. South Portland, and it is said that as an outcome of the awakening, which is being conducted by United Brethren ministers, that denomination may purchase the church property. Such a move is now on foot. l'rlu-T li I'liiieU. The producer-gas from one producer has been turned into the furnaces of the North Baltimore Glass company at Tcrre Haute. A number of blowers for the factory have arrived, and it i expected to turn out tho first of the factory's product soon after the new year. A CoitxIltutioiiHl Ijaevli'iti I!aiel. F. P. Mount and I. C. Dwiggins appeared before Judge West of the Montgomery circuit court and argued the constitutionality of the Caraway law. Judge West, upon the conclusion of theargument. ltok thp matter under advisement later. Makft Hielt Howling: Scor. Webb Jay, of Indianapolis, at the City Bowling club, bowled 299 out of the possible .100 perfect scoip. Strika after strike was made in his game with three comrades until the last ball, which missed the eighth pin. (imeritl Mate John Boyd of Portland has been committed to prison for burglary. A new bank is to be opened in Van Buren, and it will erect its own building. Work on the new $23.000 public school building will begin at Mumie in a short time. George W. Spann, a druggist for muy years at Anderson, is dead of Bright disease. The baseball park at Wabash is to be flooded with water and converted into a skating rink. The Ixigansnort police are t ill subject to invidious criticism because Marvin Kuhns escaped. The various industries of Muncieare distributing about $150.000 a week as wages to employes. M. A. Chipman of Anderson has been re-elected county attorney by the commissioners of Madison county. The second annual exhibit under the auspices of the RidgeviHo Poultry association began "Wednesday. The Rev. Ii, I. Mercer of Richmond has 'been called to tho pastorate of the Christian church at Noblesville. An Attica shoe dealer announce-; that he will give a pair of shoes free to every baby born in the town next year. Charles Conners of Matthews was truck over the head with a piece of pipe by William Bates, and is likely to die. Dr. II. X. Ilerrick, pastor of the First Methodist church, and the Rev. Dr. Little of the First Presbyterian church of Wabash, conducted the burial of the late Dr. Andrew J. Smith at Wabash, and brother physicians acted as pallbearers.

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Charged tvith Looting. Lady Macdonald, who has been publicly charged in London newspapers with looting the imperial pal?.ce at Pekin, is the wife of Sir Claude Macdonald, former British minister to China, and at present minister to Japan. The story, which is indignantly denied by the lady's friends and denounced as a malicious and brutal attack on the character of a good worn- ;.-:.. .1:- . v f ... I LADY MACDOXALD. an, is to the effect that La-ly Macdonald personally superinten b d a number of coolies who had -bf-.-n onle-.ei by her to take from the palace certain treasures oJ Ciliar art. tfcf.ior with other objects having religious -ie ani of priceless value to the Chin -s LaIy MacdcnalJ. before hn- i;:airiape to Sir Claude, was Kthel Annstro::- Robertson, the beautiful thinner of Major W. Cairns Armstrong and widow of P. C. Robertson oT the E-t Inliaa service. Governor Against JunKet. Acting Governor .le'ks of Alabama has excited favorable comment by thwarting the members of the legislature in some of their proposed junkets at the expense of the state. The legislators had planned to make a tour of the normal and agricultural school! of the state, but the executive vetoed the enabling resolution on the ground that the expense would be more than the trip would be worth. Henry Cabot Lodge. Henry Cabot Lodge, who had charg of the Hay-Pauncefoie treaty in the senate and who marshaled the forces favorable to ra tili cat ion. is generally accounted a bright and shining example or '"the scholar in politic?." Ha began his public can er as a member of the fiftieth congress, aud lias beoa a congressman or .-'liaior ever sinca. SENATOR LODGE. Mr. Lodge is a lawyer, but, although admitted to the bar, never practiced. His profession, as he himself dfscriböi it in the congressional directory. Is "that of literature." The junior Massachusetts senator is .0 years old. JS tilt an Is Tender Hearted. It would appear from a recent incident that the sultan of Turkey shares with his satanic majesty the distinction of not being .so black as he Is painted. A theatrical troupe appeared in his private theater and gav "Othello." When the moment came for the murder of Desdeniona the sultan was so affected and struck with pity for her that he called out ani forbade that she should be smothered. A FoCc XOcdding Gift. The daughter of Mr. Souvorin, ths well-known editor and publisher of ths Novoe Vremya. t. lVtersburg. has ßccn married to Mr. Miasoiedoff-Itn-hoff, the son of the minister of way and communications. The bridegroom Is to enjoy the daily prolits of one of the advertising pages of the Novoe Vremya, and this curious wedding gift is causing considerable amusement in St. Petersburg. May "Return From Kjcile. Arabi Pasha, leader in 1SS2 of the great revolt of Kgyptians against foreign domination of their land, was J sentenced to ban- IL isbment from his V native land and JS virtual life impris- "L onment in the Island or Ceylon. The Khedive of Kgypt is about to cele Arabi Pasha. brate bis twentyeighth anniversary as ruler. It is sail he will paidon Arabi and permit hlta to return to Hgypt ome more. Bishop Couitt iuy i f Halifax, N. S., has returned from Australia, where he went af the repiesentative of the Church of England of Canada to at-' tend the jubilee celehr.it ion of the Au-i stralian Board of Missions. Jean De Rer.be uud'Tg-ses the severest training to ': a elf and voice in condition. He consequenily can allow himself only fw. relax tlons. -

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