Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 February 1901 — Page 3

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GREAT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION

An Enterprise of VaLst Proportions and UnpoLroJled Magnificence, Illustrating Progress in the Western Hemisphere During the Nineteenth Century.

As a beautiful spectacle, tho PanAmerican Exposition will surpass any former enterprise of Its character. It will delight and satisfy the eye, and memory will Ions: retain the picture presented. The style of architecture Is a free treatment of the Spanish Renaissance, and the architects have made the most of the opportunity to enhance its picturesqueness. The buildings are covered with staff, which is molded into thousands of fanciful shapes, and color is used with such excellent effect as to evoke the name of "Rainbow City" for the ensemble of Exposition palaces. It Is the first attempt to produce a harmonious color tchem at an exposition, and Is a grand success. Sculpture adds greatly to the effect, m? jVstic statues and costly modeled gro::ps boir.g upon the buildings and bruises and in the courts. There are more than 123 of these grand worlcs. by tho most noted sculptors of America. The court settings are supcrj. They take up more th?n ?.3 acre?, approximately two and a half times greater than the area of tbe courts of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The hydraulic and fountain effects are of a superior or3er. Ia all the courts are large pools of water into which hundreds of fountains thro'.v their sparkling streams. In all the courts and upon the grounds outside the buildings are very elaborate horticultural and garden effects. Tho floral display is exceedingly fine. Nothing which might contribute to make a scene of loveliness has been overlooked or omitted by the builders cf the Exposition City. With all Its wonderful beauty by day. the Exposition will be, like the Cereus of Tropical America, a flower cf the night. Then will It blossom in exquisite perfection. With all the fountains playing amid floating lights upon every golden, rippling pool; with the great cascade- shooting in veil-like form from its niche in the Electric Tower, which rises to a height of 391 feet; with more than 200.000 electric lights fringing every building and giving to every jet and ripple of water a fantastic iridescence; with music lending the charm of sweet sounds to the harmony of color and sculpture, flowers, foliage and fountains, the evening scenes at this Exposition will be such as no lover of the beautiful will permit to pass without at least one determined effort to witness them. An electric display, the like of which has never yet been seen, is promised, and this will ha possible on account of the nearness of tho great plants which have harnessed Niagara and put its tremendous power to commercial u-e. The sum of 110,000.000 has been expendd to provide a magnificent spectacle and illustrate the achievements of the nineteenth century. The Midway alone cost $2.000 f-OO. and the variety of novelties and their quality excel the features of any former amusement enterpii.-e ct an exposition. Music Is an important feature of the Exposition. The magnificent Temple of Musk:, which has a seating capacity of 2,200, contains one of the largest War on

Microbes

That the leng.h ot a man's life is much greater n-j.v than it was half a century ago is shown by statistics, notwithstanding all the talk of the good old days. Millions cf years have been added to the aggregate number lived by man. These years have been sained mainly by the war on microbes. So long as the microbe was unknown as the cause of nearly all disease medicine was mere guesswork, while surTwo Royal The only two royal spinsters In Europe are namesakes and granddaughters of Queen Victoria, whose arerslon to unmarried ladies of marriageable age Is most pronounced. So great is her antipathy to unmarried women, the state of single blfssednes3 of the Princess Victoria of Wales and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein MRS. ANDERSON'S ODD PENSION Mrs. Charles Z. Anderson of Toledo, O., has secured a pension of ?8 a montn on account of the death of her husband, who was a cavalryman In the United State3 navy. The funny thing about it is that she killed the man V-r whose death the government now gives her a pension. He had been drinking and abused her while she was getting dinner. . He attacked her with a rtvolver. She attempted to get pos-

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and finest pipe organs ever constructed in America, built to order at a cost of 515,000. Entertainments of a high order of excellence will be given in the Temple. In the band-rtands in the Music Gardens and elsewhere on tho grounds concerts will be given by Sousa's Band of 100 pieces, the Mexican Government Band of C7 pieces, and other famous musical organizations. In all the cxhi-bit divisions the PanAmerican is very complete. It is the aim of the Exposition to show the progress of the nineteenth century in the Western world. The exhibits are gathered from all the principal states and countries of the Western Hemisphere and tho new island possessions of the United States government. Special efforts have been made to bring together exhibits of exceptional novelty and of the highest educational value. The divisions, each of them a considerable exhibition in itself, are as follows: electricity and electrical appliances; fine arts, painting, sculpture, decoration; graphic arts, typography, lithography, steel and copper plate printing, photo-mechanical processes, drawing, engraving and bookbinding; liberal arts, education, engineering, public works, constructive architecture, hygiene and sanitation, I music and the drama; ethnology, archaeology, progress of labor and invention, isolated and collective exhibits; agriculture, foods and their accessorits, agricultural machinery and appliances; horticulture, viticulture; live stock, horses, cattle, shec-p, swine,- pet stock; forestry and forest products; fish, fisheries, fish products and apparatus for fishing; mines and metallurgy; machinery; manufactures; transportation exhibits; railways, vessels and vehicles; ordnance. The Exposition grounds are in the northern part of Buffalo, adjacent to the large and beautiful Delaware Park. They are about one mile in length from north to south, and a half a mile wide. There are 3Ö0 acres, including 133 acres of improved park lands and lakes. Entering the grounds by way of the Lincoln Parkway, the visitor obtains a magnificent view of the picture presented. In the immediate foreground Is a portion of Delaware Park, one of the famous beauty spots of Buffalo, with the Park Lake, the North Bay at the left, and in the foreground south of the bay, in course of construction, the Albright Art Gallery, a beautiful permanent building of white marble, the gift of John J. Albright of Buffalo to his fellow citizen?, and costing over $100,000. North or the bay Is the New York State Building, also a permanent structure of marble. These two buildings are In tho style of Greek temples, one containing reminders of the Parthenon and the other resembling tho Erectheum upon the Acropolis at Athens. Betwr.cn the North Bay and the lake, the city of Buffalo has built at largo expense a now and beautiful bridge of heavy masonry, known a3 the Bridge of the Three Americas. This bridge carries the broad thoroughfare which leads from the main southern entrance to the approaches of the ExThcir Destruction Has Noticeably Lengthened Human Life. gery was in many cay.'s butchery. The discovery of antiseptics revolutionized surgical operations. In medicine, too, the advance has been astonishing. Many diseases have been practically driven out of the country. The terrible typhus fever known as a "dirt disease," which means a microbe disease used to kill our forefathers of the early part of the century at the rate of 8,000 to 10,000 per 43.000,000. Old Maids. baa been tbe cause of may royal family Jara. Seriously as the parents and grandparents may threaten and rr pine there remains little or no possibility of the two spinsters finding mates. Princess Victoria of Wales reached her thirty-second birthday In the spring, and Princess Victoria of SchleswigHolstein will never see thirty again. session of it and in the struggle laid hold of his leather watch chiin, which he wore around hi3 nec k, where it. was fastened with a slip knot. She Jerked it pretty hard and strangled him. !nrrt Which Attnek Itook. Two prizes of 1.000 francs each and a third of L0Ö francs have b en offered by anonymous donors, according to the j Courrler du Llvre, for the best essays on ihe insects which attack books and the best means of destroying them."

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AT BUFFALO, position. On the northern shore of the lake Is situated the life-saving station erected by the government. Upon the southern hank of the lake, a beautiful casino and boat-house has also been built by the city of Buffalo for Exposition uses. The symmetrical grouping of buildings will be at once noted by the observer. Beginning at the formal approach, just north of the lake, the eye follows northward between two rows of ornamental columns to what Is known as the Forecourt. East of this are the State and Foreign Buildings, forming in themselves a very Interesting feature of the Exposition. Near these, also, are the buildings for the special ordnance displays. West of the Forecourt are the outdoor Horticultural displays and the Women's Building. We cross now the Triumphal Bridge, remarkable for Its tall piers richly ornamented with statues. On either side are the Mirror Lakes, which form a part of the Grand Canal, more than a mile in length, which surrounds the main group of buildings. We come next to the Esplanade, which is nearly two-fifths of a mile long and 430 feet wide. The western end of the Esplanade is enclosed by th9 Horticulture, Graphic Arts, and Mines Buildings. The eastern end is shut In by the government group of three large buildings. Sunken gardens with elaboroate fountains and many groups of sculpture occupy the two arms of the Esplanade, and the decorative features throughout this broad spaco are very numerous and beautiful. North of the Esplanade is the Court of Fouatains, with the Ethnology Building on the right and the Music Building on the left. Two subordinate courts also open Into the Esplanade from th north, the one on the east being known as the Court of Cypresses and the one on the west as the Court of Lilies. Next, north of the Ethnology Building, on the right, and fronting upon the Court of Fountains, is the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, and on the opposite side the Machinery and Transportation Building. In the Court of Fountains is a large pool, having an area of about two acres, and containing many beautiful fountains. Proceeding again northward, we come to the Mall, a broad avenue, half a mile long, extending from the eastern boundary to the western gate of th Exposition. Fronting upon the Mall, on the right, is the Agriculture Building, and on tho left the Electricity Building. We now arrive at tho most conspicuous feature of the Exposition, the massive Electric Tower. This tower stands between the Court of Fountains and the Plaza, In a broad pool, about two acres in extent. Immediately north of the Electric Tower Is the Plaza with its beautiful sunken gardens and band-stand in the center, the Propylaea or monumental entrances at the north, tho entrance to the Stadium at the cast, and the entrance to the Midway on the west The Exposition will open May 1, and continue for six months. ELBERT L. LEWIS. Now it kills less than 80 individuals a saving of 8,000 or 9,000 lives every year. If smallpox were as bad now as it was half a century ago, it would kill 9,000 people this year. But in reality It will kill less than 100, and perhaps not half of that number. When cholera tried to force its way In, a few years ago, we drove it off with the greatest rase. But if things were In the state they were In in 1S49, it would have carried off 130,000 of us. In dozens of disease the same saving of life has been effected. Scarlet fever, if it were as destructive now as it was 40 years ago, would kill 41,000 people. It won't actually carry off one-sixth of that number. Even diphtheria ha been brought under control. and in spite of their deplorable, conspicuous and unnatural singleness, they are not the most unhappy of high born ladies. They are fast friends and allies, and though they enjoy few of the same studies and pleasures, they are equally callous in their estimate of the world's and even grandmother's opinion, and equally determined to prove that the life of an unwedded princess is neither forlorn nor unprofitable. The only way of setting the will fret Is to deliver It from wilfulness. Hare. In the end or a deep railroad cut In Georgia, near the town of Altoona. on the line of Sherman's march to the sea. Is a soldier's grave. The simple headstone bears this inscription: "Ilm died for the cause he thought was best" For more than thrlty-flve years the Western & Atlantic Railroad company, leasing the "state raid" from Georgia, has kept this nameless grave In repair.

I ROMANCE OF A GRAVE j

TALMAGFS SERMON.

CHRISTIAN WORK TYPIFIED BY ; FISHERMEN. The Gospel Nt and flow It Shonlrt Do Kept In Rrpaii Christ' Iist'lpla Fibbers of Men Religion of Christ a SootbiuST Omnipotence. (Copyright, 1001. by Loul3 Klopfen. N. T.) Washington, Jan. -7. In this discourse Dr. Talmage describes the gospel net and how it is to be repaired after being damaged; text, Matthew 4: 21, "James, the scm of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in a ship with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets." "I go a-fishlng!" cried Simon Peter to his comrades, and the most of the apostles had hand3 hard from fishing tackle. The fisheries of the world have always attracted attention. In the third century the queen of Egypt had for pin money $170.000 received from the fisheries of Lake Moeris. And, if the time should ever come when th? immensity of the world's population could not be fed by the vegetables and meats .of the land, the sea has an amount of animal life that would feed all the populations of the earth and fatten them with a food that by its phosphorus would make a generation brainy and intellectual beyond anything that the world has ever imagined. My text takes us among the Galilean fishermen. One day Walter Scott, while hunting in an old drawer, found among some old fishing tacklo the manuscript of his immortal book, "Waverley." which he had put away there as of no worth, and who knows but that today we may find some unknown wealth of thought while looking at the fishing tackle in the text. t Eay to Get In. The trouble with many of our nets is that the meshes are too large. If a fish can get his gills and half his body through the network, he tears and rends and works his way out, and leaves the place through which he squirmed a tangle of broken threads. In our desire to make everything so easy we relax, we loosen, we widen. We let men after they are once in the gospel net escape into the world, and go into indulgences and swim all around Galilee, from north side to south side, and from east side to west side, expecting that they will come back again. We ought to mako it ca?v for them to get into the kingdom of God, and, as far .as we can. make it impossible for them to get out. The poor advice nowaday to many is: "Go and do just as you did before you were captured for God and heaven. The net was not intended to be any restraint or any hindrance. What you did before you were a Christian do now. Go to all styles of amusement, read all the styles of bonks, engage in all the styles of behavior as before you were converted." And so. through these meshes of permission and laxity, they wriggle out through this opening and that opening, tearing the net as they go. and soon all the' souls that we expected to land in heaven, before we know it, are back in the deep sea of the wo.ld. Oh. when we go a-gospel fishing. let us make it ns easy as possible for souls to get in and as hard as possible to get out. la the Bible language an unmeaning verbiage when it talks about self-denial, and keeping the body under, and about walking the narrow way and entering the strait gate and about carrying the cross? Is there to be no way of telling whether a man is a Christian except by his taking the communion chalice on sacramental day? May a man be as reckless about his thoughts, about his wortls, about his temper, about his amusements, after his conversion as before? Alas, the words of Christ are so little heeded when he said. "Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after mo cannot be my disciple." The church is fast becoming as bad as the world, and win n it pvts ns bad as the world it will be worre than the world by so much, as it will add hypocrisy af a most appalling kind to its other defects. A Soot hi n Oimilj-iof ence. Do yon know that the world's heart is bursting with trouble and if you could make that world believe that the religion of Jesus Christ is a soothing omnipotence, the whole world would surrender tomorrow, yea, would surrender this hour. The day before James A. Garfield was inaugurated as president I was in the cars going from Richmond to Washington. A gentleman seated near me in the cars knew me, and we were soon in familiar conversation. It was just after a bereavement, and I was speaking to him from an overburdened heart about the sorrow I was suffering. Looking at his cheerful face. I said: "I guess you have escaped all trouble. 1 should judge from your countenance that you have come' through free from all misfortune." Then he looked at me with a look I shall never forget, and whispered in my ear: "Sir, you know nothing about trouble. My wife has beeu In an insane asylum for fifteen years." And then he turr?d and looked out of' the window and into the night with a silence I was too overpowered to break. That was another illustration of the fact that no ones escapes trouble. Why, that man seated next to you In church has on his soul a weight compared with which a mountain is a feather. That woman seated next to you in church has a grief the recital of which would m ike your body, mind and soul shudder. When you are mending your net for this wide, deep sea of humanity, take out that wire thread of criticism and that horsehair thread of harshness and put in a soft silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea, when you are mending your nets tear out those old threads of gruffncs3 and weave in a few threads of politeness and geniality. In the house of God Itt all Christian faces beam with a look that means welcome. Say "good morning" to the stranger as he enters your pew and at the close shake hands with him and say, "How did you like tho music?" Why, you would be to that man a panel of the door of heaven; you would be to hlra a note of tho doxology that seraphs Bing when a new soul enters heaven. I have In other days entered a pew In church, and the woman at the other nd of the pew looked at me as much

as to say: "How dare you? This Is my pew, and I pay the rent for it!" Well, I crouched in the other corneT and made myself as small as possible and felt as though I rmd Iven stealing something. So there are people who

have a sharp edge to their religion, and ! they act as though they thought most people had been elected to be damned and they were glad of it. Oh. let us brighten up our manner and appear in gentlemanliness or ladyhood. Men. line the t. Oh, this important work of mending our netr! It we could get our nets right, we would accomplish more in soul saving in the next year than we have in the last twenty years. But where shall we get them mended? Just where old Zebedee and his two boys mended - their nets where you are. James and John had no time to go ashore. They were not fishing for fun, as you and I do in the summer time. It was their livelihood and that of their families. They mended their net' where they were in the ship. "Oh," says some on". "I mean to get my net mended, and I will go dowji to the public library and I will see what the scientists say about evolution and about the 'survival of the fittest.' and I will read up what the theologians say about 'advanced thought. I will leave the ship anhile. and I will go ashore and stay there till my net is mended." Do that, my brother, and you will have no net left. Instead of their helping you mend your net, they will steal the pieces that remain. Better stay in the gospel boat, where you have all the means for mending your net. What are they? do you ask. I answer, all you need you have where you are namely, a Bible and a piar? to praj. The more you study evolution and adopt what is called advanced thought, the more useless you will bf Stay in the ship and mend your net. That is where .Tame?, the son of Zebedee. and John, his brother, staid. That is where all who get their nets mended stay. I notice that, all who leave the gospol boat and go ashore? to mend their nets stay there. Or if they try again to fish they do not catch anything. Get out of the gospel boat and go up info the world to get your net mended, and you will live to see the day when you will feel like the man who, having forsnken Christianity, sighed. "I would give a thousand pounds to feel as I did in 120." The time will come when you would be willing to give a thousand pejiuul'-. to feel as you !;! in lfAi. These men who have given up llie'r religiem cannot help you a bit. These dear brethren of nil denominations afllieted with theological fi-!-gcts. bad he-1 (er go to ni'-nding netintrad of breaking ibem. Before they break up the old relicion and try to foist on us a new religion lot them ge through some great sacrifice for God thr;t will prove thm worthy for such a work, taking tho advice of Talleyrand to a. man who wanted to unset the religion of Jesus Christ and start a new one when he said. "Go and be crucified and then raise yourself from the grave the third day!" Those who propose to mend their nets by secular and skeptical books are like a man who has ju.t one week for fishing, and six of tbe days he spends in reading Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler" and Whea ley's "Rod and Line" and Scott's "Fishing in Northern Waters" and Pullman's "Vade Mecum of Fly Fishing for Trout." and the:? on Saturday morning, his last day out, goes to the river tc ply his art. But that day the fish will nqt bite, and late on Saturday night he goes to his home with an empty basket. Alas, alas! if when the Saturday night of our life drops on us it shall be found that we have spent our time in the libraries of worldly philosophy, trying to mend our nets, and we have only a few souls to report as brought to God through our Instrumentality while some humble gospel fisherman, his library made up of a Bible and an almanac, shall com:' home laden with the results, his trophies all the souls within fifteen mi'es of his log cabin meeting house. In the time of great disturbance in Naples in n;i'. MassanW l!o. a bnrefooted fishing hoy. dropped his fishimr rod and by strange magnetism took command of that city of t.O.OO souls. He took off hU fishing jacket and pat on a robe of gold in the presence of howling mobs. He put his hand on his lip as a signal, and they were ?ilcnt. He waved his hand away from him. and they retired to their homes. Armies passed in review before him. He became; the nation's idol. The rapid rise and complete supremacy of that young fisherman, Massanlcllo, has no parallel in all history. But something equal to that and better than that is an every-day occurrence in heaven. God takes some of those who in this world were fishers of men and who toiled very humbly, but because of the way they mended their nets and employed their nets after they were men Ied he suddenly hoists them and robes them and scepters them and crowns them and makes them rulers over many cities, and he marches armies of saved ones before them in review. Massanlellos unhonored on earth, but radiated in heaven. The fisher boy of Naples soon lost his power, but those people of God who have kept their nets mended and rightly swung them shall never lose their exalted place, hut shall reign forever and ever and ever. Keep that reward in sight. But do not spend your time fishing with hook and line. Why did not James, the son of Zebedee, sit on the wharf at Cana, his feet hanging over the lake, and with a long pole and a worm on the hook dipped into the wave wait for some mullet to swim up and be caught? Why did not Zebedee spend his afternoon trying to catch one eel? No, that work was too slow. These men were not mending a hook and line; they were mending their nets. So let the church of Clod not be content with having hero one soul and next month another soul brought Into the kingdom. Sweep all the seas with nets scoop nets, seine nets, dragnets, all encompassing nets, and take the treasures in by hundreds and thousands and millions, and nations will be born in a day and the hemispheres quake with the tread of a ransoming God. Do you know what will be the two most tremendous hours In our heavenly existence? Among the quadrillions of ages which shall roll on what two 'occasions will be to us the

greatest" 'he day of our arrival th?T will be to us one of the two greatest. The second greatest, I think, will be the day when we sh.ill have put in parallel lines before us wh.t Chrisi did for us and what we did for Christ, the one so great, the other so little. That will be the only embarrassment in heaven. My Lord and my God! What will we Co and what will we say when on one side are placed the Savior's great sacrifices for us and our, small sacrifices for him; his exile, his humiliation, his agonies on one hand and our poor, weak, insufficient sacrifices on the other. To make the contrast less overwhelming let us quickly mend our nets, and. like the Galilean fisheiman, may we be divinely helped to cast them on the right side of the ship.

HER SALT CELLARS. The GmoM It-rriet Thera lieantlfal oueiilrn. The custom of g.ving souvenirs on nearly all occasions sometimes leads to painful mistakes and a certain American, well known in London as a hostis. has reason to regret it was ever heard of. She was the happy possessor of a dozen salt cellars of repousse silver, very beautiful and almost the apple of her eye and she was giving a luncheon at which covers were laid for fourteen. In the arrangement of tbe table the precious salt cellars had been placed for the gue-sts, another kind being MippHod for the hostess and her daughter. The cards designating the places had been laid upon them, and through an oversight had remained there-, so that the absence of salt in them was not discovered, says the London Onlooker. Presently a lady took up her card, saw the empty salt cellar, and, remarking upon its beauty, said it was a lovely souvenir, and slipped it into her pocket. Her example was promptly followed by the rest of tiie company with the exception of one woman, who had no pocket. The hostess was petrified with despair and horror as she saw her cherished possessions calmly appropriated, but in the face of the torrent of acknowledgement and compliment, she had not the moral courage to offer the necessary explanation. After s'ie had heard the j adioux of the last g'iest she pat down and wept, and when it was discovered j that the woman without a pocket had j forgotten her prize she seized upon it ! with the concentrated affection which tl;c parent bestows on th-" last of many children. Her joy. however, was shortlived, for next morning :i:v. a polite; note from the pock'-tless woman, raying that she "had forgotten her "b'.utif til souvenir." and would Mrs. F. be so very kind as to semi it? GREAT DISCOVERY. Kurth Which Is Found In hat Few I'laces in Amerlo, A new m u; rial will soon lie placed among the rare thines mined from the Hlack Hills. Fuller's earth is a valuable material found in but few places in America. The finest quality is found in England, where is practically the world's supply. Rce-cntly a large depesit of this mater.al has been found in the Black Hills, and it most closely resembles that found in Fngland of any deposit in America. The fuller's earth of the Black Hills contains from 60 to 75 per cent silica, with from 13 to 25 per cent water after being sun-dried. The fuller's earth of the hills is generally found in shallow basins covered by a few feet of surface soil. Below thl3 is a layer of plastic clay from two to six feet thick, and then layers of fuller's earth from two to twelve feet thick, overlaying a bed of sand. Fuller's earth is dug out and allowed to remain in the sun, where it undergoes a certain amount of bleaching, turning from a greenish color to a creamy white and losing about ."0 per cent of its weight. The United States produces a considerable amount of fuller's enrth, something like 20,000 tons per year, relates a special to the Boston Transcript. The discovery of a superior grade of the earth in the Blick Hills will mean, in a s'eorr time, the adding of another rare material to the already long 1 1 - t found in the hills. Hastcrn parties are negotiating for the deposit of iiin 'stone, called by som tl 'leis'". that has been found in Custer county. The stone is found in a thirty-foot ledge, and when it is quarried it is soft enough to bo cut into any shape desired. After being exposed to the tir it becomes hard and takes a beautiful polish. The quarry is being operated bv two Dead wood men. Government I)MrMiU to I'linnliig. An amusingly put instance of governmental forethought in behalf of its agricultural class is that credited in a paragraph now going the rounds of the press of Manitoba. A p st of grasshoppers annually descending upon the farmers vf this region largely nullified their efforts at livelihood gaining. To their relief came the department of agriculture, which not only devised preventive measures, but likewise hit upon a novel method of awakening the farmer to a realization that the grasshopper was traveling his way. Instead of Bending out circulars or advertising in the newspapers, recourse was had to posters which showed a grasshopper regaling himself In a wheat field. Underneath the picture there stared the passing farmer in the face, "In this wheat bye and bye." Report is silent as to whether the pun or the picture brought about the desired result; the fact, however, Is that the Manitoba farmer gave heed to the poster warning, and as never before he prepared to overcome the noxious activity of the grasa hopper. Vogue. Separating: Alcohol from Water. It is perfectly easy to separate alcohol from water by subjecting the mixture to heat; the process is called distillation. Alcohol boils, and la consequently conveited into vapor, at 170 degrees Fahrenheit, while w..ter requires 21- th grees. If the mixture, therefore, be subjected to a temperature of, say, ISO degrees, the aKvhol will pass off as vapor, leaving the water in its liquid condit.on. Tha distilling apparatus is fitted with pipes surrounded by cold water, and into tlem tL vapor is carried, where th lower temperature onhns s it into alcohol again, and as stub It runs out into a vessel placed to loee've It.

lit ill A LEGSSLAIU?.

Reports of Proceedings and Bills Introduced. MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. A Proposed Waterway from Y.t Chicago to th Calamrt itivrr Senator Arnew Has Heard of 'o Oyfltioa to ThU H11L Tuesday, Jannary 22. In the House: The report i f the conference committee was concunei In, striking out the clause in the appropriation bill providing for extra a.hiWances by resolution. The primary election bill was made a special or.kr for next Tuesday afternoon. Senate bill No. 54, fixing Michigan City as tha legal place for the executiun of criminals, was passed. In the Senate: S. B. Fleming was seated as senator from Allen and Adams counties. Senator Cr. gor Introduced a resolution declaring that the constitution follows the Hag and instructing the senators and representatives in congress to use all honorable means to enforce this doctrine. YTednd y, J.iunary 23. A bill Las been prepared for introduction in tip? bglslature to establish, a whipping pnt in cery county in the state an! provides that every male person ever IS years o?" ;y; who shall strike or boat a won; an shall receive from 15 to e'J lashes on Iiis bare bick. lYofanity in the presence of female.shall bring to the male offender of 11 years cr more from five to '2 lashes. Petit larceny shall be punished by from five to 9 lashes. Tramps shall receive from ten to fifty lashes. The man who deserts his family and leaves it upon public charity from thirty to seventy-five lashes, and the public drunkard on his fourth offense from ten to twenty-five. The whip used shall be of rawhide and shall be wielded by the sheriff or his d-puties. Thurs 'ay, .l.imi.iry 24, The legislature passed to engrossment of a bill which will be of interest to the people of north. western Indiana. It was intro lu-'c-n hy Senator Agnew and provides for a waterway from Fast Chicago -;n L.akc- Michigan to Calumet river, to be used a. a shin anal. Senator Agr;ew says he his i-d of no opposition to the bill, which provisos that em i-.'titlon of onethird of the affected property owners the circuit jrdgo shall .tprioint thf o disinterested persons 10 a.-s-.-s benefits and damages and pay the eo:t of the waterway. Senator Arrnew say? if th-1 measure becomes a law northw.-sf'-rp Indiana will have one of tho greatest of inland harbors. I rid ix, .hvinnry 2. Senator Johnson of Jay, introduce 1 a bill aimed at the Chicago pip- lin3. It make: nny pressure over 200 pounds to the square inch iMga!. This pressure would make it impossible to pip gas to Chicago unle.-s pumping stations were placed every few miles. A penalty of from 53O0 to $10,0 '0 is provided, and the gas inspector i3 required to inspect the lines quarterly instead of annually, as at pnsent. The manufacturers of the gas belt are said to be behind tho bill. It U quite prejbable that Indiana will Substitute electrocution for the hanging of criminals, as the senate passed Harrison's bill by a vote of to 2. NOTKS OF I,K;iSI,ATl'Ill-l Mr. Harris introduced a bill regulating the acts of the cemetery corporation of St. Joseph county. County and township business. Charles L. H nry. of Anderson, was in 1SS1 and 1S a member of the ?-ate senate, being ebeted from the counties of Grant and Madison, which at tint time was a Democratic eli.-triet. Mr. Henry visited the s, t ;ie the other day and took his old ss.it for a short t im -. llc-preentative (la intt. of Marion Is a revenue insp-ctor. hit while ) is in the logislaeure he is not working at it. A. F. Lyman of Mur.eie is s.-rving the government in Mr. Caumt's pl ue. !at will retire when the leg: '.-ture :iJjourns. Senator Ball introduced a bill providing that county auditors ma;, draw warrants on funds appropr ated by county councils to pay specific contracts at the end of the year, instead of having the money revert to the general fund. The senate committee on mile ge has decided that the late Senator C rriott of Jackson would have been nBy resolution of the senate It was decided to allow this mibage to Mrs. Garriott, and a warrant will be drawn for $:16 in her favor. A number of senators and representatives were in the lobby of the IVnison the other night, when a Salvation Army miss came in to take up the usual collection. Fach said ho was sorry that he could not contribute because a disagreement of the house and the senate on the appropriation bill had cut them out of their money, and until they got paid they were not able to donate anything to the cause. Mr. Waugh Introduced a bill amending the county and township law In such a way as to provide means f.rr the payment of outstanding warrants. Judiciary. Said a man who watches Indiana politics closely: "I want to make a prophecy just now. Four years from now S. It. Art man, speaker of tho house of representatives, and N. W. Gilbert, lieutenant-governor, will bo opposing candidates for the nomination for governor of Indiana, and Charles V. Fairbanks will be Indiana's candidate for president." Representative Murphy introduced a bill legalizing election of officers of incorporated towns. Cities and towns. The County Superintendents' association has appointed a committee to appear before the educational committees of the house and stnato to protest against the passage of the bill making the office of county superintendent aa elective one. The committee is composed of Superintendents Uankin, ot Faoli; Harris, of Grceneastlc; Thompson, of Grant county; Scott, of Clark county, and Cushman, of Greene county.