Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 February 1901 — Page 4

TALMAGE'S SEKMON.

TELLS MOW TO GROW YOUNG IN SPIRIT. I.nw!sc Touth Like th Esle Tha Tfmy to Conquer the Effect of AdTncin Years Simple llabita Load to Longevity. (Copyright, 1501. by Louis Klopsch.) Washington. Feb. 17. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how anyone can conquer the effect of years and Crow younger in spirit; text, Psalms dil. 6, "So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." There fiies out from my text th most majestic of all the feathered creation an eagle. Other birds have more beauty of plume and more sweetness of voice, but none of them has such power of beak, such clutch of claw, uch expansion of wing, such height cf soaring, such wideness of dominion. Its appetite rejects the carrion that invites the vulture and in most cases its food is fresh and clean. Leveling its neck for flight, in spiral curve it wings itself toward the noonday sun. It has been known to live 100 years. "What concentration of all that is sublim in the golden eagle, the crested agle. the imperial eagle, the martial igle, the booted eagle, the Jean de Blanc eagle! But after a while In its Ufa comes the molting process, and it looks ragged and worn and unattractive and feels like moping in its nest on the high crags. But weeks go by, and the old feathers are gone and new ornithological attire is put on, and its beak, which was overgrown, has the surplus of bone beaten off against the rocks, and it gets back its old capacity Jor food, and again it mounts the heavens in unchallenged and boundless kingdoms of air and light. David, the author of the text, had watched these monarchs of the sky and knew their habits and one day, exulting in his own physical and spiritual rejuvenescence, he says to his own soul: "You are getting younger all the time.You make me think of an eagle which I saw yesterday, just after its molting eeason, swinging through the valley of Jehosaphat, and then circling around the head of Mount Olivet. Oh, my soul, 'thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.' " Simple IIbit and Longevity. Many might turn the years backward and get younger by changing their physical habits. The simpler life one leads the longer he lives. Thomas Parr of Shropshire, England, was a plain man and worked on a farm for a livelihood. At 120 years of age he was at his daily toil. He had lived under nine kings of England. When 152 years of age. he was heard of in London. The king desired to see him and ordered him to the palace, where be was so richly and royally treated that it destroyed his health, and he died at 132 years and 9 months of age. When Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of tha circulation of the blood, made post mortem examination of Thomas Parr, he declared there were no signs of senile decay in the body. That man ttuat have renewed his youth, like the eagle, again and again. All occupations and professions have afforded illustrations of rejuvenescence. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, lived 109 years, and among those eminent in the medical profession who became septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians were Darwin, O&ll, Boerhaave, Jenner and Ruysch, observing themselves the laws of health that they taught their patients. la art and literature and science Among those who lived into the eighties were Plato and Franklin and Carlfie and Goethe and Buffon and Halley. Sophocles reached the nineties. Biblical Span of Lifo. Some one writes me, "Is not threescore and ten the bound of human life, according to the Bible?" My reply Is that Moses, not David, who wrote that psalm, was giving a statistic of his wn day. Through better understanding of the laws of health and advancement of medical science the statistics of longevity have mightily changed since the time of Moses, and the day i3 coming when a nonagenarian will no longer be a wonder. Phlebotomy shortened the life of whole generations, and the lancet that bled for everything is now rarely taken from the doctor's pocket. Dentistry has given power of healthy mastication to the human race and thus added greatly to the prolongation of life. Electric lights have improved human sight, which used to be strained by the dim tallow candle. The dire diseases which under other names did their fatal work and were considered almost incurable, now tu majority of cases are conquer d. Vaccination, which has saved millions of lives and balked thegi t atest scourge of nations, and surgery, which has adTanced more than any other science, have done more than can be told for the prolongation of human life. The X-ray ha3 turned the human body, which wa3 opaque, into a lighted castle. It is easier in this age to renew one's youth than in any other age. When Paul stopped the jailer from suicide by commanding: "Do thyself no harm," he showed himself interested in the physical as well as moral life of man. Among the blessings which God promised was that in which he said: "With long life will I satisfy thee," and David, in my text, illustrates the possibility of palingenesis or rejuvenescence. o o The OmnUeient Klar I do not advise you to be indifferent to these great questions that pertain to church and state and nations, but not to fret about them. Realize that H la not an anarchy that has charge f affairs in this world, but a divine fovernraent. At the head of this universe is a King whose eye Is omniscience and whose arm is omnipotence, and whose heart 13 Infinite love. His government is not going to be a failr. He cannot be defeated. Better trust him In the management of his world and of all worlds. All you and I have to do is to accomplish the work that is put In our hands. This Is all we have to be responsible for. In a well-managed orchestra the players upon stringed and wind instruments to not watch each other. The cornet1st does not look to see how the violinist is drawing his bow over the strings,

nor does the flute scrutinize the drum. They all watch the baton of the leader. And we are all carrying our part, however insignificant It may be. In the great harmony of this world and of the universe which our Lord is leading, and we all have to watch his command and do our best and not bother ourselves about the success or failure of other performers. If you want to renew your youth, better stop managing the affairs of the universe. Ilelp for the Wal. It will take all time and all eternity to fully appreciate the work of Van Meter on this side of the sea and cf Barnardo on the other side in putting poor orphan children in good homes in America and England. Through that process waifs of the streets have passed up from poverty and wretchedness into bright homes and churches and pulpits and legislative halls and senates, and many have already been crowned in a better world, the work begun in asylums on earth completed in the palaces of heaven. Whether by such adoption of children or in some other way, call around you the young. Become their associates, their confidants, their encouragement. While you do them good they will do you good. The old eagle while companioning in the nest with young eagles will feel new strength coming into Us wings, new light into its eye, new ambition to cut a circle nearer the sun, and for the time will forget hurricanes that have ruffled its plumes and the storms of many years that have swept over its mountain eyrie. The closing years of life ought to be the best part of it, as an arrival in port ought to be happier than embarkation. It is better to have the cyclones behind you than before you. Some one will say: "David might renew his youth, but I have been through so much there i3 no such thing for me as revivification." You are wrong. You have not gone through as much as David went through. He had all the experiences of a shepherd boy, armor bearer, king's bodyguard, hunter of wild beasts, warrior and monarch. He was forty years on a rocking throne. He was the oriental hero in many a battle, made moral mistakes enough to destroy him, prostrated a giant with one stroke, was the father of Hebrew poetry and wrote poems which all the subsequent centuries have been charting, dramatized dementia to escape assassination, ran against Ahithophel's betrayal and Saul's jealousy and Absalom's insurrection, and made Jerusalem the religious capital of the world. If after all that he could renew his youth you ought to be able to do the same. State of Eternal Youtli. My text suggests that heaven is an eternal youth. A cycle of years will not leave any mark upon the immortal nature. Eternity will not work upon the soul In heaven any change, unless it be more radiance and more wisdom and more rapture. A rolling on from glory to glory! In anticipation of that some of the happiest people on earth are aged Christians. The mighiest testimonies have been given by the veterans in the gospel army. While some of the aged have allowed themselves to become morose and cynical and impatient with youth and pessimistic about the world and have become possessed with the spirit of scold and fault finding and are fearful of being crowded out of their sphere many of the aged have been glad to step aside that others may have a chance and are hopeful about the world, expecting its redemption instead of its demolition, and they are inspiration and comfort and helpfulness to the household and to the neighborhood and to the church. The children hail the good old man as he comes down the road. His smile, his words, his manner, his whole life, make the world think better of religion. Noah Webster, the greatest of lexicographers, departing this life at 83 years of age, exclaimed: "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day." The venerable Daniel Webster, the greatest of American lawyers and statesmen, in his last hours said: "I had intended to prepare a work for the press to bear my testimony to Christianity, but it is now too late. Still I would like to beatwitness to the gospel before I die." Being too weak to hold a pen, he dictated to a scribe his words of triumphant faith. Good Cheer AwniU Christian. Gibbons in his history says that Mohammed had a dream in which he thought that, mounted on the horse Borak, he ascended the s".-en heavens and approached within two bow shots of the throne and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. That might do for Mohammed's heaven, but not for a Christian's heaven. No cold hand put upon your shoulder there; no cold hand of lepulse or doubt, but the warm hand of welcome, the warm hand of saintly communion, the warm hand of God. I congratulate all Christians who are in the eventide. Good cheer to all of you. Your best days are yet to come. You are yet to hear the best songs, see the grandest sights, take the most delightful journeys, form the most elevating friendship?, and after ten thousand years of transport you will be no nearer the last rapture than when you were thrilled with the first. Pleasures of Heaven. In heaven you will have what most pleases you. Archbishop Leighton's desire for heaven was a longing for Christ and purity and love, and he has found there what he wanted. John Fester rejoiced at the thought of heaven because there he could study the secrets of the universe without restraint, and he has been regaling himself In that research. Southey thought of heaven as a place where he would meet with the learned and the great Chaucer and Dante and Shakespeare. He no doubt has found that style of communion. The great and good Dr. Dick was fond of mathematics, and ho said he thought much of the time in heaven would be given to that study, and I have no doubt that since ascension he has made advancement In that science. The "twelve manner of fruits" spoken of In Revelation means all

kinds of enjoyment In heaven, for twelve manner of fruits Includes all the chief fruits that are grown on trees. I suppose there will be as many kinds of enjoyment In heaven a3 there will be inhabitants. You will have In heuven just what you want Are you tired? Then heaven will be rest. Are you passionately fond of sweet sounds? Then It will be music. Are you stirred by pictures? There will be all the colors of the new heavens and on the jasper sea and the walls imbedded with what splendors! Are you fond of great architecture? There you will find the temple of God and the Lamb and the uplifted thrones. Are you longing to get back to your loved ones who have ascended? Then it will be reunion. Are you a homebody? Then it will be home. Here and there in this world you will find some one who now lives where he was born, and three or four generations have dwelt in the same house, but most people have had several homes the home of childhood, the home they built or rented for their early manhood, the home of riper and more prosperous years. But all home3 put together, precious as they are in remembrance or from present occupancy, cannot equal the heavenly home in the house of many mansions. No sickness will ever come there, for it is promised "there shall be no more pain." No parting at the front door, no last look at faces never to be seen again, but home v.'ith God, home with each other, home forever. And that right after the molting season, when "thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Wings to hover free O'er dawn empurpled sea; Wings 'bove life to soar And beyond death forevermore.

IN EVENT OF WAR. Exigencies That Might Arise If England and France Should Fight. In the event of war between Great Britain and France the first and most important part of the struggle would be for the command of the sea, says the Nineteenth Century. Should Great Britain succeed in retaining the command of the sea France would thereby be reduced to a condition of impotence so far as offensive operations are concerned and would sooner or later be obliged to submit to the will of her rival, although it is true the war might last for a long time. If, on the other nand, France should succeed in wresting from Great Britain the command of the sea and in keeping it Great Britain would be much more helpless and impotent than France in similar plight would be that the war would terminate quickly. In a word, France, even without the command of the sea or anything approaching to it, remains capable of prolonged resistance, firstly, because she is a self-supporting country; secondly, because the French national sentiment and strength are already concentrated within her borders and, thirdly, because she stands among the best equipped of the military powers, while Great Britain, deprived of the command of the sea, would collapse with relative rapidity, firstly, because she is in no sense a self-supporting country; secondly, because her national sentiment and strength are scattered over the world and cannot be concentrated save by way of the sea, and, thirdly, because she is not a military power, according to the standard set up by Germany, France, Russia and Austria-Hungary. A "Successful" Life In New York. The current life of the average New York man, the semi-successful young business man who earns a salary of $2,400 a year by the exercise of routine fidelity is admirably defined by J. P. Mowbray la "The Making of a Country Home," in Everybody's Magazine. "John Denison was within a year of being thirty, and twenty-five years more of getting on the car at seven in the morning and climbing back at five in the evening, going to the same cozy room, kissing his wife and baby in the same way, paying the same threequarters of his salary to the landlord, the grocer and the tailor, and nursing a contented mind by going to the Central Park on Sunday morning and the theater on Wednesday night this prospect, he was beginning to feel sure, would become intolerable in twenty years more. But there was no escape from it. He had fixed his lot and he must take things as they came, and. If possible, manage to squeeze out enough to keep up appearances and his life Insurance in case he should make a misstep some night in jumping for an electric car." Heroic Work 1j a Tramp, Uy the heroic act of a tramp two residents of Jefferson were saved from drowning in Rock river. Frank Williamson and his little daughter were crossing the river when the ice suddenly gave way, says the Chicago Interü ean. A tramp who was walking on the railroad track a few hundred feet from where the accident took place pulled off his coat and plunged Into the water after the struggling pair, who were fast losing consciousness. The heroic tramp was clad in overalls and a thin shirt when he made the plunge. He succeeded in holding the man and girl above water until boats were brought. John Buchta, who was close to the scene at the time, also worked energetically, and was drawn into the water by the struggling trio. After hard work on the part of the rescuers all were saved. A subscription was taken up for the tramp, and a complete outfit of clothing was purchased for him. Women on Russian Hallways. According to a Russian correspondent the chief of the Riazan-Ural railway has asked permission from tha minister of communication to permit those women who have been passed by the railway school at Saratof to be mployed on the railway as station-masters and substation-masters, luggage Inspectors and telegraph superintendents, since in that part of Russia there is a great lack of educated and reliable men. The minister of communlca- J tions has approved of the request. George I Just saw you coming from the conservatory with Miss Goldig, rather handsome girl, but too much reserved for me. Thomas Yes. Tt Just reserved her for life.

AMERICAN GOODS.

Oar Wares Make Inroads In Markets f England. English discussion of the American commercial invasion continues to grow more pointed and frank, says S. C. McFarland, consul at Nottingham, in Consular Reports. Hardly an Issue of the leading English papers appears without reference to American competition in some line. Within the past two years the tone of such articles has become serious, and economic writers are kept busy attempting to find acceptable explanations for American success. Leicester, in this consular district, is the seat of two great industries the manufacture of boots and shoes and of hosiery (including underwear). A few days ago large quantities of boots and shoes were exported to the United States. Now, not only are there no exports, but enterprising American firms have actually opened retail stores there, while much of the machinery used Is of American make. Hosiery exports a few years ago were very large. They are now comparatively small, and as shown in previous reports, are constantly declining in volume, and, to cap the climax, American goods are actually selling at retail in this market. As this is the very home of the British industry, it :s not astonishing that such a fact should come as a shock to natural British pride, and that its importance, as disclosing the general trend of trade, should be minimized, and, as a rule, made light of. The leading trade organ the Hosiery Trade Journal of Leicester attempts in the following suggestive article in its current number to bring the more serious phases of the matter to the attention of its readers: "The report from the British consul at Philadelphia strengthens the fact that America is making fast strides in the manufacture of hosiery of all kinds, and that in the near future American goods will be met in many markets where same have been up to the present unknown. As such advancement takes place, so will decrease the importation by that country of ho.sinry goods, and those countries which have in the past supplied America with hosiery will have to find other markets. This is no surmise, for at the present time the exports of hosiery from both Germany and England are nothing like what they were in years past, and. as stated, have the tendency to still further decrease." STANDARD TIME. It Is a Couveuience for Kailroad anil Travelers. Standard time was established in tha United States in l$S:i, for the convenience of the railroads and people who travel a great deal. By this syst m the United States, extending from GÖ to 125 degrees west longitude, is divided into four sections, each of 15 degrees of longitude, exactly equivalent to one hour. The first (eastern) section includes all territory between the Atlantic coast and an irregular line drawn from Detroit to Charleston, S. C, the latter being its most southern point. The second (central) section includes all the territory between the last-named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third (mountain) section includes all territory between the last-named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third (mountain) section includes all territory between the last named line and close to the western borders of Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth (Pacific) section covers the rest of the country to the Pacific coast. Standard time is uniform inside each of these sections, and the time of each section differs from that next to it by exactly one hour. Thus, at 12 noon in New York city (eastern time), the time at Chicago (central time) Is 11 o'clock a. m.; at Denver (mountain time), 10 o'clock a. m.; and at San Francisco (Pacific time), 9 o'clock a. m. Standard time is sixteen minutes slower at Boston than true local time, four minutes slower at New York, eight minutes faster at Washington, nineteen minutes faster at Charleston, twenty-eight minutes slower at Detroit, eighteen minutes faster at Kansas City, ten minutes slower at Chicago, one minute faster at St. Louis, twenty-eight minutes faster at Salt Lake City, and ten minutes faster at San Francisco. New York Weekly. IT IS NOT NEW. Wireless Telegraphy Wa Suggested Nearly Two Centuries Ago. Wireless telegraphy is wonderful enough in Itself without any undertaking to make it a thousandfold moro so by flights of thcr imagination, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There is no help for it that imagination will busy itself with scientific problems as well as others. Cases are not wanting where an imagination which has received a scientific training has made curious approximations to future discoveries and occasionally facilitated them. Even without scientific aid the imagination of writers has occasionally anticipated discoveries In a general way, but -without In the slightest degree facilitating it. There are some interesting examples of this. For instance, the Chromolithograph of Doc. 5, 1868, an English paper, mentions that there had recently appeared in American journals a report that two telegraph operators had been able to communicate with each other without intervening wires. But the most curious mention of this kind 19 found In the Spectator of 1711, where reference is mode to a loadstone that when touched with two needles Imparted to them such a quality that when one of them moved the other, f however far separated, would move In tho same way. Two friends, each of whom had one of these needles, made deal plates with, letters on them and by the motions of the needles were enabled to communicate with ono another. This Jeu d'esprit substantially forecast wireless telegraphy, though the way pointed out is obviously of no value. It was a fiction which anticipated the truth by nearly 200 years. Life i made up, not of great sacrifioes or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses, and mall obligations, given habitually, aro what win and preserve th heartSir Humphrey Davy.

II INDIflMJiGISLAIÜRt Report of Proceedings and Bills Introduced.

MEASURES IN BOTH HOUSES. Discussion of Senator Wood's Faith Healers' Hill This Hill Provides a reaalty for Thone Who Allow Dependents) to Die Without Medical Aid. Tuesday, February 12. The two houses of the Indiana general assembly devoted much time to eulogies of Abraham Lincoln. Neither house adjourned in honor of the anniversary of his birth. In the senate the Democrats charged the Republicans, who are in the ma jority, with lack of reverence for his memory, .shown, the Democrats declared, by the refusal of the Republicans to adjourn for the afternoon. The discussion Krew into a bitter argument on party lines, which had to be quelled by the chair. The most important act of the two houses was the passage of a bill by the senate authorizing the consolidation of railroads where they are not parallel or competing lines. It is regarded as a railroad corporation measure, and there has been much opposition to it. The house advanced Representative Reese's bill repealing the Rarrett law. Wednesday, February 13. If the senate of the Indiana general assembly adopts the reports of its committee of public health on Senator Wood's faith healers bill, which it probably will do, the faith healers of the state will have won a victory. The bill on which an unfavorable report will be made provides that in case of sickness of children or other dependents regular physicians must be called in attendance. The bill provides a penalty in case a child or other dependents is allowed to die without medical aid. It is a direct blow at the faith; healers, who exist in large numbers in In-i diana. They appeared in force before the senate committee and demanded their rights, which, they said, the bill would abolish. The committee decided, with one exception, to recommend the Indellnite postponement of the bill. The senate killed the bill of Senator Layman prohibiting the voting of subsidies to railroads by townships or counties ar.d passed the bill appropriating Jll'O.OOy to pay the claim of the Vincennes university against tho state lands of the university sold by the state many years ago. Thursday, February 14. Supporters of senate bill Xo. 301, to establish a state normal school at Muncie, express themselves as encouraged over the prospect? of the bill. The visit of the thirty-live legislators to Muncie. Saturday, they said, gave them additional hope that the legislature will vote to accept the Eastern Indiana Normal university, and turn it into a state institution. If this should be done it will cost the citizens of .M uiu le or some one else $10,) or 512,000 to get rid of a contract. F. A. Z. Kuhmler. who is now at the head of the institution, has a live-year contract, in which it is provided that if at the end of five years lie has increased the attendance to "eo pupils he is to receive the school from those that now own it. Three years of the contract are yet .to come, and Rrof. Kehmltr will not voluntarily release the university except for a consideration. George McCulioch, the prime mover in the scheme to turn the university over to the state, told some of those who visited Muncie Saturday that it would probably take $10.0ou or 511',000 to satisfy Prof. Kuhmler if the bill should pass. Friday, February 15. The lower house of the genral assembly killed the $50,000 appropriation for the Pan-American exposition. A favorable report had been made to the house by the committee. The house also passed a bill compelling all railroads to Issue mlleaga books containing 500 miles of transportation for $10. Any member of the purchaser's family mav use the book. KOTES OF LKG1SLATCRK. Senator Wood's bill, No. S61, provides for the appointment by the governor of two persons who shall be known as a tat library board, and levies a tax of ft cents on every $100 of taxable property, for the purpose of establishing the board, and after that 1 cent on every $100, to be used as a state library fund and maintaining the board. The money so collected shall be used for the purchase f reference libraries. Senator Parks bill. No. 359, fixes the basis of compensation for county superintendents at $500 a year In a system of grading and add $1 for each 100 population, $1 for each square mile of territory, and $1 for each teacher in tha county, making the lowest salary and highest $1.500. The bill sets out tha salary of each superintendent In the ptate. Section 2 fixes the location of the county superintendent's office in the court house of the county. Citizens of Muncie deny that Mr. McCulioch is the only one interested in the normal school bill. The legislators were received by the Muncie Commercial Club and on every hand argument in favor of the bill was heard. The party visited the normal school buildings and afterward In the Commercial Club Hal! were called on for speeches. Kvery one who spoke, including Senator Rarlow and Senator Lindley, expressed himself as favorable to the project, which expressions brought forth rounds of applause from the Muncie people. Mr. Ilohman, the author of the bill requiring women to remove their hats in all public gatherings, was informed the other day that the bill was not meeting with the indorsement of many of his feminin constituents, and that there would ba a lobby against his bill. "All right." said the representative from Rlackford. "let them come on and tiht the. bill. 1 thought the measure would receive the approval of all lair-minded women, but if they are opposed to it we want to hear from them." State Statistician Johnson is of the opinion that, under the law against anticipation of appropriations by state departments, the cost of distribution of the report of his predecessor, John R. Conner, should have been provided for by Mr. Conner. Tha annual allowance for office expenses is $2,000. and out of this tha cost of distribution of the report must be paid. Itapresen tative Ronham will Introduce a bill prepared by State Gas Inspector Laach for the preservation of the natural gas supply. It will provide that all abandoned wells hall be properly plugged and that the recorder of the county In which tha well is located shall issue a certificate showing that the owner ban observed the law. A penalty Is provided. Charles K. Coffin, president of the Commercial Club of Indianapolis, und vice Präsident of tho board of park commissioners, said, when asked as to his idea In regard to the proposition now before Mia legislature to use the St. Clair park at Indianapolis as a site for a governor's residence, that ha was much opposed to such a scheme. Mr. Bonham, chairman of the houso committee on Judiciary, said that he would recommend the passage of thö Prlt chard oil Inspector bill, against which a hard light is being made by Oil Inspector Zarlng and his deputies. Tho judiciary committee has had the bill for some time, but no uctlou has been taken. The oil Inspector bill would place- tho 1 appointment of the state oil inspector with the governor Instead of the stale) geologist, and woild limit the number of deputies to one for each congressional district, besides lltfng the salary of the stata Inspector at $2.rm and compelling the deputies to turn over to tho stata half the fees from which they gt their pay.

Maurice Thompson Is Dead. Maurice Thompson, the author, died

at Crawfbr&sville, Ind., Friday, after an illness of many weeks. lie had been kept alive for several days by the use of stimulants. Mr. Thompson's literary career began in 1871, when h wrote some articles and poem for tho New York Tribune. In 1S73 he became a contributor of the Atlantic, forming in this way a friendship with William Dean Howells which continued until Mr. Thompson's demise. His first book was published in 1S75 under the title of "Hoosier Mosaics," and attracted but little attention. Before the a.ppoaiaihp of "Alice of Old Vincennes" Mr. Thompson had written a number of other novels which obtained more than ordinary success. Chief among them may be mentioned "The Tallahassee Girl," "His Second Campaign" and "At Love's Extremes." Aim of Assln la Wild. Unknown men shot at George C. Orchard, county clerk of Butler county. Mo. Mr. Orchard was sitting at his desk in the court house in Poplar Bluff when the rejrort of a revolver rang out and a bullet came crashing through the window beside which he was sitting and missing him only by a few inches. The person who fired the shot could not have been far away, hut he succeeded in getting away. The motive ftr the apparent assassination cannot be explained. Mr. Orchard, besides being county clerk, is a leading Democrat, a member of the state central Democratic committee and widely known throughout Missouri. Will Bay Kult C.ood 51111. There is good authority for the statement that the owners of mills manufacturing knit goods in the Mohawk and upper Hudson valleys have given options on their plants to a party of New York capitalists. The talk of a combination among knit goods men has been in the wind in that section for a long time, but definite information has just 'been given to the effect that every mill in Troy and Cohoes, with the possible exception of two, has given an option and it is reported that a majority of the stockholders in tha sixty mills of Troy, Cohoes and Amsterdam will do likewise. Three Score la a Tonil. The town of Cumberland, which lies across from Union bay. where all the Alaskan liners call to fill their coal bunkers, was shaken by a terrific explosion Friday morning. The explosion was at shaft No. e. Union mines, owned the Welling Colliery company. Sixty men were imprisoned In the mines. Fiom the force of the explosion, which covered the ground in the vicinity of the head with a layer of crushed and broken mine timber, men of experience fear the worst. Little hope is expressed that any of the unfortunates imprisoned below will be brought out alive. Flr In Blj? Taper Mill. The Kimberly mills of the Kimberly & Clark Paper company, situated four miles from Appleton, Wis, were damaged to the extent of between $400,000 and $500,000 by fire Wednesday nhjht. The loss is covered by insurance. The finishing rooms, print miila, three machine rooms and a number of other buildings are a total loss. The plant will be rebuilt. Chief E. L. Anderson of the fire department was suffocated during the fire. Held Up by Two Bandits. John Fitzgerald, an employe of the Knickerbocker Ice company, was held up by two highwaymen and robbed of $27 at Clark and Harrison streets, Chicago. The men carried cluhs, which they threatened to use if their victim made any resistance or made an outcry. Fitzgerald reported the robbery to the police of the Harrison street tation, which is within a tont's throw of the place where the robbery occurred. Judge la Arrested In Coort, Immediately after the adjournment of the Circuit court at Arkadelphia, Ark., J. W. Groes issued a warrant for the arrest of Circuit Judge J. D. Conway, changing him with using profane language on the streets of Arkadelphia. Judge Conway left the couit room In charge of a constable and arranged to have the case postponed. Dies Itather Than Kill Czar. It is stated at St. Petersburg that the son of an officer of the secret police lately committed suicide to escape carrying out an attempt on the life or the czar, for which he had been delegated by a band of conspirators to which he belonged. lie left a confession Implicating several persons, who have been arrested. .lade Jm6 PhUtlps Deati. Judge Jesse J. Phillips of the Supreme court of Illinois is dead at 1 1 illsboro, 111. He served as captain, major and lieutenant-colonel in the Ninth Illinois volunteer infantry during the war and was brevetted colonel and brigadier general. In politics he was always a Democrat. He was twice nominated for state treasurer, but was defeated both times. He was elected judge of the Fifth Circuit court of Illinois In 1879. serving until when he was elected to the supreme bench. C'olomhtnn Keheln Active. A letter received at Kingston. Jamaica, from Carthagena. Colombia, says the Colombian rebels are particularly active in the Interior of that department, with the result that business Is seriously handicapped. No coffee could be shipped from Carthagena up to a week ago. Die at Ace of 124 Year. "Aunt" Peggy Jones, colored, is dead at Ghent, Ky. She was 124 years old. Her oldest living child, Charlotte, is over 100 years old. Twe Milled bj One Hallet. A tragedy occurred at a dance at Jelllco as the result of an old grudge between two miners named Strunk and Surgener. The two men were dancing. One of them accidentally jostled th other and a quarrel resulted. Strunk fired at Surgener, the bar passing entirely through his body and killing a boy of the name of Martin, who was directly behind him. Strunk covered all the occupants of the room and then fled, going to tho Tennessee sida, where he was arrested.

! A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Th Indianapolis Man Who ITii Hyiteriomly Wounded by a Woman KIgna HM Office la th Iaonle Ordr Major Thnmai Graham Die. Kevlgna from Stxrt Order. William H. Smythe, the Indianapolis victim of a mysterious shooting iy h. blonde woman in his o:2c? several weeks ago, bas rfuignd a. secretary of the four Indiana Masonic bodies ho hm served so long, the Grand Lcds, the Royal Secret Ma-or.s, the Grani Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and th Knights Templars. Calvin W. Prath er j of Anderson becomes secretary of th i first three organizations and Jaeo'j Smith secretary of the Knight Templars. So far a.s the pub1.: .- is concerns! it is probable that The Smythe .shoeing mystery will ne r b cleared, unless the Masons, at 1 1 1 ir annual meriting, take some action. Detectives La v abandoned. ;!! work. Wbash (ia lend I ndtd. There is great sat i.-taction an:oTg gas consumers at Wabash over th... adjustment of the dinVreno-s betweea the company and the city authority, by which the company until Juue I abandons its contention for meter measurement exclusively. The c.tlzens who had been using meters for two monhs and who ha J economized .sharply found their bilis running skyward and are delichted to .settle il the old contract rates. After June patrons of the company may hava their choice of meters or a t!at raia The company is said to have invented $18,000 in putting meters into bus inehouses and residences. Major Thomas Oruliam Dir. Major Thomas (Ira ham, one f th most prominent and popular citizen of Madison, died there. II" euvriäd the Union army at the opening of th civil war and served throughout hatilitieb. Major draham oc upiej many positions of responsibility a d at hla death was president of th Fir-mea and Mechanics' Insurance company, a director of the Fir.-t National bank and the Kagle cot ion mill and tr;u-t of the Washington Fiiv company a: Madison. He sei ved two terms a.i auditor and one te:m as treasurer of Jefferson unty. i t Aaditorshi(i in Doubt. Thp city council of Wa.-hmor. is unable to (;e ide w hj is legally the city attorney, and the salary attached to that office is held up until the matter is settled in Circuit court. Iast sprin? the Democrats were successful in the city election, and as .-oon as the members of the council took their seats they abolished the onVe of city attorney, and K. F.. Hastings, was by this act thrown out of the city's employ. Later, the office whs re-reate-i, and John H. O'Neall. a Democratic attorney, wa.s appointed. Both men now claim the salary. New Industry fur lodhtaa. The Central Sugar Company, thf first beet sugar factory in Indiana, will he built at Shelby in the Kankakee valley, a few miles west of North Judson. The plant will be in Operation this season. The construction contract has been awarded to the Dyer company of Cleveland, 0. The Central company has been incorporated with $2,000,000 capital. Among tha stockholders are W. H. Shelby of Grand Rapids, Mich.; ü. W. Cass ot Chicago. T. P. Shonts and several New York men. Gilbert Vtinii (iraml Central Handicap. W. F. Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Iowa, won th Grand Central live pigeon handicap at the tournament at th Limited Gun Club grounds, Indianapolis. This is the leading contest of this kind in the central states. Gilbert W. R. Crosby of Ofalion, 111., Rolla Helk of Dayton. O., and Tom Marshall cf Keithsburg, 111., were tied at the end of the twenty-fifth round, and in thi shoot off Gilbert won. Fatory Hires Church Choir. The choir of the First Baptist church at Washington was placed upon tho pay roll of L. II. Creager's stave ani heading factory. This organization of religious singfrs will visit the factory and assist the Rev. I. 1. Gorby of tho Presbyterian church in the service conducted daily for the workmen. Tho minister has been on the factory pay roll for several weeks. Jacob Turner fatally III. Word from the Hot Springs (Ark.) lodge of Odd Fellows informs tht Muncie lodge that Jacob Turner can live but a few days. Mr. Turner has been usher at the White House under both the Harrison and McKinley administrations. He went home to vote, at the late election a very sick mm from Uright's disease. He is unmarried. Agreement SatUrc torr. John Mitchell, president of the Fnited Mine Workers of America, returned to Indianapolis from Columbus, O. He said: "1 am satisfied with the scale of wages agreed on at the joint conference. It was not all that wn wanted, but it was probably the bet we could get under the circumstances." President Mitchell says that nothing new has developed In th anthracite! situation recently. The agreement under which the great .strike was ended expires April 1. 8y He Tried to If urn Family. Frank Krtle, charged at Muncie an at Massillion, Ohio, with arson, was taken back by officers. Krtle i6 charged with burning his home, and endeavoring to cremate his wife and four little children. Richmond Teni Vln Tnio ;nie. The second game in the we-stom polo championship scries was played at Richmond by the Muncie and Richmond teams. The score fas 2 to 0 In favor of the latter.