Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 June 1901 — Page 3

TALMA GITS SERMON.

'PROMPT ACTION" THE SUBJECT WAST SUND"' Ttit OhiHTTpth the Wind Shall ow." Eo JUm " The CaawSjSja of Culllh II a Prima -y Virtue in Ma u Ue liuld fur the Kt-lit. (Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) W'asnington, June -3. From a passage of Scripture unobserved by most readers Dr. Talmage in this discourse shows the importance of prompt action In anything we have to do for ouraelv-s or others; text, Ecclesiastes xi. 4, He that observeth the wind shall not sow." What do you find in this packed sentence of Solomon's monologue0 I And in it a farmer at his front door examining the weathr. It is seedtime. His fleids have been plowed and harrowed. The wheat is in the barn in sacks ready to be taken afield and scattered. Now is the time to sow. But the wind Is not favorable. It may blow up a storm before night, and he may get wet if he starts out for the sowing; or It may be a long storm, that will wash out the seed from the soil; or there may have been a long drought, and the wind may continue to blow dry weather. The parched fields may not take in the grain, and the birds may pick it up. and th labor as well as the seed may be wasted. So he gives up the work for that day and goes into the house and waits to see what it will be on the morrow. On the morrow the wind is still in the wrong direction, and for a whole week and for a month. Did you ever spp such a long spell of bad weather? The lethargic and overcautious dilatory agriculturist allows the season to pass without sowing, and no sowing, of course, no harvest. That la what Solomon means when he says in his text. "He that observeth the wind shall not sow." rtsN Wm Not leU There comes a dark Sabbath morning. The pastor looks out of the window and seor- the clouds gather and then dischd;&e their burdens of rain. Instead i a full church it will be a handful of people with wet feet and dripping umbrellas at the doorway or the end of ihe pew. The pastor has prepared one of his best sermons. It has cost him great H search, and he has been much in prayer while preparing it. He pots the sermon uside for a c lear day snd talks platitudes and goes home quite depressed, but at the same time teeling that he has done his duty. He did not realize that in that small audience there were at least two person.who ought to have had better treatment. One of thos hearers WSJ a man in a crista of struggle with evil appetite. A carefully prepared lisr course under the divine blessing would have been to him complete victory, lue fires of sin would have been extinguished, and his keen and brilliant mitid would have been consecrated to the gospel ministry, and he would h iv,- been a mighty evangel, and tens O.' thousands of souls would have, undi the pell of his Christian eloquence given up sin and started a new life, ai d throughout all th- heavens there would have been congratulation and hosanna. and after many ages of eternity had passed there would be celebration among the ransomed of what was accomplished one stormy Sunday in a church on earth under a mighty gospei sermon delivered to 15 or 20 people. But the crisis I speak of was not properly met. The man in struggle with evil habit heard that stormy day no word that moved him. He went out in the rain uninvited and unhelped back to his evil way and down to his overthrow. Had it been a sunshiny Sabbath he would have heard something worth hearing. But the wind blew from a etormy direct ion that Sabbath day. That gospel husbandman noticed it and acted upon its suggestion and may discover some day his great mistake. He had a sack full of the finest of the wheat, but he withheld it, and some day h will find, when the whole story is told, that he was a vivid illustration of the truth of my text. "He that observ -h the wind shall not sow." 1-HCked t'ourage of Conviction. Communities and churches and nations sometimes are thrown into hysteria, and it requires a man of great eJQBdnoisc to maintain a right position. Thirty-three years ago there came a time of bitternes s in American politics, and the impeachment or the president of the United States was demanded. Two or three patriotic men, at the risk of losing their senatorial position, stood out against the demand of their political associates and saved the country from that which all people of all parties now see would have ben a calamity and would SaYC put every subsequent president at the mercy of his opponents. It only required the waiting Of a few months, when time itself removed all controversy. " Let us have war with England if needs be," said the most of the people of our northern states in 1861, when Mason and Slidell. the distinguished southerners, had been taken by o.ir navy from the British steamer Trent and the English government resented the act of our government in stopping one of their ship?. "Give up those prisoners,'' said Great Britain. "No," said the slmost unanimous opinion of the north. "Do not give them up. Ixst es have war with England rather than surrender them." Then William H. Seward, secretary of state, faced one of the fiercest .storms of public opinion rer seen in this or any other country. 8eeing that the retention of those two men was of no importance to our country and that their retention would put Great Britain and the United States into immediate conflict, he said, "We five them up." They were given up, and through the resistance of popular Clamor by that one man a wonJd-wide calamity was averted. Some of us remember as hoys huzsaing wh'n Kossuth, the great Hungarian, rode up Broadway, New York. Most Americans were in favor of taking some decided steps for Hungary. The only result of such interference would have been the sacrifice of all food precedent and war with European nationa Then Daniel Webster, in his immortal "Hulsemann lettter." braved a whinwind of popular opinion and saved this nation from useless foreign entanglement Webster did not observe the wind when he wrote that letter. So sate and church there have always ten at the right time eady to

face a nation full yea, a world full of opposition. lienarr of Ovrpriiilic'. How many there aie who give too ttma v sfeU&kej :.2 wether vane and studying the barcraet it! Make up your mind what you are going to do and then go ahead and do it. There always will be hindrance:-. It is a moral disaster if you allow prudence to overmaster all the other graces. The Bible makes more of courage and faith and perseverance than it does of caution. It is not once a year that the great ocean steamers fail to sail at the appointed time because of the storm signals Let the weather bureau prophesy what hurricane or cyclone it may, next Wednesday, next Thursday, next Saturday, the steamer? will p- t out from New York and Philadelphia and Boston harbors and will reach Liverpool and Southampton and Glasgow and Bremen, their arrivals as certain as their embarkation. They cannot afford to consult the wind, nor can you in your life voyage. The grandest and best things ever accomplished have been in the teeth of hostility. Consider the grandest enterprise of the eternities th salvation of a world. Did the Roman empire send up invitation to the heavens inviting the Lord to descend amid vociferations of welcome to come and take possession of the most capacious and ornate of the palaces and sail Galilee with richest imperial flotilla and walk over flowers of Solomon's gardens, whieh were still in the outskirts of Jerusalem'' No. It struck him with insult as soon as it could reach him. Let the camel drivers in the Bethlehem caravansary testify. See the vilest hate pursue him to the borders of the Nile! Watch his arraignment as a criminal in the courts! See how they belie his every action, misinterpret his best words, howl at him with worst mobs, wear him out with sleepless nights on cold mountains! See him hoisted into a martyrdom at which the noonday cowled itself with midnight shadows, and the rocks shook into cataclysm, and the dead started out of their sepulcher, feeling it was no time to sleep when such horrors were being enacted. Alake Opfortunit. Young man. you have planned what you are going to be and do in the world, but you are waiting for circumstances to become more favorable. You are like the farmer in the text, observing the wind. Better start

now. Obstacles will help you if you conquer them. Cut your way through. Peter Cooper, the millionaire philanthropist, who will bles all succeeding centuries with the institution he founded, worked for five yean for $25 a year and his board. Henry Wilson, the Christian statesman who commanded the United States senate wi;h the gavel of the vice presidency, wrote of his early days: "Want sat by my cradle. I know what it is to asK a mother for bread when jli2 hps none to give. I left my home at ten yea: s of age and served an apprenticeship of eleven years, receiving a mont.'s schooling each year, and at the end of eleven years of hard work a yoke of oxen and six sheep, which brougut me S4. In the ftrst month after I was 21 years of age I went into the woods, drove a team and cut mill logs. I arose in the morning before daylight and worked hard till after dark and received the magnificent sum of $ for the month's work. Each of those dollars looked as large to me as the moou looks tonight." Wonderful Henry Wilson! But that was not his original name. He changed his name because he did not want on bim the blight of a drunken father. As the vice president stood in my pulpit in Brooklyn, making the last address he ever made. and commended the religion of Christ to the young men of that city, I thought to myself. "You yourself are the sublimest spectacle I ever saw of victory over obstacles." For thirty years the wind blew the wrong way, yet he did not observe the wind, but kept right on sowing. Iefy Your Antagonist. The Earl of Alsatia, a Tavorite of Edward III. of England, had excited the jealousy of other courtiers, and one time, while the king was absent, they persuaded the queen to turn a lion loose in the court to test the earl's courage. The earl, rising it break of day, as was his custom, camrinto the courtyard and met the lion, and the jealous courtiers from the windows watched the scene. The lion, with bristling hair and a growl, was ready to spring upon the earl when he. undaunted, shouted to the monster, "Stand, you dog!" Then the lion couched, and the earl took it by th; mane and turned it back into the cage, leaving his handkerchief on the neck of the monster, and. looking up in triumph to the jealous courtiers, who lie knew were watching from the windows, cried out. "Let him among you all that prideth himself on his pedigree go and fetch that handkerchief." And yon, young man, will find a lion in your way. perhaps turned loose by the jealousy of those who would enjoy your ruin. But in the strength of God make that lion couch. By God's help you tan do it and defy and challenge your antagonists. The Earl of Alsatia conquered the lion by stoutness of voice and the glare of eye, but you may overcome the lion with the proffered strength of an almighty arm and an almighty foot, for God hath promised: "Thou shalt tread upon the Hon and adder. The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet." Columbus, by calculation, made up his mind that there must be a new hemisphere somewhere to balance the old hemisphere, or it would be a lopsi d world. And I have found out. not by calculation, but by observation, that there is a grat success for you somewhere to balance your great struggle. Do not think that your ca9e is peculiar. The most favored have been pelted. The mobs smashed the windows of the Duke of Wellington while his wife lay dead In the house I'hrUr rathnmloM Merer. Whether In your life it is a south wind, or a north wind, a west wind or an east wind that is now blowing, do you not feel like saying: "This whole subject I now decide. Lord God, through thy Son, Jesus Christ, my Savior. I am thine forever. I throw myself, reckless of everything else, into the fathomless ocean of thy mercy." "But," says some one In a frvoloua and rollicking way, "I am not like the farmer you find in your text. 1 do not watch the wind. What do I care about

the weather vane? I am sowing now." What are you sowing, my rrother? Are you sowing evil ha 'nits" Are you sowing infidel and atheistic beliefs? AH yen sowing hatreds, revenges, discontents, unclean thoughts or unclean actions? It so. you will lab-e a big crop a very bis? crop. The farmer sometimes plants things that do not come up. and he has to pJant them over again. But those evil things that you have planted will take loot and come up in harvest of disappointment, in harvest of pain, in harvest of despair, in harvest of fire. Go right through some of .he unhappy homes of Washington and New York and all the cities, and through the hospitals and penitentiaries, and you will find stacked up, piled together, the sheaves of such an awful harvest. Hosea. one of the first of all the writing prophets, although four of the other prophets are put before him in the canon of Scripture, wrote an astounding metaphor that may be quoted as descriptive of those who do evil: "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Some one has said. "Children may be strangled, but deeds never." There are other persons who truthfully say: "I am doing the best I can. The clouds are thick and the wind blows the wrong way. but I am sowing prayers and sowing kindnesses and sowing helpfulness and sowing hopes of a better world." Good for you. my brother, my sister! What you plant will come up. What you sow will rise into a harvest the wealth of which you will not know until you go up higher. I hear the rustle of your harvest in the bright fields of heaven. The soft gales of that land, as they pass, bend the full headed grain in curves of beauty. It is golden in the light of a sun that never sets. As you pass n you will not have to gird on the sickle for the reaping.and there will be nothing to remind you of weary husbandmen toiling under hot summer sun on earth and lying down under the shadow of the tree at noontide, so tired were they, so very tired. No, no; your harvest will be reaped without any toil of your hands, without any besweating of your brow. Christ in one of his sermons told how your harvest will be gathered when be said, "The reapers are the angels."

CROWTH OF OCEAN TRAVEL. Shin Now Carry from 125 to SM C'nbla Pa nun. The marked increase in the volume of ocean steamship travel of late years has occasioned extended comment among agents of trans-Atlantic lines. It is sain that many Americans make six or more trips a year to the other side, where formerly they did cot cross at all. Englishmen and Germans who are engaged In the manufacturing trades. Industrials and even food raising, visit, this side much oftener now. Quite a few come to look around with an idea of ascertaining how Americans have made such gigantic commercial strides in such a short time, hut the great majority, realizing the necessity for adopting American methods where practicable, come here to purchase machinery and the like without which it would be impossible for them to copy Yankee thrift and industry. Not nearly so common on the ocean ships as he was five or ten years ago is the English ranchman bound for the far west. He is now in ths mining or engineering business In Mexico and Central America, although there are still many Britons engaged in the cattle raising business out west and throughout Canada. Some of the older vessels of our line shipped a large number of mules and horses that were sent to South Africa from New Orleans for English army service. It was surprising to discover what a big percentage of these animals came from the ranches of Englishmen who had settled in the north and west Where ships in the past were satisfied with sixty or seventy-five cabin passengers each trip at this season they are carrying from 125 to 225 now, if not one way. certainly the other. The number of buyers who are contsantly on the deep has become enormous. Naturally Canada has benefited by thus eagerness to patronize American methods and manufactures and she is sending drummers abroad. The ideal drummers' lair is no longer the American Pullman car, but the smoking saloon of the big trans-Atlantic liner. WHEN JERSEY WAS HUNGRY. Period During Which People Could Not Oet Knotig Ii to Kitt. There is on record in the annals of the state of New Jersey a season when the people actually suffered tor want of food. It was in the autumn of 1687, when the failure of crone caused a famine that prevailed all over the state and afflicted the people uf southern and centra New Jersey sorely. They were driven to eating -oots and nuts. The Indims were disposed to be kindly to the people and gave them assistance and taught them how to make the best of the natural resources of the country. They showed them how to gather and prepare the oysters and the clams and make the strange potpourri that this generation knows as clam chowder. They taught them the planking of all kinds of fish (shad were not then obtainable). The Indians were short of maize and in the same predicament, but they being native to the forest were more resourceful. Conditions were better in the upper part of the state, because there was more direct trading. There are no records to show that anybody actually perished during the period of the famine. The facts of the terrible condition in the Jersey colony reached the sympathetic pilgrims and puritans, and early In the spring, Just as many, worn by the hardships of winter, were despairing, a ship load of cereals and preserved meats came up the Delaware river, and its cargo was generously distributed. A general thanksgiving followed. The crops of the following summer were unusually good, and it was never recorded again in history that New Jersey had gone hungry. The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey fie magistrate. It is a mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly. Some of us have fnitn enough in ourselves even to bolieve our own promises.

Tretender to "Be Editor. To provide the French Royalists With an organ, the Duke of Orleans, who is the pretender to the throne of France, has purchased the Parisian newspaper Soleil, and will conduct the Journal in the interests of the cause of which he is the head. It is under stood that the Duke will assume persona charge of the editorial department of the paper. The novel spectacle of royalty, in the person of a claimant to a throne, who by blood and marriage is related to many of the crowned heads of the continent, turning editor will be interesting to contemplate. Orleans can weil afford to essay the task of financing a newspa per. His private fortune is ample. Recently it was reinforced by a decision of the French court which condemned the French govenment to turn over to the Duke and his family property and funds worth many millions of dollars. The property consists largely of canal shares which were the property of the house of Orleans at the time of the great revolution in the latter part of the eighteenth century. After the downfall of the dynasty this property was confiscated. In 1S14 laws were passed providing for its restoration to the original owners. This was impossible in a majority of cases, as the government had disposed of the property Subsequently the law provided that the restoration should be made in cases where the new owners died without heirs, which would place the government in actual possession of it. Restitution has been made under the decision rendered lately by the courts. Mary SacK.i)ille to tVcd. Lady Mary Sackville of England, well known to the 400 of New York and LADY SACKVILLE. to the elite of Washington, and who was at one time reported to have been engaged to Frank Gould, will soon rid herself of the name for fickleness which society has placed upon her. The titled English woman is now pre-

Head of Mystic Shr triers.

Philip C. Shaffer, the new imperial potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, is a native of Philadelphia, and one of the best known business men in town. He has just entered upon his fifty-first year and for more than one-half of his life has been a Mason. Upwards of seventeen years ago he joined the Shriners, and for twrelve years he officiated in the post of Oriental Guide of Lu Lu Temple Philadelphia. For three years he was the potentate of the temple, and he was elected to the office of the deputy Imperial potentate at the last meeting of the Shriners. Mr. Shaffer, as may be imagined, is one f the most en thusiastic of the Shriners in the country devoted to spirit and He ie purpose of this order, and few men have more mystic friends than he in his home city and throughout the country. It Quit Society to Labor, Arthur Lee Cabanne, the young society man who gave up his home to work as a laborer in a steel factory, promises to eclipse the career of Charles Reade's hero In "Put Yourself in His Place." Mr. Cabanne has received offers of marriage from numerous young women, among them a belle of Toronto, Canada, who tells him she has $600,000 in her own right which she is willing to give him for a start in life if h will marry her. Mr. Cabanne is 25 years old a college graduate and an athlete. His father, J. Charles Cabanne, is one of the most Influential and wealthiest merchants in St. Louis. Young Cabanne's desire was to carve out a career for himself Independent of any help from his family. He selected the steel buslnes for his future field, and, wlftitng to learn it from the bottom up, secured a position as a laborer in

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paring for her marriage to Hamilton Dent. London is looking forward to the event as one of COnsid ruble social significance. The announcement of the engagement was made May 21. Emancipate Farmer's Wife. F. J. Frost, of Almond, Wis., who : represents the Second District in the : Wisconsin legislature, wants a steam laundry established at every cross roads in the state, where farmers' wives may bring their weekly washings and save themselves one of the hardest duties of their wurk. Mr. Frost has not fully developed his idea as yet. and has no definite plan for the establishment and maintenance of the laundries, but he declares his plan is feasible. He is engaged in visiting the residents of his district, fixing his politlF. J. FROST. cal fences, and incidentally getting their views on his pet scheme. He contrasts the comparatively little labor done by the housewife in the city, where laundries are available, with the drudgery of the country farmhouse. Where each week's washing and ironing must be done on the premises and commonly by the housekeeper herself. The legis'ator believes a steam laundry could easily be operated in connection with each cieamery at his home town of Almond with a view to trying the plan. Mr. Frost hopes to be known to posterity as the emancipator of the country housewife. The reward he hopes for In life is a return to the legislature. Mr. Frost is serving his second term in the assembly. He is the Almond agent of several insurance companies and of an agricultural machinery manufacturer, and owns a large farm, which he manages in addition to his other business. He is a graduate from the Oshkosh Normal school and is 43 years old. There are said to be many heartburnings in Italy at the firmness of the king and queen in refusing to accept any of the gifts usually offered by the people on the occasion of the birth of royal heirs. Even some beautifully made little garments, which it was hoped might be regarded as harmless, were sent back, like rejected manuscripts, "with thanks."

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was believed from the beginning thai he would be promoted from the second highest to the highest office in the order. Mr. Shaffer Is prominent in the furniture trade. a factory in East St. Louis. He gave an assumed name, but a former coachman of the family recognized him, Now Mr. Cabanne is on the pay roll under his right name. At the same time he lives with his fellow workers, limits his expenses to his pay and is learning the steel industry by contact with its details. Christine JV its son lit, Mme. Christine Nilsson, who has been reported seriously 111 at Gothenburg, Sweden, and of whom this re port has been denied, appears to be troubled with rheumatism, from which fact have arisen from time to time numerous stories of disability and sickness. Mme. Nilsson for many years has been living in practical relrement. The former great singer is now In her 69tn year. She was the daughter of a laborer near Yexio in Sweden, and was born in the poorest of circumstances.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Utr,l"iu ; Ki.N Tlire ViTnnn and Injures Three Others Mute Threatens to File Btlhi Ea jtaing fiepe ed foal Couiiniii' -Liqiior League K . 'tln. TIto Killed by LlgbtaUaSb D:.magi:i storms prevailed over large portions of Indiana . Crops in northern Indiana, especially ia Allen county, were badly damaged. Thirty oil derricks and many barns äud houses were demolished by lightning in Blackford county. Three persons were killed and several injured by lightning. The dead: Bert Hathaway, Idaville, Ind.; Grace Larkin, 16-year-old daughter of Harvey Larkin, Riley, Ind.; Ira Smith, Youngstown, Ind.; Injured: Mrs. James Langdon, Kokomo, Ind.; paralyzed by lightning; James Parsons and son, Kokomo, terribly injured by lightning, Henry Goodlove, Idaville, stuuned. The storm took on cyclonic aspects at several places. At Marion the First Presbyterian church was struck by lightning and badly damaged; James Rowans' saloon near the soldiers' home was struck and partially destroyed. Five men who were in the saloon were knocked senseiess. Opposes Indians foal Trmt. The state may try to prevent the organization of the proposed coal tiust in Indiana by bringing suits to enjoin the operators from disposing of their property in that way. Deputy Attorney General Had ley said at Indianapolis that he intended to inquire into the plans of the trust promoters for the purpose of finding out if they a:e violating any of the provisions of the anti-trust statuta It is not believed that the Cooper anti-trust law. enacted ;it the last session of the legislature, will reach this case, but Hadley thinks that the law under which the suits were brought about two years ago to prevent certain glass manufacturers in Madison county from selling their property to the window gl:iss trust may apply. rly tVe ISIng t Oninry. A society event oi importance took place at Wabash in the marriage of James T. Keeley. eonnected with the Wabash Bridge and Iron company, and Misa Harriet Louise Howe, daughter of Maurice 9. Howe, vice president of the company, and one of Uta '.ealiug oil operators In Indiana The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. B. Work of the Wabash Street Method dist church, at the residence of Mr. Howe, at noon about sixty guests being in attendance. LlqaMM i.vugu Ktaeta onir. The Indiana Liquor League at Terre Haute elected :s p: i sident, George Keece Ol rerre Haute; vice president, W. H. Oberlin of Bjotler; treasurer, Chris. Moreioek of Terre If ante; financial secretary. Jobs R Cur-in of Terre Haute; recording secret try and state organiser, J. i-- (Talleo of Indianapolis; delegates to national convention at Buffalo. H. A Waftke and E. J. Lemon of Fort Wavne. Wattaah to llnve Me) Hank. Wabash is to have a new banking institution on Sept L The leading spirit in the enterprise is Howard M. Atkinson of the Atkinson Loan Agency. John H. Bireley, cashier of ths Citizens' bank at Wabash, has resigned and will be cashier of the new bank. Quarters have been secured in the new Wilson block now being erected and a safe deposit vault will be installed. 'S, (.ttT' Kledito Sentenced. Scotty Bledsoe, a young man who pleaded guilty at Washington, to assaulting with intent to kill Patrolman Jordan, was sentenced to the Jeffersonville prison for a term of from two to fourteen years. This makes four sent to prison this week. Fort Wayne Mn I AppnintedFrank E. Lewis of Fort Wayne has been notified officially that he has been designated for examination for a lieutenancy in the regular army. He was recommended by Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge. He is a clerk in a railroad offiie here and quite popular. Bt Haara in itrif Ciarkshill The contract for the new high school building at this place has been awarded to Joseph Boggs of Veedersbuig. con-id 'ration, 13, Jhjö. The building must be fullj equipped by Christmas. Fairmouut The seven-year-old daughter of Perry Seal-, a wellknown farmer one mile west of this city, was attacked by a vicious sour and was almost cut to pieces by the teeth and hoofs of the vicious brute. Goshen It is positively stated here that a syndicate backed by $3.000.000 capital has acquired possession of the franchises for the building of the La Porte & Michigan City electric railroad, and will begin the Immediate construction of the line. Knightstown After a separation of half a century Jabez Gayer of this county and Barton Guyer of Texas, met at a family reunion in this city Washington Ollie Gtbner and Freeman Jennings, young men of this city, have been committed to the Jeffersonvllle reformatory under the Indeterminate sentence act for burglary. Jasper John Reeves, convicted of the murder of Deputy Sheriff John Gardner, sixteen years ago, has been transferred to the northern Indiana prison, under the indeterminate sentence act. Valparaiso Emma, the flve-year old daughter of Mtchael Goeveh of Whiting, was struck by the Valparaiso accommodation train and instantly killed. Frankfort S. C. Harl.imon of this city has patented what he dslflM to he a perpetual light, or a chemical light. It burns in a glass globe, similar to au electric light La Porte -By majorities ranging from 130 to 922 the voters of Center and Springfield townships, Including the city of La Porte, have voted to expend $90.000 iu building macadamized rosds.

t I Current Topics Te e a aga f$ f f f jf ttfttt f litft j youthful Authoress. When a writer barely twenty years of age pre duces a book of sufficient merit to a. tract so conservative a publishing firm as the Harpers it is not too fulsome eredit to say she has achieved a distinct success. This distinction has been earned by Miss Margaret Horton Potter with her third novel, "The House of DeMailly." Miss Potter is the daughter of 0. W. Potter, the Chicago millionaire, and was born in Chicago in 1SS1. Her sister, Mrs. Gertrude Potter Daniels, has also published two successful books. Miss Potter has acquired most of her education through travel and reading. Miss Potter's last trip abroad included a considerable stay in a remote village in Sicily; there she secured much of the material woven into her last novel, the scenes of which are laid in the court

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of Louis XV. Miss r. er's first book was called 'A Social Lion" and her second "Uncanonized." "Business in South Africa. Consul General ßtowe of Cape Town predicts a business revival in South Africa after the close of the Boer war and advises American exporters to be I on the lockout for their Share of ths j new trade. He argues that the losses j of the war must be replaced and that , these losses cover almost everything men buy and sell, from farm implements and household nee sities to mining niachiie ry sad railway supplies. To corroborate hi.s argument Le cites the fact that American manufacturers of mining machinery have already received orders aggregating 15,000,1 Mr. Stowe's roseate predictions Should be accepted with some reservations. As regards one class of imports his view is correct, while as regards another class be p:oba"jiy is in en or. It is true that the need for goodp and commodities of sU kinds will be widespread and urgent, but the cash with which to buy them will be laekintr in many cases. The Boers are fighting desperately and have become impoverished. They will bo sorely in need of clothes, t od. Implements, and all the uecessari i of life, but they are now too poor to do any large amount of buying for some years to come, thft is unless they wipe out British authority. Then they can raUe all the money they will need. Mascagnt to Tour United State Pietro Mascagni. the celebrated Italian composer, who is (oming to America for a concert season of eight weeks, has written several operas, but only one of these has taken its place beside the great compositions of the nineteenth century. This is "Cavalleria Rusticana." Mas.agni. like Verdi, was born in the humblest of circumstances. His father was a baker of Leghorn, and in that city the future PIETRO MASCAGNI. composer first looked upon day on December 7, 1SG3. He played so well on the piano that the musicians of the town sent him as a child to the conservatory at Milan. There he fought with his masters and turned his back upon them. Then he traveled with a cheap opeia company and wrote the merest nothings in music. In 1SS8 a Milanese manager ottered a prize for an opera. Maseacni wrote "Cava'.leria" and sent it in. The jury at once awarded him the prize and his fortune and reputation were made at one stroke. In 1S9G he became the director of ths conservatory at Pesaro Support T)artvinian Gheory. Dr. Winfield S. Hall of Chicago, who caused a stir in the Y. M. C. A. convention at Boston with the declaration that the Darwinian theory of evolution is not in conflict with Christian belief, is a graduate of Northwestern University, Chicago, and is now a member of the faculty of the medical school of that institution. In America and abroad he has made a special study of chemistry, physiology, a no biology. He is the author of several text-books treating of pkaaes of i h as subjects scientists Talus especially his articles setting forth the fallacy of the claim that alcohol hi i food. Th professor's espousal of th Darwinian principle is considered the more imp trtaat on account of hN Aeep research into the theory and development of life. Once resolved, the trouble is over.

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