Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 August 1901 — Page 3

TALMAGE'S SEEMON.

"DISCOVER NOT A SECRET TO ANOTHER." Ceplng One's Own Counsel People Should Leara to Say Xothlnc of Others That I 2fot of Good Import Fror erb XXVi 0. (Copyright, 1301. Louis Klopsch. N. T.) Washington, July 23. A practical Question which Is asked in most Louses, and for many years, is here asked by Dr. Talmage and answered; text. Proverbs xxv, 9, "Discover not a ecret to another." It appears that In Solomon's time, as In all subsequent periods of tha world, there were people too much disposed to tell all they knew. It was blab, LJab, blab; physicians revealing the case of their patients, lawyers exposing the private atfiirs of their clients, neighbors advertising the faults of the next door resident, pretended friends betraying confidences. One-half of the trouble of every Community corr.ps from tag fact that so many people have not the capacity to keep their mouths shut. When I hear sotaetbinr: disparaging of you, my first duty 13 r.ot to tell you, but if I tell you what somebody has said against you and then go out and tell everybody !s3 what I told you, aid they go out an J tell cth-rs what I toM them that I told you. and we all go out, some to hunt up the originator of the Ftory and others to hunt It down, we shall Set the whole community talking about what you did not do, and there trill be as many scalps taken as though a band cf Modocs had swept upon a helpless village. We havs two ears, but on:y on-1 tongue, & physiological suggestion font we ouht to hear a ffood deal more than we tell. Let us Join a conspiracy that we will tell each other all Mit? rrood and nothing of th.? Ill, and then there will net be such awful rcd of 2rnoas on . Solomon's words. "Discover not a secret to another." Solomon had a very largo domestic eirclo. In hi.-? earlier days he had very confused notions about monogamy and polygamy, and his multitudinous associates in the matrimonial state kept him t?o well informed as to what wa going on In Jerusalem. They gathered up all thf privacies and poured them Into his ear. and his family became a nrofls or female debating society of 70. d!?cu?in:r clay after day all th difficulties between husbands and wives, between emplo3ers and employes, between rulers and subjects, until Solomon. In my text, deplores volubility about affairs that do not belong to us and extols the virtue of seeretivenf ?s. Outbrj ehing; of Sympathy. Yon sometimes see a man with no cutbrauchings of sympathy. His nature Is cold and hard, like a ship's mast ice glacM, which the most agiie aller could never climb. Others have a thousand roots and a thousand tranches. Innumerable tendrils climb their hearts and blossom all the way Bp, and the fowls of heaven sing in the branches. In consequence of this tendency we find men coming together in tnbea. In communities, in churches, in societies. Some gather together to cultivate the arts, some to plan for the welfare of the state, some to discuss religions themes, some to kindle their mirth, some to advance their craft. 8o erery active community is divided lrto associations of artists, of merchants, of bookbinders, of carpenters, of masons, of plasterers, of shipwrights, cf plumbers. Do you cry out against It? Then you cry out against a tendency divinely Implanted. Your tirades would accomplish no more than If yon should preach to a busy ant kill a long sermon against 9ecret societies. Here we find the oft discussed question whether associations that do their work with closed doors and admit their r3r-rr.berF by passwords and greet each ether with a secret grip are right or wmng. I answer that It depends entirely on the nature of the object for which the7 meet. Is It to pass the kenn in revelry, wassail, blasph-my ard obscure talk or to plot trouble to tfcf tat? or to debauch the Innocent, tlf-n I say. with an emphasis that no in; n car. mi-take. No: But is the object th defense of tho rights of any elr.ss again.st oppression, the Improvement of the mind, the enlargement of the heart, the advancement of art, the defense of the government, the extirpation, of crime or the kindling of a pure h-arted sociality, then I say, with Just as much emphasis, Yes! Karret Soc-Uti. There are secret societies in our college that have letters of the Greek alphabet for their nomenclature, and their members are at the very front in scholarship and Irreproachable In morals, while there are others the scene of carousal, and they gamble, and they drink, and they graduate knowing a hundred times more about sin than they do of geometry and Sophocles. In other words, secret societies, like Individuals, are good or bad. are the means of moral health or of temporal and eternal damnation. All good people recognize the vice of slandering an individual, but many do not see the sin f slandering an organization. There are old secret secletlea in this and ther countries, some of them centuries old. which have been widely deaounced as Immoral and damaging in their Influence, yet I have hundreds f personal friends who belong to them friends who are consecrated to God, pillar in the church, faithful in all relation of life, examples of ylrtue and piety. Thy are the kind of friends whom I would have for my executors at tae time of decease, and they axe the on whom I would have carry me at t the last sleep when I ara dead. You cannot make rae bellere that they woidl belong to bad Institution. Thty axe the men who would gtanap en anything iniquitous, and I would certainly rather iake thlr testimony In regard to such societies Oxen the testinoay of those who, having been sworn In am members, by their assault upon them conesig themeelve3 perjurers. One of these secret societies gave for the relief of the sick in 1873 in this eountry, 11,430,274. Some of these uosltties have poured a very heaven of

' sunshine and benediction into the home of suffering. Several of them I are founded on fidelity to good citizen

ship and the Bible. I have never taken one of their degrees. They might give me the grip a thousand times and I would not recognize it. I am ignorant of their passwords, and I must Judge entirely from the outside. But Christ has given us a rule by which we may Judge not only all Individuals, but all societies, secret and open. "By their fruits ye shall know them." Bad societies make bad men. Good societies make good men. A bad man will not stay in a good society. A good man will not stay in a bad society. Then try all secret societies by two or three rules. In C nance on Jlotce Life. Test the first: Their Influence on home, if you have a home. That wife soon losrs her influence over her husband who nervously and foolishly looks upon all evening absence as an assault on domesticity. How are the great enterprises of reform and art and literature and beneficence and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have his world bounded on one side by his front doorstep and on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or lower than his own cellar? That wife who becomes jealous of her husband'3 attention to art or literature or religion or charity i3 breaking her own scepter of conjugal power. I know an instance where a wife thought that her husband was giving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable service, to prayer meetings and to religious convocation. She systematically decoyed him away until now he attends no church, waite upon nocharitable institution and is on a rapid way to destruction, his moral3 gone, his raoney gone and, I fear, hi3 soul gone. Let any Christian wife rejoice when her husband consecrates evenings to the service of humanity and of God or anything elevating, but let no man sacrifice home life to secret society life, as many do. I can point out to you a great man; names of men who are guilty of this sacrilege. They are as gonial as angels at the society room and as ugly as sin at home. They are genereous o;i all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and fast horses, but they are stingy about the wives' dresses and the children's shoes. That man has made that which might be a healthful Influence a r.surrer of his affection and he has married it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this proce. s his wife, whatever her features, becomes uninteresting and homely. He becomes critical of her, does not like the dress, does not like the way she arranged her hair, is amazed that he ever was so unromantic a3 to offer her hand and heart. There are secret societies wnere membership always Involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me that a man has joined a certain kind and tell me nothing more about him for ten years, and I will write his history If he be still alive. The man is a wine guzzler, his wife broken hearted or prematurely old, his fortune gone and his home a mere name in the directory. Evils of Bad Association. j The doctor coming in will at a j glance see it is not only present disease he mu3t fight, but years of fast j living. The clergyman, for the sake : of the feelings of the family on the funeral day will only talk in rellgous generalities. The men who got his yacht in the eternal rapids will not be at the obsequies. They have pressing engagements that day. They will Bend flowers to the coffin, will send their wives to utter words of sympathy, but they will have engagements elsewhere. They never come. Bring me mallet and chisel, and I will cut that man's epitaph, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord?" "No," you say "that would not he appropriate. "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his?" "No," you say, ''that would not be appropriate." Then give me the mallet and the chisel and I will cut an honest epitaph. "Here lies the victim of dissipating associa tlons!" Another test by which you can find whether your secret society Is right or wrong is the effect It has on your secular occupation. I can understand how through such an institution a man can reach commercial success. I know some men have formed their best business relations through such a channel. If the secret society has advantaged you In an honorable calling.lt is a good one, but has your credit failed? Are bargain makers now more anxious how they trust you with a bale of goods? Have the men whose names were down in the commercial agency Al before they entered the society been going down since In commercial Btanding? Then look out. You and I every day know of commercial establishments going to ruin through th social excesses of one or two members, their fortune beaten to death with ball players bat or cut amidships with the front prow of the regatta or goin? down under the swift hoofs of the fast horses or drowned in the large potations of cognac or Monongahela. That secret society was the Loch Earn. Their business was the Ville de Havre. They struck, and the Ville de Iltivre went under! Io the Lat Roar. Which would you rather have in your hand when you come to die, a pack of cards or a Bible? Which would you rather have pressed to your lips In the closing moment, the cup of Be1shazzarean wassail or the chalice of Christian communion? Whom would you rather have for your pallbearers, the elders of a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of slang and innuendo? Whom would you rather have fbr your eternal companions, those men who epnd their evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing and telling vile stories or your little child, that bright rirl whom the Lord took? Oh, you would not have been away so many nights, would you, if you had known she was going away so soon? Dear me, yaur houee has never been the ; same place since. Your wife has never j brightened up. She has nejrer got over j It. She never will get over It. How ' long the evenings are with no one to j put to bed and no one to whom to tell the beautiful Bible stories! What a i

!ty It ts that you cannot spend sort evenings at home in trying to help her bear that sorrow! You can never drown that grief in the wine cup You can never break away from the little anna that used to be flung around your neck when she used to say, "Papa, do stay with me tonight, do stay with me tonight!" You will never be able to wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of your little girl The fascination of a bad secret society is so great that sometimes a man has turned his back on his home when his ohlld was dying of scarlet fever. He went away. Before he got back at midnight the eyes had been closed, the undertaker had done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks watching, lay unconscious in the next room. Then the returned father comes np stairs, and sees the cradle gone, and he says, "What is the matter?" On the judgment day he will find out what was the matter. Oh, man astray, God help you! I am going to make a very stout rore. You know that sometimes a ropeinaker will tike very small threads and wind them together until after awhile they become a ship cable. And I ara going to take Eome very small delicate threads and wind them together until they make a very stout rdpe. I will take all the memories of the marriage day a thread of laughter, a thread of light, a thread of music, a thread of banqueting, a thread of congratulationand I twist them together, and I have one strand. Then I take a thread of the hour of the first advent in your house, a thread of the darkness that preceded, and a thread of the beautiful scarf that little child used to wear when she bounded out at eventide to greet you, and a thread of the beautiful dress in which you laid her away for the resurrection, and then I twist all these threads together, and I have another strand. Then I take a thread of the scarlet robe of a suffering Christ, and a thread of the white raiment cf your loved ones before the throne, and a string of the harp cherubic, and a string of tho harp seraphic, and I twist them all together, and I have a third strand. "Oh," you t&y, "either strand is enough to hold fast a world!" No. I wih take these strands and I will twist them together, and one end of that rope I will fasten, not to the communion table, for it shall be removed; not to a pillar of the organ, for that will crumble in the nges; but I wind it round and round the cross of a sympathizing Christ, and, having fastened one end of the rope to the cross, I throw the other end to you. Lay hold of it! Pull for your life! Pull for heaven!

ART IN FRONT DOORS. Let Glazed Picture Kcplice BUttered Paint and Graining. How many thousands of expanses of blank nonentity are represented In London alone by that portentous emblem of respectability, the front door? Has it never occurred to anybody what a boundless field for the exercise of decorative art has here been so long neglected? With the exception of a very few made In polished mahogany and some with ornamental iron work, the artistic possibilities of what Dr. Johnson might have called "the ligneous barrioadoeT Is altogether neglected. If you knock or ring, and the servant Is a long whilo "answering the door" as if a door were in the habit of asking questions you will find there is nothing to look at but blistered paint, or graining, which is never the least like any wood that was ever known, or possibly a bilious, distorted presentment ctf yourself In a brass plate. Now, why should this dismal state of things be allowed to exist? Every front door should be different from Its neighbor, and every portal should be a joy to the waiter in the doorstep. Artists ara plentiful, and plate glass is inexpensive. Let the panels be removed from the door and let glazed pictures take their place. It might take the form of landscape, figure, or decoratlro work, or anyone who wished to advertise himself might exhibit his own portrait to tho passing public. If you could not afford pictures you might have black-and-white sketches, etchings and prints. In a littb while you would set to know a man's house, not by the number, but by the picture. The only drawback I see to the Idea is that, if you exhibited a specially fine work of art, you would have your steps blocked up by enthusiasts anxious to havo a cheap look at it. Lady's notorial. ONE SHADE OR TWO. Why are Soaae Thlnjrs (iray and Others c;rjr? Is there a difference between "grey and "gray aside from the matter of spelling? American lexicographer say there is not. but the Academy tells us that we must be careful if we would give each its "special application,' And it adds very learnedly: "Who does not feel that some things are grey and others gray?" If anybody does not feel that way let him not be ashamed to speak up. Dr. Murray, the editor of the great new dictionary that is now only partly published, went about in 183.1 making an inquiry as to usage and found that opinions in London varied. The replies to his questions showed that in Great Britain the form grey is the more frequent in use, despite the authority of Dr. Johnson and later lexicographers., who give the preference to gray. Many correspondents said they had used the two forms with a difference of meaning or application, the distinction most generally reoofrnized being that prey denotes a more delicate or lighter tint than gray. Others considered the difference to be that gray is a warmer color, or that it baa a mixture of red or brown. The Academy's own opinion is that gray has more of sentiment, grey more of color, which means that gray is a auggeatlon rather than a positive outline. After all this learned discussion ple will go on pronouncing the word without reference to its vowel, and in saying that the shade Is gray they will let any one with a fancy for the dispute spell It to suit himself. These fine distinctions may be ignored on the plea of the brevity of life. Youth's Companion.

The problem of aerial navigation has at last been solved. It is unquestionably epoch-making news that has been cabled from Paris, France, de3eribing M. Santos-Dumont's aerial Toyage around the Eiffel tower and ver the suburbs of Paris. Man's triumph over the paths of the air has eome with this accomplishment. The gifted Brazilian's performances were as much in advance of Count Zeppelin's and other previous accomplishments as the latter surpassed ordinary ballooning. 811 Aelmt Wind. M. Santos-Dumont left St. Cloud in his new airship, circulated around the

COURSE TAKEN BY THE Eiffel tower, and went back nearly to the starting point, a distance of ten i miles, in forty minutes. But unfor- j tunately when near home hid motor j failed him and he was obligt-d to rip hi3 silken balloon to hasten descent and avoid Injury. Notwithstanding this accident M. Santos-Dumont's experiment was a success in that the balloon navigated against the wind for the first time In the history of airship construction. One or two minor defects which can be easily remedied in a few hours prevented the complete c&rryiDg out of the tests, but it is safe to prophesy that within a month M. Santos-Dumont's invention will hold as complete dominion over tha air as a ship docs over the sea. Ta-ccl Krug jffw. Fhul To his wife, who died In Pretoria a few days ago, President Kruger of the Transvaal attributed much of his success in the political life of the South African republic. Mrs. Kruger was compared in this respect to the wife of the late Prince Bismarck. Like Mrs. Bismarck, ehe remained modestly In the background, and comparatively little is known about her. That the Influence of "Tante Sante" over the obstinate, unyleldlDg Oom Paul was great Is, however, known, and while Mrs. Kruger seemed to take little Interest in politics, it is said her husCIVetand a HanKrupt. William S. Cleveland, known to the theatrical profession and the amusement-loving public fer many years as "Billy Cleveland, is to re-enter the field as a fun pro ducer within the near future. And this In the face of liabilities. $559,000; assets, nothing." to which he confessed In the federal court at Chicago the other day. A string of playhouses on the Pacific slope and in the east caused Cleveland to five up the financial ghost, and incllentally there were numberless aotors who claimed they had good cases against him for salaries that were Wanks. But all of this 13 f the past, and the bankruptcy law dispelled the gloom of creditors which pervaded the atmosphere in Mr. Cleveland's erstwhile Ticlnlty. And now, undaunted, untamed and as full of witty sayings

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M. Santos-Dumont's immediate object has been to win the prize of 100,000 francs offered a year ago by M. Deutsch, the Rouen petroleum refiner. The conditions required that a start bo made in the neighborhood of St. Cloud, that tho Eiffel tower be circled three times, and that the airship then return to its starting place at an average sped of not less than thirteen miles an hour. More than one inventor has been struggling under this incentive. Hence M. Santos-Dumont has been working at the greatest speed lest he be forestalled, and he undertook the test at the earlist moment. He has already discovered several possible improve

ments which will Increase the mobility and safety of the airship. The Deutsch prize amounts to $20,000 in United States money. Aronad the Tower. M. Santos-Dumont reached the Eif fel tower at 7 o'clock in the morning. His balloon was being propslled through the atmosphere apparently with ease and greater grace than a ' 4 AIRSHIP IN ITS FLIGHT. eteam yacht plows the seas. M. Santos-Dumont sat in the forward part of the car handling the lines which controlled .the engine and the rudder. The balloon glided along toward the Eiffel tower, its coat reflecting the beams cf the early sun, apparently obeying the will of the steerer willingly. Nearlng th tower on the couth side the baloon maintained its course until it was less than fifty yards away, whou it gracefully turned northward. M. Santos-Dumont continued to turn hl3 machine until it pointed directly westward. It seemed to be absolutely unhampered by the wind. It passed the Eitfel tower at an altitude of about 10 meters between the first and second stages. The entrance to the er9 Wife. tfrugep. band often consulted her in matters of state. Mrs. Kruger was a daughter of the Duplessis family, one of the best known names in South Africa, and was a niece of President Kruger'ß first wife. She bore Oom Paul sixteen children, seven of whom were living up to the outbreak of the war with Great Britain, in which two of the four sons have been killed, leaving two sons and three daughters still alive. The Duplessis family comes from the blood that gave Cardinal Richelieu to the world, and Mrs. Kruger therefore and funny ideas as ever In his prime, Cleveland is going to put on a novel continuous show under canvas. The idea is said to have various "departments' of vaudeville, minstrelsy, comic opera, burlesque and acrobatics combined under one great canvas dome. There will be "one entrance and one admission," and the spectators will see "eleven great shows In one." yt Substitute for Woo!. Artificial wool made from turf fibers Is now employed at Düsseldorf, Germany, for manufacturing cloth, bandages, hats, rugs, etc., says the Youth's Companion. Ten years have elapsed Rinee the first attempts to make turf wool, and It Is averred that recent Improvements in the processes have resulted In tho production of a soft, fibrous material, which can be spun as readily as sheep's wool, and which, besides possessing excellent absorbent properties, is capable of being bleached and colored for use in various textile industries. Germany exported over J4.000.000 worth of soaps and perfumes in 1S99. J

Pare was obstructed, by two very high sheds In which M. Deutsch, donator of

the prize, is building a large balloon for the purpose of winning it himself. M. Santos-Dumont made repeated attempts against the wind to enter the Pare between the sheds. The struggle lasted five minutes. The supply of petroleum then became exhausted and the machine was left to the mercy of the wind. Finding that the motor worked irregularly and then stopped suddenly, M. Santos-Dumont, in order to prevent the ballon from being carried away, tore the silk covering in order to allow the gas to escape and make a quick descent. The machine, however, was blown acros the Seine and became entangled in a he?tnut tree in Edmund Rothschild's garden. The aeronaut descended without InJury. Almost hie first word was that he would yet succeed in winning the 520.000 prize. Cost a Fortune. The ship is the outgrowth of several years of work and experiment on the part of the inventor. This machina 1 I FINISH was only recently completed. The gearing apparatus is suspended from a huge cigar-shaped balloon. The motor is a gasolino engine which drives the shaft of the screw. The aeronaut tits in the saddle and starts the motor by means of a pedal and chain gear, as in the case of a motor cycle. The gasoline is contained in the upper cylinder and in the lower and larger cylinder is a reservoir of water which is used as a ballast. The machine cost its inventor a fortune. was not without distinguished ancestry. Little is known, however, about the family tree. When Mr. and Mrs. Kruger, in 1892. entered the two-itory cottage in Pretoria which was the executive mansion of the Transvaal, they did not change their mode of life, and the simple, unpretentious housekeeping which they had followed theretofore was continued. It was only within the last few years, and then only because of her great age. that Mrs. Kruger took servants into the house. Up to four years ago she did all the housework herself, although her husband's Income of 530,500 from the government, not to speak of his winnings from his private enterprises, was 6Ufficient to have given her the service of a princely castle. But Mrs. Kruger preferred to do her own cooking and housecleaning, and seldom had any assistance save that of her daughters while they were etill unmarried. S?ong-r qf the People. Not long ago a protest was made against the name of our national hymn. It was urged that the title was a misnomer and that "Columbia" should be substituted for "America." A little later objection was made to the tune because it was borrowed straight from "God Save the King" and consequently not suited to freedom's cause. And now a correspondent of the New York Sun proposes to do away with the whole thing. He says: "Lot us have a fresh and original tune, and in the name of good taste, patriotism and common sense away with the vapid and ramshackle verse." y. HebuKß from Canada. The Hon. David Mills, Canadian minister of justice, has recently been saying some exceedingly harsh things with regard to the alleged Indisposition of descendants of the Pilgrims to raise large families. Among other things, he said: "The New England people are upon the soil, but are no of It. They obviously dislike farming as much as their women do having children, and were it not for the Incapable among them, and the foreigner who have taken up their residence among them, there would be neither children born nor fields cultivated." Of a "Religious tSurn. Step by Step. Every clay's duty con scientioufly performed will lead us J step by step neaver heaven. But yoi will soon grow weary If you try tc j ßklp the Christian's week-day dutj with the idea that Sunday obscrvanc J Is sufficient. Ram's Horn.

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A WEEK IX INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Steamer Ethel Strike Snnka log oq Webster Lake, and Twnty-Mu xrurslonUt II.re a Marrow Kcape from Drowning Iloat Sink. Church YVutkera' Staslon. The business session of the thirteenth annual convention cf th'j Young People's Christian Uuio l of the United and Associated Rtform Presbyterian church of North America began at Winona lake. The following national officer were fleeted: President. Millard McMui da of Mari?sa, 111.; leoording sectary, Mary J. Stewart of Philadelphia pres.- secretary, John A. Crafurd o: Chicago: tr' asurer, E. K. Ma: quia of In !Un;:p -lis; Junior chair:.. an. J. A. Crosby of Aurora, 111. Mr. M.TTiis p'cd s tJ rais ?30.000 . for tie v.-ork of the Unitrd Presbyterian church. V. C. Nico', who r-.iired as pi:i.i-nt, will sr-on leave for Rav.ai Pindi, Indie, as one of the faculty of the Gorion Memorial col-le-e, the denors cf which are Miss Ina Law Robertsm and Misi Eleanor C. Law of Chicago. N. a. ly 1.000 delegates ?r.d visitors are the-re. General Secretary T. JZ. Harna in his report showed 1,100 soc-ierle.i, v.iih combined nu-mbershiD ot 40,'jj United Presbyterians, whih- the number of Associated Reform blanch v;Y. reach 20,"O0, principally in the southern states. Hryiia a ( l:ii-f A 1 1 ra'tVn. On Democratic fhty at tho Island Tark assembly C " 1 V. J. Bryan was the chief Mir. vfior... A secret meeting of poi'th :av v:.-:- -i-h 'ul I to hold at 1 o'cIch'c. a: which di.--trict and . tit' r, )ili:;;:a::.- were expected to '-- rr-.s--;'t. .T-i-i! s M. ItobinCor.yr ..-?r.r u c: ti.r Tv.vHth Indiana di-;:ict. v - . nt ! Mr 1-ryaa amkict loud aj i-h . Mr. i'vyaa fai'l that for th vni f v y, he had clovrtr'l h;? titv.e to no ;fi O'l j a srudy of tho grv.-TMr.rnT sr. l h" Ind dc'dM that if this naiM;: v,-.w going to he a great r.nticn the rM-'' w-re to bt aroused to h:?h !d--'.'. 11 would make a Democratic ?:'---:h. mraninr it not in a partisan st.4. but in that broadest sense, wH-h rr'-ar.s ru!- by the peaple. He luuhd Thvmr.s J-ffr-son and said 1 p was the greatest Democrat that ever lived and compared him with Lincoln. He referral to th United State? as a c.i:i'prr:ng nation and said: '"If you sh'jw a man who wants to conquer the Filipinos I will say that I believe wr want to conquer the world. Not only do I believe it, but think it is possible." .Mr. Ireese Kill W. K. Cray. William E. Gray, a stör.. contractor of Franklin, was shot and Instantly killed at the Red Mills, near Bog?stown, by Mrs. Martin Frees-?. Tho woman was visiting relatives near there and had pjiio to the creek to fish. She also took a bath, and Gray came upon her while she was bathins, ar.d, it is alleged. in.-uheJ hr. She came to town, procured a revolver, and. accompanied by her husband, a former employe of Gray, returned to the place where he was working, and, without a word of warning, she shot twice, the second bullet pi-rcing Gray's heart and causing instant death. Mrs. Freese is still at largo. Birth In a 1'itrol Wagon. If the young sui of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Larson of HoLart. Ind., pursues tho course which might to expected from eircuListances sunounding his birth, he will eventually become a policeman. The boy first saw the light of day through the narrow windows of a patr.d va?oa speodia. swiftly to the Enclewod Union hospital. Sixty-fourth and HaNt. d streets, Chicago. TIu i; ..! irt.n f, om Hobart to viit the yonr.j; wv.'amn's mother, who lives on tlie North s!d. Lar.-o:i is foreman iu a manufu. lUiiag plant. at Hobart. Isl:ml I'ark Aeniblr. The annual rr.v tin? of th? Island Tark assem.b'y at Home City e;i :ir i with a concert. The assembly talent and faculty for the year includes Gen. John J. Gordon, Rev. Marshall C. Lowe. Rev. Sam Jr nes. Wallace Bruce. Rev. Edmund F. Albertson. Rev. C. A. Vincent, Rev. S. S. Hager. Rev. Ulysses A. Foster, Rev. Aaron Worth, Her. N. R C. Love. J. E. P.olless Prof. H. V. Richards. Col. Robert Cowden, John M. Wiley, Rev. W. F. Harding and Rev. J. V. Coomb?. Eirnrnlun ttoat Sinkt. The steamer Ethel, on Webster Iake, twelve miles north of Washington, struck a sunken log and in two minutes the boat sank from sieht. Twenty-nine excursionists were rescued, some of them in an unconscious state. It Is thought all were saved. The boat sank in forty feet of water. Indian Newa tn Krlf. Sullivan. Elder M. Wilson Yoeum of the First Christian church has resigned, to take effect on Sept. 30. He came here from Brazil and has been very popular. Indianapolis will be unable to meet its August bills unless there Is some Immediate chanpe in the city's financial conditions. The treasury is empty and no loan can be negotiated witaout the authority of the council. The council Is not In session and will not again convene until An curt T. At Richmond the Licht, Hrat and Tower company bepan an injunction suit to prevent the city from erecting its own lighting plant. Farmers in the vicinity of Barber's Mill have perfected a co-operative association ar.d will ship their grain and live stock to eastern markets. Darlington. William Cater, nineteen years old. fell from a hay mow, breaking his left arm and suffering severe internal injuries. W. B. Lynch, proprietor of the local sawmill, was badly crushed by a falling log at the mill.