Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Page 2

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

SHOWS JOSEPH’S LIFE TO BE FOLLOPPR ACTTCKT.LESSOKS. 11 1 . It Illustrate* the Fact that Ton Can* aot Keep a Good Man Down and that the World la Compelled to Honor Christian Character. The Life of Joseph. 'This sermon of Rev. Dr. Talmage is full of stirring and pracrieallessons for all. iWsrfWtigTon has many men who, like the hero of the texts. started from almost nothing and rose to high place. The tests chosen were,: Genesis nxrii., 28, “They drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelitcs for 20 pieees of silver," Genesis xlv.. 26, “Hr Is governor over all the land of Egypt.” Yon cannot keep a good-man down. God lias decreed for him a rertain point of elevation. He will' bring him to that ♦hough it cost him a thousand worlds. You aometiaaer find men fearful they will not Improperly appreciated. Every man cornea to he valued at just what he is worth. You cannot write him up, and you cartnot write him down. These facts are powerfully illustrated in my subject. It would be an insult to suppose that you were not all familiar with the life of Joseph —how his jealous brothers threw him into a pit. but aeeing a caravan of Arabian merchants trudging, along on their, camels, with spices and gums that loaded the air with •rotn.-i, sold their brother to these merchsiiis, who va-rried him down into EgyptfJoscidi there sold to Potiphar. a man of Influence a*d office; how by Joseph’s integrity hr r.'.isid himself to high position in the realm until, under the false charge of a vile wretch, he was hurled into the penitentiary: how in prison he commanded respect and confidence; how by the iuterpretatjon <*f Pharaoh's dream he was freed and became t!i.e chief man in the realm, the Biemajrek of liis century; liow * In tiie time of had the control .if a magnificent storehouse which he hail filled during seven years of plenty; "Low when his brothers, who had thrown liim into the* pit and sold him into captivity, applied for (Wa he sent them home with the boast of burden borne down under tile fee*; ~f (fee corn sacks; how tllO •tin against their brother which had so long been hidden came out at last and was returned by that brother’s forgiveness and kindness, the only revenge he took. You see, in the first place, that the world is compelled to honor Christian character. Potiphar was only a man of the world, yet Joseph rose in his estimation Hntil all the affairs of that great fcou&c • were committed to his charge. From his servant no honor or confidence was withheld. When Joseph was in prison, he soon won the heart of the keeper, «nd, though placed there for being*a scoundrel, he soon convinced the jailer that he was an innocent and trustworthy man, and, released from close confinement, he became general superintendent of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was placed, whether a servant in the house of Potiphar or a prisoner in the penitentiary, he became the first man everywhere •nd is an illustration of the truth I lay down—that the * world is compelled to honor Christian character. There are those who affect to despise a religious «ifo. They speak of it as a system of phlebotomy which the man is bledof all his courage and nobility. They say he has bemeaned himself. They pretend to have nt> more confidence in him since his conversion than before liis conversion. But all this is hypocrisy. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy outside the chunk. It is impossible for any man not to admire and confide in a man who shows •that he has really become a child of God and is what he professes to be. You cannot despise a son of the Lord God Almighty. Of course we have uo admiration for the sham of religion. Religious Pretense. I was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone into the rail train and demanded that the passengers throw up tho pocketbooks, and satan comes and suggests to a man that he throw up his arms in hypocritical prayer and pretension, and then steals his soul. For the s ,»icre pretension of religion we have abhorrence-. Itedwaid, theking, after,hago tisni, had an altar of Christian sacrifice aud an altar for sacrifice to devils, and there are many men now attempting the «sine thing—half a heart for God and half • heart for rhe world—and it is a dead failure, aud it is a caricature of religion, «iul the only successful assault ever made «u Christianity is the inaoß«wfc*... „f v its professor*, Y'ou may have a contempt for pretension to religion, but when you behold the excellency of Jesus Christ come out in the life of one of his disciples all that there is good and noble in your soul rises up into admiration, and you cannot help it. Though that man be far beneath jr«u in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom we are discoursing was beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature Potiphar and Pharaoh will always esteem Joseph. When Eudoxia. the empress, threatened Ohrysostom with death, he made the reply. “Tell the empress I fear nothing but „ *iu.” Such a scene as that compels the admiration of the world. There was something in Agrippa and Felix which demanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against government. I doubt not ♦hey would willingly have yielded their' office and dignity for a thousandth part of that true heroism which beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apostle. Paul did not cower before Felix. Felix cowered before Paul. The infidel aad worldling are compelled to honor fn their hearts, although they may not eulogize with their lips, a Christian firm in persecution, cheerful in poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in death. I find Christian men in all professions and occupations, and I find them reopected and honored and successful. John Frederick Oberlin alleviating ignorance and distress: Howard passing from dungeon to lazaretto with healing for the body and soul; Elizabeth Fry going to the profligacy of Newgate prison to shake It* obduracy as the angel came to the prison at Philippi, driving open the doors and snapping loose the chain, as well as fbe lives of thousands of followers of I JeauAjwho have devoted timnwclie*. to aad agiritaal welfare of the I v«Qe are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the fkrwogtioa Reveal* Heroism. . W* learn also from this story of Joseph that th» result of persecution is elevation. Had It not been for his being sold into

Egyptian bondage by his malicious brothers and his false imprisonment Joseph never would have become a governor. Everybody accepts the promise, “Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake, for fheirs is’ the kingdom of heaven.” but They do not realise the fact that this principle applies to worldly as well as spiritual success. It is true in all departments. Men rise to high official positions through misrepresentation. Public. abuse is all that some of bur public Tnen hare had to rely upon for their elevation. It has brought’ to them What talent and executive force could not have achieved. Many of those who are making great effort for place an<Lpo»e,P will never succeed- jnst because they are not of enough to be abused. It is the nature of men—that is, of all generous aad reasonable men—to gather about those who arc persecuted and defend them, .and they jtre apt to forget the fa,tilt of those Who are the subjects of attack while attempting to drive back the slanderers. I’ersc- - cation is eJevtjion. Helen Stirk, the Scotch martyr, standing with her husband at the place of execution, said: “Husband, let us rejoice to-day. We have lived together many happy years. This is the happiest time Of all our life. You see we,arc to be happy together forever. Be brave now —be brave. I will not say 'Good night" to you. for we shall soon be in tho kingdom of our Father together.” Persecution shows the heroes and heroines. I go into another department, and I find that those great denominations of Christians which have been most abused „have spread the most rapidly. , Xo good man was'ever more violently maltreated than John Wesley—belied and <ori< atiirod fHHI-slan(k*redi tin-t-il one dsy ho stood in a pulpit in and a man " arose in the audience and said, “You were drunk last night," and John Wesley said: "Thank God, the whole catalogue ia v tiow complete! 1 have been charged with everything but that.” Hi* followers were hooted at and maligned and called by evory detestable name infernal luge- 1 unity could Invent, but thc-botter the persecution the more rapidly they spread, until you know what a great host they have become and what a tremendous force for God and the truth they are wielding all the world ever. It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution .that..gave our.land first to civil liberty and afterward to religious freedom. Yea. I might go farther back and say it was persecution that gave the world the great salvation of the gospel. The ribald mockery, the hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominious death, when all the force of hell’s fury was hurled against the cross, was the introductioirof that religion which is yet to be flic earth’s deliverance and our eternal salvation. The state sometimes ■aid to-the church. “Come, take mv hand, and I will help you.” 'What was the result? The church went back, and it, lost •its estate of holiness, and it became ineffective. At other times the state said to the church, “I will crush yon.” What has been the.result? After the storms have spent their fury the church, iso far from having lost any of its force, has increased and is worth infinitely more after the assault than before. Read all history, and you will find that true. The church is far more indebted to the opposition of civil government than to its approval. The fires of the stake have only been the torches which Christ held in his hand, by the light Of which the church has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound of racks and implements of torture I hear the rumbling of the gospel chariot, The scaffolds of martyrdom have been the stairs by which the church mounted. Sin Exposes Itself. Learn also from our subject that sin, will come to exposure. Long,, long ago had those brothers sold Joseph into Egypt They had made the old father Believe that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed the crime,’ and it was a profound secret well kept by the brothers. Rut suddenly the secret is out. The old father hears that his son is in Egypt, having been sold there by the malice of his own brothers. How their cheeks must have burned and their hearts stink at the flaming out of this long, suppressed crime. -The—smallest iniquity has—a thousand tongues, and they will blab out exposure. Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites, their and their oxen, but when he got down there among the pastures he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat tor kill, str fae thought he would steal them. Nobody would know it. He drove these .stolen sheep and oxen toward home, but stopped to report to the-prophet how he had executed his mission, when in the' distance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and Samuel said to the blushing and confused 8aul; the bleaFPfig ’bf the sheep that I hear and the bellowing of the cattle?” Ah, my hearer, you cannot keep an iniquity still. At just the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Aehan cannot steal the Babylonish garment without being stoned to death nor Arnold betray his country without having his nCck stretched. Look over the police arrests. These thieves, these burglars, these counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these assassins, they all thought they could bury their iniquity so deep down it would never come to resurrection, but there was some shoe that answered to the print in the soil, some false keys found in their possession, some bloody knife that whispered of the death, and the public indignation and the anathema of outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows. Francis 1.. king of France, stood counseling with his officers how he could take his army into Italy, when Ameril, the fool of the eourt, leaped out from a corner of the room and said, “You had better be consulting liow you will get your army back.” and it was found that Francis 1,, and not Ameril, was the fool. Instead of consulting as to the best fray of getting into sin, yon had better consult as to whether you will be able to £et out of it. If the world does not expose yon, you will tell it yourself. There is an awful power in an aroused conscience. One Mighty Plan.

Learn also from thb-subject that there is an inseparable connection between, all events, however remote. The universe is only one thought of God. Those things which seemed fragmentary and isolated are only different parts of* that great thought- How far apart seemed these twoevents—Joseph sold to the Arabian inerefeanis and hisrukrsbipof Egypt, Tvt you see in what a mysterious way God connected the twh into" one plan. 80 tfeo events are linked together. You who are aged men look back and group together a thousand things in your life that once seemed isolated. One undivided chain of events reaches from the garden of Eden to the cross of Calvary and thus u° M the

kingdom of heaven. There is a relation between the smallest insect that hums in the summer air and the archangel on his throne. God can trace a direct ancestral line from the blue jay that this spring will build its nest in the tr?e behind the house to Some one of the flock of birde whieb, when Noah hoisted ,the ark’s window, with a whir and dash of bright wings went out to sing qver Mcfeint Ararat. The tulips that bloom in the garden this spring were nursed by the snowflakes. The farthest star on one side of the universe could not look toward the farthest star on the other side of the tiniverse and say, “You are no relation to me,” for from that bright orb a voice of light would .ring across the heavens, responding, “Yes, yes, -we are sisters.” —Nothing in God’js uni--verse swings at loose ends. Accidents are only God’s way of turning a leaf in the book of his eternal decrees. From our cradle to our grave there is a path all marked out. Each event in gur life is connected with every other event in our life. Our losses may be the most direct road to our gain. Our defeat and our victory are twin brothers. The whole direction of your life was changed by something which at the time seemed to you trifling, while some occurrence which seemed tremendous affected you but little. God’s plar,3 are magnificent beyond all comprehension. He molds us and turns and directs us, and we know it not. Thousands: of years are to him as the flight of a shuttle. The rnpst terrific occurrence does not make God tremble. The most Jriiimphant achievement does not lift’hiim into rapture. That one great thought of God goes out through the centuries, and nations rise and fall, and eras pass, a!)4. the -WajM changca,..but God still keeps the undivided mastery, linking event to event and century to century. To God they are all one event, one history, one plan, one development, one system. Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty! I was years ago in New) Orleans at the exposition rooms, when tv telegram was sent to the President of the United Slates, at Washington, and wo Waited some fifteen or twenty minutes,! and then the President’s answer came back, and then the presiding officer waved his handkerchief, and the signal was sent to Washington that we’ were ready to have the machinery of the exposition started, and the President put his finger on the electric button, and instantly the great Corliss wheel began to move—rumbling,rumbling, railing, rolling. It was overwhelming, and 13.000 people clapped aud shouted. Just one finger Washington started that vast,machinery, hundreds and hundreds of miles away, aad I thought then, as I think .now, that men "sometimes touch Influences that respond in the far distance, forty years from now, fifty years from now, 1,000 years from now— l,ooo,ooo years from new—one toneh“sotmdtn^TliroughTlie^gesri~^ — What of the Future? We also learn from this story the propriety of laying up for the future. During the seven years of plenty Joseph prepared for the famine, and when it came he had a crowded.storehouse. The life of most men in a worldly respect is divided into years of plenty and famine. It is seldom that any man passes through lift! without at least seven years of plenty. During those seven years your business bears a rich harvest. You scarcely know where all the money comes from, it comes so fast. Erety bargain you make seems to turn into gold. You contract few bad debts. You are astonished with large dividends, You in vest more and more cap* ital. You wonder how men can be content with a small business, gathering in only a few hundred dollars, while you reap your thousands. Those are seven years of plenty. Now Joseph has timo to prepare for the threatened famine, for to almost every man there do come seven years of famine. You will be sick, you will he unfortunate, you will be defrauded, there will be hard times, you will be disappointed, and if you have no storehouse upon which to fall back you may be famine struck. We have no admiration for this denying oneself all personal comfort and luxury for the mere pleasure of hoarding up, this grasping, grasping for the mere pleasure of seeing how large a you can get, this always being poor because as soon as a dollar comes in it is sent out to see if it can find another dollar, so that it can carry it home on its back. We have a contempt for all those things, but there is an intelligent and noble minded forecast which we love to -senin men who have families and kindreddepending upon them for the blessings of education and home. God sends ns to the insects for a lesson, which, , while they do not stint themselves in the present, do not forget their duty to forecast the future. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer ar ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest.”

Now, there are two ways of laying up money. One of these is to put it in stock and deposit it in bank and invest it on bond and mortgage. The other way to lay up money is giving it away. He is the safest who makes both of these investments. There are in this house men who if they lose every dollar they have in the world would be Millionaires for eternity. They made the spiritual investment, but the man who devotes none of his gains to the cause of Chri3t and looks only for his own comfort and luxury is not safe, I care not how the money is invested. He acts as the rose if it should say, “I will hold my breath, and none shall have a snatch of fragrance from me until next week; then I will set all the garden afloat with my aroma.” Of course the rose, refusing to breathe, died. But above' all lay up treasures in heaven. They never depreciate in value. Thby never are at a discount. They are always available. You may feel safe now with your 51,000 or or 516,000 or 5—0,000 income, but what will such an income be worth after yoq are dead? Others will get it Perhaps some of them will quarrel about It before you are buried. They will be so impatient to get hold of the will they will think you should be buried one day sooner than you are buried. They will be right glad when you are dead. Uiey are only waiting for you to die. JlVhat then will all your earthly accumulations be worth? If you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up with It to heaven's gate, it would not purchase your admission, or if allowed to enter it could not btiy you a crown or a robe, and the poorest saint in heaven would look down at -yen and «*y> -“Where- did that--pauper" com* from?” May we all have treasure* in heaven. Amen! There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed-to think so highly of a friend as when w]e find him standing higher than we expected in the satewn of other*.

ISNOW MRS HARRISON

MRS. DIMMICK IS WEDDED TO * . TrfE EX-PRESIDENT. 1 * Ceremony la Modest EDongh to Please the Groom and Beautiful Enough to Charm 'the Bride—Only a Few Gneats Are Bidden. , *, » • Simple Services. The marriage of ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmfck look place in St. Thomas* Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, at 5:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown officiating. Two hours later they had left New York, and before noon the next day the bfide was installed in her new home at Indianapolis. This, the most notable wedding'of the year in the light of its interest for the whole country, was the quietest. Not more than 'thirty persons saw the ceremony, and fewer still were bidden to the post-nuptial collation. Only the immediate relatives of Mrs. Dimmiek and the lifelong friends of Gen. Harrison who had borne with him the burden of a national government were there. All the members of his immediate family were conspicuously absent. Mr 3. Dimtoick wfta given away by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John U. S. N., and Gen. Harrison was supported by Gen. B. F. Tracy, ex-Secretary of the Navy. Two ushers, E. F. Tibbott, the ex-President’s private secretary, and Daniel M. Ransdell, suffieed to scat the guests. , Gen. Harrison’s ingrained repugnance to anything approaching publicity in relation to his private affairs extended to his matrimonial plana. It mattered not to him that the whole country would read eagerly every detail touching the marriage of one who had walked so many years in the public eye, and who had served in office at the head of the nation. He want-

SAINT THOMAS’ PARISH CHURCH. (In which Ex-President Harrison was married.)

ed a quiet wedding, arid Mrs. Dimmlck was of the same mind. Hence it was that tile few bidden to the ceremony were asked to keep secret the hour. Gen. Harrison left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, accompanied by Gen. Benjamin

MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

F. Tracy, ia A close carriage, at 5 o’clock and was driven to Rev. Dr. Brown’s house on Fifty-third street. They passed through the house to the vestry, where fhey awaited the coming of the bridal party. The bride left the home of her Bister, Mrs. John F. Parker, 40 East Thirty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John F. Parker, who pave her away. They arrived at. the .entrance, at 5:20 o’clock and proceeded to the tower room, where the bridal procession form: ei.% They proceeded to the chancel, where Gen. Harrison, accompanied by his groomsman, Gen. Tracy, received his bride. The ushers, standing to one side,’ faced the altar aa the bride and groom stepped forward to die altar rail, where (he rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, Dr. George WUljam Warren, organist of the choron, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin,** and during the entire ceremony playing very softly Mascagni’s Into rmezso in the “Cavalleria Rustfcana." That portion of the matrimonial service known aa the marriage service proper, the recital of whiah lasts only about fifteen mi notes, was used, and immediately the jessing wee pronounced Ckn. and Mrt^

Harrtson, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker and Gen. Tracy, Mr. TibbStt and if*, Ransdell, Lieut Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walked down the aisle to thei strains of the ‘TTannhauser” march of Wagner, and entering the carriages waiting at the entrance the bridal party was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Grammercy Park, where light refreshments were served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip tot Indianapolis. * Hundreds of valuable presents were received by the couple. Col. E. S. Fergu-

BENJAMIN HARRISON. [From his latest photograph—Copyright by Fach, New York.]

son sent a silver service; ex-Secretary Tfacy's frie"ndly~senfimentß were embodied in a silver fish service; Gen. and Mr*. Morton sent* a silver fruit basket; exSecretary Whitney sent two handsome compotiers for bonbons. The present of the bridegroom was a magnificent string of pearls. The Bride's Life Story. Mrs. Harrison, who is a small but very graceful woman, of rather dark complex!

ion, and of a very bright and attractive' appearance, is related to Gen. Harrison through ‘his late wife, who was her aunt. She was born in Princeton, Pa., where most of her younger life was spent. Her mother’s marriage to Russell F. Lord proved an unhappy one. Boon after the Wav Mrs. Lord left her husband and joined her father, Dr. Scott, at Indianapolis, Ind., the two daughters going with her. After the return of his daughter to his home in Indianapolis Dr. Scott was called to Springfield, HI., to take charge osf a Presbyterian institution that is now known as Concordia College. Mrs. Lord and her children accompanied him. In 1875, when Dr. Scott left Springfield, Mrs. Lord, With her two children, moved to Princeton, N. J., where for five years Airs. Dimmiek attended a Princeton day boarding school managed by Mrs. Aloffitt, wife of one of the professors of the theological school. Later sho attended the female college at Elmira, N. J. It was in 'Princeton that Mamie Lord became acquafinted with Walter Erskin* Dimmiek. and two years latfr tjiey pan away ana were married, their effort* to reconcile their relatives to the union haring unavailing. Young Dimmiek was the sop of Samuel E. Dimmiek, on* of the leading lawyers of northern Pennsylvania, whose large fortune was left ta his three sons. Their honeymoon was hardly ended before Mr. Dimmiek was stricken with typhoid fever. His young bride nursed him with such’devetion and

HARRISON’S INDIANAPOLIS HOME.

tenderness as only th* noblest nature* can pat forth. Day and night'ah* was at hi* bedside, but th* dread disease was relentless, and oa Jan. 18, 1882, three month* after ntnligk Walter Ddmmlck died.

THE LOCAL ELECTIONS

TOWNS AND CITIES IN SEVERAL STATES ELECT OFFICERS. . r Line* Drawn on Local laswes —Republicans Carry Milwaukee by Reduced Majority—License Men Whj in Maiiy Wisconsin Towns. Battle of Little Ballot*. Municipal elections were held Tuesday tnitltnots, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. In the city of Chicago about 50 per cent of the total vote was polled. In the aldermanio elections party lines were generally disregarded. A bitter fight-was waged tot, prevent the re-election of*boodle aldermen, and regardless of party the Civio Federation and the Municipal Voters’ League indorsed thirty-three men, candidates in twenty-seven wards. Of these, twenty-two were elected. There now remain in the Council, of men who are known to be thieves and boodlera, only twenty-seven, of whom all but five ara hold-overs. The entire Council number* ; sixty-eight, so for the first time in many years Chicago has a Board of Aldermen the majority of whom are believed to be honest Springfield Republicans elected six out of aldermen, and in the township elections throughout Sangamon County the Republicans retained thei? majority in County Boards of Supervisors. Ih Milwaukee all of the candidate* on the Republican city ticket were elected, but the Democrats made large gains. The most noticeable feature of the election, which passed off quietly, was the heavy Populist vote which .was cast Eightyseven precincts show 6,010 votes for Henry Smith, the Populist candidate tot Maypr. This is double the total vote cast by the party two years ago. In the Stat* at large R. D. Marshal is re-elected associate justice of the Supreme Court. Contests in Minnesota towns in most cases were purely local, with little politics In them. However, there were in som* cases pther interests. Fairbault elected P. F. Ruge, Democrat, Mayor, and, nearly the entire Democratic ticket, being the first time they have done so for many years. At’Anoka, 0. T. Woodbury, without his own knowledge or consent, was put up to run independently against the regular Republican nominee and Woodbury was elected. * i In the Long Island town elections there was great interest in the liquor question, as all of the towns voted on the optional dause in the Raines law. The party result was even up. Queens County was carried by the Democrats; Suffolk County by Republicans? There are no longer town elections in Kings, all being merged In Brooklyn. License carried the day everywhere. The new Board of Supervisors in Queens County will be five Democrats to two Republicans. The Democratic ticket was successful at Newtown, tho rote completely reversing the order of things of the election last year. Returns from the elections in cities of the first and second class in Kansas show little of general political interest. Republican tickets were put up generally aud carried with little opposition, but citizens’ tickets, based solely on municipal questions, were ably supported and won in & dozen eases. —- In most of the cities and towns of Colorado, aside from Denver and Pueblo, elections were held. The contests were entirely on local issues. In many of the smaller towns the liquor question was the one at Issue, and almost invariably the temperance element- won. The women were well represented at the polls everywhere. Throughout Missouri party lines wers not closely drawn, but in a majority of cities where such was the case the Democrats elected tfhe whole or the greater part of their ticket's. The Democrats carried Cuba, Bismarck, Marshfield, Higglnsvllle, Monroe City and Nevada. The result was mixed at Wellsviile, Golden City and Clinton. Non-partisan tickets were in tthe field at Slater and Holden. In Fayette the citizens’ ticket was victorious. Carthage was carried by the Republicans. The Democrats were successful In all townships in Arkansas save Newport and Jonesboro, where the Republicans elected their tickets.

A TEXAS GIRL'S PLIGHT.

She Has a Grafted Ear that Will Not Stop Growing. There is in Chicago at the present time a young lady being treated l<y » sqrgeon Whose case is one of the strangest, as it £a the only one of its kind on record. The young lady is Miss Zury Knox, and she is the daughter of a prominent citizen of Yoakum County. Texas. She is a most beautiful girl of perfect figure, a brilliant conversationalist, a proficient musician and aa*artist of no mean ability. When 7 years of age Miss Knox was thrown from a pony In such a manner as to pull off the upper portion of her right ear. The remainder of the ear was so badly lacerated that most of It was cut away by a surgeon iq Dallas. She had only a small amount of her car left, which aooq healed up, and she was able to cover the.disfigurement with her hair. She paid no particular attention to the organ, a? the hearing was hut slightly affected, up to one year ago. Then she met ft young lady from Chicago wLo vised her toi consult' a surgeon, who, she believed, could replace the missing ear by a grafting process. Miss Knox accepted her friend’s advice, went to Chicago and returned home with an ear which, while not neatly bo pink and dainty as its mate, served the purpose well enough. Shortly after dhe got home the ear began to grow and it has been growing eve* since.* It does not*grow in any one particular way, but shoots out in every conceivable manner. One who saw it a few days ago says it looks like a slice of dried appls about as big as John L.a Sullivan’s hand. -A peculiar feature of the ear ia that she can hear sounds with it that are totally undistinguishable to other persona. There ia a continual roar in the ear “like the screeching of a thousand steamboat Whistles,” as she describee it, and the jfounglady was obliged to have her room ia har Texas home padded ia order to .which .WML magnified 1,000 imes through the grafted «*#<•' At last she could Stand 1f ho longer and set eut for Chicago to have It either repaired or cut off. — i i —. 1 Charges have been preferred with Got. Halcomb, of Nebraska, against Dr. J. HJ M&ckay, superintendent of tike Norfolk boagtta) for the lasso*, —» -J