Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 February 1896 — Page 3

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REV. DR. TALMAS S PREACHES A SERMON FULL OF HOPE II tp fur the Hope! -.ms Thron;;! the me of Christ Th Need of Sympal ii y I'tjUillKieni of a Great Proin-i-e A Mighty Guthriiij;. Capital City Sermon. T..a st:i;m:i sounds th.- :: of triumph, a to that all will g: el t hear in t! "-' times, when ::i:'..." are utterins ,.vri.;:r' Jeremiads :' discouragement. I-. Tahnag- his text Jen -sis. xiix.. Ii, "i !: him sh ill the gathering Ot ! !.r ieiipie he." Tl.'ough :i j mts: 1 f r ! lens, or what 1 in lit rail a proplr . dying Jacob, 1 1. !- down through corridors 11 f the :;: . ries ii:,til he s-m '.ir :t the eeuter of !t ; pillar attraction t i l the gre-ttest b.--i:-.: .:i all the wore!. everywhere :iek:: . . 1 1; It w ; a iwa vs si. The v.- : I tried hard to v I.irn out. In the ; ena'mg for antiqu: : east of Home, i w n - I.mud c..n:ai:ii;:g him down and to ir riH. while cx:i fv.'-i hre miles ;;!' plate :i t 'e death warrant reading in this o; ; 1 , '"I-; the year 17 of -noire of Tiberius r;ar. a r: 1 on the day of March. L P uitius Pilate, g." tr'. C ejileniil Jesus r i r of the I'raer Na.areih to die :i:i;ius Cornelius iie place of execuit-", two thieve.-., ait Lin forth to to t:-. ScofTers a WortJi i per. The -tenth warrarC '"'as sisnoe. by sever:., :.-.me.. First, by Hanic!, rahhi, i Mi.i ris secondly, by JohannC".. rahhi; thirdly. v Raphael; f o-irtily. 1; Capet, .1 privat" ei t: en. This ipiral pinishment w.i ' uretl according r ) law. The name of the rh.ief crucified on the rigl hanil side of h"il- w is DisniKs; ;; name of the t:i'-t richied on the left hand of Chris v ;i, Oe.stus. Pontius Pilate, de-n-Tibing tin tragedy, says the whole world lighted canilles from noon until eight. Thirty-three rears of maltreatment. They ascribe h;s birth t bastardy n:ui hi- hath to excru-i.ition. A wall of the t-ify. built ahoiit those times anil ro'eatiy xjosei! by ir'iieolo.jist.s. shown h ari iture of Jes'is '!irisr, eviilMie:nj; til- eoii'empt iu whieh he was held by many in his .lay thar enrieature on the xvail representing a er -s anl a donkey !:a:d to it. and under it the inscription, This :s rie Christ whom the people worh:p." H it I rejoie that that day is Kor.e '-.'. nr (Jhrist i eomins out from v. e.'h r the world's abuse. The most popular niüii' on, earth to-day is the name of Chris. Where he had on. friend Christ has a "housaml fr-eiids. The scoffers have b""-n; 'orshipers. Of tho twenty most e-i.-Lrat"- infidels in Cr-at Ilritain in our lay ::;''-.-:. have eo:n. haek to Christ, try.nc . i:n lo tiie hl irnt mischief of the;r r v si.-;:eea o-it of the twenty. lv ery in ir. who writes a i nter or sins a (1 1 .avir. wittingly r t;:r.vittin.ly. honors .e- - hrist. AV" d it" everything as I:. ( '. .r A. I. P.. : .. J... fore ("hrist; A. I A'-i'o I uuini, in t a- year of our Iord. A!, tii- aires of hist the pivot of til-- ::pr;'l:t beam of the er., s of the Son v: ;,-d. P.. A. I I ! not rare what y - ' -.'1 him wheh'ir Con.jueror, or Ixi.'.c. - .Morning S ir, or Sun of IJi-jht--::"-., or Iialm of tiii -a l. or Lebanon "hir. .: P.roth.-r or I: d, or take the i;.e -" in the v-r from whieh I ta'tc-- 111;- t"Xt. and ' ii: lii-n Shiloh, whieh in- :i- lii- Son. or th T: a ü-i ailator, or the P"..' r-n. Shiloh. I only want to tell y : tin: -;mto him sh ili the atherin,' f :h" p" p!e be." I:i rh" iirsr jlae. h p"op!e are path- : i aro-:;i.l CJirist for pir i oi. No .sens:b! im:, or healthfe.'iy ambitious man is sa-:ti-'d uith his past Hi",. A fool may think he is all ri;rht. A sensible man l;::"W-i he is nor. I do not eare who th tli .-jjshrf man is, the review of Iiis lifetime behavior before Ciod and man pivivs to h;ta no espeeial satisf action. -Oh," he -''''. 'There have been so many things I Ji.r.e b.iie I ouirht not to have done, tlo-n' have 1 a so many things 1 have said I a'h: never to l-.ave sai l, there have been k xn.ny things I have written I oujrht r.'-ver : have written, there have been so many things I have tho::ht 1 011 sht never :o have thought. I miht somehow jret things r-.'adjusted, I must hoiiu-how liave th- pa: reeonstructed; there are days and months and yearn whieh cry out against in" ii horrible voeiferatien." Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past by obliterating ir. He does not erase the reeord of our iir.sdoing with a dash of ink from a resistor's pen, but lifting his ri.irht hand, rushei. red at the palm, he puts it irainst his bleetlin. brow, and then sains: his pien-ed side, and with the rinisf,n ae- umulation of all those wounds lie ruSs out tlie ace-asatory ehapter. He blots o:t our iniquities. Oh. never be anxious about the future; better be anxious nUa: the past. I put it not at the end of my sermon; I put it at the front mercy and pirdoii thnnish Shiloh. the sin par- ! nins Christ. "Cnto him shall the jratherii.S of tlie people be." "Oh!" says some man, "I have for forty years been as had s I e, iM I.e. and is thre any merey for me?" Mercy for you. "Oh!" says some or.e hr". "I had a srand ancestry, the I; 'lie-i' of fathers and the tenderest of lo'.ther-i. and for my pertidy there is no excuse. Io you think there is any merey for me':" Mercy for yon. "lut," kiys anorr man. "I fear I have committed what they eill the unpardonable sin, and the P.ihle says if a man commit that sin, he is E -itlcr to be forsiven in this world nor the world to cuno. Io you think there is any Merey for me?" The fact that you Inve any solicitude nhout the matter at a!! proves positively that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for yo:? Oh. the sraee of Co. which br.nj; 'f.'i salvation! For tlie Worst Sinners. The sraee of I loti: Lt us take the surveyor's chain ami try to measure (lod's :r.'TC7 throiish Jesus 'brist. Let one siirTeyortike that chain and s to tlie north, nr.d apoth-r surveyor take that chain and K" o tit" :-!o'ith. and another surveyor take that ' ii ain and 0 to the east, and another i;rveyor take that hain and so to the "we-t, and th"ii make a report of the square n !i"S of that vast Kingdom of (bid's mercy. A j ", you w ill hav- to wait to all eternity for th" report of that measurement. It -a.'ifiot be measured. Paul tried to eiiiji!. tie- heisM of ir, and he went height over li"isl, altitude above altitude, ruounta.a al.ve mountain, then sank down in :- orras'Jient and cave it up, for lie mw Si'.rra Nevadas beyond and Mnttertoms beyond, nnd wavins his hands back o i-s ia the plains he says, '"Past liudius

out; uneareh:ibh. that in all thinss he misbt have the pre-eminence. .' You notice that nearly all th" pinners mentioned as pardoned in tlie P.ible were sreat dinners -Iivid a sreat sinner, Paul a steat sinner. Kaliaba sreat sinner. Masda' -ne a preat sinner, the Prodigal Sou a sreat sin tier. Tlie world easilv vndefstood how Chris; i-ould pardon a half and half sinner, but what the world wants ro be persuaded of is that Christ will forsive the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, tlie oldest sinner, the most inexcusable sinner. To the sin pardoning S!i;h!i let ail the atiicrin of the pisijdc 1". Iiut, I remark asaiti. the people will sath.er arcmd Christ as a sympathizer. Oh. we all want sympathy. I hear people talk as thoush t'aey were independent of it. None of us could live without sympathy. When parts of our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all S,-t home! Hut. alas! for those who never come bom". Sometimes it seems as if it must he impossible. What, will their feet never a sain com.-over the threshold": Will they nevci asaln v.t with us at the table V Will they never a sain kneel with us at family praer"; Shall we never asain look into their s;'.:my faces? Shall we never asain mi earth take counsel with them for our work? Alas me, who can stand under these sriei's! Oll. Chr:-T. t hou n-t do more for a bereft soul than any one else. It is 3:e who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is he that comes to bid peace. It is he that comes to us and breathes into us the spirit of submission until we can look up from the wreck and ruin of our brishtest expectations and say. "Father, not my will, but thine, be done." Oh. ye who are bereft, ye anguish bitten, come into this refuse. The roll of those who came for relief to Christ is larger and larger. I'nto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympathy the gathering of the people shall be. Oil. that Christ would stand

by all thee empty cradles, and all these desolated homesteads, and all these broken hearts, and persuade us it is well. Noel for Sympathy, The world cannot offer you any help at such a time. Suppose t.he world comes and offers you money. You would rather live on a crust in a cellar and hare your departed loved ones with you than live in palatial surroundings and they away. Suppose the world offers you its honors to console you. What is the presidency to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie lies dead in the White House? Perhaps the world conies and says, "Time will cure it all." Ah. there are griefs that have raged on for thirty years and are raging yet. And yet hundreds have been comforted, thousands have been comforted, millhvns have been comforted, and Christ had done the work. Oh, what you want is sympathy. The world's heart of sympathy In-ats very irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when we do not want it, and often, when we are in appalling need of it, no sympathy. There are multitudes of people dying for sympathy sympathy iu their work, sympathy in their fatigues, sympathy in their bereavements, sympathy i:i their iinaiodal losses, sympathy in their physical ailments, sympathy in their spiritual anxieties, sympathy in the time of declining years wide, deep, high, everlasting, almighty sympathy. We must have it. and Christ gives it. That is the co:l with which he is going to draw ail nations to hi.u. A Variety of Demons. Oh. there is something beautiful in sympathyin manly sympathy, wifely sym pathy, motherly sympathy; yea, and neigh borly sympathy! Why was it that a city wasaronsed with excitement when a little child was kidnaped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns e" the newspapers tilled with the story of a little child? It was because we are all one in sympathy, and every parent said: "How if it had been my Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary? How if it bad been my Maud? I low if it had been my child? I low if there had been one un-Kjeupied pillow in our trundle bed to-night'? I low if my little one lone of my bone riid flesh of my llesji were to-night carried captive into some den of vagabonds, never to come back to me? How if it had bee my sorrow looking out of the window, watching and waiting that sorrow worse than death?" Then, when they found her, why did we declare the news all through the households, and everybody that knew how to pray say, "Thank Ood?" Because we are all one, liound by one great golden chain of sympathy. Oh. yes, but I have to tell you that if you will aggregate all neighborly, manly, wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found only a poor starving thing compared with the sympathy f our great Shiloh, "who has held in his lap the sorrows of the ages, and who is ready to nurse on his holy heart the woes of all who will come to him. Oh, what a God, what a Saviour we have! But in larger vision see the nations in some kind of trouble ever .Vinco the world was derailed and hurh d down the embankments. Tlie demon of in came to this world, but other demons have gone through other worlds. The demon of conflagration, the demon of volcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. La Place says he saw one world in the northern hemisphere sixteen months burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world burning. A French astronomer says that in oOO years l,r00 worlds have disappeared. 1 do not see why infidels find it so hard to believe that two worlus stopped in Joshua's time, when the astronomers tell us that LöM) worlds have stopped. Even the nimm is a world in ruins. Stellar, lunar, solar catastrophes innumerable. But it seems as if the most sorrows have been reserved for our world. By one toss of the world at Ticuboro, of 1Ü.0OO inhabitants only ltd people escaped. By one shake of the world at Lisbon in five minutes Gn.O'M) lerished and 1!(X),(X0 before the earth stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switzerland, burying the village of Gohlau. A mountain falls in Italy in the n ght, when L'.tMHj people are asleep, and they never arouse. By a convulsion of the earth Japan broken off from China. By a convulsion of the earth the Caribbean islands broken off from America. Three islands near the mouth !..( ill.. I '.-II., r,.., vötll t. UHU inlml. a great surge of K, the sea breaks over them, and L'l WNKJperish that day. Alas, alas, for o.r joor world. It has been recently discovered that rt whole continent has sunk, a continent that connected FuroM and America, part of the inhabitants of that continent going to Knrope, part coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, nnd we are finding now the remains of their mounds ami their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the tablelands of the West. It is a matter of demonstration that a whole continent has gone down, the Azores off the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken

continent. Plato described that contli nent, its grandeur, the multitude of its lahabitants, its splendor and its awful destruction, and the world thought it wai a romance, but archaeolosists have found out it was history, and the Knglish and the German and the Americ an fleets have gone forth with archaeologists, and the Challenger and the Dolphin and the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea sounding they have found the contour of that sunken continent. All to Clirist. Oh. there is trouble marked on the rocks, on the sky, on the sea. on the tlora and the fauna -astronomical trouble, geological trouble, oceanic trouble, political trouble, domestic trouble and standing in the presence of all those stupendous devastation. I nk if I am not right in saying that the great want of this age and all ages is divine sympathy and omnipotent comfort, and they are found not in th" Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ unto whom shall the gathering of th" people be. Other worlds may fall, but this morning star will never be blotted from the heavens. The earih may quake, but this rock of ages will never be shaken

from its foundations. The same Christ who fed the. "Ohio will feci all the world' hunger. The same Christ who cured Bar tiiiieu will illumine all blindness. Thu same Christ who made the dumb speak will put on every tongue a hosanna. The same Christ w ho awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus will yet rally all tic pious dead in glorious n surreetioii. "1 know that my Redeemer livcth." and that "to him shaU the gathering of the people be." Ah. my friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to lift this miserable wreck of a sunken world, it will not take him long to lift it. I have thought that this particular age in which we live may be given up to dis coveries and inventions by which through quick and instantaneous communication all cities and all communities and all lauds will be brought together, and then in another period perhaps these inventions which have been used for worldly purposes w ill be brought out for gospel invitation, and some great prophet of the Lord will come and snatch the mysterious, subtinie nnd miraculous telephone from the hand of commerce, and, all lands aad kingdoms connected by a wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord may, through telephonic communication, in an instant announce to the nations pardon and sympathy and life through Jesus Christ, nnd then, putting the wondrous tube to the car of the Ivtrd's prophet, the response shall come back, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and iu Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son." You and T may not live to see the day. I think those of us who -are over 40 years of age can scarcely expect to see the day. I expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the hammocks of the old gospel ship as it goes sailing on. But Chnst will wake us up in time to see the achievement. We who have sweated in the hot harvest fields will be- at the door of the garner when the sheaves come in. That work for which in this world wo toiled and wept and struggled and wore ourselves out shall not come to consummation and we be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to, come out and shake hands with the victors. The (Ireat Victory. We who fought in the earlier battles will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened their feet in the last Armageddon. Ah. yea, those who could only give a cupful of odd water iu the nam" of a disciple, those who xuld only scrape u handful of lint for a wounded soldier, those w ho could only administer to old age in its decrepitude, those who could only coax a jioor waif of the street to go back home to her God, those who could only lift a little child in the arms of Christ, will have as much right to take, part in the ovation to the lord Jesus ('hrist as a Chrysostom. It will be your victory and mine, as well as Christ's. Ho the conqueror, we idiouting in his train. Oh. what a glorious time it would be on earth if Christ would break through tho heavens, and right here where he has suffered and died have this prophecy fulfilled "I'nto him shall the gathering of the people be." But failing in that, I bargain to ii. cot you at the imnderous gate of heaven on the day when our Ijord comes back. Garlands of all nations on his brow of the bronzed nations of the south and the pallid nations of the north Europe, Asia, Africa, North nnd South America, and the other continents that may arise meantime from the sea to take the places of tlicir sunken predecessors arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, arch of Triumph in the Champs Elyses, all too poor, to welcome this king of kings and lord of lords and conqueror of conquerors in his august nrrival. Turn out all heaven to meet him. Hang all along the route the flags of earthly dominion, whether decorated with crescent, or star, or eagle, or lion, or coronet. Hans out heaven's brightest banner, with its one star of Bethlehem and blood striped of the cross. I hear the procession now. Hark! The tramp of the feet, the rumbling of the wheels, the clattering of the hoofs and the shout of the riders! Ton thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. Put up in heaven's library, right beside the completed volume of the world's ruin, the completed volume of Shiloh's triumph. The old promise struggling through the ajgej fulfilled at last, "Fnto him shall the gathering of the people be." While everlasting ages roll Internal love shall feast their soul And scenes of bliss forever new Hise in succession to their view. You May Swallow Ijeeches. What imagination will do I can show from my own experience. When a boy, In the Pyrenees, I once drank from :i spring;, and saw, to my honor, when I bad already swallowed a mouthful, that the water was alive with small leeches. I h:M n bad time of it for two or three days. I firmly believed I bad leeches alive and siu-Uing my blood inside nie; I felt them. 1 became languid. 1 believed they would drain my blood nway. Happily, my father heard what was the matter with me nnd explained to me the corrosive nature of the gastric lluhl and assured me that nothing living and of the nature of a leech could resist it. "My dear boy," said lie, "from personal observation of your proceedings at meal time I am convinced you could digest a pair of boots, and no leeches could stand a moment against the force of your gastric fluid." f. believed him and forgot all about my f magiuary malady Good Words.

THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIANA.

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r j t ( -3 -imsp 7. v v' JAMES IT. JORDAN". L. J. HACKNEY JAMES CANAL FOR INDIANA. Congress Asked to Appropriate Money for Jts Survey. - The Legislature of Indiana by a memorial has asked Congress for an appropriation to enable the Secretary of War to pay the expenses of a ommission to make a survey for a ship canal from the south MAI OF NOnrilWKSTEItV INDIANA. shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash river near Lognnsport. which is the nearest point nnd about seventy miles distant in an ai line. Lewis Cass ordered a survey vlien he was Secretary of War under President Jackson, and in 1S."1 Mr. Stansberry, a I'nited States engineer, made a reixirt. which still stands as evidence of its feasibility. It is claimed that this canal would shorten the waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico nearly -H0 miles in comparison with that of the great Illinois canal, and that it is ;i work of such importance and magnitude that it ought to be undertaken by Congress. Mr. Stausberry. in 1S."1, estimated the distance to be 1.Y7 miles, th' number of locks thirty-seven, and the cost Si 11. s V.). He followed the valley of the St. Joseph to the valley of the Tippecanoe, and thence to its junction with the Wabash river. Another route starting from Michigan City by way of Trail creek to the Tippecanoe valley was found to he US miles in length and forty-f nir locks necessary and the estimated cost was J?o,l 1'.47!. A third route was from Michigan City by the Little Calumet, and then down Crooked creek to the Kankakee. fourth was by Wolf lake, from the Grand Calumet river, and another, 14S miles Ions, was from St. Joseph into the valley of the Kankakee and thence by way of Moii. m creek and Tippecanoe river. The cost of this was estimated to be !?:?,U4.,T'.H. IN HONOR OF INDIANA. The Bronze Tablets for Chickamauga Monument Arc Inspected. Chief Ordnance Inspector Thompson, I". S. A., representing the War Department at Chicago, inspected the memorial bronze tablets to be used in connection with bronze seals of the StRte of Indiana AltTII.I.EKV TAKI.KT. on the stone monuments marking the positions of the Indiana troops in the battle of Chickamauga. erected in 1'hickamauga National Military Park by the State of Indiana. The troops of Indiana and Illinois formsl a large proportion of the total number engaged in that bloodiest of all modern battles, and these monuments are a tribute to the gallant men who made the INFANTKY TA HI. KT. ground holy by dying there. No single struggle on any battlefield of the war. nor on any battlefield of modern times, surpasses it in all there is of patriotic devotion and self-sacrifice. There are thirty-nine of theso memorial tablets, one for each regiment of infantry, mounted infantry, cavalry and battery that took part in the engagement, together with a tablet bearing the seal of the State. C'AVAI.KY TAP.I.F.T. Each tablet beirs in relief a representation of the arm of service commemorated by the tablet, nnd in raised letters a brief description of the movements of the regi-

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PET OF A SHEEP RANCHER.

lie Finds a Wildcat Better than a Boa to Drive OiT Coyotes. A sheep rancher near Ash Fork. Ar!., L II. Abshire, has discovered that wild-at.-can be domesticated, and am Iheu as ni-e pets as any purring MAlLese or tortoise-shell tabbies, lie ha 4 ii" that follows him everywhere acting as both protector and companies. It i.-? a lu's. striped and spotted animal. with glaring yellow eyes, whiskers lik3 porcupine juills and a tail as glossy a iu! sinuous in its windings .-is .t:;y jungle tiger's. "How diil I happen to take a wildcat for a household pussy'" repeated Mr. A 1: hire during a recent interview. "I'll tell you about it. 1 was herding sheen one day. and was standing on the top of a cliff. Looking down on a ledga of rocks projecting from the din's !n low I saw a very large, forocious-loox-ing wildcat. She bad tassels on bet par, and was lashing ln-i- tail from sidt to side and glaring nl me and growling angrily. I stood spellbound for a minute, and. not bavins any gun. I was it a loss to know what to do. 1 spied a huge Imwhler on the od so of the led. go right over this cat. and. using all my strength. I pushed it over. She was too quick for it and d od sod. When I lookcl down again she bad disappeared. "1 concluded there must be a cave, and perhaps a nest of kittens, so I lay in wait a few minutes to see if the cat would make her appearance .again. I was ready for her this time, as I had secured a lot of rocks, and intended 10 shower them upon her. I did not havo very long to wait, for out she came, looking fiercer than before. 1 let the rocks go. and that time here were too many of them for her to dodge. One struck her on the back and broke it, and after that I easily put an end to her. I then crawled down tho cliff a short distance and peered over as far as I could, and discovered there were two very small kittens in the cavern. Their eyes were not yet open. 1 made up my mind I would have them. It took me some time to plan how I could get to them, as tho cliff was almost perpendicular. It was with great difficulty that I finally captured my prizes. I took off my coat and wrapped it around them and started ho. do. When I reached there I laid them down at the base of a big juniper tree. My large ho tnd, Adam, came bounding up, and. to my surprise, seemed as pbased over my kits as I was. He at once hegan to lick them, and laid down beside them. The kittens crawled over him and seemed to think he was a good substitute for their mother. I gave them sheep's milk, which they seemed to thrive on. They would lie all day umh'r the trees with the hound, and he would never Jet my shepherd dog come near thorn. They grew very fast, and wo all been nie very much attached to my strange pets. At sheep shearing time we drove tho sheep into Ash Fork. I packed tho burros and made a box for the wild cats and lashed them on top. When we reached town that evening I b-t them out to run around the sheep sled. While Adam was eating his supper a large dog came in and killed one of the cats. Next morning, as we were passing down the street, with Adam and the wild cat following, we created quite a .-etisation. Some people were afraid of the cat -others were anx'iows to 3.0: him. seeing me caress him. but he objected to strangers and would are, his Imek and spit furiously. "While we were at a saloon near tin' depot the passenger train came in. Several of the Eastern tourists came rushing over to the saloon for a drink. They had .bust poured out whisky .-ill around when they turned and saw the wild cat sitting there looking :it them. They started for the train on the run. their whisky standing and not getting their cli-iico I viel 11 tf to Leon hint nil! of ............ .......... s, , . . I 1... 4 ..... 1 . 1.:.. r ol uu1 leuiieiiooi ;n ii'i mis. i don't want to scire them to death, but the oat is all right and the finest et I ever bail. I wouldn't part with him at any price. He is death on coyotes, and keeps all thos" sheep-killing rascals awav from our ranch." Mary Anderson's Singing 'TMiring a visit to Canada, w hile resting in Toronto before beginning a week's engagement." writes Mary Anderson de Navarro, in telling of her "Experiences of a Professional Tour," in the Ladies' Home Journal. "I heard a grand opera for the first time. My pleasure in tho music was so great that I had to be constantly reminded mr rise and cry out with enthusiasm. The? operas wen Taust, 'Trovatore loblfashioned. yet ever fresh t and 'Martha. Brignoli in the leading roles was admirable, though he had. through growing obseity, lost much of the grace which for many years bad made him such an idol with women. His fresh, beautiful and impassioned voice soon swept one into forgot fulness of hi. 4 looks anil inferior acting. In thos. Jays I always took with me an oM friend iu the shape of a guitar, upon which, as a child, 1 had picked on;, with much labor, a suthcieiit number )f chords to accompany :i few favorit songs. One day Brignoli passed otir rooms while I was singing "The lris-i Immigrant's Lament. He requests! iu introduction, and tried to persuade aie to start for Milan at once for a vear's training, and then to become .m qera singer. P.ut." said I. "I am alcai!y on the stage. 1 act 'Juliet.' 'Lady Macbeth." and all kinds of tine tragic wirts.' "Leave them all alone. be an weretl. 'With your voice you would iave a far more distinguished success qi the operatic titan on the dram cie. dag.' Thoush delighted to know nun him that 1 could sing I assured din that I would not let go my hold on he robe of Melpomene fur the glories ot ill the other Muses put together." We i magi tie that before the craze of hanging one's name inevailod, Giairtte soap waa known as Clara. t