Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 March 1896 — Page 2

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THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. GAUGE THE UXKXOWN PITTSBURG MAN INVENTS A NOVEL APPARATUS. Fays lie Can Measure the Catliodc Kajs-British Activity in Bjrypt Alarms the Porte r.lephant "Kmlrcss" Kills Her Keeper at Chicago Meter for the Roentgen Rays. Prof. I:. A. Fesscnden, of tin- Western University, Pittsburg, who lias l-n working in conjunction with 1 'rot". Janus Kcehr in iLi.ikäiiiT developments with X rays, has in vented a meter whereby they can l.e measured. Tlie invention will assist greatly in studying the effort of the new discovery. The meter is a very simple arrangement. Tw.t wires are placed half an inch apart in a tube which is lillcil with para Ihne. The wires are conpeeted with a volt meter that has been vharged v.'th c'.ivlri.-liy. Paraliine being a non-conductor. t'.;e electricity is discharged a-ul the volt itirter registers the amount of electricity passing. No unit has yet hern adopted for the X rays, but it is probable that one soon will be. TURKEY ISSUES AN APPEAL. Asks France and Russia to Intervene in Egyptian Affairs. As a result of the extraordinary cabinet ouncil, which lasted throughout Saturday, the Turkish ( iovermnent has issued an appeal, addressed to Franee and Russia, asking them to intervene with the object of regulating affairs in Egypt. Germany, it is added, was also requested by tho porte to exercise her good otliees in this sense. Instructions were also dis5utched to tlie Turkish ambassador :it London to make representations to the 'Marquis of Salisbury, but their tenor is not known. In well-informed circles it is declared that the action of the porte is due to the councils of France and llussia, the i Jovcrnments of which countries, it is claimed, have submitted that the present 5s an opportune moment for Turkey to raise the question of her suzerainty over Fgypt being practically usurped by Great Britain. The lovcniments indicated, it is alleged, promised Turkey their support in the matter. There is no doubt that considerable annoyance is felt by the porte at the fact that Turkey was not consulted in regard to the advisability of dispatching a British-Fgyptia n expedition up the Nile, and the feeling of irritation lias been increased by the kiiedive also ignoring tlie lorte entirely. Reproaches have, in consequence, been addressed to the Ottoman commissioners in K-rypt for not taking steps to prevent the organization of the expedition. as it is fean-d that the efl'ects of the advance up the Nile will be felt elsewhere than on the frontiers of Fgypt and that the Arabs of Yemen may be encouraged to fresh hostility to the Turkish authorities. EMPRESS'" THIRD MURDER. Furious Elephant Kills Her Keeper and Ter rorizes the Neighborhood. Empress, alias Gypsy, .ne of the largest and most vicious elephants in captivity, added a third murder to her record Wednesday afternoon by killing her keeper, Frank Scott, while taking her daily exorcise at Chicago. Having sated her rage upon the helpless form of her victim, the hu.sre beast forthwith inaugurated a reign of terror in the vicinity of .lackson boulevard and Kobey street, that continued all the afternoon and called for the presence of scores of policemen from the Iake street and Warren avenue stations. Darkness was setting in before the big brute's temper calmed down, and she was once more safely confined in her quarters with a chain around her leg. Greater excitement could not have been produced anions the residents of the neighborhood Lad the killing been one that would come within the recognition of tlie law as a crime. Frmu every window that commanded a, view of the alley in which the enraged elephant paraded, the faces of scared spectators could In1 seen. Small hoys, whose curiosity was stronger than their fears, watched the ponderous animal charge back and forth from the roofs of back sheds and the tops of fences. Women listened behind dosed doors to the shrill trumpeting of the great beast, ami more than one olücer deliberated on the flicieney of his revolver when he caught sight of the towering form. Empress was a star attraction with the W. II. Harris Nickel Plate show. SAFELY LANDED IN CUBA. Eighth Expedition Within Forty Days Proves Successful. The Guhan junta in New York has received news of the successful landing in Cuba of an expedition led by Brau Ho l'ena. Commander Pena's party of thirty-eight men is thought to be those conveyed to the island by the steamer Commodore, which left this coast some days, ago. The party succeeded in landing iM rifles, ."so.lim rounds of ammunition, two rapid tiring Ilotchkiss cannon, several hundred pounds of dynamite and a liberal supply of medicines and hospital stores. The party lamh-d. it is said, without accident or molestation of any kind. making the eighth expedition which has successfully landed in the last forty days. Photographs His Own Ribs. Prof. I. C. .Milh r. of Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, O., succeeded in obtaining a photograph of his own ribs and backbone by means of the Roentgen rays. Tlie exposure i.,sted an hour, the professor lying face downward on Ji photographic plate, SV2 inches, without divesting himself of his dothintr, he Crookcs tubes being suspended over his back. Must Know Britain's Intentions. A s mi-oflicial note was issued at Paris, stating that France will refuse to sanction the use of the Egyptian reserve fund for the purpose of the P.ritish-Eyptian expedition tip the Nile to Hoiigola unless she receives precise pledges concerning the British evacuation of Fgypt. Wants One More Divorce. Married in 1 si; J , divorced twenty years Ja ter. remarried after seven years' sepn ration and now Jacob Hoxie, of Sioux City, want another divorce from his vife Bridget

SPIIUT OF THE PßESS.

REV. DR. TALMAGE FINDS TWO UNIQUE TEXTS. And Trenches a Itroad Sermon on the L'iviue Mission of Newspapers lie Says Jhvy Arc the Most Poteut Vehicles of Knowledge of the Ace. Capital City Sermon. Newspaper row, as it is called in Washington, the long row of otliees connected with prominent journals throughout the land, pays so much attention to Dr. Talmnire they may be glad to hoar what lie thinks of them while he discusses a subject in which the whole country is interested. His texts Sunday were, "And the wheels were full of eyes" (Ezekiel x., 1-), "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new things" (Acts xvii., 21). What is a preacher to do when he finds two texts equally pood and suggestive? In that perplexity 1 take both. Wheels full of eyes? What but the wheels of a newspaper printing press? Other wheels nre blind. They roll on, pulling or crushin?:. The manufacturer's wheel how it grinds the operator with fatigues and rolls over nerve and muscle and bone and heart, not knowing what it does. Tlie sewing machine wheel sees not the aches and pains fastened to it tighter than the band that moves it, sharper than the needle which it plies. Every moment of every hour of every day of every month of every year there are hundreds of thousands of wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise, wheels of hard work, in motion, but they are eyeless. Not so the wheels of the printing press. Their entire business is to look and report. They are full of optic nerves, from axle to periphery. They are like those spoken of by Kzekiel as full of eyes. Sharp eyes, nearsighted, farsighted. They look up. They look down. They look far away. They take in the next street and the next hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering; with indignation, eyes tender with love, eyes of suspicion, eyes of hope, blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, religious eyes, eyes that see everything. "And the wheels were full of eyes." But in my second text is the world's cry for the newspaper. Paul describes a class of people in Athens who spent their time either In gathering the news or telling it. Why especially iu Athens? Itecauso the more Intelligent people become the more inquisitive they are not about small things, but great things. What Is the News? The question then most frequently Is the question now most frequently asked. What is the news? To answer that cry in the text for the newspaper the centuries have put their wits to work. China first succeeded and has at Peking a newspaper that has been printed every week for 1,000 years, printed on silk. 1 ionic succeeded by publishing the Acta Diurna, in the same column putting lires, murders, marriages ami tempests. Franee succeeded by a physician writing out the news of the day for his patients. England succeeded under Queen Elizabeth in first publishing the news of the Spanish armada and going on until she had enough enterprise, when the battle of Waterloo was fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, to give it one-third of a column in the London Morning Chronicle, about as much as the nswpaper of our day gives to a small fire. America succeeded by Bonjamin Harris' first weekly paper, called Public Occurrences, published in Boston in lf!0. and by the first daily, the American Advertiser, published in Philadelphia in 17N-J. The newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world, but came gradually. The genealogical line of the newspaper is this: The Adam of the race was a circular or news letter created by divine impulse in human nature, and the circular begat the pamphlet, and the pamphlet begat the quarterly, and the quarterly begat the weekly, and the weekly begat the semiweekly, and the semi-weekly begat the daily, lint, alas, by what a struggle it came to its present development! No sooner had its power been demonstrated than tyranny and superstition shackled it. There is nothing that desiotism so fears and hates as a printing press. It has too many eyes in it3 wheel. A great writer declared that the king of Naples made it unsafe for hina to write of anything but natural history. Austria could not endure Kossuth's journalistic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I., trying to k?ep his iron heel on the necks of nations, said, "Editors are the regents of sovereigns and the tutors of nations and are only fit for prison." But the battle for the freedom of the presi was fought In the courtrooms of England and America and decided bfore tin century began by Hamilton's eloquent plea for J. Peter Zenger's (lazette in America and Erskine's advocacy of the freedom of publication in England. These were the Marathon and Thermopylae in which the freedom of the press was established in the United States and Great Britain, and all the powers of earth and he'd will never again be able to put on the handcuffs and hopples of literary and political despotism. It is notable that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of American Independence, wrote- also, "If I had to choose bei ween a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should prefer the latter." Stung by some ljase fabrication coming to us in pri.'it, we come to write or speak of the unbridled printing press, or, our new book ground up by an unjust critic, we come to write or speak of the unfairness of the printing press, or perhaps through our own indistinctness of utterance we are reported as sa3ing just the opposite of what we did say, and there is a small riot of semicolons, hyphens and commas, ami we come to 8 peak or write of the blundering printing press, or, seeing a paper filled with divorce cases or social scandal, we speak and write of the filthy printing press, or, seeing a journal through bribery wheel round from one political side to the other in one night, we speak of the corrupt printing press, and many talk alnnit the lanipoonery, and the empiricism, and the sans culottism of the printing press. A Good Newspaper. Int I discourse now on a subject you have never heard the immeasurable and everlasting blessing of a good newspaper. Thank Cod for the wheel full of eyes' Thank God that we do not have, like the Athenian, to go about to gather up and relate the tidings of the day, since the omnivorous newspaper does both for us. Th grandest temporal blessing that God

has given to the nineteenth century is the newspaper. We would have better appreciation of this bleeding if we know the money, the brain, the losses, the exasperations, the anxieties, the wear and tear of heartstrings involved in the production of n good newspaper. Under the impression that almost anybody can make a newspaper, scores of inexperienced capitalists every year enter the lists, and consequently during the last few years a newspaper has died almost every day. The disease is epidemic. The larger papers swallow the smaller ones, the whale taking down fifty minnows at one swallow. With mure than 7,MX) dailies and weeklies in the United States and Canada, there are but thirtysix a half century old. Newspapers do not average more than live years' existence. The most of them die of cholera infantum. It is high time that the people found out that the most successful way to sink money and keep it sunk is to start a newspaper. There comes a time when almost every one is smitten with the newspaper mania and starts one, or have stock in one he must or die. The course of procedure is about this: A literary man has an agricultural or scientific or political or religious idea which he wants to ventilate. He has no money of his own literary men seldom have but he talks of his ideas among confidential friends until they become inllaiued with the idea, and forthwith thcy buy type s.nd press and rent composing room and gather a corps of editors, and with a prospectus that proposes to cure everything tlie first copy is Hung on the attention of an admiring world. After awhile one of the plain stockholders finds that no great revolution has been effected by this daily or weekly publication; that neither sun nor moon stand still; that the world goes on lying and cheating and stealing just as it did before the first issue. Th aforesaid matter-of-fact stockholder wants to sell out his stock, but nobody wants to buy. and other stockholders got infected and sick of newsp.-pcr-dim, and an enormous bill at the paper factory rolls into an avalanche, and the printers refuse to work until back wages are paid up, and the compositor bows to the managing editor, and the managing editor bows to the editor in chief, and the editor in chief bows to the directors, and the directors bow to the world at large, and all the subscribers wonder why their paper doesn't come. The world will have to learn that a newspaper is as much of an institution as the Rank of England or Yale College ami is not an enterprise. If you have the aforesaid agricultural or scientific or religious or political idea to ventilate, you had better charge upon the world through the columns already established. It is folly for any one who cannot succeed at anything else to try newspa perdom. If you cannot climb the hill back of your house, it is folly to try the sides of the Matterhorn. Near tt the People. To publish a newspaper requires the skill, the precision, the boldness, the vigilance, the strategy of a commander in chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a statistician and, in acquisition, eneyclopodiae. To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution, a national fact, demands more qualities than any business on earth. If you feel like starting any newspaper, secular or religious, understand that you are being threatened with softening of the brain or lunacy, and throwing your pock1 otbook into your wife's lap start for some insane asylum before you do something desperate. Meanwhile as the dead newspapers week after week are carried out to burial all the living newspapers give respectful obituary, telling when they were born and when they died. The best printers' ink should give at least one stickful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say. "Peace to its ashes." If it was a bad paper, I suggest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: "Here continueth to rot the body of Francis Chartreuse, who, with an inflexible constancy and uniformity of life, persisted in the practice of every human vice excepting prodigality and hypocrisy. His insatiable avarice exempted him from the first, his matchless impudence from the second." I say this because I want you to know that a good, healthy, long lived, entertaining newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make knowledge democratic ami for the multitude. The public library is a haymow so high up that few can reach it. while the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Public libraries are the reservoirs where the great Hoods are stored high up and away off. The newspaper is the tunnel that brings them down to the pitchers of all the people. The chief use of great libraries is to make newspapers out of. Great libraries make a few men and women very wise. Newspapers lift winde nations into the sunlight. Better have TiO.OOO.OOO people moderately intelligent than lOO.(MM) solons. A false impression is abroad that newspaper knowledge is ephemeral because periodicals are thrown aside, and not one out of 10,000 people files them for future reference. Such knowledge, so far from being ephemeral, goes into the very structure of the destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on the shelf is of little worth. It is knowledge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowledge in revolution, knowledge winged, knowledge projected, knowledge thundcrboltcd. So far from being ephemeral, nearly all the best minds and hearts have their bunds on the printing press to-day and have had since it got emancipated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to the Boston Gazette and compose articles on the rights of the people. Benjamin Franklin, De Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy, were strong in newspapcrdom. Many of the immortal things that have been published in book form first appeared in what you may call the ephemeral periodical. All Maeauley's essays first appeared in a review. All Carlyle's, all Buskin's, all Mcintosh's, all Sydney Smith's, all Hazlitt's, all Thack'Tay's, all the elevated works of fiction in our day, nre reprints from periodicals in which they appeared as serials. Tennyson's poems. Burns' jtoems, Ingfellow's poems, Emerson's poems, Lowell's mchis, Whittier's poems, were once fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten literary men in Christendom with strong minds and great hearts but are or have been somehow connected with the newspaper printing press. Wline the bonk will always have its place, the newspaper is more potent. Because the latter is multitudinous do not conclude it is nece.sarily superficial. If a man should from childhood to old age see only his Bible, Webster's Dictionary and. his newspaper, he could be prepared for all the duties of this life and all the happiness of the next. A Uwcful Mirror of Life. Again in a good newspaper is a useful

mirror of life as it is. It is ometimrt complained that newspapers report th evil when they ought only to report the good. They must report the evil as well as the good, or how shall we know what is to be reformed, what guarded against, what fought down? A newspaper that pictures only the honesty and virtue of society is a misrepresentation. That family is best prepared for the duties of life which, knowing the evil, is taught to select the good. Keep children under the impression that all is fair and right in the world, and when they go out into it they will be as poorly prepared to struggle with it as a child who is thrown into the middle of the Atlantic and told to learn how to swim. Our only complaint is when sin is made attractive and morality dull, when vice is painted with great he adings, and good deeds are put in obscure corners, iniquity set up in great primer and righteviisness in nonpareil. Sin is loathsome; make it loathsome. Virtue is beautiful; make it beautiful. It would work a vast improvement if all our papers religious, political, literary should for the most part drop their impersonality. This would do better justice to newspaper writers. Many of the strongest and best writers of fhe country live and die unknown and are denied their just fame. The vast public never learns who they are. Most of them are ou comparatively small incomes, and after awhile their hand forgets its cunning, and they are without resources, left to die. Why not at hast have his initial attached to his most important work? It always gave additional force to an article when you occasionally saw added to some significant article in the old New York Courier and Enquirer .1. W. W.. or in the Tribune H. (J., or in the Herald J. G. B., or in the Times II. J. li., or in the Evening Post W. C. 1., or in the Evening Express E. B. Whi.'e this arrangement would be a fair and just thing for newspaper writers it would be a defense for the public. It is sometimes true that things damaging to private character are said. Who is responsible? It is the "we" of the editorial or reportorial columns. Every man in every profession or occupation ought to be responsible for what he does. No honorable man will ever write that which he would be afraid to sign. But thousands of persons have suffered from the impersonality of newspapers. What can one private citizen wronged in his reputation do in a contest with misrepresentation multiplied into lM,O"0 or .'a.iHMI copies? An injustice done in print is inimitably worse than an injustice done in private life. During loss of temper a man may say that for which he will be sorry in ten minutes, but a newspaper injustice has first to be written, set up in type, then the proof taken off and read and corrected, and then for six or ten hours the presses are busy running off the issue. Plenty of time to correct; plenty of time to cool off; plenty of time to repent. But all that is hidden in the impersonality of a news-

l paper. It will be a long step forward when nil is changed and newspaper writers get credit for the good and are held responsible for the evil. Editorial Professors. Another step forward for newspapcrdom will bo when in our colleges and universities we open opportunities for preparing candidates for the editorial chair. We have in such institutions medical departments, law departments. Why not editorial departments? Do the legal and healing professions demand more culture and careful training than the editorial or reportorial professions? I know men may tumble by what seems accident into a newspaper otlice as they may tumble into other occupations, but it would be an incalculable advantage if those proposing a newspaper life had an institution to which they might go to learn the qualifications, the responsibilities, the trials, the temptations, the dangers, the magnificent opportunities, of newspaper life. Let there be a lectureship in which there shall appear the leading editors of the United States telling the story of their struggles, their victories, their mistakes, how they worked and what they found out to be the best way of working. There will be strong men who will climb up without such aid into editorial power and efficiency. So do men climb up to success in other branches by sheer grit. But if we want learned institutions to make lawyers and artists and doctors and ministers we much more need learned institutions to make editors, who occuply a position of influence a hundredfold greater. I do not put the truth too strongly when I say the most potent influence for good on earth is a good editor, and the most potent influence for evil is a bad one. The best way to reenforce and improve the newspaper is to endow editorial professorates. When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale or Rochester lead the way? A Christian Press. Once more I remark that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evangelistic influence. You know there is a great change in our day taking place. All the secular newspapers of the day for I nm not speaking now of the religious newspapersall the secular newspapers of tho day discuss nil the questions of God, eternity and the dead, and all the questions of the past, present and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the secular newspapers of tho country. They gather up all the news of all the earth bearing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christianized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord's chariot. The Difference. A little boy, who In the course of some conversation of his elders, heard a good deal of talk about the progress of civilization, approached his grandfather, who was taking; no part in the talk. "Grandpa," said the child, "what Is the difference between civilization and barbarism?" "Barbarism, my boy," answered the old man, "is killing your enemy wtth n hatchet at a distance of a step, and civilization is killing him with a bombshell twelve miles away!" This cynical answer applies well enough, without doubt, to the difference lwtwccn civilized warfare and that of a period when the world was less advanced than now; but the complctest civilization looks toward the abolition of warfare forever. The most densely settled State Is Iihode Island, and the second Massachusetts. The former has 31S.44 Inhabitants to the square mile, aud the latter 278.48.

POISONED HIS FAMILY

A TENNESSEE CCY A SECOND JESSE PCMZROY. Puts a Deadly Dru- in the CofTee Pot New York Peleiintcs Instructed for Morton-Spanish Troops Fight j liacli Otlicr Wisdom from tlie Swiss Three Poisoned by a Coy. News of the dreadful crime of a !."" vear-oM b v con.es fiota Henderson i "..unty. win re .Ie P uiou. his wife ami !;-. .f. ". tiusoji. the family physician, may die. The buy. a s.n of Benson, was tilled with the exploits ef dime novel hey" and determined to go to Texas. Hü father, learning his intentions, followed him to a i:eig'nl"i in' town and carried him home. This im-cived young Benson, and. seer. ring a box of poison, he put it ii; theeoffee. At the iirst meal only the father drank of the deadly bev--retro and was taken violently ill. lr. Stinsoii was ealh-d in and while attendi::g the father parto.-k of the next meal. and. with the bov i:'.';1ht. oornme a vieT i :n of J tie pois-ui. Benson is in ta; ind !.::s confessed the el'iine. TO RELIEVE CROWDED CITIES. Model Swiss Village May Solvs Problem of Overconccn trat ion. It may be for litt Switzerland, the oldest of the family of n-puhlies. to earn the honor ; f solving f-r America the problem of how t prevent the eolieelit ration of population in irreat cities, an evil believed by ecoui.mis-s to be fatal 1" Welfare. Tin- president of ibe Swiss National Exposition to be h Id Tlits year hits addressed I'nite.l States Consr.l BhL'oly. at tlerieva.on the subject, and t hit ter has forwarded hi coiiniMUiieatiot! to the I)oparimenf of State. President Turrettini's surest i :i is that Americans may learn iiow rural life can be made al once attractive and profitable by studying the model Swi-s xillai:;' which will form an important section of the exposition, illc.strathiir;. as it will, the happy village life of the Swiss, with tin- numerous home industries which are so profitable in full operation. If this can be studied in connection with the agricultural section, in which Swiss methods of dcaliiiir with produce will be e.'.einplitied and the lest breeds d' cattle exhibited, linn-h valuable information may be obtained which may prove to be ef substantial value to persons who aro seehing to solve the problem of overcoiicentration of population. FATAL BLUNDER OF SPANIARDS. Two Columns Mistake Each Other for Insurgents and Open Fire. Another terrible mistake attended with loss of life and resulting in many soldiers being wounded has taken place in Cuba. In some manner unexplained two columns of Spanish troops opened lire upon each other at midday. According to the few details received, the columns of troops commanded by (Jen. Godoy and Col. HoCuin at Santa Bosa plantation, near 10speranza. province of Santa Clara, mutually mistook each other for insurgent forces, owing, it is said, to the thickness of the sugar cane. Kach detachment opened lire upon the other, and for ten minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of seventeen soldiers, among them being Lieut. 'ol. I 'uen maycr. of the Navas battalion. In addition live otlicers and eighty-four soldiers Were wounded. Two of the latter have since d'ed. six others are mortally wounded, and thirtytwo are seriously injured. Lieut. Col. Piienmayer died while leading his troops on and shouting. "Long live Spain!-' Owing to Jhe f-vt that tlie meeting between the two columns took pko-c at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and a c.iurt-niartial will follow. M03T0n7n THE FIELD. New York Republican Convention Instructs National Delegates for Him. New York State ltepublieans held their State convention Tuesday, and the feature of the gathering was the speech of Senator Parsons, of Koclicstcr. presenting Levi P. Motion as a prcsid'-ntial candidate, and the subsequent election of delegates pledged to him. following were the nominations: Ielegates-at-Large. Thomas C. Piatt. Warmer Miller. Chauncey M. lepew. lhlward Lauterbach; alternates. Hamilton Fish. C. ll. Babeoek, Frank S. Withcrhee. !anicl McMillan. The financial plank of the platform declares: "I'ntil there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the Fnited Slates and of the civilized world, the Bcpublican party of New York declares itself in favor of tin linn and honorable maintenance of that standard." Eig Muddy Is Rising. The spring rise of the Missouri river has begun at Omaha. Neb. The entire valley of the Missouri iu Nebraska and South Oakota is covered with lifieeii inches of snow and this is rapidly melting now. All the Nebraska streams are full and a tl 1 in the Missouri is expected by river men. Peace Is Not Probable. Ace trdiug to Koine advices, on account of the excessive pecuniary demands made by Mcueh k it is improbable peace will be concluded. Sigs. ltieotti and Budini. who are in accord wi.'h the king, will refuse the payment of any money indemnity. Smallpox Scare in Indian Territory. Smallpox in virulent form is raging at Yinita. 1. T. The Mayor and Council of Nowata met in special session ami established strict quarantine regulations to prevent tin entrance of people from the infected district. Goes Celow Zero in New York. Unusually cold weather for the time of jour was experienced in eastern and central New York Tuesday. At Saratoga the mercury was lO degrees below Zero at sunrise, and at Hudson the Hudson liver had again frozen over so that teams crossed on six inches of new ice. Ohio Senate for electrocution. The Ohio Senate passed the bill providing for tie- substitution of electrocution for hanging in Ohio. The bill was introduced by Senator Jones of Madison County. Lawlcr's Bank to Reopen. The First National Bank at Mitchell. S. I.. of which the late .lohn 1). Lawler was president, and which was closed sim-e his death, has resumed business. This is the bank which lhiitor MacBride attacked iu the Mitchell Mail.

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Warning Notes Calling the VicLcd to iUliciitaiicn. KLIGION that Is not used, ca till u t be k e D t vrS P: .terA Vy i no nrst nine VVlP toy;ird the pit a. way- h,oks fa fe. Tho f.i.'.T the unii'oi-:ü, tho easier it is to get rocn:i;s. Good has to die every min ute that sin is allowed To live. Never Iva asiiiv .1 man's ulicn 1 y thclength of his face. Keep right with God. r.:: l he will keep bread in your house. A Yo is one of the p:( ;:::t things the devil ever tinned lu..e. The grateful heart is full of music that abgols would luve to :ws. lie who would be right v. kh Cod, must do right by his lVihiw-n.i v.. The longer we put off repentance tho more sin we will have to n .pout of. Tho man God uses docs ;:nt spend much time in b oking for an easy place. The Christian who is a m.-ni of much prayer will make others vant to pr:iy. No Christian can long keep close i.c God who does ail his praying ou the run. Tic man who makes n heaven for himself makes himself the biggot mai in it. There is only one right way to be a Christian, and that is to be cm. all the linte. Thon will be no lack ef repentance when the morning of judgment day dawns. There are too many tempera m-o men who stop working at the ir.ole on election day. . Bvery Christian ought to be a man whose first business iu this world is to please God. If you take the devil homo to dinner with you. you may have to take him for a boarder. God answers our prayers by giving the answer at the best titu, us vn 11 as in tin? best way. Make the devil keep away from the children, and he will soon have to leave the world. Some preachers are trying every means for tilling their churches except holding up Christ. To pray the Lord's Prayer as Jesus taught it will change a desert life into ii fruitful garden. Love to God and man are two steps over which very one must pass to enter the do. et of prayer. Our prayers would all have more power In them if they began, as thoy should, in righteous conduct. Because judgment has been a .long time in coming some people take it for granted that it will never come. What a revival there would be iu all the churches to-day if it were ccrtaiu that Christ would come to-mono w. The dangerous thing about saying no to Christ is that the man who does it may never afterward be able to say yes. If voll lind yourself becoming ungrateful, look around and see how much better off you are than other people. The right way to watch for the Lord to come is to so live that if all men lived as we do the devil would have to gD. Men take the risk of living in sin because they believe it will la a long; v.hih' before the reckoning: time will come. A careful scan hing of tho Scriptures is one of the most effectual prayers we can make for God to reveal himself to us. One reason why there is so much indifference on the subject of religion isj because the church is not "looking for the Lord to come. Pope Leo's Boyhoc:!. He spout his childhood in the simple surroundings of Carpim-to. than which none could be simpler, as ovi ry no knows who has ever visited an Italian country jrentlemaii in his home. Farly hours, constant exercise, p'ain food, and farm interests made a strong man of him. with plenty of simple common sense. As a boy he wa- a great walker and climber, and it is said that he was excessively fond of hirdmg. the only form of s;ort afforded by that part of Italy, and practised there iu those times, as it is now. mA ce.i'y with guns, but by means of nets. It has often been said that pods ami lovers of freedom come more frequently from the mountains ami the seashore than from a l'.at inland region.--Century. Tlie C tmpr.l 411 of I-'riedlatid. The campaign of Friedland shows cither less genius er more than any other of Napoleon's victories, according to the standpoint from which it is judged. If he is lo be regarded throughout its duration merely as a general, then his conduct shows eomparalix ly little ability. He came on his- em my where he did not expect a batth ; although he had ample time to evolve and execule an admirable plan, ami his loss was trilling compared with that of his opponents, yd, nevertheless, Friedland was a commonplace, incomplete affair. It compelled the foe to abandon Heikherg, but it did not annihilate him or necessarily end. the war. Century. He-So they were married at home, eh? What did you think of 11. e service? She-not much: it was marked "sterling," but I'm sure it was 1 late Philadelphia II coord.

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