Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 April 1896 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYKOUIH. INDIANA. WILL 15E IT TO DATE. HOUSE FAVORS ADOPTION OF METRIC SYSTEM. Advantages Over the Present IMaaPrcparations for a klonst er Meeting of Christian Lndca vorcrs at WuhIi-in-gtou. New Syst? rn of Weights aid Measures. Tin IIoMSC Wednesday b a voicnf 11! to 117 declared itself in favor of bavin;: the Fnitod Stales begin the tv.culictl century by abandoning tin present com j! iii.i! oi't-t"-.l:;To -y.-lcm of weight jiik! measures, making the decimal metric h.y.sK-1,1 t!io only legal system after Dee 111. F. tu. The advantages of the decimal system in reckoning money havi Ihm'ii forcibly recognized by every American who lias traveled i:i Imgland, ami jiltlioi-irli Crcat llritnui still perplexes tin l-rains of children l.y on ipe'ling them tt learn t!io arbitrary relations of pounds, diilling-. an.l pemv, many, if i.ot all. of Iter provinces have adopted the decimai money system. The confusion incident n:i change in the Fniti-d States from tin" present system of weights ami measure1o the decimal system will soon disappear, when tie ! of comprehending terms ol weights ;:nl mea.-ures used -in other countries which have adopted the system boconies uppa rent. WILL MEET 1M BIG TENTS. Programme of International Christian Endeavor Convention Given Out. The general -cakm of the program ol the fifteenth international Chri-tiaii Fa lea vor convention, whh h will he held it: Washington July s-i:;. has been announced. It is expect, d that fully C.Um 1 - pie will atten.i. Fvery morning of t!u convention there will he held at (:".. o'clock from twenty to thirty early nernins prayer meetings in as many churches The formal eper.ing of the c.mvcnti m wil" occur Thursday morning in three -.Teat tents upon the white lot jut south of th executive mansion. Tho-e will he ealle.i tent Washington. :,Mlt 'a,'t iv"r ai"1 t,1!! AVilliston. ami will seat alh.iit lo.mo persdiis ea-h. including a chorus choir el about l.'HM voices. At these opening sessions, which will he held simultaneously at i :.'( o'clock, addresses of welcome, tlo annual report of Secretary .loan Willi Pier and the annual ;nl.lress of President Francis Hark wiil he given. Thursday afternoon there will he hehl about thirty denominational rallies. Th rallies of the Presbyterians. P.aptists ami ( 'ongregationalists v.iil le held In lite three tents and the others will he hehl in large churches. Saturlay will he "outdoor lay." At ;:.".e an open-air praise servi.-t will he hehl at the Washington, monument. The l-'mlea vorers will tlieii march to tin capito, wlicre it Is hojie'l lr:ef alt:ressemay ' -lelivereil from the .-:eps of tlu seat of t I .vcrnnient. Sunday afternoon an evangelist service will he hel.l in one of the tents, an-1 in the other two ami in many ehurcht s there will he denominational missionary rallies. Monday mornin the World's ( 'iiritian Endeavor 1'nion. formed last year in Ilostoii. will hold its lirst annual convention. EXPULSION OF CHRISTIANS. Latest Startling Rumor from Turkey Awakes the Powers of Europe and Amsrica. Ali'-ei received at Constantinople Tuesday from iJiarhekir indicate heyond uiy reas nahte donht that Ilev. (leore C. Knapp, one of the American missionaries at llitlis. is conlined in the jail at )iari)ekir. capital of the vilayet of that name, in Turkish Armenia, and that serious international complication arc more than likely to follow-. At tlu first intimation of troulde tie I'nited States charge d'affaires, after ounmuuicatiii with the porte and receiving the unsatisfactory rcjdy ciied. cabled t Washinirtoii for further instructions. :lnd it is now said that the I'nited States squadron in the Mediterranean, consis'.-n of the flagship Minneapolis, commanded hy Admiral T. O. SlfrMc. and tie cruiser 1 ari!cheal. will saoriiy assemhle in tie Itilf of Iskaud'riiTi. and at the same time a formal protect against the treatment of the American miss:. diaries may he made to the porte. coupled with the demand for adequate indemnity i',r the damage recently lorn to i lie toperty of Americans. The imprisonment of K v. Mr. Knapp is understood io he hut a preliminary to tac expulsion of ail tin Chrisi'an missionaries, juosily Americans. English and Trench Catholics, from Asiatic Turkey, tnid. prssihly. from European Turkey as well. JSesides, ir is rumored that the ii rents of die Aap rican lied Cross Society. How d'strihiitins relief fumls in AsiaticTurkey in tie presence of local Turkish dlicial-". are ;ihn to he expelled from that Vart of the empire. Smith Confesses to Stone Murders. A second m:!ii was arrested Wednesday liaised with the Stono murder at Taliinadue, Ohio, two weeks ap. The sus-IK-cted person is .lohn Smith, who was tiehired man up to two weeks In-fore the rime was committed. He Itccamo enamored of Flora Stone and was forbidden the house ly .er p. rents. After a sv.eat1mx examination f six hours Smith broke down and confessed to the murders, sayiiT that his object was to kill tike family and lin n assault Mis Flora. Congressman Elliott Unseated. Four contested election cases were decided by House Elections Committee ,"o. In only one case wjis the report adverse to a member now lioldin tie seat. that of Murray vs. Elliott from the First South Carolina, which is favorable 1 Murray. Land Leate Gill Now a Law. The act. ori-rinatini: in the Senate, to Authorize the leasing of lands for educational purjtoses in Arizona. Wednesday lri'came law without the President's approval. This measure was framed to meet objections made by tin President to an original bill passed Jan. Hi last. Gambler Croderick Meets His Death. Jack llroderick, a St. Joseph, Mo., gambler, was found unconscious Tucsdav niht, ami said lie had Im en rohliet by footpuils. without hat, coat or hoc., J Je died Wednesday njoraiiitf.

STARTING FOR HOME.

REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A RADICAL' SERMON. The Prodl-itil'H Iieturn rnrnishes the Theme for a Powerful Discourse -V Divine Cure ior the Ills of the World-A Glorious Invitation. The Capital Pulpit. A most radical &isuA sermon is the one of last Sunday by Dr. Tal ma je. It runs lip and down the whole gamut of glorious Invitation. I1U text was Luke xx., IS "I will arise and go to my father." There is nothing like; hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot. Thfro has leen many an army defeated nut so much for lack of ammunition, as for lack of breud. 1: was that fact that tool; the tire out of this young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out auy man's life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveler tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit locking very inuch like the long beau of our time. It is called the carob. Once in awhile the people, reduced to destitution, would eat these carobs, but generally the carobs. the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine, and ' they crunched them with great avidity. Hut this young man of my text could not even get them without stealing them. S one day, amid the swine troughs, he begins to soliloquize. lie says: "These are no clothes for a rich man's son t wear; this is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged in. fecdiug swine, l'il go home; I'll go home. 1 will arise and go to my father." I know tiiere are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo, about sin, but notwithstanding all that Lord llyron and Ceorge Sand have said in regard to it. it if mean, low. contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is a very poor business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, and when this young man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether wo will fid- I low li mi. atan promises large wages n i we will serve him, but he clothes his vie- i fans with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Satan comes to us to-day, and he promises all luxuries and emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The wages of ein is death." Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution. "I will arise and g, to my father." In the time of Mary, the persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one of Christ's servants, ami the persecutor said, "Where is that heretic";" The Christian woman said, "Yon open that trunk and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened tho trunk, and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw a giass. lie said, "Tiiere is no heretic here." "Ah:" she said, "you look in the glass and you will see the heretic." Seeiny; Ourselves. As I take up the mirror of (Jod's word to-day, I would that, instead of seeing the prodigal of the text, we might see ourselvesour want, our wandering, our .sin, our lest condition so that w e might be as wise as this young man was and say, "I will arise and go to my father." The resolution of this text was formed in a disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man had been by his employer set to culturing llowers. or training vines over an arbor, or keeping an account of the pork market, or overseeing other la borers, he would not have thought of going home if he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say: "I have now of my own. What's the use of my going back to my father's house? Do you think I'm going back to apologize to the old man? Why, he would put me on the limits. He would, not have going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in. I won't go home. There is no reason why I should go homo. I have plenty of money plenty of pleasant surroundings. Whv should I jro home;" Ah, it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: "Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don't you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century and talk of something more exhilarating'." It is for this reason: A man never wants the gospel until he realizes he is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your homo, and you are in good, sound, robust health, and I should begin to talk about medicines, and about how much better this medicine is than that, and some other medicine than pome other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. After a while you would ret tired, and you would say: "I don': want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never have a doctor." Itut suppose I come into your house and I lind you severely sick, and 1 know the medicine that will cure you. and I know tho physician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: "ilring on all that medicine, bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, and I want help." Piiinc-d by Sin. If I come to you, and you feel you are all right in body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing, but suppose 1 have persuaded you that the leprosy of tin is uion you, the worst of all sickness. Oh, then you say, "llring me that balm of the gospel, Lring me that divine medicament, bring me Jesus Christ." "lut," say 8 some one in the audience, "how do you know that we are in a ruined condition by sin?" Well, J can prove it in two ways, and you mny have your clum-e. I can prove it either by the statements of men or by the Ptatement of (Jod. Which shall it be? You Fay, "Let u.- have the statement of God." Well, he says in one place, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." He says in another place, "What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of woman that he should be righteous?" He says In another place, "There is none that doeth good no. not one." He says in another place, "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned." "Well," you say, 'I am willing to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular xese-se

that you propose?" This is the reason: "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of Cod." This is the reason: "There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved." Then there are a thousand voices here ready to say: "Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel. I would like to have this divine cure. IIow shall I go to work?" Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined longing, amounts to nothing. Yo-? must have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man of the text when lie said. "I will arise and go to my father." "Oh." says some man. "how do I know my father wants me? I low do I know if I go back 1 would be received?" "Oh," says some man, "you don't know where 1 have been: you d n't know how far I have wandered: you wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities 1 have committed." What is that tlutter among the angels of Cod? What is that horsiman running with qui. k dispatch? It is news, it is news! Christ has found the lost. Nor ang-ds can their joy contain, Put kindle with new lire. The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike tho s u;n.i;:ig lyre, t'.od's Infinite M ; rcy. When Xapohon talked of going into Italy, they said: "You can't get there. Jf you knew what the Alps were, you would iur talk about i: w tL::;k about it. You can't get your amni'.nition wag-ins over the Alps." Then Nap.. Icon rose in hi; stiiraps, r-nd. waving his hand toward the mountains, he said. "There shall be no AlpsI" That wonderful pass was laid out whhh has been the -.::deruient of all the years siie-e- the wonderment of all engineers. And you ted me there are sip-h mountains of sin between your soul and (Jod there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving hi hand toward the mountains. I hear i:i:ti say. "I w ill cone over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thine iniquity." There snail be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps. Again. I notice that this resolution of the young man of my text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not more physical plight. It was grief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. That is Shakspearo. "A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." That is the liible. Well, my friends, have not some

f us b en cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Throe times a day has lie fed thee. He has poured sunlight into tinday and at night kindled up all the street lamps of heaven. With what varieties of apparel ho hath clothed thee for the seasons. Whose eye watches thee? Whose hand defends thee? Whose heart svmpathizes with thee? Wim gave you your children? Who is guarding your loved ones departed? Such a Father! So lov ing, so kind. If he had been a stranger: if he hail forsaken us: jf ho had flagellated us; if he'had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would hot have been so wonderful our treat ment of him: but he is a Father, so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderings have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our friend's feelings, if we do anything that hurts tiie feelings uf those in whom wo are interest ed, how quickly we apologize! Wo can scarcely wait until we ret pen and paper to write a letter of apology. How easy it is for any one who is intelligent, right hearted, to write an apology or make an apology! We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against (Jod and never apologized. An Irreparable L.oss. I remark still further that this resolution of tho text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. 1 do not know how long this young man. how many months, howmany years, he had boon away from his father's house, but there is something about the reading of my text that makes me think he was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from homo sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant plenty of friends you have said, "I would give the world to bo homo to-night.' Well, this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when ho thought of his father's house he said. "Now, perhaps father may not bo living." Wo read nothing in .this story, this parable, founded on everyday life we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going homo to her. 1 think she was dead. 1 think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had gone into dissipation from the fact that he could not remember a loving and sympathetic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her, but lie is homesick for his father's house. He thought he would just like to go and walk around the old place. He thought ho would just like to go and see if things were as they used to be. Many a man after having been oft a long while has gone home and knocked at the door, ami a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to tho door. lie linds out father is gone and mother is gone at.d brothers and sisters all gone. 1 think this young man of the text said to himself, "Perhaps father may be dead." Still ho starts to lind out. Ho is homesick. Are there any hero to-day homesick for (Jod, homesick for heaven? To I5e Almost Saved Is to Pc Lost. There is a man who said, long ago, "If I could live to the year IS'.-', by that time I will have my business matters all arranged, and 1 will have time to attend to religion, and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian." The year 1.S1K has come. January, February, March, April a third of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? "Oh." says some man, "I'll attend to that when I get my character fixed up, when I can get over my evil habits; I am now given to strong drink." Oh, says tho man, "I am given to uncleanliness." Or, says tho mau: "I am given to dishonesty. "When I get over my present habits, then I'll bo a thorough Christian." My brother, you will get worse and worse, until Christ takes you in hand. "Not the righteous, sinners Jesus came to call." Oh, but you say, "I agree with you in all that, but I must put it off a little longer." Do you know there were many w ho came just as near as you are to the kingdom of (Jod and never entered it? I was at L'asthampton, and I went into the cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side the graves of sailors. This crew, some years ago, in a ship went into the breakers at Amagansett, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at Kasthampton. had been at the burial. These men of the crew came verr near being saved. The people from

Amagansett saw tho vessei, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the' boat, and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just K foio they got to the shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized, and they were lost, their bodies afterward washed upon the beach. Oh, what a solemn day it was I have been told of it by my brother when these twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit, and he rend over them the funeral service. They came very near shore within shouting distance of the shore, yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost n the shore e-f (Jod's mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be almost saved is to be lost! Two Prodigals. I will tell you of two prodigals tho one that got back, an-1 the other that did not get back. In iliehmoi.d there is a very prosperous and beautiful home in many respects. A young man wandered off from

that mono lie wamleie.t very far into sin. They heard of him after, but he was always on the wrong track, lie would if . t go home. At the door of that beautiful home one night there was a great outcry. The young man of the house ran down to open the door to see what was the ma; ior. It was mid iight. The rest of the family were asleep. There wen the wife and children of this pr. .ligal young man. The fact was he had c-me home and driven them out. Ho said.: "Our of this house! Away with these children! I wiil das!: their brains our. Out into the storm!'' The mother gathered ;". y:n up and lied. Tho next m-. ruing the croiiier ;ho young man who had staid at homo, went out to lind this prodigal brother and son, and he came where lie was and saw th young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said to the older brother: "Here, what does all tins mean? What is the matter with you? Why do you act in this way?" Tho prodigal looked at him and said: "Who am I? Who do you take me t) bo?" He said, "You are my brother." "No, I am not. 1 am a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife and children? Are they dead? I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute. John, do you think there is any help for me? Do you think 1 wiil ever get over this life of dissipation?" He sail, "John, there is one tiling that will stop this." The prodigal ran his lingers across his throat and said: "That will stop it, and I will stop it before night. Oh, my brain! 1 can stand it no longer." That prodigal never got homo. Put I will teil you id a prodigal that did get Imme. In F. lg'and two young men started from ihe'r father's house and went down to Portsaiouth I have been there -a beautiful seaport. Some of you have been there. The father ouId not pursue his children for some reason ho could not leave home -and ao he wrote a letter down to Mr. vJriJlin, saying: "Mr. (Jriiun. 1 wish you would go and see my two sons. They have arrived in Portsmouth, and they are going to take ship and going away from home. I wish you would persuade them back." The Pardon of the Gospel. Mr. (Jritlin went and tried to persuade them back, lie persuaded one to go. Ho went with very easy persuasion because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: "I will not go. 1 have "had enough of home. I'll never go home." "Weil," said Mr. (Jritlin, "then if you won't go homo 111 get you a respectablo position on a respectable snip. -No, you won't" said the prodigal; "no you won't. I am going as a private sailor; as a common sailor. That will plague my father most and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please mo best." Years passed on and Mr. (Jrillin was seated in his study one day when a messenger came to him saying there was a young man in irons on a s-hip at the dock a young man condemned to death who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. (Jriflia went down to the dock and went on shipboard. Tho young man said to him, "You don't know me, do you?" "No," he said, "I don't know you." "Why, don't you remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home and he wouldn't go?" "Oh, yes." sold Mr. (Jriffin. "Are you that man?" "Yes, I am that man," said the other. "I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder and I must die. but I don't want to go out of this world until some one prays for me. You are ray father's friend and I would like to have you pray for me." Mr. (Jriffin went from judicial authority to iudieial authority to get that youns man's pardon. He slept not night nor day. Ho went from inlluential person to influential person, until in some way he cot that voung man's pardon. He came down on the dock and as he arrived on the dock with tho pardon tho father came. lie had heard that his son, under a disguised name, had been committing crime and was going to bo put to death. So Mr. (Jritlin and tho father went on ship's deck and at the very moment Mr. Grifiin offered the pardon to the young man the old father threw his arms around tho son's neck and the son said: "Father, I have done very wrong and I am very sorry, wish ! had never broken your heart. am very sorry!" "Oh," said tho father, "don't mention it. It won't make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son." And he kissed him and kissed him and kissed him. To-day I offer von tho pardon of the gospel full pardon, free pardon. I d not care what vour crime has been. J nougn you say you have committed a crime against (Jod, against your soul, against your fellow man, against your family, against tho day of judgment, against the cross of Christwhatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your Heavenly Father throws his arms around about you and says: "My son, I forgive you. It is all right. You are as much in my favor now as if you had never sinned." Oh, there is joy on earth and joy in heaven Who will take tho Father's embrace? Irish soldiers fought in King Philip's war, which broke out in 1(7.", ami tsotno oven earlier, in tho lVquod war. Historical evidence exists of Irish settlors in Now Fnglaml within twenty years after tho landing at Plymouth Kock As early as KltM Massachusetts granted land near Nowburyport to certain Irish ami Scotch comers, and in KJoO arrived tho ship St. Patrick, boloninj: to Sir Thomas Wont worth, deputy of Ireland In lo-lo, after tho introduction ol metal pins as an article of feminine use. they became popular as Now Year presents. They were very expensive, and for a gentleman to make his lady friends a present of four or live pins was considered a very happy thought

BIG FLEET IS READY.

SPANISH NAVY MAKING PREPA RATIONS FOR WAR. Destination of the tfipiaitron UepeJicts on Cleveland's Action-Great Grain Conorcs to ?Iect in CharlestonMeasles in the White House. Due to Cuban Resolutions. Admiral S.iuehe;: ( I. -a mi. .v.;;ima:tdt.;g the great navy yard at Ferro!, on t.ie x-trt-me n r;hwest im: of Spain, n o r;s that ie has completed prepa:a:ious f .; sc:ei:n to sea a .-paui-Mi so-iaoi-m c-.u-s(-d of thi following vc.-sc's: Tue i!Voicl.ol IViaya. the f-rst-.-lass .!': d --ui-. rs Inf.iiir.i Maria Th.-n sa. A!.;::;:::;o i i.pn-u-d and 'b:e.iva: ' ., . : i " r:u :vi cru':-rs lte.ü.i Mcr e-'.-s and A XIII.; o;;c torpid- h s r"cr and sew:; fast torp'. d b.i:s. Ti.ir t'iui . r-; vessels carry in tie ir . m-r.v'y r..ii.iii ;n- :i. This il, ,.; Vt-'i j,.iiVe F, rr d for k: practice in Ar"sa hay and will cru'.e a !:: the i.or: !:w st -.as; ..f Spain ready to start for Havana j'.'.t a soon as the cabinet cousid' rs that :;-. -nw.s; ,-cs iv'juire its presence in th-- West Indies. Toe Madrid press plainly says tie m ve;n; ot of the licet will depend op.-tl the e.e.'.'-sc of President '!ev land a I ter !.: v tc of Congress en tho belt'eivm y res du: ion -. Six transatlantic sp-aimrs have I. eon turned into twenty-gT.i f.K cruisers. Thy wiil 1k ready for service by tie- on 1 of April. The princip.-d newspapers of Madrid print patrioiie. spirbed artich-s, ali sayimr. in effect, that the moment is fast approaching when i";e Spanish Government and nation must face resolutely the decisive Ktaire of the Cuban quothm and of the relations between Spain and the Failed States, ami must also ho prepared for all the consoquen-es of the vindication of the Sjianl-'i rieht to repel any interference in the struirgh berweon the mother country ami the Cui.ui insurgent-. HAVE THE MEASLES. President Cleveland's Children Attacked with This Infantile Disease. Mer-h-s has suddenly appeared in the Pre-ddent's household, little Fsth.-r Cleveland being stricken with it. This infantile dis-'.ise h.: been almost epidemic in Washington for some time pas; and all prt'j-atttions have mq aviled to prevent it spread. Private Sc. r.-tary Tiiurber's children have all had the disease in regular course, and to prevent the possibility of its transmission to ihe White House Mr. Thurber absented himself from his i.-wn domicile, put tins sacrifice was of io avail, for the eruption suddenly appeared on little Fsther Cleveland, marking her as the first victim of the White House. Orders were sent to W Hey. the President's suburban residence. !o put the place in -iiape for toe immediate reception of the family, and Mrs. Cleveland, accompanied by all of the children, left the White House p, make their home at Woodloy until the disease shall have run its course. CREAT GRAIN CONGRESS. The South and West Will Cc Larjity Represented at Charleston. Interest in the coming South and West grain congress is becoming general, and the assemblage in Charleston. S. C. promises to be a large one. It Will be c dp ied of prominent business men of the South and West, and the result of their deliberations must be the improvement and extension of trade a!,d busine-s relati ns. All the railroads south of the (lido and east of Mississippi Piver wiil be represented, either by their pre-idents or vice pfe-idents and traffic managers. It is also expected that prominent otlieial- of several of tile trunk lilies between the Ohio Iiiver and Chicago wiil be in attendance. Interesting addresses by practical men from diifcrent sections will bo delivered. Gang on the Run. Tlie town elections within the borders of Chicago Tuesday resulted in the election of tic entire Itcpubli.-an ticket by deen-ased majorities. A hour per cent of the total vole was polled. In the aldermanic elections party lines were generally disregarded. A bitter tight was waged to prevent the re-ehvtioti of hoodie aldermen, and regardless of party the Civic Federation and tho Municipal Voters League indorsed thirty-three men. candidates in t wenty-seveii wards. Of these, twenty-two were elected. There now remain in the Council, of men who are known to bo thieves and boodlers. only rwciity-sevcn. of wh .ni all but five are hold-overs. The entire Council numbers sixty-eight, so for the first lime in many years Chicago has a Hoard of Aldermen the majority of whom are believed to bo honest. Led by King Lobenßut.i. It i- again reported that King I.obotigula is alive and that it is ho, and not Iiis son. who is the principal leader of the Matabeles who are now in arms against rue P.ritish authorities. It is a. bled that Lobengnla is massing his forces in preparation for an attack in strong to reo upon Fx pect im; an Infected Ship. Information has reached the San Francisco lnalih department that a case of black plague de eloped on board the steamship ( laelie after she left Yokohama for San Francisco. The victim, a Chinese, died, and the ship will be quarantined when fOio reaches port. Danqust lo Prsldent Diaz. At City of Mexico, a magnificent banquet was given by foreign resident niaiiufaclurers, merchants and bankers in honor of President I ia:'.. Fatal Explosion. At Itidgetown. Out., just as the nun had assembled in Watson Hros.' mill, ready to begin work, a terrific boiler explosion tore the building into fragments. Two dead bodies, those of Daniel Lcilrh and A. M. Cunningham, wore soon extricated from tho ruins. Corbett Arrested for Boxing, .lames .1. Corbett and Iiis sparring partner. Mike Connelly, were arresled at Havlin's Theater. St. Louis, Mo., charged with holding a boxing contest contrary to law. Thev iiad been warned not to box. Comes from His Retreat. Francis Sethlattor, the healer, is now at Pleasanton, N. M., having been several weeks in ret reat.atmong ihe Mexicans in the small ranch towns in Socorro County performing cures. Schlatter says he just ended a fast of forty days and forty nights.

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Warning Notes Call'mi: the V, ickcti tt If ci)ctat!ti. fx !:- ..." Vo.... 1 fAVv.S h'-- -v h'- .tt. i AXVJÄ Old v.-, n ; Vv-i cans. v ,ii:ig Nv-M WW I i: : 1 1V.e V."i,eo " ,M e . JiVe . ;. -d neighbor light wo'gV. The titan who is not a : : Often t'e-ed oil''. Tho ött;n who walks v. ; : ; It cVo'-kee path--. When ill,- chuivii is :! is afraid to sleep. The sin wo have v havo no mercy op its. Tito cj-i'i-s we try to ii."h:;:;d is always he;;-, y. A goideti oppov; ;:i,i :y t; , at tiit sat:;. doer iv. i - . Ali lib preaching . -:: -ini'.ei's in tho chr,:vh. It takes a warm pr.:y . down liro from InMv. n The hardest wound t-, h one inflicted l-y a friend Controversy about c helps j lit cause of "';:r.-'. Troa-itiv laid tip in h- ' enriches somebody o:i car; 1 This world is a bad woe.; tho-c who have bad heart. The cross; of Chris- j t. thing tho christian can car.-. 1 1 V ar e lo'Y .'.:;lv ligiitf j Live up to tie P,ib! . hn-.w. I III,, i - i i. . i. . . ,,-! i o v i o . e o ii iiau . j 1 1 . . . When a Christian goes t!l ":.;: ovmpany tho deil gains a v : No man can do j ; : 1 er re 1 Hot sure that Cod i- wills If good seed is pii: n :. . g:o,:t.'' some of it will bo sur1 to ;zi w. When Coil gives its - Ii-. nA it better tiling for us thati a . .vi. Tho man who goes to 1'a Hildo v,'; .1 teachable spirit is sur- ; .o taught Tho Pible is full of .a.i-cs f. ; every man who will s.iy good 1 tc sin. Put your hand in ibid-- .;otid. at;d you will not fall, even .1 ; feet c slip. Whatever the Chris; in :i prays f. r bo ought to bo willing to !: .-.- at d da for. The love that nev.-f sp -ik- until it doos it on a gravostono ii,- :s siill roc long. The devil is ihe only g- when r, loy is whipped lo !i;.,kc tin go tc church. 1 All lies have the devj.' f 'heir 'ather. i:o matter whether the; an v. hiti or black. No man can know too perfect peace until lie i;as , in Christ. It is so much easief far to pray for the proa- ie-t ; tribute to his support. No man who socks help ; wiil over fail to got it o ' are iiaws in bis theology. If W will Use all the lig '!!Ug ff ; fr::.: io p. e: h a :) .- u; C tl e i,av Cod will s'-e that wo ha. v.- ,-n.agh :; Ii ii 1 our way to tho c;-o.-s. The wider tho Pible js -v, m ) !., less langer there wiil bo of ; ..e pre;. . her dying in tho poor hous Manners of Cmit Men. Count do I.esseps was ti: ry;;o f ti c French gentleman. Monroe was. oven in hi; own tine, called "V. gentleman of tin eM school." Panoioft was ratlnT ics.aycd f , cd 1. or wise with most as winio : met. Curri: lc was generally so ;t:.o; that :V often created the impression ot ":!.':- tlenoo. Henry Clay was sail fmko tie most engaging bow of ;;a,. . otic: a: of his lime. Milton was quiet and iv-. v -d in versa i ion. but thorough! : ;in--.l .:.d well-bred. Iai!te was solitary in hi- . .,! its . :- by his av.sti rity chilled m -: l ii: whom he met. Mahoinmed incub ated ; , atones- r the Koran. Ho him-el:" "...s on- of the most courteous of -a. Pius IX. both b fore and aft. ; h's , ;. vatioii to the poiititi -if :..,.; v;i -model of studied politeness. Pcethoven was rude an ! gr::ff. seemed to 1 in a perp o -.m ; i.,,d Inn r with himself ami ec;y one . liohospiorre was urban-- in laant-r und court ous, though bri-:" to Hwi-.-c who approached hiui on bu .e-as. Talleyrand owed his sa--: s in life ?e no small extent to the uniform oruirU with which he treated everyone. Pyron was affable to bis equals ai l to those whom he wished to please, 1 i;t haughty and disfant to nto-t others. Tho Puke of Marlborough said t ; ; t he owed his success as naacb t.. his cptnt deportment as to his tal.aits. Andrew .lackson was rough in ) s manners, but could b- polite when lv pleased. Ho w:is nlways courteous vi ladies. French medical student- are angrily . complaining that they are crowded cut . of their own schools bv vouths freu; " v abroad, and French doctors are even more indignant because these foreign ors, instead of going homo nflor a ' quiring a knowledge of physics and ctrgery. settle down in Franco ami co-n-peto with tho native practitioners. Ot tho (., txio students in the Paris Medic.il School it soonis that l.oiio are alibis.. and the proportion Is almost as largo j in provincial in.stitutiims, notably akj Moutpelicr.

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