i TALMAGE'S SERMON. THE WASHINGTON PREACHER ON THE DRAMA OF LIFE. 3 It Appears that People Used to Go to the Theater in the Days of JobA Unique Peroration Vindicating Shakespeare of Infidelity. the stage? Each one is assigned a place, no supernumerarics hanging around drama of life to take this or that or the other part, as they may be called upon. one can take our place.
We can take no other place. Neither can we put off our character; no change of apparel call make us any one else than that which we eternally are. Many make a failure of their part in the drama of life through dissipation. They have enough intellectual equipment and good address and geniality unbounded. But they have a wine closet that contains all the forces for their social and business and normal overthrow.
So far back as the year 959, King Edgar of England made a law that the drinking: cups should have pins fastened at a cer-' tain point in the side, so that the indulger might be reminded to stop before he got to the bottom. But there are no pins projecting from the sides of the modern wine cup or beer mug, and the first point at which millions stop is at the gravity bottom of their own grave. Dr. Sax of France has discovered something which all drinkers ought to know. He has found out that alcohol in every shape, whether of wine or brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called bacillus potumaniae.
By a powerful microscope these living things are discovered, and when you take strong drink you take them into the stomach. and then into your. blood, and, getting into the crimson canals of life, they go into 'every tissue of your body, and your entire organism is taken possession of by these noxious infinitesimals. When in delirium tremens, a man sees every form of reptilian life, it seems it is only these parasites of the brain in exaggerated size. 4 It is not a hallucination that the "victim is suffering from.
only sees in the room what is actually. crawling and rioting in his own brain. Every you take strong drink you swallow these maggots, and every time the imbiber of alcohol in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only the jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are being made for the discovery of some germicide that can kill the parasites of alcoholism, but the only thing that will ever extirpate them is abstinence from alcohol and teetotal abstinence, to which I would before God swear all these young men and old. Dangers of Strong Drink.
A America is a fruitful country, and we raise large crops of wheat and corn and oats, but the largest crop we raise in this country. is the crop of drunkards. With sickle made out of the sharp edges of the broken glass of bottle and demijoha they are cut down, and there are whole swathes of them, whole windrows of them, and it takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries and graveyards and cemeteries to hold this harvest of hell. Some of you are going down under this and the never dying worm of alcoholism has wound around you one of its coils, and by next New Year's day it will have another coil around you, and it will after awhile put a coil around your tongue, and a coil around your brain, and a coil around your lung, and a coil around your foot, and a coil around your heart, and some day this never dying worm will with one spring tighten all the coils at once, and in the last twist of that awful convolution you will cry out, "Oh, my and be gone. The greatest of dramatists is in the tragedy of "The Tempest" sends staggering across the stage Stephano, the drunken butler; but across the stage of human life strong drink sends kingly and queenly and princely natures staggering forward against the footlights of conspicuity and then staggering back into failure till the world is impatient for their disappearance, and buman and diabolic voices join in hissing them off the stage.
Many also make a failure in the drama of life through indolence. They are always making calculations how little they can do for the compensations they get! There are more lazy ministers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, artists and farmers than have ever been counted upon. The community is full of laggards and shirkers. I can tell.it from the way they crawl along the street, from their tardiness in meeting engagements, from the lethargies that seem to bang to the foot when they lift it, to the hand when they put it out, to the words when they speak. Out of Place.
Two young men in a store. In the morning the one goes to his post the last minate or one minute behind. The other is ten minutes before the time and has his hat and coat bung up and is at his post waiting for duty. The one is ever and Causes of Failure. Rev.
Dr. Talmage in this discourse Sets forth the causes of failure in life, drawing on a Biblical reference to the theater for startling illustration. His text ivas Job 23, "Men shall clap their at him and shall hiss him out of his place." This allusion scems to be dramatic. The Bible more than once 'makes such allusions. Paul says, "We are made a theater or spectacle to angels and to.
men." It is evident from the text that some of the habits of theater goerg were known in Job's time, because he describes 21. actor hissed off the stage. The impersonator comes on the boards and, either through lack of study of the part heris tortake or inaptness or other incapacity, the nudience is offended and expresses its disapprobation and disgust by hissing: hiss him out of his" place." shall clap, their, hands at him and shall: The Actors of Life. My text suggests that each one of is put on -stage. of this world -to take sore part.
hardship and suffering and discipline great" actors 'have undergone year' after year that they might be perfected in their parts you have often rend. But we, put on the stage of this life to represent charity and faith and bumility and helpfulness--what little preparation we have made, although we have three galleries of spectators, searth and heaven and hell! Have we not been more attentive to the part taken by others than to the part taken by ourselves, and, while TWO needed to be looking at home and concentrating on our own duty, we have been criticising the other performers, and ing, "that was too high," or "too low," or "too feeble," or "to extravagant," or "too tame," or "too 'demonstrative," while we. ourselves were making a dead failure and preparing to be ignominiously hissed off the stage? Each one is assigned a place, in the afternoon looking at his. watch a to see if it is not most time to shut up. The other.
stays half an hour after he might go, and when asked why, says he wanted to look over some entries. he had made to be sure he was right, or to put up some goods that had been left out of place. The one is very touchy about doing work not exactly belonging to him. The other is glad to help the other clerks in their work. The first will be a prolonged nothing, and he will be poorer at 60 years of age than at 20.
The other will be a merchant prince. Indolence is the cause of more failures in all occupations than you have ever suspected. People are too lazy to do what they can do, and want to undertake. that which they cannot do. In the drama of life don't want to be a common soldier, carrying a halberd across the stage, or a falconer, or 8 mere attendant, and 'so they lounge about the scenes till they shall be called to be something great.
awhile, wby some accident of prospority or 'circ*mstances, they get into the place for which they have no qualification. And very soon, it the man be a merchant, he is going around asking his creditors to compromise cents on the dollar. Or, if a clergyman, he is making tirades against the ingratitude of churches. Or, if an by unskillful. management lie loses a case by.
which widows and orphans are robbed of their portion. Or, if a physician, he by malpractice" gives his "patient -rapid transit from this world to the next. Our incompetent friend would have made a passable horse doctor, but he wanted to be professor of anatomy. in: a university. He could hare sold enough.
confectionery to hare supported his family, but he wanted to have a sugar cry like the Havemeyers. He could have mended: shoes, but he wanted to amend the constitution of the United States. Toward the end of life these people are out of patience, out of moncy, out of friends, out of everything. They go to the poorhouse, or keep out of it by running in debt to all. the grocery and dry goods stores that will trust them.
l'eople begin! to wonder when the curtain will drop the scene. After awhile, leaving nothing but their compliments to pay doctor, undertaker and Gabriel Grubb, the gravedigger, they disappear. Hissed off the stage. A Moral Nuisance. Others fail in the drama of life through demonstrated selfishness.
They make all the rivers empty into their sea, all the -roads of emolument end at their door, and they gather all the plumes of honor for their brow. They help no one, encourage no one, rescue one. "How big a pile of money can I get?" and "How much of the world can absorb? are the chief questions. They feel about the common the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or common soldiers, considering them of no use except to fill up the ditches with their dead bodies while the other troops walked over them to take the fort. After awhile this prince of worldly success is The only interest society has in his illness is the effect that his possible decease may hare the money markets.
After awhile he dies. Great newspaper capitals announce how he started with nothing and ended with everything. Although for sake of appearance some people put handkerchiefs to' the eye, there is not one genuine tear shed. The heirs sit up.all night when lies in state, discussing what the old fellow has probably done with his money. It takes all the livery stables within two miles to furnish tuneral equipages, and all the mourning stores kept busy in -selling -weeds of grief.
The stone cutters send in proposals for' a The minister at the obse-. quies reads of the resurrection, which makes the hearers fear that if the unscrupulous financier does come up in the general rising, he will try to get a "corner" on tombstones and graveyard fences. All good men are that the moral nuisance has been removed. The Wall street speculators are glad because there is more room for themselves. The heirs are glad because.
they get possession of the long delayed inheritance. every feather of all his plumes, every certificate of all his stock, every bond of all his in-: vestments, dollar of all his fortune, he departs, and all the rolling of "Dead March" in "Saul," and all the pageantry of his interment, and all the exquisiteness of sarcophagus, and all the extravagance of epitaphology, cannot hide the fact that my text has come again to tremendous fulfillment, "Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of. his place." You see the clapping comes before the hiss. The world cheers before it damns. So it is said the deadly asp tickles before it stings.
Going up, is he? Hurrah! Stand back and let his galloping horse dash by, a whirhwind of plated harness and tinkling headgear and arched neck. Drink deep of his madeira and cognac. Boast of how well know him. All hats off as he passes. Bask for days and years in the sunlight of his prosperity.
Going down, is he? Pretend to be nearsighted so that you cannot see him as he walks past. When men ask you you know him, halt and hesitate as though you were trying to cal up a dim memory and say, "Well, y-e-8, yes, I believe I once did know him, but have not seen him for a long while." Cross a different ferry from the one where you used to meet him lest he ask for financial help. When you started: life, he spoke a good word for you the bank. Talk down his credit now that his fortunes are collapsing. He put his name on.
two of your notes. Tell him that you have changed your mind about such things, and that you- never indorse. After awhile his matters come to dead halt, and an assignment or sus. pension. or sheriff's sale takes place.
say: "He ought to have stopped sooner. Just as I expected. made too big a splash in the, world. Glad the balloon has burst. ha!" Applause when he went up, sibilant derision when he came down.
"Men shall clap their hands at him and hiss him out of his place." So, up amid the crags, the eagle flutters dust into the eyes of the roebuck, which then, with eyes blinded, goes tumbling orer the precipice, the great antlers crashon the rocks. Consecrated to God. Now, compare some of these goings out of life with the departure of men and women who in the drama of life take the part that God assigned them and then went away honored of men and applauded of the Lord Almighty. It is about fifty years ago that in a comparatively apartment of the city a newly married. pair set up a home.
The first guest to that residence was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bible given the bride. on the day of her espousal was the guide: of that household. Days of sunshine were followed by days of shadow. Did years you had ever no know a vicissitude? home that The for young fifty who left her father's house for K6J young husband's home started out with paternal benediction and good advice she will never forget. 1 Her mother said to her the day before the marriage: "Now, my child, you are going away from us.
Of course, c.8 long as your father and I live you will feel that you can come to us at any time. But your home will be elsewhere. long experience I find it is best to serve God. It is very bright with you now, my child, and you may think you can get along, without religion, but the day will come when you will want God, and my advice is, establishia family altar, and, if need be, conduct the worship yourself." The counsel was taken, and that young wife consecrated every room in the house to God. Years passed on and there were in that home hilarities, but they were good and healthful, and sorrows, but they were comforted.
Marriages as bright as orange blossoms could make them, and. burials in which all hearts were riven. They have a family lot in the cemetery, but all the place is illuminated with stories of resurrection and reunion, The children of the household that lived have grown up, and they are all Christians, the father and mother leading the way and the children following. What care the mother, took of wardrobe and education, character' and manners! How hard she someworked! When the head of the houschold was' unfortunate in business, she sewed until her fingers were numb and bleeding at the tips. And what close calculation of economics and what ingenuity in refitting the garments 'of the elder children for, the younger, and only God kept account of that mother's sideaches and headaches and heartaches and the tremulous prayers by, the side of the sick child's cradle and by the couch of this one fully grown.
The neighbors often noticed how tired she looked, and old acquaintances hardly complaint knew her she in the waited street. and toiled and endured and accomplished all these years. The children are out in the world--an honor to themselves and their parents. After awhile the mother's last sickness comes. Children and grandchildren, summoned from afar, come softly into the room one by one, for she is too weak to see more than one at a time.
She runs her dying fingers lovingly through their hair and tells them not to cry, and that she is going 1 now, but they will meet again in a little while in a better world, and then kisses them good-by and A says to "God bless and keep you, my dear child." The day of the obsequies comes, and the officiating clergyman the story of wifely and motherly endurance, and many hearts on earth and in heaven echo the sentiment, and as she is carried off the stage of this mortal life there are cries of "Faithful tinto death," "She hath done what could," while overpowering all the voices of earth and heaven is the plaudit the God who watched her from first to last, saying, "Well done, good and -faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" The Choice. But what became of the father of that household? He started as a young man in business and had a small income, and having got a little ahead sickness in the family swept lit all away. He went through all the business panics of forty years, met many losses, and suffered many betrayals, but kept right ion trusting in God, whether business was good or poor, setting his children a good example, apd giving them the best of counsel, and a prayer did he offer for all those years. but they were mentioned in it. He is old now and realizes it cannot long before 'he must quit all these scenes.
But he is going to leave his dren an inheritance of prayer and Christian principles which. all the defalcations of earth can. never touch, and as be goes out of the world the church of God blesses him and 'the poor ring his doorbell to see it he is any better, "and his grave is surrounded by a multitude who went on foot and -stood there before the procession of carriages came up, and some say, "There will be no one to. take his place," "and others say, "Who will pity me now?" and "others ramark, "He shall be held in lasting remembrance." And as the drama of his lite closes, all the vociferation and. bravos end encores that ever shook the amphitheaters of earthly spectacle were feeble compared, with the long, loud thunders of that shall break from the cloud of witnesses in the piled up gallery of the heavens.
Choose ye. between the life that shall close being hissed off the stage and the life that'shall close araid acclamations supernal and archaugelic. a Oh, Den and women on the stage of life, many cf you in first act of the drama, and others the second, and some of you in the third, and a few in the fourth, and here and there one in the fifth, but all of you between entrance and exit, I quote to you as the peroration of this sermon the most suggestive passage that Shakspeare ever wrote, although you never heard it recited. The author has often been claimed as infidel and atheistic, so the quotatioa shall be not only religiously helpful to ourselves, but grandly vindicatory of the great dramatist. I quote from his last will and testament: "In the name God, Amen.
Willian Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gentleman, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make this my last will and testament, in manner and form following: First, commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing through the 'only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting." No That Time. "I'm in a great hurry," said the high school boy as he sat down to. dinner last night. "I've got to dress and get right off. There's a new bicycle club, and I'm to, be.
voted in to-night." His mother, who was something of a clubwoman, remonstrated: "You mustn't be there, if your name is to come up; that isn't club etiquette, Besides, suppose you shouldn't be elected?" all right," said the high school boy, swallowing with difficulty a considerably larger plece of rye bread than good manners sanction. "Dick Hendryx is president, and he's putting me There's only seven in -the club, and one fellow is in my class, and vote for me; and another wants to borrow. my lantern next week, and he'll rote for me; and Dick says if the others don't he'll punch their Times. 1 Dear weeps but once; cheap always 1 COSTLY TRASH SUPPLIED TO THE FARMERS. Two-thirds of an Ounce, Not Enough to Be Serviceable, and Sam Pays $165,000 a Year for it; 13 Congressional Extravagance.
Washington correspondence: J. UMBUG, thy name There is never Congress! was a better illustration of this fact than the recent: controversy over the question of distributing free seeds. Secretary Morton wanted put stop to this ridiculous abuse, which, in the last twenty Each Recipient of a Free Package the privilege.of ary prize packages ents without cost to The hollowness of ingly exhibited when, Secretary Morton each member of ages, every one of one large paper of big fourteen. papers of raised a row right legislators said that not go around ad among They obliged the seeds into packages of give 5,000 to each was made clear to ages 'of five papers small to be of any objection was. ignored.
sired that the sceds the farmers, and other they should serve the Congressmen. was changed at a 'cost additional number ployed. Not Enough to The law prescribes be of "rare and But the Congressmen but ordinary garden ing from nasturtium and peas. Each little papers of seeds, about two-thirds sisting of two-tenths bage seed, two-tenths cucumber seed, of squash seed, of turnip seed and less an ounce of tomato This is as much as from the much-advertised free seed by Congress. the Government is this year, without sending the packages of such a package to ing the envelopes and The actual expense mail is: 4c in addition.
ture the farmer receives he could purchase at for from one to three store will usually be several boxes of assorted at from two cents to They are just as good by the Government and to hold about twice $165,000 Wasted In every third seeds sent out this taining about one-sixth or corn. Imagine how ly to be to the farmer. it is not intended him; it is designed as the Congressman and and the children. enforced. by Congress 10,125,000 papers jot Government $75,000, added $89,000 for other words, the so-called year will cost the nearly $165,000, besides gitimate seed trade to equal amount.
made in order, as said during the recent the poor toiling farmer.at cle Sam remembers assist him in his to the extent, forsooth! of an ounce of seed's, the end pay for increased the distribution for next possible the purchase much seed as, will be The recent fight in so much attention to that applications for ly increased in number. The distribution of ment began in 1839 tion of $1,000, which ent office for the and giving away rare ties. Since that steadily increasing nished by Congress that. could be found a reasonable prospect part of the country and liberally distributed. the United States nearly all of the plants and trees that peculiar soils and out saying that the of valuable.
and ited. Although a each package for a not one recipient in sponse. years, has cost the Government over but the Congressmen objectbecause they would be deprived scattering complimentamong their constituthemselves. the fraud was strika few- weeks ago, proposed to Congress 1,000 packwhich should contain peas or corn and small seeds. This away, because the 1,000 packages would Secretary their to divide constituents.
the five papers, 80 as Congressman. It them that the pack'each would be too practical use, but that It was not de'should be useful to people, but that political ends of the Accordingly, the order of about $600 for of envelopes em- ed Be of Service. that the seeds shall uncommon will have nothing and field seeds, rangand pansy to corn package contains five amounting in all to ounce, and conof an ounce of cab- A of an ounce of three-tenths of an ounce three-tenths of an ounce than one-tenth of seed. any individual gets distribution of It is for this that paying out $80,000 counting the cost of by mail. The cost Uncle Sam, includ-3 printing, is 3-7c.
of. delivering it by For this expendia little which the country store cents. In any such found on the counter seeds, retailing five cents paper. as those furnished the papers are apt as much. Every Year.
package of vegetable year is a paper. conof a pint of peas useful that is likeBut as has been to be useful to a compliment from to the. good. The seed contracts call this year for seed, costing the to which must be postal expenses. In "free this people of the country injuring the lean extent representThe distribution is member of Congress discussion, to show home that Unhim and desires to struggle for existence of three-quarters which he must in himself.
Congress has appropriation for the seed year so as to make of about twice as distributed this year. Congress has attracted the seed distribution free seed have great-. seeds by the Governwith the appropriawas given to the patpurpose of collecting and improved varie'date, with the aid of sums -of money. fur- annually, every seed anywhere offering of usefulness in any has been purchased People all over. have already secured vegetable and field seeds, are adapted to their climates.
It goes withobtainable number uncommon seeds is limrequest is sent with report as to the result, 1,000 makes any A BOUNTEOUS HARVEST. It Is Predicted by Those Who Study the. Crop Outlook. It is an accepted that whatever conditions" affect the agricultural interof a country will have a direct bearing on. all its other industries.
other words, whatever tends to aid or injure farming pursuits will beneficently or disastrously affect every other important interest. It is matter for congratulation, therefore, that exceptionally favorable reports are, received regarding the outlook for a splendid crop. in the corp belt region. Copious rains had fallen during the spring put; the ground in splendid condition for seeding and growing. The tears: of another drouth have long since 1p laid to rest and the agriculturist looks hopefully 2 forward to a rich reward for his toil.
Not only does the farmer expect A good crop this year, but the conditions thus far have been so much more favorable than in several years past that he expects a crop which will fully make up for a few short ones. Nor is the expectation without reason. There is not a single condition lacking, either of soil or weather, which should. bring this. hope to the farmer.
The soil has received more moisture in the shape of rain and snow than in many years and the weather has been all that could be desired for growing. Therefore, it all these signs count for anything, they indicate a year of prosperity throughout the great West. before the first week in May almost half the corn was planted, with considerable of it 'showing nicely above ground and doing 'well. In many localities it was even then several inches high. As the rainfall has been fairly frequent in its visitations during the portion of the season which has passed and fully up to normal, it is but fair to assume that this normal condition will continue, and that the hopes of the farmers will be fully realized.
Reports from widely ditferent localities in the great corn producing States point to the fact that moisture has saturated the "soil to a much greater depth than in many previous years. This is particularly true with regard to Nebraska, where the farorable outlook of the present time has not, in many parts of the State, been excelled, even in the opinion of old inhabitants. In fact, the prospect is so encouraging that farmers all over the State are letting go their corn' and "grain, to which they had been holding tenaciously "since last harvest, in the dread that the drouth period was not an end. They are now shipping it eastward in big quantities or feeding it to their stock and fattening pigs for the market. During the past week there has been on exhibition in a window of the city ticket office of the Burlington road at Chicago a sample of rye plucked in Furnas County, Nebraska, toward the end of.
April. It stood 33 to 34 inches high and was, even at that early date, nicely headed." 'Alfalfa about the same time was kuce high, and small grains were looking exceptionally, advanced Chicago for newspapers, that time real- of izing the close tie that binds it to the West, have dilated at frequent dates on the favorable prospect for a bounteous harvest. CUBA'S AMERICAN PRISONERS. Owen Milton and Who Were The American all the trouble United States are Alfredo Laborde, Condemned to Die. citizens who are causing between Spain and the Owen Milton, a newspaper correspondent, and Alfredo Laborde, who! was in command of the schooner Competitor when she was cap: tured by the Spanish gunboat.
Milton is the "son of D. W. Milton, who was a lieutenant in the OWEN: MILTON. Confederate army. He is but 23, a man, of medium stature, with good features, a fair complexion and a slight mustache.
Of late he' had been living in Florida. He went thither from Arkansas, where he had been school. He drifted to Key West, and was there a correspondent for several western newspapers. When the war came in Cuba he determined to go to the island, reach the insurgent lines, and furnish true stories of the revolution to American newspapers. He had engaged himself to do this for a Jacksonville paper among others, and 'was furnished.
with the usual credentials. Be fore leaving, Key Milton. stipulated that part of his salary be sent to his father, who lives at Aurora, Ark. All these facts go to disprove the Spanish claim that' Milton was taken with arms in hand. The other A mori.
ALFREDO LABORDE. can is Alfredo Laborde. He is 33 years old and was born in New Orleans. His father is a retired colonel. in the Spanish army and lives in Havana.
Captain Laborde has two brothers in New two sisters five children near Havana. Another- brother was one of the nine students who were shot in Cuba in 1871 for the desecration of Castonioni's grave. It was this event that moved the father to. retire from the Spanish army. Laborde was twice married.
His present wife, to whom he was wedded only a short time ago, is now residing with her parents at Key West. DOMESTIC EXPORTS IMCREASE. Gain Also In Imports for the Last Ten Months. 3 The exports of domestic merchandise during April, stated by the bureau of statistics, was $69,313,623, as compared with $63,958,041 during April, 1895. For the ten months ending April 30, 1896, there was a gain over the same period in 1895 8f $56,673,000.
The imports of merchandise during April were 299, as against $08,749,958. during April, 1895. Of the total imports a little less than 50 per. cent. was free of duty.
For. the ten months there was a gain in imports over the same months last year. of about $62,000,000. During April the exports of gold amounted to. $3,782,266, a8 compared with $2,893,610 for April, 1895.
Sparks from the Wires. careful examination the Presi- After dent has approved the report of a naval board appointed to prepare a code of uniform punishments for naval offenses. Gov. Altgeld has restored the rights of citizenship to Lyman Wagoner of Peoria, who served fifteen years in' the State penitentiary at Joliet for a criminal assault. The' confirmation by the Senate' of Frank W.
-Joplin to be postmaster at Elizabethtown, terminated a contest that had been in progress for two or three years. While Dr. A. H. Bradford, of Mont Clair, N.
was offering prayer in tell chapel, Yale, a beautiful green snake, about three feet long, created a scene in the center aisle. Students had placed it there. Jack Campbell, a barber; E. M. Pritchard, a laborer; Fred Parks, a painter; Isaac Close, Daniel Neil, Ernest Norton and Clara Smith, a domestic, are under arrest, charged with murdering Harry Oswald, who was found dead at South Omaha.
GOOD ROADS LEAGUE. STATE ORGANIZATION IS NEARLY PERFEOTED. The Work Will Take In Every ship in the Entire CommonwealthVice 'Already Appointed in Nearly Every County. To Get Out of the Rats. President Wm.
L. Webber, of Saginaw, of the State Michigan League for Roads, was instructed at the March meeting of the league to appoint vice-presldents in the various countles, these vicepresidents to have charge of the organization of county leagues for good roads, and to 800 to the organization of: township leagues. In accordance with these instructions Mr. Webber ha's made the following appointments: Allogan County, J. M.
Killion, of Allegan; Bay County, John Welsh, of Bay Oity; Berrien County, Ion. Henry Chamberlain, of Three Oaks; Calhoun County, Ion. Marion Ferguson, of Marshall; Cheboygan County, Geo. D. Richards, of Wolverine; Clinton County, Geo, W.
Scott, of Detroit; Eaton County, A. G. Lewis, of West Windsor; Emmet County, Wm. Crosby, of Harbor Springs; Genesee County, J. D.
Dorr, of Flint; Gladwin County, F. L. Prindle, of Gladwin; Traverse County, James H. Monroe, of Grand Traverse; Huron County, Ohas. D.
Thompson, of Bad Axe; Ingham County, Wm. 'Appleton, of Lansing; Ionia." County, Maj. A. F. Kelsey, of Ionia; Isabella County, I.
A. Foudor, of Mount Pleasant; Jackson B. A. Joy, of Springport; Kalamazoo County, Francis Hodgeman, of Climax; Kalkaska Coun- 1 ty, Wm. D.
Sulton, of Kalkaska; Kent County, D. P. Clay, of Grand Rapids; Lake Ernest Nicholson, of Lu-: ther; Lapeer County, Robert King, of Lapeer; Leelanaw County, John Porter, of Leland; Lenawee County, J. P. Schull, of Tec*msch; Macomb County, Jay Colton, of Chesterfield; County, T.
J. Ramsdell, of Manistee; Mason County, C. G. Wireg, of Ludington; Mecosta County, L. G.
Palmer, of Big Rapids; Midland County, W. Gordon, of Midland; Monroe County, Simeon Van Auken, Montcalm County, N. L. Otis, of Palo; Muskegon County, W. E.
Moore, Sullivan; Oakland County, Hon. B. G. Stout, of Pontiac; Oceana J. K.
Flood, of Hart; Osceola County, Joe Taylor, of. Erart; Ottawa County, Geo. W. McBride, of Grand Haven; Roscommon County, James Sly, of Roscommon; Saginaw County, R. W.
Beeman, 'of Swan County, C. H. Hollister, of Laingsburg; St. Clair County, W. W.
Allen, of Smith's Creek; Tuscola County, Geo. S. Farrar, Cass City; Van Buren County, C. J. Monroe, South Haven; Washtepaw.
County, Andrew Campbell, Ypsilanti; Wayne County, S. J. Lawrence, of Wyandotte; Wexford County, Perry E. Powers, of Cadillac. 41:4, The vice-presidents in the counties not mentioned are yet to be appointed.
ROWDIES, AT ANN ARBOR. Several Students Hurt, 'and Others Put Under The annual freshmen banquet at Ann Arbor Friday night resulted in one of the liveliest rows seen at. the university for some years. Everything seemed to be moving smoothly until midnight, when the storm that hadrbeen only brewing burst with full Before morning three students were in jail, two more were severely if not dangerously injured, and many more could exhibit sundry and numerous bruises. Wednesday night the sophom*ores raided the Alpha Delta Phi house, caught the freshman toastmaster, fantastically trimmed his hair "with a horse clipper and painted his face a gay Fellow, with a preparation of potash.
The freshmen returned the compliment by torneting several sophom*ores and shearing their hair in like fashion: Thursday night the frolic was much less, for those concerned the night before' had begun to see visions of faculty and paternal displeasure. It looked as it the banquet would come off without the usual trouble. But the freshmen, both boys and girls, for the frolic even extended to the sorority houses and in milder form was participated in by the girls, kept a strict watch for traps. Toastmaster Muir Snow, of Detroit, was secreted and guarded. A professional barber trimmed his hair so that he was presentable when the banquet time arrived.
Several hundred students gathered around the entrance to the building where the banquet were set and waited. The freshmen came in groups, with their ladies, carefully, guarded. Four depaty sheriffs armed with heavy canes held the' doors. The sophom*ores, without, were merely. noisy for a few hours.
Finally persons, possibly not students, began to fire stones and eggs at the windows. Soon hardly a whole window was left: The proprietor of the building remonstrated, but in vain, and he sent for officers. The chief. of police with halt a dozen patrolmen responded promptly and tried to disperse the crowd. They failed.
One obstreperous high school student named Alfred Ulp was arrested. Then followed the oft repeated and difficult procession to the lockup, a half mile distant, with the prisoner. The officers used their clubs freely, and with good effect. One student, name unknown, was knocked senseless. and bled profusely from a scalp Frank Traverse, a freshman literary student, was hit on the head with a brick Sat urday evening was in a critical When the jail was reached the officers' bad gathered in two more students, Frank Ramsey, a freshman medic from Delta, 0., and Richard Ray, a freshman from Huntsville, Ark.
All the way to jail the crowd of students harassed the officers and tried to get their companions away from them. Once securely locked: up, the crowd dispersed. three students were released on their own recognizances. Minor State Matters. The junior class at the Agricultural; College has decided to publish an annual.
E. Dwight Sanderson' is editor-in-chief. Dr. Bruhusen, of Bay. City, was convicted of pension frauds and sent to the Detroit house of correction for sixty days.
The pastors' union of Muskegon, backed by the law and order people, are going to make a determined effort to enforce the laws relative to Sunday: observance, and will make their first attack on. lay baseball. i 1. 0 A 7 A.
