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OwNvmerrf air tttpn I fed la VnHa'rl A' brtjjht aa UwunU n lad not ssmi BuahrbKA for many ages, ItptaKd (I ww Marty cbap, Wnosa gran scares nuaitMred ssvsn) Knelt laroi-boua on a kill rhat Kenwd to me near ienm And thera a Httlt maiden irrea, Who tad ben cBriafcned Miilla ; B'it when w met and loved tbay called UerlltUe lira. Willie. Oli, what a conning to aha waft, asmreetaa rlftst bnrtaa, Wltb blue-gray ejasasd oiinplad oktn, Ami rtiecka as ted aa eborriaa! Aitong bar tangled curls tin gold Of ran araa wut to Ungar, A. ring of goM, a mita, aha wora My girt on oxa maH anBr. And vry monUD aarly I A roe, or p nk, Arlli, To fasten 111 lb'P pinafora, Brought litt'a lira. Willta. Anil through thedaUlefl Be'da asd Isaes, When it waa piano t wealhur, A gay aa Mr, hand e aroed in hacd. We'd wander off together; rbytuo aparkhag brook we d alt. Asd watch iaaahluiiur Huh-; Or play Iwieaih the o:d oik-tress, Witt acorn nja and .UtSta. And did a cloud obaenre the -ay. An6 make the air grow eki ly. On oame nij jacket to iuwntp Dear UUle Alar. WllUa. And -when tin pa)a mora roaa, and at The wo-t thajnn deacended, Tbe latdtda sang fcwd to tell The sappy -lay was eudfd. We atMfr&g tiered, aud alowiy asM Quod-night is tonea of aorrow; Vm whiapemd, with a Ridden li-ht InaMepy ejaa, To-morrow P And I ould btmr bar pray, tbe ntfbta Ware taen an calm aud frtilv, "Kara Willis: " and in torn I stayed, "Bleaabtlle Mra. WUJaP

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Ten tarsiszarhen we parted. .

Bbe wept, bat I kept hack my taara. Though just aa laroksa-baartsd. Of coarse we toought to meet agsta, But met agai, ah, never! The good-by aaid that autumn mom Waa gond-by aaid forever. Bi t many Uuxa in dreaiua lTe kaard The crickets ehirpnuf shrilly. While I ftavs named as hilL down dais. With little Mrs. Willie. Tea, of my snnimers ftfty-fls ' Tbe one that siada me aeven. Bluest in tbe fami-Jiowa on the bJE Tbstaeisaed ao sear io barren, Vaafarthebrgbteat And the loss We chUdfeQ ssa each otber, c true, ao pare, Tm iry asre We never gave another. And eras now aa roaeHmaet sights (Perchance It may be s.l!j-. Ft. r aba moat be quite ttltT-fcirte), I to my prayer! add fenestly, " Bieaa iilCe Bra. W3l

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Jnet "away," and one weat'd fancy. Who beard bia quiet ton-

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W.ae at some ueihbor'a hocoe. And aotbey were; the little blue-eye 1 Mary ThateHmbrd epos tiia keep, Bad long tince jonrneypd to tbe l:aven! las! Beyond saa crystal sea. And Willie, too, the merry bright yonng lad Coming to greet Dim with a cr;,Of leefnl we'eorje, irew Wl :e;ecp, sfiirmnrisg a set gocd-uy. And atOl tsey sre not dead, Jse nay From the old urauto it?hOat of his tender care, God's own kwv Within Om palate brab. Away for a Hit?e tbue till he nhou!d jo When hie day work aaa, irVr, To;rrfn them there, hit tittle boy ami girl. To be away" no more.

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TWO WOMEN IN BUSINESS. STT BsUtKN WIIJfASa la the spriBff ot 187H, findiog mysolf in a position wlltfe it waa aeensetaj to jnnke Home exation for jay own living; being a "lona, lorn widter," az d bang tiao KY&cao to tbe kind of. work nsoalij debated to my sex, I formed paxiirarsbip with auotk3r wensa whoe sitaavtaon was Bimilar to 017 own, and we went into tbe poultry business together. My partner Sob, Sosta, Sooky car Smwnnah was a spinster (punster, aooording to Hr. Welter) and just one of ti e meest, sweetest, ''bestest and tip-top test" old maida that ever rmxL Bbe grew in my attee&m every hour I lived with her, imtil at last she stood before me the perfect incarttstioa of all ihe primitive Tirtnea. Itwavtftomhsr that i teamed to-distrust the worth-of those qualities in men and women that had alvays held my imagination captive, and decided that olocatioa and gonins and rare gifts eonkd never bring down the scale agatiist the pure goodness of a simple, trusting aodloTiag soul, such yt hers. After we had decided what ws wished toftr; it required a vigorous "looking about" to find the place we wanted. But we did find it on the banks of Clear lake, well up toward its northern bound

ary. A tanner who occupied a largo

of land, and bad bout avnoe bouse

the center of it left his old one

tbg in an isolated corner, the pict

ure all' bmelneas and despoil an seen from, the eyes ot the rich, bet a very 'raven of rest for two tempest-ttejged and bomekas wnmep, such aa we wore. And then it wr 4gShe banks of tho lake a faattthai ' amends for many dissdantagea. " tif; that lake, thirty miles long and ten miles wide, dotted with evergreen islands. It cook btck'to me bow, like the memory cf a lest paradise. My soul grew visibly and constantly beneath its influence. It taught the lesson of repose. It sought -to ind tce in its beholders the attitude of the angels. Behold m then, settkd, with 100 bens, fifteen ducks and a tloaeii turkeys. Hr. Worth sold us a ton of w ieat "on tick," and we were equipped.' -3ie docks took to the water, where they teemed to earn their own living, as they treated our store of provisions with c-ontemot. They waddled home every ni'ht to 'be ahnt np, and we found tauir eggs in the pen in the morning. We sold oar bene eggs, sad set the hens on diiek eggs. Aa we kept an account of all our tran: aritions, I will now refer to my book, which I still keep, in retnembranee of some of the happiest days of n.y life. I find that on March 20 wo had forty lrans sitting on ten eggs each, 4C0 eggs in all, with seven teen young docks hatched out On April 20 we had thirtysix hens sitting on ten eggs each, and 827 moe healthy young ducks. A month later closed ont the dock factory, with 630 small fry on hand. In the meantime the turkeys had not been idle, though I am free to confess to this day my hopeless ignorance of the turkey character and my inability to cope with the institution on its own ground. The ways of a turkey hen are . mysterious and past finding out; she is either the most consummate idiot on the universf or else I myself am slightly- touched. Her vagaries are such that no mind :n it normal condition can apprehend them What the haQtuanatrOtM of delirium tremens would do to help one out I do not know, bat asa last resort I hang my hopes on it until I shall see it tried. One turkey hen to whom we had given thirty-six young turkeys wus in the nabit of wandering off wherever a vagrant fancy led her. At last it entered her simple nuddie to sleep awny from home. Now, aa the country abounded in " varmints," we considered her conduct reckless, unworthy, and in the highest degree reprehensible. . We zpoetulnted with her in vain. She would meander ; ber whole soul was tri7en to the exploration 't unknown places. Many a mile did we tramp through tho warm spring rain to save the Uvea of those little turkeys. The duty became burdensome. We beard of a sheep dog about ten miles away that eoold be had by going for. Boa said it was just the thing we needed. She had no doubt P ovUenoe had sent it to ns. I had an idoa that Providence had better have sent it ten mites farther while it was in tha buxineas, but bold my peace in perfett content as fine lutdprovjosea Datrowliig a horse and going for him herself. It wa a beautiful day tb day she made the trip. One of u e many beautiful days of the heavenly climate of CanWorafa. I was atone, out not lone-

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A Republican Paper Devoted to the Adanvcement of the Local lute veakts of Monroe County.

Established A. D., 1835.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1882.

New Series. VOL. XVI.--N0. 7.

me. Aowoould it be otherwise when buds were bun ting and grass growing, when nature's sweet soul was climbing to expression in leaves and flowers, and voicing itse'f melodiously in the hum of insects, the calling of the tamos and the splash of the lake waters oa the low. rooky shore. It was on that

day the first installment of blackbirds

made their appetoanee. xney covered the live oak by ths door, and ground out their little unvaried tones in the richest

contralto.

Nothing gives more pleasure than to

see things grow, but living things most especially. Our tittle ducks were a per

petual study. Many of them wore indi

vidualized by special characteristics, so much so that we namttd them accordingly. We had Grady, Tiny, Band and Pony Express, A friend in San Francisco.

hearing of our poultry venture, sent us two dozen Pekin duckV eggs. We raised seventeen duofca ont of these ears and

sold them for $3 apiece. The little ducks

or the brood were a curiosity. Their

eyes were small and deep-set, giving to

them a very shrewd nppearanoe : their

cheeks bulged out and hung down, and all they lacked of making themselves fao sinulss of bloated lager-beer venders signs, such as project from "Oambrinm' halls," was only a pipe apieeefor them. But I must not forget our dog. It was dark when the Konji-1 of horseV hoofs rang out on the hard, shelly lake-shore road. I bad some venison, pork and potatoes stewing together on the stove, and. a lovely elderberry pie scalloped and ruffled to distraction was cooling itself on the table. I rushed ont of the bouse and lifted "out treasure'' to tbe ground. But Sue had more treasures than one. Tied behind he saddle were several small rone bashes well rooted, and about a dozen grape vines. It is natural for women to long for flowers, and I confess my hope of these roses projected itself so far into the future, and beheld through the medium of in agination such a paradise of flowars, that X could hardly sleep that night for thinki&fc about them. In the morning we planted them. We were not troubled by the selfish thought that the place waa not ours ': that wo were sowing for others to reap. Perhaps the blessedness of giving pervaded our souls at that time; at all avents we were just as happy as we could be, and that was enough. The puppy watched our work with the deepest interest He shifted his position as we moved from place to place, looking intently with round eyes and ears lopped forward into every hole we du t. When we had finished and were resting from our labors he came walking ' in at the door with one of our finest rose bu-ihes in his mouth, whioh he laid at Sue's feet, the expression of his face indicating perfect confidence in the appropriateness of his action. Of course we did not permit such conduct to go unpunished, aud gave him a very small whipping, so small I fear he did not understand it: for he never rested a mo

ment from his work until he hud un

earthed several times over everything we

ptaniea. 1 was a little inclined to drown him, bat had not the nerve to do it It was not only the plants be destroyed; he carried my parasol out one day and reduced it to a skeleton; he destroyed a package containing a dollar's worth of sugar, for which we had paid in eggs; he tote a volume of poems to pieces, and wore out the trail of my morning gown riding around on it as I moved about the house. Sue laughed in the jolliest manner at all these mishaps, and always took her pet's part in every quarrel I bad with him. But Sue had a tip-top, level-best Bun-day-go-to-meeting bonnet, the most curious specimen of head architecture ever seen, and she valued it in proportion to its queemonw. But one day something happened. We had been in the barn for an hour, and, coming back, we noticed, the strange appearance of the front yard. There seemed to have been a sort of circumscribed snow-storm in it Examination revealed 0x3 fact that every snow-flake was woven of fine white straw. A light began to dawn. Sue rushed to the f.pot where ber bonnet had been. When I earns in and saw her good, honest face stretched ont longer than I hd ever seen it before, I felt so bad I laughed myself quite sick out of pore sympathy. However, tbe day came when that dog took a new departure. He was very imitative; he soon saw how we conductad bnfliness, and, beicg energetic, intelligent and loving, be began to take the work off of oar hands. He herded the turkeys and brought them home every night He took charge of the ducks and chickens; and if from weakness one fell behind he brought it to ns tenderly in his mouth. He became the friend and protector of the two lorn widders in their lonely old castle by the lonely old wood," and was deeply aad tenderly

am sure we brought little science

to bear on our poultry raising, but we made a very fair succt S3 of it We lived comfortably and happily and realized nearly $300 when w add off our surplus etoek in the falL We thought it much better than taking positions in establishments not onr own. We .were frea, and we appreciated the situation. And then the occupation itself was full of interest Never a day passed we did not find something to laugh at among our numerous family. We had frequent visits from lb. Worth's two little rowdy children, who veM' in full sympathy with every phase of ehicken life, particularly the absurd part; of it One day after we had missed them from the room for about two hours, and supposed they were at home, Billy came came in quite excited and opened conversation with Sue. I was at the sewing machine, but heard it all quite plainly. - "Sue,'' he commenced, "Sue, Sue, Oh t Sue ! He and Kate's been fightin' two chickens." 'Yea, honey," said Sue, in her motherly drawl, reaching up the words in the middle like a cat's back. " Mine was a dominie, and hern waa a black one. Both of 'em were mighty little chaps, you bet; want much more'n weaned; and the black 'on was the apunHest feller yon ever saw. Both of 'em had tbe sand", but the black 'on was the grittiest chicken in Lake county. lH bet big on it, Sue." "Yea, honey." "We fit 'em right ont in the sun, where it was hot enough to bile 'em. We wanted torn bow much they would stand. Sue." "Yea, honey." "Well, they fit and fit and fit The dominie waa a little the biggest and got the bulge on blackey in the start ; but blackey, he Just kep' a pitchin' for dear life, a whalin' away at dominio till he cookiut stand up, and then he lay down and fit. After he Jit awhile a layin down he gin out, and he lay there watch? in' tbe dominio ehatr him np. Pretty eon, when the dominie though, he'd

got him all used up, he started to leave, but, Sue" "Tea, honey." " The dominio had got so weak hiself that he had just Btraddled off and reeled round like he was drunk ; and before he got furder enough wot with bulgin' forard 'and staggering backard little

j blackey pat out his bill and caught him I by a wing father, and held his hold till

dominio got on his feet agin and turned

round ana iicKea nun over, now, Sue." " Yes, honey." "Every time the dominio whipped him and started off, little blackey wonld do the same thing. He was clean tuckered out all but bis eyes (and he could just barely turn them in his head) and

his bill. And you ought to a been there to a seen Mm stretch out his little, weak neck, with not a feather on it, and take dominie by the wing or the tail every t me he tried to leave. I never see such grit in my life, Sue ; cos, you see, Sue, he kuowed he couldn't move, and he knowed thnt every time he osnght hold of dominio and held on he'd get licked agin ; but he kept a doin' it, Sue." " Yes, honey. "Till at last the dominio was clear wore out a whippin' of him .and fainted dead away, and lay with his mouth open and his tongue a lollin' out Thou when blackey saw that tongue a layin alongside a kind of piort look hopped into his eyes, and he stretched his little weak neck out and caught it in his bilL This kinder waked the dominio up. Sue," " Yes, honey." "And he sqaaeked murder, Sue." "Yes. honey." "And the best was that whichever sqnacked first would be the one that was whipped ; and the way I raked the pile of red beans we just sinful, Sne ; and Kate's as mad as a March hare and gone home to tell ma." " But you don't mean to say that you took all your sister's beans, do yon ?" "Yes, honey." (Words roached in imitation of Sue.) "And do you really mean to keep them ?" " Yes, honey." " Well, now r said Sue, laughing. " I don't know what to do with such a boy aryhow." We carried our poultry business through another year and with still greater success. We would probably hfive been engaged in it yet but for a mile biped, who, perceiving how well she could live without him, made the discovery that he could not live without her. This dissolved our partnership, and terminated a never-to-be-forgotten period of my life. Promising a Dying man the Best Funeral Ever Seen. The sun was sinking behind the snowy peaks of thu Bockies, gilding their glistening tops with rosy light, as poor Dave York was borne by the boys to his cabin. He had been terribly hurt by a blast iu the mine. They carried him into the rode hut and laid him on a pile of soft

r bt arsUinB before the fire. He was suf-

j fr riug intensely, but he bore it like a

iuro. There they left him with hie partner, Dan Hamlin. Dan sat beside U:.! ir jured man and held his hand, while the tears silently flowed down his sunburned chiiek. The sun went down. Tue room grew dark, and 'She danchif lit nits in the fireplace made tht shadows :eu up and down on' the wall. For a long lime the two partners were silent Ai, last the injured man spoke: "Dan, I'm going over the range," he said. "No, no; old pard, don't say. that; you w.U scoop the pile yet." "No, Dan, no. Old death holds four .ces to my two pairs. I must pass in my checks. Old pard, we've worked togt ther, gambled together, got drunk together and fought together for four long ytiors. It's hard to part" 'You bet it is, pardner," "But it has got to come, old man. Dim, you've stood by me always. We've ac cumuiated quite a little pile. There's no one on earth has so good a right to my share as you. It is yours, Dan, wlien I am gone. But Dan, promise me one thing." "Anything, old pardner." "Gimme a bang-up funeral?" "I will, old pard.'' "See that there's a good pair of flyers on the hearse. Of course, you'll race going to the cemetery. I never war beat ir a race while living, don't let 'em get ahead of me at my funeral.,' "They shan't, Dave." "And Don, sev that there's plenty of li-auor on hand at the grave." "I'll have a barrel,- Dave." "And in the fight at the cemetery see that there's at least three men killed. I don't want any half-way funeral." "I will kill that many myself." "And Dan, don't yon think it might give tone to the thing to lynch' the undertaker?" "It might" "And you will do ltf "We will, pardner. And after we've got the ceremonies at the graveyard attended to, we will come back to town and have a dance asd the biggest drunk ever seen in Iieadville. You shall have the best funeral ever seen in these parts." "Dan; yer a true friend. Good-bye, old pard, I'm goin'l Good-bye, good ' Dave York had gone over the range. Strategy ef a White Cat. . Cunning is not altogether confined to the blacks of the feline tribe, aa believers hi witch lore assert. A south-end eat, as plump and fluffy as a full-burst cotton-ball and as white as the snow-bank beside whioh she crouched, showed remarkable shrewdness at Spr ngfield, If ass., in earning her dinner. Apparently reasoning, if cats reason, that a flock of sparrows, taking a picked up meal in tae road near by, would not distinguished her from the aurroundiDg whiteness, she patiently waited, now lifting one paw and then" the other to keep the Hood circulating, till a luckless bird strayed within reach, when she pounced en her twittering prey and scampered off with it down a neighboring alley. The rest of theBperrowsBeemedastoniahed for a moment at suck audacity, and then they winked at each other as ranch as to say, "That leaves more Tub for the rest of us," and went on with their gleaning A FBOJUNnrr writer of a enlogy on connubial bliss says it is often the ease when you see a great man, like a iihip, sailing proudly along the current of renown, that there is a little tug his -vife whom you can not see, but who is directing his movements and supplying i he motive power. Just imagine Biigliam Young in this connection. There were enough tugs around him to have yanked him along at the rate of sixty nilcs aa hour. I don't rekolect doing enny thing that J. was just a little ashamed ov but what immbody remembered it, and was sure, nu in a while, ) put we in mind ov it

FARM FACTS. Hie Development af A(rrlcilfnro 8mo lntvrrtfinrr statistics. (From the Detroit I'oat The lost censns gives some- interesting statistics of the number, tenure and average of forms in certain of the States andTemtorii s. Iu number Illinois stands first, with 255,741 farms , the great agricultural States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York aud Missouri following close behind. At the opposite extreme is New Mexico with but 5,053; while three other divisions, Rhode Islaud, Utah and Washington, have lrcs than 10,000 each. In the- census of 1850; there was not a single farm reported in Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska or Wa.shincrton. To-dny Kansas, the most fully settled of these, lias 138,561. The increase in numbers appears, of course, -in the Western States, to which nearly the whole of the agricultural imuiigrnticn has been drawn. The classification according to tenure is suggestive. Illinois, the leading State in all these figures, has 175,497 farms occupied by owners, 20,020 rented for a fixed money rental, and 59,624 cultivated for a share of the produce. In North Carolina about onehalf of the farms are rented, while in.

Maine over 58,000 out of 61,528 are occupied by tho owners. Iu the South tho proportion of farms rente p is far greater than elsewhere, rising in Mississippi to about 80 ver cent Minnesota has 92.386 farms, while in in 1850 she was credited with 157. Of the present number, 83,933 are occupied by the owners, and only 1,251 are rented for cash The statistics of acreage throw light upon the question of the prevalence of large farming and small farming in different sections. Of farms under three acres, Now York hftj 370, and Kentucky 313, while Vermont has but 5, and Dakota 6. Ot 1,000 norcs and over, California, the land of farming on a magnificent scale and of tuonopoliis, has 2,531. Mississippi, North Carolina snd Virginia have each over 1,500 of these great plantations; and Louisiana and Kentucky, each more than 1,000. Thus more than 10,000.000 acres of the country's area is held in tracts of 1,000 acres or more. Rhodo Island has but 5 of such farms, Minnesota 145, and Dakota, the imaginary stronghold of large fanning,, only 74. The great majority of farms in 'all States lie between 50 and 500 acres, and there arc about one-third more between 100 and 500 than between 50 and 100. There is evidently no tendency anywheres toward the consolidation of small holdings into "bonanza" farms. Wherever tho latter exist, it it. the result of local or sectional conditions, which are not permanent in the;r natures, and whose prevalence indicate!, precisely the opposite of agricultural prosperity. An increase in tho number of small farms in California and the South is the first and necessary step toward a, free, healthy development. It is curious and interesting to compute tbe number of farms in tho several States.

as given in this bulletin, with their area, j

nuu puij mil nunc, ouuu vuuitu iomi, which it lay outside the province ol Census Bureau to make, shows that while Connecticut has one farm for each 104 acres of her ares, and Ohio one for each 106, California, Dakota, Washington, Utah and Oregon have one for over 1,000 acres, and New Mexico 15,525 acres, for each farm. The case of Ohio is very marked, her average falling below even that of most of the New England States, and indicating that her soil has been subdivided almost to the limit I tbe whole territory ol Minnesota were distributed in fee equally among all the owners of farms, each would find himself possessed of 577 acres, though he would, of course, liavo to take his proper share of lake, river and swamp. The comparison of farms with popula tion is also curious and important, because it supplies the true test of do-, terra ining what communities are most devoted to agriculture. This depends not on the absolute numlier of forms if. a State, but on the ratio between fornif: and population. The prevailing average is from nine to twelve inhabitants for each farm, thirteen States showing this ratio. A greater indicates a larger population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits; and hence that of California, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania rises above twenty, while that of Rhode Island leaps to forty-four. The smallest overage, proving almost universal devotion to agriculture, is found in Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska; and these deserve above all others to be classed as pre-eminently farming States. Minnesota has eight inhabitants for each farm, thus showing that she has taken her first step toward that diversification of industry and. that centripetal motion cf population toward great centers, which belongs to the late? history of States. One remarkable fact is that this transition beyond a certain point becomes very sudden. Thus, after passing an average of 12 people to each farm, the. ratio of the great farming States of Ohio and Illinois, there in not a break, except the anomalous Utah, until 10 is reached; and the averages of the populous States whioh are interested in commerce rise far above. Not ono of the coast States from Rhode Island to Virginia has less than 20 people for each farm. Th eso are a fe w ol the instructive things that u study of the statistics of agriculture is able to teach. They liava significant interest for the people of every section and every State, Nearly Kisned Themselves to Death. At an evening party in Kclkbeim the conversation happened to tnrn upon kissing, and the question aroso htw many salutations of this class could be exchanged between two ardent Jovers

within a cert tin space ?f time. As usual, opinions differed, and the discussion waxed worm. Presently a fiery youth offered to bet anybody present the German equivalent of a 10-pound note that i ho and his betrothed would kiss each .other 10,000 times within ten hours, provided they were permitted to partake of some slight refreshment at intervals .' of hull an hour during the performance!. I

His wager having been accepted and. the money posted the affianced conpla addressed thom selves to the achievemen t of their congenial task. At the expire, tion of the flist hour their account stood credited with 2,000 kisses. During tbe second they added another thonisanci, and during tbe third 750 to that number. Then, pitiful to state, they both broke down. The youth's lips were strioken with cramp, and the maiden fainted away. Later on in the evening she was compelled to take to her bed with a sharp attack of neuralgia. An even morc-distreroing result ensued from this surfeit of tender endearment, for it led

to the breaking off, by rantnal consen of a hopeful matrimonial engagement. ; Young lovem should keep this sad tale 1 in mind and moderate their transporta, ' for, strange as H may seem, Dan Cupicj J

himself may be kissed to death. London Telegraph, American Xanners. The American s claim, instinctively and implicitly, a natural and inborn rigM to the companions liip, and to a certain extent, the sympathy of whomsoever he meets. This in his first claim upon fooiety at larfj-e. The Englishman claims, as instin ctively and implicitly, a ri.ht to be loft alone whenever and wherever he please. Go np to an Englishman in the street and bluntly ask him the way to Huoh and such a building, and he will reward the unprovoked onslaught upon hit rrivacy with the very cook-iit of astonished stares. But if you preface your question with an "I beg your pardon," (acknowledging thereby that you are asking a gratuitous favor), he will t.nswer you very civilly iadecd, and even go out of his way to show you yours. A conversation abruptly launched into in an English ! ail way' carriage will probably be out short at th'j outset by what strikes us Americans as very gratuitously rude curtnesn. But if the conversation is introduced by that unfailing open sesame, "I beg your pardon," it will flow on very pleasantly, and likely as not end in bjx invitation to pass a week or so at a country house. Americans are often allocked at tho fipparently insolent bearing of German shopkeepers, especially of German bankers. It rarely occurs to them that they themselves have opened hostilities, as it were, by breaking the very first rule o:' German good breeding in Keeping t'iieir hats on. In Germany a niau just as scrupulously takes his hat off, and keeps it off in a shop or counting room as in a lai.y's parlor. An American, of our acquaintance once happened ' be one of a party of six who went i the top of a certain tower in Germaciy, the view from which is rtmious. The. party was shown the way by the daughter of the guardian of the tower, a coriely young girl of seventeen or thereabouts; our friend treated her with common politeness, but a Frenchman whe- was of the party, was so demonstratively and overwhelmingly Attentive and gf llant, that the American began to feel that be had been somewhat rude in comparison with such a pyrotechnic display of courtesy. Well, when they got to the top of the tower they only found one chair there, upon whioh tlie Frenchman immediately seated himself. This authentic anecdote is quite characteristic. If wo Americans Btand pre-eminent for good, solid, efficient politeness, ve certainly are deplorably deficient in manner. We have neither tho dignified repose of the English, nor the grtce of continental Europeans. Possibly we are shy and try to hide our shyness under an osnmed graffness of bearing. Certainly I seeuns, nine times out of ten, as if an American, even while performing a very polite net, thought himself degraded by any outwtvrd ehow of courtesy. Ho may willingly and cheerfully offer his &eat to n lady, and be perfectly contented to stand himiolf, but his manner of making the offer is almost insulting. Ho will crrowl out. "Take my seat" or else

he will make the offer with a jovial familiarity of manner whioh would be quite in keepinj; between two old pot companions in a tap room. We may be rich in gold, bu:; wi aro poor indeed in the small changa of politeness. "Fine words butter no parsnips," say we; this is a mistake; fine words and manners bntter all kinds ot parsnips; indeed, as Thackeray says, there are many peoplo whose parsnips are buttered in no other way. G ipsy Lore. Perhaps the roaaon that gypsies understand so well how to work upon the sympathies of others, is because they are superstitions themselves. Some gypsies set their boots crosswise before going to bed, fancying thereby to keep sway the cramp; a female gypsy carried the skeleton of ti mole's foot, which she called a "i'airy loot," because she believed it good ag ainst rheumatism; and it is a standing truth among them that children iu teething should wear a necklace made of myrtle stones, which for a boy must be cut by a woman, by a man for a girl. An adder's slough or a bit of mountain ash is certain to bring gocd luck; and with the same object some of the children wear around their necks black bagii containing fragments of a bat; In order to hurt an enemy you have only to stick into a red bag and burn the same; others for the same end resort to the cruul practice of sticking pins into a toad until it looks like a hedgehog, and then bury it with certain observances. One old woman, called a ghost seer, earriixl in her pocket a little ohina dog dressed like a doll. "I mind," ays the gypsy who tells the story, "she lost it once, and she was in such an awful state till it waa found; and she used to fancy it would talk to her when she was all alone smoking her pipe in the van. Yon should see a pack of very old fortmie-telling cards whioh were painted in different colors. She used to select the different ones for each day; sometimes she would carry those with the devil and serpents on them, then she wonld carry those with birds and palace." Now if superstition coold ba oonfined to the lower classes, it would be something of a blessing. Belies Found is a Roman Tower. A Boman tower, discovered in the SabIon quarries in Ijorraine, have been partially unbnried and searched to tha depth of about five metevs. The walls are in a good state of preservation, being constructed of vdiite stone and held together by a fine red cement harder than the stone itself. A number of interesting relics have been found among these ruins. Outside the tower is some fine sand, to a depth of lm. 60a, while inside layer ol! dark earth contained some large piecus of tile and bricks of rather extraordii: ary dimensions, i a tho Romans paid tax according to the number Of their tiles, they deemed it wise to have thorn made as large as pottuible, and these iipecimens measure from 0m. 16 to Om. 40 in length, and 0m. 3 to 0m. 10 in thickn ftss. They ore in splendid condition, being of a bright red color, and having a metallio sound whioh indicates the excellence of their tnauufncturo. The Itomans exposed their tiles to the air, a.ilowiug them to dry bt fore placing then in tbe ovens, whors they were subjected to the highest hc-at which, however, was only readied in rdow and progressive stages. France was well wooded during the Romnu upooh, and for that reason tho manufaomtre of tiles presented no difficulties. A number of statuettes and coins and inwsriptions to piigan deities have been brought to light, and they tend to show that some of these relics belonged to the legions stationed at Lorraine from the yeur 50 to 301 of tho Christian era. Tho tower is vaulted, and is supported on masonry iu the forn four rche. Anwrioan MevMiv JVi

THE HOUSE CONTESTS,. Klernacra.tic ProcroaMnsUlan--Reputv-licnta Plants (or Puahlns; Bawaauna. Wellington Telegram to Inter Ocaan. The daily attitude of the two parties in tho House grows more and more sigii ificant. Th e Republicans are trying to rush things, and Randall and his Dem-om-atie followers are making desperate efforts to retard business. As explained i i these dispatches some time ago, the plan of Randall and the Democratic loaders was originally to make this a donothing session. The Republicans have had the majority, and have been crippled by absenteeism. They have managed, however, to secure the co-operation of enough Greonbockers with the two Reailjusters to defeat the procrastinating tactics of the other .side. In t'ns way the reapportionment, the polygamy question, the Chinese emigration problem, the tariff and the Geneva award, have been disposed of in succession. It has for some t rue been tried, too, to make this Congress amenable to th e charge of impatience. Now the fight has come to a struggle for un hour or a day or a part of a day. Every incisure is fought for a day or two,, or a veto is put over fall tie next day, or an afternoon is spent in filibustering or sorae pretext in a desperate effort to use tip tho time inch by nioh. Such has been the course on the tariff, the Geneva award and tbe Bonk bill. The Republican leaders decided upon one of several courses suggested, which i to bring forward and dispose of bills of general importance first, such as the Agricultural Department, Geneva Award and the Itank-Oharter bills. They can rely upon the necessary appropriations to hold Congress for them, and they think that party spirit may with equal safety bo relied on to keep Congress here for tho election cases. Now, Rand&ll's struggle to kill time is simply to save the election cases. He relies upon hot weather and the approaching contests for re-election to disperse Congress without unseating the fraudulently-returned Southern Democrate. Here comes the battle. The Republican leaders realize that it is of vital consequence to the organization of the party in the South to repudiate the frauds this session, or no hope of gains i:i the Forty-eighth Congress need bo indulged in. They do not intend to adjourn until these contests have been disposed of. They have told Randall thnt his course will result in but one thing, the protraction of the session, liecause they control the committees, and they do not intend to let the appropriation bills come in nn til the election cases uro disposed of. It has come to a ques tion of endurance, aud both sides are mad.

The Democratic Policy of Hard Times Tho opposition of the Democratic party to the measure to enable tho national banks, whose charters are expiring, to renew their existence, in only one of a continual series of hostilities of that party to the business of the oonutry. In the party lingo this course is called hostility to capital and corporations, in the demagogue pretense that warfare on capital and business corporations is to help tbe workingmen and the masses. It is -on this damagegism of warfare on i;he interests of tbe people that the Democratic party lives, and always has lived. The chapters of eighty-seven national banks will terminate during the next eight months, and of 393 during the ensuing ten months. To refuse an exteniiiou of the charters is to put them into liquidation at a rapid rate, withdrawing their loans and circulation, and this is to make a great monetary revolution, whose effects can not Ibe foregathered. All persons of ordinary intelligence are aware that the chief effect of money disturbances comes on the laborer. They who lived in the credit panic, brought on by secession in 186081, and in tho credit panic of 1873, remember that the industries wore prostrated and workmen thrown out of employ. This is the working of all money disturbances. The Democratic party which, when greenbacks were issued to carry on the war for the Onion, declared them unconstitutional, has latter! j adopted the theory that a plentiful greenback circulation is a special blessing to the workingman ; but its opposition to this bank measure is making inevitable a violent contraction of the greenback circulation. The expiring banks have to deposit with the Treasurer greenbacks to the amount of their circulation, in order to receive their deposited bonds, and the treasury has to bold these greenbacks against the b tnk notes, until they come in, whioh i a slow process. Thus is Democratic hostility to the country's welfare ordaining a violent contraction of the greenback circulation. All this to no end, as to destroy log capital or the banks, for they can r organize auow without any additional legislation, but they must go through tho process of liquidation, whioh includes the redeeming of their circulation, whioh must be provided for by depositing greenbacks or gold with the Treasurer. Du -ing the next five months the winding up of seventy-two banks would call for a withdrawal of about f 2,250 000 of greenbacks a month from the circulation. Here is a Demooratio proviition for a violent contraction, and this is to continue at an accelerating pace. And with this there is to be an export of ifold to add to the contracting forces. Other elements are at work -tho short crops, of 11, the reduced exports, the large imports, and tho high price of 4 per cents, already inducing banks to deposit greenbacks to get back their bonds to Fell, which, since the 1st, bos -withdrawn 81,500,000 in greenbacks -vith which the Damocratio hostility to the banks is combining to create the conditions for great monetary stringency, if not for a flrst-oluss panic. If the bunks aro to be enabled to go on, tlioy should have the assurance now to stop their preparations for winding up. At tho best there will be some monetary disturbance, but the earlier tho enab ling not, the less tho disturbance will be. But tho Democratic party was always at war ou the interests of the people, under tho demagogue profession of a Moi d to the people, and its resistance to this enabling not is preparing the conditions for hard times.- Cineintuui Vomtwrciul. C'hnliuPis and (he Bourbons. If there is a prospective soritntingo that the Republicans of tho country can approach iu that serene and disinterested frame of miiul with whioh the old woman mutterautavfld tboflglU between ter llU-

band and the bear, it snrely must be the impending conflict between Chalmers, of Mississippi, and his Bourbon neighbors. He has been holding a seat in Congress for several years, through Demooratio favor, which belonged k another man, but now tho Republiottns have ousted him from that warm pliice, and the Legislature of Mississippi has cut the Stats up into Congressional districts without the slightest regard to helping him to get a seat in the Homie by the rather novel method of being elected to it, and the anger of Chalmers is something terrible. He says that ho has been talking for the Democracy for fidl thirty years he might add that he has been fighting for it some part of 'the tim-j but tliat in spite of all this the " Lamar Democrats " who control the party iu the State have departed from the true faith and have attempted to throw him overboard. He will run for Congress, however, :igainst the Bourbon champion, whomsoever he may tie, and will also stand on lis record favoring the standard silver dollar and opposing the national banks, favoring a tariff for revenue,-but willing to permit the present tariff to sta: id for a few years to see if it will develop manufactures in 'the South and raise revenue enough to pay off the national debt and destroy the banks. The chief plank iu his political raft, however, will be the protection of the Mississippi bottom lands from overflow. The veteran of Fort Pillow has not lost his senses yot. Hut appropr 'ation doctrine will be the strongest hold any man can have who wants to get into Congress from Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana any time in the course of the present year. Detroit Pout.

VT.Iat May be Seen With a Small Telescope. Tho curiosity to see l,he heavenly bodies through great telescopes is so widespread that we are apt to forget how much civn be seen and done with small 'ones. The fact is that a large proportion ot the astronomical observation! of past times have been made with what wo ihould now regard ns very small instruments, and a good deal of the ate lid astronomical work of the present time is done with meridian circles the aerture.a of which ordinarily range from four to eight inches. One of tho most conspicuous examples in recent times of how a moderate-sized instrntment may be utilized is afforded by the discover.? of dcnblo stars mtide by Mr. S. W. Dnrnliam, of Chicago. Provided with a little six-inch telescope, procured at his own expense from tbe Messrs. Chirk, he hoi. discovered several hundred double s'ars do difficult that they had escapist the scrutiny of Maedler aud the Struv-is, aud gained for himself ono of tho highest positions among the astronomers of the day engaged in the observation ot these objects. It was with this little instrument that on Mount Hamilton, California the 'site of the future great Lick Observatory he discovered forty sight new double stars which, had remoiied unnoticed by all previous observers. Firtt among the objects which show beautifully through moderate instruments stands the moon. People who want to see it at an observatory generaly make the mistake of looking when the moon is full, and asking to see it through the largest telescope. Nothing can -then be made out hut a brilliant blaze of light, mottled with dark spots, and crossed by irregular bright lines. The best time to view the moon is near or before the first quarter, or when she is from throe to eight days old. The last quarter is of course equally favorable, so far as seeing is concerned, only we must be up after midnight to see her in that position. Seen through a three or four inch teleseppe, a day or. two before the first quarter, about half an hour after sunset, and with a magnifying power between fifty and one hundred, the moon is ono of the most beautiful objects in the Leavens. Twilight softens her radiance," so that the eye is not dazzled as it will be when the sky is entirely dark. The general aspect she then prestints is that of a hemisphere of beautiful chased silver carved ont in curious round patterns with a more than human skill. If, however, one wishes to ee the minute details of the lunar surface, in w nioh many of our astronomers are now so deeply interested, he must use a higher magnifying power. The general beautiful effect is then lessened, but more details aro seen. Still, it is hitrdly necessary to seek for a very largo telescope for. any investigation of the lunar surf ice. I very ranch doubt whother any ono has ever seen anything on tho moon which could not lie made out; in a clear steady ptmospheKe with a six inch telencope of the first class. A Sagacious lcnkey. In no part of tho world, probably, is tho patient animal, which is too often treated with cruelty, so well cared 1'or as in Spain. In this country the donkey and the mnle ore ported and become great favorites, and among the peasantry r,hoy are almost looked upon as members of the household. As showing the wonderful influence vhiob kind treatment will exercise, especially on the

donkey, we are told that a Spanish peasant who possessed one was in the habit of journeying' from his home to the city of Madrid for tho purpose of conveying milk to the customers whom he supplied theie; and overy noming he and his donkey with laden rannieru went their accr.stomed round. Ono day, however, the peasant became ill, and having no one to send was iu rather a serious dilexima; whereupon his wife suggested that tho donkey should be dispatched alone. Accordingly the panniers wore filled as usual with the cans of milk; a piece of papsr was attached, requesting customers to measuro their own milk and return Hie cans, and the donkey started off. In a short time the faithful creature rotnrned with, tho ompty cans, having duly performed its errand; and not only ail it continue to do so for several days, but its master afterward learned that it did not merely go the ubuaI round, and trust to the customers coming ont to it in tho rood, but even had the sagacity to go up to thoir doors and ring the ir bells (which in Spain often pull downward) with its mouth. The most-curious Diihery of all; to our apprehension, would he that for tho palo)o, which is carried on among the Fiji islands and in other piuta oi the South Pacific ocean. Tho palolo aro small worms three or four inches long, and the bigucea of a flue stir.vw, Tho natives feast upon tho dainty morsels raw, or babe them in leaves cf the bread-fruit tree and send thorn as gifts to friends in loss-favoivd neighborhoods. Rbv. Ma Lyon, of Bridgeport, prerched Sunday mpht on the national sin. There was a universal exchange of umbrellas the next nyirniug. Zbry

ISMAS A ITEMS. A bhowks of fish is reported near

Cambridge City.

T ubus are 8,872 children in tbe pMM

schools of Madison.

A QUASTrrr of counterfeit coin lias

been circulated in Peru of lute.

Tub Council oi Lafayette is in favor

of supplanting gas in ska city with die eloetrio light

A OABriarnsB fell from the oof m a

barn which bo was building tit Frankfort,

and received fatal in j cries.

T:v n nh ance in the channel of White

river, a fine flouring-mill at MaysviOle

has been left standing on nil istauo. CIsorok Bowmm w is instantly kilted" by the explosion of a boilor in the sow mill of George tfrubb, of Gieencastle. ICvANSViM has ncade conunwto for electric lighta in tbe streets',' and -pents to complete the system in ninsty days. Hhelbt county has abolished the system of holding "teuchem institute," and will her iofter hold what are called "model schools." Db. I8AAO Spabks, of Plairrfield, aged 87, separated from his wife, Sophrotiin, agud 72. Tbe parttea were married, a litbie over a year ago. :)Cabtin Wirrrrsr, aged about 40 yeiirs, in attempting to swim his horse across Twin creek, Franklin oennty. wan thrown off aril drown 3d. A kan near New Albany has a chicken with three legs, all need in walking, tmd two fully-developed tails. The fowl iff grt curiosity, and is valued at $50. Bmii AbmcIiD ami Andrew Tucker, of Rush county, have said the Cincinnati Enquirer for flO.OOJ each, for libel, in coanecting their names with Oscar Garrett as his ocnfederahjs. Lightning-rod sharps caught tea or fif ;een f armors of Wabash county for about 11,200. in snms ranging from $80 to $289 each. -Most of those bitten considered themselves very shrewd brunnoss men. An old lady living near Rich Valley,, Wabash county, was fatally injured by being struck on tbe hisaa with an ax wielded by her grjildaughter, who was chopping off 1;he hood of a chicken, which vbe old tab wus holding. The hogs that have died in Daviess county, of a so-called new diss asa, died of leeches in the stomach and intestines, One was duisected and tbe truth discovered. They drank the leeobtfi tints feeding in the low bottoms. Robert Habel, a firrmer of Hendiicks county, - whose house was one night hut summer broken into, and him -ecu gagged and robbed of (535, is now defendant in a libel suit brought by man be had accused of the deed. . f Thb 12-year-old son of John L. Wright, oar inspector at the St Paul stone quarries, in Shelby county, WW instantly killed by being crushed to datti. The boy waa playing on top Ot ft cur, and was caught between it ml shone wall. The saloon of Heffner & Co., at Palestine, Kosciusko county, -as blown up by dynamite!. The buililinwas ruinod, the stock d trojed one man mortnM injured and a son of the proprietor injured badly. This is the third case of the kind that has occurred there in. low than two months. In Fountain county, last summer, John Hathaway killed Joseph Martinas in a quarrel about til rent unpaid by Hathaway, for which crime he was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. A civil suit instituted by the widow of Martinas has just resulted in a venlict of $2,800 damages. The ease will be appealed. A so mastic marriage was aolemnised a few days since, this parties; being Due Nathan Hamilton, of Randolph county, aged 65, and Mrs. Aina Layuori, of FayuUe county, aged 64 The oouple were lovers nearly half a century ago, but were separated by tl le opposition of relatives. William Wirrra njcK attempted to open a saloon in Sweets ar, Wabash county. The people were very muett torn np over it, ai d when Whitenecte opened the doors of the sa'oon seventyfive women marohel to the place, in ft body and argued the matter with bMift, until he fintily concluded to close ur Sweelser is now without saloon. : Dr. O. W. SoHBLt,, a young physician of L ifayette, called at the ofttoe of th Timet, and requested the publication of a paragraph he had written, in which it was stated that an article previously printed in the Timet was fake. Cw. John S. Williams, tbe editor, declined to publish it, and to tbe doctor's remiufc that he would give him twenty-fonr hours to print it, or he would settle with him, tbe Colonel, replied the present was as good a time as any to settle. Tb doctor made an assault upon Williami but, before either waa much injured, persons iu the worn separated then,Thk Supreme Court hai affirmed the judgment in the suit J William Allen against the city of Lafayet te. Allen was employed to run a steam fire engine belonging to the city. He waa an expcatenced engineer, but in a very few min utes the steamer burst, and Allen and his fireman, John Taylor, were seriuBsb injured and a number of others slightly;. Allen was confined to bis bonee tor ft long time. Tbe City Council refused to nay for his medicine or bis doctor, and he at last brought suit. The jury gt,e him $3,800 damages. An appeal wag taken by the city, with the above result The amount paid out for extra attorney fees, court costs, etc, would have nwirjs than paid Mr. Allen's original request, Thb Eighth Annual Convention ot the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Indiana met at Indi&uapolis, May 17, Mrs. Z. G. Wallace presiding, and 209 delegates present Mrs. Wallace la livered a lengthy address, and tbe Executive Committee ipoitd recornmaliiing the holding of anniversary meeting, and thtit the dues of local unions bo T ji warded to the Treasurer of the Sbito Union ; that the Vice Presidents of tai organized districts take charge af the circulation of petitions ; that the Supnr intendents of departments be added to the Executive Committee, aad that the convention take under consideration the question of entertainments as ft means of raising funds. The . Assistant Sewotary submitted statistic!) showing ninety unions in tbe State, thirty of whioh had been organized the past year, and an no tive membership ol 1,425. " '. Tkk Grand Enoampmeat of Odd Fallows met at Indianapolis in annus! ansion on the 17th inst with all 'that grand officers and about 400 delogjMaW present The Grand Patriarch, R. Burger, presented his annual report, Vbiflt. showed the order to bo in most graft' tying couditiou throughout the Stnfcft. The Grand Scribe nsported the finanonal condition of the Grand Encampment la be so good as to warrant a reduction in the dues of subordinate eaoampmtut9 to at least 6 per cent Hon. Sohaylta- Out. fax made a speech. The Grand Encampment elected the following officers; G. P., H. Heichert,FranMort; a H. P., W, H. Jacobs, Logansport; Senior W:r don, E. & Porter, Groensburg; Junior Warden. T. B, A. Teter, Brookvili; Grand Scribe, B. F. Footer, Indiiwiqsoris; Treasurer, T. P. Hanghey; rwwfr. sentative to Grand Lodgn, Richard Her, er, Indianapolis; Grand Sentinel, J. Watson, Indianapolis; IVjpoty, A P. Bennett, GreenBbarg. TheGraM Lodtfe met on the following day, there being 600 delegates present Grand Manter 3h P. Riohmond madti the annual lepoct, showing the order to beta a flout isliing condition. B. F. Foster, Grand Secretary, reported the order strengthened in all the moments pertaining to item.

pent growth of prosperi tj,