Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 3, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 May 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED.

THE IRISH.

The Irish Con-rention, to merge the Land Into the National Xjeagne, nirnililud in Hortlcoltaim! HaS. Philadelphia, on Wedneadajr, Aprils It was largely attended, and the per-

onncl of the convention taTorably impressed tbs onlooker. An organization was effected by

an election of the following officers: President, James A. Mooney, of Buffalo, President of the Irish LandLeagneof the United States: Secretary, i. J. Hroes. of Buffalo. Secretary ot the Irish

land League of the United States: Assistant

Hecretariei), Wllaam F. Sheeham, of Buffalo, and J. D. O'ConnelL of Washington. Presi

dent Mooney delrrered an address ot one length. It was highly eulogistic of Parnell and denunciatory of Gladstone,

and waa received wltlt arras applause.

There were twenty-five female delegates in the meeting, and Mrs. Pamell occupied a position ot honor on the stage. Secretary Hynes report showed that in the test year $79,038 had been receiTed; that 888,857 had been sent to Ireland for league and relief purposes, and that 550 branch leagues existed in the United States and Canada. After a somewhat lengthy debate, during which there waa considerable confusion, a motion tor the appointment of a member from aach delegation as a committee to

deriae a plan for the merging of the Land

Irfwsiif into the National Xieavne was adooted

and the committee appointed. The attitude of

the United States toward Great Britain waa dis-

enaaed. and Father McKenna. of New York:

State, offered a resolution denouncing th

course of President Arthur as cowardly, de

claring that, should he be a candidate far reelcction, he should receire no Irth YOtea. He waa promptly ruled ont ot order. Father Conaty, ot the committee appointed to report a plan for the merging of the conventions, said the committee

was in lavor or allowing ue wQTnnwa to say whether or not It should carry on its oreaniza-

tions in the present form by adapting the platform of the Irish National League. They, however, recommended the adoption of two resolutions, one indondns the principles and objects of the Irish National League, and the second that the delegates attend the convention in a body to-morrow and

aanist in promoting tne nnwn 01 au insn patriotic bodies. The report waa formally received. Kr. O'Brien, of New Tork. moved that the con

vention step from its platform to that of the Irish National Leagne, and that the officers be

aeccea immediately, so tnai re nugnt go into the convention an organized body. Mr. Brown offered a substitute to the effect that the chair appoint a committee of seven, with power to declare the Land League adjourned. There waa long and spirited wranglliur. and this anbatitnte was carried: 'Resolrrd. That when

thi convention adjourn it be to meet with the

eonTaittwn to-morrow, ana tint tne inalrman appoint a committee of seven with power to declare the Land League adjourned sine die.

provided the convention to-morrow complies

van cm reports sunmitsea. ana aaopcea

this even raff by the committee

1 to submit a man of reorganisation.

1 were made bv Brennan and Eesn. the

latter statin that while he waa Treasurer of the

Aieague l.s,ooo passed through his bands. ODonovan Bossa waa present in the haU, but merely as that representative of a paper with

wmcn n has a nominal connection, xne convenUon adlouraed at 2 o'clock a. m.

eastern.

Solomon 8. Gray, the pioneer manufaetnrexef paper cottars, has jnat died at Katie, Has Ex-Congressman Koswell Hart, Treasurer of the BochesterfX. Y.) Sayings Bank, dead. A Dover (Del) mob, dissatisfied with the performance of O'Brien's circus, opened fire on the wagons as they were being-driven to the depot, with revolvers and shotguns, wounding eight or ten of the employes, Charles Henderson fatally. The sheriff and a posse finally guarded the effects of the enow to the depot. Residences and business houses were riddled with ballets during the unleev Near New Bedford, Mass., four young ladies and a boy were drowned by the upsetting of n boat in which they were

James Park, proprietor of the Black Piamond Steel Works, at Pittsburgh, Penn., and the largest manufacturer of merchant steel in the world, ha? passed away at the age of 63 years. Mrs. Ada Bnsaell, Geo. Hancock's mother-in-law, died on Governor's Island, of vmenmosla Frank Ttarkin, a well-known, ballplayer, who for two seasons was pitcher for the champion Chicago Club, committed suicide in Williamsburg; K Y., after fatally Shooting his wire. Be was crazy with drink. The New York Board of Aldermen are considering the project of astanteto Peter Cooper in front of Cooper Union.

WESTEIUf.

Gen. James M. Comly, of Columbus, OUa, ex-United States Minister to Hawaii, has, in conjunction with his former partner tn the publication of the Mis State Journal, A W. Jrancisco, and Cap. A E. Lee, purchased tne Toledo Homing Telegw and Commercial, paying 30,000. Mrs. Mather, of Missouri Yalley, Iowa, has given birth to four healthy children, all boys. They are strong and vigorous loosing, though small malae. Fred and Charles Ward, of Chicago, aons of Dr. E P. Ward, and' nephews of Hon. Charles B. Farwell, were recently murdered by desperadoes at Devil's Lake, Da-

Henry T. Wright, Assistant Postmaster of Kacine, Wis,, is short in his account 5,000l He waa arrested by an agent of thu Postoffice Department and taken to Milwaukee, where he confessed bis delinqnencies and explained the methods he pursued in embezzling the money. Chicago is to have an illustrated

The report is telegraphed from Albuquerque, New Mexico, that Prof. A. F. Bandolier, of the Smithsonian Institution, & P. Balden, of Tucson, and a Mexican were captured near the village of Ban Cristobal, Sonora, by a detachment of Juh'g Apaches, taken to the mountains, and murdered Prof. Bandelier, who has a high reputation as an arcmeologist, resided at Highland, 111 The Northern Pacific is making rapid progress. The road is expected to open in July. Them is an unprecedented rush of immigrants to Oregon and Washington Territory. Dakota is getting a large share of this spring's emigration. Two trains a day now leave Chicago, bound through to that Territory, and it is estimated that its southern half will contain before the end of the year a population of over 350,000. Fire destroyed the western nail-mill at Belleville, m., causing a loss of 80,000, upon which there was an insurance of 85,ooa SOTTTHEXX, Further details of the destruction flensed by the cyclone which swept through Maalsslupt and Georgia only serve to increase the horrors of the occasion. Every fresh account from the section of country fnvaded by the tornado is loaded with some fresh horror, and adds to the already fright-foLy-large mortality rolL It is now well known that at least 175 people were killed, and not less than 868 were wounded. When the isolated sections, away from th; telegraph lines, are heard from, these figures will undoubtedly be increased. In four counties of Central Georgia the latest telegrams record twenty deaths ami oyer fifty persons wounded. At Beauregard, Miss, the death-roll foots np thirty-one, and fifty-nine people were injured, while at Wesson, a few miles from there, twenty-two were killed and ISO wounded. At Georgetown, Kiss., two churches were Mown down while services were progressing, and many persons killed and injured. The town was laid in ruins. In Clay county alone the tornado killed fifty people, beside large numbers of stock, and the destruction of property cannot be estimated. An Atlanta dispatch says that the damage in Georgia will reach millions. The killed and wounded are. In Dougherty county, eight killed and twenty-five wonnded; Sumter county, ten killed and thirty injured. In the latter county, when the debris was cleared away, Ki. and Mrs. Woodruff and two children and a babe in the mother's arms and the nune ware found to a been. dead. At Bockfocsv OvyMk obr7, Miss,, t neopie

killed and many wounded.

Near Springfield, Ala, many houses were demolished and several people killed. The damage caved by the storm will amount to millions of dollars. Great distress prevails, and subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers are urgently called for. Eliza Pinkston, the negress, whose testimony created such excitement before the "visiting statesmen" in Louisiana in lSTtt, diedinjailatCai.ton, Hiss., the other day, and was buried in the potter's field B. J. Boop, a prosperous farmer and miller, lived on Killahatohie creek, six miles from Franklin, i-a. The creek rose rapidly at night, and lifted the building, which' started down the stream with all the inmates, Boop, his wife, three children and a negro servant. The house finally struck a tree1 and went to pieces, A flash of lightning just then enabled Boop to see the family sink. He grasped a mattress and floated down until he struck mother tree, in which he re main ed till morning. WASHINGTON. President Arthur arrived in Washy ington on Sunday, April 23, from his Southern excursion, showing little trace of the Alness he was said to have experienced on! board the Tallapoosa, at Savannah, The question of issuing 4-oent postage stamps is baing considered at Washington. The Trustees of the Garfield Meniorial Hospital fund have at last purchased a site. It is a tract consisting of several acres on the ridge north of the city. It is very near to that portion of the ridge which the! Senator Sherman syndicate is now improving. Mr. Hazen, Third Assistant Post

master General, who has charge of the finances of the department, desires to have' bis prediction go on record that the deficit on account of the reduction of letter postage to 2 cents will not exceed 93,000,000.

Ex-Surgeon General Palmer; TJ. S.

ft, died at his residence to Washington, aged

Ti years.

At a Cabinet meeting the other day,

the' rules and regulations prepared by the Civil Service Commission and the operations of the dynamite plotters in the country

were considered.

Bear Admiral Baldwin, commanding

the European station, has been ordered by Secretary Chandler to proceed, with his personal staff, to Moscow to attend the approaching coronation of the Czar.

BTJSIKESS FAILURES. Hunter, Keller & Co., manufacturers

of iron pipes, N-r York; liabilities, 150,00a

Lord & M inn, produce, Montreal,

Canada; Babillt.es 4147,000 above their as

sets.

A. H. Lord, marble, Chicago; liabil

ities 914,000.

Marks -Brothers & Co., commission ercbants, New Orleans; liabilities 9100,-

000, with small assets.

Handy, Kichardson & Co., grain spec

ulators, Chicago.

John A. Bliss, lumber, Tonawondf i

liabilities, 9 10,000 to excess of assets.

Tfie Bleyer Distillery Company, St.

Louis, Mo.

POLITICAL. A prohibitory amendment was de

feated in the Pennsylvania House by an

overwhelming majority, but the Senate

passed to thirl reading a bill to prohibit treating.

Wilson, Republican, was given a cer

tificate of election as representative in Congress for the Fifth district of Iowa upon an ostensible majority of twenty-four votes at the November election. Frederick, his Democratic opponent, claims to have discovered errors in the countof votes that will

reverse the result and give him a margin of

100 votes or more.

Some of the ambitious politicians of

Wisconsin think that the time has come for it to speak up and claim the Presidential nomination for that State. Ex-Gov. Fairchild is the candidate put forward for the honor, and Congressman Guenther is his

chief boomer.

The Iowa Democratic State Convention has. been called to meet at Des Moines on the 6th of June. Henry D. McDaniel was elected Governorof Georgia! or the unexpired term of the late Alexander H. Stephens. There was no opposition. The Pennsylvania Senate defeated the bill prohibiting "treating," and the House refused to indorse the measure making eight hour) a day's work. Dr. B. E. Keim, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission. Judge Hoadley, of Cincinnati, will probably be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Ex-Speaker Keii'er says that he is not a candidate for Governor of Ohio. Sam Randall claims that he will have the Maryland delegation solid for him for Speaker, Hon. W. D. Washburn, of Minnesota, thinks that Presidential lightning is likely to strike either Edmunds of Vermont, Harrison of Indiana, Miller ot California, or Sherman of Ohio, among the Republicans', that Tilden is too near the grave to secure the Democratic nomination; that McDonald of Indiana is the strongest and most prominent candidate in that party; and that Logan of Illinois has the Presidential bee worse than any other man, but with poor prospects of capturing the prize.

tics in the United Kingdom is not lesft than 150,000. The polioo claim to havo intimate cnowledgo of the inner Workings of the or rnnlzation. In the British House of Lords Cavingferd stated the Government had neither the right, nor was it necessary p, to f-irccomi-srrntlon from Ireland, but bo:ievcd it wai the "best and inevitable remedy for (Ustrojs." The Government had roceived offers fot selected families from across the Atlantic. Tho French Government has decided to send two small detachments of troops to Tonquin. The lower house of the Norwegian Parliament has voted tbo impeachment of the Cabinet for refusing to promulgate ami carry into effect a law making the Ministers responsible. This marks another point foi the popular side in the irrepressible conflict between the democratic people of Norway and their King. In Kelly's second trial at Dublin, for participation in the rhrcnix Park murders the jury were again unable to agree, though the Judgo sumraod up soverely against the prisoner. Michael Fagin, alleged to bo another of the conspirators, was thon placed on trial. When the court began to impanel a jury, seventy-five of those called failed to appear, and each absentee was fined $300. Corey, the informer, has a most tender conscience. While admitting that he had accepted a commission to kill Mr. Forster, at the time Chief Secretary for Ireland, he said ho did not attend tho Sunday meetings of the Assassination Society because of religious scrunles. Overwork has incapacitated the entire Gorman Cabinet The mass of business claiming their attention is unusually large, and beyond the power of the present staff to perf oi m. Twenty-five lives were lost by a collision between the ships County Aberdeen and British Commerce off the English coast. LATER NEWS ITEMS. A Washington dispatch says "there

is good authority for the statement that tho Government ha9 sent secret-service agents

lo Philadelphia. This would indicate either that the attention of our Government has been called to this subject by Great Britain or that the State Department expects communications from Great Britain." A dispatch from the West states that Utile Charlie McComas, who was captured by Apaches at the time of the murder of his parent3tn New Mexico, was subsequently killed by the savages because he was unable to keep up with them in their retreat to tho mountains. The examination of the alleged dyna

mite conspirators of London, Birmingham and Glasgow was resumed in the Bow Street Police Court, London, on the 20th of April. A Police Inspector testified that early in the month Bernard Gallagher had offered ! hirmelf as an informer, and related what ' Gallagher had told him regarding his : connection with the conspirators, both in ; the United States and in Great Britain. The i movements of himself and others of the party, Gallagher said, had been directed by j his brother. Dr. Gallagher. The latter hod ' a poor opinion ot the dynamite schools at i New York. Another witness testified re- j garding Whitehead's purchase of acids to '

use in the manufacture of nitro-glycerine at Birmingham. A tornado swept the State of South Carolina from one end to tho other, causing great destruction of forests, fruit trees,

dwellings and churches; many people were injured, but no deaths are reported. Terror prevails in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs, Ark., on account of mad dogs.

Horses, cows and hogs have been bitten, j The value of the stock lost so far by hydro- '

phobia is 9400. Parents fear to send then; ; children from homo. So says a telegram j from Little Bock. An earthquake iu the United States I of Colombia destroyed churches and dwell- i tugs to many towns. Prof. Mezeroff, the dynamitist, pub- : Uehes a manifesto declaring that the advo- i cates of the use of explotives as a means of , extorting concessions from tyrants are now j in a position to take care of themselves and ! cause the tyrants aforesaid to tremble on ' their thrones. He theft proceeds to explain 1 a plan by which a fund of $50,01X1, (XX) or I double that sum may be raised by Irishmen to provide for blowing Great Britain out of . the water. i The Rev. Samuel Herman, a wellknown rabbi, was killed at New York by i failing between a ferryboat and a bridge. j At Taunton, Mass., an actor named Paulding, playing Borneo, inflicted a serious wound with his sword upon the Tybalt of j the play, named George A Dalton, in the ; course of the combat between the two ' characters. Sixteen men lost their lives by the i

burning of a factory in Warsaw, Poland

THE IOWA AMENDMENT.

OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

KISCEIJUANEOUS. The stockholders of the Pullman Palace Car Company are to receive a quarterly dtvidenil of (2 per share May 15, Six steamships brought 5,140 passengers to New 'fork, most of whom were immigrants. Eight hundred Irish immigrants whose passage had been paid by the British Government, retched Boston the other day. The Cunnrd line has booked aa many steerage passengers from Irish ports as it can carry for three months to come, and the Allan line has arrange! to bring huge numbers of Irish irnmigranta aero the ocean at the expense of the English treasury. CoL Mapleson, the well-known opera manager, hai engaged Mme Patti for next season. He will pay her the princely sum of S,000 a night While the United States officials at Philadelphia were deliberating over the case of the steamer Tropic, which violated the neutrality laws by carrying war materials to the Haytian insurgents, the ship steamed away, and when the decision was reached to seize the crift it was discovered that she was out of reach of the law.

FOREIGN.

A warehouse and Rhip chandlery were consumed at Liverpool, upon which the toss is 500,00:. A report has reached Paris from Egypt that El Mohdi, the False Prophet of Soudan, 2ta been captured Notice was given in the British House of Commons, the other day, that the Government would be asked If steps bad been taken by ths United States Government to prevent coispiracies here against the peace Of England The coronation ceremonies at Moscow will. It is now announced, occur on May 27, the festivities continuing until June & The London Times professes to have te'ormatiou that the membership of the JobIw hnibrhooi) and Jt aaiary uoote.

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The delegates to the Irish National League ' Convention assembled in Horticultural Hall, I Philadelphia, to the number of 1,200. on the morning ot April 26. They represented Irish so

cieties of every description in all Stat? and most of the Territories. Forty of them wcro women. In the temporary organzatioiithell.'V.M.iuriojJ. Dorney, of Chicago, was made Chairman. An animated debate ro.c nnon tho adoption of the report ot the Committee on Bales, noine of the delegates declaring that the rules submitted would suppress the liberty of debate. Tho rnlus were adopted. Congressman M. A. Forau, of Cleveland, Ohio, wan made permanent resident. O'Donovan-Bosxa and other pronounced advocates of the dynamite theory were admitted to the convention without protect, A telegram from Charles S. Parnell to the Protddent of tho Irish-American Convention was read. Mr. Parnell advied the framing of a

Eiatiorm wmou wonia cnanie uie insu i und League and the constitutional agitators in Ireland to accept aid from America, at the same time avoiding i anything which might furnish the British Gov- ! eminent with a pretext for supprcatsinir the na- j tional movement in Ireland. He expressed his I

connuonco tnat u pruuenoe, moderation una firmness ruled tho convention the cam-e of Ireland would be advanced. After the announcement of the committees the convention adjourned for tho day.

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Reaffirmation by the Supremo Court ol the State of the First Derision Kradrred Keasous for Declaring the Action of the Legislature and Icople Kull and Void. The Judges of the Iowa Supreme Court have again decided adversely to the Prohibition constitutional amendment, adopted by the people last fall. There are two opinions, Judge Beck dissenting, as in the former rendering. Following is the summary of the majority decision: Tho question of the court's jurisJirlion is elaborately considered, and the ease of Luther vs. Borden, upon which the amellanti mainly relied upon the rehearing, is considered at lennth. It is shown that that case involved the question as to tho rislit of a court hoUHritr itN jmwers nudor a constitution to push urmn th" validity of the constitution under which it is lieit organized, and that it has noappliratlnn hut over to an amendment not allectinir the Judii ial authority of the nourt: that the right of a ptoplo to alter or retonn their Government at pl-anre consists simply in the right to chaneo the existing Constitution iu the manner provided in it, or ly revolution, which is a riEht not under Imt ahovo tho Constitution; that the liitlit of revolution can be made effective only iy superior forPA and that (ail-iro sulijeetn thoa undeitaklntr to innnirnratd the chantre to the pcnaltl ot treason t that unless voluntary acquiescence is yielded to a proposed change in the Constitution, the question can ls determined only by an appeal to the courts, or an appeal to arms, and that the maintenance ot social sernritv and of republican imiiitnttnns require! that the courts should determine the question. The opinion maintains that this Jurisdiction lihsb.Hn exorcised in the s-ven Ktattacf Alabama, Missouri, Kamas) Indiana. Michigan, North Carolina and Wiscons in, and has been denied in none. In the course f tho opinion

"It is well tl'.at the powers of the iicople j

should be undorst-od. No heresy ha- ever been taught in this country m rrauitht with evil as tho doctrine that thd lieonle have a consti

tutional right to disregard the Constitution, avu that they can set themselves ahovo j the Instrumentalities appointed by the Consti-

union ior uie auminisirauou or jaw. it teiius directly to the euconragrmont of revolution and anarchy, it in incumbent npou all who influence and mold pnblio opinion to repudiate and discountenance so dangerous a doctrine before it bears fruits destructive of republican institutions. It will be well if the p -opk- com? to understand tho difference between national and constitutional freedom before license becomes destructive of liberty." As to the conclusiveness of the recital of the Nineteenth General Assomblv that the Eighteenth (icnc.al ARK Tnl ly had duly agreed to and entered ny i.s journals the saino resolution that the Nineteenth Gen rat Assembly was about to submit to tho people, tho conrt holds that there is nothing in the constitution or the stttuto or the nature of the subject making the recital conclusive; that the District Court is a conrt of general jurisdiction: that everything: is resumed to b:- within its jurisdiction until ths contrary is shown, and that the burden is upon thos; who deny that tho jurisdiction of tho court; extends to innnirv into

this recital to establish that fact, and

that tiny have failed lo do so; that the jnrisdiciion of tho Nineteenth General Assembly to submit the proposition to the peop c depended UKn th; fact that the Eighteenth General Assembly had agreed to the same proposition, and that the Kinetic ith General Assembly could not stoptiie courts from inquiring into this jurisdictional fact bv a m re recital that the facts exists, especially as the journal of the Eighteenth General Assembly, which is t he constitutional record of lt8procee.:iingfl,shoAKthat the fact did not exist. The court maiutain that even the action of a o.urt is void and liable to be collaterally i leached if its records show that the fact upon which its jurisdiction depends does not exist. After a full review of the authorities cited upon this branch of tho case, the court closes this noint of the opinion as fol

lows: "Tho constitution makes three steps necessary for the adoption of an amendment ; vi : the proposal of an amendment in one Gen- : eral Assembly and its entry upon the journals: ' tho agreement thereto by the next General Assembly and its submission to the people; and j the approval and ratincation thereof by the people. These steps are distinct. Independent and 1

essential. -o one or them can do aispensea -with. It is necessary that the proposition shall be concurred in bv two successive General As- ' semblies. IC however, one General Assembly : can cut off all inquiry into the action of its predeccssor by a mere recital of what it has done, ; it follows that an amendment may be incor- : poratcd into tho constitution which has never ' received the sanction of more titan one General Assembly. Such a construction might lead to a clear violation ol the constitution. Wo cannot give it our muicHou." Uponthequ-stionas to whether the resolution as envoi ed is ltett r evidence of the legislative action than the reso utlon as entered upon Uie iourual of the Senate of the Eighteenth General Assembly, tho court holds that the constitut'ou requires ea.h house of the General Assembly to Ueep a journal of its proceedings, and the statute provides that the proceedings are proved by the journal; that there is neither c nsatutional nor statutory provision nor rule of tho General Assembly requiring the , enrollment of a resolution proposing fin . amendment to the constitution. The court holds Hint tho journal upon which the constitution requires an entry of the amendment to be made constitutes the better evidence or the tTtus of aa amendment proposed. I'pon this I ranch of th- case the court says: "No authority bos at any time been cited during the progress of this case which holds that, as to a paper requir d to b : entered upon the journal, ti c enro lment an overrule the journal entry as 1 to a bill. W concede the correctness of ths authorities cited. Under the enstom of legislation the enrolled bill is presented to the Speaker of the House and tlio Pres dent of the Sonata fcr their signatures, and is approved by the Governor. It i in all respects treated as the original act. No entry of it is required to lie made npou the journal, and hence the Journal could not contain any evidence of its contents. Hut, with regard to a proposition for an amendment ot t lie constitution, whether it bo in the form of a resolution or of a bill, the provisions of tho constitution arc different. That is required to be entered upon t he journal, and if this requirement is observed the journal does ccntnin evidence of its contents. It is evident j that the authoritl.s which apply to the case of . au ordinary hill have no anpl cation whatever to j Uie resolution in question." The court discusses and answers the various . position of counsel on the argument upon re- ' hearing, and concludes the opinion as follows: "We have approached and discussed this grave question with a full appreciation of the respon- i sibilitits which it involves, and we have given to its consideration the earnest attention which its imiwrtanc'' demands. We have sought to main- I tain the supremacy of the constitution at what- i ever hazard. It is for the protection of minorities that constitutions are framed. Sometimes

constitutions must bo interposed for tho protection of majorities, even against themselves. Constitutions are adopted in times of public repose, when sober reason holds her citadel, and are designed to check tho surging puHsitms in times of popular excitement. But If courts could be coerced by popular majorities into a disregard of their provisions, constitutions would become more ropes of sand, and there would be an end of social security and of constitutional freedom. The cause of temperance can sustain no injury from the loss of this amendment which would be at ail comparable to the injury to republican institutions which a plain and palpable violation of the constitution would inlliot. That large and respectable class of moral reformers which so justly demands the obrenance and enforcement of law cannot afford to take its first reforma ory step by a violation of the constitution. How can it consistently demand of others obedience to a constitution which it violates itself? Tho people can in a short time re-enact the amendment. In tho matter of a great moral reform, tho loss of a few years is nothing. The constitution is the palladium of republican freedom. The yontig n.cn coming forward upon the stage of political action must be educated to venerate

It; those already upon tho stage must.

ba taught to obey it, whatever interests may bo advanced or may suffer. Whoever or whatever may lie voted up or voted down, no sacrllcgions hand must he laid upon the constitution. Abidinaly and firmly convinced of the correctness of our former conclusion, recognizing no suierior higher than the constitution, acknowledging no fealty greater than loyalty to its principles, and fearing no consequences except those which ii-ould result from a dcrelccUon in duty, wo adhere to and reaffirm the doctrines already announced. The petition for rehearing is overruled. THE DISSENTISO OWNION. Justice Beck's dissenting opinion takes the broad ground that the adoption of an amendment by the people of Iowa is n purely political question; that the courts of tho State have no jurisdiction over Uie matter whatever, and Uiat the vote of the people having declared Ui amendment a part of the State constitution, no cirors that may havo occurred in passing or publishing tho amendment should have any weight whatever in determining iu legality. The Judge quotes from many authorities that sustain tho position taken by him. PENCIL AM SCISSORS.

A Secret.

"Kiss me. papal" she always cried As she let roo ont or in. "You know the place whoro tho kisses hide. Vndor my dlmplo-chin ! "Toot lltllo p'ace, papa, only yours. And nobody else , tool If they t'les to get it, I wan out doora And keep it just for yon."

Baton ItouoE, La. , has a band of organized thieves composed of boys. A WUAI.E eighty teetloug recently grounded on the bar ut SL Johns, Flo. Boanoke, Va., is only ubout two years old and has a population ot 4,5tm Canada is having a larger immigration this year than lost; tho I'nitrd Stat Of less. The saloons in Fort Worth, Texas, are kept o;ien on Sundays, tho proprietors paying their flne regularly on Mondays. The Chicago 2V6a, in o e of its recent Sunday issues it monster sheet of iweniy-

four pa .'es contained ll columns of ndvertisements. Bio Rapids. Mich., furnishes the first base- !

ball victim of tho reason. Ho was struck in the back of the head by a batted ball. Knocked colder than a wedge, and bad a large funeral. Dr. 1). E. Saijion has been invited by the national department, of agriculture to make experiments with Pasteur's process of preventing the spread of contagious diseases among farm animals by means of inoculation. A Pabis paper, of a recent data, has (his: "Marriages Several Princes, Dukes, ('-mints. Viscounts wish to marry rich American young IndiOR Wilie in the first instance, in all confidence, to Mute, la Haronnod' , caro , No. Kuo , Paris. " Tirs baby camel, who is now nourishing in Central Park, New York, is about the siio of a colt, with long legs, and without any hump on its back. The neck Is very short, but will develop in time. As the mother was born in the park, tho bflhy otipiel is a m.U9 Americao.

How Noby Found the Turkey's Nest. Did you ever do what Zcnobia was doing that spring morning? Of course yon cannot answer that until you know what she was doing. She had received her instructions from her mothor, and was running off bareheaded when she was called back. "Are you going off in this hot sun without your bonnpt?" mamma asked, with a reproach in her tone. " You're already as freckled as a turkey-egg. I'll fasten this on you so that you can't get it off." She pulled two locks of Zcnobia's lowcolored hair through the eyeletholos in the upper part of the bonnetfrown; then sho combed the two locks into one, and this she bfoidod. The plait hung down over the bonnet-skirt like a whip-lash. ' "Now, mind I you mustn't lot her know you're watching her. You'll have to be very cautious and quiet." "Yes, I understand," said Noby. "I must keep all the time out of her sight. I know which way she always goes. She goes into tho woods back of the peach-orchard. I'll watch he till I find where she's hid it." Thou Noby ran across the yard and climbed the feneo into the peachorchard. Hhe passed under the trees fa a loitering way, looking wistfully up timong the branches, thinking tliat perchance she might find a peach with a soft cheek. Little goose I It was only the other day that the trees were all pink with the tender blooms. But beside the vague hope of finding an eatable peach, there were memories which made her steps linger. These trees running along tho fence-corners bore those magnificent white plumpeaches, large as a goose-egg, and juicy ts a tomato. And then Noby recollected that sho squeezed a teacup of luiee from one last summer. But suddenly she heard a sound which reminded her of the business with which ner mother had commissioned hor.

ihe went hurrying toward the woods, keeping under shelter of the side fence. When she reached that which divided the orchard from the woods, she stopped, and made a reconnoissance through tho crack of tho fence. There she discovered with a heart-throb the Individual she had been instructed to watch. She (not Noby the other one) was pf a tall, slender build, lithe and graceful. Her dress was a handsome steelgray, blotched with white. It was of a fine, glossy testuro, worn so short as to reveal the trim ankle and her stately, though cautious step. The head, as Noby perceived, had a forward poise, In a listening attitude; tho ear was turned to windward, while the keen eyes darted with suspicion hero and there. The girl-detective crouched in the fence-corner till her victim, as if satisfied that she was not followed, went forward, yet very cautiously, into a thicket. Then Noby, who was a slender little thing, crept through a crack between two low rails, and lay down flat on the ground, except that she kept her head lifted and her eyes turned to the thicket. After a little while, she went cautiously forward on her hands and knees to a stump, behind which she ensconced herself for another reconnoissance. On this side and on that, over the top of the stump, Noby strained her eyes. "I don't see her," she said. Then the detective got to her feet, and tried to go over quietly to a tree near by; but it seemed as though there was a dry twig wherever she set her foot down. Her seeking was all in vain, so she went back to her mother and, half-crying, reported her failure. "She's got such a long, slim neck, and such a tiny head," Noby complained, "that she can put it up and see through the little specks of cracks in the bushes while she stays hid ; and you can't tell her neck from a stick or limb when you're a little ways off. Why can't you let her lay and set and hatch out in the woods? She'd tote her young ones home." "The varmints would find out her nest," said Mrs. Hitts, "and eat her eggs, or if the eggs should escape, they'd eat the young turkeys. I'll send Corilla with you to-morrow to watch her to the nest. That turkey always was a sly, ticklish thiug. She pesters me every spring. I think we'll fatten her for Christmas. I'll tell you," the mother added, in sudden explanation, "when she started off on that run, she was near her nest. A turkey picks and grazes around, and saunters about in make-believe indifference, all the time working toward her nest. When she's within twenty or thirty yards of it, she looks all around to be sure she is not observed, and then suddenly she darts off and runs as fast aa she can to the nest. But she does not uncover this immediately, but peoks around it listening and watching for some minutes. If all remains quiet, she goes to tho nest, and lays her egg, which she covers very snugly. The

nest is generally against a log or stump,

or in a brusli-ueap. if you ana uonua don't find that nest to-morrow, I'll go the next day, and I'll warrant I'll outwit Madam "Gray." The next morning at 9 o'clock, Zcnobia and Corilla were out watching to see old tlray l?ave the barn-yard. Corilla, I ought to tell you, was a negro girl, a few months older than Noby. Hhe loved "Miss Noby" fondly, though the little mistress teased her sharply, and called her "Gorilly." Madam Turkey seemed in no haste to quit the barn-yard. Sho went picking about there, ae if there wasn't a nest in tho world in which she had the interest of a straw. "Her don't look like hor wus studyin' 'bout layin' no mow'n nuflin," said Corilla, as she sat on a brickbat, with dust all about her. "I nober seed no layin'-tucky look so onansious sence I was bawn. Iiayin'-tuckys mos' al'ays aks high-flutin', like dey felt mighty smart, jis like folks does when des fuss morreid." "I believe she's started now," said Noby, with some eagerness. "She's got her face turned toward the orchard." "Er face!" said Corilla, contemptuously. "Law, I don't call it no face her's got, wif them thar eyes sottin' way back, bine folks' years !" "Where folks's ears would be, you mean, my dear Gorilly," said Noby, laughing. "Her is startin' tor go, show miff!" Corilla exclaimed. "Her's flowed ober iu do pcaoh-auchard. I wishes peaches wus ripe, don't you. Miss Noby ?" "Look here, OrillyU cried Zenobia, heedless of the peach-question, "we'd better run round the orchard and get into the woods and hide nomo whores down bv the thicket, and bo there already when old Gray comes." "Why, yes !" Corilla eagerly assented, starting from her brickbat. They ran quickly down tho sido of the orchard, snatching a view of tho turkey, picking her way along under tho peitoh-trees. Arrived at the wood, the girls hid themselves in a thicket of tall hazel-bush. "I wishes hazel-nuts wus ripe," said Corilla. "When I see her coming," said Zenobia, intent ou her oanipaign,

"IU draw my snnbonnet down over my face, and then sho won't know me, will she?" "No," said Corilla, in a tone which seemed to add, "your mother wouldn't know you in that disguise. " "But what's me gwino to war to hide my face?" "Your face's so black, Corilla that she couldn't see it in this thick shade if it wasn't for your white eyes and shiny teeth." "Jjaw, yer dun no what yer's talkin' 'bout, Miss Noby ! Ole Gray an' me's been too long 'qitainted fer sieh foolin. Dot tuokey's lenowed me eber sence her was bawn. Got to hab sumpin nufcher ober my face. " "Wait, I'll fix something," said Zenobia. Sho quickly gathered an apronful of mammoth leaves from a wild grape-vine near. "I wishes wile grapes wus ripe," said Corilla, following Zenobia's movements. In lieu of thorns for pins, Noby used fine twigs in inch-lengths, for fastening tho leaves together. "I knows what yer's up ter," said Corilla. "Yer's gwine ter make me a mass ter go ober my face." "It'll be more like a vail than a mask," replied Zenobia, dropping the improvised garment over Gorilla's face. "Law, it's a meal-bag!" cried the negro, by no means enjoying tho warmth and closeness under the leaves. Corilla was right in her characterisa

tion ; it was a bag, hanging below her armpits, "i'er goodness' sake, Miss Noby, can't see nuQin! How's. I gwine ter watch dat dar tuckey ef I ain't got no eyes? Muh' poke some eyes in do bag, Miss Noby; mus so!" Corilla's voice had a pathetic sound, muffled by the leaf-bag. "Well, hold still," said Zenobia, proceeding to punch some holes in the loaves. "Sakes 'live, Miss Noby! my eyes ain't 'way roun' on de sido my head like tuokey-eyes. Dese yere holes'll do fer years, but I can't see nuflin wid urn." Corilla waa quite excited. "Well, there now; that's better, isn't it?" said Zenobia, soothingly, as she quickly amended her first work. And none too soon was this done, for in the moment sho caught sight of the gray turkey, treading warily, her head high, listening, peering tho very impersonation of caution. Tho girls crouched low in sun-bonnet and leaf-bag, and the turkey would have passed them without suspicion, though within two yards of them, if it hadn't been for well, no wonder they did it ; that turkey did look so funny standing there looking at the girls with one eye, as though trying to classify the queer new specimens. Corilla couldn't contain her amusement; she giggled, and then, of course, Zenobia giggled. Thereupon the turkey said, "Whut! whut! tut! tut! put! put!" Zenobia pinched Corilla's leg. She meant to say by this, "Keep still, on your life," or some such thing. Corilla interpreted it as meaning, "Do look at that ridiculous old thing." A snicker came from that leaf-bag thot amounted to a snort; tho turkey hurried away, clucking and tutting and whut ting. "There now," said Zenobia, with some warmth, "you've scared her so, she'll maybe forget herself where her nest is." "I didn't go ter do it," said Corilla, meekly. Zenobia quickly decided that they must follow up the turkey. When they again - caught sight of her, she was somewhat quieted, bnt seemed to be still ou the lookout for danger. Corilla wai crouched behind some blackberry bushes, wishing thnt the berries were ripe, and Zenobia was behind Corilla, wishing that turkeys were not so secretive about a matter of so little significance as the laying of a few eggs. "We must go on," said Zenobia, "or we shall lose her among those sparkleberry trees. Noby suddenly brightened; there was a milk-cow grazing, evidently making her way to the brook for a drink. "Oh!" exclaimed Zenobia, "I'll walk along behind old Brindle." She humped herself into a bundle and placed herself at the cow's heels. She had caught a good idea. The turkey, by instinct, distinguishes friend from foe. Gray perked up her head at Brindle's approach, as she always did at a noise; but, when she perceived only a staid old cow, she went on her way as unconcerned as though she had seen only a stump. She saw nothing of that queer budget in sun-bonnet and pantalets, creeping behind the friendly cow. On went the reassured turkey; on went sober Brindle, grazing at tuft and bush, and on went watchful Noby, getting peeps over Bossy's red back, under her spotted belly, between her horns and about her busy, switching tail. The little detective did the shadowing capitally, and finally was rewarded by seeing the turkey dart off on a run. "Now, her nest is close by," thought Noby, recalling what the mother had said. Eyes, ears and thought were now all strained to follow the poor victim. Zenobia was greatly excited, and at one time almost rushed from her shelter. But she remembered in time to prevent the ruinous movement. In this supreme moment she saw that Corilla had left tho persimmon tree, and was crossing an open space in a noisy way, as though she was exploding a torpedo at every step. Zenobia frantically motioned the negro down. Corilla, used to obedience, dropped on her face, and a defeat was avoided. ' On went old Brindle with increasing eagerness as she neared the brook; and on went Noby, also with increasing eagerness, keeping her eye on the very bushes between which the turkey had disappeared. Soon Brindle had pushed hor way to this very spot. A second moro and sho hod crowded by it ; another moment and it was yards in her rear, while there, there, almost under her very hoofs, against a sweet gum-tree, was old Gray, busy with her beak moving grass and leaves and twigs, uncovering yes 1 uncovering her nest. Noby was ready to shout in triumph as she caught sight of the freckled egg, great fine specimens as they were. Old Gray did not got into the makeup of the next Christmas dinner as had been threatened. The Hitts had a luscious young turkey from one of thoso identical eggs which Noby had discovered. .Va'm ft f Pinter Kellogg, in Youth'8 Companion. Conundrums. What belongs to yourself, yet is used bv everybody more than yourself? Your name. What cardinal virtue does water represent when frozen? Just-ice. "When i.s a chair like a lady's dress? When it is sat-in. When is a soldier not half a soldier? When ho is in quarters. Why are tallest people the laziest? They are always longer in bed than Others. Why do whito sheep eat more than black ones? There are more of them. Why is a book like a tree ? It is full of loaves. How many fathers has am m? Nino; his father, his father-in-law, his godfather, two grandfathers, and his "fore" fathers. When is a clock on the stairs dangerous? When it runs down and strikes one. We can neve, die too early for others when we Uyo only for ourselves.

THE SCANDINAYIASS. Th Populations of Norwegians, Swedes mill Danes In t'ie TJnited States. Tho census of 1880 shows that there wcro then in tho Upited States or America 440,202 persons born in the Scandinavian countries, of which 181,729 were born in Norway, W4,:J37 wore born in Sweden and 64,196 were born in Denmark. As the immigration from the Scandinavian countries has been very great since the census year, it is a fair estimate that there are now in this country over 500,000 persons born in the Scandinavian countries. By different counts it has been provon that children born in this country of Scandinavian parents number at least as many as their parents and others born in the Scandinavian countries and now living here, so it is not too much to say that the Scandinavian population in the United States now at least amounts to 1,000,000. or that every fiftieth person in the United States is either born in the Scandinavian countries or is born in this country of Scandinavian parents, and, further, that every 100th person in this conntry is born in the Scandinavian countries. Those bnm in the Scandinavian conntries are divided among the States and Territories as follows : Norwegians. Swedes. Danes. Alabama St 11!) 9 Arkansas S3 211 Wi California 1,705 A.-m i,U1 Colorado 351 a,tsa W Connecticut 108 S,086 428 Delaware. 6 71 M Florida ' :u ir.:i Georgia 23 138 6.1 Illinois. 16,070 0,02J Indiana 1S2 S,121 . RSJ Iowa ,S88 17,559 0,901 Kansas 1,918 ll.SM 1,K'S Kentucky 21 9 74 Louisiana 78 470 2."5 M.line S3 098 27S Maryland in) m 128 MuHsacbuoetta U9 4,736 070 Michigan 3,520 o,tl2 :I,513 Minnesota 02,521 8.1,178 B.U71 Mfwslssinrtl S S0i 9.) Missouri 373 S,17 u:o Nebraska J.mo 10,184 4,5lt Nevada. HI 8n 350 New Hampshire 79 30 New Jersey 229 1,822 1,584 New Yorlt S.1S-. 11,184 3,145 North Carolina i- 44 6s ObiO 178 1,180 812 Oregon 874 Ul a-ig Pennsylvania 381 7,'75 948 Elioile Inland 08 776 58 South Carolina. 8 63 80 Tennessee 3) 431 98 Texas 80 1,433 489 Vermont 10 68 35 Virginia 48 49 60 West Virginia 3 41 38 Wisconsin 49,349 8,138 8,797 Arizona 45 108 131 Dakota. 1.1,213 3,177 1,447 District of Columbia 19 8 45 Idaho S76 343 886 Montana 171 280 100 New Mexico 17 39 43 Utah 1,214 3,750 7,791 Washington 580 018 290 Wyoming 74 449 188 Total. 18U729 194,337 64,198 The greatest number of Norwegianborn are to be found in : Minnesota, 62,521; Wisconsin, 49,349; Iowa, 21,586; Illinois, 16,970. The population born in Sweden is largest in: Illinois, 42,415; Minnesota, :,176; Iowa, 17,559; Kansas, 11,207; New York, 11,164; Nebraska, 10,164. Of persons born in Denmark the number is largest in: Wisconsin, 8,797; Utah 7,791; Iowa, 6,901; Minnesota, 6,071 ; Illinois, 6,029. In Dakota there are 13,245 Norwegian born, 3,177 Swedish born and 1,477 Danish born. The cities which have the largest Scandinavian-born population are: Norwegians. Swedes. Danes. New York 893 3,194 1,098 Brooklyn 195 2,818 814 Chicaco. 9,783 tt,9.,. 2,5'.0 Milwaukee 1,025 179 229 Minneapolis 4,0l 8,180 4i'6 St. Paul 684 1,837 218 Curious Use of Eggs. Comparatively few persons are prob

ably aware of the fact that eggs are used to any extent except ns n article of food. Vet Buoh is the ciue, and there is an establishment in this city one of three in the United States which utilizes large numbers daily. A reporter paid a visit to the Ahunien Paper Company's works on Water street. The first sight which met his eyes was an immense busket of eggs. The reporter made known his wishes to a representative of the company, who kindly, in answer to numerous questions, gave all the information in his power. As above stated, there are only two other albumen paper factories in the country, one being located in Camden, N. J., and one at Philadelphia. These firms supply the 7,000 photographers in the United States with the peculiar paper necessary for their business. Tho manufacturing season begins in the latter part of February and continues until near the first of "the following December. - During the season the Rochester company uses on an average about 200 dozen eggs (2,400) per day, which makes a total of about 50.000 dozen (600,000 eggs) per yoar. Oojers in tho surrounding towns furnish the greater part of the eggs, which must be perfectly fresh. Some idea of the oxtent of the business may be obtained from the fact that paper sufficient to print 200,000 photographs hat been prepared in one day. The paper used is of the finest quality and is imported from Prance. The reporter was sh vn into a room where a young lady was busily engaged in breaking eggs and separating the whites from the yelks. Tho whites are prepared by a chemical process and then spread over the surface of the paper, leaving it glossy rcs seen in the photograph. Noticing that tho yelks were also carefully preserved, tho reporter m-piired if it was possible to utilize them, and was answered in tho affirmative. They are nearly all sent to Johnstown and Gioversvillo, where tho glovers nso them for dressing . kid. The skin and yelks are placed together in a t -ough and trampled upon with the feet. A finish is thus im: arted to the shins which is obtainable in no other way. Information was volunteered to ';he effect that a large number of the dog-skin gloves and kid shoes worn no extensively are nothing more than.sheep or calf-skin dressed arid finished with the yelk of eggs. Rochester (N. F.) Sim. Inhabitants of Indian Territory. The inhabitants of Iudirn Territory consist of 76,000 Indians, divided into forty-four tribes. The Cherokees stand in the forefront, with a population of 20,336 full-bloods nnd half-breeds. They occupy a large country in the northeastern part ofthe Territory. The conntry of the Creeks, next iu tho order of intelligence and push, numbering 15,000 inhabitants, if. in the southeast corner. The Chickasaws, 9,000 in number, are west of the Choctaws, on tho Texas border. The Seminoles, from the savannahs of Florida, the Sacs and Foxes, the Pottawa'omies and the Wichitas, are in tho center. The Osages Pawnees, Nez Perces and Poncas are in the north. Tho Sonecas, Wyandottes and Ottawas occupy a small piece of land on the south e -.tern border of Missouri. Tho celebrated Modocs, of bloody memory, from the lava bods of California and Oregon, are here. The Arapahoes and Cheyennes aro on tho west. Tho Kiowna and Comivtohcs and Apaches, once prominently distinguished for their conquest with tomahawk and scalping-knifo, are settle 1 down to a quiet life in the remo.to southwest pait of the Territory, and begin to bask in the early-morning twilight of their civilization. Of these 76,000 Indians, 6.1,000 havo adopted citizens' dress, and aro engaged in the various pursuits of husbandry and tho mpchonio arts. They raise cattle, mules, hogs, corn and cotton. The Cherokees alone have 67,400 cattle, 108,552 hogs, and 13,643 horses. This speaks of the industrv of that people. Three thousand five luindred and forty-

nine ol them are engaged in farming, while only sixteen follow hunting and fishing for a livelihood. If Indians had the energy, ability and push of tho' white people, they would speedily got rich in a country of free and fertile lands and no taxes, and where (toil, sunlight, rain and temperature all combine to make a people prosperous and wealthy. Playing It on a Trareilny Maa. Jokes! Why, everybody th nks it is all right to play it on a traveling man. On one of my trips somebody opened my valise and took out a nrst-clas flannel night shirt and put an old hoop skirt in its place. I didn't know it until I got ready to go to bed, and I was hot, I tell you. I left it in my room, and the next day I found my night. feUirt hanging up in a caboose, with my nitme marked on it. Sorao fellow kue'v I would be along on the next train, and he fixed it with the freight conductor. But that joke came near killing a landlord. The chambermaid showed the hoop-skirt I left to tho landlord, and he thought all sorts of wrong things of me, and the next time I went ont I took my wife along for a short wrip. She had always wanted to take a wip, and I thought I would break her of it, so I let her go. When we got to tbo hotel, and I registered myself and wife, the landlord looked on the register and winked as much as to say that will be all right All the help about the hotel seemed to feel unusually funny, and after supper, as we were raising the dead trying to get a fire in the room, the landlord came up and knocked at the door and handed in the hoop-skirt. My wife looked at it and turned pa'e, and the landlord said it was mine. He said the girl found it in my room after I went away the last time, and then be went out laughing. Do you know, it was a solid hour before I could get my wife calm enough to explain the matter, and, I swow, I have doubts to this day whether she believed, it or not She said the story looked reasonable, or plausible, and all that, bnt she lost her taste for taking trips with me. What did I do to the landlord? Well, he i alive, but it was the merest accident. After my wife said she was tired, and would go to bed, I went out to The barn whew the landlord waa greasing a wagon. He was going off Before daylight the next morning to take tome drummers across tho country to sink another railroad. I didn't say anything, but just picked up a neckyoke that was on the floor, and started for him. He dropped tho wheel he was taking off the wagon and went right through a hole in the side of tho barn where they throwout bedding, aud he never showed up ogain that night, nor the next day, ana I found he had gone off with the drummers. I had to leave before ho came back, and on the next trip I sneaked into the hotel to kill him, but found he had sold out and gone to DAKota, and m . n idow was keeping tho hotel, bnt he had my record, and sa'd from what she had heard I wai traveling for a hoopskirt factory, Ob, I will run acorns that Dnke out in Dakota one of these d.iys, and there will be sickness in hia family. Feck's Sun. Anecdotes of Peter Cooper. Peter Cooper wai the richeatmun u New York, richer than the A'anderbflta, OooldV and othrr money-grabbers, on f..e principle of the old epitaph: "What I kept, that I lost; what I jjave away, that I had." 'Horan imposed upon in his charities, but never allowed his anger to prevent hia further generosity. Two young bank clerks succeeded in cetting money from him

; just to prove that they could sucseaa-

fully piny upon am sympathies. J.ney-. ,

were aeoaiuig wuoiner lo seuu imua, -or to give it to a charitable institution. Mr. Cooper learned of the trick and allowed a report to reach their cars that he had taken out a warrant against

"parlies unknown" for obtaining money under false pretenses, and placed it in the hand of detectives. They both took vacation and wrote letters of apology to Mr. Cooper, asking him to overlook their foolish conduct and allow tliem to return home. After leaving them in suspense a few days- MrCooper sent for them, gave them fatherly lecture and let them go. Mr. Cooper once offered to discount a merchant's note for three years at the rate (3 per cent, a month) which he was paying brokers for six months' accommodation. The merchant was overjoyed and agreed. "Very well," said Mr. Cooper; "just sign this note for $10 .000, payable in three years, and give me your cheek for $300 and the transao'ion is complete." "But where is the money for me?" csked the astonished merchant. "Yon don't pot any money," was the r.ply . " l o ar iutcrc-t for thirtysix months, "a 3 per centum per month, amounts to 108 per centum, or $10,800; therefore your check for $800 just makes ws even." The merchant determined never lo borrow at such ruinous rates. While riding down Bxoadway, one day, the harness broke and the coachman could not mend it.- JMr. Cooper stepped out of the, carriage, called the coachman away, and, unbuttoning Ills great coat, fell to work on the broken trace himself. The crowd watched him wi'h interest He roado his hitches, and, with only a piece of string and a small wooden stick, in a few minute i repaired the trace. After iinishiug his work, Mr. Cooper spoke kindly to some young men, explaining the advantages of lieing able to help oneself. He was listened to with respectful attention, and wliea the ild gentleman stapped into idu carriage the crowd cheered and hats were swung in his honor. Tim mind Man and the Color ef Milk.

There was once a man who had been blind from his birth. Natnrallyenoogh he did not know what the color of milk . was, so he asked another man: "What"' is tho color of milk?" "The color of milk," said the other man, "is white like a cowrie shell." "Well," said the blind man, "haw this color of milk tho sound of a cowrie shell?" ' Not at all," said the other man. "Then what does a cowrie lookljke tn "Like rice." "Is the color of milk soft and tender, like rioe? And what is rice like, anyhow?" "Like snow." "Is rice cold like snow? And what is snow like, anyhow?" "Snow is white, like a stork." Now, although the man that had been blind from his birth heard all -ihese comparisons, ho could never tell what .

the real color ol milK was. t Tales.

A Machine Like a Gallows. Down at Jesup, while waiting fcr the ' train, I saw what appeared fo; the world like a galhws, built directly over tho railroad track. Several ropes were dungliag from it, and I was abcutto believe that the enterprising Josr.pites hud moved the gallows from EaMtnan and stuck it np as a curiosity. White wondering if this could really l-o.the case, a man oume np and told tne it was a "warning machine." Tho track runs under a bridge a few hundred yards below the scaffold, and when a train hand is on top of tho earn, and., those dangling ropes strike htm, il wans him of tho bridge and he sloop.-.-.

15y this moans many lives are ved, but it is certainly a novel afi'air. -Jiffe, con (Ga.) Telegraph. .. .

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