Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 29, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 September 1883 — Page 1

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BLOOM INGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1883. New Series.-VOl, XVII.-NO. 29.

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: unncutisss or nun.

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ionhi nA lilcs loved area estranffed.

thins that are mot fraaent; or things that

env Fade lite a anaveansck star. Aad then too weak sad. agonised to Tift The onp to quench thy dying thirst, or shift Thy pillow, now without our help most rise, aor wait on, ministries. Haw, laved aad eberfehed. must ro forth alone, Woae aeeathoe fondly to the door, not one; Mbaadia turned to see tbe ro; we stay UThere thoa art not, and pray.

Wo panel bars thy white, resistless W Oar walla are mist to thee: ont on the

wane, ii wans tor wee, lor lore atone: - "Arise, let os beooe !"

aloae, open thine awfol way.

uw anee ajmraeaa r 'any Htay ,7 Or does the silent charioteer

super, lie ol (wd cheerl

wft wwnot.' None may follow thee afar, Hi-Tear the sound of thy depar Hag car; w5T-t silence like a strong black sea w- Rnlln on Iwtxt us and thee.

tff Black Valise. dlent wife of the. Rot. Septimus Me feU TSnel uneasy on the taanamt J uer husband's depasture for IukJoJJ He bad never left her for a single j8T "nee their inarriage upward o Teara STtt- He was a mild, easy-goin1901"011' of a timorous diapoly ignorwtof the ways thewor'' nd !ikelT esllT imposed -P011 bv designing persona. mlTvj eame down to breakfast,

equipped for journey, h looked mse,J nnWOAtM 4 task 4 tllat Vlfd Mkti

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-Tr-L,-.sh I could come with you, Sep-

timn l 1 feel sore yon will get lost, or gonething. Yon are like a great child." ' "Ohf I can take care of myself, my )o w.said the Bev. Septimus, stontlr. u'u set jour mind at rest aboat jtjj. Beside, J shall be back in a day ar two or by the end of the week at the latest" . "Where can I write or telegraph, in case I have anything to communicate? inquired his w.f. "Well, yoa see, my darling, I don't quite know Whether I shall bo able to get in at the Tavistock," said the Rev. oepthnna, with an air of hesitation. "Jjondoa 'is very fall at this time of year, rm told. Perhaps I -had better arrange to call every morning for letters lit the Charing Gross Poetomce." " ery well Mind yon -write and let a know what day yon' are coming back. Here's the pony-chaise! Now, Septimns,- remember all I've told yon. and see that you get your fall share of your Aunt Julia's estate, for the children's sake. Don'i trust those London lawyers, and don't sign your name to atythmg without thoroughly understanding it Come, children, say goojby to yonr father, or he wfll miss the train." The Bev. Septimus tore himself from the bosom of lus family with considerable emotion, and took his seat in the pony-trap, to be driven to the station. Bis wile waved her hand as he disappeared from view; and shed a furtive tear on the doorstep before returning to the house. She could not shake off tbe uncomfortable foreboding that had taken possession of her, and tbe next day she wrote her husband a long lettor, repeating all her injunctions and warnings, and urging him ,to take care of himself, Three days passed without bringing amy news, and Mrs. Medd'a somewhat--tmreasonsble anxiety increased to such pitch that she could not refrain, from ending the Bev. Septimus a telegram. If he had been too busy to reply to her letter, he, at all events, would not leave telegram unanswered the more especially as sue begged him to let her hear from him at once. - To her dismay, however, her last communication was not mover saeeessf ul than the first, and she became serioruly alarmed. She felt certain he had not received her letter and telegram, and wondered uneaafly what could have happened to him. Had he been suddenly taken ill, or had some more serious evu befallen him? In the midst of her suspense .and perturbation she was startled by receiving a visit from a Police Inspector, who had driven over from the neighing town. Are you Mrs. Medd, ma'am, the 4a of the Bev. Septimus Medd r in-

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What is the matter?" cries Mrs.

Medd, in an agony of apprehension. "I have had a telegram from the London police, directing me to ascertain Mr. Medd's address in London, and what his movements are," said the Inspector, mysteriously. ?'

"Why! is anything wrong r or ' vena sake tell iner exclanned the

sv acted wife. "I hopenot; but a suspicions individual, gnring tbe-name-of Smithy - has been apprehended m London, on some charge or other, and some of the luggage found in his possession is supposed to belong to your husband." "Good gracious ! He must have been robbed," cried Mrs. Medd, turning pale. That is just what we want to find ost. Will' yon kindly give me his address?" - 1 dent know it," exclaimed Mrs. 'Medd, in despair. I am anxiously expecting to hear from him. He may be at the Tavistock, Hotel in Covent Garden; but he told roe to address letters to the Charing Cross Postoffiee. " "Have yon done so?" said the Inspector, ntaking a note, m hk pocketbook. "I wrote two or three days ago, and have sinoe sent a telegram ; but I have had no answer," said Mrs. Medd, bursting into tears. "We can easily ascertain if he has called there, and also whether he is staying at the Tavistock Hotel," said the Inspector, in a mnttpr-nf-faot tone.

"There k no cause for alarm at pres-

"Are yon driving back to Bilcheoter ?

Let me come with yon," cried the poor lady, in a painfuljy-agitated gtate. "I hall then hear the answer to your telegram without delay, and, if necessary, J will go up to town immediately. X'm afraid my husband is ilL" - "Post b frightened, ma'am ; but eorae wittt me by all means, if you wish," said the Inspector, soothingly. "In fact, it will be just as well." Accordingly, poor Mrs. Medd went off wit the Inspector, who, daring the drive of eight miles, asked her a good m ay questions eboot her husband, and plainly showed that he entertained disaWAfoy aVapiciona which he was nnwill ng emttinanicate. What these xrbthUwmiil

frightened to inquire, for her apprehensions were roused, and she hardly dared even to speculate upon the subject. On reaching Bilchester she determined to consult the local solicitor, who was an old friend and adviser, and she therefore arranged with the Inspector to meet her at that gentleman's office as soon as he had received an answer to the telegram he was about to dispatch. Fortunately, the lawyer was disengaged, and Mrs. Medd was shown into his. room immediately. "How do you do Mrs. Medd? Tike a seat. What can I do for you to-day?" inquired old Mr. Brook, cheerily, as he shook hands with his visitor. "By-the-by, have von heard from that husband of yours since he went away ? "No. Why do you ask," demanded Mrs. Medd quickly. Pve had a letter from Simpson & Hall, the lawyers who are administrating the late Miss Julia Norman's estate in London, you know " tud Mr.. Brook, taking up a letterfrom his desk. "They expected to see your husband yesterday, but he never called. They write to ask if he is in townand for his addraTfr S v To the lawyer's surprise, the poor lady burst into tears' at this fresh piece of information, which increased her apprehensions. It was, no longer possible to doubt that some accident had happened to her husband. In a few words she proceeded to explain to the lawyer the object of her visit, and earnestly besought him to accompany her to London. "By all means, my dear madam. I will start this instant if you wish. But you mustn't give way. Tve no doubt yonr husband's absence can be easily accounted for," said Mr. Brook, whose expression, nevertheless, showed that he was thoroughly puzzled. "At all events, we must wait and see what Inspector Marshall has to communicate. Perhaps yon will' read the newspaper while I write a letter or two." Mrs. Medd strove in vain to fix her attention on the columns of the paper, while Mr. Brook proceeded with his correspondence; and thus a dreary two hours dragged along, at the end of which the Inspector arrived, looking very grave. "I'm afraid you will have to go to London, mam," he said, after respectfully saluting the lawyer. "Your husband has never called at the Charing Cross Postoftice, and he is not known at the Tavistock Hotel." "When is the next train?" inquired Mrs. Medd, tremulously. ' "The express starts in three-quarters of an hour," said the Inspector. "If you will travel by that, you will be met at the other ead by a police officer, who will give yon every assistance." "But what occasion is there for the lady to go?" interposed Mr. Brook. "I know Mr. Medd perfectly well, and can do' whatever is possible. Surely Mrs. Medd might be spared the journey." "Well, sir, you see they want her to identify Mr. Medd's things," explained the Inspector. "They want some one to swear to 'em." "Beside, I could not bear the suspense if I remained here. I would much sooner go," sail Mrs. Medd,

Be it so." returned Mr. Brook; "I

win send a messenger to your house with any note you may wish delivered, and if yon will step up stairs to my wife she will, no doubt, be able to lend you anything yon may require for the journey." The lawyer and his companion traveled to town by tbe express, and on reaching' the London terminus they were accosted by an officer in plain clothes, who addressed them by name and said he had a cab waiting. "Not so fast," said Mr. Brook, who was a shrewd old gentleman, with a good deal of quiet determination. "Where do yon propose to take us?" "To Bow street Police Station," said the officer. - "I think this lady requires a little rest and refreshment after her journey," returned the lawyer, quietly. "Beside, I should like to ask you a question or two first. I will order rooms at the hotel, and perhaps yon can spare us a few minutes' conversation." "Certainly, sir, only the sooner we get on the bettor," said the officer, rather sulkily. "Quite so. Meanwhile, I dare say, yon will not object to drink a glass of wine," returned Mr. Brook, disregarding poor Mrs. Medd's imploring glance. The lawyer gave his arm to his client and led the way to the hotel entrance, followed by the officer. Mr. Brook endeavored in vain to persuade Mrs. Medd to leave him alone with the detective', bat she insisted upon being present during she interview. ""Well, now, what do you know about Mr. Medd?" inquired Mr. Brook of the officer, when they Were all seated' in a private Toonr. "Nothing at all," said the man,; "I want you to assist me to find him." "I only know he left Bilchester by the 12-o clock train on Tuesday," said Mr. Brook. "II so, I didn't notice him. - The prisoner Smith the man in custodytraveled by that train, and he then had Mr. Medd's portmanteau in his possession; or, at least, we believe it to belong to Mr. Medd." "How do yon know that?" "An officer had his attention drawn to Smith at Basingstoke, and his suspicions were aroused by the man's manner. I was ordered to watch for him when the train reached here." "Well?" - "I saw at once he was disguised, and followed him to a private boardinghouse in a street off the Strand, where he took a room i'i the name of Smith. Beside the portmanteau he had a black value, whioh he guarded with such particular care that I began to wonder what was in it In fact, I suspected he wan one of that dynamite gang." "Had your husband a black valise?" inquired Mr. Brook, turning to Mrs. Medd. "No; but he had a portmanteau." "I kept a close watch on the man," continued the the detective, "and followed him everywhere. Wherever he went he. carried the valise about with him. At length I arrested him. He went ton music hall one night and came ont without the valise. He said he had been robbed of it, and seemed flustered, bat we didn't believe it at the time. We thought "he had passed it on to some one, seeing we were after him. He refused to give any account of himself, or to say what was in the valise. We therefore searched his luggage, and finding a card with Mr. Medd's name on it, and the initials S. M. on his linen, we concluded the portmanteau and its contents belonged to Mr. Medd." "Have you asked the man how he

eame by the thing?" inquired Mr. Brook. "He denies ever having heard of Mr. Mt-dd, and says the card was given to him by mistake. The initials S. M. mean, according to him, Montague Smith, which he gives as his name ; but, of course, that's all ounkum," said the officer, with a wink. "What sort of a person is that man Smith?" demanded Mr. Brook. "Oh, a eountryfied sort of chap. Seems as if he came up to London on a spree. Went to the Derby with a rowdy party from the boarding-houso, and to theaters and music halls every night; got drunk once, and wanted to fight a policeman. I shouldn't have wrested him if it hadn't beeu for that valise. Now, sir, are you ready?" "If you will kindly wait for me below ; I should bke to speak two words to the lady," said Mr. Brook, quietly. "You can call a cab if you please. " The detective glanced rather uneasily at the lawyer and disappeared. He had barely time to call a cab, however, ere Mr. Brook descended with Mrs. Medd, who looked very pale, and her eyes were red from weeping. "Is he a rough-looking man this Smith?" inquired Mr. Brook, as the cab rolled over the stones. "Well, not exactly that. Stout and red-faced, with sandy hair and whiskers. Wore blue spectacles till he was arrested; bnt doesn't seem to have anything the matter with his eyes. Would the lady like the window down?" "Thank you. It is stifling hot in here, and Mrs. Medd is naturally greatly upset," said Mr. Brook. "I suppose the prisoner has appeared before a magistrate, and been remanded for inquiries?" "Yes; he wouldn't open his mouth, so the magistrate had no alternative," said the officer. "To-morrow he will be brought up again, and charged with unlawful possession of property belonging to Mr. Medd that is, of course, if the lady can identify the things." No further conversation took place tiU they reached the police station. The Inspectoral charge, a taciturn individual, proceeded without comment

rto the business on hand, and prodaced

the portmanteau which had been f und at the prisoner's lodgings. "Does this belong to your husband, ma'am?" he asked, solemnly. "Certainly not," said Mrs. Medd, with emphasis. "What! are yon sure, ma'am?" interposed the officer who had accompanied them. "Quito sure. No. None of those things belong to my husband. There is a mistake," she asseverated as the Inspector silently produced tw or three articles. "I'm afraid you've arrested nn innocent man," remarked Mr. Brook, rather slyly, "The only shadow of evidence against your prisoner is that card, which he probably come by quite innocently." "Ob, of course, that doeson't go for much," said the Inspector, after exchanging a meaning glance with his subordinate. "If the lady says - these things don't belong to her husband, we must believe her. No one else can identify them if she can't" "Then then this poor man will be released!" said Mrs. Medd, eagerly. "We can offer no evidence against him," said the Inspector, shortly. "I suppose he will be released to-morrow." Mrs. Medd, who seemed strangely agitated, was about to put further questions, when the lawyer interfered, and rather hastily led her away. "My dear madam," he said sharply, when " ey were alone in the cab, "you must leave everything to me." "But but he is in prison!" exclaimed Mrs. Medd, bursting into tears. "Served him right!" growled the lawyer, under his breath. "The best thing you can do," he added, referring to his watch, "is to return home by the next train, if you are eqnal to the journey. I will bring yonr husband back safely to-morrow." The poor lady who was evidently overwrought, made no objection to the proposal, and the cabman being urged to use his best speed, reached the station just in time to enable Mrs. Medd to catch the train, which was on the point of starting. Having seen her into a carriage, and watched the train glide out of the station, Mr. Brook was standing on the platform, with a gradually increasing grin on his genial face, when the detective touched him on the shoulder. "Lady gone, sir?" he inquired. "Yes. Why do ask?" demanded the lawyer. "Well, sir, putting two and two together, me and the Inspector can see which way the wind blows. As the magistrate is sitting, the Inspector will apply for the prisoner's release at the rising of the court, and I thought the lady might be glad to know. Might have took him back with her, air," added the man, meaningly. "So you have fathomed this wonderful mystery," laughed Mr. Brook. "Well, sir, I couldn't have believed a man could be such a fool," said the officer, looking rather embarrassed, "Why couldn't he say who he was? We Bhould not have detained him an hour." "I suppose he had reasons for concealing his identity," said Mr. Brook. "He knew you had been watching him, and was afraid of awkward disclosures." "He needn't have been afraid of that, sir though be certainly has had a rare spree for a parson," said the officer. "That cant be helped, and he richly deserves his fate," chuckled the lawyer. "It was by my advice that Mrs. Medd did not identify the things. As you appeared to have no suspicion of the truth, it did not seem worth while to let yon into tbe secret. However, as you have discovered it, I suppose we can rely on yonr discretion." "I'm as olose as wax, sir," said the detective, rather indignantly. Til bet a guinea I know now what was in that black valise," he added. "It contained his clerical toggery and any articles that would have revealed his identity. He must have changed his clothes in the train coming from Bilchester, and carried the valise about with him for fear his secret should be discovered." "Well, all's well that ends well, and I don't think he will repeat the experiment," said Mr. Brook, smiling. "Bring Mr. Smith in a cab to my hotel, and I wiU give you a & note." London Truth. ' "Have you any tiling to say against the testimony of the witness?" asked a Texas Judge of a man accused of horse-stealing. "All I've got to say is that the witness has got a prejudice against me, and is determined to ruin me. I introduced him to his present wife, and advised him to marry her.and now he is playing for even.

FARM NOTES.

BejKotED Pi,ow Points. Plow points that were thrown aside as useless while the ground was hard and dry last fall, will often last some time longer in moist, soft ground of springtime mellowed by winter frosts and spring rains. v Plaster and Manobe. Every farmer should kaep by his manure pen a few barrels of vteste'i and as often as onoe each week, should strew over the contents a sprinkling of plaster, and this should continue during the entire winter in warm cellars. How to Tran8M,at. There is a right and wrong way to make a hole in the ground and set out a plant Some persons remove ten times the necessary amount of earth, and do not give the plant as good a setting as one vho does it in one-tenth of the time Small plants of the vegetable and flow garden are best transplanted with a sharpened stick or dibble. This simple implement should have a bend for a handle like that to an umbrella or cane, only less. It should be thrust perpendicularly into the well-prepared soil, there rotated and removed. The left band at the same time picks up the plant, and, after placing it in the hole, the dibble is pushed into the soil to one side and in a slanting position, starting about three inches from the opening and running to meet with the bottom of the first hole. By pushing against the dibble, and bringing it toward tb plant, the earth is pressed up properly and the work is quickly and well done. Early Hatching of Chickens. H. S. Walde, in the Farm, Herd and Home, says : "Pullets hatched in early spring are the most valuable both to the fancier and the average farmer, for with good care and judicious feeding they wiU commence to lav as soon as October or November, ana perhaps before. Now, in this way they get the 'drop' on winter, by having commenced to lay before winter has fairly set in, and wiU continue to lay throughout the winter, when eggs are worth about three times as much as they are at any other time of the year, provided they have a warm shelter from winter's cold. Then, too, when early setting time comes again the next spring, they will have laid several litters of eggs, and, if mated to a good, healthy cock, the eggs will be as if they came from adult bens, whereas pullets hatched late in the season are about as good as worthless as breeders next spring, for they will be small when winter sets in, and they will be stunted by cold weather, and when setting time comes in the spring they will only have commenced laying, and the eggs will be worthless for hatching purposes, and if they hatch at aU the chinks are liable to be weakly, and not strong and lively as they would be if coming from older hens. Galled Shoulders. Farm horses are in some seasons more than in others in wet and warm seasons especially subject to galled shoulders and backs, and whioh, when not timely or properly attended to, are apt to produce troublesome sores. The skin not only is abraded by the collar or saddle parts of the harness, but the flesh irritated and inflamed; and, if the irritation is kept up, an incohorons discharge takes place, whioh is difficult to heal without giving the horse prolonged rest or freedom from work. When a saddle or collar gall is observed, the harness should be looked to, and the pressing points whioh have caused the sores shonll be removed. It should be mode a rule to- sponge off the accumulated sweat and dirt from the collar and saddle part of the harness, as well as from the shoulders and back of the horse, when becomes in from work. In cases of soreness or galling, a solution should then be used to anoint the bruised parts every night, after they have been dried off with a soft cloth. Such lotion may consist of two quarts of clear lime-water, to whioh is added half a pint of raw Unseed oil and two ounces of powdered sugar of lead (this being first dissolved in a little hot water). Mix the whole well together and keep it in a corked bottle, shaking tho bottle well before using the contents. Prairie Farmre. The White Willow fob Fences, Where it is desirable to fence across sloughs, or small creeks, and through swamps and permanently-wet places, willow stakes, even of considerable size, may be planted with an almost certainty of their growing. To these stakes barbed-wire may be attached the second, or even the first year, and thereafter a permanent fence, calling for almost no repairs, is established. Indeed, there are no indications that the fence of the future on the dividing lines of farms and those separating large fields, will be of this, wood and wire character: the former represented by suitable varieties of trees set for the purpose of posts or supports, for as many strands ot barbed-wire as may be thereby desirable. It is well enough, perhaps, toKtato that willow stakes set in wet places in the spring will not always grow unless there's rain enough to keep the surface-earth moist and roots have pushed out and taken hold of the soil. To secure this, curt should

be taken to place a mound of rich earth 1

around each stake at the time of planting, and to see that there is close contact of it with the bark of the willow. When it is desirable to plant them on high and dry ground, it is a good plan to out the stakes the year before and place two feet of their lower ends in running water, when a great mass of roots will develop in the course of the growing season, and then they may be planted where they are wanted the following spring. Willow stakes treated in this way nearly half a contury ago by the writer, when a boy, and subsequently set out on a gravelly knoll, with a very thin soil, are reported to have grown into trees of almost magnificent proportions. Vor. of the Prairie Farmer. DOMESTIC RECIPES. Corn fritters, or "oysters," as some cooks call them, are now in season. To six ears of grated corn add one well-beaten egg, a little salt and a tablespoonful of sweet milk, with enough flour to moke a stiff batter. Drop in hot lord and fry a delicate brown. German Cake. One pound of flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, six ounces of sugar, one egg, half occupful of mm. Bake in a pie-pan, pressing the cake until it is about one-quarter of an inch high. Before baking, sprinkle agar and ground cinnamon on top; after it is baked, out into squares while it is yet warm. Green Corn Soup. Cut the kernels from a dozen large ears of green corn, and just cover them in a stewpan with boiling water. Boil half an hour, add a quart of milk, popper and salt to taste, and a spoonful of fresh butter. Beat three eggs very light, with a table.

spoonful of corn-starch. Wlien tae soup just comes to the boiling point again stir in the eggs and serve quickly.

Fillet of Beef. After it is trimmed and larded put it into a small bakingpan, in the bottom of which are somo chopped pieces of pork and beef-suet; sprinkle some salt and pepper over it, and put a large ladlef ul of hot stock into the bottom of the pan, or it may be simply basted with boiling water. Half an hour (if the oven is very hot, as it should be) before dinner put it into the oven. Baste it often, supplying a little hot stock if necessary. Fruit-cake for a wedding or large party can be mode some weeks, and even months, before using, and it will improve with.age if it is well taken care of. Lost year the ffuit-cake for a December wedding was made in September, and was especially and noticeably nice. Three -times that would be' about once a month brandy was poured over it a small quantity, of course, aud it was aUowed to absorb it. Ax old time rule for doughnuts is callod for by a correspondent who thinks that things used to taste better than thoy do now. The receipt is given, but along with it I cannot give the appetite of his boyhood : In one pint of sweet milk dissolve two teaspoonfuls of bi-carbonate of soda; to this add to eggs, two cups of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two quarts of flour, with four teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar mixed with the flour while both are dry. Kneed and roU with quick, light touches, and fry in hot lard. An excellent meat sauce, for use at any season of the year, calls for four quarts of ripe tomatoes, one cup and a half of red-pepper cut in bits, one cup of chopped onions, one cup and a half of sugar, half a cup of salt, one pint and a half of vinegar, one teaspooful and a half of cloves, the same quantity of cinnamon, one teaspoonful each of ginger and nutmeg. Let this boil for three hours, then bottle and seal, or put in pint cans. If the tomatoes, onions and pepper are chopped very fine, it is best not to strain the sauce.

Bill Nye On Boxing. I needed a little healthful exercise, and was looking for something that would be full of vigorous enthusiasm, at the same time promote the healthful flow of blood to the muscles. A young brother said he had a set of boxing gloves in his room, and, although I was the taller and had longer arms, he would hold up as long as be could, and I might hammer him until I gained strength and finally got welL I accopted this offer because I had often regretted that I had not made myself familiar with this art and also because I knew it would create a thrill of interest and fire me with ambition and that's .what a hollow-eyed invalid needs to put him on the road to recovery. The boxing-glove is a large fat mitten with an abnormal thumb and a string at the end of the wrist by whioh you tie it on, so that when you feed your adversary he cannot swallow it and choke himself. I had never seen any boxing-gloves before, but my brother said they were soft and wouldn't 'hurt anybody. So we took off some of our raiment and put them on. Then we shook hands, I can remember distinctly yet that we shook hands. That was to show that we were friendly and would not slay each other. My brother is a great deal younger than I am and so I warned him not to get excited and come for me with a mein that would look like wild or ungovernable fury, because I might in a heat of debate pile his jaw upon his forehead and fill his ear full of sore thumb. He said he was all right and would try to be cool and collected. Then we put our right toes close together and I told him to be on his guard. At that moment I dealt him a terrible blow aimed at his nose, but through a clerical error of jnino it went over his shoulder and spent itself on the wall of the room, shattering a small hollywood bracket for which I paid $3,75 afterward. I did not wish to buy the bracket for I had two at home, but he was ' arbitrary about it and so I bought it We then took another athletic posture and in two minutes the air was full of poulticed thumb and buckskin mitten. I detected a ohance to put one in where my brother could smell of it, but I never knew just where it struck, for at that moment I ran against something with the pit of my stomach that made me throw up a sponge along with some other groceries, the name of whioh I cannot now recall.

My brother then proposed that we take off the gloves, but I thought I had not sufficiently punished him, and that another round wonld complete the conquest, which was almost then within my grasp. I took a bismuth powder and squared myself, but in warding off a left-hander I forgot about my adversary's right and ran' my nose into the middle of the boxing glove. Fearing

that I nod injured him, 1 retreated rap

idly on my elbows and shoulder blades to the corner of tho room, thus giving him ample time to recover. By this means my younger lrothers features were saved and are to-day as symmetrical as my own over were. I can still cough up pieces of boxing-

gloves, and when I close my eyes I can see calcium lights and blue phosporescent gleams across the horizon, but I am thoroughly convinced that there is

no physical exercise which yields tho

same amount of health and ei.-w;tic vigor to the puncher that the manly art does.

To the pnnchee, also, it affords a large wad of glad surprises and nose bleed which cannot bo hurtful to those who

hanker for the pleasing nervous shock, and spinal jar, and tho pyroteohnio concussion.

That is why I shall continue tho oxeroises after I practice with a mule or a cow-catcher two or three weeks, and

Jool a little more confidence in myself. . BUI Xye in Cart PrelzeVs Weekly.

What a man seeks through his education is to get to know himself and tho

world; and for this knowledge it is before all things necessary that he ac

quaint himself with tho best which has been thought and said in the world ; and of this best tho classics of Greece

nnd Komev- form a very chief portion, and tho pMjiion most entirely satislaotory. Mamiew Arnold.

Dr. H. F. Hamilton savs that at

least once a day girls should have their halters taken off, the bars let down, and be turned loose like young colts. "Calisthenics may be very genteel, and romping very ungenteeL but one is the shadow, tho other the substance, ol healthful exercise." In de eves ob do worl' luok makea a

mart man outon a fool.

Democratic Syndicates for Plunder. Democratic methods in cities are

airly illustrated by recent develop

ments hi Ban Francisco, Baltimore,

Trenton (N. J.) and Cmcaqo. An ixaniimtion of the operations of

tho Democratic rings in these, aities shows beyond question that they are regularly-organized syndicates for'plundor, whose purpose it is to intrench themselves by money corruptly

used so that they cannot be disturbed

and that they may bo enabled to nave a monopoly in stealing. More than this, it can le shown that in front of them, behind them aud in the middle of them there is on active whisky interest whioh sustains and divides with

them. Tho Grand Jury of San Francisco recently reported upon the operations

of tho Democratic bosses of that city.

The iturlwr Commission is charged with criminal .negligence for allowing its Secretary and the wharfingers to

steal at least $86,000. The Fire De

partment is denounced as a political machine of the worst kind, which has been engaged in the corrupt levy of as

sessments. Tho County Clerk's office

is charged with similar offenses, and some of its employes havo been paid enormous gratuities. Tho School Department is worse than any other, and places in it have been openly sold. The whole administration seems to be rotten, bnt, notwithstanding the grave charges brought against it, it had sufficient influence to prevent indictments, except of three minor officials. Gov. Hamilton, of Maryland, has recently revealed the operations of the Gorman ring in Baltimore, which has been in power for fifteen years. In his exposure he says boldly : "The registration in Baltimore and in some of the counties was fashioned, into a systematic wrong; primary meetings, intended rightly to interchange opinions and concentrate party strength, were made to deliver the wttl of this supreme ruling power; and elections were but the formal instruments to register its edicts and give the force of law to its false authority, and as certainly done as all this mrchinery could be

made to do it, whether by force or fraud or corruption of any kind. These three primary instrumentalities in a free gov

ernment and in healthy party action,

and which are instituted to secure the perfect right of all to have a free, pure and active exercise of their rights and

of their political conscience, become in

the city and certain other localities trie usufruct of this personal power. Julius Ciesar never exercised more absolute control on the great election days in Rome through his election machinery

than did this. Every branch of the public service was held, used and conducted with a Preetorian discipline, vig

or and cupiditj." The details of his charges show a

corrupt multiplication of offices to reward the strikers and blowers 'for the

machine; the organization of a corrupt

lobby to control patronage; the withholding of taxes and revenues; the con

tracting of new loans to pay current expenses ; the most extravagant and profligate expenditures, not only in the city but at the State capital; and a

robbery of the people of the most startling character. This is an exposure made by a Democratic) Governor. In Trenton, N. J., u ring of corrupt office-holders have combined, and by the use of their money and influence with the ward bummers and ballot-box stutters diotato-the nominees of Democratic conventions even for the highest offices in the State. They have grown rich in holding office, ana they have a large following whioh they control. Their purpose is the perpetuation of their power for corrupt motives, and unless the people of New Jersey combine, without respect to party, and give these rascals a taste of Jersey justice, they wiU soon be completely at their mercy. It is not necessary to specify acts of corruption in Chicago or to describe the operations of the city and county rings. Every one knows the rottenness that prevails in tho saloon-ridden Common Council and County Board. They are organizations for plnnder. They systematicaUy blackmail every corporation that comes before them. These ringsters have their price. Some of them are cheap rascals, some are expensive. It is weU known that no measure which has money in it con go through without contributing to the ring. It is open, brazen, and shameless about the matter. It is kept in power by the saloon interest, and in return it protects that interest even to the defiance of State laws. It defends whisky-sellers and criminals when they get into trouble. It levies political blackmail right and left It htis but one object in view, and that is plunder, and it is aided in this scheme by the worst and most corrupt classes in the community, these classes being allowed in. return exemption from any penalty for their offenses. Its following is a mob of saloon-keepers, gamblers, thieves, hoodlums and bummers, for whom it provides as far as it is able. Its vocation is but a degree removed in respectability from that of the footpad and the highwayman. In these days of monopolies, syndicates are always regarded with suspicion until their object is explained. A syndicate in politics, however, may always be assumed to be for corrupt purposes. A ring iu synonymous witl) theft If partisan purposes were honest there would bo no occasion for a rin. Any clique or organization in politics of which tho people are not members and of whoso operations they are not cognizant is dangerous to the commuuity, and doubly dangerous when it has the 'saloon interest and oriminal classes at its back. Any city administration whioh trains with the lowest and most disreputable classes is engaged in corruption and plunder, and is conspiring against tho honest and law-abiding classes. That Chicago is not alone in her misfortune is shown by tho other coses we have cited. They show the hopelessness of reiorni under Democratic rule. It is not necessary to go to Ohio to lenrn that Democratic nominations are bought vitli money or that Democratic rascals are robbing the people. The lesson may bo learned wherever a Democratic ring has got control, of power. It is time that the public, without regard to party, should rfao and turn them out, purify tho primaries and the elections, and choke off tho rings tors from their schemes of plunder. Chicago Tribune. "No Bead Psst to Bury." Gen. Dni-bin Ward, of Ohio, in a recent speech, declared that "tiio Democratic party has no dead past to bury." We very much fear our distinguished friend, in his over-anxiety to secure a nomination to the United 'States Senate from tho hands of the Democratic party, has overlooked Qt forgotten tho record. Without ljiiigP'e5i-mptovs, we would

like to remind him of a few episodes of

the "dead past, and ask nun, in all honesty, if he doesn't wish them bur

ied. We wiU not go beyond his memory, for he was taking an active part in politics in 1850, when the Democracy introduced the era of compromises, and declared all free 'territory should be open to human slavery. Would he not like to have that forgotten? The bitter contest that followed for four

ve&rs. endinir in the Nebraska-Kansas

struggle and the Dred Scott decision, with the record of blood and violence would he not like that buried? It wiU not do to say these were not Democratic

measures, when in ail tne worth but three Democratic Senators could be mustered to oppose them. They were the initial measures introduced by Democracy which led directly down to the disastrous events of the following ten years, when the wealth and best blood

of the land won poured out to rescue the perishing nation yes, perishing,

with the knifo of Democracy at its throat Would not the General like to have all that buried? Be member the last Democratic President, who, on Deo. 3, 1800, sent the following mem

orable message to Congress.

"After much serious reflection I have

arrived at the conclusion that no power to coerce into submission a State which is attempting to withdraw - or has

actually withdrawn from the conleuer-

acy has been delegated to Congress or

to any other department ol tne f ederal Government. It is manifest, npon an inspection of the constitution, that this is not among the specific and enumerated powers granted to Congress, and it is eqnaUy apparent that its exercise is not necessary and proper for carrying into execution any of these powers." What happened as a result of such Democratic influence? Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed South Carolina, and went out by acts of secession within the three weeks following. As all of them were Democratic States, and their secession obligingly submitted to by a Democratic President, the plea that these were not Democratic measures will scarcely stand, and so we ask, would not Gen. Ward like to bury this "dead past" of Democracy? Because Gen. Ward and a hundred thousand other patriotic Democrats shouldered arms and fought heroically to protect the Union is no reason why history should not record the dire results of secession as Democratic. The Democratic party was not with the soldiers of the Union army in the field. Lawrence M. K.eitt, in his great speech at Charleston, said: "There are a million Democrats in the North who wiU march to the rescue of the Sdhth, and they will be found a waU of fire in front of the Black Republican army."

Later a distinguished assemblage of Ohio Democrats at Columbus sent

"greeting to their brethren in the South, that 100.000 Democrats deeply sym

pathized with their afflictions, etc. To show that these were not empty threats the Democratic Mayor of Sew York city, in his annual message, asked this question ; "Is not this a tune to consider, and the occasion fit for New York

to throw off its allegiance to the United States and become a free city?" Would

not Gen. Ward be willing that all snch

"dead past" of the Democracy should be buried? Old soldiers have a vivid recollection

of the Democracy in those days, and

their sons are not likely to forget them; but when a man of Gen. Ward's standing throws his gantlet in the face, and proclains immaculate the organization, which in the North had its Knights of the Golden Circle, and its armed bat tahons in the South for the destruction of the Union, it is just as weU to remind him of the record of history which patriots remember. Standing squarely up for human slavery, squarely in the way of the Union army, squarely opposed to the constitutional amendments and reconstructions made necessary by the results of the war, squarely in the way of the laboring classes ot the North in the advocacy of free trade, squarely against land reform in fine, the Democratic party has made a record in opposition to every great national question in which humanity and progress had had the largest interest. When it stands out and proclaims infallibility and "no dead past to bury,' then can the devil himself sing of exploits that will win him mortal honors. Chicago Inter Ocean.

Political Notes. Dana and Dorsey would make a congenial ticket for 1884. John Sherman is making the most brilliant record of his life on the Ohio stump. The great Democratic Reform Legislature of Pennsylvania has cost in its extra session to the people of the State $250,000, and the end is not yet Notwithstanding the reduction ol taxation, the publio 'debt continues to be reduced by a large sum each month, the decrease for August the dullest month in tbn year being nearly $6,000,000. This is a good reason why the Republican party should not go. The Republican State Committee ol Massachusetts has issued an address to tbe people onHhe coming campaign. It says the Governor and his followers have' slandered the commonwealth and that their purpose is simply one ol spoils, and urges the defeat of a power responsible for such principles. You will hear Democratic orators claiming that the Deniocratio party is the friend of the laboring man. But the record as to the Homestead law gives the lie to the claim. A Democratic Congress and Democratic President defeated the Homestead law three times, and the Republicans finally carried it and Abraham Lincoln signed it Gov. Slier man, at Independence, Iowa. It is a patent fact that in both Iowa and Ohio monoy in large quantities, and pretty much all the money to run the Democratic campaign in these States, comes from the liquor interest This monoy binds the Doniocr&tio patty in these States to submit to tho dictation of the liquor interest. In Iowa the Democratic candidate for Governor is also Chairman of the State Central Committee of his party, and so bandies and controls all the money, and makes him the very creature, as it were, of the liquor interest, and it is no wonder that he champions their cause to tho graat extent he (loe. It matters not whether it be prohibition, as in Iowa, tho liquor interest which is tho Democratic party at thin time is fighting or a moderate tax as in Ohio; this interest wages the same bitter war in both cases and it catches by the seat of the breeches Hoadley and Kinne, Republican renegades, vnd wallops them around as suits its purpoee.Ptrttrot'Nt (iOJflft) Republican'

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bubo Lars chloroformed a man aad 14s wife at Green-saaUs, and Bewared wateha and diamonds Vorth. 1,(100. David Anum was shot dead in tbe O. Ant offloe at Milan, by John Brown, who intended tho bullet for a telegraph operator; A vehicle, none and driver fell ever precipice forty feet high, near Biohmond, and, strange to say, neither was aoriooaly hurt Tint old log- cabin in Corydon, erected. fey Gen. Harrison for a Governor's reatdenoe, was bought recently by the Kethodlsta of that place, and will hereafter be used by them as a parsonage. A cow belonging to George Goodie, of Lafayette, recently gave birth to a calt The fact was not worthy of notice, nor would It havo been If she bad not followed up the performance the nest day by glvinaT birth to three more calves. The calve alj died, however, leaving- the mother aljye and welt Th will of the late Ooagresswiim G- ft Orth is to bo contested. Salt was bmagM by Dr. W. 8. Orth, a physician of iKtrnjct, and son of deceased by hhi first' wife, againrtltm Mary A. Grth, the feoond Wife, and her two children. In dividing Us estate the testator totally ignored thedoctoc An Indianapolis dispatch says: "Beoetver Hitter, ot the Indiana Banking- Company, made a statement of the condition of too bank to the court to-day, showing tho HibiL. itles to be $905,217; assets, face vatae, tttky 891; appraised value, 408,53a" TaEOFRura Wmos, an old aad highlvrear.ecied farmer of Scott connty, had. a dispute with his son Frank over thn dlviakm of some land during which the old gentleman became greatly excited, and afterward went to his room, laid down, and soon after was found dead. Tan exhibition of stock aad agrisadsaaat and industrial product? at the Bartholomew Connty Fair is the largest ever neon in the county. The enterprise is in the hands of a new company, which makes it strictly agricultural and industrial They pet. mis ao drinking-, rambling, or even racing. SopntE Pabxeb, a venerable farmer near ShelbyviUe, one of the wealthiest men fa that section of the 8tate, has been called to answer a suit for divorce aad 115,000 alimony. The remarkable part of the proceeding is the f act that none of his netghvbora ever suspected domestic trouble ia his household. His wife alleges that he often sits np all night to abase her aad refuse to eat food whioh she prepares, for him. David Gibson, who has been promfnently identified with the commercial intereata of Indianapolis for twenty years, died at IndiananoUs in his 6Sth year. He waa born in DeUsboro, Bipley county, this SJate, Kay 12, 1825. He waa President of the Board of Trade at one time, and served several J oars as a member of the City Council. He waa extensively engaged in the noar-mirHnsr business until a few months ago, when the' firm of Gibson' 4 Co. became emliai iiwwiiiby the death of his nephew and partner, Thomas M. Gibson. A receiver was appointed and the milling property waa aotd to & F. Robertson, of Boston, lost Thursday for 065,109. The embarrassment naataend Mr. Gibson's death. A vsbt curious and inexplicable double accident happened one mile sooth of Kokomo, as the noon freight on the Toledo, Cincinnati and 8t Louis railroad wm cooing in. Engineer Thomas Hogarth and Flreraaa John Zlno fell off the engine, one np each side. As tbe train passed on the ooadnctar saw one of them on the side of the track and thought some one had been killad and hastened to notify the engineer. Upon ay. proaohing the engine he saw that there waa no one there and. stopped the train. The engineer and fireman were picked np ia aa insensible condition, aad the doctors state that it is hardly possible for the engineer to recover. The cause ot their falling off the engine is yet involved in mystery. What waa intended for a faroe oame very near proving a tragedy eight or nine safia northwest ot ShelbyviUe Four young asea named William Follis, Frank Holdea, Joaah Bales and Elmer Lee set up a Job on two brothers, Frank and Jarues Blake, which was expected to furnish any amount of amass ment, bnt which failed to paa oat The Blake boys were induced to Join the fear above named in robbing awateraadoapatoh belonging to Mrs. George Huntington, her four sons alao being let into the plaa and instrui ted to conceal themselves Ia the patch, and when the party get there to shoot off their guns and yell Bmitjatot: went according to programme, and whe? tbV guns were fired the Blake brothera struck a 8:10 gait for home. The Hunting, ton boys, who had charge of the shooting hadforgottoatodrawthe heavy ohatgea of shot wiifc which their guns were loaded, ead the result was tores of the jokers, Fotna, Holden and Bales, were shot, FolUa reoatving a charge in his right hand aad stdej tn. fiiottng a painful wound, while Bales escaped with two or three shot mhiaforeaead. ' Holden received about ISO ahot ia bis hack aad legs, A TKtaoaAw from ShelbyviUe tells the fol. lowing story: George Arnold, a faraV hand in the employ of Franklin Boots, who gves about fifteen miles weot of this otty, made a , disoovety which has excited widespread Interest tn this county. The obeot of ttdk interest is the skeleton ot what onoe was a man of gigantic proportions; whioh was tpav oovered in a gravel pit oa Mr. Boots farm. The skeleton was found tu a atttlng posture, -facing the eait aad about six feet liawaath the surface. 8ome of the bones werw badly broken by a caving ot the beak, bat theskull and some; ot the larger homes were taken out Intact, and irom them may be realized the gigantic stature of the befag to whom they once gave support. A ineaauri ment of the skull from front to rear, the' rule pasting through the eye-socket to toe back of the head, shows It to have beea about sixteen inches, while the breadth of too inferior maxillary waa eight and one-half inches, showing that thar brala must have weighed from four .-aad one-half to five pounds. Careful measure, ments oi the other boues establish the fact that the man, when alive, was act tee than nine feet tn height and large ia proportion). From the appearance of the teeth. Which are very large, and do not show the sTghtott sign of decay, although they are wore down almost to the bones of the jaw , the man ooald not hare been leas than 103 years old wheal he died, and, of course, he may have beea much older. The bones of the lower Jaw are very large and thick, ahowina; aa extant of muioular development in that OTgaa whioh to far beyond anythlng of Uw present day. How long ago the body H thai gtaat

was interred where it waa UneUthMj elr to

what tribe or nation he betonged.wheA he trod the earth ta all tbe majesty of his strength. It ia impossible to say, bat tt must have boon ages ago, as all the tadioatta -show tliaWhe soil whero the remaiat were dkooveteofhad not beea distorted forapaygenerations. Steps have beea takaatohavO easts made ot the bones, aad they wfift placed cither ta the state ooUert -Of our ijojlefe maaenraa, .' '