Bloomington Progress, Volume 18, Number 8, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 April 1884 — Page 1

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ATDtAM, UIRH. ASB KTK. bt aosnr aaowsrao. Oas day It thundered and lightened. Two women, fairly frightened. Bank to their knee, transformed, transfixed. At the feet of t be man who sat betwixt; And 'Merry I cried each-"If I tell the truth Of a passage tn my yeuth'" Said This: Do you mind the noxntac I met yonr love with scomina? As the worst of the venom left my Hpa, I thought. 'If, despite this He, be strips The mask from my soul with a kiss- I crawl. His sure foul, body, and all I " Bald That: "We stood to be married: The rriest, or some one, tamed; tf Piradbe-docr proved locked; smiled you, I thooKht, as I sodded, smiling- too, THd oas. that's away, arrive nor lata)

St- ceased to lighten andthnnder.

up nanea octa m wonaer; Iiooked round, and saw that the sky was dear. Then laughed, 'Confess, yoa believed us, dear' I saw through the Joke! the man replied They reseated themselves testae.

TOO. If I eonld have my dearest wish fnl8Bed,

or a siy enojee ox au eanns treason, too.

hxrom-ccaven wjafaajsal s-eaia.

a u star yvro.

o roan I'd envy, neither low nor high,

I'd hold Golconda's mines less rich than T,

Toll and privation, poverty and care. Undaunted Td defy, nor fortune woo. Having my wife; no jewel else I'd wear. If. she were yon. Little Td rare how lovelv she intent be. How graced with every charm, how fond, how E'en Sough perfection, she'd be naught to ma Were ahe not yen. There Is more charm fcr my true loving heart. In verythinjr yon think, or say, or do. Than ail the joys that heaven could e'er impart, Beerass it's you.

Shipwreck oa Lake Erie. "Tell ua how your hair turned white ? mid one of the party at tbe fireside. "In June, 1S51," said the man -with the 'white hair, "I left my home in Ohio far Buffalo. Being in a harry to return, I took passage by the steamer G. P. Griffith for Toledo, on a late Sunday afternoon. The ship carried over 400 passengers and crew. I must have slept soundly for about two hours in my berth, when I was awakened by the sound of hurrying footsteps overhead, and, looking through the ventilator to the upper deck, I saw two or three Bailors running along dragging a hose-pipe. I partly d: eseed and went fa-award to the promenade deck, where I heard from the pilot-house above the Toioe of the captain crying, "Starboard 1 Hard starboard! and steer her for the shore! .- I. ' "The ship veered from her course and headed for the shore, five miles - away. I went back to my state-room, awakened the man in the other berth and rapped on several of the doors. Asl came out agaia into the cabin I saw smoke curling out from the side. The command haa been given to call up the passengers, and when I again reached the forward deck they were crowding upon it. Just aroused from sleep, they hurried out half dressed or in their night clothes, many carrying children, bandboxes, bird cages, carpet bags, and bundles, all anxious to save something. I elimbed up on tbe railing and, taking hold of a stanchion, swung myse'.f to the main deck below. Stepping over the forms -of many who were lying there till asleep, I went around to the engine and, looking up, 'saw that the fire had broken out near the smoke-stack in a

spot so difficult to get at that iu all probability the ship was doomed. Hurrying back to the mam deck,' upon which the crowd was fast increasing, I removed all my clothing but my nightshirt and drawers. Taking my money and valuables, I rolled them up with my trousers and laid- them carefully

away on deck where I ought recover

vtam u tne snip should escape destruct&nv Climbing up on the rait near the gang plank, I held on until the frantic crowd, pressing forward, foreed me away. I crept along on the gunwale to near the wheel on the land side, where I clung and watched the crowd as they urged forward from the approaching flames. "There was scarcely a scream heard. As the flames drove them further and further forward ' whole columns of people were pushed into the water. Husbands caught their wives and children, and, throwing them overboard, Cped after them. Women 'with ies in then- arms went about piteOusly begging some one to save their children, and when they were pushed or jumped into the vater held their infants high above their heads. After they were drowned their quilted skirts .buoyed them nip, and I saw babies actually trying with their little hands to catch the dancing light of the flames n the water. "The ship grounde at daybreak hi about ten feet of water, a little more than half a mile from the shore. The water all about the forward part of her was full of drowned and drowning people. Hany good swimmers struck out for the shore, but from all fades the poor dro wning wretches would clutch them and drag them down.

The flames drove me on at last. In the water just beneath me was a strug

gling crowa oi drowning creatures clinging to each other. Suddenly a pace of about twenty feet cleared instantly by their sinking out of sight. 1 determined to lump, swim toward the stern of the boat until out of reach of the clutches of the drowning, and then Bake a detour for the shore. "Remembering how I used to jump into the water as a boy, when learning to swim, I put my feet closely together, arms straight by my side, and plunged down tike a wedge to the bottom, with my eyes wide open. For a brief second X aw lying on the bed of the lake heaps of dead bodies in all positions. On rising to the surface I struck out with my arms, but to my horror found my feet bound tightly together. The band of my drawers had burst, and slipping down, had bound my ankles as securely

as if tied. Turning on my back, I carefully disentangled them from each foot. These efforts greatly exhausted me, but, once free, I swam toward the stern until I was quite clear of all obstruetions, and then struck out for shore. One strong swimmer passed me and spoke some encouraging words. I saw others, who must have Become dazed, swimming back into the bike. "I was not an experienced swimmer, but I had passed, as I had judged, nearly half the distance to the shore

when a deathlike coldness and numbness came creeping over me. AU the life I had left seemed centered in my head, which felt like a ball of Are. I found that I was taming round and round in the water, now catching glimpses of the burning ship, to which even yet a few human beings were clinging, and now on the hooch. Could I ever reach it? Waajt worth while to

struggle any longer? Every movement,: t a . . .

causeu uimhjw para in my cnest tt a : lmu-v. It seamed ao. aav an t't T-r.-. I

"I eeased all efforts, .and raised my eyes for a last look at the sky. I was struck by a peculiar golden haze to the atmosphere, and tha ah seemed filled with human forms hovering over the drowning. The air was filled with them, and close beside- me I recognized my father, brother, and other friends who had died many years before. They called me by name. They pressed closely around me, telling me to struggle on and they would aid me that my work was not done that I could not be spared yet '

A little strength came pack to me, I remembered thnt I must be more than half-way to the shore. The water could

not be over five feet deep. I let myself

aown, and felt the sand under me. Aided by my spirit friends, whose hands and presence were as real to me as any human touch, I-erept on my hands and knees on . the "sand for some distance, rising often to breathe: Becoming too weak for this,, with my heavy head constantly fallingJackwftrd. I sank to the baatuiii, ' alWl fcy lil'bdSy with my arms nearer awTISearer to the shore, rising to the surface as often as necessary. A man was lying on the beach, 09b of the few who' ever -reached it. When he saw me feebly struggling, he crept down to the water's; edge, and, reaching out his" hands, tried to aid me. I -slowly crept up a little way out of the water, but he was- so weak that, falling backward, I would lose my hold and sink- again. "At last I was lying on the dry sand. How good it seemed to lie there if only

I need never move again. My companion spoke roughly yet kindly to me, telling me it was sure death to remain

there. I refused to move, but, being much stronger, he compelled me to get up, and, half supporting me in his arms, dragged me unwillingly along. A farmer met us and almost carried me

across the fields to a low two-roomed log cabin. In the smaller room, containing two beds, X was at last permitted to lie down. The long, black neck of a bottle was inserted between my lips

and I drank and drank until it was gently removed. The draught warmed !

me. "I alternated Between consciousness

and unconsciousness, but remembered much tfaat passed about me. A large

man with a tall hat, black satin vest,

and heavy gold chain came in and lay down on the other bed. He certainly had not been in the water, and I won

dered if he had been saved in a boat.

A man in the next room was exclaiming

mournfully:

" 'Mine Gottl Mine Gott ! My monish

is all gone. ' Mine monish is all gone. Mine wife is gone, mine son is gone.

Oh, mine Gott, mine monish is all

come!"

Again and again that mournful wail went up. Then I heard the tall man

call out wrathfully: "-Won't some one kill that Dutchman?"

"Then I dozed off again. When I

awoke more people were coming in,

bearing a woman, and they were saying

she was the only woman saved. 1 heard them say that eight men swam ashore, and twenty were saved in a boat. Only twenty-eight saved out of over four hundred 1 Toward evening they .put us all in a heavy lumber wagon, on beds of straw, to take us, they said, to Lloyd's Tavern," three miles awav.' Jolting along over a rough road, the pain in my chest and limbs became unbearable, and I remembered nothing

more. "Days afterward I awoke from what seemed a long sleep. I found myself tying on a bed in a strange room alone. The sound of voices came in through the open1 window and from the halls, where people were constantly passing to and fro. They ware talking of a great disaster, of dead bodies lying in heaps on the sand waiting' to be claimed, and others being buried in a trench. There was something about county lines, of coroners quarreling over fees, of thieves in boats at night stripping the drowned bodies and tearing rings from fingers and ears. Those monotonous voices were -forever talking about that one'thing. "Well, what if they are dead? The dead were at rest. What had: I to do with that shipwreck? Why did not some one come to me? What was I doing here in this strange room? Why was-I so stiff and sore, so full of jxun, so. weak I could not move? I fell asleep again, and when I awoke still the same voices were talking about poor drowned bodies, thieves, coroners, and boats; and then came a dim recollection that I had known something about that shipwreck. ' It all, came back to me' blear and distinct. Soon afterward a man came with broth and nourishing food, of which I ate with a relish while he answered my questions. This was Saturday, and I had left Buffalo, on the Sunday preceding. Lloyd's Tavern was fifteen miles from the city of Cleveland. I must get up. How "could I lie here? I must get into the air. I must go home. Home? - Why, at home doubtless they mourned me as dead. I had been dead for days to them.' I begged the man to bring4 me some clothes.' He brought me some, old garments much too htrgo for nje, with an old black slouched hat, and helped me to dress, for I was too' weak to stand alone. He then placed me comfortably in an easy chair, and told .mo to rest awhile. At length, fooling rested and stronger, I arose and moved slowly

across roe room towara the open door. Tsaw a gray-headed old man' coming toward me, poorly dressed, with .an old hat in hand, and a slnbby beard on his face. I thought that perhaps he was one of the shipwrecked. I spoke to him kindly, but he cud not reply, and

still advanced. I stopped; he stopped

also. We stared at each other. I spoke again.' His lips moved, but not

a sound left them. I drew forward a chair and sat down. He sat down also, staring half fearfully at mo. Great God! was that myself? -That white

hair could it be mine? No, it was a wig. Some one was playing a joke upon me. I put up my hand. No, it would not come jbff. "I went back 'and lay down upon my bed, very weak, utterly disheartened. Later I was driven slowly down to the beach, and I saw all that was left of the steamer a few blackened spars and the charred hull. Many people were examining, either from curiosity or for identification, the bodies as they were brought ,in. There was a long trench in the sand, in which were placed those not identified. It appeared that roe steamer had been wrecked on a county line, and two coroners, were there quarreling over the bodies and claiming their fees. "My friend helped me out of the wagon, and seated me on a rock close by a most forlorn and unkempt figure

I must nave pi.-w-nted. I -a

gram from Cleveland inquiring if the

body of the man K. had been found. 1 A cold chill ran down my back. Pro. during the telegram, he read the des

cription:-

Twenty-eight years of ago, 6 feet 9 inches

in height, weight about luu pound!., 1 air skin, blue eves, black hair, small hand and feet.

molo on left shoulder- Han tho body been found? Have it properly prepared for

burial, and sent to Hr-, Cleveland.

"I was 'K.' and they were hunting

for my body to prepare it for burial

My friend came back , just then, and I

begged to be takeh to the hotel at once.

I must start for home, I said,-as soon as possible. Arriving at tho house, I saw a carriage and horses standing before

the door. 1' our gentlemen come out

and agreed to take me with tbem. .

"I learned from their conversation

that my companion hod been sent out

from Cleveland to identify the -dead

and find-the living. Each related inci

dents connected with the search. They spoke of being out in boats, sometimes

all night, dvafinc igt bottles of seeing the thieyes at their villainous work,

of disgraceful quarreling of the coro

ners, and of tho discomforts 01 camp

ing out. At length one of the gentle

men stud he regretted some back with

no news of the young man K., whose

friends were so anions about him."

" 'I half believe,' said he, 'that he was not on the boat at all. We have seen everybody, dead or alive, who has been found, and no one answering his

description is discovered.'

"Where is his description?' asked

another.

- U nave it. " JNo, not here. X remember, I gave it to the corohers. He

was, as 1 recollect the description,

man about 28, fair skin, blue eyes, and

black hair. It is hard to go back with

no information. By the way, stranger,

did you see anyone answering that

description?

'Would yon be willing to take the

body without preparation for burial?' I

asked.

"'Why, of course. Any way we

could get it.'

" "Well, then. said I, 'drop me at

H.'s house.'

"A shout went up from the carriage.

A few days later, after having enjoyed

the delightful expenence of being kissed, cried over and welcomed back from the dead, I lighted a cigar.-seated myself comfortably, and hod the novel

experience of reading my own obituary,

and a good orthodox obituary it was,

too.

A Doctor's Tribulations.

The individual who imagines that he s going to give satisfaction to the gen

eral public m anything be may undertake is certainly the victim of delusion. It is imposslible to please everybody.

The man, be his station in life what it

may, who comes up to the expectation

of the multitude has not yet been born.

The editor in particular soon makes

this discovery. The clergyman, also.

knows that there are people in his congregation who are never satisfied with what he does or leaves undone. The doctor is another professional man who

has a hard row to hoe. If a doctor dresses well and wears a high hat, people say that he is a medical dude. If, on the other hand, he pays little or no attention to his toilet, then he is accused of lack of dignity. If he goes into society, attends balls and parties, then the impression is that he is fishing for popularity. If the physician visits his patients while they are in good health, ho is accused of attempting to sponge. He comes to the house in order .to be invited to dinner. If, on the other hand, he never comes unless he is called, the inference that the only use he has for bis patients is to make money out of them when they are r ' 2c If the doctor attends church, of urse he is a hypocrite, who is trying to work on the religious feelings of the community. If he does not attend church, nothing can be plainer than that he is an infidel or a socialist. If the doctor's wife does

not return the calls that other ladies

moke on her, then she is nutting on

airs, turning up her nose at her betters,1

etc II she does return the calls, then

she is plucking patients for her bus-, band to shoot at.

If the doctor's horse is fat, that is a

sure sign that he has not got much to do.- If the animal is emaciated, be is a

brute for not taking better care of his horse. If he drives fast, he is trying'

to create the false impression that he has. been called to the bedside of some important patient. If he drives slowly, he does not cars a cent whether or not his patients die before he gets to them. If the patient recov.ers.his health, he is indebted to a kind Providence, or a strong constitution, or to the care that was token of him during his illness. In no case is the doctor entitled to any credit for the recovery. If the patient

dies he was undoubtedly murdered by his physicians. If the medical man is sociable and 'talkative, the' people say. we do not want a doctor who tells everytliing he knows. If he is a silent

man, then they say a doctor should encourage his patients to be communi

cative. IP he talks pontics, they say that a-doctor should have no politics i and if he does not talk politics, then he

is a sneak and a time-server who either.

has no opinions or is afraid to own up

as to ' what his politics really is. If the doctor does not run Ids horse to death "when he is called, he is not taking

sufficient interest in the case. If ho

does not send in his bill, his object is' to prevent the patient from engaging

another doctor, it he aoes send in his bill, he is in a fearful hurry for his money, and so on to the end of the chapter. Texas tiifiingB.

Wall Street Tarn.

"A year or two ago," said a prominent broker to a few of his friendVwho were in his office, "an acquaintance of mine of this city came to mo with" $1,000, which he Paid was all the monoy he had. He owed considerable money, and he wanted to increase his capital so that he could pay his dobts. I took Oie $1,000 with the understanding time I was to do the best I could with it. Ho did not know one stock from another, but had got an idea that monoy could be made in Wall street, and lie wanted me to make it for him. Well, I did the best I could, and I have been handling the money for that man over since. He has now some securities on hand, and I will find out how his account stands." Turning to tho bookkeeper, he asked: "James, how does Mr. 's account stand V James pulled out a big ledger, turned- over a few .pages, and replied : "Overdrawn $79t.38. " "What securities are wo holding for him?" was the next query. "Five hundred shares of Sutro," was the reply.

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Democratic Imbecility. j ment ot the Wilmington Match ObiiiThe Democratic House" of Congres? PaPT can only shriek ' State rights when . , ... ... . . , ,. it is proposed to use those same pow r is demonstrating that party s absolute . of toa to vrotcot tUe fco$ of incompetency to meet tlieobligntions it nation. We cannot sec the senco or owes to tho public. Having urgently j tho consistency of this theory of Fedsought and been intrusted with the ; el powers. The Stnto rights that work of formulating national legislation) Senator Bayard, and Sonator 1'endlo the Democratic members of Congress ton. n Senator Morgan, Bud Senator

had it in their hands, at least, to manu

facture campaign capital, and to this end their best energies have bec-n bent But with no coherent idea what was best for tho Government, they have naturally fallen to .wrangling among themselves, and the cat-hauling has been going on over since the session opened, with no prospect of harmony, ex;ept under tho caucus lash and no hope of desirable legislation. Tho Morrison bill, tho only pretense yet made toward serious legislation on the great question of tariff, has been and still is tho apple of discord at tho Democratic fwist. It satisfies neither one sido nor tho other of the Democratic party. It' is insincere, inconsiderate, and impractical. To save the trouble of considering the merits of the question, the author of it measured everything with a sword and proposed to incontinently out off a sword's length from every dutiable article, regardless of consequences. The bill does not command the confidence of even its "friends." But they hop that it'willbo "a good enough Morgan" until after the November election;: ; and then, if tho party by a stroke of undeserved and unexpected good luck, should find itself iu power, some new expedient may be devised to tide it still further along. The cry is for something that will succeed. Gpod people and dear rabble is tho ery, ask what jou will, you may have it; only give ns the spoils. Needed legislation goes begging, while specious "tricks for transient popularity receive tho most considerate attention. The old davtc of cutting down apropriations has again been resorted to, though with little hope of deceiving the public. It was tried in Indiana, and the people of this State have .not forgotten how the low taxes of one year were supplemented the next, and the next, with deficiency bills and money borrowed at interest. It has been tried with the same end in view and with exactly the same rt suit in national legislation. The dodgo is too transparent, to deceive anybody of intelligence, but it will be tried onco more, along with other schemes equally dishonest. The Morrison bill, in some modified form, may be passed, prob

ably will be, over the protests of the better elements of the Democratic

party, tho hope being that tbe good of :

present reduction in the rote of taxation

wilt blind the peoplo to the inevitable outcome of the un-American policy of free trade, " j

Meanwhile the weeks and months

Harris are fighting for is the i ight of States to poison their neighbors' food and to infett their cattle with a deathdealing disease. If it is not competent for the Federal Government to use its common powers to prevent such a common calamity then governments are a mockery and have no real social raisou d'etre. It would f eoru as if the late unpleasantness was too short. It oulit to

have lasted one campaign longer. The war proved nothing if it did rot demonstrate that tho Government of this

country was a real National Govern

ment that could do anything that was

demandexrby the general welfare. It

is not an aggregation of little political

patches in each 01 which there is

minute central postulo of sovereignty.

There is but one center of sovereignty

in tins union, and that is at Washing

ton, and its sovereignty is amplo for

a'l the needs 01 the people. There

was enough gunpowder consumed dur

iug tho wor to havo burned this truth into ony ordinary .cuticle. Chicago

lrioune.

Exit Schnra.

Ihe friends of Carl Schurz hav undertaken to raise for him a purse of $100,000. The gentleman has, in his political antics, exhibited every phase in the enreer of rocket. Ho came to this country and began his career as a

journalist, then he became a politician,

then a lawver, then a stump-speaker,

thou. United States. Minister to Spain,

then a JUaior uoneral in tho army,

then a member of the United States Senate from Missouri, then a momber of Hayes Cabinet as Secretary of tho Interior, then a journalist again, and

now his friends are trying to "help him out" of tho failure of' his effort to run tho New York Eveninq i'ost. He has como down rathor quicker than he

went up, but there is no doubt as to his present location. Whether those

interested in the 'Post can put t again in the position it occupied beforo ho

took hold of it remains to be seen.

Mr. Schurz, while a man of greaff

abilities in some directions, has alwaya represented tho peevish in American politics. Nothing could satisfy him in the land of his birth, and he left it to save

his neck, and not n thing has been to

bis liking here. Honored as few foreigners have hcoif in this country, .ho has been a chronic fault-finder from tho

is being done at washmgto:

are rapidly passing away, and no good ; "e 3et .u our slores; .f

Washmgton. liven;1 , " 1 , 7 - """, ""r? i -

goou enougu 101- mm, ana lie utroeieyized in 1872. With the flattening out of that UuncntaUe failure to founda party

on -crow he nominally returned to tho

this Morrison bill is still in on unfin

ished condition, and its supporters are at thoir wits' end to devise somo way to smuggle, rush, or bulldoze it through the House. The Democrats realizo that they-will have a big fight among themselves, and in anticipation the leaders have arranged to havo the usual appropriation bills ready, to throw one

in from time to time, to divert atten

tion and give tho combatants opportunity to temporarily haul off for repairs and pour ointment on their many wounds. The Democratic party - does

not need a leader so much as it needs

coherency and principle. It is united and consistent only in tho desire to get at the public offices. Its campaigns

are fought with tho utmost desperation, and no scheme is too hostile to our free institutions to be adopted and pushed, if it promises even the slenderest hope

of success. The Democratic House is

little better than au organized, expensive farce, manifestly afraid to do any

thing, yet hoping to make a little political capital through appeals to preju

dice and ignorance. With no defined purpose beyond that of getting control, by fair means or by foul, it blunders and stumbles, to the disgust and alarm of all not blinded by partisan prejudice. The country will feel easier when ad

journment at last comes and the worst is known. Indianapolis Journal.

State Sovereignty Bun Had, One of the sis-ns of orthodox De

mocracy that might have been referred

to Dy the experts who were rocentlv

called upon in Iowa to give tho tests of

rem uetuocraey is the doctrine of State

sovereignty. This is, to bo rare, not

a Jacksonian doctrine, as Calhoun and

his nullifying crowd found out to their

heart's content from the hero of New

Orleans, but it has in these degenerate

days become one of tho fetiches of that patty. When tho terrible visitation of yellow fever foil upon the South a few years ago tho peoplo of the North, animated by tho paternal desire to use all the means in their power for the suppression of the pestilence, unanimously sustained the intervention of the General Government with the expenditure

of money, the issue of rations, the distribution o shelter-tents, the assignment of army physicians to assist in

the care of the sick, in short the fullest

exercise of the resources of tho central

power. But even m that dread emer

gency, with yollow f over swooping down upon scores of communities, the devotees

of this fetich of Stato sovereignty could not run so fast from the Angel of Death but that they had time to give a kick to the hand that brought them aid.

Xho lfepresentatives of Alabama,

Georgia. Tonnesseo, and Mississippi

yelped, snarled, and snapped at tho hand that was bringing them the best it could command of relief and protection. They took all that waii offered, but graciously reminded the giver that his benevolence proceeded on an entirely incorrect theory of tho true functions of Federal Government, Pre

cisely 1 he same blind devotion to tho nullifying theory that Jackson stood ready to tako out of Calhoun by the application of a hemp poultice ani-

mutoa 'the opposition of the Bourbon

Senators to tho mmrnurifitimi for tht

extermination of tho cattlo-plague, which, whether it bo genuine foot-tvud-mouth disease or not, is contagious and

extremely dangerous to tho welfare of the people of the whole country. While

tho germs of discano arc spreading from

ono .Slate to another, threatening to

infect, all the herd on the ranges 111 tho Territories on thoir dispersal in tho

sprint, receiving re-enforcement at tho

ports on the seacoasl where I '.nropeen cattle are being imi crtttl, portending the loss if unchecked of milli ons oliko to tho owners of cattle and tho con

sumers ot meat, all that tl;o Statepovereignty ghosts in tho Smiato can

nna to say is, that tho intervention of

tho only adequate power that of the

nation would be inconsistent their theory of tho Constitution.

motor Jiayiird, wl.o does cot find law to prevent tho m.-ijor-ty of tho

i;;. hii.g ont of the way in the use of j voters from pronouncing upon quea tii- overoign powers of taxation of the j tions of public policy, (,'( i'aio i'rit IVu ral Government fot t&o enrich,- two-

party he lorsook, but has over sinco been astride of tho fence by the political roadway, finding fault with all that was done, and inventing Utopian

schemes for its future guidance. Vis

ionary, soured, willful, selfish, and a political bigot, he has closed a career that might have been a brilliant ono

jould he have found any good or purity in any man or set of men. save himself.

He has reached the lowest rouud in tho ladder in New York, where ho set out

to climb it. It will bo useless for him to try again the ascent. The failure ho

has made in polities is never overcome,

nor do such opportunities come a second time to any man's door. Let his

friends raise the proposed fund, and

retiro him from publio notice and con tempt, Chicago News. '

Tits Democratic party has followed

Liie xiepuuucuu puny wj vmcago. it has utterly failed to agree upon any

scheme of tax reduction. If it cannot

agree upou any legislative reform in

Congress, it cannot in convention. It has Hung aside the Ohio Senator wao made an effort to collect the millions which the Pacific railroads owe. It has

crushed another Ohio Senator who dared to advocate civil-service reform. Now it is proposed that its nomination shall be tossed about from one million

aire to another till ono is found willing

to lead it in a more othc-sceking raid,

with nothing inscribed on its banner

except "Turn the rascals out." As a

party, it has survived sou e terribls teals of its vitality,' and it may not die of tho doses with which its nurses are now cramming its nauseated stomach. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.y The same weapon which Kelly holds over the Democracy of the State he holds ovor the Democracy of the nation. No general account or plan of action can bo made up without Kelly. And this is the party which depends mainly on the cry of purification in high places for its campaign material. There is a law of compensation in politics as well as in other things, and this apparently unavoidable bargain with Tammany, though it may bring into the Democracy a large number of votes in New York City, will probably enlarge the Republican majority in other parts of the Stato sufficient to offset it. 'A.d Tammany is certainly an element which is expensive to the Democracy in the country at large, St. Louis (flobe-Democrat.

Aix the facts of history are against tho "old fraud" of -Gramercy Park, and yet he has the mendacity to claim that he suffered wrong in 1876, a wrong which it is now all too lato to rectify. This stuff nnd fustian canno bo imposed upon the American people. The courts were open to Tilden at any time after Mr. Hayes had been declared the lawfully elected President of tho United States, Jmt the Democratic pretender did not nitre to submit the validity of his title to the scrutiny of an incorruptible judiciary His own party discarded tho idea of his having snffcrcd wrong in 187( by refusing to nominate him in 1880, and the Democrats dure not place themselves in position to try conclusions on this matter next fall. Cleveland Leader.

Gen. Ouai.mekb, of Mississippi, has addressed an'ublo and elo piont let-tor to the Chairman of tho Kxocutive Cominitteo of tho Independent party in his State, in which he advises his political adherents to co-operate with tho lto publicans in favor of free elections, freo schools, and the protection of American industries. Ho vigorously denounces tho methods of tho Democratic party in his State, and charge-i them with resorting to fraud and forot to iirovont tho honest expression of the

with 1 people of Mississippi. They have, ho

says, violated tho pauonai and blato

IIUM0K

If it is inia that shoes will squeak lis long as they are not paid for, what a great credit business shoes dealers must

do. 2ic HooHier.

Baxk cashiers who are afflicted ' with

a mania for speculation are very apt to

grow carol e.-s and leave on the a" in

speculation. 2'-a tattings.

"Hi'Sbanp, you'll have to go and call

that bov vourseif. I can t make 111m

get up. He sleeps as if he were a log.

"Oh, woll, Maria, the boy can't help it.

it's f ato. He was born to be a policeman." "I'm all wool and a yard wide!" shouted a cowboy, as ho gave his som

brero an extra side hitch and looked

around for a foe. "That may be." re

plied an undaunted female, "but you

won't wash.

When- Mrs. Homespun read that Mary Anderson had ubandoned "Tho Hunchback," sho remarked: "Yon can't really blamo her. It would have beon too bad for a pooty gal like hor

to marry a hunchback !

"Ik you lay down on a board will you not havo a eoft bod I" asked tho

joker of his wife. To which she un

hesitatingly replied: "Of course it will bo soft if" you lay down on it." She

was used to him.

Yi tiji (to dcntRt) "Good heavens! man, that is tho second sound tooth you

have pulled" Dentist (to victim) "I

beg your pardon, sir, but as vou had

only three when I commenced I think I

shall make no mistake this time." Woman is so built that she but sel

dom can throw straight. Providence,

it is truly said, orders everything for

tho best, and, after a husband 1

seen one tin-cup sail harmlessly by his head, he can run before sho can snatch

up another.

He bade her good-by at tho door, and

promised to return in ono week from

that day to accompany her to the par

son, who would tie the knot that would make them ono. "I will return, my darling," he said, as he tied a string around his linger. Carl PretzeFs

Meekly. IIek little fsirv hand fce pressed. And faze I Into her bright blue eye; Flse n i-tled soitly n U s brtfist, Tkoa dopicd ber head and heaved slglL My 1 recious HcUc!" cried Clande in grief; T 11 what tUls se ret sadness means; Mwt.U, angcll What can give relief !" Sli?- swiftly murmured, "Pork and beans," -Oif fit! liliziard. Ere many weeks shall pass away. The snow. Which now makes coasters madly gay. Will go, And then the skater's best of friends. The ice, Which now beneath thair bodies bends So nice. Will melt and uiliiftle with the stream, An-1 all that's left wil. be a dream. Sew York Journal. LONG-HEADED Jill. JOHNSON. Sir. Johnson had a daughter, I.ulu Minnie Mabel. To attract aome man to marry liar he was unable. He was wealthy, lived at Newport Owned a costly stable: Had within bis ample cellar Wine of every label. Still no Strephon came a-woolnj Lu u Minnie Mttbe, Who sat pining in her satin, Velvet, silk, and sable. Mr. Johnson Slid: I never Know, in song or fable, One so hapless as my daughter, Lulu Jliimle Mabel!" Mrs. Johnson, talking loudly, Could have silenced babel ' Asking wherefore no one courted Lulu Minnie MabeL Wati hinsc down ttie winoius roadway. Lulu Minnie alabel Saw no lover on hi palfrey i'rom the lonely gable. "Stall I send," said Mr. Johnson, "Over by the cable, For tho noble Duke of Somex- . Bault to :nairy Mabel V" Bin, Instead, his house he furnlihcd With a billiard table; Wedded was that very winter I.ulu Minnie Mallei. Xtw 1 wk Hun.

Not In the Scorning Business?.

Senator Cullom, of Illinois, received

from the Secretary of tho Senate a

promise that one of the soft berths in

that venerable ship of state would

bo placed at his disposal. The Senator was in high glee, and for hours and hours would sit and ruminate over the delicate problem whom to designate for

appointment to the promised place. At.

last he hit upon a politician of promi

nence, tuo editor ot an mttuennai newspaper who had served his country in

the high office of clerk of one of the branches of the Stato Legislature. Tho

gentleman was sent for. He was rewived by tho Senator with great cordiality, and invited to como to the Capitol ns soon as ha had recovered from the fatigues of his journey, to assume tho new and important duties that awaited

him. He was a man of fine address

and imposing presence, and when ac

companied by his Senator, iie walked into the Secretary's office .to receive his commission a stranger not acquainted with the facts would have been puzzled i j. 1 1 - -, , , . ,

tu pumi, uui which was sno oenator ana which tho expectant officer. Tbe Sec-

rotary handed out tho appointment

with a deprecatory smile, remarking apologetically that it was the best he could do. The Senator read the appointment over and discovered to his horror that the salary only amounted to a thousand dollars per aunum. "Mr. Secretary." said he. in a torrent

of rage, "this is outrageous. Wo couldn't think of accepting so insignificant a place. My friend here would scorn to occupy so inferior a position." "Hold on, Senator," said tho Western editor; "I'm not in the soorning business this winter. This place is not what I expected, but the weather is very cold, and I don't core to go homo and givo tho boys a laugh at my expense. A thousand dollars isn't much, but it will do to start in on. Mr. Sec

retary, I am ready to go to work."

And to work ho went. Ho occupies

the important position of but no, he is ah editor, and for tho honor of tho craft wo will not givo him away.

rrusHingion uaiche:.

An Impai-titil Estimate. "If there wwn fivA mVnnna aiff."T nn

that branch and 1 should shoot tit three, how nmuy would there be left?" asked CriniHOnhcnJt. who linil 11 trnntl imininn

01 himsolf as a marksman, to his young son.

"Thorn wnnl.1 lin IIva lAffc of inri

promptly replied tho boy, whoso idea of his father's ability ns a gunuor was not in the least biased. ronfcers Statesman.

IMseouraging Youthful Uouins. A Marathon amateur who wrote to the manager of tho Madison Square Theater to know if there was an opening on tho stage there for a young actor, reooived a reply that thoro wore several openings in the stage thoro, and if ho would como on ho would drop him through one of them with plQftBuretMarathon, Independent.

THE EDUCATION BILL

Text of tlie Scftsiii-e Passed by the United States Senate.

Following la the tfttt of tho Blair education bill passed by the SenaW, a4 w on tb Speaker's desk in the House. Be it enacted, etc.. That for eight years next after the passatte of this sot there shall be anhnally appropriated from the money in the Treasury th following sums, to wit: The first year the sum of $7,eo,ooo tbe second year the sum of $10,000,000, the third year the sum of 10,000,000, tbe fourth year the sum or $13,000,000, the Hfth year the snm of tll,000,ocO, the sixth yearthe sura of 9,000,000, the seventh year the sum of $7,0000001 the eighth year the sum of $5,000,0(0; which sever! sums shall be expended to secure the benefits of a Citnmon-school education to all children of the sond age mentioned hereafter living in the United StaW Bkc. 2. That such money shall annually bf divided among and paid ont in the several State's and Territories In that proportion whlah the whole number of persons in each who, being of the age of 10 yeats and over, cannot write, bears to the whole Uumbtif of such persons in the United States. Such computation shall be made according to the census of ltSO. .. Sec. a. That no State or Territory shall Mcelve any of the benefits of this act until the Governor thereof shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a statement, certified by him, showing the character of the common-school system in force la such State or Territory, the amount of money expended therein during the last preceding school year in the support of common schools, not including cipenuitures for the rent, repair, or erection of sehod)houscs, whether any discrimination Is made in the raislngor distributing otthe school revenue, or tn the school facilities afforded between the white and cololcd children therein, and, so far as is practicable, the sources from which snoh revenne were derived, the manner in which the same were apportioned to the use Of the common schools, the average attendance in each class, and the length of the school term; and no money shall be paid out under this act to any State' or Territory that shall not have provided by law a system f free common schools for all of its children of school age, without distinction ot race or color, either In the raising or distributing of school revenue, or in the school facilities afforded; provided, that separate schools for white and colored children shall not be considered a violation of this condition. The Secretary of the Interior shall thereupon certify to the Secretary of the Treasuiy the names of the States and Territories which he finds to be entitled to a share in the benefits of this act, and also the amount due to each. Sua 1. That the amount so apportioned to each State and Territocy shall be drawn from the Treasury by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the monthly estimates and requisitions of the Secretary of the Interior, as.the eame may be needed, and shall be paid over to such officer as shall be authorized by t he laws of the respective States and Territories to receive the same. Sect. No greater part of the amount approHated under this aot shall be paid out to any tate or Territory, in any one year, than tbe sum expended out of its own revenues in the pre

ceding year for the maintenance of common schools, not includins the sums expended in the

erection 01 eenooi ouiiamgs. Sec. a That a part ot tho money apportioned to each State or Territory, not exceeding onetenth thereof, mav yearly be applied to the edu

cation ot teachers for the common schools therein, which sum may be expended in main

taining institutes or temporary trammg-scaooia, or extendine onnortunlties for normal or

other instruction to competent and suitable persona of any color who are without necessary means to qualify themselves for teaching, who hall agree In writing to devote themselves exclusively for at least one year after leafing such trai nine-schools to teach in the common schools for such compensation as shall be paid other teachers therein. Sec 11 provides that the Governor of each State shall furnish all needed information to

enable the bill to be carried out for hiifBtata.

and make full report as to the use of money

lurnisuea.

INDIANA STATB NEWS.

TimcAifOB OotJHTT expend"1 80,887.6 nt -lupport of her publio schools last yoarEij (UKi-miL, a farmer living near tryville, hanged himself the other day. Mas. Soar, a pensioner of war 1812, recently dropped doad t Moore HttL She was at) years old. David Kn.ua, aged 14 yean, Uvea tm floyd County, and weigh 1 poundav works hard en a farm. Tmt lightning-rod men have been vlotiaaIxlng the farmers in Bartholomew County at a lively rate recently. , . . , Fathxr Waxt-Eas, of Lafayette, refused to accept for the church a pone of $f0 dea-lved, from a dan 08 held during Lent. ' Tun Vigo County Commissioners will laataa. trends to tho amount of fS0,800, for tbe purpose of paying the debt on the Oourt Boue. Stt.vestbb Mssk was toot by Hud Goodman at Ptoaeantyllte. Tktr vleti anrl jjy murderer were farmers. They awd ft;! standing quarrel. " 4

ity of the destroyed village of Omkvine or

OBITUARY.

Charles Reads.

Charles Beade, tho noted English novelist,

who died recently in London, was born in 1814, the son of an English country gentle

man, m as enviable a social position as can well be conceived. His boyhood was both robust and studious, tho right preparation for a life of astonishing Intellectual results. Hs

was educated at Magdalen HalL Oxford.

After graduation he read law, and gained a Vlnerlan fellowship at the University of Oxford in 1843. A year later ha was

called to the bar. While Mr. Keade's chief

distinction has beeu in the fields of fancy, his voice bag been not infrequently heard ou

social ana political questions, his novels, moreover, some more particularly than

others, have dealt with abuses and strongly

suggested tho necessity of reform, in

"It Is Never Too Late to Mend,

for example, published in 1356, the atrocities of prison discipline.

as then administered, Wo. dealt with in a

most powerful manner. We may bo par

doned for addin? that purpose In a literary work outside of the artistio Intention, while perhaps marring it as viewed from the standpoint of mere art, is not regarded with disfavor by readers in the Engllsh-trpeaklug

countries. This is particularly remarkable

when a contrast is made between English and

French writers on net on. Charles Beade begun his long list of suc

cesses as a novelist with "reg wofnngtou,'

published in 1853, a work which evinced the manly sympathy, independence, and liberal views of the author, while evidencing mastery in style, construction, and imaginative power; In the same year ho produced

'Christie Johnstone. ' "it is never Too

Lato to. Mend" appeared in 1858; "White Lies " the noxt year afterward. Of his re

maining works "Griffith Gaunt," published

in 1888, is the most t&lkoa about; but "The

Cloister and the Hearth," produced in 1881, is regarded by tho best judges as his ablest

production.

Henry J, Byron.

Henry J. Byron, dramatist and actor, whose

death was announced by cable a few days

ago, was born in Manchester, and completed

his education in London, He was one of the most skillful and proline writers of burlesque

extravaganzas. His earliest errors in tats

line. -'Fro. l. iavolo. ' produced at tuo strand

Theater in 1858, was speedily followed by several successful pieces, among which may be

montlonea "The ua.a ana iiagpto," ".uaa-

din," "Esmeralda," "The Lady of Lyons,"

"tirln Bushes," and a comedy entitled "The

Old Story." He wrote "Babes in the Woad,"

"Ill-Treated il Trovatore. " "Maicppa T'ra-

vestle," "Miss Eily O'Connor," "Dundreary Married and Done For," and original comedies,

"War to tho Knife" and "A Hundred Thous

and Pounds." Mr.- Byron contributed oxtonBively to periodical lHoraturo, was the

first onl:or of Fun, and was the author of a

three-volume novel, "raia in Fun, oiMrtn-

nlly published in tho Teinple Bar magazine. He made his first apnearanoe in London as an actor at tho Globe Theater in his Own

drama of "Not Such a Fool as He Looks," Oct. 23, 1889. His latest pieces wore "An

American Lady," a comedy in three acts.

produced in March, 1874; -"Old Sailors,'.' a oomedy brought out at tho Strand Inter in tho same year, and "Our Boys," which was

Immediately popular on both sides or the

Atlantic a few years ago.

SOUTHERN FOREST FIRES.

The Most Widespread DaetrneUoa

Known in 8outh Carolina CouuWes. Columbia S. C.) Telegram. The forest fires kindled by the gale of last

week swept ovor large areas of tbe counties of Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Kershaw,

Chester, Sumter, Orangeburg, Clarendon,

Williamsburg, Darlington, Lauoastor, Manlboro, Colleton, Aiken, and Berkely.

Tho dostruotiou of houses, valuable tim

ber lands, fencing, growing crops, and live-stock was the most widospread ever known in tho history ot tho State. It is impoailblo to ostlinnlo tho amount of damage, but it will as-'grojnto many hundred thousands

of dollars, in Kershaw County tbo tires

were especially terrllio, sweeping over a thickly settled territory, nnd destroying houses, timber, and fencing for many miles. It was with groat difficulty that tho flourish

ing town of Camden was saved. It being for

twenty-rour nours surrounded ou an staos br tho flames. Largo numbers of Cattle and

hogs grazing In the woods wore roasted alive.

Three-quarters of tho pine forest's in the

county wero destroyed, inus oroaKing up the entire turpcuttne business in that section.

The damago in Kershaw County wiu

amount to fully $100,000. in Clarendon and Darlington counties tho damage done to turpcntlno farmers is irreparable.

CHIPS, Sbveka.1, young ladies Iu Detroit will start a school for journalism. "Coffin" is tho rather suggestive name of tiie commander of the arotio steamer Alert,

the recent de tractive eyctone

about 15,000. Thi Knigbta of Pythias bare ceoeluiefl -' range ments for holding a tournament is Ko-' komo, oa July 8 and 4. Numerous vaTnaM prices will be offered. Jomr O'Uuax, a resident of 1-airTaayeV stole a box of matches from a saloon, emptying them Into his pants pocket, ,wkeM tfcey Ignited, burning him terriblyChables McGcikb, of Lafayette, wham sentenced to the penitentiary tor bxroewy, claimed that he was compelled by hunger to stool, aid cried like a schoolboy. DAjrusr. B. Tozsr, a retired lumber sue chant of New Albany,' becoming dspon4en from the inroads of consumption, made a desperate attempt to kill himself with a rasor. . Mrsa Nona Kumoir, of Shelbyvflle, aged IT, charges the paternity of her new-boot baby upon her brother. Grant Munsom. Ha stoutly denies tbe chars and la a-tmcralb believed, SjjniXL Hbpukb is under arrest at Torre) Haute for forgery. It is aCeged that haloid machines, took a mortgage 00 these, and then forged notes on the. people he sold

them to. Tmt bee-keepers of JeAstfan and

tag- counties, in conveuttMi orgaatted tte Association ol Southeri-gOae keepers. H. C White was elected P-tidaWand Mr.C. firth Secretary. Tub jury In tbe case of John Cott, charged with tho murder of Tom HMgely, ChriatmM night, at Vlnoennes, returned a verdict of two years in thefenltentiar-f. A light verdict was expected. -' - It transpires that Mr. Kirk, who was killed by Bernor, whose name has recently feeoouw to famous by reason of the mob riot) at Cincinnati, was reared ia Benton County, whera his father now resides. Obtbp KKinrBDT and four own of the Terra Haute fire department have resigned. That trouble arose from the Chief discharging a fireman, who appealed to the board, and was by them reinstated. Messrs. j. B. bwabt k Co., proprietoaa of tho roller process of flouring mius, of Buda, have decided to remove the ariB and machinery to De Soto, Ho., then-object befaa; to get into a better wheat country. Tot 10-year old daughter of Henry Trippi living near Madison, met with a terrible ao cldent in failing over a cliff, a distance of forty feet, striking on a bed of rook, breaking her right log in two places, also her arm, and was injured internally. Dora Kelt-cm , aged about 3, and H Vinson Bear Creek, northeast of Laurel, watt found dead, with a terrible gunshot wosrad iu his stomach. The oauaeof his death is apposed to be the accidental dischargees' his shot-gun while climbing a fence. The Jury In the celebrated whisky case, ia which John Btockwell was plain tut and ta prohibition people of Biootningtoo were tho

defendants, decided that Stockwell was not

a proper person to have a license. Ibis case was tried two or three times before, and

was removed to Lawrence County.

Joshua Staples, late chief engineer est

the Vandaha, is construetlng a switch frcea a point near Greeneastto Junction to son xoallent qnarries five mites from the main track. Mr. Staples expects to have the

switch completed and to commence ahipphi

stone by the 1st of June next at the fsn-tlsasa.

Ac a meeting of toe Tippecanoe bar, a

Lafayette, it was resolved that toe tow of the Supreme Court reporter -ware extortionate, and that that officer should tw salaried and the cost of Supreme Oom-t records'

reduced. The resolutions of the mssMns; will be sent to every county in the State,

Tn Terns Haute and Souttera Bailroad

has been sold to a syndicate eon posed of Jo-

aophus Collett, President Megeen, of too Vandalia, and other Tern Haute rajMlallsai It is understood that the same syndicate wttl purchase the Bedford and Bloon-dUgton Bead, and that the two purchases will ha con

nected and consolidated, and probably axw

tended to a connection with toe Ohio aat Mississippi Road, giving a anclnnati oath. Vandalia Influence will prevail in the new

management.

Tm annual -report of the Cleveland,

Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis (Baa Line) Bailroad has been issued. lo the first

half of the year both tonnage an

Increased and presented figurea

dented In the road's history. Later tm freight earnings fell off because of theparOa failure of crops, and the general demoiaUaai

tktn of freight rates. The following is comparative statement of last year with 180 1

isss. laaa

Gross earnings t4,S4a,6M $441,at

Operating expoasss .oia,3g x,au,m

Net earniuga tl,3M,21 Taxes : US.Ua Fixed charges 807.4SS Int. and ex. Surplus..,, tM4,TOS Net income S30,1TS Total balance In account.... S,1,1S Bonded debt. 7,iDS,0oe Cash on hand 230,T83 Addition to property 302,110

Stb the ITS Strtet DaO Jfm$; H

was Treasurer of a county in Indiana. Tho other night about o'clock he made a call at the house of au honest old farmer, who wan on his bond for 10,000, and after the first greetings wero over he began: "Mr, Thomas, I have somewhat bad newa for you." "Groat Seottl but are any of at tw lashuns over In Indianapolis deadr "laqa't know about that; but you remember that you slgcd my bond?" "Yes, I did." "las

sorry to inform you that I am 114,000 abort

In my account." "Not" "Aiaal it hi traa." "And wero did the monoy go tor "Lost fa Wall street." "Oh I that's ft, WeU, I wouldn't worry about that. Xy son BUI will take the lantern and go back to town with you, and if you'll show htm Wall street ha'B find the money if it takes him all nfcM rrobably lost out of a hole io your -soe-nt, M"

lungs ,! S.TTT Ma toMH v.tw.rw atMat !,-