Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. Ull.L, Editor and Business Manaacr. TKRMB : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DBCATVB, INDIANA. o®ce AVer Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence en north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf ~W. II.NIYERS?™ Brick k Slone Mason < ontruc'r DECATUR,INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him Estimates on application, v25n40m3. IN. WICKS, J. T.MKKKYMAN. yyICKS & MERRYMAN, •Attorneys at Law AND Kral Estate -Agents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contractsand all LsSal Instruments drawn with neatness and IgMteh. INxi lion, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone's building—4ch door. ▼ol, 25, no. 24, yL drTkitchmiller will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, Indiana, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case.—v2sn36ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SpectacloH, cfco Repairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work u rram, rrwt. w. H Niaucs.Uuhter 9. Stvdabaeem, Vice Prea’t THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSOFa HUFFMAN? ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and title# to real estate. Are No Uries Public and draw deads and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. ‘2sjy79if ~ FRANCE i KING? ” ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BBCATUR. INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ~ iT'TiaDVr'V • rr ' T • DtCATON, INDIANA. t AH legal business promptly attended to. OSes up siairs in Stone s building 4th door. v25n24 year 1.

W A LL’S Qatarrh Qure, i In lt*oommended by Physician#. HALL'S Patarrhgure. In Indorsed by Clergymen. Will Cure Any Case: o£oeOlA.X.SUi>*rtAC«. Cblcs<o,lll. Jnnt4,lßSoi JfMtrt. P. J. C\4R4v 4i Cb. } TWarfo, O. Grattaneu;—l lake ptainraintifonningyou Out I have usei Ball’*Catarrh Cure. It has cured bad-a&il don'thaelxa’.a to 8&j that U will cw< any cue or Catarrh if taken properly. Your«truly, J B. WEATHERFORD. . Worth 810 A Jfottlc. K. Mitebay, Jacktoa. Mich, writes: Have had Catarrh for 20 yeare If all's Catarrh Cure curad me Oocaider it worth Slfi OO a botUe, Hall’s Catarrh Curefseold Lyall Druggigtaßt per bottle. Manufactured and sold by F. J VHENE Y & CO. Sole Proprietor. TOLEDO. OHIO R. A. Pieree A Co , agonu at becalur of graves nUtSnt U r tut.Le.i • their victima, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored t>y the use of the groat GERMAN INVIGORATOR which poaiiiveiy and permanently cures Imnnleniy (caused by excesses ot any kind.) Seminal Weakness and ail diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, Uss of memory, universal lasskude, pain in the back, d.uiness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity er consumption and a premature grave. Band for circulars with lestitnonals free toy mall. The Invigorator is sold at $1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by ad- . dressing, F J Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. A A. Pieroe A Co., Sole Agents at Decatur

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John T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouse's Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. V 01.25 No. 22. ts. Daughters, Wives, Mothers, ■1 Anai rz&N D r. RCHISSI, UTICA, N. V. DISCOVERER or DR M ARCHISI’S UTERINE ( ATHOLK ON A POSITIVE CUKE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Thin Remedy will act in harmony wiih the Female system at all time* and aleo immediately upon the abdominal and uterine mnsclet* and restore them to a healthy and strong condition. Dr. Marcbi-u's Uterine Catholic.in will cure falling of the Womb, Leoccorrbcpa, Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration of the womb, Inciden tai Hemorrhage or Flooding, Painful, Suppressed and Irregular Menstruation, Kidney Complaint and is espec ally adapted to the Change ol l ife. Send for pamphlet, in e. All letter- us hiQtiiry freely answered A-’dr- ss a-» a w>ve. FOK SI UK A 1.1, Ur'cetl 50 per bottle. Be sure and a.-i; lot hr Ma aisi’n Uterine Cathobeou Take i:<> other. Major Andre’s Watch. The story of Major Andre’s watch, which, after many vicissitudes, has come into the possession of a gentleman living in Newburg-on-Hudson, is an interesting one. Andre at the time of his capture wore two watches, as was the custom with gentlemen at that time. His captors took both. One, General Washington forced them to give up, and it was restored to Andre. The other is the watch in question. Its history is as follows: After Andre’s execution it was sold by his eaptors to Colonel William Stevens Smith, then holding a commission in the patriotic army on the Hudson, for thirty guineas. Colonel Smith, it may be premised, married a sister of John Adams, and was the ancestor of the present owner, from whom these facts are derived. Smith sent the watch ““““ “ to General Robinson commau.u.. r .) . J ~ ... the Hudson, witii a request Unit it Be forwarded to Andre’s family in England. Robinoson, who, as it is proved, was a roue and a gambler, pawned the watch, and spent the money in carousals. Time passed on, and the watch was forgotten. At the time of the Philadelphia Centennial it came on with oilier relics and was deposited in the Wisconsin department. There a sharp-eyed newspaper correspondent discovered it, and described it in the columns of his journal. The paragraph, a long time after, meeting the eye of a gentleman whose ancestor had sent the watch, as ho supposed to its rightful owners a hundred years before, he at once began a search for the relic, traveling over a greater part of the State of Wisconsin, and at last discovered its owner in the person of a venerable lady, who stated that her husband had purchased it of a pawnbroker in Philadelphia nearly fifty years before. The lady was willing to sell, and the gentleman gladly became itsowjinL an opemhieecl gold watch of French manufacture, of peculiar shape, being flat and thin, and totally unlike anything known to American jewele re. There are but four figures on the dial, —three, six, nine, and twelve, —the intermediate hours being indicated by asterisks. On the dial-plate in fine letters are engraved the words, “Thomas Campbell, Albany'.” Campbell was the dealer of w hom Andre bought it, Albany being a little town in the district of Breadalbane, Scotland. On the inner case is engraved. “John Andre, 1774.” On receipt of the watch, inquiries were made in England through Dean Stanley and other parties to discover if the Andre family had received the watch sent to General Robinson, which established the fact that they had not. The same inquiries proved incontestably that this was the watch carried by Andre on the morning of his capture. The Noble Warriors in Our National Arena. Little do we reck, as tft proceed with the humdrum of our uneventful lives at homo, how our Congressmen, several hours each day, are calling up the previous question and rising to a point of' privilege, in order that we may enjoy the priceless boon of liberty. Day after day, while you, gentlereader, are dawdling the precious hours away selling goods or sawing wood, these patriots, far from home and loved ones, with aching heads and tearful eyes, are making motions to reconsider, and with clarion voice demanding the floor and battling on over the vital question of mileage. And yet, while these men have their shoulders under the national fabric, and are fearlessly referring things to committees, or with warlike front and defiant tone moving to lay them on the table, there are croakers at home, with nothing to do but support their families, who speak jeeriugly of the labors performed by these noble warriors in the national arena. It is not right.— Nye’s Boomerang. A Canary and a Mouse. A very fine canary bird is owned by a gentleman in Nevada county, Cal. Unusual quantities of food disappeared t from his cage. One day the gentleman chanced to look in the cage, and there, snugly stowed away in one of the seedboxes, was a mouse, fat as butter. Upon , attempting to remove the mouse the bird made a chivalrous fight for the little animal. A singular fact that while the mouse was there the bird kept up a constant singing all day, but since the 1 mouse has been removed the bird has refused to warble. “How shall 1 have my Imnnet trimmed," asked Maria, so that it shall agree with my complexion?” “If you want it to match your face, have it plain,” replied the spiteful Hattie.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1882.

HUBBELL, THE HIGHWAYMAN. The Political Slick Turpin ot the Time. The New York Hour has a cartoon representing Mr. Jay Hubbell asa bandit robbing a stage-coach, called “ the civil service.” It publishes the following sketch of him ; The portrait of Jay Abel Hubbell makes a good companion picture to that of Arabi Pasha, which appeared in the last issue of the Hour. Arabi Pasha is the terror of Egypt, Hubbell is the terror of a hundred thousand American Republican officeholders and their families. Arabi has unfolded the green flag of the Prophet, for the reason, as he says himself, that all the officeholders in Egypt ate foreigners, and he wants to drive them out. He is a sharp, shrewd poli - tician, and the probabilities are that he has declared war on them because they refused to pay the political assessments which he levied on them. His motto is precisely the same as that of Hubbell, “Your money or your place.” It is a curious fact that the Hubbells are of Bedouin descent—at least the historian of the family makes himself responsible for the statement. The original name, we are assured, was Hubba. Its chief had his home, it is solemnly asserted, in the Tigro-Euphrates valley. That region, for some reason or another which history has failed to record, became very uncomfortable for him—probably because he sent out the first assessment circular —and, in consequence, he either “beat his way,” or obtained a “free pass ” to Denmark, where he turned pirate. This enterprising old bandit, in the course of his industrious career, landed in England with a band of followers who were fully his equals in villainy. Their first exploit was the capture of the King St Edmund, While a prisoner in their hands they endeavored to convert him from Christianity. He declined as politely as he knew’ how, and the old “ original Hubbell ” ordered him out, tied him to a tree, shot him to death with arrows, and, to make sure of his work, cut off his head. The old sinner, it would seem, repented of his evil deeds, and, after that, settled down to an honest life ; sending all the little Hubbells to Sunday-school, and, wo may be certain, picking up a good fat office whenever he could lay his hands on it. One of his descendants turned Puritan, and, in 1647, set out for Connecticut. Jay Abel, who seems to have inherited all the characteristics of the old Danish pirate and Pagan, traces his descent from the blue-nosed Connecticut Yankee. A oranch of the family moved into this State, and subsequently, with the roving instincts of their race, found their way out West into Michigan, where the present illustrious statesman and Tax Collector General of the Republican party was born. Jay Abel Hubbell will bo 53 years old on the 15th of next month. An admiring biographer of his says : “He was a robust youth and is a robust man. His brain is large. He has great energy of character, with sufficient caution for safety.” This .VOUtjj.” and in due time graduated at some “college ”or another. He did not, however, seem to get along very well with his clients, if he ever had any, and he became a mining speculator. He was so thrifty in this line of business that he grew rich, and in 1871 he conceived the idea that tho House of Representatives at Washington afforded a good field for his peculiar abilities. He found himself a member of that distinguished body in 1873. He signalized himself at once by “securing an adjudication of land titles at St. Mary’s in favor of the claimants ” —who were probably all Hubbells—and by “ making a very exhaustive speech against the Morrison Tariff bill, whose iniquities he exposed with an unsparing hand.” But this was not all. He became a great admirer of Robeson from the moment he became acquainted with his piratical career, and when that person was brought to task by a committee of the House Hubbell united in tho whitewashing minority ... presented. In 1880 he was intrusted with the control of the assessment machine lor me party, wmeu he has managed ever since. He assumed command of the blackmailing department in an address which contained the following powerful passage: “ The Southern leaders propose, when in power, to madden the North as well as to impoverish and weaken it. At all costs they propose to force the North to secede, and when they have driven the North into secession, they will laugh a quiet party laugh. Tho Union soldier Hancock is but the mask which hides the trail of the rebel serpent. The hand is the hand of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob. Hancock chants the sweet music of the Union, but through it all, louder and shriller, is heard the old rebel yell 1 ” All of which is very fine, ft was about this time that Gen. Garfield, <.f sainted memory, was writing to “ My dear Hubbell ” to see “Brady,” and to inquire * * how the departments arc doing.” There is nothing more to he said about Hubbell. His notoriety is due solely and wholly to his political blackmailing achievements. He is the political Dick Turpinof the time, and as such we presenthimin this week’scartoon supplement. FIGURES THAT SPEAK. Reckless Extravagance of theßepub* liran Party. [From the Grand Rapids Democrat J The extravagance of the Republican party is well illustrated in the matter of •salaries. The President’s salary has been raised from 825,000 to $50,000 a year, and, in addition to this, the expenses of the Executive Mansion paid by the Government have been gradually increased until they amount yearly to more than the nominal salary. As far back as 1873 they had reached 856.6:'.0. In 1867 the salaries of Congressmen were raised from $3,000 a year to $5,000, and in 1873 to $7,500; and other Federal salaries have been increased in the same proportion. Under the lost Democratic administration—in 1860—the total ordinary expenses of the Government, exclusive of interest, was $60,056,754. These same ordinary expenses, exclusive of the war debt, reached $164,521,507in 1870 under Republican administration, and $171,885,382 in 1880. Now, in 1882, these net annual expenses have been swelled to over $190,000,000 exclusive of all interest and war debt. Thus it is seen that the ordinary annual expenses of the Government have beeu increased some $130,000,000 over the maximum expenses of Democratic administration, or some $10,000,000 more than double the net expenses of 1860. The total expenses of the Government in 1860, ordinary and extraordinary, were only $70,000,000, and yet the administration was denounced by the Republican leaders as

grossly extravagant; while the total appropriations for the current fiscal year reach the enormous sum of over $400.000,000, or well nigh a quarter of the national debt! The profligacy of Republican administration in squandering the public money is surpassed even by the scandalous manner in which the public domain has been voted away in land grants to monopolies and corjiorations. From the records ot the Interior Department it appears that the total amount of those land grants in acres is 188,645,120, and in square miles 294,758. The area in square miles of the six New England States, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana amounts to 256,200, or 38,558 square miles less than the vast territory which has, during the last twenty years, been voted away by the Republican party to gigantic corporations and monopolies—more than territory enough to found an empire! There’s nothing small about the Republican party—in the way of squandering the people’s money or wasting their landed heritage. THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR TEN FISCAL YEARS, AS OFFICIALLY REPORTED BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 1873— Republican Congress|] 54,216,751 1874— Republican Congress 172,290,700 1875— Republican Congress 155,017,758 1876— Republican C0ngre55147,714,940 1877— Democratic House 124,122,010 1878— Democratic House 114,069,4 S 3 1879— I>emocratic House. 172,016,819 1880— Democratic House 162,404’647 1381—Democratic Congressls4,llß/212 1882 —Democratic Congress 177,809,214 Average for ten year 55153,386,053 THIS TEAR’S APPROPRIATIONS, AS STATED BY THB CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE. 1883—Robesonian C0ngre555294,293,097 Dick Harrington A Co. Why should it appear at all strange that Dick Harrington, who planned the safe burglary at Washington for Bobb Shepherd’s ring, should be made Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Delaware? True, he was indicted and escaped going to the penitentiary because the prosecution was not anxious to send him there. During the trial Gen. Grant gave him the moral support of the President's countenance and recognition by an invitation to a formal reception at the White House. In the same way Grant protected Babcock by giving away to the defense, represented by Emory Storrs, the proofs that should have convicted that plunderer. Secor Robeson is the accepted Republican leader in the House of Representatives. He made the Speaker. He is Chairman of the Republican caucus. He was tho directing mind of the special committee appointed to determine the business to bo considered at the late session. He is second on Naval Affairs. He is second on Rules. He is first on Naval Expenditures, and the last act of the Speaker was to put him on the select committee to investigate American shipping. The man who holds all these honors, without a word of protest from the, Re publican majority, was three several times denounced as “a thief, a liar and’ the hearing of the civilized world. He took the stigma, and did not utter a word of reply. He strutted before his associates as if a compliment had been bestowed upon Him for political service. Chorpenning Creswell was driven from Gen. Grant’s Cabinet upon reiterated charges of corruption and of complicity in the straw-bid frauds while he was Postmaster General. He swore with phenomenal vigor before several investigating committees, but public opinion as to his guilt was never changed in the least degree. He went out of the department rich and disgraced. Gen. Grant attempted to whitewash him subsequently by his appointment as counsel before the Alabama Commission, but he failed to alter the fixed judgment of the country. Creswell figured at Chicago in 1880 as a blatant third-termer, aud now he is again counsel for the new Alabama Commission in reward for that service. Stephen W. Dorsey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, is on trial at Washington for fraudulent conspiracy in the star route robberies. n» eny after the Presidential election by all the distinguished leaders of his party, with the then Vice President at the head of the table, and complimented for the corrupt methods by which “ Indiana was carried.” He has lost neither position nor confidence. Alter the remarkable disclosures or Blaine’s jobbery and his seizure of the Mulligan letters, and while every incident was fresh in the public mind, ho was barely beaten at Cincinnati for the Presidential nomination. With the proofs of glaring venality existing against him in official forms, and with perjury stamped upon his testimony before two Congressional committees, Gen. Garfield was elected Preside nt. Why should Republican newspapers that have tolerated these offenders, and have condoned their crimes, complain of Harrington as unworthy to be Chairman of a little committee in Delaware ? Is he any worse than those are who have been indorsed by the party in and out of Congress and by the President in the White House ?— New York Sun. Photographing the Baby. [Boston Post.] By the time the start for the gallery is made the baby is thoroughly exhausted and out of patience. The whole party go along, of course. When the gallery is reached, coaxing and tickling and baby talk all fail to put the subject into a good humor. One says she doesn’t see what makes him so cross. Another wonders what makes him act so. Still another declares that , he must be sick. The photographer j then comes to tho rescue. He has had exjieriences in many just such cases and knows what to do. He cannot do any- ' thing but what is a novelty to the baby, I aud he generally succeeds in quieting the child and successfully producing his likeness. He does it in the midst of ■ difficulties though. He has all the i eldferly attendants of the baby to oombat at’ first. They finally realize the fact that the artist can do better without their efforts, and as they go homeward one says: “How quickly he got the baby still. It’s perfectly wonderful. Some men do take to children that way and can do anything they want with them. I don’t wonder they take all their babies to him to have their pictures taken." A Day’s Fete. Goldsmith said: “My favorite festivity, my holiday of holidays, is to have three or four intimate friends to breakfastat 10; to dine at an ordinary frequented by authors, templars and citizens; to return at six to ‘White’s,’ and to end the evening with a supper; the whole expense of the day’s fete not to exceed a rown, for which the party obtain good air. good living and good conversation.”

HUMOR. UorsreoLD hints—Pokers and broomsticks. Thb modest man gets loft, whether the day be cold or hot. A raw recruit has to be often exposed to a hot tire before he becomes a seasoned soldier. As between the cheese press and the printing press the former is the strongest, but the latter is the most rapid. A fool in high station is like a man in a balloon—everybody appears little to him and he appears little to everybody. The shoe worn by ahorse is a wrought iron shoe, but when the horse loses tho shoe from its foot it becomes a cast iron shoe. “ Her loot 1« a poem,” the lover said ; “ A xnebdiouti rhythm i» her tread.” “ Yea,” laid bis friend (a sort of beat), “Spondtic the measure, two long feet.” —Louutvile. Courier-Journal. An office-holder soon tires of publio life when he suspects that his constituents have privately resolved not to reelect him. Many a self-made man would have daie better by himself had he let the contract out to somebody else. — Boston Transcript. A company of settlers, in naming their new town, called it Dictionary, because, as they said, “ that’s tho only place wlere peace, prosperity and happiness ars always found," Materia medica: American physician (te English ditto) —“ Now, in Vienna thsy’re first-rate at diagnosis ; but then, yen see, they always make a point of confirming it by a post-mortem. ” St. Louis has two pretty femala homeopathic physicians. Their first patient was a man who said he had the neuralgia from too much kissing, and wanted to be treated on homeopathic principles. As to “ what is rarer than a day in June ?” the Boston Advertiser replies, “taking their number into consideration, a day in February.” And so it is in other respects, for some of them are positively raw. “I think," said a fond parent, “that little Jimmy is going to be a poel when he grows up. He doesn’t eat, and sits all day by the stove, aud thinks, and thinks.” “ You had better grease him all over. He is going to have the measles. That’s what ails Jimmy.” “ Look here, August, why is it that you so often come to seo me, and never think of asking me to come to see you ?” August: “Oh, that’s easily explained. You see, if I call on you, aud you bore me, 1 can end the matter by leaving you. But if you were in my house, it wouldn’t be so easy to get rid of you.” You uhould Beo our Marshal oil buiae Like Napoleon Bonaparte; Aud aa he rides along the liuea Me makes the ladies start. With an old straw bat On each man’s head. And a lump of dough Just newly made. With the left foot first We'll lightly tread At the corner-stone parade. .r? rxArdh’ill tins city shw a clericallooking man in his audience, aud after the services went up to him, grasped his iiand cordially and said : “ How do you do, brother ; are you a pastor ?” The young man looked a trifle astonished, aud hesitatingly replied : “ Why, no, sir; not hardly ; I’m a bookkeeper in a ■ grocery store.’’— Springfield Republican. The Colonel, who lives in the South, was finding fault with Bill, one of his hands, for neglect of work, and saying he would have no more preaching about his place—they had too many protracted meetings to attend. “ Bill ain’t no preacher,” says Sam. “ He’s only a ’zorter.” “Well, what’s the difference between a preacher and an exhorter ?” “ Why, you know, a preacher he takes a tex’, and den he done got to stick to it. But a ’zorter—he kin branch.” All is Fair in Love and War. [Chicago Tribune.] brpiiM Lava TtaesAil seven or eight horse cars, but tho one for which Vivian is waiting finally comes along and soon lands him at the door of Pericler O,Rourke’s house. Ethelberta is sitting in her boudoir (high toned word forroom), sewing some foamy lace into the neck of a velvet dress, as the young man entered: “I have bad news for you, my darling,” Vivian says in sad tones, while a don't bluff-or-you-will-be-called look comes over his face. Bertie nestled her little dimpled i hands confidingly in bis. “Tell it to me at once, sweet,” she said, “only with you alive and well noUiing could bo so very dreadful. ” Vivian looked at her with a wonderful grave tenderness in his blue eyes. He was sizing her up. “My father and I have quarreled, and he has disinherited me. 1 have—" and here his voice quivered slightly—“been given the g. b. on your account, I am a beggar, Bertie. ” Her soft, dusky eyes grew wider and more serious. “Yes,” continued the sucker, “I am poor. But I wouldn’t eare if it wasn’t for.you, darling. It means that I must give you up, for I can not ask you to share life with me on a thousand a year. " She looked at him with a rich crimson blush surging into her cheeks. If it had been a full Vivian would probably have gone under, but a flush could never scare him. “Vivian,” she said passionately, “do you think I will let you give me up? I love you too wellfor that. A beggar or a prince, you are all the same to me—my king, my lover.” And he folded her to his heart with a great, almost speechless tenderness and |oy. “My darling, my precious,” he whispered. Three months, on a golden Deeemlier afternoon, with a blue sky as in June, there was a grand wedding at the O’Ronrke mansion. As Vivian and Ethelberta were entering the carriage that was to bear them to the depot she looked at him with a weirdly precious smile. “And so you would not desert me darling,” he said, “even when you thought I was poor?” “No, my precious one,” was the reply. “I learned long ago that a sucker once off the hook will never bite again, and y our father and I put up the job so as to land you a little quicker.” A Stingy Landlord. “Well, yes,” said the Colonel, gazing meditatively in the fire, “take him all in all, Dick Crawford was about the cleverest fellow I ever knew. Forty years ago, when Dick and I were young fellows, practicing law on this side of the mountains, things had a different look altogether than they liear nowadays The men rode, hunted, fought and made I

love harder than they seem to do now, and there was more fire and energy about them. We used to ride forty or fifty miles to attend court, and after business was over meet in one of the old taverns for a jovial supper. The only tavern at Greenbrier Court House in those days was kept by a man named Gill, a palavering knave, as stingy as the dickens. He had a monopoly and so he used to scrimp his meals. The food was generally good, but never enough of it. He knew this was tin' only tavern for miles. Dick Crawford was a big, strong fellow-, who liked his three squre meals a day, and many a time he swore he’d get even with old Gill for half starving him. One day a large crowd was assembled at Greenbrier Court. There was a murder trial going on, and the whole county turned out in consequence. At dinner time we all went across the green to the tavern, nd as usual found old Gill presiding with a smiling countenance over a table with very little on it save the dishes. Crawford surveyed the festive board with Sire-flashing eye. “Ask a blessing, Crawford,” called ant one of the young men at the far eud of the table. Quick as thought Crawford glanced around to see that everybody was attending, then bent his head, folded his hands, and said, in a loud, distinct voice: “Oil Thou, who gave the loaves anil fishes, Look down uj>on these empty dishes; May’st Thou these empty dishes fill, Bless all of us, and d old Gill.” The roar of laughter that followed shook the house, and Gill’s face was a study.— Burlington Huw key e. Old People at Home. When’ in late autumn we attempt to take up one of the plants which have grown luxuriantly in a garden bed, we find that the danger to its life, in transplanting, is not so much the injury which its large roots are likely to receive, as the smaller ones, which are like little fingers reaching everywhere. There is a strange likeness to this in tho uprooting of a life which has for years been lived in one home. There is nothing sadder than to see the old father and mother give up their independent life ami become inmates of a new homo with their children. This change is often, if not always, urged by sons and daughters from Uie purest motives. They feel that the cares of housekeeping, the oversight of a home, are too great burdens for father and mother. “Come and Jive with us,” they say, “and take life easy.” But few indeed, are the parents who can adjust themselves to the new relations, and their j eculiarly homeless feeling. They •seem to fit nowhere. They miss the old neighbors and all the little nameloss associations that helped to fill up tho measure of their days. They realize, as they never did in the old home, to which they gave tone and direction, how strongly Uie tide of young life flows on and leaves them behind, and unless their faculties are greatly impaired they are filjpd with sadness. .Thei. Jiave grandpa can do some trifling things, but there is nothing to satisfy them. It is no one’s fault; it is in the nature of things that this should be so; and so it seems that there should be less confidence placed in the appeals of children for their parents to break up the old homo before necessity compels them to do so. In our modern homes Uiere are not many “corners built for old age,” and possibly old age is not content with a corner, tlowever this may be, it certainly appears reasonable that solong as old people are able to carry on the home it is the wisest to leave them in it. I have in mind an aged couple who lived for over fifty years in one home. Their children left them, grandchildren also married and went to new homes, but the old home life went on. Interest in the great world outside was never lost; from constant use their faculties were apparently unimpaired: and when at 85 the mother, through bodily weakness, was compelled to stay in her room, that room became the center of interest in that bouse aud neighborhood. “It is almost sunset,” said the father, “but we like to enjoy the few light hours before dark. ” And they did enjoy them. In striking contrast is the remark made by an old man who lived or stayed first with one child and then another, wiUi no settled home. “I wish,” said he, “that when a man comes to my age and condition there might be a law making it legal to shoot him.” Commercial Item. “Allow me to speak with you a moment on a matter of business.” “What do you want?” asked the banker, gruffly. “There is money in it for both of us. If you don’t eare to accept my proposition, there are other bankers in Austin who will be glad to do so.” “Proceed.” “Well, von see I have been contemplating suicide. I’ve been thinking of throwing myself into the Colorado river. If I do, a subscription will be raised for my destitute family. You will be called on to contribute. You know these ladies who go about collecting money for the destitute. They w ill not let yon off under fifty dollars. You w ill pay that much to be left alone. Yon can’t put them off like von can me.” ‘■Well, proceed. I know all that.” “My proposition is this: I will give up all suicidal ideas. You will not have to pay + he fifty dollars for my distressed fainilv. Thanks to me, yon make one hundred pier cent, on the investment without having to do anything.” “Well, what nest?” “What next! I want my ten per cent commission, of course, w hich is just five dollars. That’s what’s next." —[Texas Siftings. Don’t Whine. Don’t be whining about not having a fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of the window and he’ll fall on his feet and ask the nearest way to his work. The more you have to begin with the less you will have in the end. Money you earn yourself is much brighter than any you get out of dead men’s bags. A scant breakfast in the morning of life whits the appetite for a feast later in the day. He who has tasted a sour apple will have tho more relish for a sweet one. Your present want will make future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen pence has set up many a peddler in business, and he has turned it over until he has kept hia carriage. As for the place you are cast in, don’t find fault with that; you need not be a horse because you were born in a stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky high, he would drop down into a good place. A hard working young man with his wits about him will make money while others will do nothing but lose it

What is a Gentleman? It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarressed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than take the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or convenience in arrangments of a personal nature; like an easy chair or a good fire, whice do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides means of rest and animal heat without them. The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast; all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint of suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at their ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; ho is tender toward the bashful' gentle towards the the distant, and merciful toward the absurd; he gaurds against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irriate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort; he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayiingsfor arguments, orinsinuaates evil which he dares not say out. From a long sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should conduct ourselves towards our enemies as if he were one day to be our friend. He has too much good 'sense to be affronted at insults, and is too well employed to remember injuries. He is patient, forbearing and resigned, on philosophical principles. He submits to pain, because he is irreparable to i .death, because it is his destiny. If ho engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds, who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconcive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clearheaded to lie unjust; he is as simple as he is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive. Nowhere shall we find grearter candor, consideration, indulgence. He throws himself into the minds of his opponents, he accounts for their mistakes, he knows the weakness of human reason as well as its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliver, he will be too profound and large-minded to is lob 'wise'to'no a (ibgmfliist dr lntmiic in his infidelity, He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honors the ministers Jof religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assaling or denouncing them. He is a friend of religious toleration, and that, not only because his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness of feeling, which is the attendant of civilization. Buddhist Monks Os Tartary. The lamaseries, or monasteries, of Tartary, which follow the Thibet rule, and are subject to the dalai-lama, or Buddhist pope at Lassa, have great influence over the Tartars of this wild region. Whenever a new monastery or temple is to be built, the begging lamas are sent out in every direction, going from tent to tent, and collecting large sums from the people of Tartary, notwithstanding their poverty. In these deserts edifices are reared as if by enchantment, whose grandeur and opulence would defy the resources of the wealthiest potentates. They are built of stone, the temples solid and often elegant; aud the idols are not horrid monsters, but have regular European features and a pleasant expression. The convents of Kouren, which has thirty thousand lamas, covers the whole side of a mountain, and contains a collection of temples; with white cells for the monks, in horizontal lines, one above the other, resembling, at a distance, a vast stairway. Innumerable tents below contain the pilgrims, who are always arriving and departing. The chief lama of tills convent is called the guison-tam-ba; and a visit which this abbot once made to the Emperor of China, though his retinue was limited to three thousand lamas, stirred all Tartary with an emotion which gave no little alarm to the court at Pekin. The largest part of the lamas live in communities; but another part, after pursuing their studies in convents, return home, and are a kind of out door priests, And another portion are perpetual wanderers, vagabond priests, who are always migratory, moving about at random, without aim or purpose and depending for their support on the never-failing hospitality of the Tartars. The Buddhist monks take the same three vows which are imposed on all the orders of Christian monks, namely, of poverty, chastity, and obedience. And all the Buddhist priests are monks, and nearly all are mendicants. They go out e very day, stopping for a miuute in silence before each house, and receive the rice which may be put into the bowl which they carry. If none is given to them, they go on in silence to the next house. I’his is donewhen they are near cities or tow* s; but when they are far from any surrounding population, they are allowed, it seems, to support themselves by pastoral and agricultural labors' The census reports show that there are in the United States 1,942 establishments for the production of agricultural implements. Os these 221 are in Illinois, 265 in New York. 220 in Pennsylvania, 155 in Ohio, 143 in Michigan. The total capital employed is $62,315,968; amount paid in wages. $15,499,114; v timberalue of used. $5,791,910; value of iron and steel, $18,424,052; value of other materials. $7,878.202: total. $32.094,107. The largest number of persons employed during the year was 49.180. The total value of all products was $08,373,080. In 1850 the total product was $0,842,611. Tn 1800 it was $17,587,900. In 1870 $52,060,875. During the census year there w ere made 325,057 cultivators, 131.003 harrows, 280.654 dozen of hoes, 212.147 dozen of shovels. 308,732 dozen of hand rakes, 1,361,443 plows, 211,738 dozen of hay forks, 1,244,264 scythes, 43,717 scythe snaths; mowers, 72,000; seed-sowers,

NUMBER 22.

20.289. In 1850, 7,220 persons were employed; in 1860, 14,814; in 1870, 25,249: and in 1880, 49,180. liaising Children. Children should be set out in the nursery at as early a period in married life us is consistent with good taste. When very young they should be kept quiet, not too much exposed to the ligliit. It is usual to engage some old and experienced expert to attend to this, and the direstion in which the “twig is inclined” at this stage is generally the ruin of the parents’ peace of mind for two years. Milk is said to bo good for babies, but there are so many “patent foods” now sold at the drug stores that milk may as well be done away with. Give the child something that you don’t know anything about aud it will thrive—jossibly. Don’t cross the child when it is small. It will take so kindly to having its own way that it is really cruel to insist on parental rights in the matter. Learn the little coots to “crow” as early as possible. Take them in your hands aud toss them up us high as you can and jounce their digestive organs all out of place. This is a genuine “raise” of children. As soon as possible put the green baby into a baby carriage and push it along the side-wulk, running into everybody with it and gathering admiring crowds at the crossings to worship it. This will give the little one some idea of the way of getting on in the world in later years. It is a good plan to hurry up a child in the matter of walking. The sooner a child walks the more bow-legged and irrepressible he will be when he grows up. J ust the moment the child lets go its mother’s apron-strings plant it in the neighbor’s front yard. This will save your own lawn, while the little fellow digs up the turf aud carries away the lawn of the neighbor in his little red wheelbarrow. Train the child to'“appear" in company. Urge him forward. There is nothing like it. Visitors so much admire to have children climb and crawl all over them in their geutle, prankish way. A good shale of dirt makes a child grow. Soap and water is useful, however'once a week, to enable parents to recognize their own children when they call them in to diuner. Let them have their own sweet way always. They willretaliate in the future by uot letting you have yours; but what matters that? Never allow neighbor’s children on your promises. The hateful things will influence your own children for bad. Allowing your children to play with your neighbors’ children on their premises, however, has a sanitary effect on those benighted little frauds, aud it is your Christian duty to see that your children mingle in this manner as much as possible. The best dressing for children is the sulcjOf.'k.s’iuo'H'u vlk.v'd’tiifltL liimwppAv ed vigorously—once iu a while. Good clothes, pretty clothes arc an elaborate necessity for little ones. If you are an $lB buisuess-suit man, you can afford to dress a child on a §3O silk velvet, brass button basis. When children get big enough to go to school—well, you will be astonished at the remarkable unanimity of the school teacher aud board of education in relieving you of all rights, privilege and authority. You won’t have anything more to do but sit with hands folded and see these “servants of the public” make precious little prigs of your darlings. Aaron Burr And Disraeli. Aaron Burr was possessed of a taut which never failed him. He was walking Broadway, one day, after a long absence from New York, when two ladies passed him, “Why, there’s Colonel Burr!” said one lady, who had formerly known him, to the other. Burr stopped, bowed, held out his hand, but only seemed to recognize her. “You don’t remember me Colonel Burr,” said the lady. “lam Miss—— “What!” Miss yet?” answered Burr “Yes, sir; Miss yet,” the lady replied, with just a trace of asperity iu her reply. “I am sure, madaine it could not have been the fault of our sex,” said Burr with a smile. An anecdote told of Disraeli, soon after he was created Earl of Beaconsfield, exhibits him as worthy to rank with Burr as a masterly social tactician: It appears that not long after his transplantation from the House of Commons to the pouse of Lords, Disraeli met a brothdr peer in the street, who asked him how he liked the change. “Like it!” exclaimed Disraeli, forgetting himself for the moment, and blundering out with the truth; “like it!” I feel as if I were dead and buried!” Then seeing the expression of discomfiture on the peer’s face, he added, hastily with a courtly bow and an irresistible smile, “and in the land of the blessed!” A Triumph of Science. Chemists and scientists are literally performing miracles nowadays. Not many years since it was supposed that it was quite beyond the bounds ofchem ieal knowledge to make artificially organic compounds, that is to say, it was impossible to reproduce any of the products of animal life. It was supposed that the chemistry of nature could never be imitated iu the organic world. Tn urea was the first product of the kind actually brought into existence by chemical combmation, and now quite a number of organic products can as it wore be recreated by the scientists. This being so, it is not impossible that the time may come when food will bo created by chemical means out. of the materials in the world about us. ami without utilizing plants er the flesh of animals. If that time should evercouie there will be no ne«‘d to grow crops or slaughter cattle. But thcchemist in his laboratory will be able at a trifling cost to turn : sh us with osposian viants, at oud-c toothsome and wholesome. Two young rascals, true types of American boys, were arrested in a Philadelphia park for boisterous and troublesome conduct Being locked up in an underground cell they amused them selves by catching rats and tying them to empty cigar boxes that happened to be within reach. When their respective paternals arrived they found their wild sous engaged iu betting their loose change upon a rat race. They were entoying the situation arnazinirl v. A SIDE-SHOW giant luiuini Goshen slubbed a circus man badly this week for stealing $6,000 in silver, burning up SIO,OOO worth of liomls, stealing his horse, wagon and goat, and eloping with his w ife. Evon giants sometimes lose their patience.