Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1883 — Page 1

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©re -Democrat OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNIT. ROTH * CUMMINS, Editors and Prop's. TERMS: Per Year, in advance ft so Per Year, if net paid in a.I vauce. .2 00 R B. A Uhov, Preet. W. H. NiujCK,Cashier. » Stctsussi, vice Preet. 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. 25jy791l PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DICATOB, INDIANA. Wil] practice in Adams and adjoining eoanlies. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No Uries Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf ' E. H. COVERDALH, •Attorney al LaiO t —jA»n(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Wclfley’i grocery, opposite the Court House. J.T. FRANCE, Pros. Att’y. J. T. MERRYMAN, Noian' Public. I -FRANCE & MERRYMAN,— Attorneys at Law, DECATUR, - - - INDIANA. ■ OFFICE r—Nos. land 2 over Stone's Hard- I ware Store. Collecting a specialty.—lo ./.IS. /’. J/.1.V.V, s wcesaort) the firm of Quinn A Mann ) Attorney At Law, DECATUR. INI). Especial att-nt ion jrivcn to collections ami Probate matters. Will buy and sell Real Estat.on commission. n - m 2 ... I>. D. HELLEIS. I'AI.'I. HOOPI B HELI,ER <1 HOOPER. Attorneys At Law, DECATUR. - - INDIANA. L. C. DE VOSS, Attorney At Law, DEC vn K. IND., Will practice in the Civil an I Criminal Courts of the State. Special attention given to collections and settling descendants estates. Office in Luckey’s new building. FRANCE X LITZ, DHUATI It. IND.. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, >© Office over Stone’s hardware store, roo m 4 B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. J. «. BOYERS, M. D. DRS. FREEH 1 V <(• ROYERS. Mtim of Meliclne am Sorcery. All calls promptly attended to day or night Office, Southeast corner Monroe and Second streets, in Niblick’s n-w block. Residence on Third street, near Monrce. no‘24-tf W. H. MYERS, trick If Stour .Tlason contract DBCATUB, INDIANA. lolicits work of all kinds In his line. Pereona contemplating building might make a point by coneultlng him. Estimates on application, v25n45m8. SEYMOUR WORDEN, A-UCtioneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. nß6tf. AUCUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DBCATUB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Flue out, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of nil kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ? ncer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ovft Welfley’s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. 87-m'T A>D SHOES. One Door west of Niblick, Crawford and Sons, Hom?y Winncs, DECATUR, INDIANA. One of the best selected stock of Boots, io< s, new and Seasonable Goods, etc., inding everything In his line, and prices jbnteeri as low as can be found in this rket. Come and see for yourselves. DTICE TO TEACHERS. N'o Ice is hereby given that there vril’ l>e a public exainaminitiou of teacher at the office of the County Sunerin-t-nde t ou the last Satnrdiy of eae! mouth Applicants for license must present ‘‘the proper trustees'certificate, or other satisfactory evidence of good tnora' character. ’ and to be success! 1 must pass a good exaarination in or tbogr; phv, reading, w riting, arittmeti gaog.-.pliy, Eng!i»’» physio! oj’a d LjriOry of the United Stat-33. J. F. Snow. Co. Supt.

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the rest is good enough for me. I quarrel not with Destiny. < I make the best of everything— The best is good enough for me. Leave Discontent alone, and sho M 111 shut her mouth and let you sing, I quarrel not with Destiny. I take some things, or let 'em be— Good gold has always got the ring; The best is good enough for me. M hen fate insists on secrecy, I have no arguments to bring— I quarrel Destiny. The fellow that goes "haw" for “gee" ” ill find he hasn’t got full swing, The best is good enough for me. One only knows our needs, and ho Does all of thedis'.ribatmg. I quarrel not with destiny; The beat is good enough for me. —J. H. Ruty. Postage not Stated. I was tall, overgrown, awkward and 16, with a pervading consciousness that my hands and feet were very large, and the added miser}’, in the case of the former members, that they were always red, and I never knew what to do with them when in company. I was making a visit at grandmother’s delightful, old-fashioned country home, when one morning the dear old lady called me to her. “Here is something for you, Jim,” she said, “an invitation to a children’s party at Mrs. Edwards.” “Children’s party,” I repeated, probably with a shade of scorn in my voice, as indicating that I was no longer tot be placed in that juvenile category. “Not children exactly,” corrected grandma, with a smile at my masculine dignity. “Young people. I should have said. Mrs. EdwardsVlaughter Florence is 14, and Tom Byrne and all the boys —young men, I should say,” with a twinkle of amusement, “will be there.” I had sundry misgivings that I should not enjoy the party at all, being as yet very much afraid of gills, though beginning to admire them as mysterious and fascinating beings. However, I accepted the invitation, as I found that all the boys I knew were going, and the party was to be quite a “swell” affair for the village. XV hen the evening came it found me with the rest, seated in a large parlor, very unhappy because of my arms and hands, which would by no means arrange themselves in any graceful or becoming manner, and extivmnly bashful, but full of admiration for a lovely black-eyed girl about a year vounger than myself, who I knew to bo Tom Byrne’s sister. She sat some distance from me, but she had given mo a sweet smile when I first came in, and now from time to time cast glances at me which increased at once my bliss and my confusion. Various games were suggested and played, but they were of a quiet character, such as “Twenty Questions,” “Proverbs,” etc., so that I had no opportunity of approaching any nearer to Mabel, who showed herself very brilliant in her questions and answers during the progress of these intellectual amusements. Then somebody suggested that we should play Postofflce. “Postoffice! what is that? how do you play it ?” I whispered to Tom Byrne, my next neighbor. “Don’t you know how to play Postoffice?” he asked, with scorn of my ignorance. “Oh, well, I suppose you city fellows don’t know anything.” “I never heard of this,” I assented meekly. “Well, I’ll tell you how it is; a girl asks for a letter for some boy, and then you have to ask her how much postage, ' and if she says 1 cent, you have to kiss her once.” “Oh!” said I. “Yes,” replied Tom, “and kiss her twice for 2 cents, and three times for 3 cents. It’s quite fun if it’s a pretty girl,” he added, judicially. “I suppose so,” I replied, vaguely. “But I forgot to tell you,” he aided, “if she says ‘ postage not stated' then ' you kiss her as often as you like. Hush! they are going to begin.” To be sure, one of the oldest boys was appointed Postmaster, and one girl after another went out into the entry, each presently knocking at the door and asking for a letter, whereon the bov called for sheepishly followed her into the hall, and to judge from the sounds of screaming and scuffling which generally followed, payed his postage under considerable difficulties. I watched the game in a state of bewildered alarm. What if a girl should call for me! But no one did and I was half disappointed, half relieved, that I was exempt, when at last it was Mabel Byrne’s turn to go out. 'She left the room with a lovely blush on her beautiful face. The door was solemnly closed upon her, and then, after a brief pause, there was a faint knock. The Postmaster opened the door a few inches. “What do yon want?” he asked. “There is a letter here,” she replied. “For whom?” “For Mr. James Hill.” “How much to pay ?” “Postage not stated,” was the faint re iVey all langhed loudly and looked at me, for that was my name. The blood rushed in crimson floods to my face. I got on my feet somehow, and with my heart torn between a wild desire to go into that hall and a wish to sink utterly away from human kind, I stumbled out of the room. The door was closed behind me and 1 found mvself almost in darkness, as the hall was but dimly lighted. I paused a moment and then I heard the faint sound of quick breathing; another heart was beating as violently as my own. For once in mv life I knew what to do with mv arms. I caught hold of her. I scarcelv know how. The darkness gave me courage and I held her in a close clasp, and pressed my bps to her cheek in three or four rapid, halffrightened kisses, before she could free herself from my embrace. “There, there! Mr. Hill, she said, with a faint merry laugh, “dont be so bashful again. I’m sure you are bold en “Have D °l paid my postage?' I bt “Tndeed' yes; enough and to spare. Come let us go back to the parlor. She led me in, a willing priaouer. and the rest of the evening I was her bond slave- her partner in al! games, he ompanion in the dance, (wherein I excelled the country boys, and gloried in mv accomplishment,) and. eiiwnfflg delight of the evening, her <SC This b X e 'all. The next day I reto mv home in the city, and Ysabel Bvrne became only a memory; strong at first, fainter as time went on but sweet always. When I saw other girls I compared them wi the picture my imagttatioa Mabel, and they never Bscmcd n*lf so fair and sweet m she.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Hl, 1883.

But then, I did not see many other girls. My bashfulness, instead of diminishing, seemed rather to increase upon me as the years went by. I avoided society, and was so much of a recluse from ladies that my mother was quite worried lest I should become a confirmed old bachelor. Perhaps one reason why I retained my diffidence was that my pursuits were among books and not among people. I had made the science of geology my study, and at 27 found myself in a comfortable position as Assistant Professor in one of our best colleges, the salary of which with my own income added, making me so far at ease that I resolved to devote my summer vacation to a tour in Europe. Equipped with bag and hammer, August found me making a pedestrian tour in Switzerland, with a special view to the study of its glacial system and lithology. I avoided the welltraveled ways, thus escaping the society of all other tourists, and I was therefore utterly amazed when one evening, as I drew near the little house which was my temporary abiding place, a tall form strode toward me out of the darkness and a hearty voice cried out: “Jim! Jim Hill!” “Who is it?” I replied, with a half nervous start. “Ah! I thought it was my old friend. Have you forgotten Tom Byrne ?” Os course not, for I had met him occasionally since we were boys, and I was heartily glad to see my former comrade, always one of the best of companions. “I saw your name on the book at the inn, ”he explained; “was sure it must be you. At any rate I thought I would start out to meet you.” “But how came you here?” I inquired, “in this out-of-the-way corner of the world.” “Because it is out of the way. Mabel and I are making a trip in search of the picturesque. You know she is quite an artist?” So Mabel was with him. My heart gave a curious thump, and for a moment I could hardly make a sensible reply. “Yes,” he went on, “she is so devoted to her art that it seems to quite absorb her life. She has not thought of marriage, and does not care in the least for the ordinary run of society. She will be glad to see you, though,” he added consolingly, “as you are a man We w aikv-l back together to the little inn, and presently t wag shaking hands with a beautiful and stuApiy woman whose bright, dark eyes flastiec. vvitli the strange intensity and fire that I haa never seen in any other eyes but those of Mabel Byrne. She greeted me very cordially and after we three had taken an evening meal together, there followed a delightful evening in the little parlor- that Tom and his sister had secured. For once in my life I felt myself quite at ease in a lady’s society. In the first place there was Tom to keep me in countenance by a predominance of my own sex in the company, then Mabel did not expect me to talk of airy nothings, that light foam of the social whirlpool which I never yet had been able to skim. She spoke first of my scientific pursuits, and showed so much knowledge of the subject that I really found myself talking with earnestness and enthusiasm of the formation of the country, and especially of the glacial system and the curious marks of its action borne by the specimens I had collected. She in her turn contributed to the evening’s interest by telling me of her work, and showing me her sketches, which were really of a very high order of artistic merit. There was no schoolgirl weakness in her handling of the brush, but a force and poetic thought that had won her already honorable recognition in the world of art. “And you have never heard of Mabel’s paintings until now?” asked Tom. “No,” I confess. “You know I have been quite absorbed in nay special studies.” “Yes, and you have not seen Mabel for ever so long, have you?” “Ne,” I replied, “not since that summer ten years ago, when I was at my grandmother’s.” “Jolly time we had, too,” said Tom, reflectively. “Remember that party at Mrs. Edwards?” A sudden rush of blood to my face utterly confused me. I stammered a reply, and Tom, to my relief, wont on with some rambling reminiscences. It was some seconds before I dared to look at Mabel. Surely she was blushing, too. The next morning we all went on a trip up the slopes of the mountain. Mabel in short, gray suit, alpine hat, and stout boots; Tom carrying her drawing material. Thus w-e made this, and many another, delightful expedition. Life took on new colors for me. There was a radiance and glory about it that I had never dreamed of before. Every day I found fresh reason for admiring mv beautiful companion, and our walks through the deep valleys and up the rough mountain sides were to me like enchanted journeys through a realm of fairies. In this loveliest country in the world, with this most glorious woman by my side, I was, indeed, as one transfigured by the light of the grand passion that took possession of my soul. At first I knew not what had befallen me. I thought only that my pleasure in Mabel’s society sprang from a similarity of tastes and pursuits, and the charm of her conversation; but gradually I woke to the overwlie’ming fact that' I loved her with the one great, love of mv life, that seemed to me now to date from the days of long ago, to have been always with me, and to stretch , out into the future to make it transcendentlv glorious, or a long despair. And yet as soon as I had learned my | own secret, my former bashfulness came 1 back upon me with tenfold inteh -ity, . and I found myself often embarrassed in her presence, while at the thought of telling her my heart's story, though , mv brain was smitten through with dazzling delight at the dream of successful wooing, yet I was so over- ; whelmed that utterance would, as I was snre, be an impossibility. And Mabel? Her eyes were very kind to me. They turned to me with a softened luster that thrilled me with hope; and yet, if I attempted evena compliment, I blushed, floundered, and was lost. . c _n One evening we were talking of all manner of subjects, grave and gav, and so straved to marriage in general and especially to the matrimonial lot oi some of our old friends. “You remember Boyd, dont you, Hill?” asked Tom. “Tall, bashful fellow, like me? I replied Tom, laughing. «tt _ —i L Lr.iY'Lmiß oui

j _ former school teacher. I always thought she proposed to him. ’’ "Sensible girl!” I exclaimed. “I think it is positi v -ly a woman’s dutj sometimes to help a man out. You re--1 member that book of the late Dr. Hor- > ace Busnell, published some years ago, 11 called ‘A Reform Against Nature?’ In 'j it he denounced the whole woman’s > I rights movement, but maintained that : every woman ought to have the right to propose marriage to the man she liked, i I think he was scientifically correct.” I spoke with great eagerness, looking : always at Tom. but at the last words my glance turned to Mabel, her eyes were fixid on mine, and the look I met there sent, the blood to my heart with such a swift, tumultuous rush, that I grew faint with confusion, and presently , rushed oat of the room and to bed— I ! though not to sleep. , I The next day I went out in the after- . I noon by myself for a scramble through • a damp and very rough gorge where , j Tom and Mabel did not care to ac- ; company me. I was half glad to die i ' alone for I was nervous over my audac- [ ' ity of the night before; yet at thought | of Mabel’s kindly eyes, so overwnelmed with blinding happiness, that I had to look many times at a bit of rock before • 1 I conld see the striae that denoted ! glacial action. It was late sunset when I reached the inn. The last rosy light was flushing L I the distant mountain peaks with that ' i marvelous beauty which is one of the • i wondrous charms of Swiss scenery 1 ' | made my way without pause to Mabel’s | parior, led there by a force that seemed i to draw me by a power beyond my con- ; trol. The room was quite dusk and she [ was alone. As I entered she came toward me with a quantity , of letters . and papers in her hands. “These came while you were away,” she said. [ Mechanically I took the papers.; ■ Among them there was a large package , on which I dimly discerned the word “Due,” followed by an illegal stamp. : “Y’ou have paid something on this,” i : I said; “how much was it?” and looked up. “Postagenot stated,” replied Mabel. , Promptly, smilingly, she uttered the , words. Then her dark eyes softened . and faltered. The papers and letters , were scattered over the floor. I had , caught her in my arms with all the t audacity that had been once before mine in my boyish days. , Only now, as I pressed passionate kisses on her brow and lips, 1 found voice at last to utter the yearning that was consuming my heart.—Liilie Dev- ’ ereux Blake, in Dio Lewis’ Monthly. > — —- - V'"<-dote of Abrliam Lincoln. I The origiu o f Lincoln’s intimacy with ; Joshua F. Speed is thus related: “Mr. Speed began his business life as a meri chant in Springfield, Hl.. where he was settled when Mr. Lincoln came there !I to open a law office. One day, he : was sitting in his store in an interval oi' i leisure, Mr. Lincoln, whose ingrained ■ awkwardness was then aggravated by I youth, came up to the counter, and ac- ■ costed him with visible embarrassment. ‘I want to know. Spaed,’he said, ‘the- > cost of a bedstead and bed,’ adding a i • rough description which indicated the I i cheapest kind of both. ‘What you | ■ want,’ answered Mr. Speed, ‘will cost i you about sl7.’ At this Lincoln’s jaw > dropped, and a painful expression of L sadness and perplexity spread over his • countenance. Mr. Speed, noticing the - look, and rightly interpreting it tc signify that the price exceeded Lincoln’s s means, quickly added: ‘Mr. Lincoln, I ■ have a proposition to make you. My partner has just got married, and his • bed in my room up-stairs is vacant. If ■ you are willing to occupy it, and share i my room with me, you are more than ; welcome.’ The painful expression ins stantly vanished from Lincoln’s face as, with a few simple words of thanks, he i accepted the offer and disappeared. In a short time he reappeared with a pair of! > j old-fashioned saddle-bags on his arm,! . I and, directed by his new friend, sham- i I bled up-stairs to the designated room, i . i A minute had scarcely passed before he [ ' shambled down again, and as he reached ■ the shop-room cried out, his face beam- i ing with jocund content, ‘Well, Speed, I’ve moved.’ Henceforward unto death Lincoln and Speed were bosom friends.” , How to Secure Criminal Practice. A murderer in New York can, if he , chooses, take his pick from a considerable number of fairly-competent law- : yers, even though he hasn’t a dollar , with which to pay. “I was five years getting into a' profitable criminal practice, ” one of the men in this line , ! is quoted as saying, “and I succeeded only by serving gratis. I haunted i police courts, and to every prisoner ' committed for trial who had no counsel I tendered myself. In' the trial courts i the Judge may assign any lawyer present to defend a prisoner not provided ■ with counsel. I made it a point to be on hand for these assignments. Os i course many of the cases were so small that they didn’t get into the papers at all, and in some that were reported my name would not appear, but usually | each hard day’s work brought the de-: sired reward in the way of publicity. : : My practice grew to immense piopor- i tions, but it was a year before I could get money enough out of it in a week to pay my modest board bill on Saturday night. At the end of the second year I had worked up to a barely living income, but had a debt left to clear off, and it is only very lately that I have i become established firmly enough to refuse all but cash cases. Indeed, Ido ' not yet let a good murder fall into rival hands on account of the perpetrator's impecuniosity. Let me advise you to i corny; a sensational crime, if any, bei cause® 7 ou can then secure lawyers free j —more eminent ones, too, than you may imagine.” Trotting Time. “It is but a short time, I know,” said Gen. Withers, “since people have begun to be convinced that the trotter was not merely a happy accident, and could be bred at all; but look at the uniform improvement in the record since scientific breeding began: Lady Suffolk, one mi1e18452.28 < Flora Temple, “ 18592.19 M ! Dexter, “ 1«67X17J4 I Goldsmith Maid, " 1874 2.14 Earns. “ 18782.1314 St Julien, “ i8602.HM MaudS., ” 18812.1054 Failures are frequent, of course, but nothing is more certain than that trotters are begotten by trotters. As any thoroughbred can beat any common horse at the run, so that it is not even necessary to have a trial to be sure of it, we expect to arrive at the same accuracy with the trotting horse.” “And what is the Lmit of time at ; which you will finally arrive?” “Two minutes now is not more incredible than was two-twenty a quarter of a -eut'jjy ago,” replies the GteuqroL —IE H. Bishop, in Harper’s Maya- > tine.

PITH AM) POINT. High in rank —Old butter. A corner in pork —A pig’s ear. 4V hat letter in the alphabet is the ; best initial for cucumber? Double you. ( A hog may be considered a good mathematician when it comes to square root. “Can you tell me the cause of a boil ?” Certainly; a fire under a kettle of water. “Dear lady, please help an unfortunate man. I ain’t had no work at my trade since last winter.” “Poor man! i What is your trade?” “Shovelin’ snow, mum.” “Mamma,” said Harry, “what’s the ( difference betwaen goose and geese?” ! “Why, don’t you know?” said 4-year- , old Annie: “one geese is goose, and a whole lot of gooses is geese. ” From the Burlington Free Press: j “Who is that Thin, Sad Man—is he an ! i Editor?” “Oh, no, my son, the Editor is Fat and Strong. The Man you see j was married when he was 19 years old.” s Some Tittle girls are peculiar. There is one who wont play “Come to tea” with her playmates, because she don’t like to talk about her neighbors. — Carl Pretzel’s Weekly. An Irish soldier, on hearing that his widowed mother had been manned since he quitted Ireland, exclaimed: ‘Murther! I hope she wont have a son older than me; if she does I shall lose she estate. ” . It took two doctors to put back in I place the lower jaw- of a Newport, Ky., woman who had thrown it out of place while trying to tell a neighboring woman across the fence two new scanlals at the same time. “No, George, I can never return ; four love; I never dreamed you loved Re so—you should have spoken of it iefore. But I cannot return your love. ” 'No,” moaned the broken - hearted over, as he grasped his liat, “nor the jysters and ice-cream neither,” and iieorge went out into the wet.—Bochesler Post-Express. A VERY good hit was made at an election in Scotland by one of the defeated candidates. A gentleman approached him with, “Well, Mr. , how do you feel?” “Well,” said he, ’’l feel, I suppose, pretty much as Lazarus did.” “As Lazarus did?” said the first speaker; “how is that? “Why,” said he, “Lazarus was licked by dogs, and so was I. ” in India one day an sat With a smart native lasß at the window, “Do your widows bum themselves? Pray tell me that!" Said the pretty, inquisitive Hindoo, “Do they burn? That they do!” the gentleman said, "With a flame not so easy to smother: Our widows, the moment one husband is dead Immediately bum —for another." A young dude of the shoe-string kind attempted to pilfer a lock of hair from the red-head of a Washington street girl. She foiled him in his efforts by having her hair bleached. That of course changed the combination and as j he was not familiar with it, he took the hint, and ceased tampering with the k -Pretvpra darwin’s missing link. If Darwin was correct. As many now suspect. And his theory is plausible we think. And if we‘re not mistaken After due consideration. We have positively seen the missing link. This scientific seeker Could now exclaim Eureka, Though the object did his search so long elude. He would feel a thrill of pleasure, A joy beyond ail measure. Could he gaze upon the gay and festive dude. —Neio York Journal. “How can I leave you, my darling?” murmured a Toledo lover in tones of distressing tenderness, as he observed both hands of the clock approaching a perpendicular on the dial. “Well, John,” responded the girl with wicked innocence, "you can take your choice. If you go through the hall you will be liable to wake up father, and if you leave byway of the back shed you’ll be likely to wake up the dog.” What Small Farms Have Done. The primitive American farm stocked Congress, the State Legislature, supi plied the best material for bench and bar, and much of the enterprise which has made Wall street famous through»ut the world and Chicago the wonder of the age. The aggregate results of these primitive farms and farmers we see in the incomparable growth of the Western States. r ln the whole history of mankind there is nowhere anything equal to it; nowhere else anything fairly to be compared to it. In a half lentury, from the humblest beginnings we have grown in wealth to exceed that >f the richest nation of the world, in incient or modern times, and there still remains in the hands of the 4,000,009 small farmers of the country more than a moiety of this grand aggregate of the national wealth, notwithstanding the efforts of greedy monopolists and thieving corporations to grasp it all. The primitive small farm is the glory and strength of the country—in peace | its source of revenue, conservator of law, morals, religion, womanly virtue, family ties, manly courage and independence; in war the sword and shield : of the nation. — San Francisco Chron- ' icle. Education. The main purpose of education is not to promote success in life, but to raise the standard of life itself; and this object can be attained only by those higher studies which call forth the powers of reason, moral feeling, and artistic taste. Even in professional education, our aim ought rather to be usefulness in life than mere success,and we have great distrust of all theories of education that nut success in the first place. We believe that education should be of a kind in sympathy with the present age, and that it should by no means neglect to fit its recipient for the struggle of life; but we object to I’rof. Jevons’s theory because it puts worldly success before the pursuit of beauty and truth; and we should be sorry to see such theories find acceptance with American educators.— Century Magazine. Preparing for Death. A German Captain, who was stationed in a small town, was notified of his promotion to Major of the re giment. The first thing lie did was to notify his landlord that he bad no further use for the house he was renting, and would move at the end of the month. “But you have always express d yourself as highly pleased with the .ouse.” “So I was, but now I am promoted to Major, and if I were to die I would ba ' entitled to have three companies in my I ‘ mera! procession. There is not room in the narrow streets for that mauy i soldiers to march in proper order, so I must mavo to a broaje. street, where I can receive the funeral honors due my waited poiilioa. Texas Siftings.

THE OHIO ELECTION. Political Sages Theorizing Over the Result Sepublicans Charge the Prohibitionists with Defeating Them. fudge Hoadly Thinks Wool, Grapes and Negroes Were Potent Factors. OHIO OPINIONS. /Columbus Telegram to St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. J As the returns becofrie more complete and their eccentricities are more fully developed, the Democrats are as much perplexed as the Republicans. Contrary to all precedents, the victorious party has been almost as silent is the vanquished. In no place that can be neard of there been the usual boisterous iemonstrations. Both parties seem to be lazed by the peculiarity of the result. What puzzles the Democrats is that they have lost where they should have gained and gained where they should have lost. The same thing compels the Republicans to wonder at and analyze the figures. Judge Foraker attributes his defeat to the zeal of the temperance Republicans in behalf of the prohibition amendment. Both candidates are agreed, for Judge Hoadley attributes his success to the same thing. Ex-Senator Thurman said .ast night that the contest had been won in a scramble, and that all prognostications as to Its effect upon the future were worthless. [Cincinnati Telegram to the Chicago Inter Ocean.] Everybody now is discussing the battle and the defeat. Wool, wine and temperance is Halstead’s diagnosis. Others say it was poverty; that the State Central committee had pnly $9,000 all told; that they hoped for money, and kept on giving orders to the local committees and promising money, which they were unable to send, until finally the local committees refused to obey any orders that Involved pecuniary liability, and so the battle was lost by default. Here in Hamilton county on election day the Democrats were doubly as full-handed as the Republicans in ready cash. [Columbus Telegram to Chicago Times.] There is cussing among Republicans, who are laying blame, some to Foster, some to Sherman, and others to the Legislature, for letting the temperance people have a chance to trade them off for their amendment. The Democrats attacked the Republicans in the country, where the latter felt strong, and beat them there. The Republicans spent their force with less success in the cities, which were the Democratic strongholds, or their allies, the Germans. The liquor men and others were not to be drawn off this year. There is much talk about Sherman getting even with Foster, for the latter’s alleged conduct at the Chicago convention and treachery on all hands. Foraker made the most brilliant campaign of any candidate for Governor. Hoadly gained friends by the abuse heaped upon him and his sickness, and came back tor the last week of the campaign just at the right time and when the trading by the Republicans for him in the country and against the second amendment in the cities was at j high tide. [Cin innati Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] Blunders reaching back for two ye3Vs have made this result possible. The mistakes began after Gen. Foster’s second election when the German Republicans were driven from the party by coquetting with the Prohibitionists. This class has ever since been an element of weakness. They have repeated their action of last year and again defeated the Republican party. The German Republicans, neglected and abused throughout the canvass, returned to the Republican fold despite its assaults upon their beer and gave it all the respectable show it had in the final struggle. The Germans did nnt defeat, runiKer ana nana over the whole political machinery of the State to the Democrats. It was the temperance people, who either did not vote at all or sacrificed the whole Republican ticket in the hope of carrying the prohibition amendment. It is the God and morality portion of Hie Republican party of Ohio, not the beer-drinkers, that is responsible for the disaster. If the country districts ind the Western Reserve had done only a fraction as well as the Germans of Cincinnati and Cleveland there would have been a great Republican victory. [Cleveland Telegram to Chicago Tribune]. The Prohibitionists denounce the Repubicans and say they will fight over the same rrounds again and again, but the general {pinion is that they have shot away all their immunition and can never make another luch showing. [From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.] This defeat is attributable to several causes die principal one of which is the large class arho have believed in the supernatural in poises, who have roosted away up the air of sentiment, and expected the Lord to carry the election. This defeat has scraped the barnacles off of the party and made this a Republican State in 1884. We have been de(eat«d upon purely local issues. If we had nationalized this tight by making John Sherpan our candidate for Governor we would nave easily carried the State. PRESS~COMM ENTS. DEMOCRATIC. [From the New York Sun.] One of the singular features of the election Is the different ways in which the prohibition vote affected the Republicans. The rural counties, where they pushed the defeated prohibition amendment strongly, responded with big majorities for the amendment, but with hardly the average Republican vote. In the cities, where the Republicans were afraid to push the amendment, they made their chief gains from the Democrats. Yet the beaten Republicans are at a loss to explain their defeat even to their own satisfaction. Deacon Richard Smith thinks the woolgrowers did it. Field Marshal Halstead thinks the wine-growers did it. John Sherman believes Ft -ter did it; and Foster probably hasn’t recovered from his dazed condition sufficiently to do anything about it. At any rate, it is done, brethren, and well done. We imagine that you will find that you all contributed to it unawares. The people have simply registered their decree that the Republican party must go. That is the meaning of a Democratic Governor and a Democratic Legislature in Ohio. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Democracy of Ohio won a significant victory on Tuesday. They carried the State for the sixth time since the organization of the Republican party, more than twenty-five years ago. They gained the Governor and the majority of the Legislature in the antiPresidential year, when the near approach to the national contest and the hot excitement growing out of State questions and local contentions tended to bringing out the electors in force. They overcame an enemy which was under the Generalship of the best Republican’ politician in Ohio, who was thoroughly equipped for the contest, and whose political fortunes were at stake. They survived the factional differences and the bitterness growing out of a warm fight for the nomination for Governor. They successfully resisted the effort to place on them the opprobrium of opposition to what the Republicans claimed to be the great moral reform of the period. They gallantly opposed the Jong fortification of the Republican party in office in the State and in the United states. They went to the front in spite of the embarrassments sought to be heaped on ' them by a pestiferous ring of barnacles which 1 had been ousted from the control of the 1 democratic organization. They opposed treachery within and slander without their lines, and achieved a victory which every thoughtful man must look upon as one of | the guiding elements in the great contest of i 1884. Ohio is still the October State, and she ' will fire the first gun in the Presidential year. I The Democrats now have command of the ' artillery. The serried ranks of the Rcpubli- , ?ans have been broken, and the party intoxi- | rated with power has been taught that it is not invulnerable in a State which it has relied (•u as a Gibraltar in every national contest since its birth. Theresultof Tuesday’selection means that the books are to be overhauled; that we are to have a much needed change in the administration of State affairs; that the people have come to understand hollow Republican pretenses; that there is a tremenfiwous sentiment against fanaticism and oppression of special interest; that there is a j lOpular desire in this State for a change of | ' party control in this country: that there Is a I healths* and well-organized opposition to an . aristocratic system in the distribution of public offices: that the civil-service should be ar- ' rauxed in the interest of the penpie rather than in the intojost of the offiee-hoidiag class, with the responsible party in control in every place, major and minor; that Ohio is fightuur.

ground next year, and that preliminary to that contest the people prefer the best of the - two men running for Governor. REPUBLICAN. [From the Chicago Tribune.] It is now clear that the defeat of the Re- £ publican ticket in Ohio was brought about by ’ the Prohibitionists. The losses in the cities j in last j’car’s election, mainly due to the defection of the Germans growing out of the ; “Pond law’’ and the “Smith’’ and antiSunday law, which were declared unconstitu- | tional, were regained for the most part this year, but unexjiected losses were met in the 1 country districts. The latter were due to the treachery of the Prohibitionists, who voted some for their separate ticket and others for the Democratic candidates in exchange for ] Democratic votes for the prohibition amend- “ ment. The Prohibitionists, who had secured th© submission of the amendment from a Repub- j lican Legislature, exhibited their ingratitude | and treachery by deserting the Republican ticket, and they have assisted in establishing in power a party from which no restrictive ' legislation of any kind can be obtained. < There was never a more conspicuous instance of the perverse and unreasoning character of the prohibition cranks in politics. ; ' [From the New York Times.] So far as concerns the moral effect of th© election, it is bound to be very slight. If the ’ Democrats have carried the State by a small i majority they have lost the decided majority ( of last year, though they were aided by a much stronger prohibition diversion than at that time. If the Republicans, on the other i hand, have reduced their opponent’s majority in spite of the Prohibitionists, they have won no victory that secures them the State next year, or that can have any great effect on the elections still to be hold this year in other ; States. Wo may be sure that Mr. Hoadly’fl . “boom” for the Presidency, which he sets on ' foot by an effort to establish a “new Democ- ] racy,’’ will not be again heard of, and we may be equally sure and not less content, ( that Mr. Sherman’s prediction that the next Republican candidate will come from Ohio 1 will be remembered only by malicious persona ( guilty of a desire to make Mr. Sherman's life unhappy. 1 [From the New York Tribune.] The Ohio Republicans were over-confident. It is true that they have polled a remarkable vote, but they underestimated the desperate energy of the Democrats. They relied too i much, apparently, upon the good character of the Republican party, and the bad character of the Democratic party, and Judge Hoadly’s blunders, forgetting that the class of voters whom the money of the liquor dealers would reach care nothing about the character of any party or the mistakes of any candidate. The advocates of prohibition have once , more injured the cause of temperance by acting against the Republican party. The Republican party had put on the statute book > one of the most popular and most beneficial laws ever known for regulating the liquor traffic. The whole Democratic party was hostile to it, from Judge Hoadly, who was of counsel against it before the Supreme Court, down to the keeper of the corner groggery, who was against it both for grog and party. If the Prohibition votes have put in Hoadly and a Democratic Legislature, they are in a fairway to see the Scott law repealed or broken down, and all the ground lost that has been gained In this attempt to regulate liquor traffic. The Democratic reform movement in Cincinnati is a ludicrous failure, and Johuß. McLean is boss. CABINET OFFICERS’ VIEWS. [Washington Telegram to Philadelphia Presa.] The Republican politicians take th© most cheerful view possible of the result in Ohio, and are disposed to treat it as a wholesome warning. They generally attribute the defeat to the temperance question, and maintain that, in view of this issue, the Republican gains are very surprising. Nearly all the Cabinet officers who have been asked for their views express almost identically the same oidnipn. Some of them go farther and think that the election will be a messing to the Republicans in that it will encourage the Bourbon element in the Democracy to think that the tide has turned in their favor anyway, and as a consequence they will be more likely to insist upon extreme Democratic measures this winter than they would had Ohio gone Republican. Said one of the Cabinet officers: “In view of thia election the Democrats in the House will play smash gen erally, and the result will boa Republican ■ President in 1884. WHAT HOADLY THINKS. My illness so withdrew me from the current of opinion that my judgment must be largely discounted. I have no doubt the entire Democratic vote was out and solid for mo. Besides this, the grape-growing counties gave us surprising gains. The wool-growers’ counties helped, and there was a very large accession to our ranks from the colored vote. Republicans claim that a goo‘d deal of trading was done against them by Second or Prohibitoiy amendment fanatics. Talaska? A Great River, Unknown to Geographers, Discovered by Lieut, Stoney. [San Francisco Dispatch.] Lieut. Stoney, who went up on the last trip of the revenue steamer Corwin, for the purpose of distributing among the Tchuckchee Indians in Alaska the $5,000 worth of presents given them by the Government in recognition of the shelter and food ass orded the officers and crew of the steamer Rodgers, burned in. 1881, reports the discovery of a river heretofore unknown to geographers. The river had been vaguely spoken of by Indians to former explorers, aud Stoney, being compelled to await the return of the Corwin, determined to see if there was anything iu it. Accompanied by one attendant and an interpreter he proceeded inland from Hotham inlet ! in a southeasterly direction until he struck what he believed to be the mysterious river. He traced it to its mouth, a distance of about fifteen miles, where he sum*such immense pieces of floating timber as to satisfy him that the stream must be of immense size. He retraced his steps a distance of fifty miles, where he encountered natives from whom be learned that to reach the headwaters of the unknown sti-eam would take several months. The Indians told him they came down a distance of 1,500 miles to meet a fur trader, and that the river went up higher than that. Hav- : ing no time to go further, Stoney returned. It is Lieut. Stoney’s opinion that the dis- ( covery of this river accounts for the large | amount of floating timber in the Arctic pop- | ularly supposed to come down the Yukon. I The Indians stated that the river at some | places is twenty miles wide. It is within the j Arctic circle, but in August, when Stoney was ! there, he found flowers and vegetation not hitherto discovered in so high latitudes. He ! has forwarded his report to the Secretary of . the Navy, and hopes to be permitted to come back to continue his explorations. IN THE BALANCE. The Power of a State to Tax Corporations. [Washington Telegram.] The United States Supreme court is expected soon to hand down a decision of one of the most important questions of constitutional j law that has Iteen before it for years. The question is whether the power of a State to 1 tax corporations within its limits is controlled j j by the Fourteenth amendment to the Federal I I constitution. California made a distinction lin tax laws between railroad property and the property of individuals. The I companies claimed that the discrimination ! against them was prohibited by that clause I of the Fourteenth amendment which declares that “no State shall deny to any per- | son within Its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’’ This issue raised two important questions—first, whether a corporation is a “ person ” within the meaning of the amendment: second, whether the amendment was aimed against unjust discrimination in taxation. The United States Circuit court in California, in elaborate opinions written by Justice Field and Judge Sawyer decided both of these point© in favor of th© companies. The case was argued before th© Supreme court last ' December. The diffiiculty of the problem • may be inferred from the fact that the court, after holding the matter under consideration I for six months, adjourned without giving>an i opioion. Th© far-reaching effect of th© expected decision is shown by the fact that th© ; pnnclplp afuiaicd wjU all oorpora- | Hout exceptTEunwipcl in every State ox the [Union

NUMBER 29.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Synod of Indiana Presbyterians met at Fort Wayne last week. The session of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Northern Indiana was held at Elkhart. While playing base ball at Edwardsburg, Joel Sampson was struck on the temple by the ball and killed. The corner-stone was laid on Sunday for St. Paul's Catholic church at Valparaiso, which is to cost $50,000. Among the postmasters commissioned on Monday were D. B. Riggs, at Amity, and D. T. Pierson, at Shelburn. It is said that a new bank will soon be organized at Lawrenceburg to carry on the business of the defunct City National On Sunday last, in the town of Valparaiso’ the corner-stone wan laid for the St Paul’s Catholic Church, which is to cost SSO,(XX). Michael Layne, a prominent farmer and contractor, residing near Crawfordsville, has mortgaged his property and disappeared. A littie daughter of Basil Maxwell, o Crawfordsville, fell from a stable loft and mashed her skull Iler injuries are thought to be fatal. Trinity Methodist Church, at Lafayette, narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Sunday. The damage amounts to from S3OO to S4OO. Sam M< Donald was hung in the jail-yard at Fort Wayne, Tuesday, for the murder of Louis Laurent, in March last He made no public confession. The game law went out in this State on the lath inst. Quails are very plentiful In Southern Indiana th’s year, and there is no end to young squirrels. Miss Rose Amick, of Oregon township, is the midget of Clark county. Miss Rose is 20 years old, three feet high, weighs sixtyfive pounds, and is very pretty. A lady named Mrs. C. Stone, committed suicide at Goshen the other night She used morphine. No reason is given for the rash act She leaves a husband and small child. William Heller, a prominent and wealthy farmer, residing near Brownstown, fell from the loft of his barn and was so seriously injured as to afford but little hope of his re co very. Adam Porter, of Delphi, a pioneer of that section, aged 79, led to the altar a blushing bride of 65. Several grandchildren were guests, and both parties are highly con* nected. John, aged 19, sou of Jackson Cross, living near Knightstown, was found dead in a straw-stack on Monday afternoon, with a bullet-hole through his head and a revolver at his side. An enterprising Vevay girl has a collection of needle-work, fruits, etc., about 100 specimens, with which she has been attending the country fairs, and has taken 207 premiums, aggregating $172. While Daniel Barngrover and Henry Washbum, brothers-in-law, were cutting wood near Shelbyville, the other day. they became involved in a quarrel, and Washburn cut Barngrover with a knife. The large barn of J ames Rice, near Alamo, was burned with 200 bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of oats, ten tons of hay, wagons, harness, and farming imple- \ ments. Loss fully $2,000. with no insurant Work on the new Ohio river bridge, between Louisville and New Albany, discontinued a years or two ago, has been resumed. Strong eastern financial backing has been obtained. The first efforts will be to save the piers already constructed. The j contract for the iron work has been let to a bridge company of Trenton, N. J. A horribly mutilated body of an unknown woman was found recently in the woods near Bt. Marys, in Vigo county. The skull was fractured and the face crushed in, showing signs of murder. The body has been lying there for some time, it is sup- ; posed, because when found it was in a state of decomposition, and had been rooted and I partially eaten by hogs. Richard Class and James Court, who j were arrested at North Venion Saturday, I October 6, both pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny, and were sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. These men were baggagemaster and night watchman at the O. A M. railroad at North Vernon, and were detected in stealing articles from express packages. The following is a list of patentees to whom patents were issued on Tuesday: Fisher Doherty and E. L Sies, CrawfordsI ville, Ind., two-wheeled vehicle; James I Wallen, West Newton, Ind., cooking stove; I Thomas C. Barnes, Logansport, Ind., diamond mill-stone dressing machine; Charles F. Barrett, Valley Mills, Ind., animal trap; ‘ John L Hoke, South Bend, Ind., sulky plow. E. B. Martindale, Indianapolis, belt pulley, i or wheel, pavement and floor, sheave wheel; ! John E. Sanders, assignor of one-half to R. R. Rouse, Indianapolis, pipe threading i machine. A correspondent writes from Indianap- ■ oils: An astounding discovery was made here—no less than that the new postal notes are already beieir counterfeited. The banks will have nothing to do with them, good or bad. Several of the notes had been redeem - 1 edat the postoftice before their nature had been discovered. They all called for $4.90, and purported to have been issued by E. L Mills, the postmaster of Youngstown, Ohio, I The Postmaster at that point is George R. Williams The paper is genuine, and the supposition is that it has been stolen from the Department at Washington, or some podtoflice, and after using acid and removing the name of the original office then “Youngstown” was filled in. All the coun terfeits so far discovered had the name of the Youngstown, Ohio j>ostofiice on them. | They are transferable and were received by ,1. B and 8. E. Hendricks, Dr. Denke, Walter j G. R. Stewart, Joe Perry, C. Johnson and W i B. Harris. Under the law the notes cannot be issued for over $5, and the scoundrel made them within ten cents of the amount The State House Commissionershave submitted to the Governor their report for the quarter ending September 30. They report that a little stone cutting, the cutting of a few pilaster caps—all of which are now linished for the outside—and some iron upon the truss partitions, is the extent of the labor done during the quarter. All of the marble has been delivered and is now on the ground, which, together with one section of a red granite dome-column, comprises all the material delivered during the last three months. The first installment of taxes for lbs 2 was collected August 21, by the Stat* Treasurer, and $91,629.59 was credited to the new State-House fund. They reported that all the changes in the construction of the building had been completed and adopted. The changes are embraced in a list of seventy-two items, and will increase the cost of the building $41,505.85. making the total 31.845,350.47. The Commissioners think, since E. F. Goble has assumed charge of the construction, that the work upon the building will now continue without iurther inter ruption until completed ITEMS OF INTEKEST. Salt is the Africa Thl Langtry is the tamo of the shoe.