Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

JTlxc Scmorrat OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUMTY. BOTH X CtMMIXS, Editor, and i. rop i( . TERMS; Per Year, in advance », K „ Per Year. If not paid in advance.. J.'" ‘‘ ' s 00 R B. Ai.UKw.rrw’t. W.H Xiauea,Cartier. B. STvnilAin, Vic® Pree t. THEADAMS COUNTYBANK, decatur, Indiana, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 2&jy 79tf PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, dicatvb, Indiana. Will practice in Adame and adjoining eosntiee. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No tariesPublic and drawdeeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. ‘Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C O. F. building. 25jy79tf ’ E. H. COVERDALK, •Attorney at Late, —)*»»(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DICATUB, INDIANA. Offioe over Welfley’s grocery, opposite the Court House. J ,T. FRANCE, Pros. Att'r. J. T. MERRYMAN, Notary Public. ' -FRANCE & MERRYMAN,— Attorneys at Law, DECATUR, - - - INDIANA. OFFICE.r-Nos. land 2 over Stone's Hardware Store. Collecting a specialty.—lo n/;roNN j .u.j.v.v, 'Successors to th? firm of Quinn & Mana.) Attorneys At Lav/, DECATIK, IND. Especial a’t mt ion triven to colleuriohs and ■ Probate matters. Will buy and sell R il Estate j on commission. nj3-m2 j D. D. KELLER. PAUL HOOP Hi HELLE It <t //OOPL/Z. Attorneys At Law, lIKtATVK. - - INDIAN t. c. DEI'OSS, At Law, DEC ATI It. INI)., • iiPractice in th Civil *n I Criminal Courts of the Sla>-. Special attention inv.-n to collections and settling descendants estates. Office in Luckey’s new building. FRANCE & LUTZ, DEC ATI R, IND., REAL ESTATE AGENTS, JC Y Office over Stone’s hardware store, roti m 4 H. E. kREEMAN, M- D. J. H. J’.OYER -. ?J. D. OHS. FK EEMAN <f BO YEHS. Practitioners of Mellclne aaft Surgery. All calls promptly attended today or night Office, Sonthez.-t corner M- nrov and Se •< nd < streets, in Nmlick’s block. . Residence on i Third street, near Afomoe. ' W. H. MYERS, trick ftMoiif Jlason Contract PECATUB, INDIANA. iolicits work of all kinds in bitline. Persona contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, Auctioneer. Ifecalur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATDB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey sneer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis- • patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ovtr Welfley’s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Deeatur, Indiana. 87-m5 AND SHOES. One Door west of Niblick. Crawford and ; Sons, Henry Winncs, DCCATVB, INDIANA. One of the best selected stock of Boots, pho- s. new and Seasonable Goods, etc., including everything ic his line, and prices ruarenteed as low as can be found in this Ni ket. Come and see for yourselves. gpM';)TICE TO TEACHESS. > “ ;.-is hereby l. ven that ‘her ” a j tblic examanriuation of teachers L the office cf the County Superin ended on the last Saturday of <ae'-' mm th Applied ti fqr license must pre ent 'the proper trustees’certificate, or il:sr satisfactory evidence of good mo a’ .**ua:us er. and to ->e suecessf-1 nr*-»’» pass a good oxammition in or th- rraphy, resiisg.'‘tit; irithmeti g i-. -h',-, h’■■’ini nar. pa-sio c a.i Li.-to. voi t?o Lm’xd States. J. I . Snow. Co. Supt.

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THE GLO IYS 01(01 I remember, I remember. My boyhood's blizzard blight; The broken window where the snow Came drifting in at night. It camo whene’er t he lire was out, " hen ma had gone away; Bur now I wish that icy night Would come again to stay. I remember, I remember. The noses red and white, The frozen ears that tingled so— Oh! what a cooling sight! The snow-house that mv brother built. And where I used to i.e Until my bones were quite congealed— Oh, would it now were nigh! 1 remember. I remember, Where I was wdht to skate; ; The pond was smooth as glist’ning glass M hereon I broke my pate. | My buoyant spirit, then so light, i Is hot and heavy now, And summer’s pool can no more cook The fever on my brow. I i . I remember, I refftember, The cold and icy church: I used to think the minister Would freeze fast to his perch. Those frigid days have passed away, And now tis little jov To feel that I’m much nearer heat. Then when I was a boy. —New York Morning Journal. Conquering a Husband. “Uncle Phil has been lecturing me again!” exclaimed Mrs. Marian Dykes, ; as her husband came home to tea one evening. “I cannot, and I will not. stand it any longer,” and the young wife dropped into a chair as though the last remaining portion of her strength had left her. “What was the subject of the lecture, my dear,” inquired Mr. Dykes, with a ; cheerful smile, as though he did not regard the situation as at all desperate. “You know very well that Uncle Phil has but one subject.” . “And that is extravagance, or the reverse, economy,” added Mr. Dykes. “Os course that was the subject of the lecture; and you always take his side of the question. Uncle Phil has ten times as much influence with you as I have. Whatever he says is right, and whatever I say is w rong,” retorted Mrs. Dykes, rather warmly. “If supper is ready, I think we bad better attend to that next; and we shall : have the whole evening to discuss Uncle Phil's lecture. The subject will keep for awhile.” “But Uncle Phil will be here to take part in the discussion; and that is just what I don’t want. He overshadows ' me entirely when he says anything, and I might as well l.okl my tongue as 1 speak," pouted the wife. “Uncle Phil will not be here, Marian, It is half-past six, and he has to go to a church meeting at seven.” j “Very well, but lam going to have something done this time. I won’t have Uncle Phil here any longer. If he is to stay in this house 1 shall not.” Mrs. Dykes was very young, ami her angry pout, as she sailed out of the room, made her took decidedly pretty; at least so thought her husband. But before she was fairly out, the door opened and Uncle Phil came in. The door was ajar ami he must have been in the hall during some portion of the lady's severe remarks about him. But : he looked as placid as though earth had no sorrow for him. He was a man of i fifty, though his hair and beard were white enough for seventy. He did Hot seem like a man who could be very disagreeable if he tried.He had a deaconish look about his face, that of a serious though not austere man. Certainly no one would have taken him for a shipmaster, but ho had spent most of his life at sea or in foreign parts. He used to read the Bible to his crew every Sunday, and never allow any swearing or other bad language in his presence on board ship. Though he was a “psalm-singing skipper,” no captain was ever more popular with his men than Captain Dykes. Uncle Phil had been married in earlylife, but his wife died while he was absent on a long voyage. He had recentlygiven up the sea, and retired to his native town, now an important place of 10,000 inhabitants. He found himself a stranger there, but at his own request his nephew had taken him as a boarder. : The gossips were not a little bothered to determine whether the retired shipmaster was rich or poor. _IIo engaged in every church and benevolent enterprise, and contributed moderately of his means. Charles Dykes had opened a store in Trippieton a year before, and everybody thought he was doing well. Mrs. Dykes thought so, though Charles himself insisted that he was not making money verv rapidly; be could not tell how much until he balanced his books and took account of stock. In the main he was a prudent and careful young man, or at least was disposed to be so. Uncle Phil made a hasty supper, and then went to his meeting. He acted just a little strangely for him, though the smile had not deserted his face. He said less than usual, and seemed to be thinking very earnestly about someI thing. “Do you suppose he heard what I said. Charles ?” asked Mrs. Dykes,when Uncle Phil had gone. “I think not; but you ought not to say anything behind bis back that you would not say to his face,” replied the husband. “Uncle Phil is a good man, I one of the salt of the earth.” “He is altogether too salt for me. If I should put too much salt in the doughnuts, vou would not like them. ■ Uncle Phil is salter than Lot’s wife.” “I am sorry you don-’t like him, I Marian.” i “I can’t like a man who is continualI ly tripping me np. and lecturing me j npon economy. Ton onght to knon 1 better than he does what you can af- ' ford.” “I am sure that nothing but his in- ' terest in us prompts him to say any- | thing. If one means well almost any- ■ thing can lie excused.” “When I said that I wished you would keep a horse so I could ride out every dav or two, be read me a lecture half an hour in length. Whether he heard me or not, I said just what I meant. You must get him out of the house in some way, Charles. Take your clerk to board, and tell your uncle you must have the room.” “If I tell him to go, I shall tell the reason whv 1 do so.” “I am willing to bear all the blame. I don't want any one in the house to come between me and my husband, said the ladv witli a deal of spirit. “Uncle Phil does not come between you and me, Marirn. That is absurd. “I have asked you, and even begged you a dozen times, to keep a horse. Uncle Phil takes sides with you against me.” “But he never said horse to me in his life. I can’t afford to keep a horse ’ “Yes, you can, Charles. They say . that you are doing more business than i Tinkiam, and he Isteps two horses. | and his wife looks patronizingly down , upon me-from her carryall when she j

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meets me in the street," added Mrs. Dykes, with considerable bitterness in her tone. “I know nothing about Tinkham’s business, and I do know something about my own,” replied Mr. Dykes. Before the supper things w ere removed Charles Dykes had promised to buy a horse and buggy. It appeared to be the only way in which he could induce his wife to allow Uncle Phil to re- ■ main in the house. Doubtless he was weak to yield the point against his ; ow-n judgment. In the evening 'Squire Graves made a : friendly call. Mrs. Dykes was very ■ glad to see him, for he had a lady’s i horse to sell. It was just the animal ■ she wanted, and as she had conquered her husband once that day, she intendep to have the horse trade settled that evening. “Glad to see you, ’Squire; anything new ?” the young merchant began, doing the usual common-places. “There is news, but I suppose you have heard it.” replied tlia vitiim“I haven't beard anything; what is it?" “Haven’t you heard that Tinkham has been attached ?” “Tinkham! Is it possible?” exclaimed i Mr. Dykes, glancing at his wife. “It’s a fact; a keeper was put in his j store this afternoon, and an attachment put on his horses and carriages.” “That was all because he kept two horses when one was enough foi*him,” interposed Mrs. Dykes. With her the moral was between two horses and one. Before the squire left he had sold his lady’s horse. Mrs. Dykes was perfectly happy, and her heart began to warm even toward poor Uncle Phil. When the retired shipmaster came in from the meeting, there were a dozen things she wanted to do for his comfort. The lady had beaten her husband and his uncle, and she was satisfied. Before breakfast the next morning Squire Graves’ man led the horse over and put him in the little stable. One of the clerks was to take care of him. Uncle Phil saw the purchase, but he said nothing unpleasant. He looked the animal over, said ho was worth the hundred dollars ta be paid for him in goods from the store. Marian even though she liked Uncle Phil then. He did not prophesy any evil or disaster. After breakfast the lady thought she would drive over to her father’s, in the next town. She returned in season for dinner. But Uncle Phil did not comedown to that meal. The lady rang the bell a second time, but with no better result. Uncle Phil evidently did not hear the bell, for he never kept the table waiting for him. The door was wide open, and she went in. The shipmaster was not there. His trunk was not there; the picture of the Seabird, in which he had sailed many a voyage, had been taken from the wall. Was it possible that Uncle Phil had gone without even saying good-bye to them ? There was a letter ou the table. It was addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. I Charles Dykes.” With the letter in I her hand she hastened down to the din-ner-room. To say that she was astonished and chagrined, would not half ex- ] press her feeling. “Uncle Phil had gone!” she exclaimed. “He has left for good, bag and baggage.” Sho tossed the letter upon the table, for she had not the courage to open it. “Then I suppose you are quite satis fled, Marian. You have got the horse and got rid of Uncle Phil,” said Mr. Dykes, greatly grieved to learn that the worthy man had gone; and he saw that ho must have heard he impulsive words of Mrs. Dykes the evening before. Mrs. Dykes dropped into her chair at the table, and burst into tears. Just as sho bad become reconciled to the boarder, he had fled without even a w ord of explanation. She intended to treat him with the utmost kindness and consideration, as a noble warrior treats a fallen foe. Just then she felt as thought she would be willing to lose the horse to regain Uncle Phil. Charles opened the letter. It was very short, but there was not a particle of bitterness in it. He should still pray for them, and desired to do all he could to serve and make them happy. “I will go to him and beg him to come back, Charles!” exclaimed the weeping wife. You will never forgive me.” “I am very sorry he has gone, but I will not hate you, Marian. We will call upon him this evening at the hotel.” They did call. Uncle Phil was exactly the same as he had been before. He was glad to see them, and there was not a particle of change in his tone or manner. Both Charles and his wife tried to say something about his leaving their house; but he headed them off every time. He would not permit the matter to be mentioned. They went ' home, unable even to get in an apolyy. Both of them missed the kindly words and wholesome advice of the good man, though Mrs. Dykes would not acknowledge it. His good influence upon both was lost. Even Charles became reckless in his finances. The close of Tinkham’s store brought more business to the young merchant for a time, though the bankrupt’s successor soon made things exciting for him. A ruinous competition followed. No longer restrained by Uncle Phil’s prudent counsels, Charles branched out, and grasped more than he could handle. At the end of the year the balaucesheet was not pleasing to look upon. Then followed a reckless attempt to recover lost ground. Notes at the Tripnleton Bank became very troublesome. One of them was given for a new piano. People said Dykes was living too fast. The young merchant was worried. He had yielded to one extravagance and there was a long train behind it. His next balance-sheet showed that | he was three thousand dollars in debt, and his stock was not worth half the ' sum. He saw that he must fail. After supper, one evening, he told his wife all about it. It would be a terrible humiliation to fail, as Tinkham hud; and poor Marian wept as though her heart would break. In the midst of the scene Uncle Phil walked into the room, as ho always did, w ithont the ceremony of knocking. He often called. “Uncle Phil, I am going to fail, for I cannot pay a note of four hundred dollars that falls due to-morrow,” said Charles, bitterly, when he saw that he could not conceal the facts from the good man. “How much do you owe in all, Charles?” asked Uncle Phil. “About three thousand dollars,” groaned Charles. “Will three thousand put you on your i feet, solid?” “Yes. sir; but I can't raise three hur- | died.” j “I will give you a check for three

»■— -■ — ■■ 111.. - !■!■—■■■■■ I ■ ——l ■! I liewu thousand in the morning. I will be at i the store at eight o'clock. I noticed that you have looked worried lately; i but you said nothing to me.” ; "I could not say anything to you, uncle; and I cannot take your money, as- ■ ter what lias happened.” > “Nothing has happened yet, and with i the blessing of God, nothing shall hap, ' ■ pen.” Uncle Phil would not understand i : him. i ■ "You may help me on one condition,’ 1 added Charles, after some discussion. “And that is that you will come back 1 ■ and live with us.” Marian joined in insisting upon this ’ condition, and the good man yielded. I He used no reproaches; he would not even say, “I told you so.” The note was paid the next day, and in the evening Uncle Phil was domiciled in his old : apartment, quite as happy as the young ■ i people. Charles sold the Indy's horse, the buggy, the piano, and other extras, and re- ■ duced all his expenses to a very reason-? ' tiVto Ttli»il»*AA vrus>- ixappj 1 and did not believe there was any too much salt about Uncle Phil. She had I L given up the business of conquering a husband. In fact, both of them have ■ come to believe that neither should conquer, or try to conquer, the other. ' After a while it came out that Uncle i Phil was worth at least fifty thousand! dollars. Doubtless the church and the ’ ' missions will get some of it; but it is probable that Charles Dykes will be remembered, though both he and his ' wife sincerely hope- that the good man w ill live till he is a hundred.—Good ; Cheer. How to Straighten Streams. The natural tendency of running water, writes a correspondent of The Country Gentleman, is to ranke for itself crooked channels, and farmers wish to learn “How to straighten the i streams and keep them straight.” The fact that our creek bottoms are of inex- ' haustible fertility, and yet, if left in a 1 natural state, are nearly worthless, makes the subject one of great importance. In a natural course a stream ! will, by its windings, travel twoor three : times the direct distance between two points on its course. In a level coun- | try its channel is even more tortuous,, and often the distance in a straight line ! will not be a fifth of the actual wind- ; ings. The result of this in a flood or j freshet is that the water fails to get off fast enough, and is backed up over the ! surrounding country. First locate the ! proposed new channel with as few j curves as possible, and in the lowest ' place, (other things notproventing) that ! can be selected. Commence at the ; ' lower end and take out the dirt to the ■ required depth. In this country it is . necessary to go as deep as possible, forming a narrow ditch of just sufficient size to carry the water at the time that it is dug. When the ditch is made and the water turned in, a dam should be I made across the old channel at the head ' of the new, and faced with wood, brick, - or stone, as may be most convenient. . Then, with carts, if far away, or with scrapers if near at hand, dig away the banks of the new channel and fill up ' the old one until the new one is j ! thought large enough to carry its waI ter. It is now straight, but unassisted it will hardly remain so for five years. , To confine it is easy. It is generally best to allow it to w iden its own channel a few feet, which it will rapidly do. : Mark the boundaries beyond which you do not wish it to extend, and five, ten, < or fifteen feet from the bank plant cuttings of the white willow five feet apart. Protect from stock for a few years, and thin to ten feet. They will soon care for themselves, and their fibrous roots will effectively prevent any encroachment of the stream in that direction. The straightening of the channel gives a greater fall;.consequently a more rapid running off of the water, a less area of land occupied by the stream, and a larger acreage of cultivatable land of the very first quality. The Second Greatest Man. If we are united in the opinion as to wliich is our best month, we are equally of one mind who was the greatest man that the United States has produced, j That has become a traditional article of belief. But the question now is who was the second greatest man ? This is a question which the drawer refers to the antumn mid winter debating societies for solution. It will be a good ex- ; excise for the young gentlemen and young ladies—for we remember what ■ age we are living in, that we are living in a grand and awful time, and perhaps , it was a woman—to bring forward their i candidates for the second honor, and to - refresh the mind of their audiences ; with the virtues of these rival claims to ! greatness. The question is an old one, | i for we learn in Judge Curtis’ able “Life ! j of Janies Buchanan” that it was asked I in 1533 in the Alexander Institution, in ! Moscow. In one of his letters Mr. I Buchanan says that he heard the boys , examined there, and to the question, who was the greatest man that America , had produced? a boy promptly am ■ swered, “Washimrton.” But on the second question, who was the next in j greatness, the boy hesitated, and the question never has been answered. The i same boy. who might havfe settled this question if he had not hesitated, was asked who was the celebrated ambassa, dor to Paris, and instantly answered, as if he had been in a civil service examina, tion, Ptolsmy Philadelphia. But he aj once corrected himself, and said Frank? lin. And the Drawer thinks that Frank, lin wouldn’t be a bad second to start on. —The Easy Chair in Harper’s Maga-< zine. Got His Tooth Pulled. A deaf and dumb newsman on tbq Long Island railroad, known for year i to residents of the island, and usually called by the train hands “Dummy,'’ had been suffering from an aehing tooth. One day at Jamaica he tied n string around the tooth, and, just before a train left the station he tied the string to the rear car. When the train started he ran along behind it until it had gathered headway, when he dropped on his knees. The train carried the tooth to Long Island city. An expression of pain on his face was followed by one of delight when he knew the cause of his trouble was gone. — Chicago Hera’.rt. A very large devil-fish was caught at Port Royal recently. It measured sixteen feet across, and is reported to have weighed two tons. A Middletows, N. J., boy recently attempted to commit suicide by taking arsenic because has father had promised to chastise him. A-MASa Sw.'j_low, of Delaware, has pfferod a jqward of SIS,QpO tot the capture and conviction of tSe slayer of his son. I

— x ~—— ——_—— THE TORIES. Where the Name Originated—An Interesting Scrap of History* (Pall Mall Gazetted In Dr. Joyce’s “Origin of Irish Names of Places”—-of which a fifth edition with an additional volume has been published this year in Dublin, and vit’i which no t«rist in Ireland should fail j to provide luniself—apropos of the : derivation of the word “Tory,” which appears in '"lory Island,” off the coast of Donegal,.and in two “Tory hills.” i ; situated in Kilkenny and Limerick, | may be fouad ( vol. 11, p. 50.) the most ; complete account yet published of the [ origin of till? name: Tory is an Irish word, anglicized phonetically like most Irish terms; and the [ original form is toruidhe, the pronunciation of which is very well preserved in the modern spelling, tory. Its root is toir (tore), pursuit; and toruidhe is literally a pursuer—one who hunts or ; ehases. There is still another deriva- , , tive.toruidheacht, an abstract noun, sig,i n ,o-~± ,- r ——al], three terms are in common use in the Irish language. We have, for instance, a well-known Irish romantic tale called “Toruidheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghrainne,” the pursuit of Dermat and Grauia. In the time of the Irish plantations \ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, great numbers of the native Irish who were dispossessed of their lands took to the hills, woods and bogs and formed themselves into bauds under the leadership of their principal men. 1 From their wild retreats they made de- ’ scents at every opportunity on the open i country, drove off the cattle of the settlers, and seized on all sorts of movable property they could lay their hands on. These men were called tories —hunters or pursuers; for they chased everythihg—the wild animals on which they partly subsisted, the herds of the settlers, and the settlers themselves if they chanced to come in their i way. The settlers on their part combined for mutual protection, and vigorously retaliated; and this social war was carried on without intermission in some districts for a long series of years. : Many traditionary stories of those disI turbed and exciting times are still current among the pesantry. In course of ! time the tories became mere freebooters, so that at length the word tory lost its original signification among the 1 English-speaking people, and came to signify an outlaw—the first step in its : singular change of meaning. It is believed, according to a state--1 ment by Defoe, to have been first intro- ■ duced into England by Titus Oates; for a story went round that certain tories were to be brought over from Ireland to assassinate Oates and some of his supporters: and after this he w as in the habit of calling every man who opposed him, even in conversation, n tory; “till i at last the word tory became popular.” ; The two terms, w hig and tory, came into general use as political designations i about the year 1680; but they had previously, as Swift expresses it, been “pressed into the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas attached to them.” The word tory is still retained among the peasantry of every part of Ireland in the sense of an outlaw or a miscreant of any kind; and it is quite usual to hear a nurse call a naughty child a i “young tory.” They have a nursery rhyme which preserves this sense very vividly; it is heard with some variations, in all parts of the country; and Crof- ’ ton Croker has given a version of it iu his “Researches in the South of Ireland.” I’ll tell you a story- about Johnny M'Gory, Who went to the wood and killed a tory; Brought him home and ate his supper. Went to the wood and killed another. N’ewhaven Fishwives. Most picturesque of all the figures to be seen in Edinburg are the Nowhaven fishwives. With short, full, blue cloth petticoats, reaching barely to their ankles; white blouses and gay kerchiefs: big, long-sleeved cloaks of the same blue cloth, fastened at the throat. ' but flying loose, sleeves and all, as if j thrown on in haste; the girls bareheaded ; the married women with white caps, standing up stiff and straight iu a point on the top of the head ; two big wicker- ! work creels, one above the other, full of fish, packed securely, on their broad shoulders, and held in place by a stout ' leather strap passing round their fore- ! head, they pull along at a steady, stridi iug gait, up hill and down, carrying ’ weights that it takes a man's strength i merely to lift. In fact, it is a fishwife’s i boast that she will run with a weight which it takes two men to put on her ! baek. By reason of this great strength on the part of the w omen, and their immemorial habit or exercising it; perhaps I also from causes far baek in the early : days of Jutland, where these curious Newhaven fishing folk are said to have I originated, it has come about that the I Newhaven men are a singularly docile ' and submissive race. The wives keep all the money which they receive for ■ the fish and the husbands take what is = given them—a singular reversion of the ; situation in most communities. I did ! not believe this when it was told me. so . I stopped three fisherwives one day. I and, without mincing matters, put the question direct to them. Two of them I were young, one old. The young women laughed saucily and the old wo | man smiled, but they all replied", unhesitatingly, that they had the spending of all the money. “It’s a’ spent i’ the boos,” said one, anxious not to be thought to selfish—“it's a' spent i' the hoos. The men, they cam home an' tak their sleep, and then they’ll be affagen.” “It ’nd never do for the husbands to stoop in tha city, an’ he spendin’ a’ tha money,” added the old woman, with severe emphasis. A Thirteenth Century Burglary Preventive. “By the way,” said a New York man of a collector of the curious, “he had a weapon which I believe to be unique: it dates from the thirteenth century. It consistsof a round shield of hammered iron about eighteen inches in diameter, containing a very powerful brass spring, which the owner winds up before marching out to meet his antagonist His aim is to rush to close quarters, and, as soon as the shield touches his opponent, to let the spring go. Upon doing this four curved knives, like broad sickles, fly out and revolve with great force and rapidity. This i the /nachine for which the collector had tin|freatest affection; be used to keep it lr . liis bedside to disembowel burglars with j i3ut as he used to say, ‘they would ! never drop in.’ Did you ever hear oi : n.‘devil’s hat?’ Well, he had one of i them, and a visitor of his nearly lo -‘ his ears by putting it on one night | •while waiting for him. It was a com- . mon-lookijg stiff’beaver hat externally, but after you bad it •■ ell settled ou youi ; head ruz'&is and siculzi instruments projected inward from the sides, and j

I you couldn’t get it off without tretnen- ; dous sacrifices. This last Jflood-curdler was constructed by a Russian hatter for an enemy; but the tradition goes that : the intended victim got wind of it, and as the hatter was about to put it on him, the fellow seized it and clapped it on the maker's head.”— Nine York Sun. The Bine-Grass Country. The blue-grass country is reached by traversing central Virginia and Ken- , tncky along the line of the picturesque 1 Chesapeake and Ohio railway, unless, i indeed, one prefers the swift and solid Pennsylvania route to Cincinnati, and drops down to it from the north. On this particular journey, at any rate, it was reached past the battle-fields and springs of Virginia, and up and down the long slopes of the Blue Ridge and gorges of the Greenbrier and Kanawha, iin the wilder Alleghanies. It is found to be a little cluster of pecularily favored counties in the center of the State. Marked out on the map, it is like the kernel, of which Kentucky is -a. -. .... lU.« ...... of ( ( ‘i>nr*lr«t t s” of precious metals happened upon by miners in ther researches. The soil is of a rich fertility, the surface charmingly undulating. Poverty seems abolished. On every hand are evidences of thrift corresponding with the genial bounty of nature. A leading crop in times past has been hemp, and land that will grow hemp will grow anything. This is being more and more withdrawn in favor of stock-raising exclusively, but the tall stacks of hemp, in shape like Zulu wigwams, still plentifully dot the landscape. One drops into horse talk immediately on alighting from the train at Lexington, and does not emerge from it again until he takes his departure. It is the one subject always in order. Each successive proprietor, as he tucks you into his wagon, if you will go with him—and if yon will go with him there is no limit to the courtesy he will show you—declares that now, after having seen animals more or less well in their way, he proposes to show you a horse. Fortunately there are many kinds of perfection. He may have the best horse or colt of a certain age, the one which has made the best single heat, or fourth heat, or a quarter of a mile, or average at all distances, or the best stallion or brood-mare, or the one which has done some of these things at private if not public trials. Each one has, at any rgte, the colt which is going to be the great horse of the world. This is an amiable vanity easily pardoned, and the enthusiasm is rather catching. A man's stock is greatly to his credit and standing in this section while he lites, and when he dies is printed prominently among the list of his virtues.— W. H. Bishop, in Harper's Magazine. What Was Seen in Rome. As we drove through the principal street, containing the residences of Rome’s first citizens, I read several names on the door-plates, and were delighted to know that such families as Bratus; Cains Fabricius and Appius Claudius were still in existence, though the founders had been dead several years, at least so Lucius Junius informed me. • And whose residence is that?” I asked, drawing attention to a stately mansion which was occupied, and having a large card displayed in the window, with “To Let. 700 lires per month.” “That, Signor, is the home of the younger Casca, but he is an envious, miserly man, and can never get a tenant, he makes the rent so large.” “Is he the the son of the Casca who made the rent in Ctesar’s garment?” “He is, Signor, and the trait runs in the family.” “Thank you,” replied I, handing Lucius a lire for being so truthful. Our guide now conducted us to the Roman Museum, where we viewed the numerous curiosities so well known in history, but only observable to a few. Lucius Junius pointed out a large glass ease containing a flock of seven stuffed geese, headed by a solemn-looking gander. “And pray-, what does all this mean, Lucius ?” asked I of the guide. “These, Signor, is what saved the city.” “And what is that garment hanging on yonder peg?” “The toga of the illustrious Ciesar,” “What are those auger bits on the shelf, there '?” VThose, Signor, are the four augurs that interpreted omens.” [Note. —Latin scholars will understand the augur statement.] “What are those wax figures arrayed in white,” said I. pointing to a row of six or eight lay figures ranged against the wall. “The vcstral virgins, Signor.” “You haven't got any Sabine women in your collection, have you, Lucius?” “No, Signor, they were all carried away several months ago.” “What are those two wax babies?” General Pratt spoke up and informed me that they were Romulous and Remus. “ Where is the wolf ?” I asked of Lucius. “They are feeding him. Signor, in the back yard.”— Boston Courier. Alaska Moonshiners. The hoochinoo, so called from its first being made by the Indians of that tribe, is the great enemy of peace and i order among the Alaska Indians. I Government orders prevent the importation of whisky, rum and the like, but , the ever vigilant officers cannot keep ' watch of all the illicit stills that the I Indians set up iu their houses or in lonely spots in the woods. A deserter from a whaling ship once taught the I Indians how to distill hoochinoo, and ■ he secret of manufacture has never been allowed to die out. An empty oil- : can, some sections of rubber pipe, or ■ the hollow steins of the long sea onions > furnish a sufficient apparatus, and molasses, sugar, and mostanything else supply ingredients for the fiery stuff that can be distilled iu a short time. The maimers from the man-of-war are always on the lookout for hoochinoo, and with the first signs of it a raid is made on Siwash Town and the supply destroyed if possible. With the cunning of a savage race the Indians have most wonderful ways and places for concealing the hoochinoo. and it takes the keen scent of a detective to find the underground and up-tree hiding places they can devise. S.W. indeed, is the spectacle of the youth idling away the springtime of his ■ existence, and, pot only “losing the j sweet benefit of time.” but wasting, in [ the formation of evil habits, those hours I in w hich he might “clothe himself with -ngel-like perfection.— Landon. Itcost *6,422.127 a year to partially • i prevent smuggling in this country.

PITH AND POINT. No ONE ever heard corn-stalk. ; Still at the head—hair brushes. I Always going to seed—Canaries. 1 The old ticket—A restaurant chock. Somebody has said that meau men are the best, at guessing conundrums. This comes from the fact that they hate . to give anything up.—A'cic York News. The time of young ladies is divided , ,nto two parts. Half of the time they wait for the mails, and the other half for the males.— Burlington Free Press. “The celluloid,” observed Jenkins meditatively, after he had passed the greater part of two days iu trying to get one collar clean, “might better be called a sell unalloyed.”— The Judge. Summer boarders that have been as- ■ signed to the top floor of old-fashooned farm-houses for a term of weeks unite in the opinion that such buildings are ■ erected on the principal of hide-roast attics. Why is a thief that is brought into books, like the Recording Clerk wno makes an entry of the same? One steals the books and the other books the steal.— Carl Pretzel’s Weekly. ror. sour. “I’m now in the height of the season," Said the elevator man; And when asked to give his reason, The inquirer be did ecan. As be sighed, Like a monk in a cloister. And replied: "Because I'm a ’holster.’" —New York Journal. A country lad thinks that a city girl wears a red dress out in the field where the cows are grazing just to give her an excuse for climbing a tree when she | imagines the cows are going to chase I her. These city misses are sometimes I so giddy when they get out iu the rural districts.— The Dairy. “Hid you have any deviled ham at the banquet last night?" inquired a member of a certain secret society in Austin. “I don’t remember having seen any deviled ham,” replied the secret society . I man, “but I believe the champagne was i deviled by the way my head feels this 1 ■ morning.”— Texas Siftings. [ I “Yot'B mother-in-law appears to have .I a pain in the side?” “Not |at all. She has the toothache.” ’ “But every now and then I see her put . her hand on her side, as though she i felt a pain there.” “That is because , | she has put her teeth in her pocket.” I — Pittsburgh Sunday Telegraph. In a certain Arkansas dance-house and saloon there is a reversible motto hanging against the wall. At the opening of , the festivities the motto reads, “God Bless Our Home.” But as the evening wanes, and kniyes and pistols flourish in the air, the proprietor flops the motto over, and it reads, “What Will the Harvest Be?”— Texas Sijtings. A NTM ASPERS. Dat nieger Jasper aiu a fool To ‘ny de earth do move, 'Case I, my.-clr, done '.sperieuce A tac’ dat I ken prove. I went up town one evenin' To see a friend o' mine. An’ combr’ home he ’sposed to me To tick a glass o wine. Dat night de wort’ was rollin’ so, Like apples in a trough. I sot right down and hoi' myself, To keep from elidin’ off. —lndependent. “I wish our minister wouldn't preach so awfully long,” said his wife. “I am glad he preaches as long as he docs,” said he. “Now, there you are contrary again. [ You just say that through spite, because [ you know that keeps me quiet that I much longer.” I “No I don’t, cither. I say it because it gives me the only chance to sleep on i the Sabbath without being disturbed by ; your continual talking.” “Well, now, you just wait until next [ Sabbath. I’ll not let the children sit i between us; and if I can’t talk any I . can hunch. I’ll pay you for talking that way about me, when you know I ; scarcely ever talk any.” — Kentucky . I State Journal. Remember That salt fish are quickest and best ; freshened by souking in sour milk. That cold rain-water and soap will ; remove machine grease from washing fabrics. That fish maybe scalded much easier by first dipping them into boiling water for one minute. That fresh meat beginning to sour will sweeten if placed out of doors in tho cool air over night. That boiling starch is much improved by the addition of sperm oil, salt, or a little gum arabic, dissolved. That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid tho whitening process. That kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and will render them pliable and new. That clear boiling water will remove tea stains; pour the water through tho stain and thus prevent it spreading over the fabric. That salt will curdle new milk; hence m preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared. That kerosene will make your teakettle as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag. and rub with it. It also removes stains from the elean-varnished ’ furniture.— Prairie Farmer. Exanip'e More Powerful than Precept. “Little children should never get imi gry,” said Grandpa Binks to the littlo I second-story Binks. “Little children ' should always think twice before saying j naughty words.” There was a bad boy in she Binks i household, and He had found an old razor that looked like a saw. He put it [ in grandpa’s box. Grandpa was going out that after- ’ noon and had to shave. | He got the hither all nice and ready, . put a towel under his chin and pulled I the razor from the box. ■’Remember what I told you this I morning,” he said as the children in answer to a w ink from the bad boy began to quarrel; “always thiuk twice before you, I I r~. 1— 1— r & * t — And then, as Grandpa Binks looked at the bad boy, he took another look at the razor and remarked that be gueesed he’d go out ami see if it looked like rain. Good A Ivicc. The American Farmer says: “When will farmers learn that every smooth, oily-tongued chap that comes along is not a saint? Instances of farmers l>eing swindled by perambulating scoun- ' drels are coming to light more fre- | quently every dav. Do not sign a paper, postal card or anything else, when presented bv parties who are unknown to you.” All of which s well, yet ignorant innocents who refuse to take and road agricultuial and o±er papers, will [ continue to be swindled for t toe time to come, if not longer.

NUMBER 30.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Washington, Charles Dunn was given seven years for the murder of hid uncle, in July last The Air Line road will erect a handsome two-story, stone-front freight depot at New Albany soon. The city of Evansville will be furul bed • | with forty additional arches or for I electric lights. The Northern Indiana Hunting Associa- ; tioa stare on their annual hunt in Northern ■ Michigan oh November 1. I A new gas company is at work laying ■ mains in Bloomington, and will begin turning on gas about the Ist of November. i ; Wili iam Crawford, a prominent business > man of LaPorte, died of heart disease. He . had resided at LaPorte over tbir y ? ears. Mbs. William Peiikinr, near New Albany, went info 1 he cellar the other day after some ■ milk, and fell dead on reaching the foot of • the steps. z Rev. Dr. D. B. Knickerbocker was consecrated Bishop of Indiana, nt St Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Bishop Whip- ; . - tie in Elkhart county. The grass eaten dries up in the stomach, forming a hard lump, and death scon results. I The City of Logansport has entered into a contract with the Jenny Electric Company to furnish that city with fifty Jenny Lghte to be used of 2,000 candle power each. Philip Miller, of Jacksonburg, raised 1,000 bushels of potatoes on four and a half acres of ground. At 26 cents per bushel his ground produced a little over $55 to the acre. Two gypsy women humbugged Mrs. J esse Thurman, at New Albany, out of $350 for attempting to rid her of a witch. The gypsies were overtaken and made to disgorge. j Jacob Cook, a wealthy farmer near Columbus, defies the engineer corps of the Columbus, Greenburg and Hope railroad, with shotgun and revolvers, to run aline through his farm. ■ Mrs. Wm. Bower, of Clymer’s Stat on, near Logansport, has sued the Wabash ra Iroad for SIO,OOO damages lor injuries received by a fall caused by a rotten plank, n the station platform at Clymers. The Kokomo Bar Association will hold their annual meetingand banquet at Kokomo . on Nov. 16. The subject of illegal fees and other irregularities of practice will be discussed by leading lawyers. Before the departure of Bishop Rlorden for San Francisco, the students of Notre Dame assembled m front of the college to Lid farewell to the Bishop, and presented him with a handsome gold chalice. Solomon F. Phibbs, aged 38, comra tted iuicide by sending a heavy load of duck-shot through his heart. He was suffering from mental dorangement, caused by malarial fever. He leaves n w.dow and one child. Mayor HaßßisoN, ot Chicago, opened the Catholic Library Hall Exposition at Fort Wayne, on Saturday afternoon, with an ap- ] propriate speech. He was banqueted at the residence of ex-Mayor Bandail in the i aven nr. The Studebaker Brothers’ Manufacturing Company, of South Bend, has received the I silver medals, the highest award offered by i die Mechanics’ Institute, of San Francisco, Cal., for buggies and wagons made outside’ i the State. I A married lady in Indianapolis last week gavo birth to a wonderful monfetrodty. the child having two distinct heads and three j arms, the last one attached to the rear of the right shoulder. The monstrosity was dead at the time of birth. The Pennsylvania Company caused the arrest of four men at Plymouth, on charge of plotting to wreck a Fort Wayne train, Saturday night. Superintendent Law was in possession of the plans of the scoun - drels, but their courage failed them. . Ten thousand people were in attendauee at the G. A. R reunion at Goahen, Oct 11th. One thousand soldiers were in line. A sham battle was one of the leading features. A broom brigade, composed of forty ladies from Kendallville, attracted considerable attention. Goshen was never so thronged with people before. J. W. McQuiddy, Grand Representative L O. O. F.. says that, while the membership throughout the United States is rapidly increasing, it is not increasing in Indiana, for the reason that there is now a lodge at nearly point where one can be organized, and the future growth will depend upon the growth of population. At Richmond word has been received that the Supreme Court has reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court of Wayne county in the Brooks-Gouse case, tried about a year ago. The case of the shooting of Dr. Gouse by Brooks, which took place about a year or a year and a half ago at Washingt-on.in Wayne county, is well known to our readers. At the trial tbe prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for Ide. This decision has been reversed, the Supreme Court pronouncing the act of tbe killing of Dr. Gouse niAiisiaughter. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes: Indianap dis bankers and brokers report a great depreciation in the whole line of Indiana securities, the result of the continued lepudiation of her bonds by the city of Evansville, New England investors —and wi.h them lies the pmcipal bond market—are now declining any further investments, and one broker is in receipt of numerous letters from Eastern correspondents in which they not only decline to bid on Indiana municipal bond?, but take special oc a*-ion to denounce tlicEvansville repudiation as a 1 lack disgrace to the State. A 5-per-cent bond, usual?, saiuble at 96, is now unsalable at 96, and there is a difference of 1 per cent annu dly in value. Yesterday the Bartholomew County Comoffered a good 5-per-cenL bond, but they could get no bi 1 higher than 90, and the only offer they could entertain was made by a local capUulits, who agreed to take the bond at par providing tbe Commissioners would make it a 6 per cent. The Eastern investors aremak ng nod stinction, for they see that Evansville, the second city in tbe btate, repudiates, and from this argue that the whole senes of Indiana offerii gs are rotten. One banker said that, when the millions of outstanding frecurities are con sidered, the States could better afford to levy a general tax to take up Evnns\ file's bonds tbatio suffer the great deprec at on in other Indiana municipal bonds. The Eastern holder cannot be made to believe that Evansville cannot affoid to pay le" debts. They cite tbe fact that the city of Portland. Me , ba« a bonded indebtedness 16 per cent of the assessed valuation of her property, which is 12 per cent, of the real value, and her bonds are eagerly taken everywhere, while the city of Evansville. Ind , with a debt of only 10 per cent on her assessed valuation, which is only about 5 , per cent of her real valuation, repu hates They steadily refnse td listen to any suggestion that the tsue*. of < th r mnn cipaiL ties ought not to be depreciated on Evansville's account, and set their faces against ail Indiana bonds. These are sober, solid albeit unpleasant, facts, which aiiy body cam uQKTvboi&te uy «Lqairy two Lrst banker or bond broker ho xceta