Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1890 — Page 6

TPPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Comments and CriUciam* Based Upon the Happenings of the Day—Mirierieal and News Notes. f Paint the tongues oryour fever patients with glycerine, ?ays a physician; it will remove the sensation of thirst and discomfort felt Fhen the organ is dry and foul lx one of the London branch post offices all the women have been discharged and men appointed on account of general complaints of the supercil- . < ions impertinence of the young women. That is not the American sort. A peculiar industry of Kern County, Cal., is the collection and shipment of horned toads. These are sold to the Chinese, who use them for medicinal purposes. They are considered espe- > cially valuable in the treatment of rheumatism. The leaves of the pawpaw tree are employed by the negroes in washing linen as a substitute for soap. They have also the property of rendering meat wrapped in them tender, owing to the alkaloid papain they contain and which acts as a solvent. Sait Lake City has more than doubled in population in ten years. That is a pretty good proof of the stimnlous given by Gentile institutions and the class of people that they attract. Under the old Mormon regime the city would not have gained its present position before the end of the century. Judge J. P. Smith, of Fort "Worth, Tex., whose wealth is now estimated at a million dollars, once walked from Kentucky to Texas, because he didn’t have money enough to pay his passage. i? r OFing to the opening of new roads the s- walking is much better now than it was then, notwithstanding which, the Judge says he very much prefers to make the trip by palace car. ©• . ■ „ ’—: The latest with regard to New York’s bad faith in the matter of honoring the memory of Gen. Grant is that a huge barn has been built iiear his tomb, where a splendid flower garden was ■ promised. It is certainly time that the Remains of the great soldier should be removed to some other locality, in order that they may at least be treated with ordinary decency. An American officer in Alaska has rescued a bright Indian boy from torture and "proposes to take the lad to San Franciseo and there make of him either a lawyer or a missionary. This shows a very level head. If the boy turns out to be of the poor and pious sort, make him a missionary, but if he shows a desire to be the first native born Alaskan to go to Congress, educate him for the bar. y In the most recently discovered plot 4 against the Czar the people implicated are a professor, some students and two officers of high rank who have committed suicide. When a ruler finds that ail the intelligence of his Empire 8 is anxious for his death he ought to seek safety and obscurity in distant and - congenial slums. At least he ought to determine that there is something seri- , I ously defective in his character or his title and seek a reformation. . A pt.ceessed disciple of Tolstoi has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in Berlin for denouncing Christian marriage as immoral. The defenders of the “Kreutzer Sonata” in this country logically commit themselves to the same ground as that taken by their * Berlin fellow-convert, and in his* locality they would be legally subjected to the same condemnation. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we do things differently here. ‘ The best peanut growing States in . this country are Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The crop in a good year amounts to about 3,000,000 bushels, or 70,000,000 pounds, having grown to these proportions from an output of less than 500,000 bushels in 1873. Arkansas and Kansas are also peanut growing States. California produces a good crop, but the soil is so rich that it seriously affects the roasting process. Bo important has the peanut become that in some sections of the first-named States it is the principal crop and chief | I reliance of the farmer. . An extraordinary case of heroism is narrated in the Philadelphia Press. Bessie Criswell, aged 14, living three miles from Dauphin, was about to prepare supper when she found the fire in ♦ the cookstove very low. She poured coal oil "on the kindling wood. It Ignited, the can exploded, and the burning oil set fire to her clothing and s to the house. The frightened girl ran to the spring house twice while her clothes were blazing, secured a pail of water each time and put out the fire in the house. A third time she went to the spring and dipped her head and neck in the water. Then she ran to a email stream and threw herself in. Having extinguished the flames, she went to her mother, who was milking, and reported the matter. She was fatally burned, however, and died the next «day. She sacrificed herself to save her home. g. A "Westebn newspaper says: A New York paper is giving great prominence to murder news since the Kemmler execution. The idea is'a good one. If the punishment of crime is not society’s revenge, but is for protection, by in- ' epiring a wholesome fear in the breasts of would-be criminals, then surely Kemmler’s horrible fate should have produced some visible effect This does not seem to be the fact. Several muiflers have occurred since Kemmler’s spinal marrow was slowly broiled. Other murders will be committed, whether the electrocution law isre- . ©ealed or not New York has oom*

Mr . | ,|imiri ii|i i j meboed experimenting, and she must ‘ follow out the process to some logical conclusion, flow will it end? "Will murderers be put to sleep by some delicious eastern drug, while slow music is playing and Naulch girls are dancing before; their eyes? "Will they be slowly skinned alive ? Or will capital punishment be abandoned? Tin, which? every one knows, but which few, except men of science and metallurgists, are acquainted with, is one of the mail precious and most interesting metals. After gold and silver it is intrinsically the most precious of those in use. It is nearly of the same color and almost as bright as silver, but has less resistance and is less valuable. When warmed by friction it has a pronounced odor and taste. When it is bent, the derangement of the crystals of which its mass is formed, causes it, Without any fracture taking place, to emit a peculiar sound, which metallurgists call its cry, and by means of which an expert can nearly determine its degree of purity. The places where tin is produced are few, scattered sparsely over the face of the globe; and it disguises itself under the form of a blackish mineral, which, to the profane eye, gives no sign of the treasure that is within it. One of the richest, as well as the most ancient tin mining districts is in the Malay Peninsula, the Golden Chersonesus of the ancients. The name of th-s province, Perak, signifies silver, but it is peculiarly the province of tin. Daguerre, the father of photography, paid the usual penalty of misunderstood genius. It was no further off than 1838 that Madam Daguerre had an earnest consultation with one of the medical celebrities of the day concerning her husband’s mental condition. After acquainting the physician with the many indications of Daguerre’s mental aberration, she added with tears in her eyes, that the concluding proof of his insanity was his absolute conviction that he would succeed in nailing his own shadow to the wall or in fixing it on magical metallic plates. The physician listened with profound attention to this culminating evidence of mental derangement, answering that he, himself, had observed in Daguerre strong symptoms of madness. He closed the consultation by advising that her husband should be sent quietly and without delay to a lunatic asylum. Two months later the world of art and science was stirred to its center by the exhibition of pictures actually taken by fihe new process. Arago, in January, in 1839, laid an account of the process before the; Academie des Sciences, and soon the “lunatic” was heralded as the father of photography. A Railway up the Jungfrau. A scheme is actually under consideration for the construction of a railway up the Jungfrau, in Bernese, Switzerland, one of the loftiest and most difficult of ascent of all the Alpine peaks, says the American Architect. As the Jungfrau is remarkable for the force of the avalanches which rush down its sides at intervals, a rail- , way on the surface would be out of the question, and the new road is io ascend almost entirely in a tunnel. Here anti there the tunnel will be aired and ventilated by means of short galleries extending directly out “to the mountain side, and the trains will stop at these places, partly to allow the passengers to enjoy the view from the opening of the galleries and partly to prolong the ascent, so that the change of atmospheric density from a pressure of about fifteen pounds to the square inch at the foot io ten pounds at the summit, may not be too suddenly felt. Even with these stops, the journey will occupy only two hours. Although the view from the Jungfrau comprises nearly all Switzerland and a part of Germany, Italy is cut off from it by the still higher Monte Rosa range, and it seems a pity that the energy needed for tunneling a railroad to the summit should not be kept for a line to the top of Mount Blanfc, which, though more than two thousand feet higher aboye the sea, is only about as high above Chamounix as the Jungfrau is above Interlaken, or even Lauterbrunnen, while the view from it is infinitely more interesting, comprising Switzerland and the Tyrol, portions of France, G*ermany and Austria, the Mediterranean, and Italy as far as the Alpenines. & A Very Fortunate Lord. Lord Northampton is a vastly fortunate personage. In 1879 his eldest son, the late Lord Compton, borrowed £lO,000 from the National Life Assurance Society on the security of his reversionary interest in the entailed estate, but if he died before his father (as happened,) of course the security was worthless. The Society proceeded to insure Lord Compton’s life for £34,000, the understanding being that it was to pay the premiums and add them to the amount of the loan, and the policy was to be transferred to him if ever he paid off the debt. He died three years ago, by which time hie debt to the Society had risen to £14,000. The Society, therefore, congratulated itself upon having made a profit of nearly £20,000 on the transaction; but, lo and behold, Lord Northampton, as executor of his deceased son, demanded the balance of the £34,000, and, in spite of the agreement between the Society and Lord Compton, his claim has been sustained by the Court of Appeal. The result is highly satisfactory for Lord Northampton, who gets nearly £20,000 from a fund which neither he, nor his son, nor any of hisfamily paid a penny to create. —London Truth. Sure Preventive. The Spanish wit and philosopher, Quevedo, who in his time gained a reputation for knowing almost every-- ' thing, was asked if he knew of a means whereby a person could avoid growing I old. i □“Most certainly,” said Quevedo, “I . know of certain rules which will surely , prevent your growing old.” “What are they?” “Keep always in the sun in summer, 1 and always in the wet in winter. That i is one rule. Never give yourself rest; . that is another. Fret at everything i that happens; that is still another. And then if you take care always to eat your meat cold, and to drink plenty of oold 1 water when you are hot, you may be ’ perfectly sure that you will never grow -old!"

1.11 II I I . LODGES FORCE BIEL DISSECTED BY EX-SENATOR M’DONALD OF INDIANA. An Able Letter Pointing Ont Ute Unconstitutionallty eftbS Measure Proposed by Lodce-ir a Law. It Would Deprive American People oT Tbeir Kights. Very recently ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, received a copy of Congressman "Wheeler’s speech, made in the House of Representatives, against that Republican monstrosity known as the force or bayonet bill. In response Mr. McDonald wrote the following letter to the'brilliant Alabama Representative: Hon. Joseph Wheeler: Mr Dear Gkxkbal—l have read with much interest your very able and exhaustive discussion of the House bill to “amend and supplement the present lavs of the United States,” known as the Lodge bill. Your review of the proceedings of the national convention in respect to the constitutional provision under whicl the Republican party claims the right to enact such laws, and of the subsequent action of the several State conventions in relation thereto, is a most valuable contribution to the constitutional history of the country, and demonstrates that If the friends of the provision had then claimed for it the construction which the Republican party h&s now put upon It, it never would have been engrafted upon the Federal Constitution. It was only advocated as a conservative measure, a secondary power not to be exercised unless the State Legislatures should -neglect or refuse to make laws or regulations for the purpose, or from any cause be Incapable of making the same, and then only until the Legislatures of the States should make provisions In the premises. The laws to which this bill professes to be supplemental are the first In which the right of federal supervision over the election of members of Congress were ever asserted. Down to the time of -their enactment the right to make or alter “regulations” for the election of -members of Congress was regarded as a reserved right, only to bo used by Congress to correct any negligence in gny of the States in making provisions for such elections. Believing these laws to be a violation of the spirit of the Constitution, and most dangerous in their tendency, as a member of the United States Senate, In the spring of 1871), I Introduced a bill the main purpose of which was to repeal them. This, lam sorry to say, was not done; and they have remained on we statute books as the stock uponwhich it is proposed to engraft measures much, more extreme and more directly violative of the Constitution. The general scope and purpose of the Constitution of the United States in regard to the election of members of Congress would seem too plain to admit of any construction which would permit the control of such elections by Federal officers. The second section declares that the House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States: and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. The control of suffrage is in the States. The qualifications of the voters are such as may be prescribed by the States in defining the qualifications of the “most numerous branch of the State Legislature.” In brief, in the language of the Constitution of the United States, members of the House of Representatives are to be chosen “by the people of the United States.” It is incompatible,with the free exercise of these rights that the officers who supervise their exercise should be chosen by some other than the people of the States within which they are exercisable, and yet the Federal laws on that subject now in force and the so-called Lodge bill in a more marked degree assume to provide and do provide for just 'that kind of supervision. The Lodge bill goes further and vests in the Federal Election Commissioners the power to determine the qualifications of voters by authorizing them to revise State registers, to reject votes and "to certify results, so that votes which may be received and counted by the State officers for members of the “most numerous branch of the State Legislature” as Jegal may be rejected by the Federal officers when offered for members of Congress, although offered at the same time and place and on the same ballot'. Their States are deprived of a right which the Constitution vests in them of detennininc who may vote for members of CongresS - ’ This is an unwarranted usurpation, and if persisted in and submitted to will lead to other and still more dangerous infractions of the Constitution. The same language that reserves to Congress the right by law to make or alter the regulations made by a State for the election of members of the House of Representatives . applies to the election of U. S. Senators, except as to the place of choosing Senators. In all other respects the power is the same. Senators, it Is true, are to be chosen by the Legislature of each State, but that right is ho more sacred than th# right of the people of the several States “to choose members of the jiHouse of Representatives.” In one sense it is less so, as the qualifications of electors of members of the House are expressly limited, and must be defined by the laws of the several States. If 4 " the people tolerate Federal interference in the election of members of the House of Representatives, as proposed in the Lodge Bill, can any one say how long it will be until the Republican party will attempt through Congress to interfere with the “manner” of holding elections for U. S. Senators and virtually take those elections out of the hands of the State authorities, and thus put the election of members to both branches of Congress under the control of Federal officers, with power tosupervise the elections and certify results? It was a long time before any party arose in this country that possessed the hardihood to insist upon a departure from the undoubffd spirit and true meaning of the Constitution on the subject of elections, but once having broken through the just bounds which the founders of th© Constitution had Indicated, there seems to be no limit to the demands. Mr. Justice Story,in his “Commentaries on the Constitution,” as quoted by you, said: “A period of forty years has sin?e passed without any attempt by Congress to make any regulations or interfere in the slighteSt degree with the election of members of Congress,” and after further comment adds: “The truth is that Congress would never resort tej a measure of this sort for the *of oppression or party triumph until that body ceased to represent the will of the States and the people, and if, under such circumstances, the members would still hold office, it would be because a general and irredeemable corruption or indifference pervades the whole community. No republican constitution could afford any remedy for such a state of things.” The time has come when a majority of Congress seems willing to pervert the Constitution for the purpose of securing the triumph of its party and intrenching it in power, and it remains to be seen whether the people will submit to its usurpation. Such schemes have failed in the past, and I have faith to believe they will fail in the, future. If the Constitution “ affords no remedy for such a state of things,” the, people will have the power and, 1 believe,! the virtue to correct the wrong. Very truly yours, J. E. McDonald. A Gigantic Political Trust. British Journals usually have very hazy ideas both regarding American politics and American geography. On the matter of then tariff their utterances are especially discredited by the high protectionists of this country. The following editorial from the London Daily News is so pointed and so true, however, whatever motive may have inspired It, that it makes good reading even in this country: “Mr. Blaine, scandalized by the excesses of American protectionists, is a sight for men, if not exactly for superior beings. This can now be in all its lurid beauty at Washington. Mr. Blaine declared before the Senate committee that the McKinley bill was the most Infamous measure ever concocted. The bill in question represents the attempt of the Republicans to divide spoils not of the party but of the nation. It is the most perfect machine' ever devised for stopping every avenue or loophole by which untaxed products may find their way to the American consumer. “In this sense it appears to be too much even for the leaders of the Republican party, who after all have to consider how the Government of the republic is to be carried on. The last election

r , J ' was won by the subscriptions of wealthy manufacturers, and these capitalists as a consideration now demand the absolute right to dictate the fiscal policy of the administration. They are plain dealers. They have bought the Government in, and they expect the Government to > serve their interests at the .expense of the nation. They establish a gigantic political trust, which promises to pay better than all the other trusts put together. AU appointments are submitted to them. They have made a clean sweep of most of the free-trade incumbents of American offices throughout the world.’* REBUKE TO PARTISANS LECTURE READ TO THE HOUSE Th* Minority Report In th* Clay ton-Breek-inridge Klect.on Contest Denounces the Action of the Majority as Unjust. Scandalous, and Full of Blander*. [Washington special.] Through Mr. Maish, of Pennsylvania, the Democratic members of the House Committee on Elections have filed a minority in the contested election case of Clifton R. Breckinridge against John M. Clayton, from the Second District of Arkansas. The report is particularly severe on the sub-committee that investigated the murder of Colonel Clayton and on the Elections Committee. After citing the fact that the Second District had returned Democratic members in all except one' election, and contending that the presumption, therefore, is in favor of Mr. Breckinridge, the report admits the stealing of the ballot-box from Plummerville Precinct; but holds that this did not change the result and that Colonel Clayton could not have been elected with the addition to his returns of Republican ballots cast at Plummerville. Relative to the instructions given by the House for a “full and thorough investigation* of the case, the report calls attention to the great number of issues involved. The sub-com-mittee, it states, spent but- twelve days in taking evidence. House may judge upon this, ” the report goes on to say, “and ’it will be' called upon to judge, from proceedings still more unusual and shocking, how, disgracefully and criminally this case has been handled. Party prejudice, malice and a purpose to accomplish an improper end seems to have deadened every sensibility in gentlemen from whom the House and the country had a right to expect better things. Some unworthy purpose seems to be their end and object. Some ignoble coinpact seems to have forestalled their action. Some base and disingenuous mind seems to have guided them, and it is far short of 1 the truth to say that this investigation has been a miserable farce and that the majority report is unfounded in truth) not justified by the evidence, and is defaced by the repetition of partisan slanders not sustained by any testimony. Knowing the utter insufficiency of relative evidence to unseat Mr. Breckinridge, knowing, indeed, that it proves him elected, the majority report ranges in every imaginable direction formatter to distort in the vain hope to borrow, strength thereby,” ’ The report says in conclusion that when those intrusted with official power so forget right, justice and duty as to act as the majority qf the committe has done, it brings distrust and odium on a party and the House, and their actions and conclusions should be rejected and rebuked. “Never has a great question been so wretchedly, so feebly, so unjustly, and so scandalously treated and adjudicated,” adds the report, “but passion under injury and wrong is not the mode of redress, and if the House puts the seal of approval on the report and recommendations of the committee, then we appeal to the people to rebuke it and >right it by their votes.” ‘ i TARIFF AND WAGES. «. Some Interesting Facts and Figures. [From the Chicago Herald.] If any one should look through the last part of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report in the expectation of tracing some connection between the wages paid fn manufacturing industries and the tariff he would be very much disappointed. It is impossible to find any such connection. Upon no other industry, for example, has tariff been lavished with so liberal a hand as upon woolens. We should naturally expect that hero a high rate of wages would; rule. And yet, according to the Springfield (Maas.) Republican, it appears that 22 per cent, of the employes who are included in the wage returns receive less than $5, more than one-half receive less than 7, and more than three-fourths less, than $lO a week. As 74 per cent, of the total number employed in this industry are represented in the wage returns, , these results no doubt give the average situation. Cotton goods, again, enjoy;.a, very liberal protection, the tariff here ranging from 4dto 75 per cent., and the leading mills are paying dividends of from 6 to 20 per cent. If the rate of wages in any way depends upon the tariff, one would expect to find very good wages prevailing here. And yet, of the 48,178 employes represented in the wage tables, or 80 per cent, of the whole number engaged in the industry, oyer 19,000, or over 40 per cent., receive less than $5 a week, or less than 84 cents a day. More than three-fourths receive less than $7 a week, and more than 84 per cent, less than SB. That cannot be called - large pay. Take now the paper industry. TJiis enjoys the least protection of any great manufacturing business of Massachusetts. Three-fourths of the total 1 number of employes are represented in the wage tables, and it appears that less than 13.5 per cent, of these receive less than $5 a week, and less than 40 per cent, get under $8 and over, and quite one-fourth get over $lO. Nearly onehalf the men in this manufacture get $lO and more a week, and nearly one-fourth receive over sls. In woolen goods, on the other hand, only about ‘SI per cent, of the men get $lO and over, and only about 5 per cent., or one-twentieth, get over sls. Boots and shoes are protected by a tariff of 30 per cent., which is a little above that laid upon paper, but much less than the average levied upon cotton and woolen goods. About 60 per cent, of the total number of employes in this great industry are represented in the wage tables. Os this number only 6.5 per cent, receive less than $5 per week—which compares with’22 per cent, in woolens*. 25 per cent, in worstfids and 40 per cenj. in cottons. Only about onethird of them receive less than $9, nearly one-half get sl2 and over and one-fifth get sls and more. Os the males more than one-half receive sl2 and over a week. If these great industries represented the whole situation we should be obliged to conclude that high wages were more apt to be found in lightly protected than in the more highly protected industries. And this is generally the case. Certain it is, in any event, that high tariffs do i high wages. They are based i upon conditions very different from the . ‘tariff enactments of Congress. Congress may heap up duties on woolens, or ' worsteds, or cotton goods, or linens, or what not, but the employes In these in- ' ’dustries Fill go right on toiling for less . than $8 a week just the same. This is ■ made so evident frohi the facts presented ■ in the statistical report referred tb ax to i need no further demonstration.

AFIIIKS IN INDI AN A. INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of Geieral and Local Interest—Marriage.' >". nd Deaths—Accidents and Crimes £jPortsu aal Fointera. Poisons Whisky Given a Young Farmer. Willis m Coble, son of Richard Coble, a promir tht farmer in Carroll County, is lying a t the point of death, the victipi of a dastardly outrage. NYoung Coble, who is nearly twenty-one years of age, attended ;he old settlers’ dance at Delphi, accompanied by the daughter of Joseph Been, of Rock Creek Township. During the ev< niug young Coble was offered some v,i >isky by Frank Bending, a tough young man of the same locality. After drinking Coble became deathly sick, and Bending took him in his buggy to the Bending homestead, and later on, becoming wt»r >e, took him home. Dr. Smith, of Delp d, and Dr. Stewart, of Rockfield, were called to attend th.e unfortunate young raan. They quickly pronounced it a cato of poisoning. It develops that Bending had put eantharides in the whisky for a joke before letting Coble drink. Bending's character is very bad, and should young Coble die he will be severely dealt with. Minor State Items. —While adjusting the machinery in a fiour-iiUl, at Lexington, John Whitlateh had an arm torn off. —Justice David Baldwin, one of the pioneers of Clark County, died at Oregon on Sunday, aged SO years. —Miss Alice Morgan, a school-teacher for hal ; a century, is dead at Jeffersonville, at the age of 90 years. —Michigan City's famous sand hill is to go. It has been sold to Chicagoans, who will use it for building purpose. north of Fort Wayne, was kicked on the head by a 3-year-old colt, and is dying. —Alyin Parks, of Oregon. Clark County; was fatally beaten by Wm. Pen- [ nington. the weapop being a pitchfork. I —Philip Rhodes, of Columbus, aged 73, was found dead in his bed. He was i in apparent good, health the night pre- i vious. '. —Mrs. M. W. Hamilton,' wife of a prominent grain-merchant, of Green field, was thrown from a buggy and seriously injured. o ; —A rich' vein of silver is said to have been discovered on the farm of John R. Canine, near Waveland. The vein outcrops on the banks of Sugar Creek. —The Southern Indiana Fish Assoeiatian has offered of $25 for the conviction of any person guilty of violating the law for the protection of fish. —A reunion of ex-soldiers of Northern Indiana ana Southern Michigan will be held at Elkhart. September 22. Addresses will be delivered by Gen. Alger and Corporal Tanner. —Henry.Priddy, of Rochester, bought a vicious stallion for. almost nothing, but when he attempted to hitch the animal to a buggy Priddy was almost kicked to death. The horse was shot. —Clanmee Mitchell, Il years old, fell from a trapeze at Charleston, breaking the left arm s,o badly that the boues protruded through the flesh. The plbow and wrist were both dislocated. — Witchcraft treatment is alleged to hav' caused the death of the child of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, residents of Schultztown, a suburb of Logansport. The matter is under investigation. «— A brakeman on theß. E. & W. R. Railroad, while coupling ears at Portland, had his head badly erushed by the bumpers-and was sent to his home in Van Wert, O. The injury appears fatal. —George Bowers, a deaf and dumb m<jn at Greencastle, was Struck by a loee motive while crossing the track near, the depot in that city. He was knocked down, but fortunately escaped serious injury. "' r — The little child of J. B. Henderson, near Leesville, was playing on a large log. when, by his pranks, it was overbal tnced, aud in rolling down a hill it thr w the little fellow to the ground, killing him instantly. —John Miller, of Heth Township, Harrison County, rested a loaded shotgun on one Os his feet, the barrels down,, a few days ago, and it was accidentally discharged. Miller is now minus one of his toes, and his foot is badly mangled. -.-Edward Gillganon, a machinist, employed in the Louisville & Nashville shops, near Evansville, met with an accident which resulted in his death. He was working on an immense drive-wheel, when it fell over on him, crushing him iu a horrible manner. a —Willie Maney, the TS-year-old son of T. C. Maney, of Clarksville, a suburb of Jeffersonville, was accidentally shot by a 12-year-old son ,of James Smith. The w< apon was a flobert rifle, the ball entering the left temple and penetrating the brain. He died soon afterwards. —Bate Kirkham, a ’bus driver, got oft' a Terre Haute and Logansport train at Ellsworth to get a glass of beer at a near-by saloon. In attempting to board the moving train he fell between the platform and the wheels cut his body in two. The remains were taken to his home at Sullivan. —Dr. Laban Palmer, of Knightsville.a practicing physician for sixty years, died. He was born in Virginia in 1809, and came to this State in 1845. His death was the result of injuries received three years ago in a runaway accident. —Robert Long, while fishing in Ohio, at Clarksville, found a leather valise floating in the water. Ou opening, the decomposed remains of a white female infant, two months old, fell at his feet. It was buried in the potters’ field at Jeffersonville. —Joseph Lamb, who escaped from the Southern prison, two years ago, while serving a term for robbery, was arrested nearn Bloomington recently. Lamb was playing the roll of a farmer and was attending an Alliance riieetingrf when his identity was. discovered. —Religions excitement caused the insanity of Mrs. H, Leips, who resides near Elkipsvilie, Brown County, and it be came necessary to bind her hand and foot. Her daughter, on seeing her mother In this position, lost her mind, and is a raving maniac. Both will be sent to the ' Central asylum.

r. —William Finter, oi Jeffersonville,was aroused a few nights ago by the cries of a child. Going to the door he found his 13-year-old daughter standing outside in her night attire. She is a somnambulist, and had walked out of the second-story window and fallen to the ground,twentyfive feet below, escaping with only slight injuries. —An explosion in the McCrackliu coal mine at Farmersburg was caused by gas becoming ignited from a miner’s lamp. Emery McCraeklin, an operator, was taken out dead, and his brother Frank was so badly burned that he cannot reI cover. Lafayette Saunders, another operator, is still in the mine and thought to be dead—The Southern Indiana Fish Protective Association will take measures to have the proper authorities compel the owners of mill-dams in the streams of Floyd and adjoining counties to have fish ladders placed over them. This device is useful from the fact, that fish at spawning time ascend to the head-waters of the stream to deposit the spawn in order that the small fry may have protection from the voracious large fish that swim in the deeper water near the mouth. —Three boys, named Mann, Richardson and Smeltzer, were hunting a few miles south of Elkhart with but one gun, when Smeltzer,, who carried the gum, asked the others to go further with him than they wished, and, upon refusal, told them he would shoot them unless they did so. The other boys started to run away, whereupon Smeltzer shot Mann in the neck, making a wound, the outcome of which cannot yet be determined. Smeltzer made no effort to escape. , —Miss Sarah E. daughter of Dr. McKaig, of Noble Township, Cass County, committed suicide at Logansport by taking morphine- A touching letter was found under her pillow addressed to C. W. Buchanan, a Pan Handle brakeman,of that city, a former lover of the unfortunate girl, in which she asks that she be buried in white, with a bunch of fori gat-me-nots. Tin* letter-also upbraided { Buchanan for jilting her. The dead girl | was 18 years of age, and bright and attractive, —Joseph Kleinjjekert, a young farmer ! whd resided: six miles north of Fort | Wayne, met with a hdrrible death. He was' engaged in sharpening a plow point at au emery wheel placed inside of his barn, the power being supplied by a horse engine on the outside. The boy who drove the horse was astonished by a loud crash from within the barn, and hastening inside found that the whirling wheel had burst, and discovered Kleinrickert lying on, the floor dead. A portion of the wheel had carried away the top of his head, — An unknown disease has fastened upon several fine horses in the stables of James V. Mitchell, near Martinsville. The horses were apparently healthy in every way when their throats began swelling and have continued until breathing has become very difficult.and painful. Nothing as yet has been found to alleviate the suffering. The swelling is attended with no other sickness. Farmers throughout the neighborhood are using disinfectants, burning brimstone and exercising great caution to prevent the disease spreading. • —Carrollton Township,.Carroll County, is greatly wrought up over the elopement of Lettie, the 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and Henry J. Cline, a prominent young farmer of that neighborhood. The young couple left the bride’s home after miduight, and, ’'arousing Rev. Riley Montgomery at 3 o'clock in the morning, were made man and wife. The news of the marriage so shocked the bride's mother that she is now lying at the point of death. Brown threatens to inflict serious injury ou his new son-indaw and on the miuister who officiated at the marriage. —Moses Decker and Louis Preston, two men who made their homes near Middletown, were struck by the eastbound express on the Big Four road, near Chesterfield, and instantly killed. They had been working for a few days in that neighborhood, and. were paid Off. They immediately went to-a saloon, and both were soon in an intoxicated condition. The last seen of them they were on the railroad, walking arm-in-arm, singing and shouting. It is supposed they lay down upon the track, went to sleep, and were caught by the train. Both were horribly mangled, Preston being liters ally cut to pieces. Both were unmarried. <- —The other night, a band of White Caps numbering six. persoos entered the house of Joseph Wilkey, near Epsom, in the northern part of Daviess County, took him from bed and escorted him to a wood near by, where they administered a light whipping to their victim. The men had blackened their faces, but under this disguise Wilkey recognized three of the baud, who will be arrested immediately. Wilkey is a harmless fellow, owning a little farm, and has a wife and several children. His assailants charged him with being too intimate with a woman of the neighborhood, but this story is not believed. The authorities are aroused at this, the second White-cap outrage that has occurred in that county within the past six months, and will make every effort to bring the guilty wretches to justice. —A representative of an Indianapolis gas syndicate offered the Madison Gaslight Company $70,000 for its plant. The offer was declined. —Farmers in the Southern pa;t of the State report that young quail were never so abundant in the stubble-fields as they are this season, and fine sport is predicted when the season opens. Young squirrels are also plentiful in the woods, and rabbits can be seen bounding along every unfrequented country road late in in the afternoon. —While en route to Sit. Louis, J s S. Ferguson, a traveling salesman, fell from the cars and struck a- barbed-wire fence. He new lies at North Vernon in a dangerous condition, his face being frightfully lacerated, his spine injured, and his left arm and wrist broken. —The Big Four depot at Troutman’s Station, three miles v r est of Crawfordsville, was entered by thieves. All "the tickets were thrown on the floor, but it is not known whether any were taken. Very little money was secured, but 910 was overlooked that ’as "n an envelope in the money-drawer.

Soft SttnlictoL ' The blinds were open. The soft sun- ~ light of May streamed into the room. “Mother.” said a girl, whose rich hair spread over the pillow, like a glossy covering, “prop me up. I want to look cuL How green the grass is. Snow was on the ground when I went to bed. Mother, didn’t you say that I would be well by spring?” “Yes, darling.” “But 1 am not well.” The mother sighed. “Ah, child, I fear you did not stop work soon enough. You spwed your life away.” “I didn’t know. I knew that 1* had io work. I did so long for spring to come, but now that it is here, the air is -s cook Mother, see if I have a chill.” x “No, darling,” the mother replied, placing her hand on the girl’s brow. A carrage passed. Merry laughter same in with the sunlight. A trolicaorne boy, held by a happy woman, threw a lose toward the window. “I wish I could ride in a carriage. I have seen so little of the world, mother, and the little I have seen has not been rich with pleasure. There, mother, I make you weep. I will not complain. It was only for a moment’ She put her wasted arms around her mothers neck. “No, I will not complain. I know ffiat you have dime the best you could. Please put the blanket on my feet. Mother, don’t you remember once when they asked me to join the church “Yes, precious, but don’t let that worry you.” “Oh, it doe* not worry me,” she replied, with a smile. “I am not afraid. I have never harmed a living thing. I could never bear to keep a bird in a cage. God eonld not have the heart to punish such a poor, frail thing as I am, could He, mother?” “No, darling. Don’t let your mind dwell upon such subjects.” “They are not unpleasant, mother. How I do love you,” she said, pressing her mother’s head against her poor bosom. “In all my life I don’t think that I have loved you so much as I do now. You look beautiful to me. Don’t cry, mother, please don’t” “Oh, my angel—my all, how can I give you up 1” “Don’t, mother —don’t You must not talk that way. Last night when you thought I was asleep I heard you pray for me. There now, mother. Ease me down. Has the sun stopped shining?” « • “No, darling.” “I don’t see it. No, it’s gone. Kiss me—kiss me again.” * « * * • > The soft May sunlight streamed into the room and fell upon a eoffin. A carriage passed. A happy woman held a frolicsome boy.— Arkansaw Traveler. One Thing at a Time. - Early in life I learned from a very simple incident a wholesome lesson and one which has since been of incalculable benefit to me, says a correspondence-. , > When I was between twelve and fourteen years old ffiy father broke up a new field on his farm, and planted it with potatoes, and when the plants were two or three inches high, he sent me to hoe it The ground of that place was hard to till; it was matted with grass roots and sprinkled with stones. I hoed the first row, and then stopped to take a general look at the task before me. Grass as high as the potatoes was everywhere, aud looking at the whole from any point it seemed to be a solid mass. I had the work to do all alone, and as I stood staring at the broad reach of weedy soil, I felt a good mind not to try to do anything further then with it . . Just that.minute I happened to look down at the hill nearest my feet The grass didn’t seem just quite as thick there and I said to myself, lean hoe this one well enough. When it was done another thought came to help me; I shan’t have-to hoe but one hill at a time, any rate. And so I went to the next and next. But here I stopped again and looked over the field. That gave me another thought, too. I could hoe every hill as I came to it; it was only looking away aft to all the hills that made the whole seem impossible. “I won’t look at it!” I said;and I pulled my hat over my eyes so I could see nothing but the spot where my hoe had to dig. In the course of time I had gone over the whole field, looking only at the hill in hand, and my work was done. I learned a lesson, tugging away at those grass roots, which I never forgot. It was to look right down at the one thing to be done now, and not hinder ind discourage myselt by looking off at ;he things I haven’t come to. I’ve been working ever since that summer at the trill nearest my feet, and I have always' found it the easiest way to get a hard task accomplished, as it is the true way to prepare a field for the harvest A Story of Chinese Gorden. There is a story told of Chinese Gorlon, one of the most striking which centers in his romantic personality. While he was in China there was some mutiny in the army over bad rations or itopped pay. It was Gordon’s duty' to stop that mutiny, and this is how he did it He had the men drawn up and went and stood a few paces in front of them. At his elbow were half a dozen trusty fellows with loaded rifles. “Now,” he said, “you must have some leaders; let -them stand out and I’ll speak to them” There was a moment’s pause. “Come, fall out!” said Gordon again, in a eool everyday voice, as if he was ordering dinner. The men looked at one another, and stirred in their places as his keen eye ran along the ranks. Then two men stepped forward.; Gordon quietly gave a signal to his half dozen men with loaded rifles, and the next moment- the two ringleaders were shot dead. So ended the mutiny. “But I always think,” Gordon used to say, meditatively after telling the story, “I always think I murdered those men.” —Boston Transcript. 1 4 — B \ ■ i The Humorist, Statesmen may be made, but genuine humorists are the production of nature alone. A great man or two will not* be missed, but the man who makes healthful innocent fun, who seta the heart to “crowing like a chanticleer,” who makes two smiles or no smile before, is at benefactor of the race, a messenger of good stnaight from the hands of the goddess of laughter and pleasant thought*. We bless him while he lives, we miss him when . he leaves us, and philosophy itself, with - Hamlet, mourns moreover the Yoricks that it has lost than the more sovereign things that have perished from the earth.— Baltimore Mem are always trying to turn their money into something else, but when people get religion, they know they have the best thing on eatth, anddon r t v*nt to part with it. I