Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1892 — Page 6

S*.«4 M*A O' ’ W77-> A ©he DECATUR, IND. 11. BLACKBORW, - - - rosMsaua. ’ Eighteen more birthdays will make him the Grand Old Centenarian. Never say die, Mr. Gladstone. *' Before resolving to buy nothing that you Can possibly do without, but to save your money instead, Just . pause and consider the effect that auch a resolution universally kept would have. A good many pleasant things are being said about the Czar of Russia because he gave a large slice of his fortune tostarvlngsubjects. But who gave the fortune to the Czar, and why are the affairs of his country in such a deplorable condition? Jay Gould boasts that he never took a salary from any corporation with which he was connected. To amasssuch a fortune withoutdrawing pay, suggests that none of the corporations had a cash register or a “look out.” There must have been some very tall “knocking down” done. Ask a girl of 14 who a young man is you see on the street, and she will say, “That is Miss " ’s fellow.” Agirl of that age always classifies a young man in her mind as some other girl’s fellow. She may not know his name, or anything else about him, but she knows whose fellow he is all right enough. There are two classes to be feared, one the dangerously bad man whose life tends to degrade and degenerate; the other the dangerously good man whose personal life may be blameless, but who. through fear of contamination withdraws from society, hermitlike, and gives no thought or effort in the direction of improving his fellows. Largely by the recommendation and earnest efforts of Dr. Baruch, the poor of New York are now offered a chance to get a good bath at any season. Commendable charity organization has provided bathing houses in which men and women can for only five cents obtain soap, towel, warm rain-bath (shower), and a cup of coffee after it. If they can but appreciate it, that’s the greatest single blessing ever provided for persons of small means. The grip is epidemic once more. This unseasonable weather, with the thermometer flirting with 45 and 65 degrees in the same day, is doubtless responsible for the reappearance of the troublesome and in some cases dangerous malady. The popular cry, “Oh, for a week of good hard, cold weather?# comes front the rebellion ggainst a svmioec- temperature in December. Yet we ought to be getting accustomed to these mild winters, for we already have the third without the interruption of a real oldfashioned cold season; and there may be a dozen of them still ahead of us. « - The recent decision of the Supreme Court in Michigan in respect to the grounds on which a will can be properly contested ought to aid the New York courts materially in determining a knotty case which has come before them.'. The will in the case is contested on the ground that the testator was in the habit of making execrable puns, especially on the names of friends and acquaintance®. Under the spirit of the Michigan decision this habit is not conclusive proof that the capacity to make a will is wanting; and we believe the New York courts will so hold. The relatives of a man so afflicted ought to be contented with the knowledge that he has abandoned it, and let his will stand, t Seldom do we .stop to think, on taking a book from a public library, who might have handled the book last. Books are loaned out, and go from family to family, no attention being paid to the fact that they may have been handled by a patient having a contagious disease. The British Medical Journal mentions a case where a physician recognized in the house of a patient suffering from scarlet fever a book which he had noticed a few days before in the room of a patient suffering with the same disease. On inquiring, he learned that a few days after borrowing the book the symptoms of the second case appeared. The paper used for covering library books soon becomes roughened, and undoubtedly furnishes the means of transmitting infectious’ diseases. Libraries should be notified, either by the boards of health or by attending physicians, of cases of infectious diseases. The challenge issued by George A. Fuller, the Chicago contractor, has excited considerable discussion among real estate men and others. Mr. Fuller offered to wagsr SIOO,OOO that he could start a fire in the top story of some down-town fire-proof building; that he could let the fire burn for half an hour and could then extinguish it without the aid of the fire department and without serious injury to the building. The wager has J not found a taker for obvious reasons. It Is too large a sum of money to be.covered on such a proposition in the nrsfiilaee, and, in the second place, the experiment would be of a foolhardy nature, and would not be permitted by the authorities, To the Other proposition made by Mr. Fuller there seems to be less objection. He rrSronounces his intention of constructing a fire-proof building for experimental 'purposes out on the prairie, , orlD some4solated spot. If he does j

this he will be giving an exhibition of great popular interest, and will also create an opportunity to disprove the widespread impression that fire-proof buildings are not all that is claimed for them. It is a very Just observation that one reason and perhaps the greatest Reason, it might perhaps be added, why there are so many stories of ghostly adventure afloat is because folk do not like to be outdone by their neighbors. When one is attracting attention by the relation of some sort of an uncommon and apparently supernatural adventure, it is the natural instinct of mankind and , even of womankind to cap the tale with one still more remarkable if possible. Under such circumstances—and such-circumstances are very com- . mon—the most ordinary mystery assumes proportions which arc startling, while a shade of mystery is given to things which arc easily capable of the most simple and straightfor ward explanation when once they arc correctly stated. The supernatural is after all largely the result of human vanity as it is the obvious consequence of human credulity. The wheat crop of Canada the past year is estimated at 60,000,000 bush els, or one-tenth that of the United States. Manitoba is credited with 23,000,000 and the farther west with enough to leave one-half of the production for the eastern portion of the country. The total was at first estimated at only 48,000,000 bushels, but the thrashing returns were such an agreeable disappointment that 25 per cent, was added to the original figures. The total is a large one, but is far from measuring the possibilities of Canada as a wheat producer in case the world should find itself in danger of running .short in the supply from other sections. So long as. plenty can be looked for in ordinarily good seasons elsewhere, the severe climate in the western part of the Dominion may prevent much extension of wheat culture there. Adding together the big and the little the wheat production of the northern half of this continent is found to be fully one-third that of the whole globe, a pretty large proportion, and especially when it is remembered that it is only a few years since North America began to rise towards that important position of feeding onethird the wheat-eaters of the world. Plenty of people are now alive in whose day the United States barely raised enough wheat for home Consumption by the relatively small population of their childhood. Now the United States uses up close to 1,000,000 bushels per day and has exported to Europe at nearly that rate during several weeks since our last crop was gathered in. The proposition to unite the great lakes with the seaboard by a ship canal has been agitated many years, and the recent convention in Detroit drew to its discussions those who have given much attention to improve our methods of internal transportation. Since DeWitt Clinton gave us the Erie Canal engineers have pleaded for an opportunity to enlarge it so that ocean vessels could navigate it, and thus be able to reach the ports on our Western waterways. One plan to accomplish this is to dredge the upper Hudson so that vessels carrying twenty-one feet of water can reach Albany. The Erie Canal would have to be widened as well as deepened to admit the passage of ocean craft to Lake Erie. The Detroit River would have to be deepened, and changes made at other shallow points. A second plan is to construct a canal along the Niagara River from Buffalo to Lake Ontario, and continue on to Oswego. From here the Oswego Canal would be enlarged so that vessels could pass through to Oneida Lake, thence on to Rome, where the Mohawk River could be utilized most of the distance to Troy. To make the proposed changes would., involve the expenditure of many millions, and Uncle Sam is expected to foot the bill. Congress has never encouraged the ship canal business, and without its aid it would be impossible to. enlist individual capital. Besides, the influence of the railroads, which is potential in Congress and out, would be arrayed against the measure. Its establishment would make serious inroads on the roads between the Atlantic seaboard and the West, as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and other points could receive freight direct from Europe without patronizing the railroads. This would diminish earnings and cheapen railroad property—something that the stockholders and officers of ■ corporations would fight to the bitter end. J edge Waxem’s Political Proverbs. The Decleration of. Independents has got a wider foundation than all the throans of Urup put together. Public skools furnishes the best fatening for the Amerikin Eagel. Some men would rather be President fer fore yers before they die than be the Lord Almity for eternity afterwords. No wonder some of our statesmen air sitch pore material, when you come to think what wages they git. Pattriotism won’t grow in cittys like it will, in the country. Wimmin that marrys the rite kind of men ain’t hankering to vote. It’s a good sine fer the country . when boys differs with their daddies in polliticks. Newspaper edditers air the real kings of polliticks, Thars amity comfortin sart of a shine to a pocketful of silver money. A Vice President is mostly fer meetin emergencies. ExpeUlugjposU*. According to Coionol Rockhill, the denis are driven out of the towns in Corea on'New Year’s Eve by firing off < gwis and cracker#! •

DEMOCRACY CAN WIN, EMINENT MEN POINT THE WAY TO SUCCESS. Prominent Democrat, at the Reform Cpob Banquet Give Their View, on Leading Issue*—Tariff’ Bill, that Should Be Introduced. Talk, at the Banquet. At the annual dinner of the Reform Club in New York, William F. Vilas, Senator from Wisconsin, responded to the toast “The Presidency of 1892.” He said the subject was being considered by millions In the streets and the columns of the press. The speaker scored the Republicans for what he termed their specious schemes. %He recommended organization, the use of all proper means, the enlistment of all justifiable influences. Ho deprecated impractical methods, and said that Democrats would always be outmatched in fraudulent qcts by Republicans. Mr. Vilas told of many ugly tilings for which the Republican party whs responsible. The Democratic party would bo false to every principle of life if it bo not truly of the people, standing for the common good, bending to no man. The way to win the national government is the good, old-fashionod Democratic way; of honestly deserving that trust at the hands of the people as their wisest choice for their own good and the unerring public judgment will best discover that deserving in faithful adherence to the Democratic party. He concluded as follows: It is for the Democratic party to win if it will. We do not look upon the Democratic party as the be-all and end-all of endeavor, bht as a groat instrumentality for the benefit of our country. We want no platforms for the sake of words. We do not care to formulate a policy merely to win an election. But we want to win an election to execute a wise policy. The Democratic party must lead and win those reforms or years of despairing will pass over our heads. Now Is the day and now Is the hour. Men and brethren of New York, it Is upon you In this hour of national exigency, to decide whether the Democratic party shall go forward to a great end, to true prosperity. by the establishment of justice and the equal rights of All. I believe, I feel, we shall not lose patriotism, and determination will subdue differences, repress ambitions, guide our obvious counsel, and we may justly hope to see the Democratic party true to its name and origin, sincere in heart and strength, in purpose wisely gathered, in harmonious co-operation, behind a leader, loved and trusted by the people, to go forward to the deliverance of labor, the promotion of our true prosperity, the country’s honor and glory, by the establishment of justice and equal rights for all, and we shall see the fifth century of the new world begin with a firm, advancing step by the great republic in that path of human progress where with flashing orb the queen shall head the grand procession around the world. Mr. Springer was the next speaker and began his remarks by pointing out the difference between the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Commons of England, continuing in substance as follows: '"' I presume, however, that you are not concerned so much about the history of the Committee of Ways and Means in this country and in England as you are about the opinions and purposes of the Democratic members of that committee in the present House of Representatives. I have no authority to speak for them, nor can 1 state what measures will be reported by the committee hereafter. No definite action has been taken by a majority of the committee up to this time. They will at an early day bring forward for the consideration of the House such measures in refererence to the tariff as will in their judgment best meet the requirements of the situation and respond to the demand of the country for a genuine reform of the tariff. Any measure for the reform of the tariff, as this is a political question which would pass the House of Representatives, would in all probability fail in the Senate, or if it should pass the Senate, would be vetoed by the President. A general revision of the tariff therefore, by this Congress is utterly impracticable. The position of the Democratic party in reference to tariff reform is scarcely a subject of doubt. What the Democratic party would do it the lawmaking power were in its control Is well 1 known. It will be the duty of every Democrat and tariff , reformer of the United States at the ensuing election for President and Representatives in Congress to use every effort to secure a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. If this issue is kept steadily in view and is made paramount to all others there can scarcely be any doubt of the result. In fact, upon this Issue success is already assured. The question which most concerns the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, and the solution of which is especially imposed upon the Democratic members of the Wavs and Means Committee, is what can be done during this session which will improve our chances of success, and if possible bring some immediate relief to the people. It is my opinion, and I speak for myself alone, that much good can be accomplished by the introduction and passage through the House of separate bills having for their object the enlarging of the free list, the securing of free raw material, and ■he cheapening of the many necessaries of life to the great mass of the consumers of the country. Something should be proposed also which would more clearly define the position of the Democratic party on the subject of reciprocity. Our party is in favor of that kind of reciprocity which will bring reciprocal benefits. If free trade with some countries, or lower duties upon some articles of commerce is desirable, why not-extend the principle to all countries alike situated, and where Important results may be anticipated. I would favor the admission into this country of all the products of the soil and mines of Canada and Mexico and all the products mauufactArb<L, Ineither country from the products ot such country or the United States or of materials which might be Imported into the United States free of duty if similar products of the United States could be admitted into those countries. I do hot know what position will be taken on this subject by the Committee, of Ways and Means, or by the House Itself, but I am confident that some measure will bo proposed which will be more In harmony'wlth the Views and policies of Democrats generally than that which Is contained in section three of the McKinley act, nor can I state what measures generally will lie adopted by the committee and reported to the House for its consideration. Every rfember of the committee in my judgment earnestly desires to do that which will best promote the public weal. They are all genuine tariff-reformers and will do that which they deem best to promote this great reform. They may differ among themselves and with others upon methods, but there is? no difference among them, so far as I kntrtL upon the great question which has become a cardinal principle of Democratic faith. I am proud to be associated with gentlemen so distinguished for their ability, for their patriotism, and their devotion to the cause of tariff reform. They will not disappoint their constituents who are looking to the Democratic party for relief from the burdens of high protective tariff. I ask of all true Democrats and tariff-reformers that our motives may not be Impugned, and that criticism upon our acts and upon the measures which we will bring forward will be reserved until our work is done, and when it is finished I hope and believe it will receive the approbation of the people and be ratified at the polls November next by the election of a Democratic President and a Vice President and a Congress Democratic in both branches. Representative Breckinridge, the next speaker, referred to the elections of 1891, and declared that the only issue was the question of the tariff, and though but State officers were to be elected the question of tariff kept Democratic success up to the high mark of the year before. Mr. Breckinridge next referred to the depleted state of the United States Treasury, and made a comparison between the revenues and disbursements, and- showed that - $30,,0(K);000 of last year's appropriations had not yet been paid. Relative to the McKinley bill and I the «mc It had been in force, he said: I Our exports have exceeded our import*,

presumably an evidence ot profit, by n»ar- • ly 1130,000,000. Yet the commercial failures for the lust twelve months arc roundly #108,000.000, compared with #170,000,000 ' tor the much-talkod-of bard year before, an Increase of 18 per cent, and for the same period the failures have Increased 10 per cunt l» Congressman Warner said: It is the csg sentlal of the tariff tax that It is levied on - consumption and not on wealth—that it Is paid In the Increased price of whatever the cttlxen finds it necessary to have. It is a tax which stands ,by the cradle, and as every bn be entera rhe .household vigilantly 1 and pitilessly Increases its father's share > of public burdens, but which sleeps un- ) moved while bond is piled upon bond In 5 the strong box and broad acres uro added f acres outside. Is it fair thus to bar the f necessities ot the poor and leave untouched the accumulations of the rich? is it fair thus to burden the unfortunate in propor- " tlon to bls wants and thus to let the miser - go free in proportion to his stinginess? Is , it fair thus to discourage the roaring of . children and thus to encourage the breed--1 ing of dollars? There is no reason why > self-supporting men should heed the shrill 1 clamor of those who croak disaster. You 5 will recalldiow when Occur de Leon escaped r from his Austrian prison and the news - came westward to his kingdom, his people, j devouring courtiers that stood about the 5 usurper, John, turned pale and passed aliout the words? «Tbo devil is broken • loose." But through the length and > breadth of England the same news wag passed as a holiday benediction from vllI lago to village and churcb to church until f to the humblest subject it camo as a glad I cry. “The true king iacomlng again to his I own.” And so the general downfall of the i protective system, which the obstinacy of I Its beneficiaries ia-tast preparing, their 1 startled cry. “The free-trade devil la > broken loose,” will be lost in tho glad answer ot a re-enfranchised nation. The ; people uro coming to their own. Harrison as an Importer. A dispatch giving an account of a re- ! cent reception and luncheon at the White House contained the following >’ statement: “The new service of cut : glass was used for the first time, and it ’ was the intention to use the ‘new china ' also,’ but the formalities of the custom house could not be complied with in ‘ time to make this possible.” Hew is this? Does President Harrison Import china, made by the pauper labor of Europe, for use in the White House? The allusion to custom-house formalities forbids any other conclusion. And yet this is the same Mr. Harrison who in i his late message remarks that, “in view , of the somewhat overcrow’ded condition of the labor market, every patriotic citizen should rejoice” at the result of the ; McKinley policy, which has given employment to labor by excluding foreign products. It is the same Mr. Harrison who, in the course of his journeyings last spring, repeatedly described the “ideal condition” as one in which the farmer would swap his com and potatoes over the tailboard of his wagon for manufactures (china included, of course) made by his near neighbor in tho same county. Such is thedifferencebetween Harrison In theory arid Harrison ' in practice. In theory his heart overflows with sympathy for the American workman standing all the cheerless day in the overcrowded labor market. In practice he buys his china abroad and leaves the American to stand unemployed. As the official head of the party of “home industry”and “ideal condition,” Mr. Harrison should be more consistent. In his next and last annual message he will have an opportunity to explain why he does not conform his practice to his theory. In the meantime the “protected" workman in the overcrowded labor market may think that American china is good enough for a patriotic protectionist In the White House. At the same time Mr. Harrison may improve the opportunity to state whether it was he or the foreign manufacturer who, in complying with the formalities of the custom house, jSaid the 60 per cent, tax on that china; or, if the china was paid for out of the contingent fund, whether it was the foreigner that paid the tax to the Government, or the Government that paid the tax to itself, as provided by the McKinley act.—Chicago Herald. The Producers’ Need. The cotton crop in the South the past season, like the wheat crop of the country, was one of the largest, but there was no cotton famine in Europe, and the prices have ruled so low as to leave the planters little or no margins on the cost of production. The superficial view is that there has been too much cotton grown. In. touching on this subject recently, Mr. Mills finds that the great need of the cotton growers is less obstruction to traffic abroad. He estimates that a reduction of the tariff to 25 per cent, above the revenue basis would so increase the demand abroad for cotton as to raise the price several cents per pound, and add $150,000,000 to the receipts of the planters. If English goods are shut out, they will have less use for American cotton. In ordinary years the same effect will be had upon the demand for grain and meats. The farmers in the West need more than a home market for their products. A famine in Russia and short crops in other countries cannot be expected to come very often. The great consuming nations of Europe will prefer to buy their breadstuffs of the countries that Invite their barter most liberally. There will be hard lines for the Western farmer when he is shut in to the home market, however large his crops may be. They Continue to Come. , Nebraska Democracy has a new con- • vert whose position and ability will render him a great help In the redemption of that State and the permanent establishment of its political virtue. This is Gilbert M. Hitchcock, oditos of tho Omaha World-Herald. Mr. Hitchcock is the son of the late Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, a life-long Republican. The young man naturally began life with Republican tendencies and for many years he has been conducting an independent paper. But McKinleylsm, Thayerism and probibitionism were too much for him, and 'on the recent anniversary of Andrew Jackson's victory ait New Orleans he threw both hands and in the presence of Gov. Boyd and many other enthusiastic banqueters declared his conversion in earnest and elo- . tfuent terms. Readers of protection organs know that tin-plate mills are Springing up all over the country like mushrooms; still ! the operators insist that the present tax of $16,000,000 is not enough to get the ' Infant on its feet. They would have Congress raise the tariff wall about one- > half higher. But that sort of thing is becoming obsolete. I — —■ 1 There was but one spot on the North ; American Continent, it is said, of which l there is authentic account, where maneating people dwelt, and that dark spot > was withing the geographical limits of i what is now the States of Indiana and 11111 nois. These horrid rites were performed i by the Miami Indians even where Chicago now stands. ■ ' ' A circular being sent out to postj masters intimates pretty clearly to the t officials that their positions will be safer j if they send $5 each to tho Republican League to aid in tho diffusion of pollti- . cal literature. Os course, Mr. Wana- ) maker does not know aboutthis. i — —-— , - < Ex-President McC'osh, of Prince- , ton College,has undertaken a veiy amt bitious litefury work. He proposes to i issue a full set of volumes on toe various I departments of the human mind, and is at present writing a little book on ethics , ’to begin the series A . •

I CURING INTEMPERANCE. DR. BORTON'S GREAT WORK AT WARSAW, IND. An Unbroken ReoOrit of Cure*—A Remedy for the Drinking Habit that Is Effectual In all Stages of Disease—Blain Story of a Bemedy that 1* Bettering Fallen Men to Ueelulneat. Plymouth Institute Sight*. Ho who changes a confirmed inebriate Into a reputable, rational, solt-respect-ing member ot society Is worthy to take rank among tho greatest benefactors of mankind. For his good work not only restores to usefulness a man whoso time, energy and opportunities have been worse fhan inls-speut, but ho confers tho boon of poaco to many homos, tho har. binger of joy to many bruised hearts. Just such a bonefactor appears to be Dr. T. A. Borton of Warsaw, Ind., and in the work of redeeming fallen men he has oarnod a heavenly crown of glory. Os scores of suffering persons, who have sought him out, not ono has failed to find complete and permanent relief, not one has relapsed into tho drinking habit, an unbroken record of cutes that has nowhere been equalled. The ''Borton Cure," as it is becoming to be widely known, depends entirely for its reputation upon tho. unsought and willing testimony of those who have experienced tho treatment No attempt has been made to acquaint the public with its merits, and it might almost entirely have failed to attract tho attention of newspaper readers but for the fact that certain clergymen, who* visited tho doctor at his office, felt impelled to send to the Chicago Interior and other religious papers some accounts of tho astonishing things they had witnessed.

si T. A. BORTON, M. D.

Dr. Borton says of the cure that Its discovery is the result of a long and patient study of the phenomena presented by the drinking habit, made for no other purpose than to find relief for certain noble and afflicted fellow-citizens pf Plymouth, Ind., where he had practiced his profession for thirty-two years before removing to Warsaw. Among the earliest treated was a Plymouth butcher, whose shop was in a basement under a saloon. This man is a jolly German who drank for social reasons until the disease of alcoholism had mastered him. He has been completely and permanently cured to the astonishment and delight of his family and friends. Just around the corner from the butcher is a shoemaker, who had regularly spent his hard earnings over the bar until his family wasin sore distress. He had promised reformation again and again but*as often had fallen. He came to Dr. Borton many months ago and soon the old desire for liquor was supplanted by a detestation that he eloquently expresses to all who will cross; the street from the Plymouth Postoffice and enter his neat and busy workshop. A brilliant telegraph operator had lost his place through drinking and had become almost a tramp. He was cured and last week he visited Warsaw with his happy bride, proud to show to her the man who had redeemed him. These cases bad been multiplied into scores before Dr. Borton was willing to permit the use of his name in connection with the cure. He wanted first to satisfy himself that he could, with an abiding confidence, announce to fallen men that there was relief at last at hand that would be effectual in all stages of the drinking habit. His general practice was large‘and very renumerative but victims of intemperance soon presented themselves In such number that he could not fall to extend to them all the Christian sympathy and medical aid that would surely lift them out of bondage into a life of hope and joy. ’ The story is almost told. Since the beginning of the present year he has consented to devote all of his time, all of his skill, all of his effort to this heartwork of rescuing fallen men. What will be his reward he cannot say, but if the abandonment of his general practice will enable him to enlarge the usefulness of his cure, if many more shall be led from paths that take hold on death to take their places again among their fellow men, their appetite foi* liquor gone and full of the ambition of their youth, an ample reward will come in the blessings of redeemed men, in the joy of families restored to happiness and in the love of children whose fathers have been newborn into lives of affection. No man’s monument will be higher, none more enduring. The citizens of Warsaw have known of Dr. Borton and his work for a long time, and they are in hearty sympathy with him. The best homes in the city are thrown open for the reception of his patients and every effort is made to surround them with influences of the right sort. They come to him in various conditions and if they are nervous he supplies them with pure Boutbon whisky without the least fear of prolonging their sprees, for the appetite for liquor never outlasts the secon'd or third day of treatment. It yields-and for the first time in years the drinking man finds, to his great joy, that ho cares for liquor no more. After that his stay at Warsaw becomes a pleasant relaxation from business cares. He presents himself to Dr. Borton four times a day for treatment and spends the rest of his time in the charming paras, on the beautiful streets or on the three lakes which almost touch the city. In summer he Is welcomed x in the pretty cottages by the lakes, he. may skim over the waters in one of the graceful steamers, bend his back In rowing or while away the lazy hours in fishing. In whatever relaxation he may engage he is 'sure to go to his home with pleasant memories of the pretty/ hospitable lakecity, and of the Christian gentleman who presides at the Plymouth Institute, as Dr. Borton calls his sanitarium. It should.be added that Warsaw is situated at the crossing of the Pittsburgh. FortWayne and Chicago railway, and the Cincinnati, .Wabash and Michigan railroad. It is 108 miles, east of Chicago, forty miles west of FoFt Wayne, and 125 ' miles north of Indianapolis.

THE MAN WHO QUIT. Hl* Departure Didn't Create a Ripple ot Excitement About seven miles from the Arkansas River we mot a man on the highway with a gun on his shoulder. He looked as If he had been having atenrqgnd go with breuk-bonefever, and that after he had been knocked out somebody hud run his suit of clothes through a corn-sbellcr. He stopped and wo stopped, and .he asked: "Goin’ down us fur as Clark’s Bend?” "Yes.” "Do mo a favor?” "Yes.” "Jest after you cross Goose Creek you’ll soe a shafcklety cabin on the left. Thar'll Ixj an ole woman slttin’ on a log dlppi n’ or smokin’ a pipe.” "Yes.” "And sevoti tow-headed and ragged young’uns rollin' around in the dirt.” "Yes.” “Waal, that's my place and fam’ly, or was up to an hour ago. I want ye to stop and tell the old woman that I’ve quit. My name’s Hiram, and if she doubts you, which she won’t, you kin describe me.” • "Do you mean you have left home?" "Sartin. I’ve got clean sickened out, and I’m headed fur a healthier climate. Might Jist stop and tell the old woman, so she won’t think I've mired or drownded.” "But didn’t you .tell her you were going?” • "No. I was out shootin’ squirrels and made up my mind all of a sudden. it’s right on your road and won’t stop you more’n a minuit Good-by.” We found the place without difficulty. There was the shacklety cabin, and there sat the old woman calmly smoking a clay pipe with a stem only two Inches long. Scattered around among the stumps were half a dozen children, each one seemingly more dirty and ragged than the other. I was deputized to break the news to the woman. "Howdy, stranger!” she saluted as I approached. "Madam, have you got a husband named Hiram?” I asked. "I reckon.” "Tall, sickly-looking man, with ragged clothes on?" "That's lll.’’ "Well, wc met him up the road about three milles, and he asked us to stop and tell you he’d quit.” "Dun left us?” "Yes.” "Gwine off by hisself? "Yes.” "And he won’t cum back no mo?” "That’s the way I understood him." She looked around at the half cleared “patch” of ground grown up to weeds—at the old cabin and the ragged children, and then she removed the pipe and blew a cloud of smoke into the air, and rep.ied: "Wall, hang me if I blame him one least bit! I’ve been Wonderin’ why he din’tgo fur the last fifteen years!” And as we drove she sat there smoking and trotting her foot, evidently as calm and content as any woman In the State. —Free Press. The War Was Over. I was told a good story about Gen. Grant to-day that I never saw in print, says a writer in the Louisville CourierJournal. It -will be recalled that early in the war the New York Fire Zuaves were a crack regiment, commanded by Col. Ellsworth. Every man in the ranks had been a fireman and it was confidently believed that Ellsworth’s command was able to put down therebelllon without assistance. The Colonel was a young man, handsome, gallant, burning with military ardor and thirsting for military fame. He was as much the idol of the North as Ashby was a few months later the idol of the South. The Fire Zouaves were the first troops to march into Alexandria, Va. Their Colonel was at their head and after the town had surrendered Ellsworth* saw a rebel flag flying .from a hotel. Instead of ordering a squad to remove it he bolted into the house, ascended the stairway, went out on the roof and captured the flag; descending he was confronted by the landlord —one Jackson —who shot him dead. Jackson himself was then shot to death, and the affair created more sensation than considerable battles few years later. After the war a daughter of Jackson secured an appointment in one of the Government departments. She was a modest,diligent and capable young woman, and discharged her official duties acceptably. In the course of time a superloyal gentleman was put in charge of the bureau in which she worked. Nosing around, he soon discovered the antecedents of the young clerk and discharged her. She was friendless and penniless, and as a last resort went to the White House and called for Gen. Grant. He received her and she related her story to the silent man. Without saying a word he took a piece of paper and wrote: “The war against men is ended and my administration shall not' begin one against women, Restore Miss Jackson to her clerkship instantly. ” This was addressed to the loyal bureau official and the young lady Is yet in the public service. That was an exhibition of chivalry that Durlois or Francis I. might have envied. Mechanical Shoe PolUlilnir. The small but self-reliant bootblack of the city streets has not yet become extinct, but his race seems to be nearly run. The stationary chairs, with their grown-up attendants, have given him a realizing sense of the pofrer of capital, and unless he can secure a "route,” and a sufficient number of clients who will receive his ministrations in their own offices, his field of operations Is becoming more and more circumscribed. An electric shoe-brush on a flexible shaft, and applied by the hand of the operator, has been in use for some time in many barber-shops; and n6w a mechanical shoq-brush has appeared, which does not require to be applied at all. On the contrary, it is the foot of the "subject” which is applied to the brush, or rather inserted into the group of three brushes of which the device consists. One brush on each side of the shoe turns rapidly on an upright shaft, and the third brush moves horizontally to and fro beyond them. The brushes adjust themselves to a shoe of any size, and perform their work almost instantaneously. -“..j , ■ S;’-•■■ ■ ■ i./A: 'i.

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