Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1892 — Page 2

democrat DKCATUR, IND. B, W.XCTBUBN. - - - PrrXLTRHBK. With whalebones at 810 a pound the dress-reform movement ought to boom. The aggregate mileage of railroads on earth would reach to the moon and half way back. The puzzle is to determine how the rest of that return trip is to be made. Wyoming, where the “rustlers” and Uncle Sam s bluecoats are shooting at each other, is the only State in which women vote. The moral of this is left for Susan B. Anthony to draw. Os course Chili can sever all diplomatic relations with this country if it choose to do so, but it can learn more about the business of carrying on a republic by keeping on friendly terms with the United States than by making faces at us. A Minneapolis paper charges that many servant girls of the country, and especially of Chicago, are in league with the Anarchists. This would be startling news but for the fact that in most domestic circles the servant girl is much more feared than is the Anarchist Last year the aggregate loss of property from Are was $140,000,000. Smoke and ashes were all that remained. Despite this heavy drain upon the country’s wealth the construction of tinder-box buildings in town and country goes right along as though there were no such thing as a fire risk. Constantinople is infested with Russians whose chief employment is the hatching of conspiracies against Bulgaria-- The latter country calls upon the Porte to expel Yhese trouble makers and indicates an intention of doing business by purchasing 6,000,000 cartridges in Vienna. It is even more significant that cash was paid for these war-like supplies. King Mhbmora of Butaritari, is a royal visitor in San Francisco, but has none of that pomp and pageantry that cluster about the vague conception of imperial grandeur. He eats peanuts on the cuibstone, rides on the street cars, runs to the fires, stares into the store windows, only wears one suspender and persists in retiring with his boots on. Anyone who says King Mhbmora is stuck up does not know his “royal nibs.” Ward McAllister assures the world that he has made a handsome annual profit off his little farm near Newport for the last ten years. For the benefit of farmers who would like to learn the secret, of Ward’s success, we will state that he buys everything that the diminutive estate produces, and pays from three to five times what it is worth. Hence his account with the farm makes a fine showing, and the leader of the 400 is proud of it A man requires a great head to fool himself like that The Christian Endeavor Societies, organized about ten years ago, have had such a phenomenal growth that the Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention, to be held in New York, July 7 to 10, are at a loss how to accomodate all the dele- ( gates who propose to attend. In 1882 there were six of these societies in the country, with a membership of 481. Last January there were 18,500 societies and a membership of 1,100,000.. More- than 13,000 delegates have already notified the New York committee of their intention to attend the convention, and the large Madison Square Garden canned accommodate them. It will be the largest convention ever held. Says the New Orleans Picayune: “It .would appear to be a wise plan for this country to at once take steps to build a lake navy capable of defending the approaches to our great cities and to properly protect our immense commerce on the vast inland seas. As things now are Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities are entirely defenceless and yypuld be an, easy prey to Great Britain in the event of war catching us unprepared. Such a state of things is a disgrace to a great and powerful nation and should not be permitted to continue, particularly as matters are annually shaping themselves so as to make a quarrel with some foreign power, and particularly Great Britain, more than a possibility at any time.” The Illinois Habituate Criminal act provides that where a person is convicted for the second time of burglary, robbery, horse-stealing, counterfeiting, forgery, or grand larceny, “the punislimentshall.be imprisonment in the penitentiary for the full term provided by law. A man was tried for burglary in the Cook County Criminal Court. The indictment was drawn under the above law, and the jury found the man guilty as indicted, and yet returned a verdict fixing his penalty as twelve years in the penitentiary, while the law says it shall be twenty and gives no discretion to change it. Another jury was guilty of a similar offense, but got off with a slight rebuke. The Judge told the jurors in this last case that they had violated their oaths, that there was no excuse for their conduct, and that the next

batch who behaved thus would get into trouble. The best way to deal with such outbreaks'" of lawlessness In the jury box is to fine the offenders and send them to jail to meditate over their misconduct Had this been done in the first instance there would have been no repetition of the offense. If the laws for the punishment of hardened and deliberate criminals are to be nullified by jurors some radical changes will have to be made in the administration of criminal justice. So much power has been taken from judges and given to jurors in this State that the latter seem to consider themstlves lords paramount of the criminal Courts. The adroit and forceful hand of Lord Salisbury is seen in thp quarrel which has just broken out between the Khedive and the Sultan. To the gracious invitation of his sovereign lord the Commander of the Faithful to visit Constantinople, young Abbas rudely replied that this impossible until Moukhtar Pasha, the Porte’s representative at Cairo, was recalled. Moukhtar is a Turkish official who has no idea of quietly submitting to England’s virtual annexation of the Egyptian Empire. His interference with the Egyptian Ministry greatly angered the English Minister, Sir Evelyn Baring; and it is evident to every one that the Khedive’s demand for Moukhtar’s withdrawal is directly inspired from the British Foreign Office. Appearancs indicate that some interesting developments may be looked for in Egyptian politics before long. The recent advance in the price of coal is referred to by several papers as furnishing a fresh incentive to action on the part of those who have undertaken to test in the courts the validity of the Reading-Lackawanna coal combination. A rise at this date in the year is unprecedented, and certainly finds no justification in the facts of to-day, the winter having b|en a comparatively mild one, giving a consumption df fuel less than the average per capita of other years. It is referred to as probably an unpleasant foretaste of what consumers may expect when they undertake a few months hence to lay in their supplies for the coming fall and winter. Indeed it is said there is evidence of a deliberate intention on the part of the Reading folks to create a reason for putting up prices by holding back supplies, allowing local dealers to obtain but little coal till late in the summer. The Pennsylvania railroad is being appealed to for aid in breaking the monopoly, and is understood to be working to that end.. It has bought the output of the Stout colliery at Milnesville, amounting to about 150,000 tons per year, and this is said to be but the first of a number of purchases to be made as soon as possible. The company has handled little or none of the anthracite coal from the Lehigh Valley since the Reading deal was consummated, all of that tonnage now going over the Reading line. The Reading officiate are reported to make light of the efforts of the Pennsylvania people, saying their company controls 75 per cent, of the unmined anthracite, and the remaining 25 per cent is the most difficult to get at Under these circumstances the report that the Vanderbilt support is .to be accorded to the Reading combination may well cause alarm and stir up the people to •demand pr Section by the strong arm of the law from that gigantic monopoly. It is thought for these reasons the litigation already instituted will be vigorously prosecuted. When JLadlea Pass. Dr. Wills, an Englishman who lived many years in Persia, says that until lately it was the rule that no male person over 10 years of age should be found on the road over which a royal wife or daughter was to pass. A violation of the rule was punished with death. Even now, he says, Europeans wisely avoid unpleasantness by turning aside when they hear the shouts which indicate the approach of the “palace ladies.” The late American Minister, Mr. Benjamin, made a great mistake on ! one occasion by neglecting this pre-; caution. With true American simplicity he was accustoned 40 ride through the streets with only one servant. Meeting the procession one day. he failed to turn out of its path. I The result was that his servant • was beaten, and he himself was hus- 1 tied into a by-road. The next day he duly lodged a complaint of this treatment; but he had to put up with the apology that, naturally, “the royal servants would not recognize a ‘onehorse minister.’ ” An Austrian officer of engineers, many years in the service of the Shah, was wiser in his generation. He met tne late Queen-Mother and the royal ladies when he was on foot, turned his face to the wall like a native, and as each carriage passed, deliberately saluted from the back of his head. The ladies screamed with laughter and told the Shah; who persuaded him to repeat his novel salute, and then congratulated him on his discretion. in Prohibition Maine. Two Lewiston, Me., liquor constables raided a drug store which was provided with a surprising outfit of trap doors, pitfalls, vaults, and strong rooms. By climning to the top of a , partition and dropping twenty-two feet into a cellar-like abyss one of the constables reached a stairway which led to a secret chamber, built of brick and having a brick door framed with ■ iron. A strong room was provided . with an oaken door six inches thick. , A big haul of liquors was made, and after settling his case the druggist will not only have to get a new stock ! but also devise new means of secret- ; ing his goods.

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE TO YOUNO MEN. Lnuom to Ho Drawn from th. Conduct of a Maa Who Dared Disobey a KlnrAa Illustration at the Vain, of Charaotsr and Godliness. Daniel and Darina. Dr. Talmage took for his subject tho character of Daniel and drew from it lessons of sound practical value for the young men. His text was Daniel vi., 3, “Daniel was first" Where in romance can you find anything equal to what Daniel was in reality? A young man, far away from home, introduced into the most magnificeht and most dissolute palace of all the barth. The King, wishing to*make this young man a prodigy in persona) appearance, orders his attendants to see that he has plenty of mbat and wine, and Daniel refuses the delicacies and insists on a vegetable diet, refusing everything but pulse and water, waving back all tho rich viands with a determined "No; I thank you.” He surpasses all tho princes in brilliancy. As this sun rises nigher and higher in the firmament, it puts out all the stars, and if there Is anything the stars hate it is the sun. Daniel becomes so much of a favorite with King Darius that our young boro is promoted to be Primo Minister or Secretary of State—the Frelinghuysen or the Bismarck of the ancients. But no man ever attained such high position without exciting the envy of others. The meanest and wrathiost passion of tho soul is jealousy. You seo It among all professions and occupations. ' I am sorry to say you see it as much among clergymen as among other classes of men. It is a passion bitter as hell and it is immediately recognized, and vet, though it blackens the man who indulges in it, men will kindle this fire which consumes only themselves. There were demagogues in Babylon, who, highly appreciative of their oWu capacity, doubted the policy of elevating such a young man as Daniel. They said: “Why, we know more than he does. We could manage the public affairs better than be can manage them. The idea of putting Dan in such a place as that.” Old Babylon was afraid of young Babylon. They began to plot his ruin. He was an illustrious target The taller the cedar the more apt to be struck with the lightning. These demagogues asked Darius to make an unalterable decree that any man who within thirty days shall ask a petition of any one except the King, shall be put to death. Darius, not mistrusting any foul plav, makes such a decree. The demagogues have accomplished their purpose, for they knew that Daniel would not stop sending up peti-, tions to his God, and Daniel, instead of being affrighted by the decree, went three times a day to his housetop for prayer. He is caught in the act. He is condemned to be devoured by the lions. Such a healthy young man will be for the leonine monarchs the best banquet they ever had. By the rough executioners of the law he is hurried away toward the den. I hear the growl of the monsters, and their pawing oi the dust, and as their mouth is placed tj the ground the solid earth qnakes with their bellow. The door is removed and Daniel shoved into the den, which was all agleam with fiery eyeballs that seem to roll and snap in the caverns. They approach the defenseless man. Their appetite was sharp with hunger. One stroke of their paw, one crunch of their teeth and he would have been lifeless. How strange a welcome Daniel receives from the monsters. They fawn about him. They cover his feet with their long mane. They are struck with the lockjaw. That night Daniel’s sleep is calm and undisturbed, with his head pillowed on the warm neck of the tamed lions. But King Darius was not so happy. He loved Daniel and he hated the stratagem by which his favorite had been condemned. He paces his floor all night He cannot sleep. At the least sound he starts and his flesh creeps with horror. A bad conscience will make the bravest man a coward. He watches eagerly for the dawn, which seems so long in tarrying. At the first streak of light he starts out to find out the tate of Daniel. The palace gate jpens and jars heavily behind him while yet the city is asleep. He comes to the den. He looks through the crevices but sees nothing. He dare not speak. Expecting the worst, his heart stops. Gathering strength, he puts his mouth to the rifts in the rock and cries, "Oh, Daniel, is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver thee from the lions?’’ Afi answer comes rolling up out of the darkness: “Oh, King, live forever. My God hath sent His angel i and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me.” The young man is brought out and the demagogues who made the plot are thrown in. But they hardly struck the bottom of the den when their flesh is rent, and their bones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts, while the fierce monsters shook the rocks with their terrible roar, announcing to all ages the truth that while God defends His people, the wav of the wicked shall perish. Now, you see from this subject that in the eyes of many the greatest offense I you can commit is success. Os what ; crime had this young man been guilty that he should come under the bitter hatred of the demagogues? Why, he had got to be Prime Minister of Babylon. That they could not forgive. Behold in > this sketch a touch of human nature! I As long as poverty pinches yon, and you ; run the gantlet between taxgatherer and landlord, and you have hard work to educate your children, there will be multitudes to say: “Poor fellow! He ought to succeed. How sorry lam for him!” But after awhile you begin to emerge from the darkness. That was a capital Investment You purchased at just the right time. Fortune became goodnatured and smiled. You budded your own house. You got to be one of the first men on the street Now, as you pass, a number of those late sympathizers stand on the corner of the street They scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money now than they have, and you ought to bo scowled at frota under the riiu of their hats. Before you get fully past you hear a word or two. “Stuck up," says one. “Didn’t get it honestly,” says another. “Will burst soon,” says a third. Every stone in yotir new house was laid on their heart Your horses’ hoofs went over their nerves. Your carriage tire cut their neck. What have you done, outrageous culprit? You ought to be cast to the lions. You have dared to achieve success. Depend upon it that if in any one respect you rise far above your fellows—if you are more truthful, more wise, more eloquent, more influential—the shadow of your success will chili somebody. The road of honor and virtue is within reach of the enemies' guns. Jealousy says, “Stay down or I will knock you down." In midair a snowflake said to a snowbird, “I don’t like you.” “Why don’t you like me?" said the snowbird. “Because,” replied the snowflake, “you are going sip and I am comlpg down.” Success i« often a synonym for scorn.

The first thing a man wants is religion. The second ig g r l u If you do not want to sane wild beasts you must never got to bo Prime Minister. If you aro now, as a young man, rising in anv one respect, I bless God for yout advancement, but 1 wish to say before I quit this thought, look out for the Ilona Young merchants, young lawyers, young physicians, young ministers have much sympathy, and kind advice Is given them at first, but as you become your own masters and begin to succeed in your different occupation* and professions, how is It then, young merchants, voting lawyers, young physicians, young ministers? How is it then? Again behold in our subject an exhibition of true decision of character. Before Daniel were condemnation and death, if he continued faithful to his religion. Yet, just as before, throe times a day ho prayed with bls fuco toward Jerusalem. ujThere is nothing more fatal for the religious or worldly advancement than a spirit of indecision. How often youth Is almosegonc before the individual has determined upon bis profession. Again, let this story of Daniel teach us that the way to future success is through present self denial. Not only did Daniel show his willingness for seif restraint by refusing tho luxuries of the King’s table, but must have denied himself much social enjoyment and sightseeing tn order to have attained most wonderful proficiency in study. The rtish of the chariots under his window and the sound of mirth that rang out on the air of Babylon would have attracted most young men into the streets and to expensive places of amusement But Daniel knew that it was only through severity of application be could attain the honorable position f<B which he was intended. Indeed, you may carry this truth into universal application. Tho most of those who have succeeded in any profession or occupation have come up from the very bottom of the ladder. The brightest days began with the twilight. The admirals who commanded the navies of the world started as cabifi boys. The merchant princes, whose messengers are ships and whose | servants the nation’s custom houses, once swept the store and kindled the fires. Tho orator who lifts up tho gate of the soul, as Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, once stammered and blushed on the stage of a country school-house. The painter, under whose pencil skies blossom and waters gleam, understands his subject so well because ho has but little to shelter him from tho one and is obliged to find his only beverage in the other. A young eagle far up in the mountain eyrie, says to its winged mother, “I will fly no longer from tree to tree as you tell me, but like you, mother, I will swing from this Chimborazo peak to yonder Chimborazo peak.” Likb an arrow ft shot into the heavens, but when over the awful chasm its head was dizzy and its wing weak, and it began to whirl downward and with wild scream until It struck on the rocks. A traveler passing through the gorge saw the mangled remains of the eaglet. “How came you to have this fall?” said the traveler. "Ah, me,” said tho eaglet, “it was because I would not fly from tree to tree until I wasoXTenough, but headstrong 1 started from Chimborazo peak toward Chimborazo peak.” If young men would seize the advantages of Intelligence, it will be by great economy of time and the refusing of many forms of gratification. Show me a man who, refusing many of the frivolities of gossiping youths, can see more to attract his attention in the pages of a treatise or a history than in the flash of bright eyes, or the airv step of those who find more skill in their heels than their heads, and 1 will show you a man who will yet master languages and sway a very scepter over his fellows. Many an iducation which is now considered complete isfnade up of a smattering of newspapers and the last page of a fashion magazine. The parlbr and the drawing-room cannot educate us. They may give us outward adornments of manner, but getting valuable knowledge is hko sweltering at a forge, bellows in one hand and hammer in the other—like digging in mines with crowbars, prying under tho ledge and the constant bang of blasted rocks. Especially is it true that no growth in grace is possible unless, like Daniel, we are willing to take up the cross, however heavy it may be and rough with nails. Moses chose affliction with the people of God rather than the pleasures of sin, and if we would be anything like him we must choose the hard bread of self-denial rather than the imperial clusters from royal vineyards. To get strength and ijepth enough in rivers for turning mill wheels and manufactories, dams are built across them, and then througn the mill race the quick floods leap on-the water-wheel to turn it with tremendous power. So natures that would otherwise have been powerless and insufficient by self-restraint have been dammed back and deepened, until with consecrated power thev rush into the world, turning its ponderous machinery of important Interests. Unrestrained men may have iquch good in them, but it is so scattered that you see no positive effects. Electricity in the air does not strike, but gathered in the cloud with its bare red arm it cleavos the mountain. Passions harnessed and yoked make excellent beasts of burden. However attractive may be the sinful offers of the world, though rich and luxurious as the provision of the King’s table, we must bo willing to refuse them if nothing be left us but plain pulse. Oh, how we want the faith and courage of a Daniel and a Paul, but how we dread the hot atmosphere of trial, In which their graces ripened. The richest fruits of religion grow in tho sultry tropics of trial. If you want pearls, you must dive for them, If you want gold, you must dig for IL The richest parts of California and Australia are under ground. Depend upon it, If no pruning, no fruit; no climbing, no elevation; np battle, no victory; no cross, no crown. Had there been no Nebuchadnezzar, there would have been no Daniel. Even so it has been in all ages. Tho flames that flashed up from the stake have been so many illuminations of Christian triumph. When God would make a great light of truth and holiness in the world, He often takes great persecutions and with them strikes fire. The aevil’s hate is God’s glory. Had it not been for the persecutions of Emperor Valerian, the world would not have known of the courage ot a Cyprian, andlf the tyranny of Diocletian had never been known, the triumphant grace would not have been seen Which made Maximilian, when sentenced to death, exclaim, ‘God be praised!” Had not the bandits of Piedmont pursued the Waldenses through the valley of the Alps, and the infuriate decree put to massacre the Albigenses of France, the world would have bad fewer illustrations of Christian heroism. Be Joseph before Pharaoh. Be Paul before Felix. Be Daniel before Darius. Again let the story of Daniel teach us the beauty of that youthful character which remains umblemished and upright when away froth home. Had Daniel, on arriving in Babylon, phinged into every excess, his friends in Jerusalem would never have heard of IL His dissipation and renunciation of religion would not have cast one sorrow on the family hearth where he had lived or the old family Bible which be used to read. But, though far away from home he knew that God’S eye watched him and

that was enough. It is not even young inau who maintains tho name character when absent that was maintained at home. Frederick watching his father's sheep among the bills or thrashing tvs in the barn Is far different from Frederick on the Stock Exchange. How often does the kind, retiring spirit become bold effrontry, and the accommodating, solfsa<:rlflcing disposition once exhibited among brothers and sisters become a cold and unresponsive solflsbness, and economy, wastefulness and open banded charity, tight listed stinginess, and the keeping of good hours is chauged to midnight revelry. I probably address young men now, distant from their father's house, and others who, still under tho parental roof, look forward to a time when they will popart alone to conflict with the world and among strangers bo ca'lod to build up characters far themselves. Happy for you, oh, voung man. If you shall, like. Joseph, be the same when living with wicked Pharaoh as with pious Jacob, or as Daniel as pure In Babylon as in Jerusalem. There is no passage In a man’s Hie of more thrilling interest than the day In which ho leaves homo and goes off to seek his fortune. The novelty and romance connected with tho departure may keep the young man from any poignant sorrow, but parents, who have seen the destruction among strangers of those who #ere considered promising youths, cannot help fooling that this step is full of momentous Importance. Before the youth left homo all his conduct was under affectionate guardianship. Outbursts of folly, carelessness and impropriety of manner and looseness of speech wore kindly reproved, ana although the restraint seemed sometimes too severe, yet hours of sober refection have convinced him that it was salutary and righteous. But behold how the scene changes. The father, through the interceding of metropolitan friends, has secured the son a place in some bank or store or office. Schoolmates, on the night before his departure, come to take their iarowell of the yonng adventurer. That morning he takes’a last walk around the old place, and going past some loved spot a sly tear may stark but no one sees IL The trunk Is or. the carriage, and after a warm good-by away they speed over the hills. Set down amid excitements and among companions not over scrupulous as to their words or deeds, temptations troop around the stranger. “The morning comes, but no family altar, and the Sabbath, but no real quick and perhaps at the sanctuary the faces aro all strange and no one cares whether he goes to church or whether he doos not go. Long winter evenings arrive, and how shall they be spent’ On his way home from his place of business he saw flaming placards announcing rare performances aud that this was positively the last night At the door of his cheerloss boardinghouse no one greets him, and the evening meals is idsipid, for no one cares whether he eats or does not eaL The room in the third story that evening seems doleful and repelling. A book snatched up from the stand proves to be cull, for no sister is there to look over with him. In despair he rushes ouk reckless as to where ho goes, if only he can see something that will make him stop thinking. That night may be the turning point in his history. Once within the fatal circle of sin, and the soul has no power to repel IL On that dark sea he is launched, where the gleam of joy is only the flash of the pit and the roar of laughter is only the creaking oi ‘the gates of the lost In many a country churchyard is now the grave of some youthful spirit that went away lithe and bounding, but came home diseased and crushed and blasted to disgrace the sepulcher of bis fathers. Yet this oxodus must be made. As from far distant hills rivers find their way through tunnels to great cities, so from far distant points of the country it is necessary that a stream of uncorrupted population shall pour into our great thoroughfares to keep them pure and manage the traffic of the world. Multitudes of such are constantly making their departure from home. To-morrow morning all of the thoroughfares loading toward tho great cities of our land, on steamboat and rail car, there will be young adventurers for the first time speeding awav from their homes in order to try their fortune in town. The Lord stretch forth His arm for the deliverance of the Daniels away down in Babylon. Wherever your lot mav be cask in far inland town or in some great seapork maintain in your absence tne same principles of morals and religion which may have been instilled by parental solicitude. And while you may feel in yonr heart and life the advantage of early religious culture, forget not those to whom you are chiefly indebted, and pray that as age comes upon them and the iright of death begins to fall on their pathway, the hope of Heaven may beam through the darkness, lustrous and steady as the evening star. The Lord forbid that by our conduct we should ever bring disgrace on a father's name or prove recreant to tho love of a mother. The poet did not exaggerate when he exclaimed: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, It is. To have a thankless child. A story is told of a popular English comedian finding himself one day umbrellaless and cabless in a furious rainstorm in London. He accosted a wayfarer enjoying an expansive umbrella with a cordial, “Why, how do you do?” as he slipped under the eaves of the grateful shelter. “I am so glad lessee yon,” he continued, hooking his arm into his neighbor’s; “I wanted to tell you how Miss , of the Gaiety, raves about you,” and so he rattled on until he reached the hotel whither he was bound, when, looking his benefactor in the face, he exclaimed, “Why, by Jove, what have I done ? I thought you were 1 A thousand pardons.” He told the story amid much laughter in the hotel, and at its conclusion a critical friend remarked that the comedian’s scarf was in somewhat disorder. The fact that a valuable diamond and pearl pin was missing became painfully associated in his mind with that man with the umbrella, though how the thing was done, if it had been done by him, he could not say, c . - ; ; j An examination of the younger children in the Boston public schools not long since revealed some rather curious facts. Tito examination was'accidental. It was also quite out of the usual line of school tests. If the questioner had asked the children something that was in their books thev doubtless would have answered brilliantly. Undoubtedly they could have told him what a participle was. But he asked them about everyday things, and here were the answers he got: Eighteen per cent, of the young ones didn’t know anything about a cow, except from pictures; 61 per cent, had never seen com growing. Ninety per cent, of these children educated in the public schools, which are the glory of America, did not know where their ribs were, or exactly what they were. When asked what and where their stomachs were, however, all but 6 per cent, deemed to have something like a correct idea. They had had stomach-ache often enough to know that, blesa the little creatures)

WITHOUT A WARNING. seven people killed in a SANTA FE WRECK. In the Midst ot a Bowline Storm the Transcontinental Express Phinga* Through a Bridge-The Disaster Caused by a Tremendous Rain-Fall. Down to Death. Without a word of warning, in tho midst of a frightful storm, the eastbound transcontinental express on tho Atchison, Topeka and Sunta Fe, filled with human beings wrapped in slumber, plunged through a trestle weakened by rain to death at about 1:45 Thursday morning, between Revere and Medlll in Missouri, about 265 miles from Chicago. It was a frightful night, the rain fell as It novo» fell before, and only an occasional flash of lightning could be seen In the gloom. Tho great express had come through from San Francisco, Los Angeles, aud Mexico to Kansas City on time. On arriving at Kansas City at 4:40 Wednesday afternoon orders were received to hold it until 6:40, and run to Chicago on tho time of the Denver limited, which was very late. At 6:40 tho train, which was composed of a postal car, a baggage car, smoker, chair car, tourist sleeper, and two Pullman coaches, commenced its run to Chicago. All went well until a pile and trestle bridge over tho Fox River near Revere was reached. This bridge was about 175 feet, long and 30 feat high. Two hours before tho transcontinental express struck the bridge a heavy freight train passed over It in safety, but the pouring rain had swollen the raging torrent which rushed beneath the rails to a miniature Niagara, which finally carried the bridge out of line, yet left It standing and, so far as the engineer on the locomotive could see, all right. With wheels turning slowly for safety’s sake, for the storm was terrific, the train crawled slowly on tho bridge. The engine crossed in safety. Then the bridge went down. Only the engine and rear sleeper were not precipitated Into the swiftly flowing waters which coursed through the ravine below. Five cars, with thoir load of human freight wearied Into deep sleep with a long trip, and the remains of the bridge sank together in one conglomerate mass of crushed timbers, torn and twisted Iron work and mangled humanity. Then came a wild cry from the wounded and dying rising above the noise of the storm. Lighted to their work of rescue, the engineer and fireman from one side of the stream and tho uninjured occupants of the rear Bleeper from' the opposite bank hurried to give what aid was possible to those in the ravine. Men sprang from the windows of the wrecked cars, and fighting their way through whirling waters filled with debris reached the banks and fell exhausted. Not less than se.ven and possibly nine or more sank hr the wreck to die. Twenty-five afe known to have been injured. Telegraph wires wont down in the storm and only meager information reached Chicago regarding tho wreck. Third Vice President J. D. Springer of the Atchison, and W. F. White, tbp passenger traffic manager, used every effort to obtain full- details of the accident, and freely furnished all information in their power to the reporters and anxious relatives of passengers who besieged the Atchison offices demanding information. It was with great difficulty that messages could be put through, but the Atchison officials received the following list ot dead ahd injured, which was at once made public: Killed—William Hynes, Oklahoma City, Ok.; Lou Markel(or Markee) Kansas City, Mo.; Luther Cornelius, Kirkville, Mo.; 8. E. Verkier, Westport, Mo.; John C. Grones, Macon, Mo.; lady and child, names unknown. A press dispatch confirms this list, and adds an unknown child, the engineer, and fireman as killed. This is not confirmed by the Atchison report from the officers on the ground to Vice President Springer, and regarding the engineer and fireman was denied; as the locomotive crossed the bridge in safety. Injured. —J. Tucker, conductor, Downers' Grove; Martin Regan, brakeman; W. A. Isham, brakeman, Riverside; Andrew J. Ronan, express messenger; Claud Bell and B." E. Dutcher, postal clerks; Mrs. Jane Hteey, Riverside; J. C. Winslow, H. M. Cutler, H. C. Cowling, and N. Lancaster, Chicago; W. A. Allen and Mrs. E. T. Allen, Athens, Pa.; Robert Schultz, Lexington Junction, Mo.; J. F. Hartgen, Reading, Pa.; William Adams, O. L. Boys, J. Gunther, W. B. Barnes, J. H. Snider, S. H. Laugh, J. Mason, F. Graves, and W. G. Smith. In addition to this there is an unconfirmed report that an Italian woman and child were injured. The extent of the Injuries could not bo ascertained. The Atchison was in very bad shape. Superintendent H. 0. Ives started for the wreck early, but was confronted with three feet of water on the track at Lockpert. The road was also under water east of Fort Madison, between Fort Madison and the wreck, and wires wore down in places for many miles in length. The east-bound Denver express, which followed tho transcontinental express, attempted to run around the wreck on the Keokuk and Western branch of the Burlington-, but was stopped by a landslide a few miles out of Keokuk. „ The accident seems to have been one of those unfortunate events that human foresight can not guard against. The bridge was as strong as such a structure could be built, but the heavy rains of the last few weeks, crowned by the awful storm of Wednesday night, so weakened it that it went under. The accident will cost the Afclilson over SIOO,OOO, and probably $150,000. O’SULLIVAN PASSES AWAY. The IcemXn Breath* Hl* Last In Joliet Penitentiary. At the prison in Joliet, 111. - , Patrick O’Sullivan, imprisoned for life for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, at Chicago, drew his last breath at 7:40 o’clock: Thursday evening. He passed away peacefully, as If falling asleep. No one was with him but a brother from lowa, his sister, Miss O'Sullivan, and a brother from Wisconsin. He was in a condition of semi-consciousness for the first time In a week, and recognized his sister and Dr. Fergusop, the prison physician, but said nothing. The doctor wife not with him when he died. He was conscious just before his death and knew the end was approaching. His last words wore: “Tell the world I died proclaiming my Innocence to the last.” To Whiten the Hnnda. Melt a pound of white castlle soap over the fire with a little water. When melted, perfume slightly with any one of the extracts, and stir h half a cupful of common oatmeal. Use this prepdratiqn when washing your hands, and yow will be surprised at the Improvement in their appearance. n Sure Cure for Corn*. Mix nine parts of salicylic acid wltb one part of extract of cannabis Indict and forty-eight parts of collodion After bathing the feet in warmwate apply this mixtute to’the affectec parts with a camel’s hair brush. D not resume the stocking until tht toot has become perfectly dry.

DISASTROUS FLOODS. ," — ' MANY ILLINOIS TOWNS IN UTTER DARKNESS. • _ Vast Dmuago to Manufuoturlng and Agrtcultural Irtt’ereata— Pitiable Plight of Alexandria, Missouri—lt Will ho Week* Rotors the Dam ax® Can Be Repaired. . - -41 A Second Deluge. Seas of water aro over and In the:five unfortunate Illinois cities, Ottawa, Mu*, selllos, Peru, Tia Salle and Utica. Ihfi Illinois River rose steadily for twentyfour hours, commencing Friday, and the cities arc in total darknose, the result of. , tho flooding of tho electric light and gas plants. Boats were used for communi- 1 cation, and thoir twinkling lights glistening over tho unbroken expanse of ,< water add to the appeuraco ot rulu which i is all around thorn. Despite all efforts, tho manufacturing district was totally covered by water. As tho waters rose building after building would close down, and tho employes leave to await the subsiding of tho flood. Ottawa will bo helpless for a week at least. Marseilles, La Salle and Peru are In an even more desperate condition. At Marseilles tho river, steadily rising, la more and more dreaded as the levees weaken. There is little hope they will stand much longer and every one in the district threatened has removed all property to high ground. At La Salle the situation Is even more desperate, the wr.ter having advanced from two to three feet afi around the city and the manufactories, the water works, street railway, and electric light plants still being under water. The same condition Is present at Peru and in both cities all business is practically suspended. At Utica the waters have encroached etill further upon tho lower end of the village . from the river and the outlets east and west are blocked by water. Ottawa, Marseilles, La Salle, and Peru are without either electric light or gas, and are In total darkness. The waters still cover Ottawa’s parks and her street railway Is useless. ‘ The thousands of acres of rich tillable lands lying in the bottoms south of Warsaw, 111., and reel: lined by a system of levees forty miles long are threatened with inundation. The rains have caused a heavy rise in-the Mississippi, and the river now stands at eighteen feet and seven-tenths above low water mark, with the tendency upward. A rise of five feet within twenty-four . hours was unprecedented. At Lacon the Illinois River is higher than It has been for a quarter of a century. The long-continued rains have swept out nearly all tho small bridges in the country? Travel between Laoon and Sparland is suspended except by small boats, the bridge across the Illinois being covered with water and liable to be carried aWay. The track of the • Chicago, Rook Island and Pacific Railroad is badly damaged between Peoria and Bureau and all trains stopped. The bottom lands are all under water and no corn will be raised on thousands of acres. The heaviest rains for the same length of time ever known fell at Hchnepin. Three and one-half inches of water fell Sunday night, one and three-quarters Inches Monday night, two and one-half inches Wednesday night, a total in the three nights of seven and three-quarters inches. The Illinois River is the high- ■ est It has been since 1849, rlsing at -the rate of two inchts an hour. Bottom lands are all submerged and grfiat damage has been done to bridges and fences. No mail has arrived for two days. At Rock Island there were no trains from the east on the Rook Island Road for seventy-two hours in consequence of the washouts in the vicinity of Bureau. It is the longest period of susp nsion of traffic in the history of the road. Around Bushnell the roads are Impassable and streams are away out of their banks. Crooked creek is a mile wide, and Spoon river is higher than it has been for years. Trains on the Toledo, Peoria and Western could not run, as a half-mile of track was washed out. Rassengers were transferred each way. The river is rising rapidly and great loses of property are reported up and down it. Business is suffering. A ALEXANDRIA IS INUNDATED. The De* Moines River Break* the Levees and Sweep* Through tho Town. Alexandria, Mo., is ’under water. The levees which protected the town ordinarily from the waters of the Des Moines River succumbed on Thursday night, and as a result the town is a lake, doited here and there by houses In which the water is standing from two to six feet deep. The disaster was anticipated. All the prior day the Des Moines was booming, the result of heavy rains along its course through lowa. The advices from above showed that it would reach high-water mark. Those residents who had upper stories to their buildings moved their household goods there, and extended tho courtesies of storage to those not similarly favored. When the water broke It found tenantless floors over which to splash. The town was a Venice. All communication was by boat. Tho waters ot the Des Moines leave that river above town, and, flowing through Alexandria, join the Mississippi below. It will be impossible to transact any business whatever until the floods go down and tho levees can be repaired. Tho tracks of the St. Louis, Keokuknnd Northwestern and tho Keokuk and Northwestern have been washed out, and traffic is' at a standstill. The Grm‘ IF online'it. Now that New York has got a “corner" on tho Grant monument, will she please push the ehterprise?—St. Paul Globe. A beginning was made yesterday on the proposed Granj, monument in New York. At last! When will it be finished? -*Cleveland Plain Dealer. The corner-stone of the New York Grant monument will be laid to-day. It Is not improbable that some further steps In tho enterprise will be taken before the present century ends.—Kansas City Journal. Another spasm of Grant enthusiasm has attacked New York, the newspapers ore printing columns about It and it is confidently expected that no less than $2.83 will be added to the funds already In hand before tho attack passes off.—Detroit Tribune. . j An Affair of•• Honor.” Honor that is satisfied with a wound-’ ed coat-tail might jrist as well pocket the insult.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A painful rumor has gone forth that Mr. Fox was not in his .coat when it was perforated by Mr. Borrowe’s bullet. Kansas City Star. Bobrowe shot Fox In the coat-tail «nd honor is satisfied. It does not take ‘ much to satisfy the honor of some neopie.—Pittsburg Times. ; In the Fox-Borrowe duel Fox received ' a bulletin the eoat-tails and “honah" was satisfied. The “code," In its own defense, ought to require that the principals should jump off of a beam with ropes tied to the beam and fastened around their necks, and the fellow whose rope broke should be considered vindicated—the other fellow to hang. The penalty for seconds who provided ropes that broke should be life imprisonment.—Minneapolis Journal.