Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1892 — Page 2

democrat DECATUR, IND. J BLACUtniH, ... Ptnit,T«ir«fc 1 Wk arc exultingly told that there ire minarets on the World’s Fair ground which pierce the very clouds. Clouds of Chicago smoke cxolains the apparent exaggeration. Some of the riotous Russians who killed ten doctors for trying to save j them Irom cholera realize their error, now. They have been sentenced to death, and a few of them even to Siberia. __________ The kind of patriotism which tears down the flags of other nations when they are flying to do honor to this, is not the patriotism which upholds its own flag when active support is necessary. ________ A ragged vagrant who had sl7, 000 in bank is the latest sensation in a New York police court. The judge ought to have kept him until he promised to wash up and wear clean clothes. The surplus of the Pullman Palace Car Company for the past year amounted to over three and a quarter millions of dollars, not to mention tips paid to-porters. Stock in such a concern would be well worth having. Mrs. E Burd Grubb has been elected ensign of her husband's old regiment, the Twenty-third New Jersey, and it will be well for the Colonel to understand that military discipline will have to be velvet lined when she is on duty. The Princess of Wales and her daughters have attended a memorial service in honor of Tennyson, and having thus made the amende honorable, it is to be hoped the Radical press will let the Prince enjoy his races and his visiting in peace. The admirers of Columbus need not let their angry passions rise at the present attacks on his character and memory, The young man who burnt the temple of Diana, one of the wonders of the world, confessed it was the only means he had to bring himself into notice. Edward Blake, the Canadian leader who got elected as a member of the British House of Commons, is shrewd enough not to promise too much as to his future work in the House. He does not want to start off like an avalanche and end like a mud puddle. » Prof. C. E. Monroe, who has resigned the post of chemist at the Newport torpedo station in order to accept a chair in the Columbian university at Washington, once received a fright in the laboratory which suddenly turned his hair white, although he now says he cannot recall the particulars ' » Ex-Senator E varts is now 74 years of age, and considering that he was never robust, and a worker who didn’t know what it was to be tired, is remarkably well preserved. He seems to be enjoying, in a quiet way, the sunset of a long and busy life, and still clings to that venerable hat of the 1872 vintage. When a child is old enough to decide matters for himself, and select his own way in life, it is considered proof of sense, not want of duty, if he does not go on in the old parental path, knowing he can do better. But in dependencies of a nation desirous of going into the government business for themselves, such a course is termed treason. Oysters will be scarce. The reports show that indisputably. Last season Baltimore had to buy oysters from Long Island Sound. The indications are that she will do the same this season—this, too, in the chief market of the Chesapeake Bay, which twelve years ago furnished 17,000,000 of the 26,000,000 bushels of oysters consumed in this country. It is said that a wealthy brewer has won over one hundred and fifty' thousand dollars this season betting on horse-races, and<that he intends to stop betting because be has been so successful, Everybody has heard of such things before. People who bet often talk that way, but they go on betting as before. It is as old as time to make resolutions to do better and then break them. Open-air mass-meetings are not as popular as they were a few years ago, and perhaps it is better thus. More than one case of pneumonia could doubtless be traced to the exposure at such a meeting, and the orator who stood bareheaded on the platform for an hour was very lucky if he woke up the next morning free from a cold. It is better and safer for all concerned that nearly all such meetings are now held within doors. Mark Twain should not go abroad jn search of interesting objects of his wit. When he asked, a countryman of Columbus who was sounding the praises of the admiral, “Is he dead?” he doubtless fancied that in his own land such questions would be scorned as impertinent instead of answered as Innocent One of the decorations in a Gotham window was a portrait of Columbus draped in black. Below in

black letters were the words, “We mourn our loss." The New Yorker evidently thought Gotham was attending the funeral of the discoverer. This is an educational year. John Kates of Cincinnati, burns with a sense of wrong. Having one sound kidney, and one somewhat out of repair, it was deemed wisa to remove the damaged member/'Thc doctor, somewhat distraught at the responsibility of 'searching out and amputating so important an organ, J plucked froin its hiding place the I sound kidney, leaving the Invalid one to do double duty. When Kates awoke to a realization of the disaster he sued the doctor for damages, and, needing material evidence, also sued for the missing cog of his own works. The case is pending, but it is sate to assume that popular sympathy is with Kates. Railroad fares to Chicago from all parts of the country have been fixed at a reasonable sum, but there are indications that when the Exposition is opened and travel in that direction increases the roads will begin a war with each other, and will cut rates to a figure that will prove anything but profltable to them. While special rates for large parties or organizations going to the Fair would lie legitimate, yet the average citizen is willing to pay a fair sum for good traveling service, and this is rarely given him while the roads are cutting rates to ridiculously small figures and cutting each other’s throats atthe same time. Let the roads maintain a reasonable rate, and all concerned will be better satisfied. Another poor fellow has been sent to his long home bv the fatal and dangerous “knock-out.” It Is true that one doctors says that the man died from concussion of the brain, caused by the violence of his fall after the blow, while another attributes the death directly to the blow itself. But these small disagreements will not blind the public to the fact that every little while the uselessand reprehensible practice of fighting to a finish results in the death of somebody. It is about time to regulate the responsibility of fighters, and to see that their bouts stop short of the “knock-out,” which is so often deadly. No man can be trained so that a severe blow may not kill him. People who pound each other stand on the danger line close to manslaughter and murder.

Chicago^ as been in sucs a condition of delirious excitement that even the animals went on the spree. The great elephant kept chained up in Lincoln Park for the delectation of infant Illinoisians took it into his head that he wanted to celebrate,and he did so by overturning a few blocks of houses, uprooting a small forest or two and making the circumambient prairie tremble with the thundering of his trumpeting. Then he starteo for the exhibition, and if he had not been diverted by the pleasure of tearing a milk wagon to pieces, and strewing the milkman over a ten acre lot, he would have made short work of the costly Columbian palaces- Before he was captured the majority of the visiting jays were able to swear that they had “seen the eleghanf literally, as well as figuratively. A New York paper says the military and naval representatives of foreign governments were greatly interested in watching the State troops and the non-military bodies like the Turners, the German shooting societies, etc., which took part in the recent parade in that city. Foreign representatives are acquainted with the extent and resources of our regular army, and what they are most interested in, from a military point of view, is the army which the United States could put into the field from civil life. They are quick to recognize the availability of drilled bodies like the German Turners and shooting societies, who are well trained, athletic men and good marksmen. In addition to these there is a vast army of Knights of Pythias, Knights Templars and similar organizations, which are accustomed to drill movement, and could soon be converted into soldiers. Os course, these bodies are not under government control, but in the event of a foreign war most ot them would be “in it”

Land lor Three Cents an Acre. fne need not go to the far west to land at low figures. The County Commissioners of Carbon County on Tuesday sold 10,000 acres of unredeemed mountain land. The tracts are in different parts of the county. Some of it was sold for less than three cents an acre. The sale was different from the usual treasurer’s sale of unseated lands. The County Treasurer every two years puts up at public auction- unseated lands for the taxes that are charged against them. The purchaser cannot buy a tract for any less amount than the taxes and the former owner can redeem the tract at any time within two years by refunding to the purchaser his money. All- tracts not Sold at the Treasurer’s sale are turned over to the County Commissioners. The County Commissioners hold the tract I for live years, and if during the mean- ! time the taxes are still unpaid, it is . then advertised, put up at auction 1 and sold for whatever it will bring, 1 regardless of the taxes that are I charged against it. That is the kind of a sale that was held on Tuesday. The only requirement was that a tract must not bring less than $lO, Isoas to pay the costs,. etc., of adverI tising.—Allentown, Pa., Chronicle* J News

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. A DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO VOTERS OFTHE COUNTRY, The Example* of Nlnovoh, Babylon, Tyre, Sidon and Many More Warn U*—Thia Nation Is Also llccommlng Corrupt and Lloontloua—■•H<’fi>rm la Neooaaary." At the Tabernacle. Rev. Dr. Talmage selected for this sermon a subject sufficiently appropriate for the times. The text shown was Revelation xvltl, 10, ‘‘Alas, alas, that great eltv Babylon, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment cornel" Modern scientists are doing a splendid work In excavating the tomb of a dead empire holding in its arms a dead city—mother and child of the same name, Babylon. The ancient mound invites spades and shovels and crowbars while the unwashed natives look on in surprise. These scientists find yellow bricKS still impressed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar, and they godown into the sarcophagus of a monarchy burled more than two thousand years ago. May the explorations of Rawlinson and Layard and Chevalier and Oppexto and Loftus aud Chesney be eclipsed by the present archaeological uncovering! But is it possible this is all that remains of Babylon—a city once five times larger than London and twelve times larger than Now York? Walls throe hundred and soventy-throo feet high and ninety-three feet thick. Twenty-five burnished gates on each’ side, with streets running clear through to corresponding gates on the other side. Six hundred and twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth and splendor and sin than could be fround in any five modern cities combined. A city of palaces and temples. A city having within it a garden on an artificial hill four hunderd feet high, the sides of the mountain terraced. All this built to keep the king's wife. Amytis, from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates spouted up to irrigate this great altitude into fruits and flouK and arboresccnce unimaginable. A great river running from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats on it A city of bazaars and of market places, unrivaled for aromatics and unguents, and high mettled horses with grooms by their side, and thyme wood, and African evergreen, and Egyptian liuen, and all styles of costly textile fabric, and rarest purples extracted from shellfish on the Mediterranean coast, and rarest scarlets taken from brilliant insects in Spain, and ivories brought from successful elephant bunts in India, and diamonds whose flash was a repartee to the sun. Fortress within fortress, embattlement rising above embattlement. Great capital of the ages. But one night, while honest citizens were asleep, but all the saloons of saturnalia were in full blast, and at the king's castle they had filled the tankards for the tenth time, and reeling and guffawing and hiccoughing around the state table were the rulers of the land, General Cyrus ordered his besieging army to take shovels and spades, and they diverted the river from its usual channel into another direction, so that the forsaken bed of the river became the path on which the besieging army entered. When the morning dawned the conquerors were inside the outside trenches. Babylon had fallen, and hence the sublime threnody of the text, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment come!” But do nations die? Oh, yes; there is great mortality among monarchies and republics. They are like individuals in the tact that they are born; they have a middle life; they have a decease; they have a cradle and a grave. Some of them are assassinated, some destroyed by their own hand. Let me call the roll of some of the dead civilizations and some of the dead cities and let some one answer for them.

Egyptian civilization, stand up. “Dead!” answer the ruins of Karnak and Luxor, and from seventy pyramids on the east side of the Nile there comes up a great chorus, crying, “Dead, dead!” Assyrian Empire, stand up and answer. "Dead!” cry the charred ruins of Nineveh. After six hundred years of magnificent opportunity, dead. Israelitish kingdom, stand up., After two hundred and fifty years of divine interposition, and of miraculous vicissitude, and of heroic behavior,and of appalling depravity, dead. Phoenicia, stand up and answer. After inventing the alphabet and giving it to the world, and sending out her merchant caravans in one direction to Central Asia, and sending out her navigators to the Atlantic Ocean in another direction, dead. Pillars of Hercules and rocks on which the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets all answer, “Dead Phoenicia.” Athens,after Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Mlltiades, dead. Sparta, after Leonidas, after Euriuiades, after Salamis, after Thermopylae, dead. Roman Empire, stand up and answer — Empire once Bounded bv the British Channel on the north, by the Euphrates on the east, by the great Sahara Desert in Africa on the south, by the Atlantic. Ocean on the west; home of three great civilizations, owning ail the then discovered world that was worth owning—Roman Empire, answer. Gibbon in his “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” says, “Dead!” and tho forsaken seats of the ruined Coliseum, and the skeleton of the aqueducts, and the miasma of the Campagna, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge Triumphalis.and the Mamertine prison, holding no more apostolic prisoners,and the silent Forum and Basilica of Constantine,and the arch of Titus, and tho Pantheon come in with great chorus, crying, “Dead, dead." After Horace, after Virgil,after Tacitus, after Cicero—dead. After Horatius on the bridge, and Cincinnatus, the farmer oligarch, after Pompey, after Scipio, after Cassius, after Constantine, after Csesar —dead. The war eagle of Rome flew so high ft was blinded by the sun and came whirling down through the heavens, and the owl of desolation and darkness built its nest in the forsaken eyrio. Mexican Empire—dead. French Empire—dead. You see, my friends, it is no unusual thing for a government to perish, and In the same necrology of dead nations and in the same graveyard of expired governments will ro the United Statesof America unless there be some potent voice to call a halt, and unless God in His mercy Interferes, and through a purified ballot box and a widespread public Christian sentiment the catastrophe be averted. This nation is about to go to the ballot box to exercise the right of suffrage, and I propose to set before you the evils that threaten to destroy the American Government and to annihilate American institutions, and if God will help me I will show you before I get through the mode in which each and every one may do something to arrest that appalling calamity. And I shall plow up the whole field. The first (evil that threatens the annihilation of our American institution is the fact that political bribery, which once was considered a crime, has by many come to be considered a tolerable virtue. There is a legitimate use of money in elections, in the printing, of political tracts, and In the hiring of public halls, and in the obtaining of campaign oratory, but is there anv homunculus who supposes that this vast amount of money

now being raised bv the political parties Is going in a legitimate direction? The vast majority of it will go to buy votes. Hundreds and thousands of men will have set before them so much money for a Republican vote, and so much money fora Democratic vote, and the superior financial Inducement will decide the action. You want to know which party will carry the doubtful States day after to-morrow? I will toll you. The party that spends the most money. This moment, while I speak, the peddlers carrying gold from Wall street, gold from Third street, gold from State street and gold from the Browers* association, are in all the political headquarters of the doubtful States, dealing out the Infamous inducement There used to be bribery; but It held its head in shame. It was under the utmost secrecy that many years ago a railroad company bought up the Wisconsin Legislature and many other public officials in that State. The Governor of the State at that time received $50,000 for his signature. His private secretary received $5,000. Thirteen members of the Senate received $175,000 among them in bonds. Sixty members of the other House received from $5,000 to $lO,000 each. The Lieutenant Governor received SIO,OOO. The clerks of the House received from $5,000 to SIO,OOO each. The Bank Comptroller received SIO,OOO Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars wore divided among the lobbyists. Y'ou see the railroad company was very generous. But all that was hidden, and only through the severest scrutiny on the part of a legislative committee was this iniquity displayed. Now political bribery defies you, d.tres you, is arrogant, and will probably decide the election next Tuesday. Unless this diabolism ceases in this country Bartholdi's statue on Bcdloe’s Island, with uplifted torch to light other nations into the harbor, had bettor bo changed and the torch dropped as a symbol of universal incendiarism.

Unless this purchase and sale of suffrage shall cease the American Government will expire* and vou might as well be getting the monument for another dead nation and let my text inscribed upon it these words, “Alas, alas, for Babylon, that great city, that mighty city, for in one hour is thy judgment come!” My friends, if you have not noticed that political bribery is one of the ghastly crimes of this day, vou have not kept your eyes open. smother evil threatening the destruction of American institutions is the solidifying of the sections against each other. A solid North. A solid bouth. If this goes on we shall after awhile have a solid East against a solid West; we shall have Solid Middle States against solid Northern States; we shall have a solid New York against a solid Pennsylvania. and a solid Ohio against a solid Kentucky. It is twenty-seven years since the warcloud, and yet at every presidential election the old antagonism is aroused. When Garfield died and all the States gathered around his casket in sympathy and in tears, and as hearty telegrams of condolence came from New Orleans and Charleston as from Boston and Chicago, I said to myself, “I think sectionalism is dead.” But, alas, no! The difficulty will never be ended until each State of the nation is split up into two or three great political parties. The country cannot exist unless it exists as one body, the national capital, the heart, sending out through all the arteries of communication warmth and life to the very extremities. This nation cannot exist unless it exists as one family, and you might as well have solid brothers against solid sisters, and a solid bread tray against a solid cradle, and a solid nursery against a solid dining-room and you might as well have solid ears against solid eyes, and solid head against solid foot. What is the interest of Georgia is the interest of Massachusetts; what is the Interest of New York is the interest of South Carolina. Does the Ohio River change its politics when it gets below Louisville? It is not possible for these sectional antagonisms to continue for a great many years without permanent compound fracture.

Another evil threatening the destruction of our American institutions is the low state of public mcrals. What killed Babylon of my text? What killed Phoenicia? What killed Rome? Their own depravity, and the fraud, and the drunkenness, and tho lechery which have destroyed other nations will destroy ours unless a merciful God prevent To show you the low state of public morals I have to call your attention to the fact that many men nominated for offices in different States at different times are entirely unfit for the positions for which they have been nominated.

They have no more qualification for them than a wolf has qualification to be professor of pastoral theology in a flock of sheep, or a blind mole has qualification to lecture a class of eagles on optics, or than a vulture has qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere pronunciation of some of their names makes a demand for carbolic acid and fumigation! Yet Christian men will follow right under the political standards. I have to tell yoti what you know already, that American politics have sunken to such a low depth that there is nothing beneath. What we see in some directions we see in nearly all directions. The peculation and thq knavery hurled to the surface by the explosion of banks and business firms are oqly specimens of great Cotopaxis and Strombolis of wickedness that boil and roar and surge beneath, but hav- not yet regurgitated to the surface. When the heaven descended Democratic party enacted the Tweed rascality it seemed to eclipse everything, but after awhile the heaven descended Republican party outwitted pandemonium with the star route infamy. My friends, we have in this country people who say the marriage institution amounts to nothing. They scoff at it. We have people walking in polite parlors in our day who are not good enough to be scavengers In Sodom! I went over to San Francisco ten or fifteen years ago—that beautiful city, that queen of the Pacific. May tho blessing of God como down upon her great churches and her noble men and womenl When I got into the city of San Francisco the mayor of the city and the president of the board of health called on me and insisted that I go and see the Chinese quarters, no doubt so that on my return to tho Atlantic coast I might tell what dreadful people the Chinese are. But on the last night of my stay in San Francisco, before thousands of people in taelr great opora house, I said, “Would you liko me to tell you just what I think, plainly, and honestly?” They said. "Yes, yes, yes!” I said, “Do you think you can stand it all?” They said, “Yes, yes, yes!” “Then,” I said, “my opinion is that the curse of San Francisco is not your Chinese quarter, but your millionaire libertines!” And. two of them sat right before me —Felix and Drusilla. Aidsoit is in all tho cities. I never swear, but when I see a man go unwhipped of justice, laughing over his shame and calling his damnable deeds gallantry and peccadillo, I am tempted to hurl redhot anathema aud to conclude thatlf. according to some people’s theology, there is no hell, there ought to be| Superstition tells of a marine reptile, the cephaloptera, which enfolded and crushed a ship of war; butit is no superstition whea l tell yon that the history of many of tho dead nations proclaims to us the fact that our of state is in danger of being crushed by the cephaloptera of national depravity. Where

Il the Hercule* to slay thia hydra? I* It not time to apeak by pen, by tongue, by ballot box, by the rolling of the prison door, by hangman’* halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaltic detonation? A son of King Cr®*us is said to have been dumb and to have never uttered a word until ho saw hl* father being put to death. Thon ho broke the shackle* 'of silence and cried out, “Kill not my father, Croesus!" When I see the cheatery aud the wantonnoss and the manifold crime of this country attempting to oommlt patricide—yea, matricide—upon our Institutions, it seems to mo that lipa that heretofore have been dumb ought to break the silence with canorous tone* of fiery protest. I want to put all of the matter before you, so that every honest man and woman will know just how matter* stand, and what they ought to do if they vote, and what they ought to do if they pray. This nation Is not going to perish. Alexander, when he hoard of the wealth of the Indios, divided Macedonia amou. his soldiers. Some on asked him what he had keep for himself, and he replied, “I am keeping hope!” And that jowjsl 1 kept bright and shining in my soul, whatever else I shall surrender. Hope thou in God. He will sot back these oceanic tides of moral devastation. Do you know what Is the prize tor which contention is made to-day? It is the prize of this continent Never since, according to John Milton, when “satan was hurled headlong flaming from the' Ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down,’ have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as they now are. What a jewel it is—a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet. On one side of us the Atlantic Ocean, dividing us from the wornout governments of Europe. On tho other side the Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic Sea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop their courage. A continent 10,500 miles long, 17,000,000 square miles, and all of it but about oue-seventh capable of rich cultivation. One hundred millions of population on this continent of North and South Amer-ica-one hundred millions, and room for many hundred millions more. All flora, and ail fauna, all metals, and all precious woods, and ail grains, and ail fruits. The Appalachian range the backbone and the rivers the ganglia, carrying life all through and out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien the narrow waist of a giant continent, all to be under one government, and all free, and all Christian, and the scone of Christ’s personal reign on earth if, according to the expectation of many people, ho shall at last set up his throne in this world. Who shall have this hemisphere? Christ or satin? Who shall have the shore of her inland seas, the si] ver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorados, the telescopes of her observatorties, the brain of her universities, the wheat of her prairies, the rice of her savannahs, the two great ocean beaches—the one reaching from Baftin’s Bay to Terra del Fuego, and the other from Behring straits to Cape Horn—and all the moral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests of a population vast beyond ail computation save by him with whom a thousand years are as one day? Who shall have the hemisphere? You and I will decide that, or help to decide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian institutions, by support of great philanthropies, by putting body, mind and soul on the right side of al) moral, religious and national movements. Ah. it will not be long before it will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes of this continent, so farasearthly comfort is concerned. AH we will want of it will be seven feet by three, and that will take In the largest, and there will be room and to spare. That is all of this country We will need very soon, the youngest of us. But we have an anxiety about the welfare and the happiness of tho generations that are coming on, and it will be a grand thing if, when tho archangel’s trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Arlmathea provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden. By that time this country will be all paradise or all dry tortugas. Eternal God, to thee we commit tho destiny of this people!

Henry Clay Quoting Sliakspenra. Henry Clay, who left a seat in the Senate for one in the House, but after many years’ service at the other end of the Capitol returned to the Senate Chamber, exercised a powerful control over the politics of the republic. Idolized by the Whig party, his wonderful powers of personal magnetism, and his rich, manly voice would enable him to hold an audience for hours. He made but little preparation, and used but few notes in speaking; but when he wrote out his remarks for the press, his manuscript was remarkably neat, without interlinations or blots. He seldom indulged in classical allusions, and his occasional attempts to make quotations of English poetry were generally failures. On one occassion, he used the well-known phrase from Hamlet, “Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung," but misquoted the last syllable, calling it "un-strung.” The gentlemen who sat on either side of him noticed the error, and simultaneously whispered “unwrung.” — Tliis double prompting confused “Young Harry of the West,’’-who straightened himself, and with stronger emphasis repeated “unhung. ” This raised a general laugh, at the close of which Clay, who had meanwhile ascertained Ins mistake, shook his head, and said with one of his inimitable smiles: “Ah! murder will out! Unwrung’s the word.” The fascination which he exercised over all with whom he had personal intercourse —even his political adversaries—was remarkable; but he was imperious and domineering, exacting unconditional and unqualified support as the price of his friendship.— Ben: Perley Poore, in Century. The Wisest Man. “Who is the wisest man mentioned m the Scriptures?” asked a young lady of one of her Sunday school scholars. “Paul 1” exclaimed the little fellow, confidently. “Oh no, Johnnie. . Paul was a very good man, but Solomon is mentioned as the wisest man." “Well, my father says Paul was the wisest man, because he never married; and I fancy father ought to know 1” replied the boy rather emphatically.— Good Cheer. .. Then They Had Not Read the Papers. It is related that a man 93 years old, living in Unity, N. H., without using spectacles, recently shot four squirrels with an old musket that once belonged to a soldier of the Revolutionary war. This doe? seem a little out of the ordinary run, but it is probable that the squirrels wore looking down the barrel of the musket at the time to sen whether it was loaded. — Brooklyn Eagle. When chickens are scattered about the broodet they are all right; when huddled together, they are cold: when sticking their heads out under the I curtain, they are too hot. BSISh I ? mH

A REAL HEROINE. Bow a Brava Woman Saved a Train from Ihutruetlou. Miss Ransom was tho telegraph operator and station agent on a little road tailed the Columbia & Port Deposit division of tho Pennsylvania line, says the Washington Star. This road hugged the banks of tho Susquehanna River frdm end to end and there wasn’t a spot on tho entire division of forty miles that it wasn’t almost sure death to the train hands for a train to leave the rails. Wrecks occurred on an average of once a week and were always followed by severe fatalities. The station she was located at was near immense limestone quarries, wherein some half a hundred Italians were employed. About one hundred vards above tho station was a 100-sect trestle spanning a small stream at ordinary times, but on the day in question greatly swollen and very swift, as it emptied into the river at that point, A blast had just been fired of unusual force and an Immense rock landed on the trestle, tearing it apart in the center, the swift water washing away the debris and leaving a gap in the rails of about twenty feet The river was very high at that point and the small boats that were handy could not be propelled against the swift current The nearest bridge on the little stream over which the trestle was stretched was some three miles distant Miss Ransom saw the mischief done bv tho rock and immediately rushed out and told tho Superintendent of the Italian gang to send a man or go himself around the wreck and stop a train that was due from the north in about half an hour. The Superintendent was an Italian, with a smattering of English, but who failed eatirely to see the gravity of the situation. The only wire that ran along the road had been stretched on the trestle for economy’s sake, and had been broken with the trestle, so that no communication with the north could be had. Miss Ransom tried to tell the Italian the true situation, but he only smiled and with a shrug of his shoulders and a grimace walked back Into the quarry and resumed his overseeing.

Miss Ransom hesitated but a minute to ask if any one in the crowd could swim, and receiving a negative answer decided, with the aid of a plank, to try crossing the river. The Italians in their impetuous way tried to persuade her not to attempt the swollen waters, but with the decision of a true heroine who realized the danger the oncoming train was in, she cautiously pushed the plank into the water, and with a quick movement followed it. The brave girl had entered the water some distance above the broken trestle in the hope of gaining tho opposite shore before that point should be reached, as to be carried out into the river meant almost certain death. The Italians encouraged her with shouts of praise, but endeavor as she would to work her way out of the current In midstream little headway was made. Down stream the brave girl was carried with a swiftness that told plainer than words that her struggles were fruitless. As she neared the broken trestle, inch by inch, she worked the plank over to the northern side, and as she was w.thin a few feet of that structure she abandoned the plank and struck out with one forlorn hope of reaching it unaided. Her foresight and strength proved stanch qualifications. As she was being carried bv theu projecting and splintered trestle Miss Ransom gave one last strong sweep of her arms and was enabled to grasp a heavy piece ot ttmbcr. Slowly and laboriously the heroine worked her way out of the water and up through the trestle, as her strength commenced to show signs of waning, and finally reached the top. For only a few seconds did she hesitate to grasp for breath and regain strength, when she staggered to her feet and hurried down the track. It was a close calculation. Miss Ransom had hardly turned the curve when the noise of the oncoming train could be heard and a few seconds later dashed in view. The wild gesticulations of the brave girl caught the attention of the engineer almost instantly, and brakes were applied and the train brought to a standstill right on the curve and in sight of the broken trestle. Without a quiver in her voice Miss Ransom told the engineer of the mishap, and in a matter-of-fact way, without anv embellishments, related her experience in trying to prevent the train from going through the broken trestle into the river. The dozen or so of passengers on the train were dumbfounded by the girl’s matter-of-fact bravery, and crowded around her and almost hugged her in enthusiasm and thankfulness. Eld that girl make her mark in the telegraph profession? Not much, bhe married the engineer whose life she had saved. A Chinaman’* Ambition. “An “Anglo-Indian Globe Trotter” was in Canton, and for assistance in sight-seeing engaged the services of a young Chinese, Ah Choy by name. The boy had picked up a little English and was proud of his acquirement. In fact, he had what seems to be rare with Celestials, a strong desire to become a master of the English tongue. He had taken the traveler to the South Pparl Hall where the shrine of the “Queen of Heaven” is ornamented with handsome gilded carvings in wood. The Englishman admired the work and inquired:— “What are the vessels on the altar made of?” “All brrrass, ” answered Ah Choy. Ah Choy was very .proud of his ability to pronounce the letter r. a great trouble to people of his race, and was given to rolling it with unconcealed self-gratulation. The Englishman was willing to humor him, and so asked: “What was that you said?” “Yes, all brrrass." “Yes. all billass,’’ chimed In an unlearned .by-stander, and Ah Choy’s satisfaction was doubled. Presently, however, his pride had a fall, for he pronounced the word '“gillage’* as If it had been spelled “Woolwich,” and his patron felt obliged to correct hi m, Ah Choy was crestfallen, arid when the Englishtxtfw ylag on he forgot

his Ps in his confusion and answered, ••Velly well.” “I wonder,” he remarked, a little later, “if 1 wont to England and studied for three years I could speak English Just like Englishmen." •Oh yes, ” said tho mentor; “knowing so much already, you might do it In half that time." Then tho true object of Ah Choy's ambition was disclosed. “Yes," he said, with a brightening jb face, “and then I could write an Ku-/ glish poem. ” * Who says that Chinese and Americans have not some things In com* mon? , Maybe Ho Wm a Good JudgO. Judge I. W. Boulware of Fulton, is one of tho best known criminal law- j yers in Missouri, says the Omaha r Bee, but, liko most lawyers, he Is a man of the world and has forgotten many of the good things he learned at Sunday school. His granddaughter. 4 years old, catne to pay him a visit tho other day. She arrived tired and sleepy from an all-day's Journey. Her grandfather awkwardly but successfully prepared her for her couch aud, with an attendant, sent her to bed, while lie settled himself to study. Presently ho heard sobs from the child’s bedroom and entering asked what was the matter. “Grandpa, I’ve forgot my prayer.” “Well, never mind tho prayer tonight; go to lied and go to sleep.” “But,” persisted the little miss, “mamma and papa will not let me go to bed without saying my prayers, and I’ve forgot it," and she sobbed again. “Well, daughter, never mind tonight; to-morrow night you may say it twice,” replied the kind-hearted grandfather. Stilt the sobbing lips replied: “No, no; I must say it. You start it, grandpa, and I’ll remember it "A great silence fell upon the household; great beads of cold sweat stood out on the perplexed brow of the head of tho house. He couldn’t think; his mind was chaos. Finally with a heroic effort he began: "Mary had a little lamb ” “No, no, grandpa; that isn't it” protested the troubled little appealer. Then frantically the fudge began again: “Rock-a-by baby in the tree top ■■” “N-o-o,” came from the child, and the next moment she was fast asleep on her knees.

The Kegent Diamond. In a recent volume, published by the Historical Manuscript Commission of England, the story of the famous “Regent diamond” is told for the first time, A certain Pitt, for a while a governor in India, is said to have obtained it by an abuse of his power when in Madras. His enemies were strong enough to make it doubtful if on his arrival in Englaud he would not be lodged in jail and his property confiscated. He set out for home in India, and reaching the cape, took passage in a Danish ship, and, after a narrow escape from shipwreck on the coast of Norway, was detained for some time at Bergen by the dangers of the narrow seas. Here, smarting under his injuries, he wrote a circumstantial narrative of his purchase of the stone from a native dealer, addressed to the eldest son. There was some difficulty in finding a buyer for the diamond. The King and Prince of Wales looked at it, but did not buy it. Finally the Regent Duke of Orleans bought it for $625,000, an enormous sum. but less than Its appraised value. After this sale Gov. Pitt renounced a governorship of Jamaica, which had been given to him, and retired into private life. The evidence seems to be tha« he was a man of strict probity and great force of character, hut of a choleric disposition beyond that even of the traditional Indian Nabob.

Many MlUlons ot Visitor*. It is now nearly forty years since the Queen, with the Prince consort, several foreign royalties and a brilliant court, declared the Crystal Palace open, with the aspiration that it might “elevate and instruct, as well asdelighv and amuse, all classes.” Very rarely, says the London Telegraph, have the expressions of royal or official optimism been more fully realized. Nearly all the sovereigns of Europe and dusky potentates of Asia and Africa have shared, with the poorest children of the slums, the week day and Sunday schools, the great trade benefit societies and the “custodians of law and order,” the delights of Svdenham. It is estimated that some 70,000,000 of visitors have entered the palace since its opening, a fact that would be more accurately expressed by saying that that number of visits has been paid. Either phrase, however, really understates the matter, the calculations in respect of season ticket-holders having been made on different systems at different times.

She Was Doing Her Share. The young physician was tired when he returned from his evening’s calls, but as he settled back in his easy chair and his pretty wife of only a month or two took a seat beside him, he asked affectionately: “And has my little wife been lonely?” “Oh, no,” she said, animatedly. “At least, not very. I’ve found something to busy myself with.” “Indeed.” he said. “What is it?” “O/I’m organizing a class. A lot of young girls and married women are in it, and we’re exchanging experiences and teaching each other how-to cook.” “What do you do with the things you cook?” he asked, interestedly. “O, we send them to the neighbors just to show what we can do. There’s one boarding house gets most of it. It’s lots of fun." “Dear little woman,” he said, leaning over and kissing her. “Always thoughtful of your husband’s practice, Always anxious to extend it." A WeU-to-Do Tramp. A man found ill in a shanty on the outskirts of Sacramento was taken to the hospital, and when stripped for a bath each leg was found encircled with a garter made of eanvas doubled and the edges sewed together. The garters haa apparently not been off his legs for many months. If for yeara Each contained fifteen S2O gold pieces, making S6OO in all. He also had $8 in his pockets. He bad every appears nee of being a tramp