Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1893 — Page 2

r (The IhTmurcit 1 >ECA'rUII,JNB. N, BLACKBURN, - *’■ - roHLTiHxn. » - L ■ - ' *l»***e*al II ■ Bvkn little Portugal Is up with the times. It had a cabinet crisis that, barring its lack of size, was just as good as anybody's crisis. Thk first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If wo banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half there is in it Mirs Emma Goodman savs she cow- j hided Herr Most and he denies the ' soft impeachment. The difference is I one of but a single letter, which tells the truth—her or herr? Jr took a New Jessey court three wears to convict a murderer and a New Jersey hangman nineteen minutes to finish him after the drop fell. The law’s delays in New .Jersey are scandalous. John L. Sullivan, the actor and ex-pugilist, declares his intention of going in for tragedy nextseason. He would probably insist upon putting on the gloves with Macduff in the combat §ccne. Charles Dickens was not much ■of a dancer until his daughter took him in hand and taught him the. "polka. But when she tried to guide Ihim through a schottlsche he threw up the sponge, and his teacher had to admit that he was a dismal failure. Citizen Train has been delving g into comparative philosophy. He has discovered that the word “damn” is of Asiatic derivation and is synonymous with banana. This greatly facilitates the profane man's occasional job of eating his own words. A train robbery in Poland on the approved American plan may be a pointer to the detectives as to the whereabouts of the remnant of the Dalton gang. Train robberies are as easy in one language as another when the people surrender without a word. When Chicago gets her streets cleaned, her railroad tracks elevated, her footpads suppressed, her smoke nuisance abclished, her elevated railroads furnished with down-town loops and her politics freed from partisanship she will be getting in the way to be an ideal city. Bankruptcy isn’t the only danger incurred from the presence of a plumber in the house. A whole family was neatly exterminated at Orange, Mass., the other day by the explosion ofija gasoline stove carried by the monopolist who had been called in to fix the pipes. Old rags coming to thiA country" from suspected European ports may be rendered perfectly harmless by disinfecting them. The proper way to disinfect these rags is to unload them : on some uninhabited point of land on • the seacoast, pour kerosene on them, • and apply a lighted match. There is an oriental story to the effect that the plague was flying on , its black wings away from a recent scene of terrible mortality. It was asked about the 100,000 victims. It said: “I killed but 10.000; fear killed the others. ” This is a wise fable for people who are frightened at the possible appro ich of cholera English courts have been for some time endeavoring to settle an estate i of $2,000. Up to date charges have! amounted to S9OO, and the estate, far ' from being settled, is thrown into new confusion by the death of the heir, whom kindly nature thus saved from pauperism. There is almost an American flavor to bo detected in this episode. s In an Eastern school lately a teacher fainted. A panic at once ensued among the pupils, many of them being severely injured. This tendency to rush from imaginary danger to the breaking of the neck is evidently the result of an inborn quality and not, as generally supposed, an acquired idiocy marking people />f maturer growth. Peary has already engeged his vessel for another Arctic voyage, for which he is to pay the expenses out of the money he earns in " the lecture field. The Lieutenant certainly has the pluck that every one rejoices to see win, and we hope he wili not only find the North pole, but that he will also find the people v ready to listen to his lectures and -juake his tour a success. Alfred Packer, known in Colorado as the man-eater, from a habit of dining upon his associates, desires to leave the penitentiary, the diet there’ not agreeing with® him. A lawyer has found what seems to be the necessary technicality. It is hoped that the lawyer will not succeed, bu t i f'he shon 1 d the on I y just recompense would be to latten hi re and feed him to his carnivorous client. “ Tub St James’ Gazette has a curl ous explanation of Mrs.„ Mqybrick’i late alleged attempt to excite publit sympathy by playing 'possum. Tin Gazette says that she ate a numbe of needles and then feigned sickness 6ho may have eaten the needles, but

I the feigning part of the explanation ’■' will strike the general public as singular. A person who has swallowed a lot of needfiss is likely to become sick In earnest They are not a wholesumo article of diet Tiife customs of the duello are pre served In outward form, and all the Intricate technicalities of the code are scrupulously regarded by “professional" and “amateur gentlemen of the old school;" but the old-time murderous spirit has gone out of the business. The French are already beginning to laugh at it as a crass exhibition of human folly, Just as : Americans have done in the last thirty years. Every fresh burlesque I performance tends to bring dueling i into deeper disrepute and to hasten j its final disappearance. 1 Count Tolstoi tells the readers of the Russian Gazette thatfamineagaln threatens the district in which he resides. He savs the rye harvest of 1892 is as bad as that of 1891 and oats are an utter failure. There is a complete dearth of material for fires, the available fuel having l>een used up last winter and not replaced. The people are exhausted by the privations and miseries of a year ago, and the outlook is as black as possible. To make matters- worse the cholera has again made its appearance, 3,313 cases being reported from eighteen districts in one week recently. This is terrible. ItisgenI erally understood that the wheat crop of Rassia is better than that of a year ago. but the country as a whole seems to have produced barely enough food for the supply of its own in. habitants. A cargo of rags was recently landed at Hoboken from the steamer Alabama The Philadelphia Press says: "When the rags were sampled, preparatory to being offered for sale, the , discovery was made that many bales were filled wish rags stained with blood and other matter. Although the bales were stamped “disinfected," it was evident taat they had come direct from hospitals, where they had been used for bandages and poultices. It is said, too. that since then most of these rags have been sold and scat-1 tered over the country.” And yet newspapers and statesmen think there is vao need to hurry about ad- | ditional legislation." The only. method for "disinfecting” such ma- ■ terials is to burn them. It would be , far cheaper to buy and burn both vessel and cargo than to send such bundles of death and commerce destory, ers over the land. —- *■ — Time, remarksan exchange,is stock in trade. One man makes use of it, | another allows it to waste away; one extracts from it wondrous wisdom, the other lies in the dust. It is also life’s ladder, up which one is led to honor and immortality, or down to depravobscurity. All of us have leisurt hours' between the time of or- j diuary business, although they may , be short, irregular or fragmentary. ‘ . Let all cultivate the habits of punc-, i tuality, promptness and dispatch, and ' they will find leisure hours that may be turned to golden account. The brief and broken 'periods of a man’s life are more important than his business moments, and are the most po- 1 i tent for his welfare for time and eternity. The grandest genius is the ! genius of plodding and hard work. ' • Genius never did much for the world, I I but furnished the fireworks. Plod-1 ! ding and hard work have solved the greatest problems of humanity. A woman writer for an eastern I publicatkfli attempts to explain why iso many rich American girls marry j titled foreigners. It is, she says, be- ’ cause the young society men of this country ape foreign manners, and the I ’ girls prefer the genuine article to the | imitation. The explanation is an I ingenious one. It is true that many ■of our gilded youth wear mackintoshes when it is raining in London, talk with a nauseating accent, and make sickening cads of themselves generally. But, on the other hand, there is no country in the world that : has more manly,energetic,self-reliant young men than America. They are the real noblemen of the word. If agirl I cannot find such a fellow in hei “set," I let her look elsewhere among her countrymen before she throws herself away on a foreigner. She may find then, however, if wealth is her chief : attraction, that the genuine princes . ■ of this country are not always to be i caught with a golden hook. The Catcher Caught. ’ "I’ve got a bite!” cried Bertie Ham- ■ : ilton, while fishing off the end of the 1 new Poweli street pier yesterday as- . ternoon. Bertie, who is ab nit twelve I years old, was one. of about thirty I boysand men who were casting their I lines off the end of the pier. "I’ve got him!” shouted Bertie a second .! later, "and it’s a shark,” t, his line commenced to run out aia 3 ‘ terrific rate. But Bertie had spoken too hastily. He bad npt got him, .and a moment later it was a fair ! gaiffi.il inc proposition whether- Bertie e would get the shark or the- shark get s/Bertie, with the odds decidedly in .. i favor of the fish. Bertie pulled and t the shark pu 1 led and jerked, and at ’ i one of these Jerks Bertie went head n i first over the,stringer and wasjlounls ! dering in the stream. A boatman went to the lad’s rescue and alter I hauling him into the boat stood him i-i onjjjs, head until the water was ’s 1 dratfied out Os him and then sent ic I him home to dry. The shark' made no effort to eat Bertie but seemed glad to escape It is now swim--5r ming round the bay with Bertie’s s - fishing tackle in its ' stomach. —ban it Francisco Chronicle

DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. ON A PREACHINGI>OffiCUIT OF SOUTHERN “CITIES. The Ureal Clrela of Good and Evil, of Rin and It* Punlohmont—Ro Not Doorlvedi th® Evil !>®*ign®<l Ag»ln«t Another Will Return to Plague tho Inventor. DI soon roe i»t Atlanta. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who Is now making a ten day*’ tour of tho Southern cities, preached last Sunday nt Atlanta. Tho subject chosen was. "Tho Circle of the Earth.” the text being Isaiah xl, 92. "It is He that silteth upon the circle of the earth." While yet pooplo thought that the world was flat, and thousands of years before they found out that it was round, Isaiah, In my text, Intimated tbe shape' of it—God sitting upon tho circle of the earth. The most I oautiful figure lu all geometry is the circle. There are in the natural world straight lines, augles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles, but those evidently are not God's favorites. Almost everywhere whore you will find Him geomctrizlng you will find the circle dominant, and if not the circle, then the curve, which Is a circle that died young. If It had lived long enough it would have boon a full orb —a periphery. Au ellipse Is a circle pressed only a little too hard at tho sides. Giant’s CuuseWay In Ireland shows what God thinks of mathematics. there are over 35,000 columns of rocks —octagonal, hexagonal, pentagonal. Tfipse rocks seoin to have been made by rule and by compass. Every artist has his molding ro f, m, where he may make fifty shapes; but he chooses one shape as preferable to all others. I will not say that the Giant's Causeway was the world’s molding room, but I do say out of a great many figures God seems to have selected the circle as the test. “It is He that sltteth on the circle es the earth.” The stairs In a circle, themoon in a circle, the sun In a circle, the universe in a circle, the throne of God the center of that circle. When men build churches they ought to imitate the idea of the Great Architect and put the audience in a circle, knowing that the tides of emotion roll more easily that wav than in straight lines. Six thousand years ago God flung this world out of His right hand, but He did not throw it out In a straight line, but curviugly, with a leash of love holding It so as to bring it back again. The world started from His hand pure and Edcnic. It has been rolling on through regions of moral ice and distemper. How long ft will roll God only knows, but it will in due time make, complete circuit and come back to the place whence it started —the hand ot God—pure and Edeni&. The bistory.of the world goes in a circle. Why is It that the shipping in our day is improving so rapidly? It is because men are imitating the old model of Noah’s ark. A ship carpenter gives that as his opinion. Although so much derided by small wits, that ship of Noah's time beat the Majestic and the Etruria and the City of Paris, of which we toast so much. Where is the ship on the sea to-day that could outride a deluge in which the heaven and the earth were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety—two of each kind of living creatures, thousands of species? Pomology will go on with Iks achievements until after many centuries the world will have plums and pears equal to the paradisaical The art of gardening will grow for centuries, and after the Downings and Mitchells of the world' have done their best in the far future the art of gardening will come up to the arborescence of the year L If the makers of colored glass go on Improving, they may in some centuries be able to make something equal to the east window «f York minster, which was built in 129tt We are six centuries behind those artists, but the world must keep toiling on until it shall make the complete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men. If the world continues to improve in masonry, we shall have after awhile, perhaps after the advance of centuries, mortar equal to that which I saw last summer in the wall of an exhumed English city, built in the time of the Romans. 1,600 years ago—tffat mortar to-day as good as the day in which it was made, having outlasted the brick and tbe stone. Isay, after hundreds of years, masonry mav advance to that point. If the world stands long enough, we may have a city as large as they had in old times. Babylon five times the size of Lovdon. You go into potteries in England and you find them making cups and vases after tbe style of the cups and vases exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going back. Oh, no, but it is swinging in a circle and wili come back to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressing until it makes the complete circuit. The curve is in the right direction; the curve will keep on until It becomes the circle. Well, now, iny friends, what is true in the material universe is true in God’s moral gorvernment and spiritual arrangement. That is the meaning of Ezekiel’s wheel. All commentators agree iu paying that the wheol moans God’s providence. But a wheel is of uo use unless it turn,' and if it turn it turns around, and if it turn around it moves In a circle. What then? Are we parts of a great iron machine whirled around whether we will or not. the victims of Inexorable fate? No! So far from that, I shall show you that we ourselves start the circle of good or bad actions, and that it will surely come around again to u~3 tSiless by divine intervention it be hindered. •''Those bad or good actions may make a circuit of many years, but pome back to us they will as certainly as that God sits on the circle of the earth. Jezebel, the worst woman of the Bible, slew Naboth because she wanted bis vineyard. While the aogs were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha tbo prophet put down his compass and marked a circle from those dogs clear around to the dogs that should eat the body of Jezebel the murderess. “Impossible,” the people said; “that will never happen.” Who is that being flung out ot the palace window? Jezebel A few hours after they camo around, hoping to bury her. They, find only the palms of her hands and the’ skull. The dogs that devoured Jezebel and the dogs thatdevoured Naboth! Oh, wbat a swift, what an awful circuit! lint it is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps through a century or through many centuries. The world started with a theocracy for government —that is, God was the President, ami Emperor of the world. People got tired of a theocracy. They said. “We don't want God directly interfering with the affairs of the world; give us a monarchy,” The world had a monarchy. From a monarchy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After awhile the ''limned monarchy will be given up, and the republican form of government will be everywhere dominant anil recognized. Then the world will get tired of tho republican form of government, and it will have an anarchy, which is no government at all. And then all nations, .finding out that man is not capable of righteously governing man, wili cry out again for a theocracy and sav, “Let God come back and conduct the affairs ot the ’ world. ” —■- 1 Every step—monarchy, limited raon- ■ archy, republicanism, anarchy—only different steps between the first theocracy

and the last theocracy. or segments of the groat circle of the earth on which God sits. But do not become impatient because you cannot soo tho curve of events, and therefore conclude that God’s government la going to break down. History toile ua that In the making of tho pyramids it took 3.000 men two years to drag ono great stone front the quarry and put it into tbe pyramids. Well, now, If men short lived can afford to work so rlowlv as that, cannot God In the building of tho eternities afford to wait? What though God should tako 10.000 years to draw a circle? Khali wo take our little watch, which wo have to wind up every night lost it run down, and hold it up beside the clock of otornal ages? if, according to the Bible, a thousand years are in God's right as one day, thon, according to that calculation, tho 6,000 years of tho world’s existence have been only to God as from Monday to Saturday, But it Is often tho case that the rebound is quicker and tho circle is sooner completed. You resolve that you wili do what good you can. In ono wook you put a word of counsel In tho heart of a Sabbath school child. During that same week you give a loiter of Introduction to a vouug man struggling In business. During the same week you mako an exhortation in a prayer meeting. It Is all gone; you will never hear of it perhaps, you think. A fpw years after a man conios up to you and says, "You don't know mo. do you?” You say, "No, I don’t remember ever to have seen you.” “Why," he says. “I was in tho Sabbath school over which you were the teacher. Ono Sunday you invited mo to Christ; I accepted the offer. You see shat church with two towers yonder?” “Yes,” you say/ He says. "That is where I preich:" or: “Dj you see that Governor’s house? That is where I live,” One day a man comes up to you and savs, "Good morning.” You look at him and say, “Why, you have tho advantage of me; I cannot place you." He says, "Don’t you remember thirty years ago giving a letter of introduction to a young man—a letter of introduction to Moses H. Grinnel?” “Yes, yes; I da" He says: “I am the man. That was my first step toward a fortune, but 1 have retired from business now and am giving my tlmo to philanthropies and public interests. Come up and see mo.” Or a man comes to you and says: “I want to Introduce myself to you. I went into a prayer meeting in Atlanta some years ago; I sat back by the door; you arose to make an exhortation; that talk changed the course of my life, and if I ever get to Heaven, under God I will owe my salvation to you.” In only ten, twenty, or thirty years the circle swept out and swept back again to your own grateful heart But sometimes it Is a wider circle and does not return for a great while. I saw a bill of expense for burning Latimer and Ridley. The bill of expense says: OneloaTbf Sr fagOtEl B». 44. Cartage for four loads of wood 2s lum, a post Is. <d. Itatn, two chains 3s. 4d. Item, two stiples 6dItem, four laborers 2s. Sd. That was a cheap fire, considering all the circumstances, but it kindled a light that shone all around tbe world and aroused the martyr spirit and out from that burnlug of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider, starting other circles, convoluting, overrunning, circumscribing, overarching all Heaton—a circle. But what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter a slanderi against your neighbor. It has gone torth from your teeth; it will never come back, you think. You have done tho man all the mischief you can. You rejoice to see him wince. You say, “Didn’t I giye it to him?’’ That word has gono out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You ilunk it will never do you any harm. But I am watching thft Word, and I see It beginning to curve, and it curves around, and it is aiming at your heart You had Mdoflge it. You caanot dodge it s into your bosom and after, it rolls In a word of an old book, which says, "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again-” You maltreat an aged parent You "begrudge him the room in your house. You are impatient of his whimsicalities and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. Yon give him food he cannot masticate. You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to live foroveir. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter and shorter. He is going to stop. But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile vour eye will be dim, and vour gait will halt, and the sound of the grinding wili be low, and you will tell the same story twice, and vour children will wonder if you are going to live forever and wonder if you will never be taken away. They called you "rather” once; now they call you the "old man.” If you live a few years longer they will call you the “old cnap.” What aro those rough words with which your children are accosting you? They are the echo of the very words you used in the ear of your old father forty years ago. What is that which you are trying to chew, but find It unmasticable and your jaws ache, and you surrender the attempt? Perhaps It may be the gristle which you gave to your father for his breakfast forty years aga A gentleman passing along the street saw a son dragging his father into the street by the hair of the head. The gentleman, outraged at this brutal conduct, was about to jxunish the offender when the old man arose and said: "Don’t hurt him. It’s all right Forty years ago this morning I dragged out my father bv the,hair of his head.” It is a circle. My father lived into the eighties, and he had a very wide experience, and he said that maltreatment of parents was always punished in this world. Other sins mav be adjourned to the next world, bnt maltreatment of parents is punished in this world. The circle turns quickly, very quickly. Oh, what a stupendous thought that tho good and evil we start come back to us! Do you know that the Judgment Day will be only the points at which the circles join, the good and the bad wo have done coming back to us unless Divine intervention hinder—coming tack to us with welcome ot delight or curse of condemnation? Oh, I would like to see Paul, the in- ’ valid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to full, orb—his influence rolling out through Antioch, through Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth, through Athens, through Asia, througli Europe, through America, through the first century, througli five .centuries, through twenty centuries, througli al[ the succeeding centuries, through earth, through Heavop, and at last, the wave of influence having made full circuit, strikes his great souk Oh. then I would like to see him. No one can tell tho wide sweep of the circle of liis fnfluenoo save the ono who is seated : on tho circle of the earth. I sliould not want to seo tho countenance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage selz.ed hjm at 83 years of ago his Influence did notecase. Tho most brilliant man of his century, ho had used all his facilities for assaulting Christianity—his bad influence widening through France, widening out through Germany, widening through all Europe, widening through America ■ widening through tbe 115 years thjit have gone by since he died,- widening through earth, widening through hell, until at last the accumulated Influence • ». *

of bis bed life In fiery surge of omnipotent wrath will boat against his destroyed spirit, and at that moment it will be enough to make the black hair of eternal darkness turn white with tbo horror. No one can tell bow that bad man's influence had girdled tbe earth save the one who is seated on the circle of the earth—the Lord Almightv. “Well, now." say pooplo In this audience. “this in some respects is a very good theory, and in some others a very sad one. Wo would like to have all the good we have ever done come back to ua, but the thought that all tho slut we have ever committed will come back bo us tills us with affright” My brother, I Have to tell you God can break that circle and will do so at your call. I can bring twenty passages of Scriptures to prove that when God for Christ's sake forgives a man tbe sins ot his past life never co mo back. Tho wheel may roll on and roll on. but vou take your position behind the cross, and the wheel strikes the cross and is shattered forever. Tho sins fly off from the circle into tho perpendicular, falling at right angles with complete oblivion. Forgiven!- Forgiven! The meanest thing a man can do is, after some difficulty has been settled, to bring it up again, and God will not be so moan as that. God’s memory Is mighty enough to hold aW tbo events of the ages but there Is odo thing that Is sure to slip his memory, one thing he Is sure to forget, and that is pardoned transgression. How do I know it? I will prove it. "Their sins and their Iniquities will I remember no more.” Comd into that state this morning, my dear brother, my dear sister. "Blessed is tho one whose trangresslons are forgiven.” But do not mako the mistake of thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with this lifer it rolls on through Heaven. Y'all might quote In opposition to me what St. John says about tbe cry of Heaven. Ho saysiflieth foursquare.” That does not seem to militate against this idea, hot you know there is many a square he use that has a family circle facing each other, and I can prove that this is so In regard to Heaven. St. John says, "I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and the elders." Again he says, "There was a rainbow round about tbe throne,” The former two instance a circle; the last either a circle or a semicircle. The seats facing each other, the angels facing each other, the men facing each other. Heaven an ampltheater of glory. Circumference of patriarch and prophet and apostle. Circumference of Scotch Covenanters and Theban legion and Albigenses. Circumference of the good of all ages. Periphery of splendor unimagined and indescribable. A circle! A circle! But every circumference must have a center, and what is tho center of thia Heavenly circumference? Christ His ail the glory. His all-the praise. His all the crowns. AH Heaven wreathed into a garland round about Him. Take off the imperial sandal from His foot and behold the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet ot dominion from His brow and see where was the laceration of the briers. Come closer, ail Heaven. Narrow the circle around His great heart O Christ, the Saviour! O Christ the man! O the God! Keep thy throne forever, seated on the circle of the earth, seated on the circle of the Heaven! Ou Christ, the solid rock, I stand'; All other groun iis sink ng sand. How Sam Trained His Wife. Tn a Boston restaurant sat a man from Cambridge, who was a native of New Hampshire. Meeting an old acquaintance from that indefinite section known as "down East,” the conversation booh turned on family topics, and the pair began to talk about their former neighbors in a most familiar way. “Yes," remarked the Cambridge gentleman, “Sam was in many respects different from the rest of the boys. You remember who he married? Well, when the old man, his father, found that he was shinin' round with her, he called him one day in the barn and said: ‘Sam, d’ye intend to marry Beckie?* Sam never said a word, so the old man said: ‘Me boy, ye know all about them. I can’t tell you nothin’. Ye know how the sisters’ has turned out, and not one of them is now livin’ with their husbands.* Sam was as mnm as a pantomime, and. just as soon as he was ready him and Beckie got tied. They lived on a farm, and everything went on smooth for about a year, and it came to a hog butcherin’ time. Sam got ready to have the usual party for the occasion, and, just as he was sharpenin’ np the knives, Beckie came out and said: ‘Sam, I’m goin’ home.’ Sam protested in his quiet way, bnt it was no use. so he said he’d get a man to row her across the pond. It was about half a mile over. She said: ‘No, ye won’t; ye’ll row me over yerself!’ Sam told her he couldn’t, and Beckie fired up and said: ‘Then I’ll drown myself.’ Sam said he’d go with her if she wanted to do that, so the boat was got ready, she got in, and they rowed out till the water was twenty feet deep. Then Sam stopped and said: ‘Well, Beckie, this is a good place for ye to drown yerself 1’ She didn’t open her mouth. He waited awhile and then said: ‘Come Beckie, I’m in a hurry to get back.’ She never looked up. Sam put down-the oars, caught hold of her and pitched her in. She grabbed for the boat, bnt he wouldn’t let hor get near it. When she was almost done out she said: ‘Sam let me in that boat and ye’ll not hear anything.more from me out o’ the way.’ So lie pulled her in and they went back home. She changed her clothes and entertained the guests. They’re now nearly 80, and you never saw a happier old couple—did yon ? I don’t think they ever spoke of that duckin’ since the day sho was goin’ to drown herself." « The Livery Man’s Paradise. There is probably no city in the United States, where in proportion to population, so many carriages and driving horses are kept as in Washington. A well-known liveryman said to a correspondent that the greatest feature of his winter business was the hiring of teams by the season to Congressmen. Said he: “They always want the best. They are in for ‘show.’ ” Many of them wanted liveried footmen anil drivers, and their own monograms oi arms emblazoned the doors of their coupes or carriages. The general public, of course admire all this show, and from these outward appearances estimate the wealth of the Hon. So-aud-So, Th y little think that all that show is the product of the enterprise of a nntch looked* dpwn-upon pleb’an livery-st.ble proprietor. “Why, there is a landeau," said ho, pointing to a handsoinevehicle nearby, “that has given service to three mem* bers of Congress and their families dur* ing different Congressional seasons.” Stock ItMHtnlng Fields In Winter. • All kinds of stpek should lie yarded day times and stabled nights. To let stock run at large does it no good, I and in the wheather when it is I usually turned out the animals poach the Wet soil, doing great damage to any crop that may follow tho next season.

THE -WAY THINGS run! IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Nave Lately Happened Within It* Border*—Some Ploeiant and Some Rati Heading. Minor Ntate Item*. A noo-nARHKD oli-well wet struck on tho Cogvsholl farm in the Camden field, Jay County. DiriiTUKHiA It raging at Grandview, a 'small town on tte Ohio River, six miles from Rockport Snkak thieves are working extensively In Torre Haute, many robberies being daily reported. Gravk robbers stole the corpse ot Mita Emma West an 18-year-oid girl who died recently at Brazil. ‘ Andkrson is In a pretty bad wav during this cold weather, as tbe natural gas service is miserable. Nhkrman Lancastkr’s house, near Windfall, was destroyed by lire. Loss, $1,000; no Insurance. Burolars broke into the Southern Indiana Natural-gas Company’s offices at Shelbyville, and got S3O. Mias Minnis Loosdon of Eureka, Spencer County, while skating on the ice, fell and broke her nock. John Fkbherkr of Rockport one of the wealthiest business men of Southern Indiana, died suddenly at Louisville. Misa Eva Winton of Shelbyville, fainted and foil against a stove, receiving burns that will mark her for life. Thk citizens of Sleigh. Carroll County, think there is natural gas in the vicinity, and will drill for it as soon as tho weather permits. The Diamond Window Glass Company of Findlay. Ohio, located at Farmland, will employ 125 men, the factory beluga twenty-pot plant Thk Young People’s Christian Endeavor Societies of Hamilton County have just closed a highly successful convention in Noblesville. Albert A. Fkatherlino,a hay-dealer at Kouts, Porter County, was kicked over the heart by a horse, and fell dead before assistance could be summoned. Jkrkmiah Harris, oldest Odd Fellow in Indiana, aged 88, died at Marlon. In 1843 he established the first paper in Grant County, the Democratic Herald. A tramp printer, who tried to clean out the office of the Brazil Times tho other day, said, when placed in jail, that he had been mesmerized a year or two ago and never got over it John Firming at Caseyville, Clay County, was paralyzed by falling slate in in the Brazil Block-coal Company’s mine Na 8. When found he was pinioned to the side of his room wholly heiress. He will die. The First National Bank of Elwood will Increase its capital stock to SIOO,000, and then consolidate with the Elwood National Bank, recently organized by Colonel Conger. The combination will have a capital stock of 8300,000. A 9-year-old boy named William Cunningham, and the support ot a widowed mother, lost both eyes at the rolling mill in Brazil. He was looking into one of the large puddling furnaces when one of the employes throw water on the fire. The hot ore flashed into his eyes, leaving him totally blind. He was otherwise badly injured about the head and face. The strange animal that has made its unwelcome appearance in the vicinity of Brownsburg was again soon the other evening, and it came very near capturing one of Brownsburg’s citizens. James Adams was milking bls cows when the anima! suddenly slipped up from tbe other side of the cow and struck a powerful blow at Mr. Adams with IU paw. Mr. Adams started for the house, with the animal close at his heels, and luckily be reached the door a head of the boast. Ho then "sicked” his two large bull-dogs on the varmint and slipped out to a neighbor’s house for a gun. Whef) he returned the animal was gone and his blooded dogs had been whipped and torn sq i adly that one of them had to be killed. Citizens will import blood-hounds to capture or chase tho animal to its den. A band of about forty foreigners, said to bo from the island of Sicily, are camping in Clinton County, about five miles southwest of Russiaville. They have with them, besides their horses, five cinnamon bears, and a few monkeys. They are furnishing some amusement and a considerable amount of uneasiness to the farmers In Mie neighborhood. A great many wild stories are being told about their manner of living. A horrible storv, which soeins to be well authenticated, is* told of the disposition of the body of a babv that died in their camp on Nqw Year’s Day. It is said that the big chief of the company took a huge knife and cut the child’s body in pieces and fed it to tho bears. They were camped in a dense woods near "St Paul,” a country church,' until recently, when they pulled stakes and departed at the Instigation of an enraged community. Many citizens of Brazil are talking loudly about the pardon of Isaac W. Sanders, who was sent from that city, 'about fifteen years ago, for wife murder, The crime was most atrocious, and the prisoner bad to be guarded from violence at the hands of a mob. On the 11th of April, 1878, Sanders, while Intoxicated, shot his wife through the heart, virtually killing her. She was tho daughter of Jonathan Crousdale, one of the wealthiest citizens of the town. Sanders pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in tho first degree, and would have been condemned to death had not Mr. Crousdale arose in court and asKod that be should not be hanged, as ho wanted "no man’s blood on his hands.” The prisoner was immediately taken to Jeffersonville, to avoid mob violence, which tbe officers had reasons to believe would follow If the prisoner remained in tbe County Jail over night. He was granted a new trial two vears after his sentence, but was again convicted and sentenced for life. A farmer named William Templeton, aged 45. and residing six miles southwest of Elwood, met death recently in the woods. He was cutting down a a large tree and was nliable' to escape from under It when it fell.- lie was pinioned to the ground and his head crushed. He leaves a wife and two clitldren. Mies Ida S. Durham of Darlington, has entered suit for $5,090 against S. G. Kersev for i reacii of promise. A miri’i. • ced switch on the Wabash railroad caused a freight wreck at Roan. W. B. Loughran of Peru, was tho ouly person Injured. George Gouglf.r, in an intoxicated condition, applied at the home of George N. Hicks near Elkhart, stating that himself, together with a companion', had bbon assaulted by thieves. Ho besought H4<-ks. who was an aged and feeble tnau of 70 years, to go with him to his part- ! ner in need of help. The story so excited Hicks with fear and dread of being the victim of a plot that bo was Immediately taken sick and died before he could be put to bed. * William Porterfield, while at work at the Shelbyville fee-houses, became. entangled In tho hoist, which broke and carried him about twenty-five feet into the river. It was only after bard work that he was rescued, badly bruised.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Januarv ia—The speaker an r ran cod tbe staudlhg comnilttoea Theta were 'nd special surprises in the award of Chairmanships. Cullop j»as sent to the Waysand Means, as was anticipated,and McMullen to the Judiciary, while Ader, of Putnam, who was also a candidate tor speaker, was given tbo Organization of Courts. Bench secured the Benevolent Institutions, Rednion the Prison South, Harkness State Prison North; Flppon Fees and Salaries, Earlowe tte> Corporations and Heagy the Roads. K great number df bills wore thrown Into tho House. The Speaker anticipated a crash, and he adopted a rule limiting each member to two when hit name was called. Then tho flood began. Quito a number of Representatives were loaded with road bills, tbo annlmut resting with tbo good roads agitation in whkti the State is Interested. Other measure were In the line ot so-cailed labor bills. Among them Is tho one aimed at tbe insurance system In vogub on tho Pennsylvania Central, which the labor leaders clam militates against tho beneficial features of their own organizations. All of those bills wore tn duplicate, the filing being simultaneously In -both houses. A bill of considerable moment was presented by Darby of Clark, providing for a sinking fund of 5 per cent., and calling for a marked change in the manner of applying appropriations. Senate—The Lleutenant-Oovor nor ap pointed Magee Chairman of tno Finance Committee and sent Griffith to the Judiciary Committee. The other principal assignments Included: Leyden, Benevolent Institutions. Sellers, Foes and Salaries; Korn, Insurance; McHugh, Educa- • tional Institutions,and Moore, the Roads. Tbe Judiciary Committee In both Houses, judging from the personnel of the memborshlp, is made up of conservative men. and this will be important In considering the special legislation demanded by the labor leaders. No radical legislation is looked for from either committee. ' A bill was sprung In the Senate to-day by Kopelke of Lake, which contemplate a revolution in tho management of penal and benevolent institutions. All of these institutions, with the exception of the Female Reformatory, are to be placed under the management of four people, to be known as the Board of Regents; the first Board to be appointed by tho Governor, and its members to be thereafter elected by the people, the same as other State officers are elected. January 11.—The Legislature dived into law-making with a vengeance-to-day, the House alone listening to tbe Introduction of nearly a hundred bills. Among the most important were co-etn-ployes' liability bill, one extending the jurisdiction of the Appellate Court, one against child labor, one raising tbe age ot consent to fifteen years, one providing for the discharge of harmless insane, one making Labor and Memorial day legal holidays, two reducing the school tax - from 16 cents to 10 cents on the SIOO, one providing free text-books foi Indigent children, one curbing Township Trustees in their purchases of school supplies and one providing the same system fur school supplies now In use for school-books. Mr. Fippen introduced a scheme for a joint law by half a dozen States taxing foreign mortgages, and resolutions were adopted for special committees on the soldiers' monument and World’s Fair, while the G. A. A. encampment was given some attention. To-day was an uneventful If not a drowsy day In the senate. A number of Senators were absent and ttft rest a trifle sleepy. The bills were nesfrly all' ot minor importance and of local effect. The bill asking that $50,000 be appropriated to defray the expenses of entertaining the G? A. R. reunion was about tho most Important The bill relating to the erection of memorial tablets in the Government Park of Chickamauga on behalf of Indiana soldiers was of some interest. Senator Magee's bill asking for tho separation of the State rev- , enue funds and legislative action regarding the spending of the same and the t creation of a sinking fund was of perhaps the most gonertl importance. , *. January 12.—Both the Senate ted House this morning adopted the joint ■ and separate rules which governed the fifty-seventh General Assembly without practical change. Senator Boyd introduced a resolution looking to the investigation of the accounts in the office of Attorney General Smith. Tho resolution. was made tbe special order Os next Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. An important resolution introduced by Senator Stuart, has for Its purpose the redistricting of the State for Circuit Court purposes. The following bills were introduced in the Senate: providing for tho erection ot bridges over streams dividing counties; protecting dairy products; appro* printing 60,590 to the State Normal. The House passed and ordered sent to * the Senate a joint resolution, asking the Indiana Senators and Representatives In Congress to use their Influence and cast their votes to secure the establishment ot the office of Secretary of Labor as a regular cabinet position. The Conference Committee appointed on tho bill appropriating $105,000 to defray the expenses of the session, made its report, which was accepted, and employes may now get their pay, January 13.—1 n the call of committees a few unimportant bills were recommended for ' passage, amofig them being Senator Filman’s bill exempting «. all church parsonages from taxation; Senator McCutcheon’s bill fixing a penalty of from ten days to six months in jail, and a fine of from SSO to SSOO for carrying concealed weapons; a House bill providing for a continuance in cases where an attorney is a member of the Legislature. The Senate adjourned at noon until next Monday at 11 o'clock. The proceedings in tho House was dull and unimportant. The Conference Committee's report on the Appropriation Bill to pay the expenses of tho session, was adopted. The Labor Committee reported favorably on Mr. Query's bill, making it a misdemeanor to discharge employes for membership in labor organizations; also favoring the passage of Suchanecb’s bill, making It uniawtul to omplof children under 14 years of age in factories over eight hours a day. » A few other minor bills were recommended for passage, a few Unimportant bills were introduced, and the House adjourned at noon until 11 o'clock Monday. A polite Texas journal cotnfAments its now rival on "leaving so much room for improvement.” The business losses*of Hamburg, on account ot the cholera last summer, foot up about $35,000,009.- Business men o’this country should urv derstand that a visitation from this dread disease means a heavy ■ loss to them, even if it does not touch their* homos to take away their loved ones. Monev spent to clean up means money saved in business by barring out the pest iF . ; There are too man^people who seem to think that the best thing they can do tor the Lord is to try to run their preacher