Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1893 — Page 6

She democrat DECATUR, ‘IND. g, BLACKBURN, - - - PrwiTjßnKiv f If Business Is Dull, I T"" 1 I 1 HINK J % What others have done by H V ADVERTISING. J ' | — Don’t attempt to drown your soryow In drink; you will find that sorrow can swim. Has it occurred to anybody yet that: Blttsbnre has Its rolling mill-1 Minneapolis has Its flour mill-1 i on& i roa ? and 1 ' N. England has Its cotton mill- J Krupp, the great gun-maker, pays J tax of $32,400 upon his income of 1,095,000. Great gunsl How does he spend it all? Ex-Senator Ingalls is never so happy as when talking, but a team of -oxen could not draw an opinion upon /the crinoline question from him. Katherine E. Conway, of the Boston Pilot, is now one of the police -commissioners of Massachusetts, and 'has great influence with her colleagues. Sir Richard Owen, the naturalist, left an estate valued at $175,000. He first came into prominence through his work in the prehistoric department of the Crystal Palace. The crusade against kissing Is dying a natural death. When young people feel like indulging in such luxuries, it is not the fear of diseasecontamination that will restrain them. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ A cheerful youth in Santa Ana is said to have undertaken the task of papering his room with canceled Columbian stamps. The only thing that need trouble him is the paste. The rest ought to be inexpensive and easy. It is stated that in Mashonaland 8,000 acres of land may be obtained for $25. There can be no fault found with the price, but it will be hard work to convince people that land worth no more than this would be worth taking as a gift Once more the lawless band that follows Apache Kid has been scattered to the winds, Kid escaping (done and distressingly whole of skin. This little episode happens with so rigid a regularity that it may be said to have become a habit It is either this, or fiction. A defendant came into a San Francisco court drunk, and was thereupon excused from the inconvenience of being tried. All he has to do to evade the clutch of justice is to refrain conscientiously from any lapse into sobriety, a course that will permit him to thriftily combine business and pleasure. An army Lieutenant who knows of lhe hardships of war only what he has learned in the ballrooms of Washington, has been made a paymaster with the rank of Major and a $4,800 salary. Objection to his advancement is met by the confident assertion that the Lieutenant wears the finest military coat in the capital, and this ought to silence the carpers. ———■——— Buffalo Bill isn’t very well pleased with the manner in which Secretary Noble has sat down upon his scheme to engage fifty Indians for the Chicago Exposition and feels that he has been treated scurvily. Possibly so, but Mr. Noble thought that the rivabcommltteesof the show could raise all the war-whoops needed to make the affair a howling success without Colonel Cody’s assistance. f A man In Lincoln, Neb., approached a woman from the rear and „ cruelly beat her with a club. The woman was a stranger to him. In court he solemnly made the averment that when he had hit her he was under the impression that she was his wife. The court, while forced to concede the novelty of the plea, could not discern in it ground for acquittal—a circumstance that surprised and pained the defendant.

A young woman in Pittsburg who weighs 209 pounds, desires in the interest of science to fast thirty days Several weak-minded people have already done this, and while the operation brought their ribs into spectacular relief, science did not seem to joy particularly in contemplation ttjereof. Still, if the young woman is anxious to subsist on her own fat, she seems to have a good working capital and can afford to overlook the indifference

of science. 1 New York Journal: Great Scott! an East Indian rajah who has an annual income of six millions is coming to the World’s Fair! Think how the Chicago shopkeepers will descend upon the man who has half a millitn a month of spending money! Fancy his hotel bills! Reflect on the u•aults which the wild and woolly Western promoter will make upon the Rajah’s hoard! If the potentate from Indi* knew the trials awaiting him i»lbe Windy City he would stay

at Home. And when he learns all ‘ the rtaks attendant upon the wearing of that ten mlLion diamond cm. broldered coat, he will faint. If Congressman Turpin can find that pensioner whom he accused on the floor of the House the other day of drawing nineteen dollars monthly from,Uncle Sam “for total deafness," while he is at the s ime time telephone, tender in the Pension Office In Washington at SI,BOO a year, he should bring him before Congress at once. The National Legislature should order a gold medal to be struck and presented to that pensioner for furnishing the best example of American cold cheek on record.

Postmaster Wanamaker rallies to the defense of his Columbian poster-stamps. He thinks the pictures are “real nice,” and seen through a microscope produce a fine artistic thrill. Yes; but how about those whiskers? On one stamp a beardless Columbus is discovering America; on another _a Columbus bearded like the pard is making his first landing on American soil. Prithee tell us how such a majestic beard grew on the old Admiral’s face in the few hours intervening between discovery and landing? The unities! In art yov must observe the unities! If you are a parent and have a son who is dear to you, bring him up in such a manner that he will never be a speechmaker. The most tiresome man in the United States to-day is the one who Is always watching for an opportunity to make a speech. The worst of it is that the man who wants to make a speech is never a good speaker. He generally has a wheezy voice and yellow teeth, and in nine cases out of ten he says “eyether" and “nyether." So, if your boy develops a weakness for speaking, lead him out to the woodshed in the still, dreamy gloaming and hit him with two cords of green elm. Anent the superstition that the number 13 is an unlucky one, the New York Sun calls attention to the numerous repetitions of the number on the new 25-cent piece. On one side of the coin there are no less than ten repetitions of the number 13. There are 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll held by the eagle's beak, 13 marginal feathers on each wing, 13 tail-feathers, 13 parallel lines in the shield, 13 horozontal bars, 13 arrowheads in one claw, 13 leaves on the branch in the other claw, and 13 letters in the words “quarter dollar." It remains to be seen whether anybody will be afraid to take this coin on account of its bearing so many marks of ill-luck, but the probability is that most men will esteem themselves unlucky if they fail to get » good pocket-full of them. The fascination of a great,,city is as mysterious and as potent as the force which drives the meteors into the sun. Nine years ago John C. Eno, President of the Second National Bank, of New York, fled in disgrace to Canada. Warrants for his arrest were Issued, but tor nine years he has been living safe and in comfort in Quebec. He had a beautiful home, a wife and family and many friends in the Canadian city. In new York the prisoner’s dock and almost certainly the prisoner’s cell awaited him. In Quebec Be was free and apparently happy. In New York he would be deprived of his liberty and made wretched by a vivid consciousness of guilt Yet John C. Eno surrendered himself to the New York authorities to stand the trial he has for nine years delayed. The moth came back to the candle’s flame. How hollow are the royal pretensions of friendship among the ruling powers of Europe is well illustrated in a cynically worded dispatch that comes from St. Petersburg. Owing to defects in the new supply of rifles turned out by the Government factories in Russia, half of them were rejected. The . rearming of the Czar’s infantry will thereby be delayed, it is stated, three years. These details throw a new light on the recent visit of the Czar’s oldest son to the court of Germany, where he was given an apparently most cordial welcome. And the situation is still more brightly Illuminated by the closing words of the dispatch referring to the defective arms and their result on the military forces of the Moscovite monarch. They were that a “knowledge of this state of affairs is believed to have influenced the Czar to assume a more friendly attitude toward Germany.” Royal amenities in Europe to-day are things apart from ordinary human actions.

The Cat aud the Looking Glass. Many years ago at a certain farmhouse the household cat was observed to enter a bedroom in course of spring cleaning. The»- looking glass being on the floor, the cat on entering was confronted with its own reflection and naturally concluded that he saw before him another cat. A fierce growl was the result, followed by a rush at the mirror, and then meeting

an obstacle to his vengeance, a fruitless cut round to the rear. This was more than once repeated with, of course, equal lack of success. Finally the cat was seen to walk deliberately up to the looking glass, keeping his eye on the image, and then,, when near enough to the edge to feel carefully with one paw behind for the supposed intruder, while, with its head twisted around to the front, it assured itself that the other had not escaped. The result fully satisfied the cat that he had been deceived, and never after would he condescend to notice a cat in a looking glass. Two Fools In One Family. Through the medium of a matrimonial paper a Pittsburg man became engaged to his own daughter.

TALMAGE IN DETROIT. HE PREACHED AT THE CITV OF THE STRAITS. \ A Sermon on the Crossing of the Jordan by the Children ot Inrael, the Tost Heins from Joshua ill, 17—Ay Interesting Discourse. v Talked To Michiganders. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached to a largo and Intensely interested audience In the Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit last Sunday, on the crossing. Os the Jordan by tho children of Israel, the text being from Joshua 111. 17. “And lhe priests that bare the ark of {ho covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground th the midst of tne Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean >ovey! Jordan.” Washington crossed the Delaware whsn crossing was pronounced impossible, but he did it by boat. Xerxes crossed the Hellespont with 2,000,000 men, but he did it by bridge. Tho Israelites crossed the Red Sea, but tho same orchestra that celebrated tho deliverance of the one army sounded tho strangulation of the other. This Jordanic passage differs from all. There was no sacrifice 6f human life—not so much as the loss of a linchpin. Tho vanguard of the host, made up of priests, advanced until they put their foot at the brim of the river, when immediately the streets of Jerusalem were no more dry than the bed of that river. It was as if all the water had been drawn off, and then the dampness had been soaked up with a sponge, and then by a towel the road had been wiped dry. Yonder goes a great army of Israelites,

the hosts in uniform; following them the wives, the children, the flocks, the herds. The people look up at the crystalline wall of the Jordan as they pass and think what an awful disaster would come to them if before they got to lhe opposite bank of that Ajalon wall that wall should fall on them, and the thought, makes the mothers hug their children close to their hearts as they swiften their pace. Quick, now; get them all up on the banks, the armed warriors, the wives and children, flocks and herds, and let this wonderful Jordanic passage be completed forever. Sitting on the shelved limestone, I look off upon that Jordan where Joshua crossed under the triumphal arch Os the rainbow woven out of the spray; the river which afterward became the-bap-tistry whore Christ was sprinkled or plunged; tho river where the hx —the borrowed ax—miraculously swam at the prophet’s order: the river illustrious in ' the history ot the world for heroic faith and omnipotent deliverance and typical of scenes yet to transpire in yourlifq and mine—scenes enough to make us,' ’ from the solo of the foot to tho crown of the head, tingle with inflnite gladness. On Jordon's Stormy Banks. Standing on th© scene of that* at*-, frighted, fugitive river Jordan, Ilearp , for myself and for you, first, that ob 7 , stacles when they are touched vanish. The text says that when these priests came down and touched the water—the edge of the water with their feet—the water parted. They did not wide ly , chin deep or waste deep or knee deep ot ankle deep, but as soon as their feet. - touched tho water it vanished. And it makes me tninK that almost all the obstacles of life need only be approached t In order to be Conquered. Difficulties but touched vanish. It is the, trouble, the difficulty, the obstacle far in the ■ tance that seems so huge and r dOUS. ‘ > The apostles Paul and John seemed to £ dislike cross dogs, for the Apostle’Paul tells us in Philippians, “Beware of dogs)*', and John seems to shut thegato of Heaven against all the canine species. , } when he says, “Without are dogs." . But' I have been told that when those animals are furious, if they come at you. if you will keep your eye on them and ad-' vance upon them they will retreat. Whether that be so or not I cannot left, but 1 do know that the vast majority Os the. misfortunes and trials and disasters of your life that hound your steps, if you can only get your eye on them, and Keep your eye on them, and advance upon them, and cry, “Begone!” they will' slink and cower. There is a beautiful tradition among the American Indians that Manitou was traveling in the invisible world, and one day he came to a barrier of brambles and sharp thorns, which forbade his going on, and there was a wild beast glaring at him from the thicket, but as he determined to go on his way he dia pursue it, and those brambles were found to be only phantoms, and that beast was found to be a powerless ghost, and the impassable river that forbade him rushing to embrace the Yaratilda proved to be only a phantom river. Well, my friends, the fact Is there are a great many things that look terrible across our pathway which when we advance upon them are only the phantoms, only the apparitions, only the delusions of life. Difficulties touched are conquered. Put your feet into the brim of the water and Jordan retreats. You sometimes see a great duty to perform. It is a very disagreeable duty. You say: “I can’t go through it 1 haven’t the courage, I haven’t the intelligence, to go through It.” Advance upon It, Jordan will vanish. I always sigh before I begin to preach at the greatness of the undertaking, but as soon as I start it becomes to me an ' exhilaration. And any duty undertaken with a confident spirit becomes a pleasure, and the higher the duty the higher tho pleasure. Difficulties touched are conquered. There are a great many people who are afraid of death in the future. Good John Livingston once, on a stoop coming from Ellzabethport to New York, was dreadfully frightened because bethought he was going, to bq> drowned as a sudden gust came up p , People were surprised at him. If any' man in ail the world was ready to die, it was good John Livingston. . So there are now a great many good people who shudder In passing a graveyard, and they hardly dare to think .ql Canaan because of the Jordan that intervenes, but once they are down on a sick bed then all their fears are gone. The waters of death dashing on the beach are like the mellow voice of ocean shells —they smell of the blossoms of the tree of life. The music of the Heavenly choirs comes stealing over the waters, , and to cross now is only a pleasant sail How long the boat is coming! , Come, ; Lord Jesus, come quickly! Christ the Priest advances ahead, and the dying Christian goes over dry shod on coral i beds and flowers of Heaven and paths ! of peart •* i ' ■£ An Invisible Dam. y?. 4 ' Again, this Jordanic passage teaches . me the completeness of everything th 1> God does. When God put an invisible ; dam across Jordan, and It was halted, It . would have been natural, yon would have supposed, for the water to have * overflowed the region all around about, ' and that great devastation would have i> taken place. But when God put the dam 1 in front of the river He put* da matt , the other side of the river, so that, aC< ] cording to the text, the water halted and reared and stood there, and. not overflowing the surrounding country. Oh, The completeness ot everything that God does! One would have thought that if. Mid ” waters of Jordan had dropped until they were only two or three feet deeo the

■■■— Israelites might have marched through • It and have come up on the other bank with their clothes saturated and their r garments like those of mon coming ashore from shlpwreok, and that would qSVo teen as wonderful as deliverance, • but God does somethin* bettor than that. , When the priests’ feet touched the waters of Jordan and they were drawn 1 off, they might have thought there would ■have been a bed ot mud and slime through which the army should pass. ■’ Draw off the waters of the Hudson or the; Ohio, and there would be a good > many days, and perhaps many weeks, » ifiofore the sediment would dry up, and - yet here, in an instant, Im mediately, God 1 provides a path through the depths of 1 .Jordan; It is so dry the passengers do not > oven get their feet damp. Oh, the com- > pleteness of everything that God does! 1 Does Ho make a universe?—it Is a per--1 feet clock, running ever since it was ■ wound up. the fixed stars tho pivots, the ’iifcotatellsilon* the intcrmovlng wheels, and ponderous laws the weights and mighty swinging pendulum, tho stars In tlio great dome of night striking the midnight, and the sun, with brazen tongu-', tolling the hour of noon. The wildest comet has a claim of law that it cannot break. Tho thistle down flying before the schoolboy’s breath is controlled by the same law that controls the sun and the plauets. The rosebush In your window is governed by the same principle that governs tho tree of the universe on which the stars are ripening fruits, and on which God will one day put His hand and shake down the fruit—a perfect universe. No astronomy has ever proposed an amendment. If God makes* Bible, it Is a complete Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and delightful truths, you scein to be in the midst of an orchestra where the wailings over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon, ,*nd the martial strains of victory make th,e chorus like an anthem ot eternity. This book seems to you the ocean of truth, on every wave ot which Christ walks —sometimes in the darkness of prophecy, again io the splendors with which He walks on Galilee.* In this book apostle answers to prophet, Paul to Isaiah, Revelation to Genesis —glorious light, turning midnight sorrow into the ipidnoon joy, dispersing every fog, hushing every tempest. Take this book; it is the kiss of God on the soul of lost man. Perfect Bible, complete Bible! No man has ever proposed any improvement God Provided a Savtoor. God provided * Saviour. He is a complete Saviour—God-nun—divinity and humanity united in the same person. He set up the starry pillars ot the universe and the towers of light He planted the codars and the heavenly Lebanon. ,He struck out of the rock the rivers of .life, singing under the trees, singing under the thrones. He quarried the SATdonyx and crystal, and the topaz ot the heavenly wall. He put down the jasper for the foundation and heaped up the amethyst for the capital and swung the twelve gates, which are twelve .pearls. In one instant he thought out a universe, and yet be became a child, .Crying for bis motber, feeling along the .sides of the mangey, learning to walk. Omnipotence sheathed in the muscle apd flesh of a child’s arm, omniscience strungjln the optic nerve of a child’s eye, infinite love beating in the .child’s heart, a great God appearing in the .form of a child lyear old, 5 years old, 15 years old. While all the heavens were ascribing to Him glory and honor and power on earth men said, “Who is this fellow?” While all tho heavenly hosts, with folded wing about their faces, ‘bowed down before him crying, “Holy! ! Holy!” on earth they denounced him as .a’ blasphemer and a sot Rocked in a boat on Gennesaret, and yet He it is that ,'bndlrked the lightning from the storm-. fcloud and dismasted Lebanon of its forests and holds the five oceans on the tip of His finger as a leaf holds the raindrop. 5 Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing Hia hand, over the place where we have the pain, yet tne stars of heaven the adorning gems of His right hand. Holding us in .His arms when we take our last view bf bur dead. Sitting down with us on the tombstone, and while we plant roses there He planting consolation in our heart, every verse a stem, every word a rose. A complete Savidur, a complete Bible, a complete universe, a complete Everything that God does is complete. Again, I learn from this Jordanic passage that between ua and every Canaan of success and prosperity there is a river that must be passed. “Oh, how I would like some of those grapes on the other side!” said one of the Israilltes to Joshua. "Well,” aaya Joshua, “if you want the grapes, why don’t you cross over and get them?" There is a river of difficulty between ns and everything that is worth having—that which coats nothing is worth nothing. Riven of Difficulty. You know this Is so with regard to the acquisition of knowldge. The ancients used to say that Vulcan struck Jupiter on the head, and the goddess of wisdom jumped out, illustrating the truth that wisdom comes by bard knocks. There was a river of difficulty between Shakapeare, the boy, holding the horses at the door of the London theater, and that Shakspeare, the' great dramatist, winning the applause of all audiences by his tragedies. There was a river between Benjamin Franklin, with a loaf of bread i under his arm, walking the streets of Philadelphia, and that same Benjamin Franklin, the philosopher, just outside of Boston flying a kite in the thunderstorm. An idler was cured of his bad habit by ooking through his window night after night at a man who seemed sitting at his desk turning off one sheet of writing after another nntil almost the dawn of the morning. The man sitting there writing until morning was industrious Walter Scott; the man who looked at him through the window was Lodkhart, his illustrious biographer afterward. Lord Mansfield, pursued by the press add by the populace because of a certain line of duty, went on to discharge the duty,and while the mob were around him demanding the taking of his life he ebook his fist in the face of the mob and said, “Sirs, when one’s last end comes, it cannot come too soon it he falls in defense of law and the liberty of his country.” And so there is,my friends,a tug,* tussle, a trial, a push, an anxiety, through which every man must go before he comes to worldly success and worldly achievement You admit it. Now.be wise enough to apply it In religion. Eminent Christian character is only gained by the Jordanic passage; no man just happened to get gdod. The Christian comes down to this raging torrent, and he knows he must pus out, and as he comes toward the time his breath gets shorter, and his last breath leaves him as he steps into the stream, and no sooner does he touch the stream, than It Is parted, and he goes through dry shod while all the waters wave their plumes, crying: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more weeping, and there shall be no more death. Some of vonr children have already gone up the other bank. You let them down on this side of the bank; they will be on the other bank to help you up with supernatural strength. The other morning at my table, all my family present, I thought to myself how pleasant it would be if I could put all into a boat and then go in with them, and we could pull across the river to the next world and be there all together. No family porting, no gloomy obsequies. It would take five

It minutes to go from bank to bank, and k then in that bolter world to be together r forever. Wouldn't It be pleaeant for g you to take all your family Into that i blessed country if you could all go toi, gethor? , 1 remember my mother in hor dying e hour said to my father, "Father, wouldn't ti it be pleasant if wo could all go to--1 gether?" But we cannot all go together, e We must go one by one, and wo must be grateful if we get there at all. What a r heaven It will be if we have all our i families there to look around and see all , the children are present! You would i rather have them all there, and you go 1 with bare brow forever, than that one f should be missing to complete the gart lauds of Heaven for your coronal. The • Lord God of Joshua, give them a safe 1 Jordanlc passage! > A Word of Comfort. • One word of comfort on thia subject » for all the bereaved. You see our de- . parted friends have not beeu submerged I —have not been swamped in the waters. i They have only, crossed over. These » Israelites wore just as thoroughly allvo i on the western banks of the Jordan as they had been on the easier,, banks of r the Jordan, and our departed Christian i friends have only crossed over—uot sick, » not dead, not exhausted, not extin- > gulshed, not blotted out, but with i healthier respiration, and stouter pulses, > and keener eyesight, and bettor pros* • pects—crossed over. Thoir sins, their I physical and mental disquiet, all left ' clear this side, an eternally flowing, im- - passable obstacle between them and all I human and satanlc pursuit. Crossed over! Oh, I shake bands of congratula- > tion with all the bereaved in the coni sideration that our departed Christian 1 friends are safe. i Why was there so much joy in certain circles in New York when people heard 1 from the friends who were on board that belated steamer? It was feared that vessel had gone to the bottom ot the sea, ' and when the friends on this side heard that the steamer had arrived safely In Liverpool bad we not a right to congratulate the people in New York that their friends had got safely across? And is it not right this morning that I con* gratulate you that your departed friends are safe on the shore of Heaven? Would you have them back again? Would you have those old parents back again? You know bow hard it was sometimes for them to get their breath in the stifled atmosphere of the summer; would you have them back in thls*weather? Didn't they use their brain long enough? Would you have your children back again? Would you have them take the risks of temptation which throng every human pathway? Would you have them cross the Jordan three times? In addition to crossing it already, cross it again to greet you now and then cross back afterward. For certainly you would not want to keep them forever out of Heaven. Pause and weep, not for the free from pain. But that the sign of love would bring tuem back again. I ask a question, and there seems to come back the answer in heavenly echo: “What, will you never jbe sick again?” "Never —sick—again.” "What, will you never be tired again?” JI “Never—tlrfid—again." “What, will you never weep again?” “Never—weep—again.” “What, will you never die again?” “Never—die— again.” Oh, ye army of departed kindred, we hall you from bank to bank! Wait for us when the Jordan of death shall part for us. Come down and meet us half wav between the willowed banks of earth and the p/Hm groves of Heaven. May our groat High Priest go ahead of us, and with bruised feet touch the water, and then shall be fulfilled the words of my text, “All Israel went over on dry ground until all the people were gone clear through Jordan." I ask you what shall be the glad hymn of this morning, I think there would be a thousand voices that would choose the same hymn—the hymn that illumines so many death chambers—the hymn that has been the parting hymn in many ap instance —the old hymu: On Jordan's stormy bonks I stand And cast a wistful eve To Canaan’s fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. Oh, the transporting, rapturous scene That rises on my sight I Sweet fi-lds arrayed in living green. And rivers of delight. Wolseley’s Ideal Soldier. “What do you think are the most essential qualities of a soldier and an anny, Sir Garnet?” “Esprit de corps and pride. A soldier should be proud of his profession, and he should have the greatest interest and feeling for his individual command. He should be dressed welL Even should he incline toward dandyism that should be encouraged. The better you dress a soldier the more highly he will be thought of by women, and consequently by himself. Tho duke of Wellington said of his officers in Spain that many of the best men were the greatest dandies. Men in the campaigns of the past used to pride themselves on being slovenly. To be unshaved arid dirty was supposed to be the sign of a good officer. The spirit ran like wildfire among the army. Whatever the officers think fine the men will think so, too. It is very difficult to make an Englishman at any time look like a soldier. He. is fond of longish hair and uncut whiskers. In the field no person should wear his hair over have air inch in lenght. It should never be long enough to part No man can have smart hearing who can part his hair. Hair is the glory of a woman, but the shame of a man. Men who have never" worn beards are apt to think that to wear one saves a good deal of trouble. It does so if you do not clean it, but to wear a long one and keep it clean demands more time and trouble than shaving. On service discipline deteriorates when but little attention is paid to dresS, and when the men wear almost what they like. The Value of Cashiers. An Ohio merchant who kept. three clerks, each one of whom mad# his own change and had free access to the mon-ey-drawers, was the other day asked by a commercial traveler why he did not keep a cashier to receive all moneys. “Cost too much,” was the reply. “But are your clerks honest?” “Perfectly honest.” “Have you any objection to my trying them?” “Certainly not; go ahead m any way you wish.” , . . , , The traveler went away, but m about three hours he returned and said m a loud voice so that all might hear: “When I was here this forenoon 1 paid you a bogus quarter by mistake. In case you find it in counting up tonight, lay it aside and I’ll redeem ft." Then the traveler, accompanied by the merchant, took position where the back door and the alley could be kept in view, and in less than ten minutes “utXe the head clerk and emptied a handful of silver on the head of a barrel and pawed it over. The bogus quarter was not there. He returned to the store and out came the second clerk and went through the same progtammo. He was followed by the third, and after he disappeared the merchant calmly

! IF YOU ARE IN QUEST f 1 > OF FRKBH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: r I Important Happening* of tho WwbOrim.s aud Caaaalttoe — Sololdoa-* Ifoallu— Wadding*, Lto. I Tha I**l *la Wire. Tn 00-employe’e bill. In an amended 1 form, got through both Houses Batunlay. i The appropriation bill includes $60,000 ter i tho World’s Fa'r. The appropriation of . SIIO,OOO for the Feeble Minded Home passed the Senate but was defeated in the House. The’till giving new partiee watchers at the ' polls got through Utu House but was beaten In the Senate. Tucux was a free-and-easy feeling tn both Houses Monday.' A good deal of joviality prevailed, and a number of resolutions were passed by both branch* e congratulatory, complimentary, etc. The report of the Committee on Affairs of the Prison South, giving results of the recant investigation. Were read in both Housee, and the majority report, exonerating the prison management, wm concurred m. <• Tho minority report woo spread upon the minutes. Tho Senate took up the bill empowering tho Stale to levy s tax on the gross receipts of tho telegraph, telephone, express, and sleeping car companies. The opening session was marked by a nres age from tho Governor, in which ho sold that this mens- ' ore. as well as the bill amending certain section s of tho new tax law, and known as the Administrative Tax bill, was "oarefully prepared by the State Tax Commissioners” and ‘•I am convinced that their provisions are perfectly fair. ••They aro of the most vital interest to the tax-payers of the State, and have been drafted in a spirit of absolute fairness to all interests ooncerned, and with tho greatest regard to the decisions of the Supremo Court, and. I ani informed, will add $25.000.000 of property to the tax duplicate that is now escaping taxation. I am willing to waivo my constitutional right, and will receive and consider the bill even If presented to me on this, the sixth day of March.” Immediately upon receiving this message the Senate took up certa n pending amendments to the first-named bill, and the original bill was changed, making it the duty of tho Prosecutors of tho various judicial districts in which taxes are due ana unpaid to bring suit The bill passed by a vote of ts to 4. It was also passed by the House. Both Houses adjourned sine die. Minor State News. Geobge Givan of More’s Hill. Is dying from cancer of the lip, caused by excessive smoking. Thk people about Centerville are making arrangements to fence In tho graveyard there because of ghouls. The piano fake men are still working their agency racket In tbe northern part of the State, and are securing a number of victims. For tho second time sin co Christmas the schools at Chesterfield have been officially closed because of the prevalence ot diphtheria. The ladles of two of tho most prominent society clubs of Fort Wayno have adopted a series of resolutions against hoopskirts and crinoline. John Brown living near New Ross, has In his possession a pig which has but one eve, one ear, and no tail. It Is a great curiosity and crowds of people go tn see it every day. It is currently believed that the Clover Leaf railroad difficulty at Frankfortyn oni ' be adjusted by placing the road in the hands of a receiver, and this is expected to occur at any day. The Richmond Telegram has changed hands, and Is now to be rnn by a stock company. Tho incorporators are H. D. Bertch, L. V. Armstrong, 8. W. Gillilan, A. D. Hosterman, J. N. Gawer, and E. 8. Kelly. Doc Anderson of Franklin, was doing soma carpenter work at his home, lie placed a hatchet a* ove his head, but It fell, the blade striking him ou the nose and cutting off a large portion of that membor. The recent storm destroyed the large frame barn of Willis Reese, southeast of Mnnqio. A S2OO horse was killed. A groat deal of damage was done by the storm in that part of tbe County. Mr. Reese’s loss is over SI,OOO. Eva Rojf, tho only support of a widowed invinfc 'mother, at Madison, Committed suicide by taking poisbn. The mother is dying from her troubles A son in Anderson was telegraphed tor to attend the sister’s funeral, but an answer camo that he was also dying. Jacob Pbice, an old man near Jordan village, concealed S3OO in a tea chest in nis cellar. Tho other night two burglars entered the house and, finding him alone in bed, choned him u. til he revealed tbe hiding place of his money, which they secured and escaped. Willett Fisher of New York, who was injured in the L. E & W. wreck at Peru last January and has been lying in the hospital at that city since, has brought suit against tho railroad company for SIO,OOO damages, alleging defective bridge, track, and trestle approach. A strange man called at the hospital in Peru, and asked to see Jack Cavanaugh, the young man who was recently assaulted by Miss Sadie Baughman, who threw nitric acid in his face. On being refused, tho caller stated that if Cavanaugh appeared against tho girl he would kill him within a year. He said 'tls claimed, that Cavanaugh ruined her and must suffer tor it. At Brazil, while Jasper young was teasing his wife by snapping a revolver in her face, which ho supposed to be empty, a cartridge was discharged and the bullet entered Mrs. Young’s left eye, tearing it almost from its socket. The bullet penetrated to tho region of the brain. Physicians were immediately summoned and announced the injury fatal. The couple had been married only a short time. Daniel Baines, engineer of tbe spoke and rim factory of Greensburg, received an injury from which he died shortly afterwards. He was blowing off the mud valve when a piece of pipe flew up and struck him on tho forehead. He started to walk home, and ons his way fell on the pavement and soon after died from a blood clot on the brain. He leaves a wife, a bride of six months, and three children by a former marriage. Mrs. A. F. Ramsey, Charley Ramsey, and Homer Slogler narrowly escaped death by being asphyxiated at Crawfordsville. Vapor escaped from a natural gas stove. They’re still in a critical condition. JohS Wise, an old resident of Wabash County, who, years ago, gained eonsiderablc notoriety as a criminal, died from the effects of being kicked in the abdomen by a horse. The horse had fallen in his stall and was lying on his back, when Wise, in assisting him to get np, was struck In the bowels by one of the animal’s hoofs. Inflammation set in and death resulted. A cause is now pending in the Circuit Court at .Marion, which will affect thou--1 sands of acres of land In that county, as well as in Wabash and Miami Counties. WHHam Poconga, Chief of the Miami tribe of Indiana, claims exemption from taxation according to a treaty made between the Miarnls and the United States over seventy years ago. He claims, also, that a correct Interpretation of the treaty removes the liability of tbe Miami Indians in contracts of every description. The case has already attracted considerable attention. The best legal talent In tho State has been employed. It Is not likely that a settlement will be reached this side of tho United States Supreme Court/

—..y Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. 830,000, Surplus, SIO,OOO | Origantad Officers—T. T. Dorwln, President; P. W. Smith, Vloa-Pra*ldaat;B. 8. Peterson Cashier) T. 'B. Dorwln, P. W. Smith, Manry Dorka., J. K Holbrook, B. J. Tervemt, J. D. Hate and B. SL, Peterson, Director* I We are prepared to make Loan, on good security, reoelve Deposits, furnish Doma.tfo and ■ Foreign Exchange, boy and nil Government > and Municipal Honda, and luranh Letter, ot i Credit available in any of tbe principal elUoe of Europe. Aho Passage Ticket to aud from the Old World, Including transportation to J Deoatur. Adame County Bank Offioer*-D. Studebaker, Pnildont: BdbL B. AHieon, Vice-President; w. H. Niblick, Caahtec. Do a (eneral banking business. CoUeotaona made In all part, ot tbe country. County. City and Township Order, bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and Mid. Interest paid on time deposits. Fatal G. Hooper, Attorney at Isa’W D.awtai, /ntfiaww. El. B. LeBRUN. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Buooe.rfnny treat, all diaeana of Horae, and Cattle. Will respond to oalh at any Uma. Price, returnable. > . BBVm, A X. MANN. A A EBIFIN <« MAJfN, ATTORNEYS-IT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Proseonted, OffloelnOdd Fellows’ Building, Deoatur, Ind. T7IBANCB & MEBBYMAK J.T. rAAiraA* J? J. T. MSRBYMAM JLttorxieyai sat X.*-We DSCATUA INDIANA. Office Noe. 1,8 and 8, over the Adams OownSy Bank. Collection, a specialty. A.«. IOLIOWAT, PliywlolAii tab o’xxx’sooxa Office over Burns’ harneee ehop, roeidossoo one door north of M. E. oburoh. AU oaUs promptly attended to in olty or oountry nignt or day. ML It. HOLLOWAY, ML Offioo and reeldenoe one door north of M. M ohurch. Dieeeeee of women and ohlldrea epoeialUea. •. T. May, M. HPlx jrwlolNSXXiO *-SU-**O3A liarss, . • • IndlAwo. AB oalle promptly attended to day e» adghA Offioo et reeldenoe. L B. 8080, B. T. BOBU Maetor Commissioner. 8080 & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 800 l Bstato and CoUMtlon, Decatur, Ind. O.P. M. ANDKEWH, FlxyrwiolAux <*» Hurgnon MONBOB. INDIANA. Office and residence tnd and 3rd doorewwet ot M. A church. N* Prof. L H. Zeigler, Votortairj ZPW Burgeon, Modus Oroho *£ ZT tomr. Overotomy. Cutratlng, Bldg ifng, fforses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone's hardware store. Decatur Indiana. J. 8. OoverdalA M. D. P. B. Thomae. M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pieroe's Drug store, Decatur. Bad H. F. COSTELLO, * Osaxwoomi. Office over Terveer’s hardware store. Betadeuce on Third street. In the old Darken property. All calls promptly attended to in city or country, day or night Lhl lelsH, VeterlMrj Siirgnt, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. JQ. NEPTUNE, . DENIST. Now located over Holthouse’s shoe store, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to th. dm*. tai profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN On Paras Property on Long TlatA xeo CfOXEXXXXltaitaßlOnAw Low Bate of IntareeL | ITaurtlael Faey-xnateAAt* M In aay amounts oca bo made al any tlase and II stop interest. CaU on, or address, M *4. K. GRUBB, or J. F. MjUUT, Il Oltoo: Odd PoUowe’ Building, DooatasA " H ALL KINDS OF II JOB printing! NEATLY EXECUTED I ■ until