Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1869 — Page 1

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Uniox. —Trustee, J. 11. Blakey; Justice of the Peace. E. B. Looker; .Constables, Josapb C. Walters and William Cellars. Root.—Trustee, John Christen; Justices of the Peace, Jeremiah Archbold, Lyman Hart and Henry D. Filling; Constables, John Schtirger, Martin Lord and Henry Luttmcn. Purdi.e.—Trustee, F. W. Gallmeyer; Justices of the Peace, A. Mangold and John Archbold; Constables, —vacant. Kirklaxd.—Trustee, Jonathan Bow. •rs; Justices of the Peace, 8. D. Beavers and James 11. Ward; Constable, John T. .Baker., W amiixgtox.—Trustee, Conrad Brake; Justices of the Peace. J. W. Grim and Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Meili and Elias Crist. ; St. Mary's.--Trustee. Ed. McLeod; Justices es the Peace, Samuel Smith, S. B. Men is and William Comer; Constables, George W. Teeple, S. B. Fordyce and J. W. Andrews. Bluecrkkk.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel Williams; Constables, William I. Danner and William Danner. Moxboe.—Trustee. Thos. Harris; Justice of the Peace, Lorenzo D. Hughes; Constable, John T. Martz. French. —Trustee, Solomon Shull; Justices of the Pt ace, Lot French and V. D. Bell; Constable, Joshua Sarff. Hartford.—Trustee, Peter Huffman; Justices of the Pence, Benj. Runyan nnd Martin Kizer, Constables, David Eckrote and John Simison. ,• W aßksh.—Trustee, Henry Miller Justices of the Peace, A. Studabaker anil Janies Nelson; .Constables, Jacob Butch- . ar nnd A. G. Thompson. jErrsitaox.—Trustee, Charles Kelly; Justices of tbo Pflneo, Justus Kelly and John Fetters; Constables, —vacant. Time of Holding Courts. Circuit Covet.—On the third Monday In April, and the first Monday in No. vember, of each year. _ Common Pleas Court.—On the second Monday in January, the «eoond Monday in May, and the second Mondav in September, of each year. Commissioner's Covrt.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, Mid the first Monday in December, of Moh year. ~CHURCH PI RECTORY. fir. MtXt s (Catholic). —Services er•ry Sabbath at 8 and 10 o’clock, A. M., Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1} o'clock. P. M.; Vespers nt 2 J •'clock, P. M. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath al»101 q'clock. *A..M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. fabbMh Sehool at 9 o'clock, P. M. Rev. D. Jk Shackleford, Pastor. PaESBTTKBiAN.—No Pastor. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at 1 o'clock, and ■ahbathSchool at 2 o'clock, P. M. BLANKS. Blank deeds, blank notes. Justices Blanks. Constables Blanks. •*•., »t«.. printed and for sale at the EAGLE OFFICE.

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ATTORNEYS. JAWES R. 8080, A-ttorney nt Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages aud Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. — OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vloti6if r7~s . peter Attorney at Xjzxxxz, DECATUR, INDIANA. PROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE —In D. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf OAVIEb D. HELLER, Attorney art Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. NTTILL practice his Profession anyV V where in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlons2tf PHYSICIANS. F. A. JELLKIF. W. 11. SCHROCK. JELLEII <& SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On ScconlStreet, opposite the Public Square. vßn!stf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt Hoqge. 11-36

AAHR E W SOR « , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother's Hurdware^Store. 7. . vßn42tf. A? j7“e'’r WI m? f>., Surgeon. Dispensary, Avcline Block, vl bi*2s *" FORT WA YNE, IND. S. ( . AVERS. 11. to., RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE —South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. fitay Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-41 DENTISTRY. 11. 11. ’.W CCOAA EL L, Surgeon Pentist, DECATIR, INDIANA. All work neatly executed and warranted to give satI I Ljisfuction; Call and'examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, over Heller's Law office. vllnl'.l : REAL ESTATE AGENTS. .J A MRS R. BO 80, LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DEf’ATrit, INDIANA. rpHRF.E THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land fur sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your laud sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. ylOnC - auctioneer. CH ARLES H. FRA ACE, Auctioneer, DECATUR, INDIANA. 4 NNOUNCES to the public that hy ise i \ a regularly Licensed Auctioneer; and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. 11. Bobo's Law office. HOTELS. . .11 BES S E HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. r pHE traveling public will find this 1 House a desirable stopping place. Good Sample rooms. vllnU mWstreet EraW. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, B rit Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and H'.iyne Streets, r FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. v!2n” ts IIEDEKIA HOUSE, A. J. 11. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main St*., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. X ENERAL Stage Office. Good sta\TTbleingin connection with this house. v1.2n25 —ts HARDWARE &c. McCULLOCH & RICHEY Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Hardware, Tinners' Slock AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Mechanics’ Tools, STOVES, Ac.. No. 87 Columbia Street, r.n.a'cvLiocn . > FORT WAYNE. IND amos Bichet, f vl2nl3yl

DF.CATUID IND., FR IDAY. JUNE 18,1869.

g?.joitnL At Last. Some day whenall my toil is done, And life has left its gates ajar, Through which my longing soul shall flee Begond its prison bar; When thou shall know, all doubting past, My faith and loving to the last— Ah! then please Heaven! a tear shall ■.fall, For one who loved thee best of all. And thou slialt say, perchance, that day, When death has made my patience clear, That, though thou knewest it not till now, I was in truth most dear. And I may know, that, waiting long, Though faith wrts weak, yet love was strong, And then, ’please Heaven, kiarsnd te may fall For one who loved thee best of all. WOMAN’S B'GItTS. BY ARTEMUS WARD. 1 picht my tent in a small town in .Injianny one day last season, anil while I was standin at the tloor takin money, a depctashun of ladies cum up and sed they was members of. the Bunkerville Fe male Reform A Wimmin Rites Associashun, and they axed if they cood go in without payin. “Not exactly,’’ sex I, ‘but you can pay without goin in.” “Dew you know- who We air ?” sod one of the wimmcn—a tall, feroshus looking critter, with a. blew kotton umbrcllar under her arm—“dew you know who we air, Sir ?” • ’ ‘'My impression is,” sed I, “from a kerscry view, that you air females.” “We air, sir,” said the feroshus woman—“we belong to a society wich beleeves that wiminen has rites—whitch beleeves in rasing her to her proper speer—whitch beleeves She is endoud with as much intellect as man is—whitcli beleeves she is trampled on and aboozed —and who will resist hence-lth & forever, the incroachments of proud it domineering man.” Durin her discourse, the exsentric female grabbed me by the koat kollar <t was wringing her innbroiler wildly over my lied. “I hope, inarm,” sez I, starting back, “that your intentions air honorable! I'm a lone man hear in a strange place. Besides I’ve a wife to hum.” “Yes,” cried the female, “<fc she’s a slave. Doth she never dream of freedom—doth she never think of throwin off the yoke of tyrrinny it thinkin A votin for herself? Doth she never think of these ere things ?”

“Not beiu a natral born fool,’’ set! I, by this time a little riled, "I kin safely say that she dothunt.” “O, whot, whot!” screamed the femail swinging her umbrella in the are. “O, what is the price wqman pays for her experiunce!” “I don't know,” sez I, “the price to my show is 15 cents per individual.” “<fc kant our society go in free,” asked the femail. “Not if I know it,” Bed I. “Crooil, crooil, man!” she cried Jc burst into teers. “Won't you let my darter in said another of the cxscntric wiinmeu takin me affecshuntly by the hand. “O, please let my darter in, she's a sweet, gushin child of natur.” “Let her gush!"’ roared I, as mad as I could stick at their tarnal nonsense; “let her gush!” Thereupon they all sprang back with the simultanious observation that I was a beest. “My femail friends,"’ eed I, “be 4 you leevc. I've a (ew remarks to remark; wa them well. The female woman is one’of the greatest institooshuns of wbiteh this land can boste. Its onpossibje to get along without her. lla<l there bin no femail wiinmon in the world. I shood scarcely be lirfe with my nnparalcld show on this occashun. She is good in sickness —good in wellness—good all the time. O. woman, woman !” 1 crigd. my feelins worked up to a hi poetick pitch, “you air an angel when you behave younu if; but when yon taik off your .proper appairel, A (mettyforically get into pantaloons—when you desert your tiresides. A with your bed's full of wimmen's rites noshuns go round like roarin lyons, aeekin whom you may devour sotheboddy—in abort, wbeu you undertaik to play

the man you play the devil, and air an emfatic noosance. Sly femail friends;” I continued, as they were departin, “wa well what A. Ward has sed."’ A Romance. An English paper, the Newcastle CZiro/iZcZe, has the following: “In the course of last, week the colliery village of Thornly, near Dunham, was thrown into a state of excitement, the cause of which will be gathered from the sequel. About 12 years ago a pitman was desirous of pushing his fortune in another land, and, hearing of the marvelous auriferous discoveries in Australia, determined to proceed thither. He set sail, leaving behind him a wife and two children at Thornly, and arrived in due course in that distant colony, and forthwith went to the goldxfields and commenced ‘digging for puggets.’ Variable for sofije time, at last fortune smiled upon him, and at the expiration of about 11 years he found himself in possession of the handsome fortune of £l '),000. honestly and industriously obtained. During this long period of his absence from England he communicated with his wife, desiring that slie and her family—two girls —should join him, and sent the necessary tickets for their transit to the new world. She, however, never went. The successful miner discovered the cause ou his arrival at his native village last week. His faithless partner had become enamored of an itinerent rag merchant, the owner of a wooden leg, by whom she had two children. Like Enoch Arden, he at once discarded her, not. however, before making himself known to his two daughters, who were children v. hen he left them for Australia. These he took from their mother, and afterwards equipped them in a manner suitable to his altered position. There was much rejoicing in the village when his name and wealth was known, and after killing the fatted calf, and making merry amongst some of his old friends, he departed the following morning with his two girls.” The Forget-Me-Xct. There arc few of our juvenile readers, and even those of a larger growth, who will not be interested in hearing the pretty incident which originated the name of the beautiful little flower, the forget me-not. This exquisite flower of memory, with its blue like the tint of the summer heavens, and I its golden eye. bright as the gold ! en eye of Lope itself, is consecrated not alone to the reminiscences of love, but also to those of home and friendship. The field forgetmc not, or ctrvensis, is often assumed as the token flower; but the true one. is the water for-get-me-not, Jfi/osutis palustrfs, whose flower is rather larger and more intensely blue than that of its sister of the fields. The legen dary origin of its name proves the claim of the aquatic species to be the real blossom of remembrance, I A German knight and his lady love , were walking on the banks of a stream, when the fair one saw a beautiful tuft the JfyoxoZw pah j usf> is growing in the water, and expressed a wish to have it. The i knight, with due chivalrous alacri- [ ty, plunged at once into the river i in all his array, and gathered his i prize, but before he could again : climb up the steep and slippery bank, he was drawn Uy a treach-1 erous eddy into a deep pool, and,! encumbered as he was with his! heavy armor and helmet, finding he , could not save himself, just as he [ sank forever he thiasw the flowers I ashore to his mistress, and uttered i with his last breath, “I'cr<7i> mein I nicht !’’—forget me not. A Touching Story. The Hon. A. H. Stephens, of; Georgia, in a recent address, at a i meeting at Alexandria, for the. benefit of the Orphan Asylum and | free School of that city, • related the following anecdote: “A poor little boy on a cold ■ night, with no home nor roof to > shelter his head, no paternal or ; maternal guardian or guide to protect or direct him on his way, , reached at nightfall the home of a wealthy planter, who took him in j and fed and lodged him, and sent' him on his way with a blessing.' These kind attentions cheered his heart and inspired him with fresh courage to battle with the objects of life. Years rolled round ; Providence le«l him on, and he reached a legal profession; his host had I died; the cormorants that prey on 1 the substance as man had formed I a conspiracy to get from the widow I her estate. She sent for the nearest counsel to submit her cause to

him, and that counsel proved to be the orphan boy long before welcomed and entertained by her deceased husband. The stimulus of a warm and tenacious gratitude was now added to the ordinary motive connected with the profession. He undertook her cause with a will not easy to be resisted ; he gained it; the widow's estates were secured to her in and Mr. Stephens added, witji an emphasis of emotion that sent an electric thrill throughout the house, '■'•That Uo>j stands before\ you." Wonders of Minute Workmanship. In the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth a blacksmith named Marie Scaliot made a block consisting of eleven pieces of iron, steel and brass, all o' which, together with a key to it, weighed but one grain of gold. He also made a chain of gold consisting of fortythree links, and having fastened this to the before mentioned lock and key, he put the chain about the neck of a flea, which drew them all with ease. All these together, lock and key, chain and flea, weighed only one grain and a half. Oswaldtis Nor- ( hingerus, who was more famous than even Scaliot for his minute , contrivances is said to have made. , 1,600 dishes of turned ivory, al! . perfect and complete in every part, I yet so small, thin and slender, that: all of them were included at once j ( in a cup turned out of a pepper- j corn.of the common size. Joh-j ( annes Shad, of Mitelbrach, carried ; this wonderful work with him to : Romo, and showed it to I’ope Paul . V., who saw and counted them all j by the help of a pair of spectacles, | They were so small as to b? almost; invisible to the naked eye. Joh-!, annes Ferrarius. a Jesuit, lias in I his possession cannons of wood ■ ’ with their carriages, wheels, and . all other military furniture, all of ( which were also contained in a . peppercorn of the ordinary size. . An artist named Claudius Gallins. , made for Hippolytus d’ Este. Car- j dinal of Ferrara, representations of sundry birds sitting on the tops ‘ of trees, which by hydraulic art > and secret conveyance of water' through the trunks ami branches' of trees, were made to jump and clap their wings, but at the ap- j pearance of an owl out of a bush ' by the sapie artifice, they iminedi-! ately became all mutes aud silent. — World of Wonder. Beautiful Tribute to a TO ifc. I Sir James Mclntosh, the histo-! rian, martied to'Miss Catharine j Stuart, a young Scotch lady. After her death he depicted her character, in a letter to a friend : “I was guided in my choice by the blind affections of my youth. I found an intelligent companion, and a tender friend, prudent mon- ‘ itress, the most faithful of wives—and a mother as tender as chit-; dren ever had the misfortune to ; lose. I met a women who by ten der management of my weakness cs, gradually corrected the most pernicious of them. , She became prudent from affection ; and though ■ of the most generous nature she ', was taught frugality and economy ; by her love for me. During the ; most critical period of my life she! relieved me. She generally re- [ claimed me from dissipation : she . propped my weak and irresolute nature: she urged my indolence I to all the exertions that have been . useful aud creditable to me. and she was perpetually at hand to ad I monish my heedlessness or sin-G providence. To her I owe what I shall ever be. In her sblie'tiide for my interests she qever forgot my I feeling or character. Even in her I occasional resentment, for which 1 j too often gave her cause —would ! to God 1 could recall these mo-j tnents! —she had no sullcnncss or acrimony. Her feelings were warm—-nay, impetuous: but she ; was placable, tender and constant. ' Such was she whom I have lost; 11 when her actual sense was impbdv- ( ing. after eight years struggle and | ( distress bound us fast toget her and ■ | 1 moulded our tempers to each oth- ( i cr; when a knowledge of her ■ j I worth had refiued my youthful 11 I love into friendship, aud before , j I age had deprived it of much of its ! I original ardor, I lost her and j I ala*! the choice of my youth, the ! ■ purtuor of nt tho mo-1 i ment when I had the prospect ot , I sharing my better days. 1 GeorcedVabody has written to ! ] ' the town of Georgetown. Mass.. I stating that it is his intention to I j supply all the funds nee-ted to j • sustain the public library which he ■ 1 1 has given to the town, and also ! presenting 84,<<>0 toward the per j ‘ maueut fund.

What the Bainniers Did. Since June, 1865, three large wooden boxes, received at that time, bj- the Treasury Department, from the Frovost Marshal General of the Army of the Tennessee, have lain in the Treasury vaults. .The boxes were sent directly to tiie War Department, but Secretary Stanton turned them over to Secretary Spinner. On Friday, at the instance of a United States Senator—a portion of whose coni stituents were supposed to be interested in the contents—the boxes were opened. A joint order of the two Departments was issued to that effect. The boxes were found to contain exceedingly valuable invoice of diamonds, pearls, neck laces, watches, ear rings, brooches, rings, chains, seals, and all manner of rare and expensive jewelry to the value of many thousands of dullarjf Tiie most valuable property, however, which the boxes contained, was a very large amount of silverware, consisting of pitchers, salvers, spoons, knives, urns, cups, and ail kinds of plate, some of which was thought to have been more than a hundred years old. One of the boxes contained some very rich wearing apparel for ladies —silks, laces, etc.— besides an incredible amount of Confederate notes and bottds, and ) notes of State banks. There was : also a small amount of specie, both geld and silver. The boxes were about the size of ordinary dry goods boxes, aud the value of their contents is variously estimated at from $20,000 to §IOO,OOO. Many of the boxes contained the family crests, initials, or mono-grams-of the owners, and all were of the finest and most costly description. iThe valuables are supposed to have been thken possession of by General Sherman's men in Georgia and other States, where they had been abandoned by the fleeing inhabitants. In some cases they wore taken from the banks which had ceased to do business upon the approach of the Federal army. It is said that the Department officers are uncertain how they shall dispose of the property.' Some hold that it should be returned, under proper restrictions and proof to the owners, if they 7 can be found. Others hold that the property belong* to the Government. In our view of the case the former opinion is alone consistent with justice and the dignity of tlm Government. Nothing has yet been done, and the valuables are returned to tho vaults of the Treasury.

Tube Across tiie English Channel The newest of the now plans for connecting England with France bv railway is that of a submerged iron iul>?, to be supported at a depth of f.bcut 59 feet below the suriacc of the water by iron trestles, the foot of which will rest on the bed of the straits. The tube is to be iu. its outside diameter 23 feet and 6 inches, and, with a view of giving it sufficient strength, it is to be of cast iron, 8 inches iu thickness. Its length between each pair of legs or supports is to 1 be 300 feet, and the weight of each of these sections 3,000 tons. — Each of these lengths is to be made up of eight segments of 37 j feet 6 inches, end these are to be firmly bolted together by means of steel bolts passing through in- I tvrnal flanges. Each segment will j be made water-tight by a bulk ; head, and will be lowered until it is i brought into exact position with the portion previously fixed, and ; when made fast with the bolts the i near bulk-head will bd removed, aud the workmen will pass over to ! the next segment. The ventilation of the tube is to bo provided by stationarv steam power at one of the entrances to the tube, which will force a sufficiency of air through a channel constructeil along the inner roof of the tube to a point about midway of its entire length, where it will be dis chargel and force itself along the tilin'at either end. All this sounds I impracticable enough, but wo live in an age of marvels, and perhaps | the scheme may one day be real-: ized. Mississippi Crevasses. The crevasse reported several i davsago at Nailers's plantation, below New Orleans, has l>een a | bandoned as hopeless. The re- . pairs bv tho negro soldiers and plantation hands wasted away as ! fast as constructed. The opening j was about eighty feet wide and , eight feet in depth, at last accounts.. and is increasing. Another crevase occurred only half a mile be I 1 low the city limits on Wednesday

evening, but a company of negro soldiers, who were promptly sent from the barracks, closed the gap and strengthened the levee. The water is -about two inches below I high water mark, but by high northwest winds sometimes above the mark. The wharves at the head oj Poydras and Fayette streets, New Orleans, are submerged. Considerable alarm is felt, and a strict watch is kept on the levees on the city front. A serious crevasse occurred on Sunday. at west Baton Rouge parish, nearly opposite Port Hudson. The Baton Rouge AdcocaZe, of Monday, nays the crevasse caused a sudden fall of two inches in the river at that point; also, that all attempt to close it were ineffectual. ' owing to the sandy soil and the extent of the break, which was then 60 yards wide.

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A Typical Sermon. !. In Mrs. Stowe's forthcoming ’ book is a capital summary, by I Sam Lawson, the “village dono4, thing,” of a New England sermon ' j of the olden time : j “Wai,'’ said Sam, leaning over ’ the fire, with his long, bony hands alternately raised to catch tho ' warmth, and then dropped with an utter laxness, when the warmth be- ’ came too pronounced, “Parson ’ Simpson’s a smart man ; but I tell ye, it's kind o'discouragin.’ Why, he said our state and condition by ’ natur was just like this : We was ’ clear down in a well fifty feet deep 1 ! and the sides all round nothin’ but i giare ice ; but we was under im- ' mediate obligations to get put, i cause we was free, voluntary J agents. But nobody ever had got ■ out. and nobody would unless the ’ Lord reached down and took ’em. ’ And whether he would or not, nobody could tell; it was all soveriegnty. He said their wan't one . in a hundred—not one in a thousand —not one in ten thousand — that would be saved. Lord massy, says I to myself, es that’s so, they're any of'em welcome to my chance. And so I kind o’ris up and come out. 'cause I'd got a pretty long walk home, and I wanted to go round by South Pond and inquire about Aunt Sally Morse’e toothache.” Marriage. 1 When the Cornhill Magazine was in its infancy, there appeared j in its pages a remarkable series of I papers on the love affairs of a la- • borer, who related his own experiences. This hero narrated in ‘&n conscious simplicity, how he “look up” with one girl after an1 other, just as he happened to 1 change his situation, or she her ‘ mood. It was pretty much a matter of indifference what the girl ’ was. so long as she was a girl, and ready to walk with him when his work was done. It is just as possible that, as one descends in the social scale one may find the idealistic requirements which, in extremely cultivated life are supposed to precede marriage gradually disappear. The notion that any marriageable, woman will do as well as any other woman for any man is certainly destructive of a good many exalted theories ; but it is a principle upon which a vast ■ number of persons actually do ■marry. It is only when we have cultivated the affections into a tine and discriminating sensitiveness '' that we begin to taik of men and ’ women loving only once in a life- ’' time, of “elective affinities,’’ and ■ of marriages being made in heavi en.

A Wonderful Clock. A clock lias just been completed for the cathedral of Beauvais contains 90,000 wheels, and indicates, among many other things, the days of the week, the month, the vear, the signs of the zodiac, the equation ot time, the course of the planets, the phases of the moon, the time at every capital in the world, the movable feasts for 100 years, the saints' days, etc. Perhaps the most curious part of the [ mechanism is that which gives i the additional day in leap year, and I which consequently is called into action only once in four years. The clock is wound up every eight I davs. The main dial is 12 feet in i diameter, and the total cost ex I ceeds 840,000. Learn to Wait. Os ail the lessons that humanity has to learn in life's school the hardest is to wait, with the folded hands, that claim life s prize without previous effort, but having struggled and crowded thro’ tho slow years with trials see no such r -suit a the effort seems to warrtatnav. perhaps disaster-instead. To stand firm at such a crisis of existence, to preserve one's self-praiso and self respect, not to loose hold or relax effort, this is greatness achievedby man or woman, whether the eye of the world note* it, or it it recorded in that hook which the light of eternity shall alone make clear to the vision of man. The Leipzig publishers sold, in 186 fl, 810,000,000 worth of book*