Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — Page 1

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A WELSH CLASSIC. An unlettered clergyman wanting a place (ilia mannens were genial ana pleasant his facet Received a kind letter inviting him down To preach to a chnrch in a large country town. The town was uncultured, old-fashioned and plain; , i The principal business was harvesting grain. And none of the chnrch members ventured to A worTofttie Hebrew, or Latin, or Greek. For this very reason they wished all the more A scholar well grounded in classical lore; While a candidate might just as well stay away If he didn’t quote Hebrew at least once a day. The divine about whom this odd story was told. By the Timet of Manhattan, was cunning and And knowing they wished fpr a classical man. Though he didn’t know Latin, he hit on a plan. For he thought, “We shall see how much shrewdn6£s avails. Though I cannot read Greek, I’m a native of Wales: If a few Welsh expressions I cautiously use. It may rival the Hebrew In pleasing the pews. On the crlMpal day. with exceptional graoe. With waff-attuned voice and well-controlled face, He read from the Bible a passage or twq, And remarked, "My dear friends, this translation won’t da To be sure ’tie correct, but if beauty you seek. Hear the rhythmical sound of original Greek I Then boldly a medley of Welsh he feoited. And marked the effect on his hearers benighted. The children gazed up with a wopdering stare, Their mothers assumed an intelligent air, While the deacons all nodded, as much as to say, That Greek was by far the more excellent way. A still-bolder venture he hazarded next, By a curious way of announcing his text: “These words, as my hearers have noticed, of course. Have lost nearly all their original force. lathe Hebrew how clearly the thonght flashes out,"And more of his Welsh he proceeded to spout; When.what was his horror-to spy near the door, A Jolly old Welshman, just ready to roar. Overcome with remorse and for seeing the shame Exposure would bring to his reverend name, The preacher’s mad impulse at first was to run, But the Welshman’s round face, so brimming with fun, Suggested a possible plan of esoape. Which none but a terrified parson could shape; He bravely confronted that dangerous smile. And coolly continued his sermon awhile, • Till at length, without showing the least agitation. He rallied himself for a final quotation: “The rendering here Is decidedly wrong. Quite different thoughts to the Chaldee belong;" Then Welshman in pulpit to Welshman In pew. In the barbarous dialect they alone knew, Cried: "Friend 1 By the land of our fathers, I pray, As you hope for salvation don’t give me away. The joke was so rich, the old Welshman kept still; And the classical parson is preaching there still.

Let Smith Wall

A man died in the Cook Qounty Hospital the other day about whpse life there had been all of those singular events which sometimes, when clustered, make poverty a romance. The day he was taken to the hospital he asked the Warden if the building was safe. “And this is my ward?” he said, inquiringly, as he was assisted on his bed, from which he never got up. . The Warden said yes, unless he wished to be changed. He shook his head at the suggestion, and then he noticed that it faced a western window. When asked if this was an objection he smiled the faintest way and shook his head. He seemed to notice that there was a disposition on the part of the nurse to be attentive to him. He called the Warden with a sickly motion of the hand, and when the official stooped over him, the patient, whose face was waiting for the glory of eternity to flash, upon it, seemed to brighten a bit as the lips whispered: “Let Smith walk.” It was not a delirium, as the Warden first supposed. It was a riddle, however, which was not unraveled until after the spirit had gone upon its journey to look after another riddle—the perplexity of which begins after the worry about it is all over. He was a man of the world in all that implies, except luxuries and rest. He was a Bohemian, not in the definition whioh the uninitiated giye to the word. He was a traveler who had no guide; his destination was always at the end of the day, with the setting of the sun. And when the sun went down he would turn his baok upon it and face the east, to watch for the reappearance, no matter how deep and dark the night which gathered about him. Always polite, always ready for any scheme, always oheerv, he believed, or came to believe, that the world was in his debt, and he had made a solemn oath that the world Bhould pay him what it owed, though the' payments were small, scanty, and often uncertain. He had a system of philosophy, which was rounded* by one expression: “Let Smith walk.” It is believed that no single newspaper article, in a print of ordinary dimensions, in a single issue, “could cover the eventful details of this character’s life, and at the same flme retain its other features as a newspaper. To the writer was given the history, and to this was added a personal acquaintance with him in various places wjiere the character now and then appeared—for no one place ever held him long. He was a graduate of an Eastern school. His father was an eminent jurist, and the boy became a man, under the influences of most distinguished and cultivated society, long before be came to the years which make average men and women. Of his own acoord, with the full knowledge and consent of his kindred and society, he chose to quit them. Of his own will he started to acquaint himself with the ways of the world almost empty-handed. To his own detriment, and that of his profession, he first encountered success. He was a handsome man—in build, in carriage, in his address. Society petted him, but he turned away from its caresses. Fame opened the gates which led to the multitude in her court that waits to receive the favored with applause. He turned away from the tempting. Ever courteous to women, and their champion always, he neysr had an entanglement of any sort with one of the opposite sex. When the success he had achieved lay heavily upon his hands, he cast it away. Single-handed he went at the world. He met it at every phase which it presents. From the receptions of state occasions, he swung like a man in the air to depths almost as degrading as any which sickens the heart of fiiah. Ho came back from these pollutions now and then, often indeed, and, renewing his acquaintance with the cultured, he fascinated and charmed wherever the seas of laces and flounces, and the witchery of beauty met wit and gallantry, and created a pageant about splendor’s glittering throne. The close of the war found him a fresh recruit in the tattered remnant which gathered about the grizzled Lee on the plain of Appomattox. He had started out a few months before on the other side, and so strong was he in his faith that it would be. good fortune to him to be successful, lie deserted the Federal forces and went over to the cause about which the day had begun to descend. “I wanted to be in at the death,” be said afterward, when asked

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about his action. He walked from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. “That was nay first tramp," he said, several years later. “There was something fascinating about it to me. I actually enjoyed being hungry for the purpose of working out a scheme to get a meal.. I passed houses late in the day, where I might have slept, so that I might be caught ont and compelled to sleep in a straw-stack.” When he reached Cincinnati he was the very cut of a tramp. The soil of the road was upon his boots and the hay-seed was in his hair. His coat was like the raiment of which the old prophet wrote. He went to the office of the Cinainnati Commercial, and asked to see Mr. Halsted. Not daunted by the austere individual at the desk in the counting-room, he found his way to the great editor, and made himself known. “You might find work on the levee,” said Mr. Halstead. “Where is the levee?” he asked. Receiving the directions necessary, he •rather surprised the editor by asking if he knew of any one down there to whom he could recommend him. The next day Mr. Halstead was informed that the* tramp had secured a place as deck hand on an Ohio packet by saying thats he was sent down toy Mr. Halstead. He went down the river to Cairo in this capacity, and that point he disembarked. He wrote the Cincinnati newspaper man an account cf his voyage, in which he added: “I may come your way some day, and if Ido I will strike you for a tenner.” He did, and he got it, years after.

He went up thp Mississippi as a oabin boy to St. Louis. He was paid off there and went to a gambling house, where he “quit winner,” as the phrase goes among the sports, to the amount of $450. He went to the Southern Hotel and hired a suite of rooms, paying a week in advance for them. He ordered a fashionable tailor there, and remained indoors until he was furnished complete with fashionable attire. “I got a bath and a shampoo, and the hay-seed was swept from my hair, ” he said, in telling the story afterward, “and threw my old suit into the street. I confess I felt a pang in doing so. ,It seemed to me I had parted with my best friends.” Attired in his new outfit he hired a carriage and drove over to the office of the St. Louis Times, which was then published by Stilson Hutchins, now of the Washington Post. He had his card sent up—his own name was not on it, however, but that of $ noted politician. Mr. Hutchins came out to the carriage, and the occupant explained to him that he had misrepresented himself on purpose. “What do you want, and who are you, to take me from my business in this manner?” roared Hutchins. “I understand there is going to be a swell wedding on Chouteau avenue thfe evening, and, as I am a regular Jenkins, I would like to take it in for you.”

The St. Louis editor informed him that a St. Louis reporter was sufficient for that purpose. “You think lam too gay ?” said the occupant of the carriage, puffing a cigar. “I think you are a fraud,” said Hutchins. “Come, now, that won’t do. Come down and take dinner with me, and I’ll show you who I am.” The invitation was declined. Three days later a man in very cheap store clothes stepped into the editor’s sanctum and said: “I asked you out to dinner with me the other day, and you refused. I’ve come to take dinner with you.” He had been at the game again and played until he lost, and then “played in” his clothes, garment at a time. One of the “fraternity” bought him his storesuit. That night he reported the wedding of a noted society pair for the Times. He remained on the paper a few weeks, and made another winning. Again he decked himself out under the manipulation of a tailor, and, walking over to the office, he handed in his resignation, and left that afternoon on a packet for Hannibal, Mo. The trip never cost him a cent. He had captured the commander of the boat, who gave him an invitation to ride on his craft as long as he was at 'the helm. He presented himself at the office of the Superintendent of the Hannibal and St. Joe railroad, and after a half-hour’s conversation procured a pass to, the western terminus of the line. There he lost his money at the game, and again become the pattern of a . tramp. A newspaper man of that city procured him a pass to Omaha and gaVe him $5. He took the $5 to a gambling-house, got up from the {able S6OO ahead, walked over to the newspaper office, threw down the pass, thanked the editor, asked him Vj*hat he would take for his concern, and actually made a to purchase it. The editor he was about to go to Jefferson City on some business, and asked the “tramp” if he would not “take hold of the concern” until he returned# By that time he could probably tell whether he wanted to purchase. The paper was intensely Democratic. The report got abroad that, the young man had a fortune, and that he was about to purchase the paper. He was called upon by several of the politicians, who Were anxious to form his acquaintance. One night he called the foreman down and told him he had purchased, but’that the announcement was not to be made for several days. The foreman had heard he was to do so. “Here’s an editorial—a leader, that I want double-leaded.” The foreman bowed to his new proprietor. The next morning the great Democratic organ came ont intensely Republican. The “new proprietor” was miles away, and the old proprietor came home in an unexpected manner. There are incidents such as these running through his whole history. He became known to leading men, and at last, in his* latter years, when he presented himself at an office where he was known, the proprietor’s salutation would be: “How much do you want?”

His philosophy, “Let Smith walk,” was fqtinded upon the stoop that has been told and printed a hundred times and more: “A man at a hotel spent ’the night in walking restlessly back and across his room. The occupant E‘i door hearing him, and surmisjng . there was going to be & suicide, went "to the restless individual and inquired his trouble. ‘I owe Smith a note,’was the answer. ‘lt comes due to-day and I haven't a cent to pay it.’ The visitor answered: ‘You are the darnedest fool I ever saw. Why don’t you go to bed and let Smith walk ?’ ” The man who died at the hospital never wearied of telling that story. “It is the philosophy of kfe,” he always said; and when he heard any complaint his consolation was: “Let Smith walk.” There would be nothing gained in giving the right name of this singular character, A gray-haired woman, tot*

taring by the. arm of an elderly and strikmgly-handsome gentleman, followed a little ont from a quiet town, {he other day, in Pennsylvania. It was a quiet ending of a fife that loved to play in the whirlpool. There are hundreds of men all over the country who will come tb know hereafter, when a summer passes without the uauafi caller, that something has occurred. He died under another name than his own at last, in the Cook County Hospital. And when theTaght came breaking over the walls of another world and the shadows of this one were falling back, bless his innocent heart*! he raised up his finely-shaped head, and, as he closed his splendid eyes here to open them in the sunshine, he murmured, “Smith is still walking,” and fell back. —Chicago Daily News.

London's Wine-Vaults.

The wine-vaults of London are not to be seen every day or by every person. I was fortunate enough to secure a “tasting order,” and I, in'company with one or two others, made a tour of the St. Katherine’s and London Dock vaults. I saw over 5,000,000 packages of port and sherry, over 1,000,000 of claret, and 500,000 of spirits. They were in vast tuns, hogsheads, oasks, and barrels, and the total amount in storage was 260,000,000 gallons. In fact, there were six and one-half gallons for every man, woman adn child of the population' of Great Britain. Some of it had been in store for years. The owners had forgotten about it, and the old and moldy casks had rotted away at their ohines and had been several times replaced. One lot of 1,000 gallons of sherry had been in the vaults for nearly fifty years. It was brought from the South of Spain by its owner, who had fallen dead in the vaults. The wine, along with his other property, had passed into chancery, and the litigation, which has continued for nearly naif a century, is as far frqm being ended, apparently, as when it begun. But the wine has been growing old and valuable, and if sold now would probably bring 5 guineas a gallon. Let me explain that these vaults are simply great cellars under the dockhouses. In area they aggregate some-thirty-five acres. They extend under the Thames On one side and well under Tower Hill on the other. They are about sixteen feet from floor to roof, and are by no means regular in form, but reach ont in strange passages and alleys in all directions. They are bonded by the Government, and owners can have their property in them as ldiig as they like without paying customs duties. A, long, narrow flight of well-worn stone steps that have been in constant use since 1804 opened before our view, and at their foot were dim, twinkling lights that flickered fitfully, as if in a struggle to overcome the fumes of the wines that came up the stone channel like a breeze from a distillery. It was warm, rich with the odor of the wines, and musty and moldy. A sniff of it wasn’t half bad, but you rememjber the fate of the Persian esthete who had his choice of death. “To die amid sweet perfumes,” he said. So they chucked him into a hogshead of attar of roses and he expired in great agony. At the bottom of the flight of steps the guide met us, a tall, broad-shouldered ruddy cockney, who handed us each a lard-oxl lamp, fastened to a straight stick about eighteen inches long. He began by asking ns if any one was a teetotaler. None of us were. “Because," said he, “if you don’t take a drop of something on your stomach you’ll get screwed because of the smell.” He drew a glass of sherry for each one of us out of a big cask near the foot of the steps. It was a heavy, full-bodied wine, with a rich nutty flavor and an aftermath like leather smells. It had 'been hnng in leather skins over one season, having been the last made and too late for the regular wine harvest, but it was good for all that, and “wery mellowin’ to the hdrgans.” Turning then sharply to the left the vaults spread out before us in vast underground acreage. Lights twinkled here and there, moldly men were engaged in moying the packages at some places, and down the long passage under the Than?es the polished steel skids for riding a barrel stretched in narrowing perspective, till they joined apparently in one and flashed on under the line of lights above them.— London, letter.

The Death of Little Children.

I scarcely know how it is, but the deaths of children seem to me always less premature than those of elder persons. Not that they are in fact so, but it is because they themselves have little or no relation to time or maturity. Life seems a race which they have yet to run entirely. They have made no progress toward the goal. They are bornnothing further. But it seems hard, when a man has toiled high np the steep hill of knowledge, that he should be cast,-like Sisyphus, downward in a moment; Ibat he who has worn the day and wasted the night in gathering the gold of science, should be, with all his wealth of learning, all bis -aocumulions, made bankrupt at once. What becomes’of all the richness of the soul, the piles and pyramids of precious thoughts which men heap together? Where are Shakspeare’s imagination, Bacon’s learning, Galileo's dream. Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton’s thonght severe ? .Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last a thousand years! I am content to believe that tike mind of man survives, somewhere or other, his clay. I was once present at the death of a little child, and when its breath was gone, its life (nothing more than a cloud of smoke) and it lay like a waxen image before me, I turned my eyes to its moaning mother, and sighed out my few words of comfort. But I am a beggar in grief. I can feel and sigh and look kindly, I think; but I have nothing to give. My tongue deserts me. I know the iiratility of too soon comforting. I know that I should weep were I the loser, apd I let the tears have their way. Sometimes a word or two I can muster; a “Sigh no more j” and “Dear lady, do not grieve!” but furtlier, I am mute and useless.

A French chemist has analyzed the juice of the so-called milk tree of Central America—to the nutritive qualities of which attention was first drawn by Humboldt —and has found that the vegetable product really possesses many characteristics of cow’s milk. •* No crop Bhould be grown which leaves the soiljpermanently poorer, or, in other words, which does not pay enough,over end Above cost of g«wa§ to maintain fertility.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8,1883.

THE BAD BOY.

“Say, I thonght yoti was going to trj to lead a different life,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as the youth caine in with his pockets fall of angleworms, and wanted to borrow a baking powder can to put them into, while he went fishing, and he held a long angleworm up by the tail and let it wiggle sc it frightened a girl that had come in after 2 cents worth of yeast, so she dropped her pitcher and went out ol the grocery as though she was chased by an anaconda. “I am going to lead a different life, but a boy ean’t change his wholh course of life in a minute, can he? Growr persons have to go on probation for sir months before they can lead a different life, and half the time they lose theii cud before the six months expire, anc have to commence again. When it is so alfired hard for a man that is endowed with sense to break off being bad, yot shouldn't expect too much from a boy. But I am doing as well as could be ex pected. I ain’t half as bad as I was. Gosh, why don’t yon bum a rag. Thai yeast that the girl spilled on the floor, smells like it was sick. I should thifil that bread that was raised with thal yeast would smell like this cooking but ter you sell to hired girls.” “Well, never you mind the cooking butter. I know my business. If pen pie want to use poor butter when thej nave company, and then blow up th« grocer before folks, I can stand it ii they can. But what is this I heai about your pa fighting a duel with the minister in your back yard, and wound ing him in the leg, and then trying tc drown himself in the cistern ?. One oJ your new neighbors was in here this morning and told me there was murder in the air at your house last night, and they were going to have the police pul your place as a disorderly house. 1 think you were at the bottom, of the whole business.” “Oh, it’s all a darn lie, and those neighbors will find they better keej still about us, or we will lie ab3ut then a little. You see, since pa got thal blacking’ on his face he don’t go oul any, and to make it pleasant for hin ma invited in a few friends to spend the evening. Ma has got up around, anc the baby is a daisy, only it smells like t goat, on account of drinking the goat’* milk. Ma invited the minister, among the rest, and after supper the menwenl up into pa’s library to talk. O, yon think I am bad, don’t yon, but of the nine men at onr house last night, I an an angel compared with what they were when they were boys. I got in the bath room to untangle my fish line, and it is next to pa’s room, and I could heat everything they said, but I went awaj ’cause I thought the conversation woulc hurt my morals. They would all steal, when they were boys, but darned if 1 ever stple. Pa has stole over a hundred wagon loads of water-melons, one deacon used to rob orchards, another one shot tame ducks belonging to a farmer, and another tipped over grindstones in front of the village store, at night, and broke them, and run, another used tc steal eggs, and go out in the woods and boil them, and the minister was the worst of the lot, ’cause he tool a seine, with some other boys, and went to a stream where a neighbor was raising brook trout, and cleaned the stream out, and to ward off suspicion, he went to the man the next day and paid him a dollar to let him fish in the stream, and then kicked because there were no trout, and the owner found the trout were stolen and laid it to some Dutch boys. I wondered, when those men were telling their experience, ii they ever thought of it now when thej were preaching and praying, and taking up collections. I should think thej wouldn’t say a boy was going to heil right off ’cause he was a little wild nov days, when he has such an example. Well, lately, somebody has been burg ling our chicken coop, and pa loaded an old musket with rock salt, and said he would fill the fellow full of salt ii he caught him, and while they were talking up stairs ma heard a roostei squawk, and she went to the stairwaj and told pa there was somebody in the ben house. Pa jumped up and told the visitors to follow him, and they would see a man running down the alley full of salt, and he rushed out with the gun, and the crowd followed him. Pa is shorter than the rest, and he passed under the firs! wire clothes-line in the yard all right, and was going for the hen-house on 8 jump, when his neck caught the second wire clothes-line just as the ministei and two of the decons caught theii necks under the other wire. You know how a wire, hitting a man on the throat, will set him back, head over appetite. Well, sir, I was looking out the back window, and I wouldn’t be positive, bu! I think they all turned double back summersaults, and struck on their ears. Anyway, pa did, and the gun must have been cocked, or it struck the hammei on a stone, for it went off, and it wat pointed toward the house, and three oJ the visitors got salted. The ministei pot hit the worst. One piece of salt taking him. in. the hind leg, and the othei in the back, and he yelled as though i! was dynamite. I suppose when you shoot a man with salt, it smarts, like when you get corned beef brine on youi chapped hands. They all yelled, Bnd pa seemed to have been knocked silly, some way, for he pranced around and seemed to think he had killed them. He swore at the wire clothes-line, and then I misssed pa, and heard t splash like when yon throw t cat in the river, and then I though! of the cistern, and I went dowr and we took pa by the collar and pulled him out. Oh, he was awful damp. Nc sir, it was no duel at all, butanaxident, and I didn’t have anything to do with it. The gun wasn’t loaded to kill, and the salt only went through the skin, bu! those men did yell. May be it was mj chum that stirred up the chickens, bu! I don’t know. He has not commenced to lead a different life yet, andhemigh! think it would make our folks sick ii nothing occurred to make them pay at tention. I think where a family ha* been having a good deal of exercise, the way ours has, it hurts them to breal off too suddenly. But the visitors wenl home, real quick, after we got pa out o: the cistern, and the minister told ma h« always felt when he was in our house, as though he was on the verge of i yawning crater, ready to be ingulfed any minute, and he guessed he wouldn’l come any more. Pa changed his clothe* and told ma to have them wire clothe* lines changed for rope ones. I think ii hard to suit pa, don’t you?” “Oh, your pa is all right I What h< needs is rest. But why are you nol working at the livery-stable? Yon haven’t been discharged, have you?’ And the grocery-man laid a little lumj of concentrated lye, that looked lik( m*ple sugar, on a cake of sugar thal

hid been broken, knowing the boy would nibble it. . “No, sir, I was not discharged, but when a livefy-man lends me a kicking horse to take my girl ont riding, that settles it. I asked the boss if I couldn’t have a quiet horse that would drive his-: self if I wound the lines around the whip, and he let me have one he said would go all day without driving. Yon know how it is, when a fellow takes a girl out riding he don’t want his mind occupied holding lines. Well, I got my girl in, and we went out on the Whitefish-Bay road, and it was just before dark, and we rode along under the trees, and I wound the lines around the whip and pat one arm around my girl and patted her under the chin, with my other hand, and her mouth looked so good and her .bine eyes looked up at me and twinkled as much as to dare me to kiss her, and I was all of a tremble, and then my hand wandered around by her ear and I drew her head up to jne and gave her a smack. Say, that was no kind of a horse to give to a young fellow to take a girl out riding. Just as I smacked her I felt as though the buggy had been struck with a pile driver, and when I looked at the horse he was running away and kicking the buggy, and the lines were dragging on the ground. I was scared, I tell you. I wanted to jump out, but my girl threw her arms around my neck and screamed, and said we would die together, and just as we were going to die the buggy struck a fence, and the horse broke loose and went off, leaving us in the buggy, tumbled down by the dash board, but we were not hurt. The horse stopped and went to chewing grass, and he looked up at me as though he wanted to say ‘philopene.’ I tried to catch him, but he wouldn’t catch, and then we waited till dark and walked home, and I told the livery man what I thought of such treatment, and he said if I had attended to my driving, and not kissed the girl, 1 would have been all right. He said I ought to have told him I wanted a horse that wouldn’t shy at kissing, but ho.w did I know I was going to get up courage to kiss her. A livery man ought to take it for granted that when a young fellow goes out with a girl he is going to kiss her, and give him a horse according. But I quit him at once. I won’t work for a man that hasn’t got sense. Gosh! What kind of maple sugar is that? Jerusalem, whew, give me some water. Oh, my! it is taking the skin off my month." The grocery man got him some water and seemed sorry that the boy had taken the lump of concentrated lie by mistake, and when the boy went out the grocery man pounded his hands on his knees and laughed, and presently he went out in front of the store and found a sign: “Fresh Letis, been picked more’n a week, tuffer’n tripe ” — Peck’s Sun.

Old-Fashioned Family Beefsteak.

Some people manage very well to broil meat by taking off a stove-lid and placing the gridiron or wire broiler over the hole. With a little forethought to let the fire burn down clear in time it does very well. The damper should be turned so as to make a strong draft and draw the smoke and flame up the chimney especially when it is a coal fire. Some of the best hotels have ranges with large openings in the top for the very same purpose, but used especially for toasting bread. The better way is to put a layer of small broken charcoal in the ash-pan and some live coals on top, and cover all except an opening in front with an inverted baking-pan, so that the draft to the fire must pass over the charcoal under the pan. Take the steak as bought of the butcher and notch the edges to prevent drawing up in cooking, and beat it ont more or less with mallet or cleaver, lay it on the gridiron and place it over the glowing coals. Sprinkle coarse salt on the.fire if the flame is troublesome; the salt puts it out and makes the fire clear. Prepare the gravy while the steak is broiling. Put a quarter pound of butter into a pan witli a teaspoonful of black pepper, same of salt and one-half enpful qf water. When the steak is sufficiently done on both sides put it into the pan with the butter, etc., and press it and turn it over to thoroughly season it. Set pan and steak -over the fire a minute, and the gravy will presently be found to be as thick as cream. Serve whole on a large, hot dish, with the gravy poured over.

How a Senator’s Mother Was Cored.

Mrs. Jones, of Gold Hill, mother of Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, was for many months afflicted with a distressing affection of the stomach, from which she suffered greatly. One day, while on the second floor of her home, she started to go into a closet, as she thonght, but opened the door leading to the staircase instead. Not noting her mistake, she walked off the landing and fell violently to the bottom of the steps, inflicting upon herself some painful bruises, but sustaining no other injuries. ‘Before she had scarcely recovered from her shaking np she began to experience a change of health in another direction that more than compensated her for a temporary lameness, for, lo and behold, her stomachic troubles had left her, and in their place came a healthy appetite, with a vigorous digestion, that gives the good old lady a new lease of life., She does not know to what to attribute this ehange, unless it be her lucky accident on the stairsteps. Similar cases are said to have been known before. —Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.

Grandmother Against Grandfather.

When Albert Wolf and Villemesant together conducted the Paris Figaro, Wolf once left on a tiff, and afterward, desiring to return, wrote a brilliant article for its columns, which was not inserted. Meeting the editor, he asked when his contribution would appear. “Never,” roared Villemesant, in a rage. “Fve sworn so by the memory of my grandmother.” “And I,” said Wolf, “have sworn that it shall by the memory of my grandfather.” But Villemesant was inexorable. “See now,” said the brilliant journalist, “if we cannot arrange this. We have known each other for fifteen years; why quarrej. for the rest of onr lives ? We both are bonnd by an oath. Let ns stake the memory of your grandmother against that of my grandfather and play it ont in a rubber of piquet.” The cards were brought. The grandfather won, and next day Wolf rejoined the paper. The stock raisers of California estimate the aggregate value of tber flocks and herds at $5,000,000. Tim number of horsos and cattle is placed at 2,250,000.

CORONATION CEREMONIES.

Alexander ILL and His Royal Consort Crowned in the Kremlin. Glittering Street Parade and Imposing Cathedral Ceremonies. The Csaor has boon crowned and proclaimed Emperor of all the Russian, and sti l Uvea The Nihilist plots and schemes for his destruction, if there were any, failed of accomplishment There were no untoward accidents or incidents. The following account of the coronation ceremonies is taken from the New York HeraUTs cable report:

The procession moved from the Imperial Palace before 7 o’clock, amidst the fixing of artillery and ’ the ringing of the Cathedral bells The gendearmeries and troops led the way, and the imperial coaches which followed were surrounded by masses of mounted General officers and personal guards. All the princely guests and representatives, personally, of foreign powers, followed At an early hour the foreign Ambassadors, members of the Diplomatic Corps and Envoys had met by appointment at the residence of the German Ambassador, that place having been selected for Its convenient location; they joinedin the procession, glided state coaches having beep provided for them The Czar looked in excellent health, and appeared in the Cuirassier Guard uniform of pure white and without ornament or decoration. The Czarina wpre a heavily-embroidered costume, and tne Imperial pair moved from the throne-room to toe Uspensky Cathedral under a magnificent canopy, upheld by thirty-two Generals of the army. Drummers, trumpets and popular acclamations-announced the starting of he procession. Tne divine services in the Cathedral were begun at 8 o’clock, the invited guests, only 250 in number, orowding the chapel-like building. The services were performed while tne procession was passing from the palace to the churoh, and at the conclusion of the Te Deum the C^arowitch and the other members of the imperial family and the foreign Princes entered and took their places at the right of the throne. Everything was in readiness, and the audience only awaited the arrival of their Majesties. At the Cathedral entrance they were met by the superior clergy. The regalia accompanying the procession consisted of the two imperial crowns, the two collars of the Order of St Andrew and the globe and scepter, whose money value exceed $2,000,000, but whose statistic value Is very small. The Imperial crown was that of Catherine, with its fifty large stones and 50,000 brilliants, whioh had been used at five preceding coronations. The Orloff diamond mounted the scepter, and the sphere holds the finest sapphires in the world. Their Majesties entered the Cathedral with all pomp, and took their places on the throne data Tne throne of Alexander was of carved Ivory, and that of the Czarina was of silver gilt, incrusted with diamonds, but lower in form than that of the Emperor. The imperial insignia were placed on tables in front of the throne. The metropolitan of the Novgorod advanced with the clergy to the foot of the throne, while the clergy and the Czar repeated the Lord’s prayer. This was followed by the repetition by him of the creed of the apostles, as adopted by the Greek church. He then received the ermine mantle for the first time, and, it having been placed upon his shoulders, the crown was raised upon its cushion, and the Emperor himself took it In his hands and placed it on his head. The Empress was crowned in the traditional manner, the Czar touching his own crown to her forehead, laying it aside and placing her own crown upon her brow. The announcement of the conclusion of the ceremony was made by a salvo of artillery, followed by cheers throughout the Kremlin and re-echoed by cheers and trumpet blasts throughout the city. The ceremonies were followed at once by almost innumerable banquets, the Czar’s guests being much too numerous to admit of their entertainment at one meeting. The manifesto of the Czar remits all arrears of taxes up to January, 1883, and all penalties under judgment nqt yet enforced against persons who were concerned in the last Polish insurrection. In the evening the Kremlin, with its spires and grand cross, watf brilliantly illuminated by many hundred electric lights, whioh had been especially arranged at high altitudes by riggers ana sailors brought from Rega and Cronstadt They illominated the whole oity. The cost of the coronation ceremonies will, it is said, reach $1®,000,000.

INGERSOLL'S ELOQUENCE.

Peroration of His Six Days’ Address to the Jury in the Star Route Case. CoL Robert G. Ingersoll consumed six days in addressing the jury for the defense for the star-route conspiracy case. The speech is described as a very ingenious one, abounding in strong points in behalf of his clients. The conclusion, which had a visible effect upon court, jury and spectators, moving many to tears, is as follows: Now, gentlemen, the responsibility Is with you. The fate of these men is in your handa In your keeping is everything they love. Everything they bold dear is in your power. With this fearful responsibility, you nave no right to listen to the whispers of suspicion. You have no right to hearken to the promptings of fear. Beware of preju. dice. Look to the testimony alone. Be not convinced by the last argument: listen not to epithets Instead of facts. Recall every argument made in this case. Put the evidence in the scale, and then have the honor and manhood to say which scale goes down. We ask from you the mercy of an honest verdict; that is all we ask—a verdict of your honesty. It is for Sou to say whether these defendants shall ve with honor among your fellow-citizens —whether they shall live in free air or be taken from their wives, from their children, from their fireside, from all they hold most dear. It is for you to say whether they shall be clothed with honor, or with shame; whether their day shall set without a single star in all the sky of an eternal night; whether they shall be branded as criminals After all they have suffered, after they have been pursued by a Government as no de endants before have been pursued, it is for you to say whether theirhomes shall be blasted by the lightning of a false verdict. You must say whether their future shall bq Cne agony of grief and tears. Nothing be* neath the stars of heaven is so profoundly sad as the wreck of a human being—nothing so profoundly mournful as a home covered with shame. Nothing is so Infinitely sad as a thing that shall cast a stain upon children yet unborn. It is for you to say whether this shall be such a verdict or one in accordance with the law and the facts. The prosecution is heated with the chase; they are excited by the hunt: but will say that, in the end, they will be a thousand times better pleased with a verdict of not guilty than with what they ask. They would enJby their victory; they would like success, and they would have‘you give to those aspirations greater weight than to homes, and wives, and children. I want a verdict that win relieve my clients from this agony of two long years; that will lift from them the cloud—a verdict that will fill their coming days and nights with joy—a verdict that Will fill their minds with a sense of joy and gratitude to you, one and all.

UNRELIABLE, BUT INTERESTING.

In Brooklyn lives a girl who eats daily three pounds of candy. A Tuscan girl has gone to join the Mexican troops now fighting Ahe Indians. A girl in Canandaigua swam four times across the lake without resting once. Six lovely maidens of Troy, N. Y., have built a raft on which they intend to spend the summer floating np and down the Hudson river. A Newark girl put an artificial rattlesnake in her Boston cousin’s room to frighten him. He is now dangerously ill with main fever. A vast wealthy New York girl has adopted a Japanese baby of 2 yearn She paid #3.0C0 for him, and has named film James A Garfield. . A newly-arrived bride from the goose countries, says the San Francisco Post, got fearfully mad because when she sent for a little ginger at the Palace the clerk asked her If she was suffering from cholera infantum. “And we just married, too; the cheeky thing.”

NUMBER 19.

BOILER EXPLOSION.

Destruction in Midstream of a Steamer Hear San Francisco, Cal. Nine Persons Killed, Eleven Probably Drowned, and Seven Wounded. A shocking disaster Is reported by telegraph from San Francisco. The stern-wheel passenger steamer Pilot, plying along the bay, was blown to pieces by the explosion of one of her boilers, and fifteen of the passengers and crew lost their Uvea The particulars of the sad affair are embraced in the following dispatches from San Franclsoo: Officers of the steamer Donahue reported that in passing Donahue Tending they noticed the Pilot coming down the oreek In mid channel, and a few minutes afterward saw no sign of the inooming steamer. A message was sent to Petaluma directing that a relief train with Physicians and nuruss for the wounded be Immediately dispatched to Lakeville, When the relief train arrived the sufgwous on board found little to do, as of all those known and believed to be on board none but the Captain and two others (one the idiot) could DeJ found. They were discovered in the fields, seriously injured, the Captain the least of the three. Search was was made In every direotlon in the sand dams near the bank, and, one after another, four men were found, all more or less, seriously injured; some with an arm or leg broken in the fall One was but slightly injured, having fallen in long grasses Out of these he managed to scramble on higher and drier ground. Had he been more seriously injured he would have been drowned bv the high tide. Last reports show that eight ore killed, seven wounded end ten mlßsing. Most of the latter are probably dead, but the bodies have not yet been found. The names of the passengers cannot be definitely ascertained, as no names are recorded at the points of departure. It Is thought many of the .passengers who escaped scalding and mangling were drowned, as the boat sank immediately after tiie explosion The explosion is attributable to defective boilers. Those persons who witnessed the explosion from the steanfbr Donahue, say that it was almost funny to see the way the smoke-stack went up.' It seemed, as they say, to leave the vessel in advance, and shot up In the air over 810 yards, coming down again within a few feet of the vessej. Matthews, late of Sonoma Mountain, on his way to Arizona, lost four children, and another will die. His wife is crazy. A STRANGE INCIDENT. The most extraordinary incident in connection with the disaster was the finding of Mrs. George P. McNear, a passenger, about a mile and a half from the scene of the explosion. She was standing in the mud and was still alive, but unconscious. It is presumed she struggled through the mud and weeds for that distance in search of relief. She was immediately removed to Lakeville, but died a few minutes after her arrivaL

THE WHEAT CROP.

Estimates of the Millers* National Association. The Millers' National Association has given publioity to the wheat-crop estimate, whioh promises for the whole wheat-belt of the United States only 873,500,000 bushels for 1833, indicating a prospective shortage from the 18S2 crop of nearly 98,000,000 bushels in twenty-one States, which represent nearly all the wheat-producing areas. The report is considered quite remarkable in the light •of the fact that the millers are generally bears. 8. H. Stamens, Secretary of the Millers’ National Association, writes in this report: “I have only to say that it is based entirely upon replies to my inquiries, which -have been, carefully tabulated, thoroughly analyzed, and the averages closely figured. In short, the conclusions are arrived at by the most careful investigation of the replies, and are giVen to you with the con ft* dent assnranoe that so far as it is possible to arrive at the probabilities of the growing crops they are approximately correct.” It is said that Mr. Seamans sent out 3,000 letters. He receivedhls answers about May 15. The table is made up by State® and is of two columns, one containing wheat-crop estimates of 1889 from the United States Agricultural Department and. the second coluipn gives Mr. Seamans’ estimates as follows California . 45,000,000 Nebraska 15,000,000 Texas ". «.... 2,100,000 Kansas • 28,000,000 Missouri 21,400,000 lowa , 16i,800,000 Dakpta (approximate) 18,000,000 Minnesota .37,000,000 Wisconsin 18,500,000 Illinois 25,600,000 Kentucky 12,400,000 Tennessee 6,800,000 Georgia 8,800,000 Virginia ; 8,300,000 Maryland 9,000,000 Delaware 1,000,000 New York 10,060,000 Pennsylvania 22,300,000 0hi0... .26,000,900 Indiana 29,500,000 Michigan 23,300,000

INDIAN SCHOOLS.

Secretary Teller Enthusiastic in Their Support. Secretary Teller, who has lately returned from a visit to the Indian training-school at Carlisle, Pa, says the money which will have to be spent in the present Apaohe if expended for the education of Indian children, would put an end to any further rumors of Indian wars. He says that it Is no longer an open question that these schools solve the problem whether the Indian is capable of civilization. He adds: “If one-half of the Indian children were placed at such schools the question would be settled at once and forever. The appropriation is small—greater, however, this year than last, and greater last year than the previous one —but with it great good is being effected. The Utes for a long time resisted all attempts at educating their children. There are now, however, to the schools at Albuquerque, N. M., over twenty youths from the Southern Utes, Beforethfs I had Borne fears of the attitude of these Indians in regard to'war. Now I have none whatever. Their children at school are a reliable guarantee that they will keep the peace We have schopls at Carlisle, Pa, Forest Grove Ore, and Hampton, Ya Thp last is not solely for the Indiana Thefce are other schools, not so completely equipped, In Nebraska Kansas, New Mefcfco, and the Indian Territory. These schools are doing a good work—the work that is needed —a prac.tical, common-sense work. We have tpken from these tribes their old manner of living, It is but just we should thach them other ways of earning tC livelihood. They will learn; they will labor; they must live Leaving out of view altogether any sentimental view of the subject, It Is far more economical to educate and teach them to support themselves than to fight or to support them.

OLD MEN AND OLD THINGS.

The Bey. David I* Hunn, of Buffalo, Is thought to be the oldest living graduate of Yale College Mr. Hunn Is hearty at the age of 93 years. A Peiwbxlvania lady has an egg which she claims Is 103 years old. She la saving It for Oscar Wilde when he makes his first appearon the stage In this country. The Bev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, has lust completed his 74th year. Phy*> Icaßy and mentally he yet seems as vigorous as he was thirty years ago. An elm tree planted near a Connecticut house seventy years ago has shoved the building more than a foot from its original foundations, and now threatens to topple It over, In order to get more room for its spreading rootft. Thebe Is a man living in Georgia at the age of 75 years whose father was 101 years old when the former was born, and who lived to accompany him to the polls to oast his first vote. The son now splits rails, builds fences, digs goobers, and olds fair to live as long as his father. , L

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Floyd county Treasurer is making an effort to collect #70,000 delinquent taxes due the county. Raoooon station, Putnam county, Is excited over the reported discovery of a large amount of gold and silver near that place. While Benjamin Williams, living nearWarsaw, was moving a house, the root |ell in while he was inside, crushing him fatally. William Peters, of Logansport, has been arrested and imprisoned on the oharge of having murdered one John Baker, In the fall of 1865. The Hon. Perry H. Smith, havinjf recovered, has left the State Hospital for the InBane, at Madison, Wis., and will take up his residence at Doty’s Island, near Neenah. A fine monument to the memory of Bev. Archie Smith, a pioneer Baptist minister. Who labored faithfully for forty years In and about Madison, was unveiled at Com Oreek cemetery, near that city. Walter Shanes’ little girl, who brought suit against the L. N. A. and O. railroad for damages sustained by a baggage truck falling upon her, at Mitchell, has been given #BOO, after trial before a jury. Mu. Doxet has purchased the Madison County National Bank, at Anderson, paying a premium of 80 per cent, on the capital stock Of #50,000. The Major Is also erecting an Opera House In Anderson to oost #40,000. A man named Childers In jail at Salem confessed to robbing John Gill and W. B. Peters at that place eighteen months ago and that he murdered the former. He told where the money taken from GUI was, and It was recovered.

It Is proposed to build an extension of the Chicago and Great Southern railroad from Brazil, Ind., to Chicago, making the road a competitor of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago line for the trade of the Indiana coal region

William Middleton, of Connersville, arranging a oonduotor at the comer of his house during a shower, received stroke of lightning, the electrlo fluid run. ning from bis knees down his limbs. He wafc paralyzed for some time after he was ploked up, and was severely scorched. Frank Botlen, a music dealer of Connersville, was arrested on the charge of embezzling funds to the amount of #1,078 and committing forgery, feoylen protested his Innocence and gave bail—his brother acting as bondsman—for his appearanoe before Justice Dale’B court.

Robert Stickney, the well-known equestrian, has begun suit in the September term of the Laporte Oirouit Court to recover #lO,000 damages against one of the proprietors of the Van Amburgh, Fost, Stone A Co.’soircus. The claim is for money lent, professional services and damages for a broken contract.

At Williamsport, on St Mary’s river, ten miles south of Fort Wayne, the dam at Cody’s grist mill was partially destroyed the other night by the explosion of some dynamite plaoed there by malicious parties. Eight hundred dollars will repair the damage, and #6OO that to houses in the village Nobody hurt. The explosion was heard six miles

Dubino the storm the other day, a man who was plowing near Montmorenoi, Tippecanoe county, seeing the storm-olond approaching, unhitched and started for the barn, but met the storm before reaching shelter, and the horse he was riding was struck on the head by a huge hailstone, which felled the beast like a shot, causing it to roll over, and severely bruising the rider.

William Richter, an aged German saloonkeeper, committed suicide at Indianapolis by shooting himself in the abdomen with a shotgun, making a frightful wound. Several days ago his wife wandered away from home in an insane freak and was afterward sent to the asylum, and it is thought this so preyed on the old man's mind as to induce him to take his life.

Four of the express trains over the Wabash main line are ran on a time-schedule based on thirty-nine miles per hour. The track of the main line Is again in good condition, and some big running is done on this road almost dally, as so numerous are the connections that seldom a day passes that,the express trains do not want a few minutes on one or more connections.

Beverly Sims, near Lafayette, was swindled out of ICO by the lightning-rod fiend putting up several rods on his new "barn, “for an advertisement, ju«t to introduce their rods in the neighborhood,” for the nominal sum of #.\ Of course the traditional innocent little receipt or agreement had to be signed, which afterward turned up as an iron-clad note for #9O.

Father Neybon is seriously 111 at Noire Dame. He is 98 years old, and it Is feared that he will not recover. Father Neyron Is a Frenchman, and served as surgeon In the army of the First Napoleon. He was in all of the prominent battles of that famous soldier, including the retreat from Russia and the disaster of Waterloo. He was shot through the forehead, and for over seventy years has carried the bullet in his forehead

Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Brands Brunson, Decker, saw-handle; James Buchanan, Indianapolis, plow; Joseph G. Gross, Oonncrsville, saw-guard; Lewis Warner. Stone Bluffs, tire-heating'furnace; Henry Llghty, RossviHe, washing-machine; James H. MoLean, Lawrenceburg, lock for rockingchairs, cribs, etc.; John T, Mercer, Richmond, compound for tempering steel; David Reniker, Wabash, fence; Homer J. Roberts, Orland, vehicle tongue.

Quite a sensation was caused in a country district in Carroll county, by the appearance of the two Mormon Elders who have been instructing the citizens of Vigo and Parke In their religion. During the services one of the Mormons was hit by a chew of tobacco, and after the meeting several eggs were thrown at them, and they found difficulty in getting out of the reach of the angry crowd Before they left, however, they declared their intention of preaching at every school-house in the connty. The Indiana Pharmaceutical Association, in session at Indianapolis, has elected the following officers: President, W. Ml Yaekel, Lafayette; First Vice President, H. J. Watjen, Vincennes''Second Vice President, A. W. Benford, Crfcwfordsville; Treasurer, Etaii Martin, Indianapolis; Secretary, Joseph R Perry, Indianapolis; Committee, John N. Hnrty, of Indianapolis, Charles A, Robinson, of Terrs Haute, and D. 0. Bryant, of Frankfort The Delegatas to the meeting of the American Association at Washington, D. 0. , in September, feftS; are : George W*Sloan, of Indianapolis, YL 3. Schlaepper, of Evansville, George H. Andrews, of Munde, James H. Lilly, of Indianapolis, and Charles V. Pyle, of Warsaw. Delegates to the meeting of the Retail Druggists’ Association at Washington, D. 0., In September, 1888, are: John tt Hendricks, of Pern, Aug. Detser, of Fott 1 Wayfte, A M. ’ Andrews, of OonnersfiUe, Tjddpa Lybrand, of Noblssvilla, and Qk IX Settle, of Anderson D . +;' . »W .