Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1889 — Page 3

BALL-BATTERS RETURN.

THE CHICAGO AND ALL AMERICA TEAMS AGAIN AT HOME. A Pleasant Trip of Over 30,000 Miles at a Large Expense—lnteresting Account of the Journey—Matters of Interest to All [ Oklahoma Boomers.

TH E members of the Chicago and All-Amer- ! ican trail teams have ; returned home after an (absence of six months. Evlerybody except Williamson is ’in' good health and spirits. The tour and voyage home were very pleasant. In an interview Mr. Spalding said that he could not state how he had made out financially, but he thought he would come

out all right after the games in this country. ' The expenses of the trip amounted to about

$50,000, but no money had been made outside of Australia and England, and veryfew people in those coun- ■ tries knew anything ; about the game, Continuing, Mr. Spalding said: “I have traveled over the entire world, and I have supped with royalty in Australia; I ’have partaken of the hospitality of bushwhackers ; I have re--ceived the kindest of‘ welcomes from the hands of the sheepranchers of that country ; I have eaten cur-

rie in India; I have drank the native wines of the Egyptians, and have tasted their saffron-flavored dishes ; I have gazed on the ruined palaces of the ancient Romans; I have looked into the siren-like eyes of Parisian beauties ; I have grasped the hands of men who are in line for kingly thrones ; I have been entertained by the nabobs of merry England; I have seen the bonnie lasses of ‘me ain’ Scotland, and I have wept at the scenes of poverty in Ireland, and have rejoiced when I saw how nobly ; and heroically her loyal sons have sustained and are sustaining the burdens imposed upon them by unjust laws. Be that as it may, I never fully appreciated anything nor experienced such keen delight in all my travels as that which swelled through my breast when I stepped ashore. I am I proud to be called an American, and you would, ’ too, if you had passed six months in such sightseeing as I have. When you go over the same ' ground you will return to your native land with your heart overflowing ■with gratitude. “I’m gladlt’s over. I have wanted to get back to the land whore I can eat pie. The trip was a

.ANSON, captain chicagob. America on the question of grounds, and in no instance did we strike an English-speaking place where a large, beautifully kept cricket field was not o'ffared. The Government presents the cricketers With these . grounds and allows a certain appropriation to keep the grounds in order. “In Rome we got a permit to play a game in the Coliseum, but we were warned that the old building was falling to pieces and we concluded not to play there. Had we done so it would have been the first sport which would have taken place there in 50U years. We did play in the Villa Borghese at Rome. It is a most beautiful spot—like an elongated basin, with terraces .and stone steps running up on the sides of the hill. “In all forty-four games were played, of which the All Americans won twenty-four, tied and lost seventeen. The All Americans ex--celled nt the bat and in base running, but were outplayed in the field.” Captain Anson said: “If you think they’ll •ever get me out of this country again you are greatly mistaken. I’m going to present a bill to the Senate in Washington to send abroad every American citizen who kicks about our country, just to give the kickers a taste of the life they would have to lead under those foreign moguls. I think if such a scheme as that could be perfected that there would be no more Anglomaniacs in our fair land. There isn’t a blade of grass, a potato, an item of fish, flesh, or fowl in America that isn’t better than the best of what I,found on the continent. And what surprises me the most is that Eurppe is not depopulated by its inhabitants flocking to these shores. Scenery! The grandest, the best advertised spot on the other sidetisn’t a patch on the most insignificant spot in this country. Hereafter it will be dangerous for an Anglomaniac to belittle this country in the presence of any member ■of this party.” During the trip not one of the party had suffered from a day’s sickness, and they had traveled nearly 32,000 miles. One familiar face was missing from the party of returning tourists, and the first question

asked by everybody was, “How is Ed Williamjson?" The -answer in each case was that the ’big short stop would i soon be all right; in fact, it was stated that he ! has already started. It -appears|that when Will- , iamson injured himself, i some sand and gravelS .-remained under then , skin after the doctor! had put five stitches in the torn portion. The ■ result was that inflam|mation set in, the wound ■had to be opened again . ■and was found to be

: worse than at first. After it had been fixed up , again the doctor said Williamson would have to remain at the hotel several weeks, but no one t doubts that he will be able to play by the opening of the season.

THE TRIP ABROAD. A Graphic and Interesting Account of the Great Journey.

WARD, CAPTAIN ALL AMERICANS.

England its reception by the Marylebone club was such as to more than justify the decision. For some years past it has been the fashion for base-ball clubs to take a winter tour. Some have gone to the Southern States, and some to Cuba, where the game has taken a firm hold of the affections of the sport-loving people of the island. California, too, has been a favorite winter resort for ball-players. It was therefore only an extension of an idea that had been previously put in execution to plan a trip to Australia. The two teams of ten men each, which constituted the playing strength of'the party, assembled at Chicago Oct. 20, 1888, almost immediately upon the conclusion of the professional season. By Nov. 3, after playing several games on the way, they . arrived in San Francisco. There they remained until the 18th, when they took passage by the steamer Alameda for Auckland and Sydney. On their way across the Pacific the party stopped one day at Honolulu and were received with wonder and admiration by the Hawaiians. ■The next stop was at Tutuila, now famous in

A. G. SPALDING.

success in every way. I did not make much money, but I have the Eroud consciousness of aving established our game throughout the world, and feel certain that many countries will adopt base-ball as a gome. The English people, both in Australia and Europe, are pleased “ with base-ball, and the way in which we were received by them was royal and pleasing. They are far ahead of

E. N. WILLIAMSON.

As originally planned, the trip was intended to take in only Australia and New Zealand, and arrangements were made to spend most of the winter in the antipodes. On the arrival of the party in -Australia, however, a cordial invitation was i- received from the Marys’lebone cricket club to i extend the tour westJ'ward and to return by ' way of Europe instead of coming home across the Pacific again. This invitation decided Mr. Spalding to adopt the . western route. On the arrival of the party in

connection with the Samoan difficulty. The steamer merely touched here and went on to Auckland, where there was a stop of twelve hours, and the teams went ashore and limbered up their sea-stiffened joints by playing a game of ball. Finally, on Dec. 14, Sydney was reached. Accounts had been cabled to thia country of the interest with which the Australians were awaiting the advent of the party, and of the reception prepared for them; but the party themselves were surprised and almost overwhelmed by the attentions that were showered upon them. First there was a grand public reception, at which the provincial and city officials did the honors. Then, within the next eight days, there were sixteen more dinners, lunches and receptions. Indeed, an Australian correspondent, who has been familiar with Sydney for years, writes that never was so much fuss made over the arrival of a new Governor General as greeted the Spalding party. The time of the visitors was not, however, entirely taken up with receptions and dinners. They bad come to play base-ball, and play they did almost every day. By the time the Spalding party finally left Melbourne, after playing in Sydney. Adelaide, and Ballarat, there were eighteen clubs already orriuized in the three provinces of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia, and Mr. Simpson, who has accompanied the party thus far, was left in Australia as a sort of instructor and organizer general for the Australian leagues. It mav be mentioned here, too, that a New Zealand league was formed also, with clubs at Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane, and other places. The single games the teams were able to play at Auckland stimulated a base-ball fever that had already been caught, and the New Zealand league seems likely to prove a success. The stay in Australia was shortened by the determination to return home by way of India, Suez and Europe. It was the intention at first to go from Colombo to Calcutta and play a few games there and at Bombay; but on reaching Ceylon the advices from Calcutta were not encouraging, and after playing one game on the ancient island, very much to the astonishment of the natives, who could not understand why men should exert themselves in such a violent manner who were not compelled to do so, the players continued to, Aden and Suez. Cairo was the next objective point, and on Feb. 9, the day after Suez was reached, the party were under the shadow of the pyramid of Ghizeh, and in full view of the Sphinx. Here a game was played, and although the shifting sands of the desert made fielding rather difficult, the players felt that forty centuries were looking down upon them, and exerted themselves to the utmost. Such a sight was never seen before, and may never be again; the most ancient monuments of almost prehistoric man and the most modern diversion of the newest man, and the most progressive on the face of the earth, here were face to face. The game at the pyramids was the only one played in Egypt. No stop was made at Alexandria, and the quickest tiihe possible was made to Brindisi. Rome used to be a great place for physical contests, but the Italians of the present day are not sportsmen. Almost the only spectators of the game at Rome were the Americans resident there, more especially the Irish-American youths attending the College of the Propaganda. To be sure, King Humbert and the Queen are reported to have passed by the Villa Borghese while the game was going on, and even to- have stopped for a moment or two, but there were very few Italian spectators. At Florence a fine game was played, but the attendance, as at Rome, was almost entirely of American residents and travelers, together with a few Englishmen. At Nice the experience was repeated. At Paris there was a largaconcourse of people, but the French did not at all understand the game, and are not likely to take to it. After a short stay in Paris the party crossed the channel in one of the worst storms known there for years, and reached London on the 9th of March. The experience of the party as guests of the Marylebone Cricket Club was very like their experience in Australia. The first game on Kensington oval was honored by the presence of the Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Buccleuch and Beaufort, the Earls of Londesborough, Coventry, Sheffield, and Bessborough, Lord Randolph Churchill, and no end of smaller lordlings, besides that great civic dignitary, the Lord Mayor of London, and about 8,000 people without any title at all. The next game in London was played on the famous Lord’s ground, long sacred to cricket. Others were played at the Crystal Palace and at Leyton’s, in the famous “East End," where there was an immense crowd of spectators. It is possible that base-ball may now be added to the list of the diversions of the “people's palace.” The journey from London through the “provinces” was made in grand style in a special train of seven cars, which included two sleeping and two dining cars of the American pattern. Nobody but the Queen has ever before traveled in such fashion in Great Britain. Games were played in Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool, which were all well attended, and which elicited some enthusiasm among the onlookers. In fact, the English trip was as pleasant as possible, and the great American game was favorably received everywhere.

TOWN SITES IN OKLAHOMA.

No Measures Can Be Taken for Establishing Them Before April 22. The following letter has been issued by Commissioner of the General Land Office Stockslager, which fully explains itself: Department of the Interior, ) General Land Office, V Washington, April 5. J To the Hon. G. G. Vest, United States Senate: Sir—l have the honor to return herewith the letter which you recently left in this office, addressed to you by H. S. Wicks, dated at Kansas City, Mo„ the Ist in st., about town sites in Oklahoma, Indian Territory. In reference to the specific questions presented by Mr. Wicks’ letter I have to state: 1. That the Oklahoma lands are all surveyed, and any claims for town-site purposes therein under said sections 2387 and 2288 must be for the tracts actually settled upon and occupied by the inhabitants according to the proper legal subdivisions established by such surveys. Hence, no plats or survey of the town sites will be required for the purpose of entry at the district land office, and the land so occupied must, be identified as the tract applied for, by the proper proof, specified on page five’of said circular of July 9,1886, which must be submitted to the department land offices. 2. No measures can be taken on the land for establishing a town site prior to 12 o’clock noon of the 22d inst., when, for the first time, the land becomes open for settlement under the proclamation. 3. It will be seen by reference to sections 2387 and 2388 as given in circular of July 9,1886, that they require for effecting a town site entry that the town shall be incorporated, in which the entry must be made by the corporate authorities for whom the Mayor may act, or, if the town is not incorporated, for tne J udge of the County Court for the county in which such town is situated, to make entry. As it appears that there are neither laws for incorporation of towns nor county organizations now existing in Oklahoma, it does not appear to be feasible for entries to be effected under said sections while this condition continues, and applications should therefore be made to the district officers under said sections; but in the absence of the officers properly qualified to make entry in trust for the inhabitants, according to the provisions thereof, the register arid receiver are directed in circular of April 1, 1889, to report the same, and await further instructions before allowing entry of the land. The legal prerequisites to the establishment of towns, or their incorporation as such, are dependent upon local laws, and after entry is allowed under said sections 2387 and 2388 in trust for the inhabitants, the execution of such trust, as to the disposal of such lots in said town, and the proceeds of the sales thereof, is to be conducted under such regulations as may be prescribed by the legislative authority of the State or .Territory—see said section 2387. As an example of such legislation reference may be made to the compiled laws of Kansas —Dassler, 1881< pages 972 and 973. Where there appears to be no means by which town-site entries may be effected, and the method of proceeding thereafter determined as to the right of the inhabitants in Oklahoma, until legislative provision is made for the proper town and county organizations, and for the execution of the trust as contemplated in said sections 2387 and 2388, any lands actually selected as the site of city or town, or any lands actually settled and occupied for purposes of trade and business and not for agriculture, by bona fide inhabitants, are in a state of reservation ' from disposal under the homestead laws, under sections 2258 and 2389, United States Revised Statutes, which will operate to preserve the claims of the inhabitants of towns from the interposing adverse rights of settlers, until such time as they be enabled to secure the legal title to the lots under future legislation. Respectfully, 8. M. Stockslager, Commissioner.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AMD INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCI'RRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*—Weddings and Deaths —Crime, Casualties and General News Notofc Patents. Patents have been issued for Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Anderson, assignor to H. G. Olds, of Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagon boxes; Be jamin F. Berger; South Bend, cultivator; Andrew J. Calloway, Chester Hill, cornplanter and drill combined; Clark Chiddister, Decatur, gate; Joseph Frenick, LaPorte, wheel; Thomas J. Harriman, New Paris, drive apparatus for piles, etc.; James A. Little, Cartersburg, spade or shovel; Edward J. Purdy, Michigan City, hunters’ portable stool; George W. Pyle, Geneva, retail case and support for stores; Abbott M. Beeves, Indianapolis, metallic mat; George W. Schock and W. H. Wansbrough, South Bend, paint mixer; Frederick W. Tremain, Fort Wayne, washing machine. Robbed the Corner-Stone of a Church. A queer robbery was committed at Cambridge City. Some person, evidently acquainted with the surroundings, took a crowbar and removed the corner-stone of the Baptist church from its place in the wall of the building. He was poorly repaid for his trouble, however, as the receptacle beneath it contained only a few coins, amounting to about $1.50. The stone was laid in 1864, and its contents comprised such miscellaneous papers, articles, etc., as are usually deposited on such occasions.

A Camper latally Burned. Levi Hunson, of Guthrie, was out of work and concluded to go to Bedford to seek employment. He encamped out near Bedford, having built a fire out of rubbish and fodder. During the night the fire spread and the clothes of Hunson took fire. He awoke to find his clothing in a blaze, and it was some time before he could relieve himself of the burning garments. He was seriously burned, and had to be removed to Bedford, where he died from his injuries. Minor State Items. •—The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Rev. Rudolph Randolph, living near Andrews, was thrown from a wagon and fatally injured. He is 65 years of age. —While cutting a tree at Galena, Floyd County, Noble McDaniel, aged 15, had his neck broken by a falling limb. —A mad bull made a dash at Peter Draper near Alexandria, and threw him through a rail fence. Mr. Draper’s leg was broken. —A very large and old gray eagle was shot near Seymour the other day. It measured forty-one inches from tip to tip of wings. —George Carter, aged 73, one of the earliest pioneers of Grant County, was stricken with heart disease and died almost instantly.

—Seymour is enjoying a steady growth. Its latest business gain is a pressed-brick manufactory, with a capacity of 20,000 a day. —A revival at the Quaker Church in Monrovia, conducted by Mr. Maunley, of Chicago, resulted in thirty-five accessions to the church. —At Brazil, James W. O’Neal, of Putnamville, was awarded $5,500 damages against the Chicago and Indiana Coal road. He asked SIO,OOO. —ln the village of Swartsburg, Montgomery County, there are ninety-four inhabitants, and the ages of thirteen of them agregate 994 years. —James Cook, a workman in a plan-ing-mill at Columbus, had his arm partially severed, by letting it accidently strike a band-saw in motion. —Clarington Cross claims to have discovered, near Washington, at a depth of ninety feet, a nine-foot vein of goldbearing quartz, which assays $360 to the ton. —Frank Calvert, at one time editor and proprietor of the Wabash PlainDealer, but lately a farmer and politician, died at Mount Etna, near Wabash. —Hon. George Nathaniel Robinson, an eloquent and able member of the Shelby County bar, died at Shelbyville. He served two terms in the State Legislature. —Burglars entered the First National Bank at Plymouth, and secured $1,500 from the safe. An inner compartment containing $20,(M)0 resisted their efforts to open it. —William Able, a well-known farmer of Jackson County, was kicked on the head by a vicious horse a few days ago. His skull was crushed, and all the bones of his face were broken. Winchester has organized a Board of Trade, with George Ashael Stone as president. More gas wells will be drilled and an effort made to induce capital to locate manufactories there. —William Williams was instantly killed at Terre Haute by a heavy locomotive boiler-head falling on him. Nobody saw the ac’cident. He was 58 years of age and leaves a wife and daughter. —A homing pigeon was shot on a farm near Vevay a few days ago. It carried on one leg a silver band, numbered 12,853, and bore the letter Z. Tjie pigeon was supposed to be a blue hawk.

—Albert Owens, a young student at the Columbus Normal School, was atte.opting to ride an untamed horse, when the animal threw him, the fall breaking one of his legs near the knee. —The directors of the Prison South have elected Abel Ewing, of Greensburg, deputy warden, vice Willis Barnes resigned, Dr. G. H. Buncie, of Fort Branch, Gibson County, physician, vice Dr. Wolf, of New Albany, resigned. —Col. Stout, who walked out of the Muncie court room while being tried for forgery, was captured at Upland, Grant County. He will now receive a three years’ sentence in the penitentiary, in accordance with the jury’s verdict. —ln tearing down one of the oldest buildings in Seymour, a few days Ago, workmen found, concealed in the foundation, five large hickory clubs and a bundle of stout hickory switches, relics of the vigilance committee days of 1868. —The Winchester Board of Trade has elected Gen. A. Stone president, and Enos L. Watson and two others vice presidents, and a board of five directors. A great effort is being made to arrange for free gas for manufacturing purposes. —Edward Powell, one of the river pirates who plundered and attempted to. burn the town of Bethlehem, and subsequently escaped from jail on March 8, has been recaptured at Boonville, Ky. A kit of burglar toos was found in his possession. —William Benson, under sentence of death at Jeffersonville for the murder of Jacob Mottweiler, has made a full confession, in which he says his sole motive for the crime was his love for the girl Sallie Snyder, the domestic in Mottweiler’s family. —Farmers in Miami County and the north part of Wabash are combining to resist the demands of the binder-twine trust. They have decided to hire men to bind wheat after being out with binders. Determined opposition to the trust has been developed. —Minnie, the 4-year-old daughter of George Shekell, who lives near Fountaintown, was burned to death while playing with fire and burning trash. Her clothes were burned off. The mother’s hands were severely burned in trying to put out the fire. —A mammoth stalk of corn raised on the farm of Samuel Brumfield, in Ohio Township, Bartholomew County, is on exhibition at Columbus. To the ear, which is large and solid, it measures nine feet and seven inches. The entire height of the stalk is eighteen feet. —The Decatur County Commissioners have agreed to sink a gas well at least three thousand feet deep, if necessary to reach the gas bearing sand. The experience in the vicinity of Decatur is somewhat similar to that at Lancaster, 0., where an immense flow was obtained by going down to the sajid. —The fish in White Creek, near Columbus, are dying by the thousands from some peculiar cause. The scourge was just observed a few days ago, when the surface of the stream became covered with dead fish. They seem to be infected with poison, as the poultry which fed on them have all died.

—Frank Mote, a young man residing five miles east of Seymour, was run over by a switch engine in the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad yards, receiving injuries which caused his death in a few hours. It is supposed he was attempting to board the engine or cars attached while they were in motion. —The gang of Starke County car thieves, recently captured, have just been tried and convicted. Bring, Kretlinger, the two Harmon brothers, and the two Newman brothers have been sentenced to one year each. The goods stolen were valued at $5,000. They were found buried in the ground at the home of Bring. —Judge Ferguson, of Jeffersonville, has decided that the bondsmen *of A. J. Howard, ex-warden of the Prison South, are not responsible for his last term. When his last term commenced, Howard’s bond was not renewed under the supposition that the first one was good. By this ruling the State will lose a large sum of money. —The Indiana Live Stock Commission, constituted by the last Legislature, met at Indianapolis and organized by electing Adam Earl, of Lafayette, President, and Samuel Bowman, of South Bend, Secretary. The work before the Commission was discussed, but the adoption of rules and the election of a veterinarian was postponed till the next ing—Mrs. Mary Charnes, the wife of Martin Charnes, who was seriously assaulted by her brother-in-law, Josiah Charnes, a short time ago at Washington, is dying from the effect of the terrible treatment which she was subjected to. Her ante-mortem statement of the assault has been taken, to be used in the trial of the brute whose violence is said to bo the cause of her death. —A case of brutal child-murder, almost incredible in its details, comes from Ligonier, Noble County. A heartless wretch, getting angry at his 2-year-old baby for crying, took a lath and beat the helpless child unmercifully, winding up by grabbing the baby by the legs and throwing it across the room, killing it almost instantly. The horrified mother, on attempting to rescue her babe, was violently assaulted and terribly beaten, and left in an unconscious condition. The wretch has fled for parts unknown.

Poets: English and American.

Though Chaucer is still read by linguists and students, he is no longer a living force in English literature, writes S. W. Foss. Spenser produced one long poem that* has survived in literature. We doubt if a single professor of literature in aij American college can be found who has read “The Faery Queen, through without skipping. Spenser is much more generally eulogized than read. Shakspeare is pre-eminent in the solitary isolation of his genius. The flower of the human intellect burst into fullest bloom in the brain of Wm. Shakspeare. Milton was one of the immortals; but it is doubtful if he has said more unforgetable things than Emerson. Dryden is not a gigantic enough figure to pedestal in a world’s pantheon. Pope was an elegant, finished artistic writer, a master of a mechanical meter, a prince of epigrammatists, polished and cold as an icicle. But it is a matter of dispute among the critics of the present day whether, in the highest sense of the term, he was a poet at all, Gray was an industrious writer, but cannot be ranked among the great spontaneous, native, original geniuses of mankind. Burns was a real poet, and with the true instinct of a poet’s nature appealed directly to the hearts of men. His words were understood by the heart before they filtered through the intellect, and hence they possess ah immortal significance. Wordsworth produced much unwinnowed wheat, pretty well concealed in chaff. He did some truly great work; but many of his poems are still read from a sense of literary duty. Coleridge, the fragmentary, lazy, purposeless, was a man of infinite literary promise, but of very meager and unsatisfactory accomplishment. Byron is no longer a literary force. He was brilliant, dazzling, meteoric; but the world no longer regards him as a great poet. Shelley was a great poet for certain kinds of imaginative minds. But he was far from universal in his genius. Emerson did not permit him in his “Parnassus.”

Keats had the making of a great poet in him, but he died before the full maturity of his powers. Such are the flowers of English poesy that have bloomed during the last six hundred years. Ralph Waldo Emerson is as certainly booked for immortality as any of these vaunted thirteen, except Shakspeare. He will surely be .remembered as long as Milton. It seems almost sacrilege to compare him with such comparatively second-rate men as Dryden and Pope. How substantial seems the granite of his fame beside the yeasty froth of Byron. Poe has certainly done as good work as Coleridge, and both worked in the same vein. Longfellow should certainly be ranked as high as Gray, and it would seem that the cool judgment of the future must place him on a higher pedestal than Pope. In our one hundred years of existence we have produced poets that compare favorably with England’s six-hun-dred-year crop, with the single exception of Shakspeare. And the American Shakspeare will arrive on the scene in the fullness of time.

He Pledged His Honor.

Mr. William H. Crane, the comedian, tells of an interesting experience he had in Pittsburgh. He was approacheh by a besotted tramp, who looked earnestly at him and inquired: “Is your name Crane?” “It is, sir,” said Mr. Crane. “Are you William H. Crane, the comedian ?” asked the tramp, cautiously. “Yes, sir.” “Mr. Crane,” said the tramp, in reassured tones, “give me fifteen cents!” “Fifteen cents?” echoed Mr. Crane. “Why, what do you want with fifteen cents ?” “I want to buy a drink,” said th® tramp. “Ah, my friend,” said Mr. Crane, in a reproachful tone, “I fear you are deceiving me. I have already met about twenty of your kind of people to-daf-and each of them has asked me for tiy teen cents to buy bread with. Now what assurance have I that if I give you fifteen cents you won’t spend it for something to eat ?” The tramp drew himself up as proudly as he could and said: “I pledge you my word and honor as a gentleman that I shall spend the money for liquor.” “Oh, that’s an entirely different thing,” said Mr. Crane, shelling out ft quarter. “ I think I can trust you now.”

This incident reminds us of a story that is told of Mr. Moody, the revivalist. In his younger days he did missionary work in Chicago, invading saloons and distributing tracts in divers places. One Sunday morning, while he was distributing temperance tracts, he entered Buck & .Rayner’s drug store. At the back of the store sat an elderly and distinguished citizen reading a morning papej. Mr. Moody approached this gentleman and threw one of the temperance teftcts upon the paper liefore him. The old gentleman glanced at the tract and then/looking up beyignantly at Moody, you a reformed drunkard ?” “No, sir, I am not!” cried Mepdy, drawing back indignantly. “Then why in thunder den’i you re-' hrm ?” quietly asked theold gentleman. —Chicago News. The Dutch introduced slaves into Virginia in 1620.