Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Page 4

Sftc JemocratitSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 9. W. McEWEN, - Putxishkr.

For President, OR OVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK. For Vlee President, ADLAI E. STEVENSON. OF ILLINOIS,

Protection is called an American policy because it robs none but Americans. Keep tbis in your mind: The present protective system is Republicanism softened with grand larceny. The bayonet at the workshop and Hie bayonet at the polls will give us a truly republican form of government. It is possible that Mr. Blaine is getting ready to tell the Republicans of Maine what he doesn’t know about Br er Harrison. It is well for Don Dickinson to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. Michigan will make the best record this year she has ever made.

The New York Press scores the State of Tennessee for authorizing the lease of convict labor, and the New York Republican boss, Tom Platt, leases this labor. Candidate Reid wasted a powerful amount of ammunition when he whirled westward and tried his confidence game on a State that is committed to the Democracy. The Anderson tin plate works, recently sold by the sheriff for $2lB, were reported by the special agent of the treasury department as having a working capital of $20,000. The Indiana election result is apparently predetermined. There is a tone in the Indianapolis Journal, the Harrison family organ, which is eloquent of fear and exasperation.

If President Harrison cannot fill his stumping engagements this fall he will do well to substitute Mr. Platt. The latter is having a good rest and should be in good form by early autumn. Mr. Carnegie might sell his Pittsburgh library, if he gets it back, and convey the proceeds to the gallant Pennsylvania militia, as a reward for their faithful service on a field where the Pinkertons failed. The pleasant and truthful Republican press is already calling Mr. Stevenson a lawyer, a copperhead, and a substitute hirer. Isn't it rather early in the campaign to be putting In the powerful arguments? The treasury special report on tin manufactures show that 99 per cent, of the tin consumed in the United States this year was imported. Did the foreigner pay the tariff of 2 cents a pound of the 600,000,000 pounds imported? Ex-Ciiairman Clarkson has given out what the Republican press calls “an official statement” of his position.” Upon scrutiny, however, it becomes evident that it is really an official statement of how he happened to be without any position.

Mr. Carter speaks in glowing terms of the work of the General Land Office in his annual report. It is a matter of surprise that he was able to obtain his own consent to relinquish an office for which he evidently regarded himself as being perfectly equipped. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks that Mr. Harrison, since the negroes •voted the Democratic ticket in Alabama, will take no more interest in the force bill, which is only intended to make Republican rotes. Certain it is that Mr. Harrison never spoke against gerrymanders until the Democrats began to profit by them. B. H. is the Joey Bags took of politics. One of the campaign documents issued by the Republican National Committee consists of a map showing that the rate of wages in Republican States is over $1 a day, while “in all Democratic States except Connecticut and New Jersey wages are less than #1 a day.” It would be interesting if the Republican committee would explain what causes the difference between the wages paid in Democratic and Republican The New York Commercial-Adver-tiser now shows its thorough conver•iocrto Republicanism by declaring that the negroes are not allowed to nm la the South. We call the at-

Mr. Harrison in 1888 received over 138,000 votes in Tennessee, while the Democratic candidates for Congress in 1890 received only 105,000 votes. Where does the suppressing come in here In Tennessee, for Instance?

According to a recent decision wax angels for Christmas trees must now pay 35 percent, duty, but no one would object to that if the little angels who gather around the Christ mas tree could be clothed in something warmer than American shoddy. The only industries that the tariff on wool encourages are sheep-raising and coffin-making.

Illinois State Register: The Illinois Republican committee has been sending out circulars to committee chairmen headed in big letters, “Illinois Is in Danger!” The Republican machine makes a grave mistake of assuming that the Republican party is Illinois. Illinois is all right—it is the Republican party that is doomed.

In their efforls to placate Tom Platt Republican managers have “slopped over” and succeeded only in putting Platt in a worse humor than ever. He is out in a declaration that he never authorized to say that he would “take an active part in the campaign” or anything like it. He simply told Chairman Brookfield that he “would support the ticket,” and he didn’t put that in writing, reserving to himself, as did Harrison, the right to repudiate his promises.

The New York Press says: “Reciprocity is increasing our cotton goods exports to Brazil. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1892, we exported to Brazil $689,465 of manufactured cotton, as against $538,583 during the fiscal year, 1890-91.” The Press does not note the fact printed on page 70 of the Statistical Abstract issued by the Treasury Department, that for 1891 our total Imports from Brazil were $83,230,595, and that the balance of trade against us was $69,110,349, the largest in our history, and all under reciprocity.

Secretary Foster believes that the United States Treasury can furnish all the cash needed for moving the crops. He claims to have $16,000,000 of free gold to exchange for notes of large denominations. The Secretary and his friends fail to observe the absurdity involved in the idea that the United States Treasury should be called upon to regulate the money market when crops are to be moved. But they would be the first ones to sneer at the propsition that “the Government should go into the banking business.” There is room for an increase of financial knowledge among Republican financiers.

Chicago newspapers have been having lots of fun with the name of tho Vice Presidential candidate. When ho was at Springfield they called him Outlaw Reid. After he had spent a day in the soot and smoke and grime of Chicago his appearance warranted them in calling him Blacklaw Reid. When he visited the Lake Front they quoted Scripture and declared the people rushed out to see “a Reed Skaken by the Wind.” Then they referred to Blue Laws, commented on the folly of depending on a Broken Reed, and finally when he fled from the reporters declared that he who ran might Read the prophecy of defeat without using speetacle9.

The Home Market Club has issued a companion picture tract showing the enormous advantages of McKinley taxation to American citizens. The first shows a desperate-looking man with a disconsolate wife and children, in a wretched hovel, seated before a table on which appear three cuspidors labeled “coffee taxed,” “sugar taxed,” “jam taxed.” In the other picture a large family appears, dressed in silks and satins and wearing diamonds, and seated at a table groaning with a load of delicacies, among which are silver dishes marked “coffee frte,” “sugar free,” “jam free.” This will go far toward explaining why it is that our workingmen are constantly being yanked into affluence. The first editions of this valuable work will be distributed at Buffalo and Homestead.

Louisville Courier-Journal: In his first message to Congress the President said that “the power to take the whole direction and control of the elections of members of the House of Representatives is clearly clearly given to the General Government,” and that both the President and Congress would be “highly blamable if all the powers granted are not wisely but firmly used.” Mr. Harrison returned to the charge in his second message and did all he could to urge the passage of the bill, which had already passed the House, through the Senate. Having made this record he cannot do much now to break the force of his official declarations and actions. Eyerybody of intelligence knows that he is thoroughly committed to the force bill and that its passage is, next to his wish for reelection, the most earnest desire of hie heart.

NEW POLITICAL ERA.

A BENEFICIAL CHANCE SOON TO TAKE PLACE. Ererythlnc Tends to Show that tho Country Now Has the Strength, and Is Preparing to Bally Against Its Present Political Disease. We’re to Have a Change. Beyond all doubt we are close to a great and beneficial change in American politics. Ten years or more of politics on the basis of civil war sectionalism would bring anarchy. In thirty years of such politics, in which the decision has rested with only two States, our political methods have of necessity become corrupt to the last degree. the economy of our business activities has been deplorably disordered, and we have been very close to the line beyond which reformation through evolution is no longer possible, and all forces which react against complete political disorganization are made cumulative for revolution. Violently disordered as this country Is in its politics, everything tends to show that it has in it the health and strength to rally against Its diseases, pays the St. Louis Republic. Every sign of the present tends to strengthen the belief that the civil war era is at Its close; that it will close and the new era begin before the country is past any

Conductor Carter—lt’s impossible to make this music harmonize. Harrison—Never mind the harmony; our only hope is to create confusion. Proteoted Monopolist—That's it; you keep up the noise, we’ll do the rest.—St. Louis Republic

other remedy than the formidable one of the anarchy which overtakes all societies so politically corrupt that destruction must precede reconstruction. The times are full of hope that America will grow peacefully out of its period of blind passion and will peacefully outgrow all the evils which have come as consequences of the blindness of passion. Under Hayes, Barfield and Arthur, civil war sectionalism so lost the force of blind radicalism that it became possible for Cleveland to do a work of incalculable benefit to America in bringing all sections closer together. No greater work has been done since the time of Washington, and though it was followed by reaction, though the sectionalism of the civil war showed itself more malignantly than ever, yet the country showed that the good work of restoration and unification had not been lost. The Central West in 1890 shook off the bonds of civil war animosities and rose to assert Itself in the Union with the power of a giant; showing that it had the strength and the will to free the generation which will do the opening work of the twentieth century from the worst curse of the greatest crime and blunder of the nineteenth—the war between the States of the American Union. With the Central West still rests the decision of the country’s future. If it again declares that two States shall no longer control the Union; that the policies of the Union shall no longer be determined by coifuption funds used in two States, then there will remain in America no problem that cannot bo solved by peaceful evolution; then the country will finally turn its back on the era of civil war; then the union of equal States will be really restored; then the power of the people in and over the States and the Union of States will be reasserted and reaffirmed; and then the grayheaded men who have seen America under its blackness of great darkness can go to their last sleep in the certainty that a new day has dawned for their country, and that the sun of its future will shine until the fogs and mists from the night of its past are scattered.

The Tariff and Knit Undcrshlrtt. The duty on cotton knit goofs was increased by the McK'nley tariff, and the friends of protection point to the fact that knit undershirts, which were selling in 1890 for $1.25 per dozen, can now be bought for $3,124. This is a reduction of a cent a shirt, and is truly something to be thankful for. But the Indianapolis News, which ig an unbeliever in McKinley and protection, points out that cotton is selling for 5 cents a pound less in 1892 than in 1890, and that the people save a cent a shirt, not through the intervention of the tariff, but because a bounteous provi-

deuce has balked the intention of the good McKinley to put up prices. ( Robbing the Government. Our friends the enemy have much to say about civil service reform and the non-partisan character of the various governmental institutions, from time to time, and especially in campaign years, but it is obvious that they do not let any chance pass to boo3t themselves and make the general government foot the bill of their campaign expenses. The boldest and nfcst brazen attempt to rob the government in the recent past is the report of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Circulars' were sent out to manufacturers asking for information relative to tho operations of the McKinley bill and its effect upon wages and production. The report says that since the McKinley bill went into operation wages have been increased and production has been increased up into the millions. This will be paid for by the government, and the government will also pay for its distribution throughout the oountry. It will bo used as official data by the Republican spell-binders on the stump during tho campaign, and it will go down in history as the impartial findings of impartial investigators. A moment’s reflection, however, will be sufficient to throw a pall of doubt over its accuracy, and establish its partisanship. The information was sent in by manufacturers, who contributed liberally to the campaign fund four years ago, and who secured the MeKin-

TARIFF TOOTERS OUT OF TUNE.

ley bill in return for their bounty. AVhat cost them so much, and what profits them so much, they will not be very likely to decry. If figures can do it, and figures can do anything, they will make it clear that the McKinley bill has been a blessing to the country. They are caretul to conceal the amount which they have been enabled to extort from the public through its agency and operation. They coniine themselves to the increase in wages and the increase in production, and attempt to show how much richer the laboring man is in wages. Such testimony from interested witnesses, who conceal all that is unfavorable, should be taken with many misgivings and much skepticism. Certainly it will require more disinterested testimony to convince people of its truthfulness. It is a campaign document gotten up by the Republican party, and for which the people must pay.— Appeal-Avalanche. Machinery himl the Plukeit >n Plan. Manufacturing in the United States is | done by machinery. A machine does 1 the work of a hundred roe®, and perhaps only one man is employed to run it. The uses of the McKinley taxes are to enable the owners of these machines to realize the largest possible benefit from inventions to keep the benefit of invention monopolized by a class. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who has fat contracts from the Harrison administration for making armor plate for the navy at the people’s expense, hears of a new invention whieh is wairanted to “displace American labor.” He expects to realize hundreds of thousands irom this invention. He buys it from the inventor for a few thousands and introduces it in his Homestead works. Then he tells his men that as the new machine turns out more work they must take less wages. After which come the Pinkertons, and so on and so forth. Here we have the whole tariff question—the question of protecting the machinery of our Pinkerton plutocrats from competition with European machinery. That is to say, Americans are j to be prohibited by law from buying any I products of our plutocratic machinery I at Pinkerton prices to the consumer and to the laborer. This is the end and aim of the system of tariff taxation arranged and enforced by Messrs. Harrison, McKinley, Carnegie and Pinkerton. Why Farmers Should Vote Against Harrison. Because the cost of running the Government under Harrison has been about $450,000,000 more than it was under Cleveland, and Mr. Harrison could always have vetoed extravagant legislat.on. The Republican party is responsiale ior this increase. For 1890 a Republican Conjr reß .» appropriate! $494,-

000,000. For 1801 the same Congress appropriated $541,009,00,0 and did not include in this sum anything for rivers and harbors. For 1892, $507,000,000 ■was appropriated, $79,000,000 of which was made obligatory by the preceding Congress. The Democratic House did all that it could to cut down, the appropriations in the face of a resisting Senate, and did reduce the appropriations more than $20,000,000 under the Government’s estimate. If, hov ever, there was extravagance in the appropriations, they were approved by Mr. Harrison and were much less than his officers asked for to run the Government. Can farmers afford to c ast their votes in any manner that will aid in the election of a man who has increased the expenses of government nearly $460,000,000 in four years?

Mr. Cleveland's Letters.

The true animus of the flippant and derogatory allusions to Mr. Cleveland's letters in the Republican press is quite apparent. Under the thin guise of ridicule the-e is a feeling of disquietude, for which there is abundant cause. In the first place, every, letter that Mr. Cleveland writes helps his party. They are all strong and pointed, and none of them are too brief to contain some salient thought, or to convey some valuable and helpful suggestion. They show uniformly the earnest solicitude of their author for the welfaie of the people, and Ihus they strengthen his claim to popular favor.

The fact that Mr. Cleveland is called upon to answer so many letters proves how close he is to the people. The freedom and frequency with which he is addressed by all persons in all walks of life, from the lowliest to the most exalted stations, is indicative of the profound sympathy existing between him and the American masses. Very few demands of this sort are made on the time of the Presidential incumbent. Nobody, apparently, cares to write to Mr. Harrison. He does not invite an approach even by the medium of literary communications. The humble citizen, even though he might be moved to address the President, would be deterred by the doubt of securing recognition, and there is something so perfunctory in the communications of Mr. Harrison that they possess comparatively little value to those who receive them. It is a 6ignificent evidence, differentiating the natures of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland, that the letters of the latter have become a source of annoyance to the Republicans and have called forth their animadversions. As reflecting the remarkable popularity of the ex-President, and as denoting the value which the common people attach to his opinions, they are the logical objects of criticism at the hands of the Harrison organs, whose comments touching all that Mr. Cleveland says and does are strongly flavored with jealousy.—Kansas City Star. Tho Difference Between Them. After nearly four years of Cleveland’s administration he was made, without the intervention of a solitary officeholder, the unanimous choice of the Democratic party.for a second term. The Democratic National Convention met at St. Louis merely to certify and record the popular choice. After nearly four years of Harrison’s administration ho was obliged to encounter an opposition of unexampled bitterness within the Republican party, and his nomination was secured only by the shameful prostitution of every department of the Government to the purpose of getting him delegates by hook or by crook. . Harrison Uhlbr; Taffy. Ben Harrison has evidently been looking over Ohio, an I is alarmed at the unsatisfactory condition of the party machinery and the lack of harmony among those who should be his party friends. In a conversation with Hon. W. H. Enochs on the situation in Ohio, he said he “recognized Gov. Foraker as a brilliant, able man, for whom he entertained only feelings of respect and the warmest regard. He made similar remarks in regard to others who had actively opposed his nomination.” This would seem to indicate a change of heart on the part of the President.— Columbus Post.

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY DAY LIFE, a i, Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adventures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. A very curious case has just been brought before one of the Rouen law courts. • Some time ago a tight-rope dancer was performing at a local music hall when the wire suddenly broke and she fell from a giddy height right on the unfortunate conductor of thp orchestra, who was so overcome by the shock that he fainted and when he recovered consciousness was found to be deaf and dumb. The affair created no little excitement in the Norman town, and a tremendous controversy soon prevailed. The inhabitants, indeed, were divided into two camps— one side inclining to the opinion that the unlucky conductor was only shamming, while the other stoutly and indignantly maintained that there could not be the slightest doubt as to his good faith. Although nearly two years have elapsed since the accident occurred, the unfortunate musician has not uttered a syllable, nor has he shown by the most feeble sign that he can hear a word that is addressed to him. His application for damages, however, has been rejected. In the judgment it is set forth that if he became dumb it was not owing to his “receiving” the tight-rope dancer on his head, but to the “saisissement” resulting therefrom, and attributable to his excessively nervous temperament. This judgment is exciting a certain amount of criticism, considerable sympathy being felt in many quarters for the unlucky victim of the music-hall accident.

Charles TV. Duntz lives on the Landing road, Kinderhook, N. Y., near the Halfway house. One morning recently, while his wife was engaged in cleaning a portrait that had been in their possession more than a quarter of a century, she accidentally broke through the cover on the back and saw underneath it a piece of paper. She pulled it out and found that it was an old $2 bill. She called her son’s attention to it and the lad took the cover off. Underneath it they found two SSOO bills issued by a bank in Massachusetts, one in 1856, the other in 1861. During the day Mr. Duntz took the bills to the Union Bank and learned that the bank of issuance was still in existence, and that the bills were probably genuine and worth their face value. Mr. Reynolds, teller of the bank, communicated with the Massachusetts bank people and learned that it had SSOO bills of the old state issue still out and was ready to redeem them if they were genuine. About twenty-eight years ago, says Rough Notes, this picture was sent to Mr. Duntz by a wealthy relative, who requested ihat it should be carefully kept in the family, the portrait being that of a daughter who is still living. Mr. Duntz thinks that the donor placed the money where it was found, expecting that it would be discovered some day when it would be of some real benefit to the Bnder. She was very peculiar in her ways at all times. Mineral Springs (Ohio) comes to the front with a monstrosity. The head of the child, if such it can be called, resembles a rhinoceros, and is of soft cartilage and almost transparent. By close observation the blood can be traced. The least touch will cause the child to open its mouth and make a noise like an enraged animal, says the San Francisco Examiner. A triangular mark of blue color extends ontirelv across its forehead. The oase is vouched for by Dr. Connor, N. TV. Cross and E. W. Johnson, of Mineral Springs. The freak consumes about three quarts of milk daily. The ehild belongs to a family residing near Blue Creek, in that county. Its left eye is black, while the right eye is a deep blue. Its hair from its nose back to the right side is light and fine, while the opposite is coarse and black. The left hand and foot resemble the claws of an animal. It makes short barks like a dog.

A suit for breach of promise of marriage was recently brought against a woman, and decided against her, too, at the Assizes in Chester, England. The plaintiff was a young farmer named Albert Timmis, and he sued Miss Mary Birch, a young woman of small fortune. The plaintiff said that for two or three years Miss Birch had “kept him dangling at her heels just to please her vanity, without the slightest intention to redeem her promise to marry him. At the last moment she threw' him over in a most heartless fashion. She said she was too good for a farmer’s wife. ” She also insinuated that he was after her money. The young farmer said he wanted to clear his character of these aspersions. The Judge said the young man had a real grievance, his letters revealed manly and touching sentiments, and he had been badly treated. The jury gave him £SO damages. I. Hough, a laborer at Castle Rock, Col., was driving a pin in the ground with a hatchet, when a bolt of lightning descended from a clear sky and struck him. The top was taken off his hat and consumed and the rim of the hat was split. His hair was singed all over his head and upon the crown it is burned in precisely the shape of a tonsure, a spot about the size of a quarter being left wholly bare. A livid mark is left across his breast from shoulder to shoulder and directly above his heart a hole was burned in his shirt. Around the body, below the waist, extends a belt of flesh about four inches wide, black and blue and dotted with numerous small holes. Down his back and legs are streaks, and the inside of his legs are burned. Hough remained unconscious till 10 o’clock, when he recovered his senses and is still alive.

There is nothing unusual in hair turning white, but a case in which the hair turned black again after being white was recently told by a gentleman from Detroit. A lady of that city originally had black eyes and hair, but in the course of time, when she had attained the age of about seventy, her hair turned pure white. This was expected, but about a year ago her hair began darkening and is now as black as jet. There is no doubt about the change, nor was any artificial means used to produce it, so the case is certainly one of the most remarkable recorded in the annals of medical history. The lady was not conscious of any change in diet or in her physical condition that would justify the curious phenomenon, so it is absolutely inexplainable on any known hypothesis. A unique collection of cats is possessed by Dr. Susan Janeway Coltman, of Germantown, Pa., a much respected lady who studied medicine but has not practised since she inherited her father’s fortune in 1883. The cats number twenty-two in all, and include yellow Persian, Manx, white Maltese, English tiger, “feather-tailed" Turkish, Skye, Zanzibar and other felines of unique

beauty or of illustrious pedigree. Mis* Coltman values her pets at $5,000. When her cat family grows larger than she wishes it to be, she sells the superfluous kittens and devotes the proceeds to charity. An equipage that would have attracted attention even in old Acadia is that driven by Uncle Dennett of Cape Elizabeth, Me., who supplies the summer cottagers of that vicinity with milk, eggs, and garden truck. It consists of a two-year-old bull, harnessed by means of a crooked yoke to a light cart, which is also a boat. By means of reins of rope attached to a ring in the bull’s nose and drove through rings on his horns, he is driven as easily as most horses. With, this queer outfit Uncle Dennett makestwo or three trips a week to the beach, crossing the Spurwink River on the wayThe bull swims the river like a dog, and the water-tight cart-body easily supportsthe driver and load. “Did you ever ride on a train where they stop to kill snakes?” asked a young: man a few days ago in the Blairsville(Penn.) Reporter. “Well, I did. Whilecoming over the Redstone branch, ia Fayette County, last week, the train suddenly checked its speed and stopped. On going to the windows and platform to learn the cause of the sudden stoppage the passengers were treated ton novel sight. The fireman, with a long: poker, and the engineer, with a ISnk, were making frantic efforts to kill a. large snake. When the task was completed the fireman coolly remarked to* his companion, ‘John, here is where we killed that one yesterday. ’ ” John S. Alles, of Pittsburg, Pa., is said to suffer with an annual recurrence of hydrophobia. When he was twelves years old he was bitten by a mad dog im the street. The wound healed in a few weeks, but a year afterward he becameill and developed all the symptoms of hydrophobia. Under the influence of powerful opiates he at last became quiet and slept, awaking exhausted, but apparently well. He is now twenty-seven; years of age, and every August since hes was bitten has had a recurrence of the hydrophobia symptoms, and each more violent than the last. The young and the old are smart in the Pine Tree State. Ida Gibbs, the ten-year-old daughter of John Gibbs of Brooks, Me., has driven a horse rake all over 100 acres of hay fields this summer, raking the hay up clean, and has taken care of the horses besides. The town of Cooper, Me., boasts of a lady of seventythree who rakes up after a mowing machine as well as any of the men.

A white swallow was seen in theMystic Valley at Vest Medford, Mass., the other afternoon, to the wonder of a. number of people of’that town. Thebird was pure white with the exception, of a little dark spot on the under side of the wings near the body. When lastseen a flock of common swallows wasdriving the white bird from the field. The danger of small boys fishing for big game was illustrated at Pottstown, Penn., by John Keim, a lad of thirteeni years. He stood on the Schuylkill Riverbridge and in attempting to land a fivepound bass he was pulled over the railing and into the water, thirty-five feet below. Friends pulled him out and. found his leg broken, but he got the fish. According to J. B. Winkler, there is only one penalty for all crimes in Corea. —to cut off the heads of the culpritsSome time ago Mr. Winkler charged a. servant with stealing his sleeve-buttons, and, believing that he had swallowed them, the tribunal before which he was arraigned politely offered to have him cut open in search of evidence. The Rev. John 11. Coleman, a Methodist minister of Troy, says that Ms father and his uncle are the oldest twins now living in the United States. His father is a farmer of Gloversville, N. Y., and his uncle is a Methodist minister of Fond du Lac, TVis. They are ninety-two years of age, have “never been sick a day” and “do not know the taste of liquor or tobacco.” Hard luck and constant disappointments caused a lady in Paris to commit suicide in a novel way. She applied leeches all over her body, and soon died of exhaustion.

He Wanted His Fruit.

The author of ‘ ‘The American Siberia” - tells the following story of a one-armed, convict in the south, whose duty it was to couple cars on the railroad: One evening he was standing on theend of the first flat car, pin in hand r ready to make a coupling when theengine should approach closely enough. He was holding some oranges, and his* attention was somewhat divided between his duty and the safety of his fruit. Theengine was not backing in but coming pilot first, and when the coupling bar struck the socket the shock threw the man off his feet. He fell between the two, and before the engine could be stopped it struck him, doubled him togetfler and ran over his body, lifting the truck wheels quite off the track. There he was, wedged into a ball sustaining the whole enormous weight, and the pilot was canted over him at an angle of 45degrees. The captain of the gang supposed theman to be dead, and it was with no hopeof saving him that he shouted to the convicts to pry up the engine at once. They ran at the word. Beams were thrust under, the great mass of metal was raised by main force and the man was pulled out. To the amazement of every one he stretched himself, felt his. limbs and body, slowly regained his feet and said: “Whar’s my oranges?” <

Sources of Beautiful Colors.

The cochineal insects furnish a great many fine Colors. Among them are the gorgeous carmine, the crimson, scsvlet carmine and pur le lakes. The cuttle fish gives the sepia. It is the inky fluid which the fish discharges in order to render the water opaque when attacked. Indiana yellow comes from the camel. Ivory chips produce the ivory black and& bone black. • The exquisite Prussian. bLue is made by fusing horses’ hoofs and. other refuse animal matter with potassium carbonate. This color wasdiscovered accidently. Various lakes? are derived from roots, barks and gums. Blue-black comes from fee charcoal of the vine stalk. Lampblack is soot from, cerain resinous substances. Turkey red. is made from the madder plant, which grows in Hindostan. The yellow sap of a tree of Siam produces gamboge;, thenatives catch the sap in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth from theneighborhood of Sienna, Italy. Raw umber is also an earth found near Umbria* and burned. India ink is made from burned camphor; the Chinese are the only manufacturers of this ink. Masticis made from the gum of the mastictree, which grows in the Grecian Archipelago. Bistre is the soot of wood ashes, Chinese white is zinc, scarlet is. iodide of mercury, and native Vermillion, is from a quicksilver ore ealWl cinnabar.—£New York Herald.