Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 January 1887 — Page 2

PURE OQDFEILQWSHSP.

Dr. Elder'a Address at 1h9 32d Anniversary of Fort Harrison Lodge.

JIe (Jives a Delightful Sketch of the History of the Ledge,

Its lips ami Downs, itnfi the Old ami Trle't Mem. bf.rn.

ODDFELLOWSHIP.

Dr. Ellin.-'* Addrc-- T'-.fore Fu H-»rrl-*ou Noble gratul officers ami brothers Fort Harrison »r:cl "bfethrfln of our friendly order" from other lodges of the Indepeadent Order of Odd Fellows:

In the life of assock' ion", as_ Wfc'i as in the livcfi of itidiyidiial"^ it is oftentimes pleasant, and always profitable, to call a halt in the ceass-les-3 round of revolving y6ar@, find rr-trocpectively look backward through their vistas, down the path up which we have toiled reviewing th© incidents of tbe journey here, basking in the Eucshine them buffeting the storm here, we reposed on beds of rosea these, we vrcre torn and scarred by thorns here joys and happiness brightened our pathway, and hops pave vigor and elasticity to our footsteps there, sorrow and mourning beclouded the skies and discouragement laid its wearisome burden upon us.

So to-night, the fiteudy march of tune has brought us to a halting plane in the life of Fort Harrison lodge and we are assembled to celebrate in thie appropriate manner her thirty second anniversary.

It is quite usual and always interesting on an anniversary occasion of this character, to consider the history of the order at large, to tell the story of its or igin to trace its progress to its present mammoth proportions, extended throughout the length and hresth of the land, and over the world to give its statistical record of tlio distressed widows it has relieved and comforted, and encouraged with new hope—of the multitude of orphans it haa sheltered under its capacious wing, r.nd, with parental care, have educated aod fitted for the re&pori8ibi!i!.ififi and duties of mature life. But the limited time allotted on thib occasion will not perri'it the reoltal of so much history, and 1 shall therefore confine my remarks to the brief mention of a fev statistics and incidents specially pt-risiaing to the life of this Lodge.

Terre Haute Lodgo No. 51 had been prospering for a number of years, until itB membership became "too thick to thrive," and in the yea 1854 the feasibility of instituting a new lodge in this city began to he terionsly considered. Finally, near the eml of that year, thirteen members took their withdrawal cards and ntede application to the Grand Lodge of Indiana for a charter to institute a new lodge. This seperation f:om the old lodge did not take place because of any dissension, strife, or other internal disturbance, hut because it was naturally conceeded that suc'o a proceeding woufd result to the «ood of the order. The Grand Lodge granted the charter, and on the 25th day of January, 1855, with appropriate ceremonies. Fort Harrison lod^e No. 157 was duly instituted with the following named brothers as charter members: [. P. eWindle, August Nippert., Firman Nippert, James Haird, James B. Edmunds, William Patrick, Samuel K. Allen, John Leach, Solomon Hurbert, M. W. Williams, Wm. M. Slaughter, John Abbott, A. R. Summers.

Our worthy permanent secretary, Past Grand A. G. Balch, has collected and kindly furnished me the following summary of incidents and statistics: Fort Harrison lodge was instituted in the hall over Sykes' hat store, on the Somh side of Main ptreet, between Fourth and Fifth. It afterward moved across Main Btreet to a hall in a building owned by Past Grand William E. McLean, and again from there to a hall on the south side of Main, between Sixth and Seventh streets, and from there to this beautiful hall which ii now occu pies. The whole number received into the lodge by initiation up to the present time ia 480* I will mention right here a singular coincidence. The name of the first candidate initiated, and also of the last, is Bruer. The whole number received by deposit of can! is 141, all of which, "added to the thirteen charter members makes a total membership of 634. Of this number 117 have withdrawn by card 151 have been suspended fifty-four have died, and seven have been expelled, making a total of 329. Of j.thoseg suspended twenty were reinstated leaving the present memheiship in good standing 231. During these thirty-1w- ysara tho lodge has paid for relief of widows and orphans, sick benefits, and Snneral benefits and charitable donation* the sum of $20,000, or about $625 a year. In the first report of the lodge to tbe Grand lodge, it stated its finanoial resources to be $1.33, and in the last report its financial resources were given at $6,010.57. From these facts, in connection with the whole amount paid for reliei, we have the assurance that the lodge lisfl been in a good degree prosperous. If we chronicle the lapse of time by generations—one gen eration has been born and another generation passed away since the institution of this lodge—and of thirteen irho procured its charter but throe remainPast Grands Samuel K. Allen, Wm. M, Slaughter and Asa R. Summers. This veteran trio h. ve stood shoulder to shoulder every day, from the day Fort Harrison was ho.-n until this vary anniversary night, through all the vicissitudes of discouragement and dauger well as prosperity, stimulating encouragement and confidence hy their constant presence and valuable counsel. This lodge cannot fully realize how much of their prosperity the owe to the untiring zsal and ever watchful fare of these pioneers whose heads have grown silvered in the t-ervice. No comparisons can be drawn as to their capacity, efficiency or faithfulness in their work yet at the risk of exciting jealousies, 1 will presume to say something of some personal characteristics

Past Grand Allen's special fort is as an expounder of the laws of the order. If a knotty question conus up, his opinion is solicited, and usually found correct. If charges have been preferred against ft brother, his name more frequently appears on the investigating committee thau any other.

Past Grand Slaughter can always be relied upon for his thorough persistance and unyielding tenacity in sustainirg any measure or project which he deems to be for tho good of the lodge. During the war most of the younger members of the lodge were in the armv, and the demoralised condition of bminess aflairs distracted the attention of the rest of ihe rest of the memberships from the interests of the lodge to such a degree, that for a long period of time, Brother Slaughter and five others, alone kept up the regular weekly meetings. Finally matters became so discouraging that it was proposed to surrender the charter. Then it was that Brother Slaughter rose in wrathful might and in very emphatic language declared that, so long as four other members could be found who would stand by him, Fort JTarrison lodge should be kept alive. ,B* his personal efforts the charter was

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retained, and Fort Harrison lodge still lives. All three of these veterans have always been noted for their constant attendance at lodge meetings, being very seldom absent, when in the city and health would permit. But Past Grand Summers is accredited with being the most punctual in this respect. Ihe hall of the lodge ia his sanctuary, whither he i/oea up to pay his devotions. In ah these thirty-two years he thinks ho has not mossed more than eight or nine meeting# «t the lod^e, including sicknefcb" and absence from thy citv. I have made a mathematical calculation and find that in these thirtj-two years, allowing two hours as the average time of lodge ai'X'tiiigp, and hours a working u&y, Brother Stimaerv has

spent

neariv a

whole solid yetr working time in i.he lodge room and much mora than tins, when we add hie attendance at meetings of the degree of Rehacca, Brother Summere haa been preamt and assisted at the institution of twelve different lodges, including four of tbe Rebecca degree, all but one being in this city and vicinity. Thus has he shown his interest in the propigation of our belovid order, ior "by their fruits je shall know them-" How truly insy we say of all three of these brethren—"Well dons good a*d faithful servants may you yet be spared for many yoara to reap the fruits of your labors, "and iw honor Fort Harrison Lodge hy your presence and conciel/'

And now," brothers through these selfsacrificing iabors, suppiimeTited by our own efforts. Fort Harrison Lodge contributes her mita in common with the great brotherhood, in an effort lor the amelioration of the condition of their fellowman. More prosperous than ever before is she still endeavoring by her fraternal acts to demonstrate the great fundimental principle which underlies the superstructure of our older: "Friendship, love and truth." The golden links of that chsiu which Dinds ajl true Oddfellows in their common duty and holiest work, paramount to everything else: "To relieve the distressed, to bury the dead, and to educate the orphan." This is true

Oddfellowship lor Oddfellow-

ship had its origin in human needs, and it will find its end only when human needs are no more.

Oddfellowship does not iconsist in its outward demonstrations. Jt is not the rej$nlia or decorations of it? officers and members, nor the banners and drapery of its lodge room. It is mot. its form of government or its new ritiipl or ceremonial. It i3 not its lectures and charges, its emblems and tokens, its mementos and cigns. passwords and sasnns of recognition. These are as it were, but iho casket that eucloses tha vitid principle within.

The Independent order of Odd Fellows, of which Fort Harrison Lodge ia a part, ia a great association of men founded upon the doctrine of univerfal brotherhood. Upon that fundamental truth, that God hath mad a of ona blood all nations of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, and upon the golden rule of conduct: "Whatsoever yie would ihai men should do unio you, do y« eves

to them." Its spirit is found in the affinity which binds heart to healt, and makes* their interests one that cause# the t« ar of sympathy to flow wh*u adversity befalls a brother, and tha heart rejoice when prosperity crowns ids efforts. The rich, the poor, the leisrned, the ignoraBt, stand on a common level in obedience to the command: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

Oddfellowship knows no rack, no caste or particular claoa of men hut in the words of our ritual: "We are Odd Fellows only when we speak and act like honest men."

Tell me cot that he's a poor mau. That bia dress iscoarsoand hare Tell rr.8 not his daily pittance, )h a workman's scanty fHro Tell me not his birth is humble.

That his parentage is low In he honest in his actions? That is all I want to know.

:b his word to be relied onf Has his character no blame? Then 1 care not If he's low-born

Then I ask not whenoe his name. Would he from an unjust action Tarn away with sorrewing eye!1 Would he, then defraud another,

Sooner on the scaffold die!

Would he spend hia heard-gained earnings On a brother in distressT Would he succor the afflicted

And fhe weak one's wrongs rodress Tliec, he ia a man deserving Of my lore, and my eeteen. And I oare not what his birth-p lace

In the eye ot man may seem.

i.et it b« a low-thatohed hoval Let it be a clay-built cot Let it be a parish workhouse

In my eye it matters not— And it others will disown him As inferior to their caste Let them do it I befriend him

As a brother to tho last.

Wealth, renown, distinctions, talents, fame, professions, titles, are not the passports which open tbe gates of this holy temple and admit to its sacred rites, but honesty, cftndot, benevolence, hu niility, charity, friendship, love and

truth always find the portals opeu to en ter in and dwell with kindred spirits, blessing and beiDg blessed.

In the temple of Oddfellowship dwells

That lov« which foadl twinea Within its own the stranger's oarot, And In its inmost hetrt anahrlnes

The w«al or woe a brother b«ari.

Within the sacred walls of this temple we are taught to rise above a life of selfishness and hypocrisy—to lay aside the mask of deceit, and see himself surrounded by friends and friendly faces aud open hearts, into which he may look as into the pure and cloudsi sky. "Within these hallowed walls the world is shut out here we are separated from its cares aud 'distinctions, its dissensions aod vices." Here, the mystic tie of sympathy binds to tbe sooiety of congenial spirits here, friendship weaves her silken bonds here, love breathes forth her strains of mutual sympathy laud confiding tenderness, while truth, above, around, beneath, sheds forth her blase of loving light. Here, hope and charity, like the cheering beams of the morning star, stoop to pour into the bleeding heart of the sorrowing and fearfnl their effulgence of joy, consolation, happiness and peace.

The selfish man has no business here. True Oddfellowshin is utterly at war with selfishness, and the true principles Of the order find no response in the selfish man's heart. To him, it is no pleasure to hush the sigh jt anguish, to stay the widow's tear, and still the orphan's moan—to watch by the bedside of the sick aod dying, and to drop & tear of sympathy and affection as] well as the evergreen into his grave— yet, sometimes, strange as it may seem, notwithstanding all the safe-guards thrown around it, some such sordidly selfish individuals, lured by the pecuniary benefits the lodge proffers, have under the guise of innocence gained admission to the order. But once there, they, like a cancer, eat out the life blood of the institution—or. soorpion-like sting its benefactor to death. Lamb like they seek an enterance into the "mystic eircle"ostensibly to aid in relieving suffering humanity, but once within the sacred retreat, the brethren sooner or later find that humanity as he understands it, is all enclosed within the cuticle which covers his own body, and the funds to which he added grudgingly were accumulated for his use so, lik« a Shylocb, he clsmorously demands his pound of flesh, utterly regardless of the life or death of the loure# from which it ia to bs taken.

Daring mj mow than forty years membership ia "the order, I have so repeatedly witnessed, conduct of this character, as to make wish that the system ol p«uciary ben« flta was 9tricken out, so that the cupidi ty of the seldsh and niggardly would not be tempted to gain admission, because their all absorbing devotion to dollars stnd cents, lo such a member, the value of dollar is the Almighty motive, \*hile the value of friendship, lova and t.wth is totally obeenre.

Once I Iteheved the beautiful principles of Oddfellowship possessed a power eo pot«ot as to turn the hard, miserly, unyielding heart into a benevolent one bur I have gotten over tha delusion. The Keopard does not change his spots, nor the Ethiopeau his akin. Either of which I should ss soon aspect to see as a good, kind, loving, benevolent brother, madoof such acharacteraa that of which I hi.ve been speaking. He is a walking falsehood to the world. He is not an Odd Fellow. He may wear the regalia, and give every »gn and grip but he nsw.r \yas, is not, and never will be an Odd Fellow. Ha has no human desire to rtiiev+ the misary of human life. He never feels tho noble gushings of a genBrnua heart. The blessings oi a grateful spirit never feil upon him. The prayers of the poor and needy never reach Hesven on his

behalf

but like a with

ered branch he passes a life which

miserable to himeel/, because it is uselssa to others and he dies a death where no widow's sighs are breathed as incense to Heaven, and no tablet ia raised to bis memory by those whom he has blessed.

And now, brothers of Fort ^Harrison lodge, let us oontinue to be faithful in ttiis work. It is a noble work—noble in its aim, noble in its performance, noble in its results, noble in its rewards, and a noble destiny awsits the faithful for, let us remember, the prize is at the end of the race, and will be given to all who shall in the journey of life prove themselves worthy of its bestowal. L?t us studiously cherish the principles of our beloved order. May they grow stronger and deeper in oux hearts, and shine more and more brightly upon our countenances for with these great principles brightly burning upon the altar of the heart, each must of necessity be tiue to himself and if true to himself, he cannot be false to any man, to his nouutry, or to his Gocf.

THE RAILROADS.

Cute 1IN£S. Hero and TJIMU. of IntercutlDg Items. Mr. S. 1). Solomon has resigned as jg?nt of the Southeastern at Riley.

Conductor Geoige Burt, of the (J. & E. I., was off duty last week sick. W. T. Holmes had his run.

Messrs. George Farriugton and Will Arnold, of the Vandalia, are down on the coal branch, settling contractors' accounts.

Mr. J. T. Shutes, formerly employed na a telegraph operator by the O. & E. 1, has been assigned as agent of the E. & I. company at Coal City.

Mr. N. K. Elliott, who has charge of the Vandalia train service, has recently disposed of his stock in the St. Louis, Kansas Oity & Colorado for a very satisfactory consideration.

Indianapolis Journal* The Vandalia is to r.dopt the Waters-Sweeney patent telegraph switch at all their important telegraph stations. The one which wai put in at Indianapolis a few months ago doss excellent service, and is a great convenience in many ways.

The Thursday night wreck on the E. &. I. at Honey Creek bridge proves to have been not so disastrous as at first rumored. The caboose and one car of Conductor Gassage's train went in the ditch and beyond this no damage was done. Tbe accident was caused by spreading rails.

The funeral services of the late D. M. Kendiick will be held to-day from the Terre Haute house at 2 p. m. It was Mr. Kendrick's request that his remains should be laid away "in some shaded corner of Wood Lawn." Mr. Kendrick is one of the best known railroad men in the oountry, and arose from the lower round of the ladder to positions of prominence in the railroad world. He was general passenger agent of the. New York Central at the time of his death.

Speaking of the railway mail service the Philadelphia Record says: "Many seek appointment under the impression that the position of railway postal clerk is a 'soft snap,' but having their eyeB opened to the really arduous duties that await them and the meagre salary at tached they resign in disgust to seek easier and more fruitful occupations. The position, if the applicant fulfill the requirements of the service, becomes easy to a certain degree only after a period of hard study and application. It is anything but a sinecure. To reach the top of the ladder the aspirant must make up his mind to vigorous application, and must be possessed of a leasonably good education at the start.

A Complaint.

The following communication is self explanatory: To thl of the Exprtts

DEAREditor BIB: There are many complaints from residents of the north and conoernlng the dangerous oonditiou ot the Teot.h and Spraoa street crossing of the C. AS. I., with the Vandalia. The location of tbe Brjoson houte makes It impoeeibla for ona driving te see the track ami the approach of trains. There is no watohman there and the danger to vehioles is almost ooustant, several have had narrow esoapes and it 1s to be hoped that this will meet with the prompt action of the officials who will bare a watohman placed at this point, SuBsaaisn.

OVER FOUR ACRHS OF HUM

A Fiery nltne in tha Haart of a Great City. In the very heart of London there exists a fiery mine of eo excitable a disposition that no artificial light of any descrlplion has ever vet been allowed to l8 brought even into its neighborhood. Iu product, however, is not coal but rum.

The rum-shed, as it is called, of the West India dock, covers a space of 200,000 square feet with vaults of corresponding size, all crammed with huge casks of spirit, from every pore of which—and the most carefully closed have pores in plenty— the fiery vapor is forever streaming out into the air, only begging for the smallest chanoe of converting the whole area of the docks, with their 250 odd ships and 200,000 or 800,000 tons or so of cargo, and their more or less incalcuable stores of timber and tea, silk and sugar, wine, wool, whisky, whale-fins and what not into the most magnificent bowl of snap-dragon ever imagined in infant nightmare.

Into these fiery regions not even a bull's-eye lantern is or ever has been allowed to penetrate. Even the wharf along the side where the great puncheons are landed is forbidden to the approach of vessels, every cask being transferred from ship to shore in the company's own lighteis.

Each cask in that vast range of dim, dark vaults is marked and numbered, and on the right reading of these marks and numbers depends the efficient execution of every one of the numerous operations to which every cask has to be subjected before its contents can go forth for the mixing of the world's grog. It is a feat worthy ot a Japanese juggler.

A brave man won't drive a lame horse. He will buy Salvation Oil and cure his aoimsl at o&oe.

THE EXPRESS, TERRE HAUTE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1887.

JAP TURPEN.

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give General Harrison some information and I, for the reason that in all my writing, hsd treated that distinguished gentleman fairly. I was commissioned ts do the work. The watchmen at the treasury, wanting an increase of -.lary, I was lately requested to see Mr. Holm and nscertain if he would object. Holraan havhsg been an old '.i-k«U m•••* it got into their heads that 1 conhl to him. They were eminently currfo:. and Mr. Holnaan said: "Ve.u, cotiiiilL-c ing the responsibility resting on the treasury watchmen, they ought to have sufficient pay to make them comfortable. But here is the-trouble: Dan Manning is Kt kiDg an increase of salary for the head of bureaus, chief clerks and the favored people who ore really making more money than thsv could possibly earn at home, and through fear of making the appropriation look too large he has the nerve to decline including tha char women, laborers and watchmen. Manninj would ask for about one hundred dollars to be added to the salary of a laboring man, or watchman, who really deserves it, and that five hundred or a thousand be added to the salary of some one already receiving a princely compensation, and who does not deBorvo it."

Mr. Holman further said: "Every Democrat appointed to office by Mr. Cleveland, with but one or two exceptions, was either asking for an increase of force or an increase of salary." He talked about the Democrats after being for twenty years out of office, in the first years of the party's administration going in regardless of expense and manifesting an extravagance for which there is no Republican precedent."

During the last week the National Woman's Suffrage association has held its nineteenth annual convention iu this oity. For nineteen years this organization has been petitioning congrass for the full piivilegss of American citizenship, and though the rijjht hae not been conferred, it cannot by said that the cause ia destitute of influence. Within that time woman has been admitted to nil the avenues of rtepectsble employment which previously were closed to her—and iu all the trades aa well as learned professions, she haa proven a success.

All reforms are said to at firs,t be met with a humorous opposition but the right of the American woman to vote, if she vaaia that privilege and responsibility, has long since passed tha period of ridicule. The public is no longer amused by the clown, whether the chief attraction of the saw-dust arena, or a knight of the quill aud ink-pots, who attempts wit at the expanse of those earnest women. It is interesting to note the change that seems lately to liavo come over the public mind in this regard. Though the newspaper press of the country may not unanimously favor the proposition to enfranchise women, those actually afraid of the calamity her enfranchisement would presage, might easily be numbered. This condition was scaacely dreamed of so much as twenty year» aco, when grave and learned leaders appeared in the morning press defining tho proper sphere of woman, and alarming tho world at the prospect of giving her the ballot. But thia ia a theme better suited to the actual historian than a fellow required to hurriedly chronicle current events.

Most of tho ladies of the convention, indeed all, except May Wrright Sewall, of Indiana, had silver hair, and tbo character of wisdom that comes of experience and years. More beautiful spirits I hav6 never seen. It interested me to observe the deference and respect uccorded Susan B. Anthony by the members of the convention—it was all of what a political convention would bestow upon its acknowledged party leader. She has outlived the calumny and derision, begotten of ignorance and superstition, and taken a place in the conservative esteem of the public, to which, her mind, Christian character and sincerity entitles her.

A very interesting character of the convention, was a sweet-faced grandmother—she said she was largely a grandmother, Mrs. Isabella Bucher Hooker. All the Buchere can speak as easily as an Italian can sing, or Blind Tom can play the piano, and Mrs. Isa bella Bucher Hooker ia of that family. Shespoke on The Constitutional Rights of Woman of the United Slates and though she may have said nothing new —for there are no scholars cow to deny that every argument for manhood suffrage applies with equal force for womanhood suffrage—her manner of saying it contained all that Bucherian sparkle, and rhetorical gossmere in which the suds of truth float round tbe world. She found but little encouragement on her flVst visit to tho eapitol eighteen years ago and only one patient listener— Charles Sumner. In the beginning all ave the original anti slavery men viewed tha proposition to enfranchise woman as a fit subject for alarm. The growth of the legislative idea regarding a wife's right to property form the gen eral assembly proceeding the constitutional convention up to tho last onact ment on that subject forms ihe most curious chapter In Indiana history.

Mrs. Hooker urged the Massachusetts statesman who had done so much for the negro to take up the cause of woman to which he replied: '"'Years and fast failing health admonish me that I must yield to the will of God and regard my labors in legislation as conoluded. But for that 1 would enter heart and soul into tbe good cauee you advocate

But on those advanced grounds where only Charles Sumner, eighteen years ego, could stand, many of the United States senators, under the leadership of Blair, stand to-day, as the vote bearing on an amendment to the constitution shows.

Mr. Hendricks never got the consent of his mind to go upon the rostrum as a lecturer—he thought Morion the lecturer of much weaker wing than Morton the popular political orator—but he once went so far as to select a subject—'.he three queens—Anne, EJiaabeth and Victoria—and frame a discourse, though it was never declaimed.

Several citizens of Indianapolis, Governor Porter, Mr. Hendricks, Major Gordon and Judge Turpie, I usually saluted with this question: "What are you reading? Those gentlemen were always reading, and in the work then engaging them so deeply interested that they would cheerfully talk to any one disposed to hear. Porter, before becoming absorbed in the history of the state, was always discovering new beauties in some old book, nearly obsolete or at least out of print. Gordon seldom goes outside of the standard works, though his is one of the largest private libraries in the country—Tacitus, Voltaire, Plutarch, Bacon and Hum? are always lending bim new delight, ilis manner of reading poetry is to cou.uiit it to memory, and all such poems as t'.yron on Napoleon, the highest descriptive parts of Child Harold, Tennyson on the Iron Duke, he has by heart. He can recite Paiadise Lost by the hour, and all save the connecting and weaker parts of Thompson's seasons. Everything pertaining to the ancient Greek had a wonderful charm for Mr. Handricks. He studied the S Greek at home, the Greek in affairs, the Greek iu politics, tbe Greek at war, the

Grek at worship, and never wearied of the Greek in any of tbe relations of life. Judge Turpie was always rummaging the second-hand book stores and no autobiography is so poorly written as to be without interest to him. "I read autobiography," he once observed to me, "for the reason that I find it the most direct route to the root of things. The facts given or the facts withheld tell more faithfully the actual condition—the motive and inspiration of an author than any other character of literary work."

I can not write that Mr. Hendricks was a universal suffragist, though he was by no means afraid of uni venal suffrage. He thought the reigns of the three great qaeens amply attested woman's capacity for government. He had studied the history of those sovereigns to tbe degree of perfect mastery, and I have heard him point out instances of peculiar sagacity wherein they seemed far beyond ordinary stattsmamhip and dim-ted by the instincts, or the executive ability, if you prefer that word—of a gifted mother in the management of a kingdom. It was by accident, he held, that Anne, Elitabetn and Victoria drew about them advisers to strong and talented. He placed a proper estimate upou what the world bad learned from the political writings of Madame de Stael and her recognized great fidelity to truth, as well as additional evidence of woman's natural aptitude for Rovernmentin 8heba reverancefor the wisdom of Solomon.

Thera was a member of the convention whose name in her native state is historic —Zsrelda G. Wallace, and the address delivered by this magical woman gave additional luster to the acknowledged scholarship of Indiana. The reputation of Indiana is made bright hy her platform oratory. The introduction cf Madam Wallace called for the announcement of General Lew Wallace's name, which, since the publication of Ben Hur, in all English speaking conventions, infl uenced by a sense piety, will be greeted with the loudest applause. I thought her speech, during the discourse, the finest I had ever heard, so Christianly conceived, elegantly and truly rendered.

There is, there must b6 a vast amount of misinformation in the publio mind regarding Susan B. Anthony. All that have known her in journalism, aresrtuck by her strong Anglo Saxon and elegant style of composition, making possible concise statement and argument ubaolutelj unanswerable. But unlike any other author I have ever met, man or woman, with only one exception, Mrs. Anthony blushes with the deepest embarassment at tbo slightest sllusion to her super! rity in the field of letters. In the providence of God ami the mysterioqs operation of the human mind, un American statue of fieedom bearing the face and figure of this glorious woman, who haa done so much for the sex—people holding to the belief that she has accomplished little or nothing, are of the number who having tars hear not, and eyes see not—may some day he erected, but she would hear any reference to her leadership, past or present, with an express of countenance revealing pain. I can c.'iuipare her life work, only to the sweot sonled maiden aunt, who yielding to the call of duty, enters the family'of an invalid sister, aud selflessly consecrates herself to the obligations imposed by motherhood. Such lives contain more of heaven than earth.

My friends

JAP TrajfEM.

The Crows tn an Koltpse. Indianapolis Journal. There ie evidently a form of government among crows, and some have places of authority. In a flock there is always some on guard, ready to give signal of approaching danger, and iu flying their flight appears to be directed by command. I recollect once of seeing a flock of cross homeward bound late in tbe afternoon. They were on an air-line to their place of rest, when suddenly the sun became eclipsed by the interposition of the moon. It soon became a total eclipse. There wer6 strange cries by the leader as the darkness spread, and, as it became total, the command was querulous. Instantly each crow chose a limb. To me the actions of the birds were even more interesting than the eclipse. Not less ridiculous were the movements of the crows as the eciips. rolled away. They were vol uhlo in their expressions of astonishment, propably declaring it the shortest night that, they ever experienced. After shaking out their feathers, greatly bewildered, they took np their flight westward ancl disappeared.

CONTIIIJEI) A LI THI WEEK,

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The ancient Persians were truthful, and oae of the many ^accomplishments taught a boy was never to tell a lie. But modern Persia is such a hot bed of lies that a man who does not lie is a phenomenon. Man seeks his opposite, and the lying Persian is very fonct of the truthtelling Englishman. Even the English telegraph clerks become favorites of Persian dignitaries and fanatical Mohammedan priests.

These clerks are scattered along the telegraph line, one at each station, and soon "take root" among the natives, they are invited to dinners, to marriage Feasts snd to picnics. What flrat attracts their Oriental friends to them is the strange fact that Englishmen never lie.

Little by little the influence of "the man who tells the truth" begins to spread. Disputes are referred to him, for he ia the only man in the place who will not take a bribe. He serves as an unpaid arbitrator, and as there are no fees in his court, he soon becomes a favorite, becomes an impartial judge.

Though a lone Englishman, in a fanatical Mohammedan district—his nearest fellow-cleak i? miles distant—he soon finds himself a man of importance. The local governor welcomes him to his house, and returns his oalls Several khans, and even a prince or two, drop into-his station-house to smoke waterpipes and drink innumerable cups of weak tea. All because he is the one solitary man in tbe country who never tells an untruth or holds out an itching palm.

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