Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 April 1889 — Page 2

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DAILY EXPRESS.

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Retrenchment is the issue plainly before the people of Terre Haute. ,,

In Evansville with a larger territory

fewer policemen are on the pay rolls than in Terre Haute. *^$1

Something should be done in Terre 's ?l i| aute in the way of celebrating the cen tennial of Washington's inauguration.

J-'J The trouble with both police and fire lV department is that too many salaries are paid for men about headquarters. The pay rolls in both departments have more than doubled in the last seven years.

Last

year the tire department cost $42, ]93.22, and the police department $28,Each can stand a cut of 33 per cent, without, interfering with its elliciency. *v*tes W- First Assistant Postmaster-tieneral Clarkson purchased a span or hearse horses to'draw his carriage. As the liea-1 executioner or the administration, funeral trappings are decidedly appropriate ror him. Chicago News.

Theollicinl in the Cleveland administration who retired with more respect than any other and who, more than any oLher, pleosed both his party friends and Itapublicans, was Mr. Clarkson'a prede ceasor, Mr. Stevenson, who, like Mn. Clarlcson, avoided the hypocrisy of the Vilas and Cleveland style of making changes in otlices.

It. (i. Dun & Co.'s weekly report on the condition of trade leot week referred to the great depression in the leather business and the heavy failures in that line of business. Within ten days failures, representing more than a million and a half in labilities, have been reported, one firm at Boston going under on Saturday for &>50,000. It will be recalled that the free traders last fall were-wont to point to the leather industry as one which had been enhanced by putting it-3 "raw materials'' on the free list some years ago. vfc'S

jT.'T' Secretary Rusk, of the agricultural department, has dispersed with a large naTTxtjTsr-ar-ourpiu/r-j aua HTBIjr LllorB WlII be dropped in the p9nsion bureau, because the appropriation for the current year, ending June Oth, were anticipated by the lat9 administration. In other words the pay roils were unduly enlarged dnring campaign timf3 last year, just, ns it happened here in Teire Haute that the $10,C30 for street purposes for the year beginning April 13th, 188S, wer» expended by De^amber, $12,000 of the amount being used in leas than six months during the fall campaign.

Windows along the line of the centennial parade in New York are selling at 1,000. What wes proposed by the select -—few who claimed revolutionary ancestry ii. to be a highly centimental and patriotic event is beiDg turned into a catch-penny Is: nll'uir. Indeed, it is even charged that one of the select who reserved to themaelveu the best boxes for the ball, has

Bold bis box for sordid money. New York is cosmopolitan, perhaps, but it is possessed of less genuine public spirit than any big city in the country. It raisad a few thousand dollars for this celebration—not us much us a Kansas town would produce for a boom feature—and is calling on all the Unit9d States to come forward and witness its tire-cracker "goollV __

Dim lorget that the city Is growing larger. A prominent business man said a few days ago that lie was in favor or cutting down the police torce to one hair its present number. Just think or It! He 5 Is In the same llnewltti TbkExpress. He takes no ig thought iimt poor people who are compelled to •5 live In little houses away from the business center have a right to police and tlre protection which they could not get with less efficient service «, than the city now has.—rArgo.

That is a strong argument, as a general thing, but it does not apply in this instance. The cost of the police force can be diminished one-third without taking -a policeman from a beat where nre located "the little houses away from the business center" or curtailing the salary of the policeman. The same statement holds good as to the tire department. The useless expense of the police and lire departments is at headquarters and iu the purchase of supplies, etc.

THE PENSION PRINCIPLE.

Assistant Secretary 15ussey has been 5* setting aside some of the rulings of his predeecessor ns to causes on which pensions may be granted and in doing so has shown the contrast between one who believes in the government giving its pensions cheerfully aud with good will and one who does so grudgingly and who seeks for technical flaws to rule against the Eoldier applicant. The

Cleveland administration was at great pains to make it appear that all soldiers who applied for pensions were trying to play the confidence game on the government, and Mr. Cleveland cracked jokes in his vetoes to show the people that he was not one who could be buncoed He knew what "in the line of dutj" meant and when a soldier asked

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for pension becauM he received in juries or was made ill while not looking into the mouth of a cannon, Mr. Cleveland exposed the impoeter. Indeed, so narrow was the view of these allies of the ex-rebels they would have amended the pension laws so that a would-be pensioner must prove that the wound was within a chalked line covering that portion of his form over the heart, not an inch more.

General Harrison, in a speech in November, 1887, put the pension principle in a strong way and what Assistant Secretary Bussey is now doing is in perfect accord with the sentiments then expressed as follows:

What Is the principle of It? Why, It Is something like the old rale we had In the army. As long as a man was able he matched and carried

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own gjn and knapsack but when he got hurt or sick, and fell out, we had an ambulance to put him In. And that Is the principle of this bill that we survivors ot the lata war, as long as God gives us strength and health, will march In the column of civil life, maVlng our owa living, and carrying our -own burden. But, there Is a comrade falling by the way, sick less, casualty—not his own fault— and he has to rail out we want the gr«at national ambulance to take him up. Why, my countrymen, somebody must care Tor these veterans who stood up amid shot and shell and sabre stroke, but camot now trace their inflrmatles to their army experience by any satisfactory proofT They have fought manfully since. They are dependent oa their work for a living and they cannot work. Someboly must take care of them the expense can net be avoided unless you kick the old veterans out and let them die on the roadside. "vf

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Ihey Had Husbands.

In 1989 Judge-It has bssn clearly proven, prisoner at the bar, that you seized this lady who was a total stranger to yo« and hugged and kis*ed her In a violent and unseemly manner. Have you any explanation to offer before sentence Is passed upon you?

Prisoner—I—I thought It was my wife. Soprano chorus by the Jury—We don't believe it! 'H! „HA. Traveled Man.

Mrs' 'tfushcrott—1 underst-ind, Mr. Billing?, that you are a much traveled man. Billings—I certainly was last night. There must have been a dozen or tliem traveling qn.iiie at one time, 1 think.

A Modern Convenience."

Mrs. Jinx—I'm going to commence house clea*Ing to-day. ,"*• Mr. Jinx-Well?

Mrs. Jinx—Well, I wish you would swear your phonograh full and send It up to the house for me to turn on occasionally when my feeikigs get too much tor me, will you

She AVanted to Know.

Mr. Jason—Talk about rashlon and all that sort or thing, to mr mind the prettiest sight Is a woman dressed In a nics, e'ean apron.

Mrs. Jason—Jehlel. I'd just like to know where you have been to see women dresse.l In any such rliilotiloii^style as that?

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Hhe—Oh. Just look what a lovely bonnet that girl ahead or us lias. 1 wonder where »lie got It iuil who sue isv

He—I don't know where jilie got It, but Til ask her when I tfo houie. She's our cook. She-Oh, never mind. It's not a very pretty bonnet anyway.

Monday Musings.

The cold chop has a wintry hue. The Chicago Tribune. has an article on "The Wastes of Postry." As a general tklng the waists or poeli'j are of the lithe and slender variety.

The duck shooting season closed In Indiana last

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"ducty who uas heretofore been afraid to give her young man the "shake." ijk!

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Providence Journal: The trial of Boulangerls that of an opera bouffe hero by opera bouffe statesmen.

Philadelphia Press: 6sn. Alger, of Hlcb'gan Is out early with the announcement that he wlil be a candidate for the Republican nominal ion for President ?n 1692. The general has taken time, not by the forelock, but by the whole scalp.

St. Louis Globc-Democrat: It Is plearant to read of a man recently appointed to a federal of-ll-e in Texas: "He ser* dIn the Union army during the wr." In not a single instance did Cleveland appaint a Southern man of whom such a thing could bssa'd.

Klmlra Adveil'ser: The men who have been loolf'tip with a minifying glass to* discover some scandal among the members ot the cabinet to stand off the Pan-Elect ilc. Standard oil and other 8".in«lals of the late Cleveland cabinet, have had only their trouble for their pa'.ns. This is a clean cabinet.

Globe-Democrat: Last year tifteen trusts were establlsned In England, while nineteen have keen create 1 this year, thus far, with about eight moaths of the yf -ir yet to heir from. If all the protectionist countries in the world put together can equal this aggregate this year, let the free traders say so.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The Chicago Tribune claims that t.he villages and country produce the ablest lawyers and. it might have added, the greatest number. A very large percentage or country boys who get a fair education feel a swelling within the hat band that culls them Into the legal arena as a fitting school for the walks of statesmanship trodden by such men as Webster and Clay. But it must be confessed that la small, obscure country villages ore oiien to be found lawyers of wonderful ability and Judges of vast learning and remarkable clearness of lejal vision. They are not hnrd of In the outside world, because they are mcdest in self-estimation, and have not the auibinou to push to the front.

Which Is the Gentleman.

The boatman of yesterday produces the dude of to day. The corner groceryman of twenty years ago eflloresces into the Pitznoodle of this year. The practical butcher of the past is transformed into the manikin of the present. The honest, painstaking, industrious self denyer, who for forty years put bead and heart and band at severest toil in order that his pocket might be fi'led, produces in the second generation an empty-headed, idle-handed, shriveledhearted sp3ndchrift, of no use to himself or any of his fellow creatures. But which of the two is the gentleman?— [Joe Howard in the New York Prees.

The Kxecution of Mrs, Whlteling.

A great effort is being made in Pennsylvania to prevent the execution next week of Mrs. Whiteling, the woman who poisoned her husband and two children. It is said that no woman has ever been hanged in the Keystone state, and sentimentalists are putting forth strong exertions to save the life of Mrs. Whiteling. The Peace society and other organizations are actively at work in her behalf. The board of pardons has refused to interfere in her favor, and the whole weight of the movement of her friends is thrown upon Governor Beaver.

A High Price.

Mrs. Winks—It's an awful price, considering the kind of weather we are served with.—[Philadelphia Record.

The Oklahoma B«oiner'a Mistake. He had gone to Oklahoma, And he didn't take a gun, s-

So he missed his quarter section. And hts bones bleach In the sun. —I New York Herald.

Intemperate Orators.

Paradoxical as it may Bound, it is still a fact that sober argument is not always adhered to by temperance speakers. —[Troy Tirnee.

A FORECASTLE YARR.

The long, hot day was over, and with the setting eun has come a breeze, before which the good ehip Bristol waa steadily slipping through the oily-look-ing water. Six belle had just been struck, the saloon was aimoet deaerted, and the poop waa peopled with weary passengers reveling in the soft, cool wind and the departure of our enemy, the sun. The main deck waa alive with the midship passengers, and the watch on decks, who, mixing indiscriminately, lounged and chatted and amoked, and slept as their inclination moved them. •I had come on the forecastle head to enjoy a quiet cigar and to delight my soul with the wondrous beauty of the night. Up here everything was quiet, and I was alone, save for the man who was on the lookout, who leaned on the opposite rail aa motionless as a statue, and evidently occupied with his own thoughts. Looking aft, the ship was almost in darkness* being shadowed by the mountains of canvas which rose dim and mysterious toward the sky. The murmur .of voices was hushed into a kind of lullaby, under whose drowsy music both ship and ocean seemed to be dreaming. Overhead, the tropical stars

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out their white lamps against the violet sky, and set long "trails of light glittering across the dark water until they broke in crystal shivers on the hull. The light from the open ports of the saloon looked hot and yellow, and and only enticed a dull reflection from the sea. Some one who was flaying on the piano in the music-room, had drifted into the loved strain of "Home, Bweet Home," and was sending it stealing out over the sea like a benediction. Round the sharp cutwater the spray was rising in a fairy fountain, whose drops rung like a chime of tiny silvery bells as they met the waves again. Down in the cool depths a shoal of fish wa- laying round the ship's head, looking, as they moved through the phosphorus laden water, like fish shaped fragments of solid rainbow gone mad.

Thus I rested and was at peace, until my reverie was broken by the sound of footsteps asoending the forecastle ladder. I turned, and was face to face with my cabin companion, Mr. Ralph Stevenson "Glorious night, isn't it?" he Baid. "Magnificent," I answered, and then added, "It's not only the present delight that I am thankful for, but for the memory it will be in days to come, for you know 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever.'" "I don't know about that," he replied: "it depends wholly on the circustances under which one has seen it. Do you know this lovely night has called to my mindone of the most unpleasant, incidents in my life?" "Indeed! what was that?" "Sit down here on this coil of rope, and, if you care to hear it, I will tell it as we smoke."

I gladly accepted this offer, and Ste veneon began. When I waa a young fellow, years ago in London, I was in the employ of an uncle of mine who was at the head of a large firm

It was terrible to lie day after day on the glassy Bea and watch the doomed city through the haze and the ships nearer at hand. Constantly the yellow flags were fluttering down to half-mast, as a signal to the shore boats to come off and take away the bodies for interment. All our crew had deserted at the first, with the exception of the captain, the carpenter, a tall, thin Scotchman from the Clyde, and a black cook named Jacob. These, with myself, formed the whole ship's company. Suddenly the captain was struck down, and by influence we managed to get him taken off to one of the hospitals ashore. Next day Chips—as they always call the carpenter at eea—was laid low. Jacobs came and told me Cbips was in the bunk, very bad, so I went on the main deck and visited him. I found him raving in fever. We flew the signal for the doctor. After awhile he came off, said it was a badcese, prescribed, gave directions as to medicine and disenfectants, and departed. Jacob and I took turns in watching poor Chips. On the evening of the next day I was pacing the poop, utterly weary and sick at heart The red hot sun went down at last, and the stars came out. The night was brilliantly calm and still. The light on the esplanade of Rio began to winkle out into the darkness. Far above them on the overhanging terraces, clusters of lights—marking the poeition of countless villas—bung on the blackness of the steep background like diamonds set in a jet. The dim outlines of the huge mountains which rise behind the harbor loomed through the darkness, in the faint starlight. The Corcovada and the Gavea could be seen head and shoulders above the rest. Toward the open sea the black form of the Pao de Assaeur, which guards the entrance ot the harbor, stood like a solemn sentinel. Near it could be descried the glimmering of the lighthouses far away at the heads.' I paced the deck trying to fight against a feeling of utter lassitude and depression. I had a terrible headache, a taste like blood in my moutb, and I felt aching and feverish all over.

Presently the black cook Jacob ime on to the quarterdeck, and touching his cap, said: "Please, sir, won't you come down and have some tea? It has been ready for half an hour." "Thanks, Jacob but how is Chips?" 'His black face became grave at once as he replied: "Please, Bir, he died nearly two hours ago but I did not like to disturb you,

Mr. Winks (reading)—The people of the United States pay $900,000 a year for their weather service.

I laid him straight and still,

tied a hankerchief round his poor thin face, and came away softly and shut the door." Here the poor fellow's voice broke into a sob. "Make the flag half mast, Jacob." "No good now, sir they won't co till daylight" "Oh yee, you are right I forgot it was dark." "But come and have something to eat, sir," persisted the faithful fellow "you must be ready to drop." "All right, Jacob I will," I answered and then, as I turned to go. I said: "Jacob, come aft and have your tea in the saloon. To-night we may as well keep each other's spirits up." "Thank you, sir," he

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peared. After a little while I went down into

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. MONDAY MORNIKO, APRIL 22. 1889.

the nkwe audited tb* ww been different,I would have mandvttfc laughter at the eosae which ®e* my eyas. Jaoob had undergone transformation, and how he managedit in the time, I waa a loss to gaess. He was rigged out in his beet suit, and all the glory of a dress shirt of startling whiteness decorated with diamond studs. ...

He had not seated himself until I arrived, and stood contemplating himself and his surroundings in the mirror over the sideboard, his ebony countenance shining with ineffable satisfaction. All through the mea his look of self-satis-fied importance amused me greatly but when tea was over the old feeling of depression returned with renewed force. King Death reigned over the ship, and the majesty and the terror of his presence were all around. "Come into my cabin, Jacob, said I, "when you have cleared up, and we will have a smoke together."

He agreed cheerfully, and I left the saloon. My cabia waa under the creak of the poop and had a window looking right on the main deck, as well as the usual seaward port hole. Before lighting my lamp I looked out at the quiet ship. The full tropical moon had risen while we were at our meal, and filled the deck and rigging with her own radiance. About ten yards from the window stood the deck house where the dead man was lying, and the moonlight glittered on-ite window and the brass-work of the door. While I looked, I wondered: "Shall I die, too, during this awful visitation? "Then I thought I will just writs directions as to what is to, he done with my clothes and letters, hp* while I

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ship owners. My health

had broken down owing to hard work and a severe season, and the doctor ordered me long rest and a sea voyage. The firm at once gave me the required leave, and shipped me off ss sole passenger in one of their beet trading clippers. We had a fine passage, and arrived safely in the magnificent harbor of Rio de Janeiro. The port was crowded, and we had to anchor outside and wait our turn to be berthed. We lay foe. -Douro tln/B,--flnrhig- lilUU' OTB ~tlBHtrW88 intense, when all unannounced there burst over "the city and the shipping one of those terrible outbreaks of yellow fever so common there. The disease spreads with fearful rapidity, and soon our sfc .p was one among the crowd lying at ve quarantine anchorage and flying the hateful yellow flag.

Well, my story is out. We carried him back to bed and nursed him tenderly, and in the morning the doctor came, blit we said nothing to him about the performance of the night before. The fact wes, Jacob had mistaken the deadly tranca of the yellow fever for actual death and I, being so broken down with watching, had never questioned his statement.

Poor Chipe had revived a little, and in the strength of delirium had wandered on deck, and so it all came about as I have told you.* Would you believe it? That carpenter afterward recovered, and ia alive at the present day. The captain, too, got better. Neither Jacob nor I caught the fever, and not many weeks later we. left that accursed place and were bowling along for dear old England. A soft still night at sea like this always makes me think of that adventure, and I do not relish it even yet.

One —two, three—four, five—six, seven —rang out from the poop. The watch suddenly drops his musings and answers on the deep-toned forecastle bell. I hop off the coil of rope, and remark: "I say, Stevenson, your wretched story has given me cold shivers all down my back and I shall have the nightmare every night for the next month. Let us go to the ladieaon the quarter-deck and try to forget it."

He laughingly assents, and we throw down our cigars into the sea and join the merry crowd.—[Chamber's Journal.

ABOUT PEOPLE. if

Congressman Springer expects to take a trip to Alaska this summer. The wives of Robert Lincoln and Russell Harrison are full cousins.

Ex-Mayor Stephens, of Cincinnati, was seriously injured in a runaway accident yesterday.

General Butler is to talk to Colby university students at this year's commencement.

Sir Charles Rusiell drank nothing but cocoa during the delivery of bis great speech at the opening of Mr. Parnell's case before the commission.

Congressman Roe well P. Flower is in Colorado investigating the methods of reclaiming arid lands by irrigation, which is to be considered by his committee in congress.

Queen Victoria will attain the age bf three score and ten on May 24. The state banquets in honor of the event will not be given until next day. She has been enjoying unusually good health lately.

Kate Field, in the interest of the California viticultural association, is working hard against the prohibition amendment to be voted for Monday, but Phillips Brooke' lack of support is having vastly more influence.

Minister Lincoln will have much attention paid to him in England by the many warm admirers of his illustrious father. The nrince of Wales is reported to have said that abetter or more congenial appointment to the American legation could not have besn made.

Not an Exacting Person.

Papa (that is to be)—What are your prospects, Mr. de Brazen? Mr. de Brazen—Merely that of being your soojtin-law, sir. I don't want anytihingjbelter.—[Life. .-„ tr

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Guthrie, the Oklahoma prospective city is named in honor of Judge Guthrie,,, of Topeka, Kansas, formerly an honored: citizen of Loganaport.

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I sat down at a small table at l|tH other nde of the cabin, kindled the litW brass swing lamp, and began to write. I had hardly begun when Jacob knocked at the door, and when I called advanced into the room pipe in band. Asking him to sit down,I told him I would finish writing soon. He went over, and sitting at the open window, began to smoke. The night was so, utterly etill that the scathing of my pen seemed loud and aggressive. Suddenly I wss startled by Jacob's pipe going crash on the floor of the cabin, and looking at him I saw that hiB black face had become a light gray color, and that bis eyes were starting out of his head. Before I could move or speak I heard the squeak of a door handle softly turned. I croesed beside the negro Rod gozod atuth© door of the house which contained the dead carpenter. As I looked my heart ceased to beat and my hair stood up. The door slowly opened, and out into the bright moonlight came the tall figure of the dead man! It seemed to pause and hesitate for a moment, and then advanced with muffled tread straight to the saloon entrance and my cabin. The moon

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full on the ghastly face, bound about with the old red handkerchief, from which the unclosed dead eyes shown as from under a cowl. Oo it c^me, nearer and nearer, while I remained frozen with terror. We heard the soft footsteps ap-

roach the psssBge door, and then a fall, and all was still. At that moment Jacob gave a fearful shriek, and fainted. This brought me to my senses, and, stepping over the prostrate black, I seized the lamp and hurried out. There lay the ghastly figure across the doorway. I'had not been dreaming then, and it was no faiicy. I almost dropped the lamp in my renewed terror. But I bracsd myself together, and, stooping over the body, turned it on its back. As I did

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a faint sigh

came from the white lips. I wes a man again, and roared: "Jacob, you idiot, come here the carpenter is not dead at ail."

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Has It CiiaHw fewst *r Are Ia Tlrtaea

What is a madstonef asks the indiaif* a is N Am the curative properties of the stone realtor ia the entire idea the outgrowth of superstition and ignorant imagination?

A hoet of queationa apring up as the subject is pursued, and a man who pridee himself on his common sense and freedom from absurd notions is apt to smile eignificantly and indulge in cynical remarks when the matter is mentioned. Nevertheless, hundreds and thousands of people implicitly believe in the almost miraculous attributee which are credited to the madstooe.

Of late an apparent epidemic of rabies hat raged among dogs in Indiana. From every siection of the state come reports of persons or animals being bitten by dogs supposed to be mad. Presumably the only authentic madstone in the state is one belonging to a Mrs. Taylor, of Terre Haute. Recently Professor Jbhn Collett, the wellknown geologist, called upon Mrs. Taylor and examined the stone. To a News reporter he spoke at some length of his knowledge of rabiea and the Indiana cure—the mad-stone. "There are still a few persons who insist there is no such thing as' hydrophobia," said Professor Collett. "They say the phenomena observed are simply the results of .excited imagination, of mental agitation. But thia opinion is not foundsd on reason. Thousands have seen hydrophobia in all its forms, in its approach, its horrible culmination, agony and death. The theory and practice of Pasteur, the French physician, has made a wonderful demonetrative revolutioffln the public idea of this dreadful disease. The treatment has proven effectual in ninety out of ICO casss after evidences of the diseese were seen. "But Indiana people still rely upon the madstone as the only available agent ror the treatment of a parson who hss been bitten by a rabid dog. The Terre Haute stone is said to have never failed, that is, no perion to whom it has been applied has ever had hydrophobia. When 1 called, a abort time ego, to see this stone it was in use. Four little children had been bitten by a pup with which they were playing at their home in Rush county. A few hours after the animal died in convulsions. The father of the children took them at once to Terre Haute and applied the madstone. It adhered to the wounds of thres, but some scratches on the limbs of the youngest, which it was not certain the pup had made, had no attraction for it.

At the time of my visit the same stone was sticking fast to a small wound on the body ot one of the children. "It is not a remarkable object in ap pearance. You see only a thin bit of porous Silurian coral about one and onehalf inches long, one inch wide and a fourth ot an inch thick. It is full of small capillary tubes, which suck up moistilre as all stone ot this character does. The theory of those who control it is that the- capillaries in absorbing moisture from the wound will become attached to it until they are filled, and that they have a special attraction for moisture having this poison mixed with it. When the tubes are full they relax their hold and must be washed in warm water or warm milk and thoroughly dried before being applied again. When the clean dry stone ref usss to adhere to a wound it is taken to be indicative that the poison is all drawn out, or that there was none in the wound originally. I am not aware that the water in which the stone, when filled with poison, has been waahed, has ever been analyzed by chemists. Neither have I ever heard that a madstone has been thoroughly examined and analyzed in order to find in what its peculiar property consists. The chemist at the Rose polytechnic institute is now trying to persuade Mrs. Taylor to allow him to break off a little chip from the stone in her possession, to be analyzed, but so far she has refused. "I examined a madstone of wide reputation at Van Buren, Ark., years ago. It was also of Silurian coral and had even more capillary attraction than the Terre Haute stone. That was because it was more porous. This, stone also was said to have never made a failure." "Do you believe, Prof. Collett, that the madstone does really possess the remarkable power accredited to it?" "I can see no sense, nor reason nor philosophy in the theory. I do not understand how a bit of porous stone can posaees any such qualitiss. And why should just a little pieoe, here and there, have a monopoly of the healing power when there is an abundance of the aame kind of stone to be found in many places? But there are a great many mysterious snd secret things in nature we have never found out. This may be numbered among them. I do not care to say it is not. "Forty yeara ago I had a neighbor— Dr. Holliday —in Fountain county. He was an educated acholar and a man of great common sense. He was bitten by a rabid dog, which also bit a dozen animals on the farm. All the animals bi|^ ten had hydrophobia. Dr. Holliday instantly treated his round with ammonia excision and cautery and had every scientific reason to be satisfied. Then he went to this same madstone at Terre Haute, and it adhered to the wound until filled with the supposed poison several times. The doctor lived many yeara with no unpleasant reeults from the bite of the maddog. Perhaps the treatment which he himself gave it was what saved him. But who can tell? A man who has been bitten by a maddog will not atop to look into the philoophy of things, but will leap at any remedy suggested. If any friend of mine should be bitten by a rabid dog, I would not rest until he had gone to the madatone. As I said, I can see not the least reason in the theory, but none the less would I make euro that it was applied. In such cases it is criminal to take any risks."

The Mugwump Press Useful for FutT.

Circuses may weary, minatrels may pall, newspaper paragraphs may sadden and pigs puzzles cease to entertain, but as long 8s there is a mugwump newspaper the public is not going to lack good fun. The mugwump press shows there are unexplored mines of foolishness, rich in nuggets of nonsense.—| Milwaukee Sentinel.

Making a Virtue of Necessity.

I suppose if there's one thing women may be permitted to "be prejudiced about it is their own babies.—[San Francisco Chronicle. •A Three Line Sermon.

No man or woman can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it—[Phillipe Brooks.

Preparing to Celebrate.

Workmen are putting up the atands, and .feoardinghouse keepers are putting up the pricee.—[New York Journal.

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"O, atarr' the Kansas City press The aonburaed rauth did thiia address. "Brave aot the desperate boomers' lun. But settle down in old Mlasoury." "The lUngei's great," the Journal cried, "TIMT sboot so qalek. and sane Ime died:

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You'll haveseoie tun—between jour chills." But all In vain—a voles replied Far o'er the plains, "True, some have died. But better death and coroner's jury. Tban lite In poor, old, dead Mlseoerj."

Some Parisian women smoke cigarettes made of tea.

The first paper mill in this country was started in 4690 near Philadelphia. A movement is on foot in Nicarauga to sever the relations between church and state.

It is a mighty mean man who will take meaales from a baby. He should be spotted.

An Alabama farmer has named a hog Maud, because it comes into the garden too much.

A Detroit burglar broke into an elegant houee Wednesday nigbt and took a bath before robbing.

A scheme to raise a fund to pension government employes after thirty years service, is broached at Washington

The National electric light association have fixed August 6, 7 and 8 for the date of the convention at Niagara Falls.

The Calumet and Hecla copper mine will be unsealed once more thia week, as it is believed the great fire is now out tor sure.

A number of thievee in San Francisco have been engaged in the aingular occupation of stealing bedclothee from rest dences.

Times are eo hard at San Diego, Cal., that the salary of the superintendent of schools has been reduced to $100 per month.

George William Curtis, who has been disabled by an accident to the knee-joint since last summer, hopes to be able to walk within a month.

It is said that one of the Engliah novelists is able to repeat from memory every word that he nas written—and he ie the author ot many books.

Alan Arthur, son of the late ex-presi-dent, is not dssirouB of any political office. He intends to devote his time to business, and will settle permanently in New York.

Someone has dug up an old example of'mixed metaphor and credited it to Dr. Talmage. It is: "We pursue a shadow—the bubble bursts and leaveB aahes in our hands."

Queen Victoria will attain the age of three score and ten -on M$y 24. The atate banquets in honor of the event will not be given until next day. She has been enjoying unusually good'health lately.

A Brooklyn court has awarded the Misses Ely, who keep a boarding school on the Heights, a verdict of $0*20 against a plumber whose men did defective work for the ladies, the result of which was several cases of typhoid fever among the pupils. The question is, what damages did the sick pupils get?

Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British minister to this country, was presented by the employes of the foreign oflice before he left London with a handsome Bilver inkstand. As his predecessor at Washington lost his place through an indiscreet letter, this inkstand given to Pauncefote carries with it a hint of no obscure significance.

When the late Sim eon B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn, who died a millionaire, asked a rich uncle to help him start a store in New Haven, the uncle, after weighing the matter for some days, said: "Well, Sammy, I'll let you have the money. I have always noticed that you were a lucky boy. When you drove cows for me you always got a ride."

When the Rev. Edward Beecher, in 1854, published his book on the pre-ex-istence of human life, his father, the R9V. Lyman Beecher, was aBked what he thought of the theory. "Weil," he replied, "if the Almighty has been running the universe on this plan all ot these ages and has succeeded in keeping it a secret, I think it is a shame for Edward to expose it."

It looks as though the steamer Bothnia, which has been chartered to take the American delegates to the world's Sunday Bchool convention in London, would be unable to accommodate all who desire to go, and it is probable that an additional steamer will have to be procured. It is already certain the convention will be by far the largest of the kind that has ever been held.

MiseBraddon never wrote but one play. A scene was introduced in which a child was kidnapped from its mother, and at the end, when all were made happy, the restoration of the child was taken for granted. It was the fault of a novelist and passed unnoticed for quite a minute after the fall of the curtain. Thgn a"god" leaned over from the balcony and solemnly inquired: "What about the kid?" The piece was swamped in an inextinguishable burst of laughter.

B. Cavagna, known as "Monkey Jim," carried on a grocery store and restaurant business in Cincinnati- for fifty-seven years, settling there in 1828, and leasing the first three-story building ever erected in the city. He accumulated a stock farm, and suffered a loss of 9160,000 by fire in one night, but this did not deter him from again becoming wealthy. He died a few days sgo, aged 90. He was the first Italian citizen, and got his nickname from boarding Italian organ-grind-ers and monkeys.

Speaking of Sir Charles Russell, a London correspondent says: "Naturally the immense prominence into which Russell has lifted himself all at once raises the question, what will be done with him when Mr. Gladstone again comes into power. He was attorney general in the last Liberal cabinet. It is felt that the place is not now big enough for him, and to make him lord chancellor would be to prematurely bury him, even if he did not feel that he lacked the neoessary wealth for a poeition in the peerage. Rjaliy the beet way out of the thing would be found by making him a peer when home rule is passed and sending him to-Ireland as the first viceroy under the new and beneficent dispensation."

The wife of Admiral Febiger, who was killed at Washington, this week, in a runaway accident, had a pathetic life history. When a young and beautiful girl she was married to Lieutenant Riley, a handsome young officer of the United States navy, and the wedding wss a very swell society affair. It occurred in the evening, and was attended by the most noted people in. official, social, army and navy circles. The next morning Lieutenant Riley left, under orders, and departed for a three yeara' cruise. His vessel was the President, and after she left New York ehe was never heard from again. Mrs. Riley remained a widow for fourteen years,_ her only comfort being the companionship of a son.

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