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Nkw Orleans merchant* are moving to keep the expoaition open another year, and will ask the President to allow the government exhildt to remain as it is. The sum of $275,000 will have to he rain'd to carry it over until next November. At this distance the plan does not look feasible. The novelty of a visit to New Orleans would be worn off by that time, and there is little doubt that the attendance would show a marked falling •fl'.

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something, which you take to be looking fo' a larger sphere ol usefulness, lie Is noi

i being taken down by this habit. Look out for hydrate of chloral! Hut I am under this head speaking chiefly of opium. There ought to be ten thousand pulpits turned in-

Ur. Talmage Points Out the Dangers Incident to the Use of Narcotics, and Urges the Youth to Abstain from the Habit.

The names of the killed and wounded rioters at Ixunont, 111., indicate that they were foreigners, probably Poles. Apparently, they have been wrought upon by unscrupulous and designing men, as were those at South Bend. The ignorance of this class of citizens is such that they are ready victims of professional disturbers, who, as a general thing, are careful to keep out of the way of danger. The laborer’s worst enemy is the professional agitator and reformer.

by 1 Ir\YItt Taliimge. May 17. Subject: “Does the I ’se of Tobacco Cause Cancerous and Oilier Troubles?” Text: Genesis i, XI. There sprang up in \ ucatan, on this continent, an herb which lias bewitched the world. It crossed the Atlantic ocean in the fifteenth century and captured Spain. Then it captured Portugal, and then the French embassador took it to i’aris ami it captured the French empire; then Walter Kaleigli introduced it into England. The botanists ascribe it to the genus nicotania; but you all know it as the inspiring, the elevating, the emparadising, the radiating, the nerve-shat-tering, the dyspepsia-breeding, the healthdestroying tobacco. I shall not be offensively personal while I speak on this subject, because you all use it, or nearly all. Indeed, I know from personal experience how it soothes and roseates the world, and kindles sociability, and 1 know what are its baleful results. 1 know what it is to lie its slave, and, thank God, 1 know what it is to lie it» conqueror. I have no expectation that I will persuade the great masses of you to change your habits upon this subject, but I thought I might help you in some advice to

your children.

You say: ••Didn’t God make tobacco?” t>h, yes;you say: “Isn’tGod good?” Oh, yes.

looking tor that at all. He is only looking

for some place where he can discharge a . mouthful of toliacco juice. I am glad the/to quaking, flaming, thundering Sitmis of Methodist Church of the Doited states, j>, warning against this narcotic. The devil of nearly all their conferences, have pascal | morphia in this country will lie mightier

resolutions against this habit, and it is tiffn ! than the devil of alcohol,

we had an anti-tobacco reform in the Pres- My friend, it is all important that by perbyterian Church, and the Episcopal Churchy sonal example, in everv possible way, we and the baptist Church, and the Congrega-I contend against all influences injurious to

# --i>-i— —'society. Ohr opportunity for exercising

tional Church. A minister of religion can not afford to smoke. Put into my hand the money wasted in tobacco in Hrooklyn and 1 will support tlireeorphan asylums as grand and as beautiful as those already established. Put into my hand the moneys wasted in tobacco in the I nited Mates of America, and I will clothe, feed and slielter all the suffering poor on this continent. The American church gives £1,00(1,000 a year for the evangelization of the heathen, and American Cliristians spend $5,OO0,0<H) in toliacco. Now, I stand this morning not only in the presence of my God, to whom I must give an account of what I say to-day, but I stand in the presence of a great multitude of young men who are forming their habits, between seventeen and twenty-three, there are tens of

thousands of

A < Tutors and infamous perversion of justice is now exhibited in a police court in New York city. A young girl of good repute brought suit against a policeman for criminal assault. The court put the accused under bonds, which lie secured and was released. The girl was put under bond to appear as prosecuting witness when the trial was called, failing to secure which she was committed to prison. The girl was employed in a factory at $5 a week, and was the sole dependence of her mother. A judge unable to deliver her from such outrageous injustice is not fit to try the case when it comes up.

You say : “Then God, when he created tobacco, nuist have created it for some purpose.” oh, yes; it is good for a great many

things—tobliaceo is.

It is tioovl to Kill Moths in the wardrobe, and tiek in sheep, and to strangulate all kinds of vermin, and to fumigate all kinds of pestiferous places, and like all other poiaons, God created it for some particular use. >o lie did henbane, so mix vomica,so copperas, so belladonna,-oall those poisons which he directly created or had man toextiaet. but the same God who made the poisons also created us with common sense to know how to use them and how not to use them. “Oh,” say some of my friends, “don't people use it without seeming harm

Young Men Damaging Themselves irretrievably by tobacco. You either use very good tobacco, or cheap tobacco. If you use cheap tobacco ! want to tell you why it is cheap. It is a mixture of burdock, lampblack, sawdust, coltsfoot, plaintaiu leaves, fuller’s earth, lime, salt, alum, and a little tobacco. You cannot afford, my young brother, to take such a mess as that between your lips. If, on the other hand, you use eostly toliacco, let me say I do not think you canaflbrdit. You take that which you expend, and will expend if you keep tne habit all your life, and put it aside and it will buy you" a farm to make you comfortable in the afternoon of life. Now, Ikivs, you take your choice: smoking without a home or a home

without smoking.

Young man, take another tiling into consideration; that is, the vast amounts of property destroyed every year, indirectly, by tliis habit. \n agent of an insurance company says: “One-half our losses come from the sparks of the pipe and the cigar.” One young man threw away In's cigar in one of ihe cities, and with it lie threw away three million of dollars’worth of the property of others that blazed up from that spark. Harper’s splendid printing establishment was destroyed years ago by a plumber, who, having lighted his pipe, threw the match away, and it fell into a pot of campheuc. The whole Imilding was in flames. Five

such influence is limited. What we do we had better do right away. The clock ticks now and we hear it. Alter a while the clock will tick and we shall not hear it. Seated by a country fireside, 1 saw the fire kindle, blaze and go out. I gathered up from the hearth enough for profitable reflections. l>ur life is Just like that lire on that hearth. We put on fresli faggots and the fire bursts through, and up, and out, gay of flash, gay of crackle -emblem of boyhood. Then the fire reddened into coals. The heat is fierce, and the more it is stirred the more it reddens. With sweep of flame it cleaves its way, until all the hearth glows with the intensity—emblem of full manhood. Then comes a whiteness to the coals. The heat lessens. The flickering shadows have died along the wall. The faggots drop apart. The household hover over the expiring embers. The last breath of smoke lias been lost in the chimney. Eire is out. Shovel up the white remains. Ashes.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

John Godfrey caught a catfish in the liver at Lawreneeburg that weighed forty pounds. Mayor liringhurst, of Logansport, made a new departure on Sunday by holding court and disposing of three cases of intoxication. Forerunners of the Salvation Army have been viewing Richmond, with intentions of { swooping down upon that city at an early

day.

Forty cases of typhoid fever are reported

Secretary Heron, of the State lioard of Agriculture,says the wheat has not come out, as was expected, ami the total crop in the State will show a falling ott of nearly ’JO.iXK',000 bushels from the average for four or five years past, lie thinks the prospect is good for an immense corn crop. Much wheat lias been plowed up and com planted in its stead. Most of the farmers in the southern part of the State were planting during the past

u eek.

A meeting was held in Crawfordsvtlle, attended by about two hundred indignant farmers, protesting against what they consider extortionate charges made by the County Auditor ami Surveyor in the construetion of free gravel roads in the county under the laws of 1879. The account of the twenty-four roads shows a deficit of about $100,000, represented by a bonded indebtedness, and the question at issue is whether the assessments shall be reassessed or the debt fall upon the county at large. The Vincennes New* charges Jerome Convery, of that city, with robbing the school fund under a false enumeration of school children. The paper asserts that Daviess county ami the grave-yard have been drawn upon by this zealous officer, and that he lias listed the same person several times ami fraudulently charged viruous bachelors with large families. Experts who liave looked over Mr.Convery’s work,have stricken out 1,180 children enumerated by him, and the News charges there are still many more tliat should he erased. Mr. Convery, reputation is good, denies all the charges. Indiana patents were issued Tuesday as follows: James M. brennan, Elkhart, self-

to tlieinsclvos: and arc there not cases of blocks went down. Two thousand employe' plethora which absolutely need this deple- thrown out of work, and more than a million lion?” Oh, yes; skillful physicians have I Uollars of property destroyed sometimes presenhed it just as they some- |{ ut i l4 |„ speaking of higher values to-day. i times prescribe arsenic, and they prescribe better destroy a whole idly of stores than it well. There can be no doubt alxiut it be- ,p^trov one man. Oh, my young friends, if

It is rumored that Hon. Henry R. Jackson, recently appointed Minister to Mexico, is hesitating about accepting the mission, and that he may do as Mr. Lawton d.vj,and decline. His case is precisely i Lawton's and, while the Attorney -al has decided that a pardon removcsuisabilities, and that one who has received it does not come within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment, there may difficulties and litigation arise concerning the payment ofsalary, which, as a prudent man, Mr. Jackson is not inclined to run into. The disbursing officer regardful of his obligations and his bondsmen. may refuse to pay, and the Republican Court of Claims and Supreme Court may disagree with the Attorney General.

Dig poisonous. There was a ease reported in which a little child lay upon its mother's lapaud a drop from her ups fell on the child’s lip and it went into convulsions and into death, “but,” you say, “don’t people liveon to old age who indulge on in this habit?” Yes; so I have seen an inebriate seventy

years old. There are some persons who, in- j T|„. reply was;

spite of all the outrages to their physical sys- 1 tem live on to old age. In the ease ot the man of the jug, he lasted so long because he was pickled ! In the ease of the man ot the pipe lie lasted so long because he was turned

into smoked liver!

you will excuse the idiom, 1 will say stop before you begin. Here is a serfdom widen lias a shackle which it is almost impossible to break. Gigantic intellects that could overcome everyother bad habit have been flung of this and kept down. Some one was seeking to persuade a man trnru the habit.

“Ask me to do anything

under the canopy of heaven but this. This I cannot give up and won’t give up, though it

take seven years oft my life.”

1 must have a word, also, with all those of my friends whom it does not hurt, who can stop any time they want to, and who can smoke the most expensive cigars. My Christian brethren, what is your Influence in the matter? How much can you afford to

How Shall We Advise the Young? but, my friends, what advice had we bet-

ter give to our young people? I say, in the first place,let us advise them to abstain from this habit because all the medical fraternity of the t inted States and Great britian pronounce it the causcof widespread and terrific unhealth- all the medical fraternity, homeopathic, allopathic, hydropathic, eclectic—

denounce the habit and warn the commu- \ ' v . ,ls talking with

.. ,■ .■ j him that Ins habit was unnecessary.ai mty against ,t. One distinguished physician ine ,, riltt0 r( . torte( , upon | lim Hml nii’d:

•eny Yourself For the (ioori of Others? It was a great mystery to many people why Governor briggs, of Massachusetts, wore a cravat hut no collar. Some people thought it was an absurd eccentricity. Ah, no! This was the secret: Many years before, lie

an inebriate and telling

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ays: ••This habit is me cause of seventy do a great many tilings that arc not necessa-

different styles of diseases. This habit is the cause of nearly all the eases of cancer of the mouth.” XVhat is the testimony ol the late Dr. John Warren, of boston, than whom there is no higher authority. He says: “Eor more than thirty years I have been in the habit of inquiring of patients who come to me with cancer of the tongue and lips, whether they used tobacco,and,if so,whether they chewed or smoked, and if they have sometimes answered in the negative as to

ry. It is not necessary for you to wear that collar.” “Well,” said Gov. briggs, “I will never wear a collar again if you won’t drink.” “Agreed,” said the inebriate. Governor briggs never wore a collar. They ^ . botii kept their bargain for twenty years. .

They kept it to the death. That is the reason of Vincennes, who hud

at Jeffersonville, and something is

to he wrong witli the water or the sewer

age.

A Logansport lady matched cheeks with a too persistent sewing machine agent, by demanding that lie furnish the goods to test the

machine on.

Mrs. Ida Cross is in jail at Princton. She married Mr. Cross, forgetting to provide 1 herself with a divorce from her first husband,

i John Nelson.

I’otato bugs are making their appearance in large numbers in Jackson county, and fears are entertained that they may destioy

.he growing potato crop.

Judge Nathan it. Linsday of Kokomo Representative of tlie General A -sembly,died Friday. Deceased lias been prominent in

Northern Indiana politics.

The motion for a new trial in the ease of Coffey and Dennis, in the Montgomery i county court, was denied Tuesday, and

i both were sentenced to death.

On July 1 the distillery at Terre Haute [ will close for sixty days. The capacity of the distillery, by the aid of new boilers and j a new still, will be increased from 4,000 to

5,000 bushels a day.

The Mayor of l/igansport refuses to allow fees to the prosecuting attorney when a plea of guilty is entered and no service is performed by the attorney. The matter will probably lie carried to the courts. Friday morning Frank Kiehofl'. of Fort Wayne, seventy-nine years old and blind, cut Ids throat, in his room, in a lit of despondency over the departure of an old friend. He died ii. the evening. He was

very wealthy.

An old man living near New Albany lias

been in Salem trying to find two riiscal»,one of whom gives his name as “Dr. Cooper, of

and the other as “Judge ,”

swindled him out of

thought closing cock for water pipes; August D. Cook, Lawreneeburg, pump handle;Paul H. Curtner. Hazleton and C. C. Genury,Evansville, car-brake; William H. Dungun, Rock Lane, harrow; Joseph Essig, Larwell, belt fastener; John Goodlough, Indianapolis, cultivator coupling; Samuel b. Harrod, Jennings, fence-post: Nicholas A. Hull, iis»ic nor to A. N. Dukes, Peru,drawer-case: Dai - iel W. Marmon, assignor to Nordyke A Mar- | mou Company, Indianapolis, box supporter: Richard J. I’owell and W. F. Nolan. Evansville, machine for attaching buttons to garments; Isaac M. Smith. 1’almyra, saw; benjamin E. Thomas, Camden, excavator: John Trachsef, J. K. Lipps and W. H. Turney,

Columbia City, weather-strip.

The work of the Federal Court Grand Jury in sessional Indianapolis was concluded Thursday, and twenty-five indictments were returned, among which were the following against persons already in custody: For counterfeiting—Levi ilalweli, Lemuel Goodwin, Uhodu Mcltea, Anna Mcbride, all of Edwardsport, Monroe county; William bmifcr, Milan,Ripley county; Thomas Kern, Edward Slater, Charles Williams, Fort Wayne; James W. Me Dish, James B. Roberts, John II. Cosgrove, Indianapolis; John Reno, James II. Hardesty, Thomas Washington, Seymour: Milton McPherson, Chas. Klory, Mentone, Marshall county. Detaining registered letters James J. Campbell, assistant postmaster at Goldsmith, Tipton county. Embezzling contents ot registered letters—George Latlirop, assistant postmaster at Ainsworth. Ind., and George W. Dubois, railway postal clerk, Indianapolis. Forging money order receipt- Peter Overton, Greencast lo. Robbing postofflcc at Jeffersonville Edward Emmett, Michael Kel ley and Charles llrown. There were also several Indictments against persons who are

not in custody.

the first question, I can truly say that,to the best of my knowledge and belief, such eases

The Etrura, the new Cunarder, which has just finished its first ocean voyage, is naiil to be the largest steamer that ever entered the port of New York, with the exception of the Great Eastern. The Etruria is 520 feet long over all; breadth, 57 feet 3 inches; depth to upper deck,41 feet, and to promenade deck, 49 feet, witlt gross tonnage of 8,000. Site is entirely built of steel throughout, and is divided into ten water-tight compartments. The steamer has accommodations for over 700 first class passengers, ^Hhi steerage passengers, and 300others, im'luding sailors, firemen, stewards, etc., making a total of over 2,000. Herspead, recently tested, will average, under favorable circumstances, twenty miles an hour. She can carry 2,500 tons of coal and 2,000 tons of cargo.

are exceptions to the general rule. When, as is usually the case, one side of the tongue is affected with ulcerated cancer, it arises from the habitual retention of the tobacco in contact with this part.” Their '.inited testimony is that it depresses the vitals of the system and brings on nervousness and

dyspepsia, and takes otf 25 percent, of the

physical vigor

of the people of this country;

and, damaging this generation, damages the next, the accumulated curse going on to

capture other centuries.

It injures the mind. Another eminent physician, for a long while superintendent of the insane asylum at Northampton. Mass., says: “Fully half the patients who have come to our asylum for treatment are victims of tobacco.” It is a sad thing, my brother, to damage the body; it is a worse thing to damage the mind; and any man of common sense knows that the nervous system immediately acts upon tiie brain. More than that ; nearly all reformers will tell you that it tends to drunkenness—it creates unnatural thirst. There are those who use this narcotic who do not drink, but nearly all who drink use the narcotic; so that shows there is an immediate affinity between the two drags, it was long ago demonstrated that a man cannot permanently reform from strong drink unless he gives up tobacco. In nearly all the cases where men, having been reformed, have fallen hack, it ha> been

Governor briggs did not wear a collar. That is the Gospel of the Son of God. Selfdenial for the good and rescue of others. Opium Demands Emphatic Keengnition. It is made, as you know, from the white I«oppy. It is not a new discovery. We read of it .'WO years before Christ; but it was not until the seventeenth century that it began its death-march, passing out from the medicinal and the curative, and by smoking and mastication becoming the scourge of Nations. In the year 1861 there were imported into this country 107,000 pounds of opium, in 1**0, 5:i.'l,00o pounds of opium. It estimated that in the year 1870 there were in this country 225,000 opium consumers; but I saw a statistic more recent that said there are probably now in the Lnited Stutes.at least 000,(100 opium-consum-ers. The fact is appalling. Do not think they are merely barbaric fanatics who go down under that stroke. Read the great De Ouincey’s “Confessions of an Opium-eater.” lie says for the first ten years it gave him the keys of paradise; hut it takes his own powerful pen to describe the horrors conseSamuel Tavlor Coleridge, after con-

$1,090 at three-card monte. Mrs. Noble K. Reed, of Logansport, has received a verdict of $000 against John Condon, the well-known Chicago sport, who has several gambling establishments in that city. The plaintiff sued for $4,000, money Hint she claimed her husband had lost at faro in Con-

don’s establishment.

William Passmore, of Martinsville, twen-ty-live years old, married .Mrs. liecklnn, a widow of seventy—she wealthy, he poor. She tired of him and took up her residence with Andrew Jackson, a distant relative. Passmore sued Jackson for enticing his wife away, and was awarded $500 by the jury. Thomas Daugherty, seventy-six years old, Inis been arrested at Martinsvile for stealing cattle. He sold the cattle to a man named Arms and the latter expected to get the money he had paid to the thief. It seems, however,that Daughtery had paid the money over to Mitchell A Cox, attorneys, as a fee,

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quertng the world by his pen, was conquered and those honest men refuse to give it up. by opium. The roost magnetie and brilliant The town of Darlington, Montgomery lawyer ol this country fell a victim to it“ county, was almost destroyed by fire, Thun

stroke, and there are thousands ot men and , J

women—but more women than men—who are being bound body, mind and soul to this

terrific habit.

The ICavages of Opium.

There is a great mystery about somefam-

shown they have first touched tobacco, and j|j 0M \'ou do not know why they do not

then surrendered to intoxicants. The broad i , avenue leading down to the drunkard’s

There is evidence of a fair understamling between Russia and England, whereby war will be avoided, at least for the present. The frontier matter is to be continued under consideration at London, the actual boundaries to be fixed on the ground, the situation to remain in statu quo during the progress of the delimitation. When the boundaries are settled, Russia agrees to retire beyond them, leaving Afghan to it* integrity, if the line shall he settled. The question of which power violated the agreement of March 16, in the affair at I’cnjdeh, is to he referred to friendly arbitration. As it looks from this distance, there has been much brag and blustct on both sides, while, in reality, neither desired to fight. “One was afraid, and ’tother dassent.’ But, whatever the f'-us or reasons, both countries and the world are 1* he congratulated on the prospects o‘ intaining jieace.

grave and

The Drunkard's Hell is strewn thick with tobacco leaves. What did Beniamin Franklin say? “I never saw a well man in the exercise of common sense who would say that tobacco did him any good.” What did Thomas Jefferson say, when arguing against the culture of tobacco? Hesaid: “It is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.” Horace Greeley said of it: “It is a profane stench” Daniel Webster said: “If those men must smoke, let them take the horse shed.” Tohurco in the I'ulpit. One reason why there are so many of the victims of this habit is because there are so many ministers of religion who smoke and chew. They smoke until they get the bronchitis. and the dear people have to pay their

get on. The opium habit is so stealthy, so deceitful and so deathflul. Y’ou can cure | one hundred drunkards easier than you can cure one opium-eater. I have heard of cases of reformation, but I never saw any. I hope there are eases ol genuine reformation. I have seen men who for forty years have been the victims of strong drink thoroughly reformed; but tne opium-eaters that I have seen go on and go down. Their cry in the I last hour of life is not for God, nor for prayer, nor for the Bible, nut for opium. Perhaps there are only two persons outside of the household who know what is the matter the physician and the pastor, the physician called in for physical relief, the pastor called in for spiritual relief; but they

day morning. The business portion of the town was almost entirely destroyed. The loss will aggregate many thousands of dollars. The fire was started by a huaghr. Jewelry was found two hundred yards from the jewelry store which be bad robbed. It comes pretty straight from the AVhite House that Colonel Charles S. Denby, of Evansville, Ind., will receive the mission to China. He lias long been indeutified with Indiana polities, and is a close, intimate friend of ex-Senator McDonald. His ap pointment has been asked by the united

Indiana delegation.

An animal belived to be a lynx is sending terror to the people of New Corner, Delaware county. Poultry, young pigs and lambs have lately disappeared from coops and pens of their owners by the dozen. It’s cry resembles that of a child. The

A Kelmirto Aristocratic Apes The Poker Mania Which Now Holes tlir Capital. Washington Letter. Baron De Stuve, the Russian Minister, and ids wife, are among the most popular people of the diplomatic circle in Washington. They are utterly simple and sincere, and are completely captivated by all things American. Madame Do Struve is a very intellectual woman, hut utterly without ostentation, and thoroughly a lady in all the best meaning of the term. The Baron is as plain a man as a Maryland farmer, and both pay America the delicate compliment of seeking to appear American in all things. The Baroness, one day recently, showed her quick knowledge and apprecia tion of the fine points of etiquette, and at the same time fittingly rebuked a pert young American miss in a manner that will not soon be forgotten, and that should he told for the benefit of other similar young women who ape foreign airs, cultivate foreign tongues, and think it the proper thing to shrug one’s shoulders, elevate one’s eyebrows, and turn the palms of one’s hands outward in all the essence of deprecation at the mention of their own country. There is a class of those female dudes in Washington who esteem it the proper performance to chatter in had French at all times and ui>on all occasions. A

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feat, for'it seems as' if'the^'.orr'b'ies not i > J '' r>on that Uas * een R describes it as larger answer prayers for opium eaters. (», man, | and longer than a good sized dog.

(> woman, are you tampering with this

liabit.' Have )ou just begun? Are you, fur j i[. t |j. in workmen on the new railroad from

the assuagement of physical distress or men- I

expense* to Europe. I bey smoke until their w in n V>t pay for the horrors at the last. The

tal troubli, making this a regular resource? I beg you stop. The ecstasies at the start

Competition of Southern I’it; I.

R. P. Elmore, Milwaukee, one i heaviest dealers in pig iron in the \

gives ft as his opinion that in the Northwest few furnaces will operate the coming summer. He says that pig iron is

being manufactured so cheaply Southern iron ore that furnace me the Northwest, who have to depep the high-priced Lake Superior ore,

not compete with them.

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nervous system breaks dowu. They smoke themselves to death. I could name three eminent clergymen who died of cancer in the mouth, and in every ease the physician said it was tobacco. There lias been many a clergyman whose tombstone was all covered up with eulogy, which ought to have had the honest epitaph: “Killed by too much cavendish!” Some of them smoke until the room is blue, and their spirits are blue, and the world is blue, and everything is blue. Time was when God passed by such sins, but it becomes now the duty of the American clergy who indulge in this narcotic to repent. "How can a man preach temperance to the people when he himself is -idulging in an ajipetite likethat? I have seen a cuspidor in a pulpit, where the minister could drop his end before he gets up to read “Blessed are the pure in heart,” and read about “rolling sin as a sweet, morsel under the tomrue!” and in Leviticus to read about

the cud. I

t he tongue

unclean animals that chew

ave known presbyteries, and general asnblies, and general synods whore there ^ room set apart for ministers to smoke

sorry spectacle, a consecrated tman of God, looking around for

paradise is followed too soon by the pandemonium. Morphine is u blessing from God for the relief of sudden pang, or acute dementia. but was never intended for prolonged used. And, what is the peculiar sadness of it is, it comes to people in their weak

moments.

What is remarkable, they are going down from the highest and wealthiest classes, •rotn the most fashionable circles of New York and Brooklyn—going down by hundred* and by thousands. l‘>ver20,009opittmeaters in Chicago. Over20.000opium-eaters in St. Louis. In the same proportion that would make over 70,000 in New York and Brooklyn. The clerk of the drag stoie say - “I can tell them as soon as they come in. There is something peculiar about theireoniplexion, something peculiar about their nervousyrsH, something peculiar alxiut the look in their eyes that immediately reveals them. In some families chloral Is mdingthe place of opium. I’hyslciani first prescribe it for sleenlessness. Then the patient keeps on because he likes the effect. Wboletonsof chloral are manufactured in Germany. Rarcn Liebig says that he knows one chenist in Germany who munufactun s a half ton of chloral every week. There are mulitudes

bevy of these young women approached only j Madame De Struve at a reception in the White House, and began chattering in more or less broken French, and she re-

It has just been discovered that »R»ngof Hed in her riUher lanie English: Hliuti \vnrkm*>ti on tlio it»-w rutlrnuil Iriktn I 1 ~

“Why,” said one of the party, “do jou not speak French, madame? I am sure

you must he able to speak it.”

The Baroness gave them a keen glance and replied, “Yes I speak French, hut not in the house of the American President. Though I speak English jxxirly, I speak it here of course as well as I can.” The party was not dull enough to miss the rebuke in the calm and ladylike remark, and the Baroness continued: “J do not like to speak French anywhere. It is a foolish and frivolous language and I dislike it. Why should one use it when one can express herself in the English, which is the noblest and best language in the world, as America is the greatest and grandest Nation in the world. I am proud to speak the language

of the Americans.’'

The giddy young misses began to converse in English, at least while in

Lafayette to Kokomo murdered their Ixiss, who went by the name of Toney, twelve miles west ol Kokomo, over a week|ago, and burled the body in a shallow grave. The three principally implicated have fled. It is believed be was murdered for bis money. The most sanguine farmers who have traveled over all portions of Wabash county (luring the past week, do not expect the Wheat yield to exceed one-hall of an average crop. In the Southern part of the county many fields have been plowed up, and on others the wheat will hardly pay the expense of harvesting. The acreage of corn planted will show an increase over that of last year. Policeman Kinkaide, of Huntington, who was assaulted a few days ago by parties he was trying to arrest, has died from the effects of the injuries then received. Hi* assailant*, William Kreig, and companion, Halt, were released on bail of $700 each on the charge of assault and battery. Since Kinkaide’s death they have been arrested on the charge of manslaughter, and are now

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Madame De Struve's presence. Some of them told the story, and its circulation caused the youag lady who wondcreo that the Baroness did not speak French, some mortification. Among other institutions which both the Baron and the Baroness both take to very eagerly, i* poker. It is wonderful what a fascination the great -Yin erica it game of poker has for the foreigner. The chief, and about the only business ol the American secretaries of the foreign diplomatic delegations is to teach them poker and play with them. Turks, Franks, Spaniards, Indians, Ethiopians, Dutch, Italians, Muscovites, Mongolians, all yield to the fascinations of the American game, and the poker-playing among the foreign legations is high and fast and furious. They are made to pay pretty dearly for their experience, and some of the smart American officials pluck the gentle foreigners most unmercifully. The head of a Government bureau showed me a big roll of hills the other night, and said, “There’s $300 I win to-night from ‘So-and-so.’” naming moon-faced Mongolian Minister, who goes about the streets in flowing robes of peacock blue and royal purple. I may say here that it is proper in poker talk to say “I win” instead of “1 won,” and when you cease playing you “draw out."' The terrible thing about this soul-destroying game for the unsophisticated foreigners is the “bluff".” Baron DcStruve. who, like all the nth- ft ers, is a tireless devotee of the game, went on for some months in happy ignorance of the bluff and supposing himself to he a pretty expert poker player. But one evening in a little game with a mischievous young <'abinet officer, he went his whole heart,soul and pocket on three ares and was bluffed by his opponent with a pair of trays. It was a new development of the great American game and its sublime possibilities dazed and bewildered the Baron and, as he expressed it, in good “United States” language, “broke him all up.” He said,“Ohdis fearful, feartul American came and dot terrible bluff. I did not know dot bluffand what I do with it.” The Baron concentrated all his time and intellect u|xm the bluff for several days, and then tried it on his wife. He and the Madame have a little private game, and keep a very strict account. The wicked Baron bluffed the unsuspecting partner of his bosom unmercifully, and there was a little coolness in the De Struve family for half an hour, the first in many years of happy married life. Poker playing is the rage in all circles in Washington,high and low. There are scores of poker organizations among the attaches of the Government. In the rooms of the clerks, and in the hundred* ^ of lodging-houses, the game goes on. One f game at Chamberlain’s last week, in \ which were two U. 8. Senators, lasted twenty-six hours without cessing. A party of Southerners not long ago, in a rear room at the National Hotel, played a game lasting from Friday evening at 9 o'clock until Monday morning at 6 o’clock. During that time the game never ceased, cat-naps were caught in the chairs as the players sat, luncheon served regularly, and the amount of whisky drank and tobacco smoked and chewed to keep awake on was something awful to contemplate. (Dice the poker mania takes hold of a person it rarely lets go, and is as persistent and ruinous as the morphine habit. Many of the break-downs in health and character are attributable to intemperance in i*>ker playing. Many a defaulter and embezzler can lay the blame of his downfall to poker. In Washington there are many “clubhouses” which are merely rooms where |xiker sharps fleece victims run in by "cappers” around the hotels. The experiences of some of the Ohio office-seekers in these places during the last five weeks would make an interest- tl ing chapter. If all the inquiry accom- 1 plished by the old army poker-room at Fifteenth street and New York avenue could be told, ranch light could be shed on some public developments that have never been understood. Some scandals that have never been explained, and some duplicating of pay accounts that have led to social and official calamities, and even in the direction of the courtmartila, one such court especially. As jioker is played in most of the social circles,and the poker partie< are more numerous by far than the whist imrties, it is an innocent and fascinating game, hut it is deceitful and alluring, and the tempation to change buttons or com or beans to nickels and quarters and dollars is almost irresistible, and no game so insidiously and strongly appeals to and arouses the gambling instinct that’abides in every nature to some extent. A large proportion of the army ami navy scandals can be traced back to the poker-room and the allurements of the great American game, and poker has been the bane of the service for years. Old stagers will tell you terrible stories of tire troubles, the scandals, the broken fortunes and ruined reput' y and family happiness destroyed, at '♦ueh can he traced to the poker root / in the lead in mischief wita the one , have mentioned at the corner opposite the Riggs Bank.

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