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THURSDAY, TEB. 13, 1896

IT would seem from the way the name ©£Ma?or McKialey was^rjjeiverl at t-e JBtate meeting of the LincolQ League at ndianapolisthis week, that he was the choice of a very large mejority of Indiana

Republicans for President, since the declination ol Gen, Harrison. ATa meeting ot' the Republican district committeemen at the Denison House to

consider the apportionment question among other distinguished attorneys, Hon. fai, R. Hough, of this city, was invited to mnke a speech, We heard many favorable comments oil his speech, and some flfetc it so well they suggested that Mr. Hough would be a most excellent candidate for Governor.

The stai'8 Opinion.

The Frost & Fansbaw Co ,who opeu A week'd engag-miut at the Greenfi Id opeva ouse Feb. I7cb. come highly rec0 iimc.aded. We take the following fro the Saturday Star of February 8th, Bko miucton. Ind.: Frost & Fau^haw's coinpany has been playing in Che opera house all this week, and have given good s:iti: f.ir-tioa All the members of the company ura good, and several of them have established themselves a* especial favorites. TEV lays written hy A. L. Fanshawe iv ''pen introduced, which proved that niU'man to be an author of a high fCatKlfird. They closs with a matinee 'his atternoon, and the very funny '•Peck's Bad Boy" tonight Admission 20 and 30 cents.

iilrs. Nellie Showaltor of Kentucky it ^•.•j'jrtbly the greatest woman chess pkiyei in the world. She was horn in 187:3 at i'..jnerail, Ky., aurl is ft direct descendant of Chief Justice Marshall. She was niarrh din 1887 to Jackson \V. Showalter, whc i.,tight her to play chess. iHInie. Caslronia, the champion fencer ol I k- United States and Canada, says that ki went into her profession because she ti.might it a good one for making money. defeated Duncan C. Ross on horseI.ufk, and also Professor Castronia, whc :uterward became her husband.

Mrs. Levi P. Morton's weakness is foi slippers, shoes and boots. She has so manj that she could wear a different pair eacl: (iny for a year. They are of kid, suede, silk, satin—indeed, of every iinaginabh material—and, while some are embroider ed in silver, othors are trimmed in gold.

SHORT SERMONS.

Resolution is omnipotent.—JohnFoster. Alternate rest and labor lo endure.— Ovid.

Sarcasm poisons reproof. Wiggles worth. Nature is commanded by obeying her.— Bacon.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.— Jmilwer.*" iCvery noble work is at first impossible. —Carlyle.

Rashness and haste make all things in Bee ure.—Denham. Reproof should not exhaust its powers on petty failings.—Anon.

You will lind poetry nowhere unless yov tiring some with you.—Joubert. Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as by want of heart.—Hood.

Weak mm light their friends strong anon fight their enemies.—Grant. Poverty is the test of oivility and tin touchstone of friendship.—Hazlitt.

All a rhetorician's rules teach nothing but to name his tools.—Samuel Butler. The pleasure for which we dare not thank God cannot be innocent.—Anon.

To have what we want is riches, but tc be able to do without is power. —G. Mac donald.

Patience is not passive on the contra ty, it is active it is concentrated strength —.A non.

Plantation Life

In all its picturesqueness is depicted with singular skill and fidelity in the story Harry Stillwell Edwards has written for this paper entitled

De Valley an De Shadder

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AFftfCAN MISSIONARIES.

Henry M. Stanley Fays Tribute the Great Work They Ham* Domew

I was the only white man during 1876 in equatorial Africa, but In 1877, when only a short distance from the Atlantic, the first missionaries landed on the east coast in response to an appeal that I had written in 1875 from Uganda. During the years from 1879 to 1884 missionaries followed closely my tracks up the Kongo, and as a hundred influences were in the course of a few years enlisted in the cause of Africa, Nyassa Land and the eastern and southern part of central Africa began to be studded with Christian missions, and missionaries have continued to enter Africa ever since, until now there must be about 300 of them, and the number is still increasing. They are not all reputed to be first class men, but it is wonderful what earnestness and perseverance will do. We have only to think of Uganda, with its 200 churches and cathedral and its 50,000 native Christians, read the latest official reports from Nyassa Land, and glance at the latest map of Africa, to be convinced of the zeal, devotion and industry of the missionaries.

Mission houses do not- grow of themselves. Gospels are not translated intc African tongues nor are converts spontaneous products of human nature. I am somewhat familiar with African facts, and to me these things represent immense labor, patience and self sacrifice, but others expect Africans to fall in love with tho missionary's eyes.

It is true, though strange, that- for the first sis years or so very little visiole effect is produced by missionary teaching and influence. The mind of a pagan descendant of innumerable centuries of pagans appears to be for some time impenetrable to the Christian doctrine, and no matter how zealously a missionary may strive with him, he continues to present a wooden dullness, until by and by there is a gleam of interest. He catches the idea, as it were, and the interest becomes infectious and spreads from family to family, and converts multiply rapidly. "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find^it after many days."

I have in my mind, as I write, the examples furnished by the Wagauda, Wanyassa and Bakougo. At the town of Banza Manteka, for instance, one day 900 natives came to Mr. Richards, the missionary, and requested to be baptized by him. He had labored among them many years, but hitherto converts had been few. The missionary imposed conditions on them. He said that they must first assemble their fetiches, idols and stores of gin, and destroy all in the market place. And they went forthwith and did it.—Henry M. Stanley in Century.

A Band of Assassins

The great work of General Church in Apulia was the destruction of the Decisi and the execution of their chief, the Abate Ciro Anuichiarico. The rank and file of this society consisted wholly of murderers, none being admitted to membership unless he could prove that he had killed at least two persons in cold blood. Ciro, its chief and founder, was a renegade priest, the list of whose personal homicides is horrible and tedious. But his power was so great that no peasant or noble dared betray his secret. The people, too, believed him to be a stregone, and it was said that his death was only effected by a silver bullet from his own carbine, which, "of course," broke the spell of his enchantments.

So confident and fearless in themselves were the Decisi that their chiefs wore a silver death's head round the neck, and openly carried a dagger with inscriptions identifying the owners as members of the band. They had special rites and ceremonies, and banners and trumpets, and the other societies, such as theFiladelfi andtheRepublicaSalentina, were affiliated to them. The greatest blow struck at the Decisi was the direct result of this affiliation. At, a campo of the Filadelfii,. presided over by a rich lawyer of Lecce, a decree of death to Generale Giorgio (as they translated Church's name) was formally pronounced. It was sent on to the Decisi for execution, which called a meeting to comply with the amiable request. But "Giorgio" had got wind of the meeting, and the terror was trapped in the nick of time.—Academy.

It's Hard Work to Believe This.

The experiences of the Rev. C. F. Aked, the well known Baptist minister^ of Liverpool, with the American reporter during his recent visit to the Unit'ed States did not seem to have been alt9* gether of a pleasant kind. One morning before service a reporter called on him and asked him for his text., The text was duly given, and the next question was, "What are you going to preach about?" To this the minister replied that he did not know but he advised the reporter to stop and listen if be wished to give an account of the sermon. The newspaper man's rejoinder was that as he had the text be could imagine the rest, for he had a murder to look after. Next morning a big report appeared of a discourse that was never preached.—Westminster Gazette.

Professor Talcott's Care For His Books.

One of Maine's remarkably gifted workers and interesting characters was the late Professor Daniel S. Talcott of Bangor Theological seminary. It is said that very few men in our state had such a wide range of culture. In his library, the pride of his life, were books in 15 or 20 languages, with which he was familiar. It is a touching fact that when his mind first began to waver (a few weeks since) it showed itself first in his solicitude lest his dear books should suffer from the severity of the weather, and it was in persisting to build afire in the library (temporarily unused) on one of the most inclement days of the season, for their benefit and comfort, that he took the cold which was the occasion of his death.—Lewiston Journal.

DWARFS IN THE PYRENEES^

A New Theory to Account. For a Race of Little People In Spain. ""'There has long dwelt in the heart of the Pyrenees on the old Catalonian bor

der of Spain a curious race of dwarfs, supposed by some to be of Tartar origin. A writer in a recent issue of Cosmos describes, them and advances a theory of their origin in consonance with modern anthropology.

They inhabit the valley of the Ribas in the northwestern part of the Spanish province now culled Gerona. They never exceed 51 inches in height, and have short, ill formed legs, great hollies, small eyes, flat noses and pale, unwholesome complexions. They are usually stupid, often to the verge of idiocy, and much subject to goiter and ecrofulous affections. The chief town of the Ribas valley is Ribas, a place of 1,500 inhabitants, about 800 feet above sea level. The mountains rise about the town to a height of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, and command an amazingly beautiful panorama of mountain, plain and river, with Spanish cities visible upon the one side and French upon the other. The region is rich, both agriculturally and minerally, and is famous for its medicinal springs. In this paradise dwell the dwari's, perhaps as degraded a race of men and women as may bo found in any civilized community. They are almost without education and inhabit wretched huts when they have any shelter. The most intelligent are employed as shepherds, and in summer they Jive for months at an elevation of more than 6,000 feet without'' shelter. Here they see no human creature save some of their own kind, often idiots, who are sent up every 15 or 20 days with a supply of food.

It is said that formal marriage is almost unknown among them. The women in some instances are employed in the village of Ribas as nurses for children, and as such are found tender and faithful. Before communication throughout the region was as easy as ,it is now it was thought lucky to have one of these dwarfs in a family, and the dwarfs were hired out and even sold to be used in beggary in neighboring cities. There are somewhat similar dwarfs in other valleys of the Pyrenees, but the number is decreasing, and those of the Ribas valley are reduced to a few individuals.

The writer of The Cosmos article rejects the theory of a Chinese origin for the dwarfs, and believes that they are merely the degenerate descendants of the ordinary natives, ill nourished for generations upon a diet of potatoes and black bread. The fact that with improved means of communication the dwarfs are decreasing helps to confirm the writer's theory, and he believes that with proper nourishment and decent shelter their descendants would gradually return to the normal type. Meanwhile the neighbors of the dwarfs look upon them with a curious mixture of feelings. The fact that the dwarfs drink ruuch at a particular mineral spring has given rise to a superstition that whoever drinks of it will become deformed, and the normal natives are horrified to see visitors experimenting with the dreaded waters. There is reason to believe that the waters of the spring are beneficial to the stomachs of well nourished persons, but injurious to those who are accustomed to an unwholesome diet, and it is entirely possible that the ill fed dwarfs have been injured by drinking of the spring.—New York Sun.

Future War Surgery.

It would appear probable that in a future war many of the wounds produced by the new projectile will be surgically less severe and prove amenable to effective surgical treatment. Probably also the number of severe injuries will be very great, when we consider the enormous range of the new weapon and the penetrating power of the projectile, which enables it to traverse the bodies of two or three individuals in line, including bones, and to inflict serious or fatal wounds at a distance of 8,000 or 4,000 yards. It is impossible to say what the proportion between these two is likely to be. At near ranges the explosive effects will be much the same as before, but at long range the narrow bullet track, the small external wounds, which often approach the subcutaneous in character, and the moderate degree of comminution and Assuring of the bone will be surgically advantageous. These will form the bulk of the gunshot injuries of the future, for it would seem impossible with magazine quick firing rifles to maintain a contest at close quarters without speedy mutual annihilation.

We may take it for granted that the number oi wounded, in proportion to the numbers engaged and actually under fire Will be greater than before. The supply of ammunition will be larger, the facility for its discharge greater and smokeless powder will increase accuracy of aim.

I think we are justified in believing, although there is high authority for a contrary opinion, that the next great war will be more destructive to human life, "bloodier," in fact, than any of its predecessors, and that the number of injuries, and in many cases the severity of the injury, will be largely increased. But very many cases will remain less severe in character, more capable of successful treatment and less likely to entail future disablement.—Nature.

Inadequate.

"John!" "Yes, dear?"

'Are you in earnest about going to war if—if"—

Why, certainly I am. Hope my little darling won't be too lonely"— (She was as one in a great struggle.) "I don't think our government does light"— "Certainly it does. We all ought to go." "But it—it doesn't seem that"— "Well, that what, now?" "That $8 a month—isn't that what they allow a widow —is enough to"— (John has quit talking war. ^Cleveland PJain Dealer.

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A NEW YORK PURLIEU.

Edith Sessions Tupper Visits an East Side Market Place. [Special Correspondence.!

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—New York, is a city made up of small cities. Eighth avenue is a town by itself. Fifth avenuo is a little world nil its own. One might go on stating illustrations indefinitely. Perhaps these divisions are more marked on tho oast sido. Mutt street tho colony of Chinamen and Mulberry the home of Italians. Baxter is tenanted by Jews.

But perhaps the fact that this big town has many i'acos is realized as much on a Friday morning in Hester street. Hero, beginning at Orchard street and running east to S(iti'olk, is tho weekly market uf the offseouring of the old world.

The rain was coming down in torrents when the writer stepped into this market Inst Friday morning. As a rule, tho street is so blocked with push carts that it is impossible to pick one's way through tho throng, but this morning the police had been uncommonly lively, and the street was fairly open. But the scene was chaotic, squalid, picturesque. Thepavements were packed with a crowd that overflowed into the street vending wares. Every woman in tho market, with the exceptici of the writer, wore a shawl over 1KM1 head. Many of these shawls were gay of hue, and thus ailordc 1 a bit of coloring against the background of ramshackle, dingy buildings. Most of the women were old, wrinkled and hideous, though now and then a pair of slumberous eyes peered curiously out from under tho heavy headdress whose beautj' could net be denied. These women were ail dres-ed alike in a coarse, dark stuii' skirt, barely reaching the ankles a checked gingham apron, a slouehy waist of some sort, and all those who were billing carried a huge basket on their trip. I*' you peeped in these baskets, ten to one you would see a stale lisli. i'eui or live rotten apples, a loaf of pumper nickel and a nine of diseased cranberries. And horse radish! Never in my life, have I seen so much Jiorso radish in one place. Everybody \\v.s either buying or selling it. It appeared to bo as much of a stayio a,bread.

In the Hester Street market yen can bv.v flsli, three for 5 cents apples, a coin a piece diseased ere.nberries, a cent a pin": pumpernickel, 5 cents a loaf. Tweniy-ti ve cents would provide a banquet from a Baxter or Norfolk street point of view. The food is horrible to look at, and the reniembrauco of it interferes seriously with your meals for a day or so. Great clothes baskets filled to the brim v. iih their bread—round loaves of pumpernickel—were set right down in tho mud aiW slime of the sireet. Tho fish, tho refuse ol Fulton and Washington markets, was i.u barrels and packing boxes, the fruit i. push carts, lntcrsper^:! with these commodities were the foiuT-lo! ing shops ai sweaters' dens, tho little stands at whic notions and dirtv

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A STREET SCEN'E.

played, and tho omnipresent suspender emporiums. A great many sperm candles were on sale that day, and the vendors called attention to the fact by clicking them loudly together liko castanets. Very few of the venders spoke a word of English, the mournful Hebrew gibberish and broken patois making a pandemonium oi sound.

It was on my return trip up Hester street that I met an officer standing in a mud puddle and pulling his mustache as he gazed ruefully at the babel before hiir. He was an American clear through, he informed me. Ho has been among these people in this precinct for 13 years and knows their lives, habits and business methods by heart. "Look at them," he said as tho motley, ragtag procession hustled and jostled before us. "Did you over see a moro filthy, miserable looking lot? And yet let me tell you that many of them own tenements and get enormous rentals. They live on this offal and refuse you have seen and appear to thrivo on it. And that's tho way they save money to accomplish their great ambition to buy a tenement." "Are they a disorderly people?" "Oh, bless you, they will kick up the biggest kind of a row over 5 cents! Soldom a day passes that some one doesn't come flying after me. 'Bolice, bolico! Come gllck! Zwei men killed alreaty.' I hurry to tho place, and I'll have to push my way in, to find the entire tenement in an uproar and two stunted men scream in. and clawing and scratching like cats. And when I can get order enough restored to find out what they are fighting over nine times out of ten it's a nickel." "Are they a vindictive class, as a rule?" "Not when they can do any business. You may insult and abuse them as much as you please if you will buy something? They will only laugh and smile and bow and rub their hands. But if there's nothing to be gained by this peaceful attitude they will have their revenge. "Now, after 6 o'clock tonight," pursued the officer, "until 6 tomorrow night you couldn't hire one of these people to ligh the gas or a fire. Now, do you see that group of women over thero? They are all Irish women and have just come arounrl from the station house, where they slept last night, to get a job with some Jew family for tomorrow to do this sort of service.'' "And the sweatshops?" "The sweatshops are a curse to this town," said the officer seriously. "Every morning between 3 and 4 I stop men carrying suspicious looking bundles, but usually find they are only going to work. They work till midnight and begin again at 4. A prominent sweater over in Essex street was telling me tho other day what a capital hand he had about the holidays. 'Ho vork two weeks till 1 o'clock and pngin again at 4, and lie earn mooch nione *, most hundred tollar.' 'And where is lie now?' I asked. 'Veil, de man died,' was the answer.

Such is an outline of a part of New York's great cast sido. Thopioturo is unpleasant, but it is worth tho study and sondiddratibn of sociologists and statesmen^/ EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER.

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