Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1884 — Page 3

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE. Eugene Field, in'Chicago News. Once upon a time the forest was in a groat commotion. Early in tho evening the wise old ; cedars had shaken their heads ominously, and predicted strange things. They had lived in the forest many, many years, but never had they Been such marvelous sights as were to be seen now in the sky and upon the hills and in the distant village. “Pray, tell us what yon see,” pleaded a little Tine; “we who are not as tall as you can behold none of those wonderful things. Describe them to ns that we may enjoy them with you."* “I am filled with such amazement, v said ono of the cedars, “that I can hardly speak. The whole sky seems to be aflame, and the etars appear to be dancing among the clouds. Angcds walk down from heaven to the earth and enter the village or talk with the shepherds upon the lulls.” Tho vino listened in mute astonishment Such things never before had happened* The vine trembled with ezoit-eroent. Its nearest neighbor was a tiny tree —so small it scarcely ever was noticed, yet it was a very beautiful little tree, and tho vines, and ferns, and mosses, and other humble residents of the forest loved it dearly. “How 1 would like to see the angels," sighed the little tree, “and how I would like to see tho Etars dancing among the clouds. It must be very beautiful.” As the vine and the little tree talked of these things, the cedars watched with increasing interest the beautiful scenes over and beyond the confines of tho forest. Presently they thought they heard music, and they were not mistaken, for soon the whole air was full of the sweetest harmonies ever heard upon earth. “What beautiful music," cried the little tree. “I wonder whence it comes.” “The angels are singing,” said the cedar, “for none but angels could make such sweet music.” “But the stars are singing, too,” said another cedar; “yes, and the shepherds on the hill join in the what a strangely glorious song it is.” The trees listened to the singing, but they did not understand its meaning, it seemed to be an anthem, and it was of a Ohildthathad been born, but further than this they did not understand. The strange and glorious song continued all the night, and all that night tho angels walked to and fro, and t.he shepherd-folk talked with the angels, and the stars danced and caroled in high heaven. And it was nearly morning when the cedars cried out: “They are coming to the forest —the angels are coming to the forest!” And, eurely enough, this was true. The vine and the little tree were very terrified, and tjhey begged their older and stronger neighbors to protect them from harm. But the cedars were too busy ■with their own fears to pay any heed to the faint pleadings of tho humble vino and the little tree. The angels came into the forest, singing the same glorious anthem about the Child, and tho stars sang in chorus 'frith them, till every part of the woods rang with echoes of that wondrous song. There was nothing in the appearance of this angel host to inspire fear. They were clad all in white, and thore were crowns upon their fair heads and golden harps in their hands. Love, hope, tharity, compassion and joy beamed from their beautiful faces, and their presence •seemed to fill tho forest with a divine peace. The angels came through the forest to where the little tree stood, and gathered around it. They touched it with their hands, and kissed its little branches, and sang even more sweetly than before. And thejr song was about the Child, the Child, the Child that had been born. Then the stars came down from the skies and danced and hung upon the branches of the tree, and they, too, sang that song—the song of the Child. And all the other trees and the vines and the ferns and the mosses beheld in wonder; nor could they understand why all these things were being done, and wh y this exceeding honor should bo shown the little tree. When the morning came the angels left the forest—alf but one angel who remained behind and lingered near the little tree. Then a cedar asked: “Why do you tarry with us, holy angel?” .. And the angel replied: “1 stay to guard this little tree, for it is sacred and uo hunn shah come to it.”

The little tree felt quite relieved by this assurance, and it held up its more confidently than ever before. And how it thrived and grew end waxed in strength and beauty. The cedars said they never had seen the like. The sun seemed to lavish its choicest rays upon the litjlo tree, heaven dropped its sweetest dew upon it and Jhe winds never came to the forest that they did not. forget their rude maimers and linger to kiss the little tree and sing it their prettiest songs. No danger ever menaced it. no harm threatened; for the angel never slept—through the day and through the night the angel watched the little tree, and protected it from all evil. Oftentimes the trees talked with the angel, lnU of course, they understood little of what he said, for he spoke always of the Child who was to become the Master, and always when thus he talked ho caressed the little tree and stroked its branches and leaves, and moistened them with bis tears. It all was so very strange tluit nono in the forest could understand. 80 the years passed, the angel watching his blooming charge. Sometimes the beasts strayed toward the little tree and threatened to devour its tender foliage; sometimes the woodman came with his ax, intent upon hewing down the Straight and comely thing; sometimes the hot. consuming breath of drouth t swept from the sou th and sought to blight the forest and all its verdure—the angel kept them from the little tree. Serene and beautiful it grew, till now it was longer a little tree, but the pride and. glory of the forest. One day tho tree heard someone coming through the forest. Hitherto the angel had hastened to its side when men appro,ached, but flow the angel strode away and stood uuder the cedars yonder. “Dear angel,” cried the tree, “can you not hear the footsteps of someone approaching? Why do you leave me?” “Have no fear,*said the angel, * "for He who comes is the Master. The Master came to the tree and beheld it. He placed his hands upon its smooth trunk and tranches and the tree was thrilled with a strange t and glorious delight. Then He stooped and kissed the tree, aud then He turned and went away. Many times after that the Master came to the forest, and when He came it always was to where the tree stood Many times He rested beneath the tree and enjoyed the shade of its foliage and listened to the music of tho wind as, it swept through the rustling leaves. Many times He slept there, and the tree watched over Him, and tho forest was still, aud all its voices were hushed. And the angel hovered near like a faithful sentinel. Ever and anon men came with the Master to the forest and sat with Him in the shade of the tree, and talked with Him of matters which the tree never could understand: only it heard that the talk was of love, and charity, and gentleness, and it was-that thw Master was beloved and veil era ted by the others. It heard tell of the Mas ter’s goodness and humility, how He had bealed tho sick and raised the dead and bestowed inestimable blessings wherever He had walked. And the tree loved tho Muster for 11 is beauty and His goodness, and when lie came to the forest*it was full of joy, hut when He catno not it was sad. And the other trees of the forest joined in its happiness and its sorrow, for they, too, loved the Master. And the angels always hovered near. The Master came alone one night into the forest ami his face was pale with anguish and wet with tears, and he fell upon his knees and prayed. The tree heard him and all the forest was still, as if it were standing in the presence of death.* And when the morning came, lo! the angel had gone. Then there was a great confusion in the forest. Thtire was a sound of rude voices and a clashing of swords and staves. Strange men appeared, uttering loud oaths and cruel threats, and the tree was filled with terror, [t called aloud for the angel, but tho angel came not. . “Alas!” cried the vine; “they have come to destroy the tree, the pride and glorv of tho for est.” The forest was sorely agitated, but it was in vain. The strange men plied thfir axes with cruel vigor, and the tree was hewn to the ground. Jits beautiful branches were cut away and cast iside. and its soft, thick foliage was strewn to the tenderer mercies of the winds. “They are killing me!” cried the tree. “Why fe not the angel here to protect me?” lint no ntut tAM.rd the p'iteous cry—none but

the other treos of the forest; and thoy wept, and the little vine wept, too. Then the cruel men dragged the despoiled and hewn tree from the forest, and the forest saw that beauteous thing no more. But the night wind that swept down from the City of the Great King that night, to rullle the bosom of distant Galilee, tarried in the forest awhile to say that it had seen that day a cross upraised on Calvary—the. Tree on which was stretched tho body of tho dying Master. TTIE VANDKRBILT FAMILY. Old Cornelius as a 'Peddler of Watermelons and a Business Pirate. '‘Cath’V’ New York Letter. About two years before Cornelius Vanderbilt, or Commodore Vanderbilt, died, the publisher of the richest newspaper here at that tinre asked mo to prepare his life for wliat were called, by an exaggeration of conceit, “tho archives" of the office. It was a labor that pleased roe. So I started first to New Brunswick, in New Jersey, wnere tho Vanderbilt family began its career in steamboating. I went into the town and cor suited with somebody, and he told mo that an old ge.ntlemau who kept a book-store in the place had stood up with Cornelius Vanderbilt when he was married. 1 went to the store and found a grave and pleasant gentleman, who told me so much more and so much better about old Vanderbilt than anything that I have printed that I always felt as if I knew Vanderbilt better th°,n anybody in the country. He said that when he was a young man, or perhaps a boy, Vanderbilt boarded in a house with him where they paid a small 6um of money, perhaps cor more than a half a dollar a day for board. “Vanderbilt,” said the old gentleman, “was a very neat man, proud about lus person, cleanly, one who washed himself every day once or twice, who took pains to have his spine straight, who rode a horse with character in the riding, and walked with a coTtairt self-conscious-ness. When ho was to be married,” said my friend, “ho asked me to go with him to the church.” Then he described the simple wedding, and from that William Vanderbilt is the only important result. The Vanderbilts were so obscure that when they left Hong Inland, and settled around in .Staten Island and New Jersey, they hardly kept track of each other, but they retained the sturdy Dutch qualities, among which were the passion for wealth, devotion to open-air life, fondness for a boat and for sailing somewhere. Old Vanderbilt had a little boat hardly worth SIOO, and he used to sail all around with his bod in it, and sometimes carry watermelons to sell. It is said that when the British came into the lower bay, daring the Revolution, that he went off to the fleet with watermelons, so as to dispose of them to the officers who wanted some kiud of antiscorbutic food. Tho furthest he ever got in his youth from New York was to the North Carolina coast. He was considered in New York to be a very good specimen of the native boatman, and he had an address that people remembered, and consequently, when the steamboat eame into use and a certain person determined to break up the monopoly in steamboatiug lie was asked to take Vanderbilt for his captain. A man came to New York from the South by the name of Gibbons. He was a lawyer, and a smart fellow, and a belligerent one. He made up his mind, in the honest spirit of a Federalist, that the State monopoly over the steamboat was a humbug. He made up liis mind to build a steamboat and have a lawsuit by invading the waters of New Yock and Nc\y Jersey. To show that he meant war ho called his little steamboat the Beliona. “Now,” said he, “I want to And a captain somewhere who will have the nerve to take this boat where I want her to go.” Gibbons bad made his home at Elizabeth, New .Jersey, a mile or two from the landing called Elizabethport Vanderbilt had married his wife, who was a plain woman named Johnson, at Elizabeth. The people, therefore, of that region said to Giobons: “You -take Corneel Vanderbilt.” Vanderbilt was, therefore, put on the steam boat, and Gibbons bpd a great lawsuit at Trenton, N. J., and as the end of that lawsuit •State rights in steamboats were broken all to pieces, and federal rights were maintained. The greatest lawyers of that period figured in the steamboat cases, among them the brotlier ,of the Irish Revolutionist. Gibbons argued his own case. So when the newspaper before mentioned asked me to write up for its archives The Vnndeibilt history, I nmde mj r way to Bellona Hall, where Miss Johnson, that was, kept an eating-table for the steamboat and stage passengers. When the steamboat got to New Brunswick the passengers went off and got into stages and were driven across NeW Jersey to Trenton, and there another steamboat took them down the Delaware river. (>l course, they wanted something to eat. Vanderbilt’s wife saved all his money, and one day, according to the legend, her husband said: **l see a chance to be a rich man if I could only buy a steamboat.” His wife asked how much it would cost. He told her the price of un engine and tho price of a hull, etc. She took her old stocking from some place where she had it concealed and brought out a part of the money. Vanderbilt* 1 then, in imitation of his own patron, began to .buck against everybody that had a steamboat Wherever there was an established line he ran in opposition. He ran steamers up tho Hudson river, up tho Sound, everywhere. lie was a kind of a pirate in tho business, but a strong ono. Then he got to building steamships to go on tho ocean, and he saved his money and watched business, and he became the greatest merchant this country has probably eve** had for his opportunities. When he found the sea was played out for Americans, he camo ashore and began to operate in railroads. Now his son, who is something like sixty-six years old, is to spend $500,000 in builujng a great stone temple to put tho family bones in. Vanderbilt always regarded Staten Island as his fatherland. Staten Island is a mountainous island in the Bay of New York, about sixteen miles long by, perhaps, eight or ten miles wide. Modern times have given a black eye to this island, and property them is not worth anythiug like what it was twenty years ago. When I was married, in 18C5, I went to housekeeping on Staten Island, and if I bad stayed right there without moving to the present day, 1 would have been fairly well off.- The rolling stone gathers no moesbacks or greenbacks. On State Island then* is an old Moravian German town callod New Dorp. There i a very ancient church thero in an interesting situation, overlooking the lower bay. In tho church yard Commodore Vanderbilt is buried under a grauite tomb, which has consid able taete. fiver it is a veiled figure representing grief.or mystery,or death. William Vanderbilt is about to put up n house there, and ha* bought some acres of ground in a portion of the cemetery The people of Staten island, as the people everywhere are in tho habit- of doing, stand in their own light. Vanderbilt tho elder proposed to give the Moravian Church a largo donation, when a whole lot of other Moravian geese from the Ivtfhigh valley and other places shouted that the money ought to be given to the whole church: that the Moravians were a community and not a series of aggregations. Old Vanderbilt buttoned up his pocket and said: “You can be what you —— please.”

Senator Vance’s Xew Venture, Latter in Lancaster Intelligencer. Senator of North Carolina, has lately bought a tract of 1,500 acres of mountain land, a hundred miles or more from his home, and lias started to clear enough of it for pasture lands and grazing ground for a little fine stock, which he will take up there to add to the creature comforts of a summer lodge. There are trout streams and a wealth of timber. The owner tells me that he has five sticks of wild cherry pn* the place, which, laid down iu New York, would alone pay for tho whole tract. There is ash timber there eleven feet in the butt, birch, black walnut in abundance, and hickory trees three feet in diameter. Cleared, the land is deep with the mould of the virgin -forest, but the altitude is too great for tobacco growiug. Tine Card that hoes Service. Boston Evening Record. “The Confessions of a Christmas Card,** which has traveled as a present several years between friends would make an interesting holiday story. After Diphtheria. Diptheria is a terrible disease, requiring the greatest medical skill to effect a complete cure. Even when its poWer is broken, it clings to the patient with great persistency, and often leaves the system poisoned and prostrated. Just here Hood’s Sarsaparilla does a vast amount of good, expelling impurities from the blood, giving it richness and vitality, while it renovates and strengthens tho system. •

THE IN DIANA IN) LIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1881.

LINCOLN IN INDIANA. Reminiscences of the Residence of the Fr.mily in Spencer County. Indianapolis Letter in Chicago Tribone. Being on a train one day last autumn on tho railway leading from Jasper to liockport. in Southwestern Indiana, a casual traveling acquaintance remarked that we would soon pass the Lincoln farm. On seeking further information he informed me that it was the farm owned and occupied by Thomas Lincoln, the father of President Lincoln, and where the latter passed most of his youtnful years; this arrested my attention and decided me to stop at Lincoln Station (which takes its name from the farm) and pass a few hours amid the scenes and surroundings which had been so familiar to tjip - martyr ed President. The place is in Carmen township, Spencer countj’. Lincoln Station is located in the centre of the Lincoln homstead, and is now a village of a dozfn buildings or so, having the usual concomitants of a store, blacksmithshop and saloon. Into this then wild and rough region. almost literally in the wilderness, Thomas Lincoln moved his family, composed of his wife and two children, named Abraham and Sarah, in 1883. lie built his cabin on a knoll some fiftoen rods from where tho depot is now located. Young Lincoln atf this time was in his eighth year, and for the next fourteen yeers this Vas to be his home. Here he was to pass through the formative period of character, llere, in extreme poverty, in tho hard and rough life he was leading in that wild scenery, coining in contact with nature in its crudest forms, without books co means of study, and therefore left more fully to the study of nature, without social advantages or schools, but under the teaching of a good Christian, devoted mother, tho foundations of that character w’ere laid which w r ere to develop such remarkable practical common sense, such sound reasoning and judgment, and such adaptability and masterly skill in dealing with and shaping the great events with which his name was to be forever afterwards associated. The cabin has been removed, and nothing remains to mark the spot where it stood but the partly-filled cellar and a solitary cedar tree near by planted by young Abraham. 1 found an aged man in tho vicinity who was Abe’s playmate, and* frc.iq him learned much that was interesting in regard to liis early habits, his earnest desire learn and his passion for books which ho was not able to obtain, lie read everything he could find in all the region about; it may have been that this deprivation of books and the means of learning threw him upon his own resources and led him into those modes of thought, of quaint and apt illustration and'logical reasoning so peculiar to him. Ho was about the only one in the vicinity who could read and write; he was noted for his kindness to every one, and his services were frequently drawn upon by the-settlers to write their letters, a kindness he always cheerfully rendered. BaicL the old man: “Abo was nil’rs much given to lamin’.” Whenever the court was in session he was a frequent attendant, as often as he could be spared from the labors of the farm, and especially when a lawyer of the name of John A. Breokenridge was to appear in any ca.se. Breckeuridge was the loremost lawyer in that region, and was widelyfamed as an advocate in criminal eases. Lincoln was then sure to be present. Doing his “chow" in the morning, he would walk to Boonville, the county seat tis Warrick county, seventeen miles away, and then home again in time to do his “chores” at night, repeating this day after day. The lawyercameto know him. Years afterward, when Lincoln was President, a venerable gentleman one day entered his office, in the White House, and, standing before him, said: “Mr. President, you don’t know me." Mr. Lincoln eyed him sharply,* for a moment, then quickly replied, with a smile: “Yes, Ido; you are John A. Breckeu ridge. I used to walk thirty-four miles a day to hear you plead law in Boonville, and listening to your speeches at the bar first inspired me with the determination to be a lawyer.”

Lincoln always manifested the strongest affection for his mother, and ever strove to relieve her as much as was in his power of the cares and burdens of their hard life. Although her lot was cast, in that humble sphere, it was evident from all that I could learn that she was a superior woman, possessing all the traits of a true and noble mother, and that she left an impression for good upon her young son which he never threw off. Thomas Lincoln and w ife were of strongly marked religious character aud were members of the Baptist faith. Whenever services were held in the log building a mile distant, which passed for a church, they and their two children wpre there, but the wife and mother was not long to be with them. The fatal disease of consumption had fastened upon her, and her life was slowly wasting away. Day by day young Abrahamisat by her bedside and read to her for hours such portions of tho Bible as she desired to -hear. During the intervals in reading she talked to him of goodness and truth, and urged him to walk in the ways thereof. She portrayed to him the beauties of the Christian faith, the hope of the Christian life, and the joys of the h eavenly kingdom to which .she was going. The end was at hand, the faithful watchers at the bedside- of the dying woman felt the shadow creeping upon the walls—it was the shadow of death —the light of the lowly cabin went slowly out—the mother had rest. Abraham gave way to grief that could not be consoled. They laid her tenderly away in an opening in the timber an eighth of a mile away from the house. No minister could bo procured at the time to perform tho last sad rites, but sympathizing friends offered up sincere prayers over tho dead. This simple service did not seem to the father and son to be a sufficient tribute to tho memory of the true and exemplary wife and mother whose loss they so sorely felt, so when springtime came tho boy wrote to Eider Elkin, who lived near the family when they were in Kentucky, appealing to him to come aud preach a funeral sermon over his mother's grave, adding that granting this request would be to him and his father and sister a lasting favor. The good man cheerfully complied with the request, though it involved a journey of over 100 miles on horseback; und oue lovely day the people came from all the country around and gathered about the grave, tho minister discoursed to them the virtues and estimable qualities of the departed, and commended Iter worthy example for the emulation of all. As the last prayer was said the whole audience fell upon their knees on the ground around the grave, and this, the last scone in the burial of hi? mother, was ended. The grave is inclosed with a high iron fence, and at its head stands a beautiful white marble stone, on which is inscribed the following: “Nancy Hawks Lincoln, who died Oct. 5, 1818, aged thirty-five years. Erected in 1879 by a friend of her martyred son.” This friend, I was informed, is on© of tho Studebaker Brothers, extensive wagon manufacturers at South Bend, Ind. While standing by the solitary grave in tho forest tbc thought crowded itself upon my mind how little did she whose dust was lying there mingling with earth realized when in life she had brought into being one whose fame would yet resound through all Christendom as one of the great characters of modern history. In the course of a couple of yours there came to the cabin anew mother, of whom it must bo said that tradition gives her the credit, in that neighborhood, of having been a most excellent stop mother. She lived to see her step-son President of the United States. In 18110, becoming dissatisfied with that section of the country, and hearing favorable reports of the prairie lands of mis, the family decided to remove there. Mr. Lincoln sold his farm and tho preparation was made for the change. Abraham visited all tho neighbors and bkde them an affectionate good-bye. When the morning of the day >vfiich had been selected for their departure arrived he was found sitting upon his mother's grave weeping, whither he had gone at an early hour in the morning; ho said he could not bear the thought of leaving his mother behind. The few household goods and utensils were put on the farm wagon, the oxen yoked, and the family getting aboard young Lincoln took his place by the side of tho team and drove away. The old man to whom I have alluded said he well remembered when Abe started that morning, barefooted, with his pants coining down only half way between his knees and his feet, and added. “Little did l think he’d ever bo President of the United States.” In that ungainly six-foot-four youth by the side of tho ox team went forth seeking anew home in the country to tho west of them the fu tur© President, tho illustrious leader, the immortal emancipator, one who first opened his eyes in the vale of humanity in a rude Kentucky cabin, and one whose life weut out; with, all the nations for mourners and all kings aud emperors

rendering homage to his memory. "What a contrast! May not any youth take courage and hope. PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. How the Law Really Works—Which Is, that It Doesn’t Work at All. Letter in Chicago Tribune. In a few cities—like Leavenworth and Dodgo City—the saloons have never been closed. In the former place, when tho law wont into effect no attention was paid to it until one of the itinerant lecturers, who had been swarming in the State, made affidavits against several prominent dealers, and cave the names of some of the most prominent citizens as witnesses. When it became generally known that this had been done the wrath of the parties summoned knew no bounds. Tho lecturer was thrashed three times in going two blocks, and was compelled to call on the police authorities to protect him against the infuriated citizens. Since then no one has mustered the courage to take it on himself to enforce the law. Tho officers have done t.heir duty as far as the letter of the law demanded, but this lias virtually been a nullification of the spirit. In Dodge City no attempt has ever been made to close the bars It was rumored that ex-Governor St. John and other lecturers were going out to make a raid on the place, and ** petition signed by the mayor and many of the best citizens of the city requesting them to desist was sent in. They gave as their reason that they did not consider it safe for the raiders to come * there, and if they'did come they (tho citizens) would not answer for the consequences. The good people thus warned concluded that discretion is the better part of valor and did not go. As Dodge City is largely inhabited by cowboys and that class it is probably just as well for them that they did not. In Topeka, Atchison, Lawrenco, Wyandotte, and other cities the law has at tmes been enforced, usually during a session of a court and for a week nr so afterwards. In all these cities now the saloons are running at full blast almost as openly as before prohibition became a law. The history of the attempts to enforce the law is ahout the same in most parts of the State as it has been here. When tho law first came into force not a drop of anything was sold for probably ten days. At the end of that time some of tbe more venturesome sold on the sly. These were followed by others, till all the old saloons were opened. Then several new ones went into the "business. At last the county attorney to prosecute, but it wa3 of no avail. The saloon men bunded together and hired two of the best lawyers they could get, at. a salary of $2,000, to defend them against any prosecutions that should be made. Cases were apperlcd, and every legal technicality that could be raised was taken advantage of to delay and hamper the enforcement of the law. But the greatest difficulty experienced was the action of juries summoned*to try the cases. No difference wliat the evidence might bo, ono or two jurors would refuse to convict; One jury went so far as 1o bring in a verdict of malicious prosecution, and tax the costs against tho prosecuting witness, although t.he evidence was positive that -he had bought the liquor, which was exhibited in* open court, of. the defendant. This seemed to paralyze tho officers, for no prosecutions were made for several weeks thereafter, and the saloons were run with open doors. At last ono of the attorney*? who had before been in the employ of the saloon men was nominated and elected county attorney. He made a desperate effort to enforce the law, but for a long time to no avail. Finally he took the cases be lore a justice in a distant part of the county, who convicted every man brought before him. With the aid of a sheriff in sympathy with the attorney, juries were obtained which convicted on appeal. In this way quito a number of con victions were obtained, and the terror inspired closed the front doors of the saloons —at least during the session of court. They gradually opened again, however. Now there are nine or ten places where any oue can get liquors by. the drink or in quantity. There are probably a dozen more where persons who are known can buy. Thero is, moreover, a brewery in full blast which has never stopped except for a week or so at a time.

In the attempt to enforce the law tho prose-cuting-attorney has begun 1312 cases. Thirtythree have been withdrawn and twenty-nine have been prosecuted to a successful termination. Fines have been imposed to trie amount of $10,750, but of this amount only SOOO has been paid. The rest, for various causes, was not collected. The county stands responsible for a large amount of costs, and tho revenue in the meantime has becu lost to the city. Before tho law went into force from this source $4,250 was paid into the city treasury yearly, making for tho four years SIB,OOO that the city has lost, aud the same or a greater amount of liquor has been sold than before. Nearly everybody is disgusted by the workings of the law. which is shown by the fact that the same attorney who made the bitter fight as county prosecutor in these cases \nhs elected to the State Semite as a Republican by only majority vfhen the rest of tho Rep' blican ticket was elected by majorities ranging from GOO to 1,860. The main objection to him was his part in the. liquor prosecutions. How the sentiment in regard to this matter has changed can be judged from the fact that this county gave one of the largest majorities of any county in tho State for the prohibitory amendment, and when St. John ray for Governor, in 1882. and was defeated more on account of tho prohibition issue than any other, this county gave him 400 majority. So it can be seen that this was one of tho strongest prohibition counties in the State. In politics the prohibitory question has been a stumbling-block ever since it became an issue. When it passed tho Legislature, both houses wore virtually unanimously Republican. Its main supporters were Republicans, and it has received it© main recognition from Republicans; but tho Prohibitionists have growled und snarled at that party, tho disaffection culminating in toe treachery of Bt. John and the convention that met in Topeka the lGth inst., when the prohition element cut loose from tho Republican party, St. Johu leading. St. John's treachery and this last move has disgusted the Republicans with the Prohibitionists, and at the session of the Legislature next month they will not get much support While a canvass of the members does not. show a majority for resubmitting the amendment, tbe.ro is a fair prospect that a constitutional convention will be called, which will virtually amount to tho same thing. It would meet the wishes of nine-tenths of the people and would remove a load from from th<* Republican party that has once caused its defeat and may do so again. WHY MR, COOPER CAME. An English Hosiery Manufacturer Brings His Establishment Hero. New York Worl I, Mr. R. W. Cooper, his wife and children, were cabin passengers on the steamer Aurania. which arrived her© from Liverpool, and in the steerage of the same vessel were 144 men, women and children, who came to this country with him for the purpose of starting a hosiery manufactory in Providence, R, I. “1 am from Nottingham.” said Mr. Cooper to your correspondent, “and own a hosiery manufactory there which I propose to give up. In fact, 1 have already given it up, and will start a place in Providence, K. I.” “Whet caused you to leave Nottingham!” “I could not clear my expenses. These people who are with mo I employed in England, and I have much of my machinery on board tho Aurania. In fact 1 have moved my whole establishment” “Do you expect to make money here?” ‘•Certainly, or I should not have come. I shall at first conduct the manufactory on a much smaller scale than 1 did in England, but in time, I think. I shall have even a larger place than before. My workmen are all experienced, and wo shall be enabled to offer for sale genuine English hosiery at English prices. 2liss Mack ay’s Coming Marriage. Paris Letter. Mrs. Mackay has informed your correspondent at Paris that tho approaching marriage of her daughter. Miss Eva, to Don Fernando Colonna, Prince of Galatro, will bo solemnized in the simplest possible manner, without any pomp or festivities. The Parisians who hud been anticipating a series of gorgeous fetes in connection with this wedding are disgusted at the announcement of a quiet ceremony. It is a plain fact that 25 percent, of the deaths in our larger cities are caused by consumption; and when we reflect that this terrible disease, in its earlier stage, will readily yield to a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup (costing 25 cents), shall we condemn the sufferers for theix negligeuco or pity them for their ignorance?

HUMOR OP Till! DAY. On Hi Far. OVr head and ears his cap of seal Ho pulls as far as it will go— He palls it good urn? strong. Iti days like these when things congeal. Man wants but. little ear below, Nor wants that little long. —Chicago Mews. Sacrificed on tho Altar. To speak Ibo words her toneme did falter, ' Bat. all her tears and prayei-s were idle; Her father forced her to the halter, For he’d determined on the bridlo. She did not wish to stirrup strife. And so her feelings she did smother; But saddle be her married life— She wedded one but loved another. — Boston Courier. The True .Secret of economy. Philadelphia Call. Jinka —1 can’t see how it is. You and 1 have about tho some income, and tho same sizedfamilies, yet you folks always seem to have more to show for your money than we have. Minks—My wife always reads the advertisements. A Mysterious Robbery. New York Graphic. “That was a very mysterious robbery the other day?” “Why, I don’t see what mystery thero was about it. The detectives caught the thieves tho same day* * “Yea. That’s what I said.” Good News for the Miners. The Graphic. *'l see they have discovered a vast bed of rock salt in Colorado.” “Is that so?” “Yes, this will be very valuable to tho miners.” “How so?” “Guess you never bought a gold mine.” A Natural Supposition. Pittsburg Chroniclo. “Jeremiah, I do wish you would remain in your seat during the intermission,” remarked Mrs. Jarphly between the acts. “What would people think of me if I got up and bounced out of the house every time the curtain comes down?” “They would probably think you had formed the clove habit, Martha,” mildly replied Mr. Jarphly. Supplied for tbe Winter. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “Can I leave you some weather this season?” politely asked the clerk of the Weather of Old Probabilites, while out on a drumming trip for the house. “No. not this winter;” replied Old Probabilities. “This winter I'm going, to take my weather of Wiggins. He joined the Salvation Army, you know, and ought to be eucouraged.” An Enforced Act of Charity. Pittsburir Chronicle. “I pay the quarter part of that young fellow’s tailor's bill,” remarked a gentleman, referring to an exquisite on the opposite side of the street, “though 1 never have spoken a word to him in my life.” “You do! Why, I thought he procured his clothes from the same tailor you do?” said his companion. “iSo- he dbes,” was the reply, “but be does not pay for his.” A Satisfying Minister. Boston Courier. “I hear you are highly satisfied with your new minister. Brown?*' “Satisfied is a tame word to express our opinion of him. We are delighted with linn.” “He-is very eloquent. I understand?” “Eloquent! Why, sir, when he is preaching he affects the congregation so powerfully that there is scarcely any interest taken in the flirtations of the choir.” _ A Pan of Mush. Sah Francisco Post. Girl in Blue—“ There’s young Mr. Duderson over there; don’t you think he is just splendid?” Girl in Rod—“ Splendid, that pan of mush! Why, he took me buggy riding last week, and tried to kiss me.” G. I. B.—“ Well?” G. I. U.—“ Well, he put his arm around me, and —and of course 1 told him to behave him self.” G. I. B.—“ Well?” G.. I. R. —“Well —he behaved himself !” Both—“ Ugh!” _ Tbe High Using Cash-Boy. (. hu apo News. A white and tottering old man leaned against tho 5-cent counter in a Christmas toy-store. A raiddloaged man, streaked with gray, ap proaohed him. “Ah.” said the old man. extending his wrinkled liana, “it seems to me I have t>eeu your face somewhere before ” “Are you the spruce young man who bought 27 oents’ worth of'goods here and had 3 cents change coming to you?” “I am he who was the spruce young man,” replied the white old man. “I thought so,” said the middle-aged man. “Here is your change. lam the cash boy.” “Ah, I did not expect you back so soon,” and the old man hobbled out.

His Conscience Was Quieted, Charles Dudley Warner. Elder Phillips, who was a jovial soul, settled many years airo near the headwaters of the Susnueharma. He was, in fact, a Presbyterian dominie. He was full of humor and ready with his repartee on all occasions. Jack Uickett, a quasi parishioner, who was more punctual at the river than at the church, presented the Elder one Monday morning with a fine string of pickerel. Elder Phillips thanked him graciously for the gift, “But, Elder,” suggested Jack, still retainirg tho fish, “those fish were caught yesterday (Sunday). Perhaps yer conscience wont let ye eat ’em.” “Jack,” replied the Elder, stretclving out his hand toward the string, “there’s one thing I know—the pickerel were not to blame.” A Chines© lli-Millionaire. Ban Francisco Chronicle. On the steamer San Pablo, that sails for China to day, is the family of Ah Ti, a resident of La Porte, Plumas county. Ti arrived in California thirty-five years ago, and soon amassed a fortune in mining. At present he owns a general store at La Porte, and interests in many mines, and is estimated to be worth $2,000,000. The family which embarks to day consists of his wife and six children —five girls and a boy, the names of whom are Emma. Annie, Charlotte, Alice, Bessie and Eddie, ranging in years from seventeen to two. Tho elder speak English fluently and are apparently well educated. The others also speak English. They were all born in California, and nono of them speak the Chinese language. Ah Ti is sending his family to the Flowery King dom to remain permanently, and will follow them in a few months, just as soon as he makes a settlement of his property. The family were consigned to a state-room alone, comprising five berths, their passage costing them $750. A Michigan Pat Man. Detroit Journal. A citizen of this State is so fat that he must back up to a door to ring the bell. For cuts, bruises and sprains, nothing equals St. Jacobs Oil a? a cure. iiw • iThimbu DIED. WININGS—SamueI L. Winings, aged twenty-nine years u and two mouths, yesterday morning, at 10:50 o’clock, at his residence, 188 North Blackford street. Further notice of funeral will be given. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. Telephone SGL FREE AMBULANCE. STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING. The annual meeting of tho stockholders of the Indiana Insurance Company will occur at tho office of the company, No. 64 Bust Market street., on Tuesday evening, January 6, ISBS. at 8 o'clock, for the election of a president and six directors to serve one year, and for tho transaction of other business. M. V. McGILLIA&D, Secretary. Indianapolis, Ind., Dee, 24, 1884.

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