Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1887 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY", SEPTEMBER . 2, 1887.

LAND THAT NEEDS DEAINAGE

Thousands of Acres in Northern Indiana that Could Be Made Productive. State Geologist Thompson's Saffgrestions Hegardinjr the Drainage of the Kankakee Swamp Region New Facts Disclosed. State Geologist Thompson thinks that tbe gas wells bored through the drift deposits of Indiana have fully confirmed bis theory that a vast t ancle of moraines runs across the State, and he is now getting together a mass of information n this point which nothing but tbe drill would possibly hare furnished. Professor Gorbey is arranging a compendium of the facts disclosed by tbe boring for gas and oil, and it will appear in the forthcoming report of the State Geologise "The study of the glacial deposits of Indiana," said Mr. Thompson yesterday, "discloses some interesting facts in connection with the Kankakee river and tbe area which should be drained by it. Many thousands of acres of land as rich as any in the State lie on either side of the rirer, and are at present practically submerged on account of a lack of drainage. It strikes me as amazing that so vast a body of incomparably Taluable real estate should be allowed to lie useless and unsightly, a home for frogs and turtles, ducks and snipes, right in the heart of a great agricultural , State like Indiana, when to straighten tbe bed of the river and drain the whole swamp reeion would be a comparatively ine znensive and easy work. The fall of the Ka nkakee river is by no means light, for, as crooked as the stream is, its current is stiff and and very heavy to row agaiDst. The short, sharp turns in the bed are tbe chief obstacles to a rapid subsidence after a freshet If short-cut channels were made, so as to shorten the flow and remove obstruciion, the swamp lands would rapidly dry out and become exceedingly valuable hy and pasture and corn lands. "The soil is a sandy muck, at present deeply overlaid in places with a light vegetable mold, which would burn off when dry, leaving a very fertile area. I know of nothing in the way of public work, which would do more for the appearance and the value of the northern part of the State than a proper drainage of the Kankakee reeion. The geology of this region is interesting and discloses many features of value in the study of tbe glacial phenomena of past ages. In the western part of the Kankakee area the movement of the great ice flood was almost due southward, as shown by the well-defined stria) found on the rock surface wherever exposed. The cone of upheaval near Kentland has been ent off sharply and smoothly by the glacier, and the almost vertical strata are becntifully scratched and grooved. So on the prairie of Pulaski and Jasper counties where the Niagara rocks occasionally come to tbe surface, the marks of glacial action are very clear. The wells sunk in all this reeion show singular channels of erosion, and there are interesting ont-lyers and columns, so to call them, of the Devonian formations, left standing, but covered by a deposit of drift Nearly all the ancient channels have more or less silt in the form of quick sand at some depth, and usually under a bed of blue or gray clay. Over a large part of tbe west side of Pulaski county tbe Niagara and water-lime rocks are but a few feet under the ground surface. "At Valparaiso, in Porter county, the Deronian shale is the uppermost rock, showing that there the erosion has not been so great, or .that the linn of upheaval across the State has affected the deposition of all the strata above the Niagara group. Coming southward, we find at Delphi another cone thrust up through the Devonian limestone and shales. Here, too. the action of tbe great ice-stream is clearly recorded on the uptitlted Niagara rock. The striae at Delphi run a little south of west, showing that tbe glacier took the direction of the great rift in the rock which now gives its course to the channel of tbe Wabash river. "At Logansport and Lafayette the glacial lines are conflicting, varying from nearly due north and south to south, forty-five degrees west, and as far south as Crawfordsville these lines are sometimes liearls due west. "Another feature of the drift deposits is the assorted clay of varions kinds found in the strata. This clay assumes almost every consistency, from kaolin to a fine silicious marl. Sometiroes it is a coarse chalk or lime sediment A careful study of these clays convinces me that tbe theory of kaolin forinatiou advanced in ray report of last year is the correct one. Water has been the chief ageutof selection and deposit." A WRONGED WOMAN'S STORY. Mrs. Courneau Returns from France to Ask a Rehearing of Her Husband's Divorce. A petition was filed in the Superior Court yesterday asking a rehearing of the divorce suit of John A. Courneau against his wife. Courneau is a French fresco artist who was employed for three or four years in tbe new State-house. He came to this city direct from France in 1882, accompanied by his wife. Two years ago, during a scarcity of work, he persuaded his wife to Tt turn to France, with the understanding that Lo would go to Texas in search of work, and if he was unsuccessful be would take a steamer at New Orleans direct for home. In case he found remunerative employment he promised to send for his wife. He remained in Texas only a few weeks and then returned to Indianapolis. Lizzie Meyers, an attache of the old Zoo Theater, attracted his attention and he spent much of bis time with her. About a year ago the two were arrested, charged with maintaining illegal relations, and besides being fined, were sentenced to a short term of imprisonment in the county jail. Soon after his release Courneau appled for, and was granted a divorce from his wife on tbe ground of abandonment. The decree bad hardly been rendered before Secretary Snyder, of the Police Hoard, received a letter from Mrs. Courneau, making inquiries about her husband, and stating that be had sent her home without money, and bad since refused to make any provision for ber support. There was some correspondence between the officials and Mrs. Courneau regarding thecase, but the matter was finally turned over to Father Bessonies, and through bis advice the wronged woman is retnrning to this city to have the divorce decree set aside, and her husband compelled to make some provision for her support. Mrs. Courneau arrived in New York several days ago and is expected here this week. THE PLUCKINGS OF PILFERERS. An Uno3uaUy Rosy Day for Rold Burglars aud Light-Fingrered Thieves. After the circus performance yesterday afternoon a horse driven by Sirs. Oscar J. Hoover became frightened on White river bridge and she jumped from the buggy. During the excitement a crowd of men gathered around, and one of them grabbed her satchel, in which was a gold watch she had placed there for safe-keeping. The thief ran and the police pursued him, but he made his escape. During the afternoon the residence of Gus Bruner, No. 1C3 Ash street, was entered by burglars, while the family were attending the sirens, and the family's jewelry and silverware was carried away. All the drawers in the house were ransacked, but the object of the thieves seemed money or its equivalent, and nothing else was disturbed. Tbe residence of Louis Gardner. No. 4?2 West New York street, was also raided during the afternoon, while the family wore absent, and valuables worth over $100 were stolen, including a lady's gold watch and other articles of jewelry. The thieves got into tbe house by picking the iock of a rear door. Wednesday night the grocery store of G. C. Kmc. No. 29G East Georgia street, was robbed of ?24, several pipes, and a quantity of cigars. Admittance was gained by forcing tbe rear door. Edward Robbing, who is supposed to have been following the circus, was caught in the act f robbing II. J. McLainat the National Hotel resterday morning. Mr. McLain had left his room for a moment, and when be returned Kobbins was appropriating a suit of clothing. The thief was taRen directly before Mayor Denny, who committed him to jail t await the action of the grand jury in tbe case. Superior Court Hults Filed Yesterday. Mary V. Ilobinson vs. Edmond ZoUr; complaint for breach of promise contract Demaud, $5,000. Thomas J. Moore vs. Anna 13. link, et al.;

complaint for foreclosure of mechanic's lein. Demand, $700. Ira Collins vs. Adolph Lipkotz; suit on account; appeal. SEEING THE CIRCUS. Nearly Twenty Thousand People Attend the Two Performances of Sells Brothers' Show. A street parade that surpassed expectations, and weather well suited to the enjoyment of circus festivities, aided materially in attracting about 8,000 people to the performance given by Sells Brothers' Show, on the grounds west of White river, yesterday afternoon. Every s eat under the immense tent was occupied, and last night, wher fully 10,000 persons passed into the entrance, the crowd was greater than could well be accommodated. A thousand or more were unable to get inside the ropes protecting the seats from the race-track, and those who were willing to endure some discomfort for tbe eaite of seeing the performance were allowed to sit 'on the ground, at the risk of being run over while the hippodrome races were in progress. It was a great show day. The crowd looked like a State-fair gathering under canvass. Whole families and a great many of them were there. They ate pea nuts and drank lemonade with great relish, and the young men who sold palm-leaf fans as life-preservers, had a greater market than they were prepared to supply. The performance was up to the standard known among show-going people as "a good circus." A number of the bst performers in tbe profession appeared in the two rings, and gave all that one desires to see in the line of difficult and daring fats. The riding of yonng William Sells is especially remarkable. The trained animals and the Wild West show are equal to other exhibitions in that line that have ben seen here. The races, however, form the conspicuous feature of unusual merit in the show. They are really exciting and are given with much spirit.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Cleveland Banners and the G. A. It. Io the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; The Democracy of the entire country are greatly exercised because some of the G. A. R. boys refused to march under the banner of President Cleveland s few days ago at Wheeling, W. Va. Not content with the row brought about with the assistance of Governor Wilson, they now propose to carry the war over to St Louis on the. occasion of tbe parade preceding the national encampment, and hang Prasident Cleveland's banner freely across tbe streets and see that the old veterans are compelled to pass under it I venture to say that if General Fairchild says to go under that every old comrade will do so and not consider it a hardship. No such talk as this will force politics into the order nor frighten the boys into doing anything they do not want to do. Hang up the banners. As they did at Wheeling we will do at St. Lonis some puss under and some aronnd. By the way, how would it please the Hendricks Club to have a portrait of Maria lialpin. accompanied with a poem from Eb Henderson, hung across the street dnrmg the visit of his Excellency to our State in a few days? Ax Ol.d Soldier. Worthington, Ind., Sept L The Woman's Relief Corps, G. A To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; It In recent issues of the Journal I notice quite extended accounts of the proceedings of a W. It. C- convention held in your city on tbe 17th and 18tn of August, and as many of your readers may suppose the same to ' have been the lawful ly authorized convention of- that body, I desire. with your permission, to correct that impression. No lawfully authorized convention was called to meet at Indianapolis on the dates above named, and tbe person or persons calling it have no standing at national headquarters of the W, Ii. C, and are not themselves members of the organization. It was stated in your report of tbe meeting that delegates were present repre senting eighty-five corps. This must be incor rect, for but forty-eight corps have been legally organized in this State, and but forty-eight corps are recognized by national headquarters. It follows then that all corps numbered above forty-eight are illegally constituted and that the cbaiters, rituals, badges and other effeots fur bished them (if they have been furnished) have been obtained and issued against the expressed wish of the national .president and national treasurer, and consequently in a surreptitious and pernaps fraudulent manner. . The charters and rituals are copyrighted, the badges patented. giving the corps thus organized cause for reflec tion in view of the fact that they are liable to an injunction under the laws governing such mat ters. I do not think that the person or persons organizing these corps will claim that the supplies were obtained regularly, or through the proper channels, and tbe query arises whether success achieved through questionable practices is anything to be proud of. I may say also that of the forty-eight corps legally authorized one of them, No. 20, has nad its charter revoked, and some others are fast approaching that state of affairs in consequence of their disregard of law f ui authority. I have further to say that of tbe l.Job members who composed the original and legally-constituted department of Indiana Worn an's Relief Corps, 1,022 of them are reported to tbe lawful and recognized headquarters of the department now located at South Bend, and by the department officers to national headquarters at ban r rancisco, Lai. If any of my statements herein be doubted I respectfully refer the doubtee to the national president for a confirmation of their truth. I have refrained heretofore from rushing into print, preferring to rely upon the justice of the cause 1 represent, and content to abide the action of the national convention which is soon to meet at St. Louis, but as a matter of justice to the loyal women who have so nobly stood by lawfully constituted authority, I now deem it best to make the foregoing statement. In conclusion I will ask the members of the G. A. R., "Can you as loyal members of your post whose authority to act comes from a lawfully organized source with a full realization of your obligations and teachings, countenance the organization of an auxiliary when done in an unlawful or questionable manner? Apply it to your own organization aod wrat recognition would a post have that would rebel against and ignore the department and national authorities? To the ladies who through ignorance or willful disregard of our rules and regulations have united with these unlawful organizations, I quote the advice of our national president: "Do not' sail under false colors, and do not wear the emblems or parade under the name of an organization unless yon are willing to be loyal to its constituted authority." Pardon the length of this communication. But knowing the wide-spread circulation of the Journal, and the prominence it has given tbe Indianapolis meeting I feel warranted in asking the publication of this statement, and am very respectfully, Loretta J. Goksuch, Department President Indiana W. R. C South Bend, Aug. 31. Georgia Convieta Murdered. Atlanta, Ga., Sept 1. Governor Gordon has received information from Dodge county of a case of cruelty to convicts in Degress camp, which has been unearthed by the Dodge county grand jury. At that camp fifty convicts are woraed. The superintendent's name is Bryant One of the convicts was made to work by a fire. He complained of being sick, but with the lash Bryan compelled him to keep at work until at last the convict fell dead at his feet The grand jury indicted Brant for murder, but he heard of it and escaped to Alabama. The other convicts are equally badly treated. Another case was that of a negro who escaped from thecamn. The managers supposed that be would make his escape by tbe milroad, and a guard weut to intercept hitn. The guard went to a cut below the station where there had been an old mill. After some time thre they heard the clanking of chains and knew the negro was coming. Tbe negro came in sight and was shot deed. The guard said he baited tbe negro and he ran. This statement was controverted by the fact that every shot was fired into the negro's breast H.oulville Republicans. LorisviLi.ii. Sept 1. At a meeting of fiftynine of the leading Republicans of this city, tonight, it was resolved, without a dissenting voice, to cail a meeting on Tuesday to consider the advisability of placing a Republican candi date for Mayor in the field. With two Democratic candidates already announced they con sider the prospects flattering. Advice to Motnor3. Mrs. Winslow"g Soothing Svrun should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It re lieves the little sufferer at once; it produes natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wina, regulates the bowels, and 13 U:e best Known remndv for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty five cent a bottle.

THE FIELD OF LABOR.

Jown Swinton Presents a Carefnl Survey of the Situation Powdcrly'8 Influence. New York Mail and Exprets. The portentous changes which have been go ing on in the "labor movement" are not yet at an end, as we see from recent events. They bear upon it as an organized body, as a political agency, and as a regulator of wages and condi tions of labor. In all tbese respects it has be come evident that some deep and widespread in fluences are at work. The number of strikes that have collapsed since the beginning of this year is far greater than that of any other resent year. The Labor Commissioner for New York in his last official report shows that three-quarters of the strikes of the previous year in this State were success ful, but it is a fact that the statistics gather ed bv Rradatreet from January last to the present time show that over threefourths of all the strikes of tbe present year have come to grief. In fact out of 300,000 strik ers so far this year, not more than 50,000 have gained any such advantage as to be deserving of tbe name of success. We have to go back many years to find anvtbing that looks like a precedent to this dismal state of things. Among the twelve or fourteen large strikes of this year it is hard to mention any genuine success other than the strike of the brick-layers of Chicago, who not only secured the eight-hour rule for their trade, but established a method of settling future disputes with their employers. And the bad luck continues up to this day. Tbe great strike in the cotton mills at Cohoes has just broken down simultaneously with the great strike of the leather workers at isewarK. It has in short been among the unluckiest o years for strikers, whether thev were cokemakers and miners in Pennsylvania, shoemakers in Massachusetts, or coal and freight handlers in New Jersey and New York. It is a common notion, which is probably correct, that this bad luck is largely attributable to the new practice of the combination for resistance by employers. The shoe manufacturers of Massachusetts combined against their wage-workers; the coke and coal corporations cf Pennsylvania did the same thing; so did the laather manu facturers of Newark, and a similar practice has been adopted in scores of other cases, as every reader of the newspapers is aware. The combi nation of the Chicago master builders failed in the stand they took, and the combination of the stove manufacturers' cannot boast of having scored a victory, but these are merely exceptional to the rule. The weight of the combined caoital in any given industry has almost always proved too heavy for the labor and its service. Tbe influence of these facts upon labor organizations during the present year has been calamitous. The largest of all great organiza tions, the Knights of Labor, have, within a year. lost much more than half its membership. In New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massa chusetts and Connecticut the falling off has reached verv nearly two-thirds, and in some of the Western States the ratio is fully as high. Tnese statements are based either upon official figures published by district assemblies or upon the votes cast at the recent elections for dele gates to the General Assembly. The total mem bership that will be there representud is likely to fall short of half a million, and though even this is proof that the Knights are yet a large body, it is anvtbing but a fulfillment of the promises of iast year, when Mr. Powderly boasted of twice the strength, and when the flood-tide had to be checked by the famous "halt." But far more serious than this alarm ing decline are the bickerings by which the or ganization has been demoralized in many quarters not only in such cities as Chicago, Phila delphia, Boston and New York, but in lesser places, like Hartford, Newark, Detroit, Brock ton, Denver, etc., as well as outlying "locals," here and there. The ranks are being weakened and undermined by internal dissensions upon matters of policy, upon new constitution, upon the trades assembly question, upon tbe action of the executive board, which is but feebly dictatorial, upon tbe pay of officials, upon the man agement of strikes, upon the heavy taxes at all times and tbe slightest disbursements in special cases, upon tbe handling of the funds, npon the numerous failures to sustain the brethren in their battles upon the machinations vl the "Home Club, and upon sundrv peculiar notions often obtruded by Mr. Powderly. Then the organization is further weakened just now by its hostile attitude toward the most powerful trade unions, including the Brotherhood of Carpenters, the Cigarmakers' International Union, the Amalgamated' Association of Steel and Iron-workers, and the bodies in the rival Federation of Labor. The recent election of national delegates in half a dozen of the chief cities of the country have shown the effects of these dissensions and bickerings so much so that there is a prospect of the overthrow of the geueral board, the new constitution and the legislation of last year at the convention which will be held a few weeks hence. The most astounding sign of tbe changes in progress has just been given by the defection of the notorious district assembly No. 49 of New York, from its allegiance to the Powderly administration. This district, the membership or which has fallen off over onehalf since tbe last convention, and which has for years been Mr. Powderly's main support has elected opposition delegates, dethroned the "Home Club," and struck for changes that im ply a reversal of the policy now predominant at headquarters. it is not easy for those who are outside of the organization to comprehend the full meaning of the revolt thus carried to success in the district referred to; but it will be seen at the convention in October next It is possible that Powderly may be able to bold o yet another year to the office which gives him a salary ten times greater than the majority of the members of the Knights of Labor, but even this has lately become doubtful. His reliance is upon the fact that there is no otherreally popular candidate in the field. It is yet in the power of this remarkable organization of the Knights of Labor to recover the strength which it lost and to put a stop to the bickerings and dissensions by which it has lately been distracted, but these ends can be gained only by a larger statesmanship than is now displayed by its managers. The "labor organs" of the country have been among the sufferers by the changes in the labor field. At the beginning of last year there were over 200 of them in the United States; at the present time their tnnmber is less than one hundred, and at least one-half of these are on the verge of extinction. - By far the most striking sign of the changes of the times in the labor field is of tbe political cast. In labor politics is now all confusion, at least in the State of New York. At this time a year ago the various "forces" of labor were rallying for political action on their own account as they never rallied before, and the result in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and other places surprised the country at the November elections. Knights of Labor, Greenbackers. Trade Unionists, Anti-Monopolists, Grangers, Land Reformers, Socialists and what-not Joined hands until, if we add the voters of last spring to those of last November, a couple of hundred thousand of them reached the ballot-box. The preparations for this unprecedented display of cohesion had been going on for several years and bas received a powerful influence from the gigantic strides of labor organization in 18S5 and 1886. The exultation of the new party over the large vote that it polled was unbounded, and the predictions of the enthusiasts for the election of this fall and for the national campaign of next year were also unbounded. Tbe politicians of tbe old parties were alarmed; tbe trimmers began to cast their eyes toward the "anxious Beat" But, since the beginning of the year, the changes in labor politics, especially in the State or New York, have been rapid, distract ing . and ominous. There is war in the camp, a war of factions as bitter as ever was waged. We have three labor parties in this State. We have two sets of candidates, with other sets yet to be heard from. The Union Labor party, tbe George Land party, and the So cialist party, are now at each other's throats. The enraged belligerents are indulging in mntual defiance and in denunciation. That goes as far as "privates," "cranks," "boodlers," and so on. The George party, at its Syracuse convention, shut its dOors against the union laborers, cast out the socialist laborers and tolerated only such united laborers as swore by the theory of land taxation. All these three parties which had but lately marched in one procession along with many other elements, are m hostile array as thongh they bad never drnnk out of the same canteen." And so the whole situation, as regards labor politico, bas changed from what it was last fall. Tbe wrangling has extended from district to district in the city: it has broken out in tbe labor or ganizations; it has extended to the Central La bor Union, in which the new party had its birth a short year ago; it has played havoo with the unity in labor politics which looked so formid able last fall; it must inevitably split tbe labor vote in a way which prevents any predictions based upon tbe result of last November's elec tions: it will surely drive back into tbe old camp thousands of voters who broke loose a year ago, but who are disgusted with tbe present uproar; and it is in every way a bad business for "labor politics." It is complicated, too, with intolerant personal rivalries, with the "religious firebrand" cf ex-rather McGlynn. with the frenzied exhibi tion of the Anti-poverty Society, and with schemes which bear a mercenary stamp upon their face. Tbe three factions are, without doubt, irreconcilable as long aa they stand upon

their antagonistic platforms, which cannot by any possibility be harmonized, and are not easily changed. The George party cannot give np their 6ingle-tax theory, which the Union Labor party cannot accept; the Socialist Labor party, driven to the wall by both the others, hoists its own colors to tbe tune of no surrender. And thus it is that labor politics stand in New York to-day in view of the election which will take place two months hence, and which will influence the presidential campaign of 1888. The worst feature in the whole case is that charges of "trading" with the old party leaders, and of bargain and sale, are flung against each other by the three factions. Facts came to light in the early part of this year in evidence of the accusation that certain managers" of Mr. George's last campaign, who are yet in the business management, trafficked for votes with both Republican and Democratic candidates; and it is certain that their opportunities now are far greater than they were then. The Union Labor party is infested with blacklegs of the same brood, as every man acquainted wiia our local politics knows; and of the three factions the Socialists alone, who are mainly Germans, are free from the stigma of trading or dickering. The fact is that disappointed mercenaries of the old party are always on the lookout for such prey ass offered in third parties, and especially in the Labor party, and more especially after such experiences as those of last November, when the Labor party became an object of interest to all politicians. The greatest danger for labor policies is that of being wrecked by such mercenaries. This brief survey of the labor field, as seen from New York, in the light of this years strikes, the decline in the principal labor organizations, the wrangling of leaders and the splits in labor politics, contain several lessons of warning to those concerned. Strike of Trainmen.

Reading, Pa., Sept. 1. Superintendent Cashing, cf the Philadelphia & Reading rail road, received a telegram this afternoon to the effect that the crews of all the shifting engines five in number, at Bridgeport, had struck. It is learned that two additional engines had been sent to Bridgeport in charge of engineers from Pottstown. The Bridgeport crews objected to these men because there were trautmen a Bridgeport who were perfectly competent to run them and who were entitled to promotion. The officials, however, refused to listen to such and arrangement, and the strike followed. It is probable that tbe matter will be settled to night Tragic was pretty, badly delayed all this afternoon. A SURGEON'S LIFE. A Page from the Experience of a Famous Physician and Surgeon. from the Autobiography of the late Dr. Gross. I have always maintained that it is impossible for any man to be a great surgeon if be is desti tute, even in a considerable degree, of the finer feelings of our nature. I have often lain awake for hours the night before an important opera tion, and suffered great mental distress for days after it was over, until I was certain that my patient was out of danger. I do not think that it is possible for a criminal to feel much worse tbe night before his execution than a surgeon when be knows that upon his skill and attention must depend tbe fate of a valuable citizen, husband, father, mother or child. Surgery under eucn circumstances is a terrible taskmaster, feeding like a vulture upon a man's vitals. It is surprising that anv surgeon in large practice should ever attain to a respectable old age, to great are the wear and tear of mind and body. The world has seen many a sad picture. I will draw one of the surgeon. It is midday; the sun is bright and beautiful; all nature is redo lent of joy; men and women crowd tbe street. arrayed in their best, and all, apparently, is peace and happiness within ana without In a large house, almost overhanging this street so full of life and gayety, lies upon a couch an emaciated figure, once one of the sweetest and loveliest of her sex, a confiding and affectionate wife, and the adored mother of numerous children, the subject of a frightful disease or one of her limbs, or. it may be, of her jaw, if not of a still more important part of her body. In an adjoining room is the surgeon. with bis assistants, spreading out his instru ments and getting things in readiness for the impending operation. He assigns to each his appropriate place. One administers chloro form; another takes cnarge ot tbe limb; one screws down the tourniquet upon tbe principal artery, and another holds himself in readiness to follow the knife with his sponge. The flaps are soon formed, the bone severed, tbe vessels tied, and the huge wound approximated. The woman in pale and ghastly, the pulse hardly perceptible, the skin wet with clammy perspira tion, tne voice husky, the signt indistinct borne one whispers into the ear or the busy surgeon. 'The patient, I fear, is dying." Restoratives are administered, the pulse gradually rises, and after a few hours of hard work and terrible anxiety reaction occurs. The poor woman was only faint from the joint influence of the anaesthet ic, shock and loss of blood. An assistant, a kind of sentinel, is placed as a guard over her, with instructions to watch her with the closest care, and to send word the moment the slightest change for the worse is perceived. The surgeon goes about his business, visits other patients on the way. and at length, long after the usual hour, he sits down, worried and exhausted, to his cold and comfortless meal, with a mouth almost as dry and a voice as husky as bis patient s, lie eats mechanically, ex changes hardly a word with any member of his family, and sullenly retires to his study to pre scribe for his patients never, during all this time, forgetting tbe poor mutilated object he left a few hours ago. He is about to lie down to get a moment's repose after the severe toil of the day, when suddenly he hears a loud ring of the bell, and a servant, breathless with ex citement, begs his immediate presence at the sick chamber with the exclamation, "They think Mrs. is dying." He hurries to the scene with rapid pace and anxious feeling. The stump is of a crimson color, and the patient lies in a profound swoon. An artery has suddenly given way; the exhaustion is extreme; cordials and stimulants are at once brought into requisition, the dressings are removed, and the recusant vessel is promptly secured. Tbe vital current ebbs and flows, reaction is still more tardy than before, and it is not until a late hour of the night that the surgeon, literally worn out in mind and body, retires to his home in search of repose. Does he sleep? He tries, but he cannot close his eyes. His mind is with his patient; he hears every footsep puon tbe pavement under his window, and is in momentary expectation of the ringing of tbe night bell. He is disturbed by the wildest fancies, he sees the most terrible objects, and. as he rises early in the morning to hasten to his patient s chamber, he feels that he has been cheated of the rest of which he stood so much in need. Is this picture overdrawn? I have set for it a thousand times, and there is not an edu cated, conscientious surgeon that will not certify to j is accuracy. AT THE CAFE PKOCOPE, Oliver Wendell Holmes Revisits His Old Haunts A Pathetic Retrospect September Atlantic. The next place to visit could be no other than the Cafe Procope. This famous resort is the most ancient and the most celebrated of all the Parisian cafes. Voltaire, the poet J. B. Rous seau, Marmontel, Saint Foix, Sanrin, were among its frequenters in the eighteenth century. it stands in tbe Kue des t osses-Ssaint-Crermain. now Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie. Several American students, Bostonians and Philadeiphians, myself among the number, used to breakfast at this cafe every morning. I have no doubt that I met various celebrities there, but I recall only one name which is likely to b known to most or many of my readers. A delicate-looking man. seated at one of the tables, was pointed out to me as Jouffroy. If I had known as much about him as I learned afterwards, I should have looked at him with "more in terest. He had one of those imaginative natures, tinged by constitutional melancholy and saddened by ill health, which belong to a certain class of poets and sentimental writers, of which Pascal is a good example, and Cowper another. The world must have seemed very crud to him. I remember that when he was a candidate for tbe Assembly, one of tbe popular cries, as reported by the newspapers of the time, was "A bas le poitrinaire! His malady soon laid bim low enough, for he died in 1842, at the age of forty-six. I must have been very much taken up with my medical studies to have neglected my opportunity of seeing the great statesmen, authors, artists, orators, and men of science outside of the medical profession. Poisson. Arago aud Jouffroy are all I can distinctly recall, among the Frenchmen of eminence whom I bad all around me. The Cafe Procope has been much altered and improved, and bears an inscription telling the date of its establishment, which was in the year 1C39. I entered the cafe, which was nearly or quite empty, the usual breakfast hour being past GarconI Une tasse de cafe. If there is a river mneme as a connterpart of the river lethe, my cup of coffee must have got memory. If I its water from that stream of could borrow that eloquence of Jouffroy which made bis bearers turn pale, l might bring up before my readers a long array of pallid ghosts. whom these walls knew well in their earthly habiliments. Only a single one of those I met here still survives. The rest are mostly weilnizb forgotten by all ,but a few frinds, or remembered chiefly in their children and grand children. - "How much?" I said to tb garcon in bis nat-

ive tongue, or what I supposed to be that language. "Cinque sous," ws his answer. By the iaws of sentiment, I ought to have made the ign b'.e sum five francs, at least But if 1 bad done so, the waiter would undoubtedly have thought that I had just com from Clarendon. Besides, why should I violate the simple halits and traditions of the place, where generation a'ter generation of poor students and threadbare Bohemians had taken their morning coffee and pocketed their two lumps of sugar? It was with a feeling of virile sanity and Roman self-conquest that 1 paid my five sous, with the small additional fraction which I supposed the waiter to expect, and no more. So I passed for the last time over the threshold of the old Cafe Procope, wbere Voltaire bad matured his plavs and Piron sharpened his epigrams; where Jouffroy had battled with hid doubts and fears; where since their time 3ince my days of Parisian life the terrible storming youth, afterwards renowned as Leon Miehel Gambetta, had startled the quiet guests with his noisy eloquence till the old hahitnes spilled their coffee and the red-capped students said to each other, "II ira loin, ce gaillard-la!" But what to me were these shadowy figures by the side of the group of mv early friends and companions, that came up before me in all the freshness of their young manhood? The memory of them recalls rny own youthful days, and I need not go to Florida to bathe in the fountain of Ponce do Leon.

1SAK1ES. A Dozen and One superstitions About the Little, Tots of IIuinp.niT.y. Philadelphia Press. - Receiving the card of a little stranger who had arrived at the home of a friend a few weeks before, we hastened at once to bear our greeting gift and congratulations, and were about entering baby s reception-room when we were met by the head nurse, a good, comfortable-looking Scotch woman, who on no account would allow ns to come in without first removing our gloves and veils. "Surelv the bonnie bit laddie would-na hae luck at a'," she said, as she watehed us divest ourselves of the objectionable articles; "and now you maun a' mak a cuid wish for baith soul and body when you tak him in your arms;" We willingly corapliei with this request, and delighted her beyond ail reason by accidentally giving the child his full uame as he oDened bis eyes and gazed into vacancy, although apparently at us. "Indeed, mistress, he is sure to be a credit to his father and the kirk, forby the guid luck that maun follow a child that answers sae readily to bis name!" - In many parts of both England and Scotland at the present time a new baby is presented with an egg, which represents both meat and drink, salt, which savors everything, bread, the staff of life, matches to light )t through the world, and a coin, . that it may never want money. It is thought to be very lucky for a child to cry at baptism. Be sure and let the baby have or touch the thing that he starts after when he takes his first step, even if it is the moon he must be let touch something high, on which its light shines and then he wiil always get his wishes. He should be taken into the sunlight first on a Sabbath day, put into short clothes, and in fact all changes made upon that day. And so on, all through our darling's cradle life are such fancies talked about, believed, and often practiced by those who rock the cradle; and what harm can it do to believe that when our baby smiles in bis sleep he is talking with angels, or tha. when we see a shooting-star some baby's soul is on its way to this earth? Whkn aggravated by the Injudicious use of ointments or lotions, skin diseases are still easily overcome with Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Nothing exerts such a wholesome and beautifying influence upon the complexion and entire cuticle. Sold by all druggists. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brown, 50 cents. New Sleeper and Chair Car Arrangements ON THE MONON ROUTE N. A. & C. RAILWAY. - The Monon Route has put on two new elegant Pullman combination sleeping and cbair cars, to run between Indianapolis and Chicago only. These cars will stand on spur west of the Union Depot, and can be entered at 8 p. M. Train leaves at 11:10 p. m. And on the return trip train arrives at 3:35 a. m.. and occupants of these cars are not called until 8 A. sr. Remember, this is the only line running Pullman reclining chairs between Indianapolis and Chicago. I. D. Baldvin, D. P. A. A BEAUTIFUL GARMENT Made and Trimmed in FirstClass stvle can be had of NICOLL THE TAILOE, AT THE Lowest Price. All the favorite shades and styles in endless variety. Plain and Fancy Cassi meres, Diagonal Worsteds, Corkscrews, Meltons, Beavers, Castors, Chinchillas, Elysians, etc. 33 and 35 South Illinois Street. SAMPLES AND SELF-MEASUREMENT RULES SENT EVERYWHERE ON APPLICATION. MESSENGER'S, 101 East Washington Street, HAS THE LARGEST STOCK OF FURNITURE, STOVES and CARPETS In the city, and sells everything oa PAYMENTS OR FOR CASH. lOl East Washinqton St. BRUSH BRILLIANCY Arc and Incandescence ELECTRIC LIGHTS. For particulars addrest fHE BRDSH ELECTRIC COMPANY, CLEVELAND. OHIO.

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