Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1891 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY' JANUARY 2, 1891.

THE FIELD OF LITERATURE

- The Life of Lincoln, by Nlcolay and Hay. American biography and history have receiyed few contributions equal in value and interest to the Life jf Abraham Lincoin, by Messrs. John G. Nicolay and John Hay. There are many lives of Lincoln, but this one so far overshadows all others in all the qualities that so to make a great biographical, .historical and literary work as to place comparison out of the question. In 'the preface to the wor& the authors epeak of Its origin and scope and also call attention to the facilities they enjoyed and the methods they have used its preparation. In this prefaco they say: "A feneration born since Abraham Lincoln died has already reached manhood and womanhood. Yet thero are millions still living who sympathized with him in his noble aspirations, who labored with him in his toilsome life and whose hearts were caddened by bis tragic death. It is the almost unbroken testimony of his contemporaries that by virtue of certain high traits of character, in certain momentous lines of purpose -and achievement, he was incomparably the greatest man of his time. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him has hardened into tradition; for, although but twenty-five years has passed since he fell by the bullet of the assasHin, the tradition is already complete. The voice of hostilefactioniseilentorunhceded; even criticism is gentle and timid. If history had said its last word, if no more were to be known of him than isalreadv written, his fame, however lacking in definite outline, however distorted by .fable, would survive nndinnnishedto the latest generations. The blessings of an enfranchised race would forever hail him as their liberator; the Nation would acknowledge him as the mighty counselor whose patient courage and wisdom saved the life of the Republican its darkest hour; and, illuminating his proud eminence as orator, statesman and ruler, there would forever shine around his memory the halo of that tender humanity and Christian charity in which he walked among tys fellow-countrymen as their familiar companion and friend. 'It is not. therefore, with any thought of adding materially to his already accomplished renown that we have written the work which wo now offer to our fellow-citizens. Uut each age owes to its successors the truth in regard to its own annals. The young men who have been born since borater was tired on have aright to all their elders know of the important events they came too late to share in. The life and fame of Lincoln will not have their legitimate effect of instruction and example unless the circumstances among which he lived and found his opportunities are placed in their true light before the men who never saw him. 'To write the life of this great American in such a way as to show his relations to the times in which he moved, the stupendous issues he ' controlled, the remarkable men by whom he was surrounded, has been the purpose which the authors have diligently pursued for many years. We can say nothing of the resnlt of our labor; only those who have been similarly employed can appreciate the sense of inadequate performance with which we regard what we have accomplished. We claim for our work that we have devoted to it twenty years of almost unremitting assiduity; that we have neglected no means in our power to ascertain the truth; that wo have rejected no authentic facts essential to a candid story; that we have had no theory to establish, no personal grudge to gratify, no nnavowed objects to subserve. We have aimed to write a sufficiently full and absolutely honest history of a great man and a great time, and, although we take it for granted that we have made mistakes, that we have fallen into such errors and inaccuracies as are unavoidable in so large a work, we claim there is not a line in all these volumes dictated by malice or unfairness. "Our desire to have this work placed under the eyes of the greatest possible number of readers induced us to accept the generous oiler of the Century Magazine to print it hrst in that periodical. In this way it received, as we expected, the intelligent crsticism of a very large number of readers, thoroughly informed in regard to the events narrated, and we have derived the greatest advantage from the suggestions and corrections which have been elicited during the serial publication, which began in November, 1&6, and closed early, in lbDO. We beg. here, to make our sincere acknowledgments to the hundreds of friendly critics who have furnished us with valuabl? information. "As the Century has already given, during several years, a considerable portion of its pages to the elucidation and discission of the battles andcampaignsofthecivilwar.it was the opinion of its editor, in which we coincided, that it was not advisable to print in the magazine the full narrative sketch of the war which we had prepared. We omitted, also, a largo number of chapters, which, although essential to a history of the time, and directly connected with the life of Mr. Lincoln, were 6till episodical in their nature, and were, perhaps, not indispensable to a comprehension of the principal events of his administration. These are all included in the present volumes: they comprise additional chapters almost equal in extent and fully equal in interest to those which-have already been printed in the Century. Interspersed throughout the work, in their proper connection and sequence, aud containing some of the most important of Mr. Lincoln's letters, they lend breadth and unity to the historical drama. 'We trust it will not be regarded as nresumptnous if we say a word in relation to the facilities we have enjoyed and the methods we have used in the preparation of this work. We knew Mr. Lincoln intimately ,hefore his election to the presidency. We came from Illinois to Washington with him, and remained at his side and in his service separately or togetheruntil the day of hi death. We were the daily and nightly witnesses of the incidents, -.the anxieties, the fears and the '-'hopes which pervaded the execntive mansion and the national capital. The President's correspondence, both official and private, passed through our hands; he gave ns his full confidence. We had personal acquaintance and daily official intercourse with Cabinet officers, members of Congress. Governors and military and naval officers of all srades. whoso ali'airs brought them to the White House. It was during these years of the war that we formed the design of writing this history and began to prepare for it. President Lincoln gave it Lis sanction and promised his cordial cooperation. After several years' residence in Europe we returned to this country and began the execution of our long-cherished plan. Mr. Kobert T. Lincoln gave into our keeping all the official and private papers and manuscripts in his possession, to which we have added all the material we could acquire by industry or by purchase. It Is with the advantage, therefore, of a wide, personal acquaintance with all the leading participants of the war, and of perfect familiarity with the manuscript material aud also with the assistance of the vast bulk of printed records and treatises which have accumulated since 1SC5, that we have prosecuted this work to its close. 'If we gained nothing else with onr long association with Mr. Lincoln, we hope, at least, that ire acquired from him the habit of judging men aud events with candor and impartiality. The material placed in our hands was unexampled in value and fullness; we have felt the obligation of nail) 2 it with perfect fairness. We have BtriTen to be equally just to friends and to adversaries; where the facts favor our enemies we have recorded them ungrudgingly; where they bear severely upon statesmen aud generals wboui we have loved and honored we have not scrupled to set tuera forth, at the risk of being accused of coldness and ingratitude to those with whom we have lired on terms of intimate friendship. The recollection of these friendships will always be to us a source of pride and icy; but in this book we have no allegiance but to the truth. We have in no case relied upon our own memory of the events narrated, though they may have passed under our own eyes; we have seen too often tho danger of such a reliance in the reminiscences of others.. We have trusted ouly our diaries and memoranda of tho moment; and in the documents and reports we have cited we have used incessant care to secure authenticity. So far as possible, every Btory has been traced to its source, and every document read in the official record or the original manuscript. We are aware of tho prejudice which exists against a book written by two persons, but we feel that in our case the disadvantages of collaboration are reduced to the minimum. Our experiences, onr observations, our material, have been for twenty years not merely homogeneous they have been identical. Our plans were feiado with thorough concert; our studies of

the subject were carried on together: we were able to work simultaneously without danger of repetition or conilict. The apportionment of our separate tasks has been dictated purely by convenience; the division of topics between ns has been sometimes for long periods, sometimes for almost alternate chapters. Each has written an equal portion of the work; while consultation and joint revision have been continuous, the text of each remains substantially unaltered. It is in the fullest sense, and in every part, a joint work. We each assume responsibility, not only for the whole, but for all the details, and whatever credit or blame the public may award our labors is equally due to both. "We commend the result of so many years of research and diligence to all our countrymen. North and South, in the hope that it may do something to secure a truthful history of the great struggle which displayed on both sides the highest qualities of American manhood, and may contribute in some measure to the growth and maintenance throughout all our borders of that spirit of freedom and nationality for which Abraham Lincoln lived and died." ' To this needs only to be added that the biographers have traced the life and career of Lincoln from its bumble beginning through all its varied scenes to its tragic close with a degree of patient labor, minuto detail and fulness of statement that are altogether admirable. This great work is now issued in book-form by the Century Company. It makes ten large volumes, printed on heavy paper, liberally illusrated, handsomely bound, with uncut leaves aud gilt tops. It is sold only by subscription, and Mr. W. I. Sqnire. of Toledo, O., is agent for the work in this State. Magazines of the Month. The fiction in the January Harper includes the opening chaptures of a novel by Charles Egbert Craddock, entitled. "In the Strange People's Country," a novelette by Thomas A. Janvier and a short story by Vida D. Scudder. Charles Dudley Warner has something to say about the hygienic and climatic advantages of southern California. An attractive contribution is a chapter of memoirs by De Blowitz, the famous newspaper correspondent, in which he gives somo reminiscences of the FrancoPrussian war. In his "Impressions of Tern" Theodore Child says: "Two and a half millions is supposed to represent the present population of this vast territory, which has 1.2U0 miles of coast-line, and a superficies of moro than a million square kilometers. This population consists of the creole governing, proprietary and official classes, ordinary Peruvians, Indians, cross-breeds, Chinese coolies and negroes. There are the rich and the poor, both apparently satisfied with the existing decadent state of the country, or, at any rate, making no effort to improve it. Truly, the held is not a tempting one for colonists. As for commerce, there is just as little inducement, as there is for colonization. During the last ten years many foreign merchants have left the country, and in reply to inquiries from would-be commercial immigrants, most of the embassies, I lind, frankly recommend people not to go out, either to Lima or to other towns." In discussing the subject of co-education. George William Curtis, in the Easy Chair, says: "The secret and deepest &onrce of the distrust of a change in the educational opportunities of women was apprehension of loss of womanly charm. But it has cow long been seen that an intellectually accomplished man is not for that reason unmanly. Why. then, should such a woman be unwomanly? The question now is, how shall she obtain her accomplishment? It is now agreed that Juliet may study, but shall she study with KomeoT That question gives even Boston pause." . The January issue of tho Eclectio Magazine contains a steel engraving of Alesandria and a fine table of contents. Professor Huxley contributes a paper on "Pre-His-toric Man," which students will take pleasure in reading. Mr. 11. II. Johnston discusses the "Development of Tropical Africa Under British Auspices,"a subject of timely interest. "Ouida" talks of .Modern Florence, and Mrs. Lynn Linton has something to say about social tendencies under the title of "Modern Topsy-Turvevdom." The article on "Customs," by Sir Herbert Maxwell, is entertaining and sugcestive. The anonymous article, "Deep-ea Fish," is really by that most entertaining writer. Grant Alien. Another popular scientific article on "Dew" is by J. G. McPherson, F. K. S. E., and a very interesting paper on "The Science of Old Age.'.' by Dr. Scholield. tells us how lifo may be greatly prolonged by simple means within tho reach of all. "Dr. Koch's Consumption Curo"is ably discussed by Dr. Edward Berdoe. There are other articles of superior interest, long and short, including the ending of Tolstoi's story, "Work while ye have the Light." A feature article in the January Scribner is a description, by John II. Spears, of Modern Fire Apparatus." The evolution of the machinery and appliances now in use from the hand-engice employed even in New York city bnt a few years ago is a triumph of inventive genius and mechanical skill that is only appreciated when the comparison is made, so accustomed has the public grown to the new system. The illustrations with tho article are spirited. Another interesting paper is Henry M. Stanlev's account of "The Pigmies of the Great African Forest" The serial. "Jerry." drags somewhat, tho attempt of the author to maintain an intense dramatic interest through several installments of the story being hardly successful. Other contributions are: "Impressions of Australia," by Josiah Kovce; "The Kothenburg Festivalplay," by E. H. Lockwood; "Court Tennis." by James Dwight, and the first chapter of a lauchable "Marine Tale." by Frank It Stockton. Sir Edwin Arnold's second paper on "Japan" is also given.

The holiday number of the Northwestern Miller, published at Minneapolis, is a notable issue, combining, as it does, a variety of excellent literary matter contributed for the occasion, with the usual array of advertisements and trade lore. Among the contributors are Bill Nye, James Lane Allen, Charles jiarnarrt, Howard Pyle, Edward Atkinson, Edward, Everett Hale and Louis H. Gibson, the Indianapolis architect. Mr. Gibson's article, which treats of "Improved Mill Architecture," is embellished by an excellent portrait of himself. Edward Atkinson tells something about his "Aladdin cooker," a contrivance for preventing waste of food and fuel in the preparation of meals, and which he designed solely with a view to public benefit, and not personal profit, as proved bv his failure to take out a patent. The Miller is handsomely illustrated, and is altogether an artistic publication. The "Chaperone," which misspells its own name by adding a superfluous "e," is a magazine "devoted to art, music, litera ture, science," etc, that comes from St Louis. The name does not commend the new venture, and the public does not expect a high grade of literary excellence in a St. Louis publication. It is an agreeable sunrise therefore to discover that the new magazine has considerable merit in this direction and shows possibilities that may develop into something still better. Among the writers for this number are Harriet Prescott Spottord, Eben E. Jtexford, Margaret J. Preston and Frances Hodson Burnett Typographically tho magazine is very attractive dud the illustrations are good. One of the excellent features of the Art Amateuris the attention paid to the art exhibitions in New York and elsewhere. The detailed reports from month to month keep its readers well posted as to the character of the workbeingdone by the artists of the country. The J annsry number gives some account of the pictures at the autumn exhibition of the National Academy of Design. In the same number is a description of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art Among other contributions are: "Drawing for the Magazines," "A Little Greek Classic," "Three American Painters" and "Art Edncation in England." There are four color plates, two being designs for china decoration. No. 23 Linion square, New York. Popular Science Monthly will soon begin the publication of a series of important articles on tho development of American industries since the time of Columbus. Each article will be prepared by a writer of long practical acquaintance with his e abject. Edward Atkinson will treat cf the cotton manufacture, W. F. Durfee (this bo-

ginning in the present issue) of the iron and steel industry, and S. N. D. North of woolens. Among the subjects considered in the Januavy issue arc: "The Peopling of America." "The Storage of Electricity." "Elementary Botany in General Edncation," "The Decline of Rural New England." "The Intelligence of Cats" and "Tho Principles of Decoration." If the publishers of the North American Review Intend that the January number shall proclaim the standard of its Vncceasors for ISU1, they have set up a ,high ideal as it is a number of rare excellence. Gen. Miles leads oil' with "The Future of tho Indian Question," and Mr. Lecky follows with a scarcely less interesting topic, "Ireland in the Light of History." Congressman Lodge discusses "The Restriction of Immigration." "Can we Coerce Canada?" is the question which Erastus Wiman answers, while Henry Clews explains "The Late Financial Crisis." But these are only a few of the interesting topics. Published at No. 3 East Fourteenth street. New York. The Forum for January is a number of more than usual excellence, which is saying a great deaL There are eleven papers upon subjects ranging from "The Division of Africa," by Prof. Einile de Laveleye, to "The Kevolt Against Matrimony," by Eliza Lynn Linton. "Is Verse in Danger?", by Professor Gosse, is an article which rnay afford consolation to the young who indulge in that form of composition, while "Reform in Railway Construction" and "The Revolution in Medicine" will interest other and wider classes of readers. Published by the Forum Publishing Company, 253 Fifth avenue, New York. The American Etcher, which has hitherto been issued without letter press, will hereafter be combined with the Art Review and contain a variety of reading-matter on art subjects. An etching and colorplate will accompany each number. "With the November number of the Etcher is an etching of a scene on North river, by Alfred P. Oakley, and with the December number an etching from Frederick W. Freer's "Passing Glance"--a study of a young girl's coquettish face. Geo. T. Kelley & Co., Union square. New York. The complote novel with the January Lippincott is Rudyard Kipling's "Light that Failed." Julian Hawthorne writes in a very enthusiastic strain of the Spanish dancers now on the American stage. Moses P. Handy talks about the now State of Washington and gives many valuable facts and statistics concerning its resources and development In "The Road Movement" Lewis M. liaupt makes some suggestions concerning improvements in country roads. Interior views of several of the new theaters of the country are given in the latest issue of the Decorator and Furnisher. A firm of architects and decorators ofiers through this magazine a series of prizes for original designs in ornamental construe tion and interior decoration. New York. .. Peterson's Magazine, which, with all the crowding of more pretentious periodicals, remains a favorite in many households, begins its fiftieth year with the January number. It has been enlarged and exhibits many improvements and fresh attractions. Philadelphia. , The Magazine of American History for January gives the place of honor to John Ericsson, the inventor.' A fine portrait forms the frontispiece, and the biographical sketch, prepared by Mrs. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is written with much care.

CHEAP PIIOTOGRArilY. i. rut a Nickel In the Slot and Get a Tlcture of Yourself In Forty Seconds. New York Special. A wise man from Minneapolis has the latest and most ingenious thing in the nickel-in-tbe-slot machines, which is on exhibition on West Twenty -third street. -It is a contrivance that takes your picture for a nickel "and does its deadly work with silence and dispatch." In forty seconds from the time the victim drops the nickel in the slot and turns the crank, a small but truthful tin-type of the Coney Island variety comes obsequiously out through a crack. The machine can do this 400 times' without becoming exhausted. The outside is like the exterior of the "put-a-nickel-in-the-slot and have your weight printed on a card while beautiful music is discoursed" machine, but the interior is & tangle of wheels, and wire, and springs, and pulleys. The principle of the thing is simple. It is that of the ilasb-ligtft photographs. The crank brings the llame of a small alcohol lamp near a magnesium ribbon, which produces a Hash. of, light by which the picture is taken on a tintype l1 inches by 18 inches. The gentle-: man who has dropped the nickel sits (in front of a camera lens five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. After receiving the im-i Eression the tintype is picked up by a steel aud and dropped into the "developer," where it remains thirty seconds, the time being regulated by clockwork. Another steel hand lifts it out of the developing mixture and passes it along to a tiny tank where it gets a bath, which washes off the developing composition.. After remaining here only a second it is dropped by a third steel hand into a soda bath, where it stays twenty seconds, this being regulated by a second automatic clock arrangement Then the tintype goes to another tank, where it receives a second washing. This ends the photographic process, and a steel hand now grasps and drops it into a liume. whence it pops into view outside as a finished work of art Senator Ingalls's Auceitors. New YorK Star. The paragraph in "The Man About Town" the other day in reference to Senator lngalls, of Kansas, recalled to ex-Congressman John J. Adams, of this city, a story , which he once heard of the keen-tongued Kansan. It runs this 'way: - During the Cleveland administration Secretary of War Endicott was one of the best entertainers in the national capital. At one of his famous dinner parties Senator Ingalls found himself placed by the side of Mrs. Endicott. In the conversation which en-, sued the lady dropped some remarks about the Endicott family, which had done so much for New England in the days of its earliest settlement. "Oh, yes," remarked the Senator. "I know all about the Endicotts. My own ancestors came over with them from England in 1028." "Indeed," said Mrs. Endicott, evidently wondering, "and yet I cannot recall the name of Ingalls, though I am almost certain that I have in my memory all the names of those on the Mayflower that needed to be kept recorded." And then the blue-blooded woman looked puzzliugly and questioningly at the Western Senator. "It is hardly surprising," said Mr. Ingalls, in reply: "indeed, I should be astonished if you could recall their names, for," and his voice was strong enough to be heard far down the table, "my people who came over in the Mayflower were shoemakers, and I understand that they made good shoes." Mrs. Endicott smiled, and ever since the blue-blooded Massachusetts woman and the bright Senator from Kansas have been the kindliest of friends. Africa Not All Dark. New York Sun. In these times we hear bo very much about darkest Africa that it was agreeable to see the advertisement of last night's lecture in the Cooper Union free course on "A Tour Through the Light Regions of the Dirk Continent" We are apt to forget thitin Africa there are important independent states, monarchical and republican, prosperous colonies and other possesions ot European powers, protected governments and semi-independent countries. Look at the man of northern Africa, where, between the Red sea and th Atlantic, modern civilization is advancing in half a dozen ancient realms. Look at southern Africa, where white settlers and colored natives are prosecntiug the work of agriculture and commerce in an extensive territory ruled by free and colouial governments. In eastern Africa three European monarchies have now a foothold, and there are also several sultanates of imfiortance, while in western Africa there are ands that are far less barbarous than they were a halt century ago. Even in the darker regions of the interior the light of Christendom has begun to make ita way, and we hear of projects for the building of railroads, telegraphs and other pnblic works there. Who can say that Africa will not yet arise and shine from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope! Chills and fever of three years standing cured by Btmiuous Liver Regulator. li Watkliia, Watkins House, UptonvilleKy.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal, Local and General Notes. The Wabash yesterday abolished the commercial agency of the road at St Joseph, Mo. .The appointment of George C. Smith as assistant general manager of the Missouri Pacilic-Iron Mountain railroad has been announced. The Daily Stockholder figures the railroad interest and dividend payments for the year 1S90 as g3G2.7J0.4C2, against $310,4G1.331 forum Tho Erie has just ordered from the Baldwin locomotive-works ten heavy ten-wheel engines and from the Cooke locomotiveworks six. All are forfreight service. V. T. Malott has the affairs of the Chicago & Atlantio so far adjusted that he expects within a few days to be discharged from the receivership, which he has tilled so satisfactorily to the court The Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central have made two appointments of joint agents to begin the new year with. One is J. J.Feny, as district passenger agent, to succeed S. II. Mills at Cincinnati, and the other C. E. Bray, who takes a similar position vncated by A. J. Quinn at Boston. The Pittsburg Dispatch of Dec SI says: "It was reported yesterday that the Pennsylvania Company had at length allowed its agents to accept commissions on the sale of tickets for connecting lines, but none of the officials would contirra the report The company has strenuously refused i to permit this for the last three years." Twenty miles of new steel rail has Tieen distributed just west of Indianapolis on the 15 1. Louis division of the Big Four and it is 'expected that this rail, which weighs sixtyseven pounds to the yard, will be in the :track within thirty days. The old rails taken up are to be used in increasing the side-track capacity of the St Louis division of the Big Four. The Terre Haute & Peoria company has ' issued a circular, stating that John 11. Sessions ' has been appointed general, freight and passenger agent to succeed A. Stevens, the appointment to take efl'ect Jan. 1. W. T. Lyle having resigned as master of transportation to take service with another company, the office is abolished. J. H. Haas has been appointed trainmaster, the appointment taking effect yes terday. Wm. M. Green and Joseph Ramsey, jr., speak in complimentary terms of the manner the business of the Union Kailway .Corapauy under the supervision of D. F. Whitcomb has been handled during the past year. While many economical measures were introducedt yet it has not discommoded tho public or unfavorably effected the prompt handling of the traffic. The same remarks will apply to the operations of the Belt road. Some very pointed correspondence is said to be going on between General Passenger Agents Ford, of tho Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, and James Barker, of the Louisville. New Albany &. Chicago, over mileage books. If it results in the making of mileage books over the sj stems in the Chicago and Ohio-river Association uniform at 2 cents a mile the traveling pnblic will not feel grieved over the friction between these two high officials. : Contrary to expectations E. 8. Lomaxhas been appointed general passenger and ticket agent of the entire Union Pacitic system, which means that Wilbur Lee and other good men which Mr. Lomax has in the last two years placed in the passenger service of the Union Pacitic will remain. The four grand divisions will be abolished and the general passenger agents of these divisions will hereaiter be known as assistant general passenger and ticket agents, as on the Pennsylvania lines. The anthorization by Chairman Finley, of the Western Passenger Association, of the 85.75 passenger rate, St. Louis to Chicago, over the Alton and Illinois Central roads, has caused a reduction in the rate from Kansas City to Chicago. The Wabash and Missouri Pacific advertise a rate of 12.25, Kansas City to Chicago, via. St. Louis, with a day's stop-over at St Louis. This new rate is expected to prove a disorganizing factor in the but recently improved condition of Western passenger .business. - In the year 1800 there arrived at the Union Station over the Vandalia 1,825 trains through from St. Louis. Of this number bnt thirty-two arrived late seven

-over-a half hour and three over an hour. There is probably not a road in tho United States that can show an equally good record on tho same number of trains running so great a distance and on so fast a time schedule. The New York & New Haven road is credited with being the first road in this respect in the United States, still it is not so long a line and has a double track to run over. General Superintendent Peck yesterday appointed fifty-five surgeons on the Big lour'system. Twenty are located atpoints 6n the system in Ohio, twenty-two in Indiana; and the remainder in Illinois. The appointments in Indiana were as follows: J. W. Maraee, Indianaplis: H. II. Yergin, Union City; George F. Chittenden, Anderson: J. D. Gatcb, Lawrenceburg; T. M. Kyle. Aurora; II. C. Vincent Guilford;E. B. Vincent, Sunman: J. Y. Hitt, GreeUsburg; J. II. Greene, North Vernon; C. H. Parsons, Rushville; J. W.Kennedy, Shelbyville; D. H. and F. B. Van Neys, Lebauon; Joseph Parker, Colfax; George F. Beasley, Lafayette: Clark Cook, Fowler; C. A. White, Danville; E. B. Evans, Greencastle; W. O. Jenkins, Terre Haute; H. B. Boyd, Cambridge City; Joshua Chitwood, Connersville; George Berry, Brookville. VTIIX NOT EAT WHITE MEN". Iter. Joseph Reading, a Well-Known Missionary Talks About African Sarages. Brooklyn Eagle. Rev. Joseph II. Reading, the well-known African missionary, spoke last night at the North Reformed Church, for a half hour, most interestingly upon the habits and customs of the people who have been brought into such prominence by recent explorers. The speaker was impressed with the difference between the climate of his own loved land and that of Africa. The impression of "Darkest Africa," ho said, was a wrong one so far as sunlight, bright colors and gentle breezes were concerned. The tropical sunlight one never forgets. It burned into the soul, and those who had been under its iniiuence for any length of time always longed for it wherever they were, and would brave the fevers apd the languors to be under its spell again. It was perpetual summer there. There were, he added, two Africas. the old Africa of the interior, still wrapped in barbarity and superstition. But the new Africa of the coast was of entirely another kind, particularly that along the western boundary of the continent. It was as easy to communicate by telegraph with the speaker's station on the west coast from here as with any of the principal cities on the European continent. To be sure this . strip of civilization was not very wide and .it did not extend inland any great distance, except occasionally along tho rivers. The missionaries had seen pitched battles between hostile tribes only two or three miles back of the settlement and within plain sight of his home. There were two varities of the native savage, Mr. Reading continued, tho slave-holding and the cannibal. .There was no government, except that of the tribe. A collection of villages made un the tribe and a number of families the village. A slight bond of union existed between the villages of the tribe, a stronger bond between the inhabitants of the village, and the strongest tie of all was that between the members of the same family. Villages would sometimes join in a tribal war against another tribe. The villages of the same tribe would frequently tight against each other. It was rare that a quarrel ensued within a village and never in a family, Tho slaves were either the captives in war or the criminals of one village sold into slavery for punishment to another village. The eldest members of the family made up the council of the community, which ruled it and deoided on questions of peace, war and the like. The cannibal negroes, the speaker explained, were the worst types. They ate their enemies captured in war and made war to gratify their appetite. They even ate their own dead who died from disease, and when they did not want to eat their own relatives would trade bodies with another village. They claimed there was a peculiar spicy, salty llavor to human meat which none other had. The negroes would never eat a white man. They thought it would bring some horrible kind of misfortnno upon them. A white man would be killed, but he never need fear. being eaten. It was impossible to convince the caunibals that the salt pork which the traders brought out was not pickled white man. When these savages came to the settlement the graves had to be closely watched or the negroes would dig up tho bodies, smoko the meat and carry it

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away with them. The speaker recently listened to a worthy clergyman who said in his discourse that the savages of Afnca stood with open arms to receive the gospel of Christ. Nothing conld be further from the truth. They cared nothing about the missionary; had no use for his religion or for him as a man. They looked upon the white man always as the possessor of untold wealth and were alway anxious for him to settle in their midst because he would make them rich. If he did not buy their rubber and their ivory, however,, he was far from welcome. The speaker told a story to illustrate the fact, in which the negroes thought be was crazy because he came among them and did not trade; and they decided forthwith to kill him so that the white people would send another man who was not crazy and who would trade with them. But by preaching constantly to them there would be now and then a savage touched with the spirit of Christ who would come and accept the faith of the Lord Jesus. The speaker said that they had no religion. They were superstitious to a degree. They believed, however, in a supreme being who created the earth and then left its control to inferior spirits. They also believed in a future life. The spirits of the dead were distinct from the controlling spirits. The death of a person in a village was the signal for a big noise, beating of tom-toms, liring of guns and many cries. It was done to scare away the spirit of the dead, so that it would not linger about the precincts of the village. v RAILWAY CONDUCTORS' PECUTATIONS. Knocklng-Dovrn Method Said to Be Practised Successfully on Some Western Roads. Frank II. Spearman, in Harper's Weekly. There is a popular impression that the receipts from the passenger service form a large percentage of the earnings of a road. It is not so, save under exceptional conditions. Tho fact is that such receipts are much smaller than the freight earnings, and one very good reason for this is that while a company receives practically the whole of the latter, it receives a very uncertain percentage of the former. The peculations of the railway conductor have been a fruitful theme ior the paragrapher for many years. Some of the conductors have been so successful that they can laugh their critics' sarcasms to scorn. It is a singnlar fact that while some of the Western roads lose very little in this way on others the number of cash fares 6tolen from- the company is simply incredible. Owing to a variety of causes cashfare receipts are heaviest on the new divisions of a road. There, naturally, the losses are the greatest The ticket station equipment is imperfect and the people who travel on the frontier are the most indifferent of all passengers about buying tickets. On one of the best paying railway properties in the West, the stock of which is still above par, and which has paid dividends without a break since the panic of 1873, nine-tenths of the conductors retain a large portion of the cash fares. Such a thing can be possible only where the practice is general. Were it otherwise, the comparison of the trip receipts of an honest conductor with those of one who had his own ideas about dividing with the company would soon result in the exposure of the latter. It has happened that some conductors, not satisfied with what cash fares they could retain, have turned over to station ticket agent, equally dishonest, unpunched tickets to sell again, the proceeds being divided. Happily such combinations are not likely to work smoothly any length of time, yet they periodically occur when an especially unscrupulous conductor gets a passenger train. One enterprising youth made the phenomenal record of "knocking down" $25 a day while in charge of a construction train, which, it need hardly be said, is never supposed to carry passengers. Under the rigid rules of the average auditing department it is donbtful whether money turned in from such a source would be accepted by the presiding solons. But the carrying of passengers fell under tho eye of the construction department and a dismissal followed. Discharged for this violation of rules, our promising financier re-entered the service on another division of the road, where his industry and patience were rewarded in time with a passenger train. It would appear that be stood better in the confidence of his superiors than in that of his fellow-conductors, the more cynical of whom expressed doubts about the company's ever getting the train back after he had left town with it. In contemplating the beginning of the career of such an incipient Napoleon of nuance, one reflects that, after all, the difference in the ability exercised in stealing the cash fare receipts of a train and stealing a railroad entire is one of degree rather than one of kind. Yet the two operations and the two operators are called by widely different names. Tseng Kuo Tan's Letters to Ills Son. , London Dally News. A Chinese Chesterfield has been discovered in the person of the late Tseng Kuo Tan, whose letters to his son derive an additional interest from the fact that this son was no other than the Marquis Tseng, who, as the Chinese envoy and minister plenipotentiary, was long ago a notable tignro in English society. The style of this sage's admonitions, judging from some translations that have been published, certainly bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Dr. Johnson's negligent patron. In one he recommends .his young correspondent to avoid "an excessive animation of manner." "If," he observes, "there is one virtne which your ancestors emulated, it was that of dignity." With admirable candor he adds, "Lack of perseverance is my crowning defect, as levity id yours." Hearing that his son is indisposed, he bids him beware of drugs, also of doctors. "All I have met with," he says, "at . home or abroad, have been frauds." In another letter he acknowledges tho news of his correspondent's marriage and observes: "It will bo a great pleasure to your mother to have a daughter-in-law;" he also takes tho opportunity of inculcating the duty of early rising, and reminds his son that "our ancestors were - never in bed after 4 in the morning. Kean's Solitary Defender. Milwaukee Sentinel. . Nobody, np to date, has joined Miss Willard in the defense of banker Kean. Bbaui-workeus keep your heads clear and towels open. Take Simmons Liver Regulator.

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