Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1891 — Page 3

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J' THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1891. J

INDUS A AND ILLINOIS NEWS

Young Schoolmaster in Trouble Because He Forgot to Kiss One of the Big Girls, Swtou.er of Adraneed Aze F&3ter Gives Up After Twentj-Six Dajs Feltner, tbo Alleged Mcrderr, Acquitted. INDIANA. A Neglected Kiss TTiat Uroaght a Tonne Schoolmaster to Grief. pedal to the Indianapolis Journal. Lebanon, Feb. 27. Seymour Thompson, a joaugman, was employed for the fourth year to teach a district school in Marion townihip, this county. The trustee has just asked the county superintendent to reToke his license because he has been guilty of improper conduct towards the scholars. Thompson was in the habit of kissing three of the best-looking maidens as they arrived lor tho morning session. Last Friday he showed inditlerence towards one of them, and this put his otherwise still sea to roughness. The jilted girl told her mother, and from that the entire neihborhood zxoae up in arms against him. The parents refused to let their children go to him another day. When his school was called to order Monday, but a single boy was present. Thompson came to this city Thursday and engaged legal counsel to defend him in the action to take up his commission, claiming that the kissing was done in a broth- , erly way. Funeral of General Stone. Srje clal to tie Indianai-olis Journal. Winchester, Feb. 27. The funeral of Gen. A. Stone, which took place from the Zl. E. Church, here, to-day, was the largest ever held in the county, it is thought. The number in attendance, including thop who could not gain admittance to tho church, must have been two thousand. From five to six linudred Odd-feilows, representatives of the home lodge and of the lodges of all the neighboring towns, were present. At the church Kevs. 11. F. Kemp, of Muncie; J. W. Welch, of Portland, and J. A. , Linden and Dr. W. O. Pierce, of this city, iiad ihargo of tho services. On leaving the church tho Odd-fellows took charge of the exercises. A beautiful family monument had been erected by the deceased several years ago in the Fountain Park Cemetery, that beautiful "city of the dead," which his liberality and thoughtf ulneas gave to the city. lladly Blangled In a Runaway. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Warsaw, Feb. 27. Wayne Boggs, a f armor, residing fivo miles south of tnis place, tamo in town to-day, and started home about noon intoxicated. When about a mile from town his team became frightened nt a freight train on the C, W. & M. railway, and, thinking ha could better mauaeo them at their heads, he clambered down from his seat. He had fairly alighted on tho ground when one of the horses kicked him in the face, indicting a severe gash, and then began to run. lioggs became entangled in the lines and was dragged several rods. He received another gash on the top. and a bruise on tho bck of his head, had all the skin and a portion of the flesh scraped from tho hack of his right hand, and his right ear was torn oil, barely hanging by a thread of flesh. Fire at Columbus. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Feb. 27. At 8:S0 to-night fire broke out in the barn of Mrs. Emma Brevort, in this city, and the flames rapidly spread to an adjoining building. A high wind prevailed and by the time the tire department Teached the spot three large l:irns abutting on an alley were burned to tho ground. Several baggies and a large amount of bay and grain were consumed. The buildings were partly covered by insurance. The city haw been overrun with tramps, some of whom have been driven away, and it is thought that they tired the building. Loss, about $1,000. A Swindler Seventy Tears Old. fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Feb. 27. A. J. Wilron, who claims to belong in Los Angeles, Cal., was arrested to-day on the charge of misrepresenting himself as being: an yi gent of the government in the pension-claim business, lie is .an old man of nearly seventy, aud the warrant was sworn out by J. 11. Anthony, a 8Dcial pension examiner, of Terre Haute. He was placed in jail tonight to await a' hearing. He is also wanted on another charge of forging a note for $150 on a citizen of BicknelL Verdict for S10.000 Set Aside. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shoals, Feb. 27. In the case of Charley Brown against the O. & M. railroad, for flamages. wherein the jury returned a general verdict for S10.000, was taken up on motion this morning. The court found the general verdict returned by t!ie jury could not. under the law, be sustained, and rendered a judgment on the special finding for tho defendant. Tho matter will go to tho Supreme Court. Got 81,000 for Slander. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis JoornaL New Castle, Feb. 27. Mrs. Eliza McGrew, of Cambridge City, was given a verdict in the Circuit Court hero to-day for $1,000 damages for slander against Walter Marlott. a prominent Wayne county farmer. Thejndgment is the largest ever given in this county for slander, and would have been $2QO but for one juror, who held out for 1 cent only. 1.1 Ted on Water Twenty-Six Days. Special to the Indianapolis JoornaL. Fort Wayne. Feb. 27. Abe Gump, who started out on the 1st ot February to fast ' thirty daya for $100, had to give up the task this afternoon. His weight during tho twenty-six days was reduced from 120 to 103 pounds. He used during this time thirty-eight pints of water and no other stimulants or food of any kind. One Experience Not Enough. Special to the Indianapolis JoornaL Shoals. Feb. 27. Yesterday Mrs. Sarah J. Manley obtained a divorce from her husband, on a charge of conviction of crime in tho State of Illinois, whero he is now serving out a five-years' term in the penitentiary. She was married again within lit teen minutes to Thos. J. Hastings. Acquitted of the Charge of Murder. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Bedford, Feb. 27. The case of John W. Feltner, charged with the murder of James Terrell, came to an end to-day, and was submitted to the jury at 11 o'clock this morning. A verdict of acquittal was rendered at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Hunter's Head Blown Off. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VixcENNEs. Feb. 27,-Louis Stanton, aged nineteen, went out huntmgnear Sandborn, yesterday, and was found dead this morning, with a portion of bis head blown off, near a boat, and a part of his body in the water. His death was accidental A Curious Accident. epecU! to the Indianapolis JournaL Shoals, Feb. 27. While asleep, Wednesday night, Mrs. Ollie Sowles, of this place, had her nose broken and face badly disfigured by a quantity of plastering falling from tho ceiling. She lies in a critical condition. Minor Note. Bloomington voted overwhelmingly in favor of water-works. Cannel coal has been discovered in Lockhart township, Dubois county. The Grencastle public schools celebrated Longfellow's anniversary yesterday. Last night Monde's Hoyal Kid polo team defeated the crack Kenton, O.. team 10 too. The house of Alexander Beasley. near Linton, was robbed of a cold watch and eorerai huudred dollars in currency. The American Wheel Company has signed the parrs for the removal of the hub and ii$oUo factory from -New Market to Craw-

fordsville. This was secured through the efforts of the Crawfordsvillo Land and Improvement Company. While doing switch work in the yards in Muncie Mark Morton, a Big Four freight brakeman, had his right hand badly mutilated. The eight-year-old daughter of Frank Lawler, of Salem, died a week ago, but as the corpse still retains a life-like appearance the body has not been buried. A cow killed at Seymour had in her stomach half a pound of horseshoe nails, a bunch of needles, a half-dollar coin and a miscellaneous stook of hardware. A saw-mill plant situated at Warsaw and belonging to Daniel Hardman was destroyed by fire at about 1 o'clock yesterday morning. It is the supposition that tramps did the mischief. Loss, S3.000; lusuranco, 81,500. . The application of Maria B. Wood worth, the trance evangelist, vs. Philo H. Woodworth, for divorce, was set for trial in the Fulton Circuit Court Thursday, and owing to the prominence of the parties the case attracted unusual interest. The court granted the decree of divorce to Mrs.Woodworth. Fire was discovered in thelMusio Hall of De Pauw University yesterday morning, the attention of an attendant being first attracted to it by the snapping of a piauostring. The smoke was traced to Koom42 and the piano in that room wan found enveloped in Hames. The origin of the lire is a mystery. In April, 1690, Mrs. Mate A. G. Fair, who was then pastor of the Church of God, of Greensburg, on ber return from chnrch one night fell over an obstruction in the sidewalk which had been caused by a naturalgas ditcb. Her shoulder was broken and she was otherwise injured. For this injury she sued tho city for $5,000 damages. Tho cause was set for Jrial next week but was yesterday compromised by the payment of $o?5 and costs, of which the city and gas company each pay one-half. ILLINOIS.

Claims to a Great Estate Pan Out Rather Small When Settled. Alton, Feb. 27. The claim of the Hugo heirs, of this city, to a tract of land in Maryland, has been found valid and settled. Tho claimants received through agent William II. Plate the certificates of ownership and deeds for the land in question, it does not, however, include any part of Washington City, as was at first snpposed. Tho land comprises two hundred acres lying near old Fort Cumberland, Allegheny county, Maryland, fifty miles out of Washington. The deeds call for fifty acres each in what is known as Cumberland City, and are in favor of Mr. E. M. Hugo, Mrs. Sarah E. Paul and Mrs. John Price, of this city, and Oscar ISV Hugo, of Peoria, they being the legitimate heirs of the late Dr. Samuel B. Hugo. The claim dates back eighty years. Brief Mention. Considerable excitement prevails at Hamilton over the alleged appearance of the ghost of Miss Sadie Carr. James Merritt, of Kushville, was found dead in the road near there. He had been drinking, and perished from the cold. It has been decided by the State Board of Health not to recognize foreign diplomas unless they confer the right to practice in the countries in which they are issued. At Ottawa, Thursday, William McGinnis, Lyle Worsley and Henry Kries of Mendota, were acquitted on the charge of killing Joseph Hubbard, a colored man, in a barroom quarrel, June 28, 1800. Henry Griffin, who was convicted of mnrdor in Macon county, in December, 1883, and sentenced to thirty-live years' confinement in the penitentiary at Joliet.has been pardoned, that he may go home and dio among his friends. Anditor Pavey has issued a certificate of anthority to commence business to the organizers of the State Bank of Hoseville, Warren county; capital stock, $25,000; president, Eliphalet Mitchell; cashier, Wm. T. Oossett; directors, F. E. Harding, J. B. Russell, W. B. Ditch, F. E. Chase, D. A. Woodward. E. Mitchell, H. T. Lope, W. It. Kay burn, Alphens Lewis. At a meeting of prominent live stock men in Springfield, resolutions were adopted asking the Legislature to appropriate 50,000, to be awarded in cash prizes for live stock owned in Illinois and exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. A bill was approved, and will be presented to the General Assembly providing for at least tho amount named, and that the State Board of Agriculture be instructed to apportion the prizes. THE "GOOD OLD TIMES. A Howard County Man Compares the Present with the Days of nis Youth. Charles Seward, in Kokoino Gazette-Tribune. I am a man past three-score and ten, and confined to the house at the present time with infirmities incident to old age. I have been reflecting, while thus confined, over my past life, and in my humble way comparing the days of the present with the days of my boyhood when I was permitted to wear, Sunday and all other days, clothes made of flax by my father and mother, with such help from us children as we were able to give. We sowed, pulled and rotted the flax. Then father would break it, and mother and 1 would take a clap-board, sharpen one end and drive it in the ground. Then, with a wooden Knife, something in the shape of a common corn-knife, we would knock tho broken shives from tho flax; and, oh. how proud I was when I got so I could dress more of the indispensable article than my mother; and how superlatively grand and proud I was in my new suit made ot this line material of flax and flax tow one for underwear and the other pants, and perhaps a liusy coat, if we had enough flax for it. Now I wish to say right here, not that I want to mingle in politics, but those were tho days ot good old Democratic times when Martin Van Buren and free trade was the ruling power. But I am not yet quite doun with the story of these good old times. 1 well remember the voice of that good old mother when the babes were fretful and demanded care and attention. Homespun linen could not be used for every article of babies7 clothing. I remember going to town one day to get a dress for tho baty. Before starting, brother and I hunted the place all over, gathering up the eggs. Eggs were up then, father said, and we must be sure and got all of them. They brought 3 cents a dozen that day, and calico that would do was down to 25 cents a yard. Two yards were required to make the baby's dress. So, you see, it only took sixteen dozen and eight eggs to pay for the baby's calico dress. But again. There is another little girl, and she must have a dress, for aunty is coming next Sunday, and it wonld be too bad for ber nottto have one, too. So mother says: "Father, can't, yon spare some change to get her a dress!" With a sigh, he says: "No, Ellen; 1 have no money; times are hard, you know." We then tried another plan. Mothersays: "Then if you do not care, I will take a few pounds of that flax. It's worth C cents a pound. Five pounds will be SO cents; and I have saved a little lard it's b cents a pound. Five pounds is SO cents." It took two and a half yards of calico for the dress or GLis cents. We still lacked 2L2 cents of having enough for the dress, but after much hunting around we found two and a half pounds of rags which were worth a cent a pound and sister got the calico gown for Sunday. At tho prices in those degenerate davs of tho robber tan 11 we can sell the above amount of produce for $4.25. instead of 622 cents: and can buy the same amount of calico for cents that wo then paid $1.122 for. No ISeed of Predictions. Chicago New. Miss Frances Willard predicts great things for woman in the futu :e. This is all right and true beyond peradventurt. But why predict with words what the women themselves are already predicting by their acts! . What It Is Here For, Augusta (Gs.) Chronicle. Farmer Burkitt, of Mississippi, says the Alliance men of that State will not join in any third-party movement, but willendeavor to work out their purposes through the Democratic party. Unheeded Warnings. New York Tribune. Another victim of tobacco! To wit, a Canadian woman, aged 101 years, who insisted on taking a pipe to bed with her. Shall these dreadful warnings farerer go unheeded!

LEGISLATIVE BILL PASSED

Adopted by tho Senato with a Provision forCivil-JServico Commission Clerks. Nicaragua Bond Measure Side-Tracked for the Session Long Discussion Oyer the Indian. Appropriation Bill No Tote Reached. Washington, Feb. 27. The Vice-president laid before the Senate, this morning, a message from the President, returning, without his approval, the bill to establish the record and pension oflice of the War Department. Thor President states his objections to the bill at some length, to tho e fleet generally that it is not competent for Congress to nominate, as the bill does, a particular person to fill an oflice created by law. The message was referred to the committee on military affairs. House bill detaching the county of Logan, Ohio, from tho Northern and attaching it to the Southern judicial district of Ohio was taken up and passed. Also House bill for the relief of Henry L. Morey. . Mr. Stewart presented papers in support of the claim of W. H. Glaggett to a seat in the Senate from the State of Idaho for the term beginning March 4, the seat for which the credentials of Mr. Dubois are already, on file, and they were referred to the committee on privileges and elections. Mr. Teller, from the committee on privileges and elections, reported a resolution, which was agreed to, to pay to ex-Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, his pay from the beginning of his term March 4, 18C7 until he was paid. He also reported a like resolution in favor of ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama. Mr. Hale expressed the hope that the money would be paid directly to the ex-Senators aud not to attorneys and he related how, in a similar case, a short time since, the ex-Senator was dogged into the paying oflice by an attorney, who insisted on being paid his share. Such a scene, ho said, was a shame and a scandal. It had resulted, he said, in that case, in denuding the contingent fund of the Senate so that there was no money to pay the expenses of Senators m connection with tho obsequies of General Sherman. Mr. Plumb 1 thought that the question as to what time the pay of Senators should begin was one that ought to be settled by Jaw, not by resolution. Mr. Allison objected to further discussion of the resolution, and it was therefore placed on the calendar. The resolution heretofore offered by; Mr. Manderson, instructing the committee on Indian affairs to inquire into the condition of the Indian tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana and elsewhere, and whether tho care and control of the Indians living in tribal relations should be transferred from the Interior Department to any other department of the government, was taken up and agreed to. Mr. Sherman stated that ho was authorized by the committee on foreign relations to say that in view of tho state of public business, particularly tho appropriation bills; also in view of the fact that tne bill could not be acted upon in the House at the present session, the Nicaragua canal bill would not be pressed any further at this time; and might take its place on the calendar. Mr. Paddock gave notice that as soon as the pending appropriation bills were out of the way he would ask the Senate to tako ud for consideration the pure-food bill. CIVIL-SERVICE COMMISSION CLERKS. Consideration of the legislative appropriation bill was then resumed, the first question being on the amendment as to the clerical force of the Civil-service Commission. Mr. Allison made an explanation of tho provision and stated, in answer to a question by Mr. Stewart, that the amendment v reported by. the Senate committee on ap propriations did not increase, the clerical force of the Civil-service Commission by a' single person. It merely made a direct provision for that force, instead of having clerks detailed from the bureaus of various departments. Mr. Wnlcott favored the amendment, and remarked that the Civil-service Commission had, at best, a hard row to hoe." It had to meet a deep and bitter opposition from certain departments of the government, because, possibly, its methods did not always agree with Chestnut-street methods. Mr. Sherman had some doubt about the power to appoint clerks for the Civil-service Commission, and he asked Mr. Allison to state by whom they were appointed. Mr. Allison assumed that they were to bo appointed by the Civil-servico Commission. 1 hat was provided by the law creating the commission. Mr. Sherman said that if that were so the law was clearly unconstitutional, because the power of appointment of all officers was vested either in the President of the United States, or in the heads of departments, or in the courts of law. Mr. Allison admitted that it might be well to provide that these clerks shall be appointed by the President. Mr. Edmunds, in carrying out that idea, moved to insert tho words, "All of whom shall be appointed by the President, under the rules provided for appointments in the civil service." Mr. Daniel made the point of order that the amendment was general legislation. The point of order was overruled, and Mr. Edmunds's amendment was agreed to. The committee amendment was then agreed to. It increases the pay of the Secretary from $1,000 to $2,000; provides for five clerks of Class 4, five of Class 3, three of Class 1, three at 1,000 each, two at $000 each, oue messengcr'atid one laborer, and changes the total appropriation from $53,700 to $5:2.200. . Tho amendment appropriating $4,000 for a fourth assistant Pos -master-general was agreed to. The committee amendment appropriating $5,000 for a reapportionment of Utah Territory was taken up, the question being on the point of order made against it last night by Mr. Vest, as general legislation. The poiut of order was overruled yeas, 2$ navH, J24. While tho amendment was being discussed "sundry messages in writing" from the President were announced. Almost immediately afterwards a dozen Senators, mostly Democrats, wer gathered around Mr. Blair, and were shaking hands with him and congratulating him in a most hearty and effusive manner. This scene was the result of Mr. Blair's nomination as .minister to China becoming known in the Senate chamber. Tho result of the discussion and of tho subsequent vote was that tho appropriation for the apportionment of Utah was reduced to $1,000, and. thus modified, was agreed toyeas, 82: nays, 22. Mr. Sherman offered an amendment to insert a new section, changing the act of May. 1SS2. so as to authorize the superintendent of coinage at the mints and of the assay oflices at New York, with the approval of the Secretary of tho Treasury, but not otherwise, to receive United States gold coin from any holder thereof, in sums not less than $5,000, and to deliver in exchange therefor gold bars of eqnal valne, with a charge equal to the cost of manufacturing tho bars. After explanation and some discussion the amendment was agreed to. ' The bill was then passed. PURE-FOOD 111LL 6IDE-1 BACKED. Mr. Paddock moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of Senate bill for preventing adulteration and misbranding of food and drugs, popularly known as the "pure-food bill." The motion was agreed to yeas, 40; nays, 14. The pure-food bill was thereupon taken up, and became the 'unfinished business." Mr. Dawes was nbout to call up the Indian appropriation bill, when Mr. Sherman interposed a motion to proceed to executive business. That motion was agreed to yeas 85; nays. Hi. When the doors were reopened legislative- business was proceeded with. Mr. Dawes asked unanimous consent to have the Indian appropriation bill taken up. He did not make the motion to take it up because if it prevailed it would displace thn "unfinished business," tho pure-food bill. Mr. Vanco objected to unanimous consent being given. , Mr. Dawes Then I move to take up the Indian appropriation bill. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Paddock inquired whether tho action

just taken had the effect of displacing tho puro-food bill, and, on being informed that it did he expressed the opinion that it was a very gross injustice. At the suggestion of Mr. Dawes, unanimous consent was given to proceed to consideration of House bills on the calendar up to 5 o'clock. A motion was then mado by Mr. Morrill to agree to the House amendment to the direct-tax bill. Mr. Berry objected to consideration of the matter to-day. Then Mr. "Morrill changed his motion to one to consent to the conference asked by the House, thus making the motion a privileged one; but Mr. Berry persisted in his opposition, and finally Mr. Morrill withdrew the motion and let the matter go over till to-morrow, i The Senate then proceeded to consideration of House bills on the calendar. Among those that wero taken up and passed were the following: An amendment of the various acts relative to immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor. To amend the act of March 2, 1SS9, for the relief of certain volunteer aud regular soldiers of the late war and the war with Mexico. Authorizing the suspension for one year of the act as to line-carryiqg projectiles and other life-saving appliances on lakes and bays. For the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies taken and used by the United States army as reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the act of-March 3, 1SS3, known as the "Bowman act," with amendments. Mr. Cockrell moved an additional amendment to the bill, insorting an item of $174,445 for the Chouteau claim in connection with the building of an iron steam battery. WILL BANKRUPT THE TREASURY. In the course of a discussion on this amendment Mr. Plumb said that if the Court of Claims was allowed to continue its present course of rendering judgments against the government the government would have to go into bankruptcy and a receiver would have to be applied for within the next twenty-four months. Every claimant, no matter how disloyal he had been, was held to have been alwa3's loyal. He rejoiced in tho prospect that during the next j'ear there would be a deficiency in the treasury, and then, of course, there would be a break m the expenditures. Mr. Cockrell's amendment was agreed to; also, one by Mr. Carlisle to pay live Kentucky claims, aggregating $3,800. The Senate at 0 o'clock began consideration of tho Indian appropriation bill, it being read with the committee amendments. The appropriation for support of Indian schools was increased from $1)00,000 to $1,000,000. On motion of Mr. Dawes, in charge of tho bill, all tho amendments recommended by the committee on appropriations reducing the per capita rate for the support of Indian pupils at various schools throughout the country from 107 to 150, were disagreed to, ho explaining that the committee had changed its views with respect to the matter, and had authorized him to recommend disagreement. The only exception was as to the Indian school at Fort Totten, N. D., where the former rate per scholar was preserved. . Mr. Plumb made a long speech on the cost- of Indian schools, and then Mr. Dawes stated that the matter printed on pages 137 to 148 was matter which the committee on appropriations recommended to have struck out. The matter from pages 140 to the end of the bill was what the committee recommended as a substitute for the matter to be struck out. Both had reference- to six or seven agreements made by commissioners

appointed by the United .States with different tribes of Indians for the cession of tneir reservations. The substitute had already been read to the Senate as independent bills, and he suggested that its reading might be dispensed with. Objection was made by Mr. Call, and the reading was ordered to be proceeded with, but finally it was arranged that the substitute should be agreed to, the bill reported to the Senate, and then the whole matter go over till to-morrow, when amendments can be offered. The reading of the bill was closed at about 10 o'clock, when it was laid over till to-morrow. Tho Senate then proceeded to consideration of bills on tho calendar. The first bill taken up was ono providing that railroad land grants shall not convey itho title to coal and its mineral lands. 1'hero was no auoruin present. All business was susdended for mojo than half an hour, when a motion to adjourn . was agreed to, and at 11:10 the Senate adjourned till to-morrow at 11 a. M. ,. POLITICS AND THE DKA3IA. Colonel Ingersoll Discourses of Doth Topics In Characteristic Style. Carson Lske, In New York Press. Col. Kobort G. Ingersoll, with whom I come occasionally in contact in drifting about New York, has a look of contentment on his face aud tho afr of good feeding about his person. Wo fell into conversation about the political topic of the day, which was Senator Quay's statement before the Senate about the charges made against him, and I found Colonel Ingersoll, engrossed in legal practice as he is, abreast of the times. Said he: "Having remained silent for ten mouths, Senator Quay should have remained quiet forever. If I could advise the public men of the day, who are subjected to newspaper attacks. I would tell every ono of them never to answer a newspaper attack, no matter what its character. The newspapers have almost killed public lifo by their personality. Men will not run for olhce because it will subject them to personal attacks. No man knows what may be charged against him if he becomes a candidate for oflice. The pages of the press are devoted to the finding of flaws in tho characters of publio men. The good things are scarcely mentioned, and never twice. Personality is the bane of the hour. It even pervades public bodies, aud you will remember an Ohio member of Congress made a personal attack from the lloor of the House upon Senator Quay. Publio life cannot survive such a course, and unless public men either agree to ignore the personal attacks made on them, or else to vigoronsly prosecute those who make them In every case, there will soon be only thickskinned or unworthy and hardened men in office. Incidentally the subject of the drama came up, when Colonel Ingersoll said, in substance: "Isn't it strange that in the two hundred odd years that have elapsed since Shakspeare's death not a single play has been written by any man which has been worthy of producing for the education or edification of the civilized world? In Shakspeare's time, too, the playwright was in constant dishonor and disgrace socially, whereas in our day fame and fortune await the man who can produce a single great and worthy play. What is the product under such encouragement? The lor Match," ' "A Bnnch of Keys" and "The City Directory," tell the story of what this generation is doing. Two or three people who pretend to be playwrights have remodeled and fussed over "Cleopatra," and they havo succeeded in making of it a vulgar exhibition of a crowned wanton, without any relieving features whatever. We talk about the great actors of the day as if there wero really any great actors, and then we go and see Henry Irviug twice. Once wo go because it is the initiative, to see if he is worthy. But think of thousands upon thousands of persons going twice and pretending to themselves that they saw great acting. We bring Coquelin over from France, and we laugh at him, and go twice to his performances also, regardless of the fact that we could tako almost any hack-driver by chance from the Madison-square hackBtand and make a better comedian of him than Coquelin. It is a queer age, indeed, both as respect the held of publio lifo and the stage." , Throbbed with Pride. Philadelphia Press. Tho heart of every cultured Bostonian throbbed with conscious pride yesterday when ho or sho read in tho newspapers: "Boston Gets Browning;" but a sigh of disappointment arose when it was discovered that the tomb of the dead poet was not to be transferred from Westminster Abbey to the Hub of the universe. It only meant Pete Browning will play ball with the Boston club. Due to Sara's and Fanny's Example, Chicago News. The famous Susan B. Anthony has engaged in an oratorical bout with Belva Lock wood at the Woman's National council. Miss Anthony is quoted assaying: "With all Belva's faults, I stood by her until she began to bleach her hair and paint her face. 1 couldn't stand that." Coming so soon alter the fierce controversy

titles of such plays as "I he Tin Soldier," 'The Texas Steer," "Mr. Potter, of Texas," 'A Straight Tip," "Blue Jeans." "A Par

between the two rival Cleopatras, Bernhardt and Davenport, this lively tilt between Miss Anthony and Mrs. Lockwood will probably be forgiven on the score of the bad example set by Sara and Fanny.

JUSTICE IN TDK FAR WEST. Hovr Ilank Wilson Paid S3.000 for a Mala Worth 812.50 "Tanglefoot" and Billiards. Chicago Post. ' . A Chicago gentleman who owns a cattle ranch in Montana was recently a witness at the trial of a case, Hauk Wilson vs. Bill Thompson, suit in replevin; subject, one old , mule. Hank Wilson is a rich man, who owns thousands upon thousands of horses and cattle, while Bill Thompson's only possession in the world was the mule in dispute. This mule bore upon his shaggy side the letters B. T., which had been branded upon him in token of his ownership, and when Bill first appeared in that part of the country, four years ago, he was accompanied by the mule. Those were the only facts that were clearly understood. One day Hank and Bill had a few words over a glass of liquor, and then it was that Hank swore he would 'have that mule or bust.' Accordingly he entered the above-mentioned suit, and last fall the case came to trial. A jury was impaneled and the district attorney, who acted for the plaintiff, made a moving speech, in the course of which he managed to call each of them by his name. Hank offered no other evidence than the mule. The jury examined it closely, but could distinguish no other brand than B. T. On the other hand, Bill proved by a number of witnesses, includingthe Chicago man, that he had possession of the mule forsix years. It looked bad for Hank, but his resources were not exhausted, ana upon his request the court ordered that the mule be shaved so that Hank's brand could be found if it was there. An old cattleman was called in as an expert. For two honrs he studied the tracery on the mule's bide, which was now seen to bo covered with numberless brands, so interwoven as to be indistinguisable. At the end of that time he turned to the jury and gnkvely said: "lam unable to give any opinion. It greatly resembles the railroad map of Massachusetts." There was clearly no chance for Hank. But Bill's attorney was a jovial soul, who had a passion for billiards, and by dint of many drinks he was induced to agree that the case should be settled out of court by a game of billiards between the district attorney and himself. The district attorney practiced diligently, and Hank got the defendant's lawyer fnll'of "tanglefoot," and when tho game was over thejudne, who. had officiated as marker, and tho jury, who had acted as referee, awarded the mule to Hank, but ordered that he should pay the costs, which now amounted to $3,000. So the celebrated case came to an end, and Hank got one mule, value, $12.50. FOUR .COVERS AND ONE OVER. An Eastern Story of Resurrection and Disappointment. Constantinople Herald. Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian girl who had four lovers. They were all of equal rank, only one was much richer tnan tho others. She could not make up her mind which of tbe four lovers to choose for a husband. While she hesitated she caught a fever and died. You will think the story ends here, but it does not. The girl was carried to her grave, followed by her four lovers. When the grave was opened ono of them killed himself on the grave, and was buried with the girL Another got np into 'a tree, and spent the night saying, "Boh and Bab," to keep the jackals from eating the bodies. The rich lover went back to his fine house and spent the night in weeping and lamenting. The fourth lover put on tbe dress of a holy pilgrim and started for a distant shrine. Soon after he had left his native village he came to a wood. In the wood he saw a house. He went and looked in at the window, and he saw an old woman baking bread, and a child playing noisily about. The old woman told the child to be quiet or she would kill her. The child took no notice, and went on making as much noise as before. Then tbe old woman took hold of, her and strangled her, and threw her body in tho corner. When the pilgrim saw this he rushed in and asked the old woman what she meant. "What's the matter!" said she. "There's nothing to make a fuss about. I have only quieted her." Then she went to a cupboard and took ont a bottle containing so mo white powder, with which she sprinkled the child, who at once jumped up and began playing about as noisily as before. When the pilgrim saw tnis he said to the old woman, "I um a very holy man on my way to a shrine, and you must give me shelter for tho night." The old woman said she would, and so he stayed. In the night ho got up quietly and went to tho cupboard and took the powder and went away back to tbe village as quickly as he could. When he got there ho collected the villagers and told then, to open the grave. As soon as it was opened they saw the bodies of the girl and of the lover who had killed himself just as they had left them, and the other lover was still crying "Boh and Bah" in tho tree. The pilgrim then sprinkled the girl with the powder, and, some of it falling on the body of the lover, they both jumped up and seemed in perfect health. Then the lovers all began to claim the lady again.' The first said: "f ought to have you, for I died for you." The one in the tree said: "If it had not been for me you could not have come to life again, for the jackals would havo eateu yon." The third said: "Did I not go home and weep all night!" and the fourth said, "You must bo mine, for I broueht you to life again." Then, as the girl could notstilldecide which of the four to marry, it was resolved that the matter should be bronght before the rajah, and that he should decide it. So the rajah assembled his court with ereat pomp and called the lady and all the lovers before him. He listened with great attention to each as he set forth his claim. When he had heard all, he said: "As I find myself quite unable to decide between aso many rivals, I see tho only way out of 'the difficulty ia that I should marry the lady myself." CAMTORNIA'S GREAT FUNNEL. How Its Water Are Collected and Carried to the Sea, New York Times. The State of California in one respect is wonderfully like a great bisected funnel. Nowhere on- earth is there just such a system of water-flow and outlet to the sea. All the run of her waters is ultimately westward and through one single channel, the pipe or spout of the funnel. The upper portion of the funnel haa a long and curious narrow rim in other words, Its gathering bowl is strangely steep and shallow. There are but few great rivers in the world that flow westwardly. This is a re markable fact in hydrography. The whole of the Western continent has only three rivers of importauco that flow westwardly, and only a very few of minor note runuing in that direction. There are no great rivers in Asia that flow west-' wardly and none in Europe unless we call those "great" that run toward the sunset through France and Spain. These, however, are all minor streams in comparison with those of America running in a like direction. Tbe greatest of all theriversof the Eastern continent flowing west is the Congo, yet this drains a country unknown in extent, yet stretching, as is determined, for more than a thousand miles directly to the eastward from its mouth. The three great rivers that flow westerly in the western continent are principally within the United States. Then Yukon of Alaska, 1,000 miles long, drains part of the British possessions, and does the Columbia river of Oregon, which drains a territory second in extent to that of the Mississippi valley. But in California there is a great water which drains to the west into the Pacific ocean a country as big as Italy or all of the British islands combined. . And the most remarkable fact connected with the water is that the roost remote easterly source is considerably less than two hundred miles from the outlet, while the most remote in any direction is scarcely three hundred miles in a straight line. California has a most interesting system of waters. There are only two large rivers in the State the San Joaquin and the Sacramento and theee flow in directly opposite currents toward each other in the L long, narrow valleys that lie between tho Sierra IN evada mountains and the coast range. The Sacramento river, rising in the northern part of the State, on the southern slopes of Mount Shasta, runs south ward by some two hundred miles, gathering in its flow its principal tributaries in tbe streams that rush down westwardly from i the Sierras. The- San Joaquin rises in the couth unto the north

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There is not a single stream of conso.quence in all California that flows eastward. The Sierra Nevada mountains, which partly border the State on tho east, make a high and rugged wall rising abrubtly to the height of more than ten thousand feet, and almost in eight of the very ocean and along its entire course. This makes the tilt or trend of the State sharply to the sea westwardly. Tho coast range, lying parallel nearly, shuts off the western flow of th drainage from the Sierra Nevadas all along, except at the one point at the Golden Gate. Tho western face of the Sierras has many bold perenuial streams that rush headlong down the steep declivities into tho two valleys below, streams fed by the eternal snows that rest on the summits of the range. In these rapid, rushing waters are found the great cataracts of the Pacific slope t he Yosemite, 2.000 feet high; Bridal Veil Falls, 1XX) feet, and the two falls in the Merced river the Nevada, 700 feet, and tho Vernal, 50 feet these two within a few miles of each other all these showing the strong westward incline of the country. There are no waters of consequence running eastwardly from the coast range. The eastern face of the Sierra Nevada range is also strangely destitute of rivers. Nearly all tho rainfall or moisture that is preoipitated on the range is caught on tho western face the bulk of it below tho snow line. The little streams that run" down from tbe east are mostly from the melting snows, and they soon lose themselves in the Hats of the erid alkali lields of Nevada, live thousand feet above sea level. They Might Combine. Washington Post. Davenport and Bernhardt ought not to quarrel. Indeed, there 6eems to be a field of usefulness in which they might combine their efforts in elncidating the dramatic ideas of "Cleopatra." By co-operating with a patent medicine firm they should be able to give impressive illustrations concerning the Egyptian Queen before and after taking. Occurred , to Illm. Washington Post. ; "What did yon say this was!" he asked as he dallied with his dessert. "It is angel cake, dear," replied his wife, 'but I'm afraid it is just a trifle heavy." "It occurred to me while I was eating it," he responded, "that it might not have been greatly out of the way to call it 'fallen angel' cake." They Choose the Greater Evil. Atlanta Conttitnuon. It is said that in a cigarette there are five poisons and in a good cigar only one. So it seems that a fellow gets more for his money when he buys a cigarette. The boys know what they uro about. The Millennium ISot Yet Come. Chicago Inter Ocean. ' The ex-Erapressof Germany wentto Paris to discover the real feeling of the French people toward the Germans. She has found out. ---------efc' . A Preacher "Kicks." liam's Horn. The devil rubs his hands whenever 6omo churches give their preachers a donation. Farm Notes. An exchange says: If you want tcknow how much beef you will have from a bullock weigh him and then divide by three,' and yon will have very near the weight of hide, tallow and quarters. The quality of the butter'fixes the price. It is better to make a pound of choice butter than to market two pounds of inferior butter. If as much care was used in caring for tho cream, churning and packing as in feeding and milking, more profit would result According to the farm manager of the Duke of Richmond, 6ays the Dairy World, pleuro-pneumonia can be cured by causing an affected beast to inhale paraffin oil. lie says he has tried this remedy on several occasions with much success, aud that others who have followed his example testify to tho efficacy of the treatment. O. M. Tinkham, ex-secretary of tho Vermont Dairymen's Association, says that every dairyman has the power to make better butter than is possible to make at a' creamery. Yes, but if those dairymen will contribute that same perfect inilk and cream to the factory the product should be up to a nigh quality. Where it is not there is fault somewhere. Mix plenty of land plaster with your manure. Plaster absorbs gases, arrests the escape of ammonia, and is of itself an excellent fertilizer. 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