Indianapolis Leader, Volume 1, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1880 — Page 3

AX INVITATION

BY VIOLET HCST. Oeome luto the garden, sweet. At (lawn of day, atdawn of day: For love has the Hey of the postern gat, Make no delay ! make uo de jay ! Here's beds of roses white and red. Where softly shall you tare. Here's crowds of yellow marigolds To deck your shining hair. Here's meadow lawns and aray plots. Where dainty feet may stray. Here's doves to coo, and birds to bins; Love's tender roundelay. Here's peaches from the southern wall, O sweetheart, taste and try. Here' arbors green and treilise To kiss, and no one by. w And all these things await you. love. At dawn ot day, at da wn of day ; Fur love Is here with song and lute. Make no delay ! make no delay ! Scri'oner lor April. IDLE HANDS. Mr. Thornton returned home at his usual midday hour and as he passed by the parlor door, he saw his daughter, a young lady of 19. lounsrintr on the sofa with a book in her hand. The whirr of his wife's sewing, machine struck on his ear at the same moment. "Without pausing at the parlor door, he kept on to the room from which came the sound of industry. .Mrs. Thornton did not observe the entrance of her husband. She wa3 bending close down over her work, and the noise of her machine was louder than his footsteps on the floor. Mr. Thornton stood looking at her for some time without speaking. "Oh, dearl" exclaimed the tired woman, letting her foot rest upon the treadle, and straightening herself up, "this pain in my side is almost beyond endurance." "Then why do you sit killing yourself there?" said Mr. Thornton. Mr. Thornton's aspect was unusually sober. What's the matter? Why do you look so serious?" asked his wife. "Has anything gone wrong?" Mrs. Thornton's countenance grew slightly troubled. Things had gone wrong in her husband's business more than once, and she had learned the occurrence of disaster. "Things are wrong all the time," he replied, in some impatience of manner. 'In your business?" Mrs. Thornton f.vkc a littlefaintly. .o, nothing especially out ot the way there, but it's wrong at home." "I don't understand you, Harvey what is wrong at home, pray? ' "Wrong for you to sit in pain and exhaustion over that sewing machine while an idle daughter lounges over a novel in the parlor. That's what I wish to say." "It isn't Erne's fault. She often asks to help me. But I can't see the child put down to household drudgery. Her time will come soon enough. Let her have a little ease and comfort while she may." "If we said that about our sons," replied Mr. Thornton, "and acted on the word, what efficient men they would make for life's trials and duties!" "You are wrong in this thing all wrong," continued the husband. "And if Effie is a right-minded girl, she will have more true enjoyment in the consciousness that she is lightening her mother's burdens than it is possible to obtam from the finest novel ever written. Excitement for the imagination is no substitute for that deep peace of mind that ever accompanies and succeeds the right discharge of daily duties. It is a poor compliment to Eßiie's moral sense to suppose that she can be contented to sit with idle . , . t - . . I hands or to employ them in light frivol ties, while her mother is worn down with toil beyond her strength. Hester, it should not be! "And it shall not be! said a quick, firm voice. Mr. Thornton and his wife started, and turned to the speaker, who had entered the room unobserved,' and had been a listener to nearly all the comversation we have recorded. "It shall not be?'' And Effie came and stood by Mr. Thornton. Her face was crimson; her eyes flooded with 'tears, through which light was flashing; her form drewn up erectly; her manner resolute. rtIl isn't all my fault, she said, as she laid her hand on her father's arm. "I've asked mother a great many times to let me help her, but she .always puts me off, and ays it's easier to do a thing herself than to show another. Maybe I'm a little dull but every one has to learn, you know. Mother didn't get her hand in fairly with that machine for two or three weeks; I'm certain it won't take me any- longer. If she d only teach me. how to use it I could help her a great deal. And, indeed, father, I am willing.' "Spoken in the right spirit, my daughter," said Mr. Thornton, approvingly. "Girls should be as useful as boys, and in the very things most likly to be required of them wnen e7 oecome women m w u. rT r ... ZIJZ ac fmne rvf uritroa and TYlOthPrS. liPDenO. I upon it Effie, an idle girlhood is not the way to a cheerlul womannooa. iearn ana uo now the things that will be required of you in after years, and then you will have an acquired facility, llabit and skill will make easy what might come hard, and be felt as very burdensome." ' "And you would have her abandon all . lf-imDrovement." said Mrs. Thornton. 'Give up music, reading, society " There are, saia jit. .mormon, as ms unff naused for another word, "some lo or 16 hours of each day, in which mind or hands should be rightly employed. Now, let us see how Effie is soending these long and ever recurrinsr Deriodsof time. Come, jny daughter, it down: we have this subiect fairly before us. It is one of great importance to you, and should be well considered. How is it in regard to the employment of your time? Take vesterdav for instance." The records of the work of a day will help us to get toward v. Mumlt mffaf toViiVi wn urn tfw Bmrphin.'' bug & la . . A I- " . w o Effie 6at down, and Mr. Thornton drew a chair in front of his wife and daughter. "Take yesterday, for instance," said the father, "how was it srjent? You rose at 7, I think" Yes. sir: I came down iust as the break fast boll was rune," replied Effie. "And your mother was up at half-past fivR. I know, and complained of feeling so weak that she could hardly dress herself. But, for all this, she was at work until breakfast time. Now, if you had risen at six, and shared vour mother's work until 6even, you would have taken an hour from her day's burdens, and certainly lost nothing from your music, self-improvement or social intercourse. TIow was it after breakfast? How was the morninsrspent?" I nroctieed an hour on the piano after breakfast." "So far bo good. What then?" "I read the 'Cavalier till eleven." Mi' Thornton shook his head and ssked . "After eleven how was the time spent? I dressed myself and went out a little after 12 o'clock.'' An hour was spent in dressing?" "Yes, sir.' 5 ' "Where did vou cot . . T called on Helen Boyd, and we took a Wik down Broadway." And came home just in time for dinner? I think I met you at the doorT "Yes, sir." How was it after dinner?" I slept from three until live, and then a hath und dressed mvself. From six untit tea-time I sat at the parlor window. And tea?" , tiMA the 'Cavalier' till I went to bed." "At what hour?" " 4.T?!arn O'clock." ' - f Vrt w- can make up the account," s! Mr Thornton. "You rose at seven and re tired at eleven 16 hours. And from your the dar. but a single hour

was spent in anything useful that was the hour at the piano. Now, your mother was

up at half past five, and went to bed, from her sneer inability to sit at her work any lonerer. at half pa3t nine. Sixteen hours for her also. How much reading did you do in that time?" And Mr. Thornton looked at his wife. "Dont talk to me of readme! lve no time to read' Mrs. Thorton answer!, a lit tle impatiently. The contrast of her daugh ter's idle hours with her own life of exhaust ing toil did not affect her mind very pleasantly. "And vet,' said Mr. Thornton, "you were always fond of reading, and I can remember when no dav went bv without an hour or two passed with your books. Did you lie down after dinner?" ."Of course not." "And didn't you take a pleasant walk down Broadway? Nor sit at the parlor window with Eti. How about that?" There was no reply. "Now, the case is a very plain one," continued Mr. Thornton. "In fact, nothing could be plainer. You spend from 14 to 16 hours in hard work, while Effie, taking yesterday as a sample, spends about the same time in what is a little better than idleness. Suppose a new adjustment were to take place, and Effie were to be usefully employed helping you eight hours of each day, she would still have eight hours left for self-improve-ment and recreation: and you, relieved from your present overtasked condition, might get back a portion of your health and spirits, of which these too heavy household duties have vrwu 1 114. "Father," said Effie, speaking through her tears that were falling over her face, "I never saw th'ngs in this light. Why haven't you talked to me before? I've often felt as if "I'd like to help her, she says that 'you can't do it; I'd rather do it mvself.' Indeed it isn't all my fault." "It may not have been in the past, hflie, replied Mr. Thornton, "but it ceriainlv will be in the future, unless there is a new arrangement of things. It is a false social sentiment that lets daughters become idlers, while mothers, fathers, and sons take up th 3 daily burden of work, and bear it througi all the business hours.'' Mrs. Thornton did not come gracefully into the new order of things proposed by her husband and accepted by Erne, false pride in her daughter, that future lady ideal, and an inclination to do herself, rather ban to take the trouble to teach another, were all so many impediments. But Effie and her father were both earnest. and it was not long before the overtasked mother's weary face began to lose its look of weariness, and her languid frame to come up to an erect bearing. She could find time for the old pleasure in books, now and then for a healthy walk in the streets, and a call on some valued friend. The Great Fire In Tokio Thrilling Scene in the Streets. Japan Gazette. So rapidly did the flames travel that it was with ditfiulty the streets were cleared of people before the houses ignited, and in so many places was the fire raging that they knew not which way to run. Anxious to save lutons and wearing apparel, the poor creatures sallied forth from their homes with bundles on their shoulders to fly they knew not whither. The streets became blocked with the surging masses. Women and chil dren were trampled under foot, and many who fell in the crowd never rose again; lit tle children were seen looking for their parents, parents looking for their children, while the air was rent with cries of rage, anguish, and despair. Still they clung tenaciously to the few worldly possessions they had sueCTJUVA 111 UtlULIU II Ulli VHC11 VU1 lllll LI UUIUI'. thereb , Completely blocking up the a et wlU L narrow streets tnrougn which toe masses At length the police interfered and caused numbers to throw their bundles into the rivers or anywhere else out of the way, so as to facilitate the escape of the people from the frightful death which threatened them and which was gaining on them fast. Sixty-eight streets, containing 11,464 houses, were burned, rendering over 40,000 people homeless. It is estimated that 30 people were trample to death in the streets, and 100 wounded were conveved to the hospital. Long before the fire reached the foreign settlement the resi dents felt anxious and began to pack up. But this appears to have ben almost a needless task, for when the fire did reach them there was no one to be found to convey their goods and chattels away; this was particularly the case when the residence of the misisonarv ladies at No. 11 ignited. Everything had been got ready for flight, but had to be left in the house, as no coolies were to be found willing to undertake the task of removing even the boxes of clothing. The American Legation was in imminent danger for some time, and Mr. Clataud's hotel ignited seven different times, but each time the flames were successfully suppressed The residence of Bishop Williams, cf the tVmerlcan Episcopal 3Iission, was burned. It un:nanrpd. nnäi -ow. fiaved. The f ( Metho- .. r . . ..... dist .Disconal churcn. partiaiiv insured, was consumed; also the residence of the Kev. Julius Soper, of Georgetown, D. C, partiaiiv insured all personal eüects loßt, uninsured. Residence and school-house of Miss "SVhiting, Miss Holbrook, of Washington, D. C, and Miss Spencer, belonging to the same mission a3 Mr. Sopor; also total personal effects ot the three ladies, uninsured; residence and personal effects of Miss Youngman; personal effects of the Kev. Charles Bishop, a recent arrival in Japan, staying with the Kev. Julius Soper; residence and personal effects of Mr. E. II. House, building only partially insured; residence of jit. liogai. .Much svmpathy is felt in Tokio and Yokohama for Mr. Soper and the ladies connected with the same mission, as they have lost everything, A fund for their benefit has been started. The foreicn residents of Tokio have also 6tarted a fund in aid of the distressed Japanese. A Judge's Farewell. Recently Judge Logan E. Bleckley took his leave of the Georgia supreme court, after serving as an associate justice for live years After ho had delivered several opinions on cases which the court had decided he took u I a sheet of paper and read therefrom the fo Iowintr lines, which were drawn up in tne form of a regular judicial opinion: IV THE MATTER OF REST. Bleckley, J. 1. Reit for the hand and brow and breat, Fur fltigera, heart and brain! Ret and pacr! a long re lews From labor and from pain; Pain of doubt, fatigue. despairPain of darknesn everywhere, And neeking light In Tain: 2. Peace and rest: Are the j the beet For mortals here below? It oft repose from work and woee A blidi for men to know? BliM of time is Ll.ns of to: No biiaa but this, from Din and oll, ' Doei God permit to grow. Judge Bleckley read the lines slowly and with emphasis. By order of the court they were spread on the minutes in honor of their author. IIow Men Waltz. The Saturday Review says: "One man waltzes with his head in the air, with much the expression worn by a dog when he is howling at the sound of music. Another has a bend in the middle, wnicn iooks as uncomfortable as it is ungraceful. One genuflects at every turn, and slides out his feet as if to trip up rival dancers. An even more dangerous performer works his left arm up and down as 11 it were a pumn-nanaie. a tall man, with a top-heavy kind of stoop, leans over bis partner like a great hen taking a chicken under her wings. One man holds his partner as if he were afraid she would lip from his grasp, while another looks as if ha wished he was rid of his bargain."

LINCOLN'S STORIES.

Pleasant Pm Piotures of the Great "War President. New Anecdotes Never Told Before How Mr. Lincoln Got Rid of a Consummate Bore. . Philadelphia Times. Mr. Lincoln was undoubtedly the champion joker of the United States. When care sat heaviest on his heart and the prospect of a favorable solution of the war seemed most doubtful he would turn away from his troubles and lighten the gloom of the hour by one of those jokes which soon became national in their reputation. It was this faculty of casting away yare that enabled the presi dent to endure the wear and tear of a great war that would have killed most men. Many people will, no doubt, always be lieve that many of the jokes attributed to Mr. Lincoln were manufactured outside of the White House and laid to the great presi dent's account; and while this 19 partly true Mr. Lincoln did tell thousands of anecdotes and if some credited to him were told by othors there were scores of Lincoln's jokes tbat have never been repeated or published I remember one day going to the White House with Senator Ben Wade, when Mr. Lincoln assailed us with a perfect avalanche of iokes. Mr. Wade was in a hurry, having to be at the Senate by 12 o'clock, and it was then after 11. "Sit down, Mr. Wade; sit down, General," cried the jolly president: "I am going to tell you a story.'' "Mr. President, J should be most happy to licten to your story," said Mr. Wade, "but I have some little business with you this morning, and then I must go to the Senate, as it is almost the hour for it to assemble." "Well, well, I guess you will be in time, but I want to talk to you, and if the Senate meets without you, why let it meet, that's all.' Then turning abruptly to me the president inquired: "How are the people out in Kentucky?'' I was then in commaud of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, where Mr. Lincoln bad many friends. "They are pretty well," I replied. "Are they loygl now?" asked Uncle Abe, with a f mile. "Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not," I replied. "When they think the Union is going to win they get loyal until Loo gains a battle on tbo roiomac, and then w hen it looks better for the Confederacy they become disloyal aguin." "That reminds me of the high and the lowcombed cock," said Abe, "anct as it is a capital story I must tell it to you." "Now, Mr. Lincoln," said Wade, "I must be going, as it is nearly 12, and I have barely time to reach the Senate before it assembles. I have a little business with vou, and" 'Sit down, sit down, mrn," cried Lincoln; "the Senate can assemble, 1 say, without you being there, and I mutt tell you this story; besides, I won't be five minutes, and you can surely give me that much of ycur time." Uncle Abe then related the following storv, which I repeat ns nearly as I can recollect in his own words: "When I was a youngster out in Kentucky there was a chap who had a high combed cock that could lick all the roosters in the country. One day an emigrant came in to settle who said he had a low-combed cock he reckoned could thresh anything in them parts, the high-combed cock included. The interest became intense and the chickens were examined by all the boys. Both looked well and seemed to bo genuine game cocks. A meeting was arranged to come off between the cocks and the whole neighborhood was excited over it. 'Squire C was a noted man and very sharp. The 'Squire was always right, but no one could ever find out exactly what his beliefs were, his reserved opinions being thecorrict ones. The 'Squire was eousulted about the roostess, as he was about every thing else, and putting his spectacles on his nose he examin ed both roosters carefully. He said the highcombed cock had 'pints' about him which indicated he would win, but the low-combed cock was much the heaviest rooster of the two and by sheer weight might beat his an tagonist. The young fellows who wanted to bet questioned the Squire closeiy, but they could not get any nearer to his opinion of the real merrits of the chickens. The day came for the battle and with it a great crowd. The 'Squire presided, for in those days more than now racing, fighting and betting was the height of a Kentuckian's glory. Close attention was given to the Squire's position on the fight, as he was both oracle and judge. propose, said the squire, 'this ere shell be a fare fite, and tharfore we will giv three cheers for both roosters.' It was done with a will and then the hgfct began. At every turn in the battle the 'squire would cry out: liurran ior tne nign-comuea cockt 'nurrah for the low-combed cock!' Once he made a bet on the high-combed cock, but immediately hedged by betting on the lowcombed cock. At last, after a bloody contest, the low-combed cock got the worst of it, turned tail and ran. 'Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah for the high -combed cock! Gentlemen, I knew that rooßter would win in the end, but it is always unfair to express an opinion in a contest like this in advance of the raal issoo. Now. centlemen, you have had all the fun, hut you see that high-combed rooster was bound to win. hy. jlook at his comb! Anv man can see witn nail an e3'e he is a real game chicken, while that other one is only a dunchill fowl! "Now.' cried Uncle Aoe, "tnat is tno way it is witn tnosc ieuows out in iven tuckv. They want to be on both sides in this fight and nurran tor tne nign nr thh low-combed cock as nolicv die tates. If wo win they will bo good Union men, but if Jeff Davis were to win they would be the beet rebels in the world. General," ho said, seriously, "I think we have got the high-combed cock in this fight. We must see to it that our rooster wins, and then in the end we will be all right." I sat and looked in astonishment at the ereat man before me. I had come to Wash ington to explain to him my embarrassments in Kentucky on account of the anomalous position of the State and the varying temper of the people. Kentucky was then a State in tbe Union with a representation in our ConiTess, but she had sent no less than 34,000 men to the rebel army and had also a representation in the rebel Congress at Richmond. I had expected to have some difficulty in making ray embarrassments understood, but here wa a man who knew everything, and by a simple story had notonly explained my situation, but had pointed out what I should do. I related the story to Mr. Stanton, and after that always rolorred to the contest in Kentucky as that between two roosters, Once I wrote Mr. Wade: "Tell Mr. Lincoln mm, m - our nign comoea cock is aoing very well and can hardly fail to win Tho 'Squire bets three to one on him at present.' In his next letter Wade replied: MI delivered vour message to Mr. Lincoln and ho lauched heartily, and told me an ant story, which you should get him to repeat to you tho first time you see him. ' " Blessed Old Abe, was there ever a man lino Iii 111 I xlkaiiilj uvk IU VVUKWJ, and I doubt if ever in any other. One day not lone after Mr. Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Wade came in, laughing all over his face and said "Well, Old Abo hag just done the damnedest thing you ever heard of. He has given out he has the emall-pox to keep the politicians and offlce-seekers away from the White House." The story ran thus: Mr. Wade went to the

White House to see Lincoln, who had been ill. He found the president a little pale, but jolly as he could be. Sit down, Wade, I am glad to see you. Oh, I have the funniest thing to tell you; it will make you laugh. 1 never did such a thing betöre in my life, and never will again." Then the president laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. "Now, Wade," he said "you are not to repeat this outside, for it would give offense, and it by no manner of means comports with the dignity which is supposed to hedge a president about. The doctor put me up to it to rid myself of a bore; I ought not to haTe done it, bnt I couldn't help it, it was so funny. You know I have been ill, and a great many people have wondered what ailed me, but none of them could find out. The truth is I was worried to death, and talked sick pretty much by one man, the most everlasting bore you ever s,aw, who wanted an office. I knew he would come again as soon as I was able to sit up, and the doctor put me up to get rid of him by saying I had tho smallpox. I only got out yesterdav, and sure enough this mornsng he called on me. I had determined to be polite to hira, but he stayed so long, the humor seized me and I i sent for the doctor. Giving him the wink, ! I held out my hand, and inquired:

"Doctor, what marks are those on mv i hand?" ! "That's varioloid, or mild small pox," said ; tte doctor. "Well," raid I 'it's all over me.' It's con- j tagious, is it notj doctor?" "Very contagious indeed," he replied, "and ; you should see no one. "My visitor, who had been getting more and more nervous every moment, now could stand it no longer and, rising, said: "Well, Mr. Lincolu, I can't stop any longer. I just called to see how you were," and then he started to hurry out. "Stop a minute; I want to talk to you," said I "about that oifice " "Excuse me, Mr. President. You are not this morning and I won't bother you,' well said he, shoving toward the door. "'Never mind,' said I; "don't be in a hurry. It's all right, and if you are going to get the varioloid you will get it now anyhow7; so you might as well sit down." " 'Thank you, sir, but I'll call again,' he replied, fairly turning livid and executing a masterly retreat from the fearful contagion with which he supposod mo to be alflicted. " 'Now,' 6aid Lncle Abe, "it will be all over the city in an hour that 1 have the small-pox, and you can contradict the story, hut I want you to promise you won't repeat what I have just told you." Wade laughed until he was weak and when he could get his bruatb euthViently to speak he looked at the clock as was his custom and said: "Now for a little business and then I will go-" "Don't go,'' cried Uncle Abe, and laying J his head in his hands on the desk in front of mm ne laugnea until ne snook ail over. Presently raising up his face from between his bands he wiped his eyes and blew his nose until the report sounded like the winding of a horn. After another fit of laughing ho sii id: "Wade, you should have seen him,"and how scared he was. I'll bet that fellow never cmcs back here while I am president ' As might have leen expected, hardly had Mr. Wada quitted the White House when he heard the I'residont had the small pox, and va very sick. Wade promptly contradicked the story, but that night it was telegraphed all over the country, and many persons will yet remember tho story of Mr Lincoln's having the varioloid during the war. Commenting on the report, Uncle Abe said to Wade: "Some people said they could not take my proclamation very well, but when I get the small-pox, Wade, I shall then be happy to say I have something cveryliody can take.'' James S. Brisbis. Mother Lore. Scene, at evening, throngh the trc, Balmy brerze Waiting fmgrancfl on th air Everywhere. In the twilight mother setting. Rock I t.g baby to and fro, While the air is filled with music. Borne in cadence oft and low. See her anxions face above, Speaking love, Catch the cooing notes among, , Sweetly sung. A her coral li pi are parting, Ilear tbe words between them leap . Words that startle all the echoes Blast the lmpl do goto ikp ' Rochester Express. Scottish Humor. Leisure Ilour.J It is recorded by Chambers and other Scottish historians that when Mrs. ' Siddons was in Edinhurgh, on the occasion of her first appearance, the audience had been to English notions, singularly undemonstrative of their approbation. Yet during one scene the whole house was held entirely spell bound and breathless, when there was heard distinctly from the pit a voice from some cannv cautious Scotch critic. "Yon was no that bad;" and at that word the whole house Dursi ioriu mio a perieci lumuu ana uproar ofapplauso. A lady of rank, a very dear friend of the writer, herself a Scotch worr an of a very old family, usually goes into the housekeeper's room every morning to give her directions for the day to her housekeeper, a daughter of Aberdeen. Our friend has a considerable play of humor and fun.and she has told us how more tnan once, alter some humorous remark, on the day following her housekeeper will sav to her. 1 on was a very tumorous thing ye're leddyship was saying yesterday." It had taken 24 hours for the saying fairly to work in the mind. It is no doubt owing to this queer slowness in the character that wo have amng Scottish anecdotes so many of the ludicrous, which are not humorous. A bailie of the Gorbals, Glasgow, was noted for the simplicity of his manners on the bench. A youth was charged before his tribunal with abstracting a hand kerchief from a gentleman's pocket. The indictmenj being read, the bailie, addressing the prisoner, remarked "I hae na doot ye a handerchief ta'en did the deed, for I had oot o' my ain pouch-pocket this vera week." A good deal of the humor is just in tho shrewd simplicity of a reply. A London tourist met a young woman going to the kirk, and, as was not unusual, she was carrying her boots in her hand and trudging along barefoot. My girl," said he, ''is it customary for all the people in these parts to go barefoot?" rairtly they do,' said the girl, "and pairtly they mind their own business.' In the town of Falkirk there lived a very notorious infidel who gloried in his profanity, I On one occasion he was denouncing the absurdity of the doctrino of original sin; and the beadle of the parish, perhaps, thought himself bund officially to put in his word, although the other was socially his superior "Mr. H" said he, "it seems tome that you needna fash (trouble) yoursel' about original sin, for to my certain knowledge you bsve as much akwal (actual) sin as will do your business." The humors of the religious character aro among the most noticeable. To somo English readers the phraseology may be amusing from its quaintness, but let them remember that it isused with thejmost solemn reverence. A Scotchman woula be equally amused with tho seeming irreverence of "Jessich's First Prayer," or with the words of tho worthy English soldier, who, in his prayer at the opening of Mrs. Daniell's Home, at Aldershot, said: "Lord, Thou knoweet what a fix the poor soldier was in before this blessed place here was built." Stories are told of a Mr. James Lockhart, at tho Salt Market, in Glasgow, who was a good specimen of the old old fashioned morality of bygone times. One day a country girl came into the shop to buy a pair of garters. Having asked the price", Mr. Lockhart told her they were fourpence. The girl

said: "I will not give you a farthing more than threepence for them." "Well, lassie, you'll not get them," replied the shopkeeper. Shortly afterward the girl returned and said: "I'll noo gie ye fourpence." ''Gang awa, lassie; gang awa," replied Mr. Lockhart, "and no tell lies."

Waste Not, Want Not. "Hans, what keepit you owad so late tonight?" "Well, Katrina, I vas at dot teeyayder. I met Yon Biber, und wo hat some beer mit each one anoder both togedder, unt Yon says: 'Hans, I vants you to come in my teeyayder und see Lew liaddler und dem fellers sing a liddle song. Very well, I goes in mid him, und it don't cost me something at all he yoost tole dot toorkeeper 'Das all righd.' und I bass in. I vas a hed dead, like doze noozpaper fellers." "Well, Hans, how was vou like it?" "Like itl It woq splendit, Katrina. Dere vas depootiest song you nefer heard in all my life. It begins down at de boddom like dis way: Ton nefer mips dot vanser dill dot well don't got some morein it. It's a fine sendiment in dot song, Katrina, I got it all in my head, but I va3 so pleased und oxcited about it I haf forgot it again once. It was like dis way singsDon'd yon waste dot vaeser; Das de moddo I teach yon. Let your watchwords b dispatches, Und practice like dem prenchr, Po not let a few moments Like dot sunsbiuo pass by, For yon neTer miss dot Yasser Until yon got pooty dry sometimes when dot wU is all run oad! Now, Katrina, don'd you like dot sendiment?" "Yes, I like dot sentiment, and I like it bedder if you don'd shtop oud till 12 o'clock at nighd like dis any more, und come home tryin' to play me off dot foolishness.' Children's riaythlnga. Playthings that children make for themselves are a great deal better than those which are bought for them. They employ j them a much longer time, they exercise their ingenuity, ana tney reany please tnem more. A little girl likes better to fashion her doll's cups and saucers of acorns, than to have a set of earthen ones supplied. A boy takes ten times more pleasure in a little wooden cart he has pegged toeether, than he would in a painted and gilded carriage bought at the toy shop. There is a peculiar satisfaction in inventing things for one'e self. No matter though the construction be clumsy and awkward it employs time (which is a great object in childhood), and the pleasure the invention gives is the first impulse to ingenuity and skill. For this reason the making of little boats and mechanical toys should not be discouraged; and when any difficulty occurs above the powers of a child, assistance should be cheerfully given. If the parents aro able to explain the principles on which machines are constructed, the advantage will be tenfold. Big Words. Was there ever such an era for big words as this? Petticoat went out when crinoline walked in. Elastics have driven garters from sight and memory. No man rides on horseback now; he takes equestrian exercise. We have no city papers; they are metropolitan journals. Metropolitan journalists write about epistaxis; they mean bleeding at the nose. Women are no longer married; they enter into connubial bliss by being led tothe hymeneal altar. Nobody sells tooth powder or hair wash; it is dentifrice, sozodont and capillary decoction. Every writer in this age of sham metaphysics uses glibly the words phlebotomy, diagnosis, etc. These titanic highfalutants must run their course, and then we shall again come down to that pure well of English undcfiled that every lover of those sturdy little Saxon words delights to drink from. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Itelhol A. Jf. Chnrrh, Corner Vermont and Columbia street''. Rev W. C. Trevan, pastor. Residence, 214 West Vermont street. Hours of service: 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2 p. m Allen A. 91. E. Church, Broadway. Rev. R. Titus, pastor. Residence, 113 Oak street. Hours of service: 10:30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday school at school 2 p. m. A. 91. E. Zion Chnrcta. Corner Blackford and North streets. RevJ. Holiday, pastor. Residence Missouri street. Hours of service, 11 a. m. 3 p. m. and 8. p. m. Sunday school at 9 a .m. and 2. p. m. Coke Chapel If. E. Church. Sixth street, between Mississippi and Tennessee, Rev. S. G. Turner, pastor. Residence, 251 West Fifth street. Hours of services, 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday at 2 p. ni. Branch 91. E. Chnrrh, Blackford street, between North and Michigan streets. Reverend J. C. Hart, pastor. Residence, Massachusetts avenue. Hours of service, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9 a. a. m. Second Baptist Chnrch, Michigan street, between Indiana avenue and West street. Rev. Moses Broyles, pastor. Residence, 270 Blake street. Hours of service, 10:30 a. m., 3 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday-school at 9 a. m. Olive BaptiNt Chnrch, Hosbrook street, near Grove street. Rev. A. Summons, pastor. Residence, 106 Linden street. Hours of service, 11 a. m., 3 p. m and 7:30 p. m. Sunday-school at 2 p. m. Calvary Baptist Chnrch, Corner Maple and Marrs streets. Rev. Tbo. Smith, pastor. Residence, . Hours of service, 11a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at 9 a. m. JSexr Bethel Baptist Chnrch, Beeler street. Rev. J. R. Raynor, pastor. Residence, 123 West Fourth street. Hours of service. 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and b p. m. Sunday-school at 9 a. m. Ht. Zlon Bandst Chnrch. Corner Second street and Lafayette railroad. Rev. W m. Singleton, pastor. Residence, Bright street. Hours of service, 11a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at 9 a. m Christian Chnrch, Corner Fifth and Illinois streets, Elder J. M. Marshall, pastor. Residence Hours of service, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at 9 a.m. Tabernacle Baptist Church, Corner Rhode Island and Maxwell streets. Rev. C. C. Wilson, pastor. Residence, 122 Minerva street. Hours of service, 11 a. m. 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at 8 a. m SOCIETY DIRECTORY. 91 a so nie. Gethsemane Commakdrt. K.T. No. 9 Regular communication second Tuesday of each month; hall in Judab's Block, opposite court house. J. W. Swkkney, E. C. II. A. Rooax, Recorder. ALriiA Chapter No. 13. Regular communication first Tuesday in each month; hall in Judab's Block. W. F. Martlx, Sec. C. E. Bailky, H. p. Central Lodge No. l.F. A. Y.M. Regular communication first Thursday of each month; hall in Judab's Block. C. H. Lanier, W. M Andrew Locklear, Sec. Trinity Lodge No. 18. F. A. Y. M. Regular communications first Wednesday of each montn ; nan in j uaan s liioct. Scott Turner, Sec. Geo. Elliott, W. M. Ladles Conrt Unionourt No. 1. Regular communication first and third Monday evenings of each month; hall in Judah's Block. Mrs. Cornelia Townsend, M. A. M. Mrs. Sarah Hart, Sec Union Court No. 1. Regular communication first and third Monday evenings of each month; hall in Judah's Block. Mrs. Cornelia Townrknd, M; A. M Mm1 Sarah Hart, Sec.

Leaii Court No. 11. Regular ornmunication second and fourth Monday of each

montn; nan in .luuans uiock. Mrs. Ouslet, Sec. Mrs. jam es, K. A. M. Independent Sons of Honor. -L.0DGK sso. 'Z. Kegular communication first Monday night of each month; hall In Gnmth's Block. Trios. Kcdd, Pres. JOH3T JrRESTOJf, Sec. XjOdqk jno. lo. regular communication first Tuesday night of each month; hall in Grifiith's Block. John Wilson, Pres. MR. WALKER, Sec. Independent Daughters or Honor. Lodge No. 2. Regular communication first Wednesday evening of each month; hall ill UI11UIU H DIOCK. Ed. Ellis, Sec. Ellen Spalding, Pres. United Brothers of Friendship. Uibson Jxdgk iso. 2 of U. B. of F. Reg ular communication second Monday evening, iuu.il meeting, iuunn Monday evening in each month; hall N. E. corner Meridian ana vv aslnngton St3. ' Tnos Pool, W. M. Master. xIENRT JJEllORNEY, Sec. Friendship Lodge No 3. Regular com. munication first and third Mondavs month; hall N. K. corner Meridian Washington. s in each and St. John's Lopgk No 10. First and third fnaays m each month; hall E. cor. Meridian and Washington sts. Dr. T. N. Watson, Pres. M. L. Vax Büren, Sec. United Sinter of Frlenttatiln. 6t. Mary's Temple. Kegular communicaion nrst Jionaay evening of each month: hall V "P. nnn e r : i : i -it- ,. ' ...... '. luiuci vi iinuiun uuu asninirton streets. Mrs. Patsey Hart, W. P Mrs. Mahia Ouslkv, Sec. -UEBORAII TEMPLE, 2io. 3 of U. S. of F. Kegular communication second Wednesday and tourth ednesday evenings in each month; hall E. corner of Washinrtnn and Meridan street. . Miss Sallie Galliton. M. W. Princ. Mrs. Fannie Johnson-, W. Sec'v, for 1880. Odd Fellow. Oekritt bMiTu Lodge No. 1707. Re"--. ular communication second and fourth Mondays of each month; hall 85 and 87 East Washington street. Chas. Laxier, N. G. Horace Heston, P. Sec. Lincoln Union Lodge No. I486. Regular communication first and third Mondays of each month; hall 85 and 87 East Washington street. Edward Proctor, N. G. Samuel Sfexcer, P. Sec. O. P. Morton Lodge, No. 1981. Regular communication first and third Tuesdays of t il 1 11 r m A. ... T - eacn inonm ; nan to and 8i East Washington street. John Purnell, N. G. Wm. Ciisisty, P. Sec. Household of Rath. No. 34. Regular communication first and third Wednesdays of each month; hall 85 and 87 East Washington street. Chas. Tuomas, Sec. Mrs. J. Minor. Pres. American Son. Regular communication first and third Monday? each month; at American Hall. Wm. Dünnington, Pres. William Barber, Sec. American IOT?n. Regular communication first Tuesday evening of each month, at American hall. Mrs. Kitty Singleton, Pres. Mrs. Maria Ouslet, Sec. Sisters of Charity. Regular communication first Tuesday of each month, at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Mrs. Nellie Mann, Pres. Mibs RcTn Beasly, Sec. Ciood Samaritans. Jericho Lodge No. 5. G. O. G. S. Regular communication, second and fourth Thursdays of each month; hall No. 36 W. Washington St. Bazil Ewijro, W. P. C. S. J. Blatlock. W. F. S.

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