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Cheapest and Best LINE OF "Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks and Tableware, GO TO OBAPTS Jewel Palace 24 East Washington Street. J PETER ROCKER, Dealer in all kinds of Groceries d Country Produce j I FLOUR AND FEED, 494 West North Street. JOHN KIDD, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, (NOTARY PUBLIC,) Rooms 23 and 30 Thorpe Block, 87 E. Market Street INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Phopbietok "The World's Collection Bureau" Collections a specialty. Business promptly attended to In aU parts of the United States. "M"OTsTF!V" TO LOAIT. New York Store, (EataMiahed 1853.) BLACK SILKS THAT ALL WILL SAY ARE A BARGAIN. 7 pes. 10 pes. Lyons Black Silk, $1.00 Lyons Black Silk, 1.25 Fully 30 per cent, less than the goods are worth. All Goods Marked in Plain Figures PETTIS, IVERS & GO. HlDlllllPOliS LEADER. And Still Indiana waits. It is not yet broken tho d. 1. Anything that has tho flavor of saur kraut is quite popular in Louisville. Mahone is still defiantly fiiring broadsides into Bourbonism and Benhillism. 'Tuts" and "calls" in the patron age market at Washington are dedidedly active. Orthographical ly speaking, the Chio earthquake came near being an Ohio product. Nero-talent should bo domestic ally located instead of being banished J io ioreign parts. "Next time a few singers give a concert in Louisville, they will call it the "Saengerbund." The O. P. Express, leads "the German" in Louisville. A kettle drum rill be given shortly, with Fritz B's head for the rosounding instrument. The Senate dead lock is nearly us blighting to the hopes of Republican politicians as the Garfield "corner" on official placos is to the Democrat ic hopes. GOOD TIMKS. Tho entire country is now enjoy, ing unprecedented prosperity. Railroad building, mining, and agricultural development was never so extensive as at present. Money is plenty and interest low. The crops have been abundant, and wages are raising. Everything seems to indicate that, should no untoward event occur to precipitate a crash, we are

entering upon a period of National

development that will hereafter be known as the "magnificient." In tho meantime all should be careful to profit by the experience of tho "panic ' years. Stern necessity has taught tho foil' of extravagance; therefore avoid it. Economy and frugality skould gover nexpenditures. Surplus earnings should bo invested in real estate or reliable business enterprise. So live that when the next "panic" comes, or a continued rainy day settles around your fortunes, you may have something upon which you can retreat. Pof,.- M.,fJAMl, rf Ar;io,iL-AA .vcv w-.uuftu, v

succcded in placing an interesting K. Hawkins; Reading, settlement of Cinemas ' u ,l- Kt- nati'" Hattio Flowers: Music, "The Sun-

I which tho price was made to vary as much as 87 cents on the barrel. Pork will get a corner on Peter one of these fine days, and he will fall 87A cents below par. The G. A. K. Encampment was in session at Terre Haute, this week. Under its auspices, lion. Schuyler Colfax delivered his celebrated lec ture on Lincoln, Wednesday evenin at tho Opera House in that city. Ex-Senator Bruce has had the honor of declining the mission to Brazil. The country is not healthy, he thinks, and for colored folks not healthy in a social way. Bruce has a great deal of true dignity. Indianpolis News. .lay Gould on Orange and Alligators. From an Interview in the Woild.l 'For 3X miles j-uuth from Jacksonville, along the St. John's River, ami still further north and east the country is dotted over with oranjjre groves of from twenty to twenty-five acres in extent. It takes about five years for an orange grove to mature so as to produce fruit for the market, but nevertheless new grove are constantly planted, and are looked to as a sure source of revenue. When an orange grove begins to bear fruit it apparently never wears out. I heard of one tree which bears annually from 6.1HH) to 8,000 oranges, but that is above the average." "What is the cost of an orange grove?' "As I said." replied Mr. iould, "they vary in extent from twenty to twenty-five acres, and are worth from $50,000 to $100,000. Hut they yield a handsome iercentage. For instance, Mr. Hart, who lives just above me here, owns a grove of about twenty-five acres, and he informs me that it yields' him a net income of from $15,000 to $20,000 a year" "Is tili interest growing?" 'Decidedly so. and I think that within the next live years Florida ough to be able to supply the entire' demand of the United States for oranges. I believe that the sweet orange is not a native of Florida, but has to be grafted uion the tree which bears the sour orange. On one tree jou sometimes see oranges, lemons and limes growing together. Of course the several fruits have been grafted; but it is interesting and peculiar to a Northerner to see these fruits growing in a happy family on one tree. It suggests a horticultural iaradise." "Is orange-growing the chul industry ef Florida?" "Uy no means. Not to speak of cotton and live oak and the like, you must not forget the alligator." said Mr. Gould, smiling and evidently thinking of his alleged "ullicator farm." "But is the alligator a sufficiently valuable animal to make his cultivation remuner fttive?-' "Xo; his hid is the valuable portion of hhn, and even that i3 worth comparatively little, though I believe they make it into boots in England." "But does Florida cultivate these reptiles?" "That is not necessary. The alligator cultivates liimself and produces quickly and numerously. The whole swamp and river country is filled with them." "And are thev dangerous?" "Well," said "Mr. Gould, "it is as well not to get in the way of their tails. I think they strike their victims chieily with their tails. Nevertheless, the eleven-inch jaws of some of them are not attractive. My son killed one which resembled a whale on four legs. Our party killed over thirty of them. Whether I killed any or not myself is a difli cult question for me to answer. I saw some live ones just before I fired, and some dead ones just afterward; but several rilles went off at the same time, Ican'not assume that it was my gun that killed an alligator. But alligator shooting was not what interested ine in the South; the blossoms, our wedding blossoms of the North, jou know, were on the tree, and yet th ripe, golden fruit was there too." The Deed of a Constable in Serving a Writ. A Roches '.er Express. of Canandaigua Lake, in the County of Ontario, lies the little village of j Naples; a quiet place, and noted for the i beauty ot its surroundings ami its commerce in fruit grapes especially. Solomon Xenny has resided there with his family for some time, and had given to another resident, Hiram Maxtield, a mortgage upon his home. Failing to meet the payments according to the Htipulations of the bond, Maxfield foreclosed, and then sought to eject the, unwilling family from the premises. The services of a Constable or Deputy Sheriff named Charles Lewis were called into requisition. He visited the Tenny house, and when he tempted to serve the pajers, was confronted by Mrs. Tenny who produced from beneath her apron a revolver, and fired upon the officer. The first shot missed its mark. She again pointed the weapon at his heart, but it did not explode, missing fire. The officer, thoroughly alarmed for his .safety, drew his revolver and fired at the woman. ine bail entered ner breast, piercing her lungs, and she fell to the floor fatally wounded. Physicians were immediately called, and every attention possible was given the unfortunate woman, who set the law at defiance and resisted the at tempt to put her and her family out of doore. xesterday morning the woraau was alive, but it is thought that ehe can not recover. The general opinion is, says the Buffalo Telegraph, that the officer was justified in resorting to the extreme measures he did. A special dispatch from Naples to the Express, receivea this noon, says that Mrs. Tenny was then alive and doing well under the circumstances. Lustreless silk of Surah is ueed with crape for deep mourning.

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HACK'S HAPPY HITS. The Ninety-Third Anniversary of the Set tlement of Ohio. In celebrating the ninety-third anniver sary of Ohio's settlement, Gaines' Iligh and Intermediate School rendered the following interesting programme on last Friday even ing at Mound street Baptist Church: PROG RAM MK. Prayer; Music, "When the Summer Rain is o'er." Donnizetti; Reading:, "The Settle ment of Ohio "Mary Ray, Declamation "The Pioneers," Jessie Fossett; Essay, Mounds and their Builders," Marietta Oglesby; Decla mation, "Pioneer Day," Laura Hamilton; Music, "Pioneers' Hymn," "Words by L. J. Mnemiing, -iu ueKBve iree,- Auma n:,. t j: jiri. i i - m i i: White: Oration. "Perrv'a Victory." Unas. beams are glancing," Rossini; Essay, "John Cleves Symmes," Ida Gray; Declamation, jluo i.i;bU7i a ui iu& iauuf vawio xiai i is j Declamation, 'The West," Sep temiaBarnett; lrVia F All. 1 o m1 ' ' IT.ilA TTawniai Oration, "The Ordinance of '87," Wm. H. Mayo; Music, "As the Hart Panteth," Ma son To say the least, this programme proved ' F I very entertainin and tne singing, declamations, and readings held the audience in close attention. Miss Mary Kav read very creditablv a selection entitled 'The Settlement of" Ohio." "The Pioneerg" a very appropriate declamation was delivered by Miss Jessie Fossett, and drew the heartiest applause from the audience. "Mounds and their Builders," an essay by Miss Marietta Oglesby, proved highly interesting and and instructive, and in fact, tho subject was ably handled by the younej lady. The readings by the Misses Adina White and Hattie Flowers, and the declamations of the Misses Katie Harris and Septimia Barnett, were very finely tendered and Miss Ida Gray read an original essay entitled "John Cleves Symmes," which entertained the audience hugely. Mr. Cha3. 11. Hawkins delivered in a very able manner an oration entitled "Perry's Victory," and Wm. Mayo spoke very eloquently on the "Ordinance of 87." Both of these gentleman did exceedingly creditably and displayed by the ease in which they handled their subjects, that their school course had not been in vain. Of the singing of Gaines' High School we need not eay much. Tho selections for the evening were ver3 charming, particularly "The Sun beams are Glancing" and "When the Summer Rains are O'er" Yet the singing of Gaines' High School is not what it was lour or nve years ago. The happy days of Von Weiler and the clashes of "it, '77, '78.nd '79 are gone, and the fame of Gaines' Iligh School as a einging school ia b ne with them . Very sad, but truel The Hon. John B. Beaslee, Superintendent of the Public Schools, was present and made an interesting speech pertaining to the 93d Anniversary and to the school. John D. Caldwell, Esq., also made a few remarks in praise of the school and the appropriateness of the celebration of the Anniversary. The Rev. W. Stratton.one of the Pioneers cf Ohio, then spoke at length on the early days of Cincinnati, which ho himselt had experienced. Mr. Straiton proved very interesting indeed and was listened to with rapt attention, Mr. Boyd one of the colored pioneers of the city, spoke interestingly and well. The Principal ot the school then exhibited several relics of the old pioneer days, among them a lantern and an ax which a colored man had used while assUting to build the ships of Perry's fleet. After the singing of "As the Hart Panteth," by the pcbool, the audience dispersed, well satisfied with the evening's entertainment. One of the incidents of the celebration was the appearance of THAT GAZETTE REPORTER, Who, at the request of John D. Caldwell, Kq.. read a poem entitled "Past and Pres ent," written by some Mr. Gallagher. This individual of a reporter, named Shaw, came forward and with a few witty remarks prefaced the reading of the poem with a few reminiscenses from Lis own life entitled "What I have done for the colored race in Missouri." When he had önished this, he was fully enthused, and with the voice of a tragedian, with hia eyes in unnecessary frenzy rolling, and with all the rant and roar of Thomas Keeie in Riehard III this Shaw got off that fearfully tame poem called "Past and Present." Mr. Shaw then sat down amid tumultuous applause(?) Mr. Shaw then undertook to write a report of the proceedings, and although he knew full well that tho exercises had passed off very creditably indeed, both for the schcol and the girls and boys who had performedyet, according to the establiihed rule of the Gazette office, he had to say something mean because they were colored.' It U already well known that Dick Smith has the colic every time he says "good nigger," and no doubt Shaw, from evil association, is affected in the tame way. First of all he says the essays sounded like some older head hai written them thus hinting that the young ladies had not written them. Shaw is just like the majority of wlite men, who can not believe that a colored person can do anything outside of handling a hoe or broom. The moment any colored person rises above the ordinary in, his composition, Shaw and the rest doubt that the colored person did it. ne also states that the read ing was stiff and stilted. lie is a fine judge, no doubt; anyhow he would have us think so by his afiectatious and tragic reading of Fast and Tresent." The fact that Shaw still lives is a most convincing proof that "The fools are not all dead yet." This Sbaw should shaw ms head and soak it in oleomargarine for a century then perhaps it would be butter off. vagariis. It is rumored that Mayor Means proposes to appoint sixteen colored men on the police force some as regular officers and others as turnkeys. Should Mayor Mea-.s do this it would result most disastrously to the Republicans of both city and County, as it would chaace the politics of auite a number of colored men. It is well known that Mayor lacous empioyeu oareiy seven or eicmcow i i j t i i , A O ored men, and then only to do tho dirtiest and most menial labor as turnkeys. Garter Harrison, of Chicago, a Democratic Mayor, won a re-election at the hands of the colored voters, by employing colored men as policemen. In local politics the Germans and Irish vote for the party which recognizes them the most as, for instance, tho Democrats sought the Italian vote by placing an Italian on the ticket, Let the colored man in local politics vote as he pleases, for the party which recognizes his race by official appointments. In National issues the colored man should be found as he always is found on the Republican side of the fence. Colored policemen do service in New Orleans, Chicago, Indianapolis, and many

I other towns, and if Mayor Meana appoint several here.he will hit the nail right square

several here,he will hit the nail right square on the head. . We regret sincerely to announce the death of'4Jarius." In last week's Leader heattempted to make a terrible lot ot puns, and the best citizens of Spnn field assembled to gether and determined to hang him for muruermg the tjueen s English, .bet mis oe a warning to all punsters, vale J anus. The Choral Society practices several tines a week, and are rapidly perfecting them selves for the Louisville Musical Festival. It is thought that excursion rates as low as $2 so that an immense crowd can go hence to Louisville. Charles Ilorner. Esq., Charles Hawkins. Freeman Murray, A. J. Riggs, and others, have entered the oratorical contest. A lively time is anticipated. Look out for the bills. Xenia has a spring poet. We suggest that he send those lines to Vtnnor. Cleveland (Ohio) Items. Next weeks issue of the Leader will speak f the Excelsior Band's concert, on last Wednesday evening, at Turner Hall. The Easter exercises of the Red Cross Commandery take place to-morrow (Sun day) afternoon at the St. John's A. M. E. Church Kav T. A. Thnmnsnn of fVdnmhna officiating. The exercises of the Ezekiai Commandery takes place in the evening at same church, Kov. T. H. Jackson, of this ri t tr fh matin r I city, officiating. The invitations to the fourth annual ban quet of the Red Cross Commandery are out. This affair, which promises to be a grand one, is to he at Weisgerber's Hall next Monday evening, the 18th. Following is the programme ot the evening, Prof. B. C. Freemon s orchestra furnishing the music for the occasion: PROGRAMME. Welcome Address, by Sir T. H. Edmunds, E. Com.; Supper; Toasts: 1, "Our Annual Banquet, by Sir J. 11. Keason; music; 2, "The Grand Commandery for Ohio," by Sir W. II. Griffin; music; 3, 'Our Royal Arch Companions.' by Sir J. A. Brown; music; 4, 'The Progress of the Colored Masons," by Sir W. T. Bovd; music; 5, "The Masonic Fraternity. Wherever DispePgej Dy mU3ic.'6, k nani Rev. Sir T. A. Thompson; Love: Man's Strongest Emotion," bv Sir Beni. M. Shook; music; 7. "Our Alma Mater, Excelsior," bv Bro. J. P. Grcfn, Esq.; music; 8, "The Ladies Christian. Workers," by Rev. Bro. T. H. Jackson; Sir J. W. Stanley, Sr., Toast Master. The third parlor entertainment of this or ganization takes place at their ball. Further notice will probably be given. RANDOMS. Bishop Shorter occupied the pulpit of the A. M. E. Church last Sunday evening. Rev. T. A. Thompson, of Columbus, has charge of the Easter exercises to-morrow afternoon at the A. M. E. Church. Tho funeral of Mrs. Benj. Robinson took place from the Mt. Zion Congregational Church last Sunday, the 10th. Colored representatives in limbo W. Jones, of Salem, 0., and A. Robinson, of Nottingham. The latter had too much affection for the feminine sex. The Forest City Sewing Circle gives a grand concert at Turn Hall the 1st of May. The banquet at Weisgerber's Hall next Monday evening. Mr. R. A. Jones, at his store, corner Newton and Garden streets, will furnish persons with teams for moving, expressing. &e. The Penny Press' Columbus correspondent gave quite a sketch of Hon. George W. Williams' life (thus far) in last Monday's issue of that paper. According to the P. P. lion. Geo. W. Williams is a LieutenentColonel, and has lately become heir to a fortune of $50,000, was wounded five times in the late war, and is now writing a history entitled "Negroes as Slaves, Soldiers and as Citizens." The Knights march to the church in a body to-morrow. Take the Leader. The celebration at Richard's Hall last Wednesday night was addressed by J. P. Green. Esq., and others. H. Brasil. Once more the Brazilians turned out to participate in a feast of luxuries at Greencastle. Mrs. Mary Williams received a fine cake at the festival, as a prize for being the most popular lady. Messrs. J. Witherspoon and O. Williams took in Terre Haute this week. Joseph Bass was feeling good on last Mon day. We would like to see more sunshine and less rain. Wm. II. Wilson has been suffering with a :prained ankle. For the first time in six months we missed having a dance. The Baptists had a festival and supper last Saturday night, and the boys turned loose freely. James Cole is lying very ill at Wm. Hill's house. Xenla Flanlies. Ohl for the harbinger of gentle spring. Look out for the assessors. Weep T. S. for A W. has gone. Oh. weep 1 but thy tears can not number the kours. Miss Mary Tibbs of this city is visiting in Springfield. Have you seen her Jarius? Thomas Denby, of Dayton. Ohio, is visit ing his friends and relatives of this place. Mr. Chas. Shad, of Greenville, Miss, who has been attending school at Wilberforce, leu iuonaay, ior loieuo, unio. A. W. Bailey of this city, left last Saturday for Rushlvania, Ixgan county, Ohio, V whava ha la tsm laaihtnf uuo' " ""'"fc' kuwu a recommendation by the pastor anT Deacon of Zlon BaPtl8t Church. I Many of our colored elites attended the opera, Tuesday Eve. All were not well pleased. The play was not as good as some I A, j annviuateu. Prof. Chas. A. White furnished ina trübe did mental music at the opera, which with much credit to himself. v imam bcott, Lsq., of New Albany is visiting friends and relation. Mr. James Mingo and Mrs. Synthia Collins were married last Thursday at Dayton, Oh:n 1 C. S. Maxwell was again elected to the position of Citv Clerk. Wednesday eveninß As was expected there were a goodly numbut C. S. has performed his work well, this the Council knew and to reward him for his diligency re-elected him. Mrs. Parker wife of Chas, Parker a well-

J known and highly esteemed lady, living I near this city died Saturday of consumption.

The funeral took place Sabbath, services conducted by Elder Gumore. Aged 39 years. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; lea, saith the Spirit, they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. Rev. xiv, 13, Sol. Terre Haute News. . R. Bagby is at home again. Miss Carrie and Miss Ella Chavis went to I Paris, 111., last Saturday. Mrs. M. J. Brown went to Vincenncs last Tuesday. Her mother-in-law died in that city, What has become of Charley Rockethe? He ought to speak now. Miss Jane Anderson was out in the coun try visiting last week. Mr. Flemings, of Crawfordsville, was in the city last Sunday. The Wabash literary society is booming, and that is what we need. James Thorpe is a delegate to the city convention from the Third ward. Mrs. McDonald health. r is again enjoying good Mr. Jackson Harris, who has been ill for some time, is able to be out on the streets. The boys in blue had a grand festival in Dowling Hall last Wednesday evening, TT v n.ir -. 1 11 1 rrn Hon. S. Colfax spoke in the Opera. The house was crowded with people. S. W. Smart and Mr. Smith walked off with the decision over their opponents, Mr. E. Anderson and J. R. Lytte, last Friday evening. Rev. J. Mitchem's linen wedding will take place on the first of May. Miss B. Bradford, having completed her school terra in the country, is now going to the State Normal. Miss O. Cooper is one of those punctual scholars in the State Normal. Miss Emma M. C. has come from Ohio. Mr. Smith, you had better leave Pet alone. Mrs. L. W. Williams came over from Indianapolis last Saturday evening. The Criterion Society is doing excellent business. Mr. Joe Witherspoon, Mr. Jackson Harrison and Mr. Ol. Williams, of Brazil, were in the city last Tuesday. Mis3 W, Hally and Miss M. Overman, of Paris, were in the city this week. Miss Esther Walker will be in Terre Haute soon. The Odd Fellows had a festival last Tuesday eve. It was well attended. TABLE GOSSIP. If aiiT one asks you to lend them A dollar, don't lend 'em a cent; This is the time to refuse them. You can tell them: "You know it is Lent!" Even a barrel-hoop will turn when trod den on. Our forefathers could not harbor the idea of paying taxes on their tea, so they compromised the matter by harboring the tea. Boycotting dates back to the days of our first parents. It was when Eve partook of the forbidden fruit that the boa-caught her. Mr. Dinkpast says it cost him $12 to color his meerschaum. Those who know him best sajr it cost him about $3,000 to color his nose. Weather prophecy When you see two cats on the woodshed looking each other in the eye and waving their tails, it is a sign of a squall. When two gushing young women make a great display of bidding each other goodbye, it may be called "much adieu about nothing." A little boy of seven had been ordered to take claret by the Doctor. A person dining with the family said to him: "You should put a little water with it; it brings out the taste.' "That's very fine," responded the seven-year-old, "but I prefer the taste left in." A great deal of the religion of nowadays is like that of the Boston clergyman who was getting- up a petition to have a murderer pardoned, wnen he discovered that the crime bad been committed on a Sunday. He said he couldn't stand such depravity as that. San Francisco Post. Stopping at a village inn, there came a thunder storm, and a visitor, surprised that a new country should have reached such a perfection in meteorologic manufactures, said to a bystander: "Why, you have very heavy thunder here." "Well, ves." replied the man, "we do, considering the number of inhabitants! " It is unaccountable, but ii is a fact never. the less, that a boy will listen more attentively to a recital of his father's youthful es capades and remember them longer than he will all the moral teachings and exhorta tions that his sire may indulge in in a year's preaching, and he will think no less of the gentleman on discovering that he has been a boy, like nimseir. A bouncing chair for bores has been in a rwi . . ventea. ine pressure oi a man sitting in the chair works springs in the floor. After three minutes' pressure the door opens, a thing like a man's arm, with a fearful claw on it, reaches in, grabs the occupant of the chair, yanks mm up ana hurls him down stairs. President Garfield has just ordered one dozen for the White House. A man in a restaurant read "3,000 lives lost by an earthquake in Ohio," and he smiled with satisfaction and said, "I knew something would happen to that State. An Ohio man took my place in the Postoffice, and I've always noticed that the wicked never prosper." And then some body told him it was Chio instead of Ohio, and that man straightway fell to swearing. Characteristic of Goody-Oood People. "Doan' be to good," said Brother Gardiner, as ne put ms nanus under ms coat-tails. "I advise you to be good, but not cood. When a man reaches a aartin line of goodness he will have de respect an' esteem of all who meet him; orfuns will bless him an' widders will pray for him. When he crosses ober dat line he will pray for de poo' wiu one nana, an iena money at la per cent, wid de odder. He will shed tears for his nay bur's woes, but leave six inches of snow on his sidewalk fur de public to wade frew. His chin will quivor when he speaks of de poo heathen in Africa, but his own boys will play baseball I . . 1 1 o j r i i in ae auey on rmnaay. ne win weep ODer de need of more Orfun Asylums, but he won't put down a shillin' in monev. He will talk chanty by de hour, and charge a bov fifty cents for break in a two-shillin' pane of glass. I doan' want nuffin' to do wid a too good man. When I know a man wicked I know how to take him. Wfthne Jft?0f2? 'J? ,af ff? man my only safety am to let him alone. When you meet a man who am distressed ober de gineral wickedness ob de world doan' you lend him any monev widout Eood security. When you meet a man who says ah' an' 'um' an' rubs his hands together an rolls up his eyes, doan' challenge him to trade norses. Find me a man who weeps bekase de world hain't better an' I will show you a man who makes his own home unhappy."

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

The following'sermon was preached Sunday night by Rev. Myron W. Reed, at the First Presbyterian Church, to a crowded house : Mkar xiv., 1-2: "And the Chief Priests and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death. But they said, not on the least aay, lest mere te an uproar of the people.M The people have been always strong and always feared. Their strength has been weakness, because it was nndisciilined, unorganized, diffused and contradictory mil of a quick violence and lacking in order and persistency. But generally the people have been on the right side of a question. .It appears from the Evangelists that their sympathy was with JohH the Baptist so much so that the Chief Priests did not dare to say that he was not sent from God. It appears from the text that the thing that stood between the Chief Priest and the murder of Jesus was the fear of the people. Not in vain had He taught, and comforted, and blessed ; when, finally. He had a so-called trial ty night, and M as crucified by the Church and state. Luke speaks of a great company of people and of women "which also bewailed and lamented Him. and beholding the things that were done, smote their breasts and leturned." j We are accustomed to look in horror uoon the great uprising called the French Revolution. It suggests blood to the horse-bridles. But really how many persons were executed in those years less than 4.000 not as many as are killed in a first-class battle; not a portion of the number done to death by Frederick the Great; not a portion of the number starved to death in Ireland between 1847 and 1849. It is better, on the whole, to wake up and die lighting for an immotal hope than to sit speechless and freeze and starve. History savs Carlyle confesses mournfully that there is no period to be met with in which the general twenty-nve millions ol r ranee sunered less there, n tne period which is named "Keien of Terror." "The f rightf ullest birth of time are never the loud speaking ones, for these soon die. They are the violent ones that live from century to century." The will of the people in this year of the century is educated, it understands perfectly well the ne cessity of law and order of levity and of persistence and so the power of this will is the great force of the time. There never was a pressure of hard times that was not first felt by workiDe men in the decrease of wages. Ther never was a return to good times but that the working men were the last to leel it, HIS HABD TIME8 HAVE BEEN LONG AT BOTH ESPS. Lately he has not simply realized this, but he has been asking questions. If he shares fully in the decline, why not share fully in the rise? Why it is that on land the captain of industry should be the first man to leave the leakiug ship and at sea the last? In hard times, the Fall River Mills lower the wages in good times, when the stock pays from 12 to 40 per cent divlaenas, they do not raise them, and the laborers combine to make them, and the beauty of it is that the press generally and the public are on the side of the laborers. We used to hear the cold philosophy that "half a loaf is better than no bread," aud accept the nonsense as wisdom; but now we see that what the laborer must have is food to keep his strength up to full pitch, and he sees it, too; and so instead of slow starvation of body and spirit, now he quits work while he is in condition to make a fight for a "whole loaf." Anymau in business who sees that at the end of the year he will have lost money, and at the end of all the years, quits at once. Strength is the workincman's capital. and it is his first duty to protect it; therefore he sees fit now again to "strike." As an example of what intelligence has done. consider the complete victory oi the West Side streetcar men i Chicago. About truo men, employed by a Company which is making excellent dividends, ask for an increase of pay to share in the prosperity. They ast for ?1 SO for ten hours' wort. The Company which, by the way. in the stormy winter of the last five months, has insisted on paying these men by tne trip and not by the day paid no attention to the petition, and the strike began. The cars ceased to run. The people along the track, who suffered most inconveniencesided with the men walked cheer fully to and from business. The newspapers generally approved the men. The public meeting of these conductors and drivers seems to have been more orderly than Congress or the House of Commons. Speeches were made, short and good-natured; letters of encour agement received and read, and some money came In, and at 3 o'clock on Friday the Company came dwn capitulated, and the machinery started again amid the cheers of the people. Here is a victory. No threats, no violence. Two or three cars had been tipped into the ditch, but that was done by spectators as a sign of sympathy. Of course, H this Kina ox moor is worin i.mj on the West Side of Chicago, it is likely that it is worth about that sum on the North and South Sides, and perhaps the news of this thing will be read and thought upon by conductors and cardrivers in other cities, and in fact by workngmen throughout the country. 1 take it for granted that the notion that a man must work for what corporations choose to Rive him has given place to the doctrine that they must choose to give him a sufficient means of life. and also. If he is an euglne-dnver, this includes a sufficient time for sleep. It was suggested by an eminent divine a tew ears ago that an engine driver could live very ceaply bread was cheap and water was nanuy. But he has been very sorry ever since that he said it. in the same paper in which I read oi the strength of the ill will of the people in Chicago, I read the provisions of the land bill, introduced by the Prime Minister oi England. it is a pity to spoil so many prophecies of those who were hopeless of Ireland because of the unwisdom of the Land League But this bill goes near to satisfy the people, and is the result of precisely the same metho as that adopted in Chicago: Unity of purpose, of action, and quiet, steady persistence. IRELAND HAS STECCK, and it is not Roman Catholic Ireland only, but Protestant. In the rainbow in the sky, the orange and the green are as God intended, 6ide by side and even mingled. The rents are not coming in. Nobody will take a farm from which a tenant has been evicted. The popular sympathy of the world is on the side of the peoplf of Ireland. The great writers are en that side. The landlords are alone and sullen : and hence the bill. It does not agree with Mr. Gladstone's opinions ns expressed a few vean aeo. But there is a ores sure on him. and he has responded. The Duke of Anrvle has retired with regrets. I do not wouder. A man who has been in the habit of thinking that he owned 75.000 acres ot land, well stocked with deer ana pannages matins' a pleasant place to summer in for himself and his familycan not cheerfully and at once understand that there is a defect in the title. He is a man of sense. The principles of Mr. Gladstone's bill, il they apply to land in Ireland, apply to land in Scotland and New Zealand and everywhere. The Duke of Argyle is like the young man In the Gospel who wanted to be a disciple, but he had great possessions and he could not let go, and he went away sorrowful. Of course he knows that he, in a crowded Island, hflji no rieht to so much land; that the xeeds of men supersede the rights of privileges. Suppose In the boat into which people Jump from a wreck the provisions are all in nnn nd and the maniwho happens to droo down in that end claim that they are his, and mean time the passengers are gettitg hungry aud there is no land in stirht. thev will sit in their end and Rturve while he takes his regular three mealswill thev? I believe they will not. The; will nöt kill him, but they wil find a wav to make him pass the bread One noble lord takes peat for beach, which the sea uncovers at low tide, and also charges so much a load for the sea-weed which the ocean casts up and this in dealing with his own tenant. Mien man as that would get A CORNER ON SI NSHINE and air, if the people would let him. Mr. Gladstone's bill places the landlord under law, and for the first time interferes with him. It is a great thing to have accomplished even the introduction of such a bill. It has been done so peaceably. By the report for the year 1880, Ireland haa had less violence within her border, less crime against person and property than in any equal population In these States not a third as much. But thev have thought and talked and argued and waited, an4 now wait, and now to-night they wwt hopefully. The came paper in which I read of these exhibitIngs of the power of the will of the people, I read that tne Nihilists offer peace to the Czar. They ask for what we have that is all. Free speech, free press, freo elections, freedom of con science, right ot trial by jury. Is that too much for roan? They are at present trying the prisoners. There is Hot an open friend to them n sight. They are convicted on evidence obtained, by torture, and the reoortsof the trial come to us after they are doctored by the Government. What is evidence worth that is obtained by torture? I understand that the machine is such that if I were to apply it to anyone of you, and ask you if you had broken the ten commandments every day of your life, you would say yes In a second. WHAT KIND OF SAVAGERY IS THIS lingering here so late in the Nineteenth Century of our Lord and Master? I noticed the examination of one of these prisoners. He said in replv to a question that he recognized "the doctrine of Jesus Christ; it occupied an Important place in hia convictions.' When asked as ta his profesto which he had for some years sacrificed his whole

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He was surpried beyond measure at the life and advancement oi the working-classes. I find," he says, "these working myriads enjoying a measure of dally welfare, far beyond, as 1 believe, those of ur other city in the world." Over the entrance of every Cathedral and Church in France, over the palaces oi Kings and Lmperors, over the portals of the Madeline, over the tombs of the Kings at St, Denis, there are three words hateful to tyrants LI BEET Y, BQUALITV, FRATERNITY. They are there, and there to stav hr the will of the people. Thev acrount for all this life and comfort of lifo There are more small farms in France than in any ccsntry under the sun. Is not this better than the news that the Duke of Argyle has made a fine bag of game? There are nineteen yean left of this century. Things are moving with a momentum as the .square of the distance. Higtory is making and making fast. The martyrs for liberty must be glad as thev look down. There are nineteen years left for unfinished business, and the new century comes in, I hope, with the business done, for its rude work must first be done. This is a preparicg the way of the Lordthis is a makinz the paths straight for a p-i-h.. ment of men, a Federation of the world. And it can be ful tilled. In all the earth that wu spoken: "One is your Master. Even Christ aud all ye are brethren." A Gboat In Africa. IJ. Thompson la Good Words. On the fifth day f our march from Iendwe, I was, as usual, considerably in front of my men, who with their load a were not able to walk as fast as myself. The sky threatened a storm, which made me hasten to reach Tamlilo. On approaching the village nobody was to be seen, the natives being either out in the fields or in their houses out of the rain. The stockade presented rather -an uninviting appearance, being ornamented with a few hundred human skulls in all -conditions, from the freshly stuck-up head to the bleached cranium, and all apparently snapping their jaws at the thought of a new companion, as the wind wheeled them backward and forward. However, the rain was falling fast, and there was no use of being squeamish. So into the village 1 marched unnoticed, and, finding out a hut with a broad, overhanging eave, I took refuge out of sight, waiting till my men came forward in order that I might appear with appropri- ' ate pomp. I had been thus ensconced nearly ten minutes, when suddenly the stillness of the village was broken by & loud, peculiar shout. This was almost immediately taken up from every quarter cf the village until every stone seemed to yell out the Grange cry. Drums added to the uproar, while women screamed, and the men were seen to hurry toward the gates, shouting and brandishing their spears. I was very much astonished at this, but supposing it was simply the fashionable mode of receiving a caravan, I remained still, expecting my men every minute. However, the uproar continud without abatement, and my men did not appear. Thinking there must be something wrong, I emerged from my cover. To my surprise I found the gates closed and the stockade and crows' neßts manned by an excited multitude brar-dishing their spears at some apparent enemy on the outside. It instantly flashed upon me that I Whs a prisoner and cut oü from my men. My presence in the village was evidently unknown. For, on my appearaneo among them, every voice was silent, and the once excited multitude seemed to have become paralyzed with fear. I was supposed to be a ghost. Seeing this I recovered my presence of mind, and, striking an attitude like Hamlet's ghoet, I moved forward with slow deliberate steps, and a severe expression of face. At each stop tho warriors recoiled. Struck with awe, they looked at me with staring eyes and open mouths in breathle silence. This was too much for me, and.unable to keep upthecharacter.I burstoutwith an irrepressible roarol laughter. The effect of that laugh was tremendous. The amazed savages recoiled still further, leaving the gate free. With a bound I reached it, and before they could recover their senses it was open, and I was outide, to the unbounded joy of my men, who were trembling for raj safety.

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