Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1889 — Page 7
SAGAS.
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2^7C.trs^?s keelly happened, bat happeeed m long age that in coatee ot time tnerreie and miracles
... ng or* writing, when they sailed without meant, traveled wlthont railways and 'wartretr hand-to-hand, not with hidden dynamite and sank torpedoes. Bnt, for stories of gallant life and
foond their way into the legend. The best S«gW an these of Iceland, and those, in tnmsiatkHi, are the finest reading that anybody can desire, it yon want tree pictures of Ufs and character, which are ala ays the
strange customs and kat beliefs, in the mrag||gH
Sagas they are to be foond. Or if you lik* igjfii of enterprise, of fighting by land and sea, fighting with men, and beasts, with storase and ghosts, and friends, the Sagas
are fall of tUs entertainment
The itories of which we are speaking were
first told in Iceland. When Norway and Sweden were still heathen, a thousand years
ago, they were possessed by families of noble birth, ewning no master, and often at war with eaeh other, when the men were not sailing the seas, robbing and killing in Scotland, England, France, Italy, and away Mat afe far as Constantinople, or further.
SEPW '"‘“ r .*!*? op<» thedwr o<hia <ibln ^th.i i.mp of and waniom, they were sturdy fanners, me ^ t i jj e f oun< | it sticking out from great ship-builders; every man of them, * * -■ * — ? J L - ,
ME DErit/S ootu.
The Story wf the Biggest Lamp of the Preeloas JHwtal Ever Found la Amorims.
[ vruhinatoo Post.l
How manv kndw where the largest single lump of native gold ever seen in Amenca was found? In California? No. In Colorado? No. In the Black Hills, Caar d’Alene, Nevada, New Mexico? No. In Old Mexico/ Pern, Bolivia, in Potosi, the Callao of Venezuela? No. Where then? In North Carolina. And its story is weird and fatefuf as the Rhinegold’s.
A poor and ignorant Irishman, living in the mountains solitary and lonely, propped
however wealthy, could be his own carpenter, smith, shipwright and ploughman. They forged their own good short swords,
hammered their own armor, ploughed their
owh fields. In short, they lived like Odysseus, the hero of Homer,, and were equally skilled in the arts of war and peace. They were mighty lawyers, too, and had
• most curious and minuta system oflaws
on nil subjects, land, marriage, * murder, trade,and so forth. These laws are not written, though the people had a kind of letters called rhnet. But they did not use them much for large writings, bat merely for earring a name on a sword blade, or a tombstone, or c^great gold rings such as the wore on tbefr arms. Thus the laws existed In the memory and judgment of the oldest and wisest, and most righteous men »f the country. The most important was shout murder. If fine man slew another, he was not tried by a jury, but any relation of-, the ' fiend killed him “at sight,” whererarhe found him, even in an Earl’s ball. Kan 'struck the head ofi' one of his friends, Njal’s Burners, and the head bounded on the board among the trenchers of mead and the cups of meoo or ale. But it was possible* if uie relations of a slain man consented, for the slayer%o pay hi* price— —every man was valued at so rauch—and then revenge was not taken. Bdt, as a rale, one revenge called for soother. Say Hrut slew Hrup, then Atlijdew Hrut, and Qisli ■’— * tli, and JCsri slew Q{#U, and to on till '' g whole family was exiinct and laft_ to do the killing. The gods
when* kiogahkl who these proud people them pay taxes and
affain in Norway tried to bring all\
under him, and to make L flve more regularly mid
his, and wflln
' hey
. , RQHSpHBHNWtiie lonely north, between the snow and fire, the hot-water springs, the volcano, Hecla, . the gnat rivers full of Salmon that rush ” down-such falls as Golden Fodl. There they lived their old-fashioned life, cruising ’ M pirates and merchants, taking foreign service at Mickle Garth, or in England or Egypt, filling the worid with the sound of their swords and the sky with the smoke of their burnings. For theyfeared neither God .nor man, nor ghost, and were no le*s cruel than bravethe best of soldiers, laughing
the Zulus, who of Africa. On
than braver the best of sol at death and tprture, like t
are kind of black Vikings | 'Mma of them “Beraark’s gang” would fall; that la they would would become in « way mad; slaying all and sundry, biting their shields, and possessed with a furious strength beyond that of men, which left
slaying all and sundry, biting their ds, and possessed with a fu —_gth beyond that of men, v
them as weak aa children when U passed away. These Bersarks were outOTws, all men’s enemies, and to kill them was reckoned a great adventure, find %^ood deed.
sous and her husband were to be buried, bnt she would not leave them, and perished in the barning without a cry. Borne were treacherous, as Halgerda the Fair. Three husbands she had, and vrai the death of every man of them. Her last lord was Gunnar of Lithend, the bravest and most peaceful of men. Once she did a mean thing, and he.slapped her face.. She never forgave him. At last enemies besieged him in his House. The doors were locked, all was .quiet within. up to a
besiegers. “I khow not—bat his lance is, 1 ' said the man, and died with\that last jest on his lips. For long Guanar kept them at bay with hia arrows, but at last one of them out flie arrow string. “Twist me a string with thy hair,” he said to his wife, Hal-
low hair wa
gerda, whose yellow hair was very long aud beattjttfal. “Is It a matter of thy life or dea&?” she asked. “Ay,” he said. ‘>Then ’ I remember that blow thou gaveot me, and . I will see thy death-'/ So Gunnar died, overcome by numbers, and they bad killed
Sum*, Afe hound, bnt net before Samr killed
^ mam „
So they lived always with sword or ax In baud—so-they lived, and fought, and died. Then dhristianity was brought to them by Thangbrand, ana If any man said he did net believe a word of it Thangbrand said, ill yon fight.” So they fought a duel on sod, that nobody might interfere.
’ that, and Thangbrand
an island.
holra-raigthey called that, and Thangbrand 4. InNorway SainT^iaf di4 the like, killing and torturing those who Held by the old gods—Thor, Odin and Freys, and the rest, mo partly by force and partly because they Were some deal tired of bloodshed, horsefights, and the rest, they received the word of the white Christ and were baptised, and lived by written law, and did not avenge
themselves by their own hands.
Christians they were now, but they did wot fosget the ola times, the old feuds and fighting and Bersarks. and dealings with Trolls, e* fiends, and with ghosts, and with dead bodies that arose and wrought horri-
i, haunting houses aud strangling ae stories of the ancient days were
the fireside in the endless winter Bigots by story-tellers or Scalds It > was thought i tie for any one to alter these old stories, bat es gene rations passed, more and »«*« wonderful matters came into the legend. It was thought that the dead Gunwar taag within hia cairn, or “Howe,” the moand wherein he was buried. And his famous bill, or oatring spear, was said to have bebp made by magic, and to sing in be night.before the wounding of men and
>f war. Peoole were believed to be Mod,” that is, to hava prophetic
--J Bight when Njals house was Ibis wife saw all the meat on the “one gore ef blood.” Jnst as in m the prophet Theoelymemus beheld
Wood falling in gouts from the walls, be-
fore Gw slaying of the Wooers The vmlky-
A fa$«i of wran at a ghastly bom. la tha
treasures were hoarded the i dwelt, ghosts that were sen-
> over the gold, witohwives changed themselves into wolves and other moo-
, and for ahoy weeks the * afefjotli ran wild in the
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1889.
shudder beside rise great fire that burned in the center ef the skafi or hall where the and dnnk to all who tn spun, and the Sagalong ago. Finally, at die ages, these Sagas wars written down in Icelandic, and in Latin occasionally, and many of them have lamrana i win owm 1 — -I I«s I ' ticea trsMiated into gjigiifn. ^ Twin rhM.r these transUtieas are often expensive to bay, and not always to be had easflj. For the wise worid which reads newspapers all the day and half the night, does net care much for books, still less for good books, and least of all for old books. Ym aaa make no money out of reading Sagas, tney have nothing to say about stocks and shares, nor about Presidents and politics. Nor will they amuse yon if nothing smasei yoa bat account* of races and murders, or gossip shoot Mrs. Kobe’s new novel, Mrs. fHokos’s new dresses or Lady Jones's diamonds. The Sagas only toll yon how breve
BOOKS WORTH READING.
▲ GUIDE TOPStpPLX WHO WOULD BE WELL BEAD.
Pope’s “Homer” is readable.
Christopher Marlowe, a mishtv Doet lonar before Shakespeare, describes the jocund life
of merry old England.
Percyns “BeUqnee,” an endless variety of
beautiful old ballads end
Milton’s “Cornua” sad short poems are in-
teresting. _
i and Coleridge are readable. •‘Philip Van Artavelde.”
▲ Ltot of BtstoHoa Hurt Will Imi.part the MoM Valuable Picture# >■ of the People ToM of-The Sobeb Of the Poets.
. interesting stories in 1 “Francesca da Rimini.” *<■ “anmm-ttovh »
Leigh Hunt’s
Mrs. Browning’s “AuroraLeigh. ’ Robert Browning's early works.
and old
a water-washed golly and carried it home as a curiosity. Though no larger than a small cymling, it was a weighty lag for a mile. It was a dull yellow, irregiriar in shape, and pieces of stone were imbemfled In it. For over two yoars a fortune lay upon the floor -if his hovel while he toflea early and late, making a little whisky and digging ginseng root to earn a scanty living. A companion mountaineer, who had known more of the outside world, thought this strange stone might be sold at Asheville as a curiosity for a lot of money—$10 perhaps. This was in the flush days before'the war. He had seen quartz crystal from Bean Mountain bripg that much. A third mountaineer was called' in consultation. Ten dollars was a,lot of money. The third man had been a traveler, a regular globe trotter. He went to Asheville four times a year, and he had been
clear to Washington.
Walking around the lamp, he gazed at it from ©verysidr, touched it with hi£ toe, s^iut
on it and breathed heavily.
“Hit air wuth nuthn’, er hit air wnth a pile,” said he. “Hit air nothin’ bnt brass, er hit air—He looked around on the other two with a queer expressiongoold.” .-! “Ef hit air brass”—he draw a clasp knife > nd scraped the dull metal till a new sur-' ace glittered—“vinegar'll nut hit. Ef hit
air goold hit won’t.”
He poiired some vinegar from a jug which was brought him upon the fresh facing of the lump. The three men hung over it intently. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed, and still the metal shone clear and untarn-
ished.
"Hit', goold!” “And I’ve heerd goold was wnth more'n $300 a pound,” said the second. “What a fool I've been,” groaned the owner of the cabin. “For two years I’ve worked, an? wealth I never dreamed of kickin' under my feet.’* “I claims g third,” broke in the assayer. “Ye’d never a knowod what it was but for
me.” '
“An’ a third for me,” said the other.
The owner of the gold gave a sullen assent. They obtained a pair of steelyards and weighed the gold. It turned the’seale at over 100 pounds avoidupois, and they roughly estimated it to be worth $25,000— over $8,000 apiece. That night fill three sat up and watched the treasure, unable to sleep from excitement and thoronghly suspicions of. each other. The next day they rolled it securely in a cloth and started for Asheville afoot, with the gold slung to a
pole and carried between two.
It was the devil's gold. At the first halting place the Irishman and the second mountaineer conspired to kill the third, and he was shot dead from behind. Hastily throwing his body into a clamp of bushes, the murderers faced each other in the road. Suspicion, roused in each breast,
treachery in the other’s glance.
“Here,” said one, forcing an aneasy laugh, “there's only one way to settle this. Let's divide the gold and each go his
Fay.”
“Agreed,” said the other.
Hie lump was laid in the roadway and
chopped in two with a hatchet.
“Take your choice,” said one. As the other bent to lift his half his companion split the head of the stopping man with his hatchet. The gold was his. With blind fatuity he dragged the second victim to the side of the road, lifted the blood-stained treasure, and went on. At Asheville he took it to the bank and had it shipped to the United States mint. In less than a week, and before any return could be made from the mint, the bodies of the murdered men had been discovered and the crime traced directly home. The miserable wretch' waa placed in. jail, and there he died within a year. The witch gold fortune never crossed his hands, remaining, I believe, in the Federal Treasury for lack of ownership. The ragion where the lump was found has ,bc?u scored foot by foot.' but not another -lump like that has ever been discovered in that or any other section of America. It is said that a few weeks ago an English company, which is working the Nacoochee Mine in (h—*—*- —* - —’
ing 1,300] Una lutni
..V (Written for The IndlMiaeolla ITenw.J lists of books published as guides tor people who would like to become well read an generally poor. Such lists seem to be prepared by persons who have no knowledge of the great literature of the world. The reading list of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is a poor specimen. Bead every book of that list and yon will have scarcely an ftoklinf of literature and science. In the eOtir^Chhutauqua list th is not one book written by a great man one book of renowh. • It is pitiable to sea young folks wasting themselves on such insignificant reading. When yoa buy books buy masterpieces. Suppose we go out into the fields of high literature tad look up a oourse of reading for the smart boys and girls who read The News, a course that will enable them to be well-read persons, ■isroav. Dull historians, like Robertson and Agnes Strickland, and “outlines ofhlatorjr,” will not stay in the memory. It Is well enough to learn by heart a brief outline of history, but histories written by tbs most splendid writers are the only ones that will fissten themselves on the mind. “Herodotus." “Xenophon's Anabasis.” “woldsmith’s Greece.” “Gibbon’s Rome.” . “Hallam’s England” —a hisfitry without wars and battles. “Macaulay’s England.” “Hama's England”—written in the best style known. Hume’s Style is so smooth, easy and interesting: it iuts the reader along from volume to vplume without effort and each page Iks tens a permanent picture on the memory. __ _ _ Charles Dickens’s “Child’s History of Eng-
land.”
"The nTi “Sigurt the Volsong,"
Scandinavian^joT* '
John Keatu—m
Austin Dobson, _
Maria Mnlock, the readable minor poets of
Tennyson, Longfellow and T. B.
i poetry.
—most delicious of young poets, •son, the Rossettis and Dinah
our dav. Aldrich. nermr.
Novels are tbs books which Wilkie Collins hid “heavy people call light literature.” Scott is first of “The Chcerers of Em’s 'Met*-” and “Quentin Durward”
his best works, and
Hearts.” “Ivanboe
are generally considered
be wrote many a stupid one. “Ivanboe'' illuminates old Saxon and Norman
days
U In a princely manable and canning
“Quentin Dnrward”
ner the calm, dign.ucv,
Louis XI, and makes his whole period inter-
esting.
Miss Fanny Burner's “Evelina”—not prim novel, but n metering, scampering tnle, alive with quarrriinc and brisk talking, and
picturing Johnson’s ume.
Goldsmith’s “Vicar of Wakefield.” Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister.” ..'. .311
Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley"
and “Villette.”
Dickens’s“Pickwiok”“David. Copperfleld” and “Christmas Stories”—bis masterpieces, by common oor.sent, and fit to stand In the
row with “ * - -
ECONOMICAL KOADt*. How Improved Highway* towsEsa the ' Value ot Farm land. CFhtladSlpkls Record.] The comparatively lafte cost of macadamized roads, both in construction and maintenance in good condition, makes it impossible, for many rears at least, that they should come into snen general use in this country aa in manv toliign rood trie* where roadmaking has fi>t many years received the careful attentfoq that its importance deserves. In France, for example, whet* the
National Govermneht. France* has 200,000. miles of road, and of these more than 120,000 are macadamized. Their cost has been nearly $000,000,000, and the annual cost of
maintenance is $18,000,600.
Under the American system of self-gov-ernment, which compels every community or county to build and maintain its own roads, if would be manifestly absurd to expect thinly settled sections of territory to construct and support expensive highways, for which there would be but little traffic. For such districts—and they make up the greater portion of the United States—the country roads must continue as the chief avenues of communication. These dirt roads,
Shakfespeam
Story
IL”
shabby Genteel Confessions.” Towers”
‘Blithedale Roi
“Marble Fann.”—an “art book.” ,
Thomas Hardy’s “Return of the Native.” a marvelous story that puts you for one summer among the yeomanry about an English
Aroostook.’
Howyoung
Fronde's “England”-purs
Fronde’s “Ireland.’’
Carlyle’s “Early Kings of I
ly Kings of Norway”—spark-
Comte’s “Positive Philosophy"—a prodigious treat, not on account ot hia philosophy, but on account of the vast knowledge ot history contained in the book. Translated by
H. Ms
lartinean.
Dr. Dentsch’s
Posthumous Works 1
magnificent study of Islam ism and the Tal-
aud.
Herbert Spencer’s “Sociology sensible clear statement of why we
eound,
live aa we
Iq, and a kind of supplement to history. Harriet MartinenuV'Brltisb in India.” Mark Gharchill’s “Indian Mutiny”—a fitscinating book Of danger* aadAdcapcs; also a good “art book,” as it gives finished comments on the grandest of Indian art and ar-
chitecture.
, , ! BIOOOAPHY. Biography is the most attractive of all literature. To read biographies written by great men it to live over again the lives of the great and famous. Biographies of great men written by little people are most contemptible trash. j “To the sewers and sinks - /
With all such drinks,
And alter them plunge the mixer.”
Xenophon’s Memorabilia.
Plutarch’s “Lives.”—Whoever has Plutarch in his house enjoys the company of renowned
personages.
Fronde’s “Cesar”—a brief; masterly, verecious picture of the greatest man who has yet
lived on this planet:
Froude s “Thomas a Becket”—truthful and
heath.
W. D. Howell’s “Lady of the Aroos “Indian Summer” and “April Hopes.” ell’s forte is the delineation of beautiful
Americans.
Char lee Reade’s “Peg Woffington.” Tolstoi’s “Anna Karenina and the Cossacks;’’ translated by Isabel Hapgood. Translations are not literature, as a general thing. They are generally done by nobody’s and are not worth reading. There is one greet translation, Coleridge’s “Pioolominl and Death of Wallenstein," by Schiller. That gloriohs work gives you the company of great captains ana noble men of genius of Wallenstein’s day. All criticisms of books and art, all summaries. all condensations are trash. Selections and quotations are not worth having. Read books and look at pictures, and have your own opinion, good or bad. Makt Dbak. The Widow Was Training.
[New York Sun.]
There was a combination of wholesale and retail business in her ejre os she entered the office of a Harlem.dentist and inquired: “Can you pull six teeth for me right off?” “Have you come prepared!” he usked in
reply.
“Why. I’m here, ain’t I?”
“But do you wish to take laughing ggs ether?" i “No, sir! I’ll sit in the chair, and you
clinch on and pifll.” “Very well, ma’am.”
She removed her bonnet, took her place in the chair, and he pulled six front teeth
without bringing a groan.
“How soon can I get a plate?” she asked,
as she got out of the chan*.
“In about six weeks, ma’am—«
weeks,;
nent plate.”
“All right—go . ahead. I*
pemia-
there a corn
doctor near?’!, . .
“One two blocks down.” / “I want seven corns and five warts t&ea
off. Good shoemaker handy?”, “Next door, ma’am.” «
“I toe in. I want a pair of shoes made to force me to toe out for awhile. Drug store
down the street?” “One block down.”
“I want something to take these freckles off Six teeth at fifty cents each is three
meaning. A book that puts you inpos- ^excuseif ion of life in Prance and Italy, among /r* 1 ?’ excuse me if I ask if you are ices and artists of the time of Charles V meditating a trip to Europe?” queried the
■ , a gup of exhilarating wine. It is a book to read until 3 o’clock in
the monin
session of 1 HBj _
Princes and artists of the _ _ , and Frances I. and of the time of Raphael. It
is also a/capital art book.
“The Clonier Life of Chailes V”—enjoyable account of the last years of the great F<xn- . .
peror in his sylvan Spanish retirement, whence 10 ?* he wrote world-compelling letters to his married in
adoring son. Philip IL
“Queen Eii svbeth’* Letters”—a fine old volume well dcl.neating that tremendous sov-
ereign and her prosperous reifcn.
“Southey’s Cid”—a little gem lighting the ways of the old Moors and Spaniai
farmers, who chiefly them. The saving in cost Of transportation wh\ch a good road makes over a poor one, is much greater than most people suppose, and this cost often determines the question of profit or loss. In the census of 1880 an attempt was made to get a fair estimate of the average cost of baplihg grain from the farms to the railway stations. The estimates returned varied greatlv—from 30 cents to $2 for hauling 100 bushels one mile—bnt it appeared that the average cost of hauling 100 bushels one mile was 60 cents at least. In most of the Western wheat regions it was stated that if wheat baa to be hanled more than eighteen or twenty miles to reach a railroad or water, this land-carriage in ordinary years eats up the profits of culture. According to the estimates received, it oosts the ordinary fanner more to carry each bushel of wheat a mile than it does the ordinary railroad to
carry a ton.
When one thinks of the hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat grown yearly in this country, practically all of which, except that saved for seed, has to be transported over country roads a distance of several miles on the average, and then adds to that the more thaq, 2,000,000,000 bushels of other groins produced aunu&Uy. a large proportion of which is transported over these same bad roads, the importance of good highways and the gain arising from building them become manifest. The farmer should reflect that this gain would come largely to him. This matter of hauling at a heavy expense has excited a good deal of attention in the Western State*, and some interesting estimates have been made by experts in Illinois —a State whose generally level surface wonld seem to be favorable to good roads. These experts calculated that for twothirds of the year not more than one-half chn be hduled of what in the best season is considered a good load. This means that a horse whose earnings would be $150 a year on good roads can earn only $100 on thSse poor roads. Professor Ely has estimated that poor roads cost the fanner on the avenue at least $15 per horse year. Clemens Herschel, a Boston engineer, in comparing American with English roads, mys: “The English horse employed in the streets of a city or on the roads of the country does twice as much work as the American horse similarly employed iii America. The simple explanation i* that the Englishman has invested in perfect ana permanent roads what the American exjJcmls in perishable horses that require to b« In GUimore’a “Practical Treaties on Roads, Streets and Pavement*,” the following table, resulting from trials made with a
dentist as she was ready to go.
“No, sir; I’m a widow, from Indiana. Live five miles above.. Struck a man who-wants
oud.husband, and we ore to be two months. I’m going into training, you sew-good day.”
niirfis?
Spa*
‘Mahomet i the Old
Spanish Navigators” and “Oliver Qoldsmith.”
Johnson's “Lives of the Poets.”
Colly Cibber’s “Apology’’—A delightful autobiography: life among the kctora of Charles II’s day, with first-rate accounts of the acting
of that period.
Freer’s “Anne of Austria, Elizabeth Valois, Henry III, iv»_u m
glimpses of French i
l?.n nv fUnt-nov’*
jf Austria, Eliza
Valoie, Henry IH, find Henry IV"—lively
\ and Spanish history.
»• “Diary”—life in Queen
delineations
■ and other
notables.
Boswell’s “Johnson.”
Thomas Jefferson's “Autobiography”—very
absorbing reading.
John Adams’s fc Autobiography.”
Wirt’s “Patrick Henry”-*a glorious book,
Jeffiersc
tdams’s ‘■Autobiography.’ “Patrick Henry”-* glo
that wonld make a patriot of anybody.- - Northcote’s “Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds”
-an “art book.”
Haslitt’s “Northcote’s Conversations”,
art book.”
Haydon’s “Autobiography” “Blake’s Biography”—on “a “Goethe’s Conversations”Gibbon’s “Autobiography. ” Alfieri’s ‘‘Autobiography.”
Silvio Pellico’s “Ten VanhnVVo’o “AutObiO
—an "art book.”
'art book.”
nversations”—contain much
biograol i “Ten V.
Zschokke’s
erland. Time of the!
. Take the Upper Berth. ’ J [Chicago Tribune.]
A Pullman sleeper conductor: Everybody who wants a berth in a sleeper wants a lower berth. I have been in the employ of the company for fourteen years, and I have never yet had an application for an upper berth. Of course the upper berth is not so easy of access as the lower, but if you don’t mind climbing to the upper berth you will At once admit, after fhe night is over, that it is the more comfortable of the two. The ventilation is better, and you are not so close to the rumbling noise. Yon are more private than you are in & lower berth, and ui«asebf accident you have a chance of coming out on top. In hot weather the upper berth jg cooler than the lower. The lower berth, as you know, is made up from the cushioned seats, which areof warn material. I have never known a man to fall -out of an upper berth. I think if the company would’ make a diflereuce of a halfdollar in favor ot the upper berth it would soon be in demand. But I believe the Pu - man Company never makes any difference
in the charges.
v No Use for Ceatentment. . . [Edinburg Courier.) There is no such thing as contentment in the world; and happy it is for the progress of society that it is so. > If men .were content with their lot there would be social stagnation. They would be good for nothing. They wonld make no effort tfi get ahead. The spur of activity, enterprise, investigation and public nenl would be gone. They would be torpid, and the race would die out. For it is the discontent of mankind which leads to the increase and the program of the worid. MstkanRTtaplatoi. Tinplate* are thin sheets of iron, rolled and polished by the “cold roller” process, deassd ia “* pickle” of sulphuric acid, imwmnmd ia molten tin baths, dipped into heated hathaof palm oil and tallow, after which they are cleaned by Qdustfngt with fclaiL” This, in brief, is the process . R y TTsImwi s .. I . - . ptaw Ysgk Weekly.) Ugly Looking Wayfarer—Whar is
iv”—HI?* in Switz-
Revolution. *
Dr. Antomsrchi’s “Last Days* of Napoleon” —the only book that really depicts Napoleon. Samuel Rogers’s "Conversations.” DeQuincey’s “Opium Eater, Suspiria ds Profundi* and Autobiographical Sketches.” Harriet Martineaq’s “Autobiography.” Dickens’s “Lettem.”' Henry Taylor’s “Autobiography.” Miss MHford’s “Recollections/ Antbony Trollope’*^'Autobiography.” I Carlyle’s “Reminisoenoee and Jane Welsh Carlylq’s Letters.” Fanny Kemble’s “Memoirs”—three peerless ▼(flumes of life among distinguished actors and authors and English noblesse, and on a rice plantation In Booth Carolina among slaves. Every colored family ought to have a cony of the Sooth Carolina volume; it is the only volumfe extent tha* readably deplete slavery as it went on from day to day. John Stuart Mill’s “Autobiography.” ' Renan’s “Recollections.” Philip Gilbert Ham merton’s “Life of Turner"—an “art book.”
oatingm and excit 1
ie»s, a
■ |. siting
Thoreau’s “Letters.”
Dickens’s “American ^otes and Pictures
from Daly.”
Thackeray’s “From Combill to Cairo.” G. W. Curtis’s “Nile Notes and Howodjl in lake’s “Eothea, or Traces ot Tnval.” Dana’s “Two Year* Before the Mast.” Harriet UartineaU’a “Eastern Travels." W. W. Story's “Roba diBoraa’—partly aa
•art book.”
“Maine Woods." e'a “Our Old Home
“Brscebridge
Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Notes of Travel.”—The best “art book” to be had. Emerson's ‘ English Traila.’’ William Winter s “Trip to England.’’ Philip Gilbert HamertosPs “Painters’ Oamp’ f —an “art book.” Mrs. Custer’s “Boots and Saddles.” Melville's “Jeannette’s Exploration.” Burroughs’s “ Freeh Fields.” Andrew Ckrnsstte’k “Four In Hand in En- * Henri Tains’* “Ittliaa TravsU”-an -art
book."
b AE T ? Dean Swifts “Gulliver’s Travels”—ironical ■says. Thackeray’s “Book of Snobs and Yellow Plush Papers.” ^DeQuhicey’s essays, “The Knocking in MaoEmerson’s Essays, “Conduct of Lift and Boyigl Aims." “Hawthorne's Note Books.” . “Holmes’* Autocrat of tbs Breakfast T*mo An“Hood’s Own.” Ik. Marvel’s “Revariaa of a Bachelor.” Aato plays, there is a volume of Congreve and Wycherley, Sir John VaR BrughT and Beuqmont and Fliteher, Ovik which you 'laugh coemum^r” fte manya yraJ. “ch*no« a Don tbo dogCa * sweetly pteturaafknnla* lift — . I
Old Men in Indian Jails. A recent visitor to one of the Punjaub jails Was amazed to find a remarkably large number qf old men among the prisoners, almost one convict in five haring a gray beard. The jailor being asked for an explanation replied: “It is a common practice when a theft is brought homo to a man by the police for him to get on old father or uncle to take the blame on himself, or he puts up a young brother to do so. Before the court they make full aud circumstantial confession. They are convicted and the real thieves get off, and it is for the family benefit that this should be so. A sturdy young man is able to dp more for the family support by honest labor or by thieving than an old man or boy. The old man has lost many of the instincts and appetites which make liberty so dear to the young man. He can not be put to any very hard labor,.and will be well fed and well locked after while he is in jail. If a boy confesses he will probably escape with a flogging. The conviction of an old man or g boy will look quite as well in the police returns as that of an Able-bodied young man; so long as they get thelrronviction, the police don’t trouble themselves very mucl* about the matter.”
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-var** cHicAoq USE “ PERFECTION ” H^AD-UGHT OIL. kmabe FIAKOS.* The standard of the worid. Special low pries* this week. A few second-hand pianos cheap. Don’t fail to see ns before yon bny. RICH & McVEY, as North Pennsylvania Street. Boat side, near Grand Opera House.
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the force of traction in pounds upon several different kinds of road surface m fair condition, the weight of wagon and load being one ton of 2,240 pounds: Kind of Road. Pounds. On tolford road 48 On load covered with six inches of broken stone laid on concrete foundation 4g On macadamized road— 68 On road made with a thick coating of gtbvel laid on earth isil to U? On common earth road... £ 200 This shows that it rOqnires three times as much force to pull a load over a common country road os over one macadamized, and more than four times as much power as over a telford road or one of broken stone on a concrete foundation. When it is remembered that through the greater part of the year the country reads are in poor condition soma idea may be gained or the'iiumense loss in horse-power which they cause to the farmer. j .'.i
his occupation gone when' the canvass of 1890’domes. He will find no bidders for his voice and vote. The Australian system of • carrying on the elections will make it impossible for him to sell bis manhood for drink or money. ’Tis well that this is so. It Insures the men running for office an honest election. If the candidate is a poor man he need have jno fear of money*,. The law protects him as far as it is possible against dishonest hoodlers. All honest men wOl rejoice at this, for ail honest men execrate the vote-buyer and vote-seller. The Australian election law that goes into force before our next State election, will strike a death blow to political hoodlers. Women Never Bny Jeweled Garters. Two Broadway jewelers were fisked lately what sort of women bay the costly jeweled garters, and both said that they had never known a woman to buy or eten to price them. They arc all purchased by men, apparently to make gifts of them. One jeweler said that he thought the principal market for them is with men who make a great deal of money suddenly, and who arebeift upon celebrating the gain among their friends. A broker who makes a lucky tarn, • sporting man who wins heavily on the races, or a college youth who hot a quarter’s spending money in his pocket are the men who buy these jeweled garter*. Fool Editors. fNsw York Weekly.] Mrs. Grubber—Well, well! What fools these editors be! Mr. Grubber—Eh? Mrs. Grubber—Here I writ a letter to the editor of the Punkinville Trumpet, askin’
Catarrh la a constitutional and not a local disease, and therefore it cannot be cured by local applications. It requires a constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, working through the blood, eradicates the impurity which causes and promotes the disease, and Catarrh effects a permanent cure. Thousands of people testify to the success of Hood’s Barra partlla as a remedy for catarrh when other preparations had failed. Hood’s Sarsaparilla also builds up the whole system, and makes pouf eel renewed in health and strength. Catarrh -For several yews I have been troubled with that terribly disagreeable disease, catarrh. I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla with the very best results. It cured me of that continual dropping in my throat, and stuffed-up feeling. It has also helped my mother, who has taken ft for run down state of health and kidney trouble.” ICRs. 8. D.Hkath, Putnam, CL Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by *11 druggUt*. fl ,-rtxfor fS. -Prepared only by C. I. HOOD,* CO.. Apotherarie*. Lowell, Mam. ICO Doses One Dollar
There are many white soaps, each represented to be “just as good as the Ivory.” They are not, but like all counterfeits, they lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for * Ivory Soap and insist upon having it. Tis sold everywhere. I—M
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IMPROVEMENTS. 1 %. i . Owing to the great increase in our business in the paat few years, we are compelled to add two more carpet floors, making them accessible by elevators. JANUARY 1, 1890, k ' We continence these improvements, and until that time we will sell you CARPETS, WALL PAPERS, DRAPERIES, RUGS, ETC., At your own prices. W. II. ROLL, ■ 80 to 38 South/Illinois Street.
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QTT A U WWttei hii I i Li ll/I book bidders, wren* np | LrafllVI (BEAIYK BOOK MAKERS, rulIf T™ ■ ' ELECTBOTYPEB8. BlYtLOrK. 28, SO and 82 West Maryland St, INDIANAPOLIS. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED..
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WIST/IVIS- f^U/YE/^’ <a/^D5 Fancy Blotters, Calendars and Fine Stationery. Gold Fens, Pencils
agd Toothpicks.
CHARLES MAYER & GO., 29 and 81 West Washington Street.
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BARCrAiyS! B A-RG-AJINTSI See the lot of Upholstered Arm-Rockers in the windews at $5 each. The Rockers were sold at $8. There are only a few, and they won’t last
long. So call early. 1
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48 and 45 South Meridian Street
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Tbs “Kevxtoae” Beater*, large and small. Valuable cook-book with SAOb beater.
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FLANNER & BUCHAN AH FUISTERAL DIRECTORS,
7 a North Illinois Street.
Free Ambulance.
Lady Attendant
Don’t you want a good Pocket-Knife? I. X. L., Rogers and the best American makes. The largest assortment and the neatest patterns.
' LILLY & STALNAKEJL 64‘East Washington St
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