Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1877 — Page 1

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VOL,. XXVI, NO 25. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, FEWIUAHY 7, WHOLE NO. 1890.

AT HE A. All day I sit and watch the tireless waves of drear mid-ocean 'neath a leaden sky. They snrge and mount and tons their foam Then sink in sullen wrath to hopeless graves, on high, Aimless and vain, an Ineffectual strife, A weary whirl it seems that lead to nought ; And gloomy fancies press the chilling thyself a picture of thy life! JCot thon the shoreward wave, whose fruitful haste Store up rich spoil to strew along the sand1. . Of pearl and shell and wreck from farotf lands. Found drifting here and there upon the waste Nor the bold breaker thou, whose maddening till fiele lushes its life out Into the snnting spray; Nor heeds nor halts, so It but lind a way To carve Its message on the waiting rock. But look! Quick breaking the horizons gray, A sudden burst of Kiiuwt spans the sea, A golden, solid bridge, that even for me Brings near the glrrious goal, and is the way.

Written for the Sentinel.! WHAT OF THE W0MEN? BY MRS. PALLIE A. BAMViE. There is not an edition of a daily paper that does not contain in its columns notices of failures and bankruptcies, and the names of honorable business men are given as the sufferers. There is not a day that I do not see men looking careworn and anxious, their faces marked by the long 6train of mental uneasiness. The care for their families, the fear of unredeemable loss, combined with overwork and incessant application, are undermining many of the strongest constitutions, and killing men who could have withstood the attacks of disease, but who succumb to the insidious encroachment of intense labor with the brain. I have seen how rapidly the furrows are marking brow and cheek, how tremulous the hand and how weak the body, and have counted the fearful wages paid for the coveted luxuries and elegancies of life, the strength and vigor of manhood gone long before the fiftieth mile-stone is reached. But the strain upon hands and head once begun, where is it to cease? Men at twenty-five exhaust every cent of their yearly income to meet the annual demands, and at 40 and 50 they only increase their salaries to increase their wants, and there is never a month or even a week for physical or mental recuperation. For the amount of money we spend we are the poorest fed, the meanest clothed, the worst housed of any nation under the sun. As a rule we consider neither the limit of our purse nor of our necessities, but spend our entire possession regardless of the possible and probable exactions of the time when sickness or age will render us incapable of further remunerative labor. And because we are improvident, because we have so little foresight, we are having "hard times,' and we will never launch out upon a calm sea of prosperity until we learn to "reckon ahead." How many of the men who five years ago received good weekly or monthly wages, paid promptly, were in the slightest degree prepared for the financial dark days of the past twelve months? How many bookkeepers, clerks, traveling agents, mechanics, laborers, had saved enough to supplement the meagre wages now given or to bear them safely over months of .enforced idleness? How many men to-day who have -only their salaries as income are out of debt in this community? It would not be difficult to count them. If the panic has taught us nothing else, if its lessons have been only oppressive to us and not fruitful, we have learned something of economy and prudence, and ihe future will bear ample evidence of its suggestions and commands of denial and sacrifice. The easy days that generally succeed such dull times as these are but the grand results of combined economy and steady attention to the small outlets whence flow so much of the income of the masses. The people learn while they have but littie money to make every dollar spent furnish its entire equivalent rh necessary food, or clothing, or fuel, and while nothing may be laid by yet nothing whl be wasted, and the maxim is universal that it is not want but waste that ruins. This whole subject is widespread in its bearings and its dealings, lavish prodigality as a nation has crippled our resources, until now statesmen and public economists are asking, Where can we retrench? What useless or extravagant member can be lopped off? How can we live as a people cheaper? But in detail, more minutely in every city, men are asking themselves and families the same question. If five years ago their incomes barely carried their expenses, what shall meet the deficit when the expenditures remain the same and tht wages are but half? And if the answer u ni"t quick, positive and available, failure! and bankruptcy are inevitable. It is folly to rgue about the matter. We must economize or suffer, and perchance for oar past extravagancies we will suffer somewhat, even with stringent prudence. And men can not arrest the crash ; they can not save business and homes unless the daily expenses of the family are never allowed to exceed certain limits that can only be fixed by prudent wives and mothers. I have seen men of years, with the gray hair clustering thickabout their brows, looking careworn, carrying with them their load of financial anxieties, fearing ruin any moment, whose families never for one mo-, roent appreciated or tried to relieve the burdened mind. Mansion and cottage differing only in amount but not in principle are the great drains upon the revenues of men, men who work for their families, who would rather slowly wear out their lives in the treadmill of business worry and difficulties than harass or annoy their loved ones with their embarrassments.

Every woman should know her husband's income. She shoald understand his financial position thoroughly, and from this standpoint she should use her best energies to work in perfect harmony with his need for retrenchment or his power to allow free use of the money received. If retrenchment is needful or even desirable, if the expenses of the family are too large, she should be not only willing but anxious to reduce them and to economize in every way possible. But few women, even if they were to try, could do this intelligently. They have no record of their expenditures, no lists of their purchases, no memoranda of their daily, weekly or monthly housekeeping. They give out the money as they receive it, little or much. It goes for ilry goods, groceries and etceteras, and there the matter with them ends. Now and then they understand something of the quality of the goods they buy, but this is rare. The order is given or the article bought with implicit faith, the offspring of entire ignorance in the storekeeper. If the supply of ready money decreases they do one of two things go in debt or buy inferior food, never seeking substitutes for the high priced articles formerly in use. Probably no women but our own could endure the waste in their homes, especially in two important things, fuel and "food." To cook a breakfast, easily prepared in 30 minutes, allowing full time, a fire large enough to roast an ox will be kept blazing for two hours. To heat a kettle of water to use in washing the dishes used, enough fuel will be added to cook dinner, and while Coal or wood dealers rejoice in the waste of mistress or maid, the head of the family gradually gets a little nearer that dreaded goal, failure. We scarcely ever see a thermometer in a sitting room or parlor, and few women are careful about the temperature of their apartments, and hundreds of dollars worth of fuel are wasted in keeping up huge fires. A steady heat marking the same degree, and that never too high, will not only make the inmates of a house healthier, but will save the fuel uselessly burned in building fires carelessly allowed to die out. And this waste generally runs through the entire use of fuel for a house. It has been said that a thrifty German housewife or an ordinary French cook could keep a table supplied with good, palatable, tempting food on what we or our equally ignorant, extravagant servants throw away. Soups, salads, food nicely rewarmed or rearranged we rather despise, but revel in an over sufficiency of huge roasts, rich gravies, messes of vegetables and costly desserts. We are prod gal to the scavenger; we throw into buckets or barrels the very food that with a little care or skill in its preparation might not only be appetizing, but would save a fresh outlay with the grocer or butcher on the morrow. Not a score of women in a hundred understand the want, the desire, the need of the body for certain kinds of food. They feed the nervous, the bilious, the feverish, each and all upon the same articles, and do not with the nice tact and skill of our foreign sisters adapt the bill of fare to Individual tastes. Children are given the same strong or rich food relished by their elders, and the bone, muscle, brain making dishes are pushed aside for heavy pastries and meats. Economy does not restrict a family to coarse or unpalatable food, but it should keep them from a surfeit of rich dishes, or it should prohibit illy-prepared meats, bread or vegetables. A woman should study the prices, the qualities and the quantity of all food purchased for her table, and she should sacrifice show and sweetmeats for fruits in their season, meat when necessary, and always good bread. The dress of women has ever been a target for fun and anger, and somewhat of the firing has hit the mark. I incline to the opinion that if women would be willing to wear a dress nicely fitted and nicely made, though it be cheap material rather than a flimsy silk poorly made, one of the fruitful sources of financial trouble would fail. Children are dressed in rich clothing when woolen fabrics at a lower price would be much better, and the love of unseasonable though handsome apparel be less likely to take possession of the young mind. Less time spent in making ruffles and tucks, and more given to the food of the family would not only save money but would positively increase both health and happiness. Women who clamor for their rights will find their hands full attending. to what they now possess, for their work is as comprehensive and as broad as that of men. When I see men carrying their business troubles and anxieties so plainly, I wonder what of the women at home? Does the father impoverish himself, bring fresh complications into his accounts to furnish his daughters with the coveted pocket money? Does the husband keep his harrassing cares to himself, dreading the reproaches of his wife? Do the women at home aid the men in counting rooms and offices, or is there no mutual sympathy in this hour of need? A man can toil and calculate and sacrifice to save and husband his money, but unless there is economy and care at home his prudence avails him nothing. Men who keep wives and daughters in ignorance as to the business outleok, can blame none but themselves for lack of aid and sympathy in reverses, but when this information is fully given the censure is well merited when they are left to fight the battle alone. And as I read and hear of ruin, failure and bankruptcy, when I know men are beneath when the crash comes, when wealth, position and influence are all gone, I ask myself. What of the women?

ALK, SORTS. Dreamland Sea. , BV HANNAH M. BKYAX. What matter, though my pilgrim feet May never press the traiger's land, Or wander lone where wild waves beat With ceaseless moan on ocean's strand? For me expands lovelle r deep, Whose Isles in visloned beauty sleep, , And never ocean waves could be So bright as thine, fair Dreamland Sea. Mt castle crowns the boldest steep. By warring winds and waters scarred, That seaward leans, and o'er the deep, Keens evermore unceasing ward. Full-freighted, Willi their wings of snow. The white ships couie, ihe while snips go. While in the shade of cliff and towers I dream away the gliding hours. With man- fonm-tlecked and tossing free. The waves, wild coursers of the w'a, Race swiftly to the level strand, And struggling die upon the sand. The shells that sparkle at my feet , Strange tales of wind and wave rejieat, The weird romance, the mystery Of the dark caverns of the sea. My fairy fleet that long has lain ('lose moored In some enchanted bay, Borne by fair gales across the main. Sails swiftly on its homeward way. My ships, my stately ships I see! Full many a royal argosie, Llko white-winged birds they speeding com, And bring their gathered treasures home. Pearls from the mermaid's watery cell, Pure gold from sunny orient lands, With many a rosy -chain be red shell And Jewel wrought by elnn hands, Crosses and amulets of price, Of sandal-wood and sacred palm. Embossed with many u fair device, And odorous with tropic balm. "Men are like hymns," remarks an exchange newspaper. "There are short-metre men, sharp, blunt and hasty; there are longmetre, slow, weighty and dignified; there are hallelujah-metre men, mercurial, fervent and . inspiring; and there are eights-and-sevens men, gentle, genial and delightful. There are also some ' peculiar metres.'" A colored child was recently born in Bayside, Talbot county, Maryland, of the tiniest proportions ever known. At birth it was only 12 inches long, and weighed one pound. The only imperfection about it is a total absence of thumbs, not having even a place where thumbs ought to be. It has long hair, coming down over the shoulders. It is a female child. Philadelphia Times: The twenty-third annual report of Mr. William J. Mullen, the Erison agent, shows that of the whole nuraer committed to the county prison during the year sixty-nine were charged with iuurder, or of being accessories thereto, and that, with a single exception, the prisoners were under the influence of liquor at the time the crime was committed. Mr. Bliss, the liymnist," it seems, threw his life away. He could have saved himself if he would, but rushed into the flames to die with his wife. And now it becomes a nice question for Christian casuists whether raising money for his family out of pious regard for his memory is not putting a premium on suicide. Of course death may have been gain to him; but was it not his duty to live and take care of his family, and do his work in a manly way? Is a resident of Texas a Texan or aTexian? That is the little question which the Texas papers are now wrangling over. The pronunciation of the hero of San Jacinto is regarded as settled forever. Out of Texas it may be Houseton, but in Texas it is always Hewston. The most troublesome letter in American nomenclature is the "s" If a mass meeting could be held in St. Louis and Ix)uisville, or a special election be held, and the question determined whether the "s" in those names shall be sounded or not, it would be, in the languaee of the stum p, a precious boon to the whole commonwealth. Five converls were immersed in the Schuylkill, near Green Tree, I'enn., on Sunday last by the Itev. Jacob Gotwals, Dunkard minister. The water was very cold, but the current was so swift that no ic had formed at the point where the ceremony was performed. In accordance with the Dunkard ritual, each convert was immersed three times in the name of the Father, the Son any the Holy Ghost. One lady nearly fainted from the effects of cold and exposure. Another lady, who was rather stout, was taken off her feet by the strength of the current, and the minister was so cold that when he caught her he had no strength to hold her, and was carried down stream with her. Two bystanders on the bank plunged in and rescued them just as they were on the point of being swept under the the solid ice. The converts had been urged to wait until warmer weather, but were unwilling to defer the ceremony. The following incident occurred during a general review of the Austrian cavalry a few months ago: Not far from where 30,000 cavalry were in line, a little child a girl of not more than tour years, standing in the front row of spectators either from fright or some other cause, rushed out into the open field just as a squadron of hussars came sweeping around from the main body! They made the detour for the purpose of saluting the empress, whose carriage was drawn up in that part of the parade ground. Down came the flying squadron, charging at a mad gallop down directly upon the child. The mother was paralyzed, as were others, for there could be no rescue from the line of spectators. The empress uttered a cry of horror, for the child s destruction seemed inevitable and such terrible destruction the traiapling to death by a thousand iron hoofs. Directly under the feet of the horses was the little one another instant must seal its doom when a stalwart hussar, who was in .the front line, without slackening his speed or loosening his hold, threw himself over by .the side of his horse's neck, seized and lifted the child, and placed it in safety upon his saddlebow, and this, he did without changing his pace or breaking the correct allignment of the squadron. Ten thousand voices hailed with rapturous applause the gallant deed, and other thousands applauded when they knew. Two women there were who could only sob forth their gratitude in broken accents the mother and the empress. A Eroud and happy moment it must have pen to the hussar when his emperor, j taking from his own breast the rich-! ly enameled cross of the order of Maria Theresa, hung it upon the, breast of his brave and gallant trooper. Men are wanted. So they are. But boys are -wanted honest, noble, manly boys. Such boys will make the desired men. Some one has declared, ami truly, that these boys should possess 10 points, which are thus given: j 1. Honest. 2. Intelligent. 3. Active. 4.; Industrious. 5. Obedient. 0. Steady. 7J Obliging. 8. Polite. 9. Neat. 10. Truthful. I One thousand first rate places are open for 1,000 boys who come up to the standard. Kach boy can suit his taste as to the kind of business he would prefer. The places are read v in every kind of occupation. Many

of them are already filled by boys who lack some most important points, but they will soon be"vacant Some situations will soon4 be vacant, because the boys have been poisoned by reading bad books, such as they would not dare "show their fathers, and would be. ashamed to have their mothers see. The impure thoughts suggested by these books will lead to vicious acts; the boys will e mined and their places must be filled. Who will be ready for one of these vacancies? Distinguished lawyers, useful ministers, skillful physicians, successful merchants, must all soon leave their places for somebody else to fill.. One by one they are removed by death. Mind your ten points, beys; they will prepare you to step into vacancies in the front rank. Every man who is worthy to employ a boy is looking for you, if you have the points. Do not fear that you will be overlooked. A young person having these qualities will shine as plainly as a star at night. Men's Part In Home Making:. Most of the preachments we have seen from the text of happy homes have been aimed at the women. This is natural enough, for they are the home makers of the world; and in a future number we shall "join the chorus," and also say something to the yung folks about their part in a work from which no responsible members of the family can be excused. But just now we desire to nudge the heads of the households, and ask them how they are performing their responsible parts in the realm of home. Most men seem to think they have little to do in creating an "atmosphere of home." Their fort lies' in breathing and enjoying the atmosphere after somebody else has made it and not a few can't get along and make known their authority without "raising a breeze" in it. Men are too busy, too much preoccupied, too impatient and thoughtless, and, it must be said of some of them, too selfish to do their fair share of that pre-eminently millennial work, the creating of a happy home wherein love reigns supreme, and amiabilitp, affection, cheerfulness, joy and peace are the natural conditions of family life. Now, in certain things man has been a constitutional shirk from the time of Adam if the scientific gentlemen have left us anjr Adam down to this day. Men will light for their homes, and make slaves of themselves to their business to maintain them; but like the proverbial man who" would die for a woman, but would never bring up a scuttle of coal, they can't tell what their children are studying at school, who their mates are, what they are learning of good or evil, nor hardly anything else that a father ought to know concerning his offspring. It is so sad a fact as to spoil the satire, when it is said that many a father finds the Sundays and holidays too few to enable him to "become acquainted with his beys." But we maintain that a man who hasn't time to be a father to his, children, with all that includes, has'no right to have any. He wrongs them, robs himself, puts an unjust responsibility upon the mother, and neglects his highest duties, human and divine. There are so many ways in which a father may contribute to a happy home life that it su;ms strange thejumber"of houses should so greatly exceed the homes. " It takes so little to make children happy at home that it is a wondrous pity so many little ones are miserable, or uneasy, or discontented. If for an hour after the evening meal the father should give himself to his children, would the mother wear out so fast or the children be so lawless, troublesome and uncomfortable? What a mlnisrry for good to both Cartics is a papa's frolic with the abies! What an interest is added to the books, the drawings, the games, or tven the studies, if father enters into them ! What boy will sly off to play surreptitious games with his mates, if his father takes a hand at whist or eucher with him around the evening lamps with mother for partner or spectator? How much it lightens the drudgery of piano practice for the daughter if papa calls for and praises her efforts! It is strange that with such sweet companionship, such pure affection, such unselfish enjoyment, such natural happiness as may be had with the children, men do not give more time to their homes Aside from the children, and in homes where haply there are none, men still have a more direct part than most of them are ready to bear, in making the daily life pleasant. We hardly need say that a man should set the example for the family in patience, cheerfulness, courtesy, forbearance, and all the amiable moods and graces that are the soul of home happiness. The sort of men who display all their suavity and politeness on ihe stret or at their business places, and save the storms and sulks, and sourness, and all tke evil brood of devilish dispositions that they characterize by the convenient euphemism of "moods," well, we have our opinion of them! and if they will come within range we don't mind expressing it privately, but are afraid it wouldn't look well in print! The whole tribe of home tyrants men who make the entire household revolve around them as the center whose tongues are chronically "furred" in the morning, and nerves so upset in the evening that the family must keep silence while they read and smoke; who "can't bear" the noise of innocent and natural mirthfulness; who have to be toadied and tended and humored they ought all of them to be doomed to pass their days in shabbygenteel boarding houses, without sight of wife or children, with hash for breakfast, warmed-over pancakes for lunch, and lean mackerel and centennial hens for supper, with the lodger overhead always learning the trombone, and servant girls that steal the hair-oil. They 'don't deserve a home, and no man does who will do nothing to make it. For man's rights do not include the right to all the comforts of a home without any of the work, or worry, or selfsacrifice, or thoughtfulness and well doing incident to its creation and maintenance. A good many men think they have done their full duty if they pay the bills more or less grudgingly. But one might as well try to warm a room with a fire-place and a pair of silver plated andirons, and no fuel or fire, as to make a home with money. The money simply makes a place for the home; to complete it the man must put in himself, and the best part of himself at that Golden Kule.

A Jndlclou Distinction. Richmond Free Press.! Those democrats who take a metropolitan paper would do well to give the Indianapolis Sentinel the preference over the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Sentinel is now exceedingly able, editorially, and keeps clear of the hog ash and uncertain diatribes that have become the characteristics of the Enquirer. Michael Daugherty shot his son-in-law, John McBride, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the other day. It had been a case of seduction and forced marriage. .

FOR THE LADIES. I Keepsakes. Two little baby boys I own ; The elder scarcely walks alone; His sunny hair and large brown eyes, His earnest look of sweet surprise, His funny ways and Joyous shout, I could not tell you all about If I should try a year. . He creeps so fast to catch his toys, And then he sets np such a noise; Ills horse and dog and boos; and bell. He throws them all about pell mell. h. Mother Goose, it you could see This little boy, so full of glee, Your sides woulu ache, l fear. Fie watches with a rueful face The baby who usurps his place. My darling boy, your little -'nose Had to be broke," I suppose, Twas very odd sometimes the way You love your "bubber" in your play, And bring a smile or tear. In hammock low, among the trees, Jiocked back and forth by passing breeze, The baby swings, and coos to see The gentle rustle of the tree, The lights and shades, the leaves that fall; The sunshine brooding over all Tis Indian summer here. Way overhead, in the blue sky. The downy clouds float softly by, A lullaby fair Nature sings. And through the air its music rings; My little cue falls fast asleep, As sun and shadow o'er him creep, Ills mother watching near. Two baby boys! a Godtf love Sends as a gift from heaven above; And like the-.shifting rainbow bright. Tinging the drifting clouds with light, Their souls, so tine and sweet, shine out, Breaking through mists of grief and doubt, And make my pathway clenr. Boston Transcript. You must take your baby just where he is now, not much more than a little animal, and educate his physical nature, so rapidly developing. For instance, he has just reached the climbing age; everji chair and stool is a worry to you, and a pfr of stairs is a perpetual terror. Now show him howto get up and down the stairs, how to place his feet in climbing up into the chair. Jt him tumble a little; it will only make him more careful. It is but a foretaste of the hard schooling which experience gives us all our lives. Better a little fall with you close by to stop at the right, place, than a great one when you are "off guard" some day. (Remember that, too, when he is in his teens.) But I leg of you if you want to see him grow up active, strong-limbed and agile, do not keep his white dresses too clean, nor tie his sashes after the present uncomfortable fashion, so that he isn't conscious of any legs above his knees. Then, let him feed himself. He'll make a miserable mess of it at first, but protect him well with bib and tin tray, an i he'll soon teach his spoon the way to his mouth. Let him burn his fingers a little some day when the stove is not very hot; lie won't touch it when it would be dangerous. In many of our communities there is getting to be no small occasion for concern with reference to the future womanhood of our girls. They are thrown at the very outset into the very rabble of the mixed school. Little restraint is thrown about them in their association with the boys. Little proper girlhood guidance and instruction is given them. The text book and the recitation are everything. The manners and the modesty of the girl are nothing. If she had been selicately guarded at home she becomes half hoyden. If nature or home neglect has made her hoyden, she becomes brazen In society and the home, fooiish talk, and love-gossip or scandal; precocious petty rtovel reading, and newspaper 'eensa tionalism with that crowning evil, unseasonable and insane child parties, quicken into premature life the passion for beau seeking, until the minikin miss and the monakin master must have their confidential notes and arm-in-arm promenades a hi Abclard and Heloise in disgusting miniature. Arrived at her greenest teens, the promiscous intermingling of the evening party and the corrupting familiarity of the kissing bee, the undisguised pairing off of the popular lecture and the evening service, the dancing club, the evening promenade and the night ride, make the false child-fancy a headstrong passion that is alike regardless of parental restraint and womanly self-respect. As tiie result of all this premature assocition and false sex training, we see the, girl, in her own practical estimation, nothing as a true, pure, self sustained, home-blessing woman; but filled out complete, and for the first and only time, fometning, when she has a fellow at her side; and, as a natuml consequence, without much regard to anything touching his education, character, position and prospects; praciieally, everything being summed in his one sole virtue of being simply a male human animal. In our smaller communities this is becoming so painfully common that the modest, self-controlled young woman, at once the pride of the home, the pure influence in society, and the domestic foundation and hope for the future, is the exception, not the rule. And so we are fast swinging loose from the oid Saxon anchorage of true domestic virtue, and drifting broadside into the over-mastering currents of mere Parisian frivolity and sex dissipation. Now, we are no prjudish conservatives or timid alarmists, when we urge that the times call for prompt and vigorous attention to the checking and correcting of this evil by a proper womanly training of our girls. We can not leave things to the general tone and drift of society, as might have been safely done under the old, but alas, now by-gone, staid and chaste precaution and vigor of New England life and character. In the midst of overgrowing laxity of manners the multi-, plied stimulants to precocious passion, and the increasing facilities afforded by devilish art for the indulgence of illicit gratification, we can not safely trust it to take care of itself. Observant fathers and sensible mothers are painfully conscious of the growing evil, and alarmed fer the prospective purity and happiness of their children and the coming households. The Prayer Cur. Mrs. Robinson is the Chicago lady who was lately cured of a ease of .paralysis by Draver. Her story is that she had been help

less and bedridden for seven years. Her limbs were useless and her Jaws so closely locked that she was sjeechless and could only subsist on liquid food. Recently she felt an impulse to pray earnestly for a cure. She says: "1 went to the foreside of the bed, took my crutch and pulled the pillows on the floor, and kneeled down on them. I said just as Samuel said, 'Lord, here am I. What wilt Thou have me do?' Then I prayed that the Lord might remove my affliction and restore me to health. All this time I prayed in my mind, but all at once the blessing came. My jaws gave such a snap, and my tongue gave a lean. My Jaws snapped as though they had been

broken, and so loud that you could hear it in the next room. These strange thrills went all through me, right down' to- nr toes. The first thing I heard was the sound, of a voice in the room. I knew there wa no one in it but myself, but still I heard a voice. I opened my eyes to se who was in the room, and I found 1 was all alone. I still heard the voice, and I put my hand np and put it right in between my teeth, and I found that it was indeed my own voice, and that I was repeating the Lord's prayer. When I felt that my prayer was answered I remembered that I was asking for the blessing, and it had come. I felt that all the contracted muscles in the jawsand tongue gave way, so that I could talk c and praise God for his goodness t me. Every nerve and muscle seemed to feel touched with the divine power, that imparted strength and activity to every organ in my whole system. It continued so, and I found I could talk as well as ever. When I felt that the Lord had heard me, that my message had reached His heavenly mind and had brought down the blessing, I laid my head on the bed and wept for joy as I thought of what he had done for me. Then I arose from my knees and went across the room, almost to the door of the next room, before I felt that I had no crutch or cane to support me.

Cheap Fan. Detroit Free Press, The Detroiter who ha a tmttln kka dnves him on Cass avenue these days, and if ik uc a inst uors, ana me owner is well off, he comes down town liout. Hart- hnnnn his lawyer, and says: i Killed an old woman up there this afternoon. What damages do von think hr heirs can recover?" "Oh. I SUDDOSe about five knnrul lars." is the careless reply. "Five hundred dollars, eh? Well, I ran over a boy and broke both legs." "uaii mat one hundred and fiftv dollars, if it was a poor man's boy," says the lawyer. "And I drove into a cutter and smashed it. hurt a linrp and rinihahltrfatillirin; , , f ' " J .T 1UJUICU a carpenter. Give me the damages in a lump. ' V ell, slowly replies the lawyer. "I suppose $200 will cover it, as horses and carpenters are very cheap just now. Is that all?" "Let's see!" müses the trotting horse owner. "Well, I have a dim recollection of looking back and seeing a dead woman on the street, but I don't think tley can prove that I killed her. If you can settle the case for five or ten dollar von mav tt an Knt j J hru v carry a stiff back on the other cases, as the "'-w wi iuuiv mic loiu vut ecjeviajiy ior race courses. Lament of the Last Lognn. ISt. Louis Republican. ' I appeal to any white man to sav if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not advice; if he ever came wellbacked and he gave him not office? During the course of the last long and bloody debate on the cempromise bill Logan remained idle in his cabin a candidate for re-election. Such was my love for some kinds of white men that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, 'Logan Is the friend of Mtjt ton.' I bad even thought to have staved for you in the great council but for the injuries of my enemies. Their tomahawks drank the blood of my friends in the balloting. This called upon me for revenge. I have sought it I have killed some of my party. I have glutted my vengeance. ,But what remains to Logan? Where the eagle feather? jn his scalp-lock? Where the scalps at his girdle? Silent is his whoop in the great council chamber at Washington. Who is there to mourn for IOgan? Not one!" RIGIITIXU A WRONG. Governor William" JHege to the Legislatnre on the I'nfalr Apportion- . men I of 1S72. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: I felt It to be my duty, In my inaugural ad-tlr-ss to you, to allude to the apportionment bill passed four years ago, to apportion senators and representatives for the next six years. 1 now leel it my duty to present It more in detail. The vote of the state on the 10th of October last was J-M,009. That would require 8,60 votes for one senator, 3.310 votes for cue representative. Upon examination I find the counties of Hush, Decamr, Fayette and Union, with a voting population of lt,3.C have a Joint senator in Fayette, Union and Bush; a Joint senator between Decatur and Kush: one between Decatur, Jennings and iScott, and for repreneutatives Rush, one; Fayette and Union, one: Decatur, one; Riley, Decatur and Rush, one aking two and one-half senators and three representatives, while the counties of Adams, Allen and Wells, with 18,173, have on lj' two senators and three representatives. With 4,W0 more votes than Decatur, Rush, Fayette aud Union, they have less representation. The county of Jefferson, with ö,9M7, haa a senator and one representative. That Is more than It Is entitled to. Jennings hits a Joint senator and one representative all that it Is entitled to with 3,7 A votes, yet the counties of Jennings, Scott and Jefferson have A Joint representative. The representative should more properly belong to Scott and Clarke. Clarke haa5,tfel. and only a Joint senator and one representative. Montgomery has one senator and one representative, with 6tA votes aU that it is entitled to. Parke and Vermillion, with 7,207 vou s has a senator and each a representative, and Parke and Montgomery have a Joint representative, making two senators and four representatives with 13,X3 votes, wlille the counties of Cass and Carroll, with 10,!X)S) have only one senator and two representatives. The county of Tipton with 8,002 votes. Is attached to Hamilton for senator and also tor representative, yet there are 673 votes more than in Vermillion or Warren, and they each have a representative. Ful-w ton, with 3,302 votes, is attached to Kosciusko for a representative. This county has more than Luke, and yet Iake has one alone. Jay, with 3iiW, Is attached to lelaware for a representative, while Lagrange with Sßyi is given a representative alone. Bartholomew and Brown have 7,2?tH, and only one senator and one representative, while the counties of Lawrence and Monroe, with 6,W3, have a senator and each a representative. I could go on making comparisons of a similar character, but this is enough to satisfy any candid man that these wrongs ought to be righted. But many will say this is not the year to apportion. Section 5 of article II says: "i'h number of senators and representative shall at each session nex'fo lowing each period of making such enumeration, be fixed by law and apportioned among the xeveral countlea according to the number of white male inhabitants above 21 years of age in each." While it makes it obligatory every six years, it does not say that it shall not be done oflener Suppose the county of Warren had ln left out of the bill entirely. Would It not be proper to amend the act at this time so the 2,62.1 votes might hve a voice In the hall of leghtlationT Then, with the same propriety, you afeonld amend the act so as to prevent the disfranchisement of 4.0U0 voters in Allen, Adams and Wells, and 2,01)0 In the coiiblies of Cam and Carroll. Trusting you may consider thU matter calmly and act in accordance with the dictates of your own consciences, I would not recommend any change in the senate and only live or Rix in the house, where the greatest injustice has been done. James D. Williams, Governor. Executive Department, Jan. 30, 1877.