Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1877 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MÖ11NTNG. JUNE 20. 1877.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Subscribers whose time hu expired, "will please remit at once, or we shall b compelled to drop their names from oar subscription list. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. TERMS: One Subscriber ue year...., $ 1 SO uba 4 subscribers, one year, to one P. O. 5 00 "10 " " 12 00 20 " " 20 00 Where ten or more names are sent in, an extra copy is given to thegetter-up of the club Agents sending over four names and II 25 fo ach name will be allowed a commission of wenty per cent, on the gross amount of their obscrtptlons WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 Secretary Thompson, while in Washingon, will occupy the old Sickles mansion on Lafayette Square. , Victob Emanuel's salary is $2,850,000, and yet he is so badly in debt he can not save enough to buy htm a linen duster this hot weather. A Pennsylvania farmer utilizes the tramp beggar by patting him to kill potato bugs. Set a thief to catch a thief, or, rather, abate one nuisance with another. Senator Booy lost $W,0O0 by the failure of the Commercial Fire insurance compaay, of St. Louis. Ilia son, who managed the senator's interest, also lost 60,000. Matters are sufficiently quiet in South Carolina to enable Governor Hampton to travel. There is no danger of stealing while he is absent The New York Herald fears a Mexican and a Mormon war. It occurs to us that the Herald has had a little too much war since its proprietor is in exile on account of his bloody (?) exploits. Italian girls, who have been trained as models, receive four dollars a day from artists in Paris. The most they can earn in Italy is one dollar a day. The demand for them in France 13 rapidly increasing. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Tyng obeys the scriptural injunction to "lay up treasures 'where moths can not corrupt, nor thieves 'break through and steal," so he locks his half million in a cedar chest, and puts it iu one of ; safes. Here's what they call them out west: Charleston (Mo.) Courier. BORN'. On the 7th Inst., to the wife of A. II. Danforth, a son. Name Sarauel J. Tilden. I On the int.. to the wife of I. Lutz, a son. Name Tilden Hendricks. Last Friday was a notable day for hang men. Five men were choked to death. New Orleans had three, Ohio one and Georgia one. We conclude that Nicholls is enforcing the laws quite as vigorously as Packard would have done. TE rush of applicants for office continues, arid .Washington is overflowing with swsg fiends. One fellow who did not succeed, when he tries again will try the Louisiana returning board plan, and says be thinks with a little perjury he can be counted in., I Tin honors paid to Grant by the city of London are the same an those paid to Wil liam of Orange, the duke ot Marlborough, Lord Nelson, and the duke of Wellington. Now, -where is that fellow who . said he was as "big a man as old G rant?' The mayor of Pittsburg ordered the cigar stores closed on Sunday. Last week some of the proprietors concluded that the law would not be in forced, and they paid no attention to it. Whenlhey paid their fines Monday morning they concluded the mayor was "boss" of that town. ... Or the premiums awarded at the Australian exhibition, a large number were given to exhibitors of New York and other American cities. The manufacturers of the United States invariably are complimented and awarded prizes by foreign judges, and their wares are liked and bought by the people of all the nations of Europe. The largest woman in the world, Fanny Wallace, died in Vernon county, Wisconsin, Jane L She was fifty-four years old, seven feet four inches high and weighed 565 pounds. Her coffin was seven feat eight inches long, three and one-halt feet in depth and (041: feet.wide at the center. . It required eight men, with block and tackle, to lowerthe body into the grave. Professor Tice is on hand again with an other prophecy, aod ao strong ia til belief Uaffl will be fulfilled that he has gone to ll place Le , designates to, witness it. lie says that before the 5th of July a tornado will visit Kansas Ciiy. Mo., and Ik; intends observing and making notes of the attend ant pher.-uftißA. r. -Keep, you eye on, fvanias City for a while if you Lave any faith in I---.. 1 -

A SUPREME BKMASD. Radical conspirators and their, organs are exceedingly anxious .that the , democratic party shall quietly acquiesce - in the multiplied crimes and frauds by which R. B. Hayes was elevated to the presidency of the United States. In this, however, they can not be accommodated by the Sentinel. There are some wounds which never heal. The radical party to elect Hayes stabbed the constitution, and the wound still bleeds. As the months and years roll on its dumb but closed lips plead more eloquently. There are criates for which there can be no atonement. The perjuries that were committed to make the Louisiana returning board potential can not be obscured. They grow in hidiousness, they, defy description, they paralyze hyperbole, and exaggeration hides its face because the English language is incapable of describing their enormity. There are some sins that infinite forgiveness can not reach, but the beetled-browed villains who schemed for the overthrow of Tilden and Hendricks may not be included in the list, though they defied Heaven with perjuries, and earned a seat in the front rank of traitors to civil liberty. The democrats in the campaign of 1876 had in view the reform of the government. The necessity of reform was universally recognized. There was absolutely no contrariety of opinion upon that branch of the subject. The popular majority of .more than a quarter of a millionof votes indicated with sufficient emphasis the unanimity of sentiment that prevailed. Well, why has not the reform for which the people prayed and voted set in? Simply because fraud instead of k votes triumphed. Because the Louisiana returning board reversed the decision of the American people because the cartridge box was more potential than the ballot-box; because Grant, who is now receiving the approval of aristocrats who never had a pulsation in sympathy with the liberty of any people, decreed that the fraud should be protected by federal bayonets. Radicalism triumphed by a grand coup fVetnt, in which perjury played as conspicuous a part as did the guillotine when Robespierre ruled the destinies of France and the streets of Taris

were slippery with blood. The radical conspirators and organs now demand that democrats shall accept the situation and remain quiet. It would not be more impudent for the world to approve of Judas, the betrayer of Christ, or for Americans to applaud the treason of Arnold. As the case now stands there is no reform in any department of the government. Why not? Simply because those who are administering it are, with few exceptions, the men who b'ackened its good name with crimes, with Irauds without num ber,, with peculations and worse still men so des 1 tute of honor that they approved the base means by which the democratic party was robbed of its victory at the polls. Who are the one hundred thousand men who fill the federal offices of the country? Are they not those who ap proved the villainies of the Louisiana re turning board? Is it expected that such officails will purify the government, dig up the sinks of iniquity and clamor for hon esty? By no means. These officials every where throughout the country indorse Hayes, Indorse the frauds by which he was made president, and would use their official influence to perpetuate the thieving party in power. Every post office, custom house, every subordinate position, every foreign minister or commercial representative, is drawn from the ranks of the party that approved of the Louisiana and electoral commission villainy. The democratic party is fully committed to the high purpose of keeping these great wrongs vividly before the American people. It is the supreme de mand, and Indiana will enforce it THE MANHATTAN CLUB DEÜOX STRATIOV. The comments of the ra'cal organs upon the speeches nude by Samuel J. Tilden and Thomis A. Hendricks in New York a few evenings since are by no means uninteresting reading. The Manhattan club demonstration has qnite upset the radical conspir ators and their organs. In some cases an effort is made to treat the meeting of the democratic standard bearers, the president and vice president of the United States de jure, as a matter of no significance and their utteranc!8 as sheer twaddle. This, however, is all surface work; underneath is a current feeling that betokens alarm, anxiety, unrest fearful looking for of judgment and dire penalties. The leaders do not after all like the way Hayes was sworn into office. There is a feeling everywhere that J. Madison Wells, Eliza Pinkston and Judas Brailley are not the persons to reverse the will of the American people. The better class of republicans either denounce the fraud or remain in profound silence while others denounce it. When either Tilden or Hendricks,refer, to the subject the people give evidence of deep indignation. . The crime is so collossai, so -haggard, so infamously devilish, so foreign to everything honorable and so-' essentially ; humiliating that the merest mention of it to an American audience is productive of emphatic denunciations hitherto unknown in popular assemblies. The radical ' party knows it is guilty. It is the author of the great crime glutting Uayes'JotbJd'fficeiimd thesuj picions of the leaders are constantly aroused in regard to what is coming. A Washington di?patch to the Chicago Tribune contains the folio wlng.conjectures: J, ; For some weeks past some of the shrewdest republican politician In Die country have believed that the Kreat sanitation of the fall iori of congress wi'l not, be the expected atuwk pn President J lave and some of tibi political advisers, however pronounced and vigorous Unit may be, but will be lnatead a 1110 veil tea l on t lie part of the democrats to deftlaru 1 1 11 voii tint 0tistufl unit fkfiitra moaviira lor the recognition of Tiiden. The spetehesof 1 ildeu ua liendrlt-fe IumI uiK'ii in .New lorK are by nucJi republican regarded n very nllicHiit. lhe view taken of, theso j)t-jches here 1 thit they were carefully prepared aft?r lull consultation wlfi the prom tuent derno-i-Mew ieiil, ana wilier ut like

prominence la various parts of the conntry. It Is the belief that both Air. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks knew What the Other was to say, and that the whole affair, so far as the announcement of the democra 1c position Is concerned, wax of the most deliberate character. There are several eastern republicans of acknowledged sagacity and prominent standing who express the opinion that the democrats are looking to the early control of the senate as well as the house, with the Intention, the moment they obtain it, to refuse to make farther appropriations for President Hayes, and to recognize Tilden Instead, and appropriate only upon his estimates. t he peeche of yesterday are regarded here by many as the forma) opening ot the controversy by the chosen leaders of the democratic party, and some of thetr best known followers are known to feel confident that they will control the senate at least by the middle of Hayes's term, and possibly before. In connection with the reopening of this matter, leading democrats of the house have now under consideration a proposed invalidation aimed at all matters covered by the Maithews-Foxter letters, and similar matters of alleged bargaining by which certain northern democrats claim that opposition to the completion of the electoral count was broken down. Evidently Hayes can not have the respect of his countrymen, and It is very certain that the power of his party is waning. In addition to the villainies of the Louisiana returning board and the electoral commis" sion it will doubtless be shown that there were other bargains and corruptions, and that Stanley Matthews will be required to 8 täte explicitly what connection he had with them. The ' indications are that Hayes will at no distant day enter upon ... tempestuous seas, and we are satisfied that he will find it exceedingly difficult to vindicate his title to the office of president, and in the light of new developments honest men will be convinced that Mr. Hendricks was right when he said: "The people can not allow the selection of 'their chief magistrate to become a thing of 'chance or sharp practice. The fraud first 'triumphant in American history must be tassigned to its propar place among crimes 'against popular government, and made so 'odious that no party will dare to attempt 'its repetition." '.

DEATH OF EX-SENATOR PRATT. Daniel Darwin, Pr.ttt,' late United States senator from Indiana, and more recently commissioner of internal revenue, died at his residence in Logansport yesterday morning, and will be buried to-morrow. Mr. Pratt was no ordinary man. He was born on the 26th day of October, 1813, in the state of Maine, and emigrated to Indiana when but a youth. He first located in Ris ing Sun, where he taught school for some time, and then came to this city. While here he served as deputy secretary of state, as private secretary to Governor Noble, and at the same time studied law under the tuition of the late Calvin Fletcher. After being admitted to the bar he left Indianapolis and located at Logansport, where he resided until his death. He soon obtained a large practice, and became one of the ablest and most successful lawyers in northern Indiana. He loved his profession and was an honor to it. He never sought political preferment, being content with the honors and emoluments his profession gave him; but, like most men of his profession, he occasionally consented to serve the people in a public capacity. He was a member of the state leg islature in 1S51 and 1853, the latter year be ing chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1S(J3 he was elected to congress from his district, but did not take his seat, resigning it to accept the United States senatorship, which wa? given him by the legislature in January, 18G9. , , ; As United States senator Mr. Fratt did not meet the anticipations of his friends. His ability was such as to justify the expectation that he would take rank among the ablest members of the senate, but this he did not do. He was made chairman of the committees of pensions 'and claims, and did a large amount of laborious work in filling those positions, hut the character of it was such a-j not to bring him into public notice. We believe he never made a regular set speech during his term as'senator, being content to let his public reputation rest upon the work he did in the committee room. It is known that public life at. Washington was at first distasteful to him, and that he sought to abandon it and return to the practice of his profession, but he was persuaded from this by political friends for the reason that had he resigned a democrat would have been chosen to succeed him. Time seemed to work a change in him, for after his term of senator expired he accepted the appointment of commissioner of internal revenue, and remained at Washington until about a year ago, when he resigned the office at the request of the president. His trouble with General Grant grew out of the dismissal of Yaryan from the detective force, an act which he condemned, and signed his condemnation by writing a strong indorsement of the deposed official. This act of insubordination could not be tolerated by the military executive, and Mr. Pratt, was invited to resign, his office, which he did,, not, however, until he had given the president a piece of his mind for his course toward those officers wbo had incurred 'his displeasure by their activity in bringing to light the enormous frauds of the whisky ring.; j When Mr. Pratt resigned the office of internal revenue commissioner he returned to Logansport and resumed -the practice a ., hi& prpfession. He was engaged actively in this work until he died. - Indiana honored him with h"er confidence. and"he repaid "herTor that confidence by discharging with fidelity the trusts she committed to his care; There Beems to be some 'difficulty in "hiving" the opinion of the bogus president on the silver dollar question. It fluctuates. They say be is for '-'remonetization" one day and the next day b is opposed to it. Last week he and the secretary of the treas ury see in 3d at one time on the point of a quarrel oyer' the matter. We are sorry that there seems ato be a .lack of brains somewere to relieve the country of the terrible stringency and' dullness that seem to be upou it tu a LlJeyo uiütuw.

DEATH OF TUE IIO.V. JOHN PETTIT.

The distinguished men of Indiana seem to be rapidly passing away. Close upon the in telligence of the death of ex-Senator Pratt comes the electric tidings that ' Judge John Pettit is dead. The event was not entirely unanticipated by his neighbors.- On Saturday the Lafayette Journal, in speaking of his condition, said: Judge Pettit's condition to-day is unchanged. He has suffered a complete paralysis of the left side of his body, and since yesterday has been perfectly unconscious and has not partaken of food. Ills physicians . hope that he may rally, hut the Indications are unfavorable. The chances are against him. He may linger for a week or two. But he did not linger; he died last night at his home in Lafayette, where he settled in 1831. Judge Pettit was born in Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson county, New York, July 24, 1807, and was therefore nearly 70 years of age. He had the advantages of a good education, and choosing the profession of law, removed to Indiana in 1831 and settled in Lafayette, where he has since resided. The Hon. O. H. Smith, in his ''Early Indiana Trials and 'Sketches," says 0 Judge Pettit that he "was 'a large, fleshy man, below the common 'height, with a capacious brain with 'a strong, full voice, and a good 'lawyer. He possessed talents ; of a 'high order as a speaker, was not at first pre'possessing, but gained upon his audience as 'he progressed, and before he closed was 'heard with close attention. Juige Pettit occupied many distinguished positions a member of the state legislature, United States . district attorney, member of congress and United States senator, twice circuit judge and chief justice of the federal courts' of Kansas, and last one of the supreme judges of Indiana. These positions indicate clearly and conclusively the rank of Judge Pettit as one of the leading inen of the state and of the country. He enjoyed to an unusual extent the confidence of the people who honored him with positions of the highest responsibility. He is dead, ire was not perfect, but charity hides a multitude of imperfections. Measured by any recognized standard. John Pettit was a great man. The people of Indiana will be quick to forget his errors, intent only upon treasuring those qualities of head and heart that adorn and dignify human nature. Some well meaning radicals of the "good'ish" class, with a very triumphant air, frequently ask democrats, "Ain't Hayes do'ing first-rate? Why can't you democrats 'support hini?" The questions act as safety valves to this class of radicals, becauie the late rase ility of their party is still sadly green in their memories, and they think if Hayes behaves decently for a while, at least, the sin of the swindle ought to be forgotten. To all of this class we recommend the center shot of Senator McDonald in a conversation he held the other day with a cabinet officer, who probably was asking him questions of kindred import to those we have noticed. "So long &3 you confess the binding force of 'the ten Commandments," said the senator, "you may be sure we shall not deny it." The radical organs, in casting about for objections to Mr. Tilden, were wont to say that his style of expression in his speeches and state papers was vague and hard to be understood. They had no difficulty in understanding him at the recent farewell entertainment given to Mr. Hendricks a few days since. He said in allusion to the recent radical swindle: "Everv body knows that 'the candidates elected at the recent election 'were 'counted out, and those not elected 'were 'counted in.' " The truth, put in such terse, brief language, had a wonderful effsct on the radical organs. They did not relish it, and have charged Mr. Tilden with exhibiting bad taste, etc. One was so very unrefined in its expression as to call it an exhibition of "sore toes.'' Sad state of affairs that. KOTES AND OPINIONS. Mrs. Hayes is to summer at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. "A m k rca NTIL.K structure" Is what the Boston lans call a store. Ah ! Dan Castello, th "circus man," is tenting at the Black Hills. He is digging for gold this season. Au the English papers unite in speaking of Joe Jefferson as the first comedian of the English Speaking stage. At Bridgeto!, Missouri, last Thursday, A M. Fortin, aged 71, was tiarried to Miss Pe t tier, a young lady who is but 19 years of age. One hundred and seventeen persons In London have been poisoned and Injured by drinking milk tainted with scarlet fever. All children in Jfew Vorlc city under fourteen years of a?e who are found In places where liquor Is sold will be immediately arrested. . Moony and 8ankey will begin a revival at Baltimore the 1st of September. After fourteen weeks of work there they are to go again to Boston. ' Mk. BiECiiERsays that when he was young ne prayed seven times a day, but he found out 'it wasnt good for him." We thought he had stoppede practice. , James Oorvos Benxett is again' being dished up by tha personal paragraphers. The lsKt- anmuncmeut ia that he will return to this country In. July, May has bought a suit of mall- and a; üatllng gun, aud sings dally, "Hold the Fort.":' ' ; ' ; ' ; ' Tn post office at Hartford,' which Mr. JIullett is building; has already cost $115,000, and It will require SöO.OOü. A building In the same city, of larger size and made of better material. has cost but $175,000. So much for government frauds. ,. ,' '.' ... . . . '. ' Gail Hamilton Ms fat, fair and forty. She is pleasant, humorous and sparkling. Khe likes to hear and to use strong terse language, and though her books and newspaper articles aiek-beu, cutllngand. sarcastic, her conversation is exactly Uej-everjie. . , ( , . Tub New Yorklllerald gives Victor Hugo's letter to Tennyson, thanking; the poet fcrhte sonnet: ' , ' V To Alfred Tennyson. , , . , , .1 MrKivr axo Dkar Brothers! read with emotion your supwrb-ver.' I ia reflex of glory wuich you send me.; Why should I M you the ' England ot Wllbernot love Knifiaud, wnicn produces mf" buch

force, Milton and Newton. the

England of Rhakespeare? Krauce and England are tojme a single people, as truth and liberty are a single liuht. I relieve In the unity of humanity as I believe in the unity divine. I luve all peoples and all men, and 1 admire your noble verses. ! . . Victor Hugo. Of course yonr readers will not tail to observe in the French poet's answer a defence of himself against the irentle hint of Anglophobia which occurred in Tennyson's sonnet: Stormy voice of France W ho dost not love our England, so they say: I know not. '. The mosquitoes, for the first time In the history of London, are plagueiug the people along the banks of the Thames. It is tup pokert that these Insect annoyances were brought to England In . cargoes of foreign grain. A - little town in North Carolina called Salem, and which has a population of but 2,000 persons, lias sold in thre years over 3,01)0,000 bushels of blackberries, for which nearly half a million dollars were received. This year It is estimated that the berries will be of extra size and flavor, and shipping will soon begin In Georgia, North Carolina and others of the southern states. Mark Twain, In the following letter to a gentleman In California, explains where he got his famous nom de plume: Dear Sib "Mark Twain" was the nom de plume of one Captain Isaiah Sellers, who used to write river news over it for the New Orleans Picayune; he died in 18W, and as he could no longer need that signature, j laid . violent hands upon it without asking permission of the proprietor's remains. That is the history of the rum de plume I bear. Yours, truly. May 'jy. Samuel L. Clemens. Grant said that his legs were too short, and that he could not, when in the ship's berth; keep from either slipping down two feet, or back on his head; and the carpenter nailed a partition across the berth, and thus fastened the doctor (D. C. L ) in tight and safe. It isn't the first time Dr. Grant's legs were unsteady and he slipped about and fell on his head, and had need for a piece of lumber. . But then it was a shutter to carry htm home, aud instead of charging it to the roll of the ocean, it was hinted that It was the punch of whisky. . CcrIosity and Jealousy were what ruined a promising young pest office clerk in Augusta, Georgia, He was In love with two or three young ladles, and curious to know what they wrote to other men besides himself, he opened the letters that passed through his hands. In a quarrel with his affianced he upbraided her with quotations from her letters and also divulged the fact that he had been reading those of others, 'it is clearly proven by this that a Jealous lover has no business in a post office that h Is sweetheart patronizes. A Cincinnati cigar maker by the name of Andy Young was shot and probably mortally wounded by a private watchman Tuesday morning. Three men In a saloon were arrested for disorderly conduct by two policemen, who requested the private watchman, Bypher, to take charge of Young, one of the prisoners. Young on gaining the Btreet started to run, when Sypher shot aud hit him under the shoulder blade, but the wounded man ran on and escaped from the officers. He was taken to the hospital, but no hope Is entertained of Iiis recovery. Sypher has been arrested, and the two policemen who first arrested Young are to be suspended fiom the force. The two companions of Young were dismissed the next raornlr g by the Judge, there being no reason for their arrest. 1 JUST FOll 1'UN. j Dom Pedro would be a valuable addition to a professional ball team. He is the champion short stop. ; ' The disposition to sit down upon Turkey is probably due to the fact that it is the Ottoman empire. Detroit Free Press. , : .. , A boy having been ' told that "a reptile was an animal that creeps," on being asked to name one. on examination day, promptly replied, "A baby." . ' , "Ah," said a father to . his son William, "hearty breakfasts kill one-half of the world, and tremendous suppers the other halt" "I suppose, then," retorted William, "that the true livers are only they who die of hunger." At a bunday-school a teacher asked a little boy if he knew what the expression "sowing tares" meant. "Courth I do," said he, pulling a part of his trousers around in front; "there's a tear my ma sewed ; I teared it when i was sliding dowu hill," , , ' "Jane, what letter in the alphabet do you like best?" "Well, I don't like to say, Mr Snobbs." ' "Pooh, nonsense! tell right out, Jane, which do you like best?" , "Well," drooping her eyes, 'I like 'u' the best" 1 Aman was taking aim at a hawk that was perched on a tree near his chicken coop, when bis little daughter exclaimed, ;"Don't take aim, pa; let it go off by accident." "Why so?" asked the father. '"Cause every gun that goes off by accident always kills somebody," exclaimed the child. A German lost his wife, and the next week married again, and his new wife asked him to take her out riding. He felt indignant that she should have no more respect than that for his deceased , wife and said: "You dink I ride out mit anodder vornan 60 soon after the death of mine frau?", ' , When you see a young fellow, who a year ago used to step up and order lager for , the crowd with the utmost kiiuj frold, patiently trundling a baby carriage along the street on Sunday afternoon, and looking cbapfallen in his last season's hat, it speaks volumes for the reforming influence of woman's society. Puck. There was quite a company of fashionable guests sitting round the tabls after dinner, who happened tofdisagree as to the date of a certain event of which they had been talking, when the " host's eight year-old' un attempted to expedite the sohiiion of the problem by suddenly asking1, "Why. mamma, what day was it you washed Yne T Benevolent clergyman to Joe Whv are you standing there, little man? Joe 'Cause I've nowhere to go to. Clergyman Where are your father and. mother?- Joe DuundJ gone away, this ever so long. 1 ClergymanPoor little fellowl Well, well, can you an swer me this question, When yonr father and mother forsake tou. who Is it that will take yoa up? ' Joe-The perlicemanl Judy; . - i. Z. V . '. J--.' .. :( A man on board the United States steamer Monocacy, whose term, of service had lust expired, proceeds to take leave.; of his late officers. Approaching the' commander, he invoked the choicest blessings on his head, in a brogue that left no doubt as to his na-: tive od. And so he went from one to another, with a "Hod, bless ye!", or "May Heaven reward ye!" until he came opbosiW the Jieutenaut. coniniander, who had frequently been obliged to .suppress Pat's love for the ."ardent" by stopping, his leave. With reluctant touch of his cap and downcast eve. he mumbled .ouL "And may God bless you. too, Miauier u.,-w a sarun ex-1 tint!'" tint!

SEEING A SIGX.

No Beggars Wanted Where There is Money. Ramble of m Rnrnl Kolter In the Orbital City A Sharp Fellow on "' the Rampare. ' Greexcastle, June 11, 1877. To the Editor of the Sentinel : . Sir The writer . was in your beautiful city some days since. In my wanderings along its beautiful avenues and business' thoroughfares, I often stopped to admire the palatial residences of the rich, the monuments that wealth had erected. I am not a member of the Y. M. C. A. God help me. I am not a member of any church. Theologically I am paddling my own canoe. But still I am a Christian, and often read the Biblo, the "old fashioned Bible that lay on the stand." Ah, yes; I remember the time when father and mother and children gathered around the family altar, morning and evening, the sacred page was oead, and all bowed while a gray haired sire offered a '"sweet invocation," and the family formed a cl oral union and sang praises to God. But enough of this. You doubtless recall the visit of Paul to Athens. The old apostle, in wandering about that heathen city, stumbled upon an altar with this inscription: "To tub Unkown God." I was equally . fortunate . or unfortunate in Indianapolis, for in my travels I found not an altar, but a temple erected to mammon. Grand and gorgeous every architectural adornment spoke audibly, "Money." Outside was money; inside was money. The entire establishment was eloquent of interest and exchange. B?ing a Christian (?) and a Bible reader I thought of the palace of Dives and the txor man at his gate. Indeed I thought all along of that graphic account, as it is related by one of the Evangelists the sores, the dogs, the rags, the angels, in the one case; the purple and fine linen in the other. And still on beyond that, hell and cold water, and all of this train of thought grew out of the sign on this temple of mammon, "No beggars wanted here." I tbougüt it was an instance of remarkably Shakpe practice; too Starpe for this world and these hard times. I went off' into a train, of thought about flmrpt and sharpers and fharp as bankers, and sharpers who do not want beggars about them, and then.. J thought of Dives agiin and cold water and hell and torment, o Lazarus the beggar, of the dogs that licked . his sores (I felt kindly towards the dog?), of the angels that came down and sung sweet melodies in the ears of the beggar, poised on their wings and waiting untill starvation had done its worst, and with its rusty knife cut the thread of life and let the soul of poor Lazarus go free, which the angels tooK to heaven and placed gently in Abraham's bosom. Dives, like the baDker, did not want begvrars about him, not much; in fact, not at all; and in my fancy I saw him on tiiscouch of down; his silk robes were haDging on the back of a costly uphoisttred uoewood chair. . The curtains around his ded were sumptuous,silk and gold, and numerous servants waited without I thoughtof Mrs. Dives, poor, broken-hearted woman, and.1 thought I heaid a rattling behind the curtains where death and the devil were after the rich man who wanted no beggar at his gate. In this mood I thought: the rich man, wbo tabood beggars, waked up one sultry morning in bell, where there was such a scarcity of wa- . ter that he would have given his Jerusalem palace for one drop, and then I concluded that there was such a thing as beinp too Sharpk. The fact is, Mr. Editor, that a large Eer cent, of the people are poor. Many are eggars by necessity. It is with them, beg or starve for there is no work. There are few places where beggars are welcome. The grave takes them kindly, the dark I waves enfold them ' affectionately, and they have a place . in . heaven. . That is to say, Lazarus was plendidly accommodated. There is, however, one place in your town, so says the placard, where they are not wanted. Mr. Editor, did you ever stop to think a little about beggars? Tbey have souls they are immortalthere is not a very wide difference between a beggar and a millionaire; in fact, so far asGod is concerned, none at all. One is clothed and fed, the other is naked - and hungry. Jesus Christ w.'w particularly interested in the poor, the halt, the blind, the outcasts, the beggars, the people whom the Pharisees oppressed. So much so indeed that his Messiahship was at one time proved by his devotion to the poor, and it is safe to assume that if Jesus Christ had at any time observed a placard in Jerusalem on a banker's door, "No Beogars Wanted Here," he would have denounced the banker as a Sharper, and too Shakpk by half for a Pharisee, Sad usee, Scribe or Herodian, and would have ordered the sign pulled down, i Indianapolis is a beautiful city. Mr. Editor, the capital city of a great aud growing commonwealth; some of its citizens have made money by their own exertions, some have inherited it, but Indianapolis can not afford to placard its monuments of wealth by intimating that its poor must starve. The great world will tolerate no such Sfuirpc practices, as that. Teeny Young is dead, others are dying, poverty is on all the highways of all our cities, hunger is eating like a cancer in hundreds of homes, - little children - are cry'ng for bread, and if the parental anguish now existing could be wrought into one great wail it would startle heaven. In such a time the man who could placard a temple of mammon, -"Xo Beggars Wanted Here," adds a 8uirpe eT pang to. hunger and intensifies the anguish of poverty. . , ' Mr. Editor, I do not know that these rambling thoughts are worth .printing; if they are tbey are at your service. . Discount.. j i i - Hate not. . It ia not worth , whil. Your life is not long enough to , make it pay to cherish ill will or hard thoughts, toward any one. What if that man has cheated you, or that woman played you false? What if this friend has forsaken, you ' in, your time of need, or that one having won your utmost confidence, your warmtst love, has concluded that he prefers to consider, and treat you as a stranger? Let it all pass. What difference will it make to you in a few years, w hen you go hence to the "undiscovered coun try? All wbo treat you wrong now win De more sorry for it then than you, even in your deepest , disappointment and grief, can be. ,. A. few more smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much pain, a little longer llirrying and worrying in the world, some hasty greetings and , abrupt farewells, . and. Ufe will be over, and the injurer and the injured will be laid away and ere long , forgotten. Is.U worth while, to, hate each. A Connecticut twacher says that a good ' consrreeation will praise 4he music, the f choir, the ventilatisn and the civilities of the nsher, but as to the ' sermon,' "Well, I , uuuno."