Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1878 — Page 1

VOL. XXVII NO 22. INDIANAPOLIS, "WEDNESDAY MOKNING, JANUARY 1G, 1878. TOOLE NO. 213.

"MOTHER'S rOOL."

' Tls plain to me," Raid the farmer's wife, "Tlie.se boys will make their mark in life; Ttuy never were made to handle a hoe. And at once to college tney ought to go. Yes, John and Henry, 'tis clear to me, Oreat men in tbU world are Bare to be; Bat Tom, he's little above a fool &o John and Henry must go to school. "Now, really, wife," qnoth farmer Brown, As he sets h Is mug of cider down, Tom does more work in a day for me Than both of his brothers do in three. Book learnln will never plant beans or corn, Nor hoe potatoes, sure as you're born - Nor mend a rod of broken fence; 1'or my part, give me common rense. But his wife the mast was bound to rule, And so "the boys" were sent to school; "While Tom, of coarse, was left behind, For his mother said he had no nilna. Five years at school the students spent, Then each one Into business went. John learned to play the flute and fHdle, And parted his hair (of course) in the middle. Though his brother looked rather higher than lie. And kunt; out his shingle "H. Brown, M. D." Meanwhile, at home, their brother Tom IId taken a "notion" into his head, . Though he said not a word, but trimmed his tre, And hoed his corn and sowed his peasBut somehow, either by "hook or crook," He managed to read full many a book. "Wei!, the war broke out, and "Captain Tom," To battle a hundred soldiers led; And when the enemy's flag went down. Came marching home as "General Brown." But he went to work on the farm again, Plautea his corn and sowed his grain. Repaired the bouse and broken fence. And people said he had common sense." Now, common sense was rather rre. And the state house needed a portion there ; So onr "family dunce" moved into town. And the people called him "Governor Brown ;" And bis brothers, that went to the city to school Came home' to live with "mother's fool." For the Sunday Sentinel. ALL FOR LOVE. BY MRS. SALLIE A. RAMAGE. ClIAFTEB I. 'What a very, very domestic litis dove your wife must be, Mr. Fhelps. While you are here having a gay time, she, like a good devoted dear, is at home doing the domestic mendiDg I have no doubt Another waltz? "Why, you are too exacting. Well, as you like,' and in a moment more Kate Mason was half encircled by Mr. Phelp3' arm as together they glided through the dance to tLe music of Strauss' most enchanting strain. They were a superb couple. People turned to look at them as they swept past, and they, as if conscious of the admiration, seemed to think only of each other. In truth there was more truth than seeming in this, for to-night it would have been little less to them it the rest of the world could have been banished, and they two left to enjoy that which they were beginning to crave, moments of sweet solitude. It was the old story, the same old tempt&Uon, the same weak human hearts and foolish natures, and the result seemed likely to be the usual one. Will Phelps was a "good fellow." Ah. in his bachelor days he had been the toas of fair feminine lips, and the boon companion at every merriment. He had been the life of his "set," the best singer, the best dancer, greatest flirt in his circle, and where he was there was always gathered a group of kindred spirits. lie was comparatively wealthy, withoat care for the present or plans for the future. He had been the great mat rinionial prize for which half a hundred scheming mammas had anxiously angled for their -equally anxious daughters, and though he had been engaged times without number he had at last married to please himself, and without asking the advice of .anybody; and now, after the lapse of five years, he was still Will Phelps, gay and free as ever. His friends were astonished when he introduced his wife to them, a pretty girl of seventeen, with a timid grace of manner that won the hearts of even the coldest of her critics. She was entirely ignorant of the ways of the fashionable world to which her husband brought her, and though she felt ill at ease no one could, have suspected that she was a stranger to the scenes through which she passed. She made no false steps, because she clung to Will with desperation. She made few mistakes, and they were slight, and her unaffected despair covered over every little deviation from strict etiquette. She had been raised in the country, a minister's daughter, with the traditions of the past an every day recital, and a code of laws and a creed as straight and binding as her father could make them. Her mother had died long before she could remember, and she had lived a cold, sunless life with her father. Not without love, for she was dearer to him than the apple of his eye, and he treasured her as tenderly as mortal man ever did the one blessing ot his otherwise dreary existence. She almost worshiped the quiet old man, for her love was half the pious reverence that the ardent devotee has for the saints, and she would .have died ere she would have disobeyed ahim or incurred his displeasure. And yet her warm, girlish nature craved other comjinionship, and when Will Phelps crossed her path she thought him an ideal man, one whose character must be as grand and noble A3 his face was handsome. She had known no such In all the years of her girlhood; she Lad met only the country lads, or the grave ministers who occasionally came to the par aonage. His gay, singing laugh was new music to ber rapt ears, and his smiles were her sunshine. She learned to listen for his coiaing, and her lashes were heavy with tears when, with the tenderness that seemed part of his nature, he would bid her goodby. He brought her flowers and books, and m turn she talked to him of her life, her books, her few friends, her quiet home, until, despite the warning of his 'worldly wisdom, he asked her to marry him. It was.

a strange wooing, for she loved him too well to say nay to his pleadings for an early marriage, and the brief courtship ended with the simple country, wedding in the little chapel by the wayside. Her father was very pale, very tremulous, as his voice pronounced the binding words, and the fading eyes were misty as he bent forward to lay upon her head his hands in benediction. She was his all, his life, his happiness, his support, and when her arms were thrown around his neck he could only whisper, "You are mine yet, Maggie; little Maggie." "Yes, father, not the less yours because I am Will's, too; you have gained a son, not lost a daughter." This touched the newly made husband, and he promised those same promises that are ever given by the happy at the marriage altar of mutual trust and love, and he meant every word in its fullest sense, and yet he did wish Maggie would not cry so mnch when, an hour later, he started towards the city with her. Poor little bride; she did try to crash back the sobs, bat the tears wonld come, until she was half sick with the sorrow and the excitement. Never before had she been from, never had she left the father's protecting arms, the safe shadow of the parsonage, and, though she trusted and loved her husband, yet she was very, very sad. Her new home was elegant beyond anything she had ever seen or known, but she felt lost in the handsomely furnished apartments, and she would creep off to some quiet spot to dream of the little, humble, meagerly appointed place that would ever be home as long as her father dwelt within its walls. She would stretch out her arms with a hungry longing for the dear old face, the halo of white hair above it, and the soft lips that had so often pressed her own. And yet she dare not tell Will of this. She had seen that it provoked him, and she was silent on the very themes that her heart so sacredly guarded. She loved her husband passionately, wildly, and so without a regret or murmur she tried in all things to please him. She dropped her old manner as she did her dresses that had seemed so grand to her once, but that now were out of date and style. She was very pretty, and for his sake, whose every wish was to her a law, she came and went, she dressed and talked, she sang and played, never weary, never upbraiding. Society declared her a beaufy and rendered her homage, and to please her husband she became a queen in her social realm. But she was still pure and unaffected, and she could be nothing else, and all too plainly for the requirements of society did she show her love for Will, her great desire to please him, her utter indifference to all else, until at last he chiaed her for this, and bade her be more reserved, less demonstrative. She obeyed; never again did he tell her such a thing, but the sweet young face grew sad and pale, and the lines about the proud, sensitive mouth showed the pain and suffering his careless words had caused. When her babe was born the joy and gladness came back to the mother, and Bhe forgot the past in the exceeding happiness of the present. Her cup beemed full, and she trembled lest any of the precious wine of peace should be lost. Will was tenderness itself. He was proud of the little one, who was so much like himself, and he petted the pretty, dainty mother as he never had done before. He wrote to her father of the new treasure, and when the old man came he rejoiced that his daughter's life was crowned with all the blessings that even his anxious heart could ask for her, and when upon the. innocent little head he placed the baptismal water it was with great thankfulness and hope. He could see no shadow in the happy home. But Maggie was very fragile, and Will, unused to the stillness of the sickroom, wearied of the feeble wailings of the child and the nervousness of his wife. She tried to be so bright and pleasant when he came home, but he talked a little, yawned, made some weak excuse and left her alone for hours. Then remorseful and aahaiaed, he would go to her with apologies, but she was too trusting to ask or even expect these, and he was well satisfied that she did not reqaire explanations that would have been awkward, A few more weeks and the little baby's life fluttered out, and the young mother's heart was desolate and sad, and again Will became her one idoL She held the little, cold form to her breast, kissed the tiny face, the pretty dimpled hands, and then they carried her baby from her, and for days and weeks she lived a blank, unconscious existence, that had no semblance of life but the weak, irregular breathing. She could not cry out, but in the night time she would moan for the little one, the lost bud that had been so soon plucked from her loving clasp. She tried to be brave for her husband's sake, but it was hard, and when again she went about the house she was only a gboct of the bright, rosy cheeked girl of two years before. She had no desire for festivities in fact, no strength; and too unselfish in her affection to ask any sacrifice of time or pleasure, she saw her husband leave her night after night without blaming him. She would grow weary and lonely, and too weak to resist the sad memories she would weep for the only one under the sod, and Will, finding her eyes reddened, her cheeks marked by the tears, would be vexed, and speak, not angrily, but reproachfully. She tried to pass the hours reading, and with rare good taste she read only the books she felt her father would approve. She wanted to see him again, but he was too old and weak to come to her, and she felt rather than knew

that her husband would not allow her to visit the old home. ''Maggie, when will yon go with me into society? I am tired of going alone, and I want you with me. Will you go to Mrs. Foster's next week?" Oh, Will, think of baby." "Well, Maggie, dear, I am sorry he died; I wanted him to live, and I did all I could to save him, but he is gone. Now, it is sinful and wicked to grieve so. You do not love me or you would think of me more and him less." "Love yoa, my darling? better than my life, but lean not help grieving for the little one; but I will try to please you. If you will order my dress I will go." "That's a good girl. Have no thought of the dress; I will attend to that, and you hall be dressed just as your pretty face deserves." Seh went with him; ehe put on gay apparel, but her heart was not in the merry scene, and though she tried to smile, the shadow of a great sorrow darkened her face. She was more beautiful than ever, but it was a refined, quiet beauty that made her to all but her husband the fairest of the fair. He was tired of the yoke he had lifted upon bis own neck, and as he saw the patient companion of his home, he became weary of her gentleness and patience. She tried hard to please him. She spared neither time nor pains to be with him whenever he desired her presence, buUat last he seemed to desire it no more. He was still gay, wild, laughing Will Phelps, and he never lacked for company, and lately this had been Kate Mason, a dashing woman, nearer his own age by 10 years than his wife. She was never weary, never sad, never in tears; but her greetings were ever as merry as her smiles. She had known him for years; they had flirted, quarreled, coquetted, then been as strangers. She was not the woman he would have chosen for a wife. She had had too many lovers; her name had been on too many lips too freely and carelessly; hut she was a woman for an hoar's chat when a maus better nature was obscured, and his vows and resolutions forgotten. She was not extraordinarily beautiful, but she was fascinating and graceful, and she turned heads and won hearts as lightly as she toyed with her perfumed fan. She had tried to win Will Phelps, but he had been too wary, and escaped the net that she had arranged for him. But she watched her opportunity, and boasted to herself that he would not remain long true In his allegiance to the pretty country girl he had chosen for his wife, but would come back to her, if only to show the flowers that covered his chains. She tried to be patronizing and condescending to the young wife, but it was useless; the dove and the hawk can not remain together, and Maggie, true to her better nature, avoided the proud haughty woman. "You need not go with me to-night, Macgie; I have an engagement to meet be fore I go the ball." "But, Will, I expected to; in tact I promised to; be there. Please take me." "No, no, you can stay at home and read, and you will be much happier You do not like such scenes, and I do not want to drag you." "I shall be happier with you, darling; I shall not be in your way. May I go?" "No!" "Is Miss Mason to be there?" "What if she is? Your are not jealous are you? "Sir!" The hot blood dyed the wife's face, and she looked up astounded into her husband's eyes. "Jealous? Why, Will, I am your wife." He did not answer her, but left her with a hasty kiss. As he moved through the dance with Kate Mason's face pressed to his 6houlder, her warm breath floating to his half parted lips, her yielding form clasped close to him, for an instant he remembered those words, "I am your wife," but he remembered only to forget. To be Continued. Farm Economies. As there is much soft corn, or corn the cob of which is not thoroughly dry, the farmers should use great care in selecting only the soundest and dryest ears for seed, and store it in a dry, airy place. Do not put it in the granary or over grain, as the sweating of the grain destroys its germinating qualities, and good crops can not be raised withoat good seed. Only save the best of everything for seed. If the tools are not under cover long before this, lose no time in putting them there. Look them over, and see if they need repairing. If so, have it done the first spare dar , so that they will be ready for the early spring work, as much time and money is lost by the delays caused by broken and rusty tools when most needed. Stock of all kinds should be provided with comfortable quarters. It does not pay to keep stock standing in mud or snow. It coats more to feed them than it would to provide shelter. Care .should be given to the poultry. Build them a good, warm house with plenty of room. Have good, clean nests provided, and give plenty of light. This, with a change of leed occasionally and plenty of good, fresh water will cost but little, and thy will pay you well by a supply of fresh eggs for the ta)le, or to sell, nearly all winter, and at this time of the year they always bring a good price. Nothing on the farm pays bttr than poultry in proportion to the expense, and nothing is more neglected. And now that winter is here with its long evenings, be sure and supply yourself and family with pltntyof reading matter. Have at least on good paper; it'is almost as necessary in these days of railroads and telegraphs as good seed or tools. He started out at 10 o'clock a. m.,when he said, "I wish you a happy New Year." At 12 he was saying, "Wish ye happy New Year." At 2 p. m. it was "Wishshappy New Year." At 4, "sh shappy Newyer." At G, "shappynewer;" at 8, "nappjheer," and at 10, thrusting his night ky in his mouth, and vainly endeavoring to I?t himself in at the front door with his cigar, he turned to Jones and said: "Splendid Urn makin

J calls; sh'new'r, ole fellow, 'n mauv turns day ."Argus.

BAL9I, Dreamily drifting downward, The apple blossoms come. In the Hush of (he golden evening, As the little birds fly, home; Bftly, sofUy fall Inn, Falling to the ground. The air is pink with the blossoms, Drifting like spirits around. Freshly the fragrance fioateth. Out on the sunset air, Softly the light b rebate wafts it In at the window there; "W here softly, softly Kleeping, In a slumber long and deep, Lie a mother and ber bady, And o'er them none to weep. Freshly the breeze conies, wafting In at the window there, A shower nf scented snow-flake On the woman's hairOn to the snowy dohoui On to the baby's cheek Like a sign of pardon and healing To the erring and the weak. Oh, heart so warm and weary, Walking the ways of life; The world shall not judge thee longer, Nor be with thee m strife. Thou hast found the balm of healing, Ood'n rest Ik upon thee now And His fragrant benediction. In Hie blossoms on thy brow. Apple Blossoms.

FASH I ox Mores. Long English and Russian blouses are much worn by little girls until they are four or five years old. The little boys wear them, too, for that matter, and they are made exactly alike for both. With these we find walking coats with princesse fronts, with simulated vest fronts, and the skirts set is large box-pleats and the bactr, and sashes set at the side seams. White jet is used on ball dresses. Gilded or silver table mats are the lalest rage. Ice wool is the favorite for knitting this season. It is becoming fashionable for ladies to embroider table cloths and napkins for their breakfast table. Mosaic buttons are the most fashionable. Pressed fringe for trimming dresses is new. Long waists and short skirts gain in favor for children. A new bonnet is called the "Marie de Medicis," and has the front shirred op wires. An imported feather trimming, made of ostrich down or even on a surface is a novelty. Birds' wings, claws and heads, either gilt or silver, are the newest ornaments for hats. New fans have borders of crimped silk fringe instead of feather borders so long worn. Silk ties are richly embroidered in colors to suit the costume. For house toilets muslin ties, wrought with tinted flasses, are preferred. Very long wai3ted woman should avoid plain undraped tight princesse ball robes, for nothing is less plastic than a May pole. The only way to conceal the excessive length of some spines, and the solitude of some flat surfaces, is to adopt either cordons and garlands of flowers or old silver filigree straps, which were flat chains in th medieval period, and are loosely hungjfrom the waist, falling over the hips with graceful loops of antique bows added to them as trails of foliage, which reach the part on which tbe fullness of tulle organze ommences. On the other hand, a princesse fit on a good figure is perfection. There are garlands of flowers likewise for fall figures, but they are thicker between the backbones than Aver the arm and in frootrwhere thy diminish in width to a mere clinging leaf. It may be said now with perfect truth that dresses are made of bits and ends. The skirt, waist and sleeves are all composed of a mixture of colors and materials. This fashion, Moreover, offers inexhaustible resources to economy. If a waist has become too tight, r appears a little worn in front, it is fur nishei with a vest or plastron of faille or emboed velvet of a different color. The same faille or velvet is employed in a twist or in eufl's for trimming the sleeves, and this is considered sufficient for contrast When a dre is too short or too narrow, a front or back breadth, or else side breadths, of a different material are added. If there is only sufficient material fc r a polonaise, it is cut into agrande robe, completed on the bottom by flojixices of faille to match the material. I repe4t, the resources of the present style are litcxhaustiOTa. The sleeves may differ from tfie waist, and the back of the latter may bfe made ot another material than the fronL There are also made many besques with two purposes, that is to say, which may bV worn either with a single morning costmpe or a full dress evening toilet. Some f these batques are high-necked, to be worn with dinner and opera toilets, and are made with a moveable vest of faille or satin in a light color and trimmed with lace. Other! are half decollete, and are made hiffh for the morning by means of a plas tron f the same material with a deep. t-quara collar. The plastron is put on nrst, aud tlien tbe barque, and the latter can be made fentirely high when necessary, inese cmbi iations are adapted especially for elvet dresses, which may be worn for black simp! toilets as well as for full dress, ana pernu the saving of a basque. They are also It fed for dresses of black faille or satin for satin is decidedly in fashion this winter. Its reeforation has been predicted for several years past, but tbe prophecies were for the future, which has become the present. This winter more dresses of black satin will be seea than of black faille. IfXIGIOUS IXTEIXIGEXCE. Dr. ililburn, the blind preacher, is lecturing aid preaching in Ireland to large audiences. The Reformed Episcopal church now numbers fitly clergymen, fifty p rishes and about four thousand communicants. E-lw ird Kimble, the church debt raiser, is going i o Chicago to try his persuasive powers upon the innocent Chicagoians. Mr. Moody's church in Chicago cost $34.000, anjd is entirely paid for. He intends soon to) resume his pastoral relations in that city. 1 The Heath of B'shop Marvin, ot the Methodist thurch South f will necessitate the election of three bishops by the general conterence which meets in Atlanta. The1 ministerial union of Philadelphia, composed of Protestant clergymen, at a late meeting adopted a resolution declaring their belief in the old orthodox doctrine of future and endless punishment The bniversa!ists, according to their year book fir 1878, are now 35,395 strong, against 32 947 in 1876 and 31,071 in 1875. They have CJl charch organizations, 765 church edifices and 722 ministers. Their parish "property is estimated to be worth $0,978,110. The fUptists in the state of Nebraska have 104 churches in the association, besides seven unassnriated churches. The number of clerevmen with pastorates is 84. The mem bership of the associated Churches is 2,038,

and lu total memoersnip is auo uit

crease in membership in the year as f hown by the minutes has been 354, an avera.je of a little raore than 44 to each association! There is considerable discussion at present in reference to the exodus of the colored people from the southern states to Liberia. The American Missionary says: "The enrollment still goes on 65,000 in South Carolina. 69,000 in Louisiana and large numbers in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi. In South Carohaa five commissioners have Deen appointed to visit Liberia and make arrangements for emigration, and a joint stock company 1ms been formed to issue 30,000 shares at $10 each 2,000 already taken. The Roman Catholic bishop of Vancouver's Island is visiting Alaska, makiDg a tour through the interior preparatory to the establishment of a mist-ion, if it stall be deemed best He gives an interesting description of his journey and of the habits of the Indians. He will remain for a while at Milato to determine whether or not that would be a good place in which to open a mission to the Indians. Milato is on the Yonkon river, which is a grand stream 2,000 miles long, GOO miles from its mouth, where it three miles wide. S. S. Harris having declined thf office o oishopof the diocese of Quincy, 111., to which he was recently chosen, a special convention will be held in Quincy oa Tuesday, February 2G, for the purpose of another election. Dr. George F. Seymour, elected to the diocese of Springfield, declines t decide upon the question of acceptance "until the church at large, through her constituted authorities, has expressed her judgment," In the absence of the general convention the ratification of the choice is in the hands of the standing committees of the diocese. Among the Nizam's Portuguese officers, not let's remarkable for his quaint ness than his catholicity, was a Major Freeman. This Major Freeman was a strange character. When his wife was very ill a religious friend offered to read and pray beside her, but he declined, saying, in his broken English, "My dears friends, I do not want yoas. I'se got Catholic priests; they prays for my wife; Brahmins makes japs for my wife; Gosains sits in de water for my wile; Mussulmans fakeers makes prayers for my wife; I prays myself for my wife. Little of alls is best dear friend." Meadows Taylor. A call for a national convention of all Israelites who are now willing to accept of Jest is Christ as the promised Messiah of the the world is issued by the Rev. David Rosenberg, M. D., of Columbus, Ohio, who invites correspondence fixing an early date and place to hold the assembly. The object of the convention shall be: (1) To form an alliance of all the converted Jews and Israel ites throughout the world, and to appoint a set time to confess the sin of the nation in rejecting Jesus Christ the Son of God, and crucifying Him, thereby bringing the wrath of God upon the nation ; (2) To form a basis for the national existence upon the New Testament Scriptures as the statute and law of the nation; (3) To implore the powers of the world to restore Palestine to the people of God, for this is the day nf grace.

ALL SORTS. A charity ball in St Louis recently netted $7.000 an instance of good management worthy of notice. The Croton aqueduct in New York, is the largest in the world. Its length is miles, and its cost $12,500,000. Good Kate Claxton ! She gave each of the 17 members of her company in Baltimore a package of bon tons, containing a 10-dollar gold piece. The mayor of Philadelphia refused, on the 31 st to license any variety theaters for 1878. He said that he would abide by the decision of the courts, and if this should be adverse he would close them all up. James Crawley, a newly landed American mechanic, who said that he had last worked at New Haven, has been arrested at London for breaking into a dwelling houso and, when discovered, murderously assaulting the servants with a "jimmy." The superintendent of schools in Emmet county, la, is out in a letter of advice to his schoolma'ams, in which he says: "Remember that your time belongs to the district and leave at home your novels, love letters and needle work." The superintendent is a married man. The chaplain of the Portland prison, England, has encountered a prisoner who listens respectfully to exhortations and says that he "can not afford to lose the benefits of fifteen years' apprenticeship" to his trade of thieving. Imprisonment this philosopher regards as "a Deriod of depression.' Dr. Mary Putnam-Jacobi, who received the Boylston medical prize at Cambridge the judges being under the impression that they were giving it to a man is honored by a reception in Boston. The Boy Is ten prize was good enough in its way, but the Boston reception settles definitely her intellectual status. . Mr. Preston Powers, son of the late Hiram Powers, the sculptor, is succeeding admirably in his father's profession. He is now in Florence, Italy, engaged upon a statue of the late Hon. Jacob Collamer, of .Vermont He is said to bear a striking resemblance to his father, and when working in bis studio, arrayed in cap and blouse, the likeness is very decided. His love for his profession is absorbing, and during the 10 yei.rs of his artistic life he has filled his studio with numerous excellent works. A question of the rights of opera goers has just been decided in Paris. A man bought four orchestra stalls, expecting to see Capoul. That night Capoul had a cold and appeared not The ticket money was demanded back and refused. A law suit followed, and the ticket buyer was sustained. The case was appealed, and the civil tribunal has just decided that there whs not any engagement made with the buyer that Capoul should play on the night in question, and that the manager fulfilled his contract by placing the four stalls at the disposal of the former. Mercedes, future queen of Spain, will be one of the mostbeautiful sovereigns in Europe. She is a very pretty young woman of the pure Spanish type, with very black eyes and Wr, fine features and a f ill figure. She receives from the duke de Mcntpensier, her father, a dowry of $5,000,000, a great quantity of diamonds and a magnificent trousseau. Her sister, the countess de Paris, has sent a wedding gift of a beautiful suit of jewels. The young king gives his bride loads of jewels and his portrait set in brilliants; and the pe sends a wedding rini; which he has leased and a rose in diamonds.

SOUTH BEND'S GLORY.

The Stndarjaker Wagon "Works. Origin and Progress or the Larxesfl Wagon Works In the World. A quarter of a century ago. in the year 1852 two brothers, Henry and Clem Stndabaker one at the bench, the other t t iti. W - 1 ; . 1 r rr s si; AT THE FORGE, commenced the manufacture of wagons at Bouth Bend. Ind. They had learned from their father, the venerable John Studa baker, who was laid to rest on the 18th of December last, in the beautiful cemetery at South Bend, 'all of years and crowned with honors, the details of wagon making, as he made the first Stndabaker wagon, at Gettysburg, Penn., in the year 1818. The were vigorous, enterprising and determined, and late and early tolled and struggled against almost insurmountable difficulties. The entire capital possessed by7 tbe firm at that time was $68, backed by strong, robust constitutions and Indomitable win. The amount of work done at that time was very limited, and would scarcely supply tha demands of a single township. An old fashioned bellows kept the coals alive on the forge, and sturdy blows cut and welded the iron. Early and late they worked, gaining little by little the long arm of the lever which hat com pletely overturned the process of wagon manufacture in the world. In 1837 Henry retired from the business and purchased a farm near South Bend, upon which he still lives. A younger brother took his place, and the firm became C. & J. M. Stndabaker. In 1305 two other brothers were admltted to partnership Peter E. and J. F. and the style of the firm again changed to the Stndabaker Brothers. In 1869 a stock company was formed, and the name It now bears adopted, mdabrter "Brothers Manufacture" " ing company." From these humble beginnings has grown the grandest, largest and most complete wagon works In the world employing over 703 hands, with a manufactory coverlng acres of ground, with a floorage of over nine acres, and turning out a wagon every ten minutes, and doing an annual business of more than 12,000,000. The success of these brothers may seem phenomenal, but iC is only the result of persistent, untiring industry, and mutual co-operation tor tbe accomplishment of a common aim. Trie result has not been achieved by spasmodic nor fortunate venture or speculation, but has been the natural outgrowth of pluck, and intelligent management on the part of these truly representative American manufacturers. While these brothers worked with their hands, their thoughts were busySrith schemes and plana for the advancement of their financial Interests, as well as to extend their bounds, and make a demand for their work beyond the limits of their own township. If they heard of a machine that economized labor, It was investigated, and, If found to be of utility, bought. They improved old processes and invented new ones; they welcomed labor-saving machinery as a boon to humanity; they sought to cheapen production, aud succeeded ; they went out into the world for a market, and found it; and the present magnificent factory, coupled with tbe demands of the whole civilized world for these wagons, attests that they worked and thought to a purpose. Success has crowned their efforts, and to-day they stand at ths head of the wagon manufacturers of the, world. This may seem to be an extravagant expression, but the fact remains tha same, nevertheless. - To bring the facts within the reach of all who can read and estimate, we give below the irresistible logic of figures, showing the compara give increase of production since 1872: Year. No. Vehicle. 1X72 , 1873 1874 6,950 10,X 1 1 I'm 15.000) 1875 In connection with the wagon factory this. company has one of the largest carriage facto ries in the west, and the same thought and effort which has made the wagon factory a success, are used to make their productions In this department second to none in the world. Any vehicle used upon the farm, upon the road or upon the driving park can be found at their factories at South Bend, or at their repository. Nos. lot and 153 Wabash avenue, Chicago, 10. Not only are the Studabaker Brothers m-jn of large business experience, but they are alto thoroughly Informed upon state and national interests. The wealth they have acquired ha keen used as avehlcle for the acquisition of general knowledge. Clem Stndabaker, tbe presi dent, spent two or three years abroad, a fewyears since, studying the institutions Of the old world, end his rare nollection of paintings and splendid library attest his rare discrimination in the higher fields of art and llterature. U.ls appointment by Governor Williams as one of the commissioners to the exposition a Paris will reflect credit upon tne state and nation at large. The other brothers are atao men of goners! information and knowledge. Peter EU .tudabaker Is one of tbe managers of tha Mortoa monumental association. Kealizlng that general information and reading make better and more contented men. they have for some years past suhHertbed for ana presented each of their employes a copy of some weekly paper, a project that should oejtadopted oy every manufacturer la the land.

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