Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1878 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MOKNING, JANUARY 1G. 1878.

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QUI BONO.

BY X. E. KASTA. What's tne Rood of life's enduring. Striving, grieving, hopes alluring, White all files us in pursuing, I.Ike the mirage o'er tbe Band ; . As the Arab sees green palm grove s, ny blue waters as he roves. Preceding and eluding, as he moves, So the hopes and Joys of man. With the Hpaniard grave we query. As life's disappointments weary, Darken hope with storms so dreary, Of life's total "what's the good?" Klnce the voyagers beside us, Care so little what betide us. For our very woes deride us. Why hold up and breast the flood? Hope's delusion comes In childhood. When It fires the tho'ts and heartblood. With such radiant dreams of rare good, Wneu youth's stature shall be won. Half the beauty of its sunrise, Falls unheeded on their child eyes, Out of calmest, loveliest skies, Never prized 'til it Is done. So the youth, the boy or maiden. Nigh contemptuous of the aiden Of life's morning, flower laden, Dream their dreams of time ahead i ' When their fellows shall be lictors, Serving, hon ring them the victors Evea maidens see such pictures Thus youth passes and is dead. I,tfe's meridian is a battle. Ah, lis strange amidst its rattle, All its surging strife and brattle, Men and women can dream dreams. But hope's mirage, broader, fairer, Sharps its outlines nearer, rarer, Tho' our sight by tears washed clearer. Knows there's much that only seems. When old ages lock's of snow, Shade sunk eyes that lose their glow. When its Ihln voice quavers low, In life's time of Rodent dearth ; Doth hope's vision, false ntlll glimmer? O'er death's arid sands its shimmer Krighter grows, as time grows dimmer, In man's passage swift from earth. Ah, my soul, will life's undoing Knd st asthoes vain pursuing? Or, death's farther shore, stili viewing Toe fair mirage, reached at last; Kent!) the palms shall our feet rest. By blue waters end our quest, Hope's fruition, calm our breast Whea earth's Journey Khali be past? Franklin, Ind., Dec. 30, 1S77. MAKING THE CHILDREN HAPPY. BY r.UTH GKAXGKR. "I always endeavor to manage 60 that my children shall have no doubts in regard to my wishes for their happiness," said Mrs. Pearl to her neighbor, Mrs. Wealthy, whom she was visiting. "Well," was the reply, "people's ideas differ in regard to what children need to make ttum happy. Now my opinion is this if my children have enough to eat and drink, dress as well as their mates, have a home as good as their neighbors, they have no cause to complain. I have no time to waste on flowers," she continued, as she commenced basting the third rullle on a light print dress, preparatory to stitching; "on a iarm ane has enough to do. What with the care of a half dozen cows, chickens to feed, and such washings and ironings as I have to do. Ellen!" to a girl of fourteen, who had just entered the room with a book; "you should know better than to borrow that book to read this time of the vear. You can go over to Mrs. Foster's and get those pieces for the 'Log Cabin quilt which the promised me. Don't stop to play croquet," she added, "for we must finish that quilt on the frames this week. As to walks and rambling in woods, its not to be thought of," as the door closed behind her daughter; "clothes wear out fast enough without extra pains, and sewing accumuhv.es fast enough on my bands as it is." Perhaps Mrs. Pearl did not wonaer at her neighbor's remarks as she observed the work witn which she bu.ied herself, and knew so well that those ruffles must be ironed after wearing them, less than a half dozen times, bat she only said: "With your permission I -will relate to you how 1 came to change my mind in regard to this very matter, aud you till not be surprised that I seem willing to devote ?o much time for the society of my children. "When Walter and I were married," she continued, "we had no great abundance; indeed, what we consider necessaries now would have been positive luxuries to us then, but we loved each other truly, I think, '(with a little blush,) and we were very ambitious, feeling sure that where two pairs of willing bands worked together and carried -out the plans of two united hearts great results would be sure to follow, and so, after our day's toil was ended, we would build pleasant air castles and dream bright dreams for the future. We were blessed with prosperity, but as we counted the summers come and go, and our bank account increased, I do not remember that .our sympathies were enlarged, nor did we obtain tbe comforts and luxuries so much coveted in the earlier days. Our argument then was that we must acquire more, for oi-e of these days little Walter and Elsie will need an education, for they were bright with their books. Ah, met well do I remember those days; how my little Elsie would coax mamma for a walk, for she was a great lover of nature, as well as a gn-at 'mother girl.' 'Just come and see the little bine bird's nest down in tbe orchard, mamma,' or, 'mayn't we go down to the brook and gather maple leaves for mamma and I,' she would say, for if mother was not along the charms were all gone from her walks; dowers faded, and bird notes lost half of their music 'Not now, Elsie, I would answer; 'some other day;' or perhaps impatiently, 'Don't tease me so much when I have so much to do;' and then she would sit beside me all the afternoon for tbe sake of my silent company. At the close of the summer that marked her ninth year, a fever broke out in the neighborhood, and among the first stricken was my darling. When in her delirium she would speak ol violets plucked by her hands and presented to me, and lived over again our few rambles, you may guess of the prayers and vows I ottered in silence that the future should be m -re pleasant for htr: but k was not to be, for era many dtys she was laid away, with no future for nte to redeem for her. "The violets have blossomed on her little grave for many springs, but, my dear friend. I have never forgtten this lesson While it is our duty to train ou children in the paths of usefuluei-s and industry, we must culti--rate an intimacy with different tastes. Let them feel our sympathy for them every day and never count time misspent that will bind pareut aud child together with a better and purer love, tnongh it be at the excuse of elaborate clothing, ana the surety of leav

ing them wealth which will not increase their affection for us. nor bring back tbe wasted hours that might have been made as so many sunbeams." TBAI3PS FKO POSIT! OX.

lie Will 9Iale People Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. New York Hun. To the Editor of the Sun : Sin First to adopt the five cent restaurant, two dollars a week for lodging, sixteen dollar suits, five dollar hat, quarter hair cutting, five cent buttoniere, five cent neck tie, dollar glove, economic evolution will the Sun help me to utilize my experience to benefit others? With cheap coal, cheap rents, cheap labor, why should we poor people pay a dollar to a dollar and a half for a single Turkish or Russian bath when fifty cents pays a large profit, or $10 to $15 for board when $5 is ample on the European plan? Why should one man pay two portions at Delmonico's when he wants but one? My power over life and death comes through psychological knowledge of the laws of life. I can save ninety out of a hundred. But tbey must surrender their will! I must control their appetites and passions. To do this I must have collateral conveniences. Gluttony and drunkenness are cutting down our prominent men In their prime. Pat me on the shoulder, as I am susceptible to kindness, and I will guarantee all a new lease of life. Hotels don't pay! Houses . are standing empty! Capitalists want to secure a good investment. Several have consulted me. The Sun i3 rich in its one hundred thousand daily acquaintances, and seems always willing to help the ci tire ns. Having more experience than any living man, and an immense energy when aroused, let me sum up in a nutshell what I want to carry out in my psychological reforms: 1. Change three adjoining brown stone fronts near Madison square into the finest Turkish and Roman baths for ladies and Gentlemen ever built, open day and night or each (how inconvenient it is to be confined to certain hours). All improvements made by Barter at St. Anne's-on theHill, Ireland; Urquart, German street, London; the splendid bath just opened in Paris; Senator Jones's marble palace built for Coryen In 8an Francisco, or Dr. Ryan's fine establishment in Lafayette place, can be utilized with profit Plunges, up and down douches, hot and cold sprinklers, sits, showers, steam Jets, and all complee for half a dollar. The gentleman who successfully introduced cheap baths in Wallingford, Hartford and Menden, Conn., is ready to manage this department. ' 2. This bath hotel should have 150 rooms from $1.50 upward. Must be opened all night, so travelers by night and early morning trains can drive direct to the bath headquarters where bath, bed and board for a day will only cost the present price of a bath. A lady proverbial for neatness is ready to manage this department, having had ten years experience. ' 3. Wita drawing room, library, reading room, billiara room, chiropodist, barber, mail box. district telegraph, bathers will have all the advantages of a first class hotel. 4. The most important feature next to cleanliness in bathing is tbe diet. Such deadly poisons as nicotine from tobacco, meat and alcohol must be abolished to guarantee health. Also the water cure, boarding house, American hotel, three meals a day (or as at Fifth Avenue or Windsor, com mencing at 6 a. m. and eating all day till midnight) system must go overboard. ' The fat man shall not pay for the lean, nor the lean for fat! The restaurant will be kept on the dairy plan. Oatmeal, wheaten grits. crushed corn, hominy, mush and milk, bulled corn, buckwheat cakes, rice, all kinds of bread, fruit and vegetables, baked beans, apple sauce, tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, cocoa shells, pure milk, baked apples, geuu, all of best quality, on the five and ten cent plan, No wine, beer, whisky or liquors. No meat, game, oysters, eggs, poultry nor cigars or tobacco in any form. Not through moral or religious objections, but as a mat ter of hygiene. One of the successful dairy restinrant pro prietors is ready to organize this department, introducing all the Oneida, Shaker aud Quaker dietary luxuries, sans their peculiar social ideas. 5. A large ball will be arranged for theater. lecture hall, debating club, recitation room (but not for church purpo;es, as my object is for this life, and not lor life ceyond the grave.) as a rendezvous for the Bohemian and artistic brain of the city, where music. plays, songs, recitations (like those entertainments I get up in the Bijo Heron theater, w here I launched Professo Vatson on his dime concert success,) will i -a Ice this hygienic hotel tbe sensation of N. v l ork. I propose to take Murray Hill off of stilts, and show that brains does not require claw hammer coat, white choker, or six-button gloves to enjoy itself! True happiness never puts on airs! ith cleanliness, cheerful ness and a proper diet, economy and health will march hand in hand! When the hundred Black Fridays that will soon come in one day crash through Wall street, my psychologic force will be acknowledged! Having stopped calling me "mad," the people will soon exaggerate my power, i know l can stop an epidemic by force of will! Tbe old force is evoluting through my blood that built clippers, con structed Pacific roads, planted borse railwars in Europe, organized Credit Mobiliers, and as it is getting cold out here in the square, 1 am only waiting lor the NetterBonner hypothecation to 6boot the falls out of the rapids, to launch the Credit roncier lot which lam still president, having waited 12 years), with $-'0,000,000 capital, and organize prosperity, truth, honor, virtue, happiness, rainbows, on a grand scale! The New York model hygiene institute I shall soon introduce into every city in the Union. G. F. T. Madison Square, P. E , 48. An old farmer of Htrrison county was lately swindled out or $1,200 by the following process: A chap came along and was trying to sell the farmer a "combined trough and hay-rack" for feeding cattle, when up road a jsck leg lawyer of Gallatin (who was slightly known to the farmer) and inquired if there was a certain Mr. Blank in that section who was selling a liquid that would make old boots as good as new. He of the hay -rack replied, "I am the man what do yon want?" "I desire to purchase the right of Missouri or Pennsylvania," replied the lawyer; "what is vour price?" "Twelve hundred dollars for Missouri and $2,800 for Pennsylvania," replied the patentright man, as he drew forth an old worn b'xt and a new one which he declared was like the old one till be applied the "liquid" to it The lawyer was delighted, and after som bickering purchased Pennsylvania lor $2 400, and in the presence of the larmer give his check for that amount on a bank at Oallmin. and then rode off. It did not take tbe patent right man long to sell "tbe state of Missouri" to the farmer, for which the latter gave a note secured by a mortgage upon uis farm, which note was hastily sold to a bank at Gallatin by the patent-right man. who, after dividing the swag with bis "capper," the Gallatin lawyer, sought other and fresher pastures. Joplln (Missouri) news.

GOD'S POOR.

BY B. R. CHAMPUX. Who are "Ood poor?" Not they alone who stand With empty, pleading hand At Dives door (Thou mayst be sure Hnch only are man's poor); But they who therein stay, And every soul deny That lift's its needy cry. "Uod'a poor" ay, poorest they! ILippincott. . .. j-i STATE KEW8. Anderson has 1,179 school children. Terre Haute Gazette: Farmers from' all directions report the roads in terrible rough condition. Democratic Press: The girls and young ladies cf Bloomington have been struck with an epidemic, loss of eyesight, or it would seem so, as tbey nearly all wear glasses. The colored people of Marion are trying to raise money to build a church. Now they have no place to worship, aDd they are making commendable efforts to secure one. Decatur Press: The cool weather is a godsend to the pork house of Messrs. Logan A: Bobbins. For a period of two weeks they fed in the pen 1,500 hogs at an average cost of $40 per day. Worthington Press: Farmers who have a supply of sorghum and no market for it will find it a splendid feed for hogs. Mix with water and stir in a little meal, and the pigs soon curl their tails in the most approved style. Lafayette Courier: Fort Wayne is so greatly annoyed by tramps that the shop men formed a vigilance committee and captured -1. One man attempted to escape aud was shot in tbe back. He now lies at the hospital. There has been talk of lynching some of them, as their dairy outrages are infamous. F.vansville Journal: A young man named Zimmerman, a student of the medical college, who was waiting at tbe wharf boat last night for a Cincinnati boat, walked over the guards of the wharfboat into the river, in tbe darkness, and came near being drowned, lie sank once, and was with some difficulty dragged out by persons who chanced to be near. Jeffersonville News: General Ekin, deputy quartermaster in cherge of deitot, received an order to-day to manufacture 50,000 shirts, in addition to a large order for blouses, etc., received a few days ago. We heartily congratulate tbe lady operatives on the prospect of continuous employment during the winter. Our merchants will of course rejoice at the prospect of the circulation of $25,000 more in this city. Daviess Dsmocrat: D. K. Dannihne, proprietor of the Martin county springs, died on the 10th of December and his wife followed him on the 23d. They were an aged and well mated couple, and will be kindly remembered by many who have visited In dian springs. Mrs. Dunnihue was a sister of Mrs. It W. Thompson, wife of the secretary of the navy. The springs now belonging to Mr. Dunnihue'a estate are for rent Columbus Democrat: Mr. Edwin Stuart, the efficient theatrical manager, says Columbus is the best town yet, and he feels more at home here than in any other citv in the state. Does Mr. Smart know that Columbus supports a gigantic ring of plunderers and thieves? Does he know that the paper "devoted to the interests of Columbus and Bartholomew county" says life and property are not safe in this crime cursed town? ESTerre Haute Express: 'Colonel Thomas H. Nelson, of this city, has been selected as one of the judges to decide the annual contest in March next of the Indiana oratorical association, composed of representatives from the following colleges: Hanover. Franklin. Wa bash, Butler, the State university and Asbury university. The indges associated with Colonel Nelson are President White, of Wabash; ex-Governor Baker and Maurice Thompson. Madison Courier: Mr. Hiram Francisco brought 170 head of line hogs to the city today and shipped them to Louisville on the Maggie Harper. Mr. r . has two hogs at home only 10 months old and weighing 700 pounds each. These two he could not drive nor haul, and he will have to butcher them at home, but he is puzzled to know how to handle them. He was thinking of renting a big beer tank ot one of the breweries in which to scald them, and then hire a platoon of men to remove the hair. Vevay Express: The skeleton of a man, mentioned by the Cincinnati Gazette as having been found below Vevay in a sycamore stump, was some bones of a child, probably a girl 12 or 14 years old. The coroner has them in his possession with no clue to their identity. Opinion is divided as to the manner they came to be placed in the stump; some claiming that the body floated in during the high water, and others saying that tbey are probably tbe remains of a child of some tramps. Simon Cossart found them, while burning the stump to clear the ground. Lafayette Journal: The funeral of the wife of Colonel J. E. Robinson took place yesterday afternoon, from the family residence on South Sixth street, Rev. Robert Mackenzie oiheiating. ljuite a number of the associates of the deceased and her husband paid by their attendance the last tribute of respect. There are romances in real life equaling the most vivid imaginings of the novelist The friends yesterday witnessed the last scene of a checkered aud eventful career. The open grave takes to its bosom with the dead the untold story of many a volume over which mankind might pity, wonder and weep. Vevay Democrat: The Baptist Sundayschool of this city has a small tin bank, made in the form of a church, in which the collections from each clis3 are deposited each Sabbath; the opening will allow the envelopes containing the money to pass into the bank but will not pay out at that opening, the doors being securely locked by a small padlock, the key of which is carried by the superintendent, and the bank is opened and money counted at the close of each quarter. Last Sabbath the bank was opened for the purpose of counting money, when, instead of there being thirteen envelopes for each class, they were all found to be short On examining the bank a hole was found in the bottom through which the thie had abstracted the money. It seems that not even the bouse of God is secure from thieves. Shelbyville Volunteer: Judge Test returned to the city Wednesday a weec to pass sentence on John Smith, recently convicted by a jury, of manslaughter, and awarded two years tn the penitentiary. The defendant's counsel entered a motion to change the punishment to a term in tbe house of refuge, and the judge decided to grant the request. He therefore -annulled the verdict of the jury and sentenced defendant to the house of refuge until he reached the age of 21 years. The prosecutor will appeal the case for the purpose of having a decision of the interesting legal point involved. Orave doubts are entertained as to whether the statute authorises judges to change the verdict of a

jury after it is formally returned into court It provides that a judge may arrest the proceedings at any stage of the trial of on infant under 1G years of age, and send the party to tbe house of refuge; but it is contended that this discretion can not be exercised after tbe final rendering of a verdict. It is purely a legal question, but one of interest, which it would be well to have settled as soon as possible. Columbus Democrat : The contempt with which tbe average Madisonian brushes the unhappy outsider from his path is positively cutting. Just think of the fun they are having. First, an editorial convention, then a church revival, then a horse race, a Presbyterian pound party, a circus, and now they are going to have a hanging. It is said the spirits ot departed Madisonians come down or up snd, taking a position on the hills around the town, gnash their teeth with envy over the good times they ire missing. Fort Wayne Sentinel: On Saturday a member of the jury who found Walter Durham guilty of murder and sentenced him to the penitentiary for life, was standing at the corner of Mam and Calhoun streets when a gang of loafers passed him. One of the gang said: "There's one of the G dd d loafers that sent Walt (meaning Durham) up." Another one said: "We've got him and all of the jurymen spotted, G d d n 'em, and we'll make it warm for 'em yet." The juror states that he is ready to try conclusions at any time with any of this gang of cutthroats and murderers. Madison Courier: During the summer Mr. John Kraut's setter dog "Rover" was seized with something like hydrophobia, and was taken to the river and killed. "Rover"' had a faithful companion in a black terrier at the hotel. The terrier wished to accompany his friend when they took him to the river, but was driven back home. Since the death of "Rover" the terrier has been steadily declining, and is now almost a skeleton. He makes lriends with no other dog, and spends a portion of each day gazing in the direction of the river as if he still longed for the return of his old companion. The Fowler Era is authority for the report that coal of an excellent quality has recently deen discovered about three and a half miles northwest from Earl park, near the Flesh school house, at a depth of 72 feet First, a shale or slate rock was struck cf one to three feet thick nnder which a bed of coal is found, variously estimated to be from three to five feet thick. About a mile northwest from this "find" other" parties have made like discoveries, but a few feet deeper. The information as to this coal discovery comes well authenticated. Shafts are to be sunk at once by parties interested. There is considerable excitement in that neighborhood over the discovery of this "bonanza"' of black diamonds. Lafayette Journal: The facts of a high

handed proceeding on South Fourth street fill has just come to notice. Some time since one of the citizens living in the neighborhood of the orphan fasyluni found it necessary to go the city for a doctor. The night was dark, and just such a time selected by burglars and highwaymen to carry on their criminal operations. The gentleman above alluded to bad arrived at the fill, on South Fourth street, when he was attacked bv four men, all of whom were strangers to him. They mildly informed him that their intention was to thrust him into the culvert which carries off the water from the street into the "ravine" below, and they attempted to carry their threat into execution, lie was taken by the arms and legs and lifted into the air, then thrown down to the opening, and was shoved and pushed against the sides of the culvert, until his back was sore. Finding they could not force him through the opening, they left him and went on their way. The poor fellow was so badly hurt be could scarcely walk. It is not known who the desperadoes were. Shall Silver be Money? f lion. M. L. Bunby In New Castle Courier. Two great nations in Europe have made gold the only standard of value. These are England and Germany. They had special reasons for doing this. "None of the dependencies of these nations produce silver, an I in addition to this, Germany had extorted from -France a thousand million dollars in gold as indemnity for the war; and to cripple her rival more, determined to reduce the purchasing power of the silver left in France. The United States, on the contrary, is a great silver producing country, and that product is likely to be very much increased, though it is now $:JO,000,000 annually. The annual product of silver and gold in this country is nearly equal in amount Silver and gold are by the constitution of the United States placed on equal terms, and this of itself would be a suihcient reason for maintaining a double stan iard. But can this country afford to debase aud discard as money that metal of which it annually produces such a vast quantity? The fcder.il government alone owes more than two thousand millions of dollars, and by the debasement of silver deprives itself of one-half the means at its command to pay that debt. Is this wise? An individual who voluntarily destroyed half his meats would be characterized as a fool. If England produced silver as we do, does anybody suppose she would voluntarily debase and destroy that metal as a medium for the payment of debts? England is a creditor nation; the world owes her vast sums of money, and when three great nations like the United States, Germany and England, combine to demonetize silver, the natural effect is to enhance the value of gold, and,as a consequence, the poor debtor nations must sutler. The same reasoning applies to New England. The west has taken immense sums of her money at high rates of interest and now she too proposes to squeeze her debtors for a few more drops of blood by asking payment in gold. I am not surprised to find the members of congress from this section denouncing the tilver bill. The western members, no doubt, reflect the sentiments of their constituent i by advocating it New England lent out a depreciated currency to the west and now that she has a prospect of gathering back her pay In gold, tbe profit is to great to forego. I do not wish to enlarge on this topic at present, but in my opinion if congress shall adhere to the exclusive gold standard of value, payment of the vast debt which tbe west owes the east will never be made. It will be an impossibility, and bankruptcy and repudiation must follow. If the eastern states were as wise as they have credit for, they could see this, but they are blinded by selfinterest It is less than a year until the resumption act goes into effect How is the vast volume of treasury and national bank bank notes, more than six hundred millions of dollars, to be taken care of? Tbe holders of these notes may . demand gold, but the gold is not in the country. What is to be done, then? The treasury and the banks combined confess tbey aro powerless, they have not got the gold. Can they get it? No sane man believes tbey can. The only hope of the resumptionist is that when the act goes in t3 operation nobody will want gold. We shall see the vanity of this hope. South Bend Tribune: Harris township flocks are still suffering from the depredations of wolves. Our hunters could have plenty of fun and accomplish a great good by ridding the country ol these pests.

A TERRIBLE STORY.

Tbe Mutilation or Russian Dead by tbe Turkish Troops. From a rrlvAt Letter of a Russian Officer to a Relative In Cleveland. Four days later our First brigade, to which my regiment belongs, was ordered toward Telish, eight miles from Dabnik. Our first squadron, commanded by my friend S., moved forward, accompanying a regiment of infantry and two light field pieces. They met overwhelming forces of Turks, and after a heavy struggle fell back to await reinforcements. . We were ordered forward, and S. being disabled, I took charge of the recond squadron. About three miles ahead we overtook the remnant of our ill-fated first squadron of 500 men hardly 140 remaining and six officers missing. We stopped but a moment, and then cantered on alon j a path that every moment prew more and more thickly strewn with dead. Wounded we saw none. The nearest bodies were only partly stripped of their clothes and their heads cut off, but tbe farther we rode the ghastlier grew the sight The dead Turks lay as they had fallen, but our poor comrades had been robbed and mutilated, some in a manner too horrible to describe. Coming to a place where the road somewhat widen d, about two miles from Telish, we halted, and after driving away and cutting down in a shoc skirmish a party of Turks who were busy robbing our dead, we stopped to form before going on. As I rode along the front.shontiug out orders to men, an agoniz?d cry for help arrested my attention I looked round. Nothing but heaps of dead everywhere. Of these none needed me. But nark! Onc more, and again, and asuin these piteous cries. Hastily dismounting, I threw the bridle over my sound arm and ran toward some bushes from behind which the sounds proceeded, and there, in a email pool of clotted blood, lay that which I at first failed to recognize as a human being, though human it certainly was in its piteous cries and the seemingly gloved hands that clutched air and earth in their sgony. The rest from the waist upward, was one mass of raw, qnivering flesh the face featureless, eyelids and eyes cut out, the man flayed alive, all but the hands, whose white skin at first pave the impression of their being gloved. This ghastly object lay a few steps from a deiid horse, one ot our own regiment's golden bays. Faint at heart I bent over the sufferer, evidently one of our own men, but now r jangled beyond recognition. He prayed for death with his poor torn lips, and in a minute more W., our surgeon, and two more of our officers were by my side. I made room for W., who stopped for a few seconds over our comrade, and then rising, sadly shook his head, murmuring "No help." A sndden impulse prompted me to seize the poor, helpless hand in my own, and pressing it whisper a few words of comfort At the sound of my voice came the sadder appeal: "Nicolai, for old friendship's sake send a bullet through my heart." This voice sounded so strangely familiar, and yet I could not recognize it "Who are you?" "Alexis S.'? Alexis, my old schoolmate, who had but a few hours ago shared my breakfast by our bivouac tire and- then rode . away, handsome and bold at the head of our gallant first squadron. He had fallen wounded, helpless, his horse shot tinder him, and the fiendish Turks were slowly torturing him to death when oar approach drove them away. Clasping my hand in his, he still begged for death. Mv revolver was empty, discharged in the scuffle a few moments be fore. I looked at W.,who suddenly drew out his. and shuddering in every nerve, placed the mnzzle against S.'s breast, and with averted face tired twice in succession, while I still pressed the poor hand in nine. We wrapped him up in my cloak, and placing him in the shallow ditch rolled a boulder over him, and then, with our hand.i still moist with his blood, we swore to each other never to empty the last chamber of our pistols, but always to reserve a shot for ourselves and friends, should any of us, wounded, have to be left behind. May a quick death, a soldier's death, be ours. As I rode away I thought of S.'s young wife and of my own, a few weeks' brides, one widowed, the other likely to be, and my heart burned with indignation within me as I thought how, in the face ot warfare waged by the Turks with such fiendish, savage atrocity, any civilized nation, any paper edited in a Christian land would have tbe heart to waste their sympathies upon the Moslems. Wanted to XIave Her Picture Taken. IClnclinati Breakfast Table. They had come to town to sell a wagon load of potatoes and buy a stove for tbe front room. After rinding -a market for the vegetables they were driving along in their rattle down, crazy going wagon, looking for a stove sign, when the old lady spoke up timidly: "Mrs. Craig er was a tellin' me there was a place down here sorue'rs where I could git four picters for twenty cents." The glum and grim old granger f;ee'd the team to get out of the way of an approaching street car, and then turning half round in his seat on thi board across the wagon box, looked the old lady squarely in the face, and with a jerking motion of the jaws demanded: "Picters o' what?" "Why, of anybody of me," responded the frightened female, with a faint little voice lhat woild never do for city life. "Whew! Woman, are you goin' clear dead-gone crazy? In the name o' grasshoppers an' gartersnakes! what be you thinkin' of anyway? Put that ole dried up, molasses-colored face o' yourn in a picter! Git out! Do you want to scare pople to death, or bnn,; a disgrace on the picter takin' business? Aa are you fool enough to s'pose any man with the least mite o' shop pride about him would ever let a picter o you go outen his sheebacg with his own name pasted on it? Nary time. By all the stumps in the Wilkins lot! woman, what do you want with picters anyway at your time o' life? Wastin money, too, when we need so many things a precious sight wus than we do nonsense like that" The old lady colored up and looked as though she had committed some mortal offense, as shs said with much hesitation: I didn't mean to have you wa"te money on me, father, but I never had a. picter took in all my life, for when I was young an' would a looked better in a frame, maybe nobody knowed anything about such things then, an alius afterwards the prices has been so much that I didn't think it was worth while, but now sence they've got 'em down to five cents apiece, I did think maybe we could afford it, an' I ktnd o' thought I would like to give each of the children one for Cnristmai, for although I know I am not handsome, still I'm mother, an' when I'm gone, fa Jier, don't you think perhaps it might te a little comfort to 'em to be able to tell a little how I looked, an' show their own little ones, an,' father, I did so hope that yon wouldn't think it was foolish, an' would go with me, an' have our two selves took together, for it wouldn't cost any more, au' I know yon would make a noble picter, father, an' I could look at it when you're away, an', it would be such a comfort to me, an' I wouldn't feel bo lonesome. Do, father, please, humor me jest this once, an' I will try an' akritup a little, an tave enough to make it up in a little while. Somethin' tells me we may never have another chance, an'

I would hate to have the time -come when you would be sorry like we've been ever f-ence poor Jimmy was took from us. You know, father, you've alius said you'd give any money if you only had a picter of him as he looked before he took sick, tbe last time he come to town with yon. Won't you, father, please?" No longer was the farmer harsh and grufH His eyes were moist with the emotion her timid words had stirred within him, and a large tesr gathered on his rough cheek and rolled slowly downward. Impulsively his arm reached out and clasped the waist of his plain old wife and gave it the biggest surprise in the shape of a squeeze known for many a day, though it was broad daylight, and hundreds of people were passing by. "You're a trump, ole woman, you are!" he cried, with a loving softness in his tones. "An' you shall have all the picters you want, an' none o' your five-cent thincum-a-jiggers, either, but the very best they've got in tbe shop. Why, you blessed ole darlin, you'll look ten times better 'n anything I ever caw on a show bill, an' a gold frame wouldn't be an atom too good for yon, but it's took me a right smart cpell to find it out" COI.NAtJE. Tbe Way Gold and Silver Stand Witb tbe Wot Id. It is assumed by many, as a matter of course, that gold is the currency in most general nse throughout the world. But the following table tells a very different story: Under Gold. Population. Great Rritain 32,000,000 Canada . 4,OO0,t"O0 Australia 2, 0,000 Portugal 4,250,000 Turkey 29 500,000 l"ersia 6,ltk',000 KrttzU 10,00j,ooo Argentine RepiihUn . lOO.UV Egypt 8,000,000 ierman Empire... 41,000,000 Sweden 4,250,000 Denmark 1,xiu,kO Norway 1,750,000 I 'hill .. 2, 1 00,000 Japan..... 33.000,000 Total 130,450,000 Under Silver. Population. KussU. . ... . 87,0(4),ouO Austria .. UC.OOO.UW Central Ainprl. , 2,Su0,0ii0 Kucuador 1,300,000 China 42o,llOO,U0 Mexico if,0U),()00 1 rilrt mm MmHMMtMHHHMM 4 ffiOUjllW) Colombia 2,7; 0,(XM Tripoli . 1.20u,ii0 Tunis . 2 00.000 . Holland . 3,700,"00 Venezuela . 1,410,000 Total-.... .. .876,700,000 . Under Gold and Silver. Population. Belgium . 6,100,0ml Bob via. . l,soi',ouo Krance... ....ki,K"),((XJ ;reece.......................i....... ... 1,500,000 Ital y . 2.H00,( 00 Spain.- . . ltf,.VK,XK) Switzerland................... 2,700,000 Total 90,500,000 The United States is omitted from the above list but as it is now tolerably certain that silver is to be remonetized before the end of the next year, the proportions will stand as follows: Population under gold , , . lS0.4.V),0no Population uuder Riivpr,,.,,,,,. ..,.x7kitiiuihh Population under gold and silver 132,5O0,OUO From this it will be seen that the great mass of mankind uses the silver coinage exclusively. Even in the populations under gold, silver is the subsidiary coinage, and is in use for all the diily transactions of life. But people who talk of gold being the unit of value for the rest of the world of course do so ignorantly. The localities in which

we are most interested for the extension of our trade that is, Mexico, South America and Asia use silver exclusively. Tbe Tramp. The discussion of the tramp question by the Maryland state convention held at Baltimore resulted in the appointment of a committee of seven to memorialize tbe legislature to enact more stringent laws for the suppref-sion of vagrancy. The following definition of a tramp was arrived at: "Every person who wanders from place to place, having no permanent home, and lodges in barns, out houses, or in tbe open air, and has no visible means of support, and begs for a living." The legislation to be applied for will embrace the following provisions: Liability of tramps and vagebonds to be arrested and imprisoned for a specified term at labor; the labor to be on the public roads or other public works, at the discretion of county commissioners; the completion and opening of a house of correction for the reception of tramps at an early date; discontinuance of the lodging of tramps in jails and almshouses, and the establishment of district workhouses to ba operated in connection with tbe house of correction, to relieve these institutions of the maintenance of able bodied paupers; imprisonment of paupers and criminals alike, to have for its object reformation and instructionwith the protection of the community rather than punishment and the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquor to known tramps and vagabonds. Brieily. th aim is to require labor in compensation for public maintenance, which is just and right. Liability to am st and imprisonment for a specified term will make professional tramps shy of Maryland roads. - An Exttiiordinnrj UMiiiblinar Fraatf. Los Angeles Herald. For over a month pa;t a heavy poker game has been goi lie on in the card room attached to one of our popular saloons. An unprecedented run of luck was the lot of the experts who were running the game in the interest of the saloon management or, at least in the interest of those who controlled tbe card room of the saloon. A number of the most experienced card sharps in Los Angeles set themselves to unraveling the mystery. Still the luck stayed with tbe house, and the confraternity were worsted to tbe tune of about $1,500. "'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange," that no outsider could, under any circumstances, win a game in that room, try tbey never so hard, but so it was. At last two proficients took possession of tbe apartment, ostensibly for play, and locked the doors. Tbey at once began a diligent search of the premises, and unearthed a regular system of wire telegraphy, by tbe aid of which a stool pigeon, who saw the cards of the outsider", telegraphed their hands to the manipulators of tbe ekin game. We understand thai those who have been fleeced have taken legal advice, and that every means will be tried to recover the money. Cannelton Repor er: Oar readers who remember our former townsman, Mr. Hamilton Smith, Jr., now of San Francisco, will be gratified to bear of his good health and general prosperity. From a recent letter received here we also learn that the gravel mine in California in which be has been long professionally engaged, is proving a success, and may yet meet tne expectations of its proprietors. aaMawawa Sweetly cented. Experience Ulls us that a sweet and delicat odor renders a person of the plainest features agreeable and attractive. A delightfnl odor from a lady or gentUman is always vl mired, and Dr. Price's Alista Bouquet Concealed Delight or Floral Riches will make all sweetly scented.