Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1878 — Page 1

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VOL. XXVIi NO Gi. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1878. WHOLE NO. 255.

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BY K If lalS1 - w HOena-ahe those praise horn n?ur Angus itstily sourK niienl tomb, t tbao Hv. viTVoui c all bin days. Viae men go w! 'jook upon ner long, Uw9 r so ripe wttli da.ngra. Yet meaun all 1 Hod no taMctaHiior it- her smile, AlthoorjU I make her xbetne of my poor song. Hercolden trewst" Well, they may be fair, And yel to eal atilnliiK sllaen tresa Hwm robbed of beaaiy. and all lutr-le: 'Too many bands dan ktroked Helena's hair. (I know a little mai-ien. ao demare "rihe will "not let her one true lover's hands In playful foudue-w atroke.ber aoft browa bands. "JHo dalnCy -minded la she, and ao pare.) Her great, dark eyes, that flash llkegemaat mght Large, long-lshcd eyes, and lustrous?" That t.isy t Arxi yet they aro not benutltul to me; Too many heart have sunned In their delight. (1 nelnd me oftwo fencer r;ueyes. hid Ho undern-nlh white curtKtns, and an vein d That I hive touieliuiea plead for hours ami failed To sea more than tne ahyly lifted lid.) Ter perfect month. so like A carved klf Ilerlmney.il iq.iuiIl, where hearts do fly-like drownT" I would iiottaate Its nwcetnrwi for a crown; Too many llp- have drauk its hec tared bliss. (I know a month where virgin dew ucdrled Liea Ilk the young jra pe a bloom, untouched and sweet : And, though I knelt tn pleading at her feet, Rh wou.d not let me brush It If 1 died.) . In vain, Helena! though wie men may vie For thy rre amilu, or die fiotu Jos of It, Armored by my awtet lady's trust.'I nit. And know thou art not wortn hr faintest aigb. THE BRIDE OF A MOMENT. BY MAIUJAnETCAVEKDISU. It was on a ferry boat that he fell in love with ber. It was love at tirst u'ht, as the phrase goes; on often quo'-ed contemptuously, though it furnishes us many instances Of conjugal happiuea. Well, to who u does this masculine and this feminine tronoiin relate? you iLquire. To which I atv, r: Steady .-oing, retiring, plain looking John Moote, who bud crossed oh this ferry boat f.r years without ever seeing a woiutu'a fo( or form which he cared to meet tut tcond linn. Nut that he was one of those women ditcU n who Continually turn the most natural movement or Unstudied smile luto an elaborately preconcerted s.h-ine ;ocip;ure un wary ba; h-lor. To be coarieoui ami kind to all. more el pecially women, WiSonof t ie rule- cf his life; to, when Helen Ives drove up to tbe ferry house ia that much degraded, though very Uiei'nl, conveyance kr own as a hack, and throwing aside her heavy era veil, proceeded to oen the !oor a proceeding much retarded Jy her vtii, Vjt some rta-ou, immediately falling over her face again John Moore came forward, bowed, opened the door and hoisted her to light. She tbauked him quitt y, ai.d then he lost sight of her until ahe stepped ou board the boat. A inoiutnt anil she Was seated and tn the act of tiecu'ely fattening back her veil. Teat moment wat the supreme one of Jobu'j life. He never forgot it through all time. Was tliho 1 1 he was lok ii gata woman? One of thie r ature with wh .iu he hid cccalonally Oat cd ani laughed? Purely thHemun be hoineihing different about her, or why this sadden interest? He felt as though be knw her hii'.ory and th-t he was born to h-j of eora u an I help to her; that u- would be'.irve linpln itly anything she in git te.l huu or wir-h him in believe. Not uiat his tLoJtthts or Impressions Came in tuch an orderly and distant manner as that. He tn only routxiom of a ttrainte delight and auaccuuatatle throbbing of his heart. No doubt by all this rou think she was tome beautiful, eihertal young being:, all charms and graca. Hut let me undeceive you at orce. 8 ie wi on'y a moderately handiome womun of ab mt 2d; graceful, certainly, but wiili no voluiuiuous drapery or other intiiracie of ll uuce, plait or fold. Her lair hair, guiltl8uf crimp or puff, was Eut plaiivly b k f.om a full, white foreead. while b ' tieatt it gray, nudtst eyes kept tbeir watch. A mouth somewbat larger than the r sebu J Myle, but till sweet and resolute. Tle-m were the attrihates or secondary consideration, for over all was fcuch an air of awmnev, sinceriy and woruan-line.-a that you felt rather than saw the attraction. l'erhaps not sn .iher rnan on the boat looked upon ber with men reverence a the g'amore 1 eyes of J jh'n Mo re. I f others no ticed her at all It whs Ui tHere flection that ahe was m.deniably a lady. But as Uupid ha.l beeu long medita.ing an attack, and not wi lling to lose his well earned and lng maintained reputation as a marksoiitn, he to the momeut when his Tic:tm was all un?U4pecJng of the eolden tipped, yet stinging, arrow, aimed at his heart. Therefore it was she appeared to John lovelier lhai t t ter women. The arrow had plrcsd the mark, and love had transformed her As the boat ceared the slip most of the pos3ecg.rs It I: th& cabins to cr j -vdabout ihe cliains, amoi.g them John Moore, for he and thry were Mwai imp it eat to disr-mbark as they bad been t embirk. It m evening, to be pure, a 1 H' bunue-s awaited tbeoi, but atiil you kuo tne characteristic New Yorker. When He en Ivea found herself alore In the Ci'iin n'- io-)k from a finall sachel a cird. By its atz ai.d nhae one would uppoee it to be ph-nograph, a to by the teadrr fondtits which ctiue over her(rc-a. abe looked at it; suetveti smiled at it. Then, as if nuddeuly remembering w here she was, ahe bit her lip and com posed her fa3e; and bad von exam n-d it now you would have detected an at'ded bittern s and reflation. P.aciog the thumb an 1 fortfio-.r ( ftacli band together on Its edjrw, she tore it pirily iu two, but io S'joner did ttie destroying members d their work t.ian they aouht to bide it by holdma th tevera! .aru ctoaiy united. Aain a second tr ouht coidemued it. and she wlkel ti the drck, t'ari g at abe wen. Hang the pirces into the water, turnetl ai.d en red ihe cahia e though atie wished u avo tl teeing them lo:t like iliuw flskea in th e-. Now, J ihn Mtiore had noftd this little byp'ay, and wl ei f thu anapa fluttered hack and tct l. d at hi feet, he stooped and picked it up. Had i: len ii'iie p-ner of any kind he would not h:tve dne j, hut thinking it -a4 nothing h'il w hit of common CT J, it wi.hin earne?t'y to holil Bj.nelbin which her iiands i.h t toucVd, he had bene for the discard-d tritl. An I. Mo! when he turned it ovr he aawnari of a tuao's neck and shirt fron' ILat wa all. H could ea-ilv ave tne necktie and the abirt will ite row of arads . H'Sfim iuipulitewas to rive.it to the water, bu: catchm right tit Helen's face, for they were now landing. ht det-.ided to keep It in mm'ry of hie meeting with her. Who itould aay he lu'ght DtTrr ber again? Thus they mat at one ferry alip and sepa

rated at the other. On that short trip two lives bad received Impressions indelible, the outgrowth of one canse, but vastly oppobite in tbeir termination. A month p9ed. Helen often crossed the ferries, but not just at the hour he did, and hence no meeting. To say that she had daily occupied his thoughts would not express the vlvldne?s with which he remembered her. He looked forward to his trips on the boat as the wornout clerk to his summer tour. And bow be would scan every black robed figure in hopes it might be his "one fair woman." The fragment of pasteboard he had put away in an unviai ted corner of his trunk as a treasure, and dreamed of ber face at night, as she stood on a burning ferry boat scatteringscrapa of paper over Jhe water around about and calling on him to rescu her. By all this you will see Cupid did his work very effectually, and carei not how bis -poor victim fared, so long as ha added another breeding heart to his trophies. But Fate, why call her cruel? If she Is stony for awhile, does she not, by one grandly generous act, repay us for years of muttering and neglect? Tfcis evening great black fleeing masei of cloudj scowled in the htat-en; the wind Marcbed 'in the trees and visited rickety signboards in hopes of finling tometbing ro Lariat the foot pas-enters hurrying home below; hacks, too, did a uourttthing Ims'iie. When John Moore reached the frry he haw a graceful black figura descend from one of them, and a rueful face lo-jlcipg at the already falling lain, and shudder as the ligiitriDg flashed dangerously near Now at leasr, thought he, 1 may egaln offer my aeryices Uaout appearing presuming or rude. At last it came about iu the most delicate yet rather inconvenient manner that these two chatted very pleasantly; although the rain came down in torrents with no chance of a reprieve. This time ai the boat quivered from collision with therpilesof the slip, undine the a enters this way and that, Helen Ives ud John Moore's arm to steady ber, while he held above her an umbrella of unusual size. How be thanked the rain and vowed to apostrophize it at some future day I ''Could any thing be more fortunate than my meeting with you?"' iaid Helen; "you always come at the right moment." t'lseppose you would conakicr it adroit flattery if I were to tell you that I thought of yott every day since I first saw you, and onlyhoped to be of some service; and unkind as It may seem," continued John, "I do not regret the rain." "Only custt.m and gallantry foreivesuch speeches. I certainly must object. However, you need not exert yourself in future to till the reqniremen's of fuch abtutditifs. Here is ray home, and I am sure my mother, Mrs. Ives, will bs pleased to tbnnk you for your kindness to her daughter. Won't you come in?' Having walked so far with him, Helen thought it prudent to Introduce hini to her mo' her. " "Wilh much pleasure," he said; "I am John Moore," giving her his card. "Mothtr, dejr," upoke Helen, bringing John into a pretty parlor and also before an elderly lady in widow's mourning, "this i9 Mr. Moore, the gentleman who has earned your thanks and gratitude in keeping my crape and bombasine dry: the one whom I met before you remember." Mn. Ives gave him an earnest look, then thanked him heartily, and even invited him to have tea; although I must ray that she was prompted to this kindness by a glimpse caught through the open 0r of a daintily spread table, perhaps, as much as from any consideration of the rain. ' To this request he wat well bed enough to offer an excuse, only asking permission to call again, which was readily given. "Poor girl," he thought, as he walked s'owly home, "I think she has some secret trouble; she is thinner and whiter than she was that photograph has some connection with it," continued hi? thoughts, "there's a S'td story about it, 1 fear; a lover's quarrel, ro doubt Ah, how well I would love her if I might!" Th ladies, too, were talking. "I think, my dear," said Mrs. Ives, as she and Helen sat over their tea, "that he Is a gentlemsn, but one can not be too careful in forming acquaintances I suppose ycu know nothing more than I about him?" "Only that h board, and spends bis holidays at Fort Wanhinton with his couiin, Mrs. Montgomery. Of course, I did not tell him that we l'Ved there." "OJ Helen, I wish you would try and forget "He was nor. Is not, worth it When I think of trie way ha has acted I am so glad we found him out in time." As Mra. Ives flinched speaking shf went around and lovingly smoothed her dau ;l.er's clerks. "Yea, mother, I have parted from him iorever. I have drowned him." This in a Lilf whimper. The weeks slipped easily by. bringing with them kind attentions to both mother and daughter from John Moore, for he was wise in his generation and knew how to win the maternal heart One eveningat the theater, during some mimic love scene, he noticed Htlen cloe ber eyes as if in disgust . "Why, Mijs Helen, have you no Lita in the lovers' vows?" he asked banteringly. To hi surprise ahe answered with seriousnrss: "No doubt there are some who hold their vows sacred, but I think 'love,' Marling' and the like wait on the tongues of ruoii men to be c-lled off at a moment's notire. If yon riak honestly, don't you think ao? ahe added, smiling at him. He laid his hand upon her fan to stay its motion, saying: "I will tell you as we go hv-mc."

She knew his meaning well, and whaU woman would not? rpeciailyooe who had been the subject of his watchful care; for whom he had planned amusements and little excitement. B'cause he understood more of her skepticism and indifference than sue was aware of. In answer to words which I need not repeat, Helen Ives was saj log to John Moor tbateveuing: "Tonly regret that I did not meet you before my heart loit its faith, for then 1 must have loved you, knowing ycu as I know you now. But I would not marry you with the feeling that my heart was not wholly cared of Its old infatuation. Listen to this with all its humllUtinz admissions in atonement fjr the misery I have caused you. Two years eo my father give his onsen t to my marrying the only man 1 ever loved, lie vowed ,he loved me 'so devotedly that poverty would be D.185 by my fiae. i believed in him entirely. My father died suddenly a fuw daya oefore our contemplated union. ani he, thinking my fatbr dkd insolvent, left me and tailed f r Europe- with Lil bf tie all in two months' time. Yet I think I C?rJ fr this villain sti.l, aliho'.igh I have tiicd to tear bis linage from my hcirt s I tore bis false pictured face. There, do not deppis tne that I do not bate him as he deservei!" ending her awry with a flash of anger. "No. Helen, I do not I know a woman's heart Is very tender of her lira t love, and that is the reason tbre is some hope for the eecond. What should you eay if I told you that I partly gaesaci what you have just related to me? I saw you that first day on the ferryboat and loved yon even theu. I raw you throw the pieces of 'card into the water. One of them fluttered back to lie at my feet 1 took it op and have kept It alnce in memory of you. I knew what it had been. I wove a little itory oHt. I still

ke?p it and always shall, unless you give me something better in its stead." Durinar this recital Helen watched John's

L face Intently, tjen aaid: . "U, you do not understand. I do not love him, but it seems as though I could never be sure of love again. Lit us be the same friends, and give me time to know my own heart" "Very well, darling, I am going to flitter myself that it is my well-being that you are to study in this respite." The very next day Helen received a note stating that her friend John Mo re was dying, having been fatally injured that dsy by the pole of an omnibus while crossing Broadway. Instantly abe went to his side with a heart wrung with anguisb and remorse for having met his love by such co'dnesa and indifference. All his kindness, care and tboogM'ulnns pa.sed before her, and she she had done no bing for him. It seemed to her a dream tht she bad told him she did not love Lira. Why she never loved till now, when unconfc'.outmeas closed his ears to her voice! Guardian anpol never bore snch soul cries to the throne of heaven as Hflen ofl'iied for this deir life to surely sinking, b'ie pillowed hi ljfa 1 in her arms, and never moved through the long, silent night but to kiss the closed eyes or to beg Go 1 for his life. Tow anl morning he opened his eyes and saw his Idol t hi sMe. O, fhe rapture cf that moment when a beloved life struggles back from dtrkup.3 to reason! tint bis voice was weak and brolcon. "Helen, my dear one, is tbis a dream? I've been with you on the boat. I thought we were married, and ao very happy that dear old boat, I always dream o( it. But it is uil one now, I must die and leave you!" "My darling, you will kill me If you talk so, O; John, i love you bo much, and I thought I did not lave for me to prove it by a life of devotion and care!'' "Your words, your love, would make me lire when ai! else failed. To have seen and loved you and won your love is more to me than all things besides; and all I ask is that you 'bear my name after I am gene. O Helen, will you, that I may know I have some one to sorrow for me?" In less than an hour a mournful wedding coremouy was performed, the bride kneeling beside the dea'.h bed, and clasping the death cold hand of br bridegroom. whoe lovelit eye caressed her face as if they won!d even then spare her all pain. Before lorn; the time for the liual parting came the hand dearest on earth must be relinquished. All tnubt be given up. O.i, the agony of parting! But hissonl, ere it tok its flight afar off, looked from hii eyes and blessed her. If ever you walk along the country road leading to the cemetery, you will niest a graceful figure, still iu deepest mourning, seeking a grave laden with Jovtliest llowers, a grave at whoM Lead a tall monument stands protectlnzly, and on which is exquisitely cut a ferry bott, with thee words: 'The hcem of buried hopca, and the birthplace of endurins love." ' KCIENCE IN BRILK. The London Grocer argues that the great Sacramento Valley of California is th future tea field or the world. In 20 years from now it will supply the new continent, and in course of time will send large conaignmeuti to Europe. The valley is 4'0 miles long by 50 bread, where! no rain falls. It is watered by heavy fogs which roll In from the Pacific Ocean, and any climate can be had. It is along the base of the Sierra Nevadu range of mountains that the Chinese and Japanete are now busy cultivating the tea plant with marked success The mariners oompaf-s was known in a primitive form in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. English sailors who went on long voyages to the east found their way by wale1 ing the polar sttr, but when the sky wat obscured they tosk a needle of iron and put it through a piece of cork, so that one end remained out, which they rubbed with Ihe loadjtone, and then they placed it in a vessel full of water, and whichever way the end of the needle pointed there, without any do ibt, was the polar star. This formed a primitive but fairly perfect mariner's compass. Nectar is the sweet tasting fluid which is secreted within the cups of Mowers; and the object gained to plants by i s presence isttiat insects, induced to visit 11 jwers for its sake, are useful to tbe p'ants by effecting a cross iertilizition. Professor Alexander S. Wil ton, of Glasgow, has recently investigated the amounts of sngar contained in the l..ctar of various flowers, and laid the results of his labors before the British Association by which it appears, among other things, tht the "little honey bee which improves each shining hour" has to pay 2,500.000 vUlts to flower tubes for every pound of honey gathered. The utility of the electric lights) for ocean s'eamers was forcibly illustrated during the last voyage of the Faraday from New York, nuring thick fog, near the ba.aks of ew Foundland, at 10 o'clock at hlht she suddenly discovered a large emigrant sailing ship lramefliitely under her bow. The brilliancy of the electric light revealed the oangr just in time to enable the captain to reverse the engines, and the two ships pa-sed each other at a distance of a few feet The lactern ordinarily ued could not have penetrated the fog sufficiently to have avoided a collision, and more than a hundred lives would have been lost. The Persians are known to be greatly skilled in the art of dyeing the hair. They chiefly use the plant railed henna. Tbe henna gives an orange rtd color, very beautiful on a white beaid, ao that many old men use it; but recently, with great pemmagex, it has become more' common. to keep the beard white. Henna is very largely und, even by peasants. To change 'the reddish color io a fine lustrous black, tbe parts are coated with a paste formed of another powder that from the leaves of a kind of an indigo tr e cultivated in Per.! a. This is called reng; it remains applied about two hours. The henna gives dilfertnt color., according as it acts on white, fair or dark hair. Professor A. H. Garod, in a recent address, suggested some pertinent inquiries. It is, he tays, the habit of pbytiicians to riote caiefully tbe physical signs of diat-a, while but little attention h paid to idiosyncrasy. Ravaging epidemics, endemic- aud hereditary Uls?aes affect sjme constitutions ruiher than others. The result is the development of peculiarities in the nalvea tbe survivora of all countries, and .the peculiarities are dependent, In a larg measura, on the natural selection thus insidiously and constantly at work. Visitors in lioiua aud Naples are but too likely to be attacked with fever of a typhoid (-tiron in the Sam's localities whore the. lu.1 an enjoys perfect health on account of his being tue o (1st ring of tuose who in times gone by have mi-ted, by constitutions! peculiarity, tbe malarial atmosphere. What qualities Is the early death tf the drunkard wteiing jut? What phthisis? The true American of the United States differs conspicuously from the Englishman. How is this so? these, addi Dr. Girod, are problems which deatrve more attention than they receive. Women who love neither God nor man are indeed In a desperate strait, and are monsten of their mi.

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The frosty nights have come again, And at this time of year TheMngl men, w ho aleep alone, . Prance 'round upon their ear. They turn the bddlnir quickly back, .And then they tumble In; Boll up Into a little lump Their kneea up to their chin. And then, unto themselves they say, Just load enough P bear: , Mtty (leorge, thla thing has got to ceaae. liefoi e another year." Elm Ira Gazette. Now look th ox from out his ftl&ll The farmer man to aee As quick he spreads upon the floor ' The gralu ao temptingly. Theu Mings around the ancient barn The lively autumn gale. And while the larmer taps hU fUll 1 be bovine flips his tail. Yonkera Uaaette. " 'F I owed the d3 11 a thou-aml liars To cheer Ills heart and feed his tires. And welter in his auluburoua 1-kw" He niched 1114I aaid it with emotieu, ' fr or hi lowd all from sea to ceiin, "Aid if his ni ijesty wouldn't take Jim AuK-ron and c til It ttqti ire, I'd chiat iitm out of it, 1 nw declare 1" Graphic. Little c'mnka of wllnrn, Little grains of cltHtr, Make thu tout ensemble Of a paragraph. !I.cfceuHAClc Republican. Whoever heard cornstalk? How careless the weather has become all at once! Free Press. Don't get in debt to a shoemaker if you would call your soul your own. Did you ever see a penny lunch? This joke is a farthing to go after.- Cincinnati (Saturday Night. . , , A knight errant of the nineteenth century Banning to gat a pitcher of beer before bedtime. Free, l'ess. If the husband of Ids Lewis falls in the water in tbe vicini y of bis wife he will probably drown. Bufftlo Express. It Is a wise bird that knows its own feather. New York Star. And a itill wiser man that knows the back of his own head. There is no truth in the report that Elison has invented a soap that will do its own washing and hang out tbe c othes. Graphic. A sore nose is about the norest thing a mai can have located between his eye. It caUs for hoUi the eyea and the noses. N. Y. Mail. Counsel to witne.sa You'rs a nice sort of feliow. you are! Witne-s I'd sy the lime of you, sir, only I'm on ruy oath. New York Mail. New York's death rate for the summer is lower thun for twelve yean past Soruoboiy must have cleaned up his backyard. Detroit Free Press. 4 Mr. Talmage has little blU of eyes. New York Herald. He should "brate" up an 1 have more "bits" of eyes and no' so much "bits" of mouth. Tildn says now be can understand how these ciphers came to be found on him. lie must have caught them while riding iu the street cars. Haw key e. ' A Tennessee editor boasts that bis wife Is the best in the state. He siy: "She always meets me with a 'smile,' and she known, too, just how we like it mixed." . Anna Stdd, he oldest womtn in Vienna, has just died at the ae of 111 years. Exchange. 'Twas very Sd-duc-cee to have the old lady drop off so suddenly. Richard Grant Wniti stys the term "thin whiskers" is a barbarism. 3o. Richard, is the term "chin- music " It is btrberismmer than the other. Nrrlstown Herald. Women are funniest when they say nothing. Women are seldom fuuny. Graphic. Women are gravest when they tell a funny story md so is everyone who hears them. A patent two-horse street sweeper is not a Eleasant thing to meet, but it is not quite to ad as to pass a hallway containing a determined woman and a broom. New Haven Register. "Are you ready to die? asks a tract sent to this cAlce. Nft, not yet; we want to tee how Ben Butler will make it down in M.teachusetts next Tuesday. Ma&illon Independent The grand chamberlain of the king of Holland ia Count Schimmelpenninck. Lightning could never strike him twice in tbe same place, especially if the lightning was tired. N. Y. Herald. By the use of the microphone youcsn bear the rops walk or the butter fly. Booton G;obe. Or tbe gum drop Free Press. That may all be true, but it won t help tbe belle who never tolled ber love. ' Father Bjerrtog, of the Russian Chapel in New York, bks-ed auother Russian vessel in Philadelphia yesterday. N. Y. Herald. Most of our vessels should be blessed by somebody. 1 hey need somethinz. ' "Brother Talmud was this side the feny ltte lost night agin," said a peak nosed New York spinster one day this week, "and I haiut no doubt bat that he's rakiu' tog'thtr more malaria for sermons!" Chicago Journal. A prosy, tedious corgresman said to Henry Clay: "You speak, sir, for the present generation, but I epsak for posterity." Yes," replied Clay, ' and it teems you are resolved to speak until your audience arrive." ' Just think of the enraged feelings of ft farmer who finds too lato that he had a squash down in an off corner of tbe field that was a half pound heavier than the one that 1 10k the prize at the fair. New Haven Register. : When a rew boy appears at school tbe Other boys don't say anything to him at all, unlefs it is 10 inquire, "rtjy. you, what's yer name?'' "Wbo'a yer daddy?" "Where dje, live?' "What reader are 3 erln?" Is the m yer. Sunday clothes?" An exchange gives directions for "a gord wiyt build a chimney;" but everybody knows that the best way to bu 1 J it is an a house. A chimney built in the lower part of tbe garden, 100 feet from the houe, would prove a ridiculous failure. Banks oughtcvidently to be loca'ed away from tli:e stations. Putting them rg'it where ihI ice can overlook them that's the dimrer. Graphic. IVrhnps it would he well to locate them in Ma-sAChusetts as they are not troubling Uaofcs there this ear. : The wretch who wrote that lie about a Pquurel between G.tueral She r nun and Ida wife ought to be satin alive. Graphic. In the bright lexicon of the youth, whom fa'e reserve f.r eonie other purpose than being made up into sole leather, there's no such word as "skun." A young man who lives la a atyl.t of two thousand a year on an income of five hundred, was heard to jingle some sit re r In his YCW at t tllA fit tit r flaw riit that vwiakt nffln aktawa-k '; Whereupon ft friend who knew bis statue

among the boarding homes, remarked opon hi wealth. "Yes, I am feeling quits rich," said the Y.M.; "I am two dollars above board." "Are you sure it's above board? ' asked tbe quiet joker, and the young man fainted. At ft political meeting tbe other nigt, when an orator with an unusually large stomach arose to speak, tbe chairman, woo was rather near sighted, shouted out three times, "Here, take that base drum down off the stage!" before he discovered hit mistake. Philadelphia Chronicle. "John, it seems to me thit you are not doing your work as well as yoa used to not as painstaking as. you might he." t'l will tell why, mlladi. I thought that if I made myself indicf ensable, when I rame to go it would cause you too murh inconvenience and regret. Beer Paria Paper. A man named Knife docs the carving in a Chicago hotel. Now, all j on funny b!adea cut in. New York Commercial Adverueer. Thank you, but we never engage in such knifearious boslne s. Free Fr ss. He must keep himself going by a big steel and live in the forks of the road. Rot Lester Democrat Onereesm why more people did not go into the ark is that Noah neglected toa veriisa in tbe daily papers. Th-re is a pr at moral leyson contained In this fact. New York Mail. Another reasjn waa that Noah bad two of a kind ou everything and the people didn't like to cone in. Rochester Democrat With Arbnckle blowing at one end and Ta'mae at the other, which is tbe little end of the horn r Free press. We should thick that the man at the big end of the horn would have such a tremendous advantage in getting bis work in on the man at the little ebd tnat he would raise the roof nf his mouth at the first blabt Rochester Democrat . 'i A West Hill man painted a ferocious looking sign, "Look out for tbe dog," and put it np in his front yard to scare away tramps. The next morning a tramp wilh a bad smile, shoulders like a load of hay. a club wit.o death smiling out of every kuot of it, rapped at the front door, demanded tome hot biscuit, meat, potatoes and a cup of c: ffe, and asked pleasantly, "How ia the dog?" Hawkeye. "Ab, yes, my son," said Mr Siniley,' as he was strolling under the moonlit heavens tbe other evening, "there ar a great many won derful things in the firmament; for ina'ance, there Is the constella'.iou of tbe 'great bear, which is so beautifully mixed up witi the d:p;er' than you always have to remember that the tail of the dipper is the handle of the bear, in c.rJer to tell the other from which New Haven Raster. The following from the Guelph lie raid ia pe rhsps the most atrcclouspnnevrr penned: "Our governors are alvaya getting things named after them. It must be more than a coincidence, in view of tbe fact that the marquis cf Lorne is to govern us, that lhee hand stamps to mark shirts with are row called marker of lawn." We desire to take this opportunity of informing toe publie that tbe marquis of Lroe is not the inventor of tbe famous lawn mower. We -reathe a parting sytbe over this. There is one pass over the Alps so narrow that they call it the toe pasa. It ia a teal little gem ot a pass foWton Posr. And there is one alongside of tbe Erie Canal narrow that they call it the tow spath. It's a mere Jpp of a difference. Philadelphia Bulletin And there is a rule in tbe sinful game cf euchre called "to pass." but we don't know what it siguiSes Norrihtown Herald. We woul I like to know who Issued the original pass over the A'ps, and to what oflica we can write for one. Rchetfr Democrat.

religious no res. Cardinal Cullen died rich. Church fairs are cow in order. Thanksgiving day will come on November 28., Piesident Hayes aya ao. Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Methodist Church South, is in very poor health. It is raid tbat Bob Infersoll made $30.0)0 out of "Hell." That's mora than he will eve make in it Moody weighs 240 pounds. Think of that, ye poor, lean sinned! Revive and grow fat while there is jet time. Tbere were 12 000 Hebrews In the yellow fever districts of tbe soith when tbe scourge began. Tbe 250,000 Jews in America have contributed to tbeir relief $8",0OG. "Sandy, what is the state of religion in yonr town?" "Bid, air; very bad! Tuere are re no Christians except DiVie and myself, aLd I have my doubts about Davie." A young minister wto flirts is justly an abomination in the eyes of all right tninkiug people. The female members of a congregation should be aware of a flirty and baudsvme minister. Tne 8ouhera Presbyterian Church has 1,042 ministers, of whom 810 are engaged in active work either as jutstors, supp ies, missionaries or theological professors; 5o are engaged in professional life, and 177 are not employed at all. At a "love feast" in 3t TauVs Methodist Church in New York last week two Jaj anrt-e converts related their experience. They were so funny and so d -lighted the congregation tbat ever body arose to their fert and sang the doxoUgy. The trouble with IheAdvemsti is that each branch has settled on a different date for the arrival of Jesiirf. After all. of what goo i are thete specula ion, for Christ himself said that no ui.-tn could know tue day nor the hour of His coming. It is a notable fact that the religious press of New York city bavs given n welcome r aid to tbe Conference of Second Ad vent'bts held in tbat city. Iu fact, eoiij of tbe prominent papers have derouncd the whole affair aa foolish in the extreme. A Chicago Methodist has fitted npa chapel boat, and ia goirg on an evane'iz'ng tour a'ong shore, ptesching at every lauding. Happy thought; if he can't catch sinners he ran fish. And a good lake .fish makes ft better breakfast than a a nter, any day. Sir Moses Mon'efiore , the eminent Jewish philanthropist of Lidon. has sent a donalion of $250 for the Now O hav.a yellow Uver luffereM. to be njuaHy divided bctween the Hebrew rVnevo ent Society and Ihe Young Men's Christ au Association of ILmI city. Tbe mam point the one that the people at large wouul like to have had tbe believers in the second Coining of Jesus Christ tlx, is the exact da'e 011 wLich C'uii.t willappa-. Tbis point, ho vever, : t'oy vo:d d. If He ?ou't arrive for a duple of thousand years, why should this generation bother it head over tbe matter? Chicago has a wo nan's Christian association that dispenses charity along tne byways of society. During the past ) ear it haa done good with $6 l.'0. It op ra'es a boirdIng bone for won, an emp'oyment bureau and a dup-nsary of free medicine and advice. Io the year it has bearded 130 needy ) women, been doctor to 712, and saved some j from shame.

A FATAL EXCX)UNTER.

A Colored Parmer of Vigo County . FataUy Shot Saturday Night. Called Oat of Ilia Hot. at at 11 Hr lie) tnfnge In no Affray ArreM f Two of 111m AtHallABta. James H. Bundy, a well known colored farmer, living four miles outh of Terre Haute, on the SalliTan rosd, was fatally shot late Saturday night The report waa brought to tbe city, and a physician arid a tquad of police went out to the scene. U'lcdybaidi'd btfore the party arrived. He was fcbot twice. The first ball passed Into the left tide, under the btomacb, justgrazing the Lip bon", and W33 ihe fatal one. The- ether, entered the flc.'hy part of the ler, midway betwff.n tho thigh and knee. Bun ly w? about 5.5 or perhaps!) years old. He owned a farm of nearly 200 arris. He leaves an aged wife and a son, G?orj:e. The latter is at R chmond, -Indiana. Dundy had six men in his employ. Four of these were in tbe ho-jse, besides au old black woman. They slate that he had been iuing by the fire dozng about t) o'clock, when a call was heard from the road. Bundy was aroustd and went out Bhoitly afterward he tame hack, got a iAer and a double barreled bhotgun and went out again. Then four shots were heard, and pretty soon . Bundy waa heard railing for help. Charles Williams and Phillip Kerkendoll ran oat aud found Bundy bitting near the orchard fenoe. He was carried into tbe house by tho men, r poke to each one, calling their names, then went Into convulsions, suffered . terribly., gasped and died. The officers ttarttd on an exploring expedition, and at the next house where they struck a trail, a negro named Tom Underwood tad come to McPheeters and wanted to lie down a while, as be had been wounded. He waited there, telling McPheeters to stop Hamilton Montgomery when his wagon came up. When it did Underwood got in and went on. The police then arove five miles to the next house, and slipped' up to tbe front gate, where two men were about to . mount horse. One waa Montgomery and the came of the other is Smith. In the darkness they were mush surprised to be po suddenly turronuded, the party having beea swelled by half a Cozen other men. Montgomery pulltd out a revolver, but Stack as red hia arm. He and Smith were arrested end handcuDVtl topether. Smith was afterWard leleitsed. It senw that he too was in tbe wkoq with Underwood, but was drunk and 88eep, In the honse was Montgomery's wife, with tbe family that lived there. To the express n messenger the gave a short account of the murder. She says Underwood left the wagon to va'l Henry Tieoble out of Ban ly's rionse. Bindy himself came, but hs ani Underwood were a little distance off, and abe did not see the actual encounter, bhe fays she beaid only two shots, but" that there might have been more, as she was too much frightened to know. The noise of tbe bhots t-cared the horses. They overturned the waj'on. While it was being righted Un''crwoo.1 walked ahobd to the house of Mo Pheeters, where he waited till they came up. The olllcers now went a few hundred yards further an J tnroed off the road through a wood pasture. The moon bad just set, but witba guide Ihey scram b'ed through the brushwood and over lostill tley reached the small farm house of Arthur Allen, a respectable old farmer with whom Underwood was stopping. They found the latter there in bed, and also James Maya, who had been in the wagon. Tbe latter is a well known butcher. Ilia revolver bad been bidden by another man outside the door. He was made to get it Oue load was out Mays aays he fired it during tbe afternoon at bis slaughter house. He was, however, placed under arrest It is not as yet known how many times Bundy fired. Tbe hired men say tbat when the gun was brought back one barrel was .-t il loaded. It is clear, however, that two bhota must have been fired at Underwood, for the same ehot tbat filled his hide with shot could not have burned tbe tide of his head. Do 1.1 says two of the shots son nded aa if they were from a fho'guu. On the person of Montgomery were found two revolvers, and t wo or three shots are missing. Th's is why be was arrested. Underwood had carried his revolver in a bolster fastened to a belt It is a-large weapon, and three cartridges were missing out of it. The weapon was found with Mays. Underwood and Montgomery were brought to Terre Haute and placed in jail. Both refuse to uik. ' THE HOUSE OF REFUGE. ' Some Facta In Regard to Its Management During the Paat Taar. Judge Jordan, one of tbe commissioners of the house of refuge, informs the Sentinel that $10,000 of the appropriation for that Inbtitution for the year ending October 31 was unexpended. Tbe legislature appropriated $33,000, and only $13,000 was expended. Of this latter turn $7,000 was used to build a chapel and make other improvements of a permancut character, which have added gieaily to the comfort and health of the boys, so tbat the actual expense of the institution was only $3100i. There was paid into the state treasury as profits made by the boys in the chair thop and the money derived from the sales of hide., tallow and" garden products, etc., tbe sum of $5,H00, thus reducing the actual expense to the tax-payers for this institution to $.'10,200 There are now 383 boys in the house. The counties s-ndiug the boys bear half the expense, which is fixed by the board. A few years a:o tbe cost of maintenance was fixed at $200 for each boy; for the year just clo-ied it was $l'2i, aud for this year it will be 100 The reduction of expenses in this institution directly affects the tax-payers of Marion county, as nearly one-ton rth of tbe boys go from thla county. The oople of this county have especial cue. therefore, to commend tbe management for this large reduction, but all thti tax pajersof the state can return thanks. There ba9 been expended In former yer $05,(100, and no earnings paid into tbe ire sury, so that tai reduction is more thaVi one- , half, and more boys have btn In the institution tbao ever befor. Another Triumph for Nnerin'awv . Cincinnati Enquirer.) Resumption is doing its noble work in onr midst. i'l;e old banking house of Joseph. Heoiann & Co cloned its doors yertenlay. Hard mouey and hard times will both Lo with us for s me time. forney' forte llnterview with J. W. Foraey.) I shall stand by tbe republican party tilt the last h)rn blows, and I therefore most not be misunderstood when I say the chances are in favor of a democratic triumph tn 183Q.