Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1879 — Page 2

THE IXDIAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOBNIKG, JANUARY 23, 1879.

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY. 23. txiPPises. "Herb lies an old woman who always was tired, For she lived in a house where help was not hired; Her last words on earth were, "Dear friends I am going "Where nothing ain't dime, nor churning, nor sewing, And every thing there will be just to my wishes. For where they don't eat there's no washing of dishes! IH be where loved anthems will always be ringing, But having no voice 111 get rid of the singing : Dont mourn for me now, and don't mourn for me never, For I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever!"

Newburyport Herald, j Said vain Andrew Scalp, my inititlals, I j guess, Are known, so I sign all my poems A. 8. Said Jerrold, I own you're a reticent youth, For that's telling only two-thirds of the truth A barometer The Monet bell-punch. Puck. The ise men sing "Yes, we'll gather at the river." A giant vegetable A six foot beat. New l ork .Express. Wilhelmj's name looks as if it were on an old-fashioned skate. St. Louis Post. England should send its lunatics to the Scilly Isles. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Plumbers are pricing diamonds, and they want them of the first water. St. Louis Post. Mil. and Mrs. Bowers of Rochester, are divorced, and she is the left Bower. Detroit Free Press. The president of Peru has formed a new cabinet. Now let the Peruvian bark. New Orleans Picayune. The Princess Louise carries a little cane, because she is becoming a little Cane-adian. Philadelphia Bulletin. Isn't it funny that when fish are weighed the weight of the scales has to be counted in. Baltimore Every Saturday. Birth notice from the Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman; "To the wife of Perry Craig, colored A Democratic son ; Major Tilford." The little contribution salvers handed round in churches are ant to come back rather nickel plated. New Orleans Picayune. Some wicked wretch suggests that deacons be compelled to use a bell punch when they take up collections in church. Hackensack Republican. The Nation has an article entitled "The Last Trace of the War." It must have belonged to the Harness of an artillery mule. Cincinnati Saturday Night. We call Mr. Ingersoll's attention to the fact that Sodom an 1 Gomorrah are to be rebuilt, and respectfully suggest that he announce himself for mayor. Free Press. Is Chicago, 111? Philadelphia Transcript. Will Philadelphia Pa.? Whitehall Times. Will Toledo O.? Toledo Commercial. No, but Topeka Kan. Pittsburg Telegraph. The Indians at Camp Robinson were so roughly handled that it is Impossible to make them believe that Fred Grant Is not In com- - maud of the forces. Chicago Times. History doesn't say that William Tell was bow legged man, but it leaves no doubt of his being bow handed. This is an arrow escape from a pan. Norristown Herald. It was a pretty sacred kind of a day in Boston Sunday. Sacred lottery and sacred performance of scenes from the "Lady of Lyons" at the Jewish fair; sacred Strauss waltzes and .sacred "Siege of Paris" near by ; sacred Morgan lecture at Music Hall, and so on. Sacred! Sacre! If we maybe allowed the expression. Boston Herald, THEY DON'T LIKE IT. A Vigorous Republican Protest Against Lovan's Election. Chicago Tribune. The fact that Mr. John A. Logan had a majority of the votes in tbe caucus of theRepublican members of the General Assembly is none tbe less humiliating because it was brought about largely by disreputable and degrading means. The caucus has passed; Logan has been nominated; and, on the assumption tbat be will be elected, we protest in behalf of intelligence, principle and public interest, against this outrage upon the people of Illinois, and upon the Republican party of this State and of the country. He has already been tried six years in the Senate.and during all that time he left no record that is honorable to himself or valuable to his party or country. On all great questions requiring knowledge, ability, sound judgment, or statesmanship, he was an acknowledged failure. His most noted acts were tampering with Uie Credit Hobilier, voting himself $7,500 a year for past services, supporting subsidies and' claims, and being cbeek-by jowl with the Washington lobby. His illiterate harangues in tha Senate made Illinoisans bang their heads in shatre, and were so moving as to empty the Chamber and fill the smoking rooms with senators who declined to listen to twaddle and roar. He was opposed to ell reforms in Government; he was the embodiment of the worst ffhaso of machine poll t ice, and helped to bring scandal and re-proach-on Grant's administration; a majority of his appointments turned out to be -corrupt and faithless; a -cumber were indicted; some fled the country; others es--caped "through flaws of the law; many passed tinder a cloud : and some, who are out on bail, have yet to be tried. It is -snob, 'men, and the class of pokticiana to which they belong, in and out of the Legislature, - who have secured him the caucus nomi nation. The best and most thoughtful Republicans -object t this man's elevation again to the Senate as a reward for his perfidy two years . ago in defeating the regular-caucus nominee, -or in vindication of his Saicry Grab acta, or Jiis Ring -record; and they also object on tba jgronnd that it involves 4he commission -of an outrage on General Ogtesby, a true and -pure man, who is to be ejected from his seat without the slightest justification, to make Treom for a vociferous claim agent and treasjHy raider. Arteanns Ward aw m Practical Joker. FjScribners Monlaly.l Browne aad Grisweld, "the Fat Contribat or," erj on newspaper work at the same fc'nie In Cleveland, aad were very intimate f r tenda. -One day there came to the city a di asnatic reader, a mac of some note, but of a v ry timid disposition. These two worthies in ,ne manner discovered that he was a person easily to be imposed upon, aad shortly after Jmb arrival they pata him a visit. It was an early tour in the morning lone after the man had retired and they fount it difficult to . arouse hiai. Tbey told htai they were edistors, and wanted to hear him read before meriting feai tip. They invited him to step -is to a hal adjoiniag the hotel and give them a (Specimen f his Dowers. At first the man yaluaed to go with them, but when they told iiix sternly that they were editors, and wodd crush kim if be did not comply, he fit compelled to go. Nor would they allow M.'B to putt on his clothes, but forced him to go i'O. Bight dress to a eold and dreary hall, whe" they complacently smoked their cigars wVile they listened to him declaim, with c battering teeth and trembling voice, for seveI hours. Whea they finally per- " nutted h.ta to go, they told him, by way of consolation',, that they had always thirsted to hear a dramatic reader in night dress, and that they weO much satisfied with his performance. Brown was ..treat lover of a practical

joke. One of bia maddest pranks was In New York City, in 1863. He had been at come benefit performance with Dan Bryant and Nelse Seymour, and at its conclusion be induced these to join him on a lark. Accordingly they went to Bryant's property room, and each donned a comple suit of armor. Then they armed themselves with broad swords, and in the still hours of the night went forth in search of defenseless citizens. Up and down the streets in grim array they marched, and when they fonnd a man alone and unarmed, they would make him down on hit knees and pray ' for mercy. . Then, after having frightened him almost out of his senses, they would permit him to go on his way. Their fun, however, after a while was brought to an abrupt termination by the police, who marched them off to the Tombs. They entered fictitious names; but the judge next morning recognized the culprits and discharged them with an admonition. On the same night they visited the house of Tom Jackson, who had just brought to this country the famous Swiss bell ringers. In response to their violent ringing of the bell

Jackson came to an upper window, anu not knowing who his visitors were, asked them in tones of thunder what they wanted. "We want an engagement," said Browne. ""We are the original bell ringers." Jackson then recognized them, and appreciating the joke, invited them in. DEATH IS STOCKINGS. Serlons Blood Poisoning; Occasioned by Aniline Dyes. A striking example of the way in which the followers of fashion maybe injured in obeying its commands is afforded by the custom prevailing now and for some time past of wearing colored hosiery. In this case the danger affects both sexes, and even children are not exempt from it. It is an insidious danger threatening every housebold, and its evil effects are so often misunderstood tbat sufferers are treated for other ailments than the true one. Once in a while the evil is brought before public notice by the discovery of some TERSON OE CHILD SEEMINGLY rOISONED in this manner. A case has only recently been brought into court at St Louis, but it will probably soon be forgotten. People are rendered more cautious by these warnings for a short time, but will return to their fancy stockings and run. their daily risk of disease and death. In cases where the matter has been carefully investigated and families have been visited who are accustomed to wear hosier dyed in color and bought from dealers of no established reputation, numbers of instances ot poisoniDg, and in some cases of serious illness have been found. This is borne out by the statements of physicians and the admitted testimony of dealers in the trade. At a meeting of the Medico-Legal Society a short time 8t0, a paper was read, in which was cited a well authenticated instance of a young woman in this city, both of whose lower limbs were paralyzed from wearing colored stockings, and many physicians have met with serious cases of poisoning from this cause in their practice. Every one is aware of how easily the color comes off imperfectly dyed socks or stockings, and how difficult' it is to remove this coloring from the skin. Should the skin be at all abraded or cut, declare medical experts, this poisonous matter is received at once into the blood and quickly pervades tbe whole system. Children, es pecially, are often in the habit of RI BBING OR SCRATCHING THEIR LEGS. The skin is thus irritated or abraded, and the poisonous coloring matter from the stockings is at once absorbed. Should the person thus afflicted be run down in health, their blood in a poor or bad condition, the consequences often become most serions. It has been found by analysis that preparations of arsenic and lead are of tea used in the chemical preparation of these colors. Leading doctors say they can not tell what is used, and most dyes, as a prominent phy sician testifies, are poisonous and hurtful. It is generally conceded that the aniline reds are least hurtful, but in all the other highcolored aniline and other reds danger lurks, and those who, in following the fashions, persist in wearing colored hose tbat is not properly dyed, little know what peril they suffer. The subject seemed of so much public interest tbat a Mercury reporter sought Dr. Jayne, of the health board, to ask his opinion on the subject. "There is no doubt," said Dr. Jayne, "that injury must result from the wearing of colored stockings. My practice Is not an extended one, but I have no doubt tbat physicians of large practice could tell you of cases of this poisoning that have come under their notice. If a person's skin Is at all cut or abraded an irritating surface coming in contact with it will be injurious, and If THE BLOOD BE IMI-lP.lt or poor, serious results or death may follow. It is impossible to tell what is used in the preparation of the dyes, and poisons are likely employed by disreputable manufacturers in the making and in the products sold by unscrupulous dealers. I should be inclined to think that the red dyes were the least hurtful, and I have worn red stocking myself for many years without experiencing any ill effects, but very often the other colors may be dangerous." Dr. Williard Parker was next seen, and seemed to take much interest in the subject. He said: "Poison may be absorbed in the perspiration of the feet quite as readily as when the skin is rough or cut. The preparations of arsenic or lead, which can be used in producing these dyes, will work serious injury when rubbed off from the stocking and taken in perspiration into the system. It is an undoubted fact that the coloring matter of these stockings continually rubs off, and one can not judge except by chemical investigation whether it contains poisonous material or no; if it does it can be taken into the system and work serious "injury."' Mrs. Wilson, of A. T. Stewart t. Co., said the fashion for colored hoosier was as prevalent as ever. Tbey had complaints of the colors-coming off frea neatly,, but they endeavored to sell the best goods, and until a dye could be invented which would be perfectly fast the complaints woald probably centime. At LeBontiUier & Co.'s the same story was told, and they said all that could be dona was to sell stock of the BEST PBOCC BASLE -QUAUITT. - . At Arnold & Constable's tbe reporter was told that the high colored analine ayes might be injuBLons, but tbey were the faahion, and people would have them. In the theatrical profession the use of colored hosiery is necessarily an extensive one, ad there fiave beea reports fcr some time of inj uriea received -from thair employment. A prominent actress said recently that she had mneh uneasiness from wearing a pair of striped stockings in a play in which she took a prominent part. 'Her lower limbs became inflamed and irritated, thetrntation increasing day by day, until she learned the cause, and sacrificed picturesque effect to health by returning to the plain vsbita coverings -of the good old days. Thtis it will be seen how often there is danger wihen people least suspect, and tbey should ie roost careful where tbey purchase, if thvy feel it necessary to do so, these articles ot djess which, under gaudy ceiors, bring disease and death. Borne Sore Deservln;. JTlpton Times. 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ENGLAND'S WOE.

Unparalleled Sufferinj Poor. : Among the People Dying from Bread. the Want of Efforts of the More Fortuna'e to Believe PistreBB. Excessive Cold Weather Adding; Misery of tbe Destitute. to tbe London Correspondence St. Louis Star. The new year has dawned upon a desolate England, desolate with almost the ashes of desolation. The old year went out so gloom ily that tbe young vigor of tbe new has not as yet been able to lift the dark pall that seems to have fallen over a maj r portion of the United Kingdom. The home newspapers are all teeming with the victories that have been won by British arms in Af ghanistan and of tiie ameer's flight, and that Russia has withdrawn her mission from Cabul, and that in spite of the continuous humiliations that Russia has received at the bands of England, the cabinets of London and SL Petersburg are on a basis of friendship and reciprocal confidence. The Beaconsfield branch have gained many achievements, and yet there is no joy in England. The one great voice one hears is the people crying for bread. This is a sorrowful New Year in both palace and cottage. The royal hearthstone is clouded by a mighty grief, and its intensity recalls a grief of 17 years ago that came to tbe royal house. As viewed through the London prints, royalty moves through an atmosphere of love and adoration; but one can not go into society, no matter of what standing, and engage in an hour's conversation without hearing a choice batch of scandal that affects some of the lights in power at or about the throne; but it is never allowed to go abroad. The queen is greatly broken over the death of the Princess Alice, and suffers just as all mothers suffer who have lost a dear daughter; but London has almost forgotten it, and the country has forgotten that such a personage ever existed. A few days ago a peer in Parliament touched on the illness of the prince of Wales In 1873, saying that all hopes of England seemed to rest at his bedside, yet every one knew tbat if the prince had died England would have gone on without a jar. THE PEOPLE are not sorrowing for the death of the Princess Alice, but for bread ; they are starving for lack of bread, and they, as well as Parliament, feel bitterly the fact that in the queen's last Epeech she did not oace refer to their appalling condition. A few nights later one of tbe members in sympathy with the ministry addressed a question to tbe home secretary of great moment, which I here reproduce: "I would like to ask," said the gentleman, "whether tbe home secretary can correct or corroborate the report that we are almost face to face with such a crisis of distress as this generation or country has never known a distress affecting even the metropolis, but operating with even greater intensity in the cotton, coal and iron districts?" The answer was not a denial, but an assurance that such was the unhappy case. Mr. Cross, the home secretary, stated that there were two forms of misery: the first, general commercial distress; the second, tbe usual distress which is always found among the poor of great cliies, and which an English statesman is not ashamed to iecognize and admit as a concomitant of English civilization. Lord Beaconsfield said tbat tbe only hope of better times was in the hope of returning prosperity in the United States as expressed by President Hayes in bis message to Congress. This is a great admission for England, for it plainly reveals that tbe United States has so tar surpassed the mother country that tbe letter's prosperity can only return with hew. THE COLD SEASON. This is the coldest season tbat has been known in England for 1G years, and even nature is in mutiny. In 1862. tbe winter of our own terrible civil war, tbe cold was as severe as now. It is terribly cold. Banks of snow line tbe highway; the poor horses slip, stumble and fall, their drivers not having learned the art by which our horsemen at home defy the snow. The Princess Louise, locked up in her Canada palace, spending her first New Year away from borne and a sad New Year it will be for the poor woman, with all these memories from Hesse Darmstadt of the Princess Alice need not envy her cosy quarters in Kensington Palace. I walked through Kensington on yesterday morning. The cold winds came blowing down from Campden Hill. The Argyle borne looked bleak and desolate, the poor duke aways striving to find sunshine and comfort in Cannes, tbe old palace, the palace of William IIL, and where Colonel Esmond in Thackeray's novel made his gallant efforts to restore the Stuart's, through the cold fog. It was high noon and the lamps in the streets were still burn ing. Shivering sentinels stamped their feet and tried to extract warmth from tbe ground as they walked from post to post. All over London was deep gloom, and during the whole day tbe fog enclosed the city and the frost locked the ground. The fog would be nothing, and there would be little omen in the froet if over all England there were not this deepest gloom, which no news of. Afghan victories can disperse. As you go into ho tels and public places you see boxes for collecting charity for the poor. The English are a rich people and generous, and will mage a noble effort to alleviate THIS MISEKY. But what can any private enterprise, no matter now brave, do towards meeting a calamity which has fallen on the whole peo ple and the extent of which is so alarming that even statesmen in Parliament stand aghast and look for help from over the sea and find words of comfort in our president's message? Caa any fact indicate more strongly tbe relations between tbe two coun tries, which never grew bo strong as in their hours of trial? Sixteen years ago when this last frost fell on England there was unusual prosperity here. It came from our war. All of the channels of American commerce bad broken down, ail of our wealth was rushing Into English markets, our commercial supremacy was riving ' way to Kngland, eager to hud her opportunity in our calamity and her prosperity in our rain. But now how changed, and if we cared to point m moral what a lesson it would be! But looking out on the cold streets, seeing London under hr canopies of fog and snow, passing at every corner some abject, pitiful creature, craving bread, and bearing in every moaning winter wind the voice of sorrow and waiit, one can not have the heart to remember anything but the grief of England, or to wish for anything but abundant mercy. Isitnot written tbat they who are strong should not boast of their strength, left the hour of calamity should come? Reatt the newspapers, and in ever column is some note of sorrow. On last Sunday, in Birdcage Wall;, a woman fell on

the ground and died at once. She was starving. Her son bad bad- no work for five months, there were three children and nothing for them to eat. Birdcage Walk is in St. JamEs Park, and is one ot tbe historical spots of London. It is the center of a rich and populous section, under the shadow of ducal mansions, within a few moments' walk of the queen's premises. Here English mothers fall and die of hunger. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY announces that it will reduce the wages of its employes a shilling a week. The Midland Railway can build hotels which the magnificence .of I isk could not equal. It can not pay its laborers an honest and square price, and its officers forget tbat that shilling a week will come out of many a poor soul's New Year's dinner. In Wolverhampton a few days ago, a bard working and honest mechanic, 35 years of age, triad to cut his throat. His wife had just given birth to a child. He bad no work, no food or money. Suicide was the welcome he gave his new born child. An honest laborer named King was arrested for stealing a fragment of cheese. In tbe police court he told the following story: He had been out of employment six weeks; bad applied for aid at the work house; had even asked a policeman to lock him up that he might obtain a night's lodging. He was sentenced to fourteen days' imprsonment In Gloster Wagon Works the men are reduced foar shillings a week, and compelled to work ten hours a day. In Burnley the work bouse is filled to overflowing and the applications for relief have increased

during the past year fifty per cent, in the Berwick country, people attack butchers' wagons and vans carrying provisions, to obtain food. Houses have been broken into and entered for the sole purposes of obtain ing food to keep life in the wan and starved bodies. Think of burglars breaking into ho uses for bread ! In Wolverhampton the other day a number of applications tor pauper relief were two-tbirds in excess of ordinary times, over fifteen hundred of an increase. 15 ONE WEEK. "The -great majority of these,'" says the journal from which I am quoting, "were able bodied men, wno raid that they had been out of work for many weeks, and their wives and children were starving at ho a. In Marylebone district, a few minutes' walk from the Langham Hotel, near the great estate of the Russells, the Grosvenors and the Cecils, William Sullivan d'ed the other day, The doctors said at the inquest tbat the cause of his death was starvation. William was the son of a laborer, and his father could not obtain employment wherewith to earn food for his family. Tbe coroner who sat at the inquest was a practical man. He advised the father and the mother to apply to the Work House and get some food, else toey would not be able to do any work, These stories come from all over England. In Manchester tbe times are worse than they were during tbe cotton famine. Tbe distress of the laborer means distress in other circles. If poor men can not buy articles, small shopmen can not sell them and so trade is at an end. AH of the money goes for food, and tbe manifold industries outside of the sale of food are at a standstill and so tbe circle of distress goes around and around. Men and women of energy and benev olence are doing all in tbeir power to remedy the snfferiDg. The queen has sent $10,000 to one fund, but if she gave a whole year's salary as queen and lived on her income, it would not be too large a contribution. The Radical papers are beginning to talk in strange voices; tbey even talk of revolution. which Is an ominious word to be heard in England at a time when her flag has won new glories in India, but then patriotic fervor cools when one thinks, if tbey only bad bread for themselves and their families. A DRAMATIC -8CKKE. Kate Cobb's Utile Daughter Called to Impeacb Her Grandmother' Testi mony. - An intensely dramatic scene was enacted in the court room in the recent trial ot Mrs. Kate Cobb, of Norwich, Conn., for tbe mur der of ber husband. The evidence was al most all in, and there still remained an important point which tbe prosecution must make before tbe summing up began. That was to introduce the testimony of the ten year old daughter of tbe prisoner as to the cuu and saucer marked "Pet," which Bishop claims he gave her. and which she denies ever receiving from him. Tney were afraid to put on litile Adele as a witness of their own, because it had got abroad that the prisoner's friends bad tampered with her. It re mained to bnDg out ber testimony against ber mother in some other way, because it would never do to put a witness on tbe stand whom they might wish to impeach. There was a hurried consultation between tbe prosecutor and his assistant, and then tbe latter called out in a loud voice: "Sheriff, bring in the little girl!" There was a stir among the spectators as a tall man in a b'ue coat and brass button appeared walking by the side of a pretty little form, all lace and feather and dimpled confusion. Everybody made way for tbem, and tbey walked slowly past the lonely figure in black, which bent forward for an instant and then drew back quickly until they reached the witness chair. The little girl climbed into it and then turned to the audience a pretty face, remarkably like that of the prisoner, thongh with more of tbe rose bud than the rose in ber cheeks. She was a bonnie wee thing, with her long golden hair pushed back over her face by a black circular comb, golden ear-arops ana a oat oi lustrous blue silk and white lace perched on top of her ringlets. The tiny white lace scan about her throat was tied with just the least sus picion of jauntiness, and her small white hands, nestling against her plaything of a muff, showed the glitter of a ring her mother's gift. "WHAT IS YOVR NAME, LITTLE ONE?" Asked the public prosecutor, with a gentleness which contrasted strongly with the war of words which had preceded it. For a moment tbe witness looked about in childish confusion. Then she murmured, "Adele W. Cobb." White haired and venerable Mr. Wait could bear it no longer. " object to this. your honors," he cried, bringing his hand down uoon the bar with an emphasis tbat made it rebound. Then he rose, and with something of the air ot the lion turned to his learned antagonist and shook his hand warningly at him. "I object," be cried in a wringing voice, "to this unparalleled scene. I object, your honors, to bringing this tender little thing, innocent of the nature of an oath or of tbe knowledge of anything evil, into to this court to testify against her mother, who is on trial for her life! It is bad enough to have these lawyers for the State putting her questions, as they admit having done, without bring her here to bear forced testimony tbat may help hang the mother who bore her and nursed ber. I ask your honors to put a stop to this thing here and at the outset!'1 Prosecutor Waller rose with a flushed face, in which regret at the part he was acting struggled with a sense of duty. He spoke in a low voice, every syllable of which was audible in the farthest corner of the crowded courtroom. He said: "Your honors, I admit ' that it is a most painful sight, and nothing but the conviction that I am doing my sworn duty to the State and to the community would justify me in what I am about to do." "The prisoner at the bar is her mother," broke in Mr. Wait, impatiently. "Aye, gentlemen," continued the public prosecutor, "the prisoner at tbe bar, as ray learned friend truly says, is her mother, but is not tbe murdered man ber father? For myself, if you or I were to be murdered by poison, I trust tbat we would leave children yes, even little ones like this with honor and affection enough to aid in pointing out tbe murderess, even though she were her own mother!" Kind hearted Judge Culver drew bis ehaix

to the edge of the platform and looked upon the witness.

"A dele," he said, in a kind, cheering voice, do you know what it is to tell a false hood?" ' Yes." answered tee little girl. with a nod. it i wicxea. "Who will punish you if you tell a false hood?' "God will," she replied. "And who told you that God would punish you?' XAVXA DID, SIR." The judge wiped bis glasses, and both he and the chief justice looked very grave. There were few dry eyes in the vicinity of the little witness, and even the stern jurymen looked melted for a moment A tear stood in the prisoner's eye, and then rolled slowly down her pale face. She raised her veil and brushed it away with her handkerchief. "We admit this testimony." said Chief Justice Park finally, "to impeach the testi mony oi tue grana mother, and not for any other purpose. Mrs. Waterman having testified that she did not tell the little girl a certain thing, it is allowable to impeach her testimony oy asung tbe little fcirl what she did telLher." With constant promptings from the public prosecutor Adele told ber story. She said that the lawyers came to ber one dav and asked ber if she bad seen anything of tbe cup. She admitted seeing the cup marked "Pet in the cupboard of her mother's bouse. When Bhe next saw her grandmother the latter said to her: "You mother had no such cup as that; there is a cup marked something else that belonged to me." During this paintu! recital Mrs. Waterman, who was virtually being accused of Deriurv bv her grand child, looked pale as death. Her face was hrmly set, and she did not lower it, although the gaze of tbe crowded coprt room was concentrated npon her. When the pain ful scene was concluded, not without many interruptions by the counsel for the defense, tbe public prosecutor heaved a sigh of relief. "Do you know the nature of an oath. Adele?" asked Colonel Wait, rising once more and looking fixedly at the witness. rso, sir," was tbe artless answer. "There, you see. von Honors." exclaimed the prisoner's counsel, triumphantly "she admits that she doesn't know what she's doijsg." "But she says it's wicked to tell a false hood, and tbat God will punish her," said Judge Culver, emphatically. "She may not know about the legal form, but she understands the essence of the thing." vv nen little Adele lelt the witness chair she walked over to where her mother was sitting. Curiosity seekers craned their necks to see what the mother would do. The child tripped unhesitatingly up to the silent figure in black, whose life she had been helping to swear away, and put out her tiny hand. The mother caught her in her arms, raised her npon her lap, pressed her to her breast and began smoothing back ber golden hair with trembling but loving hands. Those who stood near say that the only words she uttered, and those in a choked voice, were, "My precious!" Five hundred gaping spectators stared at trs scene with dry eyes, and the lawyers for the prosecution, to their honor, did not hide their emotion. The tears coursed down the furrowed cheeks of the venerable counsel for the prisoner as he rose and, in a tremulous voice, demanded tbat tbe entire evidence be ruled out as inadmissible. He made an elo quent argument, but the judge felt compelled to refuse, and the case went over un til text Tuesday. There remain only two hours of rebutting testimony before the summing up. Dineane at Friead to Life. Washington Post.1 The anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia took place last evening at Tallin ad ge HalL A large audience assembled to hear the oration by Dr. A. F. A. King. The subject of the essay was "The Conservative Influence of Disease in Producing Longevity." With much force of argument and analysis he labored to prove that disease was not tbe terrible enemy to mankind that it had been painted oy tbe terrors of humanity. but in reality was a true and beneficent friend. He quoted from the celebrated Dr. Austih Flint, that "the existence of disease, rightfully considered, was an inestimable boon." He said that disease was not, in itself, better than health, but that it contributes to promote longevity, relatively to circumstances. He cited morbific condi tions, known as gastritis, rheumatism, hem orrhage, mumps, and insisted, with an earn estness that commanded attention, and a subtlety of logic that inspired respect for bis originality of thought, tbat these dis eases prevented sudden death. In gastritis. the patient naturally refrained from eating. and demanded copious draughts cf cold wa ter, treatment which the most skillful surgeon found to be the best. In rheumatism. the acute pain demanded rest, and rest was found to be just the thing needed, for the articular symptoms proved that heart dis ease was tbe real enemy, and muscular, exertion was tbe most fatal thing for affection of the heart. So with other diseases. A Dos; Killed by a Hoaae. . Berlin Keue Stettlsche Zeltnng.J A gentleman writing to this journal relates the following curious occurrence: "1 was alone with my labors in a field where potatoes were being harvested. My watch dog was along with me. I saw him seize a mouse, swallow and then lie down at my feet. I went home to dinner, and while seated at the table was asked what was the matter with the dog. He was turning round and moaning, and something was hanging from his side. took him up ia my arms and found It was a mouse which had just been killed: At first I thought it had merely stuck in the long hair, but on examining closer 1 saw that only one-half of the mouse pro traded fro u the dog's body. When the aperture was cleared it was found to be an inch in depth. The dog had no front teeth, and swallowed the mouse, and the little animal bad at once began to gnaw its way out. It was at first stopped by one of the ribs, and had actually burrowed out between the skin and rib. Tbe dog killed tbe mouse wben it put its bead out by munching it with his jaws. The dog died the next day." . Captain Blalr'a Hiataate. IChlcago Tribune. The trouble with Captain Thomas Blair, of the Fifteentn United States Infantry, is, that he didn't marry his second wife in the right territory. Tbe charge is that he mar ried the widow of tbe late General Gordon Granger in New Mexico, while at the' same time be had another wife in the Uld Coun try. Why didn't Tom marry her in Utah, and then he would have obviated all this trouble? Kearney and terkina. Oil City Derrick. - Will Colonel Forney please stop his Pro gress? In bis first number be published L. Jl. uodey's picture; and Mr. Godev died Next he had a sketch of Caleb Cusbing; the next week Mr. Cushing was no more. Mr. Forney will greatly oblige us by ceasing pub lication of his paper, after sketching Dennis Kearney and tAi Perkins. " A Good Snot. New York Commercial Advertiser. Had Wilhelmi been' a billiard player in stead of a violinist, he would most likely have spelled bis name with a q. Cases are constantly occnrAng in every family where, If Or. Bull's Cough Syrup were used in time, tbe cough and cold would give no iurtner trouble.

FKOI TBE Hon. THTJRL0W WEED

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