Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1879 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TVHEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBIiUAHY 5, 1S79.

BEABI'd EASE.

BY MART E. BRADLEY. Of all the bonny buds that blowIn briaht or cloudy weather: ' Of all the flowers that come and go The whole twelve mouths tgetiier, This little purple pausy brings Thoughts of lue sweetest, saddest tilings. I had a little lover once. Who used to give me oosies; His eyes were blue as hyacinths, ills lips were red as roses; And everybody loved to praise His pretty looks and winsome ways. The that went to school with mo itte jealous speeches he brought me loyally His iHGrest plums and peaciies. And always at the door would wait To carry home my boons and slate. "They couldn't see" with pout and fling ' The mighty lasclnatton About that little snub-nosed thing To win such admiration; As if there weren't a doen girls With nicer eyes and longer curls!" And this I knew- as well as they. And never could sec clearly Why more than Marion or May I should be loved so dearly ; So once I asKed him why was this? He only answered with a kiss. Until I teased him "Tell me why I want to know the reason:"' When from the garden bed close by (The pansies wure in season I, He plucked aad gave a tlowcr to me With sweet and simple gravity. 4i.rhe garden is in bloom, he said, With Ullies pale and slender, With roses and veibenas red. And fuchias' purple splendor; But over and above tbe rest This little hearts-ease suits me best." "Am I your little hearts-case, then?" 1 asked Willi blushing pieai'iire; He answered yes! and yes again Hearts-ease auG dearest tr snre; That the round world and all the sea Held nothing halt so sweet as me! I listened with a proud delight Too rare for words to capt ure, Xor ever dresmed what sudden blight Would come to chill my rapture. Could 1 foresee tlie tender bloom Uf pansies round a little tomb? Life holds some stern experience, As most of us discover. And I've had other losses since I lost my little lover; But still this purple pansy brings Thoughts of the saddest, sweetest things. THE EDITOR'S STRATEGY. BY SEMPER EADEM. The story that I have to tell is about Charley White arid his initiation into the "society" of Xngaet City. lie ia dead now. and I would say, "Alay his soul rest in peace," if I believed it possible that there could ever be any rest for such a restless spirit. When Charley accepted the position of local editor of the Nugget City Times, he wa3Stiongly advised to have nothing to do with it, as the risk was altogether ontof proportion to the pay. Since the close of the war the town had received an unpleasant addition to its population, in the persons of a large number of Teias roughs and desperadoes. These wild, lawless and uncontrollable men, co nectiDg themselves with some of the worst characters from the mountains and the plains, who were always to bs found in Nugget City, had expressed and carried an intentiou to "run the town" to suit themselves, enforcing their ideas by a free use of the slung shot, the bowie knife and the pistol. Any conscientious newspaper man who endeavored to show up tbe misaeeds of these ruffians was sure to fall under their displeasure, and to pay dearly for what they considered an impertinence. One local editor of the Times had been cowbided and nearly beaten to death, another had dodged a hail of pistol bullets as he got out of town, a third had been induced to leave at the point of a knife. The consequence was that the position was frequently vacant, and that it was not sought after by any who were aware of ita responsibilities. But Charley White was offered a good salary, and was entirely unacquainted with fear, and he determined to go toXnggetCity. He had seen life ia some of its wildest and roughest aspects, as a sailor before the ma.-t on a voyage to Australia and the islands of Polynesia, as a hunter and adventurer on the plains, and as a jonr-printer all over the West and Southwest. He was rather under the usual size, but wiry and muscular, with keen eyea steady nerves and a cool head. Charley's initiation began the second day after his arrival at Nugget City. He was standing in front of a hotel, looking at a caravan that was passing through the street on the way to the West, when he was tapped on the shou'der by a tall, big-boned, roughlocking man, who asked him to step into tbe saloon. This man was Bill tads, a notorious, desperate, blood-thirsty cnaracter, the leader ot the roughs who had inaugurated a reign of terror in Nugget City. Charley complied with the request, and Kads, stepping up to the counter, asked him what he would take. "Jiuch obliged to you, but I don't drink." "Don't drink? Look a-here, stranger, that's played. I ain't easy to git mad, or I would think you wanted to insult me. V."e have a way out here of telling folks that they must either drink or fight." "I never drinc under any circumstances, and I don't fight if I can help it" 'Tol'able cool about it," said Eds, as he swallowed his "pisen." "I allow that you must be the new chap that's come to the Times office." Charley admmitted that he was the chap. "What do you allow to do it you don't drink or Cght?". "I expect to attend to my business and do my duty as well as I can." "All right, as long as you don't attend to my business or the business of any of my boys. If you put any of us in the paper, I give you fair warning that you will have to fight, or run, or git everlastin'ly chawed up." "Whatia your style of fighting generally?' inquired Charley, smiling until he showe his white teeth. "The pistol is our best holt." "I am a pretty fair pistol shot, though I don't fight. As you and I are to be friends, suppose we have a little match with revolvers, say at 20 paces, at $10 a shot" "I'm your man. When and where shall it be?" The place was fixed upon, and Charley was there promptly at the appointed time, accompanied by Joe Geohagan, a compositor from the Times, a young man who was fond of fan and utterly devoid of fear. Joe carried in his pocket two potatoes, small and exactly similar in size and shape, one of which was whole, and the other was perforated by a bullet from Charley's pistol. He also carried a pin, to which was attached a length a of stout sewing silk. Eads was already on the ground with a select -ew of his friends.and Charley requested him, as being the "oldest and best acquainted," to take the first shot. The whole potato was placed on a stump, the distance was stepped off, and Jo suaatted. near the stump to watch the effect of the shot. "It's darned foolishness to shoot at such a mark as that," id Eids. "How many shots are we to have?" "The first shot that aiU the mark wins ten dollars." replied Charley. "It's just a waste of powder and lead. I can't hit that Uter at thisdiatance, and don't believe any man can." "We can try." "That's so, and here goes for a straight mis." The bully raised blsplstol, aimed carefully and find. 'Didn't laze it'" exclaimed Joe, who ran to the stump to examine the potato. As he did so he stuck his pin in the tater, and again squatted on the grass, holding the Bilk in his fingers. Charley White stepped to the line and fired

with a quick aim. At the crack of the pistol the mark hopped oil the stump, and Joe hastened to pick it up, deftly substituting for it the perforated potato, which he bad kept ia his sleeve for that purpose, and which he tri umphantly held up to' the gazj of the specta tors. "Could you do that again, young man?" said Kids, when he had seen the effect of the shot. "If I wanted to brag. I would ssy that I could do that every time." replied Charley. "The fact is, I cau do it just threa times out of five. But I wouldn't have much use for a pistol if I was going to light. It is too apt to miss fire, and you might bore half a dczn holes in a man without killing him. The knife would be my weapon." "The Ecife is a sure card in a close scrimmage." "Yes, or at long range, if a man knows bow to usa it. Could you stand here and throw the point of your knife into that sapling yonder? ' "Not by a durned sight. I've beard of Injuns doing those tricks, but I reckon they need a power of practice." "Would you like to see me do it?" "Believe I am kinder cur'ous." Kni:e throwing was a sport witli which Charley White had once been so completely fascinated that he had practiced the art until he became almost periect in it, excelling most of the Indians, and nearly equaling tbe Japanese kniie-throwers of the present day. He had practiced for this occasion, and knew that be had not lost the knack He stool at the place he had indicated, holding a heavy bowie-knife in the right band, with the blade under his wrist and pointing towards his elbow. After measuring the distance with his eye, he threw up his arm, and then launched it out, and the knife sped like a streak of lightning toward the mark, struck the sapling, and hung quivering in tae wood. Charley was obliged to matte two more

throws for the satisfaction of Kids and the ottier spectators, who were not backward in ! expressing their wonder and admiration at his skill. "1 have another weapon," said he, "that suits ma better than either the pistol or the j knife; but I suppose you have never seen it, ! even if you have heard of it. Here it is." He took from under bia cost a crooked stick of bard wood, pointed at each end in fact, an Australian boomerang, a relic cf bis South Sea experience. "What do you call that thing?" asked Kads, whose mouth expanded into a grin as be looked at the queer stick. "That," said Charley, "is a boomerang, a kangaroo killer, a weapon with which I can hit a man around be corner as well as it be were in plain sight." "Git out!" "You shall see. I will throw It at Joe, yonder, and it will tnra without bitting him and come back to me." Charley threw the crooked stick, and it gyrated through the air, cutting all sorts of capers, until it was so near tj Joe that he dodged to avoid it. Then it suddenly turned, whirled its way back, and fell to the ground at its owner's feet. "Now I will throw it towards the West, ant! you will see it turn and bit that sapling in which I stuck my knife." The boomerang did so, striking the young tree with some fore 3, but not bard enough to fix itself in the wool. Charley then threw it on the ground, acd It leaped over the prairie like a live thin?, describing the most eccentric figures, until it turned and came whirling back, bounding over his head, and sticking itself upright iu the ground behind him. Kds acd his comrades gathered around Charley as he picked up the boomerang and wiped it, and all looked at it curiously and wonderingly: but none dared to toucn it. Some were of the opinion that it was alive, others "allowed" that it wasa piece of witchcraft, and others declared that it could be nothing less than Satan himself. "Tali you what it is, young man," said Kads. "you can shoot a pistol to win on; you can fling a knife to beat any redskin on the perairy; you can hit a feller with tnat whmg. doodle of yours as well where he ain't as where he Is; and I reckon you'll do. Ain't in a hnrry for them $10, are you?" "Not a bit of it" "Come around to George's to night, and we'll have a snppr; perairy chickens, and antelope, and builler hump, and all the fixin's. Shan't cost yon a cent, and I'll show you to the boys. Bring that little Irishman, too." Charley promised to do so, and went to tbe supper, and was duly introduced to "tbe boys," and entered into a sort of a treaty with tbem.the principal conditions of which were that he should write such reports for the Times as he chose to write, so long as he did nothing out of malice or personal spite. Thereafter the laws were better respected, and there was a marked improvement in the tone ot "society" atXuggett City. Charley pursued the even tenor of bis way, gaining friends on all sides, until, one unlucky day, when he was taking notes of a street fight, he was hit and mortally wounded by a bullet intended for another man, and the position of local editor of the Times again became vacant. ARHIKCi THE sCB-ritUiSCBV. Chilled Steel Tnnltd nn 1 Steel Armor Pierced for Kasketry. New York World. Work will soon ba begun under a contract already awarded "for the better defense of the Government treasury build ing" on the corner of Wall and Nassau street?, New York. The vaults are to be about 20 feet below the street, encased in solid masonry, and in the interior of the silver vault alone about 500.000 pounds of chilled stesl will be used. On the Nassau street side will be 21 openings, with as many more in the basement. All these will be protected with bullet proof shutters pierced for musketry and arranged bo as to swiog out at any desired angle, so as to cimmind any portion of the street adjacent. There will be three turrets on the roof with steel plates three-quarters of an inch thick, and with loop-holes for musketry on all sides. Tbe officals at the treasury building state that the details of the proposed plana were not known to them, ail those affairs being settled at Washington. There was no doabt. however, that such a contract has been given cut, toe contractor being a Boston man whose name they did not know. He bad been to tbe building during tbe past week, and had taken some measurements, bat, was not at present in the city. o attack, to far as ia known, is contemplated by any beligerent and armed force, but it has been decided that the depository of the Government money can not be made too secure. In tbe event of a riot, in care the poiica were overpowered, the first point of attack, it is suggested, would naturally be tbe building containing the Government money if the rioters bad any sense of propriety. Electric tVnrnluKn for i Flood. (Philadelphia Ledger. The use of electricity is foreshadowed in experiments male by the French minister of public works, with an apparatus for automatically giving warning at lower river levels of nn approaching 11 ood. The movements of a float ascending or descending with variations in the level of the river are transmitted to needles on graduated scales at places lower down the stream. When the water rise high enough to endanger buildings, etc, on the lower levels the pointer marks "danger," and bells are rung in the bouses and manufactories on the bank. Our Bignal servics does a similar work (not automatically, however, nor as instantly) by means ot its observers and through the telegraph aad its published bulletin, and doubtless saves considerable property thereby; but the time saved by an automatic apparatus, such as described, ought to be of great value to residents on tbe banks of streams subject to sadden and disastrous flood.

A SILENT LIFE.

Remarkable Career of Asael Imriaa. The Ecc3ntricities of a Man "Who Swoie Off Prom Talking. How n F.nllHted o Flicht, Hot to Talk. In Deleuw of Ills loantry. Asael P. Inman, who died recently at Uetica, N. Y., was a highly eccentric character. Seventy years ago be built a log cabin on one of the bills that slope to the Mohawk river. He was then 16 years of age, bad a wife and $30. Some time during the first year of bis wedded life Inman informed bis wife that he intended to preserve silence for the remainder of his days. This conclusion was the result of an exciting t'ialogue which Inman overheard between his father and a near relative. Expressing a belief that more barm than good is wrought by speech, be announced bis determination to place permanent padlock on his lips. This was in 1S10. The following year his first child was born. When that interesting event was approaching a near climax Inman rode seven miles in the night to Fort Herkimer in quest of a physician. He carried slate and pencil, wrote a statement of the situation, and returning with the medicine man received the announcement of his paternal responsibilities in silence. The following year in 1812 when tlie yeomen of central and northern New York were summoned to the defense of Sackett'3 Harbor, Inman reported for duty at a post near Adams, Jefferson county, riding aloue nearly 100 miles through the forests to the recruiting station. Traducing bis slate, he wrote: "I come to fight, not to talk." The commanding officer declined to give him a place in the ranks, and Inman remained at the post, working Vithout pay, for many months. He was noted for his strength. With Ezra Grinnell (who is now living at the age of 37), Inman carried a cannon from tbe St. Lawrence river to Adams, Jefferson county, a distance of 40 miles. The men were lour days making the trip. Two days of this time were passed in search of a lost trail. Both were without food during this journey, but Inman uttered no word of comment or complaint. After five or six years of this re markable silence other eccentricities were developed. He would never read after sunset; be refused to drink well water, aDd for C:5 rears slaked his thirst with rain water that had not touched the ground. His diet was extremely simple. Any article of fond susceptible of adulteration was shunned. He always sat bv a wo xl fire, and of late years, when traveling, carried a box or trunk containing a supply of fuel. Inman visited Xew York City once jome 12 years ago riding as far as Albany one day and completing the journey the day following. For 50 years he has cot been out of ccors after 0 o'clock at night. When asked why he remained in do-jrs evenings, he wrote: ".Man should rest with nature." Some years ago Inman bad occasion to visit Buffalo, and as a suit at law was in prospective he went prepared for a scige. Entering one of the leading hotels in Buffalo, the old gentleman wrote: "Bast room. No meals. I burn wood. Thought you might not baye enough, so brought some along." The big trunk, packed with wood, was taken up to his room, and it sufficed to keep the eccentric warm and cook bis sim ple meals during his sojourn in Buffalo. Kerosene oil was a pet aversion. His theory was that the glare strained the eyes, while the oil left an unhealthy taint in the atmosphere. He was never known to sit by a coal fire, always avoided gas, and his son, from whom I gather these details, assures me that rather than sit in a car heated by a coal fire, the old gentleman pref irred to ride twenty six miles on the platform on a bitter cold day in winter. ilia wife, who survives him, says that no woman ever had a kinder husband. The relations between the couple were always pleasant, acd Mrs. Inman has remarked to her neighbors, "If Asael talked as much as I do, the Lord knows what might happen." Mrs. Inman is eighty-eight years old and vigorous. She states tiiat during the fir.t few years of her husband's silence, he would frequently matter in his sleep. The last time be said anything audible while asleep was in the campaign when Millard Fillmore was a candidate for the presidency on tbe Know-Nothing platform, with Donelson at the tail of the ticket. Inman was a strong believer in the doctrine of which Fillmore was then the principal exponent, and bad attended some barbecues got up in the interest of Know Nothiogism. One of the sangs popular with the friends of Fillmore ran in this vein: "1 heard a noise like cannon roar. It sounded along from shore to shore; I heard a shout like thunder tone For Fillmore and or Jionelson. Get out of the way, old Jim Bucfcy. Yoa can't run, for you're unlucky ; Get out of the way, Jacky Fremont, Your new bubjine can't get steam on't." Mrs. Inman says her husband, while asleep, repeated the above quoted lines with distinctness. On two occasions he was betrayed into speech daring the daytime. Ia the summer of 1317, while assisting soma neighbors at a "log raising," a prop under one of tbe logs gave way, and lnrasn's left band was badly crushed. A single exclamation, "Oh!" was the only verbal indication of the intense pain tbe man suffered. When the band was being dressed be did not groan. Some of bis written replies to the questions of acquaintances curious to know why he preferred silence to speech are worthy of mention. One retort, frequently used, was: "A good listener is to ba preferred to a poor talker." Another was: "I want to prove that a man can be happy and hold his tongue." Another: "I am trying to think of something good enough to say out loud." A clergyman once asked Inman whether he didn't think the Lord gave him bis tongue to be used. The penciled reply was: "The Lord gave me a mind that tells me when to use my tongne." In 1812, while traveling with his wife in a stage between Syracuse and Rochester, the vehicle was baited in front of a Bmall country tavern. A child was sleeping on the porch. Inman, looking out, saw a large blacksnake crawl to the side of tbe infant. Grasping his wife's arm, be shouted; "Sse!" and, pointing to tbe snake, sprang from the s'aie, pursued the reptile some distance, and finally killed it. Inman was fond of reading, and was one of the earliest patrons of the New Y'ork World. He lost faith in that journal in the campaign of 1SG3. after its attack on Sey mour and Blair. Governor Seymour s farm lies in the township adjoining Inman's property, and the eccentric has been a warm supporter of the ex governor for many years, Returning from a meeting tbat Hotatio Sey mour had addressed, he wrote: "If all men could talk as Horatio Seymour talks silence would be a crime." Inman never used tobacco In any form. never tasted liquor, avoided tea and coffee, and never bad personal occasion to seek medical advice. He confidently expected to live to ba 100 years old. and but for the accident which was tbe immediate cause of bis death it is highly probable be would have tallied a century. Last spring he sowed

30 acres with oats, assisting in the fall harvest and performing "roni choice the full quota of a farm laborer's work. The oafs were stored in a granary connected with the dwelling by a covered passage-way. Mrs. Inman returning from tbe granary last Monday informed her husband that the mice were making Ead havoc with tbe cats. The old gentleman mounted a high stool to look into the cot bin, lost his footing, and falling sustained injuries tbat speedily resulted in bis death. He leaves a carefully written record of bis life during some CO ytars of hi3 silence. Portions of these diaries are quite interesting, bnt as a rule be enlarges upon the absurdity of giving utterance to frivolous thoughts He seems to have resarded speech as a sacred giJt, to be indulged in only wben itpromised benefit to the human race. Here ars some of his "axioms:" "Most lives are productive of empty noise." "As one million is to one, so is sense to sound." "He who talks most feels least." "The fool talks while the wise man thicks." Inman leaves a snug fortune, which bis son inherits. His last written message was: "Silence is golden." His oftpenciled admonition to bia son was, "Keep yoar month shut" In the neighborhood he was known to many as tbe dumb man. He preferred to be so regarded, and it give him satisfaction to be considered deaf as well as dumb. He was quick to read character, loved a goo.l joke and insisted that there was so much in the world to learn and think alicut that time spent in talking was time Mjuendered. Inman's funeral was largely aittnded, neighbors coxing through the snow drifts for miles to manifest their respect for the silent men.

AN IN'SAXC ISttlDE. An Extraordinary Atiachmtat-Dtvorre and a Marrlnco in t'anailii. New York Sun. A widespread interest continues to be manifested in Brooklyn iu the strange series of events connected with the di voice and remarkable marriage of Talmage's ex-trustee, Henry S. Eimore. This case is made more interesting by a sketch of the history of his attachment for Mrs. K. A. Hmcbinn, who, soon after becoming the second Mrs. Elmore, was attacked with insanity. This history was furnished to a reporter yesterday by one who for some time was an inmate of the fashionable boarding house which Mrs. Ilutchins kept at No. 40 Sjuth Oxford street, Brooklyn. "I never saw a mother," said the inloriuant. "who thought mora of btr children than Mrs. Ilutchins. Sne had a son about It; years of age, and a daughter of about 13, and they were her idols. If a rain s'oroi came np while they were at school, she was off in au instant with their wr.uu and mbbe.rs, not trusting them to ber servants. She was fond of her home, rarely ever leaving it, and did her best to please "the boarders who pttronizd her. She seemed to be about 50 year of g?, but was said to be some years yonnaer. "K'.niore, who is nearly 50 years of age, cioie to board there in the houefonr years ago. His wife and eon acconi pained him, and the only thing noticeable a'lout him was his fondnes for Moody ami Sink ey tunes, which ha lei in the parlor. No one ever dreamed of an atta:hmeat springing up between the landlady and HI mora. Mrs. Hutchitis was the widow of ex-Super visor Hu'.chins of th First ward, atd related to Mr. James K. Ilaytcond, a near neighbor, who is a salesman for il. B. Ciatlin ,fc Cj. She bad a moderate inco.-ne, and seemed to have no desire except for her children, who were always in her thougbr. When ber relations with Klmorn were brought before the public thrcnh the refusal of Mrs. Elmore longer to live with him, ber frieuds and boarders began to desert her. One bunker who lived in the house wrote a mutual letter to her and Eimore advising them to seek repentance, and to abandon their unlawful attachment. Mrs. Hutchins wax quite willing to accept bis advice, it is said, acd she told Eimore that be ought to go back to his wife, and to live with ber as before he met her. Wben Mrs. Elmore heard this suggestion she said that she would have a word to say in the arrangement, and tbat was thst she bad lived her last day with Henry S. E.more. "While Mrs. Adeline Elmore was In Monroe county procuring her divorce, Elmore lived ia the boarding house with Mrs. Hutchias, and wns most liberal with his money. He is said to have clothed ber richly to have given her jewelry, bonnets, a seal sacqus and a pony and phaeton. After their marriage, however, in Canada on Thanksgiving day, wbitber r.lmore went to escape tlie penalty of marrying in New Y'ork against the order of the supreme court contained in his first wife's decree of divorce, bis course towards Mrs. Hutchins as to the bestowal of money changed from one extreme to the oilier. Her friends say that she was lured on to the marriage by the expectation that she was to have tbe free (pending of all his money, which his liberal disposition led ber lo entertain. The scandal bad already robbed ber of ber children, who were taken to live with her dead busband's relatives; and when the disappoint ment of the change in Elmore's treatment came upon ber ber reason gave way and she became hopelessly Insane. "She reported fur marriaga to Elmore almost as soon as it bad been solemnizsd, and expressed her surprise at th9 su lden change in Elmore's treatment. She had sacrificed friends, social position and even ber children, for his sake, and a miicb stronger mind would doubtless have been ruined bv the rapid culmination of undreamed of disappointments." Mrs. Hutchins Is now in an asylum for tbe insane in Massachusetts, where the physicians say tbat she will have to remain for some time, and perhaps indefinitely. Mr. lvmore s son Carlos, who lives with his mother, is in business with him in Moore street, this city. A Slodest Old Maid. Toledo Democrat. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Townsend, of the Wabash railway, always loves a good s.ory. He relates toe toaowing told him by a well known politician and tourist of I ndiana. Tbe event happened not many nights tince while tbe lndlnnian, whom we will call Hoosier for short, was riding in a Pullman car over the Wabash road. Tbe car wits crowded, and the most conspicuous passenger was an old maid, ex ceedingly peevish and bard to suit, n.le was extremely modest and bad a marked antipathy to men. She bad hired a berth in the center of the car, and never having ridden in a sleeping car before she supposed she had a riht to tbe whole section. Imagine ber constema'.ion, then after retiring, when a man a great, horrid man pulled aside tbe curtains and proceeded to climb into the upper section, cibe screamed long and loud, raising the whole car. When tbe conductor acciuiined the cause of her discomfiture and explained to ber tbe true state of elKtirs, vhe ejaculated: Oh, my ! I never could sleep with anybody anywhere near me;" and, after considerable haggling, she purchased the whole section. By tbis time tbe whole car load bad wakened up to listen to ber sorrows. She, thoroughly rou ed and excited, started to go to ths water cooler to get a drink,. but after she bad gone part way down the aisle she chanced to remember tbat she would not be able to recognize ber berth nn her re turn back, and so pinned a small piece of paper on the curtain of ber section, after which she tripped down the aisle, congrata Jatlng lierje.t on ber shrewdr.C!s. But no sooner bad she got out of sibt than one of tb6 many wicked luen who had been dis turbed by and led to swear at tbe modest old girl's ccreeches and conversation, was vile enough to take the piece of paper p; lined to her berth and attach it to the curtain of another berth a thort distance away. Soon the old dame came mincing back to ber couch. She steered straight for the tell tale. and hurrying lest the eyes of vulgar men might be upon ber, she hastily pulled aside

the curtain, and with all tbe agility of an uncertain age, sprang in and sought seclusion under the folds of the generonsco verlet?. But suddenly there came un from the re cesses of tbat section a growl and a howl which awoke the sleepiest, passenger. The old maid had crawled into bed with a man. And that man bad actually called her a "bold, bad woman.''

PSEl'JIATIC TI BES. Ho it the Western Union Telegraph tYmpany Nnyes Money by Economizing Labor. New York Correspondence of Philadelphia Piess. Great are the economies ot machinery. Two yeara ago the Western Union Telegraph company came to the conclusion that the business of getting messages from the main otlice on Broadway to Wall street and back was costing the company and public more than was necessary. In order to cheanen the expense of the large volume of business emanating In that part of the town, the com pany iaia urass pipe, properly protected from the moisture, down Broadway and Wall and Broad streets to the Stock Exchange and the branch telegraph office there, and other pipes down to the Cotton Exchange, and to the branch offices near by there. These were pneumatic tubes, two and one fourth inches in diameter. They were four in number two of them "up" tubes, as they are called, worked by exhausting the air and making a vacuum, worked by pressure, the inrsssgps were roiled up thereafter and placed in little leather boxes, open at one end, and about six inches long, and shot bick and forth between tbe main and branch ofiices, instead of being sent by messenger boys cr telegraphed over tbe wires. The company is now excharging from 3.0C0 to i.OOu and more messages a day through their pnenmatic tubes, between the main office on Broadway and tbe branch cilices at and near the S'ock and Cotton Exchanges. It saves thereby the labor of at least 25 tele i;raph operators, and the public ia saved much expense. The tubes are, two of them, 2.100 feet long (the Wall street tubes), and two are respectively 3.WX) and 3,500 feet long. They are worked by a steam engine, which has "a capacity of 70 horse power, but which is never called upon for half its resources. An engineer and four boys at the tubes are all tbe employes needed in place of the 25 skilled operators. This system has worked so well in the business emanating in the commercial and financial quarters of tbe city, tbat it is to be extended to a new quarter namely, Trinting House equare. Just before the hard freeze of last week, a gang of men was employed to break eround for laying pipes up Broadway to the row of newspaper ofiices in Printing House Square. The frost stopped the street work temporarily, but this week the interior pipes are being put into the newspaper olhcer, ready to make a connection with the others when laid. There will be only one pipe carried to Newspaper Kow. It will be a "down" pipe, and will carry the loads of both special and Associated I'ress dispaiohes which are sent daily and nightly from the Western I'nion building to the offices of tbe press. Tbe tube will be operated, however, from time to time. s an "od" pipe, after the proper signals, so as to bring back the empty boxes. The pipe will be 2I4' inches in diameter, and 9,000 fest of it will be employed. Only the morning papers are taking advantage of the new system. The offices which do have the tubes will be great gainers. They will get their dispatches 15 minutes earlier, at the Jcisi an important matter late at night A message will be delivered in 30 seconds. The tvestern Union and Associated Press will be able to rave tbo expense of a great crowd of messenger boys. The pines are being laid under the direction of Mr. Brown, assistant superintendent of the Western Union. NeleetlnK llnnbandn. Baltimore Every Saturday . It has been profoundly remarked that tbe true way of telling a toadstool from a mushroom is to eat it. If you die it was a toadstool, if yon live it was a mushroom. A sim iiiar method is employed in tbe selection of husbands; marry him: if be kills yoa be was a bud husband ; if he makes you happy be is a good one. There is really no other criterion. As Pr. Johnson remarked, the proof of pndding is in the eating thereof. 8ome younj men that seem exceptionable, indeed very desirable, wben they are single, are perfectly horrid a? soon as they get married. All tbe latent brute there is in the heart comes out as soon as a sensitive and delicate being seeks her happiness in bis companionship. The honeymoon lasts a very short time, the receptions and the rounds of parties are soon over, and then the two sit down to make borne happy. If she bas married a society man, he will soon begin to get bored; be will yawn and go to sleep on the sofa. Then be will take bis bat and go down to tbe ciub and see tbe boys, and i erbsps not come home till morning. If she Las married a man engrossed in business he will be fsgsed out wben be comes borne. He may be a sickly man that she must nurse, and a morose man tbat she must seek to cheer, a drunken man that she must sit up for, a violent man tbat she fears, a fool whom she soon learns to despiss, a vulgar mm for whom she must apologize in short, there are thousands of ways of being bad husbands, and a very few ways of being good ones. And the worst cf it is that tbe poor silly women sre apt to ad mire in single men the very traits that mate bad husbands, and iook with contempt or ridicule on those quiet virtues which make home bappy. Men with very little personal beauty or style o:ten make the wife bappy and sometimes quite the reverse. The num ber oc ways ot being a bad husband Is al most as great as tbe number of ways of beiug ugly, jno one can tea irom the demeanor ot a single man what sort of a husband be will be. Meantime she must marry somebody. Eat it; if you die it was a sort of toadstool, if yoa live It was a sort of mushroom. The Prime of Life. Between the age of forty-five and sixty a man who bas proerly regulated himself may be considered in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution renders him almost impervious to an attack of dis ease, and experience has given soundness to his judgment. Ilia mind is resolute, firm and equal; he assumes mastery over his business; buildi up a competence on the found ition be hat laid in early manhood. and passes through a period of life attended by many grauticaiions. Having gone a year or two over sixty, he arrives at a stands'ill. But athwart this is the viaduct called the turn of life, which, if crossed in safety, leads to the valley of "old age," round which the river winds, and then beyond, without boat or causeway to effect bis passage. The bridge is, however, constructed of fragile material, mid it depends how it is trodden whether it bend or break. Gout and apoplexy are also in the vicinity to waylay tbe traveler, end thrust him from the pa; but let him gird up bis loins and provide himself with a fitter stiff, end be may trudge on in safety and rfect composnre. To quiet metaphor, "the turn of life" is a turn either into a prolonged walk or into a gtive. Tbe system and powers bavirg reached the utmost expansion now begin either to closo like a Uower at sunset or break down at once. Oj injudicious stim ulant, a single fatal excitement, may for it beyond its strength, while acareful supply of props and tbe withdrawal of all that tends to force a plant will sustain it In beauty and vigor until night ha entirely s?t in. ah ounce ot preventioi is better than a pound of cure. A die of 11.-. Bull's Uiby syrup will assist your bany in teethinir, and prevent it from being a'tacked bv cholera infantum, colic, or other diseases with which babies sull it.

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WH3AT Without Fermentation, and all of I la retaining BLOOD, NERVE ASD BR IX Restoring; element tn s natural atale of vttallmntlon. o NERVOUS 33EX3ILIT jT Which underlies all forms of Chrome Plseaoa Is speedily overcome by the use of this Food. For the year past I have constantly prescribed The Blanenard Blood and Serve Food to my patients of all ages, from eighteen mouths to eighty-three years. In everv case the result has been exactly that claimed by you. It is by far the most valuable and reliable Tonic I have ever met wiih. Kdward Button Smith, M. p., 20 Irving Place, New Yor. E00 AT LiAST BUG! A SUBSTITUTE for FOOD Ik rnmto a curative agent by concentration and artificial dilation, and it ia so simple in its application that 'rbe nil vice of phjHlclRna In not -- nirel. Thousands of recoveries from chronic diseases are reported, where tbe best inedic&i sum has failed. Many cf the best physician throughont the country are iwnraii:K liruen ami using the IZliincbRivt ftlootl am strre food with the most gratifying results, permanently relieving ail forms of Physical and Mental Itebihty. The DyKprptie and tVtnsuiaptfve Calient, soUerers from Malarial or Blood PoiHoninir, together with the entire list of compiaiuta peculiar to the Female Mi find tn the use of this Food sure and speedy relief. Nkw York, November 28, 1877. DR. V. W. Buaschard: During the past veal I nave prescribed yonr various preparations of Food Cure, and feel happy to say Uey have met ray most sanguine expectations, giving to patients long enfeebled by blood poison, cbronio disease, or over drug closing the need ed nutrition and nerve force. lHor. r-LKMENCE 8. LOZIER, M. XT Bean of Horn. Med. College and Hospital for Women, Sew Xork City o HnndredB of caws of Brlarnt'a Ileate of the Kidneys have been reported cured. For neairaiKit; un Knnnnmie UlHemea It Is almost a nneclflc I'byslcal acd Mental De bility irom me nse oi Aleonol, opinm and TotMceo or from any unnamahle cause, find In thin Food a natural and ioteut remedy. FOB TEE ISTELIJECTl'AL ,tl OXEEK THE II L VCII AItI BLOOD & NERVE FOOD Affords a oeruuu and natural means or imp. Iiylng the wacte of thi brain resulting irom labor that w!U enable him to do better and mora work than ever before, without uangar of mental strain. As a remedy for the Iaw of Appetite and Want of Viffor, physical and meuui, in children this Food ha no rival. $1.00 per Bottle, or 6 for $5.00. SOLD BY ALL DEUG3IST3. Or Bent by Express cn receipt of Frlca. A2TOOVKB THBOIXJGtCAI. FKMTWAltT, AsnovER, Mass., March 2, liTfi. Yonr Life Food Is an excellent thin?. I hvr no hesitation, after a thorough trial of it, in recommending it in cases of chronic dyspepsia and nurvous pmKiration. Kav. Dr. AUSTIN PHELP3 rnr blah chirr food cfh STsiTK. now receiving snch popular app. elation is clearly set forth in a 61 page pa, i phlct whicn will beseat to any address on ceiptof 2i cents. Address IilanchartJ Fool Care Co. 27 CSIOIC Mi CAKE, KEW TORS. THE WONDERFUL Pain Reliever was Invented as an improvement upon tbe or dinary Porous Planter. It contains all the valuable qualities of the common low acting porous plaster, but here all com pRrixon ends; for the nw combination of powerful vegetable inured ienlu contained in Benson's Ca peine l'laoter makes it l'arn:ore prompt and effective in its actiou than the ordinary porous plaster or Hny other external remed including linlmeutrt, all lUjniri compound, and the so-called electrieol appliance. The pain-relieving, strengthen inx and curative properlR-s of tbui article are truly extraordinary. L&HE BACK. For Lameness or wenftnera of the Back. Snlnal allectlonK. Pnins in the bide or 111dm. ! arising from Co.ds or overexertion, Strains, or j any other canne, the best known remedy is j Benson's Cnpeine Porous Plaster. it gives nun or 1 immediate relief, strergtnens and enros where other plasters will not even relievo. . WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Women KnfTerinn twins and weakness obtain great comfort and relief by t he nse of Benson's I apcine Porous l'lai-ier. "We earnestly reo mi me nn it to moment lor as a remedy for tbe ailment oi children : In such eases an whoonlnecougb, croup, coldx. and all affections of the lungx. Many - have been reported recently where cbildren having the mntt violent iuwcmoi wnoopin eougn nave been relieved in leMinan one nour. For Itimuimtum. Sciatica and IunbagOs KldBey Uii-on.e, Alfections of the Heart, Fever and Agu, Ktubliorn and Neglected Coughs and Colds, Pleurisy. Awthmaor Lung Difficult ties, and all Local Aches and Palps. 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