Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1879 — Page 9

S E.N TIN E L S V P P LE M E N T.

'APRICAINE.

The Cdored Colonists Coming to Indiana 10,000 Strong. Arrival of the Advenes Guard of the Army at Greencastle. The Postmaster Proudly Prances in the Piemiar Pit of the Procession. The Oitizins Excited Over the Influx of Langsdale'i Soil Ticklers. A Sentieel Emissary VI wi the Situation and Interview B-etrren-A Damnable Schema Exposed. Daily Sentinel, November 24. If aDy proof were wanting that the Rpub lloau managers have Bet on foot a daninabie scheme for capturing the State of Indiana by the importation and colonization of thou ands of negroes from the Snithera 8'atea, it conld be supplied by facts gathered by a Sentinel emissary who visi'ed Greencastle yesterday. . DaringthepastlOdaystwogangs of these" ebon-hued citizens, me advance guarris of the grand army that is to come, have been brought to that seat of learning, and the resident popultaion has been thrown into a state of great excitement at the boldness of the maneuver. The head center of the movement is George J. LaDgsdale, P. M (which is poetmasier) and editor of the Republican orean of the coun'y. He is the local leader of the ultra wing of his party, and is a stalwart with all that the name implies. A bitter, bieoted partisan, nothing would be too audacious for him to attempt provided it promised to give his tide any advantage, fie is credited with having started the colonization bail to rolling in this State, and Greencastle is believed to be the focal point from which the wires taat have been so adioitly la'd diverge. Langsdale and bis co workers, Frank Darnell, Tom Maona and others, to use a homely phrase, "make no bones" of proclaiming that tbey mean to carry the county and State by the importation or negro voters, and their only attempt to justify their intentions is the claim that there is a demand for colored laborers in that section, and plenty of land for them to till, and that therefore it is perfectly leci Jmace to induce negro immigra ion. Langsdale repeats this from week to week In bis pacer, with pledges to find p'aces for all the negroes who may come. It is charged that be personally superintended tbe printing of a batch of cir culars, which pictured forth in glowing terms the advantages Putnam Icounty offered colored emigrants, such as high wages, cheap land, etc., and bad them distributed among the negroes throughout the Northern part of .North Carolina. THE CUUM9 DISPROVES. -The Sentinel emissary, on yesterday, met several gentlemen who are tamuiar wua the affairs of the county, and inquired of them whether there was any foundation lor Langs dale s broad assertions. The answer was invariably in the negative. Every one who was spoken to on tbe subject said that there was an over plus of white laborers; that whenever a farmer even so much as intimated that be wanted to hire a haad, he was immediately beset by applicants by the score. In regard to land, it was much the- same. There was not a piece of farming ground for rent in the county, and in all late cases, where there was a probability of a tract being for lease, there were numerous applications for it Evidence was obtained from the most relia ble sources that there is no demand for laborers (with the possible exception of mechanics) in Putnam county to-tiay. and that every negro emigrant from" the Samh who is furnished with employment on the farms therein must necessarily di: place a white laborer. It is tbe ganeral knowledge of this (act which has so incensed the people aeainst the instigators or this political movement. THK LATEST ARBIYAAS. The negro colonists brought into Putnam county by the scheming postmaster and his crew aunng the past iu aays, numoer abont 70. Two or three weeks ago. negro . was rarely seen on the streets of Greencastle, but on yesterday the Sentinel emissary encountered squads of them on all tbe leading . thoroughfares. These were mostly members of a gang of about o which arrived on Saturday after noon. They came lroru North Carolina, from which State tbey were seduced by tbe spe cisus representations made to them by tbe gents of the manipulators ol the coloniza tion scheme as to the glorious opportunities awaiting them in Hoosierdoin. The gang was -detailed here over iriday night on account of some hitch ia the railroad arrange ments, and a meaeeDger was dispatched to notify Langtdale of the fact. That zealous worker boarded the I. and St. L. train for this city Saturday morning, and returned with his precious charges via the Vandalia in -the afternoon. Like a bell-wether of the flock, he lead them np tbe hill to the center oi me town, quartereu mem iu uie Aincan M. E. church, and then proceeded to take up a collection "among the faithful , to defray tbe expense of lodgirg and feedine tberu over, aundav. there are only two women in the party. The men are mearly all below 40 years nf age, and are rather poorly- clad. In appearance - and dress tbey have all the characteristics of the plantation negro. A herd of buQilo ' passing through the streets would not have attracted more attention and comment than they did. The gifted Langsdale, in hi? meat role of the negro's benefactor, had to do some pretty tall hustling to ficd sleeping places -for his wards, but after a time they were disposed of three or four in this shanty, as man? more in another, and so on. rven then some had to sleep in tbe church after the Saturday night prayer meetin' was over. It was understood yesterday that arrange ments had been made beforehand with vari ous Republican farmers to employ the negroes, and they are to be sent out in the country to-day. " .-k.WHAT TH HEOROB8 SAT. The SentiHel emissary communed with a arouD of the colored colonists who were Mtfiu wist full v "into tbe windows of bake shop. He had the following interview with- one rather good looking darkey : . -Where lo vour people come from?" "From Green and jlnin counties. North Carolina, boas.' ' ' . . "How many of you are there?' ' . ' Fifty-one, bots " , . - "Any women along with you?" "Only two." "You are all young men. I see." Yea. sah. De ole naen didn't want for to Art many of you married T"

"Oh, jes, nearly aU of us is marr'ed. We's '

gwine to s-t.d or go back for our families as ' soon as we gets fixed." - Uve you got a place ye1.? Yes. Me and my pardner thar ( pointing j a e-egm by bis aide) went oat to Mr. O' Hare's (a Republican) last night, and he engaged us to work for him." j "Any more of the bojs got work. 7 ' ' I thicks me and my pardner am de only ones what bave got places set." "How much wages are you to get? ' "Dat's not fixed yet. We's gwine to see fust if we suits Mr O'Hare and if be suits ua." How di l you happen to come to indi ana? I should have thought you would bave gone to Kansas." Oh, we dian t like de way Kansas was rep'aented (o us. We tent our men out here o see now is was here." Did voa eat any circulars about this county?'' 1 neerd some talk about clrc Iars, but 1 seed none of 'em." "What wages did tbey promise you?" "Well, dey said wages was $12, $15 and 20 a month." "Do any of you expect to work in town?" "No; we'a all field hands, and will have to go to de country." " w no la gettina tnese places lor your "De boss of de em'grashn (emigration) society. I seed bim a little while ago. He's got an office round nean somewhere." "Is bis name tiangsuaier "Yes; dat's d man." "Did tbe emigration society induce you to leave North Carolina and come here? ' "Weil. I 'specs it did. 1)3 men we sent out bean to see about It tcld us to come, and we come." "When did you start?" "Last Sunday night." "Did you bave to pay anything on the cars?'' No It was kind o like an excursion. Dey told us to put our stuff oa and come long." 1)1Q you stop any wnere on toe way : Yes. We stopped at Washington a few davs." "Did they treat you well there? "YcS siree, boss. 'Feared likedey could a' t do enough for us Dey took u all over de city to see de eights and gave us plenty to eat." "Did you go up to see Hayes and tbe rest of them?" "Oh, yea We seed 'em all." with a chuckle. You had plenty to cat on the way? ' Yes, we had enough grub." 1 understand that it won't cost you any thing to go back after your fanuliis?'' .No. we gets passed oacx tree. - 'How dots that happen?" 'Don't know. Etn'grsabun society fixed it, I 'spec." You look pretty chilly. D you thick you can stand tne cold weather un here?'' "We'a brave men, we is, aud l guess ws can stand it. Hab io bab eometbin' warmer dan dese ole clothes, dough. Are there any more down there wno would be willing to come up here?" Lord brew you, bos dere s about iea thousand dat will come." THK GENERAL DRIFT. The Sentinel emissary spoke to tbe above, named negro's "pardner," and he talked to about the same effect with the ex ception that he said he paid $15 to come. Indeed, little outside ot wnat is given in tne above interview was learned ironi conversa tions held with other members of the gang. They all seemed to suffer from the cold, and sought shelter at tn negro cnurcn, wnicn was crowded to ovrinowmg at every servica. All the nFgrotiH wich whom the Sentinel emissary conversed bad the easy giog. morovident disposition cnaractermtic - oi their race, and manifested a blind confidence in tbe promises made tnem. w ieoi ineni, on being asked if any of them owned stock or anything of the kind, replied: "'. Dem niggers as had bosses would a t come. Another negro, wno la worxioz on nam niona's farm, and who came from Nor'b Carolina sever! years aeo. was quite com uinmcauve. Ha toid the sentinel man tnat 200 more colored emigrants from North Carolina would arrive in Indianapolis next Monday. One hundred of these are to be left here for distribution throughout the State, while the others eo to Putnam. He said that the present gang had determined upon the prices tny wouia aemaua, and had agreed to" give any one -who wore tor less du usnej. He said in tbe most matter of fact way that the - negroes were being brought into tbe county to carry it for the Republicans. . PUBLIC SENTIMENT. As far as the Sentinel emissary was able to learn, the sentiment of the community is strongly against the foisting of euc'i numbers of ignorant blacks upon them. Their arrival was the all-absorbing topic oi conversation in Greencastle among men, women and even children. It was everywhere understood that tbe -' negroes were brought there. not - in tbe wsy of legitimate emigration, - out for tbe - purpose of effecting a change in the politics of the county. .ven the little boys were perfectly well aware of the animus ot the movement. and when -one asked them about "the darkeys," they would smirkingly cry out tbat they had been brought there by the Republicans. The whole town was tn commotion over the matter, and if the scheme is carried out the feeling will run very high, and may leal to dangerous consetequences. Many conservative Republicans bave openly denounced tne audacious policy of the neck or nothing stalwart leaders, and it is safe to say that if the election were to come off to-day the county would go Demo cratic by double the usual majority. A COLORED MAN'S VIEWS. Some ot the resident colored people are strongly opposed to the movement One of them published tne toi lowing card in the last issue ot the Star, the Independent paper There Is a question of great. Import nee be fore the public wnicn is subject to (treat com raent, and I wish you to allow me to expreas my views on it inrongn your columns, as a citizen and laborer. The question now pending is a downfall to all laboring men, and will tend to ruin to men who have to work for II a day. As we hear Langwi ale say tbat there Is plenty oi worn in ruioara ooumy ior a goou many more colored people, and lie Intends to find them homes. why don't Langsdale, or the party tbat is paying weeoiorea people s transport auon nere, ill vide that money between them. Tbouirb 1 have no objection to those coming her who come of their own accord, yet 1 do say that emigrants io we numoer oi nuuureos or men to tbls county, who are dependent upon common labor or a living, are not wanted: and in three years men will be glad to get work at 30 cents a day, and will bave to give an order on weir oossea ior meir nouse rent, i am a ka publican, and always Intend to vote I bat ticket, bat I don't like to see men co ne here to starve to death. Mr. Keillor, yon dim vs. case mistakes, as I am not accustomed to writing tor publication. Fleaae publish. L. R. Mosbob, Colored. TH APPORTIONMENT. The usual Democratic majority in Put ram county Is about 400, but fell off about 100 at the last election owing to a defec'ion in the Irish vote. It will, therefore, require at least 300 negro colonists to put the parties on . a plane of equality. Tbe Sentinel man in pursuing U' luuuinca uict (cuiipuiiu wuu is luor onghly familiar with tbe county, and after - due renection and figur ing ha enumerated places where 100 negro eould be employed by Republican

farmers to the displacement of course of

tbat many wnise laoorera. tie could not tee how employment could te found for any greater nomb-r. There Is no doubt but that if the colonization schem? is carried out toe amount ot pauperism and crime in the county must .necessarily be enormously in -creased. AHONO THE DEMOCRACY. In the course of his Investigation, the Sentinel emissary encountered SUeriff Lewman, Clerk Bridges, ex Auditor Randall, Hon. Willis G Neff and other leading Democrats, and couversd with them con cerninc the situation. Their opinions may be thus summed np: Tbe Democrats have no biection to having a negro emigrate to their county of his own accord from any State, North or Sonth, but when the ignor ant blacks are imported in hordes by the lie publican managers for the . avowed sole purpose oi securing enougu votes to euaoie them to carry the election, they denounce the act as simply damnable and prejudicial in the greatest degree to the best interests of all the people, regardless of party affilia tions. Tbe Democrats showed no disposition to blame tbe deluded negroes, who are merely the dupes of the machine politicians. O.' course, after tbe election the postomce clique will turn the poor negroes out to starve, unless tbe townsntp trustee puts lxe hanl the riiiQ.ic purse to get means to ci.-s ior totm - Atm this is the way tbe msnters of tbe Keonb lican machine propose to carry Indiana next fall. "WHAT ARK VOC GOIWO TO IK) ABOUT fT?" From the ominous mutterings which the Sentinel emissary hetrd yesterday when mingling among groups of white mechanics) and laborers, it seems eltogether probable tbet the labor ine clisnea will ante and make a mighty protest against this fostering ot mero immigration for political ends in already overcrowded localities. There is no special hatred ot tne negro displayed, out a loud outcry will doublets shortly be heard against those bigoted, audacious, scheming Republicans who, on the one band, are deluding the negroes with false promises, and on the o'ber are endeavoring to take the bread out of the mouths of the white laborer and his family, by either throwing him out of employment or reducing wages to a star vation point by doubling the number oi hands. JOTTINGS O .eof the emigrmfs said "dey was relig ious folks mostly African Meth'diate." Ureencsstle It a very pretty place, but it lias a good many ups and downs. It also ha.a college likewise 400 s'udenis. It is said lion, l) h Williamson is op posed o tbe coton-zttioo scheme; but, then he is opposed to anything that the g"eat. nil ted and only Lnindaie does. Tne irishmen who vo'ed rne Republican ticket at tbe last eWciiou were loudest in decrying "tbe domd uajgats." "Nigner never die" will probably be che R--pubilcTi campaiga song. Chemical In the Household. It is surprising, considering how nranv women have been instructed in chemi-trr in school-days, to find how few housekit-per-t make any use ol chemicals in vanou- nous.' hold processes. Lpe'ially is tbip the cu.se m cleansing processes. The washing ol clotlies is usually wholly accomplilieu tv rubbing the clothes on the washboard, and with no other detergent than soap. The rubbing ol the clothe! wears them out far more than tin use, and if housekeepers only knew, or, if knowing, they would take advantage of the tact, that many washing compounds win al most entirely cleanse clothes which are soak ed in them over night, and thus almost en tirely do awav with the lahor and wear of the washboard, wash-day might be robbed of half its terrors. Recipes for washing Hauls, the principal ingredients of which are soda, ash, ammonia and lime, can be found in near ly every Shousehold receipo book, and they are very cheap and harmless. All such washing com pounds are useful and convenient tor cleaning woodwork, paints and carpets in a house; also in washing dishes and securing that desideratum . ot housekeepersclean dish-cloths. Ammonia is a simple, cheap and harmless chemical, and should be bought by the quart and kept in every lainily. A lew drops added to water will cleanse child rens' hair and make it soft and sweet; it is an admirable disenfuctant to remove the odor of TJcrsDiration; it will remove grease spots from clothing, and olien restore color to stains. Its common and frequent use can not be too frequently urged. Borax is another chemical that should find common use in every family. For cleansing teeth and sweetening the breath a few grains of the powder in the water are unexcelled. It also softens and whitens flannels. Salicylic acid is a perfectly odorless and harmless, yet powerful, dissfectant, and for many disenlecting uses in the household is invalnable. Is is very cheap and conven ient in form. In these days, when to stay various forms of disease is so important mothers and housekeepers would do well to give study and thought to these things, and try to make their Knowledge ot science practical. It is very encouraging to note how many women arent present turning their attention to studies iu general and applied science. Let us have its benefits exem plified in the household. Tooth and the Future. Victor Hugo, as temporary president of a secular educational congress in France, recently addressed it with some very prophetic, pertinent and practical remarks, trom among which we re-produce the following extract. He said: "Youth is the future. You teach youth you prepare the future. This preparation is useful,tbis teaching is necessary, to make tbe man of to-morrow. The man of to-morrow is the universal republic. The republic is union, unitv, harmony, light, industry, cre ating comfort, abolition of conflicts between man and man, nation and nation, abolition of the law of death and establishment of tbe law of life. The time of sanguinary and terrible revolutionary necessities is past, for what remains to be done the unconquer able law of progress suffices. Great battles we have still to fight battles the evident necessity of which does not disturb the se renity ot thinkers, battles in which the revolutionary energy will equal inoiiarchial obstinacy, battles in which force joined with might will overthrow violence allied with usurpation superb, , glorious, enthusiastic, decisive battles, the issue of which is not doubtful, and which will be the Hastings and Austerlitz of humanity. Citizens, tbe time of the dissolution of the old world has arrived. The old despotisms are condemned by the providential law. Jfivery day wnicn passes buries them still deeper in annihila tion, l tie republic is the future. Near Sebastopol the pedestal of a bronze statue has been dug up. It is covered with Hellenic inscriptions belonging to the second century netore tbe Christian era.

THE LOG FI.l'ME.

An Exciting- Place for Amusement I the . sierra Nevada Dangerous Itldrs. From Good Company. . At the summit of that cax-ade in bondage the flume begins. Its track is a trough of heavy planks, converging in an angle like that which is bounded by the two sides of a prism. Down this canal, whose sides are worn very smooth by the gentle yet persistent friction of the water, and the many rube and knocks of its freightage, the wood, the stream flows sleekly and swiftly, with a motion not dissimilar to tbe gliding of a 6nake. As the flume winds the current weaves, this side and that, as if sking to escape, like the caged power that it is. Unremitting as the endless chain in machinery, untiring as the natural brooks by which it is fed, its capacity for burden u unlimited, and statistics show that this little thread of water transports daily from the mountain top to the valley l&OO.OOO feet of raining timber or 700 cords of wood. At places along its route there are stations of relay, or reinforcement rather,' where . feeders pour in and compensate for the waste incurred by leakage and overflow. It follows no reg ular graie but accomodates itself to the side ot the mountain, however st'-cp, and is swift accordingly. What is its rate of speed, I do not know; but this i bave noticed, that it is so rapid that a horse can not drink from it. for if he turns his heud up the hill, the torrent 611s his nostrils, and facipg down stream the water falls away from his mouth, as it did from the lips of the doomed Tantaulus. Venturesome people have sailed down it in boats, but such a voyage has been too much occupied with the safe navigation of their cockle crafts to keep any accurate log bf their journey. There is a great deal of sport and not a little dancer about this method of going to sea, and so it is a favorite pastime with the men of Lake Tahoe on a Sunday afternoon. Indeed, its reputation as a 1'ianlv amusement has become more than local, and travelers from abroad feel that their tour has been for naught if they have not consummated their adventures by a ride down the flume. Looking across the vallev and seeing tlif silvr filininnt nf u-Mtir hanging down the mountains they feel their bosom thrill with tbe desire and ambition ot Sam Patch, and would rather forego their swim in Salt Lake or their shot at a buffalo than to mi-JS this latest episode of American travel. Persons practiced in the act, those who hold cool heads and the equipoise of accom plished skaters, will step on the floating timbers as tliev scud by, ride till their beads swim, and then disembark as best they may. ur, more timorous, the pleasure-seeker seats himself upon the narrow and uncertain deck of a railroad tie, clings to the same with te nacious bauds and loot, and launches bunsell to his fate. As his speed increases, the spray flics, and hu boat wavers and threat ens ,to capsize; he thrusts his arms into the - air, and, with frantic gesticulation, endeavors to preserve his balance. A little larthcr on he ships a sea into his boots and instinctively lifts tbem toward the sky. Now he presents an example of that object so repugnant to natural laws, a verv broad body on a very narrow la-e, and in consequence he U speedily brought to wreck and decomnture. . Hotter than these expedients it is to make a boat by nailing two short plank. together in a shape like that ot the Hume, but smaller. so thit it will float therein. Tack on a slat as a brace for vour feet, lay a short board as a seat, establish yourself thereon, and you have a navicular tobaggan which will bear safely to the end of the groove in which it runs, lake in hand a lath as a balancing wand, unmoor yourse it and go. riow you are started, you must continue, at least until you reach some stretch of level ground on which tbe current slacks its pace. Beware lest you lose your head and topple over to tins side or tnat; you will bo sadly bruised and perhaps killed if you do. Beware lest you become frightened and foolish and grasp at the sides of the flume: thev are of snlinterv and unplained boards, and will tear your nanus to pieces., fx-yiia and Uharybuis are very close to vou as you ride down the nar row strait, and moreover, they are as continuous as the journev is long. You will un doubtedly regret with sickness of heart, and perhaps with sickness of the stomach, that you ever embarked on a cascade 10 miles in length, but bear up. ' Though it may be dis tress to you, yet it is good amusement for the men ot Lake lahoe, who walking patrol along the flume, see you flit by swift as the t lying Dutchman, pale as the phantom of man dead with sea sicknesss. Walt Forever. Once urx-u a time there lived beside the Khine a beautiful young lady. She had lover who loved her, and whom she loved in return. But, after he had wooed her not one year, but three he ask sd her to marry bim; and she anxious to show her power, merely answered: "Wait." "I have waited three years," he said, "but at your bidding, I will wait one more just one more." Then he went away and became a soldier. and praise of his bravery filled tbe land but the , lady was piqued by the thought that he bad been able to leave her even for a vear, and when he returned she determined to punish him, though all the time she loved him well. . . He knelt at her feet, and took her hand in his and said: "Lady, I have come back to claim you for my wife. But au she answered, was: "Wait longer; a patient waiter is not a loser." "I will wait two years longer," lie said calmly. "If 1 do not lose, all is well." Then he lett again. Mie Had hoped that he would plead with her, and that she'would be forced to change her mind; but now he was gone gone for two long years. How she lived through them she could not tell; but they passed, and again her lover was before her. "I have waited patiently," was all he said. The lad v yearned to cast herself in bis arms, but pride w as strong within her. "Wait longer, she said. "No," he answered. "This is the last time. If I wait now, I will wait forever." At this, she drew back haughtily. "Then wait forever," she said coldly. He left her without a word. And now her heart sank within her. She wept bitter tears, and repented in dust and ashes. When a year bad gone by, she could bear her woe no longer, and sent her little foot page to her lover, bidding him bear this message: "Come back to me." But tbe message the foot page brought back was just this: "Wait," Again she was left to her sorrow, and two

yean glided by; then once more she bade

:ier page ride over the mountains to her lover's castle. "Tell him I am waiting," she said. Tbe page rode awav and rode back, ne stood before his lady and uou..l his cap, and repeated the message that t.ad been given him: "The patient waiter is not a loser." He is punishing me,' thought the ladv. and for two years longer she remained in her castle. . Her heart was breaking her health failed she knew that death was near. Again she sent her cruel lover a message, "'fell him," she said, "that I am near my end, and that if I wait longer before I see him. I shall wait forever." The page returned, and stood beside his lady's chair. His eyes were full of tears; is bead was bent upon his breast; hestgbed and hold his face in his plumed cap. The lady lifted her wan face. "Speak 1" she said. "The message!" "A las!" sighed tL page; I would that it were a more tender one." Whatever it may be, speak 1" gasped the laa. . .... '.. . The only message that l have, replied the page, is "Wait forever 1" A am wen paiu iu dij owa coin, saia me lady. "At last 1 have all my own answers back." In a little while she died, and they buried her in the old churchyard, with a stone at her head and a stone at her feet. When spring came there was grass upon the grave, and there also was a new plant strange to those who looked upon it; a plant with dark, glossy leaves tbat crept slowly but surely along, clutching fast to every rough surface it met. There has never been a plant like that on earth before. Now, we call it an ivy, but this is what those who saw it for the first time said of it: - "It is the lady whom her lover bade to wait torever. In this form she is creeping tewards his castle slowly but surely. So she will creep on until she reaches the heart she threw away. trcnemtions bave passed trom tbe earth. 1 be cattle is a ruin, covered with ivy, and the peasants will tell you that it has crept there from the lady's grave, point by point. over ktone and rock, though the graveyard . .... - snd over gates and fences. You can trace it u you choose, thjy say. but you do not try Food for Kefletrtion. Whoever conquers indolence can conquer most things. . Common failings are tbe strongest lessons in mutual forbearance. Ihe smallest perfect achievement is nobler than tbe grandest failure. It is said with life as with coffee, he who drinks it pure must not drain it to the dregs. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good nature. Mon taigne. flow people deceive themselves when tbey think those, around them do not know -their real oharactcr. If we were all permitted to mit our own valuation on ourselves, there would not be a low-pncedo mn in the world. aiisencs come unuiuuen, ana always stay too long; while joys must be sought for, and when found, are apt to slip away un a wares. Education is the one living fountain that must water every part of the social garden, or iU beauty withers and fades away -E. Lverett. Sin always begins withpleasure a with bitterness. It is like a colt, whic the little bov said was very tame in front and very wild behind. How cheap does an elegant carriage and a well-matched pair of horses, with an ignor ant man riding, appear by the side of an in telligent man walking. Life is made up of little things, in which smiles and kindness given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. Sir Humphrey Davy. Cloxe of the Evening-' Festivities. Prorldenoe Joaraal. "Say you illuminated clock up there! I'm talking to you, I am. Your face is like my nose. It begins to redden early in the evening, and keeps on growing red until mid night. . You are an old fraud, you are, with you hands folded like a Pharisee; you would strike 12 times when a nian is down. and I ain most always down at midnight, and that is when you strike 12. You are a dead beat. You beat old Father Time. It's time your career was wound up. Every thing you do is on tick, and you run your face all over town. If you wasnt chokefull your skinny hands would freeze. Why don't you put up on a pair of gloves, put out your light and go home. I can not stand that rebuking red eve on me much longer. Hello! there's the moon climbing right up over your head, and, by Jupiter! there two on 'em. Two moons is extravagant. It exceeds the appropriation. Wonder where thev got the other moon? Looks a little sickly as though she has been shut up in a lunatic asylum. Well, I'll be chawed up by crows if that aint the Great Dipper right there. How I would like to souse it into the milkey way and skim the cream off of a constellation or two. ttood night everybody. Guess I better crawl into that sugar hogshead over there. It reminds one so of Sweet, Sweet Home Good night." Courtship. A bunch of flowers, . A book or two, A llttla billiug, A little coo, A little coming And goiog, till Tbey an to cbnrch And y "I will," A nd tbat end it. Salem Sunbeam. A Man Who Did Xot Want a Decoration. Temple Bar. In one of his last visits to the Valsavranche. Victor Emmanuel expressed a wish to present the old Syndic with the Order of the Crowa or Italy. . "i bans: you, .Monsieur le Kol, and tbe old man, who was by birth peasant; "That sort of thing does not suit us all that is for the finecloth-coats." But when it is the king himself who offers it to you?1 "It is all one, Monsieur le Hoi; we peasants have to work, and with this decoration one has to set up to be a gentleman. We can not live like gentlefolks. The king said no more about it, but sent the worthy Syndic some remarkably fine horned cattle and sheep, which were accepted without demur. i life worth liviug, or rather, is is worth while to live 45 years in a dull, little town. rising every morning with the lark, and going to bed with the chickens, attending church every Sunday in old-etyle clothes and squeaky boots, just to have the paper say. when at last one turns' up his weary toes to the daisies: " We have lost one of our oldest and most respected citizens?" Toledo Blade.

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Come, let n now resolve at last To live and love tn quiet; Well tie the knot so t-rv laat That Time ah all ne'er untie It. The truest joys tbey seldom prove Who free from auarrela live; Tls tbe moat tender part of love Eacb other to forgive. When least I seemed concerned I took Mo pleasure nor ttorent; And when I feigned and angry look, Alas! I loved you beat. . Own but the same to me you'll Had How blest will be oar fate. O, to be happy, to be kind. Bare never Is to late I CCKKEVCT. "A lady nmed Mary Vaffni-ah, Had trouble in lighting her B-ah; Tbe wood being green, . She need keroaeoe , (Paoae. Then coatinne eolemnty.) hbe bat gone wbere the fuel Is dri-ah." Cairo Bullet! a. A rousing address Time to get up. "What is it, doctor?" "Twins.'' "By Gemini!" The March of Destiny has more than 31 days in it. A mince pie at bedtime is the shortest route to the menagerie. Deal gently with the erring or you'll eat bones in your thtoat. Lydia Thompson has raked in a great deal of money on one pair. The village bell should naturally give tone to society. Turner Falls Reporter. The fat boarder called the mold on the pie an oasis a green spot on the dessert. Switzerland is not much of a maritime country, but they avalance there occasionally. Fogs are mists before they are gone. And are not fit to eat unless they have an "r" in them. Japanese ladies wear bats only when it rains, it never rains at tbe theater, nap py Japan! Saturn has eight moons, which renders it difficult to get a dark night to prepare for Thanksgiving. tteecners -juiie oi unnst sens weu in Japan. The Japs want to see if it really goes higher than a kite. What ie the difference between a mother' brother and a mother's sister? One's an un cle and the other arn't. Don't pay any attention to a sign of "Shut this door." It is the trick of a lazy man to get others to do his work for him. The thief who snatched a pocket book from a young lady's hand was a wrester; the ' policeman who collared the thief was arrester, too. Ben Butler draws a sigh of melancholic envy as he reads of Grant being furnished with a bill of fare engraved on solid gold. Courier-Journal. President Seely, comparing young women and young men students, observes that where the Tatter too often need tbe spur the former require the bit. William Augustus to sleepy room-mate -"Come, John Henry, why don't you get up with the lark as I do?" John Henry, grimly "Been up with him all night." Pupil "I know how many days there are in a year 865 and a fourth." "Is that so? Where does the fourth come in?" Pupil "Fourth of July." Rome Sentinel. Be patient. Wait. Don't fret over last summer's ice bilL Scientists tell us that In 17.600,000 years ice 16 feet thick will entirely envelop this planet, and then the ice man's extortions will end. Years and years ago it used to be said that a girl might be willing to be kissed when she voluntarily put a bov's hat on ber head. This can not be true, for hundreds of pretty girls are now wearing the Derby hats and looking well under them. "Why do guns burst?" asks a contemporary, and then devotes nearly a column to answering the question. Guns burst because powder is put into them. You might keep a gun 700 years and it wouldn't burst if you kept powder out ot it. "Who," shrieks an exchange, "is running this country?" Now, don't get excited about it. Keep cool and preserve your equanimity, We are running it. We 'do all tbe work after regular office hours, and it doesnt cost the Government a cent. We intended to keep the matter a profound secret, but when an editor gets up on his hind legs and howels, "Who's; running this Government?" it is time to speak out. Norristown Herald. Untimely People. Burlington Hwkeye.J Yesterday morning I saw a man go out of a car, and shut the door after him. I have traveled very constantly for nearly three years, and this was the first man I ever saw shut the door after him as be went out. He only shut it because I was right behind him. irviug to get out, wun a vaiise in eacn nana. W hen I sat down my valise to open tbe door, I made a few remarks on the general subject of people who would get up in the night to do the wrong thing at the wrong time; but the man was out on the platform and failed to catch the drift of my remark. I was not sorry for this, because the other passengers seemed to enjoy it quite as well by themselves, and the man who called forth this impromptu addressfwas a forbidding looking man, as big as a hay wagon; and looked as though he would have banged me through the side of a box-car if he had heard what I said. I suppose the people who invariably do the wrong things at tne wrong time are necessary, but they are awfully unpleasant. can this year have been much larger than they were in 1878. From January till September the pope dispensed with school and educational;in8titutions,J300,w00; in subsidies to the poor clergy and religious works, $380,000, and in private charities, $170,000. In. deed his lavishness in the last mentioned department of expenditure recently caused the pontifical coffers to run dry. When a subscription was opened for the help of the inundated districts of Spain an order was riven to forward 20,000 francs. The almoner declared that the papal coffers were absolutelv empty, and Leo XIIL was about to raise a loan at a local bank when a bishop was announced. He brought several thousand franca for Peter's pence. This sum was fnm. uiaiiv lorwarueu to opaiu.