Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1880 — Page 9

THE IIANiJ STAE feENTIN

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. , PoaTMASTKB GisiRAL Kit is named lor the tall of tbe 0-aot ticket. . Cae Schcsz ii cpfoaed t a third term bat that doa't amount to an; thing. la rt necessary to call tbe Legislature to assemble tn extra session to pass a regiatraUoilawT The South will plant luure cotton tbb far tban last, and a crop of 8,000 000 talee is anticipated. It ia estimated that South ern planters cleared $121000 000 on their lait year's crop. 'At this rate the Sjuth will be richer than ev-r lnfw years. It la in testimony before in Exodus Commute that Governor 8:.. John, of Kansas wants Southern negroes in that Sta: 3 U cuard aeaits'bis deleat wben nominated oi re-election, and it is also in testimony ila' while the Republican kidnapers of Kansat were sending forth circulars throughout the North; pleading for Lelp and recitirg th deplorable cone itian of the sic and dying negroes, these Game miscreants were sending lying circular throngboat tbe South to in duce more negroes to Immigrate to Kansas Such is Republicanism. BLsINE. The Cincinnati Commercial roar yean ago told its readers as follows what sort of s candidate for President Jim Blaine woula make. Here is its statement: Now, conceding Blaine's brilliant leadership In the Home, and tbe large measure of bis public services and bis fascinating personal qualities, ll most be admitted that we bave, in his own band writing, testimony that shows him interested in subsidy railroads to a i ex tent and in a way that the people will not t"l erat and ought sot to forgive. We make no personal war upon Mr. Blaine. Ills public record condemns him, and it would be the very xnadnees of tbe moon lor tbe Republican party to go before the country under his lead ersblp. Tbe party Is already burdened with Babcockery and Belknaoery, and tbe attempt to elect a railroad sharp President, with a raejoiity or the States already Democratic. and tbe House Confederate, would be prepos teroos,and result In an overthrow entirely deserved and unmlMgaUd. Tbe nomination of Blaine would elect tte Democratic candidate. The fact seems a plain to us as the procession of the seasons. The Cincinnati Commercial is high Re publican authority, and it ia aafe to eay that Jim Blaine is no better to-day than he was In 1878. Is it not passing strange that the Republican party takes hold of such cattle for presidential cindidate? ; INDIANA H0MESTEAD3. Indiana now presents to tbe Industrious thrifty and enterprising of other States and countries one o tbe bett fields for profitable firming on small investments. While sbe has but little to attract in the way of broad prairies or large estates, she has in many parts of her rich domain scoria of small farms. Improved and unimproved, purchasable ac reasonable figures. Upon a forty aire tract a prudent, careful man can, with a little family, in a few montba . build up a rural home, and aa the results of his labor, readfly market at almost Chicago or Cincinnati prices, grains and live stock at railway points near at hand to an extent that will Insure him a compe tence, and in time certain wealth. Contrast this with the small farmer, who settles on tbe plaina of Nebraska or Kansas. There it takes years to provide a comfortable home stead, while his corn crop brings him bat little more than enough to keep the wolf from tbe door. His cattle are but few, and tbe . distance from market ao great that his income from that source is, indeed, limited. The soil of Indiana farms is equal to tbe bfs : timber is not scare; water abounds; health is assured; the com f 4t ts of a home are certain, and above all, the advantages of schools ere superior to that of any other country in the world. The wheat crop of Indiana last year was mar velous one, and the indications are that it will be fully as good this year. Indiana farms, too, produce a greater variety of crops than most States, while in many localities aa fine live stock is raised aa in the blue grass regions of Kentucky. These facts are now attracting attention, ana it is a pleasure to note in this connec tion ttat a company has just been formed at Indianapolis, named the ''Indiana Home stead Company, tbe object of which is to bring to the notice of those who have small means in the Eastern States and foreign countries the advantages of Indiana landa for agricultural purposes, and to famish statistical and other information for circulation in other countries, tj be printed in different languages, thus making it an emigration bureau for our 8 täte. V NEVER MIND FOREIGNERS. A greet, many peop'e who are Intelligent on mo subjects are at prreent talking pontic in a maimer mat would make a loreign lls tener Imagine ail aspirants to the presidency to be aiewttDjr toneptratora wbo have forever abandoned patriotism, brnetty and every other virtue, and that, no matter wuo may be elected, the country will be rnled without tne llgbiet rtfta d to anything but the telflah wriiBl otsirt-a of the new Executive and bis merjCsv Jiew lorkueiald. It, may be a misfortune, but there is no wy of getting around the fact of history, and the press of tbe country owe it to the people to reproduce the facts ao that they maybe kept in everlasting remembrance by the people. Take the Republican candi dates for President now before the country Grant,. Blaine, Sherman and Edmunde and . search tbe records of all civilifsd countries for a thousand years,' and four characters can not be found. who, to make them acceptable to decent people, will require so much whitewashing. Grant , and Blaine are now passing through Republ.cau threshing macMnea. Grant is charged with a design to overthrow tbe American Republic. Republican papers are

tratlon the abominations of hie official ca-

reer as rresiaent. nepunucan papers are bringing into tbe boldest prominence the corruptions of Blaine one of the moat despicable characters known" ta American politics.' Republican knaves' have fallen out, and they are cow engaged in tel. log the truth with regard to each other. Demo cratic papers are helping on the good work. It may be unpleasant, but it is an im. perative duty. The Republican preat is not to be credited with any patriotism for its part cf the work. With Republicans it is the old story of thieves falling out. It is turnicg State's evidence ia vulgar parlance, it is squealing. Coming down to John Saermao, his record is ao insufferably inf anions that he has do show at all. . He may rank high in the list of Louisiana liars. He owes his present posi tion to crimes he helped to commit. He ia still in the pillory .where the Congressiona investigation placed him, and where Mrs. Jenas left mm, and from wntch be can never escape. As for Eimuads be has no more show than Sherman. He made his record of infamy in the theft of the Presi dency, and is known to be simply a shrewd Yankee rascal, who has no more regard for his word tban a Ute Indian. He may be popular in Vermont and Massachusetts, where republicanism takes on its most re pulsive characteristics, just as reptiles grow more hideous in some localities than others; but beyond the festering dens of New En gland fanaticism he is almost universally loathed. Such are the men Republicans select for the Presidency to follow Usyes, who is the most loathesome official tumor that ever shocked the sensibilities cf a civil ized people. To expose tbe crimes and rot tenness of such men is the duty of the American press. The English langnege furnishes the means: it supplies the word weapons let them be used. The Repabliban press is helping on the eood work. In making a choice of rascals they are expcslng 6C0undreiiam. We like to see tbe fight go on. Squeamisbness Is not in order. Such men as Grant, Blaine, Sherman and Etmucds must be anal j red. We are obliged to Republicans for their part of the work. According to their investigations, Grant and Blaine are about the worst specimens of humanity the world has ever produced out of which to manufacture a President, and when the work is completed, Sherman and Edmunds will show up in a still more repulsive ehape An Important Decision. Judge Adam, on Wednesday, ruled upon the demurrer la the ciu öf Rifcn L Nave vs. Abrara Bird, Jamea M. Bradsha et al which ruling is one ot more than ordinary interest to people of Marlon Cjanty. The point involved In tbe case was whether or not the Judges of the Circuit Courts had suf ficient jurisdiction over a minor's real estate to authorize a guardian to mortgage It. It has been a custom for many years back in this County for the Judges of the Common Pleaa Court, and lately of the Circuit Court, to permit the guardian of an infant to mortgage the infant's real estats upon a mere applies tion of the guardian, and consequently there bave been many such mortgages made, involving in the aggregate about a quarter of a million dollan' worth of real estate. The legality of such mortgsges was never questioned until rsised by Attorney Frank il Wright, of the law firm of Wiight Jc Mart r., who, after a careful and complete investigation, has, by Judge Adams ruling. virtually won his cause. 8icce the cee was argued before Judge Adams by Mr. Wright, some time during tbe month of February last, Judge Adams has given the matter careful and tireless study, and seeing tbe great wrongs done by such mortgsges, over ruled the demurrer to Mr. Wright s com plaint, stating that, in bla judgment, no court in the State ot Indiana, bas the power to mortgage an infant a ral estate. We bave no doubt but that many more suits will at once be instituted to set aside other auch mortgi pes. The Democratic Situation In Virginia, Richmond et at es. We don't expect tbe leaders of the Read ies ter faction to act in concert with tbe Con servative party in the coming Presidential and Congressional canvass. They are already stepped in too far to return, and for them it Is at fur to go forward and cross over to the other side than to retrace their steps. And we can well afljrd to let them go. For some years they bave not acted with ns, and yet we have experienced no less or disadvantage from their defection. In the last Congressional eleetiona they ran candidates of their own independently in many of tbe Districts, but failed to make any impression ujon the Conservative nominees. In this District. as well . aa in the extreme Southwest, where they gather strongest, we easily defeated them, altbough they were aided by the entire Radical strength, and we can do it again, if only the conservative people will remain true to their principles and party; and aa there ia no question before tbe people but tbe simple one of whether Democratic or Rtdicil ideas ahall prevail in tbe administration ot the Federal Government, whether we shall continue to be a constitutional Republic of sovereign States or agiand centralized Empire, we do not suppose very many real Virginians will halt long in deciding how they vote. We will even make a liberal allowance for the defection of a portion of tbe rank and file, wbo may vote for an unpledged ticket or for the Radical electors, and yet we shall bave enough of true and loyal Virginians to carry through the Demoer tio electors, and elect at least seven or eight of our representative Congressmen. Ia all our calculations tben in Virginia we must be careful to made due al lowance for this unknown bat small quanti ty, and learn aa rapidly aa possible to get along without it. Nor will this be aa difficult as some aeem to imagine, as will readily be seen after we shall have fully organized for work and drawn the linea. Then we will see and know exactly wbo are against us, and be able to take our measures according ly. That there is any danger of the State being loat tbjoogh this small defection from the Conservative party, we never bave believed; for even ia its most formidable character as an anti-debt party it lacks tbe strength of numb rs, with tbe Radicals added, to defeat us in a general vote when we bring our whole force into tbe field and do our work well and faithfully, and in a contest of this kind, when no locit issue is involvtd, th)y can not possibly muster anything like the force they probably could on a bare question of the settlement of the Sute debt

WESTWARD HO!

Five Thousand luvoiaranta Quartered at Castle Garden on nonday and Tuesday Seen and Incidents. " ; i .. New York Herald. It has not happened for many yean that 4 000 . imrr igrants bave arrived at that modern Plymouth Rock, called Cetle Garden, in two oimecutire days. Yesterday and tbe day betöre, however, . seven ships arrived bearing almott their full comple ment, and if it . bad happened, aa it fre quently does heppen, that one of them had landed one more passenger .than tbe rolls of the ship showed if one elrgie prospective American citizen bad made bis first appear ance in the course of the voyage that num ber woul-i nave been reached, for tbe seven brouaht 3,999 immigrant! The Ariz ma, arriving on Monday.- brought 812; tbe Castilia, from Uibralter. 233 and th. Oioucistor, from Bristol, tblr.y-tbree. Yesterday the City of Richmond bronght 1 253; the Donau, liotu D'tuiu, &oa; the Uicwi , Irom Ul.sgow, 724, and ti e California, fnni London seventy-six In addition to thuunuBUsI mol'i arte there were on Monday 800 Dwngers by the Baltio, which arrived on Sunday, who were unable to take the westward iraiue until Monday rjittbt. (Jj Monday and Tuesday, therefore, ibere were nearly 5 000 gues's of tbe Nation stopping at Csstle Usjden luete gues'a were t one of them in holiday attire. Their looks betrayed their einod without tse need ot words, and even a stranger in tbe city could-easily have tola that tbe little groups or wonderstricken men and women who strolled through the downtown street?, gaping at the unwonted sights, were foreigners. They themselves made the queerest eight ot atl to the citizen used to tne tali buildings and clustered wires at whicn tbe travelers stared. Taey were clothed. So much was beyond dispute. Not one oi tnem laCKt a covering, ana tbst covering bore even a remote general resemblance to clothing that may be purchased and that is worn in this country. But it was a tery re mot and a very general remblance. The stun" was strange and the cut wts queer, and tne tower i art ot moadwav JO-ited lor a time as though tbe comic almanacs were out for a stroll. Here and there was a group of Italians, and these were pic nretqu, the women, with tawny ekin and ntshugeyes, being garoea in bright colors, with fancy kercniefs and wearing massy gold beads about tbeir necks, and tbe men with br ad soft bats and velveteen cars most of them showing a splash of color ac the uecx looked like peasants ht for a picture. But the Swedes and Norwegians and other Northen era were far from beautiful, however useful they msy prove in the great West Brawny and beaitby almost all of them, few were on the further side of forty, bat pretensions to Deauty tney naa none. IS AMERICA 8 WATSIDE TAVERS. The mobt ot them bad ngiu their pas sage at toe agencies on tne other sid. where tney naa paia ijt tranepor ation through to Nebraska. Ksosas, Ijwa or same other part oi u .me Odoi s great prairie farm. To them New lor merely marked a staue in the journey, and they had no care for the wonacts and treasures of the metropolis. They bad to stay brie till tne train soould stsrt, and Castle bardtn, with its cheerful heat and sbeuc r, was better in their eyes than tbe air outtiJe. So the mott of them stayed under tne great dome that has sheltered millions of their kind and watted patiently for tbe summens to board tbe train. They did not need to go outside for food: tbev Lad shelter there, and tne most ot them bad bedJitg at baud, so tbey found it easier and every way be ter to stay inside tban to stroll around tne city. "How do tbey compare with Immigrants generativ ?" ased tbe reporter of one of the veteran clerks in the office. Tbey tre a hue lot. They don't seem to bave very much money, al. hough none of them are poor. They have a little, but are Lot as well off as some lots we have, such. as the Mennonltes. Uut they're all healtbv. strong and intelligent looking and they look like temperate people. But you can see for yourselt." 'There's one curious thing about these Swedes and Norwegians, as well almost of tbe ort tier n people," continued tbe clerk. 'They don t come around asking questions. They are all in bands or companies, and each company has a leader, a sort of chief, who knows just what to do and dees it, and all the rest folio v him, and do just what he says. They don't seem to want to know anything excepting jus-t what he tells 'em." "And do the rthers7 "Do tbej? Well, I should say they did. And they ask. too. There's nothing bashful about 'em. They atk all tbe questions they want to." "What do they atk aboot?" Tbe clerk looked bewildered. "What do they ask about?' be repeated, slowly. "Well, mostly all sorts of things things mat uon t concern 'em tn tne least. At least a thousand men, women and coll dren were in the rotunda at the time, and the picture was oae of the greatest interest as a study, though an artist would have turned from it in d et pair. The faces were of hopeless mediocrity, with hardly an ex ception. Tbe struggle of life with tbem was evidently no more than a stroegle to live. and tne contrast between tbe faes of the little ones and the faces of the next eeneration to came was tomethiog for tbe humani tarian to bope for. A part of tb tide of humanity rfscmd fram tbe ebb cf tbe Old World was fljwing to tbe West, and, setting to westward, was lo towing tbe course of the world. The old will never know t-xcept by gilt of prophecy tue blessings they will reach, but future generations will bless them lor coming. Wrapped in such meditations, the reporter turned to leave the Garden, and heedlessly stepped upon a baby. He then changed bis mind aout the peaceable nature oi tne immigrants and naa. Saving; the Country. Bardette. , "Tbey are saving tbe country In Nobles rille to day," the fat pasnger remarked be' fore we came away Monday morning. "Yes," the sad passeng-r said, ."it ia dis Union and anarchy, or Diff;ndorIer for Trot tee." E ct Dlffendorfer Trustee," said the cross passenger, "and the thioesof dissolu tion ee!E9 on this wretched and enslaved country tbe next day." "A vote f jr Diffendorfer," shouted the tall, thin passenger, "comments more closely, and binds more firmly, the union alresdy laid in tbe best blood of our fathers." "Elect Diffendorfer," the fat pswnger said, "and tbe malice and bate of 500 centuries of despotism is crowned with success, and the fair Republic, thst bas repelled the assaults of a'i tbe world, dies by the ptrricidal hand of its own ungiateful, traitorous and blocd-dved children." "Elect Diffendorfer," said tbe man with the green gfgfles, "and tbe reeling thrones of tbe ffate Monarchies of Earope crumble to the dnst.and tbe barbarous despotisms in tbe fsrOrieot fall to tte earth amid the crashing of broken dynasties that bave been upheld by centuries of lawless and pitiless poer." "Elect tb's man D ffendorier," snorted tbe fat passeneer, "and you will live to hear the dsth knell of liberty rirg tbroush the land. Make him Township Trus'ee and you will see tbe sscred rights of man, the honor of ciiizensoip, tbe gl' rtes of the Republic, the sanctity of the fireside, the purity of the

home, tbe holinees of tbe church, the sacred retirement of . the cloister, are trampled ruthlessly under bis cruel and polluting fe: elect D.ffendorfer' ,,, , ,

"Diffcndorfer ain't a rurnin sali the woman wbo talks bats, and as usual, when Bbe cro8k8, sbe cuts off tbe debate aa with the previous ' question, to- the "great' disap pointment of the man with-tbe green gog gles, wbo was jnst ready to laugh out with acruiberas soon as the lat .passenger waa out of breath. -. And ao we Came away from Noblesville. Governor Seymour on the Growth of the west. " ' : i New York Herald Interview. " " We Vae hardly a clear idea Of what the great West means unless we think a mo ment. We have grown up with tbe idea that tbe West was tbe outskirts of tbe Eat. There has been a revolution we did not note. fiow tbe East is tbe outskirt of the West. We are marginal. Tbe West is now the center of wealth, population and political power. I's growth in the past is trinu g compared with what it will be in tbe future. According to tbe census cf 18-0, the center of population was a little north of Cincinnati. Ia a little while it wilt be csntral be tween St Louis, Chicago and Ciocianati. In twenty yaraitwill be between St. Louis and pnicago. Between the years 1870 and 183U the increase nas Deen aDout iz uuu.uw Ot that number more than 10,000 000 are west of the Alleghanies. Tne increase from 1830 to 1890 will be fully 15 000.000. Of that number 12.000 000 will be gained by the West. Here tofore we have have heard of Ejs'ern capitalists and Western property. To-day the wealth of the Est la small compared with ttat of the West, although there is more of it in money here. During the past ten years of depression tbe Eist bas gained no wtalth. Its landa have depreciated in actual value. During those ten yearn, of tbe the 10000,000 people gained 8,000 000, perbaps,are upon the laud. Their lands hive b-en g'ng np while ours were going down. In fie Valley of tte Mississippi over 610,000 000 acres bave. at a very low estimate, gained in value $1.50 an acre. This gives as almost $1.000,000 000 gain in wealth in land alone. Tne whole history of the world shows that tbe greatest cities are in the interior, be cause there they find the greatest centers of support. London comes nearest to being an exception, bat tben it is as reasonably far inland as it can well be in so small a coun try. The poiut I have indicated between St. Louis and Caicago wül in 1890 be tbe center of a population of 65,000 000. Within ten years tbe struggle to get the enormous volume of tbe commerce of tbat population will be desperate. To get the greatest share or it tbe railroads will disregard tbe interests of their own States. Judge John T. Scott. Tei re Haute Gazette. This distinguished gentleman appeared in our Circuit vxnrt yesterday morning, as baa been bis custom for many years, sstnee his retirement trom tbe Common Pleas Bench b bas scarcely tuis-ed a term of the Circuit Court In this County, where be bas been em ployed tu tue most important cases, txia visit this week is the first since his appointment to tbe Supreme Bench. judKo tscuic wm ne a candidate Deiore toe Democratic tätate Convention lor the nomina tion tothe pobltiou which he now holds by tne appointment or tne Governor, ills decolons are characteriz-d by clearness and brevity as wen as souaa law Altbouzn tbe Junior member ol tbe Court be ranks with tne oidesi in ability. Without detracting in any degree irotn the merits of otber gentlemen wboaspue to tne place we certainty tnina Judge Scott has claims on buillvau County not only on tne grounas ot nines, nut Decauee of bis location Id an adjoining County and nis Close loontincaiiou whu our people at aJudgeot our Common Pleas Court ana long practice al our Dar. aaliivan Ucmocral. In the ab ve article referring to our fellow towLsman, Judge John T. Scott, the Demo crat pays a graceful tubate to a man who justly deserves every word of its encomium Here in Vigo County, where Judge Scott has lived: where be presided as judge, aid bas practiced as attorney, the people know him and bold bim in the highest esteem. He is an able judge, and, what is of exceeding moment, an incorruptiole one. He bas been in public life a great deal, and has been a conspicuous man always. He bas been engaged in fi-.rce coutr jversies, and men have differed wilh him -in opinion. Re publica s have neatly always differed with him on political questions, f jr Judge boott has been a pers s&nt and consistent advocate of tbe principles ot tbe pare and undented Jtfftsrsonian Democracy. But though bis opinions have been assailed, and though be has been in situations where everything tbat could be said against bim would have been and has been said, bis in tegrity as a man, as an attorney and as a judga has never been questioned. No man in tais community stands higher than John T. Scott. His nomination for the place he is now filling by appointment of the Gov ernor ought not to be contested, and on the ticket he would add materially to ita strength. A Mountain Heview of Milton, ' Sau Francisco Exchange. A San Francisco publisher sent a SDickspan new copy of Milton to a Bodie editor tbe other day. 1 be great man, whose labor prior to taking charge of an influential mountain journal, had been principally confined to writing police items for tbe metro- ' w . ... w pontan papers auring tne winter, ana taking exercises in the harvest fields in the summer, heaved a weary sigh as the office boy handed him the volume, and remarked bitterly, "More new books to review, I suppose." took out his tobacco knife and proceeded to leis urely to cut the virgin pages. "Milton, Milton, he said musingly; "some New Yorker, I suppose: well, here goes for to morrow's edition, anyhow." "Ve received yesterday a copy of John Milton's poems from the enterprising publishing house of X. Xn San Francisco. The book opens with a long yarn, 'Paradise Lost.' lie very improperly commences with a description of Hell, a topic that is never mentioned in the polite circles of this camp, and gives a mo3t thoroughly absurd pen. portait of the Devil. This person he pictures as many rods in length, while the best authorities on the subject have likened him to a goat. He goes on then to tell of a fight with a batch of angels, wherein the Devil, as a matter of course, gets the worst of it, being from the very start the under dog in the fight. This is quite enough for us. John Milton would do better to return to his legitimate newspaper sphere. He may be able to describe a masquerade ball or a street row, but in our opinion he is a very poor poet. "This will do for Milton," said the editor as he passed the copy into the foreman and turned with relief to the perusal of a reported strike in South Bui wer. A laughable incident occurred on Easter Sunday. The clergyman announced that the offertory would be applied to redacing the debt on the church. . During the singing of the music, while the collection was being taken up, the tenor, who is a German, had a solo in which occuried the words, "and the dead shall be raised." He succeeded in electrifying the congregation by giving out at the top of Ks voice, ' Und ze debt shall be raised in ze twinkling ov an eye."

TUE HOLY LAXTJ B AILWA Y-'

Tne Echoes of Nineteen Centarle to be Awakened by the Shrill Whistle of the Locomotlre The Route, Distanoea, Etc New York World. . - . . In 1843 a student of the New York Uni versity; as appears from newspaper reports of that time, was reprimanded in the Chapel by Chancellor f rehnghaysen for irreverence in predicting that the echoes of Mount Sinai would - before long become aroused by the shrill whistle of the locomotive. 'Neverthe less recent advices from the Orient to the principal promoters in Boston ot the Pale8 tine Railway" some of the stock of which has been subscribed for in this city -show that this is likely to occur. And now that the raleitine Kailroad seems an assured fact although its bonds are not yet in the share lists of Wall street it is of interest to know something of the "lay of the land through which it ia to run, and of the places into and out of which passengers journeying on the road will be whirled. The scheme of putting iron or steel rails across the surface of the lioly Land is by no means a new one. England has long wanted a shorter route to her Eastern possessions than is furnished by 1 water con nections, and although the present projected railroad, which is to run from Cairo, in gypt to Jiosui, on tne Kiver Tigris, is nominally an Ameiican undertaking, the work is to be done with the support of English money. According to a Boston pa per, "the charter was ob ained with the minimum amount of capital and number of incorporators. There are in the Company fifteen men, with each one share of the stock: eight of the fifteen live in Massachu settsjust enough to come within the law and one of tbem lives in this city, but in now temporarily absent. lo get a clear idea of the proposed route a reporter called upon liev. Dr, HitcncocK, who is, as is well known, a .... . . - Professor in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of this city which ex-Governor Morgan so liberally end j wed tne other day and is 1 resident ot the Palestine Kxplora tion Company or Society. Having been given tbe direction of the road, Dr. Hitch cock said: "Well, if the railroaa starts from Cario, in Egypt, it will stretch rather more than 100 miles to reach Port Said, running northward along the Pelusiac branch of the rille. Port Said got its name in 18o9 from Said Pasha, and owes its origin to the Suez Canal. It is a place now I think of about 9,000 population mostly French. It has a harbor oföiO acres andtwenty-six feet deep, which was dugoutat great expense. It is pro tected by immense moles, tbe eastern one running out a mile into tbe Mediterranean and the western one a mite and a half." (At this point connection will be possible with the lines of steamers running between the East and Europe.) ''EeeDincr close to the sua ' continued Dr. Hitchcock, "the railroad will probably run eastward. It is nearly 100 milee to El Areesh, supposed to be the 'Kiver of Agypv the ancient boundary be tween Egypt and Syria. Then it must turn northward, if, as is said, the intention is to reach Gaza. The distance from El Areesh to Gaza is, I think,.about fifty miles Gaza is one of the five chief cities of ancient Phi list ia. It is now best known by the Arabian name of Ghuzzeh. It is some three miles trom tbe .mediterranean and has a population of about 16 000. I suppose the second stop in Palestine will be Esdud tbe ancient Ashdod which is twenty-two miles from Gaza. In reaching Esdud the railroad will doubtless pass over the site of the ancient, Ascalon, which is or was twelve miles from Gaza. Esdud, which is referred to in the New Testament as Azotus, is not a very promising or prepossessing town. It is about three miles from the Mediterranean, and its inhabitants chiefly reside in mud houses. Ramleh, some seventeen or eighteen miles further on, will probably be the third stop. Remleh, by tbe way, will not be a bad place for travelers to stop over a train. It is a beautiful little town of about 3,000 inhabi tants, nearly a third of whom are Christians, It was founded by the Arabs in 716 A. D. bo that it can hardly be called a mushroom village. Kamleh will doubtless be an important station if, r.s you say, there are to be branches from there to Jaffa and Jerusalem. It would indeed be very singular if there were not, for Jaffa is but twelve miles north west and Jerusalem only about twenty miles southeast of Kamleh. According to the plan of the railroad as published, the Jerusalem branch will ascend the Valley of the Nahr Rubin and Wadi Surar and will reach Jerusalem from the Gihon Valley, the station being at or near the Damascus gate. Leaving Ramleh the main line will run north through tbe Plain of Sharon to a point near the ancient Bethar, whence a branch is proposed to Rablous, the ancient Shechem. Continuing northerly from Betbar to the Abu Zubura, the road will ascend that river valley and cross the I rm . . r Carmel range through the Megiaao rass. x rora tjairo to tnis point tne maximum graue nn II rA v nrin V r tnrtt 9 s aa v-ti I a mit si thuAnren t ha " "D '""J 'L. " ""'-"5" pass torty teet to a mile. rom tne nase oi the hill of Megiddo a branch Is proposed, to run down the Plain of Esdraelon, and thence northward along the shore through Acre and Sidon and by the ruins of Tyre to Beyrout. northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea, upon the gulf of the same name. The main line will pass from Megiddo across the plain of Esdraelon, by the base of Mount labor, and along the west side of Lake Gennessaret. It will cross the Jordan at or near Jacob's Bridge, and follow up the valley, and climb the Jebel Heish at a grade of sixty feet to a mile. ' Crossing the summit and descending the valley on the other side, it will stretch across the plain to Damascus. Thence it will be projected to the Euphrates to connect with the Euphrates Valley Railroad, which is about to be built byan English company. From the river it will extend to Mosul, and will connect there with a proposed railroad from Diarbekir and the Black Sea. Branches to Aleppo and Erzeroum will be constructed as soon as desired after the completion of the mam line. Dr. Hitchcock says the distances will be follows: From Port Said to Gaza, about 150 miles: from Gaza to Jacob's Bridge, 150 miles; from Jacob's Bridge to Damascus, about sixty miles, and from Damascus to tbe Euphrates, by the shortest route, about 250 miles. An old railroad man whom the reporter saw next, said he didn't know much about the Holy Land, but he should think that Gaza would probably be a lunch station. "Say you start a limited express," said he, "from Port Said at 8 a. m, she'd fetch Gaza, . I should think, from. what you say, bout noon. Fifteen minutes for refreshnumts 4 Gaza I am sure would pay well, and if there are 16,000 people there, and you run a night

express it might be a good scheme Id put up a hotel and billirad-room near the depot. .

Ramleh will do first-rate for a lupper atop."1 for through passengen. I expect those who n change cars would rather wait till they strike Jerusalem. I presume , they'll , have to put j on a sleeper before they strike the CarmeJ .Mountain. That's a pity; seems as if all 1 railroads had to do this mountain scenery in the night-time" -.-- ' : - It is aaid to be the intention of tbe oncers . of the road to push its construction rapidly ' as soon as the necessary authority can be obtained from the Turkish Government.2 ' , ' Diet For the Sick. ' ' From a most useful book with the above title, due to Dr. H. U. Kane, we derive a number of useful hints as to the diet of the7 sick. Some doctors are fortunate enough to combine with their pharmaceutical' lore a: certain amount of culinary acquaintance. It. were a great pity tbat they, many . of them did not know more of the latter. A doctor may say to his wife, who is all anxiety in re gard to the health of ber ailing busband, "give the sick man something light and nourishing." Now, what does the ordinary, wife know about such - things? bae could sing for her husband's amuse ment, possibly dance for him, hut as to making him a nourishing broth, or a gruel even, as well ask her to balance herself oa a tight rope. It is not beneath the dignity of the most learned Esculapius to unbend at times, and teach tbe various meth ods how food should be prepared for invalids.. Relative values of food and their digestibility physician should have by heart, and it is his duty to impart his knowledge when it is necessary. JNow, as to methods or preparing food for invalids. Dr. Kane says: "Fried food of any kind should never be admitted to the sick room. The process renders the food very hard of digestion, as it gives it to us cased in a dark outside of browned material and fat." A leading authority, Dr. Baird, writes about frying, as follows: "This is a method of cooking meat which has no other recommendation than convenience.' It is a rude method, adapted for coarse natures, and disappears before civilization." We wish we thought Dr. Baird was right as to its disappearance. Frying, like original , sin . is, we are afraid, everlasting, and not to be stamped out. If meat has-to be given to an invalid, it must be broiled. Even precaution should be used as to the materials with which the fire is made. Hot coals often smoke and . flavor the meat disagreeably. If possible, broil with a wood fire. An excellent method is to take a bit of meat or chicken and wrap it in a buttered piece of paper, and thus place it on the gridiron. Baking meat is not as good a process, though often resorted to. Tbe tendency of meat placed in an oven is to evaporate all those strength-giving juices found in the nesn. .coning meat, it attended. to properly, is not a bad method, as the beef i - . . . . .. retains a targe amount oi nutriment, tue fatty portions Teing dissolved by the heat. But the trouble about the boiling process is that airless great intelligence is used, the meat . is overcooked and the nutritious elements are found more in the broth than in the meat. Then, again, as the appetite has to be some- - what stimulated boiled meals are a trine in sipid and tasteless. The process of boiling poultry being shorter tnan tbat used in cooking beef, the boiled chicken can be, however, most advantageously used in the sick room. Stewing, when the broth is made rich in extractive matter, when the selection of the material has been judicious, is excellent food for invalids, providing the fats bave been taken away. In "Diet for the Sick," the remark in regard to fats should be remembered, . that as the carbons are heat producers, when the patient has inclinations to fevers, they are prone to give a recurrence of them. Fats digest slowly, and in delicate constitutions may disorder the stomach. If a portion of the battle over ill- -ness has been won by the proper selection -and dressing of the fool, if it be slovenly or carelessly served, it often does more harm, than good. Nothing is more distasteful tban to hand an ill person a smeary dish or a sloppy eup. The senses are so delicate that often an overcharge of food is revolting to the sight, and deadens the appetite. Ii i better, then, to make two trips between the kitchen and the sick-room than to dir gust a patient with an overabundance. There ia no precaution which should not be taken to -make a meal inviting. Have always a clean napkin; change it every time the food ia partaken of. If thej patient is too weak to use a spoon or fork himself, be careful net to cram, and remember that the invalid is not a Strasbourg goose penned up in a cage, and that your sole obiect is to increase the size of his or ber liver. It is wise, eminently wise, to humor the patient Never talk much about what you are going to admin ister in the way of food. J ust as the eyes, nose and ears are stimulated by disease, so does the imagination of the patient become eccentric. Sometimes expectations are raised I W mm - ML U a va aVy avaj k a a4 ay a WW too high; at other periods simply to mentjon food is to pali te appetite. Oftentimes i it u tter to produce vöur neatlv-covered B . . I tray without any advice of its coming to the patjenL We all of us must know of patients our own eiperienCe who would rather 8t&rve than faat th were hangry. Tbil ig to be forgiven, as it is nothing more than ,n idiotyTlMj. Firmness is all well enough. and an intelligent invalid may be coaxed . into eating, but to bully about food is a mistake, and often results most unfortunately. If, with a languid movement of the band, the poor sufferer shoald bid you -begone" with all your nicely-prepared food, take it . kindly, but try it again at some other time. The great thing is patience, and always . patience. Woodman, Spare That Tree." : In the year 1864 there died an American ' poet named George P. Morris, whose fame principally rests upon the well known and -once extremely popular song, "Woodman, Spare That Tree." This song first appeared in a volume of poems published by Mr. Morris In 1830. N jw, in 1802 there appeared in the Morning Chronicle a poem by Thomas Campbell, afterward included in his collected woTks, entitled "The Beech Tree's Petition,' which bears a very remarkable resemblance indeed, to Mr. Morris original" song. The first lines of Campbell's poem are as these: i ' "O leavs this barrea spot to aie; ' 8pare, wood naa, ipara tbe bercbaa tra.M , And these lines conclude each stanza. The opening lines and the .refrain of Mr. Morris' song are aa follows: "Woodman, apare tbat tre, Tooch not a single bough; , it ' In youth it sheltered me. i And I'll protect it now." - The sentiments in the two poems are almost i identical, though Campbell's are incompara- ' ble the more gracefully, and poetically ex - Eressed. If Mr. Morris had never seen Camp- I ell's verses the resemblance is, I think, as 1 ; have called it, a very curioua literary Doin4 oidence,w