Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1880 — Page 9

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. r Most of the late Republican County ConTendons in : Illinois are going strongly against Blaine. Logan and Washburne seem to be getting in their work. , SoxkTHnro is the mattsr because Mr. Tilden his not declined for a whole week. Bat then other news has been lively and there lias been little necessity for such news. ' . Thc Ben ate Committee 011 Commerce authorize : the change of the name of the team 'yacht "Maria" to the "Daniel W. "Voorh . We can not bat rejoice at any proposed honors to our distinguished In diana Senator, but we hope there will be no I difficulty on account of the sex of the yacht. 1 When the girl asked her beau to propose a name for her pet cat, he proposed Jim Blaine as suitable. She replied, blushinly, that it was not that kind of a cat. Thx harmony which the Pennsylvania Democrats showed to the world at their Con vention last week is that earnest kind which shows that they are true Democrats and pat riots who see the danger into which the country il about to be plunged, and that minor differences in idea and as to leaders must not be permitted to Interfere with the certainty of victory.' Their work is to be commended to the Democrats in every Townehip, City, County and State Conven tion to be held this year. Let no personal quarrels, no difference in belief as to minor policy divide the party into factions. This ie the year when organization,, harmony and ' Individual effort will count for much and make victory doubly sure. " Tux increase in imports seems now lobe in even greater proportion than that Of ex ports was after the improvement in business began. The total value of imports during the first eight months of the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1879, was $287,513,550, and during the same period of the fiscal year t ending June 30, 1880. they amounted to $379,305,118. Our people, released from the ; galling bondage ot hard times and low ' prices, intend now to eajoy the fruits of ; their labors in more end better food, in hAttAr clothes and with more of the lux i uriea of life. It is a sure sign of increasing prosperity and not, as many would have us believe, the Drecursorof adversity and re newed depression. These latter will only follow if speculation and financial balloon ing shall again become the occupation of the people instead of the steady results of in dustry. The country Is in a prosperous 1 condition, and is in the humor to enjoy itself. Thx question of a reformed orthography in the English languaga has found its way - in Congress, and may be embodied in legis lation. Mr. Ballon, of Rhode Island, a mem ber of the Committee on Education and La bor, has reported a bill to the House pro riding tor the appointment of a commission of seven learned men to report upon the question as to its necessity, its advisability, , and the probability of its adoption. No , definite plan is proposed, but It is suggested that legislation may provide for its adoption In the schools of the District of Columbia and in the printing of public documents, ' and that its use will soon follow all over the country. It Is scarcely probable that the orthography of a great and settled language can be settled by legislation. The changes which it is possible to make will come with nae and necessity, and very gradually. If " a reform is demanded, or even desired, it would be well to keep the matter out of Congress. THE PENNSYLVANIA INFAMY The pardon of the Pennsylvania bribers stands out as one of the most audacious and shameless acts in the history of many years. Corruption had run rampant in Pennsylva nia for more than a score of years. Bribery had come to be considered one of the legiti mate influences in politics, and the air . of the old Commonwealth had become pol - luted with the stench. The success of such means had finally almost sanctified them in the eyes of Cameron and his clan, and the ' people seemed powerless to, deliver themselves. Finally, about five years ago, a new . Constitution was adopted, under which new and severe laws were enacted for the punish ment of bribery, 'corrupt solicitation and similar ' crimes. ' It was thought that the people had thus secured such control over . corruption as to begin its destruction. Under the operation of these laws the - five men who -have just, been pardoned out were compelled to plead guilty and -'suffer sentence. The plea of guilty was f probably made in order to save other men. , more Influential, from the same fate, and it .vii charged at the time that the additional 1 promise of pardon before sentence had been made- : to them. It was soon discovered. hewerer, that this promise could not be -'carried out ' Public sentiment fis aroused, 'and ' condemned the bargain in tones which could not be mistaken. Then came 1 the toying with justice, the forfeiture of bail and finally tha return of Kemble. the ' best known of the convicts. And when delay could ho longer serve, a righteous judge - was found who sentenced the prisoners to a !. year at close confinement at hard labor and V to pay a fine. - Then, as is well known, the Board of Pardons advised the Governor to . -; interpose bis authority and grant a remlai ion of the sentence of imprisonment. " Nothing has happened In our later history which has so set law and decency at defi ance as this act of political desperations, and a no explanation, no quibble of the law, can n ever wash out tha "damned spot" of infamy n from the convicts, or from the Governor or tJthe'Board of Pardons who have been con earned in it. It Is only one more act ot dee -

peration, one more effort on the part of bad ,

men to set aside the rule Of law; one more success scored by -villain a. who differ only from ordinary villains in their wealth, position and' temporary power. It is a triumph above all law. no less than the assassination on the Pacific Coast last week, or the bloody record which the Mollle Maguires ' made ' in the Keystone State lit so many years. Its effect is not confined to the limits of the State in which it was consummated,' but permeates the politics and society of the entire country and scores one more disgrace. to obliterate which will require many good intentions and good works. Justice in the yrild. unsettled society of California has just tent ine aiaiuroer 01 me paouc peace to a prison; instable and conservative Pennsyl vania It has released the men who poisoned the public mind by the most Tulgar and shameless bribery. Could contrast further go It scarcely needs bitter words to character ize such an Infamy. The mere fact that such facts exist is sufficient to make every lover of his country bow his head in shame, and to ask how long such things shall continue. While the act was committed by partisans who must be held responsible for it in a partisan . way, it yet rises above party contests in importance. It conoerna the morals the very existence of the country. It places a reward on successful villainy, and leads youne men to believe that they may jmrsue such a course lor years and yet escape punishment It may not, however, be entirely lost in good influences, if it will have emphasized in the public mind the dangers which lie in the growth of corruption in the State, and the necessity of meeting it at its inception. I low They Voted. I Burlington Hawkeye.j The elephant came strolling into the hie tent lust after tee close of the afternoon per formance, and the animals were talking pol itics, having caught it from the chatter they had heard in the audience. They didn't know a great deal about politics in the cages; but that, you know, children, is no bar to talking politics. Indeed, no. Seme of our Congressmen who hold on to office the long est, and talk the most and the loudest, don't I digress. The elephant listened to the rest of the animals for a little while, and then he said to the giraffe: "Who is your candidate for President?" "Blaine," said the giraffe, i Yes," the'elephant said, "that's you. Your ideas are always way up. You can't get your head out the top of a pine tree. just because Mr. Blaine was so quick to see where the giraffe came in in Dr. Garcelon's menagerie, you think he will pay particular attention to you. You take care of yourself, my aristocratic friend. Your head isn't as long as your neck by forty feet. You can't come the giraffe over Mr. Blaine. I say. Old Faithful." he continued, addressing the big dog in the "Happy family," "who is your man?" The rewioundiand said he was lor John Sherman. Yes," the elephant said, "because he s interested in the cur-rency. If he is elected you will want the tariff put up on dogwood. just the same as Peruvian bark. Well, go ahead, bowl lor a rree Daiiot and an unmuz zled press, and don't whine if you are beat, as you usually do. Jean Yaljeau," he went on, turning to the tiger, "who do you go lot!" Anv man that rnmfta flnca fn mv naffA f' replied the animal in tbe convict's suit. "Correct you are," said the elephant, "but you can count me out when you begin bal loting. Who is the next animal to vote?" The hyena said he was for Tilden, first. last and all the time. I'll bet you," commented the elephant. "anybody might know you would go for a dead man, you wretched apotheosis of an Ohio medical student. Ah, you Seventeenth Ward resurrectionist, you'll run against a Circleville torpedo some of these days that will knock that smile of yours into a cocked hat. Any respectable citizen of the menag erie ready to express his preference before I close the polls?" The tortoise said he was in favor of Fite John Potter. 'Of course you are," said the elephant. "because he moves just about fast enough to suit you gait. If he doesn't move forward any livelier for the Presidency than he did for General Pope, he won't hear of the nom inations until six weeks after election You'll make a good running mate for him in war time, and you ought to get along pretty well in politics. The next zoological won der and living curiosity will step up lively i can't keep these polls open all night; we've got to dress lor the evening performance yet." The turkey expressed himself warmly in favor of David Davis. 1 "Right you are," said the elephant. "And that's because he keeps you company on the fence all the time. Moreover, he looks more like me than any ot the other candidates. and it is eminently proper and respectful in you to support him on that account. Any k b. . r i tA 4ViA t latna .1 . V- a tnnntii.9'1 UkUCl TVIW liUUl lIBAUQAUU lUOJUUlOQI I The gopher shouted as loud as he could for Mr. Seymour. "Sure enough," said the elephant, "be cause he stays in his little hole all the time just like yourself. Well gopher him if you wish; this is a free country, all except the menagerie, which costs you just one quarter of a dollar every time you look at lt. Vom, now move along lively or you will lose your vote; polls close at " The wild ass of the desert here stepped to the front and raised his voice for Mr. De La Matyr, of Indiana, amid the wildest enthu slum and loud hootlngs throughout the tent. The elenhant winked at the cases with a merry twinkle in his eye. "That's right, my brave cactus eater," he said, "you are naturally and properly one of Mr. De La Ma tyr s followers. Brays him up to the skies if you want to. Nepotism is fashionable in this country now. xsext voter" The morkey timidly said that if he was allowed a vote he would vote for "Proctor Knott!" roared the whole menag erie, but the elephant said sternly, "There, now; enough of that; no intimidation at the polls. No one else. Oyez, Ovez! The polls are closed, and the judges will now proceed to count the ballots." He then announced the result of the vote as follows: Grant, 54. "But,", inquired the animals, "how does that come?" "Well," said the elephant, "it comes all the same, and don't you forget 1L Don't I weigh more than all this menagerie put to gether? What do you animals know about politics, anyhowr' And the animals were well pleased to think that they were allowed to vote any how. and they were delighted that the eleo tion was over and their man elected, so they gave three cheers - for Grant, and rolled around in the straw to dress tor the even1 Ing's performance.

A JUBY SOT.

Remarkable Career of George Lee, of. Pat' r ersony .New Jersey.' r,: . 1 ) HUtory of a Prod üry Consigned to the State Iteforroatory Until lie Shall Be ot Are. New York Herald, April 25. There arrived at the New Jersey State lieform School, at Jamesburg, on Thursday, a human being, a child in size, with the intel lect of a man and . the vices of a degraded inebriate.. Fully thirteen years of age, most persons would hardly suppose his yean to exceed five. His replies to questions asked. always intelligent, sometimes witty, gener ally insulting, show a wonderfully Dre cocions mind perverted by evil associations. Morauv a complete wreck, bis history would make a fitting subject for Emil Zola's pen. The name of this peculiar being is George Lee. and his birthplace and home Paterson, N. J. When he first saw the light of day the unusual size of his head created some attention, but when in a few weeks the rest of his body aasnmed a size in pro portion to his head no more was thought ol the matter. His babyhood was like that ol most children; he laughed when pleased and cried when crossed, and showed no signs of any unusual intellectual development. When he attained the age of four years his head began to increase in size, and the wo-, men in the neighborhood in which he : sided declared that "Georgie had water on the brain." Physicians were consulted and shook their heads, for the case was new to them. All with one accord declared that he would live but a very short time and satisfied themselves witn that predic tion; but despite it Georgie lived on. His bead continued to increase in size until a No. 7 XA hat fitted It snugly, but tne rest of bis body did not seem to grow at all. With the increase in cranial development came Increase of intelligence. Ue soon showed a wonderful talent of learning by heart any his genius I thing repeated to him, and seemed to cover everything. With a quick perception he combined remarkable reasoning power, with energy and decision was mingled - prudence, and his love for figures was onlj exceeded by his love for music and poetry. The hyperoola of mathematics seemed to possess as much charm for him as the hyper Dele of rhetoric. That such unusual gifts. especially when combined in a body so ab normal, could escape attracting notice was impossible, and Georgie soon had hosts of friends. They taught mm to recite passage from Milton and Shakespeare, and to sinhymns and sentimental songs, they toot him to the theater, and on the following day Georgie would reward them by rendering with marked talent some of the more attractive passages of the play in imitation of the actors and actresses he had seen the previous nigh:; they would read to him from books and Georgie would quote the authors in his cosversation with tue gravity and correctness tl a college professor. Soon Georgie because the wonder of the city; his fame spread bayond its limits, and among his visitors were such men as Governor Bedle and other prominent men, all of whom sremed to tale an interest in the juvenile prodigy. An eiigma to men of science, a source ol amuse ment and wonderment to all, be was eagerly sought after, and his life seemed en unbrok en chain of joys and amusements. MOMENTS OF S ADS ESS. Those who knew him best were, howevei. cognizant of the fact that he too had his me meats of sadness, and that even to him the roses of life were not without thorns. At times his lustrous eyes would fill with tears, sad reflections drive away his joyous laugh, and no actor could toucn the human heart with greater pity than Georgie when be viewed the future before him. 'The doctor all tell me," he would say, "that I can not live long; that my head is too large for my body, and that my frame can not support the working of my bram. Ihey all tell me that I must die 60on and leave all my friends, and then where will poor Georgie eo?" Hastily brushing away tte tears his merry laugh would banish the sad reflections on his future destiny, which tbe fates had spun in an evil hour. His parents were in poor circumstances, and his father died before Georgie began to attract general attention. His mother was obliged to earn her bread by daily toll in one of the mills. Georgie had plenty of friends, so that his mother, when she left him in the morning, knew well that at her return home at even iDg she would find her darling safe, and that he had wanted for nothing aunngine aay Despite their dally separation he was tender ly attached to her, and referred to her only in words of tenderness. HIS DOWNWARD CABEKB. Left all day to wander where he chose, it would have bee a remarkable, indeed, If among his many quasi friends there had not been some who sought to pervert his intellect to evil uses. A slang phrase, a bit of vulgarity ,a double entendre were laughed at by many and reproved oy lew, and soon became the rule and not the exception with Georgie. Prompted by men of little charac ter and schooled by persons wno took a nnde in teaching the child how to be wicked, he soon became self-willed and in corrigible. The doors of respectability were clowl ae&inst him, his downward career had begun and soon the Infant prodigue became a veritable enfant terrible: With astonishing alacrity he learned to smoke, chew, curse, swear, drink, and soon his onlv companions were the saloon loungers and the scum of society. During the past five years the nights on which he returned home sober were fewer than those on which he reeled home intoxicated, or did not come home at all. All his energy seemed to be bent upon the acquirement of wicked knowledge, and his days were pnn cinallv spent in saloons dancing jigs and singing ribald songs. Milton and Shakespeare were forgotten, and indecent son es had usurped the place of hymns Instead of being courted and nattered everywhere, he was shunned, for every other word was an oath and obscenity and vulgar' ity constituted his conversation. Ladies who had formerly petted him how passed him by in a hurry, for fear of being insulted. His life seemed to be one drunken. debauch, and his temper tecame ungovernable. He would stop a stranger or an acquaintance in the street and indolently demand a chew of tobacco; insulting ribaldry was the reward if the favor was wanted ; a volley of curses and oaths invariably followed a refusal His fits of furv were simply terrible. Thwarted even in the slightest affair he would kick and yell and send forth oaths that would have fitted the collection of the father of Tristram Shandy. The growth of his intelligence, like the growth of his body seemed to have come to a standstill, and Georgie was far less interest ing than he formerly was. Plenty of boys could be found with innumerable bid habits at the age of thirteen. The only other un usual point about Georgie was. his size, and that in itsel' did not constitute enough of a wonder to be gazed at at the expense of being insulted. For the past few years Georgie had almost altogether withdrawn from the gaze of the public. Occasionally his diminutive form would be seen in the streets and awaken recollections ot his for

mer years, but as everybody seemed to

avoid him he soon abandoned the highways. FATIXXCXAT LAST XXHAtTSTED. . , His mother, nearly heartbroken at the cnange in ner aarnng, enueavorea to re form him; but necessity called her to the mill in the daytime, and the few good admonitions which she could give in the few hours spared her with him were counteracted a hundredfold by the evil instructions received in the daytime.. She did her best to stem the current ot wickedness, but in vain. Finally ' she gave up . the unequal struggle and applied to the strong arm of the law for mercy to herself and her child. He heard of it and cursed her for it. The edict of the Court was issued, consigning mm anui nis twenty nrst year to tne Reform School, and he soon fell into the hands of the law's minions and found himelf behind the bar of the County Jail, there to await transportation to bis future home. A few days of reflection seemed th have a beneficial effect upon him. and when Sheriff Van Voornies came to take him to Jameeburg a marked improvement in his demeanor was observeable. Melancholy seemed again to have seized upon him. Aa be stood on the stone steps leading out of the jail be was picture of a juvenile wreck an unnatural picture. Tbe dissipation which had so plainly marked his face did certainly not agree with his Infant form, and who would look for melancholy in a mere babe? HI8 ADHD TO PATKESON. "Won't you take me around to see my mother?" he aked suppllcatingly. "I would like to see her once before I go. I can hardly expect to come back alive " The favor was promised and he seemed satisfied. A. atranger, wno nad been informed of Georgie's destiny, out who did not know him, said: "I thought that only children over twelve years of age were taken at thc Reform School. This is a mere baby." Mrs. Parting-ton at the Sociable. B. P. ShilUber im the Cambridge Arenne. There was no mistaking the costume, and the fact that the venerable dame led a small bov bv the hand confirmed th imnrwisinn that Mrs. Partington was indeed in the assem blage. There was a momentary lull in the buzz of conversation, aad the party gathered around the new comer, eager to shake her by the hand. "Bless me!" said she, with a beaming smile, which played over her face like sunshine over a lake. "Bless me! how salutary you all are! just as you ought tobe I at a time like this, when nothing harmonious should be allowed to disturb your hostilities. l ou are very kind, I'm shore, and I am glad to see you trying to enjoy yourselves. We had no church sociables in my young days, but we had huskin' bees, and quiltin' bees, and apple bees and ' "liumblebees," said Ike, breaking in like a boy on thin ice "ana though we had good times, and sociable enough, goodness knows, when the red ears were found, they were nothing to the super fluity of this." There was a shcht disturbance in the cir cle, as Ike in his restlessness placed his heel on a circumjacent toe, but it was stilled as the master of ceremonies came up to introduce the minister. "Glad to see youmadam," said the minister, "1 hope you may fand the hour spent with us a happy one." "I know I shall, sir, replied she, ''for happiness depends very much on how we enjoy ourselves, and enough of anything always satisfies me. IIow could I help enjojmg myself in a scene of such life and animosity as this?" "Very true, madam." And the lights blazing like a consternation, and the music and flowers make it seem like Pharaoh-land." The minister was called away, and the master of ceremonies asked Mrs. P. if phe would like "an ice," which she faintly heard. A nice r she replied, looking at him and hanging on to the long t as if it were the top bar of a gate; "oh, very." A rush by the contestants in the game, here broke in between them, the band gave a crash which seemed to start the roof, the mass of people waved to and fro, Ike started off with a new crony in quest of some suggested peanuts. and Mrs. Partington backed into a seat. She looked pleasantly upon the moving spectacle through her own parabolas, her lingers Deat time to tne music, anu ner onfactories inhaled the breath of flowers and the smell of coffee from an adjacent room, till she was becoming ''lost," when she realized that a figure was standing before her, and a cold spoon was being thurst into her right hand. It was the attentive manager, again, with an ice-cream which he invited her to take. "You are very surprising, sir," said she, smilmg. "1 was unconscionable at that moment. Thank you ; I will. I am very partially fond of ice-cream, and this is manilla, too, which is my favorite." She ate with a sense of en joyment caught from the scene and went away soon after, when Ike had joined her, with plethoric pockets, bidding the manager convey a gooa nignt irom ner to tne party, A t At .1 saying she had enjoyed a real sociable time. Water Supply. American Health Primer. Of the danger of injury to health from polluted wells, it is hardly possible to say too much. In one cholera season in London six hundred deaths were traced to the use of a single street pump. Typhoid fever has been repeatedly, indeed many times, known to affect whole families who resorted to a well for a common supply, while others in the same neighborhood, using different water, were not attacked. Worse yet, perhaps, seems to be the subtlety with which organic poison may be conveyed by water, through milk, in dairymen s supplies, several times this has happened in London, .and elsewhere in England. In one instance, so far as appearea, ice oniy moae oi contamination was by the milk-pans at the dairy being waslw.'d in water from a stream into which leakage had occurred from a neighboring vault. At another time, several well-to-do families in London, one of them that of a physician, were auected with typhoid lever, it was found that thev were all sunnlied with milk by a company which furnished milk from several dairies. At last it was ascertained that cases of fever occurred only in those families to whom had been sent the milk of one particular dairy; and a local cause of contamination of its supply was also traced. What exquisite cleanliness of all things is enjoined by this experience! Nothing is more sensitive than milk and cream to all impurity. Even the water which cows drink, when marshy and bad, has been known to make their milk unwholesome. Butter can be made good only where th most scrupulous sweetness, cleanliness and freshness of everything is maintained. This is the chief secret and the " moral applied by saying that perfect cleanliness of water, food, air and person is, everywhere, absolutely necessary to perfect health. " woman's cheek. ,

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HER OLD DRESS.

Pious Beflectlens on Female Heroism . Courage Needed to Dress Plainly Parisian. . ' Ahl you do not know how much courage a woman needs who makes up her mind to to be always plainly dressed; you do not know what innumerable and irresistible temptations she is obliged to resist every moment. To be wise with regard to dress is to be sublime. To pass by an attractive shop and to see hung in the window a fascinating toilet that excites your admiration; to devour this charminsr prey with your eves: to build all kind of castles-in-Spain with re- I g&ru vj ii, kj uro vuunjBii, m your mina, with its coquettish laces, its gay ribbons, and to say to yourself: 'I will put two rosettes in my hair; the white ribbon will serve for the scarf, and I will use the lace for the waist and sleeves," and then suddenly to tear yourself violently away from such culpable thoughts, to reproach yourseir about them as though you had been committing a crime. and then to fly courageously and heartbroken away from the temptation, without even stopping te ask the price. This requires more strength of soul than to wage in terrible combats. A remark which we heard the other day, made with a tone of stoical resignation and noble humility, seemed to us to equal the grandest words of the antique Spartan and Roman heroines. A woman was going to a ball, to a magnificent, fete, and she was busy selecting materials for her dress from a quantity of soft, shimmering silky stuffs, which her eyes were devouring with delight. She asked the price ofthem;itwas very high. Then, pushing them sadly away with the tips of her Angers, she said with a sigh: Its too dear, I will wear my old dress!" My old dress I Do you feel how much sad resignation lies under those words?. It is enough to bring tears to one's eyes. Tbat Blessed Baby. Chicago Times. Did one ever notice how much difference a bright-eyed, idiotic-looking little baby will make in a street car? On yesterday afternoon when a Times reporter stepped into a "West Madison street car, he discovered that the sole occupants of tbe car besides himself were a happy-looking woman with a twomonths old baby upon her lap, and a proudlooKing lather next to her. The baby was one of those red-faced infants whose cheeks are so fat as to make it impossible for them to shut their mouths, and whose eyes are big and blue and staring. Little chubby hands, with deep dimples down their backs, and restless little legs that would kick away the dress and expose the fat sturdy little legs, with their blue-socked feet The car had not gone far before it stopped for a little girl, who, when she entered the car, sat down in a corner, but. discovering the baby, moved up next to it and its mcLher and began "kutchey-kutcheying" it, and thinking up new natural positions in which to hold her dolly when she got home. A pretty young lady in a light ulsterette and a blue vail stepped into the car, sitting down demurely next to the little girl, bhe, too. I spied the little baby, and when it twisted about and stuck its little fist out to her she fave it a finger to hold and reached over and issod it. A little further along a cross-looking hooknosed, sharp-featured old man thrust himself into the car, and planted himself ia the first corner he came to. He glanced about the car with an expression that indicated a hatred of all mankind, and then settled back into the corner, determined to let no one say a word to him, nor to give any one a pleasant look. Suddenly the baby caught Bight of his carroty beard, and, making a desperate lurch, almost threw itself out of its mother's arm's. It could not reach the old man; in straining and crowing; and kicking to get at him, it I softened the old man's heart, and he pinched I its fat cheeks and clucked at it with a smile on his hardened face. Other passengers who had entered the car during the meantime laughed and smiled at the baby, and when it bung its head so far over backward that it looked at them upside down, they poked their fingers at it and called it a "tootsey-pootsey." "V hen the time came for the mother and her baby to leave, there were many good-bye smiles, and the ladies kissed their hands to it, sorry that it was going. After it had gone the car elapsed r a 1 . 1 .11 .1. J into silence; tue oiu man in tue corner urew himself withinhimself again; the pretty young bidy with the blue vail demure ly perusea a cook; the little girl grew listless; the passen-, gers generally looked solemn. The reporter felt that the light of the car had gone, and there was a vacancy that nothing but a baby could fill. "B'ess its 'ittle heart! It was I better'n a circus, so it was,': ' He Couldn't Care Himself. jUttle-Bock (Ark.) Gazette. Yesterday two colored men passed each other on the street, when just after passing one remarked: " 'Fernal raskel as eber libed !" "Who's a raskel?" demanded the other man, turning around, spitting on his hands, and grasping his stick. "Does yer call me a raskel?" "Did I say dat yer was a raskel?" said the insulter, somewhat startled at the man's belligerent demonstrations. "I didn't 'fer to yerself." "Yes, yer did, sah; and IH maul you right heah." "I tell ver dat I'se as innercent as a chile: an' if yer hits me wid dat stick, ole man, yer'll I hab to answer mighty loud fer de transac in de udder won " Splain why yer said fernal raskel' jes' as yer passed me. sah, or I'll make yer hide look ashier dan it do. 'Splain right now. 'Splain, I tell yer!" I "Ole genleman," said the insulter, beginI ninsr slowlv. and evidently not knowing what he was going to say, "some people is dieted to mighty cuis habets. I'ße one of dese kine. I was mighty 'posed on when I was a slabe, an' when I walks along in a stracted sort ob way, de faces ob dese men comes up before me, and I al'ers has a lot ob epithets on han Dos yer know what a epithet is?" " Yas an ef yer doan hurry uy an' giv me a explanation, I'll knock all de epithet offen de top ob yer head 1" "I'se 'splainin. De white folks treat me mighty bad, an' now ebbery time I sees one ob dem in my mind, I 'plies to him one ob my epithets. I allers keeps on han' a lot ob rascals. liars, thieves, cowards, sneaks, goats, hogs, an' dogs. Jia' now I happened to see in I enithet I happened ter beah me an' thought dat I was I fnmn' lAr vmi " - . ... I "Dat is putty good wajr to 'splam yerself, but didnt yer Ter ter me case I cheated yer outen a clow last fall?" . I "No. sah. Tore God I didnt."

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"Was it becase I driv ray mules inter yer fler?" NO,Sah.M f. . - . " Twa'nt becase T wouldn't pay yer fur, splittin' dem rails," and he clutched his stick tighter. ! , ,. ,'V . " 'Fore Abraham an' de Sabior ob de lan' no." " "Well, den, yer kin go, but I wants yer ter un'erstan' dat yer can't cuse dis ole man wid

de weakness of de general flesh." The insulter, after watching the honest man until he had turned a corner, remarked to himself: "I reckon 111 hab to try some udder plan. He skun me mighty bad. but a man what can stan' up an' vin'icate hisseli sartinly is an hones' man. . Dar's jes' one ob two tings. He's elder an' hones' man or I'se a coward," and arter looking again to satisfy himself that the old man was not coming back again, continued: "I reckon it must be dat I'se a coward." . , he Horse And Hli KW er. AS ALT.IQORT. My proud wild horse, my young and dear ally, Through what bright meads did he not bear ms wel!; Till th hoar came 'twas in him to rebel! Betwixt us twain tbe isane was to to trj. ' In hit gay strength so easy to defy As light a rein as Ter boras befell! Could a white child so awaxt a coarser qaell! Tis over, serrabt he, and victor I. Bystanders saw the quirering of my hand. And bid me curb him lent he rage again; I amiled. and loosened on bis neck the rein; With bounding pulse we range life's lorely land. Shall I for fear hold back, in gloom restrain; I that am king, am I afraid to reign? TJntTersity Magazine. The Humors of the Telegraph. Chamber's Journal. "When the news came of the revolution in Turkey and the disposition of Abdul Aziz, Queen Victoria, it is said, lost ne time in intervening in his behalf by telegraphing to Constantinople and expressing her hope that the ex-Sultan would not be subjected to any violence or ill-treatment. "Soignez le bien" (take good care of him) said Iter Majesty; but the cruel telegraph made her say "Saignez le bien" (bleed him well) ; and how they bled him all the world knows. The story is not impossible. In his last annual report the Postmaster general vwns that a poor woman, to a relative, "Mary is bad," had her message rendered "Mary is dead;" and that a pleasure party wishing to advise their friends at home of their safety by the assurance that they had "arrived all right," scandalized the anxious ones with the announcement, "We have arrived all tight." But many jokes are perpetrated by the wire without receiving official recognition. A noble lord, as proud and fond as a man should be of his beautiful young wife, was just about rising to speak in a debate when a telegram was put into his hands. He read it, left the house, jumped into a cab, drove to Charing Cross, and took the train for Dover. Next day he returned home, rushed into his wife's room, and finding her there, upbraided the astonished lady in no measured terms. She protested her ignorance of having done anything to offend him. 'Then what did you mean by your telegram?" he asked. "Mean? What I said of course. "What are you talking about?" "Read it for yourself," said he. She read: "I flee with Mr. to Dover straight. Pray for me " For the moment words would not come; then, after a merry fit of laughter, the suspected wife quietly remarked: '0, thoee dreadful telegraph people! No wonder you are out ot your mind, dear. I telegraphed simply: I tea with Mrs. in .Dover street. Stay forme.'" King John of Saiony was prone to dropping in upon officials when they least expect ed him. One day he appeared at the teleI graph office of a small station. The clerk I apprised his colleague at the next station of the unwelcome visit, and before an acknowlegment of the warning came was called upon to enlighten the inquiring Monarch respecting the business of his office. Presently a message came along the wires, and Iiis Majesty desired to be acquainted with its purport. He was told it was unimportant; but was not to be put off, and insisted on the message being repeated to him; so the stammering clerk had no choice but to regale the royal ears with the German equivalent for: "The King pokes his nose into everything. I If King John was annoyed hy the lmjerti cm a ar u I nence, he had to thank himself lor it. Such was hardly the case with the late Earl Kussel. One evening, when the minister in attendance at Bahnoral, a little old man, buried in a great coat, handed a teleSim addressed to one of the ministers in ndon, to the telegraph clerk in one of the stations on the Deeside Kail way, the clerk, after glancing at the message, threw it contemptuously back with: "Put your name to it. It's a pity your master does not knov how to send a telegram." The name was added. "Why you can't write I" exclaimed the clerk, after vainly trying to make something of the signature. "What's your name?" "My name?" said the messenger "my name is John Kussel." That clerk was transferred te another office before many days passed. Sunlight at Home. "Whether your home be large or small give it light. There is no house so likely to be unhealthy as a dark and gloomy house. In a dark and gloomy house you can never see the dirt that pollutes it. Dirt accumulates I on dirt, and the mind soon learns to apologize tor this condition because tne gloom conceals it. "It is no credit to be clean in this hole of a place," is soon the sort of idea the housewife gets into her mind; "the place is always dingy, do what you may," is another similar and common idea; and so in a dark house unwholesome things get stowed away and forgotten and the air becomes impure, and the digestive organs become imperfect in action, and soon there is some shade of bad health engendered in those per sons who live in that dark house, x lowers will not healthily bleom in a dark house, and flowers are, as a rule, good indices. We put the flowers in our windows that they may see the light. Are not our children worth many flowers? They are the choicest ot flowers. Then again light is necessary in order that the animal spirits may be kept refreshed and invigorated. No one is truly happy who in waking hours is in a gloomy house or room. The eloom of the prison has ever been con sidered as a part of the punishment of the prison, and it is so. The mind is saddened in a home 'that is not flushed with light, and when the mind is saddened the whole phys ical powers must suffer; the heart beats languidly and the blood flows slowly, the breath - P t. i r-- i e v vi A ..ip. - . .... .... - .,.. I ing is impenect, tne oxiaauon oi tne oiooa I b reduced, and the conditions are laid for I the development of many wearisome ud I constitutional failure and sufferings,