Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1881 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. '.WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 188L

WEDNESDAY, MAY IS. CARL.TLE'3 REMINISCENCES Nowadays the engrossing topic in literary circles is the Keminiscencs f.f Thomas Car lyle, as edited by Jaoics A'.Jiony Froude. Generally these reminiscences are unpopu lar. They don't please. AVhy? Does Mr, Carlyle bear false witness against the living nd the dead? Did he write falsehoods and preserve falsehoods to be published only für death? Thoraas Carlyle hardly de serve s such a verdict. If then he told the .TUth why denounce him when the truth is made public? It is said "to the honor and dory" of Thomas Carlyle that "he contended without ceasing for what he termed the dynamical energy of the human soul, in opposition to the tendencies of a mechanical age. His whole work was an indignant protest against the materialism of modern science, and an assertion of the spiritual dignity and duty of man. He poured forth a torrent of scorn and invective against the vulgar passions and motives which degrade society; he poured forth in a ptretual anthem his veneration for the higher powers to which he attached all that is noble, heroic, dutiful and true in human life." Hence, we conclude that Thomas Carlyle's reminiscences are truthful, and to this prominent and all-per vading feature Mr. Froude's book chietly owes its unpopularity. A contemporary refers to numerous instances in the 'Keminiscences" where people are harshly criticised, and adds: "To us Americans.it teems very strange that the British public &houM be so much disturbed about the 'Reminiscences.' especially that they should be urpri.sed at their quality. Carlyle was always unamiable, bitter, cynical in the extreme, and why they should expect him to be benevolent, generous, and sentimental in his recollection of men and things is past divining. One might think from their intense feeling on the subject that he had lien, in life, one of the mildest, gentlest, and tenderest of men. If the volume of 'Ktir.iniscences' had contained anything very different frm what it does, there would have been good reason for doubting its genuineness. To have suppressed Carlyle's inj :!tice and downright bad temper would be nr.ial to ignoring the man." Thomas Carlyle was always bold enough to speak the truth, and never in the world's history so iii'.ioh as now have Thomas Carlyles been in demand. Never had sham such an army of devotees. It is said that Lincoln, when toM that Grant had drank too much whisky at the time of various battles where brilliant victories were gained, inquired particularly a to the brand, and where the whisky could be had, as he wanted'several other Generals to have a supply on hand when battles were tote fought. It is said that Carlyle, when he wrote his Reminiscences, was the victim of dyspepsia, but it is not said that the disea?e. however violent the attacks, ever influenced him te lie to whitewash sham or to deevrate villainy in the costume of virtue. It iray not be required at all times to peak. Silence is sometimes golden. Er.t when circumstances do require utterance, the truth should be told, and he who withholds it is something worse than a coward. If dyspepsia helps to boldness, if it invigorates veracity, if it wars against mendacity, if it exalte Virtue and dethrones vice, then the world is in need of more dysPENALTIES AND REWARDS. It :.s held to be true that transgression brought death into the world. Adam's transgression made the death penalty po:ible, and all were sentenced. According to the records, only one or two have escaped. It does not in the least-modify the situation to talk of infinite love, infinite justice, infinite wisdom. There stands the record, the sentence, the penalty death. All the millions dead have paid the penalty. All the millions living are under sentence. What a sentence! What a penalty! What a charnel house is the earth! We conclude that but for Adam's transgression there M-ould have been no graveyards; no funeral professions; no mourning in the earth; no sickness; no doctors; no drug stores. Evety child born would have lived in eternal youth and beauty and vigor. No death penalty to be paid. No dimmed eyv, no palsied hands, no faltering steps, no voice tremulous with age, no gray hairs living on living forever. All these arrange ments Adam completely upset. lere we h3e a penalty that reaches, out and grasps ail. The life that now is is overshadowed by it, and, strange to say, it is believed to extend to the life that Is to come. If Adam had not transgressed, the earth would be pretty densely populated by this time. The inhabitants would have been as numerous as the leaves ot the for est Railroad disasters might have occurred, bet no Uvea would have been lost, nobody to blame. Ocean Bteamers might have gone down, bnt the voyagers would all have reached the land alive and well. Earthquakes might have shaken down cities, but the newspapers would have published no lists of the dead. Thunderbolts might have fallen thick as hail-stones without creating the slightest alarm. The nations of the world might have engaged in war, but the aoMiers could only have been wounded there would have been no dead upon the battle-fields. Cut Adam's transgression riot only brought death into the world, but all the woes that nffiict humanity, and humanity is ikying the penalties. What and where are the rewards that balance these penalties that liiake some atonement for Adam's trans gression? In every day of the life that now is, the human family is paying penalties, and we are told when the last sad penalty is paid that the account is still unsettled, that man has not paid all, that there awaits him still other penalties. Adam not only made .leath certain, but hell possible and probable. The law is noi iuinnea; jusuce is not satisfied; Mercy is silent; Ixve is banished; forgiveness is an empty nothing; hope is Dead Sea fruit Adam's transgression was certainly a wonäerfal event Under -such circamrtances, poor mortals must make the best Ihey can of the situation. The earth is very beautiful particularly is these latitudes in the month of May. And it is a fact that il there are penalties to be paid, there are

rewards to be secured and enjoyed in spite

of Adam and his' appleating, transgegsion, There are homes which resemble Heavenlove as pure as ever animated ange'j, words of love and kindness as full of melody as ever ravished the ears of the Inhabitants of Heaven. There are triumphs of virtue that bring rewards above price, deeds of mercy which fill the world with ioy. hones pnrincine from the dust that live in perennial beauty, aspirations that overleap all the iron-clad dogmas of Churches and lay hold upon God, soul yearn ings that defy creeds and claim kinship with Jehovah. Adam may have brought sin and death intothe world, but he did not close all the avenues to enjoyment, he did not stop the ceaseless flow of rewards to the sons of men. The rewards are equal to the pen alties aye, more than equal, for even death may be deprived of its sting and the grave of its victory. Tub New York Herald publishes a fivecolumn Washington letter. It reads as if written by Conkling himself, but regardless of authorship, it is one ot the most scathing arraignments of Garfield that any President ever received from any foe. To say that Garfield is both skinned and scalped does not do justice to the letter. It exhibits and gibbets him before the world a a weak and vacillating man, without moral courage or convictions. It brings to the surface Gar field's true inwardness , and sits him on the rasrged edge of a most deplorable record. It indicates the seat, depth, intensity and vir ulence of the disease which is now eating out the vitals of the Republican party. Of all the humiliating pictures of a President ever painted by mortal pen, nothing could be worse, if duplicity is to be considered. Such is the Iliramite who occupies the White House. Some one now should write a defense of Garfield, and then we should know more of Conkling. The country is panting for these companion pictures. The gallery is rapidly filling up, and the Iortraits are extremely life-like. It seems to be settled that Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister to the United States, is to be sent to St. Petersburg. Sir Henry has been in the diplomatic service all his life, and he now goes to 1'us.sia because it is a more iniKrtant mission. He gets better pay and a larger pension. The various Departments of the Government are to undergo a thorough overhauling for the puriose of ascertaining how Government swag has lieeri distributed. The col ored element declares that it has not had its share. GENERAL NOTES. Senator Fair told his Nevada friends that "Manone is no bigger than a giant cartridge, but spry as a lizard." Mr. Henry W. Loxgkeli-ow has presented a handsomely framed portrait of himself to the Maine Historical Society. TiiKCincinnaUJKnqulrtr says: "Up to date only two Hooslers have been appointed to office as as stone-masons at the Washington mounnient at S2.50 a day each. A Southern paper reports that W. n. Pillow, o Jacksonville, Fla., has sent 30,000 quarts of straw berries North this season and that they have netted him 8.M.00Q President Porter, of Yale College, has .begun a series of lectures to the seniors on the choice of a profession. The lectures are of an informal nature, and are given as an addition to the course on philosophy. Secretary of the Treasury Windom has sold his house in Washington for 1:50,000 to Senator Piatt, of New York. It cost him 1:4.000. He will build another and finer one on the corner of Six teenth street and Massachusetts avenue. Miss Fanny Farnf.il la a young lady of decid edly intellectual and rather prepossessing featurea, being tall, slightly built, with expressive blue eyes firm mouth, and with a wealth of rich brown hair, worn low upon a broad and open forehead. The original of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" wis written by Mr. John Roulstone, of Boston, sou of Colonel John Roulstone, proprietor of a popular riding school, sixty years ago. -'Mary," the owner of the lamb, is now Mrs. Tyler, of Somerville, Mass. Frank Walworth, whomurdered his father at Sturtevant House, in New York City, some years ago, aud was discharged from prison on the plea of ill health and threatened idiocy, was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court, at Ithaca, on Saturday. Foca British M. P.'s are eighty and upward. One of the wealthiest tettlers in Australia is Jem Mace, the noted champion of the prize ring. who landed In Mel!xume two years ago with $.7). He has made a fortune by speculating In mining stock. The President's son, lrvin, a sprightly lad who is fond of his bicycle, when asked by a visitor at the Executive Mansion how he liked hlanew home, replied : "Oh. the White House wUI do, but I'd rather be back at Mentor, playing in the woods.' A Boston paper with "Christian' In its name confesses that it has "sometimes thought that, if Wendell Phillios. io a moment of enlightened remorse, should sting hiuwclf with his own sarcasm, he would quickly die of the effect of selfacquaintance." Hon. Elisha H. Allen, who represents King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Island, at Washington. Is visiting his old home in Bangor. Fortyfour years ago be was the rival of ex-Senator Hamlin for Congress. They had previously been leaders of rival parties in the State Legislature. Many months since a distinguished Senator from New England, being a little annoyed by one of Senator Edmund's proposed amendments, renarked to a brother Senator that he would bet S3C, if the truth could be known, that when Senator Edmund's mother first taught him the Lord's prayer, he bounced up on her knees and offered an amendment to it That President Garfield's first batch of New York nominations were sent in as a bribe to Sen ator Conkling to vote for the confirmation of Judge Robertson, Is conclusively proven by the circumstance that when Mr. Conkling had declared his unalterable opposition to Judge Rob ertson, they were withdrawn. This fact is ir reconcilable with any other theory than that they were designed as a bribe. New York Herald. We hope to see the Democrats In the Senate sustain the President In every wise and proper measure, and yet that the relation between them aod him shall never be nearer than at present. The Democrats have a right to expect right action from the President, and he to expect correspond ing right action in return, and there Is nothing J faTorj g,ven round fQf expectlng favors la return. Nashville American. Conkuno has reached the point of his oareer, sure to come to every boss, when the long line of men he has hit and kicked and cuffed on his way to power see their chance to make old sores even. The man who systematically kicks the ladder away as he climbs has a long way to drop when he falls at last, and for twenty years Conkling has been kicking away one friend after another by whose help he has risen. He baa behind him the organized appetite of the machine and nothing else. Springfield Republican.

AT BEST.

The Funeral Ceremonies of the Late George C. Harding. One of Indiana's Moat Brilliant Journalists Has Ceased to Labor With That Which is Mightier Than the Sword. Hundreds of Friend Who Baited From the Duties of the Hour to Drop a Tear In His Grave A Masterly Funeral Address by Eev. Myron W. Beed. The mends and relatives of the late George C. Harding paid their last respects to his memory on Thursday. After having passed through the fierce battles of life and withstood the storms and tempests of na ture, the trials and sieges of more than quarter oi a century upon me Droad avenues of journalism, rrovidence so decreed that his spirit should take its flight and the body be laid at rest beneath the roses and immortelles in the fragrant and gentle montli ot May. As was announced in the public prints. the lunerai ceremonies took; place on yester day, at 2 o'clock, from the Central avenue M. E. Church. The remains were taken from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Yeagle, on Ash street, to the Church, escorted by the following mem bers of the press, of which Mr. Harding was a bright and sinning light: UI the Journal were Hon. John C. New, J. P. Luce, Charles M. Walker, J- W. lialford, O. It Johnson, Harry S. New, Gideon U. Thompson, J. E. Cobb, W. -O. Bates, James W.Rilevand George C. Hitt Of the News, Frank Hollidav, D. I. Paine, Gus C. Mathews and J. V. Cook. Of the Herald, A if. I)oley, Ben D. House and Morris V. Philips. Of the Review, Charles II. Dennis, W. J. Turpen and E. V. Hammer. Of the People, Enos B. Reed and William Burns. Of the German Telegraph, Adolph Sidensticker and Adolph Maeulen. Of the Indiana Farmer, A. J. Kingsbury. Of the Cincinnati Commercial, Miss Laura Roam and A. J. lialford. Of the Danville I'nion, O. H. Smith. Of the Peru Republican, Hon. George J. Reed. Of the Associated Press W. W. Smith. Of the Sentinel, Charles G. Stuart, Charles N. Maynard. J. C. Tarkinpton and J. F. Durham. 1 lie following named gentlemen were pall bearers, all of whom were members of the Order of Elks, of which Mr. Harding was also a member: Gideon li. Thompson, Ben I). House, J. II. Ande-son. E. II. Hastings, M. H. Spades and J. G. Kingsbury. AT THE CHURCH. The procession was met at the Church by the Lodge of Elks, numbering about fortyfive. The Church was filled to its utmost capacity, including class and lecture-rooms. the most of whom were the intimate and ad miring friends of the dece:ised. The bodv was placed in an eleeant metal lic casket handsomely covered with velvet, ornamented with silver and ebony handles. On the top of the casket, was a silver nlate bearing the inscription: "George C. Harding." At the. base of the lecturn uin a table were floral offerings of unique designs, and richness in nnish. 'ihe members ot the press onerea in token of respect a broken column of three feet in height from base to lop, which was filled in a winding form around solid with Marshal Niel, with tea roses and heliotrope. Surmounting the top of the column, was the letter "II ' worked in white, surrounded with a delicate border of blue immortelles. At the base of the letter was placed a large and fragrant passion flower. The base upon which the column stood was filled witn lilies, ferns and pansies. Encircling the base were the words. "The Press," worked in white. A large pillow, an offering from K. R. Hawn, Secretary of State, who had been for years a constant friend and admirer of the deceased. The pillow was artistically arranged with lilies, roses and heliotrope. The onenngs by the haks were in tour pieces, representing the cardinal virtues oi the Order. The first was a large scale twenty inches in hight with the word "Justice worked with blue immortelles across the beam. A large cross of choice roses with the word "Charity" worked in blue. An anchor with the word "Fidelity" across the bottom in blue. A large scroll upon which was worked the words 'Brotherly Love." All were artistically and handsomely arranged, the work and skill of Lewis, the Massachusetts avenue Honst There were other handsome tributes and decoration of the most choice flowers offered by admiring friends. The funeral address was delivered oy Rev. Myron W. Reed, who had for years been an intimate and admiring friend of Mr. Har ding. It was a noticeable fact that at frequent intervals in the course of the address Mr. Keed was compelled to stop his speech that he could better suppress his feelings of grief. When la-t offering the Divine blessing, Mr. Reed was ßo overcome with sadness that it was made perceptible to all of those in the auditorium. Before delivering the address the following psalm was read by the reverned gentleman. "The Lord Is my shepherd: I shall not want Heraaketh me lie down in green pastures: lie leaJeth me beside the still waters." The singing was led by Mr. Ora Pearson, with three accompanying male voices, who were also in the lifetime of Mr. Harding his intimate friends. The following is MR. REED'S ADDRESS. In the oration of Mark Antony over the body of the slain Casar are these words: "The noble Brutus hath told you Ciesar was ambitious. If it were so it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath t'asr answered it." The faults and ins of George Harding have not been extenuated, and have not infrequently have been set down in malice. If he had grievous faults, grievously hath be answered them. His sins are better understood than his sufferinp. We all know his defects': how few know his excellencies! The taxk of telling the world his sins has been quite overdoue. If it were not so, I am not the man to undertake the task, for me so ungracious. When a man has been a steady f rieud to me, that settles the question as to what side of him I shall talk of when he is dead. When he was living he was well equipped to take care of himself. Now Is a good opportunity for a coward to track the dead for any decent man the opportunity has passed. Mindful of these thin. I shall speak briefly of what was good in the life of my friend, and more briefly of what was evlL Sir Ector gays of the dead Launcelot: "There thou liest, and thou wert the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse: and thou wert the kindest man that ever stroke with sword, and thou wert the meekest man and the eentlest that eve ate in a hall among ladies, ani thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal toe mat ever pal spear in rest" This quotation Is not filled in, and a speech con structed around It for the sake of the quotation. But the life of Mr. Harding suggests the quotation. Yesterday a pauper came in from the Poor Farm to see me. and I was sway, and the old man said to my wife: ''Oh, we were all sorry to hear that George Harding was dead, lie was a meed to such as we." - There is no doubt of the truth of that statement. This was the main attraction of the man his sympathy with theinr acd the despised with hoever was down. He had a certain old-fash-oned chivalry that could be depended on. I do ot think that he counted the cost, lie was not politic nor prudent. A more independent man has not walked these streets. His opinion of men and things lsin type, mere is no reserve on any thin except concerning lelizioi' His hatred of sham aud cant made him too suspicious. There were so many counterfeits in circulation that he now and then rejected a good bill. But be never denied that the genuine ex luted. There was no flippancy, no deiieht in his unbelief. He did not pity the people who, b faith In God and immortality, have comfort am peace. If he felt houseless himself he did not eo about tearing off the roe Is that sheltered others, but simply wished he was at home aud at rest. The atheist's laugh is a poor exchange for Deity offended. 1 hat lauen is never neara irora him He said to me of the future, that he did not know. He would in due time g and see. Of course this confession of doubt is not a con fesssion oi faith, and Is not satisfactory, but it was honest, and. so far as I know, final. What light the great and pltilul God shed upon his way in the la.t days of his pilgrimage, of that we kuow nothing. Something we kuow, that here in this man was unusual and absolutely original power what he thought he could say

with the least waste of in possible. He had

thonghu for hi word tan d words for hi thoughts And the words were the natural clase-fitllng car' ment(or the though Us And the thought went abroad and was not ashamed. He could in 4 DararraDh express what, as ordinarily worded. (ills columns. His sentences always made me think of "Licbig's extract of beef 'of pcmir.lcan put up for an Arctic voyage. He wrote as if words were precious, as they are. His critic Um of the economy that we brag of in tb care of the poor lunatic, deaf mute, blind or paujr. will be remembered. He advised, if economy was the chief thing, that these poor people "be knocked on the head." While I was writing these words, a gentleman called to tell me that he had just returned from Paris, 111., and to repeat to me a conversation he had with a physician there, with whom Mr. Harding read medicine. While he wasthusa student the cholera year came, and all who knew anything about the disease tied, except the Doctor and his student, and they remained, to nurse and to save or to bury, as it snouia happen We are all acquainted with this "fear'essness of danger and of death" which waa nearly absolute In Ceorve Harding. For anything worth the while, I think that he would cheerfully have laid down his life. For friend, or country, or good cause, I should have expected him to go at once to the front. You have looked at his head, massive as If cut from sranlte bowlder. And at his face, at the graven lines of thought and pain. I do not remember auch another face. Iu those lines is written a history as of a rock brought down by an old elaclcr. It is a history ot tumuii ana strue, and grinds as of flint against flint. Some men escape lever by weaknem. The typhoid passes by the Invalid. There are pasMvelr good neonle eood bv defect of strength. They are Inoffensive and innocent, and can not help It. I have a picture of a ship that haa hardly doubled Cape Horn. Hr masts are broken short off, the waves have swe.n the docks, but she has maae it. Half under water and cloe on the rocks, vet she moves forges ahead. That suggests the life that is done. His last eiirht months have been hi smoothest. his most successful, and on the whole, his happi est. He has bad in these months less of the desert Ixhmael in him. and more of Ishmael'i gentle shepherd brother. in tnese montns I nave noticed in mm more confidence in the motives of men and a tacit ac knowledgment that blsold judgment had been too sudden aad too crude and too severe. Also, a vivid fueling of the power of his words to cut and to singe and blister. He had been like a boy who throws to hit, and whose snowballs had been made of soft material and then laid out over night to freeze. In all these ctght months he has been, with one exception, aud for that I excuse him. on the upgrade. He came back from Minnesota with a pur pose to redeem the time; He was met here wnb a l riendmess and an encouragement that surprised him, and that made him as happy as a child. I am glad that he came back, and glad that I last saw him with his fuel set as though he would a-o to the top of the hill. He had not given up. He had not, except by an eddy, turned back; the main purpose and will were to go on and up. He had a rougher road to travel than you r I there li no doufet of it There was, for instance, the wrench of one tragedy that of a common man would make a maniac By the clock he wa tifty-one years old. Bv that experience be was as old as Jacob when he said: "Few and evil have all the days of the vears of my life been." Judge not." say Christ. Over the little child cart up from a wreck and buried on the coat of Ireland there is a plank, and on it graven, "God knows." As ignorant as he who cut those words are we. As wise are we when reier the whole matter to God, whether he is In port or gone down like the City of Boston. One thing is sure, that he has had no fair wind: nothing zephyr-like since childhood. It has been monsoon and tor nado. I liken him to mass silver some copper. some sulphur, some quartz and some mud, but still silver eneugh to astonish the assayer. If his his flaws had all been ground down and ground out, he would still remain a rare diamond. And faults were of a kind that I think make us sorry and not angry. He was not what he ought to have been, but when you told him so it was no news to him : it was a thought familiar enouch. Some men need a logical argument to convince them that they are sinners, l ney are so pruaen; and sly In concealing their sin that they forget where it is themselves. Ooome Harding was uoi of that kindred. He coniessed judgment. There was sin and sin. We must distinguish between the sin of impulse and temperament, the out ward stain and the deliberate, self-souKht and loved for its own sake sin. We make the distinction, for It is wise. Senator Yates, in his last speech. In alluding to the way sundry "Christian statesmen" once had of using him and his infirm ity to point a moral, and then calling attention to the late appearance of the names of these brethren in "the little memorandum book of Cakes Ames," said: "My friends and neighbors, I want von to remember that if my hand does tremble, t is clean." There is a choice In sinners. I prefer the prod igal son for a neighbor to his elder brother. Let us look at one another at our best, and trutt that so we shall appear at our last. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, I am a partisan, i nave not a udicial mind. I am disabled by nature to anavip fripnrt to take him anart and collate his faults and his excellence. When I think of George Harding and his enemies within ana without the good that was ever before him, the evil that was ever present with him, the endless contradiction of impulse and reason, of aspiration and environment, the contrast of the mood of the evening and morning, the tenderness and the harshness, I eive it up. It is a skein too tangled for me. We must consider the physical basis the possible and prooable disease, the "sweet bells jangled and out of tune." The powerful engine with sand in the Joints and possibly an Inch or so oif the track. Wno knows? "God knows." He rated as his enemies some men who are my friends, and who would have been glad to have been his friends. I think that time, thought. success and genial association would have done wonderful thinas for this "free lance." i nave no doubt that he would have recalled many of his biting words. He would have melted many of his etchings, the work of steel aud acid. He would have continued to be generous, and would have attained to be just a thing very difficult, but possible. It la possible, but difficult, to have sympathy with the poor and also with the rich, and so be generous and also Just. Perfect charity goes down and ub, and so includes all classes and conditions of . mankind. But the warfare is accomplished. It is very peaceful out in "God's acre" now peaceiui ana pieasnnt, green on wie leaves and the grass, by the power of the sun and the rain; and our inend wnose body we commit to the "open hand of Time" was not sorry nor afraid to go. He Is out of the combat And for his sake I am not sorry, but sorry lor my own. He had the thought that he had come to the second best:" that, as he expressed it, he "had loRt his grip." I do not think so. I have seen no evidence of falling powers: but he thought so, and he dreaded old age if it meant loss of faculty more than he did death. Knowing what life may be, I do not wish any child, or woman, or man back to this battle, but I shall miss him, and you will miss him. Everv abuser of money or official power, every pretender, every masked man, every man who writes anonymous letters, will sleep more peacefully to-niKht because George Harding is dead. One had but to mention the trouble of an oppressed human being, and a glitter came Into his eye and a word from his mouth, and a little later a word from bis pen, and his action was as swift as his word. Some of us knew him, and we bury his mortal part with reasonable tears and with a hope that perhaps we do not care to analyze. At any rate, when God lays his hand on a man, we take ours o(T. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" He knows the temptations. He measures the stn. "And the thoughts ot uoa are wider than the measure of men's minds, and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind." To the great unchanging justice and mercy we commit him. Do not think of him too curiously. friends: think of yourselves, who, with fairer winds and getial skies, are making so little neaa way. Pprhaoa we romnlaln of burdens that were light to him, and stumble on a plain and level road. ... If any one of us avoid his errors and nis pains it will be because of the peculiar grace of God. It will be because the elements are kindlier mixed in us and our lot in life more happily cast. Indeed, your path is carpeted, inanx God, and be kind to those who in ninty up-nin viTi are barefooted who are called to walk among the abysses and along thedifis of bellhelp them. I have seen the Sagiency River, with its capes "Trinitv" and "Eternity." and Its savage shores. But I brought home with me to remember it by a handful of the little plant called "live forever." The scarred mountains are clothed with the "im mortelle." At the close of the services of the Church the cortege moved, headed by Beissenherz's band, followed first bv the Urder ot .kiss, representatives of the press, carriages with pail-oearers, hearse Deanng tue remain, carriage with the widow and chil dren, carriages with parents, brothers and sisters, other carriages with distant relatives and friends, numbering in an seventy-two, AT THE CEMETERY. Upon arriving at the Cemetery, the Order of fclkstooK charge ot tne remama anu ueposited them within tne - vauu accoruing w the form of hnrial of members of the Order. The ceremonies were sacred, sad and imposing. The floral tributes above the casket V. fifflro nf tli OrHr nrespnted from their stations of the Lodge, the scale in representation of "Justice;" the cross, "Charity;" the anchor, "xideiity, ana ine scroll, "Brotherly Love." The ceremonies, as conducted bythe Lodge,werecreditableinthe ex tnlHnir tntncnnsiderAtion their in Tniriinri in officiating u no n such occasions. this being the first time they have been called upon to perform the sad rites in par

ticipating in the burial of one of their mem

Der. A TRIBUTE TROX THE fROFESSIOX. The Committee' appointed consisting of memoers or the press of the citv have retmvtftj 1,. f 1 T . M . . 1 j""' ;u me luuowing inoute to uiu memory oi air. Harding: The newspaper friends and associates of the late George C. Hard i nit desire to formally ac knowledge their sincere regret for his death, their appreciation of the many high qualities and strong virtues which bound him, as by hooks of steel, to those who were his intimates, which won for him a place In his chosen profession that win not oe supplied, aud which challenged tne respect and confidence of the public geuerally. ruggea nonesty, equipped witn peculiar a Dil it! es, and with a purpose punned through an ex perience which commanded the generous ivmpathy of this community, his latest work will be rigarded as his best, and be remembered as worthy the man and the opportunity. The lines of his life were very often cast in bitter storms. the force of which could nt be known to others thsn himself; but. after life's fitful fever, he sleeps, his memory guarded with the affectionate friendship of those who knew him beu, and with the sincere respect of the people among whom he uveu anu worxea. THE WKEmO WILLOW. Bow m Product of the Gar.lm of Eden Im. migrated to Tula tiountry. Harper's Young People. i ou nave seen ana admired tne weeping willow tree the Salix llabylonica upon which the captive Hebrews hiig their harps nutu luejr eai uuwn oy tue nvers oi lia nylon and "wept when they remembered Zion." It is a native of the Garden of Eden, and not of America, and I will tell you how it immigrated to thisiountry. More than 150 years ago a merchant lost his fortune. He went to fcmyrna, a seaside city in Asia Minor, to recover it. Alexander I ope, one of the great poets of Kngland, was the merchant s warm friend, and sympathized with him in his misfortunes. Soon after the luerchantarrivedinSmvrna he sent to Tope, as a present, a box of dried rigs. At that time the poet hail built a beautiful villa at Twickenham, on the bank of the river Thames, and was adorning it with trees, shrubbery and flowering plants. On opening the box of lies, l'ooe discov ered in it a small twig of the tree. It was a stranger to him. As it came from the East, he planted the twig in the ground near the edge of the river, close by his villa. The spot accidentally chosen for the planting was ittvuniuie to its growtn, ior tne twig was from the weeping-willow tree, probablv from the bank of one of "the rivers of Babylon," which flourishes best alons the border of water courses. This little twig grew vigorously, and in a few years it became a large tree, spreading wide its branches and drooping, graceful sprays, and winning the inspiration of the tKX?t's friends as well as straneers. It be came the ancestor of all the weeping-willows in England. There was a rebellion in the EndishAmerican coloniea in 1775. British troons were sent to Boston to put down the insurrection. Their leaders expected to end it in a few weeks after their arrival. Some young officers brought fishing-tackle with them to enable them to enjoy sport after the brief war. others came to settle on the confis cated lands of the "rebels." Among the latter was a voung officer on the staff of General Hone. He brought with him, wrapped in oil silk, a twig from Pope's weeping willow at Twickenham, which he intended to plant on some stream watering his American estate. Washington commanded an armv before Boston which kept the British imprisoned in that city a long time against their will. On his star!" was his steison, John Parke Custis, who frequently went to the British headquarters, under the protection of a flag, with dispatches for General Howe. lie be came acquainted with the young officer who had the willow twig, and thev became friends. Instead of "crushing the rebellion in six weeks," the British Army at Boston, at the end of an imprisonment of nine months, was glad to fly by sea, for life and liberty, to Halifax. Long before that flight the British subaltern, satisfied that he should never have an estate in America to adorn, gave his carefully preserved willow twig to young (Justis, who planted it at Abingdon, his es tate in Virginia, where it grew and flour ished, and became a parent of all the wee; -ing willows in the United States. Sometime alter the war, General Horatio Gates, of the Revolution, settled on the "Rose Hill Farm," on ew York Island. and at the entrance to a lane which led from country road to his house he planted a twig from the vigorous willow at Abingdon, which he had brought with him. That country road is now Third avenue, and the lane is Twenty-second street Gates' mansion, built of wood, and two stories in hight, stood near the corner of Twenty-seventh street and Second avenue, where I saw it consuiaed by fire in 1815. The tree which grew from the twig planted at the entrance to oates lane remained until comparatively few years ago. It stood on the northeast corner of Third avenue and Twenty-second street. It was a direct descendant, in the third generation, of Pojhj's willow, planted at Twickenham about 1722. A Successful Spy. .Philadelphia Times. In March, 1SG5, I was assistant enrolling oflicer of Mobile County, mv chief being Major H. O. Humphries. One morning the Major handed me a bundle of papers, and, pointing toa stalwart-looklngsoldier dressed in the uniform of a Confederate Sergeant, said: "Examine these papers, and give him what he requires." He aaded: "If I had a thousand such men I could whip a brigade of Yankees." The Major was a very impulsive but conscientious man. I found the papers to be regular; they had been through the headquarters omcers and were indorsed correct.'' I The enrolling officer was directed to furnish Sergeant Burke with a horse and subsistence. His papers repre sented him to be Sergeant Burke, of the Army of East Tennessee, and he was directed to proceed to Mobile, and gather up all men from that Army absent without leave, and return them to their commands. A desk and writing materials were furnished him, as was a horse. He was soon engaged in writing. After a day or two he would absent himself, and on several occasions would not return for many hours, and al ways on his return would write a great deal. When asked what he had done he would always have a probable story to tell of being on the track of a number of deserters, and, strange to say, he did forward several batches of men to their commands. He appeared to be very zealous in the Confederate cause, nd one day remarked that we ought to right under the black flag and shootevery Federal found within our lines. The Major was much of his opinion, but I was not, and Burke thought I was very lukewarm in the cause. In all of his actions he was a Confederate of the most bitter kind, and of course was not suspected of being anything else. .This went on for several weeks, Bvrke going away in the morning and when lie. returned he would go to his desk and wnte a mass of papers, apparently taking his notes from a book which he always carried. Early in April Mobile was surrendered and General Canby took possession. Burke left two days previous to the surrender, and we supposed he had gone to his command. The day after the surrender I was walking on Royal street near General Canby's headquarters, when I was hailed by a Federal soldier, who called me by name. I looked at him with surprise, and did not recognize him until he said: "Lieutenant, don't you knowmef I then saw that it was Sergeant Burke, and remarked: "What does this mean this uniform?" He replied: "Yon know now what I have been at the past few weeks." "Yes," I said, "a spy." He smiled and said: "Lieutenant, if you want protection or aid you will get it by reporting to General Canby. I made a list of deserving citizens for his use, and Vour name heads the list. Goad bye." I have not seen Burke since, nor have I any knowledge of what became of him. Burke was a sharp, intelli gent 'American-Irishman, and now I have reason to believe that he furnished Farragut with a grjeat deal of valuable information.

CIRCUS TICKET SCALPERS.

Mea Who Follow III Shows and?Get Pretty wen raid for It. KEADiJfG, ra.. May 8. "Ticket scalping on the road," said one of the attaches of the jjamum snow, "is getting to be nuisance. edoal we can to prevent it, but are not successful. At least a half a dozen roan" men started out from New York with us" weeks ago, and have been following us. They lure boys to wriggle through the crush to the ticket wagon and buy tickets for fifty cents each, and the scalpers dispose of them for sixty and sixty-five cents each to persons nnxious to eet into tho tont i . , J - van; aim ayoid the crush at. the tirfcot wagon. To accommodate such people we have our own agent-men whom we have hired by the season to sell tickets in various parts of the cities at a small advance. edo not compel people to buy of the auen La : we tlmnlr criva i ... avoid the crowd at a very small cost. The caipers, nowever, who follow us from place to place often get as high as seventy-five cents, and in Baltimore they really sold fifty cent tickets for a dollar. We always write to the Mayors of the cities we visit, advising them to grant j wvt.wva, aa iA ..11 .! a 1 . r V t r i Mayor Kowe, of Readto five the mmi nsn io sea circus iiCKets. Mi ing. haa promised not to anv license." Halfan hour later twowell-dresscd young inen enwreu tne Mayor's oirice and asked ior license io sell circus tickets. One of the at) Mi phcants explained the business to the ayor as follows: "The reason thev ask jvju kj gram no license is because they want a monopoly of the seal nine hiisinpss iney nave twelve men recularlv . . man PArrma pit. I 'loved who sell fiftv nnt tiV-Lto f,sixty cents, and reserved seats for K Thev sell the whole canvas full before thev oren ii.i a ..... 1 the ticket wagon. In that way they get 20 lTt-eiii. more money man tney would if they opened the wagon early and sold tickets at the advertised the pround to-day ami see if they don't keep itvKv noj;uii viuncu until llie teni 13 filled on GOceiit and 1 tickets und nil tho side shows have had a whack at the crowd." me Mayor sent ins omcers to the circus grounds. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock 10 mo ieoile were irpsnt. Oniwhnlf -f tdov. purchased tickets at an advance from agents and scalpers. The other 5,000 were jammed about the ticket wagon, which remained closed. About a dozen arents were llin ticKeis at a premium ot irom ten to twentyfive cents. You can hnv tiVtet in tho Ki . . - . O show inside our tent." cried half a dozon lide-show men. People purchased side-show tickets for ten cents, but found no circus tickets for sale inside. Finally the crowd became so great and the excitement so intense that Sheriff Gerhards romnellpd thp opening of the ticket wagon. Later in the afternoon the xmlner wim called on the Mayor was again seen. ''Didn't i ten you just how it would be?" he asked. Then he revealed his method . followThis afternoon, after thev opened their wagon, and when the rush was half over. my partner and mj-self hired boys to buv tickets for us. We cot 'J13 fiftv-cent tickets at the wagon. These we will sell in Newark on Thursday when the show gets there. If we'd waited until then to get our tickets we could not have got them. We always buy a day ahead, or two days." "Suppose they were to sell different colored tickets in Newark?" e run those chances. It is not UVpIv they'd change tickets. The cost would be too much, and it would make too much trouble. We don't travel on tliAir train but indeoendentlv. Wa $10 per day clear of all exp-nses, reckoning in the rainy days. We apply for city license to save us from arrest, costs, and detention. Our first business is to make ourselves solid with the police officials. We invariably give from three to five tickets away to them. That is a great protection. We operate on the outskirts of the crowd, awav from the spotters of the show. We do most of our business in the afternoon, and eet awav from the town as soon as nossible ami i ntn the next Sometimes, when we have a good stock of tickets on hand, we open an indciwindcnt oirice on a store box. awav from the tents, and do a big trade." Successful Prophecy. Bv far the most arm rat a psltmat f future population ever made in this coun try, or any other, was made by a man named atson in 1815. As his predictions were published that year there can be no doubt of the penninenpsa of h? "niMuw " He predicted that the population is 18S0 n-niiM kn U! AJ lW III 1 made in 1815, and here is the striking manner in which successive censuses have shown .. v.. IV m, axis uiuuunTiKi wtn their accuracy: Watson's Census of PredicUons. that vear. 1S20.. . 9,625,000 9.G23.000 1) 12 833,000 12,W4,0O0 140 ...................17,166,000 17,059,000 1H50 .............-..-il, 1 S5.000 23. M ,000 1300 31.753,000 31.-tl3.0U0 As General Walker savs in sneakin? of this matter, it almost staggers credulity. "That man. a mere human heirn" nur General Walker, "should be able to predict nity years in aavance me number of lnhabiiiuj vi aisivaij givinnig UU T Tl 1 Uli 11 a fraction of 1 per cent, seems wonderful ala. al l t t r . . most Deyona oeiiei. iiaa tne war not inter-, vened it is believed that Watson's predic-l tions would have held pood in 1870. and also in 1880. But in 1870 he was ahead of the census nearly 4,000,000, and ii 1SS0 nearly 5,000,000. The losses of the war, direct and contingent, we can never know, but Watson's figures, almost absolutely accurate up to the war period, would show it to affct 11 tVi A nrvaonf. vmf trt rho Ttnt rt nearly 5,000,000. That is, had there been no vi ai, iii yx vii w iiruiaLiiri vi tue uuutu id rw Ahnnt .wononno v ttnn predicted that the oormlation in 1000 would 1 An mn mvi K.. rn li not believe it will be over 80,000,000. The "erasshopper bulletin" is fast taking rank with the stock and market reports in importance to the Pacific Coast. Indications at present favor the ranchmen. Black spiders, which prey upon the 'hoppers, have made their appearance in great numbers. and are described by an imaginative Nevada 'oumalist as sitting crosslegged under every lade of grass, patiently waiting for the grasshopper eges to hatch, when they make short work of the newly-fledged 'hoppers. Rescued From Death. . William J. CouKhlln, of Somervtlle, Mass., says: In the fall of 176 1 was taken with bleed intr of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the Hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. I got a bottle, when, to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better than for three years past. "I write this hoping everyone afflicted with diseased lungs will take Dr. Wm. Uall's Balsam, and be convinced that consumption can be cured. I can positively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness." How to Secure Health It Is strange anyone will suffer from derangements, brought on by Impure blood, when Scovill's Sarsaparilla and tstillingia, or Blood and Liver Svrup, will restore health to the physical organization. It is a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and the best blood purifier ever discovered, curing scrofula, syphilitic disorders, weakness of the kidneys, erysipelas, malaria, nervous disorders, debility, bilious complaints and diseasea of the blood, liver, kidneys, stomach, skin, etc Henry's Caroolie Salve is the best salve for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all kinds of skin eruptions, freckles and pimples. Get Ilenry's Carbolic Salve, as all others are counterfeit. Price. 25 cents. Dr. Green's Oxygenated Bitters Is the best remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria, Indigestion and diseases of the blood, kidnevs. liver, skin, etc Durno'i Catarrh Pjiuff cures all affections of the mucous membrane of the head and throat. Dr. Mott's Liver Fills are the best cathartic rec-ulators. Baker's Pain Panacea cures palu in man and beast. Dr. Roger's Worm 8yrup Instantly destroys worms.

HEALTH IS WEALTH Health of Body Is Wealth of Mind '

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Dyspepsia, Kidney and Bladder Diseases, Chronic Rheumatism and out. Consumption Gravel and Calculous Deposits, and varieties of the above oomplaiau to which aometlmea are given specious name. We assert that there is no known remedy that posejes the curadve power over theae diseases that Radway's Resolvent furnishes. It cures step by step, surely, from tbe foundation, and restores the Injured parts to their sound condition. The wastes of the body are stopped and healthy blood Is supplied to tae system, from which new material is formed. This is the first corrective power of Radwty'g Resolvent -,,IJLthw,t wh? V? taking these medicines for the cure of chronic. Scrofulous or Syphilitic diseases, however slow may be the cure, ''feel betteTand end their reneral health imrtr,. ki v ,.? " . ( lu ' J1S. IUIU UCBU and weight increasing, or even keeping lu own. 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