Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1882 — Page 6

THE 1KDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNEöW. JUNE 14, 1882.

rilEXTlCE'S OLD 1JOUSE.

AIVIaxiHioa Kouglit hy Blood Prolific of Misfortune. Hie Storj of the Great Editor's Sorrows and Remorse. CSloorr TloiKiaj' Scenea The Inside of the Kuoar-Nothiuj; TTork. ILooisvllle Coramercil.l 'It a strange house, sure enough, with its traditions and ita memories. I remem5ar when it was one of the finest places in town, a"td Mr. Ilenry Russell yesterday to a commercial reporter. Tbo place he alluded t- u tho old George D. Prentice house cnl!eno:th sido of Walnut street, just abow. Floyd, which had been cid by Marthai llaiiey a few days ago. The purchaser was3Ir. G.W. Conway, and the price he paid lor it w a i'J.öOO It is a houso with a history. There is net perhap in the whole city a place about which hangs more gruesome talcs. It stands tier netr the center of thia busy workaday city, and ha nothing in common with the dull, monotonous houses about it. For sixteen jear it shaped the destinies of George D. lrentiee. lie crossed it3 threshold young-, vicrcus, in the noonday cf his glory, and he left it shattered by disease and with hi? EpleuUld intellect t haken, after enduring all tho tortures of the damned. A strargo place it ia indeed. To explain the- influence of this most singular houao upon the life and thought Svnd actions of l'rc-ntica it will be necea?ary to r;o Lack a little beyond his, firtt entrance 'within its ili-omeoed walla. Ia the spring of there catno to Kentucky from the North a man who, though fifntiin A i'harminir ta.lke.r a. I.r111.i.nt writer, and a man of transcendent powers of wit and. humor. lie came 'to write the life of Henry CUy, who then ruled Kentucky S3 tba iiantagancta ruled England or the Boarbons France. Presented thus to Kentickiani, Irent:ca had httlo difficulty in gaining their ear. One bright September mArninir fi n f.tnnA htm. If in L.l"U V ill(V Soon afterwards he started the Journal, and driving every competition from the eld, ha soon ruled the literary world with all tho capricious tyranny and iron firmness vrith which his idol, Clay, ruled tho political world. It was THK ERA PERSONALITY, and over the ptrsonal writers of that day Prer.tice towered Lend and shoulders. Ho maa. knew better th in he how to give pi-int to a paragraph that would rankle for cars. Many and famous were his fights, bhadrach l'enn, the editor ef the Advertiser, opened . . f iL . 12 -.re on rrentice. Ji course ice ure was returned. Tho ficht which followed was the talk of the Nation. Never before or since was such brilliancy of wit, such well-rounded periods and stately sentence?, employed ii a newspaper quarrel. Prentice picr..i. f : th IT Yii r., i it irm Vi u U ftlof 'fl:'" :.non l'eaa, who was tee t.t-).& v. .; SoutC At inrili ' -in s ..n.Ueti L :n tea Jofei. Other lichte to.. v. c l. r ... .i:i 5 wu3 then in hid killed um oruer j 1 nit; t t , .v. .. . . . . 7 Ust ii kill Cay. Kvery : ;.i.u v., art .-i:n-c a politician; ana t v ... d f.. v pjlititiar.s J who hd not killed ta ;.r man and v;ho were ; wiUine to kill rother. No abuse was wj o "4 fur aa enem) ; no fl&ttery too ross tor a iV d. prentice entered into the very epirit of the time. IIU paper soon became ftii-powrful in Kentucky. It made and ur.n.aio Gjverncrs and Congres'naen Iiis wit twrn d like a hit .roc, and he was not m an caaiua -s aa vuv w v aa J stiVjt-ctB he was no less a master. It was the Elizabethan period of American Htarature. Foe hd jmt published "The Eaven." His short U: were the talk of the country. Uaatborae was sending out his quaint remi ances, and was the idol of the cultured rfaw. Liongfellow ws achieving a European reputation by his poems. Dozens ot others "wrv natnee are now household words were ritln into nolo. . Prentice became the center for a'd the literary talent of the South. The columns of hia paper overflowed with poetry, gwid, bid, and indifferent. Soma of the beät articles in his paper were written by rsiesar younp men, glad to have a noi from the famous editor. Thia Prentice previous to that everliemorible year of lt-36, when he entered the door of that house across who? e threshed was tfie trail -of the serpent. Up to this Line he was temperate and happy. Years before he hid married a brilliant woman, a Mis Benham, daughter of Jcsph S. Qciham, a prominent lawyer of this city. Thev Jived together very happily, and two eons, Clarence and Courtland, had come to seal their union. From the day he TCXTERED ITS ACCURSED WALLS m:ry marked him for her own. The way he became possessed of the house was too -Dgular to be parsed over hastily. It may in some means account for that continuous stream of ill-fortune which ever afterward . followed him. In the spring of 18-i a crowd of dissolute young college boys at Nashville formed a secret society, whose object was the extinctioc tf the Koman Catholic and foreign inHaraca ia this country. A few designing poatlckuu in that city saw the influence of such quectioui over the minds of the ignoTaat and bigotted, and they determined to profit by them. The doctrine waa heralded abroad that America was for Americans; that the Catholics were engaged in secret . and treasonable plots; that the foreigners were ruling and ruining the land. The eSoci f thU was immediate and terriTbles. C3:r6 whole country became inflamed. It was like England during fmtflhe no-Popery riots of the eighteenth tsntury. A secret society was formed whoso aole obif'ct was tb destruction of the CftUu&e and Foreign infloence. Oath ä deep and blading were imposed. It was a party of piwcription. The man who did not belong to it was an euemv and was to be hunted down. The old "Whig party was juet allirjr to pieces, and it was glad to enter 'any party opposed to its old enemy, the Jackson Democracy. "While the excitement wa ereat all over the Union it waa intense in Kentucky. We can have no idea at this 3atodate cf the fanaticism preached and practiced. Know-Nothingism -was something; wore than a civil war; it was a f trug,g!o into which all the worst elements of polUli ca and religion entered. iMITIATKD A KKOW-JfOTHIXQ. Prentice soon Joined the society. "We initiated him into the order at the LI engine-boose near Shelby and Maine street, said Mr. F. Bairdone of the ablest leaders of Jthe party, to.tbe reporter, -"and I remember well tbo nignt be was callsd epen to fpeak, but La was no speaker

lie told thetn ho approved the order, and

would pour forth his feelings in the Journal." Did many othors join?" "All the wealth and talent in the city were in it. I remember we inducted Mr. W. N. Ilaldeman, now proprietor of the CourierJournal. But ho wanted it done very secretly and quietly, and no fuss was made about. There were eight lodge in tho city and all of them were well attended.' Prentice did not forget his promise. Day after day he thundered forth his denunciation of the foreigners. Article after article incendiary and bitter, served but aa fresh fu 1 to the fire. The excitement became greater and groAter. Inta the remotest parts of the Stato the inflammatory articles of Prentice had penetrated, and every where they had aroused tho people to the highest pi'ch. The summer of 1855 came and the KnowNothings nominated Charles Moorhead for Governor. In tho Louiäville di.-trict they put up Ilumphrey Marshall, whom th3 Democrats opposed by General William Preston. This district became the centre ot all observation. Hero vas the citadel of the order. Prectice'a all powerful pen had beaten down all oppotition. IIa was the life and soul of tho party. Aa tho race drew near ita close all men saw that blood must mark ita termination. Each day little blood-red paper hearts were scattered broad-cast over the street?. A Know-Nothing was bound to pick them up. If they had a pin hole in the center he waa called to tho fouze, if not they were thrown around merely to intimidate the enemy. Tho never-to be-forgotten r.th day of August dawned bright and clear. Long before da3-ligh the polls were crowded with Know-Nothiog. All their plans had been-perfected. They were armed to the teetb. and were prepared for the worst. Before 7 o'clock blood was flawing all over the city. At first tho Irish, Germans and Catho'iis were only jo-t'ed. Then they were kn-cked down, and finally the confusion ended in a riot. Tne scenes which followed were awful. Gangs of men with blooiy thirls patrolled the greets. Ilere and there an Irishman or a German darted out of an ally way or yrd aud the tierce mob howled after him. If ha was caught be was imme diately strung up to the neareüt lamppost and his body riddled with bullets. The storm that tho loaders had aroused was now beyond all human control. Strange faces were teen at tho polls, and the more ignorant of the foreigners, in accenta of horror, whL-pered that they were lost spiriU. All the slums and alloya of the city were emptied. The country round about sent m its quota of human butchers. Robert Baird and Prentiea and pome of the other leaders did wht they could to top tbe butchery. 13ut the mob wad now beyond all ontrol. As night approached they bocama wilder. A tine YOUNG KELL0W NAMED GRAHAM, a Know-Nothing, was shot whila passing Eleventh and Main. This aroused the moo to madness. A thousand infuriated men with wild facoa and blood-stained garments were toon turinn about "Quin'a itow," a crowd of tenament houses filled with Irish -r. the northeast corner of Elevauth and Main. There were about forty wretcaed enm, women and children within the doomtd buildings. For an instant the great crowd hoMiated, then the torches were applied in twenty places. The miserable creatures within, suffecated by smoke and scorched by flam-, sought ta rush out through doors and windows. But a dozn burly ruffians ttocd at every avenue of f ecape to shoot them and push them back into the flames. Old Frank (Juin, with his flowing gray hair und his kind old face, was thrown back into the riames with a bullet in hiä breast. The dying shrioks of women and children :ng out loud above the roar of the flames. 5'to seen a waa awful. The msa moo without; the burning human beings within. It woul i require a volume to tell all tbe incidents of that day. No calculation can be made of the murdered. Sixteen charred bodies were found under the rains ot "Qiin's Row.'' Nearly a score were found hanging to the lump posts with the gas-light making fan. tastic figures on their dead faces. Hundreds were wounded, rrontice, one of the kindesthttrted men ia tho world, never forgot tho day, and never forgot that he did more than anv other man living to provoke it. The news went abroad, and it was whispered ia the quiet old villages cf the Fath erland and mu; mured among the lakes of kularney, that a frightful massacre had occurred to their countrymen in the far-away m jsterioua America, and for years afterward while every other town along the Ohio prospered Louisville was avoided like a pestilence. And even to thw day many a kind old Irishman and many a thrifty old German will gather his awe-struck little ones about his kneos and, while the fire roars within and the storm rages without the curtained windows, he will tell them of his escapes during that dreadful day and still more areaatul night or " liloody JMonday.'! A HOUSE BOUGHT "WITH BLOOD. The Know-Nothings determined to reward Prentice for hia great services. IIo was Dot wealthy and his family was expen sive. On the north side of Walnut street, just above iova, was a Bquare, old two story brick house, built by Jake Smith, father of JN icholas Smith, who married Mr, Greeley's daughter. From him Kice Ballard had bought the house, and now ths Know-Nothings determined to buy it and present it to Mr. Prentice. ''We did it because it was a recognition of his ability ,v said Mr. Kusaell, one of the leaders of the old party. They paid $35.000 for the house, und one gloomy day m September, George D. Prentice and hU family entered tho ill-fated house, and from that day to his death misfortune followed him. Many and vague were the rumors that were floating about in regard to the old house. The Khow-Ni things elected their men, and none of the other party would pass the house without a shudder. Ever devout Catholic crossed himself vhen he paasod the house, "given Prentice forkilling our countrymen," as they murmured hardly above their breath. All of them regarded it as & heritage of blood, every Etone and brick cemented with human lives. .And they said that in the still, dead hours of tho night they could see him walking-about with the voices of the burned victims of 'Quin'a Itow" riß ging in his ears. THK BEGINIKG OF TROUBLE. Up to this time Prentice s success had been uninterrupted. Now, however, the tide began to turn. The 'influence of the house began to be felt. First came family, troubles. Then he began to grow mere and mora intemperate. lie became careless in his dress, careless in hia manners, and careless about everyhitng he said or did, Paul It. Shipman, keen-witted, satirical, who made every word hewwrote cut like a Damascus blade, went tof he house of gloom to live, but was soon orced to leave it. Prentice became more and more unhappy thore. One can easily detect in his poetry of this period something of the gloom which he seem to live and breathe in. IIo seemed to hate to enter tho house, and almost any night the old n an might be seen with his neglected dress, and haggard face, and highstrained, piping voice, entertaining a crowd over the table with his inirr.itaolo stories. As an example how the spirit of the place tinged all writing at this time, the follow

ing extract from hia '-Flight of Years,w will

ba sufficient : Where now it croud ambition T He who madlT erasned at dory's fleetlne phantom, And made bis throne a pyramid of bones amid a ea of bioou lie too. is rone: his mizhtv voice is mate: Ills very name is but a meteor In the flight of years. When the War came he suffered another paäg. His eldest son, Courtland, the joy and pride of his old age, a brilliant, promising young man, enlisted in the Confederate army. Confederate sentiment was rite in his family. IIa himself stuck to the Union with passionate fidelity. A WIFE W0BTH HAVING. "He met me one day just at the beginning of the War," said Mr. Robert Baird, ;and asked me to go over to Walkera lo take a drink, as he Lad something cf importance to tell me. I went over with him and he said: 'A few days ago I was waited upon by a Committee of Confederates who made a preposition to give me $250,000 for myself and my paper. The proposition staggered me; startled me. I told them to wait and I would consider it. I went home to my wife and told her. She listened to me in silence. 'It means much to us. I said, 'it means rest and afUaencethe remainder of our days; with $250.000 we can go abroad and enjoy life. I shall never forget her j reply. She sprang into the middle of the room, clenched her hands till the fingernails drew blood, and with the look of a Pytnone3s hissed out: 'Stick to your paper; stick to vour principles; btick to your country; don't let it go abroad that all the wealth tri tbe Indies could move George D. Prentice a hair s breadth.' 'I never before,' continued Mr. Prentice to me, 'felt so proud of my wife. To-day I told the Committee I could not agree to the bargain.'" One day the news reached the darkened home that Courtland, their pride, was dead killed by a Northern ball. It was but an other link in chain of destiny. Clarence, ft o younger son, sickened of the house and all about it, gathered a little money and left for Europe. He was hia father's son witty, accomplished, eloquent. During his abfence Prentice sougtt to change the place by extensive remodeling. Another atory was added to it. Ar immense addi tion was put up in the rear. Ells were thrown out. He bought a library and sought solace in books. One morning Clarence knocked at the door and intro duced A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN by his side to the family as his wife, lie had gone abroad, and at one of the springs in Germany had married her. She was of noble family the daughter of a German Prince and a womnr. of singular ability and beauty. From tho time she entered the house tne tliecortl and the strango mis for tunes which now seemed to follow the do med man continued. A scandal, the true secret which never has leaked out, arose. Tbe result of it waa that Clarence agreed to give up his beautiful German Princess, and old maa Prentice toDk her to New York and6aw her safely on her way to he r frienda. Then ''disaster followed fast and followed faster.' A peculiar disease, which baflkd the best medical talent of the Und, afllicted Prentice. His hnnd became useless; he could not handle his pen. II 'a eon Ciaronce became intemperate. ihe old man became a little more than a com mon drunkard. The intellect that had dazzled the whole N ation seemed fast going to pieces. His clothes were as seedy as those of a tramp. lie wrote little for his paper. A new generation, having nothing in common with the generation fast passing away, was growing up. All his old friends wore dying away. Iiis serves were shattered, and he might be seen any day lounging around tho newspaper offices, the merest wreck of his former self. Then his wife died and another link was added. He now feared to enter the forbidding old house, with its rambling rooms and evil memories. It seeemed to him to bo conscious of hia inmost thoughts, and to watch over him with a sullen malevolence, lie rrmained there less and less. In 1803 he said, "I am growing old. Pain an sickness, and trouble and sorrow have laid their corroding fingers upon my brow." THE DEATH OF TBENTICE. Another year and he waa on hia death-bed, co. in the old house for fear that he would die there, but down on his farm a few miles below the river. There, one stormy night, while the wateis of the Ohio, were raging around tba house and all natura seemed to sympathize with the rreat man's taking off he went to his fathers. A few yeara latter Clarence was thrown from hiä buggy and killed, and to-day a son of Clarence, by his German Princess wife, i3 th. only living creature that bears the name of Prentice. About 11 o'clock the night before last a Commercial reporter stood before the gate cf the historic old house. All about it wore young and gaudier houses. But there it stood in the pale moonlight a most singular and terrible looting bouse. Opening the gate and going back over the mosa grown pavement to the end, and trying a door which opened readily, the reporter stood at the foot of a long winding staircase. This led to the upper part of the rear of tbe house. Going up tho staircase and each instant expecting to see some sheeted fantcm of the buried past rise up at the intruding footstep, he walked on, entering room aftor room. A heavy atmosphere seemed to hang about the whole place. ' Stern, deep, irredeemable gloom hung over and prevaded evervtbing within those fatal walls. Shadlowy super stition made every gleam of moonlight that lay upon the floor or hung about the walls a spirit of the patt. Every creaking door and banging shutter caused a shudder. The very physique of the house caused ita peculiar gleom. The rambling rooms, the winding stairs, the general air of desolation and desertion all went to mako it up. It would be an extraordinary house even without its history. Darknesss seems to be in it an in herent positive quality, and it pours fourth a radiation of unceasine eloom. The va cant, eyeless windows, the bleak walla caused an lciness, a sickening ot tne heart aitogetn er inexplicable. Why these baro bricks and morter should call up such feelings is most si ran are a mvstery all insoluble. It is a mansion of gloom, and the forms and faces of its dead inmates . seem to be contin ually stalking about in a mournful and eter nal procession. After going through room after room the reporter CAME TO THE LIDRABY, where Prentice used to elt when nothing else could soothe him. A fine, large room it was, but cobwebs hung from the ceiling, and the moonlight plaved fantastic tricks wi.h the black walls. Then going back out on the porch he stood where Prrntice waa seen so often pacing up and down, after roaming through the yard and . the chambers cf tbe house with hurried, unequal, objectless steps, as though eaten up by remorse. Into an other chamber the reporter entered, and found Courtland'a name cut on the window pane. The next room waa where tbe old man did most of the writing he did at home. Here it waa he wrote many of those editorials that caused the burning of Quin's row Here were composed those brilliant little epigrams that trained him such fame. When the reporter left and took a last look at the house it seemed to be surrounded like Poe's "House of Usher,' wlh an atmosphere pe culiar to itself. "About the whole mansion. ays Poe, "there hung an atmosphere which

had no affinity with the air of heaven, but

which had reeked up from the decayed trees, ana uie gray wan, ana tho silent tarn pestilei.t and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, and faintly discernable:' . THE HOUSE'S DESTINT. Ever since Prentice's death tbe house has borne an ill-name. Nearly a dozen times has it been bought and sold in as many years; and evil fortune has secerned to follow all who dwf It there. The last owner was Mr. James Bradley. His brother Tom died there. A boarder named Dr. Alexander Perrv committed suicide, and Mr. Hradlov lost his mind and broke op in business. Mr. Jerry Mcntz, who lived there a few years, had his wile to sicken and himself and child to be brought near to death. Another sign of for sale now flaps ia front of the house, and soon, perhap, strange faces, with no knowledge of its hutorv, will enter ita gloomy walls. A most mysterious and mel ancholy place it is, and once entered is never to be torgolten UNI I KTJ STATES SUPREME COURT. A Look at the Kin Men who Compose the Court of Last Resort. II. J. Ramsdei: In Philadelphia Press-l I dropped in on ihe Supreme Court a day or two ago. What a jolly old setl lhere was tbe Chief Justice, With iron gray hair, thick and tun, and whiskers just bet same, a big rose and a big mouth, wrapped n his black silk eown. but look in cr verv ittle like a Chief Justice. But be attends to n:s business, leaves politic! to the dogs, and is respected by his associates. On his ;ht, oldest m commission ot any on the bench, is Justice Miller, round and fat and sixty-four, a little bald, and closely-shaven face. On the bench ho is aa cross. as a hatchet, for he hates circumlocution and shams (and half the bar is made of them); but off the bench he is as jolly and kind and gentle as any man you ever saw. lie has een regarded for tea years, the ablest man on the bench. The last three appointments on the bench may change thi, but I doubt It. Cn the Chief Justice's left ia J us fee Field, appointed as a Republican, but now a pesky old Democrat. He ia tall, baldheaded, spectacled, luh-bearced, with a Jewish cast of countenance. Smart he is, too, as all the Fields are. He writes strong opinions, and i3 popular. He is a most entertaining companion, and a great traveler and acholar. Drink? Yes, once in a while. Miller and Field, rc?pectfully, are tho two old st Judges in commission on the bench. Justice Bradley ia the next ia point of rank a thin, reund, closely-shaven, graykaired, scholary, judicially-looking old gentleman, who doesn't seem to have much to say to anyone. Justico Harlan, fourth in rank (excepting, of course, the Chief Jus tice;, ia a specimen Kentuckian a giant in hia way. ig Dour, big neaa, ig nanc3, Dig leet, long legs, long headed without a doubt. arms, and long lie is at least six feet six inches in height He rents a furhed house for a f. iend of mine, and my friend had to have made, especially for the great Kentuckian, a nine-foot bedstoad, with mattresses, blankets, sheets, etc , to corres pond, and also for tbe eon of the judge, who is as tall. Judgo Harlan waa a strong acquisition to the bench, end is popular on the bench and off. Chew tobacco, did you say 7 well, I should think so, and ho Jknows a giais of Bourbon when he tastes it. There is not much known of Justice Woods. lie is a grizzly, slouching man, whose personal bearing aud appearance are not at all strik ing, lie is a judge by appointment, but doesn't loek like one. Justice Stanley Matthews ia built on a big model, physically and mentally. As an intellectual force he scarcely has a superior on the bench. He is quiet in bis intercourse, and does not seem to care to extend hia acquaintance. Justice Gray is a tall, white-haired, peppery oid bachelor, who snaps up everybody and had rather quairel than win a cause. When he first came on the bench here he was nearly killed with heavy eating and drinking, but that time ia over. As the old judges are very tenacious of the rights of seniors, he is not likely to be popular. Justice Blatchford, the last appointment, looks like your own George V. Childs, and is, therefore, clean, genial, aflable, well -dresed, and kindlv natured else looks do not count. Chief Justice Waite lives in a handsome house on Rhode bland avenue; Judge Mil ler owns a house on Massachusetts avenue; Judge Field has a large, well-built house on Capitol Hill a present from hia brother Cyrus a portion of what was once known aa the capital prison. In this building Clay presided three terms as speaker of the house; in front of it J a rocs Monroe and John Quincy Adama were inaugurated president. John C. Calhoun died in it. Judge Bradley owns and occupies the house on I street which was given to General Grant, and from which he waä first inaugurated. Gen eral Sherman then became the owner, and from him Judge Bradley purchased it. Judge Harlan lives in a costly rented house; Judge Woods boards on G street; Judge Matthews is building a very imposing and costly mansion on Connecticut avenue, op posite the British legation; Judge Gray boards at AVcrmley's; and Judge Blatchford has just purchased a $50,000 house on K. street. The mutations of time effect even the Supreme Court, for of the bench twenty years ago not a single judge remains all dead. Onlv two judges of the bench of twelve yeara ago remain namely: Miller and Field all the others aro dead except Davis, now in tho senate, and Swayne. re tired. A Word to Mothers. I Woman's Journal. Lot mothers train their daughters to be more helpful and self-reliant, and to expect that some cf the burdens of life will fail to them as well as to their more robust brothers. Give them some other aim in life than marriage. Marriage is woman's true destiny if it its conditions are conducive to happiness, but the statistics of marriages and divorces will convince the most earnest advocate of matrimony that there ! something wrong. .o ... ... Let mothers consider weil u tne lauii be not, in part, theirs. Our girls are reared too daintily. They are shielded too much from tbe roughness of every-day life, uatil there springs up a feelmg of helplessness and distrust of themselves. Then they rush reck lessly into marriage, with an over-confidence in man s ability to gam wealth and honor, aod to smooth for them tbe rugged path of life. As each year brings failures and dis appointments which blight the heart that expected all sunshine, the frail spirit droops beneath the weight of sorrow, and the di vorce court ia sought for relief. Blessed is woman in the love and protec tion that surround her in her home; but who can tell when she may be called to the front to battle for the means of- life, and to take her place side by side with the workers of the world? Fortunate is she whom early training and education have fitted to bear the burdens commonly allotted to man; fortunate if there be no shrinking of delicate .. T m hands from honest ton, no straying oi aain tv feet into raths of sin. For woman to be the clinging vine, looking to man for love and protection, cultivating only such quail ties of womanly grace and aentleneBS aa wil win man's love, may be all very fine in theory, but it sometimes fails miserably in fact. VTe too often see the clinging vine thrust ff to meet the atorms alone, and wo men have to face the world with the added

burden of husband 'and children to be battled for. They are expected to do man's work without the training or education that ia given to man. ' Wiser and Better. J. Elizabeth Jones In Boston Herald.'

Ideas of usefulness, of moral obligation, and capability have, taken hold of woman s her era has been enlarged. Any observer may see this if he will. The greater intel ligence in higher aims makes her a better wife, more capable of appreciating the character of a worthy companion thus tenanting the spiritual alliance. She is a better mother, improving her table and nursery as she acquires knowledge; and a better moral moral teacher cf the children committed to her care. What but the greater freedom and culture of woman baa refined the home of lite years, to that not only material bnt spiritual needs are supplied? Ideas of beauty, comfort and repose have filtered through all grades of society, until the mistross of the humblest cottage strives to make that cottage home-like and picturesque; then we find food for the. mind, and the satisfying of the soul wherever we go. Domestic life is being made attractive, answering high and holy aspirations. Community ia improved, and men reap untold advantages. The Good Father ficda true witnesses in the true home, and the vice and deeradatioh of the world stand aoaehed. What but the wider ' place allowed to wo man has given so strong an impulse to the charities of the day, which bless millions of people? .Multitudes of girls have imbibed ed notions of self-support, and have thus relieved hard-wtrking fathers of a tax not easily borne. Families have been saved from bankruptcy and ruin by the business capacity of their women, or by the pro fessional ability of thfir daughters.- Thus is established a mutual dependence; the family are on a higher plane and have more true fellowship. Time would fail to enumerata the blessings that flow from the doc trine ot equality. The Teacher's Reward. f Woman at Werk. 1 In tbe morning there are rosy lips to be kissed, and "Thank you's" to be given for a ew fresh flowers, more for blfesoms crushed and wilted by the pressure of little wirm. bands,' flowers with not life sufficient to hold up thoir drooping heads and with no stems worth mentioning. In the evening there is a strueeie for a place next teacher, and pleadings that she Eromiso her arms for the morrow's walk ome. The boys, oh, the boys I They 'don't of ten think of flowers. They buv something for the teacher. They lay a stick of brown and yellow molas.-cs candy on the desk with an air of importance, or one of red and white peppermint big sticks, mind you and say, -That's for you." Or they sidle up, making vigorous exer tions to work something: out of a rocket. Finally a hard peach or a red apple makes its aDDearance. and thev ask. "Do vou want that?' They mean it for an effer and would nev er make another premutation if you were to say you did - not want it. Or they bring i'ou a flower design in candy, or a big heart, alsa in candy, generally dirty, and ornamented with photographs of fincerends; or they grow generous and give you marble, most frequently a four-timer, sometimes a preciouB thing that thoy call a "crishtal." Then there are delightful talks at recess when the boys tell teacher about ponies and pigeon-houses andtrades and billy-goats and sweet-hearts. And there are the games that never navo any tint of Quarrolmg or selnsnnes while teacher takes a hand. f Sjmpton Ob lie ZoIiachle. Texaa Shlitlngs.1 "Thirty days in solitary confinement was tho sentence pronounced against Jim Web ster by an'Auitin Judge. "lhirty aaysr" asked the man. "Thirty days,' was the response. ''Look heah, bos?, vou gib me thirty days las' winter for the same 'fense, when de ays was a heap shorter den dey is now Ain't you gwine ter allow de usual discount on account ob designs in do xodiakle? A look of intelligence appeared on the judicial face, and spread all over it. "I declare, I forgot the days were not always of the same length. I'll make it twenty days solitaryoonhnement instead of thirty." "loll me dat book laming don't do a niggah no good. I get cut ten days Eooner, all owing to my habin' studied up de symp toms ob de zodiackle," remarked Jim Web ster, aa the constable led him oil to Jail. The Starched Sleeve Oave Ii im Away. When an Oil Citv man went down to Pittsburg, and had so much "business with tbe boys" each night that he didn't unpack bia valise, be took precaution while coming borne to take hia new night shirt out of the bag and carefully rumple it up. He worked at it for half an hour, when it looked aa if he had slept in it every minute since be le:t home. Speaking of it to the boys afterwards, he said the scheme would have worked well enough, only when his wife camo to examine it she found the sleeves starched tightly together. Oil City Derrick. She Didn't riace Uer Words Rieht. At a drug store a young and sprightly Bchool-teacher laBt week hurriedly addressed the clerk: "I would like a sponge bath." Ah, oh. a will you please repeat; I did not quite understand?" stammered the clerk. 'I would like a good sponge bath," again exclaimed the customer, while u pair of sharp gray eyes, beaming with wonder and impatience, made him tremolo. The disconcerted clerk managed to ten his fait customer his inability to catch her meaning. "Well, I neverl If this nn't queer! i think I speak intelligent enough. I want you to give me a good sponge bath." At this moment the proprietor whispered: "She wants a bath sponge." Allt)fa6uddenth6young lady compre hended the trouble and fled from the store before the could be recognized by any one; but too latel A gentleman raised" his hat to her, passed in, and tbe story got out. From the II ub. There is perhaps no tonic offered to the people that possesses as much real intrinsic value as the Hop Bitters. Just at this season of the year, when the stomach needs au appeuzer, or the Diooa neeas puruying, me cheapest and best remedy is Hop Bitters. An ounce of prevention ia worth a pound of cure; don't wait until you are prostrated by a disease that may täte months ior you to recover in. Boston Globe. Everyone should try King'a Twenty-five-Cent Bitters. Sold by all druggists. Allen'a Brain Food' positively cures nerv ousness, nervous debility and all weakness of generative organs; $1; six for $5. All druggists. Send for circular to Allen'a Pharmacy. S15 First avenue. New York. Sold In Indianapolis by Browning & Sloan. Sometimes a little assistance at the right time will enable the system to throw off an attack which rnieht otherwise result in seri ous sickness. Ayer'a PlUa should always be kept at hand, and promntly taken for the relief of slight ailments before they become formidable diseases.

DR. CLARK

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Tysprpla, Zivef Diseaes,lever cf 7iiliousnessf Ifcirvoiia Icbilityt etc. Si: Best EEKSDY ENOOT to Han i 5GDO,OOG Bottle: This Sjriip pofisesses Varied Prtperties. It t!tF'at the TVyallne In the HalW tvutc-n (nnvrrti tUe Ktitrt-h nd Hiag-mr oftht looii lain iclnviMe. Jk. tlt-Urirnry In JPtjr&lln. i'iiiiM-. tYitil und Kourlnir of tbe ftMMl la tt I :mt'li. It the mrdiclne la taJien InrardV iiiclv nl'ter eMtluff the lertueutuUoa ef i'v4 1 iirvvcnlrit It n-t upon tbe I.Itp. It url upim the Kidneys. it Ksr-il:ite the liowi-1. It 1'nrifiea th Hlooil. It Oulrt the Nfirwin Sj-tei It l.-n - ltarrttn. It url t'-.niet !trmfhB und IiiTlzara .ii . . . i r i . . . . It ourii tke iMtrea of the aklu uad Inb i iiir vriu ui.wu iinu miiar. a litulikjr JeraU-Miloa. Tt neutralize th hr1itrr taint, or pnivra ie li'iN.rt, which pnarrates Scrofnla. Eryaipt'iaa, ao u..i-mer of skin dianas and internal hnniore. Thr r iio tipiriUi tniloyei in itu manufactcr. at. it i-a;i b taken by th moT dlicat br.bt.or by tar ce.l anil luebie, cur o!g Lcinj rcyuirtU ut at.nuttm Hanks. Station, Laporte County, lad I tried Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Sttui for Pain in the Back, and Neuralgia, and It at forded me Instant relief. I regard it as a T&luabl reiaed. JOSEPH FICZL. EzxBax Stoks, Adama County, led I wm troubled a preat deal with Dyspepsia untt I ttel Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian BIckxI gyrap which relieved me. JOHN Fort Waynz, Allen County, Ind . A fr.lr Mai ot Dr. Clark Johrsson'a lad Ian Blooc Syrup cured me of Scrofula, when all other med iclncs failed. I have also found it a valuabi remedy for Kidney diseae. HENEY KLEIN Mil .T ,7TH Hi55i Station, Laporte County, Ind. I used Ur. Clk Johnson's Indian Blood Syrni for Dropsical Affection, and it efl'ectnally relieve? me, a. r "Uktch. Watekvillk. Le Sueur County, Minn. My wife waa troubled with Dyapepsla and otboi Irregularities for some time, but the use of Dr Clara Johnaon'a Indian Blood 8 rrup relieved hei K. ROBINS. Agents wanted for the t sie of the Indian Blood Syrup In every town or village In which I ha no Agent. Particulars given on application. DRUGGISTS SEU tt Laboratory 77 West 3d St.. Rcw Iork LIN'S H Acts by absorption through the nerve forces and the Circulation. The Only True Malarial Antidote. It i the only known remedy that positively expels every vestige of Malarial taint from the blood. It is a Positive Preventive and Care. Dr. Holman's Stomsoh and Liver Pad is a sovereign remedy for Chills and Fever, aud every other form of Malaria. All Stomach and Liver Troubles, Nervous and Sick Headacbes, Chronic Diarrhea, Children's Diseases, and many of the Complaints Peculiar to Females. If you wish special Instructions and advice, you can receive same free of charge by addressing G. W. Ilolman, M. D. Full treatise sent free on application. For sale by firgt-clas druggists, or sent by mall, postpaid, on receipt of price. Regular" Pad. $2: KMney Pad, ?2; Lung Pad, fft Beware of Ilogus and Imitation Pads. Ask for l)r. Bolinan'a Take no otlier. F0LMAN PAD CO.. Box 2,112. 744 Broal way. New York. wan O F CAPCINE PLASTERS HAVE BEEN IMITATED, And their excellent reputation injured by worthless imitations. Tho Public are cautioned against buying Plasters having similar sounding names. See that the word C-A-P-C-I-N-E is correctly spelled. Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters Are tho only improvement ever made in Plasters. One is worth more than a dozen of any other kind. Will positively cure where other remedies will not even relieve. Prico 25,cents. Beware of cheap Plasters made with lead poisons. SEABURYA JOHNSON, Mannfactnring Chrmiftl. New York. J-TTtiTTli E.II E I) YA TI 1 sTT-IvTee S-Vts. MEAD'S Medicated CORN and BUNION PLASTER. THE Di5 HAAN h CO PATENT ALMIXM PMS, . IS DIFFERENT ETYL"ES, Tor8aleby

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H BALSAS! i us elrjpuit Cretan g is preferred by ihosa who have used it, to simü-ur article, on ai icosmt of its scperic . cleanliness and Purin lit contains marrnJ only that are benertcii to ths scab tad Lu andalvrars Rsstores tht Yostaful Ca!or to Crey or Faded Ra!r ' Parker's Hair Balsam is f nely perfuined and ia warranted to Tirerent fnlling ot the hair and to re- ' - - J : A i -. i ii . i im, a omen .a dram iu awdVin, PARKER'S Kl TONI A Sa73r!aJve flEsfth and Strtn5th Rerforer. If you ai oaJcharric or farmer, worn errt fch I Overwork, or a mother run Wn by family er koase aoi j cuues try i-akklu s .i.vct X oKrc. If you are a lawyer, r: irr or busines maa rr-hausted-by mental strair-erauxiau cares, do not talcs intoxicatUigsiiinu!ant3,lu-us Parker's Ginger Tonic IfrouhawCbnstirni.ti-.i .Dyspepsia, KheuK. km, Kidney Complaint.., utarydisordcrofthelunE stomach, towels, blooJ or Jyrres.pAKKeii's Ging Tome will cure you. 1 1 :s t &c G reatcst Llood Punfie Ar.d lie Ecst and Surest Cjcjii Cars Ever Iii J, Xf yoa at wasting away V-a sre. H lination or any diacwe or weakness end runäre a sä aoianttalceGinger Ionic at we; k w-umntrnrot ; and build p you opnwa the first dose !iit wiJ ccrcr intoxicate. K ltaa saved hundreds cf livesi it mar ave vours. t ' CACTIOX t-IWw ail nbnüMn.TMw'iGiiwfT Tonic la h eenpaardaf IW brttmnrial A-ntt ic thrwtaTnd Wint:r.!y jt iiSrmit fmn pffraioa of r?ii:crriii. Sra4 (or circular le k. liitcjx . C. X. T. &uc. i. i 1 t.xc-1, aC-tMUcn ta drui. I CHEAT SAVINO crfixc retLA SIZE. " ' Its rich and fcotin; tn rTir.ce ans mode this delightful perfume exceedingly praUar. There is nothing like it. Insi t-jnon Ki vuv.; ItcRES-j TOM Gouxjiaaatllo il: or ri0i;aturrj en "rr tottU. Aar dn.i : dül.r :ir r-fuai3 can arclT trv tS and "J --.: (w. Large SAViXo r; v:cj f ,-. sits. THE MILD POYER CURES. IfLHU&S PREYS' OMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS. In usa 30 yeara. Eacb number thn tplai ju-e-acrlptloa of aa emtaer.: physician. The-only Simple, lafe and bare Mou eines for tbe pnla IJST raisciTAi, Koa. clhes. . pici. 1. F-rera, Conpewtloo. Inaimatlona. .i5 ' 2. Worms, Worm l es-er. Worm I olio. .1 3. ( rying t'olic.or Tei'tning or Infam -. Diarrhea of .htldrvn or Adult .IS ft. Dy.entarv, Ortpuig. Bliltoua Colic... .35 . halr-ra Mortxi. Vomiting .JS 7. 'oush, Col'i, liruachitls -J H. !Veuralcli. Toothnche, raeeoche .2 9. Ileadarhei, Hok üeadaches. Vertigo .2 111. Ilyapepsia. ItlLlo'ia Momwh... 11. Kunpre r & or Haitrful Prtoda.. ,aS 12. 1.1. 11. 1 B. 1. 17. 1. 3!. hues, too ProCu i eriodv 2 5 Ooup, Cough, l);icult Xireathtnn 'ii Kilt Ithenm, KrvMl"la. KruptioBS, .2 Hheumittlarn. Rceumatte l'alna... . JiS Frter and Ainr, t'b!H, Ferer, Ague . Pile. Blind or i;!ciliifr.: 0 Catarrh, acute or chronic; Influetixa AU Vhooidno' Couch, violent co"Kh. .AO 2 I. (ien 27. Kidney Iie Ml 2. Nervous Debility I J 30. IMnary Weakne, YVertliiRthebed .Hi 32. !! of the Heart. Palpitation. UtP Soi l by druinrUu. or wnt by th l'a orrln pla Vial, fre of oharp, on receipt of price. Send for DrllumphreyVno'tkon lMaene Ve. (144patMl,Blo Illustrated Catalogue UU.K. Addr, Il'imnhrey ' llnmennath'e M eleime Co., 109 Fulf-n frirrrt. rw York. ernt Itebtr.ey. iayslcul v etnM..VI ON 30 DAYS' TRIAL! We will Send on 30 Pavs' Trial Dr. Dye's Electro-Voltaic Belts, Suspense rief, ai.d other Electric Appliance TO 11IN Buffering from Nervous Iebility, Iont Vitality, etc, spteaiiy restoring iieaitn ana .nanhood. Also for Rheumatism, Paraly!, Liver and Kidney Trouble, and many other diseases. llluwtra'ed pamphlet free. Address 1881. 1882. THE INDIANA ffiKLY mm ITasbcen enlarged and irnr-roved t.t!l it lsn the LAKC.KST ail. the Yi.LV ULs'x puper yx limned in th Wesi. THE WEEKLY SESTIM. W in all regards a scp riireipnt Ihiso atvcolunm :-;;i.t. The merits of the Sentinel us a penera! rten ranor aro fowell known; that crmneiirtatioi. it is deemed superfluo"-. xv. -rU nd.f: ha" that the raaiissomeui iii urrMiwI uj ii. determined thttuo j.htmt bii jnrnteh bo jie practical value to its p(Hi"is fur the money. lulu news, its editorials, it literary atil ml coliatiy in RV.-rd. ia its .-ftrn nraning it shsll not DCßnrp.is-H-a uyany i-aj-tr spuuiu a m w Stfcte. It will be narticv.: r :y auanti-u to tin Ii rail; circle. Noieadii'C, :h:-i jji'Eii-n in the 54i cän allord to do without i! - Wiekl7 iuul a tiiecmallcostatwhifn it is t::nush.-l. Tlio Kciitln! v-ili conti!! to te 11 rfl-nc earnest advocate of tine Atn-:rlen Pt-mfl racy in iha future tli.tt it r. r-eeu r'tr.ifS inaced.lt pr res. to 1 "til-- ri-.ro vicrousiy U ever naiu-t ti:0 pirv... ceM'ialLralh.'i slu-I CO ruitiiii. vast Hiui .'-j .ia.-ii contr ii II P.euliicnn ii'ty. v..t! )-i i'fir-, at in ',1 jiat, it -:.nJiit d' av-sj tha-i Wier rls loeNir.tio-t, theieby trrn uT.i tho-iü:e:e.-i u: wie it'-'i j. k in T'.iQino f ihe ii" "llokl I)VZ Pin !. oorH'ic i..illi uu-i lni.lt- tt." au i aseertalfly Uo-i itib'-s :tU;y vi.l tiuitiattly he -iJ Urn 'iiio UTuVipinTV,"t7 en TjtVTr.rrivele'f Its r.ifü.iiui'iiit-l iuiui pitj Cit:. tiair hli.-a-.nw.ut l:ie lann. j r x.ie:i i a.. p-sj otinions are norn;iei u i i1!"'! c-.-. : e.n'irin !. f.r l lundor iui l Irj;-ir.l wer. downward prioress, l.i.i t :'io !') -twn Grata thieves OlCinizea in fr.yMh? rnu runtion fund, to Gu::e;;:'3 tragedy, bus ba rn-irlt 1 by infamy at eve-rt0;. jv'-rii tric wncn Ir-lin K.ermsn I ii-; -; trw: 4 ciiicvs a -"TiiirloS lOSeniii.t c". '.i':es jim enhinuru twn ''ei ia rapid eiicccr-ii.... Ire Eo-wi-ti or iM every has llow.tl prn:idl. Tl.oj have been it-r KotitG thieves. Tref-nrv thietes. f"avv Uerftrune.it thieves. War L"v-rtnje!l tliieves and ccrvice thfeves. ond In-iiana ts b-r-D rsey. tho notorious Mar Kontethiel, anatn r.'Uiry of tho KepnbHcaii Kaii'uir.i Comtatltu ia tac State. oriu:izIr.ii oime t.eirry ttj Su r3Mlnst the wi.l of the p; e. Th-j Svntiricl w 1 ivitothepeoiOeof lii-ti a feu.tf -nplatellM Per.Liie:i! ni.th-OS li "ni:l a:-l jxiuais power. Jtwül keep its rc.'l-r ii.f..rBl tri ro.ird to Ilepublieiui f.L-'i f t rniis ii mr.tr iI.niilliriiftf(i'' lf It u :i th ir trrtmfiiatif and reenminationa, their nutnal luteH lt) culminated in the asses-iiifttiou .f t"ne Prewida thereby capping te cliu;x c noiroaaau i pleting the work of infsr.-.y. Yitl this reeori of erine. 1 KfTntJirTj - rks for a new lease of jhhw, ami t iil bol h !2h ambition or the sent in.-. oeiet :t pur I a:id emancipate tie country iroin ii itbaucii STfP. " . . Tho f-5oTillTlc-l, iniKiiitww to lt fmperiority, is, moreover, an luiiiat.a pav.r, "evotea 1 1 and fpcclally represents LuliasiJi's InttresUj political and therwise, a no fore it.er wil r can do, and ouijht, tl-re?or, to ave p-efer once over the-, paper of other Mai, and we a'l Tiemocrnts tabeur this ia raLrd.xA wlert Ül O'.VX STATE. fAPEK when, you ca.e to take U scriptious aid make up dubs. . TEr.r;r-v. Single Cpy, -vitl.CHtt Irmlii Clubs ot 11 for.... . . ia. Clnba vii S3 Clnba at 30 1AILY. 1 Copy One Year.... 1 Copy Six Months.. 1 Cpy Three. Months.. 1 Copy One Month.. ,.() C ... 5( . a: Sanday Sentinel by Mall.. 3l Acenta naklnz tip clubs send for tay infotl tlop. desired. Epeclmea copieafrea. Address, ÖDLWÄPOLIS SESTHEl C5 Indianapolis, Ind. &Hntl)n per day Vliome. Simple worth fotrv.. tfij ID vpZU Address Stiiison Jt Co., Portland, Ma,

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