Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1885 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1885.

THE HOME.

It J net (kitted that nen hire ft bonna ii (bat yiaee where each ore established ki hearth and tie um of hw pose-sion aid (ronn, whence be will cot depart it nothiar ea.ll hiia .way ; fcence if he Us departed he swns to be a wicilfrfr, and if be returns he ceases to winder. Coudition from Civil Law. "Then stay at some, my Heart, aad rest, Tift bird is safest in the re?t; -r all that flatter their winr aad fly, Uwk is borering in the aXy."1 Longfellow YOUNG FOLKS. The Poll Photograph. tVe wanted the little lad's picture; But wb he tame to sit Id front 4" the artist's camera He wafraid of it. And. quite unlike himself, he cried, Would be coaxed or pacified; s for that day We pave it up, and came away. And, after that, if mention Was made of his rituHopraph, l'jon that dimpled face the look i'f terror made us lauch. 'Twas plain we must contrive some plan To cheat our timid little man; So joim one said : "But Harry the doll w not afraid ! "Sixspcse. if von dox"tlike"it, Yeurself, we have him stand, And you need only to -sit by Aiid hold his little hand." This pleased hi in verr much Indeed, I ttar little man. and he agreed; And not one "word Uf further doubt or ear was heard. L-olly behaved so nicely, Quite a a doll should do, Xo trouble anywhere this time; And here they ere. the two. And this was the little lad's report M heii we got bom: "We had such sporJ! They took iny Coll, JFut 1 don't think! gjt '.ooken at all!" Clara Doty i"?:es, iu Wide Awake Trades for American Roys. IFrcm 4,Rcady for Business," by George J. Jfa.iison, in St. Nrrfoolas, for August. The trades in our country, of late yetrs, Lave been almost ized bv foreigner-. Themerican boy, however, when le does take a trade, goes Mrai.ght on to the tex f the ladder. It seems as if our boys vrculd "rather be fourth-rate lawyers, or physicjacs, than tarn their living by working with, tbeir hands. Only the oi her day I read in a J-'ew Tori newspaper of -a young lawyer in a distant city, whom I kiewsonie yearn ago Then 1 resided in that section of the country, .-ho literally starved to death, lie made scarcely any money, was too proud to tell his w ant, lived as long as he could on crackers and water, and was found-one day in his office, Jcad Jrom lack of nourishment. He should sever have entered the legal profession, for he had notability in that d' rectum. Asa farneror mechanic he niisht have lived a long, useful, and successful life. jo boy, of coupe, should enter a trade nless he feels himself fitted for it; but, on thoother hand, he should not. it see "Kg to .me, let the false pride against manual labr, which now prevaik to such a wide extern in our country, prevent him from endeavoring to-do better orky-ith his hands than in hie inmost thoughts If knows that he can do xvilli his Lead. The Spanrow in America. Youth's Companion, "hirp! chirp! iiirp! Twitter! twitterI ki-.ru p. ' KamiliL&r sound jure tliee, as they herjld the lfirst streaks of early morning light. S-nd3 -atlly ruied for twelve successive law-jM ujwrtj the Atlantic, where the first ocuid of tin? moriiiig and the last sound at liijrL-t-wa f le eeaele-s stream of the nortliwind tl -rough xlie rigging. Fur .a few moments after waking" for tl'O 1". rst time 4n American soil, I fancied myself t hitue aain. with the sparrows chirping 2iil twittering under my window. thi isoiiyr into tl street, there was the 1-piirrow j-ust a I luid left it in Kngland, but if such a tiling te jnible, just a tritle more an-h-notus and W'lf-aertinr, and evidently master of the situutiou in America, just as he is in Kngland. Jn the struggle for existence, t.'ie pigeon, though so much larger a bird. has no chance against the sparrow. 1 saw one of tUee little marauders drive away a pigeon which had just settled itself to fsl, and help himself to the banquet a rooly as if it belonged to him. During a visit to the navy yard, at Charlestown, Mans., I was much struck with the number of sjmrrows that pwarmed all over the place, and was told that they had succeeded in ejifting the native birds, and establishing themselves in their place. Indced, my guide expressed his opinion that if the American eagle were to settle in Itoston i-onimon, the ij.ajTow.s would drive him out. They would certainly try, and very probahly would meceed. t 'j.inions vary gr atly in Kngland respecting the valuenf the sparrow, seen from an agricultural joint of view. In many respects he is an intolerable nuisance, lie builds his m-t in all sort? of places. He has not the least idea of economy in nest-making, but stuffs any amount of leave?, hay, wood, string, rags, etc., into any nook that iii3y take his fancy. Ivy, when well-grown, is always tilled with sparrow nests, but in cities his favorite sjot is the water jipe or gutter on the housaroofs, k) as to choke them when the rain falls. We are obliged to protect the upper ojenings of these p'.jes with wire cages, and even though this precation be taken, a wise householder will hare bis roof jipes and gutters carefully examined as soon as the leaves are oft' the trees. In the autumn the sparrow tnrns his attention to the jeas, and devour? tnem with exasperating adroitness, splitting the jod from end to end with a single stroke of his bill, and eating the contents with an appetite which seems jerfectly insatiable. Wheat also contributes largely to the sparrow's nourishment, of which we had rather an amusing jroof near Lordon. Two or three years ago there was a great harvest festival a sort of Thanksgiving in the Crystal Palace In the centre of the building was a huge pile of vegetable jroducts. It was some forty or rit'tv feet in height, and on the summit was a gigantic wheat-sheaf. Now, within the Crystal Palace there is a large colony of sjiarrows. They have taken possession of the vast building, and nothing sex ms able to evict them, except the total destruction of the building, which is to them an enorm us cage, feneration after generation of sparrows has been hatched in the Palace, and though a few eeae through a door or wiudow, and a few enter in the same way, the majority of them have never leen in the open air. TLey congregate round all the refreshment jda es, and will pick upcrumlnalmost under the visitors' feet. They can distinguish between the resident season-ticket holders, who never take their meals in the Palace, and those who come on a visit. The former may walk about where they like, and the sparrows take no notice of them. But no sooner do visitor make their way towards the refreshment?, than the sparrows follow them, perch on the trees or girders, and are ready for any fragment that may fall. Those who knew the ways of the Crystal .Palace sparrow were much amused at his proceedings during the erection of the food-trophy. The birds -deserted the refreshment-stalls and concentrated all their attention to the trophy. They sat in long rows on the neighboring girders, and bided their time. The trop by was at length completed, and the workmen removed the scaffolding. The last man had scarcely gone twenty yards, when the sparrows swept down upon the trophy and literally covered the eheaf with their bodies, and when they returned to their usual jrc hes, there was not a grain of corn left. If the grass of a lawn be worn away by tennis players, and the owner tries to renew it with grass-seed, the sparrows seem to know all about it, and as soon as he has M attered the seed, the birds are busy picking it up. Here is the case against the fparrow, as it is so strong a case that farmers used to pay boys for breaking the eggs and tearing down the r.tsts, and "sparrow-clubs" were formed Scr tLe destruction of the birds themselves, a

certain snm being paM for a dozen rparrowheads. Thdre is, however, another side to the question. It is perfectly tnie that the parrow, when adult, does a certain amount of tawage by his prain-eating proclivities. But, during the earlier jortion of his life, his beak is soft, and lie must be fed with soft food, just as tbe young of the higher animals are nourished with food not only soft but liquid. Its food consists of various grubs and caterpillars, and it is a well-knowa fact that a single pair of sparrows will destroy more than four thousand caterpillars very week, during the period when the young birds cenpy the west. By degrees, the agricultural mind, which is roTerbially slow in accepting ideas, began to realize that in proportion -as the sparrows timinished, the gm os increased, and in seme jdaces tbefarmers were obliged to bring sparrows to their grounds. In France, where Tvery small bird was ruthlessly killed, it was found necessary to import a freh stock as the grubs ad caterpillars at wry green thingthatgrenv:. I have seen in summer long avenues of trees on which there was not.a leaf. When I first came to live in the country, and was quite Ignorant of gardening, I fell into a controversy with a neighbor resisting the mall birds and thir uses, lie was an enthusiastic gardner, a man of leisure and me.ans, who spared neither thm; nor money in the pursuit of his hobby. lie esjecially prided J imself on the devices by which he protected his jdants and fruits from birds. Argument was useJefs, and so I j-rojosed thai we should sow the same amount of the same kind of pea or the same day, he rotecting them from the birds and I letting them alone. The result was, t hat, despite my ignorance and his experience heliad to sow his peas three times, and then had a very ixr crop; while those on my ground produced a bountiful supply of jiltimpand well-rlavored peas. 'ow, I find that tharc is much dissatisfaction -expressed in this country about the s5parov. lie isaccc-sed for not doing that which he cannot uo, and I cannot but wonder at the simplicity f those who brought him to America, and expected him to jerform in a strange country a task which he neve'' undertakes in hV? own. Kabbits nvght as well have been im (tort ed for the purpose of .kilkiig rats, and thm blamed because they fed on vegetables and aot on rats. Theonly bird that te n eat the canker-worm (orgyia antiiua), with its hevaux de frie of lrickly and irritatinghairs, is the European cuckoo, which could not live in New England. The only Kunean bird that could lx of the least service would be the blue titmouse (parus cu ruleusj. It is a very little bird. -scarcely more than half the size f a sparrow. " It is equally hardy, aud equally fearless f man, unlike the American t hi kades, which keep. themselves aloof fom man. It will build its nest iu all kinds of jdaoes. I have seen a living inir that made their nest in an old shoe. The linder took thr shoe home with him. and the courageous thirds stuck to their nest, becmrning so tame that they would take food fnwi the captor's hand. Ue was in the habit of carrying the s!ne about foriexhihition, an the titmice took their journeys as a matter of course. J Juive seen the home of a blue titmouse in the wall of a railway station, where the engines j-ased continually within a few inches ot the nest. These tiny birds are mighty hunters of insects and insect eggs, and but for them we in Kngland could hardly hope to preserve a fruit-tree from the devastationsof t lie cankerworm. The caterpillar itself is too much for tlifm. but the' traverse thv? trunks and branches of trees in search of eggs, hanging with heads or hacks downward. H.-cking away vigorously as they run along. They are a match for the sparrow himself, and if the forks of tree branches were fitted with empty cocoanut,having holes too small for the entrance of the sparrow, the titmouse would thrive freel-. Ave in Kngland lind them so valuable that we attract them to our grounds by hanging nets tilled with lard, or fat of any kind, to the branches. The nets are su-j-ended at the ends of strings several feet in length, and no other bird can ding to the net ami eat while it is swinging in the wind. As for the sparrow, whether for good or evil. I think for good, he is hv j and extirpation is imjiossible. Jle cannot perform the expected task, but that is no fault of his. Iut I am sure that ho must in this country do as good service in the spring as he does in Kngland, and that if his destruction were jossible, it would be impolitic. IIk.v. J. W. Woo r.

BEATING THE GAMBLER. The Gam That Was IM red Between an Innocent Mn from Indiano anl the Kins of MiosUsippi Kiver tiamblers A Very l-ively Career. Majsvillc, Ky., hettcr.l Old Benedict Kirk, the king of Mississippi river gamblers, was bom here and received his first lessons in cold decking and strijiju'ng at the quaint old town of Washington, which is four miles south of here, on the Lexington pike. In those days Washington and Circleville, Ohio, were the chief commercial towns of the new West. Cincinnati was only a straggling village and Chicago a pioneer camp. Washington was the seat of Mason county, and during court term there was gathered there all the leading planters, lawyers, merchants and sporting men of the Blue Grass country. Young Kirk had a talent for cards, and before he was seventeen years of age he had no equal about Washington. He sighed for other worlds to conquer, visited Circleville and went as far up the river as Pittsburg. His methods tilled his wallet, and he determined ujon an exfnsive trip South. From that hour his fame was assurred, and hi, fortune fluctuated from extreme riches to opulent riches. He won at the card table thousands of dollars, but a sjeedily lost his easily acquired riches trying to beat faro. When the IJlue Lick Springs became the summer resort of the wealthy "Southerners, Benedict mingled with them freely, laughed at their jokes, listened to their stories and won their money. His career was a most eventful one and he died poor. Uneof his favorite pastimes was to "down" a fellow-gambler, usually by combining hint to fleece an outsider and then giving away the game. Once he found himself in Louisville, after a protracted siege at faro, w ithout a dollar. He became disgusted w ith the Falls City and boarded a down-river steamer. It touched at some little town on the Indiana shore, and a genuine jayhawker a1ut emigrating to Kansas came abroad. He displayed plenty of money, and Benedict selected him as a victim. He formed the fellow's acquaintance, and the jayhawker was delighted with his new-made friend. It happened that there was another gambler aboard the boat and he, too, cast envious eyes upon the Indianian. He knew Benedict Kirk, and watching his opportunity called the great gambler aside. JJenedict," he said, pointing to the Indianian, "your friend seems to have plenty of money." 'About $5,O00," answered Kirk. "Why don't you get it?" I would, but 1 lo-st my last dollar at faro in Louisville." "I'm pretty well fixed," cried the gambW, eacerly, displaying a large roll of bills and a aack of coin. "Yon play and I'll stake you." "Agreed!" said JJenedict. "(Jive me one hundred to start the game." The gambler placed in his hands the reqnired sum and Kirk rejoined the Indianian. When they were alone he leaned forward and said: "My friend, you are an innocent, goodhearted fellow ami I like you. Can you play poker f' "A little." "Well, supj-ose we play a game. I am Benedict Kirk, and that fellow forward there," nodding toward the other gambler, "wants me to fleece you. He isgoing to furnish the money, and after we have been I 'laying awhile I will deal you four kings, discard the useless card and draw another. Then bet every dollar that you have, and I'll see you with money that I'll borrow from my friend up forward. You'll Winand we'll divide up." TLe Indianian had heard of Benedict Kirk

and he agreed to po in the game. The gambler who had staked Kirk sauntered Tip to the table where they were playing, as though out of idle curiosity, and stood so that he could see Benedict's hand. For a half hour the fa moved slowly, the bets being small, Finally Benedict dealt, and when he raised his hand the gambler saw that it contained four aces. The Indianian made good his ante and called for one card. Benedict drew one. Then they began to bet, eautkmsly at first. Finally, when it was Benedict's turn to bet, he hesitated and said: "I've go( a hand here that I would back with a million if I had it- I hat to call you, but I'm afraid I shall have to." This was the gambler's cue and he was quick to take it up. "I'll loan you any sum to back that hand, my friend," he said, and laid a roll of notes beside Kirk. . The betting proceeded and finally when nearly every dollar of the gambler's money was on the tabic Kirk called the Indianian's hand. "Four kingsf1 cried tlie jayhawker, spreading out his hand and reaching for the pot. "Hold on there!" interposed the gambler who had been backing Kirk. "This hand beats yours. Four -aces!" Kirk turned r.p his cards, but to the surprise and disgust of the ganrblcr there were three aces, a live and a seven f-pot. "Confound tle luck!" crie4 Kirk, in well simulated asVishnient, "I discarded the wrong card." The gambler not daring to accuse Kirk of double dealing, but confident that he had been made th victim of tie of the great gambler's shrewd tricks, turned on his heel with an oath tnd retired to his state-room. The Indianian gathered up Iiis winnings. "Now com the funny part of the story," said Kirk, who told me this incident himself several years ao. "When I got an opportunity to sec ny jayhawkeririend alone and asked him for any share of the winnings he laughed at me. "I won theoney, and it's mine." he said,, "but as you arre broke I don't mind giving you back $100." I saw it wa no use arguing the question writh the couttryman, and I took his $100. I never saw him afterwards, but he was tieonly man thct ever got the best of me at y own game. I left the boat at Memphis, made a stake, continued on down to Yicfcslxirg, and throe days after my arrival there iiai won a cool H0,000 in cash and forty head of negroes and a good plantation. That was my last visit to Yicksbuig. A committee -of citizens waited on me and gave me three iwurs to leave town. "(Jcntlemen," I said, bowing politely, "you are too magnanimous. I require only three minutes "and jumping into a littl pirogue that was lied to the levee, I tossed the owner a $20 gold piece and paddled foi tle other sjde of the river. KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers are Invited to furnish original enigmas, charades, riddles, rebuses and othi-r "knotty problems," addressing all communications relative to this department to . B. Chadboura, Lewiston, Maine. No. 1287. A Mythological Hero. As I once weut to hunt lu the forest wide, I met a young lady I couldn't abide: Jly bridle she caught, aixl so smiling, aud sighing. . She toltt inc. that all for ray love she was d rinse. flie bothered nie so, and lie bothered me so! I told her to leave me. I wanted to go. I cared not a straw for her beautiful face: My heart, I assured her, wa all in the chase, tiie saw not the pleasure of hunting the boar: The creature would kill me, she vowed and sha w ore. And indeed she was right, as there's no use denying. He killed me, and she fell to sobbing and crying. To a purplish flower she turned me. Young men, My example will show, and I'll tell you again, The ladios are witty, the latlie are wise, As wise as they are'pretty, ust take their advice. And turn not away with an insolent pride, I roin even the girls whom you can not abide. Jok Amor v. No. 1288. A Common Creature, In almost every house I'm seen No wonder, then, I'm common: I'm neither man, nor maid, nor child. Nr j et a roarried'omuu. I am penniless and poor as Job ; -' Yet, such my jride by natura, I always wear a kingly robe, Thimgh a dependent creature. L. A. HOOAK. No. 128'J What a in I I am found anywhere on the surfa?e of the earth. I am of the greatest value and again I am tramjded on as of no earthly use. 1 am within the reach of all, and yet great prices are paid for me. I am large, small, round, square, smooth and rough. I am also hard, soft and brittle. What am I? Clara II. No. 1290. A Charade. (Jrcen the fields in A ready! fool the breezes blowing! Underneath the tall fringe-tree. Where the cows were lowing. , Where the goats were browsing by. There a riesT was lying; Buxom laughter on the air, Down the glen was flying. At the feet f Chloe fair, Damon was reclining, All upon her nut-brown hair Was the sunlight shining. 0, it was the golden last, Youth and love together, Rural glee, end sport and ai.u And most celestial weather! J OK AMORT. No. 1291. Decapitation. A word I am of letters five, "Pleasing to the eye," you do from me derive; If I lH'headed am, a verb I be, hkh meaus"to be informed," as all may see. CiF.KTRl 1E A. MaHOKSKY. No. 1292. A Numerical Kmlgma. A 1, 2,13, 4. 5, , 7 having made his "1, 2, 3, 4" in one winter, and feeling that he was 1,2, 3, 4, 5 with the world, disposed of all his old 2, 3, 4, 5, (J, 7, and devoted the summer to sjort. He went fishing in a 2, 3, 4, and caught an 3, 4, 5, G, 7, and then ahot an 3, 4, 5, C, 7, colored 3,"4, 5. 0, 7 that was riving over. i'i. BfcRs. No. 1203. An Enigma. My First is tne first of the great bunch of keys That open the doors of the great Sciences; My Second the second in order they call; My Third. it Is nothing, just nothing at all; My Fourth, as a number, amounts to but five: My sixth is a part of all beings alive; My Whole, ('tis a fact that 1 state, you must know.) Is never around ns, and never below us. Joe amobt. No. 1294. Anagramettea. I. The "Tor,' 8hbink" Is what they use To keep our shoes from being loose. II. "Tem ukk rats" you snrcly can find, In a lovely wood without bothering your mind. Claba . For August Solving. The reader furnishing the best lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" of August will receive "Gailliver'i Travels," nicely J rinted and handsomely bound in cloth, lach week's solutions should be forwarded within six days after the date of the Sentinel containing the puzzels answered. The Award For July. The prize offered for the best lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" of July, is won by K. A. McLeod, 327 Park are., Indianapolis. This list was closely followed by that, of Gertrude A. Mahorney, Irvington; while the list of Clara P. Heitkam, Arkansas City, Kans., came third. All others fell below 70 per cent, in rank. Answers. 1272. A yard. 1273. The letter 0. 1274. Herring. 1275. A miss. 1270. Reviver. 1277. Centum. 1278. 1. fctereoscope. 2. Dynamite. 3. Tomatoes. 1279. 1. Tennv-royal. 2. Dande (yVlion. 1 3. Bone-set. 4. Bachelor's button.

SONGS AND AUTHORS. Popukr Ditties That Have Gained Wcrld-Wide Fame,

Tne Pm and Melodie thatt Bav Xivel and Survived From Among; the Mass of Rhymes and the Jingle of Many Tub. f N. Y. Star.l fc-'leaking of "John Brown's Body," the tune itself is an eld Methodist campmeeting tunc, and the words were adapted to it by a glee club of Boston in ISol. It was first pubblished at Charlestown, Mass. Captain James Greenleaf, an organist of the Harvard Church set the notes for the uusie, and a Massachusetts regiment made them first noted by ringing Ihera in Fort Warren, in The author of "Maryland, My Maryland," lives at Washington, and you may see him in the press galleries of Congress almost any day during the session. He writes gossippy letters to the Atlanta Chronicle. His name is James K. Ban dal 1, and lie is a modest-look-ing, dark-complexioned man of forty. He must have been very young when he wrote that beautiful poem. His ideas are broader now, and he is as liberal in views as any member of the gallery. "America" was written by the Rev. Samuel Francis Smith in 1N32, and it was first sung in Boston on the Fourth of July ot that year. Like the "Battle Hymn of the Kejmblic," it was inspired by a great tune, viz: "Ood Save the King." This tune is in use in nearly every country, and it has been ascribed to Handel. The writer of tha words still lives in Massachusetts, and says he wrote the song at a sitting. He is now seventy-five years old and he graduated at Harvard in the same class with Oliver Wendell Holmes. John Howard Payne's "Home, Sweet Home" was written for an opera, and he never got anything for it but a tombstone in Oak Hill cemetery. It was first sung in the Convent Garden theatre in London, and made a big hit. One hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and by the end of the second its publisher cleared $10,O00 from it. Hoben Treat Paine wrote, "Ye Sons of Columbia," early in 1800 under the title of "Adam and Liberty." and he was paid $".X for it. Paine was the son of one of the singers of the Declaration of Independence. He was christened Tom Paine, but on account of his dislike to Tom Paine's infidel tendencies he had the Massachusetts legislature change his ntme and give him what he ealled a Christian one. He was a Massachusetts man, and he died in Boston in 1811. Foster got $1.",000 for writing "Oik Folks at Home." Charles Dibdin netted several wccks' board for writing "Poor Jack," w hile his ublishers made !?2..000 out of it. Crouch, the writer of "Kathleen Mavournecn," received $2" for the jroduction, and afterwards became a begging tramp, while his publishers could have built a brownStone front out of its sales. George P. Morris wrote "Woodman. Spare That Tree," because a purchaser of a friend's estate wanted to cut down a tree that his grandfather had planted. His friend paid the purchaser $10 to spare it. Morris was touched by the story and wrote the song. "Hail Columbia" was written by Joseph Hopkinson, in the summer of 17!)s, and it was first called the "President's March." It was sung when Washington came into the theatre, and one of the objects of its writing was the cultivation of a patriotic sjiirit among the people of the Republic. Joseph Hopkinson was '2i years old when he wrote it. An autograjdi cojv, jenned in 182$, was shown at the Centennial. It was li ret set to music by a German music teacher, at Philadelphia, named Koth. "The Star Spangled Banner" was written by Francis Scott Key. while watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry. He was in a small vessel among the British ships1, and he saw his countrymen win the victory. All through the fight he watched anxiously to sec if the flag was still standing, looking for it at night by the flash of the bombshells, and anxiously waiting for the dawn. The song was jirinted in the Baltimore American, eight days after the luittle, under the title of "The Hefense of Fort McHenry." Many jxople will be surprised to know that "S'ankee Doodl-" is not of American origin. Kven the words date back beyond the days of tjueen Anne, and the tune is still older. In the wars of the Roundheads, says Commodore Irebel, in his book on the Hag of the United States, to which by the way 1 am indebted for much of this information. "Yankee Doodle?" or "Nankee Doodle," was applied in derision to Cromwell, and Professor Rimbault, a prominent jdiysician of London, wrote the song directed at Cromwell under this title. The jingle of these two songs is about the same, and the words are not much different. Dr. Schuckburg first introduced the song into this country in 177ö, and this was also in contemjt of the ragged Colonial soldiers. At Concord and Lexington the British, when advancing to fight, bravely jdayed "God Save the King," and after they were defeated the Yankees, as they watched their retreat, struck uji, "Yankee Doodle." Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," was written by Thomas A. Becket, an English actor, who in 178U was a teacher of music in Philadelphia. "The Blue and the Grey" was written by Francis Miles Finch and delivered liefore a reunion of the army of the Potomac. It was drawn out by the fact that the women of Columbus, Miss., strewed Mowers on the graves of Confederate and Union Soldiers alike. It was published in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 18;7. Joseph 1 Jod man Drake wrote the "American Flag" when he was 23 years old, in 1819. It was written quickly, and its author was not satisfied with the last verse. He showed the poem to Vitz Green Halleck, saying: "Fitz can't you suggest a better stanza?" Halleck sat down and wrote the four concluding lines, and drake ineorjorated them in his poem. Drake died at the age of 25. Iiis last joem was "The American Flag." He did not think much of his poems, and when, on his death-bed, a friend askefl him what should be done with them, he said: "Oh, burn them; they are quite valueless." "Sheridan's Ride" was written by Mr. Buchanan Read. James K. Murdock, the actor and reader, claims to have incited it. He was reading in Tike's opera house, Cincinnati, shortly after Sheridan had made his famous ride, and he asked Read to write him a oem describing it. Kead did so, and the result was the greatest effort of his life. Women In rersia. (Ex-Miniater 8. W. Benjamin. There are no unmarried women in Persia except dissolute women. Every girl is betrothed before she is 10 years of age. A lovematch is something almost out of the question. Marriages are arranged by third persons, although sometimes the young man may see the bride before the wedding, but that is rare. He first sees her face after the ceremony, and if he doesn't like her he ran reject her. Girls go unveiled until about 10 years of age. Thev receive no education except in needle-work and embroidery. They know nothing except of what is going on immediately around them; but Mrs. Benjamin, who has had unusually favorable opportunities of meeting them, says that they are clever and jdquant. Like the Persian men, they are generally handsome. I have been able to observe this for myself when veils fell off in the street, and by seeing the peasant women, who wear no veils. My wife tells me that their figures are very good. The children are handsome, with warm, brown skins and dark hair. Divorces are exceedingly common. It is very easy to be divorced. It is only necessary to write out a paper stating the reasons, and the thing is done, or to say to the woman

three successive times: "I divorce you," but the husband must have a pretext for his action, however flimsy. A man sometimes divorces all three wifesand beginsover again. The women have rarely any difficulty in securing new husbands. It is no disgrace to be divorced. There is an extrordinaxy law about marriage outside of the ordinary ceremony, which permits a man and a woman to marry for any specified length of time, from five minutes up to sixty years. The eo-.iplc go before a priest and state the time settled on, and the man then pays an agreed sum to the woman. If he leaves her at the end of the fixed time she cannot marry again for four months, and any child born is the legitimate offspring of the man, and he cares for it. Many women of rank prefer this kind of marriage, making the term fifty or sixty years long, as by doing so they secure their jointure lieforehnad, and the husband cannot divorce them until the time is expired. The Beginning of the End. Detroit Journal. This forty-days' order is only the beginning of the President's struggle with the big land thieves. It is a struggle which will be watched with anxious interest, for he will find, beore he gets through with these cattle barons, that he has engaged in a warfare so arduous as to daunt even the most honest and determined of men. More power to his arm! Lots of Books. Louisville Times. What with the Blaine book, the Grant book, and the coming Tilden and John A. Logan books, the poor man who wishes to keej uj with the jxditical and military processions finds his jiurse depleted and his Hour barrel empty.

A Himl Sight Statesman. Omaha Herald. We consider John Sherman one of the very ablest after-thought statesman in this or any other country. Hay Fever. I recommend to those suffering with Hay Fever, Ely's Cream linlm. I have tried nearly all the remedies, anü give this a decided preference. It has given me immediate relief. O. T. Stephens, Hardware Merchant, Ithica, X. Y. Blew Hi Head Off. (i rifun, (ia.. August 15. When Jefferson, Whaley, colored, returned from church to-nignt, he sat on the bed by the open window. Suddenly a shot gun whs poked through the window, fired and blew Whaley's head ort". John llerry. colored, was arrested for tne crime an hour "later, llerry has a wife w ith whom Whaley was too familiar. Nervous Debilitated Men, You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of the use of Dr. Dye's Celebrated Voltaic jßelt, with Electric Suspensory Appliances, for the speedy relief and permanent cure of Nervous Debihtv, loss of itality and Manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also, for many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred. Illustrated phamphlet, with full information, terms, etc.. mailed free by addressing Voltaic Belt Company, Marshall, Mich. Know thyself, by reading the "Science of Life," the best medical work ever published, for young and middle-aged men. FITS All Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first dav's use. Mar velous cures. Treatise and SJ trial bottle free to Fit cases. K'nd to Dr. Kline, sl Arth fctreet, Phil adclphia, Pa. Rheumatism Quickly Cnred. There never has been a medicine for rhenma tlsm introduced In this State that has given such universal satisfaction as Durang's Rheumatic, Remedy. It Hands out alone as the oue great remedy that actually cures this dread disease. It is taken internally, and never has and never can fail to cure the worst case in the shortest time. It has the indorsement and recommendation of man? leading physicians in this State and elsewhere, ft Is eolu by every druggist at fl. Write for free forty-page phamlet to R. K. HLPHXäTDi'E, Druggist, W a&hington. D. C. 3 3 y& a on v 'kW U W A. OC BITTERS CURES AacisrAsuonBi LIVER KIDNEYS STOMACH AND BOWELS. ALL DRUGGISTS rRicclcomuL DyPPi General Delilltj Javudiee, Habitual Coaatlpatloa Liver Complaint, Sick Headaoh,Siaaed Kid neya, Etc., Etc. Iteontalat only the Purest Dragi, among which maybe enumerated FIICZLT 1E3 BASS AJQ BX2XIZ3, XimiXX, 8?:S7, CZTCA, Its. It cleanse; the ayetem thoroughly, and ai PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD Is TJneqnalecL, It U not an intoxicating beverage, nor cat It be used as auch, b7 reason of iu Cathartlt PropertlM. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO. Sole Proprietors, ST. LOUIS "AND KANSAS CITY William F. Heinrichs, Attorney for Plaintiff. SriERIFF'9 SALE By virtue of 1 certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of tne Superior Court of Marion County. Indiana, in a cause wherein Horace H. Fletcher is plaintiff, and Wesley Lynch et. al. are defendants, (case No. 31.6oj. requiring me to make the sum of oue hundred dollars (t 100) with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public bale, to the highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, THE 5th PAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D., Between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. ni., of mid day, at the door of the Courthouse Ol Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding gvcn years, of the following real estate, to-wit: lxt number thirteen (12) in Mock sixteen (Ißt in May wood, a suburb to the city of Indianapolis, being a part of section twenty (20), township fifteen (15) north, range three (3) e ist, all in Marion County, Indiana. If such renu and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to utifify Mid decree, Interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as mar be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. GEOKGE 11. CARTER. Kherif of Marion County. August 10, A. D., 1883. Hood EtQSforp KlXKDT Fax. A rietun of roothfa I imprad.E ' roathfal impradnoe tsasiDf Prämatur Decay. NarronsDsbiuty, Lot Manhood. Ae.,haiiia triad is vtin ever kaewa rtnwi Jim 4 iMonnd a iiir)mn.f If-mrat wbwb D will im'I r HKK to Uta lauow-aaarrara, 444tat, J.IUUi. a Yfc. 41 UUUiun tWi w Yet.

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GSSÜIiß Wnfaillng Rvs Specific OVfTDTflMfci Bitter of Ud tistt la aiouth ; OllilrlUl.lv! tonruc coated white ot ceverad iu kbfovi fur; p&)a m the oftck.SMiM. o. joints nCra mtstakcm for Rheumatism : mmmr mm I I W avseUtot motsetiaMs linn Ad nwbnki. ot indigestion: iatulcacy and acid eructations; bowete litrnutcljr costir and last hdafcet loss of memory, wua a painful seaMtion of hiving aile1 to de tomrtkmg which eurht to taw bcea doc ; Wfcltltr I lowapwits; athKk.yallvw appeftiancc at the skin and eyes ; dry cough ; tot ; restleuMss; ih urine is scanty and bigfeielored, and, if allowed lo stand, deposits a tsdiment. a SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR m It ffTvsrally used in the South to arouse the Torpid Liver to a healthy action. Being entirely vegetable, no particular care is required while sing this medicine. The Regulator acts without disturbance to the system, diet or occupation. It re gala tea the Liver, and Nature relieving herself, causes the bile to act as the purge. The excess of bile being removed, a tonio effect is produced, and health is perfectly restored. Zt Begzlates the Ecwels til Eezicres CCHSTIPATICIT. It la ft CISTAni CTCE FC2 DYSPEPSIA. The Regulator contains no quinine, mineral. Or anything that will injure the most delicate patient, and is given with safety and the happiest results to the most delicate infant. For all diseases in which av laxative, alterative or purgative is needed it will give the most perfect Mhsfaction. The Cheapest, Purest and Beat Family Medicine in the World I f THERE IS BUT ONE SimiWOKS LIVER REGULATOR! See that you get the genuine, with the red Z oa front of Wrapper, prepared only by J. H. ZEILIN St CO., sols raorairroKS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ECZEMA ! For the benefit of suffering humanity, and in heartfelt gratitude at the wonderful result, I deem it only my duty to give this unsolicited testimony iu favor of Swift's Specific. My wife has been afflicted with hereditary cxzeina or Salt Rheum from her infancy. It has increased lu Intensity with each succeeding spring, and being somewhat skilled in medicine myself, I tried every remedy I conld think of for years Sarsaparilla combined with every form of Potasslje, pills of every Kind, and hundreds of other remedies, lotions and alkali washes of every known kind, but they all gave only temporary relief. During tke pring of l!vS4 her lower extremities became so inflamed and tore that the was obliged to keep them constantly coated w ith a covering of "Fuller's K-arth." mixed wet and allowed t dry on. Among other things, she was afflicted with a periodical nervous headache, occurring regularly every seveu days, sometimes followed by an intermittent fever for weeks at a time, to that her life became a burden to her. This spring I determined she Fhonld take S. S. S. and follow strictly directions in regard to dose, diet, etc. This was about seven weeks ago. Alter tsking the lirst large bottle the disease M'cuied to increase: the burning, itching aud iutlumiuatiou becmne unltearable. she, however, jicrsevered in the use of the medicine. After taking the second liottle the inflammation begau to Mibside. Alter the third bottle the inflammation dimprieiired, and sore sjots dried np and turned white and scaly.and finally she brushed them ofl'in sn iuipitlpuhle white powder resembling pure salt. She is now taking the sixth bottle, three tablesjHxniful four times daily. Every apjicarance of tne disease hfls gone, and her flesh is becoming soft, white ami smooth again : aud what is more, her eriodieal headaches have disappeared and she Is now, at 5S years of n?c, enjoying the only good health he has known for upwards of 40 years. No wonder she declares with emphasis that every bottle of S. s. S. is worth a thousand tiiiH-x its weight in gold. Any further information concerning her ease will h- cheerfully given by herself at her residence, 135 Mullet l street, or bv me. JOHN F. BRADLEY, 44 Oriswold St. Detroit, M ich ., May 16, P5. Be sure to get the genuine, and send for Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases, free. For sale by all druggists. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. i:: W. 25d St., X. Y. William F. Heinrichs, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF! SALE By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk o"f the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in acauxe wherein Horace H. Fletcher Is plaintiff and Morgan P. Canipltell et ai. are defendants, oasc No. 3l.tl I), reouiring me to make the sum of nine hundred dollars .$,H)U), iu manner as provided for in Haid decree, with interest on said decree and costs, 1 will expose at public sale, to the hitfheht bidder, ou SATURDAY, THE 12th DAY OE SEPTEMBER, A. D. ISSj, betweeu the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court-house of Marion County, Indiana, the rents aud profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: Lets number twelve thirteen (13), fourteen (li-, fifteen (15), sixteeu (16) and seventeen (17). in bltck two (-) in Maywood, a suburb to the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, being a part of section twenty CIO), township fifteen (l) north, range three (3) cast, in Marion County, Indiana. If such rents ana profits w ill not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and cosls, I w ill, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge aid decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE n. CARTER. Sheriff of Marion county. August 10, A. D. 1SS5. T. I. Harrison, Atorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the clerk of the Huperior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein James C. Uavis is plaintiff, and Johu Shaw et al. are defendants (case No. 9.7J1), requiring me to make the sums of money In said decree provided, and in manner as provided for in said decree, with Interest on said decree ami costs. I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE !Hh DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. ISfei, between the hours ot 10 o'clock a. ra.and 4 o'clock p.m., of said day, at the door of the Court House of Marion Couuty, Indiana, the renta and profits for a term not exceeding seveu years, of the following real estate to-wit: Lots uumter 3 '&, Vt and 4, in John H. Master's subdivision of blocks 51. Si 53, 54, 5-i and 56, in Temple C. Harrison's addition to the city of Indianapolis, in the County of Marion, iu the State ot Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient a,um to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public Kale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge Mill decree, interest and eosut. Haid sale will be made without any rejtef whatever from valuation or arrrab-cment laws. or 1 -.-.iiuc GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. August 10, A. D. 1SS5. Notice of Appointment of Trustee in Assignment. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned haa been appointed and qualified as Trustee In Assign ment of the property, rights, credits and effects of Charles Krcftlein, of Indianapolis, Marion County, State of Indiana. PHILIP M. GAPO. August 8, 1S85. :STERß!lQ0 GTCCE por:o UrJo!., 048,130,135,333,1; Fcx Colo by all Qtatlcscra. f3 C3TCXSKOC2 OTCSl PSS C3b.

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Sctjjta A Jokes, Attorneys fox PlalntifT. SHERIFFS SALE. Bv virtue of an exee-ition td tne directed from, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County. Indian. I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, TILE 5th DAY OF SEPTEMBER. A. D. 1SS5. Detween the hours of 10 o'clock a. ns. and 4 o'clock: p. m. of said day, at the door of the Court House of Marion County, Indiana, the renu and prof.! for a term not exceeding seven years of the following real estate, to-wit: Lots ninety-four (W and ninety-five (9") in Albert Crane's subdivision of the southwest part of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five S5), In township sixteen (10) north of ran (re three (S) east, in the city of Indianapolis, according to plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 2, p?e P, ia the Recorder's office of Marion County, Indiana. Also, lot number one hundred aud seventy-one (171), in J. W. Murphy's southeast addition to the City of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Also, the following tract or parcel of land, to-wit: Beginning at the southeast cornerof the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight (28). in Tow nship seventeen (17) north of range two (2) east, tbenca running north along the east line of said quarter section fifty rods, more or less, to the southeastcorner of the land now owned by Nelson McCurdy, thence west on the south line of McCutdv's land thirty-one (SI) rods, more or less, to tha northeast corner of Mary J. McCorkle's lot, theueesouth three hundred and ten (310) feet, thence west one hundred and sixty-six (lfti) feet, thencoso'ith one hundred and twenty (1J0) feet, to the noith line of the lot conveyed with the mill to Franklin R. Coffin, thence east thirty-two (3J feet, to the northeast torner of said Coffin lot, thence south three hundred and seventy-seven (377) feet, to the south line of said quarter section, thence east forty (40) roos. more or less. u the place of beginning containing eleven (11) acres, more or less. And on failure to realize the full amount of judgment, interest and costs. I will, at the samo time and place, expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate. Taken as the property of the Indiana Foundry Company at the suit of Frank L. Ritzingef et al. Said sale to be made without anvrcliei whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. (Case No. 33,WJ.) tiEOKOE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. August 10, A. D. lssö.

Shxpard Si Martixdai.e, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S PALE. -By virtue of an execution to me directed from the cerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 5th DAY ol SEPTEMBER, A. D. lSS-j, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the door of the Court-house of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of tie following real estate, situate in Marion Couuty, Indians, to-wit: Part of the west half of the northwest quarter of section ten (10). ia township fifteen (15), north of range three (ö) east, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point ou the west line of siiid section ten (10) six chains and sixty-hundredth of a chain (j M0t south of the south line of the rbht of way of the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company, thence running south five i5) chainsalong said "section line, thence east, at rieht angles with said section liue, rive töt chain, thence north, parallel with said section line, five (it chains, thence west five (5) chains to the placo of bejrinniug containing two and fifty one hundredth (-J ."0-100) acres, more or loss. And on failure to realize the full amount of judgment, interest and costs, I will, at the same time aud place, expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate. Taken as the property of George Wenhorn and Anna Weghorn at the suit of lleurv Maar. Said sale to be made w ith relief from valaatioa or appraisement laws. (Case No. rrt.'iri.) tiEORGE H.CARTER. Sheriff of Marion County. August 10, A. D., 1SS5. Dixoss Root, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, ou SATURDAY, THE ;5th DAY OF SEPTEM E ER, A. D., 1&S5, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said da, at the door of the Court House of Marion County. Indiana, the reuts and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following reaLestate. to-wit: All that -ertain tract or parcel of land known and described a follows, to-wit: Lot number two buudrcd and forty-eiiht (21), in Fletcher, Stone, Witt, Taylor and I'loyt's subdivision of out-lots w, 97. and the south half of ill. in the City of Indianapolis. Marion County, Indiana. Also all that certain tract or parcel of IanI known aud described as lot number five ("), ia Wheatleyand McCord's subdivision ol lot $ i a Goldsbnry's u)division of out-lots 46 and 47, in, the City of Indianapolis. Marion C-ounty, Indiana. And on failure to realize the full amount ot jndRtneut, interest aud costs, 1 1 .11, at the same) time and place, expose at public sale the iv) simple of said real estate. Taken as the property of Flora Moore at the suit of Deloss Root, on his cross complaint said sale to be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement law. cse No. 03,571). GLOKGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. August 10, A. D. 18S5. VVm. F. Heinrk hs. Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFFS SALE By virtue or a ccrt'üed copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk ot the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein Horace H. Fletcher is plaintiff, and John W. Shearer et al. are defendants, (case No. 31,t'X.) requiring me to make the sums of seventy dollars (;70), with interest on said decree aud costs. I will expose at public sale, to the) highest bidder on SATURDAY, THE 5th DAY OF SEPTEM EER, A. D., ISJsj. between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., of saiol dav, at the door of the Court House of Marion County. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term. not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wii: Ixrt numler fifteen (1S in block five (5). in Maywood, a suburb to the City of Indianapolis, being a part of section twenty (.TO), township fifteen (I.'o. north, range three (3) east, in Marion County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and com, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE If. CARTER. Sheriff of Marion County. August 10, A. D.1885. William F. Heinrichs, Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFFS SALE By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein Horace H. Fletcher is plaintiff, aud John W. Shearer et al. are defendants, (case No. 31,610) requiring me to make the sum of one hundred dollars (S100), with interest on said deree and Costs, I will expose at public sale, to tbt h'ghest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 5th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. ltvSö. between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and fonr o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court House of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven ". ears, of the following real estate, situate iu Marion County and State of Indiana, to-wit: I)t numer twelve (12) In block uumiier sixteen (10) in Maywood, a suburb to the city of Indianapolis, being a part of section twenty (JO) ia townsnip fifteen (1") north, range three :) east. If sucn rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and eots. I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discnarge said decree, interest and costs, bald sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE n. CARTER, Sheriff of Marioa t'ountf. August 10, A. D. 1SS5. Dekst t Tobi.v, Attorney! for plaintiff. SHERIFF'8 SALE By virtue of an execntiou to me directed from the Clerk of the Marion IMrcuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 29th DAY OF ACGVST, A. D. 1M5, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of aald dav, at the door of the Court housa of Marion County, Indiana, the reuts and pro is for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: Lota numbered nineteen (19), twenty (20) and twentv-one ("21). in Martindale and fiUlu'a addition to the City of Indianapolis. Marion County, Indiana, as appears of record on Plat Book No. 8, on rage 38, in the Recorder's Office of Marion County. And on failure to realise the full amount of Judgment, interest and costs. I will, at the same time and place, expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate. ..-.J Taken as the property of James F. Phillips, at the suit of George W. Colclazler. Said sale to be made with relief. GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. August 3, A. D. 1S&5.