Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1886 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JaNUAKY 27 isse.

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THE HOME.

Tt la tot onr,trd trtt iron rave ft tome in that Jlwe where nch one has estb;ibed nil b"rtu and tfce sum of bis ioe-iocs ar.d fortunes, wfcete re will not part if rvl;tg CAiis him away; whence If he has departed he --eenis to be naDderer, and if he retnrLs ic ceases to wander. C endiiicn from Civil Law. Then taytt home, my teart, and ret, The bird is ssicst in tLe nest; t all thai ti'.itter tneirwir.gs find fly, A Laws i hovering in tbe iky." Lc-Jgfcllow. TOCNfi FOLK!. Childhood' Dream. I lay in ber trund'e-bed, Xih r.T mi!! hands folded above tcr head, ud nxed her inn-K-eut eye oa lae. MiilC a thouslut'.it shadow came over their g'ce. "Mamma," Miil she "u I.eu I go to sleep, 1 prav to the lathe; my son! tu k'ep; A bd He t ernes aud carries it inr atay To te beautiful bnie where His angels stay, 1 father nh'v and lilies hue: 1 Mi:ici:li the angel tbrou;;h all the long niirht: Ar.d ffhi'li in the momin;; I wake from my sleep, l.'c tives hack the soul that Ixlve II im to keep, Aul 1 only reinem In ;, like beautiful dream. 1 Lc j-arl.iids of lilies, tr.e wouderful streams." yufr l-'ishe. IX'öpular r-'cieace Monthly. Strolling oi:e day in what fa euphemistically termed, in equatorial latitudes, "the cool of the evening." alon a tangled tropical American liell-iath, through a low rceion tii lagoons and water-courses, my attention LappeneJ to be utoinen'ariJy attracted from ti e monotonous pursuit of the nimble iiio-;-juito by a small animal cuttling alon irregularly lcfore me, as if in a great hurry to jrrt out of my way before I could turn him into an excellent specimen. At first sight I took the little hopier, in tbe grav dusk, for one of the common, small creen lizards, and wasn't much tlisKed to pay it any distinguished share eitle-r of personal or scientific Attention. But, as I walked on a little farther through the dense underbrush, more and inore ol thse shuttling and scurrying little creatures kept crossing the path, hastily, all in one direction, and all, as it were, in a formed body or marching phalanx. Iookinj; closer, to my jrreat surprise I found they were actually Jish out of water, going on a ft walking-tour, for change of air to a new residence genuine tish, a to i pie of incb.es K-r.g each, not eel-shapM or serpentine in tutlire, but closely resembling a mullet in nur.ature.thougb much more beautifully and delicately colored, and with tins and tails of the most orthodox piny and prickly descrintion. They were traveling across country in a bee-line, thousands of them together, not at all like the helple tish out of water of popular imagination, but as unconcernedly ar.il naturally as if they had been aocustjml to the overland route for their whole lifetimes, and were walkimj now on the king's highway without let or hindrance. i ! all land-frequenting fish, however, by far tue most famous is the so culled climbing j rrch of India, which not only walks bodily out of the water, but even climbs trees by means of secial spines, near the head and tail, so arranged as' to slice into the bark and enable it to wriggle its way awkwardly, something after the same fashion as the "looping'' of caterpillars. The tree-climber is a small, scaly t;h, seldom more than seven inches long; but it has develope 1 a sjecial breathirur aparatus to enable it to keep up the stock of oxygen on its terrestrial excursions, which may be regarded as to some extent the exact converse of the means employed by divers to supply themselves with air under water. Just above the gilli, which form of cour-e its natural hereditary breathing apparatus, the cliruiiiig-iercli has inTented a new and whollv original waterchaniber. containing within it a frilled bony organ, which enables it to extract oxygen from the stored-up water during the course of its aerial peregrinations. While on sliO'"e it picks up small insects, worms, and grubs: but it also has vegetarian tastes of its own, and des not despise traits and berries. The Indian jugglers tame the climbing-perches and carry them about with them as part of thfir stock in trade: their ability to live for a lonjr time out of water makes them usefal confederates in many small tricks which seem very wonderful to people accustomed to relieve that fish die almost at once when takm out 01 their native element. The Dumb Itettj Lamp. IHtrury Kacou iu WMe Awake. Taptain Treiey's garret was a rainy-day j dace for children as Tuany a Marblehead toyandcirl of the o d days can testify. After all these years liie memory of that garret is distinct in all its details. I can see the big chimney iu the centre, with its clumsy c-n door, serving for smoke-house ss well as tirejdace. I can see the dried codilsii hanging irom the rafters, the old boxes and barrels: the bars of soiid in high brown ilrs, and the yellow pump'kins looking up at us with jolly fat faces, and I can even r.ow catch the homely odor of the fennel and catnip us distinctly as I sometimes ca:o!i away here in this most up-Yankee of foreign capitals, the taste of the peppermint which bring to my memory the high-backed seat in the old church and the surreptitious lozenge which my dear old grandmother would slip into my Lands at intervals during sremontin?e. One rainy afternoon we hoys ha! been l aving a giorious time in the old garret. "We had s-napped the old musket till there ere no more park left in the flint; we tad fed the fat spider ia the corner of the window seat until he was so gorged with dainties that he refused a splendid "bluerott'e"' we had captured ior his dessert, and tlEa'.iy we found a regular Captain Kidd treasure of old coins in the dilapidated bureau drawer, which brought to our rainds viMOns of the privateering times when Orandpa Trefey sailed away for possible Ilnelish prizes in the old 112 war day3. Suddenly one of the coins rolled away to the eves of trie slanting roof and we had to call eorgie to help us lind it though we hated to for we depied gins. Georgie squeezed her slen 1t little form into .- aces where our stout boy bodies could not go, but she d:d not find the coin. 'IJut': here s something so funny," sai l she as she emerged somewhat crumpled and il:ty from the eaves. VTith ninth wonder and faestionings we examined her prize. ' What can it be?" we queried. It was a round, tin aflair. about six inches high and three in diameter, with a copjer tube that turned upward, and a tin spout liiulT the tube. A wide rim at the bottom Ei2de a firm ba-e and there was a wire to hang it bv. It had a comical cover and it ' was divifed into two part3 the upper upper Tart with the copj-er tube fitting into the lowtr to whi b the i-out was soldered. One of the Trefrey boys said that it was an il can, while Georgie declared it was a coffee pot. "Let s ak your grandmother," I euj-jL-t-d, and to grandmother we went. "The ld Iumb Itetty lamp!" she exclaimed, as we entered her pleasant rom, M-here she sat in ht r high-backed yellow rocking chair, looking out on the mist covered harbor; '"where under the sun did you find that, children 7 A lamp. We had never thought of such a thing. The copper tube, grandmother said, was for the wick. The upier part held the oil, and the sjout was to catch the drippings th.-kt ran into the lower reservoir. "It was nice lamp," grandmother continued; "long RZ'i it was the only lamp we hurried. Jor candies were very dear and this bur.g in the chimney corner while we worked by its flickering, smoky light. Cut even while, I was yet a girl we began to have better lamp ami I don't remember this Dumb Betty being lighted for many years no, not firce the n:ght of Floyd Ireson's ride." .Floyd Ire-on! We all knew Floyd Ireson -a harmle- old man who inshed" s Landfart about town selling fish. I knew tbe rhyme that poet Whittier Las since used as theme of Lis famous poem and that the town boys often called after the poor old fellow rem a izit distance: CiM Fbi'l Olrwtn for Iii bord hort Torr'd anl j'othered arni eanJvi en a cort -Jry tie wimwea o MofcMr'I 'ed. teihjEue came to )ne at osce tsn

j iiniKiiu i ryiej since pipyq jreson s rioe.". and 1 juerionetl curio.isly :

' 7 W, - , . - .1 T , ' "F.eally, Grai:hr..i lrt trey was rloyd Irsn really ever carriel in a cart?"' ' Certain," she replied. "When I w.m about seventeen Mould von like to hear about it?" Wouldn't we? We were never known to refuse to listen to one of Grandma Trefey's stories. "It was one winter afternoon." bbe said, "when 1 was about seventeen years old, tha. there came up a sudden blow. Several of our boats were out fishing and all the townsfolks were on the rocks by the lighthouse watt hing lor them. Just about dusk we Siw a sail which some one of tin- fisherman's wives s.ud.as l'loyd Jreson's boat. He came in alone before the wind au 1 landed safely in the harbor. He could not or would not srive tidii gs of the others and ai sundown none of them bad yet appeared. "Now you know, children, my folks' folks were not fishermen; but a certain dear friend of mine, a midshipman who was home on a furlough, had gone out in one of the boats for a snilFof salt water and so I was naturally interested. Well, after supper we he.i-1 that Floyd Ireson had passed sotm. of th other boats in distress but he wouldn't stop to help them though they called to him for aid. "I don't know how folks found this out, but thej' did, and pretty soon the wives of the missing fishermen gathered around l'loyd Jreson's door and called him all sorts vi drea If ul names. "Mother wouldn't let me join this crowd w hich was only a little way from our house, but.1 could hear the shouting, and presently some one running past told m they were going to tar-and-featner Floyd Ireson. The shouts increased, and through the wintry night I could see a crowd of women rushing down the snow-covered hill toward our house. "On they t mie, yelling as if they were mad. The wife and daughter of the lighthouse keeper, who was one of the missing men, UM the m b. Fast our house they went in a whirlwind, dragging an old dory in which, was tied a crouching figure that 1 knew must be Floyd Ireson. "Then, regardless of my mother's voice who called to me to stop, I joined the crowd and r:m with them to the foot of the hill, s-tuhlenly the bottom feil out of the rickety old dory and the procession Mopped. Uut only for a moment. The broken boat was hoisted to a wagon and the mad rush went on down the turnpike madder than ever. "I dared not follow further. 1 returned home and, -very properly, was sent at once to Ved. I stood at m- window listening to the -bouts, thinking of my lost friend and not pitying the or persecuted fisherman who was tbe victim of an unreasoning mob. How I envied the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and wished that I could have taken her place on the rope. I threw myseif on my bed wondering what I could do; and, remembering how the people illuminated their houses in times of political e.vitement to show their sympathies. I determine 1 to illuminate my chamber window -o that when the fisher wives came back tlrey would know that 1 sympathized with them though I could not join them. "lint, in my shame at being thus sent to bed in disgrace, 1 had taken no light with me and now 1 had noway of illu-iiuiating. Creeping slealthüy down stairs, the only tiling 1 could find in the darkness was this old Dumb Hetty lamp hanging in the chimney corner. There was still some oil in it ami the end of a wick. 1 uncovered the coals on the hearth-fire and. blowing tkem up, soon lit my lamp. Then I crept back to my rm, hung the lamp in the window and coul 1 see its dickering light shining down on the snowy road. "i laving thus, as I thought, done something to avenge tiie death of my friend, I waited in the silent room for the return of the women, and with my head against the cold window pane 1 cried myself to sleep. I must have slept for some time, fjr when I woke with a start my lamp had gone out and I was very cold. "Tint the light was burning brightly in the lighthouse, and I knew from this that the Marl'U-head women had returned to their homes. "As I stood there numb and bewilderel, I heard voices and distinguished forms pusing along the road. 1 watched them, and suddenly the clouds broke, and as the moon shone out for a moment I almost screamed for joy as I caught sight of a face that looked up at my window. It was Jack Tret'ey." "Grandfather!" whispered Georgie to me. "The Mrst thing 1 saw when I opened my eyes the next morning,"' went on Grandma 1 refey not hearing Georgie's whisper, "was the Dumb Hetty lamp hanging in the sunshine. I jumped out of bed. Mother was already in the kitchen and as 1 could not carry back the lamp without being questioned. I crept up to the garret and threw the lamp under the eaves where it lay until yon children found it. "Jack come in after breakfast and told his adventures. It seemed they had not seen Floyd Ireson at all. I!ut their boat, he said, shipped so many seas that they were spent with rowing and baling and when night came on they were in despair. The lighthouse showed no gleam and they could not tt 11 which way to steer. "Suddenly jack noticed a spark of light clear and steady and knowing it must be on shore they took courage an 1 pulled toward it with a will for a:i hour. Then to their terror they saw it grow fainter and fainter and finally disappear. lint it had hardly died out when a bright gleam fia-hed out only a few boat-lengtjis off. They cheered ali'together tor they knew it came from our lighthouse and in a few minutes they were ashore. "Jack wondered, and -o did my folks, who it wa that saved them all by showing that timely light. And, you see, children, al though I longed to tell Jack who it was. I could not. 1 was ashamed to own that it was not for him that 1 hung out the light, but against poor Floyd Ireson who 1 thought bad wronged him.'' Cut why d. -on call it a Dumb Hetty lamp, grandma?" asked Georgie alter the story was finished. "Ah, little Georgie." said grandma, ''when I was your age I a-ked that tame question but never found anyone who could answer it." Can any of the bright girl and boy investigators of to-day give a reason lor the queer name? All O-iiet in t!ic Coke ltrgionx. i'irr-i;i I'a.. Jan '.. The situation lu the coke rei;iou continue iiiet.no disturbance h.-rv-li:g occurred Mace Thursday. Sheriff Steward lias bad au understanding with the strikers, and thej have promised to resort to no violence in th-j future. At a re-ult cf tlds a large numler of deputies f.nd police luve leen discharged. T ie attempt to eject the Hungarian from their house will not be hiade at present, as the weather is so cold that such trcatineuv to the uriic er would. in the opinion of the cfticer, be exceedingly ill advi-ed. At the CjU-neli-vilie convention this niominsf, tne strikers rejiorted that of the liCut ovens in the regions lei than l.fmo were in operation. Thi- afternoon tbe trjkera were paid o:T. Their wanes were given them in full, except the amounts due for rent up to the first of next month, which were withheld by the companies. 1hi occasioned ome l'ttle tlissjiti-fitetion. but no trouble rt-uUed. Peace reigns throughout tiie regions to-ni'ht. and no further outbreaks are ant i pmed. The striker are organiinu, and on Wednesday n xt a convention will be held at which thev will probaMv t-e taken Into ihe Mate .Miners' Amalgamated Association. Tell You Plainly that .-imuions' Liver regulator will rid you of dyspepsia, purify your system, enable you to sleep well, prevent malarial diseases and give you a brisk and vigorous feeling. It acts directly upon the liver and kidneys, cleansing, purifying, invigorating and fortifying the system against disease. It will break op chills and fever and frevent their return, and is a complete antidote to all malarial tioison, yet entirely free from quinine or calomel. "Know tbytelf, by reading th 'Sclene 0 Life," the best medical work ever published.

KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Cut reiben ire invited to tnrtim orJgiral en4.? ma, charades, riddle, re be tea and other "ktottj proileros." addressing all cousmunicatmiic rv.ative to tbia department to . . Cbad boars, Lewton. Malte. No. 1454. Anigrauas. I. A party off to Europe went By fchip rich eons in eaoin entA lad, though joor, desired to go, ould he an hum hie siirit show ? Eagkkest" o: tcein all, nis place, He took, on deck, ith loyal grace, faid he. above iie okei"' men ee," utent 1 am with crew to bv. I'M I.ETllEO. II. The word "no i rs" place rritht. And then tood judgment conies to light. Jasi ek B. No. 1455. A Mighty Youth. I'm the heir of the centuries gray. Strong a ocean, and uncontrolled; liorii to a heritage vast and grand. My limbs are cast in heroic moid. Xly forehead is crowned with eternal snow, And the trofdeal waters p!ay at my feet; I stretch out my bands to clasp the sea. And my pulses throb to the wave's wild beat O er my brawny bosom that's bared to the sun, V hen I rise in my might aud my foes dispel. Magnanimous still, no monarch Town. But hohl all equal as children of time: I'm bound by no creed at all altars I kneel, And worship the Father, eternal, si'olime. Through struggle I'm ttrong, and jroud of my fctrength; I'm proud of my blood, that does tingle and thrill; I'm proud f the progress I've made in my youth: Vi my triumphs, my wealth, my talent, aud skill. I'o you guess me? Then shout out mr name Awaken the echoes of forest and hill; I'm round you, about you, and over you all, so guard me, and keep me. and cherish mo still. My hie is in yours-, and yours in mine A part's not greater than the whole. Be true to me. then, in peril and ueed, As you're' true to your ii:iaost soul. Vasdolys. 'o. Ujo". A Character of l'oetry. (Tennyson.) High born maiden, proud and haughty Wild and willful, sweet and naughty, Lovely as a poet's dream, brilliant as a stray sunbeam. Pioneer of woman's riahts, Yet above a woman's spites she forgave the daring knight. Who by stealth, her hi'line place Pouml, then dared her to her face. (Ah, that face! its iirnge lay on hi heart, by eight aud day.) Well, he won Cue la.'.y fair. Won and wore her as his dear. Woman's love, with ardent Hume, Woman's fancies overcame, J OK AMORY. No. 1157. Au Fniguia. My meaning iu a fringe may lurk; I may b-j found in knitting work; In circling fluids I may dwell; And even sometimes 1 eppear In l'udieattd malt, or beer, The detritions given here Ought to make my name iiu:t' clear. .N'KlJJO.MAS. No. 14.8. Decapitation. I. The whole will name a eertaiu dog Ul which you may have beard; Pi-miss my first, and now i am A very n jted bird. II. The whole will name a certain thing Yo l should no: entertain: Dismi-s my r.it, and now behold A very useful grain. Jasi-ec. B. No. 14.;). A Charade. Jn April. June, or -milium Kli:sT, When orchis llowers are blowi ig And sweet white violets strew the woo l, As though the skies were snowing. Oh, that's the time, ye merry maids, To dawn your morning kirtlcs And seek the woodlands while the I.AT Is on the bays and myrtles. Then with the shining drops of am., iO bathe your rosy faces; For that's tne tiling to make you look, Like go-blesses and graces." Jos AMORY. Xo, 1 IOO. ;.ttes YouM iain. J. l"ual rights for cjual menLoss below me. gain above. J. First of a long train am 1 Children seldom do me love. :!. Smaller than the canis he hoids. Gamblers' friends or foes arc wc. Small things like my third, alas! 'ay elo-e whole' gates, poor friend, on thee. A KU NU TON. lauuury's I'rize. To the sender of the best lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" of January will be presented harlotte M. Yonge's "Young People's History of France," finely printed and liand-omely bound in Cloth. A nswer. MIO. Africa. 1 441. Ajienines. 1442. Mural. 1 !.". Hecd-les 4. 1 44 4. The wind. 41-5. Apenines. 1410. S II A S I I! K S H i e n A II C H A M B It O S I A SC I R K H r. B t it a x i: r t K CHIN A T K It F.GIST E IS S II A S T K Ii S The Origin of the Alphabet. The following is condense from an article bv Professor SSaycc in the Contemporary lieview: Dr. Isaac Taylor begins his interesting book on "The Alphabet" by saying that, "if we set aside the still more wonderful invention of speech, the discovery of the alphabet may fairly be accounted the most dirlicultas well as the most fruitful of all past achievements of the human intellect." Hut, like speech, it was not discovered all at once. The history of the alphabet, in fact, is a history of slow and painful growth, and every letter contains the re ;ord of its origin and trai sformations as indelibly imprinted upon it as the records of the past history of liie are indelibly imprinted uion tbe rocks. One of the chief lessons of Dr. Taylor's book i3 that the history of our writing forms no exception to that law of development which modern research has found to preside over the destinies of the universe. betters are not arbitrarily invented, except in very rare instances, and their forms are not arbitrarily c hanged, except on very rare occasions. And such inventions and changes have always been the product of anlalogy.J THE MOEMOX ALPHABET, which Joseph SJmith averred had been revealed to him by au angel, was really a modification of English cursive writing, and the Syllabary invented by Sekwola for his Cherokee fellow-countrymen was modeled a the characters he had seen in European books. The new characters in Mr. Pitman's phonetic alphabet owe their existence to the letters to which we have been accustomed ever since we were children. If, then, no new alphabetic letters are ever devised, even in the inventive age of the world, except In imitation and after the analogy of the letters of our current alphabet, we may ask how this alphabet itself originally came into existence. In other words, what was the origin of the alphabet we now use, and in which we endeavor however inijerfectly, to express the manifold sounds of our English language? "We can trace its history back to a certain point. The English alphabet is the alphabet of the Komans, and the Roman alphabet was the alphabet of the Greeks, while the alphabet, as certain legends aoout it affirmed, was la turn derived frum the Phoenicians. That thee legends are correct bas been abundantly proved by modern inqnjry, ,Qt only art the nanus; giyen to th$

letters cf tJt? Greets ot Pbcriciaa origin and ' ' rMTH'ALLY IPEKT1CAL. ith the Lames piven to the sair.e letters in the Hebrew alphabet' we now know from inscriptions that tbe old forms of the Greet letters are more or less identical with tbe forms of the same letters in the oldest l'honician texts. Not ocly is the üineriecian name of the first letter aleph, "an ax," still pronounced every time we -speak of the alphabet, but wc may still see in the form of our capital A the resemblance to tbe head of an ox which caued some old Phonician schoolmasters to call it by that animal's name. Thus far the history of our alphabet is clear; like the name it cime frum those Englishmen of the ancient world, the practical and adventurous traders of tbe Canaanitish coast. liut was it really a Tho-nician invention? This has been sometimes assumed on the strength of the names given to the letters, and attempts have been made to show that the letters'roay be reduced to pictures corresponding with the names. All analogy, however, is against such an assumption. We know a good deal now about the Phoenicians, and we find that, although they were admirable adopters and improvers of other nu n's arts and industries, tbey Invented none of their own. Tbey were intermediaries, not originative geniuses, and it would be strange if so wonderful an invention as the alphabet had formed the single exception to their usual character. Xo traces moreover, have been met in Pincnician lands of THE rillMITIVE HIEKOi.I.VniS out of which the alphabetic letters are supposed to have grown. The rüde rock sculptures found in the neighborhood of Tyre imply a condition of society infinitely' below that in which a pictorial system of writing first becomes possible, and it is doubtful whether they are not to be referred to the barbarous races who inhabited the country before the Phoenicians arrived there from the East. Then, again, had t tie "Phoenician" alphabet really been a Phoenician invention, we should have expected it to contain two separate symbols for the letters called in Hebrew shin and sin (sh and s), as well, probably, as two symbols for the two gutturals still beard in Arabic, 'ayin and gbain, the latter of which appears in the Dames of the Canaanite towns Gomorrah and Oaza. So long, however, as no proofs are forthcoming that the Phoenicians ever used hieroglyphs or pictorial characters we may salely put on one side the theory of the Phoenician origin of the alphabet. Another theory ha? lately been advanced by the eminent historian of Oriental antiquity, Edward Meyer. He suggests that the I'ho nicians received the alphabet from the Hittitcs, whose importance lor the history of ancient culture is but lust beginning to be understood. Jiut although all competent authorities are now inclined to believe that the syllabary once used in Asia Minor was derived from the Hittite hieroglyphs, lr. Meyer bas as yet found no one to assent to his hyiothesis that the same origin must be ascribed to the Phoenician alphabet. A new byyothesis has just been started by the Assyrian scholar, Dr. Hommeh He believes that THF. i;FIM)l IN TKH'.F.S, who bordered on the ancient monarchy of Pabylona, acquired a knowledge of a "certain number of cuneiform characters in their primitive pictorial forms and gave to each a phonetic value. In this way the uncultured wanderers of the desert effected what the cultured population of Chaldea and Assyria never dreamed of the creation of an alphabet. The eriod to which Dr. Hommel would a.-sign the achievement is about IOOO B. C. -:f In the struggle for existence the Latin alphabet alone survived among its Italian compeers, and was carried by tbe extension of the Roman empire through the length and breadth of Western Europe. Most of our modern Euronean alphabets are its direct offspring. It is only m Kastern Europe, more especially in Russia, that its Greek mother and subsequent rival has stood its ground, and even there the present century has witnessed the triumph of ihe Roman characters in .Slavonic countries over alphabets of Greek origin. It is possible that a time will come when the Roman characters will triumph likewise even over alphabets which claim their descent from THEIIt'KXF.UAX PAKEXT .f the Greek alphabet itself. It is no longer doubtful that the immense majority, if not the whole, of tbe alphabet used in" the Kast ar; descended, like the alphabet of the West, from tbe alphabet of Püicnicia. We can trace the successful gradations by which the letters of inscription of Mesha of the siloam tunnel became the flowing characters of Palmyrene epigraphy and the running hand of Aramaic papyri, and from the Palmyrene characters it is but a slight step to the square Hebrew of tbe modern Jews. Even of its manifold imperfections, has been made the vehicle of Persian and Turkish literature as well as tbe thoughts of the vast Arabicspeaking world, can be shown to have the same origin, like the Syriac, which was the jarent of the vertically written Mongolian ami Mantchu. In fact, it is diMicult to find any alphabet which cannot be affiliated to the Pbo nician, widely different as the two may have become both in the forms of the letters and in th values that tbey bear. Intermediate forms are continually being di-covcred, w hich bridge over the enormous distances, and explain the translations that time and space have eflected. Even the Devanagarf alphabet of Sanskirt, whatever disputes there may be as to its exact pedigree, is generally allowed to be of Phoenician origin. With the exception of the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient Persians, and possibly one or two more which may yet lurk in obscure corners of tbe world, all the alphabets of which we know are derived, ultimately, from a single source. . TU llcadl- Myatery.

Nashville, Tenn., Jan. Ul. The entire j detective rorce in the city has been engaged in endeavoring to find a clew to the identity of the man whose fearfully mutilated bxly was found on Monday night, buried in tan bark near "Hell's Half Acre." Their efforts have proved futile, as well as those of the Coroner to discover the head, which had been chopped otT from the trunk and secreted. There are many theories as to the motive of the murderer, and tbe character of the murdered man; but absolutely nothing tangible has developed. All the persons reported mis-ing have been accounted for. The jrenerally accepted theory is that the victim was a stranger, and that he had either been enticed into a den of vice, robbed and then killed, or that he bad met his fate at the hands of the lover of some woman of the town with whom he had associated. It was rumored that an ex-convict named Martin bad suddenly disappeared after receiving his wages one Saturday night, and that he was the dead man, but an investigation proved that Martin is still living. At a late lrour tonight it was learned that the detectives think the victim is Frank Arnold, colored, who mysteriously disappeared se7eral weeks ago. I'se Dr. Tierce's "Pellets" for constipation. Tbe i;iood Would Klin. 1 was a great sufferer from catarrh. My nostrils were sensitive to lut: at times the blood would run. and at night I could hardly breathe. I used K1V Cream Balm. To-dar 1 am a living witness Of "its cnicacv. Peter Bruce, Farmer, Ithaca, N. Y. fits.- All Fits itopped free by Dr. Kllne'i Great Kerre Restorer. No Fna after first day'a use. Marvelous cure. Treatise and ti trial bottle free Fit cases, send to Ir. Kline, Wl Arch reet, M' adelphla, I'a Kbenmatlam Quickly Cured. There never aas ceen a medicine lor rheumatism introduced in this State that lU flfea IUCÄ universal aatinfaetioa a Durang'a Rheumatie Remedy. It stands out alone as tbe one great remedy that actually curct this dread disease. It it taken internally, and never hag and never can fail to cure tbe wont case in the ahortert time. I bta tbe Indorsement and recommendation Biany leading pnyKiciani la thl biate and eUe where. It If,old byevery dru$rsrlFt atll. Jriw for free forty Tef- pambplet to R. K. BJCLTHIM IS PrvtUt Wahjgvoa ; ..

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i-o well-to-Jof are the Tioston bicyclers that. tkey are to buiid a f iwjoo club honse. The new town of Danreith, in Dakota offers f:jiy and a town lot to tbe first boy baby born in the plape. The judge who passed the first death sentence in California is now pastor of the Baptist church in Cambridge, Maryland. The mica mines of Ncuth Carolina are enjoying a loom. Two-thirds of the world's supply of mica comes from these mines. The Chinese in California must be accumulating wealth, however deficient they may be influence. A Chinese syndicate recently offered $2,')0,000 for the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and were prepared to pay $LÖOO,000. Massage, or tbe art of curing diseases by rubbing, kneading and stroking, is said to have been known to the Chiuese 1500 years before the Christian era, while the ancient Persians, Creeks and Romans pursued similar methods. The food of Purmese peasants includes almost all kinds of reptiles, the grub of a ballrolling beetle, a kind of ant which constructs nests of leaves in treetops (eaten iu curries), and hill rats. The last named exist in such hordes that their consumption is almost a necessity to preve it the rats eating the Burmese. Few American women step more than twenty-four inches on the average. Tight skirts and lack of practice make the steps of most of them range from eighteen to twentythree inches. If they would learn to take longer steps and would wear loose gowns, they could walk much farther with less fatigue. Boston Globe. The recent cold wave was felt even in California. A letter just received from Passadena says thin ice formed, but there was no damage to fruit or even the flowering plants. The same letter says: "We had for Christmas dinner luscious strawberries, red raspberries, sliced tomatoes, and water melons gathered fresh from the garden." Mr. Browning is seventy-four years old, and his continued literary productiveness, like that of Lord Tennyson, is remarkable. But our Ixmgfellow at seventy-five was not less so. Indeed, his last poem the "Bells of San Bias," shows his poetic faculty to have been untouched to the end. It is as fresh in feeling or as characteristic in touch as any of his verses. An illustration of the undiminished public interest in Tennyson is furnished by the statement on his behalf in the London Times that he is unable to answer innumerable letters or to examine the myriad MSS. that be receives since the publication of his Inst volume. Textile'manufacturers are watching with no small degree of interest tlie progress made in the intruduction of the cultivation of ramie in the South. It has been extensively cultivated in England and France. By the use of it the gloss in silk is increased and it is materially stronger. A New Yorker with a good deal of capital is prepared to make machines to reduce the ramie material to a pulpy condition. Planters in the South have been waiting for years for the perfecting of such a machine, and now that a practical machine is secured they are planting ramie roots. Three crops can be raised each year. Its cultivation can be extended over a very large scale, and it is predicted that it can be developed to be second only to cotton in importance. Almost every person cares for his body iu a clenly manner, not restricting himself, by any means, to Florence Nightingale's thrifty, two-cup sponge bath. It is supposed to be quite as great a necessity to wash out the inner man as his shell; aud it certainly appears reasonable that the four-footed animals, who as a rule drink copiously, have an instinct that it would not be bad for the higher animal to follow. Cool, even temperature of the bedy might be secured, and many diseases averted. Who can deny it? That ghuses of cool (not cold) water from a pure source, before meals, have resulted in great good, many persons are ready to alfirni on cath. The same can be said of hot water. But that either drink is a positive panacea for all ills, is going a step too far. With a lens made of rock salt it might, says the Pbotgraphic News, be possible to photograph in tbe dark! Abney has succeeded in preparing plates which are sensitive to the rays lying beyond the red end of the spectrum the dark heat rays and with such plates used with rock salt lens there should be a possibility of photographing bodies which possess a high temperature, although that temperature may be far below that neeeed to render them self-luminous. It is even possible that sucli a plan niay some day be so perfected as to give us information about the "dark suns" that are believed to crowd the firmament or rather heavenly bodies, which were once seen, but have now cooled down so as to be invisible. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Charles A. Clowes, of Chicago, Shoots Himself and Mistre, Cm aco, Jan, Hi. Charles A. Clowes, a wealthy young married man, shot and killed "Blanche Grey," in a disreputable house at No. 441 South Clark street this morning and then killed himself. Clowes' father died at Springfield about a year ago and left him a fortune estimated at $Kjo,(.t)io. For several years he has spent much time in Chicago and made many acqtiaintanccs, spending money freely. He was a very handsome man, of strong build, fine eyes and rich, dark hair and a mustache. His mother now lives in Hyde Park, and with her is Clowes' young wife, whom he married only three months ago. The girl whom he shot had been an inmate of the house two years. She was very pretty, with a wealth of black hair and large, lustrous eyes. She bad a petite form and dressed in good taste. She is described as having been quiet and temperate. At the house it was said that she bad been Clowes' mistress for six years. He associated with her in Peoria and Snringfield and brought her to Chicago. It is säid that the direct cause of the shooting was the girl's upbraiding him for his marriage. The wife whom Clowes married a short time ago is sid to be a most estimable lady, and the shame and horror of the occurrence utterly prostrated her, and fears are entertained for her life. There is little doubt as to the cause of the tragedy. Clowes had lived with Blanche for nearly six years. About three months ago be was married in Xew York, and since then he and his mistress have had frequent quarrels. The girl was known only under the name of "Blanche Grey," and very little is known of her previous history, she has lived at No. 441 Clark street for about two years, during which time she was often absent for several weeks with Clowes, who had brought her to Ch:cago from Springfield, 111. A reporter called at Clowes' late home at o'clock this morning, where he awakened the young wife of Clowes, a petite, dark-haired woman with haDdsome features, but whose face disclosed anxiety and pain.- The reporter only informed her that her husband had some ditliculiy with a woman. iSoon afterwards Mrs. Clowes, accompanied by her uncle, a middle-aged gentleman, drove to the Central Police Station, where the exact tacts were learned. Entering the carriage they were driven quickly away. As showing the relations between Clowes and his mistress, it is stated that in her room life-size Tortraits of the woman and Clowes hung üpononeof the walls, and upon the table and dressingcase stood bits of costly bric-a-brac which he bad given her at various times. In the ears of the corpse on the bed were magnificent ear-rings and the fingers were loaded with rings, studded with gems all of them presents from the man who had jast sent both their souls into eternity. The woman of the honse bad scarcely realized what had happened before a Lieutenant with a squad of armory police arrived, with two patrol wagons. The room was cleared and

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uiwho stood in the hallway. The remains of -1 a - - . , . . viuimcu mi ii miren were laun to nie morgue, wtere they will remain until after the mqoest. Immediately after Clowes' body had been removed a hack arrived at the house containing live young men, friends of Clowes. They were in the "Drum saloon" when they were notified of the affair, a resort which had been frequented by Clowes and men of his class. PATCHING A SKULL. A Yonng girl's Treatment for Wouuds (Mven Her by Her Stepmother. New York; Jan. 19. A delicate surgical operation was performed yesterday afternoon on Miss Katherine Rather. A portion of her skull was removed for the purpose of preventing her loss of reason or fatal results. Her brain trouble was caused by her being struck over the head three years ago with a chair-rung by her stepmother. Three skillful surgeons performed the operation, but it will be several weeks before it is known whether it was successful. The patient, who is a very pretty girl of nineteen, is the daughter of Felix Ratzer, a wealthy resident of Jersey City. Her mother died when she was very "young, and most of her childhood was spent with her grandfather. On returning to her father's bouse her trouble began. According to her story, in February, iss;j, after some words witn Mrs. Ratier, and while she was stoopiDg to pick up a stool for her, the stepmother picked up a chair and struck her over the head. Running down stairs Catharine fainted in the arms of her grandfather. When she recovered the latter was asked what the trouble was, and she said, "That woman has killed me." Mrs. Ratzer is reported as saying: "Yes, I have got my revenge on you." Tbe wound healed after six weeks, but from the time of the blow the girl sufi'ered from acute headache, and at the end of a year the wound burst. She was obliged to give up work, and hunted up her uncle, Joseph Ratzer, in this city, with whom she has since lived. Suit for $10,000 damages was commenced against Mr. Ratzer, and under the law her husband was made a defendant. The jury gave tbe girl S-s,000 damages after the case had been on trial for thiee days. The excitement of the trial increased Miss llatzer's nervousness until it was feared that she might become insane. Her relatives consulted. Dr. Edward Spitzka, who recommended trepanning as the only preventive against death or insanity. Dr. Bolt performed two operations. The first was on May 17. Then he found a cicatrix two inches long, and with the assistance of Dr. Wright, after administering an anesthetic and cutting open the scalp, removed some old and hardened mattter, which had become attached to the bone. A second operation was performed June 7, and a second piece of foreign matter removed. This furnished temporary relief, but acute neuralgia followed and" Miss Ratzer was seized with convulsions. It was considered that a chronic injury to the bone had resulted from the blow, änd puesibly an abcess has formed between the interior of the skull and the brain membrane, which made experimenting dangerous. A consultation was held yesterday afternoon at the residence of the young woman, and it was decided that the hopeless condition of the patient justified the experiment. Miss Patzer was placed under the inIluence of ether, and was on the operating table over two hours. A portion of the skull was removed, and the seat of the disorder carefully examined and the diseased matter removed. The opening was then covered with an antiseptic dressing. Tbe first -uit by the Chicago Keform Alliance to compel the saloons of the city to close on Sundays, in compliance with the Glitte law, was tried yesterday betöre a Justice of the Peace and a jury. 1 he fact or a saloon being open was conceded bv the öefendants, but the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Rheumatism e doubt if there is, or enn be, a specific remedy for rheumatism ; but thousands who have suffered its pains have been greatly benefited by Hood's Sarsaparilla. If yon have failed to find relief, try this great remedy. MI was afflicted with rheumatism twenty years. Previous to 1SS3 I found no relief, but grew worse, and at one time was almost helpless. Hood's Sarsaparilla did me more good than all the other mediciue I ever bad." II. T. Balcom, Shirley Village, Mas. - - " I had rheumatism three years, and cot no telief till I took Hood's SursapariHa. It has done great things for me. I recommend it to others." Lewis Buebaxk. Biddtford. Me. . f Hood's Sarsaparilla Is characterized by three peculiarities : 1st, the combination of remedial agents; 2d, the proportion; 3d, the process of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result is a medicine of unusual Btrength, effecting cures hitherto unknown. Bend for book containing additional evidence. M Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my system, purifies my blood, bhariieus inv ai.ietite. and . . . ... ... T S O ............ ... Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass. "Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all other, and fs worth its weight in gold." I. LxanLSiTon, 130 Bank Street, Xew York City Hood's .Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists, fl ; !x for 5. Mad nly by C I. nOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. JOO Doses One' Dollar A Kl 3 BITTERS 1 0 CURES i I. it mipi or. arwfi.'i 1 T.TVTTR KIDNEYS STOMACH AND BOWELS. by? 3 ALIDRUGOT priceIdollas. Dyipapila General Dellllt Jtumdlee, Hafcitu&l Conatipa tioa Ldver Complaint, Sick IIeadache-,Dieased Kid ja Et. Etc. It contain" only the Purest Druga, among iralcb may bt enumerated mciLT 1E2 till Avs.imizs. ltissuxx, k:e7. czm, iu It clea&eti tbe ayatem thoroughly, and at PURIFIER OF THE BLOODl k Ii Uacqnaled.' It il not in Intoxiciting beyenge, tor ear ltba naad as auch, by vctaon efita Cathartic rropertlf - PnZCUL? ASX2 COJ i tyk Proprietors,

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KpTerind 4(iie, Chili, lIna..... ii i.. nimi HiAain .Aa Catarrh, lotlarara. Cold in the Head. ÄO Whooping t ongo. loient oturns... i r-i (ieneral Oebiluy.Fnyaical Weakness .0(1 27 Kidney Dieie rrroii leniliiy Irinary VealiDeaB,Wettiri(tBed.... JVt l)ieaee of ihe Heart. PftlpiUtiOBl.OO 2 30 32 SPECIFICS. Ssoid bv Inicffi1, ornent postpaid on receipt of n-io Hi HPIIKk W Dlll.Vk .. 1 US lLmm SU . K. CONSUMPTION. I bava a poalue remedy lor tbe above dlaeaae ; by lt Ifaooitndl of cet of the erat kind and of long steadies have beenenreii. Indeed, oitronr H mr faith In-Uaeff cat f that I will nd TWO BOTTLE FKKE, together wit VALCiiLI TREATISE on ttatsdlaeee. to an sufferer. ( Xetu A r. O. aloraaa. OB T-e. oLOCt M.Ui fex)t4, M. Hi i.L A: Lamb, If. E. Smith, Brows .fc IIarvf.V, Hi:.. Daiixy, Attorneys lor Plaintiff. SIIF.r.IFF'? SALE By virtue of seven eecutioi.s to me directed from the Clerk of tho Maric-n s-niM-riorCourt of Marion County, Jul:ana, 1 will expose at public s-hIc, to the highest bidder, on THURSDAY, THE 11TH DAY OF FKBRl'AItY, A. I).. 1!S6. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the Conn Ho'ife of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not excredinsr seven years, of the following real estate, to-w it : Lots numbered thirteen iir.l. fourteen (M), fifteen il u, sixteen ), and that )art of lot twentytwo c.'Ji embraced in the following liouuds: Begiuuine at a yoint on the south line of Biddlo taiett three hundred anl twenty-live (Si'd feet cast of Pint street, running thence cast forty (-W) ff et. thenee outh fifty i'0i feet, thence west forty ie. feet, thence north fifty iHo feet to i!ce of l'(i:iiiinif. All situate in Biiblle's subdivision of MUlnt forty-five 15 in the city of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. Also on the same day, and letween the hours aforeaid of said day, at the Indianapolis Bridpei Works, on Biddlc street and the Bee Line Kail-ri-.-id. in the city of Ind!naiojis, Indiana, all trio V-er'iial proK"ty of said Bridge Company, couMstii:S of one Atlas engine, one boiler, toother with all shafting, pullevs, liehitiR. and all other fixtures attached. All the blacksmith's iron, tools, machinery, composition ale, office furniture, etc., etc. Aü 1 on failure to realize the full amount ol judgments, interest and nt. I will, fit the nie iiir.eamt plai e. expo at public sale the fee ;iupie of said real estate. Tnktii es the projKTty of The Indianapolis I'.ri.'ee Company, at the suit of The First National Bank of Iiidia'napc'is, No. J.-Wi; stoughtnn J. Hen her et al. : First National Bank of Indianapolis, No. '.v.r.: David Bradcn: Jones & 1-angblir ciiu iied.: David Kussel, Sr., et al.; and Central Iron a ml Hteel Co. siid sale to be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement law. tiEOKHE II. C AKTER. S-herifl of Marion Couuty. Januarv In A. D. 1SM. Gtoi:oE W. Woods, Attorney lor Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S FA I.E. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk o! the Supenor Court of Marion County, Indiana, iu a CHU-e wherein eonre AV. Woods is plaintiff, and Henry Tutewiler et al. are defendants (Case No. öl.Go4i, reouirinirme to make tLo fnm of seven hundred and hixty-four dollars and s:tv-three cents (7H.t:i, with interest on nai.l decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, oa SATURDAY, THE CTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. 1NG, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. to. and 4 o'clock p. m.. of Faid day, 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-wit: The iwrtheat corner of lot nine (91. In s.jnaro tweuty-three (-', city of Indianapolis, being five .-) lee't lront on Alabama street by eighty-eifcht and enc-hali i8S feel deep: also the nouthwest corner of lot eleven ill), in nuare twenty-threo (in. city of Indianapolis, being ten (10) feet front on Massachusetts avenue, and running back to thet-oulh line of said lot: also all of loiafeTi (101, iu square twenty-three ('-:, city of Indianapolis, excepting that part of Faid lot described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of said lot, theiH-e northeast on the line of Massachusetts avenue sixty-two and one-third (2H feet, thence southeast to the smith line of said lot, theuee along the south line of said lot to the place of beginning: all of said real estate being situated lu the County of Marion aud .s'tto of Indiana. ... If sucn rents and profit will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs. I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or eo much thereof as may be sufficient to d:.cnar;j said decree, interest and. costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever Irom valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. January 11, A. D. Ikiii. Feed Winter, Attorney for Piainüff. SHERIFFS SALE By virtue of a certified copy ol a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of the Snipcrior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein Abraham Cohen is plaintiff, ami Joseph Borinsteiu et al. are defendants, (Case No. S4,4sv). requiring me to make the sum of seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents (JTST.M), with interest on said decree and cost, 1 will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on , - SATURDAY, THE C:h PAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. IsmU between the court of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., of said dav, at the door of the Court Honse of Marion Couutv, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: Lot number ten (10 in Samuel Binkley sub division of the northeast part of outlot numoer one hundred and twentv-four (124), in tbe City ot Indianapolis, as per Flat Book No. 21, page 07, in Marion Count v, in the State of Indiana. If auch rents and profit will not sell for a anfflCient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and cos. I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the lee simple of mM real e.!t or so much thereof as tnaT be auflicient to Jincharp said decree, interest and eosta. Haid sale will i-e made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement W n CARTER, ' ' siherifl I Marion Couaty. Jnurvll,A. P. im

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