Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1886 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3 1586.

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THE HOME. It i net doubted that rna hare a home in th: rlare where eaen r nas established) his hearth and the suia of hi? poses-ions and fortun--, nme he wi?l not d pit't if nothing calls hm away; whence If h ha departed he seems to be a waaderer, and if he r-turus hd Ceases fe wander. Vendition from Civil Law. "Then st.iy at horn?, 107 heart, and rest, The bird is saf-t m tri" n-st; fr 11 tta: flutter tneirwirigs and 2y, A hawk : towtir g iu tta sky." Longf'.Kow. TOl"' FOLK. The Alloy at. J'po a or . i'.'.e a.'.ey 'at; 1 tn3w hat it me:n: ry a$;" Ik 00 wh?u a si ne 'Ai!, TC'r.itir;, yir.?, A ho it is aimed at. I know my are t '.i. c Aud lei.ve - drt t; f That dingy str-Mks of soot auu a-his Are Ki 111.. breast tu'' tü.. k. ! :it I ta:- th-: i-r.me :.zl wet I ike neT j !:i s v." iltt.e rir:" in tue wor'd -willing To keep rac .'or f. 1 et. I suppose it I- be.v.s They dent like i-rokvn paw,. r.d think I re. t er e anil hnpry There's danger from iay c awt. Put una'.? as I fciii and jörjng, No pus ev- r si. g A sweeter purr r. 0?"C"-)3 tiolish. cl-aoer wiih her rM to-Jiijre. h' If some '.;.: :e ".a !y Io-.es kitte only mr-v, the in.tfht teg.üd. ;.:hi.ps, to find inj nd rb.d ta k oj m-. : . c a I o;y lutet ; Ja:. 'Aide Awake. Life In n MiuvKakr. J tfr.ic '-.'n-:f!e, I' :'. t it." .. Nicholas for Jan. So;e imaginative arid wo:.derfu:ly learned (I'nriin scholars toil us that every siiowilake i inhabited by happy iitt'e beings, who le,r:n th.r existence, hold their revels, live lone üvs of har piness anl delisrht, lie and lire t i-ied. all durirv.:hedes' entof thesnow-rlak-from the world af clo.ids to the solid laud. These eho!ars a'.so tell us that -every ouare foot of air possJs.ses from twelve to fifteen ixi lion of n:ore or k-ss perfect little bein an I that every ordinary breath we destroy a million, more or less, of these happy lives. The sigh of a healthy lover is supposed to swallow up about fourteen million. They insist that the dust, which will, as we know, accumulate in the most secret pla'-e-, is merely the remains of millions and billions t'T thse little beings who have di?d of MaiL-p. All this, of course, is mere guesswork.' But I do know that tb-j snow insjme parts of the world thickly inhabited. I Lave -een nev. snow in Idaho black with litt'.e iaiects. l'eople ca'l them snow-Ueas. They are, aa Ii vely as possible, and will darken your footprints, walk as fast as you ni3 They are found only on the high mountains, ami only in very fresh and very leep nosr. Thy. 01 course, do not annoy you in any way. They are inünitely smaller than the ordinary Mea, but they are not a whit ! lively in their locomotion. A Talk uitl.the Young Folk. Mit Annie Trr.mliult S'o'on, in Hartford, i.'o!u. siries.j ' Eut our eyes are orn." I can not bear to cont-adiet yo'i. but I must say, and s;y it again and again, No, No, No, a thousa.r.4 times No ! Your eyes 0: blue, black, brown or fray, wide and bright and curious as they heni are -hut, ban laged, blind. It is 0 with all of us till some book, some wise friend, some udden inspiration heaven-tent I thini. act,, as a skill "al oculist and helps our Ifbt. Kittens and puppies open their eyes, I believe, on the n:n:h day: human be;n3 Mmet:mes keej theirs closed for ninety year?. What beautiful ?!.vtr3 yju have behind your house,-' I said one day to a bright-eyed lad who stood at the L-ite of a New flngland farmhouse. 'Ma'am.'" with a look of irre it surpriv? on his sunburnt face. I repeated my remark and Pointed toward the spot who-e beauty I had be-n, f-r nie minutes admiring. It was so lrh: i:i color as almost to tlaile the eye. There were the tall plants f the (Jolden ( orje-Jlower. the blohoiis like what you call Yellow Daisies, but larger, and in the middle f each tiowerstands a yeüowish-jrreen thimble, very curious and pretty, its leaves bright preen cut and scalloped. Then there was the swamp milk weed (for this was a wet spot) with iie branches of deep roy-pink blossoms, and running all about there," was the little ilarch blue-bell, and tVre were feathery grass s and graceful sHl.res. Uh, it was so pretty. Hut ruy farmer's boy still looked pu.uled. "V.'e a:nt .-Qi no flowers down there." he a:d at last, "the garden's in the front yard." There wa some stilf little rlower bels, in frcr.t of the house, with geraniums, petunias and phlox. -'Hut," I cried in wonder, "1 mean tho-- yellow, pink and blue lowers down here," and I walked toward the spt, followed by the boy. I wish yon could have sen the look on Iiis face, an 1 heard the con tenirt;i-ns tone in which be said. -'Them! Why they ain't flowers, they're weeds." Some of you may laugh at this, and think yourself much -wiser than this little rustic. Uut I fear many of-you are making j Uit bis mistake. You are every day calling your loveliest flowers, weeds. You are over-looking the beautiful things about jou, which are free to all, and sighing after those that are costly and not half so wonderful and full of beauty. I wish I could show you in my little talk how easily you could make your lives full of beauty, interest, keen enjoyment. Your piet farm life may seem to som of you dull, monotonous, void vi interest. You long for the pleasures, excitement", means of knowledge found in the city, ita museums, libraries, schools, conservatories, gay shop windows; but what a nuinn of wonders is this piece of woods a ston-'s throw from vour door? What book con'd tell you what nature's pictured page tell .' What school with its hot, close room and weary teacher is like the free open out door lfo with it-j lessons learned each hour so easily and well .' onarvatories' look at jour riower sprinkled meadows, your fnms-frin?-d brookside, your rich, bloomy swamps and blopeomins? woods. .Shop-windows! Whit stuft so soft and rich as your velvet äioss .' "What sold so shying as yaur butiert aj s.' What jewels 0 brilliant as your emerald gras with its diamond dew drops? "What carpet so gorous as the autumn leaves under your very feet? And yet how little, you know of these thinjrs. Let us e. Wtat can you teli me of the buttercup? lerhaps you wtll ive the answer my old darky don south ud always to give when I a-ed about my plant. "It s a kin' of a ÜowerthißgMi'sy." W !I, what else? -'It is yellow," you ay, '"and the cow's don't care f jr it." Perhaps some little chap add. ' and if you hold it under your chin it tells whether you love butter." Very good. Cut there is so much more than this, ifow many kinds of buttercups are thereon vour father's firm? Only one do you say? Uut look at that one blossomin? in May and June. It is not often more than a foot hifh; its tloweris very large; more than an inch across apd deep golden yellow. Iuil it up out of the ground. See. It has a little bulb, like a small onion. Now look at tie se others in the field there, not opening their flowers until June or July. They are very tall two or three feet high; their t owen are not quite so lar-re as those of the last, or so deep in color; their leaves are plit into narrower ai virion?, and, bigeest difference of all, they bave no bulb at the base. Eut what is that yelloy lower which grows ioner the little brook bVhind your house, and m those wet meadow. That a buttercup too? Bat it blossoms in April while yet the snow lies on the hills and in the deep woods. It is not more than six or eight inches high; it sends out long TUEiiers and creeps along the ground. And, look there, in the pond oy the mill, what is that floating on the water.' You would not recognLe the leaves for they are like skeleton ones, all cut mtofinp, threadlike, forked divisions. But the flowers, whfch lie on the rorface of the water, aa pond lilies do, they loot familiar, do they not 7 They surely are folden buttercups, to. Axd there along the banks of (he same jesd 91 on i'j jrraTellj gj jftcd efayres ygy

will find by car fully searching, a tiny yellow :.ower. very, very -i all, and growing ca men. thread a of stvn; which creeps along and rewts it every joint. That is a baby butteren p. J have not told you Lali I could. I mlg'at talk for hours aout "tie ilower, and yet use no big, hard navies, say nothing you would not understand, and you could test the truth ti my story without going far from your own door. What comes upon your buttercup when the fiower falls? lo you know its fruit? For every plant has its fruit, you know. Io vo i se these round or oblong b-i-ads, some with straight points sticking out all iver them, others with hooked prickles? Watch them, and later i:i the season you will see them separate into many little llat seeds, ea h with its .wn little pointed or Looked tip. It wouiu take a whole summer to learn to tell these p.part. IV) you know that the jr.lce of t ae buttercup is tinging and blistering; that if you dry and powd-.r the tiowers the dust Make a good substitute for srmlV and will make you sneee? Did you know they are own cousins to th cowslips in vour .swamps? Compare the flowers of each and see how alike they are. And yet your eys, you say, ae already open. Look aboii t you next summer, and see if I am telling you the truth about the buttercup. You all know" the dandelion. You all know itstuftof long, narrow, toothed leaves, its tall, ho'Iow stalk, with milky jui. e, the flat, soft, yellow ilower and the round feathery ball which comes when the ilower Vis withered. There is no ilower so universally known among New dlngland children as the dandelion. I think I know why this is so. Two or three things have combined to open your eyes to this plant. In the first place is its widespread use for "preens." You are sent out on soft bright spring days with knife and basket or pail, to gather dandelions for dinner. You mu-t know the plant well by sight or make some sad mistake, often there are no blossoms to guide you, so you must know the leaves and general look of the whole plant. Then the downy seed-ball and hollow stem are still. I suppose, as when I was a child in a Connecticut village, in great demand for play-things. Do you boys and girls still tell the time by trying how many pntl's of the breath will scatter all tin feathered seeds? o you see ''if mother wants you," by the same chest-expanding process? lo you split up the hollow stem and wet the trips"till they curl into creamy ringlets, or make from it trumpets of squeaky tone? I think you do. So, with no lessons or labor you have learned in your very sports that the seeds are winged and" lly abroad at a breath, that the stem is hollow, the juice milky and v ry bitter. Now I want you to know every plant on your farm in the same pleasant way. Ynu can not be blind to the pretty violets which sprinkle your tields and woods in the early spring. But how many kinds do you know? There are large, pale purplishblue oner, with leave ssomething like parsley whi hgrow in andy soil. There are tiny white ones in your wet ine.tdows and along the streams-, some with round leaves, others with long narrow ones. 'Iii ere are pale lavender ones in damp shady places, and yellow ones both tall and low." There are oh, so many, many kinds and all about you. You need not know the long, hard names which botanists give them. Name them yourselves, l.ut know them by their names and welcome them each ye;ir to th'-ir old, familiar spots. 1 have hecii savins: tip the story of my model farmer's boy, the most wide awake de ar sighted New " Kngland lad I ever m-t; whose brown eyes reeded little healing for they wt -e already far seeing, and were opening widi r every day and ho:ir. I was taking a drive through New Hampshire :iid was discouraged and disheartened from day to day a I talked with boy or girl of the pleasant things a"out them, and found that they had never even seen them. As I drove along a stream I saw on it3 banks some beautiful field lilies, the wllow ones with the flowers hanging liKe bells and spotted inside with brown. I stepped from the carriage to gather some, and as I did so, saw a little fellow of some thirteen years j.ullingsw eet thiir. I sj oke to him pleasantly, liking his bright face, but asked no quest ions for fear of another disappointment. Uut as he saw me picking the lilies, he said, "Them llowers are real pretty, ain't they ma'am? and there's another kind down that wav," pointing along the road, 4,they look like these, and the leaves grow 'round the stem like a wheel, just's these do, but the llowers are more red, and don't hang down, but stand riirht straight up, like they'd hold water.'' "Yes," I cried delighted. T know what yon B.fai. Its the l'hiladelphia lily." "Is it, ma'am ? I call it the Cup lily, and this 'ere one I call tLe I tell lily. You have to have names to thinss. you know."' .Some jHople do, you blessed loy, I said to myself, uut few see any need of it. "And are there any more lilies about here?" 1 asked. 'Yes'm, but they aint llowerin' now, they come real early. They're little small ones, kinder whitish yeller, and their leaves have got sHts and streaks on 'em, I call 'em fc'potties." Adders' tongue, or LVg-tooth violets, I thought to myself, and asKed aloud, "What make you think they are lilies?" "Well, I 'spose they are, 'cause they're shaped like the other kinds, and when I dig 'em up they've got little round roots like onions, and so's these. My! how deep down they iro. Half way to Chiny. 1 guess, and the stents white and brittle; it's dreadful hard to dig 'em up." "Why do yon die them up?" "Oh, want to see how they're made, you know, and then 1 have to put 'em in my irardin. I've got a real cute, rosy gardin. Want to see it'.'"' lid 1 not? I followed my yellowhaired boy to the corner where his treasures were, and there, growing in wild but graceful confusion, were many of my favorites from wod, swamp and hillside. My little guide talked fast and eagerly, pleased with the sympathy and appreciation he was all unused to, and how much he told me of his plants and their ways, lie had a name for each. It was rarely a name used elsewhere, but always an expressive, signifcant one of his own choosing. There was the "ralliker Mower, the prickle stem, the crawler, the bitter leaf, mother's favorite, long-root, vcilow juice, sticky plant" and scores of oth' rs, all named front close observation arid knowledge of their looks and habits. And be knew more than this. Seeing me stoop to examine more closely some grass, with tall, feathery tops, lie Kiid, as if he wa telling me something new, and of his own discovery: "There's lots o' grasses sides red top, and timothy, and medder gra-." "And do you know them all apart?" "l'retty well, ma'am; that is, all that grows r r. th farm. livery feller oughter know the irra.-s on his own farm, 'course." "Kvery felk r" does not, I said mentally, though J agree with you that he oughter.'' "Can youtell me something about them?" I asked iny little botanist. "Wall, fust place there's more'it one kind o' red top, though folks don't eeem to knoA- it- You buy a twenty pour: 1 bag o' seed, marked lied Top, over to Granton. and you sow it, and it comes up, and the fust thing you know part of it's ready to cut, and the rest ain't ripe. And one kinds a good sight bigger and coarser than t'other, and there's lots o' little difference?, but they sell it all for lied Top just the same. You see them spots over there in the field where it looks kinder darker, and the grass is all shiny, like it was wet, that's awful pretty grass: don't the leaves look like they nad a coat of varnish stuiT on rn? It's real rugged, to, and it'll frrow most anywhere, in shady places and all. And it sticks there, too. Mebbc you'd think it was medder grass, but it's kinder rougher to feel of. And it don't run along under ground so much." (I saw at once that this was rontrh meadow grass, called by the botanist, those stupid old fellows w ith whom we have nothing to do to-day, Toa trivialis.) "I call it," went en the boy, "shiny grass. That 'ere grass all along the river bank I call crawly grass. It'll crawl np and down steep bank, like a lly'll go up and down wall." (I recognized the creeping tent JJfrpStiSfc'tyloiafW!,

"There's a funny grass cver there; 'flint so funny now; 'taint out yet, uit bime.by it'll have long, big beads. It" is all furry with ong hairs, and in the fall it turns just as white, ajyl you will ee white, foggy spots all oyer your pastures, and the heads sometimes break o!V and go a-blowin 'round like big bunches o' feathers." (Old witch gwss of course, I thought, I'anicum capillare.) "But," went on wide awake, "Oh, lady, there's the cutest little grass nobody knows but me, and I jest love it. It's a little bit of a soft, limbcry thing, looks something like a baby meadow-grass, and it sfhrooches down close to the ground, and" hesitating a minute and looking doubtfully at me "it's, well, as true's I live and breathe, it likes folks!" "What do von mean by that?" "Why it jest follows folks about. It comes all 'round the doorsteps aud where we walk. If you have just one way 'cross the held and take it every time, that little chap comes up there and stays. He's In the path to the well, and lie's in the place where us boys play ball; and he's nil along the little place behind the house where we draw baby up and down in her wagon. He's the sociablest little feller and 1 call him folksy grass." Do not some of you recognize low or early meadow grass, l'oa Annua? Much., much more did my young farmer tell me. All the Mowers, plants, trees, grasses, sedges were his playmates and close friends. Could years of city life, with its museums and grand shows, have taught him such lessons and in such a pleasant way? Ojien your eyes. Learn by sight every thing that grows about you ; know the plants as they iirst send up their little tender leaves in the spring, as they grow, and leaf, and branch, and bud, and tlower; know their roots and their seeds, their solid ahd hollow stems, their sticky or bristly, rough or smooth feel; their pleasant or disagreeable smell; their bitter or sour or nuckery, or hot or smart taste; their pale or deep, or dull or bright color; know them each and all. and thoroughly, or be heartily ashamed of your ignorance. il7en in winter, and when the snow is on the ground, you can find new and strange things if you look for them. The little mosses on the rocks or tree trunks, on the fallen logs and old stone walls, bear their fruit in winter chiefly; and if you look closely you will see, rising from amonsr the soft green plush or grayish velvet, a slender, hair-like stem with tiny fruit scarce larger than a pin's head, sometimes covered' with a fairy cap of white fur or smooth white satin. Try carefully and you can pull oft" the cap and see underneath the shining red or brown, or green fruit. Many of tue ferns keep green and shining through the winter, and so do the Wintergreen, the Princess Tine, some of the leaves of the Liverwort, and many other things which you might learn ta know well.

L Or you might have a little winter garden in doors, a box of rich earth from the woods either with or without a glass shad'' over it; any juick-witted farmer's boy or girl could plan one. This you could fill in the fall or early winter with ferns and mosses, and berry-covered vines, with violet and liverwort and anemone roots, and so have through the loug New Kngland winter a bit of the summer woods in your own houe, and long before the little out-door friends show their bright faces your sheltered sleepers would wake up and peer out at you. AmliitioiiH to be au Author. Youth's Companion. In isü a young girl from a Southern State came to one of the large Mastern cities to seek her fortune at authorship. She had a few hundred dollars; was pretty, quickwitted, and had the most absolute faith in her own genius. b'he would write a novel, she said, or a toem that would astonish the world and bring her fortune. After this had been done then she intended to go home crowned with fame, to become the queen of her little village. The novel and poem were written, and went the rounds of the publishing-houses seeking in vain a publisher, sihe wrote other novels to no better purpose. She wrote essays, newspaper articles, and carried theni herself to every editor, using her pretty face and girlish wiles to force a sale. After a few months her money was gone. Her clothes grew shabby. Her face, a little sharp now and pinched, had become familiar in every newspaper otlice. Her eyes had lost their dewy softness, and shone hard and defiant. Often she was hungry. The end of the story is easily guessed. Sjhe was sent home at last, ruined in health and in reputation. This is a true story in every detail. This girl had ability enough to earn her living in a half-dozen ordinary ways; but she had not the ability to express herself in writing; anil here is the fatal mistake which she and so many other young people make. They are blind and inditVerent to all kinds of success but that of authorship. Yet many a man and woman who can hardly write a well-ex pressed letter have more sound practical sense, executive talent and refinement of feeling, than the versifier or story-teller who hold the public breathless for the time. Uut the ambition to succeed as an author is harmless enough, provided disappointment does not disable the mind for other work. It is a career which requires no capital or "plant" of any kind. .Neither is influence needed to secure a new aspirant a hearing, although there is a wide-spread belief among unsuccessful writers, that there is a ring composed of editors and a few well-kmown writers, whose object is to crush unknown genius and forbid it a hearing. On the contrary, there is not an editor in the com :itry who would not hail with abso lute delight a new writer of power, who could bring fresh strength to his columns. Send your manuscript, therefore, girls, to the magazine you prefer. You may be assnrcd that it will be fairly read and judged. If you do not succeed, it will because you hnve not the esecil talent for writing. Giveitup. You have other ability; use that. Turn to any profession or trade rather than hang around newspaper olllces in the unhonored ranks of the hangers-on of literature. A Lnre Legal Advertisement. Special to the Sentinel. Mattoon, HI., Jan. :0. It is rarely, iaileed, that a country newhpaper publishes as Ion? a lejral advertisement as that running in the Democrat, published at Toledo, Cumberland County". The advertisement is to restore the record plats of the public hirhavti destroyed at the time the Courthouse was burned. It is sixty-six columns in length, and at the legal rate, amounts to jl,viO. 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KNOTTY PROBLEMS. Cni reafif rt are invited to tarnlRfi original enigma, charades, riddles, rebuses aud other "knotty problems," addressing all communications relative to this deartmett to . . Chadbouxn, Lewiston, Maine. No. 14 61. A Strange Hough Thing. A strange rough thing by the roadside Y ou do not care to meet, A-wearing a thorny armor Hound a purple blossom sweet. Yet away across the ean. In a misty mountain land. They stamped my unenurh ilg'ire On their &r.cie;it kingly band. They wove me oft with heather In my old home of romance, A nd tL y twined me long asro With the lily-batge of France. I'own swooied tlio English dragon; My royal ludy feil. And I drooped beneath the harrow As Knglish annals tell. Vice.

No. 1402. A Metainorpliosii. Two buck9 were standing face to face, With open space between; Then leaped into that vacant space Our little Josephine; When, presto, lo! these buck and Jo A fragrant plant is seen. J. K. P. B.lkhit. No. 1403. An Auagrrani. Let ns fly where the deer aud the panther alKjund Where the f. and the otter in numbers are found W here we'll live on venison, mush and potato; O, let's fly tO "A lirSTKB'S 1HIMA1V, BLIND CATO." r-oi. Maounim. No. 1404. A Charade. Where broken pbimals ride the wave. Aud wrecks are tossed the surf uhu, Where billows sob and sea winds rave Where bursts and booms the minute gim, And w here a beaming tropic sun. Doth last the gallant sailors brow, The heroes stoop aud cringe to none, Who ride upou the lofty prow M v am. the hearts within their breasts Those vaJlierit warriors of the wave. Though light those hearts as foaming crests, They'd cease to beat their f.ag to save; And sink into a billowy grave. Within their mother Ocean's arms; Or conquering heroes, true ai;d brave. They'd live to laugh at War s alarms. JoK Ar.VoRY. No. 1405 A lew Tree.I. When Adain found his charming mate, And first the nnptial knot was tied, W hat tree in all the rarden vast KccemLlvd most the groom and bride? II. When lucky chance or li fe-long work Shall itive to me of gold a store. What curious tree shall 1 require To he'd me keep a coach aud four? III. And if by dint of toil or chance Icoiaeto have the coach and four, What tree will every horse re-tuirc To draw the carriage from nir door? S. I. ;. Na. 14 5. Dec apitationa. I. The whole is part of this treat world Wherein all people dwell; Reject my rirst and then you have A number yon ejm tell. II. The whole does surely indicate A certain habitation; Without aiv first you surely have A kind of excavation. Jaspku B. No. 146. A Ite versa!. A word that shows a state of mind That is not of the Christian kind heversel will show, as plain as day, In a phonetic, kind of way, hat persons in that state may say. Xki.sonia:. The January l'ri.e. The sender of the bet lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" of January will receive Charlotte M. Yonge's "Young People's History of France," finely printed and handsomely bound in eJoth. Answers. 1417. Apennines. 14 Ks'. Kngland. 114!. Oliver W. Holmes. 14.VJ. Haze. 1451. Gang-lion. 145:1. Plant-age-net. .;. Mode. AN ADDING MACHINE. Contrivance of a Kookkeeper After Twelve Tears' Work. C. !. Spalding, who keeps books for Hay A: Johnson, says the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, has perfected a machine that is designed to aid brother bookkeepers or accountants in running up long lines of ligures. He has been at work on the invention since 1S7.J, and had the thing patented something like a year ago. The machine is encased in a wooden lo.v about eight inches suarc and three inches deep, and, lifting the cover, the interior is seen to hohl an enameled white surface, on which are two dials, and which shows the brass keylxxird in the lower left hand corner. The larger dial of the two is on the left of the machine, and is divided into loo sections. The rim of the smaller dial is likewise cut into twenty sections. The hand which moves about the first dial is called the unit iointer. That which moves about the smaller one is called the hundreds pointer. A little tingei; play on the brass keyboard makes the object of the dials and the'reasons of the jointers' names quickly understood. The nine keys on the board are numbered from one to nine, and are placed in regular order, but also in two row3, 2, 1, and .s being above and the odd numbers below. The key is a brass upright, and as the finger draws on it a spring allows it to slip back toward the lower end of the box. The pulling of each key on the board sends tbe unit pointer alongon its journey around the dial as many points as there are units in the number of the key. Pull tbe ! key and the dial set at 0 goes to '., lull the same key again and the unit pointer moves to H. Pull the 1, 2 and 3 keys now, and the pointer poes consecutively with a hop, skip and jump to 21. When the unit pointer, keeping up its agile athletics, has reached its starting point again, there is a quicit little motion on the right hand dial. The pointer then has "Jotted and gone oae." The machine's internal clockwork is more accurate than a human head can hope to be. It isn't troubled with malaria, nor is it ever larger in the morning than it was the night before. All the accountant has to do is to run his eye up and down the columns, pullingach respective key as he reaches the corresponding figure. A day is sullicientin which to learn tbe key-board, and the motion et" the hand quickly becomes almost involuntary. The expert can run the figures in his head and on tbe key-board simultaneously, thus "proving" his .work by one trip up or down the column. Carrying is performed by setting the pointer at the number to be carried, to set the unit pointer all that Is necessary is to hold down key 1 and turn the pointer forward to a number one less than the one carried. On releasing key 1 the jointer is on the desired number. The hundred jointer can be moved in cither direction. The hand easily ojx-rates the niae keys thus: Xos. 1, 2 ana .'5 with the first nnger, I and 5 with the second, and 7 with the third, S and !) with the fourth. The inventor claims for the machine unerring accuracy and surprising rapidity. He says an expert can add 210 ligures a minute with it. A Woody Fight. Ulk roisT, I.T., Jan. s Six miles south upon the bank of the Missouri River in Nebraska live the families of W. W. Westbrook and Anson Gibson. They are from Missouri, and will shoot at the drop of the hat. Westbrook's wife is a half sister f (Jibson, and Westbiook has three sons. Gibson has but one son. The trouble was caused by tbe fact that neither family wished to see the other prosper. Recently a neighbor lost a mule, and Gib9on secured the carcass for wolf bait. This was discovered by the Westbrooks, who at once removed half of the coveted bait, and Gibson got on to their trail and threw the carcass into the river. Everything seemed proeperous now for the Gibsons. - About 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the Westbrooks heard the rattle of a wagon approaching j tense, ax. 3 Gibson a pin w j

came in sight Jim Wesibrook fired his1 revolver, bringing down the near bor. Gibson jumped from the wagon and began firing upon old man Westbrook. The other boys opened np in fine style, and Willie iibson, hearing the fusillade, armed himself and hastened to the scene. He found his father down on the ground with Jim Westbrook on top of him, snappicg a big navy revolver in his car. With some difticulty the young man separated them, and on making an investigation found Tom Westbrook in a fence corner with a wound in his neck which caused his death. Old We-tbrook was the recipient of a bnllet over his right eye, which will result fatally, and Jim got o cut in the scalp from which his brains were oozing. Everything considered, it must be admitted that Gibson is a thoroughbred in this line. The wolf deal is practically iu his hands at tke present writing. A PECULIAR PEOPLE.

The Mrangely-Aftiicted Class Known as lumper Among ench-Canadiam. I Medical Record. A correspondent gives some curious facts concerning the "jumpers" among the FrenchCanadians. He says: They attracted my attention as presenting some points of interest bearing ujon the nervous system, showing to what a hyper-sensitive condition it may be brought by certain influences early begun and long continued. 1 had from time to time heard lumbermen and others whose invocations led them to spend much time among the French camps speak of the "jumpers," but had piven no credence to the, as I thought, absurd stories they related in regard to them, until one day, while attending to my duties in the waiting-room of my fumigating station, I incidentally let fall the window near my desk by turning the button suddenly, thus letting the frame fall a short distance, making a quick, sharp noise, when three out of seven French-Canadians who were sitting near, awaiting their certificates of inspection, leaped into the air as if they had been shot, at the same time uttering a yell which would have done credit to a North American Indian. From that time I was on the watch for these strange characters, and, when possible, made inquiries of them through my interpreter in regard to the cause of their condition. ISetore speaking of this perhaps it will be well to enumerate some of the manifestations which give them the characteristic name of ''jumpers." One or two instances will be sufficient. Recently one of them, a French Canadian of small stature, came out of an adjacent camp to the rostofllce. Just as he was about to ask the Tostmaster for his mail, he being a total stranger to the official, a man of sixty-five years of age, some one knowing the fellow to be a "jumper" mischievously cried out: "Grab him by the throat!" The fellow sprang like a cat and grasped the old man by the throat, and held on urstil removed, the irate Postmaster pouring forth torrents of invectives on the poor feilew, who really was perfectly guiltless. Another unfortunate woodchopper had just come into camp from two days' work, and was standing near the large camn-heater, in which was a very hot fire, when some one cried : "Grab the furnace '" No sooner were the words said than the poor fellow obeyed the order, and as a result left a scorched pattern of each hand on the nearly red hot pipe, thus rendering him unlit for his work in the woods for some weeks. As stated above, I have endeavored, when possible, to investigate as to the cause of this ieciiliar anil distressing condition; and while i rind, without doubt, that primarily it is due to an inherited nervousness, the immediate cause is in taking such children, when small, and while firmly held tickling them until convulsive symptoms appear. BISMARCK. Kcni.irkable Speech ot the Prussian Chan, cellor iu the Landtag Yesterday. Bi ki ix, Jan. 2s". Prince Bismarck to-day in debate in the Prussian Landtag on the, expulsion Of Poles from Germany made a remarkable speech, occupying two hours in uelivery. He said the primary cause of the Government's action was the disloyalty of the Poles to the German Crown. They were, he said, constantly engaged in intrigues against the Government and had made themselves a steady annoyance to Prussia by acting as accomplices of the opposition in the b'erroan Parliament. They effected the majority against the Government, and the Crown could do nothing less than either deny the demands of such a majority.or destroy the evil element which made a majority possible. The Polish, agitation in Germauy, Bismarck said, always appeared to him an element of daBger, and had compelled him to keep watch upon Russia. The Poles had been constantly, and not always unsuccessfully, endeavoring to set foreitm states against Prussia; hence, continued the Chancellor, "we have determined to buy out all real estate owned by Polish nobles in Prussian Poland, and place a German colony on the land hitherto occupied by these people. In order to make the colonization inure ernianently to the benefit of the Empire, the colonists would be prohibited from mrrrying Polos. The cost of the undertaking would De about IXM.OOO,ooo of marks, about $, 000, OuO, - but the state will lose no more than 10 per centum of this loss, made necessary by the exegencies of the case in buying out an alien class and reselling to Germans, while the gain to the Empire would be unmeasurable." "The Government," said the hancellor with great animation, "will never concede the restoration of Poland, nor a hair's breath in that direction. The Poles played a suspicious part in Kabturcampf. and whosoever refuses to help protect and maintain the rotate is nt entitled to claim anything from the State. As for me. I am ready to save my country, although it cost nie my head and honor. If anybody dares attack Trussia'B frontier. I shall say, like t; lad stone, 'Hands oft' " In reference to the insinuation that the Government's religious prejudices had a great influence in its treatment of the Poles, Bismarck said: "Religion is in nowise connected with the expulsion. As the policy of kindness failed, it became necessary to reduce the Tolith element in Germany and increase tho German element. This is the real reason for the expulsions, and the Government has determined to lersist in the work despite the opposition ot the Reichstag. In conclusion I will say that before allowing the fatherland to be endangered I would counsel the Enaperor to make a federal Government independent of the obstructionists' tactics in the Reichstag, as far as the constitution and laws of Germany would permit, fori would hold any minister to be a coward who should hesitate to stake everything to save his fatherland from danger." Strange Story of a Murder. Svrantos, Ta., Jan. 23. A remarkable scene occurred in court here during the trial of the Italian, Antonia Guarglia, on the charge of murdering a countryman named Giacomino. Prior to the arrest of Guarglia a dissolute woman named Waters gave information leading to the arrest of Brian Collins and Henry Koch. She swore that she süw them commit the murder, but the Grand Jury discredited her story, and the men were liberated. "Meanwhile Guorglia was arrested and indicted, and while his trial was in progress, the woman Waters was called forjthe defence, fche at first refused to be sworn, saying she testified betöre and was not believed. The Judge ordered her to be committed for contempt and a Deputy Sheriff took her into custody, but she soon returned and was sworn. She told her story in a straightforward manner, ishe said that she was discharged from jail on August 27. Next day she was going to the tunnel and crossed a path near the scene of the murder. 'Brian Collins and Henry Koch were sitting in the bosh. "Collins asked me," she said, "if I could

whisky. At that time an Italian carr.e along and Collins asked him for a chew of tobacco. The man said he. had none. He was then asked for ten cents, and said he didn't have it. Collins grappled with the man and struck kim iu the face. I screamed and Koch covered my mouth with his hand aud threw me to the ground. When 1 arose I saw Collins throw a razor in the bushes and the Italian, who was turned partly upon his face, was bleeding. I went over to him and wiped some of the blood from his face with my handkerchief, then ran away. Collins headed me off anil asked me again for a drink. I said, You have killed the Italian.' He asked me if I was going to squeal. I replied that I was not. lie then forced me to fet on my knees and swear that I wouldn't, then went to No. 1 1 Plane street and there told an Italian about the case. He asked the name of the man who did it and I wrote Brian Collins' name in his book." The woman was not cross-examined. She has never wavered since she first told it several months ago. The trial of Guarglia has -ot yet been com-luded, and the woman's story and manner on the stand have created a profound sensation. The case Is a genuine puzzle. Arrested for Stealing Rank Funds. Erie, Pa., Jan. 2). Ex-Senator James Sill was arrested here to-day by United States Marshal Killing and taken before United States Commissioner Grant. He is charged with aiding and abetting his brother, Joseph Sill, cashier of the First National Bank of Union Mills, in making false entries in the books of th bank with intent to deceive Hugh Young, the United States Bank Examiner. The bank broke a year ago with almost 4200,000 liabilities and with nothing but the stockholders' liabilities to meet the claims of the crdeitors. The Sills, as alleged, had taken all the bank's available funds. Among the asets were drafts sinel by Sill and indorsed by him as executor of his dead father's estate. The heirs repudiate the papers, hence the prosecution. Senator Sill is a member of the Erie bar, was a prominent Republican and was regarded as worth half a million at one time. After the wrecking of the bank he made an assignment. The Humboldt Savings Bank, in which he had been an officer and a large lorrower, soon followed the other bank. Sill is under $5,000 bail. Captain Gustave Jareeki, Presidentof the defunct Humboldt Savings Rank, was bound oyer to court in the stim of $5,000 for bail on a charge of receiving money on deposits knowing the bank to be insolvent. The cashier, J. J. Sturgeon, is a fugitive and Is in Toronto, Canada. The Humboldt Bank broke a year ago, and has paid but 10 per cent. The depositors are growing very restive and are in bad blood over the failure of the bank.

The jury in the murder case of Chyo Chiack, the alleged Chinese "Highbinder," at St. Louis, Last night, rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. We accioently overheard the following dialogue on the street vesterday : Jones Smith, why don't you stop that disgusting lawking and spitting? Smith How can I? You know I am a martyr to catarrh. J. Po as I did. I had the disease in its worst form, but I am well now. S. What did you do for it? J. I used Dr. 'Safe's Catarrh Remedy. It cured me and it will cure you. I've heard of it, and by Jove I'll try it. J. Io so. You'll lind it at all the drug stores in town. Paul Coalman, a cowboy convict, serving a sentenee of three years at "the Jolict, 111., prison, from Wyoming, was released yesterday afternoon, having serves! his erm. When Coalman was bronght into the clerk's ofliee to be discharged, the clerk banded him a package of bills amounting to nearly slow aud informed hint that $1,000 of the money bad been pent to him asn Christmas present by ob of the cattle kings of Wvoming. The ex-convict was nearly paralyzed with astonishment with his good fortune and left the prison floors with a light heart. Beware of Scrofula Scrofula is probably more general than any other disease. It is insidious iu character, and manifests itself in running sores, pustular upiions, boils, swellings, enlarged joints, ibscesses, sore eyes, etc. Hood's Sarsaparilla exiels all trace of scrofula fnm the blood, leaving it pure, enriched, and healthy. "I was severely afflicted with scrofula, and for over a year had two running sores on nay neck. Took five bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and consider myself cured." C. E. Lovejov, Lowell. Mass. C. A. Arnold, Arnold, Me., had scrofulous sores fur seven year?, spring and fall. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured biro. Salt Rheum "William Spies, Elyria, O., suffered greatly from erysipelas and salt rheum, caused by handling tobacco. At times his hands would crack oin and bleed. He tried various preparations without aid ;. finally took Hood's Sar. saparilla, and now says: " I am entirely welL' My son had salt rheum on his hands and on tite calves of bis legs, no took Hood's Sarsaparilla and is entirely cured." J. B. St-sk', Mt. Vernon, Ohio. ft Hood's tSarsaparilla Sold by all drupgists. f 1 ; x frr ?3. Mad nly by C I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. dt 1 100 Doses Ono" Dollar.! A S B Q 3 ,iLSH? B1WERS CURES B 'AU DISEASE OnHC LIVER KIDNEYS STOMACH AND BOWELS. GL. ALL DRUGGISTS Dypp! General Detilltjf. Jaoadiee, Habit aal Oonstlpa - (ion Liver Complaint, Sick Ue-dack. Diiwtid Kid Byt Et., Et. Itccctsits only the Purest Drugi, among wklch may b enumerated riTCtlT B3 lilt n.lZIVZS, -ASXSaXX, 1TCS7. EZVSA, Xt It cleacso tbe ijettm tnorongbly, and ti PUIUFIHR OF TUE BLOOD It U not aa Intoxicating beverage, nor east It t Uid aa auch, by maoo oflta CsUtartlo Fropertl . " raxcsLT Asn citxtvs go . 8U Proprietor;,

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IRDIANVEüETÄBLE ILL! CURE AÜ Bilious Compleinls. They are perfectly sale to tAke. befcc mali Vegetable and prepared with the preatest car from the best drus. They relieve the suCerer Once by carrying orT all impurities trot2- U towels. Ail drii3ts. Sc. a Box. HUMPHREYS' Knill cf ül lücc Bj r. IIIUPHKKYS.. D. , RICHLY BOIND El CLOU I and ÜOLI) Msiled Fre. let or ranrcrjPAr, son.' CTJ-RES. KICK. .2 .3 .as .7 .a . .at& Fever, Congestion, ln'lammiitkrBS. worm, vv onn f,pver, Hcrmio.... Crylnc Colic, or Teething of Inlauts. Diarrhea o( Children or Adult....... IKaentery, Griping, liilkiu Collc. Cholera M orbna, voraiung ........ Concha, Cold, bronchif .... ...... niralcia. Toothache, Faceacbe...... Headache, feick lleaUacba, 'rCfx. HOMEOPATHIC to it 12 13 14 1A lb 17 Dyapepaia. iilionsftrricn. ......... ,2S nppreaaed or Painful lerioda.... bite, too Profane Period Croup. Cough, Difficult lir-thinr . all ilheam, Erysipelas, optKns 2 Kheamatlara. Rhenmitie Pains...... Fiyrr and Acne, t 'hills, Malana..... Pllea, HUnd or iileedinr Catarrh, Influenza, Cold in the HraJ. A0) hooptn Congh, Violent CoiHrbn-. A0) Ueneral eblilty.'P hyaical Weakne&a UM) Kidney PiMenv. ........ ,SO ervoua lability.......... ........I.OO) I rlnary Weakneee, Wetting Bed.... JK LMneaaea of the Heart, Palpitation. 19 20 21 27 2H 30 32 SPECI FICS. 8d by Irrjriit, oru-nt r-fjajl on n.it ef ivine. H I BF UK I W' B tll 1 S 1 1 u. . lu ilm feb tk Hii& I.ab, H. E. Smith. Erowk Ai Hahvev, Hez. Dailey, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. SHERIFFS SALE By virtue o! ven execution to me directed from The CWk of the; Marion Pnperior Court of Marion County, Indiana, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on TnCKSDAY, THE 11TH DAY OF FEEIU'AKY, A. D.. lfso. between the honrs of 10 o'clock a. th. and 4 o'clock p. m, of said day, at the door of the i'oi-t Howe of Marion CouBty, Indiana, the ruits and profit for a term not exeeedinir, even year, ot the following real estate, to-wit: Lots numbered thirteen nr,i, fourteen H4 fifteen 1.'). sixteen and that part of lot twentytwo (!) embraced in the following boiind: Beginning at a point on the south line of Biddlo street three hundred and twenty-live t:ii'd feet east of l'ine street, running thence east forty to feet, thence touth fifty (S0 feet, thence wet forty (4d) feet, thence north fifty (5o feet to p'.m-e of beginning. All situate in Bid lie's subdivision of outlot forty-five ( !.")) iu the city of Indianapolis, Marion County. Indiana. Also on the same day, and between the houni aforesaid of said day, at the Indianapolis Eridfro Works, on Bid die street aud the Bee Line Kailro8d, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, all tho personal property of said Bridge Company, consisting of ore Atlas eugine, one boiler, u-.-iher with all shafting, pulleys, lelt:n!r. and ail other fixtures attached. All the bla-ksml-Cs iron, tools, machinery, composition sa:e, ot!:ee furniture, etc., etc. And on failure to realize the full arr.ocr.t of jndpnieius, interest and costs. 1 will, at tbe una time and place, expose at public t&'.c the fco Bim pie of said real estate. Taken as the property of The Indianapolis Bridge Company, at the suit of The Firt National Bank of Indianapolis, No. J.;: S'io-.?liton J. Fletcher et al.: First National Eenk of IndianaKiis, No. 2..V0: David Braden: Jones & Laughlin (limited): David Russel, Sr., et al.; and Central Iron and Steel Co. s&id sale to be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. OKOROE H. CARTER, k-herifl of Marion County. .'anuaryl?. A.D.ISST.. James XI. Winters. Attorney for PlaiutiiT. SHERIFF'S SALE Bv virtue or a certif)-?.! copy of a decree to me directed, from the .era ot the Superior Court of Marion 'oun-y, lndiar a, in a cause wherein Frederick Rand, Keccivcr, etc., is plaintiff and Mary Morrison etal. are defendants, (case No. S4.2CJ.) requiring me o make the Eum of money In said deeree provided and ia manner as provided for iu said decree, with inteiestonsaid decree and com'. I will txpoe at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, TnE 27TH DAY OF KEBRCART, A, 1)., 1SSÖ, Between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 1 o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the court bonse of Marion Couuty, Indiana, tbe rents andrronta for a term not exceeding seven years, of the followibg real estate, to-wit: Lot twelve (12). in Dinare forty-Eve '4" except twenty-five (2b) feet on the alley nonh of t-aid lot, In the'eity of Indianapol is. Also one undivided iifth of tot number ix except ninety (90) feet oil' the north cud. in ratterson's subdivision of square number nineteen (19) , in tbe city of Indianapolis. Also one undivided tilth of lota number twenty (20) , twenty-one CJ1), twenty-two uV). twtntythree (0, twenty-four M; twenty-five C), twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27). of Morrison nd Talbet's subdivision of a seven t" aere t n t in the east hnlf of the northeast quarter t rvum seven (7), towiixhip fifteen (15. raut;e fo :r u, south of the Michigan Road, near the city of Indianapolis. Marion County. Iiidiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, iutcrct and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or no much thereof as may be sufficient to di-o-harge said decree, interest and costs. Jsaidfale mill be made with relief from valuation or pprai"raent law. GEtK.K U. CARTER. Sheriff of Marion County. February 1, A. D., 1SS. iHCHOLS f.1 tT IUCAL, on tT thepast tweBtyflve yean, asanlltoY TOIO for loa of appetite, nervona prottrailon, Irsrept and all irouMes a'b;:ig lvnra l.llliKA 1. 1K1W I.ITY. FUHSALÜBY Al I.Li'J U-.LMS null s& mm TO WIM HEfl! I nff erinr froti tba f'it ot ov r.fnl er.nr -: v .m.w lra Btnliood. tic. I will mu, j.iu ra'-.ikh r. :s npoa tbe above diarum alw airevt n tor v'-c-ir. rre ol barge. Address Prof. F. U. FOWLEK. M C&a. TAPE WORM INFALLIBLY CURED with 2 spoons of roMIcine. in 2 to 8 hours. For particulnrs aud rf'-reneen address, with tamp, IL EICKKOKN, eu Kaxk'i Place N. Y. RESTORED. Rented F reew A ict. ax of m : M 1 imprudence eatisiriir l'rtraaflllllllllllll lura -servou ieijL tried In vain every known remedy, bae diseverwd a simple self-cure, which ba wUi send I'ULZ to tua fiow-anfferers. Addreas i. Ii. UE VES. 44 Chatham-street, gew York CX .1 Buls-LJlJl,"tifcM, Asa ai'.M. .ii-i . Iii, nl ink! iwrss Trial MSsV ate, aasuiBf ws rrj -. , 5Tor. WARD & CO. wtTru-u, W.

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