Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1887 — Page 3

TilS INDiÄtTA STATE SENTINEL- WEDNESDAY .FUH 1 1887.

SHABBY REMINDERS. J

Tis hirfctio inl Classy Hocusmt tad Mamoriila cf New York. fjtrrj MeCacI)'FoauUtn-Dodge's Stat ae The Warth MoDatneBt "the Old Master DaJj't Season. ISpccial CorrcfDondcnce of the Sentlnel.1 New York, May 20. Psiog the little spot of green at tbe intersection of Broadway ana Siith avenue, at Thirty second strtet, I suddenly came upon the Iron fountain erected to the memory of Jerry UcCauley, which had been newly painted m glaring yellow hue. If there la anything we do that is more lacking in taste thaD the subjects and designs of oar city istatues and monuments, it la the care we take of them. ome of the subjects, like Jerry McCauley. for instance, hare bo possible claim to such public recognition as a fountain on a much-ireqaen ted public square. McCauley was originally a "bummer;" then he told bad liquor to drunken Bailors until the shipping act broke up the sailors' lodging houses; then Jerry "got religion," and ever afterward during his life he play ed the christian charity act, and saved souls temporarily in a little religious dance and Mcrcd niubis hall in, Thirty-second street. Then he died, and a lot of pood old soul?, with more money and charity than taste or common sense, got up a shabby dnnkirg fountain and ee-t it up where its hideousness could be seen by all passers-by. At the other end of the earn square is an absurd Statue of William . Dodge, an old merchant, who dodged around doins considerable good with his money, but not in such a way as to entitle h:ni to have his monument erected Jn the public street instead of n h's own private burial lot in Greenwood. It was always a shabby-looking article, of cheep bronze manufacture he was in the tin line, and, appropriately, his monument should have been mace of that metal but it looks shabbier with each passing month. They ought either to put on a layer of burnished tin to commemorate his trade, or paint it yellow ;to make it correspond with Jerry McCauley 's fountain. The birds in the park have made eye Borrs of the many figures there. They have bnilded nesU In Shakspeare'a band and in Humboldt's capacious ear, while frequent rains are necessary to remove the tracings of their rvostinga on every figure in the public squares and parks. There is but one piece of genuine statuary in Madison Sauare that of L&layette, by EartboldL Those of Lincoln and Washington, facing each other fom opposite sides of the square, are hideous in design and ridiculous in their juxtaposition. Lafayette appears to be throwing a base-ball to Washington, and Linceln looks like an umpire watching to decide whether it is to be an "out" or not. The pretentious Worth monument, on Madison Square, is a diminutive obelisk of granite, without any special design, that any one can se, and without erace or beauty. I never come upon the Farragut monument, in the same square, with its eemi-circu'.ar base and clumsy baa-raliafs. but I unconsciously look to Bad a sign on it ' For Gentlemen Only." The statue of Liberty, on top of City Hall, has recently been found to be made of wood, and is &9 rotten as the Beard of AlJeraoen within the hall. It is to be torn down, lest it crumble to pieces. All art seems to be suffering jast now from the iconoclasts, who are ready to demolish everything they see. A "genuine" Ealvator Kosa, figurmg in a suit for damages here, and valued by the owner at f 10,OCO, turns out to have once been in a Cincinnati beer saloon which ex Governor Hoadly frequented, and is worth, artist experts say, less than $1C0. iDcldenUlly, in this trial, an artist named George R. Hall, teirg asked if he considered the collection of old masters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art genuine, replied, rather brusquely aa well as broadly, that he did not, and no artist did consider tie collection genuine. Mr. Hall spoke not only for all artists, but eioke condemnatory of all the old masters in the collection. The catalogue of the Museum does not pretend that the paintings there are by genuine. old masters, but doubtless some ot them are; and Mr. Hall's sweeping assertion is as baseless as his assumption to speak for all artists is bumptious. By tie way, General Di Cesmola, director of the Museum, calls my attention to the fact that in my statement that the trustees bad to pnt their hand3 into their own pockets to the tune of $o0,000ayear to pay the expenses of the building, which the city ought to pay, I placed the amount, $17,000, below the actual figures; and, in this connection, he gives me the curious table published below, showing the current expenses of the present building, and the estimate submitted to the trustees for the whole building when the new one is completed. TEESEST EXPENSES 18S5-7. Falailes and wages J2T.OO0 Coal and LS light . j.uiO Carpenters' werk .. 2,.'U0 Exhibitions...- .. ....... V,uOJ Art schools .. . ,0u0 Stationery, bills, etc 7.U00 If open on Sunday...... IO.OjO FUTURE EXPENSES 1858 9. Salaries and wages 1 12 ooo Coal and electric iigat .. .. s.ouo Carpenters' work - 3.000 Exhibitions 4 ODO Art schools.- lo.ouo Stationery, bills, etc io.ujO Openinr on Sunday - 20.000 He adds: "Thenaw building will give tts 53,000 square feet o exhibition room: the present building has only 44,000 square feet; you can easily understand that more than double the present number of employes and double the amount of coal, light, etc., will be required. "Where is this large amount to come from every year? From the trustees? Xo, because tbey can not afford it. From the people? Xo; because the people do not want to pay any entrance fee. From the city? Perhaps but I don't believe it." Augustin Daly does nothing by halves. Be is to close Lis season in Boston on Saturday night at 11, take a tram the next morninzat 2:30 a. m., break the fast of the company at9:15 in Albany, dine Sunday in Syracuse, sup at Buffalo, acd sleep until 7:30 on Monday, when he awakes In Chicago. And he carries fifly people with him. This will be the quickest jump on rtcord, " ' From all accounts Frank A. Burr, who exposed the detiges ot the young man Lawäon te marry a young Jersey girl while several of his wives still survived, had w narrow an escape as the girl herself. Laweon is ,Raid to have stood over him Burr ting without any weapon for an hour, with a knife ready to plunge it into Burr's bowels. But when Barr had armed himself, and was ready to defend his life with the one arm of which he has any use, Larson's belligerency disappeared. Lawson is raid, by those who know him, to ex cell Professor Reymond in eloquence and fraudulent ingenuity. W. F. G. Bhabks. Napoleon' 911 stake. There Is no use denying it the great mat s of the French people were at least as despotically governed in the days of the Convention and the Terror and Directory as in those of the Consulate and the Empire. Bnt the Convention and the Terror and the Directory had, in spite of all excesfes, gained enormous practical benefits, initiated sweeping and imperatively needed reform?, for the French people: and not one of these was ever lost sight of by Napoleon. It was the introduction of these reforms and benefits into the constitutions and governments of the countries composing the Empire that

pave the new congeries of Staeswhatof stability and of unity it possessed. Toe hostility, constant and bitter, of three reactionary monarchies Russia, Austria, and I'rcs3ia would have tended to solidify and strengthen the French Empire if only it had been the chief thought of the head of the Empire to keep what he had gained, and to content himself with the astonishing success, wticb, in so brief a period, his ability and ei.td fortune had secured. From "Some Illustrations of Napoleon and his Times," by JohnC, Hopes, in Scribner's Magazine for June. GRANT IN XS57.

An Occasion When He Didn't Look at AU Like a West-Tolnter. New York San. I General Averill, the Union cavalry leader, tells an interesting story of the first time he ever saw Ulysses 8. Grant. It waa in 1857, while General Averill was on his way to join his regiment in New Mexico. When he got fourteen miles or bo west of St. Louis, leave was given him to go back for a few days. He had to wait nearly an hour at Kirkwood for a returnice train, and he passed the time chatting with Lieutenant Craig and his wife on the porch of their cottage. Craig was the commissary of the expedition. While they were sitting there there came up the country road whicn skirted the railway a Bingle horseman wearing a blue overcoat, such as private eoldiera wear, and a black felt hat rather broken and worn. In his band he carried a small blackBnaSe Whip, which te applied to the potbellied mare he was riding. The animal's roace and tail, it was noticed, were full of burrs. The browpian-red fa?e of the Eirarger was covered with a stubby, sandy beard. "When he reached the gate he halted, dismounted and fastened his animal to the picket fence. Lieutenant Craig went down to meet him. After an earnest conversation the man unfastened hie auimal, slowly mounted and rode away. When the Luutpnant returned to the porch be remarked: "Averill, would you believe that that man had ever belonged to the army ?' "Yes," was the reply, "he might have been an old soldier." "Xo," Eaid Craig, "I mean as an officer and graduate of the military itstitute." "He doesn't look it now," Averill reoined. "Who is he?" "That's old Ulysses Grant of the Fourth Infantry," the Lieutenant answered. "He wanted to be employed as commissary clerk to drive the beef cattle and issue the rations while we are crossing the plains. I couldn't employ him." General A verill supplements this story Of his first glimpse at the coming Union commander with another about his last meetirg with the Confederate commander, Lie. It was April 10. lS;t, after the firing on Fort Samt er had dissipated the last hepe of avoiding war. "I went to the War Department," the General's story run?, "to make application for the suspension ot my fnriongh. In the anteroom I met Colcnel Robert E.Lee. He wore an officer's coat, as the morning was chilly. We shook hands, but had little or no conversation. I noticed that he was troubled. He could not stand still, but kept littiog one foot and then the other, as thougu they were cold. His face wora an expression) intense diatress. and traces of tears were in nis eres. No words were needed to tell toe what was about to happen. I remember the po'gnant eense of bereavement with which for the first time I fully real ized the peril which threatened the nation, and a dim notion came over me that social ties might be stronger thau the Government wten such a man could be divorced from his allegiance." HOW FOUR MEN DIED. Three of 71iem Hee Murdered and the Last One Met a Rattlesnake. The Shakspeare Hotel, an old ruined adobe, vras the principal hotel in the place, and there I took up my quarters on my arrival, say a New Mexico correspondent of the Xew York Star. It was kept by a poor old German named Molliter, who had adopted a very pretty girl named Lisa Lincoln. She was about sixteen, and being, with one exception, the only woman in tte place, had many admirers. Amorg others was a desperado of the Curly Bill gang, known as Charlie Williams. Of course that was not his name, as nearly every man changes his name when he goes on the frontier. Williams bad an idea that old Molliter wa3 goiag to marry the girl himself. And so one evening, when ''Hockey" opened the first big saloon in Shakspeare, and all the boys were drinking in it, he approached the poor Dutchman and eaid : "Every man in thi3 country should go heeled. Are you heeled?'' "No," replied his nnsuspecMng victim. Drawing his revolver, Williams shot Molliter dead. In accordance with the beautiful system that prevails in Xew Mexico, which is a virtual paradise for thugs and murderers, Williams was released by a Justice of the Peace on $3,C00 bail. He went up to Silver City, and while he was drinking in the Centennial saloon a miner named Crittenc en came in and began boasting of a rich gold find he had made in the Finos Altos Mountains. Williams insisted that he should tell where he found the gold and take him in as partner. This Crittenden refused to do, and next morninar, while on the way to his claim, he looked back and saw Williams following him. He drew his gun, Cred at Williams and dropped him from his horse. He then rode oH and his victim managed to get into town, where it was found that his knee-cap had been so shattered by the bullet that amputation was necessary. This Williams refused to submit to, ana he lingered along for two months and absolutely died by inches. Three times his coffin was made for him, and each time another man filled it. On the fourth occasion, however, the coffin was occupied by the right Inhabitant. Meanwhile Crittenden pursued his way to his claim, but about the time that Williams died news was brought into town that he bad been bitten by a rattlesnake and had died from the effects of the poiton. The local paper, the New Southwest, summed up this extraordinary affair in the followirg laconic sentence: "Molliter is said to have killed a man In the E-ist Villiams killed Molliter, Crittenden killed Williams, a rattlesnake killed Crittenden, and the snake Is jet to be fcfinl from,'' Left Out in the Cold. From LIfe.l , His Satanic Majesty (to applicant for ad mission). W bat may 1 call your namef Applicant I haven't got any. I'm the man who has been writing anonymous contributions to the newspapers. His Satanic Majesty. Who cent you to me? Applicant. Feter. His Satanic Majesty (indignantly). Well, Teter ought to know better. You can't get in here, my friend; thia place is tco good lor you. Clear the Way Without losa of time, when tne Intestinal canal is blocked np by reason of constipation, chronic or temporary. It should be borne in mind that this ailment is prone to become lasting and ob stlcate, and breed other and worse compla'nts. Boetetter'a Stomach Bitter is the precise remedy to remove the obstruction effectually, but without drenching or weakening the blockaded bowels, a conncQuenee always to be apprehended from the use ot violent laxatives, which are among the most pernicious of the cheap nostrums swallowed by the credulous and mis Informed. The fiat of experience, and of the medic" fraternity, sanctions the claims of this standard aperient. Not only as a source of relief and permanent regularity to the bowels, liver and stomach, bat as a means of remedying and preventing kidney and bladder troubles, and lerer and ague, U il wU&ouf ft peer,

THE PLUCKY EDITOR

Xr. O'Brien Return i to Cicaix and Speaks in Montreal. His Reception la Albany, NewTork lie Address the Legislature of the Empire State. Albasy, X. Y., May 2G. The Speaker's gavel fell for the last time in the Assembly Chamber at 12:10 p. m., but just as the audience and members were leaving the chamber the Speaker remounted the rostrum and announced that Editor William O'Brien was in the room, and extended to him an invitation to mount the platform beside him. Ihe chamber at this time was nearly filled with spectators, many of whom were ladies, and a large proportioa of whom had followed Editor O'Brien on his tour through the city into the capitoL A passage way was soon formed in the center aisle, through which Mr. O'Brien passed. The famous editor, who appeared to be In good health and spirits, was greeted with hearty applause. Mr. O'Brien made a tenminute speech, in which he referred to the universal hospitality with which he had been received everywhere in America; to the feeling of security be experienced when he found himself under the glorious stars and stripes at Cape Vincent, and to the f reat honor now accorded him by the Leglature of New York. The Irish cause, he declared, would ever go oa. Nothing could daunt its promoters. Tney had the greatest leader In history and the greatest liviag Englishman (Gladstone) for taeir advocate. The Liberal party of England had never undertaken a great movement which it had not ultimately carried to success. He could 8ssure them, he paid, that American sympathy preatly nerve and encouraged every advecate and promoter of the Irish cause eyen TarneJl and Gladstone themselves. Speaker Husted referred to the fact that Fftven years ago he had the honor to present Mr. Farnell in the chamber, and that two j ears ago, while he (Mr. Husted) was abroad, Mr. Tarnell confirmed the very statement which Mr. O'Brien had just made: That American sympathy was most grateful to tbem. Mr. O'Brien then retired from the Chamoer amid hearty applause, and the large audit nee quietly dispersed. MR. O'liKlEN IX CANADA. He Is Met by An Immense Concourse of People at Montreal. Montreal, May 0. When the train bearing Editor O'Drien steamed into Bonaventura Station to-night there was in waitirg an immense concourse of people, who tcok the horse from the carriage occupied by O'Erien amidsingics "God save Ireland." The carriage was drawn to the ßt. Lawrence Hall, from the balcjny of which O'Brien made a speech. "We have," said he, "'since we saw you last, tiaverstd the Dominion of Canada from one end to the other without asking anybody's leave immen?e cheerine, even in Toronto loud groaning, where they refused U3 a ball. "To-right we return to this good old city of Montreal to tell you that our mission, through the blessing of Divine Providence, and through the generous sympathy of the Canadian peopl, has succeeded far beyond our wildest anticipation. Loud applause I have accomplished my task in spito of discouragement and diirger, and every fairminded man cow believes I took the only proper means to put an end to the murderous despotism of the heartless evictor, LanBdowne. Loud cheers, .Lansdowr., groats may bask for a while in tte praises of men who tried to stifle car voices in our blood. Groans. He made a speech at Toronto the other night in which he did not seem for a moment to be alive to the fa"t that attempt after attempt had been mHe upon cur lives in his interest, groans for Lacsdowne and that the grossest outrage bad been perpetrated upon the liberty of speech in Canada. A voice, "Down with him!" and groans. He treated these attempts at murder and that attempt at the suppression of free speech as matters of jocosity and levity. Bat he can not cloak his misdeeds any longer. 119 is now known, and to say he is known is the heaviest sentence of condemnation that could be pronounced against him." Loud applause. Several other speeches were made. TAUGHT LINCOLN TO READ. Sketch of the Aged Dennis Hanks, of Illinois. A dispatch from Charleston, III., to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, says: Probably the oldest and most distinguished man in who has for the past five years been in Paris, Edgar county, but recently returned to Coles. Mr. Hanks was born in 17'JO, and is therefore eighty-eight years of age. He is a full cousin to Nancy Hanks, known in history as the mother of our lamented, martyred President Lincoln, and is the only living witness of the ceremony wbicli bound together Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks in the bonds of matrimony. The old gentleman is very weak this spring, and looks aa if it would only be a few days until he will cross over the river to his reward. After Lincoln's election to the residency in 1800, Mr. Hanks, with the old og cabin made by Linsoln in Macon co ;n tr, traveled over the country by ril exhibiting it, and hirmelf as the man who taught Lincoln to read. He has adapted himself to more recent changes of costume and substituted an old slouch-hat for the high stovepipe he formerly wore. But he is always seen with his hat on, a custom held from youth up. Mr. Hanks has excellent conversational powers, and will sit for hours telling of the good traits of Mr. Lincoln. Daring the war a number of persons well known to Mr. Hanks were arrested by United States officers for treason and taken to Fortress Monroe to await trial. Mr. Hanks was opportuned to go to Lincoln and intercede in their behalf. Landing in Washington City, a guard at the white house refused him admittance. This exasperated the old gentleman, who, addrtE8iog the guard, said: "You tell Mr. Lincoln old Dennis Hanks wishes to speak (ohim!" Lincoln, who happened to be tc&r, fircrneirJ !h? CQUYtrjsUon, and, recognizing Hanks' voice, opened the White house door and gave him a royal welcome. It is needless to add Mr. Hanks secured the release of the prisoners. The New Idea of God. Canon Fremantle in Popular Science Monthly for June. Instead of asserting a priori, or taking ready-made from the scriptures abstract Statements, such as these alluded to above, tbeolog'ans must accept as their task the attempt to give a true account of the totality of things which is also a unity impelled by a single power or energy. They will show the traces of order, mind and purpose which the world presents, and will cautiously draw from the process of human life as that which is highest in the moral scale their inferences as to the nature of the Supreme Fower. They will not merely be careful not to contravene the laws of nature, but will consider essential a knowledge of them as manifestations ot the sapreme will, to which men must reverently submit themselves. They will not spend time in questions which admit of no Solution, such as the eternity of matter or the origin ot the world, or the possibilities of other spheres of life than those known to us by experience. They will trace the divine as working through nature and man; or, if they endeavor to think of a transcendental God, they will take care not to represent him as ft demiurge standing out-

side his work and putting in his hand here and there, a conception whidh has turned SO many physicists into atheists. Bat they will fetl able to speak of Gofias just and loving, since the supreme power ex bypothesi includes mankind, the leading portion of the world, with all its noblest ideals. They need not quarrel wiih those who think of the snpreme power rather afttr the analogy of force or law than according to the strict idea of personality, provided that the moral nature of man he held fact and its supremacy acknowledged. BEN BUTLER'S DISCOVERY.

Henry George's Theorie Enacted Into Laws by the Last Congress, tEnquirer New York Special. In a well-lighted apartment at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-night I found General B. F. Butler reclining on a large easy chair, which was completely filled by his bulky form. There was a spray of apple blossoms in the lapel of his carefully-brushed broadcloth coat. His great bald bead was shining with the rubbing it had received from the brcsbes in the hands ot his valet. The General's mission here was to make an argument in the l-ioyt will case. I asked him if he was going yachting this summer and he replied: "Ah, surely. Life would be burdensome without yachting." "I hear jour name mentioned often in political discussions?" The General then threw back his big head and answered with a quiet laugh that teemed to shake his whole frame. "I am quite out of politics," said he. Then he added more soberly: "I accomplisied In 1S81 what I undctook to do. I worked up the workicgmen of this country to!a realization of the power of organized labor. That was all I tried to do and succeedirg events have shown that my attempt was a successful one." "Do you look on the vote of Henry George in New York as one of the results of yrur canvass?" The vote for George is oi-ly a beeinning. It is merely a sign of what will edme day be. It 19 an indication of what Is going on over the entire country, and will continue 1 ego on. By the way, the land theories advocated by Henry George, which are held to be so outrageous, are not materially diilerent from theories that were enacted into law by the last Congress." "To what law do you refer?" "Henry George says, does he not, that ha wants all land titles to be held and controlled by the Government? Now, I will show you something which was enacted into a law by Congress which is exactly in line with the Henry George theory." Taking up a bundle of papers the General selected a large type-written manuscript and proceeded to read portions of "An Act entitled an Act to restrict the ownership of real estate in the Territories of ;the United States to American citizens, etc. Passed March 30, 1SS7." It is the act by which alitns are prevented from acquiring or holdirg real estat" above a certain number of acres la any Territory of the United 8tats or in the District of Columbia. When the General had read a few extracts frcm it he said: "Do you catch the drift of that? It is plain enough that if you bppn by passing laws that an alien shall not hold land in aDy number of acres you are going a lor g way with Henry George in his theories of Government control of land titles. It is the entering wedge. Under this law foreign citizens may not lesEe a house in the District of Columbia or in arty Territory, although by our treaties of smityand commerce he is entitled to all the rights of citizenship of thia country. He may not lease a warehouse or a store, because the lease U an interest in real estate which he is forbidden to acquire. It is, in short, a direct and rcsitive legislative step in the direction of Henry Georee's advocated theory. If this law is constitutional it establishes the constitutionality of Henry George's plan. There are defects in the construction of this law aud other objections, but the relation cf it to Henry George's laud movement was all I cared to briDg to your attention." Temptations of a ISroker's Ltre. Frcm the start, the boy entering a broker's office will bs intrusted with large sums of money to carry to the bank or to customers. He may be in an office where bank-bills and shining gold are within his reach all the time, and he will be so completely absorbed In the subject of stocks, bonds and money that it will bo somewhat strange if h3 does nbt soon begin to look at the getting of money as th most important business of life. And when he is a little older and becomes clerk or cashier, he will be exposed to the temptation to increase his income by stock-gamblin "speculating," as it is called on his own account. Such ventures are ot course very hazardous, and on all accounts should be shunned. A broker requires great strength of character to resist the temptation to get wealthy by false methods ; and a boy should think long and well before he adopts the calling. Fcr the broker's business is at best unstable. The work is done quickly in the midst of great excitement, and at "high pressure," 83 we say. As money comes quickly and easily to the broker.it is not so highly prized as if it were earned by the toil which produces a visible result, and it usually goes as easily as it comes. Brokers, of course, defend their own occupation. They will tell you that their services as agents in securing stocks and bonds are needed ; but tbey will not deny that stockbrokerage would cease to be a profitable business, except to a very few firms, if people were to stop speculating in securities. Of coarse, there are many men in this busipess who have risen to wealth and to eminence as financiers, who would scorn to do a mean or dishonorable act. All honor to such men, because they must often have letn sorely tempted to do wrong. I would not be unjust to this large class of men, so many of whom have personal traits which we are bound to admire. They are open-handed with their means. Their word to one another is as good as a bond. In fact, a large proportion of the business transacted upon the Exchange is done without written contract, and depends solely upon the good faith of the members concerned. Their promptness to respond on public appeals for aid or sympathy is proverbial. Yet all this should have no Influence upon a boy who is deciding whether or not he shall be a broker. Geo. J, Man;on in St. Nicholas for June. Still TTaltlrg. . rWall Street Kcws.1 A farmer near Buffalo, who went to the headquarters of a railroad to see about getting damages for a cow he had killed, waa urbanely received by the superintendent, who listened to the details for a while and then said: "I see. Now, you will give the age, weight and color of the cow, then you must prove she was your cow. Then you must have proofs that we killed hei. Then more proofs that 6he was not a tresspasser. Then deduct the hide and tallow, employ two good lawyers, and if we can't beat you by taking the case to the Supreme Court we'll make Borne sort of settlement probably allow you half." Carnahai.' Case. i Huntington Democrat General Carnahan, the chairman of the Republican committee of liarion County, is under indictment for instructing the Eepublican judges to gobble up the tallysheets and poll books ,lin order to protect the ballot." This, says the Huntington Herald, is but a technical violation of the statutes. It strikes us that it will prove a serious technical affair. ehe Who Would lie The Queen of Beauty must look to her teeth, for a pretty mouth is Indispensible to female loveliness. Brush your teeth carefully with fragrant Sozodont and you will be charmed with the result, for it is without equal as ft denUIxice,

A VETERAN CROOK. Ho Kelites a Ccnp!a cf Prcfozicml Tnss-actiors.

A Coo 11 Jence Job Thnt Cost an Indianapolis Bank Over 12,000-The BankKept Quiet. INew York Sur.l I was talking with an old-time crook the other day about matters in general, and after he had warmed up to the subject he said: "No, times are not what they used to be, and the profession of crook will soon be a thing of the past. Banks, offices and other moneyed places are so well guirded, and so many people are on to every game aDd racket, that there are no longer any gentlemen crooks. A man xnnst be either a common thief or go out of the business. Like some others, I have handled a great deal of money which did not legally belong to me, and in my palmy days I was in some of the slickest work ever done by bad men. I never trained with plugs. What I couldn't get without robbing churches, frightening women or using the bludgeon behind a man's back, I let alone." "Did yon ever do any bank work?" "Lota of it. That was my lay on the start, and they used to say I hadn't a rival in the business. There have never been since my time over half a dozen men in this country who had the nerve to 'touch a bank. You have got to be Dorn with it. Outside of the nerve, yoa must be of eood address and something of an actor. There are tight pinches in which only good acting will carry you through. My first job was perhapa the easiest I ever had. That was nearly thirty years ago, and before hank officials were suspicious ot everybody, and before the deteotive business had become a profession end an art. My work was laid out forme in Indianapolis, and we had plenty of lnnds and lots of time to develop it. Eight beside a bank was a hat aud cap More, and we bought the stock for $700, and two of us entered into business. We advertised largely, paid every bill promptly, and when we opened an account at the bank were cordially received. A partner in New York soon began sending us Bight drafts which were all O. K., and I tcok them into the bank and had no trouble, after the first one or two, in getting tne cash. A notice somehow got into the papers that we were soon to build a big store and add various lines of goods, and we presently found ourselves looked upon as A 1 among business men. "No doubt we could have sprung tne trap sooner than we did, but my policy always was to go slow and sure. Aa fast as we got the cash on a draft we sent it back to come again, and thev crept up in value from $1S0 to 2,0C0. This had consumed weeks, but just previous to the arrival of this draft a notice appeared in the papers that we had bought a site and an architect Was preparing plans for a $j0,CC0 building. A week later we were quite ready. One day at 11 o'clock I put on my hat and walked into the bank with a forged draft for $12.2S0.20. The cashier didn't hesitate ten seconds over it. Had I been a stranger he probably would not hav- paid it, but I stood there and whistled and drammed on tie counter while he counted oat the money. I was going away when he called me tack. My heart gave on9 great throb and then seemed to stand still, for I folly believed that he had detected something wrong. In the two or three seconds given me, I determiced to ask him to retain the money on deposit until be heard from the draft, but, as I turned about, he smiled and inquired if our firm could not take on a lriend of his when we got into new quarters. I replied in the affirmative, and walked out with the money in my hand. Half an Lour later my partner and I were leaving the city on a train, having left the hat store in charge of a boy, and neither of us has ever ventured back. The forgery came to light only when it was known that we had skipped, but I think the bank kept still about it. It was a new institution, and felt afraid of having it known it had been beaten. There were three of us in the job, and we made over $3,000 each in nine weeks time. Some have got rich faster, but I was never avaracious. "Another very fair i ob was drawn off Dayton, Ohio, a couple of years later, but it was one in which 1 did not take such deep satisfaction. WThen you beat a Bharp man, there it something to rejoice over. You have put your wits against his and come out ahead. In this case the cashier was a Equirt of a fellow, about twenty-three years of age. The cashier's den wss not railed off and csged up in those days as now, and they were not so careful of their piles of money. This chap seemed proud to pile up the bills and coin around him, and the moment I got a look at things I knew that he was our game. The only man to be afraid of was the bookkeeper. He was a bald-headed eld fellow of fortyfive, had his place next to the cashier, and what he g dn't see and hear was not worth attention. The manager and collector were in the bank much of the time, but at 2 o'clock always went out somewhere, and were gone a full half hour. This left only the cashier and bookkeeper to deal with. "There were two of us in the job, and after we had piped oif the bank until we knew it, I entered one morning and asked to see the manager. I was the agent of a new Chicago clock company for the manufacture of banks, office and railroad clocks, and as an advertisement for our concern would put up a time-piece on the wall and let it remain a year free gratis. The clock then on hand was a cheap affair, and the manager jumped at my ofier. I selected the place for it, and told him it should be hung up during the afternoon. We had piped the old bald-head off several days before, and knew just how we were going to manage him. He lived at least a mile away, and just after 2 o'clock, when the two men were left alone in the bank, a boy came in with a note telling him that bis wife had received a serious fall. He clapped on his hat and started for home, just as we had planned, and I entered the place in company with my partner, lie had a clock on his arm which had cost us $30. The opinion of the smart cashier was asked on various details, and he came out in front of the counter and gave orders about where the clock should be put up. While he was dancing around some evilminded person put $0,003 in gold and bills into an old sachel and then stood around until the clock was up. The reason he didn't clean out the bank was because two or three outsiders dropped in to Bee the clock. "When we went out it was to get into a hired buggy and drive away, and a few hours later we were bucking the tiger in Cincinnati. I always felt a little mean ever that job. You see, the cashier was a voung squirt who couldn't hold his own with a common thief, and it was no credit for us to beat him. That wasn't the last time I saw him, however. Four years later, while I was taking a vacation at Joliet for carrying off some diamonds belonging to a Chicago party, they put a new man at work beside him one day. He was a puzzle to me for awhile, but by-and-by I located bim as the cashier of the Dayton bank. He bad secured a place in Chicago as confidential clerk to a manufucturing concern, and had gone the way of many others, and got into the clutches of the law. When I told him who I was he had nothing but praise for the clock trick, saying that he aid not miss the money until the bank closed for the day." m.rVmi TTatraut nf TTTOOCrilTT. Of course in all families the mother is the one to whom the children cling, We

don't talk to tbem, feel with them, love tbem, ocenpy m uselves 8bout them as the f male does. We think about our business ard pleasure, not theirs. Why do I trouble you with these perplexities? If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? That's why I would rather have a sad letter from you, or a short one if you are tired and unwell, than a tbam-gay one and I don't subscribe at all to the doctrine of "striving to be cheerful." Aqnaibon, conclusive grins and humbugeing good-humor? Let us have a reasonable cheerfalness, and melancholy, too? if there is occasion for it and no more hypocrisy in life than need be. From the ' Unpublished Letters of Thackeray," in Scribner'a Mage-sine for June. A Christmas Letter From Thackeray. From the "Unpublished Letters of Thackeray," in Scribner's Magazine lor Jane. I stop in the middle of Costigan with a remark applied to readers of Thomas a Kempis and others, which is, I think, that cushion-thumpers and High and Low Church eitatics, have often carried what they pall their love for to what seems impertinence to me. How good my; has bfen to me in sending me a backache, how good in taking it away, how blessed the spiritual gift which enabled me to receive the sermon this mornirjg how trying my dryness at this afUrnoon's discurse, etc. I say it is awful and blasphemous to be calling upon heaven to interfere about the thousand trivialties of a man's life, that baa ordered me something indigestible for dinner (which may account for my dryness In the afternoon's discourse); to say that it is Providence that Bends a draught of air upon me which gives me a cold in the head, or superintends personally the action of James' powder .which makes me well. Bow down, confess, adore, admire, and reverence innditely. Make your act of faith and trust. Acknowledge with constant awe the idea of the inGnlte presence over alL But what impudence it is in us, to talk about loving God enough, if I may so speak. Wretched little blindlings, what do we know about him? Wrho says that we are to sacriiice the human afiectious ts disrespectful to God? The liars, the wretched canting fakirs of Christianisen, the convent and conventicle dervishes, they are only less unreasonable now than the Eremites and holy women who whipped and starved themselves, never washed, and encouraged vermin for the glory of God. Washing is allowed now, and bodily tilth and pain not always enjoined; but still they say, shut your ears and don't hear music, close your ejes and don't see nature and beauty, steel Vour hearts and be ashamed of your love fcr your neighbor; and timid fond sools scared by their curses, and bending before their unending arrogance and dullness, consent to be miserable, and bare their soft shoulders for the brutes' stripes, according to the nature of women. You dear Suttees, you get read and glorify in being martyrized. Nature, truth, love, protest day alter day in your tender hearts aeainst the stupid, remorseless tyranny which bullies you. Why, you dear creature, what a history that is in the Thomas a Kempis book. The sckeme of that book carried out would make the world the most wretched, useless, dreary, doting place of sojourn there would be no manhood, no love, no tender ties of mother and child, no use of intellect, no trade or science, a set of selfish beings crawling about avoiding one another and howling a perpetual miserere. We know that deductions like this have been drawn

from the teaching of J. C. but please God the world is preparing to throw them over, and I won't believe them though they are written in ever so many books, any more than that the sky is green or the grass red. Those brutes made the gra3S red many a time, fancying they were acting rightly, amongst others with the blood of the person who was born to-day. Good-bye my dear lady and my dear old William. A Republican nspector. Last Monday, during the election in the town ot Ridgeview, in this county, John W. Reed, a voter in the corporation, hunted up the polls for the purpose of exercising the glorious right of suffrage guaranteed him by the Constitution and laws of our great Kepublic by casting his ballot for tne straight Democratic ticket. He found the polling place occupied by David B. Hood, a Republican politician, and no one eise near. Mr. Reed said he desired to vote. "All right," einswered Hood, "I will write vou a ticket," and before the astonished Democrat could recover from the shock caused by the cool effrontery of the in spector, the ballot was made out and de posited in the box and the name of the voter registered. "Can't I see who I am voting for?" asked Heed, when he had re covered his voice. "It is not necessary; it would make no difference," replied Davy. Hood was Inspector, ludge and clerk of the election. He selected the candidates, wrote the tickets, voted them all. counted the votes, canvussed the returns and commissioned the officers elected. Had such a gross outrage been perpetrated upon a negro in the bouth, the .Northern llepublican papers would have been wild over it. As it is, nothing will be thought of it and no punishment visit the offender. "Some of our Yermont brethren," says the Congregationalism "have published a little pamphlet with two tremendously suggestive appeals to the eye. One is a church map of the State, so marked aud colored as to be eloquent in its facts. It is found that about sixty-nine churches have died out altogether in that btate or been united to others. It is found that the membership of Congregational churches there has diminished by about 3,00) in the last fifiy years. It Is found that of those residents who live two miles or more from a church but about one-third ever attend it. It is believed that of an entire population Of 332.28G from 100,000 to 150,000, besides invalids and little children, never hear the gospel." Tbc importance of purifying the blood cannot bo overestimated, for without puro blood you cannot enjoy good health. 4 At this season nearly every one needs a good mediciuo to rurify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla Is worthy your confidence. It Is peculiar in that it Strengthens and builds up the system, creates an appetite, and tones the digestion, while it eradicates disease. Give it a trial. i Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. rrcparcd by C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses Ono Dollar ur.Pierrr'i PalMaanetie Elstti Trott; Wirnt'd ! LTLtKTRlcTBCRe ITrrwt KR.locri worn Timnw " " nlrht.DdcUr. Currdth.faroou.Ur.J.fcumn AWtn. Elastic Tsusa Ce. 304 N. 6& it Si.lo.il

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