Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1S89.

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IESSOXS OF THE MANGER.

TALMAGE'S CHRISTMAS TALK. A Related Celebration at the TabernacleSome of the Teachings of the NativityAppropriate Suggestions I'or the Season, Etc. Christmas services were not held at the Brooklyn Tabernacle until Sunday, Dec. 30. Long before they began, the edifice was literally packed from platform to corridors, and hundreds of people rould not secure even standing room. There were no decorations, but the musical part of the service was enlarged. Mrs. Rice-Knox, the accomplished contrary, Bang two eolos and Prof. Browne, fhe organist, and Frof. Ali, cornetist, played a little more than usual and with their old-time power and expression. Dr. Talmage baptized about a dozen crowing, bright-eyed infants, whose happy parents held them up to the admiration of the vast multitude of spectators. One of the infants wa named George Washington, and when Dr. Talmage made the announcement, there was suppressed laughter. Dr. Talmajie pave notice of the annual pew-renting, Jan. 21, and of a series of revival services to be opened in tho church next Sunday evening, and to be continued two weeks at least. The sermon was upon the "Nativity," Dr. Talmage eaying these among other things: It is ruy joy this morn in? to tell yon what was born that night in the Bethlehem caravansary, and an I want to make my sermon accumulative and climacteric, I begin by telling you there was born in that Bethlehem manger encouajrement for all the poorly started, lie hal two friends, His parents. No satin-lined cradle, no delicate attention, but the straw and the cattle and the rough banter and jeers of the camel drivers. No wonder the medieval painters represented the oxen as kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there and then to worship. But from what depths of poverty to what hights of renown. Christ seated on the throne of the world's redemption, seated on the imperial throne of heaven. From what depths to what night. What name to-day is mightiest in all the earth? Jesus. Who has more friends than any being in the universe? Jesus. Before whom do vast multitudes this day bow in church and chapel and cathedral? Jesus. For whom would two hundred milliou men and women march oat to fight or die? Jesns. From what poverty to what glory. From what humility to what hight of splendor. What good cheer for all the poorly started. Nearly all the world's deliverers had barn-like birthplaces. Luther, the emancipator of religion, born among the mines. Shakspeare, the emancipator of literature, born in an humble home at Stratford upon Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of a new world, born in poverty in Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer of the best way to make art administrative to virtue, born in poverty ia Westmoreland. Kitto and Brideaux, whose keys nlocked apartmentä in the holy scriptures that had nevei yet been entered, born in poverty. All I have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world's deliverers, nine out of tn of the world's educators, nine out of ten of the world's emancipators, nine out of ten f the world's messiahs the messiahs of art, the. messiahs of medicine, the messiahs of literature, the messiahs of law, the messiahs of benevolence had barn-like birth-places. Oh, hre is an encouragement for the poorly-started. Though all the world may be against you, though inside and outside of your profession f r occupation there are those who would hinder your ascent, I want to tell you to-day that, enlisted oil your side are the sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of one who, one Christmas night about eighteen hundred aDÜ eighty"isbr year ago, was wrapped in swaddling ;-thfs and lay in a manger. But I remark gain that, born that night in the Bethlehem 31 anger was good w ill to men, whether you call !t kindness or forbearance or geniality or afVtion or love. It was no sport for high Heaven to send its favoriie to such humiliation. t was nothing but a sacrifice to a rebellious -orld. After the calamity in Paradise, and the rx began to gore and the adder began to (iDg and the elephant began to smite with its tusk, and the lion began to put to bad use its tooth and paw right under the tree from w hich the forbidden fruit had been plucked, them "ere hatched war and malic and revt nee and t nvy and jealousy and a whole brood of cockatrices. But against tliem I place the Bethlehem manger, which says, "Bless rather than ?nrse; endure rather than attack," und that ' hristmas night put out all vindictjveness. It lays, "Sheath your swords; dismount your tuns; dismantle your batteries; turn the war t'lip Constellation that carried shot and shell into a grain ship to take bread to famishing Ireland; hook the cavalry horses to the plow; use your deadly gunpowder to blast rocks and for patriotic celebration; 6top your lawsuits; fjuit your anonymous letters; extract the eti ng from your sarcasm; let your wit corruscate, but never burn; drop all harh words out of your vocabulary. Good will to men, good will to women." "Oh," says some one, "I will adopt that theory after awhile, but not now. I will not forgive my enemies until they implore mv forgiveness and then I will take it into consideration." Then you are no Christian. You never have been a Christian; or, if you are a Christian, you are a very poor specimen of a Christian. Forgive your enemies. Shake hands all around in these Christmas tides. How can we expect to be forgiven if we do not forgive our enemies? Good will to men. Good will to women. Oh, that that 6pirit might drop into our souls. What the world most wants is more kind words that never die ; more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more disposition to take the heavy end of the load and give someone else the light end, more disposition to ascribe right motives instead of bad, more appreciation of the fact that we will never be happy until we make somebody else happy. But I have also to remark, in that Bethlehem khan was born that hristoias night sympathetic union ith other worlds. I have never had anything in the shape t skepticism in iay heart except an astronomical skepticism that sometime said to me: "Why should God, "ut of a whole heaven ful of larger worlds, amid the Dutums and the Jupiters, belect our little bit fi a world for the incarnation, for the atonement, for the resurrection, when He might have selected a grander 6cale in a grander and a mightier world? But all my skepticism is gope. When I come to the manger and I see that, and I see its surroundings, I find out that pur world belongs to a sisterhood of worlds and that when one weeps they all weep and when one sings they all eing. Onr world is much better surrounded than we have sometimes thought. When a child is born angels fetch it, and when a child dies angels take it, and when an old man is borne down under the weight of years angels support him, and when a heart breaks angels soothe it, Angels in the hospitals to take care of the sick. Angels in the cemetery to watch our dead. Angels in church to fly heavenward with the news of repenting spirits. Angels above the world. Angels under the world. Angels all around the world. If we only could rub out of our eyes all the imperfections of sight and J jok into the heavens, we would see angels of beln, and angels of pity, and ungels of mercy, ana angels of rescue. Angels crowned. Anjrels charioted. The world defended by angels, girdled y angel?, cohorted by angels. Clouds of angels. David said: "The chariots of God are twenty thousand" even thousands r f angels. But the mightiest of all the angels did not stand in the sky that night. The mightiest of all the angels lay down among the cattle. The angel of the new coveuanu But our world is gloriously surrounded. Our world is the silver rung of a great ladder, at the top of which is our Father' house. No more stellar solitariness for our world. No more friendless planet pushed out into space to freeze there, but a world ia the bosom of divine maternity. A ctar harnessed to a manger. Again. I find there was born that night in the village burn the offender's hope. Sermonize would my: "You ought to have projected that thought at the beginning of the sermon." No, no, no. I want to bring you gradually up to it. I wanted you first to examine the carneliant and the amethysta and the emeralds and tho chrysolites before I show you the Kohir oo r. the crown jewel of all the ages. But that jewel had a very poor setting. Cub of bear U born amid the majestio pillars of the forest: wbelp of lion is born in the jungle of luxuriant growth and wild Bowers; kid of goat born in caverns chandeliered with stalactite and pillared with stalagmite; bnt oar Lord was born La a barn and with Hirn born the offender's hope. Over the gate of heaven are written the words; "None but the nkdesa can

enter here." "Oh, horror!" you say, "that shuts ns all out, for we are all dinners." No, no; it shuts no man out. Christ came into this world through one door and He departed through another door. lie came in through the door of a barn. He went out through the door of the sepuleher. But He stayed here long enough to make an arrangement by which you and I may have all our sin forgiven, and we may be put in such relation to God Himself. I know that is a strong way of putting it, but that is what I understand by full remission. All erased, all 5 one forever and ever. That is the tremenons truth of this gospel. That ia a truth that ought to bring this whole world to God in live minutes when the world shall hear the truth. Complete pardon, complete rescue, complete emancipation now and forever for every man, woman and child that will have it. Says some one in the audience: "That would do for those who have maintained strict morality and whose lives have always been in accordance with the laws, of God and man; but that is a very, dangerous doctrine to preach." You are wrong, ray brother. There is no one so far out but he may be brought home; there is no one so bad but he may be made good. There is no one so lostf on the mountains but the shepherds can bring him home. No wonder we bring the best musio we can to-day, vocal and instrumental. No wonder that Hubens and Ilaphael and Titian and (jhirlandaio put the mightiest strokes of their irenius into the Madonna Mary and Her Boy. Now I understand that manger as I never nnderstood it before. Now I see it is higher than the gilded and jeweled and emblazoned cradles of the Henrys of Kngland, the Louis of France, the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I see not so much did the oxen of the stall eat out of the crib as did the white horses of Apocalyptic vision. Now I lind that the star that night was only the diamond sandal of Him who hath the moon under His feet. Now I find that the music in the sky that Christmas night was not a complete song, but was only the stringing of the instruments of a great chorus for two worlds, the bass carried by earthly nations saved, the soorano carried by heavenly kingdoms won. Oh, I am so glnd that when the concert was over that night and these angels went, back they forgot to shut the door. No more need of trying to shut us out from the "lories to come. It is too late to shut the door. The door swung wide open and it is blocked by hosannas coming this way and hallelujahs going that way. Wide open, the solid door of pearl. And some of yours have entered and there I am going to meet you. After all the imperfections of this Hie are gone 1 shall meet you. I look to-day through the mists of years and the fog of the cold of Jordan. I look through the celestial gateway and there I will meet you. I expect to meet you as certainly as I meet you .to-day. What conversations we will have talking over our sins forgiven and sorrows comforted and battles won! I am going in. I am going to take all my family with me. I am going to take all my church with me. I am going to take all my friends and neighbors with me. I have so much faith in the manger and the cross I feel I will take you all with me. I mean to coax you in. By a holy stratagem I will drive you in. I will push yon in with all the concerted energies of my nature physical, mental, spiritual, immortal I will compel you to come in. I like your companionship so well here I waut to jpeud eternity with you.

Large City Needs. There are localities in every one of our great cities, says the Christian 1'ntnn, that are the suburbs of hell. Tost-mortera preaching in hades would have as much hope as preaching in pome of these localities, while we do nothing to improve them. There ought to be straightway organized in New York City a company with at least ?1,OX),000 capital to erect either in New York City tenement?, or in the vicinity, cottages which would make possible a decent home for men of incomes not exceeding $1.50 a day. What democratic America needs is a democratic Christianity. We can not travel to heaven in first-class and ßecondclass coaches. Oar schools are democratic, our conveyances are democratic, our theaters are democratic; it is only our churches that keep Dives and Lazarus apart. The rich and poor meet together except when they pretend to reflect that the Lord is the maker of them all ; then they separate to worship Him. Ecclesiastical soup-houses can not take tho place of Christian churches. If workingtnen are able to form their own primaries, organize their own labor unions, direct the affairs of their own lodges, they are cot incompetent to govern their own churches. Tho babe cannot grow until the umbilical cord is cut. What we want inourchurchless wards is churches, not missionary chapels. - The poor resent patronage; are jealous of their independence ; but covet sympathy and fellowship, and they are right. Whatever refuses them fellowship and offers them patronage is rejected, and such rejection is to their honor. Early Chrislinns. Cardinal Wiseman in his "Fabiola" makes one of his characters give the following strangely mixed account of the earlv Christians, and it illustrates the absurd ideas which even intelligent Romans of that day had in regard to them: '"The Christians," said Calpurnius, "are a foreign sect, the founder of which flourished many ages ago in Chaldca. His doctrines were brought to Rome in the time of Vespassian by two brothers named I'eter and Faul. Some maintain that these were the same twin brothers as the Jews call Moses and Aaron, the second of whom sold his birthright to his brother for a kid, the skin of which he wanted to make gloves of. But this identity I do not admit, as it is recorded in tho mystical books of tho Jews that the 6econd of these brotherg, seeing that tho other's victims gave omeus of birds than his own, slew him, as our Komulus did Heraus, with the jawbone of an ass, for which he was hanged by King Mordochus of Macedon upon a gibbet fifty cubits high at the suit of their eiater, Judith. However, Beter and Faul coming, as I said, to Home, the former was discovered tobe a fugitive slave of Pontius Pilate and was crucified by his master's orders on the janiculum. Their followers, of whom they had made many, made the cross their symbol and adored it, and they think the greatest honor to suffer stripes and even ignominious death, as the best means of being like their teachers, and, as they fancy, of going to them in a placo somewhere among the clouds." Religious Chat. The Norwegian Lutherans are preptring to establish an institution for deaconesses in Minneapolis. The Brooklyn Church union last year distributed $12,021.22 among churches which needed aid. The Christian association of Toronto university have sent out and will support two missionaries in Korea. The czar of Itussia has in the last five years spent $300,009 in the erection of a beautiful church at Jerusalem in memory of his mother. The mm of $T00,000 has been given by a wealthy man, whose name remains unknown, for the establishment of a Christian university inPekin, China. The men nonites, a German religions denomination, have decreed that no person can now belong to that church if he has a life insurance policy hanging over his head. In Texas during the last year seventy churches have adopted the use of unfermented wine for communion services directly through the influence of the VV. C. T. U. Baptists have long had a strong following in Jamaica. And now they appear to be gaining ground in Cuba. Last year there were 800 baptisms in that island and 8,000 applications for baptism. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the introduction of Sunday-schools into Germany was recently celebrated. There are now mora than 1.000 Sunday-schools, with 1,100 teachers, and 230,000 children, in the German empire. The inside wall of a Nebraska church has been placarded with the names of business men in the town who seek patronage and are willing to pay for this exhibition of their names and for a public commendation by the pastor. Mrs. Rebecca Robertson of New York, a member of the church of the Heavenly Best, has given -U0,0uO for the establishment of a summer resort at some place near the city for the benefit of poor mothers and their children.

A WELL-BEHAVED MONKEY.

RATHER UNUSUAL IN THE TRIBE. Other Interesting Matter For Children The Reason Why What the Boy Could Sing Pathos Cot the First Kick Etc. The organ-man told me that the little monkey was about five years old, and knew his name. So I said "Joco, Joco, come and see me." The monkey at once snatched off his cap, and, climbing into my lap, rubbed his furry head against me, gazing up out of a pair of merry, intelligent eyes, in a way that quite won my heart. A minute after he curled down and went to sleep, or pretended to do so. I think Ins nap was a real one though brief, for it is likely ho was tired with his long trotting about and dancing in unnatural attitudes. When anyone gave bim anything, his first motion after seizing it in his small black fist was to bite it. If it was eatable (and he was very fond of nuts and candies), his joy shone all over his wrinkled face as he munched at it, watching all tho time lest somebody should take the sweetie away, but if the gift proved to be a hard penny, he leaped to the top on the organ at a single bound, and gave it to his mantcr. This done, he would hurry dow n again and stay at the farthest stretch of his chain, as though trying to get as far as possible from tho monotonous music. His master seemed very fond of him, and would carefully take hirn under his coat if rain or a cold sea wind made Jocko shiver; and well ho might, for the monkev's lively ways and pretty tricks brought a crowd of children about his miserable organ, and earned many a coin which otherwise would not have been given. The prettiest of all of Jocko's tricks was his love of brushingclothcs. He seemed to be uneasy as eooii as he has made friends with any person until he had gone carefully over his whole suit. He had a small flat brush like a shoe-brush, which he grasped in his right hand and used with the greatest diligence, chatting all tho time in monkey-talk, the tone of which seemed complimentary, though I could never quite make out what he meant, and so did not risk anv reply. One day he evidently thought a gentleman had not brushed his hat before coming out, for he tugged at his chain and scolded until his master let him scramble up the gentleman's arm. Then he perched comfortably on his shoulder, and brushed away at the hat with all his might, leaning ever the top, and looking here and theru until not a particle of dust remained. The look of satisfaction with which Jocko received a sixpence for his careful work, and the last glance out of the corner of his right black eye, to be sure he had done his brushing thoroughly, were very funnv. I The politicians of the future getting points from the Daily Jlitrepmnitrr. What Me Could Sins. naltiuiore HersU.J A little five-year-old girl, the prido of a jolly papa and mamma, was sent to a kindergarten tho other day. It was her first experience at school, but her composure was remarkable under the circumstances. Tho teacher asked her what she had been taught at home, and she replied: "1 tan ting." "What can you eing?" inquired the teacher. "Oh, lots! My mamma and papa make me ting lots of hymns." "Then let us hear one," said the teacher. Tho rive-year-old didn't hesitate a minute, but began as follows: Ii a body meet a hoily Tramping throuph the snow. There are no Hies on Gallagher liocau.e he let them go. The teacher was dumtounded. On inquiry she found that while the mamma tried hard to teach her offspring such melodies as "Beulah Land," tho wicked papa's instruction proved more effective. Th lteafton Why. Youth's Companion. A noted Sunday-school worker, living in Kansas, was once asked to talk to the children of a Sunday-school on the eubject of temperance. He is very earnest in the cause, and wears a bit of blue ribbon as a badge of his principles. Rising before the school, he pointed to his bit of blue ribbon and said: "Now, can any of you children give me a reason why I am not a drunkard?" There was no reply for a moment; then a childish little voice in the rear of the room piped out: "'Cause this is a prohibition town." More Pathos Than Humor. Albany Journal. There is almost as much pathos as humor in the story of an Albany boy of tender years: Shortly after his mother's death with his father he visited her grave, being carried there by a horse which had recently been bought by the father. The husband, standing apart, was naturally in a contemplative frame of mind, and the boy, when unable to stand the oppressive silence longer, lifted his childish voice in an interrogative tone and said: "Ma, we've got a new horse." TolHnjr Story Under Duress. rittsburg Dispatch. A sick man who noticed his little daughter looking eagerly at some fruit at his bedside, said to her: "Y"ou would not take them away from your sick papa, would you?" She replied, hesitatingly: "No, I wouldn't," then colored up and ingeniously added: "But. papa, I tell a stsry when I say bo." He gave her the fruit. Got the First Kick. Galveston News. Bobbv came into the house sobbine and win nei Tom Bobby 8 mother, handing him a large slice of cake. "You didn't kick him back, did you, Bobby?" "No," replied Bobby, between bites, "I kicked him first." A Young Landlady. Jewish Messenger.J There i8 a little girl in New York whose commercial interests are so precocious that she rents furnished rooms in her doll's house to her sisters for a fixed number of caramels each week. 311 Father's Own Boy. Sao Francisco Examiner. Mr. Benjamin Isaacs (in the bosom of his family) "How mooch mine little David loaf hecs father, heh?" Little

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David "Von hundert per shent., no discount; cash on delivery." Mr. Isaacs (in an agony of filial love) "Ach 1 his fader's own boy, say dot agains I" KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers are invited to furnish original enigmas, charades, riddles, rebuses, and other "Knotty Problems," addressine all communications relative to this department to 11 K. Caadburn, Lewiston, Me. No. 2609. A Logomachlc Maze, OR THE FKIXCES3 OF THE INXZB CHAMBER. Copyright, 1883, by E. IS. Chadbourn. Once upon a time there lired a kine who was as ernel as he was powerful. He had an only daughter who was the most beautiful princess that ever lired in fact or bciion. No mortal uian could gate upon her for a single instant without at onc beeominj; madly eaaoiored of her. The consequence was that the king dailr receiTed- thousands of proposals for his daughter'! hand; not only from emperors, king!", firinces and other people in whoe veius coursed lood of the purest bine, but even from grae philosophers, from acetic hermits, and from the most ragged tramps of the kingdom. i-inallr, losing mil patience, the king bad a large square dungeon built with no windows, and with but a pincle entrance from the outside. Thisdunjreon was divided into forty-nine square rooms, each room communicating by a door with the rooms adjacent to it. Over each door was lafcrlbeil a word, and at each door stood a powerful eunuch with a drawn scimitar. The beautiful princess occupied the inner or central chamber of the dungeon. The king announced that he would bestow bis daughter's hand on any one who could penetrate to her opart mem, at'ier agreeing to the following condition!: Uclore entering the outer door of the dunneon, the applicant should thhik of word, lie would then be Riven the word of the first chamber with the lat letter of the word chosen, and with all the lettprs of the word given hiai he should seek to form auother word. If successful he would be ushered into the first chamber. Then with tho last letter of the word belonging to the firt chamber and witn all the letters of tho word ovr the rut ranee to one of the adjacent rooms, he JhmlJ endeavor to compose another word, and o on until the princess' chamber was reached. The applicant was never allowed to retrace hia footsteps, and if he tailed at any tlino to compos a password within fifteeo minuter after enterins a chamber, one of the eunuchs deftly evered his head from his body, dropped th headless trunk of the unfortunate applicant through a trap iu the floor and sent the head, on the end of a pike, to ornament the approaches to the dungeon and to serve as a warning to future applicants. The?e ßhastly spikes already extended several miles from the dungeon, when one day a brave aud handsome prince applied lor admission at the gate. Ho thought of the word "Hope." Tho word of the first chamber in "l'ast," aid tho first eunuch, sharpening his scimitar on the side of his boot. "Paste," said the handsome prince, without a moment's hesitation, annetin the last letter of the word "Jlope" to the word "Past-1 The eunuch put up his scimitar, and ushered the prince into the tint chamber. Here ho was confronted with two words, "Face" and "Kays." SelectinR one of them, he formed a new word with the letters composing it and the letter "tM (i. e., the last letter of 'Tart.') An hour later the handsome prince was wedded to the beautiful princess. The plan of the duneoa Is given below with the word beloninp to each chamber. How did the prince reach the central chamber, and what words did he use in doing so? PAST, FACC . SlNCTHCV.i)XeSSQ;iBPVQ H I J .fcfc.WVI.llf'...'-' - IV" I" - - , I rT"i t retMUASs r i r c ' n t iv' nr,Ai ' ACl TA L C ' MA i r tCA A I . !,--- , . . - - I i Ait, if f- my1 v 1 it f is f ril n j 1 ,! it ww r r m i n i i a msm m rim i ; rr i h I. ft l sue. I ArI . I " m Lt u a a mm mm n. mitim mmiimr - t i v - i i mr r i i r t 1 rFAtf'nA.vi)rAR J ! L L This must bo a word found in Webster's Unabrid.zed Ijtionary. No proper names allowed. J. II. rE2A5riE. No. S.filO.-Kirldle. nas fake two nors, just for f'in, AnJ place them side" by side; And sec how quick a seed till groT To tan the Egyptian's bide. Abkie A. Umjgett, !S'o. 3,(51 l.Decapitatton. Hchead me, anil I then am found, Koth ijnder aud abve (he ground Kemove again this head of mioe, A nd leave to me a kind of wine. Poll me aeain with- ut delay, A filly fellow's in ll.e av." Kjhead. curtail, and now in yoinid, A ueful plant is quickly found. M. No. 2, Gl 3. Double Acrostic. WORDS OK HX tETTEHS. 1. In a slate of death. X The wheel of an axis in peritrtchio. 5. To set '.vitli stars, t. A kind of thrilled clf'th. 5. A cruciferous plant. C. A genus of seals. 7. A raerine bird. s. A formal statement. 9. Kspl"ndent. 10. fnn of As'ier. 11. Citric. 12. The three fates. I'rimals, a follower of tho founder of my fiuals. C'oStOCKS. No. 2,613. Charade. T o primfl will give yon a burglar's intention, Mil finnl he first tries to get: and tbey mention The name of a singer he will visit us here, Or at least is expected, soma time early this year. . . "lI'KTirK. Answer . 2,531. S L I V P Jt R H K IT - -C A N O S n u C k. ply BALLOON 2,SW. The letter 9, dropped from the last word of each alternate line. 2, Vtr,. Sum-ma ry. 2,537. M A B H A P ' M A II A B A U A T A It A B Y L O N I C PALESTRA KOS IN E n ANT N O W K 1. T I U i: W O M A N ACADEMICAL L A C N A L 2,.10S. " Peace on earth, good will toward men." 2,5;w. Cramn, sword, ed. thrasher, cudgeon, bellows, flat, croaker, pilot, dab, band, pike. 2,rti0. A shadow. 2,01. The letter M. The It ace Improving. Newport (Ky.) Journal. Two Newport meu went over to see Booth end Barrett in "Othello" -a few nights apo. When the show let out neither of them said anything of consequence until they got down to the ferry, where, while waiting in the float, one who nevef says anything unless he says it, said: "Den, that nigeer Leid up his end about as well as any or 'em." It All Iepenls. N. Y. Sun-T Mr. McPelter "My dear, what do you think of marriage is it a failure?" Mrs. Mcl'elter "I have not .quite made up ray mind. It depends on so many things. Let me ask yon a question before . 1 answer yours. Am i to have that seal sack this winter or not." The Advantage or Distance. America. Clara "Mamma what are pictures of the "impressionist' school?" Mamma "My dear, they are a w the ones aw where one has to be at some distance in order to appreciate them." Inartistic Brother "Yes, you have to be 'way 08." Keep Your Eye Open. Martha's Vineyard Herald. The man who prays that God will make him honest in his business transactions needs watching. He may forget to pray once in a while. "Ve don't pray for that which we have. The Sheriff The Itoas. Lowell Citizen. Ed "That si'cti 'Closed, taking stock.' haa been in that window more than a week." Ned "Oh, that's all right 1 The store is closed; the iheria ia taking the atock." . No Boi Thornleas. I Boston Traveller. The fact that it is now regarded as good form to exhibit wedding presents takes away very materially from the pleasure of giving. They All Come. fSomerville Journal. "All things come to him who wait," including a bald head, false teeth and ear trumpets, and heaps of miscellaneous troubles. . Always Cheeky. The Cartoon. St rtr (sternly) "Halt! Who goes there?" tiful Spirit r'Oh, I'm all riht. I'm from Beautiful Boston." How He Sizes Tp. Merchant Traveler. Fifty cents is the bell boy'a estimate of true truly true gentleman.

THE STATE SCHOOL FUNDS.

ANNUAL DIVISION AMONG COUNTIES. A Steal Perpetrated by Some of the Counties For Which the Law Provides No Remedy The Share of Each founty ia the Big; Divide. The state superintendent of public instruction haa completed the annual apportionment (jf Indiana's school fund and the distribution of the niouey to the counties will begin next week. The per capita apportionment is $1.14, and the enumeration of children ia 757,071, according to reports from county superintendents; but a few of the latter persist in reporting a greater school population than really exists in order to get a bigger slice of the school fund. The 6tate has no recourse in such cases, and the law on the subject needs remedyinj. Many of the counties collect more school tax than the apportionment allows them. The reason of this is that the wealthy counties have fewer children than the poorer ones. Marion county being, comparatively speaking, very poor, consequently received wl.tiOl .i0 of school money, while it collected" only $46,71 $.37. The total amount of money apportioned is $M73,0i0.94, and the taxes collected $674,468.83. The apportionment by counties is: C0UXTIF.S. Adaniä Allen Bartholomew...., llenton Biacki'ord , lfoone Krown "arro!I . Cum - lark.flay Clinton Crawford lavic! DecaturDeKalb Ielaware Dubois. , Klkhart Fayette Kloyd Fountain , Franklin , Fulton Gibsou Grant Greene Hamilton..Hancock ...... Harrison Hendricks Henry Howard Huntington Jackson .Tamper Jay .Tetierson Jennincs Johnson Knox Kosciuko Lacrani; -. Lake... haarte Lawrence Madison .Marion Marshall Martin Miami-. Monroe Montgomery Morean New ton Noble Ohio Orange Owen rarke Terrv ... . Pike.' Forter Poscv Fnlaski I'ntDam HaDdolph Fipley ...... P.u.sh Scott Shelby Spencer , Sfiarke M. Joseph Steuben Hillivau Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Ftiiou Vanderburgh.-.. Vermillion'. Vi po M'abash Warren Warrick ... Washington Wavne Weils White Whitley Normal School.. 5,373 2i,;v.7 :1,91s 6,374 2,77 0. 422 7.44S t.:iw; G. C'lU 6,01'J 7,700 2,017 7,:t'3 8,11 10.J64 6,.-4 !V.ss -.itet K',-'ö4 f., 192 Kill 5, n:;o 9, 4 ti,"JS7 6,0'.4 M'.i 10.741 12.541 6, e,.,7 7,4:u 7.217 S,:mj7 H. 7S0 S.Ofi'2 ..4:u 11,2 45 10,272 fi,7:c .,. 12,872 ö.:r3 tl7 4,71S ?,A"4 ,".,7:u 14,437 7, :v.d 8.240 I. 941 5,175 8.325 3,075 4,2(14 77 S.S93 2,4;a 12.429 ll,2d .2H 11.521 2.2117 11,757 4, tvW 1. A.7 14.512 4,437 7.iil 5, "D lt..Vj:i 4.457 1,770 17.44 ii"4 I7.SO 10,072 4,$lj 4.HNJ A, 4 22,245 6.412 V2S2 5,765 'Jl 3 4i CO . C5i 4 Ot1 11 SI J 2S' :i4 51, 74 ! li.'), St' 4S! 7; 1 ill 27! öo' 12 CT 10; t"W 201 20 ' 2r w X, 94 15 601 70 49 80' 57 54 70 H, 7ß' 62' 54i 72' ni 91 Si 87 P.5 f-2; 81: tit; 05 42 42 22 02: 35, 03, 60' 5f 74) 6. ?7I 9' 81; 4s 21! t 4fi. l; 22' is! tV2l l'i 47i 2. 45 w! 17! M! 5.V Ml Oil 22 5o j 7,5; !S 2-i,K t4 ,I20 00 4.75 44 0. 594 42 11.225 5S 4,:;9t as 7,S5S 70 12,104 52 as. 12,740 64 1O.302 l'i fi,94i) 54 9,761 10 1!J,52 (J 7,745 16 5,141 65 K.277 54 13.919 04 4,t'2n 7S ll.Kt 21 . 140 74 7,G"H 80 5.2(13 41 9,729 90 10,24 .f. 9,G9t 42 9.S47 82 ,011 3H $,253 6 SO f;017 62 9,695 S4 9,4ii2 72 4,:t33 14 P.553 42 12,210 H 6,'.c"-' 22 7071 12 11,908 44 10,14t 44 h,371 6S 7,0'.3 08 14,6C4 S-S 7,651 .S2 11,5"6 0 6:;,6M 10 9,466 Ni .r.,r.:;5 9 8,9-57 24 6,2.'W (5 11,04 22 6.967 63 K.0S0 2S 8.555 "11 1. '.is 8? 6,rit C4 6,039 72 7.414 56 7,6(,0 3 7.S76 94 7,60 13 11,015 82 5,029 6 8.9S2 42 10.S56 22 Ä. ."!. 60 6,51 "4 .-.2 3.S10 50 10,1125 If, 10,075 32 2, 5-) 00 14,211.5. 51 5,226 id) .4?. 41 ",i!4 66 16.S4? 24 7.096 5il 2.673 30 23,570 64 4,9' 18 S4 2.1,650 34 11,140 0. 4,2) 70 9,313 t0 7.641 42 15,2! 70 7,997 10 5.7i0 28 6.765 !0 10,000 00 Total.. S7i,4C3 S3,SS73,0O) 94 THE INAUGURAL BALL Preparations About Complete The Various Committees. The preparations for the inaugural ball in honor of Gov. llovey are ahout completed. The ball will be given in Tomlinson hall, Monday evening, the 14th. Only invited Ruests will be admitted to the hall. Tickets of admission to galleries will be $1 for gentleman, or gentleman and one lady, and cents for each additional lady. Tickets of admission to the dancintr floor will be ?2 for gentleman, or gentleman and one lady, and 1 for each additional lady. Keserved seats in gallery, '25 cents extra for each seat. The following are the committees and their members: Executive Committee E. B. Martindale chairman, Franklin W. Hays ttretary, Norman S. By ram treasurer, John A. Bridgland, Albert i. Porter, John C. New, William H. Calkins. J. A. Lemcke, John P. Frenzel, Alfred M. CVle, John A. Holiuan, Matthew HetiniDfr, Saiyuel L. Mores, Simon P. fchferin and Caleb 8. Hcnny. I'oiniuitU'! on Invitation Indianapolis : William H. Calkins chairman, Solomon Clarpool, L. T. Miclx--ner, Henrv Jamescn, John W. .Murphv, Charles '. Griffin. William B. Boberu, J. II. Holliday, C. W. Fairbanks, K. J. McKce, Bruce Carr, Charles r. Millard, Stauten J. Pccllc, Thomas L. frullivao. Will A. Pedle, C. E. Wright, Jacob Beeler, Aquilla Q. Jones, Joseph E. McPonaid, George 1". Praoham, J. K. McCullough, A. U Bench, William Wallace, K. B. Sller, W. B. Fletcher, .lohn M. Butler, Chester Bradford. Evansville O. B. iuniler, Tuoma. E. tiarvin. F.iehmnnd Tho u us W. Bennett, William ludley Fonlke, John W. Grubbs. Fort Way ne Bobert i Btill, 11. S. Robertson. Tcrre Haute W. K. McKeen, Jacob I. Larly. Wabash Warren J. Savre. BushvilJe W. A. Cullcn. PetersWg-Frauk K Poser. Princeton Kobert Mitchell. Loitauiport A. It. Shroyer. Frankfort W. U. Hart. Kokomo A. N. Grant. Attica A. S. Pcacx-k. Delphi Charls Harley. Warsaw John D. Widaman. Fowler C 'A. Wiley. Auburn N. Ensley. Montictllo A. K. Sill. B"nselaer E. I. Hammond. Leavenworth J. H. Weathers. Greeusburir M. D. Tackctt. Versailles W. 1. Wilson. BusUville John K. Gowdy. Atitrola Francis McCartney. Yefay Alfred Shaw. Liberty C. W. btlvers. Newport B. B. "S'ars. Williamsport Charley McAdams. Winchester A. O. Marsh. MarionHiram Brownlee. Blooruinptou H. C. Hnncan. Kentland Charles I I'rniston. Tell CityJohn Zimmerman. Boonville John B. Cockruin. r-alf tu I W. Sinclair. Blußton J. J. Todd. Monticello Truman F. Palnifr. Columbia City Walter Olds. 1'eru Charles H. Brownell. Plymouth William B. Hess. Sullivan Berry H. Blue. New Albany Charles II. Jewrtt, Je.ve J. Brown. New Castle Eugene H. Bundy, F. M. Millikan. iNutu Bend Clement Studebaker, Elmer Crockett. Valparaiso le Forest L. Skinner, Mark L. IeIotte, Madison John K. Cravens, Alexander Lanier. Mt, Vernon Thomas M. McArthnr. New Harmony Horace P. Owen. Posey ville Georpe Waters. Bockport .Samuel E. Kercbeval. Crawfordsvilh; Francis M. Dice. J. H. B. McCain, lchuyler Kennedy. Lafayette -George W. Friedley, Charles B. Stuart, James H. Smartl Vlncennes-S. N. Chambers, Mason J. Ni black, riain field T. J. Charlton. Columbus Nelson Keyes. Committee on Finance Indianapolis Norman & Bvram, chairman, Banicl M. Bansdell, George F. Billigst, Frank Bird, Henry Coe, D. A. Bichardon, It. K. fchiel, Albert Gall, A. J. Treat, George W. Sloan, Albert W. Wishard, James W. Morris, Bobert Martindale, Peter F. Bryce. Committee on Decorations Indianapolis J. A. Iemcke chairman, Caleb S. Benny, William J. Brown, W. R. Holloway, Otto 11. llasselman, Stephen K. Fletcher. Committee on Musle and Floor Indiana polls W. F. C Golt chairman, Morris Bos, W. J. Brownin)?, Joseph K. Sbarpe, Jame M. Leathers, Irvtn S. Gordon, V. J. Richards. William B. Uord, John H. Oliver, Lynn B. Martindale, Oliver T. Morton, Nathan Morris, Paniel A. Thompson, Charles Vajen, Will T. Noble, Harry S. New, Charles E. Collin, Otto Ore!hani. Henry S. Fraer, James T. Wright, James M. Condit, Charles J. Horey. Com mit toe on Reception Indiannpol s: John A. Br dtfeland, chairman; John L. Griffiths, W. P. Fishback, fi. F. iray, Moses G. McLain, James W hiteomb Biley, Orran Perry, A. C. Harris, D. M. Bradburv, 1'lerre Gray. Harvev M La Fol kite, Joseph W. Marsee. AV. II. EneliBh, W T. Noble, 1-ewisC. Walker,. U Shaffer, John Carlon, Albert Gall, John A. Finch, E. M. Johnson, George C. Hitt, A mos J. Walker. Morris M. itre, John W. Kern, J. W. Curren, Herman l(uleigex, W. U. Brown,

. V Harding, Irvln Bobbins, Jame R. Carnahan, George J.Cook, Eli Lilly. Ferdinand Winter. Gelöster, A. Kiefer, William A. Hugbes.Cbarles E. Hauch, tred Knefier, William II. Rexford, Thomas B. Hsrvey, A. P. Hendrickson, E. F. C4aypool, John M. Kitchen. R. 8. Foster, John T. Brufh, Gabriel hmnck, ieorje W. Koontx, John Carco, John Ii. V ilson, Clifton Coinlev, Silas T. Bowen, Horace McKay, Rusell B. Harrison. Isaac C Walker, James H. Bii-e, Roscoe O. Hawkins, A. M. I'eSoucüet, F ranklin Landers, Harry King, N. R. Ruckic. W. N. Wishard, W. J. Craig. W. L Fausett, John J. (hooper, W. B. Burord, Stoughton J. Fletcher, Ianicl If. Wiles. James A. Wildman. Herman Lieber, O. S. Runnels, Thomss lagKart. Evansville-T. R. McFerxon, James M. Shackelford. J. G. Shanklin, S. P. Gillctt, William I. Ewing, James IL McNeely, Thomas B. Bvrnes, William Heilman. Richmond I). W. Comstock. John F. Miller, L. D. htubbs, John U n u pe, t . I . Binkley, Charles H. Burclienal, J. I. Varyao, Henry V. Johnon. Fort Wavne James M. Barrett, Harry Hanna. Will Wilson. R, 8. Tavlor, G. W. Loaa. Charles Mnnson H. W. Hiedrkh. terre Haute Eugens V. lebs, John II. Lindley, William Bovcp. lon G. Cox, lUy G. Jenckes. New Albany N. T. DePauw, M. M. Hurley, John Marsh. Hitlbvville 11 E. Elliott, harles Major. Aurora Ed H. Green. South licD.t Timothy L. Howard, J. I. Oliver. Kockport 111rani W. Logsdnn. Vernon John Overmver, T. C Bachelder. Columbus Joseph I. Irwin, V. II. McCormick. Green aus tie Thomas Hanna. S. F. Ixnkridg. Martinsville James H. Jordan, i.W.Grubbs. Mjdison M. C. Garber, jr.; M. li. Suler, J..lm W. Linrk. Crawfordsville Lew WallaiH?, John H. Burford, Mahlon I. Manson, Matirieo Thompson. Danville L. Id. Campbell. Lafayette Henry Tenner, James Stuart, Jasper "M. I'resscr Jeflersonville S. C. Tat'grt, J. I . Kelahunt. Plymouth G. H. Thaver, jr., Haniel McHonall. Washington W. Ii. iardincr. Noblej-ville lU.V-ort Graham. Boonville John B. Cuckruui. Flat Koek-Id Cone-r. Mt. Vernon (. C Terry. J. J. Crombach. Winchester L. J. Monks. MarionGeorge W. Steele. Biuöton llneh lVuhrtv. IiOgausport S. E. Howe, Alex Hardv. Muhu-an Citv James Murdock, Walter Vail. Connerevtlie J. N. Huston. Sullivan John C Brlecs. Lnport.? Morgan II. Weir. Valparaiso td C Crun.pa -kf r. Bensitelaer Simon P. Thompson. BrookviHt- s, I-;. Lrmston, S. F. Si;t, Isa;ic Carter. Bushvül T. M. Green. Muncie John F. Wildmnn. F. F. Rose, Marc us C. Smith. Eil-erty T. ". Burnsidrs Warsaw James II. Clsney, U W. Royit-. 1'atesville John Lehmkuehler. l'tterstturg E. T. Richardsr.n, JeK'ersonville Georjc W. Baxter. tint nfield Ephriam Marsh, lortvillc Andrew Haii.-r.. NewportJames C. S.iwrer. R. H. Nixon. ' l;i.;nirn Israel Curry. Monticello John W. Mewart. Kokomo J. O. Henderson. Vineonnes T. H. Adnim. Tipton J. A. Swoveland. Kendallvi',I Wiliiam Bunyan. Hammond C C. Gritiiu. Hunting-inn John J. Younj, John I. Hill. Knox A. H. H'-nder-son. Bloomtieli -car W. Shrvcr Newcastle William tiorse, M. E. Forknt r, M'mon T. Powell. I. W. ChamlK-rs. New Harmony T. J. Truscott, Julius Miller. Biooniington David W. Jordan. The invitations to the Jall will be issued Monday, and the tickets will be placed on sale at the Grand, the Hates and the New-Denison. It is uow stated that Gen. Harrhou and wife will attend the reception and will stay throughout its continuance.

BOLD BANK BURGLARS Compel Canadian Officer and a Railroad Conductor To Let Them Lscape. New York, Jan. 3. Conductor Daniel Church, of train No. 50, which left Uoston at 8:;0 o'clock on Monday niht on the Boston it Lowell und Vermont Central roads, arriving in Montreal at 7:.0 on Tuesday morning, had an interesting meeting with three bank burglars at Stanbridge station, Canada, about forty miles south of Montreal, ou the Vermont Central road. The story, as told to the reporter, rivals the exploits of western cowboys. For tome time past a Rang of burglars has been operating successfully on safes in the mall towns of northern New York and Vermont, and recently they have visited Chaniplain, N. Y., and Lacole, Canada. Early on Tuesday morning thoy broke into two safes in East Stanbridge, a little town in Quebec. There were three men in the party, and they stole a horse and wagon and started for Stanbridge station, where they boarded Conductor Church's train. As the train watt drawing out of the station two oflicers of East etanbridge drove up just in time to see the burglars hiuiline at them from the window of the rear car. The ofikt rs Ulegraphed to Tete Smith, a Canadian revenue officer at St. Aleiander, to arrest the burglars and he found them. With a good deal of flourish, he displayed his badce aud said: "I arrest you in the name of the queen." " The train had started, aud, as the burglars made no resistance. Ofiicer Smith asked an assistant to watch them while he went into the baggage-car to see if any of the etuleu property was on board. In a few minutes he r turned. His assistant had disappeared. On the platform of the car stood the three burglars, armed with revolvers. As soon ns the oilicer appeared they fired two shots at him through the glass door. One of the bullets went through his hat, and he concluded that the nueen would be better served by a live oilicer than a dead one and he dropped to the floor. Conductor Panit l Church heard the shooting and came out to investigate the cause for it. "D it your eyes, drop under that seat!" shouted otic of the fcurglars. The conductor obeyed. When the train reached a little station near St. John's, the burglars disappeared in the woode-. Officers from Montreal traced the burzlars as far as La Codie, Canada, on Tuesday afternoon, but did not capture them. A dispatch from Montrealsars that vshen the burglars left the train, the station agent and his assistants noticed the escape and tried to stop them, when two of them pulled revolvers and began firing at the crowd which was gathering. Ce.pt. Smith made a bold staud and tried to take hold of one of the men. Two bullets were fired at him, one wounding him in the face and the other in the 6calp. The desperadoes then' escaped. STATE LEGISLATURES. Missouri's New Governor to I5e Inaugurated Jan. 1 Senator Palmer's Successor. St. Lot IK, Jan. 2. A special from Jetlerson City says the lower house of the Missouri legislature met at noon, and the Hon. George Dunn of Lincoln county, was elected temporary speaker and Turner Hornbuckle wns chosen JAMtS M'MILUN. f M. r.fBVL. temporary clerk. The members were then sworn in by Judtre Lrace of the supreme court, and the house adjourned until to-morrow. In the senate the new members were sworn in and a committee on rulertippointed, after which the body adjourned till to-morrow. Gov. Morehouse will send his closing niessace as soon as the house onraniiics, which will frobably be to-morrow, and the new governor, lavid E. Francis, mayor of St. Louis, will be inaugurated on Monday the 1 Ith. Pexveh, Col., Jan. 2. The seventh general assembly of the state of Colorado convened at noon to-day. The Hon. II. H. Eddy was cho.sen speaker of the house, and Mr 15. Carpenter, president pro tern, of the senate. Hoth houses tuen adjourned till 1 o'clock to-morrow. The republican members are holding a senatorial caucus to-night, to decide who shall be the next U. 8. senator from Colorado, .to succeed Tom Bowen. Lansing, Mich., Jan 2. The legislature of 1SS9 convened at noon to-day. At the republican caucus held to-night, James McMillan of Detroit was nominated by acclamation- to succeed Senator Palmer. Augcsta, Me., Jan. 2. The joint republican caucus to-night renominated the Hon. William P. Erye for senator, by acclamation. Murdered at a Social Gathering;. Takis, 111., Jan. 2. Lester 'Woods, tWentytwo years old, was murdered two mile east of this city last night. The Sunday-school of the district had a social gathering at the schoolhouse, and during the exercises a scuffle took place and Woods was 6tabbed in the neck, the main artery being severed. Woods fell into his mother's arms and expired. A panic followed, the children jumping out or the windows and crowding throueh the door. The murderer escaped during the excitement and was not recognized. A warrant was issued this morning for a young man named Amburger. Lake Manitou'i First Victim. Rochester, Jan. 2. Special. Jack Fullom, aged nineteen, while skating on Lake Manitou to-day broke through the ice and was drowned. He came here four months ago from Jersey City, N. J., where his parents reside. He is the only person ever drowned in the lake within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

JUDGE CLAYPÜ0L XÄJIED.

NOMINATED FOR U. S. DIST. ATTORNEY A Technicality Which. Prevented Kall From Signing Indictment Will the Senate Dare Come to Dudley' Aid And Itejert Judge Claypool? Considerable stir was caused in political dp cles Thursday afternoon by the announcement from Washington that the president had with drawn the nomination of Leon Bailey as U. 3, district-attorney for Indiana, and had sent th name of Judge Solomon Claypool to the senate. Behind this change is a very interesting bit of history. Bailey was nominated for the position shortly after the resignation of Mr. Sellers, but the nomination was "hung up" in the senate, while every republican battery ia th state was brought to bear on Bailey, who atth time was actively engaged in presenting the election fraud cases to the federal graud jury. Then a question was raised as to Mr. Bailey' right to sign indictments unless his name should be continued as I. S. d;trk-t-atiomcy, and his commission he isued accordingly. In this connection sec, 7'A3 of the U. S. revenue statutes was cited in support of the decl irttion that Associate Justice Harlan was entitled to appoint an nctin? district attorney ad interim awaiting the action, vi the l s. senate ujk"i the nomination made by President Cleveland. It svcuis too that there "lias heen souje doubt as to whether the resignation of Mr. Sellers ha t created a vacancy until the nomination made in his stead had becu confirmed. Mr. Bailey has heen exceedingly anxious that any indictments which may be returned by the present grand jury should not be found d fctive upoa any such technical ground as this and In therefore been desirous that an ad interim uppointment be made. Soon after the mixing of thi technical point it became evident that Judge Harlan would not designate Mr. Bailey as district attorney ad interim, and as it seemed evident that th republican senate would r fue to confirm the president's nomination, it became necessary, in order that the election case? might not fall through to seieit some other man for the place. The fact of Judze Claypoul's experience as a lawyer; his former connection with the proecution of well-known democrats and Lis attitude as special assistant iu the present investigation made it especially important that hs should be designated in this emergency. Mr. Claypool was at frst unwilling t pennit his tianie to he ued iu that relation, feeling that as special assistant he would have quite as much latitude and author, ity as could otherwise be giveu him, but hit appointment was so palpably proper and essential, under the circumstances, that even Jude Harlan and his partisan friends would not dare decline makinz it if he would consent to act. But Harlan was ready aud would hare been glad to have made an outside selection. It has been learned that Senator McDonald, Judge Claypool and Assistant Attorney Bailey had a long conference upon the subject, at which Judge Claypool reluctantly eonsented t take the appointment if Jndge Harlan would make it. What was said is not known, but it in presumed that Senator McDonald, who left Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon, was full authorized to represent both Claypool and Bailey's conclusion to the president. The result cf Mr. McDonald's visit 5s now known. Wednesday Judge Harlan designated udce Claypool as district attorney ad interim and yesterday the president sent his nomination to the senate. It will now be very interesting to note wh course the republican senate will adopt in regard to the confirmation of Judge Claypool's nomination. The reasons assigned for the failure to confirm Mr. Bailer were that he was to bitter a partisan, and triat being a young man he lacked the necessary experience for the duties of the office. With Judge Claypool the case is o,uite diilerent. For months past, and even within the past week, the republican organs in this city the Journal and A?r have been loud, even extravagant in their praises of Judtre Claypool for Lis abili'y as a lawyer, hi integrity as a man and his freedom from partisan bia?. ns shown in his prosecution of Coy and Bernhamer. By the nomination of Judge Claypool the senate has heen put in a position where it mut declare itself. The nominee is indorsed by all the leading Indiana republicans; he ba exceptional and acknowledged ability and br his knowledge of the election cases now btfiere the federal crand jury is peculiarly adapted to the work of prosecuting the debauehers of the ballot. His rejection by the senate or the hanging up of his name can mean but one thintr, viz: that the republican senate wants to shield Dudley and his colaborers in the work of bribery and corruption at the recent election from the penalty of their crimes. VERY SUSPICIOUS. A Representative of the School Book TruM TJrged For Commissioner of Education. To the Epitor SiV: I read the article from a "Democratic Teacher" in TnE SENTINEL of the 27th hist., with much interest After reading it I looked over the December number of the Indiana School Journal and noticed au article suggesting to Gen. Harrison, the appointment of a Mr. Harris as commissioner of education. This Mr. Harris is a resident of New York, and delivered an address at the meeting of the Indiana state teachers' association. He is in the employ of one of the largest school book publishing houses in the country is the author, in fact, of the Appleton scries of school readers. The Appleton readers are in use in a very large number of schools in this state and Ohio and in every 6tate in the Union. The Appletons are prominent members of the great syndicate or trust that controls the publication of four-fifths of the school books in the United States- Can there be anv connection between the editor of the School Journf', who is working for the appointment of Harris, and the syndicate by which Harris is employed as au editor, of part of its books? I it part of a plan that the Indiaua teacherr association he made the back ground to sheir oil' Mr. Harris in a brilliant liht, as the only man fitted for the position of commissioner of education? And is Ball of the Shoo! JourviL a tool of the school book trust in carrying e-'it. their designs ou the pockets of the people? Trulv the ways of the (republican) "Chinee am peculiar." Ax E.T-TOWSSHIP TErSTEE. Warsaw, Ind.. Dec 31. A "Sun rise' For the Ilarrisont. Soon after the republicans of Crawford county learned that their candidate had been elected, they west to work to collect money to buy a present for Gen. and Mrs. Harrison. They had no trouble to raise the money, tot until yesterday thev were unable to agree upon the nature of the gift. Now they have decide! to present the president-elect and Mrs. Harrison with a silver dinner-set composed of Cra -f'rj county native silver. A committee of six, with CoL N. K. I'eckinpaugh as chairman, hag leen appointed to select a design and bring the otierinü to Gen. Harrison. The matter has been kept a secret, as it is the objecto! the committee to take Gen. and Mrs. Harrison by surprise. As the republicans of Crawford county do not read The entinel they will undonbwedly carry out their "surprise party" scheme. And when they discover that the recipients, who read The Sentinel, are not a bit "surprised" they will probably leave their names at The Sentinel counting-room and get ail the news. A Hydrophobia Scare. Franklin, Jan. 3. Special. The people living near the Shelby and Johnson county line about four miles east of this city hart been greatly frightened the past few days over the appearance of hydrophobia which haa broken out among their stock. About a week a co a dog having every symptom of the dreaded disease ran through the neighborhood biting every Irving thing that came in iu way. It was pursued and finally killed. Charles Allen was bitten by the dog while trying to capture it. He has had a mad stone applied to the wound and is not apprehensive of any dancer. Yesterday a horse belenging to Edward Tucker gave evidence of having hydrophobia and before it could be tied up had bitten several hoji and sheep. Mr. Allen had several head of stock also bitten, and yesterday a fine call showed symptoms of the disease. Other farmers are anxiously awaiting results. A Girl la the Case. Seymour, Jan. 2. Special. John Jarvii and Samuel Stout of this county engaged in a fight last evening. The former drew from hit pocket a large knife, which he plunged several times into the body of the latter, producing very dangerous and perhaps fatal wound. Jarvi is ia jail. The trouble was on aecouu of a girl.