Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1889.

TAIMAGE'S SECULAR TALK.

GLANCES AT THEOLD AND NEW YEARS. The Krooklyn Divine's Mid-Iay Talk to Hli People A Large Variety of Topic Discussed Briefly And Entertainingly. The Rev. Dr. Talmajo'a recent Friday evening talk had a local as well as a rational flavor. It was listened to with deep interest by a large audience. Said he : The art of gueesing lias at last reached the sublime, while millions of people surmise and suppose and ''perhapa" in regard to the cabinet of our next president. We rather like the guessing;, for it makes interestinz reading and gives our public men opportunity of having their virtues properly brought out, ana as it is often argued that there is more pleasure in anticipation tban in realization, an enormous amount of happiness must be now aboard. If it could only go on and all oi our friends whom we would have put in elevation could get their deserts, what a dclL'htiul thing. But, alas, alas, the 4th of March, which will smash more elates than ever before went to pieces at any one inauguration. "What an admirale reticence at Indianapolis. What a lesson to all the world about keeping one's own counsel?. What a rebuke to that large class of people who tell all they know. Solomon aid long ago that there is a time to keep silence as well as a time to speak. The man who cau chain Lis own tongue is master of his own deatinv. The most successful men have been the most reticent. It is a great deal better to tell wbat you have done than to tell what you are going to do. One of the most briillant addresses ever made to an army was made during our civil war by a peneral who came from the West to take command of the army of the East, but that brilliant addres, telling what he was going to do, was the precursor of ruia and displacement and recall. He said: "I have co:ue to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, frum an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against the enemy, and it is my purpose to do fo, and that speedily. I desire you to dismiss from your mind certain phrases which I am s rry to find much in vojrue among you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, of lines of retreat and bisis of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position that a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance upon the enemy. Let U3 study the probable line of retreat of our opponents and leave our own to keep for itself. Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." That was a resoundii.g address followed by defeat after defeat and disaster alter disaster. Better report after a brave thing is done than before. Better tell us on Dec. Si what the year has accomplished than tell us on Jan. 1 what The year will tiring forth. The reticence at In ianapolis in regard to government appointments is totuething worth imitation in all xsitioD3. It is a great achievement when one has much that he might say and yet says nothing. Another cause of gratulation is the fact that the new year is not urshered in with the usual drunkenness. Whether it is through the fact that Hew Year's calling is not as general as once, and the habit of many of tak.ng strone drink at thirty or forty or fifty ditierent calling places on New" Year's day has ceased to be fashionable, or whether the improvement may be accounted for in the fact that jeople ee neither common sense nor good friendship demands that a man drink the health of others in that which injures his own, 1 cannot say. On the first New Year's evening of the w orld Adam drank Eve's health in water from the River Iliddekel. Then they took their wine in clusters of grapes hanging from bowers Ldenic. W ine will do no harm if you eat it in clusters. It is the adulterated liquids which have deluged the worid with wretchedness. Another cause of -congratulation I find at this time in the character of the majority of those who govern our city. There are unfit men in some of the official places, but for the moot part our city officers are moral, intelligent, able, qualified, and a bisher style of men I have never seen at the head of municipal affairs in Brooklyn, and I hereby alute them in their attempts to make our beloved city brighter and letter. In the tendency to attack and malign public men because they have been politically successful I have no share. In the matter of official talent and fidelity we can afford to have our city set in comparison with any city under the sun. And how the doors of prosperity are opening on a!i sides. Our mayor's message, which some thought too sanguine and roseate, does not in the least exaggerate our possibidties or our probabilities as a city. Our bridge to be parallelled by other bridges, our parks to be sintered by other parks, our rapid transits to be multiplied by other tracks and trains, our improved architecture to le rivaled by other great structures, set us all to wondering what BrKklyn will be when eleven years from now, the twentieth century shall be ushered in. Upon those who are now upon the stage of action rests the responsibility of the Brooklyn that is to be. The present merchants will do much toward deciding what the future merchandise of this city shall be, and the present lawyers the style of future jurisprudence, and upon present reformers rests what will be the state of public morals a century from now, and upon present ministers of religion what shall bo the character of the churches that shall rise by scores and hundreds in the years that are to come. All hail to the Brooklyn of the year l'jX) and the year 2000. Many of us will not see the first and none of us will see the last, but we may reach them both with our benediction. I find also cause for congratulation in a wider peace than any opening year ever witnessed. The Haytian farce is not worth epeaking of. But read the new year utterance between ambassadors and prime ministers and emperors all the world over. Compare the state of things now with the belligerent spirit one year aao at Berlin and Baris and St. Petersburg and Rome. The universal recklessness and threat which many thought would come in with the young Emj.ror William have not appeared, and the pulse of all Europe beats more calmly and regularly than during the reign of his eminent grandfather. Less trouble than the recent Lord tackville dirdurbance would fortr years ago have eet England and the United States clutching for each other's throats. But now, after a little English pouting and American bravado,all will be made lovely at the arrival in Washington of another minister plenipotentiary from the court of ?t. James. Indian tribes may scalp Indian tribes, and African horde may maacre African horde, and Asiatic janzle may be reddened with the fight of Asiatics, but I guess intelligent nations are about through with bloodshed, and treaty will be substituted for bayonet, and as the most useless thing in all the earth is a dead man, the art of killing will be obsolet, and hate and revenge and vindictivenes and cruelty shall descend to their native place and the prison gates clcee oa them with prolongs re

verberation. On a large scale, or small scale, as God may call us, let ns do our part toward hastening the consummation. By word, by deed, by cheerful look, by earnest prayer, by sympathy, by lives devoted to the test things in the best way, we may all be felt; and though our names may not once bo mentioned on earth among the workers for the grand result God will recognize us and ask us to take part in the final jubilco celebrative of a world emancipated and a world redeemed. There was a pathos and a beauty worth commemoration in that which the Irishwoman in Boston said to the priest at the time monevs were being raised for the relief of starring Ireland. She brought $100 for the relief fund. The priest, with tears in his eyes, said: "You can't afford to give 100; better rive half of that." "o," she paid, "send on the hundred. I ßhall feel happier if I give a hundred to the suffering people of my native land." Opening the subscription book to make record of it the priest said- "What is your nanc?" "Never mind the name," ehe replied. "Send on the money ; God will know the name." The Three ti'. Tho Examiner. A good minister of Chrift must havo the three G's grace, grit and gumption. It might, perhaps, be eaid that these are qualities necessary for success in any calling, but they are certainly requisites in the minister and important" in the order chosen by the wise and witty speaker. Nobody will dispute that the minister needs grace. The doctrine is not quite obsolete, though in some quarters apparently obsolescent, that the preacher of the gospel i3 especially called of God to his work, and may hope to be endued by the fpirit of God with special qualifications for doing his work. I'trhaps it is not so generally recognized that grit is aimost as necessary as grace. That form of courage that does not shrink from conflict, even in an apparently desperate cause, is not uncommon. The secret of success depends, as much as any other thing, on the dogged persistency of purpose that enables one to hold his ground and go on with his work steadily in spite of numerous obstacles and annoyances. It is the man who sticks, who gives himself time to accomplish something in a community, and to make his personality felt there, whose work abides a ud grows. And gumption is a third indisputable quality tact, "horse sense," practical wisdom. The man of gumption is born ; not made. Solomon tells us that a. certain kind of man, though brayed in a mortar . with a pestle, will never become wiser. Some men seem incapable of learning, even in the dear school that experience keeps, but tumble out of one blunder into another throughout their lives. Such men are hopeless. But there are others, in whom tacttulness is not spontaneous, who are yet capable of learning from experience, and if they make a blunder are never known to repeat it. Unfortunately, gumption is not tobe learned by rote from a text-book, nor can a professor impart it by lecturing or drilling. So far as it is not innate, it must by learned in the school of the world by hard knocks and bitter reverses. More men have failed for lack of it to do the best work of which they are capable than for lack of any other one thing. A Lofty Ideal. Sunday-School Tim". He who would make progress for himeelf, or who would help others upward, must have clearly before his mind the ideal of the best conceivable attainment. But, while a man must perceive that ideal for himself, it is not always tor him to disclose it to others. If he would be to others a means of inspiration or of instruction, ali his words and acts must point in the direction of his ideal; but they are not necessarily to point it out in its explicitness. When Moses would reform the Hebrew view of the marriage relation he made regulations in the direction of the ideal standard of marriage in its pristine purity ; but because of the hardness of the people's hearts, through their wrong education up to that time, he refrained bora exacting of them all that would have been their duty had they been capable of perceiving it as such. So, again, Jesus withheld some truths from His disciples which they were not yet able to bear, while all that Hesaidto them was in the direction of the greatest truth known to himself. And so it must be with everv wise teacher and leader, lie needs to have his highest ideal ever before himself; but it may not be expedient to bring its dazzling brilliancy immediately before the dull eyes of those whese gaze upward he is lovingly directing. ttrlngs Some Good. "While wo repudiate emphatically the idea that Mohammedanism can be substituted for Christianity in civilizing Africa," says tho Itev. M. E. Strieby, I). D., in the American MUsiotvtry, "yet it is only just that we should admit that Islam brings with it some influences for good into that benighted land influences that strongly appeal "to the higher instincts and asperations of the people, and are, therefore, an elevating power. Birst of all, the one true God of Islam tends to lift the African above his idols, his fetich, his witchcraft, and his cannibalism. Then the prohibition of wine and strong drink snatches the people from what threatens to be the vortex of their ruin intemperance while Christian nations are now, to their tha:ne and infamy, swelling the floods and increasing the'velocity of that vortex by larger importations of intoxicating liquors. Then, too, the followers of Mohammed are using the school of the prophets in the preparation of their missionaries. The great training school, the old university of Cairo, is said to number at times as many as 10.000 students of the koran, a number which may well challengo comparison with the Protestant theological seminaries of Europe and America, not only by their numbers but by the astonishing success of their pupils as missionaries. They run where we halt, they win whero we fail." Rellfflou Chat. A whole villare in Brazil has accepted the gospel through the instrumentality of a" young business man who invited a missionary to the place. Bi.-hop Hurst, of the niethodist episcopal church, bays that in Mexico 8,0 K),0u0 have never sen a copy of the holy scripture. Missionary Jiet'Uir. Mr. Arthington.of Leeds. England, has offered $7,0) tor the beginning of mission work among the Indian tribes in the valley of the Amazon. Nearly 5,000,0) signatures have already Wen obtained to the petition for the passage of the Sunday-rest bill, introduced in the tenate by the lion. Henry W. Blair. Out of the 5.V) adult converts baptized by tho English church missionaries at Araritsar, India, since the establishment of the mission in W2, no less than 2'' hare been converts from Islam. The Seneca Indians on the Alleghany nervation near Salamanca, N". Y., have jnt built and dedicated a church edifice costing $l,.VX), of which sum two-thirds was given by the Indians. Four Catholic missionaries have recently been tent from the Apostolic seminary of Scheutveld, near Brussels, Belgium, to the independent täte of Coago. Church Propre (L'athoiic A meeting of all denominations in Ohio will W held at Columbus ThursJay and Friday, Feb. 'JO and 21. ImmO, forthe purpose of considering the advisability of permanent Organization in th interest of the observance of the Christian Sabbath. Essays and discussions m ill be had on the various questions relating to the day, its desecration, and how to promote a better observance of iL The Sacred congregation of the Inquisition ha written to the bishops of the United fctatca

in regard to mixed marriages which are contracted in this country by consent of the authorities. Archbishop Corrigan calls upon the clergyto furnish statistics as to the Dumber of sueh marriages during the past ten years; how many Protestant have "been converted to the faith." and how many catholics "have apostatized" from it. ' To-day thirty-four missionary societies arc at work in Africa, and all its L'iXi.WO.OOO souls are practically within the reach of Christian missions; thirty-three societies have begun work in China, and all its 350,000,0.10 may be visited with the message of the gospel; and more than fifty societies have entered India, and the light is dawning upon its 2"0,0X' 000; Turkey and Persia and Japan are filling with mission churches and mission schools. The report of the commission for church work among colored people to the missionary council, suggesting the establishment of a church hall as an annex to Howard university at Washington, was received with almost enthusiasm by those who heard it. One of the bishops expressed the opinion that the board could and would make appropriation of sufficient sums to erect the necessary buildings. We earnestly hope that this action will be tken by the board at its meeting in January Tht Churchman. There are three Roman cardinals in England, and all of theni, we believe, are over eighty years of age. Cardinal Newfnan is the famous Dr. Xeunian, who left the Anglican church over forty years ago to become a priest of ltorne. Dr. J.Ian nine, f Westminster, is also a convert from the Established church of England, and is a great power in the papal councils. Curdical Howard is also an Englishman, but by birth a memler of the Ilomish church. He is a member of the powerful English family of which the Duke of Norfolk is the Lead. Prb'jUrian Observer.

FIGHT WITH A RATTLESNAKE. Thrillinjf Kiperlence of n Hunter la India With a Deadly Constrictor. A writer in the Sladfman, of India, signing himself lt. M., who was once head of the crown's land department, in the colony of Trinidad, says: In company with a half-breed, who combined the vocations of a woodman and hunter, I stumbled suddenly on u large specimen of the crotalus mutus, slowly winding its way among the leaf debris of the forest. Fur some timo it was difficult to discern the scaly folds of the snake through the brown mass of decaying foliage, but having reached a clear spot, tho reptile coiled around a low etump and prepared for action. About a yard of the body next the head was contracted into numerous sharp curves, not unlike a corkwrew, while the yellow eyes gleamed with a baleful light. There was little fascination about these orbs, and no mistaking the malignant intentions of their owner. A stick brought within reach of that mortal coil was stuck almost with the rapidity of lightning, no matter how swiftly withdrawn. This was ejected by the instantaneous straightening of the short curves into which this portion of the body had been contracted. Even the wily mongoose would have needed all his marvelous agilitv to avoid the deadly stroke, ii onco within range. The reach was about a yard, and the assault was delivered horizontally, tme six inches from the ground, directly toward the assailant. The hunter, who had hitherto kept at a respectful distance, as he alleged the snake could spring, was eventually persuaded to approach sutiiciently near to btrike it with a ten-foot pole. " At the first blow the heavy coils relaxed from the stump, and the creature appeared dead or stunned. The writer at once gmsped the neck about two inches from the head, and raised the reptile partly from the ground to examine it. As though galvanized into life by the touch, the crotuius seemed at once to recover its energies, and swiftly made a couple of turns around the thigh and right arm of the would-be captor. The constricting power exercised was such that the band grasping the neck began to lose power, and the writer realized the awkward predicament into which his temerity had led him. Little could bo done with the free left hand, while the "scaly terror" began slowly to withdraw its head from the relaxing gra.sp of the right. For some seconds the trembling woodman appeared deaf to entreaty, and could not be persuaded to apply a noose or liana to the inak.-'s neck. The largest serpents become paralyzed when properly noosed, and are readily dragged along the ground helpless as a log. Just as the snake's head seemed about to ooze through the numbed fingers the half-breed screwed up his courage sufficiently to apply the liana as directed, with the result that the brute at once relaxed its coils, and was ilragged down to a neighboring stream, hung up and skinned. It measured eight feet five inches, and was about as thick in the larcret part of the body as the calf of a man's leg. The fang, which were carcfullv extracted, measured one and a rpiarter inch in length, and were hollow within a short distance of the point, where, on the inner side, lay the orifice through which the poison was ejected by the action of the base of the fang on the bag in which it was secreted. On queeziug the bag, a small quantity of poison, a yellowish fluid passed down the hollow in the tooth and gathered into a tiny drop of concentrated death. The stomach contained two wood rats about the size of guinea pigs, one partially digested, the other recently swallowed. When Siw XV m Tliee?" Then shall He answer how lie lifed up, Id thecaihc.l-ral there, at l.ttle, to mo Tbf Ftme still mouth that drank th- passion cup, Anil how I turned away a ad did not so. How oh, that bov's deep eye and withered arm In a mad Paris street, one elitt-ring niht. Three tira-s drawn backward y tis l-auty's cbarm, I give him not a farthing for tUa tight. llow In that ha.lowy temple at (Yln?ne, Through all the imehty nuli!, I did wring The agony of his last mortal moan From that blind soul I gave not anything. And how at Bruires. at a hecjrars breast. There by the windmill where the leaves whirled so, I daw him nuriog, p;uvd Him with the ret, Followed by his starved mother's stare of woe. But, mr lrd Christ, Thou knownut I had not much And had to k-ep that which I hsd for grar-e To look, forvwth, where noro dead paintor'a touch Had left Thy tbom-wouud ou thy mother's fare. Therefore, O mj Lord Chrit, I pray of Thee That of Thy great companion Thou wilt save, Laid up from moth to rut, noraewhere, for nie, High In the heavens the coius 1 nerer Rave. S. M. B. Piatt, in Belford'a Matins. "I Iterknn I Hev." Chit-afro Herald. I A touching picture of party loyalty na preaentcd at the union depot at It. bonis the other day by a woman with two pairs of twins, the younger being about two months old. The elder pair he said were called lilaine and Jjoan and the other two Harrison and Morton. "You missed it on the first two," said a bystander; but you have h td great luck on the second pair." Prefpin Harrison and Morton, to hf.r breast she repled: "I reckon I hev." The Kelzn of tlie I'uritain. Chicasro Hri!d. It it probable that the nation will enter upon an administration of public a:)aira at its surface h puritanical as the observances of tho Serious Family, but in secret more corrupt and Pecksnifhan than has ever before been seen. . The Flanagans of Texas w ill be in Washington, but they have learned discretion. Prayers before contracts and psalms after jobbery will follow the good Itoman precedents of auspices before battle and plans alter victory. Adam's Soliloquy. Chicago Trihune. "I don't say marriage is a failure," said Adam, candidly, as he sat down ou a lor jut ontutle the Garden of Edert ami looked hunprily Kt the fruit on the other side of the wall, ' hut if I had remained single, this wouldn't have happened." ry A tn ulng;. f Y. Sun. It is somewhat amusing to hear republican leaders saying to mn.-U nowadays about the "free and honest ballot.'

YARNS OF A DETECTIVE.

QUEER PEOPLE WHO HIDE MONEY. The Bailor Who 8wed and the Farmer Who Surveyed The Old Gentleman Who Dropped Dead Bonds Afterward Found. lie was an elderly man of quiet mien, neatly and modestly dre?sed, and he pulled away at his cigar a3 if he thoroughly enjoyed it. If ever a persnn excmpüGed in every detail of garb and manner tho tradesman of a modest but assured competence, this man did who eat looking at tho reporter, with a mild and benevolent gleam in his kindly gray eyes. "I am not surprised," he said, after the reporter of the o v York Pres., had introduced hi mFvilf, "that you should have looked incredulous when you discovered that I was tho detective of whom you were in search. As you aro a pretty j-oung man, no ofTeuso meant, you know, you doubtless expected to find tue a person of quite a different appearence. Now, didn't you?" "Yes," replied the reporter, who further showed his inexperience by accepting one of the elderly man's cigarp, which was, to tell the truth well, not from Cuba. "You want me to tell you about eome of my queer experiences ; is that it ? Yes? Well, the queerest experiences that l have had in my career have been those in which I have figured as the professional searcher alter hidden wealth." "As what?" "As the searcher for, and often the finder, of money, bonds rnd other properties bidden by eccenHc persons who then went to bed and died," continued the elderly man, a little tartly, as though somewhat put out bv the interruption. "See?" "Yes," said the reporter humbly. "People," went on the detective, apparently mollified, "do not hide away cash and bonds nowadays to such an extent as they did forty years ago. as then some of the pavings banks were pretty slinky affairs. Still there is moro of that sort of biding done even now than most people would suppose, and whenever a cashier skips to Canada tea-pots and stockings are again called into use as the repositories of earthly treasure. Moreover, there are just as many cranks in the world to-day as there were then, who delight in mystifying their friends and relatives and gratifying their own desire of seeing their money from time to time. Such people make beaps of trouble for their families, but lots of money for gentlemen of my profession. I don't know how I h-if pened to become a specialist in this line of detective work, but 1 suppose it was because I was successful in the first case I attempted. Let me see; that was back in the sixties. I was s tting in my office one day, chewing the cud of impecunious idleness for I wasn't cry well known then when a w oman, ,.essed in widow's weeds, entered. She stated that her husband had recently died, as ehe and every one else supposed, possessed of considerable property in bonds. Despite a systematic search nothing ot these bonds could be discovered. Her lawyer, with whom I chanced to be acquainted, and for whom I had once done a good turn, had recommended her to me. She lived on Long Island, and I accompanied her home. As she had informed mo I learned on arrival that an extended Bearch had leen made, but with no satisfactory result. 1 learned further that the man had not been miserly, and from that I argued that he had not used any of the complicated methods of concealment common to gentlemen of a penurious turn of mind. I found that bis business had taken him frequently away from home, and that he had formerly been a sea-faring man. A thorough search had been made of all his familiar haunts. I asked about his clothes. "Lord a massy!" exclaimed his widow, "John wore the meanest duds you ever see. We couldn't get him to keep decent things on his back." ".May I see what he bad?" I asked. I was then informed that after the clothing had been thoroughly searched, and ripped and prodded with knitting needles, it had been given away to a poor man in the viilage. "I was determined to have those clothes, for I argued in this way: The man was not miserly, and therefore had not used any extraordinary method of concealment; be had been in the habit of makintr short trip3 from home, and from that 1 judged ho must have carried his money with him. Thi3 judgment was further confirmed by the fact that nothing had been discovered in any of the rooms which he bad occupied, and that be had been a sailor. Now, sailors, you know, almost always carry their pay about their persons. This fact, coupled with the others, made mo feel more than ever that the money was somewhere in those clothes. Finally they were brought in, and a pretty seedy looking tet of rags they were, with one exception. Around the edge of the coat was a broad binding, neatly sewed on, and in much better condition than the rest of the cloth. "lie kept his clothes neatly bound," I remarked. "Yes," replied the widow, "John was a good bo wer, like most sailor men. lie used to spend a heap of .time over that hindinV' To cut a long story short, upon ripping oil" that binding we found neatly encased in oil silk five one-thousand-dollar bonds. Good guessing, you see, was my method in that case, and it succeeded better than a systematic search bv persons acquainted with the habits of the deceased. "Have you had experience in finding treasure which men have hidden away from their houses?' "Yes, indeed. It is a peculiar fact that criminals will always hide money in out of the way places, and farmers as they grow old, if they have accumulated anything, are pretty apt to conceal it in the ground near or at some spot on which they have been in the habit of passing much of their time. Some two years ago I went to a farm up in Fulton county, New York, to hunt for some property of which it was known an aged tanner bad died possessed. The deceased was a simple old gentleman who bad been noted for no peculiar characteristics. He had been careful of his money, but not parsimonious, and bia business operations he had kept to himself. There was absolutely no clew ujon which 1 could work, and, after trying several different lines of search, I was as far oil from my purpose as when I started. In developing my search I bad been aided by ditierent members of the . family and in our eagerness very little of the furniture in the house was left unspoiled, and the dead man' clothing and loot.i bad been literally hacked to pieces. There was a large reward attached to the discovery, and I wanted it bad. Still I was almost discouraged. Finally I said I would take a long walk to settle my mind. I took the walk, but my mind wouldu't settle worth a cent In fact, it wandered ou" on everything but the right thing. One thing I noticed, and that was that the farm had Wn beautifully Purveyed. liefore I went into the detective business I had been a civil engineer, and that is why I noticed tho fact, I suppose. 'Anvway, when I got back to the house' Tasked why I cannot tell you who bad surveyed the farm. 'Why, father did,' said one of tlie sons. During supper these words

kept coming back to my mind, until it flashed upon me that 'father's' surveying had had something to do with the place of concealment. 'Where was Mr. S in the habit of sitting?" I asked. They showed me his chair beside a window. "While pitting there he was observed to look out in an v one direction more than another?" "No," replied the son, who was now sitting on the chair. "He just looked out general! v." "Toward the wood shed?' "No, this way." I followed tho d recti on of his gaze and saw that it led to an old pump. 1 inquired which direction the old gentleman had been accustomed to take when going to the fields, and was told that be invariably passed close to the pump. I had the pump dug up. No money. Then I went back to the window alniost discouraged. Suddenly I saw a faint mark on the sill. It was a surveyor's mark. I lined it up to the pump, got the exact center of the line, dug down and discovered a lard pail, and in it money. I went home just S'XX) richer for the job. Three years ago I had a remarkable case which was handled by myself and partner. An old gentleman bad died suddenly of heart disease. He had been found lyintr on the floor in bis library, to which he had gone, as was his custom, immediately after breakfast. It was discovered that there were missing from hi effects ?Ö0,U00 iu bonds, which it was' known he was about to take to a safe deposit vault the very morning he had dropped dead. The "heirs wero crazy at the loss, and when he arrived at the house they were tearing everything to pieces in their wild efl'orts to find the missing bonds. I stopped the search, for I knew that the man was not a 'concealer,' and I felt sure that that be had not hidden the bonds, but had lost them, or that they bad been stolen from him between the time he had left the breakfast table and that at which he had been found dead. My partner agreed with me, and we decided that in either case our search must be beguu in the library. The family physician helped us here. "There is,'v he paid, "upon the right wrist of the deceased a peculiar mark or pattern of open work, which must have been received bv the arm ptriking something in the fall." We examined the mark. It was, indeed, a peculiar one. Just above the wrist there was imprinted a pattern as plainlvas if it had been made with a stencil and brush. Hie arm must have struck upon a graling of some irregular design. Where was tho grating? Evidently somewhere in the library. We pressed into service the servant who had first discovered the body of her master, and made her show us just where he bad lain when she found him. She pointed out the spot, and in describing the sceue said : "His right arm lay right across the register. 1 put it back in .place." "Put what bnck in place?" I asked. "The register," replied the girl. "John (another servant) dropped a ring in there the night before, but was called away before he could get it out. He left the register on the floor, thinking he would be right back, but he didn't get a chance that night" The register was out of place in the morning, then ?" I said, eagerly, a ray of light Cashing upon my mind. "Yes," sir; it lay just this sido of the hole, and master's arm was right over it." "Put out the furnace fire as quickly as possible," I yelled in my excitement. It didn't take them long to do do that, and at the second bend of the pipe from the floor were the missing bonds and John' ring, a cheap affair worth Sl.oO. You see just as the old gentleman fell he lifted the package of bonds from his table to put them in his pocket. Death arrested him, and as he fell, the force of the blow from his wrist striking upon the register grating, had sent the bundle flying from hi nerveless hand down the opening. The bonds were in a tierht sealed packet else they would surely have been burned. "Yes, monev is hidden in every conceivable sort of place, and I have found it behind the bncks of pictures and mirrors, stutted as wadding in the barrels of old, useless muskets, under false ceilings, beneath floors, in old vases with false bottoms, under chair bottoms, and heaven knows where eis. The best places to conceal money? Well, I guess the be6t are those in open sight where no one would think of looking. There is tti 11 a better way. Spend it; then you nor your family can ever find it again."

BEATEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Henry Clay, James . Uirney and Horace t.rfelfy. Forum. Henry Clay had one disqualification that neutralized all the ossibilities of good which he possessed. For many of the best years of his life his brain was always snli'used, like IJismarck's, with the alcoholic poison. The history oi parties, from Alexander the Great's time to this, will disclose to any investigator that, of all known disqualifications for offices of trust ami difficulty, this is the most entirely fatal, because it disturbs the judgment while inflaming all the passions and propensities which constitute the task of the judgment. Nine-tenths of a president's fitness is judgment Jam.s G. IUrney of Kentucky, the candidate of the abolitionists in 18-10 and 1S44, was a veritable king of men, a person of the highest type of character known among us. His life was a series of the noblest actions, performed for the noblest reasons. He was brave, steadfast and gentle, of gracious and dignified presence1 asking nothing from his countrymen except to turn them from what he conceived to be their errors. In 1S40 he received 7,JU0 votes; in-lSH, i2,2oo votes. No patriotic son of Kentucky could do a better service to his countrymen, than to make this admirable man familiarly known to them. Ilorce Greely bore his character in his face half baby, half philosopher. The sweetest child that ever looked into its mother's eyes had not a more benevolent expression than his countenance habitually wore. The worst portrait does not quite obliterate it; the best renders it imperfectly. The olitician who said: "A man who would mrt Horace Greeley would strike his own mother," roughly expressed the feeling which the child-like part of his face often excited. His voice, too, was the pipe of a child. But above the eyes there was such a noble dome of head that a Greek sculptor would have been glad to take it for the model of benevolent wisdom. His demeanor showed similar contrast'. From that baby face wbat torrents of bad words would come, with no more malice behind them than there is behind a child's vehement crying when some one has broken its toy! With a pen iu his liand and a subject before him suited to his talents and disposition, as well as to the momentary needs of the Trihune, what editor ever wrote more effectively? A Slight IMfTerenre. (Merchant Trarelcr. "You are looking very downcast and glum," said one voting traveling man to another. "What is the matter?" "JSame old trouble. I tried to propose to my rirl again last niuht, and prefaceu the proceedings with a serenade." "And did she throw cold water oa your hopes?" "No but her mother threw hot nater all over my new clothes." A Purely Fenlnine Derlce. .Time. Madce "What beautiful presents you hare, and what a stack of them ! Where did they all come from?" Flora XI c F. "It's a secret you'll never tell? Well, then, besides the old engagements, I made four hrand-new ones the week before Christmas secret, ot course, I haven't bad the heart to break but three of them yet and aren't the things lovely?"

BUDGET FOR FAIR ONES.

SOME DAINTY DRESSING - MANTLES For the IJoudoir Pretty Night Presses I'rettlly-Colored and Well-Shaped Rainy. Day Garments That Cost Itut Little. . At the present time the average woman pays more attention to the fit and style of her undergarments than ever before. The introduction of new and radically different fashions in gowning aro in a measure responsible for this as well as the growing tendency to bestow some thought upon this subject from a sanitary as well as an asthetic standpoint. The clinging effect sought for in the prevailing styles are produced quite as much by the stupes and glove-fitting quality of the underwear as by the addision of the big, shaggy capes of fur that widen the shou.ders and emphasize tho long, straight lines of the skirts. i desire to conform strictly with the styles now in vogue has prompted ultra fashionables to adopt the eoft surah or India tilk as the material most 6uited to their purpose. To the close-ribbed combination suit of heavy silk thread for winter wear is added a petticoat of surah silk, an over one of fine flannel, and for the street a long petticoat of flannel-lined silk. Then, since the crusade against the long-busked, heavily-boned corset has set in, the corset worn for the street and with house and tea gowns is nothing more than a corded waist of silk or fino Ratteen buttoned snugly, but not laced. The bodice of the evening gown and dinner dress tit trimly over the usual corset, but one that is made to order and lends itelt easily to every movement of the wearer. For those who can dispense with the knitted underwear are combinations of chemise and netticoat in soft India silk, profusely trimmed with patent Yalenciennes iace. These are made in tight-fitting rincese shape, w ith ample width in the skirt portion, obtiined by inserting an extra breadth of the material just below the waist line in the back, l'ale lavender is a color that is especially favored fur these, then blurs, pinks, old rose, and black, the last being assumed only when the rest of the costume is in the same somber hue. Dressing mantles made in circular shape and trimmed all around the neck and down either side of the front with cascades of lace envelop the figure and hide from view the short night dress during the lat few minutes spent in putting the bed-room in order for the night. Others less expensive are of percale or soft nainsook, Gathered on to a pointed yoke of insertion, and have long slits in either side for thrusting the arms through. These are liked, too, for slipping on over the entire dress if any change is to be made in the arrangement of the hair, and one does not wish to remove the whole costume. Dressing sacks that never cross the threshold of the boudoir are marvels ot daintiness and elegance, made with jacket fronts opening over loose full ve?ts of 'crape and having garnitures ot passementerie in all sorts of ornate forms. Dutall these silken afiairs are the choice of a very few, many whose long purses warrant the outlay preferring garments of sheer mull, fine nainsook, Jones cambric, or the closely-woven long cloth. The very latest craze transforms whole pieces of tiny-checked nainsook at 40 cents per yard into lace or embroiderytrimmed drawers and chemises of plain sacque shape. The wearing qualities are said to surpass those of the Jones cambric, while they are far easier to wash. Conservatives" will not be likely, however, to turn aside from the beaten track to ex periment in a fabric for j-cars considered sacred to tho utility apron and the infant's long slip, but will continue to buy the old standard materials and spend the month of Februaryin the usual fashion of petting the necessaries of tho wardrobe into condition for the summer campaign. For trimming nothing is more generally or profitably used than lace. Patent Valenciennes, fine torchon, and medici are the choice, the preference being given to the first for tine mull or delicate m isalia underwear, while the others are properly applied to fabric that is not quite so diaphanous. Outside skirts for evening wear are fathered to narrow yokes and buttoned to the lower edge of the corset. Tho very thinnest of thin fctarch gives the desired body and a single netticoat of silk or fine nainsook is worn beneath. Most of tlie fullness on these skirts is ma-ssed at the back, and the slight ripple observed below the waist lino of many evening gowns results from the presence of a couple of overlapping ruffles on the petticoat beneath. Less tucking is used this season on these petticoats, but the more lace that is gathered or pleated about the foot the better. Night dresses are maeses of fluffy lace and band-run tucks. One stvle has a long, sharply-pointed plastron of embroidery that terminates at the waist and is fastened with a fiy at one side. The back is shirred to a three-inch yoke at the back and the loose sleeves are fulled into a narrow band at the wrist. Full rufUes of wide torchon lace of cobwebby quality are around the plastron, fall over the 'high collar, and below the wristband. The wide standing collars seen on these nightgowns are a new feature this season, "but they are by no means uncomfortable, as care is taken to cut them quite low directly in front. Then broad sailor collars appear on night dresses of percale that owe their beauty to fineness of material and tho exquisite drawn work that adorns them. These are made in plain sack shape with a row of drawn work on either side of a wide front plait reaching from neck to waist. Above the hem of the collar is the same needle-work, and on the broad cuffs that finish the sleeves. Kibbon bows of some faint hue are pretty to draw the gown together at the throat, and very narrow ribbons in white are stylish to adjust more closely the lace yokes and shoulder-straps of the chemise. Corset covers are banished from the wardrobes of fashionables. The custom of wearing a black corset for all ordinary occasions and the production of double-faced dress-linings first threatened their popularity, and the fact that first-class dressmakers have for some time past refused to guarantee a properly fitting dress bodice to the wearer of one has effectually decided their fate. Such a variety of prettily colored and well-shaped rainy-day garments are now within the reach of the average pocketbook that matron or maid need no longer dread a jaunt in the fiercest of northeasters. The choice is so wide that one is puzzled to dech'o which shall be favored. There are dolnan shapes, closely fitted at the back; ulsters, with both close and bell sleeves, and hoods or cares and tlie original circular which is drawn in at the waist by tapes fastened at the back. Ail are supplied with generous flapped pockets in pairs that take in a world of small parcels and insure their protection against loss or dampness. Ilather ornamental and pensible casep for carrying the waterproof iu, when loweringcloudspromi.se occasion for its use, are made of oblong pieces of any fancy checked cloth, bound around with broiid, heavy wool braid. A monogram or the initials may be appliqued iu cloth to match the darker color in the check, and an ordinary shawl strap may hold the waterproof in proper position when placed within. The growing love for color in the gossamer garment is spreading to the utility umbrella, too, and

scores of "charming Isabellas with gingham umbrellas" will soon be bright animated features of "mity moisty" landscapes. Late comers from Europe are tho exclusive P'.sscsors of these articles just now, but it is rumored that the uncertain days of spring will find them in general use. Charming specimens of painting on ghs ar seen on small table screens and the covtlshaped flat bottles. Those tire lovf lv painted with w ild n wers and grasses. The lsre flsi cologne bottles are not ued in pairs, but ar laid in the center of the dressing case hack of the jinettliiia or wherever there is room fr one bottle. A new fancy for evening cowq U to have th outermost of fouror five uiihemiued skirts of tulle bordered with fit teen rows of sot:tach braid, tidier old, silver or copper. A veritable po.-m is a t'ray lulle com u bordered with silver braid and liaviusr tl.e short waist finished at top witti a scarf showing ti e same trimming and at the lower edu'e with a Lroad fash of saver brocade. Veiled toilets now demand the attention of lovely women. It is economical as well a poetio, two qualities that aro calculated to secure for it an iir.tn diate if not prtrlonceJ reitm. A bl.uk one is the iwt distiiuuisbed, the economy app'-.irin in the ue of any half-worn bilk for a ton d:.tion, which is entirely corere-1 by plaiu-meshed net laid ou in wave-like fashions from neck to the ccie of the long narrow train. Afternoon gowns arc very pretty when road of tine uooleas in sou trr t;y shades of tau, old rose, green, or blue. They may be made hichnecked with half-long sleeves and wait all-over plaits, on winch a round yoke is outline! by gimp or velvet ribbon, or ebc tho yoke h sii'rred and the loner part of tli bodice is ifx soft full folds. The bkirt is undraped plaited and has for its sule trimming rows of ribbon, the same decoration appearing oa the cellar, cui!s, cravat-bow, and lone sash. An imported g.iwn that figured at the ''Bachelor and ileneiict" bail Monday nicht, was of Nile green ttvvuc, with Per-ian embroidery of (jold and silver falling undixped over thrct aytrsof the sruue 'auzy fabric. The plaited bedice uas drawn in by a wide caue ssmi with embroidered cu is liiat tied ju.-t back of tti hips and inside th .!.ri;s, which cross shawlwic in front. A tiuk'T of c rt.ua net shot with gold and silver shotted a'jove the rjuud bodies) and straps of broad jrreen ni)bon la-id the corsage together o:i t.ie sauMer. A pretty liitusf-dress included in the ontfit cf a Jaiiuarv bride is made ot lil.t trray Henrietta cloth. Tlie gracefully urap- d tk.irt opens oa one side to show a ia:iel oi whii cio'h latticed over with narrow moire r;bor.;. The fchort empire waist has u short vest of white clmti ovetlaid tv it Ei passementerie of cold and silver, and the liirh, u hite collar has alternating rows of souiaelif braid in .ld oci fcilver. Ths sleeve is fidle 1 into a narrow la-id of white, covered with braid and a deep four-inch belt comes from the umier-arm scams, and is held, together with a liliirte Ltlt in u Inch the two metals show. Here is the ta-own a Chicago woman hi evolved from the old-time robe of a greai-aucT, The original material is of sii.i, thick brocade, with a ground of laedinni g.ay, on which bth half-wreaths of rocs shading lrora red to ped pink ; the iiccompnnj iug leaves are of mos and appl green. The hack of ihe gown and tn hail-long sleeves are of this brocade. Tins looe front of pcarl-irray crepe is draped over plain siik cf a deeper hue, and through tha broad hem of the crepe draj.t ry is run a satin ribbon ot bright apple trrceu. Ttie sleeves opeii at the in:c!e seam, are faced with pale pinlc satin, and high standing collar is rolled slihti to show the same tiiiiau. A lovely hon-boa bag intended for a philopena present is made of wide yellow satin ribbon, the sides and bottom of narrow white satia ribbon. Tlie ton of the bag hns the ribbon fringed and jiistbtlow thi. are sewn. small r;c through which are run narrow ribbons to drar up and form strings. On uuc side of the bag is fainted in the most delicate way a cobweb witJi a bronze green fly imprisoned iu its meshes; under this is painted 'Tuilupena" in rustic leu ters. On the opposite ßide is painted tha following verse: "'Tas foollshiie's that n.ai'e me r''Jr With you at give and taLe; Eut tli.e who in:o cotvrebs run, io'lit eil Uo-icrte their 'ate." THE BI-WEEKLY LAW.

Mr. J. It. C. Smith II. Another Word to !Sty About It. To the Eimtor Sir: Flease allow m another word in reference to Mr. Groll and th bi-weekly law. Mr. Groll seems to be angered at my showing that the law has a penalty attached, although he said in his first article it had none. Mr. Groll says for ine to "start out and try to find work and giTe notice that I will have my pay every two weeks and 6ee bow soon I will get the 'gfa'i-i bounce.'" He then says: "T here is in my opinion n remedy in any law short of making it a crim on the part of the employers to fail to comply without any demands upon them." Then he would make it a crime to tail ps psy an honest debt when due without even asking the employer for your ray, and that would carry with it imprisonment if the criminal failed to par his tine. 1 desire to a-k Mr. Groll if he believes that this kind of law would b constitutional? Here is what the constitution of our state says: "There shall be uo imprisonment for debt except lor fraud." Art. 1, Bill of P.ights. Further. I believe that the "wa?e-worker who would have his employer arrested for cot paying Lira would get the "trrand bounce'' quicker than the on who at th end of two weeks wouid kindly tay to his employer ''Please, can I have my wages'" 1 don't know how much of a wage-worker Mr. Groll is, hut am of the opinion that there am no 150 men in the state of Indiana who couUi summon intelligence enough as a legislativ body to make a law that would be compatible with his inexhaustible source of constitutional knowledge. To uake it a crime to fail to ray an bonist debt promptly w hen due, would make c rirunals of us all. The law complained of by Mr. Groll was made especially fur the wae-workeri and not ii the interest ot employers. We have many criminal laws which ar "dead letters" because tlie people do not car to make themselves prosecuting witnessci against the violators for (ear of gtttitie tbe "grand bounce," its Mr. Groll says. And if th penalty to the bi-weekly law (if the constitufioti would permit! was a crime and a fin e and imprisonment for failure to pay the fife atd costs, in order to make it cfiectual, the parties injured would have to testify again?t their employer, and I believe they would pet th "grand bounce," and receive no benefit whilst the penalty now provided allows the employe $1 per day for every day default is made, ev eeeding tlie wages due, etc Try again. Mr. Groll. J. II. C. SMITH. Bluäton, Ind., Jan. 4. Five Dollar lteward. The following letter, along with a five-doliar bill, was recently sent to the Terre Haute Gi St tie; I ofler the above reward for the name cf reputable and prominent republican who has, up to this time, publicly raised his voice for conviction ot the Hon. (?) William Wade Dadley, the author of the most ii.i&mous paper ever known in American politics. Church members, deacons and ministe rs of the tospel are not barred. The guilt of this man is unque. tioued. With brazen audacity he practically admits it. He has. rime and time asriin, been challenged to etiler the state. A rme-thonsand-dollar reward has been oliered him to come I Iiis own home and make niridavit that the published letter is not his. This man was, ana tor aught we know, is to-day the bosom friend of the president-elect. It is a matter of popular belief that he was put in his present position, as treasurer of the rt publican national committee, at this gentleman's earnest request. !! this anything to do with the oyster-like silence of those who, bs Judge Gresham says, co t church one day aud go out and corrupt votera tlie next? Anti-Icdle Y. Two A'firn tn th Penitentiary. ScOTTBrH', Jan. $. Specid. WCliain Passwater, jr., charged w ith breaking into the store of J. U. Ilobcrtsou, at Lexington, amosta ago," was arraigned in the circuit to-day, and.oa a plea of guilty, eas sentenced to two years imtrisonmcnt in the prison south. Thetiialof d Abbott and O.ie Monroe, implicated ia the same thei t, is set for Friday. Tbe Sex of Nt.AhV Hove. Judged "John," said Mrs. lUv.kinH, a they wer going home from church, "why did the roinitr call the dove that brought back a grn twig to the ark 'he'?" "I don't know," replied John; "unless it wa that if the dove had been a female she couldn't have kept her loouth. closed lor? enotich p ' r pr'T.f e-