Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27. 18S9.

DOWN A HOOSIER RIVER.

CANOEING ON THE TIPPECANOE 7rom Rochester to Lafayette ia a BoatMaidens Bathing In Calico Gowm A Crooked Stream Fish Dam Com fort and Discomfort. Sot a bit picturesque were Pard and I, that first night in camp, 6ays V. F. Hetherington in Outing for March. We would hare been objects of sympathy to oar worn enemies, had we any, and could they have 6een ua. Between thewreatha of smoke from our freshly-made camp-fire tvo looked at the piles of duffle, at the tent half hidden in the foliage, at the coffin-like cookins-box, at th3 tiny canvas canoe. Then, aft.r rapid mental calculations 23 to which of our pet schemes for comfort and enjoyment could best be sacrificed, we gazed with despair in our hearts at each other. The Tippecanoe, which has it3 rise in north-central Indiana, and winds its crooked way in a southwest course for some two hundred odd tniles to the "Wabash, was the favorite hunting-ground of the Pottawatomies and Kickapoos. Here the Shawnee Te-cum-seh and his brother-in-law Law-be-was-i-kaw, the so-called prophet, held their ill-fated councils, which ended in the battle of Tippecanoe, just below where the clear waters of this river are lost in the mudyellow of the Wabash. The banks as far down as Winamac are almost entirely skirted by prairies alternating with beautiful proves. With hope in our hearts and Monterey in our mind's eye, we launched the What-is-it, literally loaded to the gunwales. The current is rapfJ, and save an occasional touch of tLe paddle to keep her head on, the canoe claimed no attention, and we "were at liberty to revel in the passing beauties of field and forest. The river is crooked beyond belief. After leaving behind us Rochester and Lake Manitou, once a favored spot with the Indians of Wabash, 1 ventured to inquire of a native, "About how far is it from here to Monterey?" After an unconscionable amount of mental effort, he replied: '"Bout efeht mile." So, with visions of soft-tack and milk for supper, we spun along. Hour after hour went by, and point after point was turned, but no Monterey. There is something to be admired about a river so thoroughly and completely crooked as the Tippecanoe. "We only rounded one bend to look into the bight of the next, and pushed on with the" fascinating anticipation of the unknown beyond leading us to entire forgetfulriss of time and place. We pitched our camp that night in a wilderness. Early the next morning a man came down the opposite bank to water his horses. He wore a white sh'rt, and we knew it was Sundav. I called to him, "About how far i9 it from here to Monterey ?" With that same dazed look in his eyei he answered alter a time : "By river?" "Yes." "I don't know." "By road, then?" A pause, during which the horses were duly kicked: " 'Bout four mile." I looked round for Pard. He was saying not a word, just pitching pebbles at "a lonj-legged wa:er-$piier and whistling eoftly to himself. Silently and lazily floating along between banks, now more broken, we rounded a sharp turn and came suddnly upon two dark objects almost in mid-river; a shimmer of light and a light ripple indicating a lon2 bar as their resting-place. Pard's "What in thunder is it?" brings to the rieht-about-face two very comeiy girls, with long, loose black hair, clad in very wet and clinging calico gowns. A moment of hesitation a resolve a hasty gatherinsr of drapery a yell that would have turned 3Ie-shmg-ge-me-sia in his grave a great splashing of water, then a twinkling of white.and unthe path and over the hill they BO. "What's next?" says Pard, drawing a long breath. Round a loop in the rivr, and we pass & house upon the brink of the of the stream. Two black-haired girls peep at us from behind the evergreens, and we suddenly lost all interest in knowing "about how far it wa3 from there to anywhere." At noon we passed the village of Monterey, a little one-street town of white houses with ereen window-blinds and a church. The river from this point down to Winamac is, if I dare to say so, more crooked than ever. But it is the more beautiful, and grows deeper and somewhat broader. The current is ever ßwiit. The banks bejria to show bluffs now and then, and there are occasional indications of Indian fish dams. The country around Winaxcac is historic, and the town derives its name from the old chief of the Pottawatomiee, Winamac We landed at the town half-drowned by sis hours of steady run in a driving rain, two days from Monterey and about two days behind our schedule. Not far below Winamac lies the village of Pulasfii, called "Pulask-eve" by those who live there and ought to know comprising half a dozen houses, a general store and a mill. I visited the store. The cleanliness was appalling to one so ragged and disreputable as I. The damp, wavelike marks cf the morning's sprinkling and sweeping were still visible upon the oor. The counters were bright and clean. Everything looked as if nothing had been eold for ages. The peculiar mingled odors of leather, brown sugar and calico greeted me upon entering the door. There sat the proprietor, tilted back in his chair in the middle of the aisle, his bands clasped hehind his head, his feet upon a keg of nails, coatless, and with a slouched black hat over his eyes,' half concealing a formidable mustache and freshly lit cigar. He looked bo comfortable that I did not care to disturb him, so asked for a drink of water. A Tiod to the rear ot the room gave me my bearings on the wer-bncketT I drank with one eye on him ! but he did not even look at me as I silently rased out. As the screen door closed behind me I caught this: ,but it's hot We left Pulaski with regret. The memory of itA kindly people, or of the broad etretch of willow-fringed water that all dav long laughs and plays in the sunlight, will net soon be effaced. Two days from Pulaäki and a few miles above Monticello, we reached Norway, a village whose chief industry is centered in a mil! for the conversion of wood into puJp for paper-making. On the way down we skirted numerous cliff-like bluffs, which to me were very beautiful as masses of color; but my geological pard said they were "rich," and insisted upon Prying around in the fissures with his paddle and talking to himself about "strata." With Norway and evening came rain and 6harp ffals of thunder that growled among the ilia by the riverside. Flashes of light nilhouetted the trees as they I ent before the skurrying winds. From the mill doorway I looked out upon the most lonesome of Ion some villages. The ragged roofs were dark against the sky. Solid wooden shutters swung in the blast of wind and rain. Ties wandered aimlessly in the dog-fennel borders of the candy streets, and from behind the many-paned widows of the nearest house peered the ir9 of unkempt children, who gazed .curiously at the infrequent stranger. Un

couth heavy-gaited men hastily sheltered their teams, while their sad-eyed wives were thoroughly soaked while they arranged the water-barrel or hurried the distracted "dee-dees' under frizzly hens. That night we spread our blankets upon the saw-dust-covered floor of the sawingroom of the mill. From Norway to a point about three miles below the lower dam at Monticello, the voyagH was accomplished with the aid of a team and cart, although we abandoned with many regrets even this small portion of the river, yet by this maneuver we were sure of coming out whole at the other end. Below Monticello the river assumes those characteristics which ever after remain in the memory as typical. Through the long reaches of rippling, swiftly moving water, the Punlight shows dark red upon the sands below. Frequently a dimpling swirl is the only indication of the dangerous lurking-place of some huge fragment from the "overhanging bin lis. Ever changing is the scenery. Low grasscovered banks meet the water, trees almost touch overhead, whilst away in the depths of the woods all light seems lost. Again, steep bluffs shut out all but midday sun, and tiny streams of crystal water trickle down their face from hidden springs. From Monticello to the Oakland mill the trip was one long breadth of fisherman's paradise. We reached our destination in a steady downpour of rain, musical and rhythmic, upon the mill's old roof. Once again we slept over the rush of water, but this time all else was silent. Our resting-place was the old grist-mill full of strange bins and wooden chutes, of queer old swinging steelyard scales, that catch the unwary patron of the mill both coming with the corn and going with the meal; of trapdoors that look down upon nothing, and of b'ack abysses yawning at every turn, through which you hear the sound of running water. Here and there, where least expected, are square windows with an occasional whole pme of f lass. The remains of many grifts litter up the floor and wooden half-doors fctving uneasily upon tlfeir hinges. The steady drip, drip of the water, and the little pools upon the floor betoken the r.ge of the roof. Even the rats, as they run squealing across the floor, seem a necessary part of the dilapidated whole. 'Tis a once-a-week mill. The miller farms five days in the week and runs the miil one day. Once again were the blankets spread upon the floor, and heads upon arms, we slept or tried to sleep. From this place to the mouth of the river is a two days' quick run, made dangerous by the remains of numerous Indian tish-dams. These dams lie in the shape of an acute angle, the apex pointing down the stream, with the sideßof the base resting upon each shore. They consist of rocks and bowlders of sufficient size to resist the current. These were at one time evidently piled one upon the other, but are now somewhat scattered, although the lines retain much of their original form. Doubtless the Indians took advantage of such natural deposits and drifts of rock as existed, to carry cut their designs. Notwithstanding the years which have nassed since they were built, with such skill were they constructed that their design is today plainly manifest. At the apex of the angle a space of a few feet is left, and meeting the barrier of the dam, the fish in running up naturally felt their way to this opening. Here, balanced upon the rocks at the side, stood the Indian with poised spear; or the fish, entangled in loose brns"- placed in the opening, were removed at leisure. To-day, however unbroken the line of foam across the stream, or however terrifying the noise of the falling water, down into this pocket-like trap ynu must go, and once under headway there is no turning back. The greatest chance of successfully shooting the dam lie- in striking this" opening' in the triang!, and then, provided that just below no jagged rocks await your first jump, you will shoot safely to the far side. Sometimes upon reaching the opening you find too late that certain destruction awaits you, and there i3 the inevitable plunge into the cold waters of the Tlppreanoe without any of the customary preliminaries of a hath. From Monticello to the mouth of the -river you will have thirty-four chances to try this exhilarating effect. That it is exhilarating, I know from experience. We slipped past the mouth of Fig creek, camped one night at Barker's, and touched at pringhoro. which is a grocery store, where trade consists principally of matches and plug tobacco. On the afternoon of the last day we shot out into the Wabash, down past "Battle Ground and the mouth of the Wild Cat, the "Ponce Passu" of early history, and the lights of Lafayette danced upon the river when we landed at the wharf of Joker Hill. 'GreTi are thy water srpeii as bottle gla, IVhold rti stretched tharl The rou-.kallnn? ami v.- stripe! bass Arechiefiy fcetcUe thr. Thar the Rud Injuns had laAr delights Fihed, tit an J Med; "ow t'ie inhabitants mostly are white. Will nary rd."

A HANDSOME PREMIUM. Good Figure Secured On the Three Per Cent. State Loan. The bids for the loan of the $1.070,000 authorize! by the legislature were opened by the governor, the auditor and treasurer of state resterday, and the bonds were awarded. Three bids were made for the privilege of loaning this rconey. The successful one was that made by the German bavins: bank of New Y rk. Tvro other bids were received, one from Mobiler fc Co.. and the other from Blake Bros. fr Co., both of New York. The loan was divided into two parts one part tiQ7 for $700,000 and the other for $370,000. The former amount was divided into seven bonds of JlOO.OuO, due in ten years but payable at the option of the state any time atter rive years. The smaller sum is divided into three bonds 100.000 and one bond of 70,00 ). These are dne in five years but may be paid by the state any time after two years. The interest on the entire loan is 3 per cent. The German savings bank hid was $101.62 per $100 on the seven-hundred-thousand-dullar loan andSlOO.77 per $lu0 on the 370,000. This is considered a bJcli premium to be or'ered and the state otiicers feel like congratulating themselves in secitrins such good terms. The total tmotint of premium thus obtained for the loan ts H,1C3. The bank made its bid by telerraph through i:s correspondents. Winslow, Lanier fc Co. They were promptly notified of their seenrine the loan. The bonds w. 11 be sent to Window. Lanier & Co., April 2, when, according to contract, the money will he placed on deposit to the credit of the state. The German savings bank deposited $ö,W."Q ia bank as a guarantee of eood faith. The bids of the unsuccessful competitors were materially lower than that of the German savines bank. Moller fc Co. bid flOa37 for the fieven-hundred-thousand-dollar loan and $100.17 for the three-bundrtd-and-sevonty thou-fand-doliar loan. Blake Uros. fc Co. bid 100.23 (or the seven-hundred-thousand-dollar loan, n1 100.13 for the three-hundred-and-seventy-thousand-dollar. Cbuntenb'e Weather. Chicago Herald. Lady of the lIoue (to man shoveling off the inowr "I should think a snow shovel would be better than a spade." You can't tell anything about spring weather, madam. I didn't know whether it would be shoveling snow or spading the garden, and. 1 can do both with a spade." ot If Thy XVr Women. Burlington Free Treis. Miss Oftenlon? of New Jersey "What U the cost of a marriage license in this state, Mrs, Gotthere?" Mrs. Gotthere "Just a dollar." Miss Oftenlong "My goodness! One would thick the men couldn't resist such a bargain." Spttinqr n Dnjr. Mrs. Harrison (fondling a pet dog) "Such a dear little fellow as he is! I wih he could talk." The President "I don't lie might ask for to oflice."

FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.

A BOY'S COMPOSITION ON SAMSON. "The WonderfDlllit Man You Eier Seed" His "Conrtin" and Other Expert. Didn't Mind "Uein Killed" Other Stories Problems. A London schoolmaster has been publishing specimens of compositions by his pupils. The following was written by a cheery little fellow, who came from a very poor home and naturally had original ideas about epe'ling. His essay on SamBon is as follows, word for word, and it will be found a pood exercise for little readers to find how and where he makes a mistake. "The life of Samson which I has to give. Samson was the wonderfullist man you ever seed. lie was eo mighty strongthat he thought no more of lions and bears than boys do of cats and things. If you think he was a giant, that's just where ycr wrong, coz he wasn't a bit bigger than your father is. But mind yer, he had very long hair, and that's just where it was. It went right down his neck and under his coat, and then all the way down. That's how it M as. "Samson became very sinful, for be got a-courtin' a young woman who was a relation of the wickerd Phillistins. Men should never court young women from uther countries, except they are good. Never mind abart them beiujj nicest looking, if they are not good. Why this young woman actshually wurshipped them ugly little imiges wot yev 6een misehenaries bring in bas and put in a row on the table. As Samson was goin' acourtin' one dark night a lion sprung at him from over a girding. And see yer, Samson just cote it by the chin, and "gev it sich a crack 'twixt its eyes that it dropped down dead, like as vev peed cows behint butchers' shops. You'll never know how strong he was. "When they got marrid behold Samson arskt a riddle while the Phillistins was all eating their dinners round him. He told told them that if they could guess it, he would give them, without joking, thirty new suits of close apiece. Didn't they try after that; coz they knowd that if "they tound it out they'd never have to buy no more new close. But they couldn't riddle it with all their thinkin. Then that nasty imige woman went and told them wot it was. So Samson had to give all of them thirty new suits. How they would larf while they was a carrying "thera home, speshully when they was trj'ing them on. But Samson never forgived the imige woman, and he wouldn't be marrid to her no longer. "You woodn't think this strong man wood have gone and got marrid agen to another imige woman. Behold he did, and the nest one was worserthan the first. A reeal badun this one was. Her name it was Deliler. Never mind her uther name, coz people never used to have two in those davs: that's how it was. Deliler only pertendei to love mighty Samson. But she just hated him at the bottom, coz of his tying thera 300 foxes tails together with straw, lightiu' them all up. and chivying them ever to among the corn. Samson hadn't been marrid long before he began of them agen. He happened to pickup in the street an old jobone of an a.ss, and he went right at a whole army of them with it, and killed abart a thousand of them just as if they was flies. That's how it was. "Deliler was alius a worrying Pamson to tell her wot made him so mighty strong. He told her all sorts of things abart switches and ropes, but when she'd tied him with them, and cried 'Here they are a comin,' Samson just sprung up, and Mied them right ori as usuerl iik. Hies. At last mighty Samson told her ahart his long hair?. Then this bad imige woman got Samson nicely ofl to sleep, and clipped all his hair oil" as short as vours, with a big pair of tizzers f-he'd got lent her. And then the na.ty woman nudged him, and cried out a gig.'ling 'Here they are a comin'.' But poor Samson couldn't do" nothin' this time; and when they bustled him away to a big dark prison with his hands tied behint him, ho said it serwd him right for tellin' wot he knowd. Poor Samson nearly cried. Then they put out both his eyes, and forced him to turn a big stone weel all day long. O that bad imige woman; that eecund one, that was her. "But I'll tell yer, them old Phillistins was punished at last, just when they thought as they was safe. Samson's hair began to grow agen down his back; and, as it got longer, he felt hisself getting mighty strong. One afternoon about 3,000 of them was eatin all sorts of nicet vittles and gettin drunk in a big round room, and they kept taking turns at wurshippine imigs. Then they sent for poor blind Sarusrm to come to them and dance and do ßtrong things. When Samson got in he arskt the little boy wot held him, to lead him to where the two biggest pillars was. And the little boy did 60 without thinking nothing at all äbart it. Then Samson bowed his head down and prayed to God just for a minit or two, and then he snatched farst hold of the pillers, and tugged away like mad. And see ver, afore anybody could stop him, he tugged them two big pillers right down, and the top of the place came smashm' in. Sich a sniash it was, and it killed them all theer as easv as flies. Samon was killed, too, but he didn't mind that." Good For the Little Princess. (Mo.tern Society. An anecdote of the Empress Frederick's early days when among us as princess royal, is told by no less an authority than Earl Granville. His lordship relates that one day he was driving in Windsor park in an open carriage with her royal highness, aged then about nino years, and her governess. Lady Lytton. Whether or not the little princess found her companions too staid for her juvenile taste, on their passing some poorchi dren playing on the grass, she remarked: "How happy those little girls look." Lady L. in true, prim governess style, to "improve the occasion," answered sententiously : "They look happy because they are good." "How do yon know that?'' retorted the evcr-emart Vicky. "I think it very likely is because they have no lady governess." Remarknhl Childish Memory. Boton Transcript. The other day, at table, the talk turned on the drees and appearance of certain tribes and races of men. A little tive-and-a-quarter-year-old girl, who appeared to be listening attentively, and who, two years aeo, had seen real specimens in their western homes, was asked how an Indian looked. Without hesitation, sho answered: "Like a bundle of blankets with a head on one end." An Angel of Merry. I Harper's Young People. A little girl was graciously permitted, one bright Sunday, to go with her mamma to hear papa preach. It was a time of great rejoicing and responsibility, and the little face was all alight with happy anticipation. Now it chanced that on this special occasion papa's sermon was of the "warning" order, and his earnest voice rang out solemnly in the Sunday rjuiet. After a moment ot breathless surprise and horror, the little listner'ssoul was wrought ujjcn with a great pity for the poor mor

tals upon whom so much wrath was descending. She arose excitedly to her feet, and, her wide reproachful eyes just peeping over the back of the seat, called out, in sweet, chiding tones: "What for is you ßcolding all the peoples so, paoa?" A "It re" Exhibition. Buffalo Courier. A five-year-old boy on the east-side was taken to the Star the other evening by his uncle to see "N'adjy." When he came home he said he didn't like it a bit "A man went around the stage saying 'Jackass,' and lots of the women were all raw, here, and there, and there," pointing to his breast, arms and legs. KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readen re Inrltid to furnish orljlnil n!jma, charades, riddles rebuses, I other "Knotty Problems," aJdreninz all com municstions relative to this department to E. K. Chadbourn, Lewiston, Me. No. 2689 The Egyptian Problem. Copyright, 1SSS, by E. R. Chadbourn. The following hienslyphics, found on one Ida of th LjrTptiaji pyramids, are supposed to represent a long diviMon example, such as the gorernes of the joun? Pharao'n used to et her pitnils in the reign of Kameses II. The puzzle is to render these symbols into Arabic numbers. . J. II. Fezan-die. No. ZG'JO Enigma. 1 ban; no end, and no oeinninir, I am but ra ilit, scarre worth the winning; And y't without m wh.'re wert cold? How could a nalwub's wealth le told? I'm In the power of love; I'm in All kinJs Oi rood, no sort of sin. Set-k through the earth, I am not there; In earth nor beavrn, in fire nor air; iio sail across the boundless sea, And you will not encounter me. J. A. "o. S691 Charadea. A worthless first I do despise, And ev'ry one I would advise To nuke thTn laxt. The kKo1 was heard in olden time, As it ptaled forth the evening chime. That day is past. CocstLt'S. Bloom Ington, Ind. No. 2G91 Enigma of Inventions. The whol of 97 letters, is a truthful couplet concerning man's works: 41. .V., IS, 7, 10, 3 1, TT!, f 2.), 21, 19 21, ?. was thef propelling power in Machinerv hall in 1S7S. IX, 4t. 19. ifi, C4, 19, 77, 21." 27, öl, 41. 37, 80, 12, 65, is a contrivance with needles for making hosiery. 22, 3J, 6.', 25, GC, 33, 40, 32, 61, is a vessel propelled iy steam. 97. 0, 4, 17, 82, P4, ?, 67, 71, is an instrument for ascertaining the ma;nifving power of telescopes. h, SO, 6. 54, :;, 8S,' 7, V, are weights held in the hand, swunto and fro for exercise. 23. 06, S 3, Ki. ?2. 5, M, 94, is a contrivance to conrev sound to a distauce. 87, ", eH, b 9, 41, 7J, tU. 8. is an optical instrument for viewing distant objrct.. 6?, 5, 11, 2n, JW, s, 39, 4 70, 4, is the lowest part of a structure Ivinu ou the eround. 61. 24. 3 42, 21. 1 85. 83, 5J, 5V is the art oproducinp pictures by thtä action of liiht on a prepared surface. 1", 8.), 61. 4 , Si. 8 80, IS, 45, 71, is a machine that rapidlv prints wruiu. ", 7ii, 7, 14, 21, '.'J, : M, 2, is a contrivance to convey intelligence to a distance by sipnils. SO, s, ivW 52, 1!V, 22, is a carriage which holds two person, who sit fa:e tu face. 74. 4', 01. .V). 44, 7, M, is a two-wheeled vehiclo propelled hv the f. 1 1 of the rider. 47, 22, 23, i:, 32, 57, 55, is to change or convert into glaf. . P3, 54, 49, 8S, 3, is a stringed instrument of music. M, 15, S3, was an ancient itringed instrumeat of muie. 1 is part of a theodolite. M. Mc. 'o. 2C93-A Paradox. In a quiet aook and rhadr. Once 1 watched a little lady Vork away with finders nimble. Plying needle, thread and thimble. !n with interest undiminished Oaed 1 on her. When she bnishei I took up her dainty ta k it Neatly routed in her baket And a portion amputated. Vhen, though 8tr-inn2 to be related, Tliit lat T"eeM made it larcer. Th-n she smiled and said, ' how arch you're," Hin I kiiw not what the wa meant AVhen she told me throw the fragment Not upon her needle cushion. Vor she dreaded its pollution. And were I to be so be dless It would leave her needles needless. William WtLSOjr. No. 694. Decapitatiou. Total is a deadly sin, Tr. a hery vile but lurks therein; Iowu with traitors! is the cry. loiter that ail such should die. Ah: but lik" the famous "Lo," AVho, when dead, is "trood" you know, Heat'-es make the wicked one. And a better life's begun; Motive," principle" and "sense" He has now. without pretense. IA. I No. 2095 Square. "5reed !" asilor, speed ! prepare your boat. It will not do to tarry; I will sfive you a rtü nir eoat To row me o'er the ferry. ' Nelsoniax. Nr. 2G96 transposition. I. A variety of quartz. 2. Pertaining or belonging to the lins. A. Not present, 4. An earthy pigment of a browiih-yellow color. 5. Method. 6. Table or elevated pbces on which gifts and sacrifices are ottered to some deity. Odell Cvclo.nk. What Mialt It He? "Can't yon pire ns a prize hunt of some kind on?" a"ks Count Less. "Put on your thinking cap and see if yoti can't devise something that it will not take a library to search out something that all can take part in, and see if it is not a success." Answers. 2C?1-At 1 o'clock p. m. 2'M2 Corn-meal mush. 2G83 Key, lockieV sickles, ah, shovel, hoe, antrer, glass, s;ind," mall t. baU, pole, flint. steel(el, sparks, clav, stone, had, switt, back, armfelt, birch. 10f4-"At id with me." 2fcö-L A PSTREAK APIARIAN P IN DUST R A I D L E T K IT 1j V RISE i: A T A H K 2G:e-ratella. 2.H7-R E II A S 51 a i) m i p. i; T A 11 S 1 A T L R M E 1 I. A U S C U EVADED 2CS8 Shal-dock, A Sonnet Hobert F.lsmere. I know thee well, thou product of an ape Our own. Thy mind and heart, with wider Tiew, Have searched the book of nature through. And (lod again. U seen upon its pasre. I Old idols of the timid heart are Rone, Gone, too, conventionality rank weed ; That hidden source of all the n umenon Is ample basis for thy bib'cal creed. Worship by work, a manly trust In men Is granJly paralleled in thee again. Reviled by canting fools, like Him we trace In purest hearts, misunderstood by friends, Thou, prototype of an unfolding race. In thee, we find, the course that progress tends. Grceucastle, March 10, UiX J. B. Könnet. As one who lingers for a part in wor4, Fair Plan o'er the western hills doth stay, And throws o'er vale and stream a parting; ray. Then slowly sinks amid the clouds of curd Serene and sweet ; by naming breezes stirred, The forest bows, and down Its depths away. Like some lone voice in a cathedral gray, I hear the wsil of night's forsaken bird. The shadows deepen and the hour is late ; The chanticleer his drowsy watch has cried; Tbe cricket trilled his last; yet still I wait, Unconscious of tbe hours ss they glide, And o'er the dying embers meditate. Like I-s-ic 'mid tbe fields at eventide. Aloszo L Riol Ray's Crossing, Ind. Children Cry for,

IT'S NOTHING BUT A FAKE.

THAT GOLD IN LOWER CALIFORNIA. Louis Lav la of Chicago Visits the Newly. Discovered 1 Dorado and Finds Nothing Dot Desert-Like Country and Kzcitement A Had Job, Chicago, March 23. Louis Larin of Chicajro, who has lived in Sandieao, Cel., during the last year, returned yesterday after a brief and decidedly unsatisfactory trip to the Lower California mines. "It's all a fake," said he to'a reporter, "but it has been bo worked that CDe is duped before he knows it. The excitement in Sandieajo has nearly died away, but for two weeks a craze teemed to have struck everybody. Several hundred of Sundieago's best business men even abandoned their business to run to newly discovered gold fields. I was in Sandieasto the same week that the first news of the discoveries was brought to town. Three or four Mexican and Indian miners had been displaying some remarkable nupgets which they claimed to have found in lewer California. They would under no circumstances divulge the location of the placers, but by feharp diplomatic handling and under promise of the strictest secrecy, they pave tne location as in the Santa Clara ranges. This was enough. Of course such news was too pood to keep. One man whispered the secret to another and iuside of twenty-four hours the whole town was in a ferment of excitement. "I and ihree others left, Sandieago on the morning of March 3 with a team and well supplied with provisions. We trave'ed for five days over the roughest, meanest country I ever saw. 'he distance from Sandiea-o to Knsemda is about one hundred and forty miles. Wherever it was not mountainous the country was a desert, with nothing but cacti-spanith bayonets and like vegetables. There was not even irrass enouch for a pony. Yhen we reached the mines the camps were in u feartully excited Mate. Huw bloodshed was prevented is more th in I can imagine. It was almost impossible to secure provisions; everything was abnormally high. r'loi:r was selling at ?1 a pound and everything eise in proportion. There was f oi l, bu not enough to pav, and the quartz mines could not be developed for want of machinery. We tdayed in camp ten days and then jjave Uj) the whole thinr as a bad job. ANOTHER GREAT PUZZLE. "Pigs la Clover" Threatens to Kqnal the Fifteen Craze. New York, Philadelphia and Boston have pone crazy over the latest "fad" the attempt to work the new puzzle, 'Tigs in Clover." On elevated trains, in the surface cam, in offices, counting-rooms and stores, and through the windows of cozy homes, people may be seen, apparently cesticulatin.c; frantically and goin into all sorts of ridiculous contortions with heads and hands. To one not into the secret the opinion would not be unnatural, that everybody was suffering from St. Vitus dance. In stairways and on curbstones, the street gamins may be seen going through the same seemingly imbecile contortions, with brows corrugated and lips askew, while piles ot neglected papers lie at their feet and blacking-kits hang neglected at their backs. On everv corner and in everv allevwav loudvoiced "fakirs" call 'Tigs in Clover," 'Tigs in Clover," till the other voices of the 6treet are drowned and over all the din echoes, 'Tigs in Clover." The cause of all this commotion is a new puzzle which threatens to be an even greater popular favorite than the celebrated i:i-14-13 aßair which ran its course some vcars a.ro. The toy is a circular box within which are two circular "fences" including a covered "pen." The gate of the outer fence is opposite the closed part of the inner and that ot the inner is opposite the closed part of the outer. That is, the cates of the two fences are in a line but not opposite. The entrance of the pen is placed in the tame way, w ith reu rence to the inner fence. The gates are large enough to admit one of the "pigs." There are four mr-a bles in lillerent colors. The pigs are to be driven to their pea by tipping the box to various angles and allowing fhem to roll about. Alter the pigs are palely inside the firt fence the real ditiiculty begins. While rolling one pig inside the second gate all three of the others may roll back and out of gate number one, and while attending these 6tray porkers the fourth pig may roll to join his brethren. The trouble in getting the pigs into the pen is of course twice lis great as that of getting them inside the second fence. I'.ven in thinking of the puz.le one involuntarily begins to speculate on its solution. It has ail the fascination of a ditlicult thing which seems simple. So great has the "craze" for working this seemingly simple but in reality intricate puzzle become that the factory has thousands of orders which it cannot fill and is working day and night turning out the deceptive contrivances. By special arrangement with the patentee The Sen'TIXEL has secured the fint lot that will be sent to the West, and a puzzle will be given free to each subscriber to The SrxDAY Sentinel for 6ix months. Send in your orders early so as to secure a puzzle before the first lot is exhausted. THAT VANDALIA RESOLUTION. A Card From Mr. Xewkirk, Late Chief Clerk of the House. To The EDITOR CV: Considerable has been said in the papers about that "Vandalia Concurrent Resolution" adopted by the legislature in its last hours. After the resolution had been adopted in the senate it was either not returned from the senate or was stolen from the speaker's table. The speaker instructed me to enroll the resolution and file it with the secretary of state, for what reason 1 do not know, unless, if was because the resolution itself requires that olticer to serve a copy on the officers of the road within b time therein stated, and until the journal is printed and indexed it would be a matter of considerable work to find it in the journal. Again, the secretary would not be supposed to have knowledge of ihe existence of the resolution unless his attention was called to it in some formal way. Just so with the resolution iu relation to the sale of the Matutes. How would he have known of the adoptiou of the same without running through the entire journal, or waiting until the journal is printed and indexed? The law does not require the concurrent resolutions to be signed by the presiding officers. I am sorry Mr. Griffin did not appreciate the work I did, and which certainly was a convenience to him, instead of attempting to make me appear ridiculous by a mis-statement of law, which shows the ignorance to have existed on his part rather than my own, w hen it was my business to obey orders and not to give them. However, tbe whole matter is of no consequence and Mr. Grifrin's gratuitous statements to the public only show that neither the secretary of state or the ex--lerk of the house has monopolized information on all subjects. Thomas J. Newkiek. Rushville, March 21. More Corruption. Mr. Hayseed (who went to the inaugnratiou) "I tell you what, Maner, I've been thinkin' a good deal lately, and the more 1 think on it the more I'm sure that this 'ere government is gettin' ter be a sink of corruption nothin' but pools and trusts and conspiracies to rob the people." ... Marier "La me! The high officials am t m it, are they?" "I'm 'traid they are, Marier. You know they've got a weather bureau down to Washington with wires runnin' all over the country to manage the weather by 'lectricity or something. Well, Marier, I could'nt swear to it, but hang me if I don't believe that Weather Director Gen. Greely was in some sort of a pool with the umbrella dealers." The Count Departs. Iskw York, March 23. Count Giovanna Di Monterecole, whose marriage to Miss Knox of Pittsburg created so much comment, sailed today on the Netherlands steamer Rotterdam, under the name of "Ernesto De Meyers." He engaged his passage only an hour before the steamer sailed. Before embarking be confided to an acquaintance the information that he intended to spend the next three years in travel broad. His "little misunderstanding" with his wife, he said, had been satisfactorily settled by the intercession ot hi mother-in-law and his brother-in-law. Pitcher's Castorla.

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She had so many children she didn't know what to do." To keep them all clean was a work of much skill To 1 Jt them go dirty was quite 'gainst her will. Now, "if care killed a cat," 'tis plain tobe seen, There was fear of her dying in the attempt to keep clean The ten heedless children w ho vied with each other In making hard work for this poor worried mother. Shi looked with a feeling akin to despair

Oi the heaps of soiled clothing that fell to her share, When "blue Monday" came with its steaming soapsuds For cleansing from dirt all these shabby old duds, Though she rose with the lark, her work wss behind ;

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A FIGHT WITH WILD CATS. FOUR BOYS' TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. They Go Hunting For Squirrels and Find Catamounts A LlTely Hat tie In IThich the Animtl Are Killed and the Boys Eaüly Injured, GrZAXNE, V.. Va., March 23. Four boys, James and Thomas Loftus and Henry and Frank Nutchee, sons of neighboring farmers ntar the foot of McLain mouutain, Wyoming county, were out squirrel hunting yesterday, and when returning home in the afternoon one of them shot a squirrtl, which fell into a deep fissure in the mountain side. Vhen they descended the fissure to get the squirrel they saw four pairs of yellow eyes plaring at thera from a recess in the rock. Only two of the boys had guns and when they had fired at two pairs of yellow eyes, shutting them, the owners of the other two pairs, who proved to be enormous wild cats, sprangat the lads. With their empty cans and the clubs they carried the boys finally succeeded in killing the catamount", but not before one boy had been terribly torn from his neck to the imall of his bark. Another had his cheek and one ear laid open, white the third was badly bitten through the rijht arm and scratched across the chest by the sharp claws of one of the catamounts. After the battle was over the only one of the quartet unhurt climbed to the surface and ninnaj;ed to haul and lrae his comrades out one by oue after him. The boys are all doing well and will be out again in a tew days. The largest catamount measured four feet, six inches in length. The other three were fullgrown females. BISMARCK'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. To Arrange For the Emperor's Visit and Discuss Colonial Matters. Berlin-, March 23. Copyright, Count Herbert Bismarck's visit to England, followed so closely upon that of Sir Edward Malet, the British embassador, has given rise to all kinds of political speculations. The rumors that Kngland is about to join the triple alliance may, however, be dismissed summarily, as may also the statements of the official press that the count is merely making a holiday visit. The fact is that the visit has a double object, the moft important part of which is the arrancement of details for the emperor's visit to Knglaud during the coming summer and to ascertain the wishes of 2ueen Victoria as to w hether the visit shall be of a domestic nature or shall assume a state character. In the second id;iee. Count Herbert will take the opportunity to diotiss with Lord Salisbury colonial matters afVeting the law of nations. It is not improbable that some kind of an agreement will be arrived at embodying the I'rinciples of a future colonial policy w here Iritibh and German interests come in contact. The I'oxt to-night announces that the Saraoan conference w ill be postponed, probably until the beginning of May. This may be regarded as indicating a desire to await the outcome of Count Herbert's mission. A Woman's Logic. lloston Journal. After the woman euflrape hearing at the state-honsc on Friday a lady approached Arthur Lord, who has conducted the case for the remonstrants, and said: "Mr. Lord, did you know that there are in many places in this state classes of younif women earnestly studying political economy and methods of government to fit themselves for the duties of political life?" "Yes," was Mr. Lord's reply, "I am aware of it Do you know anything about Smith college in this state?" "Oh, yes," answered his interrogator, "and a very worthy institution it is, firing our young women a splendid training and in just those very matters." "And did you know," continued Mr. Lord, "that the senior class at Smith college has just voted that the ballot is not desirable nor desired by women?" "They're nothing but ignorant school girls and ought not to be heeded," was the comment of the lady, with instant change of front. And the conversation ended at once. Baftinrss Brisk Oat West. Philadelphia Uecord.l First Chicago Thief "This robbin' policemen don't sf ein to pay very well. They never have much." Second Chicago Thief "No. Even their clubs make poor firewood. I heard to-day that ten more detectives had been furnished with funds to start out on a hunt for Tascott." First Chicigo Thief "Bully! Let's foller 'era up an' pick their pockets." Ayer's Fills are purely'vegetable, perfectly safe, do not gripe, and are a splendid tonic. The new craze, "Pigs in Clover." will be given to each new subscriber to The SUNDAY Sentinel. Friee six months, f 1. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLM ers of the Wav'iier far door company, forttie election of officers and trana tionof other business, w ill ho held at the otlic of the company in In li:iimKiIig on Tuesday, April 2, ltsy, C1IAS. S. iS-ore-Ury. 20-3 sir VTTiM AT ONCE, AN AGENT, MAN I i i.1 1 1 a Is or woman, in every vicinity. Profitable business. Liberal pay. All timt not necessary, fiive refrenoe. Address K. II. Woodard A Co., Baltimore, MJ. IWRMS for sale in tbe Went. Writa Booher A ' Williams, Savannah. Mo.. fr list of farms for sale In northwest Missouri, the garden spot of the world, tiood land well improved at lo price. 23-13t WEAKKIEHws STANT RELIEF. . Mutleir from the ewta of Youthful error, early rtts-av, Inct tiiiihd. etc. learn of a simple r-ri-iy rr by ddrtm C J. JIASoN, Post Otllce Uox 8i;a.New York. FOR SALE. InAn nnn white oak fence slats ,UUU,UUU for wire fcnee at F. M Bach, man's, Madison-ave., second crossing J., M. & I rsck, Indianapolis. Ind. 37-4 (LOCAL MANAUEfv To take eharre of office onMd of UryecititK. PrraiMiit Bxwiilaa worth t I oe a yr. No rannw. inir or Deddlintr. ApdIt 1t Ihim to I WANTED. J. B 1 Ll'UL.N N hm. lui'r, SI 3 A la tu, Ualaur, a PLAYS S rHslomHi. Tableaux. ".akr. for nVh"ol.Cltir Parlor. Rwaouularaloffue frae.T. .lSloS.Chlc-o,LU. PATENTS as Thomas P. Simpson, Wasblnirton, D.C oatt?'s tee until palentoolalned. Writ lor Inventor's (iu id 3-ow-13t

ahoef Ii I r SANTA CLAUS SOAP Made by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO. C.HICAGO, trsacouainteo with the geography cf 1 he country ku Obtain hu;m information fsom a 6tl;y of this map cf tks r?Ob'Tr. GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE (C, R. I. & P. .nd C., K. & N. E'ys.) West, Northwest and Southwest. It rnclne CHICAGO, JOLIÜT. POCK ISt.ANT, HAVENronr. Dr3 :ioi:ms. cgtj-cll eltjffs, yaTr.r.rot7N. sigtjx taxxs, mi?;neapci.I3. CT. PA TJX. ST. JOjEPH. ATCTTISON, LEAVEHIWOItTH, EAKS.13 CITY. TOPEKA, CCLOSADO BPHi:;Q3, DENVER, PüXELO. curt hundreds of pro3ocrous citic s end towns traverslns vast area of tho riebest toxmmg innri in tiio west. SOLID VESTIBÜLE EXPRESS TRAINS Xadln? C.Ü competitors la eplendcr act luxury of ocroimoüa.ioas dai!T- between CHICAGO nd C0IX)ILAS3 8P2INQ3. IIKVES and PUEBLO. Similar taaeniflcent Vi illLL LE TRAIT! errico tdai!y between CHICAGO and COTXNCH BL.TJFF8 (OIIAHA and between CHICAGO and KANSAS CITY. Ködern Day Coaches, clefrant Dinier Cars (3:rvis? delicious rnculs atcodcrats priced, restful Itochnln? Chair Cars (Ecnta TRF V) and Palaoa CHeplnj Cars. The c'.iroet lice to NELSON, HOHTON. HUTCHINSON, WICHITA, ABILENE, CALDWELL, end nil points la feouthera Hcbraa-a. Kansas. Colorado, the Indien Ter ritory cnd Tosas. California Excursions daily. CJioico of routoa to ttie Facilio const. Tho Famous Albert Lea Routo tlune miperbly ealprd Express Trains, dafjy, between Cliicaco. Bt. Joseph. Atchison. Leaven worth, nansas City, and Slicncapclis and St. Paul. The popular tourist lino to tho scenic reports and hunting and ß.3liir tr freunde cf the corthweet. Jts Vatertown p.-i-l ßioux FuUs br-.-ch traverses the preat "WHEAT AIID DAIKY BELT" Cl Northern laws, BouUi western Minnesota, ami Fast Central Dakota. Tho fhort Line via Seneca and Kankakee offer, facilitiss to travel to and frora Indianapolis. Cincinnati and btacr Coutnera poir.t. For Tickets, Mpt1. Folders, or desired informs tion, apply tt cx.7 Coupca Tidict Ctlice, or andres E.ST.JCHK, E.A.HGLBROOK, OcalUansger. Oed Tit. Be Pasa. Ast. CHICAGO. ILL. CatarhH I WAS CURED tfLY t . - - a V. ' a PrA.inMVNXJ NiSCATARRH Lream isaim THOUSANDS USA. HAV-FEVF? pay so A ftrticle Is applied Into each nostril and Is stts able. Price 60 e uu at Lrrufrtrist ; bv mail, restered, 6 ) cent. ELY ÜKUIHLKa, 5tJ Warren treet, York. CHICHESTER'S tmÜLISH PENNYROYAL PiLU -J sis c::3 ziLKziri izlz At lragxt.f Accept ma An r .it. im - HaeoaaterlVli. Si:! 4. ''mi: air vvtictitara ac4 "Krllrf f.T l.adlea.' tllllfS ahstaart orl Una. aat Paper. SECRETS OF FREE, A Private Adviser for tho contraF latin? rnarriape and fcr men fufferin rom Prirnte. Nervous or Chronic Diseases. 'nd Cc. lor seniod copr. Consult the old Doctor confidentially. . r. ,rt, a HUP f S Randolph PU, Chlcaf. VOTen Wire Fencing Wire RopoSolvag cr TO PPP ROD. Til K MrMTM TV HVF.V WIRF fl.NCJ (O., Aa. 118 Itit N. Market et., talcac, LU. Oil 1 Wba 1 ny cur I do not main mrrrly to trr. tbwn fo aiima anil tbn hat llwn rvturr ayain. I miia a rai leal rare. I Ujtb mn4 the dwu 1 ITS, ki'lLKPa sr FALLDiO MCKNfcbi li:e-l ady. I warrant Bi j rmn.Hiy toror the w -rrt cnv. Because of I. era r.ae a.led is no rea-vto fr Dit now rwo-ivm a enra. 8mio at once for a trnattxe and a Fre I tt of my infaiubat rPTO1y. Gir Linrei ard r"it OS-. U. U. UOUTt U. C, 163 i'earl HZ New York. XTOTICE OF ArPOlXTMEXT. Notice Is hcrebr itlren thtt the nndrifM nae auljonalifieJ asdraiiiitrKtilx of thecstate of Krenin Way, late of Marion rouutr, Indiana, deceased. Sid estate is suppoaed to be soWent. bAKAII S. WAY, Administratrix. 20-Jt VJOTICE OF ArPOlXTMEXT. Notice 1 herebr ? iren that the encnlirned bss dulTquali!l dsalniiniMrst rof theetatof üeorpe II. Fopo. late of Mari n countr. In liana, deceaaed. r-aid estate is snnnoaod to e arlTent. JUHX HKillsTREET, Adniicistrator. Finch A Finch, Attorneys. IS 3 p-' "', "SUBS CAT : 1 11.00 an 1 10-ccat t-t - an iii.. 1 ;JB" t; - f K. Ea!kyraUtaTl -SUBS CATCH" XOLS THAP. pa br Baft. fVflO par Qotra. Dlrccl how a be aaal. are mr rrrhul erdrt th aW. M.WiLTMlK. K.eeaoia, LneV

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