Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1839.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL Entered at the Postofflee at Indianapolis a second class matter.

TERMS PER TEARs 5ing cr?y (InTarlably In Advance.) ....S1 O We ak democrats to bear in mind and select tbeir crn state paper when they come to take subscription and make up clubs. Amenta making tip clubs send for any information desired. Addesa THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. Cheap Text Books at Last. The Echool book commissioners Wednesday awarded contracts for five years for eupplying various text-books to the school children of the state, under thj provisions of the new law. Tho contracts for the full series of five readers, two geographies and two arithmetics were awarded to the Indiana school book company, and for the full series of Pix copy books to the Bo-wen-Merrill company of this city. As to all of these works the board adopted and spread on record resolutions setting forth that they were fully equal, in every particular, to the publications now in use, and designated in the lawasthe standards of merit. Two of these resolutions were unanimously adopted, and all the others passed with but a single dissenting vote. This result is one upon which the people of Indiana are to be congratulated. It j a complete vindication of the wisdom of the legislature in enacting Ibe. mu'-h-abused Fchool book law. It demonstrates the soundness of the claim that exorbitant prices have been for years, and are to-day. charted oar people by the f reedy book rincr for their text books. Jt i conclusive evidence that the aspersions cast upon the Indiana gentlemen who put in the bids on these books were wholly unwarranted. Finally, it will save the people of Indiana many thousands of dollars even year, and v ill tend to rescue our schools from a most demoralizing influence, which has contributed largely to 5m air their u-efulness for many years past. As illustrating the saving which will be Triad to Indiana parents by the new arrangement, it mav be mentioned that the r omp'ete geography adopted by tho board will be soi l at 7- cents. Gov. Hovey and Profs. Jordan, Paksoxs, Layxe, Wyley and .Ton ks certify, after careful examination,that this geography is in every respect equal to the eclectic geography now in general use, which has been sold for ?1.(V. Oov. IIovky was evidentlv not far out of the way when he declared, in his inaugural address, that the book pirates were making a profit of TOO to 000 per cent. The backbone of the school book ring is now broken. It may struggle a while longer to prevent the people from getting the benefit of the new law, but the struggle will be in vain. The contractors are well-know n and very reputable citizens. AH their interests are here, and they can not afford, even if they were so disposed, to act in any but the best of faith in carrying out their contract. They will have to give a bond of S2Ö0.000 for its faithful performance. The Sentinel has every confidence that they will conform strictly to the spirit as well as the letter of the law and the contract, rhould there be any failure on their part to do this -The Sentinel will be the first to call them to sharp account. We have made an earnest and successful fight for cheap text books, and we expect to continue the fiht until every book in use in cur schools is supplied at prices corresponding to those which are to be charged for the books embraced in the contracts awarded yesterday. This will be accomplished in the net distant future. Keligious Instruct ion in Public Schools l',i,V,r ,,(.; contains an interesting 'syiii7or-;u:n" on the question of "Eebgiou Instruction in the Public Schools." The contributors are Cardinal Gmnoxsof the catholic church; the I lev. M. J. 5mv.e, the '"liberal" divine of Boston; the K?v. Ir. Thomas Hill, ex-president of Harvard college, and 1'rof. W. T. Hap.jus an eminent educator and editor of the Jjm'i! of Sp-'nuali'? Ph!'oxoh. Cardinal (iiunons insists that an education which neglects moral and religious training is at best imperfect and defective. Children must receive a religious training s well as a secular education. These cannot be divorced without a fatal wound to the soul. The Sonday-school is not sufficient t' supply the religious wants of children. Religions and secular instruction can bo successfully combined in denominational schools, but for public fcLooIs, attended by Christians of all denominations, of Jews, and of nonbelievers, the problem is a grave one, "beff:i with difficulties, and very hard to be J it s-oived. This i- the catholic view, very temperately and clearly expressed. As Cardinal fiTHF-oNs says, the problem of 4niting religious and secular instruction in the public schools is "very hard to be solved." Perhaps he would not have put it too strongly if he had said that it is not susceptible of complete solution. Dr. Savage very truly f.:ys that "in the case of thoso who lx-lieve that the salvation of their children's souls is at 6take, there cannot be a more odious tyranny than to compel them to submit to a teaching that, to their winds, entails such terrible consequence?. And in tbe case of those who do not Relieve that the endless welfare of their children is at stake, compelling them to submit to the teaching of a religion they don't believe, is a waste of time, and subjects them to the influence of what is regarded as hurtful euperstitions." Religions instruction can scarcely be given in public schools which will not be distasteful to a considerable element of those who are taxed to support such schools and whose children are entitled to their advantages. Yet the republic cannot be perpetuated nnless education and intelligence are widely diffused. This can only be accomplished through the agency of the 6tate. It cannot safely be left altogether to sectarian or private agencies. A system of free public schools is an essential adjunct to a free government. Ir. Haerh, we think, is wise in declaring that "religions instruction in the school is inexpedient, on the ground that they are for all citizens, whatever their religious beor no bel;ef," A,ad Dr. Satag agaia

says, very truly, that "the church and the home give ample scope for all individual peculiarities of belief or theory." The public schools ought to confine themselves to secular education. It would be an outrage upon Roman catholic taxpayers to teach protestantism in them. It is no injnstice to any class of citizens to restrict the schools to secular instruction.

j This can be supplemented by religious in struction, in accord with the beliefs of parents, at the home, in the church and Sabbath-school or elsew here. The public school system is a fixture in this republic. Its highest usefulness can only be attained when it does injustice to no class of citizens by teaching the religious dogmas professed by no other class. A 3fere Matter of Boodle. Lot everybody understand that the school-book articles in the Journal are paid for at so much per line by tho infamous ring which has been plundering the peoplo of Indiana for many years past. This refers to the editorial as well as the local articles. Unscrupulous and mendacious as the Journal is, it would not devote its columns to attacks upon leading citizens of Indiana of its own political household nnless it were well paid for it. It could not all'ord to lie about Josemics Coi.lett and William Heilma.v, D. J. Mackey and K. P. Huston, Silas T. Powes and Samuel Mehrili., unless it were well paid tor it. It would not accuse Gov. Hovey and President Jordan and President Paions, and Supts. Jones, Layne and Wiley of spreading a lie upon the public records of the state unless it were well paid for it. Boodle tells the whole story of the JournnVf crusade against cheap text books. Poodle always dictates the course of the Journal. It was boodle that made it fight to give the Standard oil company a monopoly of the natural gas business of Indianapolis. It was boodle that made it afterward Cght the Consumers' trust in the interest of another would-be natural gas monopoly. It was boodle that kept it on the side of the Indianapolis gas company during tho long struggle for cheaper light. It was boodle that led it to espouse the cause of the coal barons of Clay county against the starving miners, and to print a false and fraudulent pay-roll in order to prevent the people from coming to their relief. It was boodle that induced it to fight the text-book law, the pluck-me store and miners'-screen laws, and every other measure that was introduced in the legislature last winter to protect the people against the oppressions and extortions of greedy capital. The Jnttni.nl is pre-eminently a boodle organ. Its columns are notoriously for sale to the highest bidder. Its support can be obtained for any ring, however rascally, tor any job, however brazen; tor any scheme of public plunder, however flagrant; either C. O. P., or for a share of the booty. It is always found on the boodle side of every question. It has as keen a scent for boodle as the crow for carrion. In its fight for the school-book octopus the ."nHjpractieallv stands alone among the newspapers of the state. It is creditable to Indiana journalism that the Cincinnati pirates are able to hire but one paper of importance in the state to do their dirtv work. Cheap Text Rooks vs. Dear Text Rooks. The Journal reports State Supt. LaFoli.ette as saying that the new text books "wijl throw out of oVir schools between Y.fH and ?l,00O,0O0 worth of school books;" that "m the common schools of Indiana there are about 100,000 worth of school books." We believe the Journal misrepresents Mr. L vF i.lette. We are very certain he made no such statement. We have before us a circular dated April 17, 1S0, and signed Van Antwerp, PiiAf.o i Co.. in which they say: It lias Leen proved in many ways that at no time ami in no sinzle year have the whole people of Indiana paid out so much money ss ", o0 lor the entire supply of common school books. And again: We have before us a carefully prepared table of all the hooks sold by us to the people of Indiana during the year IS, with the names of the dealer, dates of invoices and amounts of books ordered each time, and the whole amounts to $7,97. Tbia is actually the sum ot all the books sold in the state by us during the year, and this amount fairly represents the entire consumption by all the schools of Indiana of the books published by ourselves during that year. From the large proportion of books of our own publication used in the state, you will readily see that the above calculation, viz., fcJdO.tmo, as the total amount paid by the parents for all the common school books used, is a very liberal estimat. Taking this "very liberal estimate" of Van Antwerp, Prac.o k Co. and it will be 6een that it would require the entire purchases of five years every book, and in as good condition as when purchased to make an aggregate value of $1,000,000 at the present time. If the people of Indiana have eleven hundred thousand dollars' worth of school books in their possession, Van Vstwerp, Bragg & Co. lied scandalously in the circular from which we have quoted. In fact, in that very circular, they only estimated the value of the school books in the hands of the people of Indiana at :?OiX),000. The books now in use will, we presume, be discarded aa fat as the pupils are prepared to pass into other grades. Then they will require new books, J as they would require them if the old sys- I tern were noi in lorce. ine singio ainerenco will be that these booka will only cost about aa half as much as they would cost if there were no law and no contract. Very few parents, we imagine, will consider this a hardship. The trust will try hard to convince the people that a great loss will be involved in making tbe change from the highpriced ring books to the low-priced Indiana books. But until the people are ready to believe that black is white, or that two and two do not make four, they will scarcely .be. persuaded into figuring that they lose by a reduction of their expenses. Things are going from bad to worse in the pension bureau. "If a democratic examiner dares to report a claim adversely he is summarily 'flipped.' If a republican examiner hesitates alout granting a claim immediately, especially if it is one of Lemon's cases,- he is degraded from the chieftainship of the bureau to a mere clerkship." Applications that have been dragging along in the regular routine way for a year or more are neglected, while those with influence back of them are crowded through. The wealthy Senator MASDEBtoN, wbv has becD on the pension

roll for eight years, has his. rating increased and is paid $4,000 in arrearages, while hundreds of poor and needy applicants are kept waiting. It is certainly a scandalous condition of affairs. "The Quinine Folly." Dr. A. M. Biri of Mason City, 111., sends The Sentinel an editorial from the InhT Ooan of Chicago entitled, "The Quinine Folly," which he wants replied to or explained in these columns. We quote: The duty on quinine was repealed in 1S79, and the price of the drug to-day is less than it was in 1S7X "Therefore," say our free-trade neighbors, "the repeal of the taritl'duty has reduced the price." So let it stand, for the purpose of argument. But in 1nS4, five years after the duty was repealed, the price of quinine was $1.80 per ounce, while in 1SÖ0, when the duty was in force, the price was only Jl.'JO per ounce, "therefore, the repeal of the duty increased the price?" This latter conclusion is just as logical as the former. The fact that quinine is cheaper now than it was before the duty was repealed, is, it will be seen, admitted. So there is no room for controversy there. The I. 0. insists, however, that it does not necessarily follow that quinine is cheaper because the duty was repealed. This is readily conceded. Other causes may have contributed, and doubtless did, to the cheapening of quinine. The I. O. states one of them when it says that there now is a very plentiful supply of the bark from which quinine is made, and there

fore the raw material is cheap. But there is every reason to believe that quinine would cost more than it does in this country to-day if it were "protected." On Oct. 6,"lSS2, Powers & WlGHTMAN, PiOSKNG AKTEN CC SONS, and Keasbey & Mattison, manufacturers of quinine at Philadelphia, submitted a memorial to the tariff commission, urging the restoration of the duty on quinine. In that memorial thev called attention "to the great injury done to their business by the act of July 1, 1S70, which placed quinine and the salts of quinine on the free list." Now this act could only have impaired their business in one way; viz, by compelling them to sell quinine cheaper than they would otherwise have done. Of couri-e if they sold cheaper, consumers bought cheaper, and were correspondingly benefited. In the same memorial these gentlemen said: The results of the repeal of the duty have been ereat expansion in the manufacture of the article in Kurope, excessive shipments to this country, which are o'ten offered Jor snleat loirer price than those crrent tn (h foreign markets, and the decreased importation of cinchona barks from South America. In view of the creater cost of carrying on manufacturing establishments in this country, as compared with that of similar establishments in Germany and Italy, you can readily understand that we cannot successfully compete with the European manufacturers without a duty. (Report of tariff commission, p. 2,449.) Now there is no possible way in which a duty could help these gentlemen except by enabling them to charge more for quinine. When they say that manufacturing costs more in this country than in Europe they do so to support their claim that they must be "protected," so that they can charge more for quinine than is charged abroad. Mr. S, G. Rosengarten, the leading manufacturer ot quininein the United States, put the case very frankly when he said: (Report of the taritif commission, p. 25.) As I understand it, the object of the tariff is to make the article higher, otherwise there would he no advantage in having a tariff, which I can see. The same principle applies to everything. The Inkr (kenn, however, tells its readers that "the repeal of the tariff duty has had nothing to do with the price in America," and again that "the truth is that the difference between English and American prices has been the same, whether there were an American tariff or not." And finally: The repeal of the duty on quinine has not lowered the price one-fourth of a cent per 100 tons weight. But it has done this: It has increased our imports of quinine from 17,5 111 ounces in 178 to l,O.V,761 "ounces in 18n. It has sent about one million dollars a year of American money to Europe every year, and has not cheapened the price to the American consumer. Now if it is true that the repeal of the duty has not lowered the price, it is certainly not true that it has injured the manufacturer, or increased our imports, or sent SI ,0(Xi,000 a year of American money to Europe. Also, if it is true that the repeal has not lowered the price, it is also true-that restoring the duty would not increase the price, and therefore could not possibly help the manufacturer. And, airain, if it does not follow, as the InkrOnan says it does not, that because quinine is cheaper now than it was when protected it is owing to the repeal of the duty, no more does it follow that because importations have increased, it is also ow ing to the repeal of the duty. But whenever a protectionist starts out to show that the tariff benefits the seller and does not hurt the buyer, and that the more you tax an article the cheaper it becomes, and that untaxing an article increases its price, he is defying common sense and reason, and is sure to become involved in a maze of contradictions and absurdities. The truth about quinine is that it is much cheaper than before the tax was taken off, whereas tho protectionists predicted that it would be higher ; that the domestic manufacture has not been ruined, as they said it would be, but has increased; that, in a word, every prediction of the tariff reformers as to tho results of free quinine has been fulfilled, and every prediction of the high taxers refuted. That ought to be enough to satisfy reasonable people that free quinine has been a good thing for the country, and that it would be a better thing for the country if tbe other necessaries of life were also put on the free list. Another Bad Appointment, Mr. John II. Obek.lt, a democrat, who, in several official capacities had mads an excellent record, was recently removed by President Hakrison from the office of commissioner of Indian affairs, although his retention was prayed for by the Indian rights' association and by several thousand republicans and democrats who were familiar with the good work he had done in the Indian bureau. Mr. James T.Morgan was sppointedhis successor. The records of the war department show that Morgan, while colonel of the Fourteenth U. 8. colored infantry, w as trted, in ISoo, by a court-martial and found guilty on various charges, as follows: Of having mado falso charges against a fellow-ofncer; of having, while custodian of recommendations for advancement for himself and a fellowotficer, retained the latter and forwarded only those in his own favor, and of having made false musters for companies in his regiment to his pecuniary edvantage. On these charges, with specifications, Col.

Morgan was found guilty by the unanimous verdict of the court and sentenced to dismissal. When this sentence reached the department headquarters it was set aside in the manner thus described in the records : In tho fore?oine eases of Col. Thomas J. Morgan, Fourteenth U. colored infantry, the court, having found the accused guilty of the first charge, the violation of the fifteenth article of war, had not authority to change the sentence prescribed ia that article for such offenses, and the failure to conform to the requirement of the above article in sentencing the accused is an error fatal to the proceedings and judgment of tha court so far as it relates to the first charge. The requirement of the fifteenth article of war was that an officer found guilty of violating it should be "cashiered," and thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any office or employment in the service of tho United States. The New York Times says: We suppose that it will be conceded that the Indian commissioner ought to be a pure and honest man. That is true, indeed, of any public officer, but it is most important in this case, because dishonest or dishonorable conduct may inflict great injury on the Indians, who are peculiarly helpless, and may greatly compromise the eoverument, which baa already suffered deeply from the inefficiency and corruption of its agents. How the president manages to find so many men with blemished records for important offices is a good deal of a mystery. He has made more improper appointments since ho became president than any of his predecessors made in a full term, Grant alone excepted.

Is removing democratic officials President Harrison uses scant courtesy. The following is a specimen of one of his notices of dismissal: Executive Mansion, June 6, 1SS0. Yon are hereby removed from the office of collector cf customs for the district of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. Benjamin Harrison. To this the recipient, Mr. R. L. CRorX.EY, responded: This rather abrupt communication from the president of the United States has no fcuperUnity of courtesy, either in form or substance. While you had the power to remove me by a scratch of the pen, it might have been expected to ho done more in accordcnce with customary form and spirit of correspondence between pnblio officials and gentlemen, apart from the tact that some reason misht have been given for my removal from office a year before the expiration of my commission. One reads your communication through from date line to signature without finding a word to indicate whether it is addressed to a roan or a hor?e. This corn t ondence moves the Pittsburg rost to remark that "the prerogative of being discourteous, we presume, appertains to all the blood of all the Harrisons." Scientists are awaiting with a good deal of interest the total eclipse of the sun, which will be visible on the west cost of Africa Pec. 22 next. The IT. S. govern ment will send out an expedition, for the expenses of which congress appropriated ?"),000. The expedition will leave the United States about Oct. 1. After reach ing Maxima, on the Quanza river, it will divide into two parties, one of which will be under the direction of Prof. Todd of Amherst college, and the other under Joseph Russell of AVashington, who is an expert in solar photography, and will be in trusted with the dutyof obtaining photo graphs of the eclipse in its various phases. If the results anticipated from the obser vations of this expedition are realized, a very sensible addition; tc the world's Btoro of astronomical knowledge will te made. The school book trust is wasting its money on the Journal. That paper is without character or influence. It is as impotent to prevent the text book contract from being carried out as it was to prevent it from being awarded. Every dollar that tbe trust has paid the Journal might as well have been thrown into the Ohio river for all the good it has done the trust. In fact, the Journal eager championship of that greedy combination, and its attacks upon Indiana gentlemen of repute who have got in its way, have intensified, instead of allaying, the popular prejudice against the trust, and strengthened tho popular determination to drive it out of Indiana, "bag and baggage." The school-book contractors, who have undertaken to furnish first-class books at about half the prices now charged, will probably realize very modest profits out of the undertaking. But, whatever the profits are, they will be kept at home. It will be a good thing for the state to check the drain upon its resources w hlch the exactions of foreign publishers have been making for many years past. The school-book trust is dead, eo far as Indiana is concerned. Nothing remains but to bury it. We are still of the opinion that the echool-book law is not wholly impracticable. . We really don't think the school-book law can be pronounced a failure. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. T. Park F.f., Eminence; Ind.: (1) Sullivan and Kilrain never met in the rins; before July 8. (2) In his fight with Patsy Cardiff at Minneapolis in January, 1SS7, Sullivan broke his ri?bt wrist In the first ronnd, but stayed with Ca'diff the remaining five roun ds, when the fight was declared a draw. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Prince Bismarck has been obliged again to give up his tobacco. Russell B. IlARRfsos was recently the guest of Lord Salisbury. Savx Wright, a Virginian, declars that Gen. Mahone will be the next president. It is said that Emperor William has forbidden the officers of the German army to visit the Paris exposition. . Jefteeson Davis has received an offer from a Northern publisher to write a history of the confederate etater. Mns. Tbcax of Saratoga, whose stage name was Mme. Schott, bus invented a carriage which can be propelled on land or water by electricity. Gen. Sherman is credited with possessing the happy faculty of never telling the same story tirice. He abo possesses tho equally happy faculty of telling it well the first time. The fortune left by Prof. Richard A. Proctor was insufficient to support his family, and his widow has determined to sell his Florida home, together with his library and scientiho apparatus. , Elizabeth: Michael, who kept the Grape hotel, where James Buchanan once made his headquarters and made the innkeeper prominent by his public praise of her cooking, died the other day at ' Lancaster in her ninety-first year;The American girls, who marry lords are commonly supposed to owe their conquests to coin. Miss Caroline Fitzgerald of New York, who is eneaared to Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, has other claims to distinction. She is a classical scholar and a linguist, a student of Sanskrit, a member of the Oriental society, and a ftoetets besides. Add to all this that she is only wenty-one aud an heiress in her own right, and it ia no wonder that the younger brotber of the viceroy of India 6uccunb&.

BETRAYED BY A IIORSESHOE

THE OLD FARRIER'S STRANGE STORY. How a Murderer 'Was Brought to tho Stake, Because Two Men Shoe a Dorse Eractly Alike A FMoneer Lynching. THE FARRIERS STORY. "Well, farrier, how is trade to-day? I eee that you are shoeing a mustang." "Ya'as; we have had a lot of this kind of work for the past month or two. There is quite a craze for tho lighter kind of horses in Indianapolis lately." "Po you think these Mexican or Texas horses will fill the requirements expected from them?" "No, I hardly think they will. In the first place they are not built right. Then they show the results ot centuries of ill usage, bad management and want of nourishment, besides being deficient in intelligence, although I admit that they improve under the care they receive in the North. But, after all, it hardly pays to purchase an inferior animal, even if it is young. Then, again, the careless branding destroys the appearance of most of them." "They will be very well shod at any rate. You seem to be quite 'au fait' at the business." "Quite off hay? I don't deal in hay." "No, no ; I mean that you are good at horse-shoeinc" "I ought to be. My father was a farrier before me, and so are both his sons Sam and I." "I suppose, for all the similarity in the pedal appointments of a horse, no two men in tbe trade shoe exactly alike?"' "flight you are. Do you know that I found out w here my brother lived in Kanpas by a horse's shoe a brother I had not heard from for fifteen years? I knew that either himself, or some one he had taught the business to, had shod the animal in question. I proceeded at once to make inquiries of the owner, and, sure enough, it was my dear brother Sam. "That was quite singular." "Wa'al, I guess it was; but, after all, there am t nothing so extraordinary m it 1 often he'erd my father speak of a circumstance that happened long before I was born (and that s over torty years ago). how the perpetrator ot a most horrid out rage and murder was discovered by the make of the horseshoe that seems eculiar to the blacksmithiutr of our family. "I should like to hear about that." "Well, hold on a minute till I finish this shoe and I'll te'.l you all about it, as far as 1 know. "One night, years ago, a terrible crime was committed in this section of the coun try, which was then but thinly settled. "A prosperous and well-to-do farmer was murdered, together with his wife and daughter, the fiend adding abomination to horror by the outrage of the girl, who was regarded as the beautv of the neighbor hood. The crime was supposed to have been committed by Indians, who were by no means scarce in this locality at the time I speak of, but the awful crime proved afterward to have been perpetrated by a double-dved villain named bominick Lol tus, or, as he was called for short, 'Dom.' This Dom was a general favorite amongst the settlers. No one in the world would have suspected him of the crime; he was a good-looking sort of a fellow, but had the heart or a demon. 1 et he was well liked. He never was particularly fond of work, and no one ever saw Loftus do anv plowing. "The farmers used to lose a great many horses; still no one ever suspected Dom. Yet the fellow was a gambler, horse thief and desperado of the worst description, as afterward, when too late, came to light. "He alwavs rode a beautiful sorrel chestnut, with a skin like silk, which shone bright as bronzed gold. Now, after committing the fearful deed (which must have been done late in the evening), and after the savage and insensate wretch had partaken of the hospitality of the kind farmer and his family, and after the murderer, in his haste to escape from the fcene, had mistaken the road", in trying to make a ßhort cut he forced Iiis horse to take a desperate leap, in doing which it lost a shoe upon the bank of a rocky ledge. "Now, sir, my father had 6hod that horse, and one day, not long after (and before the excitement of the event had died out), while stopping to have achat with a neighbor in the village, he saw nailed to the tavern door a horseshoe. Of course there was nothing out of the way in seeing a shoe nailed to the door of a tavern, especially in those days, but this shoe w as a little out of the common, and w as made to help a slight crack in the animal's fore foot. "'Halloo,' said father, 'where did Dom's horse lose his shoe?' "Every one present stood in amazement, and it was some time before an answer was given. The points of the hoof had been tracked with care and they felt assured that tho horscshoo had been worn bv the animal the murderer rode. ""'Why, what is the matter with ye all?' said father; 'are ye struck dumb?' "'Wa'al,' said the keeper of the tavern, 'that shoe must have belonged to the horse the murderer rode, for it was found three days alter the killing of old Mercer and his family not more than fifty rods from the house.' "Here was a revelation. The whole neighborhood was astir with the wildest excitement Money was subscribed, and the best and bravest officer in the county selected to track the murderer. "After some trouble and difficulty this was accomplished. A watch, money and some valuables, belonging to his victims, were found in his possession. His horse, too, had been differentlv shod, a new shoo having been substituted for the one lost. "Dom was brought back, and a more abject, miserable, cowardly-looking wretch, I have beard my father say, he never saw. "In those days Judge Lynch was in the ascendant. He was all powerful then as be ia now, and I doubt not always will be, whenever Justice is inclined to be tardy, and while men hate to Eee the likeness of themselves degraded by some inhu-man beast. "The wretch ifessed his guilt and asked for respite, iut it was denied him, for often on a winter's night, when seated 'round the old log fires of those days, I've heard the old gray beards tell how tho murderer and ravisner of the Mercer family was burned at the stake." "Horrible, most horrible, but just." "Ya'as, that's what I say. But, I tell vou, I might never have found my brother Sam, and that crime might never have been avenged, if all blacksmiths made horseshoes exactly alike." P. C. Anxious to Sea 1 1 1 ra Ilunc. XlEMrniS, Tenn., July 13. Charles Wirt, colored, was hanced to-day at Somerville. Fay ette county, Tennnessee, for the murder of Evaline Hester on the IMth ot uecemDer lastWirt was jealoas of the woman and meeting her In the company of a rival he shot her dead. The scaflold was erected in a creek bottom near the town, which, owinsr to heavy rains, was nearly a foot deep in water. The crowd stood in the water for hours and pressed so close that a military company with fixed bayonets was employed to keep them back. Wirt'i neck was broken by the falL Death ot m Capitalist. Mcncie, July 13. Special. A. S. Sweet, a capitalist of Baneor, Me., died at the Kirby house last night, lie was one of the eastern land speculators, and came with forty other comrades last Tuesday. His family has been telegraphed.

"THE LIONS

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artist. Each Hon Is s'.lve. and we seem tobelno-jr?8tthPse pob beasts In their native lair, strength In repose characterizes the croup. The mnlve rid finplv proportioned head snl neck of the lion, with his shiesrv nunc, bis form'rtaNe ltmbs lazllv streched out in the for.-, jrrouna. wltn the elm drawn imo fh softly paddd raws are tnarveioupiT rcnlered. Thm lioness lies beside its mate with hr hind carters rnUv ex'erded. br he.d erect, bat wateMul or ner whelps. Kepo Is Infused Into he f ceofesch animsl. whilst a demv hnprlness and soilness of the eyes fitly portravs the In at Pome. A trrcat deal hs hcn written roth In poetry and proe of motnpr and cf familv ties. but. weslinm thes M anrM-d to the nercest and rafcrhtlest. of blasts Yet all nsture Is sHIr,, ard whn we look a tW picture. w pee the srtlst has portrayed 'h sime tiflnAnc at work, which makes th FTronr man gentle. The neipless who'ns are thre. and th tnMnets o' love and protection In tn iint-l bsts is told in a novl and charnun? story by t.M r-iomre of th Monarch t1 bS Onn. Tb parrelous tone and beautv of thl erpt eomnoslMon. "The Ltn at Rotre' Is th work of t?03 the axUcworlo!1" year8' Ü DOt etluaUed as att a1 Picture by anyttlng yet given to This masterpiece will be given with each now subscription to or renewal of THE "WEEKLY SENTINEL for onlv S1.15.

A JIOXTH WITHOUT FOOD ROBERT MARVEL'S QUEER DISEASE Stricken WitU Taralysis "While Working in a Corn Field and Goiiij; For Thirty Days Without Food or Water Slow. ly Approaching the End. On the Lafayette pike, near the pecond toll Räte and about half a mile back from the road, resides the Widow Jone?, as the is known to the neighborhood for miles around. With her lives Robert Marvel, an aged relative, who has lately become afflicted with a terrible disease, which has caused hira to go without food for twentynine days. Dr. Hasty of this city, who was called in to see the man, 6tatea that the case is a difficult one to diagnose, but is of the opinion that his patient is afflicted with an ossification of the coats of the vessels of the brain. His reason for the supposition is given in the fact that the radial artery feels full cf little hard substances, which would indicate this as the trouble. Marvel was working in an onion patch on the little farm when the disease attacked him. No one was near but his constant companion, a lad of about twelve years. It was in the afternoon and, dropping his hoe, he broko straight for the house, on reaching which he was unable to speak or tell of what had happened him, and furthermore he was almost sightless. The family got him into the house and into his bed and by this time his whole right side was found to be paralyzed, he having no use of any of the members or muscles on. that side of the body. From the moment he was taken down he refused nourishment of any kind. Dr. Hasty, who saw him three days alter he had been confined to his room noted that he was sensitive almost alone to touch. A jarring of the bed he noted, and he seemed to look about to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. He could Eee, however, only a little, as he evinced but little satisfaction after looking about him. Ever since he was stricken Marvel has been irritable, and will not accept assistance. He pays no attention to a conversation in the room, and when handled or touched resists and appears vexed. After several days he gained sufficient strength and use of his side to be able to walk. At first, though, he required a little help, but shortly after attacked any person offering assistance. It was fifteen days before any substance whatever was taken into his stomach, he fightinz and pitching off his relatives when they attempted to give him water. After the fifth or sixth day of his illness Marvel would arise from his bed several times during each day and walk out into the yard. His route was alwa)-s the same. Leaving his bed he would go directlv across the room, out the south door, and onto the veranda, sometimes resting here a few moments. Then he would step to the ground, walk east to the end of the house where stood a wash-stand on which was a basin. Around this stand lie woild walk and quite a distance into the yard, where he would attend to the necessities of life, and then, turning directly about, return to the house by the same route and again resume his couch. At night he never left the house, but eeemed to rest in a quiet, placid manner. The fifteenth day oi his fast there happened to be a little water in the basin which stood on the stand, and during one of his trips that.day he picked up the basin and made an eifort to drink. Thi was the first substance that had passed his lips since the beginning of the fast. Always after this as he would rise to take his walks some of the family ran about the house and placed a cup of fre.h water on the Ptand. Several times after the basin episode he drank from the cup, and twice milk was put in the cup instead of water, which he also drank. Outside of tbe little water he drank, the two teacups of milk was the only nourishment he has taken for twenty-nine days. For several days past he has been unable to take his walks on account of weak ness, and will doubtless never again be able to stand. Even to this day he sleeps placidly and is still averse to having any attention ehown him. He cannot be given any medicine because he refuses to take anything and as he fights off any one who attempts to touch hira and thus even a hyperderroic injection cannot be given. Mr. Marvel, notwithstanding nis long fast, is emaciated but little, still he is very weak, though he exercises consider able strength when anyone comes near him to assist him in any way. In tho neighborhood in which he lives Mr. Marvel has always been considered an exemplary citizen. The early years of his hie from seven until about eighteen be followed a sea-faring life. Quitting the sea he took up the life of a farmer, and his eince followed that occupation. He is about six leet in night and strong and muscular, though of a elende build. His hair is whitened now, and his face is beardless. He is of a sanguine, bilious temperament. The relationship of Mrs, Brown with whom he resides, could not be ascertained last night, but she is a relative. The old man is a widower and has sev eral grown children, all cf whom are mar-r ried. He has relatives in Haughville named Nelson.

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BONHEUR, A if erinsl. In the reproduction hv photo etcblrrof WHAT WAS ON THE CARD? It Orerpowered w Vork Floor. Walker and Gninrri Attention. I went into a shop hA week about J) o'clock in the morning, wheu it was presumed, if ever, I would ge t willing service. It was then before the clerks would be fatigued, says tho New York correspondent of The Hartford Courauf. I asked for black surah waists, ready made. A plainly drcsed little lady, whose cotton gloves even to regenerate eyes were betraying, and, however, got there before liic, and was in reuest of the mine article. Two young women, to whom the duty of selling waists was assigned, were talking earnestly. They were pretty girls a blonde and a brunet dressed charmingly in iresh spring ginzhams. "Surah waists'." inquired the blonde. "You'd take We ain't go no cö and, as I was coming along, he said stop a minute, and I said no. 1 was late already. nn' hsii.l" "Will l in.'Kj see whether there is any 3S?"' said the I la.ly. "Thirty-six is your number," rej plied the blonde beautv, impatiently. "an we re out of : an I told him to get alonar, an' he said he would pay the line if there was one to pay." "Will you look into your stock lor azain interrupted the customer. "We took etock last night, an' we're not going to be hauling over things to look at what ain't there," put in tbe brunet. "Oh, what did you do then? He's awful handsome for a dark man." "Young woman," said the little would-be customer, with a calmness and severity that astonished me as much as if a field mouse had turned to rend me, "you ttrike me as remarkably useless persons to be drawing wages, and I think it mv dutv to mention my opinion to a floorwalker." This blood-curdling threat so astonished me, who would as soon have mentioned death in the presence of Louis XIII as a floor-walker to a thon-sirl. that I turned I my head away to avoid what I supposed i would be their terror, anger and constern.ition. What then were my emotions when the brunette deliberately sang out: '"Will you kindly walk this way, Mr. Cohen?" and a large, somewhat portly gentleman, in a Prince Albert coat, who had been treading his mill up and down since ray arrhal, arrested his steps at the counter. "This here lady," said tbe blonde, "was asking for waists and none of what we had in stock fitted her." "You neither looked in your stock, nor took my measure," said the lady, "and your man, ner was very impertinent." "I? that soMiss Kice?' queried the man of the brunet, with an engagincr smile. "No, indeed," said this young lady, "she's been a hindenn ol us and taking our time, talking an' coin' on." "Then, madam," said the Hoor-walker, "I can't make a complaint, since there are two to your one. These young ladies have been here for a long time, and I shouldn't like to do 'em injustice. I guess you'd better move on." Whether, indeed, the moral courage of your correspondent would have enabled her to bring her testimony to bear on that of the customer with the cotton gloves we will never know. The old lady put her hand in an old-fashioned reticule and pulied out a written, not engraved card. What was on that card must also remain a mystery to us all, for I did not decipher it. But it had the etlect on the healthy Hebraic gentleman that might have been produced by the tiniest stab of a poisoned arrow. He turned deathly pale, lie stammered out an apology that was a cry for mercy. He then turned on the girls, and I need not tell you here that our despot was a coward in his dispute of them. I only know that I lost my desire to try on waists if the frightened, sobbing girls were to serve me, and that as I came away I saw the slight figure of the little lady, now terrible in her aner, suggesting Mrs. Be Done By as You Did in "Water Babies," making for the private office." A Slinjj For tho Champion. When Goliath came forth to battle, armed cap-a-pie, and shaking the earth with the thnnder ot his tread, be thonsibt to stampede tho camp of the Israelites. But he didn't do it. The attacks upon myself are remarkable for nothing but their inanity. One irate female refers to me as "a poor bug that darVt to turn." I'm not a bug. I don't like to be called a buz. Besides, whoever beard of a bueturning? CSee "Comparative Anatomy of Bu?s and Worms.") fchakspeare, in King Henry Vt, f peaks of the worm turning when trodden upon, but the only poetry I can find about buss relates to the kind that "Take his bonnet o3T Sai says nes cinoe to eta v." I bke that sentiment. It exactly express my own in re-rard to woman's rights from a political ftand point. Touching the question of woman's superiority to man, I have three pebbles for ray elingr, and they are thee: (1) If woman did as is cbin'cd unset the existing order of thinci in the Garden of Eden, who thanks her for it? (2) If the Creator intended woman to be the ruler and law-giver why did He send us His Son? Gould He not just as easily have tt nt us dauehter? (3) If our ancestors, several generations ago, had taken it into their heads thai "marriage is a failure," where would we be today? Besie H. Woolfokd. Another INareputable Chosen. Kokomo Iipfltch.l Hiram Z. Leonard of Locranport, the renegade (rreenbacker, who attempted to eell his remnant to the republicans ilnrinc the lat campaign, has been given his thirty pieces of silver as per contract. The president on Monday appointed him commercial agent at Ontario. Leonard is a politician of malodorous record, and we hope he may remain faithful to bis new found master. He has long since been spewed ont by aU other parties. A Tlrkllsh Question Settled. St. Joseph Gsrette.) . The title of "old maid" does not now attach to a lady until . the baa parsed her thirtieth birthday.

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