Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1891 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA TATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY JMORNING, I ARCII 25. 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

THE SINFUL AMUSEMENTS.

ANOTHER TALMAGE PLAGUE SERMON. Elaltltories Who Go Down Under Vloloua ' and Hlnatlng Influences Th Wayward Tenth and Hatband How Innoeent, Recreations ra Mad Vicious.. The eeries of eermons Dr. Talmage ia preaching in this city and Brooklyn on "The Plagues of the Cities," is attracting general attention. At the morning service in Brooklyn, and at the evening services held under the aucpices of the CArwlinn Iltrald in New York, the number of persons who come to hear the eermons is lar larger than either of the huildings can accommodate. The sermon Sunday, which is the fourth of the series, is on "Baleful Amusements." The text was II. Samuel, Si., 14 : "Let the young men now arise and play before us." Teere are two armie9 encamped by the pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily on their Lands. One army proposes a (fame of eword-fencinpr. JCothinar could be more healthful and innocent. Tho other army accepts the challenge. Twelve men against twelve men, the eport opens. But fomethins vrent adversely. Ferhapa one of the swordsmen pot an unlucky clip, or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which opened in eportfulness ended in violence, each one taking his contestant ty the hair, and then with the eword thrusting him in the side; so thAt that thich opened in innocent fun ended in the maw acre of all the twenty-four sportsmen. "Waa there ever a better illustration of what w as true then, and is true now, than that which is innocent miy be made destructive? What of a worldly nature is xnore important and strengthening and innocent than amusemciit, and yet what ha3 counted more victims? I have no sympathy with a etrait-jacket religion. This is a very brisht world to me, and I propose to do all I can to make it bright for others. I never could keep step to a deadjnarch. A book years ago issued says that a Christian man has a ricrht to some amusements; for instance, if he comes home at nieht weary from his work, and, feeling the need of recreation, puts on his flippers and poes into his parret, and ralks lively round the floor several times, there can be no harm in it. I belieTe tho church of God has made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulxie!9 of youth and drive out from men iheir love of amusement. If God everimSlanted anything in us he implanted this esire. But instead of providing for this demand of our nature the church of God has, for the main part, ignored it. As in a riot the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street, and has it tired off, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the ranjre, the pood as well as the bad, so there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemnation and tire away indiscriminately. Everything is condemned. But my bible commends those who use the world without abusing it and in the natural world God has done everything to please and amuse us. In poetic figure we sometimes speak of natural objects as bein? in pain, but it is a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yrt shed a tear; and that the winds fiihi, but they never did have any trouble ; and that the storm howl.?, but it never lost its temper. The world is a rose and the universe a garland. And I am pi ad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places where we may find elevated uioral entertainment. But all honest men and pood women will agree with me in the statement that one of the worst plagues of these cities is corrupt amusement. Multitudes have gone down under the blatin: influence, never to rise. If we may judge of what is going on iu many of the places of amusement by the iSodomic pictures cn board-fences and in many of the show-window, there is not a much lower depth of profligacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep such pictures locked up from indiscriininite inspection. These pictures were exhumed from Pompeii and are not tit for public gaze. If the effrontery cf bad places of amusement in hanging out improper advertisement of what they are doing night by night grows worse in the same proportion, in fifty years New York and Brooklyn will beat not only Pompeii, but Sodom. To help stay the plague now raging, I project certain principles by which you may judtre in regard to any amusement or recreation, llndinz out for yourself whether it i3 wrong. I remark, in the first place, that you can judge of the moral character of any amusement by its healthful result, or by its baleful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard facts. They are a combination of multiplication tables and statistics. If you show them an exquisite picture, they will begin to discuss tho pigments involved in the coloring. If you fehow them a beautiful rose they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only the post mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile. There are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depths of their bouI, in billow after billow of reverberating laughter. They eeem as if nature had built them by contract, and made a bunzling job out of it. But, "blessed be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces, and whose life is a eong, an anthem, a poean of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower, on the top of which the sunlijht eita, and the oft air of summer hold per petual carnival. They are the people you ike to have come to your bouse; they are eopie i ime to nave come to my bouae. f you but touch the hem of their gar ments you are healed. Now it is these exhilarant and sympathetic and. warm-hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amusements. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse is pay, it wants a stout driver; and these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous, so that you cannot sleep, and you arise up in the morning, not because you have slept out, but because your duty drags you from your plumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated; and they are wrong kinds of amusements. They are entertainments that give a man digut with the drudgery in life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons because they are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement tends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adventure, love that taken poison and shoots i'aelf, moonlight adventures and hair-breadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the aoriGed victim of unsanctified pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build us np; and if they pull us down as to our moral or to our physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. There is nothing more depraving than attendance upon amusements that are full of innuendo and low suggestions. The voung man enters. At first he sits far

back, with his hat on and his coat-collar, up, fearful that somebody there may know him. Several nights" pass on. He takes off his hat earlier, and puts his coatcollar down. The blush that first came into his cheek when anything Indecent was enacted comes no more to his cheek. Farewell, young man! You have probably Btarted on the long read which ends in consummate destruction. The stara of hope will go out one by one, until you will bo left in utter darkness. Hear you not the rush of the maelstrom, in whoso outer circle your boat now dances, making merry with the whirling waters? But you are being drawn in, and the gentle motion will become terrific agitation. You cry for help, in vain ! You pull at the oar to put back, but the struggle will not avail! You will be tossed, and dashed, and shipwrecked, and swallowed in the whirlpool that has already crushed in its wrath 10,000 hulks. Young men who have just come from country residence to city residence will do well to be on guard, and let no one induce you to places of improper amusement. It "is mightily alluring when a young n-.an, long a citizen, oilers to show a new-comer all around. Still further; those amusements are wrong which lead you into expenditure beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is all folly for us to tome from a place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than tho transaction that yielded you hundreds of thousands of dollars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusements. The first time I ever saw the city it was the city of Philadelphia I was a mere lad. J stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the even-tide one of these men plied me with his infernal art. He saw I was green. He wanted to show me the sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emera'd ; but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk 1 made ud my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how he wheeled his chair round in front of me, and with a concentered and diabolical etl'ort, attempted to destroy my soul; but there were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all-encompassing grace of a pood God that delivered me. beware! beware! oh, young man. "There is a way that 6eemeth right Into a man, but the end thereof is death." The table has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children's wardrobe. The carousing party has burned up the boy's frimer. The tab ecloth of the corner saoon is in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month's wages; ladies whose lifetime business is to "go shopping;" large bets on horses have their counterparts in uneducated children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church; and that send drunkenness staggering across the richlyfigured carpet of the mansion, and dashing into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of bloated sons come up to break their old mother's heart. I saw a beautiful home, where the bell rang violently late at night. The son had been olf in sinful indulgences. His comrades were bringing him home. They carried him to the door. They rang the bell at 1 o'clock in the morning. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, a soon as the door was opened, threw the prodigal headlong into the door, crying. "There he is, drunk as a fool. Ha, ha!" When men go into amusements that they cannot afford, they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they can not borrow. First they go into embarrassment, and then into lying, and then into theft; and when a man gets as far on as that he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the laud where there are not victims of unsanctiried amusements. Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, is there a disarrangement in your accounts? Is there a leakage in your money drawer? I'id not the cash account come out right last night? I will tell you. There is a young man in your store wandering off into bad amusements. The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, but notthes'nful indulgences in which he has entered, and he takes by theft that which you do not give him in lawful salary. How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens ! The young man says : "Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy. I'll get money somehow. What a fine road ! What a Leautiful day for a ride ! Crack the whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses. Drink! lng life, health, plenty of rides just like this!" Hard-working men hear the clatter of the hoofa, and look up and say: "Why, I wonder where those fellows get their money from! We have to toil and drudge; theydonothing!"To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at ot her people, and in turn are stared at. The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. Theyewagger. They jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take the name of Ciod 111 vain. They parody tho hymntbey learned at their mother' a knee; and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out, "Who cares!" and to the counsel of some Christian friend, "Who are you?" Passing along the street some night, you hear a ehrk-k in a grog-shop, the rattle of tho watchman's club, the rush of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grog-shop light. Carry him home to his father's house. Parents will comedown and wash his wounds and close his eyes in death. They forgive him all he ever did, although he cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers and twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy, and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with agony. The great dramatist says : "How sharper than a serpent s tooth is t6 have a thankless child." I go further, and say those are unchristian amusements which become the chief business of a man's life. Life is an earnest thing. Whether we were born in a palace or hovel ; whether we are atiluent or pinched, we have to work. If you do not sweat with toil, you will sweat with disease. You have a soul that is to be transfigured amidst the pomp of a judg--inent day; and alter the sea has sung its last chun', and the mountain shad have come down in an avalanche of rock, you will live and think and act, high on a throne, where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon where demons howl. In a world where there is bo much to do for yourselves, and so mat h to do for others, God pity that man who has nothing to do. Your sports are merely means to an end. They are alleviations and. helps. The arm of toil is the only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleasure. Amusement is only the bower where business and philanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achievements. Amusements are merely the vines that grow about the anvil of toil, and tho blossoming of the hammers. Alas for the man who spends his life in laboriously doing nothing, his days in looking up lounging places and loungers, his nights in seeking out some gas-llchted foolery ! The man who always lias on his sporting jacket, ready U hunt for the game in the mountain or fish in the brook, with no time to pray, or work.

or read, is not so well off as the greyhound that runs by his side, or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who does not work does not know how to play. If God had intended us to do nothing but laugh he would not have given us shoulders with which to lift, and hamld with which to work, and brains with which to think. The amusements of lifo arc merely the orchestra playing while the great tragedy of life plunges through its five acts infancy, childhood, manhood, old age and death. Then exit the last earthly opportunity. Enter the overwhelming realities of an eternal world. I go further, and say that all these amusements are wrong which lead into bad company. If you go to any place where you have to associate with the intemperate, with the unclean, with the abaudoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They w ill despoil yonr nature. They will undermine your moral character. They will drop you when you are destroyed. They will give not one cent to support your children when you are dead. They will weep not one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. I had a friend at tho West a rare friend. He was one of the first to welcome me to my new home. To fine personal appearance he added a gr-nerositv, frankness and ardor of nature that made me love him like a brother. But I saw evil people gathering" around him. Thy cume up from the saloons, from the gimbling hells. .They plied him with a thousand arts. They siezed upon his social nature, and he could not stand the charm. They drove him on the rocks, like a ship fuh-winged, shivering on the breakers. I used to admonish him. I would say, "Now, I wish you would quit these bad habits, and become a Christian." "Oh," he would reply, "I would like to; but I have gone so far I don't think there is any way back." In his moments of repentance he would go home and take his little girl of eight years and embrace her convulsively, and cover her w ith adornments, and strew around her pictures and toys, and everything that could make her happy; and then, as though hounded by an evil spirit, he wouid go out to the entlamiog cup and to the house of shame, like a fool to the correction of the stocks. I was summoned to his death-bed. I hastened. I entered the room. I found him, to my surprise, lying in full everyday dress on the top of the couch. I put out my hand. He grasped it excitedly, and said, "!it down, Mr. Talmage, right there." I sat down. He said: "Last night 1 saw my mother, who has been dead twenty veara, and she sat just where you sit now. It was no dream. I was wide awake. There was no delusion in the matter. I saw her just as plainly as I see you. Wife. I wish you would take these strings off of me. There are strings spun all around my body. I wish you would take them off of me." I saw it was delirium. "Oh," replied the wife, "my dear, there is nothing there, there is nothing there." He went on and said: "Just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She said to me : 'Henry, I do wish you would do better.' I got out of bed, put my arms around her and said, 'Mother, 1 want to do better. I have been trying to do better. Won't you help me to do better? You used to help me.' No mistake about it, no delusion. 1 saw her the cap and the apron and the spectacles, just as she looked twenty years ago, but I do wish you would take the strings away. They aunoy me so. I can hardly talk. Won't jou take them away?" I knelt down and prayed, conscious of the fact that he did not realize what I was saying. I got up. I said: "Go)d-by ; I hope you will be better soon." He said: "Good-by, good-by." That night his soul went to the God who gave it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said, "Don't bring him in the church; he was too dissolute." "Oh," I said, "bring him. He was a good friend of mine while he was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the church." I sat in the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day, "This man had his virtues and and a good many of them. He had his faults and a good many of them. But if there is any man in this audience w ho is without sin, let him cast the hn-t stone at this coffin lid." On one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet-fated, as beautiful as any little child that sat at your table this morning, I warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows ot an orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me to-day, like some sweet face looking upon us through a horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they eat, hard-visaged, some of them pals from exhausting disease, some of them flushed until it seemed as the fires of iniquity (lamed through tho cheek and crackled the lips. They were the mu who had done the work. They were the men who had bound him hand and foot. They had kindled the lire?. They had poured wormwood and gall into that orphan's cup. Did they weep? 'o. Did they sigh repentiugly? No. Did they say: "What a pity that a such a brave man should be slain?" No, no; not one bloated hand was lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coflin like vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out! I cried in their ears as plainly as 1 could: "There is a God and a judgment day!" Did they tremble? Oh, no, no. They went back from the house of God, and that night, though their victim lay inOakwood cemetery, 1 was told that they blasphemed, and they drank, and they gambled, and there w as not one less customer in all the houses of iniijuity. This destroyed man was a Sampson in physical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and tho Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison of evil habits. But in the hour of hrs death he rose up and took hold of the pillared curses of Ood against drunkenness anduncleanness, and threw himself forward, until down upon hira and his diunken companions there came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe. Again: Any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken ut by sinful amusements. The father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are todav the frag

ments before me of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word' "home." I)o you not know that you'have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to have over them you must have now? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and alas, if you have to stnnd over the grave of one who perished from your neglect J I saw a wayward husband standing at the death-bed of his Christian wife, and I saw her point to a ring on her finger, and heard her fay to her huband: "Do you see that rina?" He replied: "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she, "do you remember who put it there?" "Yes," he said, "I put it there;" and all the past 6eemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day when, in the presence of men and angles, you promised to be faithful in joy and sorrow, and in sickness and health ; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new home taking of a bright future; by the cradle and the joyful hours when one life was spared and another given; by ..that sick-bed, when the little

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one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you' kuew . he must die, and he put one arm around each of your i.ecks and brought you very near together in that dying kiss; by the little grave in Greenwood that you never think of without a rush of tears; by the family bible, where, amidst stories of heavenly "love, is the brief but expressive record of births and deaths; by the neglects of the past, and by the agonies of the future; by a judgment day, when husbands and wives, parents and children, in immortal groups, will stand to be caught up in shimng array, or to shrink down into darkness; by all that, 1 beg you to give to home your best affections. Ah. my friends, there is an hour coming when our past lives will probably pass before us in review. It wi"d be our last hour. If from our death pillow we have to look back and see a lifft snent in sinful amusement there will be a dart that will ! strike through our soul sharper than the datrger with which Viroinius slew her child. The memory of the pat will make us quake like Macth. The iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will I come upon us. weird and skeleton as M j Merrillff. Death, the old fcliyloch; will demand, and take the remaining pound of flesh and the remaining drop of blood, and I upon our last opportunity for repentance, and our last chance for heaven, the curtain will forever drop. m, . I I III I IBIFARM COLONIES. Gen. nooth's Scheme na Practiced In Holland and Germany. St. James (laette. Attention has lately been drawn to the question of farm colonies as a means of converting the homeless vagabonds of our streets into useful laborers. Tor light upon the subject it h necessary for us to turn to the continent. The system of farm colonies has been known in Holland since 1818. They have, however, undergone much modification in the last forty years; and it will, perhaps, be sufficient for our purpose to consider them as they exist at the present time. They are now divided into two classes the free and the-begg.ir colonies. The former are purely philanthropic institutions. They were brought into existence at times of special distress with a view of finding employment tor respectable and competent laborers. On their lands permanent homes and constant work are provided for whole families Wo may, however, remark that they do not afford much assi-tance in dealing with current distress, seeing that not more than halt a d' zen new families can be admitted each year into the colonies; and it may also be noted that, in spite of years of residence, the colonists bave never become really self-supporting. The beggar colonies are more analogous to the traiuiug labor colonies which we are asked to pro-note. The two most important institutions of this clas in existence in Holland are those, at Veehuizen and Ommerschaus, which in lW contained 2.(,'.0 and 400 inmates respectively. These colonies are supported by the state, and aie occupied, for the most part, by beggars and drunkards committed to them for definite periods at the instance of the police author. ties. Destitute persons, however, are also admitted on their own application (vrtitrillijerj). The colonists are trained and occupied in firm work and other industries, and they receive small wages for their labor; they have every opportunity afforded them of exchanging a life of vagrancv and cadging for one of honest work. The results, however, in this direction are very slight. Most of the inmates on their discharge return to their former occupations; readmissions are Ihe rule rather than the exception ; and of 3,'J5;J persone who were in the colonies in December, ISSo, 4-5 only were there for j the nrst time, while forty-three had ben admitted fifteen times or more. In view of these facts Englishmen would scarcely regard such labor colonies as a good investment for their philanthropic capital. When Sir John McNeill visited the Dutch colonies in l&V,i he reported to the board of supervision for the relief of the poor in Scotland that it took fifteen colonists to do the work of one day laborer, If a Dutchman was made a colonist and kept a pauper at the rate of Xli 10s a year, the cost of treating a Scotchman in the same way would be XS 10s. a year, or more than twice the actual cost ot maintaining a pauper in Scotland without the pretence of letting him earn his living. The German workmen's colonies are still in the experimental stage; but as they have been in existence foreome eight years the experience which they afford is well worth the consideration of all who advocate the introduction of a similar system into this country The colony at Wilhemsdorf was founded in and in 1887 it provided accommodation for 300 men. By IbiMi sixtet n others (exclusive o branch colonies) had been opened in Prussia alone. The admission to these settlements is entirely voluutary. After a short period of residence the inmates receive some small remuneration for their work; and in this way any laborer, who, through mishap or his own fault, has been reduced to destitution, has an opportunity of earning a character and also of saving a sum of money sufficient to provide himself with clothes and the tools rv-ouircd for his calling. The average stay Ot each colonist is ninety-right days. These German colonies, in their constitution, resemble the institutions which are euggested for our adoption in Kngland much more

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cloely than do their Dutch prototypes. But we must not forget that the conditions under which they work are very different from those which obtain in this country. The most noticeable difference, perhaps, is the non-existence in Prussia of our poorlaw system. The colonies, in fact, to a great extent do the work of our workhouses; and it the advocates of the German system claim that a percentage of the men admitted to the settlements are subsequently absorbed into the ranks of indepeudent labor, we mirht reply that many laborers who are forced in hard times to take refuge in the workhouse are to be found afterward pursuing their proper avocations. That a larger proportion are benefited by their stay in the German colony than by residence in the Morkhoupe it would be difficult to prove. The manager at Wilhelmsdorf states that but a small minority of the men who pass through his hands do well, while the bulk return to the life of vagrancy which they led before their admis-ion ; and Mr. Davy, who visited the colony three years ago on behalf of the local government board, expressed in his report a very doubtful opinion as to the drsirability of tryinsr any experiments in this direction in Kngland. On the whole, the experiment of farm colonies, both in Germany and in Holland, can hardly be said to have met with such success as to justify ua in hoping very extensive lesults from the adoption of the svstem here. A TALKING DOG IN COUilT. A Part S!oonkepT ltadly Twken In Tro Much Faith and Cupidity. A queer case came before a Faris police court the other day, in which a saloonkeeper named Latrouche appeared as complainant against a traveling showman called Pivot, whom he charged with swindling him out of 400 francs under somewhat strange circumstances In the first portion of his long statement to the presiding judge Latrouche ins sted that the prisoner's dog could talk. But the story is best told in the following stenographic report of the proceedings: The President (to the complainant) "Well. I must say that vou have a robust faith." The Complainant, Latrouche "But. Mr. President, the people who were in my place at the time also believed " The President "That the prisoner's dog talked?" Latrouche "Certainly, sir, just like a human being." The President "Did you converse with him?" Laughter. Latrouche "Oh, no, not so much as that" The President "Well, what did he Bay?" Latrouche "The accused, Mr. Pivot, came into my establishment with his dog, a litt e kindle." The President "You knew him?" Lntrouche-'The dog?" The President "No. the accused." Latrouche "I didn't know either of them. Well, he sat down at a table, and the dog jumped upon a stool and squatted himt-eif beside bis master. 1 approached the man and asked him what he wished to have. He replied,. 'a bock;' and right then a queer voice added, 'And a piece of veal for me 1' I w as astounded, and looked about to find out where that voice came from. Pivot said, 'Don't be frightened, it is only mv dog.' 'What!' said I. 'Your dog can talk?' Well, you can imagine my asionishment, and, thinking that the fellow was fooling me, I said: 'Make him speak again.' Then Pivot said: 'Ask him what he wants.' Then I, not believing the thing possible, but just to see. said to the dog: 'Well, old fellow, what will you have?' 'I told you I wanted a piece of veal !' said the dog. My wife, my children, my waiter, and all the customers exclaimed in' wonder, 'Gracious, he talks!' As for me I remained naiied to the floor motionless as an ece homo,, until the accused remarked: 'Well, well, why don't you serve us?' I got the bock and a piece hi veal. I gave the beer to the individual and the meat to the do.g'' The President "Did he cay 'thank you?'" laughter. Latrouche "No ; he went for the meat." The President "Ill-mannered dug!" Latrouche "Then my wife brought me into a corner; my young ones came, And my waiter also came. 'You must buy that dog,' said she, 'and put up a sign. .Iu euVrt qui park! Crow ds will come, and we will make a heap of money.' My youngsters also said: 'Oh, yes, papa, buy him !' And my waiter remarked : 'That is going to put an awful amount of work upon me, with all the ieople that will come!"' The President " Well,finadv you bought him." Latrouche "Yes, sir, 400 francs; but immediately after paying down my money the dog said to his master: 'So, that is what you are doing! Celling me, eh! Very well, I won't speak another word.' " The President "And he didn't speak after his master went away?" Latrouche "Not a word, not a syllable, nothing; and in the evening everybody was laughing at me. They told me that the do's mastr must have been a ventriloquist Then I became furious at being swindled. I went to the commissary ot police and told him the whole 6tory. He nearly split his sides laughing." The President "No Wonder; but what did he say to you?" ' Latrouche "He told me I was too stupid for anything, and that. I was served right for beinir such a donkey. Light

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days afterward I found the thief at the Montnirtre fair, w here he w as performing as a juggler. The President (to the prisoner) "Ycu are a ventriloquist?" The Prisoner "Yes, sir." The President "And you swindled the plaintiff by making him believe that your dog could talk?" The Prirtifr "II tt.is bp whn tnr. mented me to sell the dog. I didn't want 1 to sell him, because I made my living with him. Then the plaintiff said to me: 'I'll; give you 200 francs.' I refused. 'Three hundred " said he. Then I began to say to myself that I raicht get another do. The p'aintilf said finally: 'Come, 111 give you 400 francs, with the bork and the piece of meat thrown in.' Well, then I accepted." The, President "And what became of the dog?" The Prisoner "Oh, he found me out again laughter ; but the gentleman can have him if he wishes." Latrouche "Thank you. I don't want your dog that can't talk!" The President (to the plaintiff) "So it turns out that it was you that pressed the prisoner to take your money." Latrouche "I'ecause mv wife told nie that with the sign 'The "Talking Dog' I would make a heap of gold as hi.' as myself." The prisoner was discharged. Bryant's Advice on Writing English. London Athenaeum. Bryant's advice to a young contributor, than which "sounder on th some subject was never penned," is worth starting on a new round of usefulness. "I observe," wrote he, "lhat you have used several French exnressionsin your letter. I think if you wiil study the Knglish language that you will find it capable of expressing all the ideas that you may have. I have always found it so, and in all that I have written I do not recall an instance where I was tempted to use a for i. n word, but that, on searching, I have found a better one in my own language. Be simple, unaffe. ted ; bo honest in your speaking and writing. Never use a long word where a short one will do as well. Call a spade by its name and not a well-known instrument of manual labor; let a home be a home and not a residence, a place, not a locality, and so on of the rest. When a short word will do, you will always lose by a long one. Jay Oou'd'o I.Ittle Joke. I Sew York Journal. ' Jv Ofiiild wns in a vrrv invinl mrw-irl last week during the meeting of the nilroad magnates at the Windsor hotel. In fact, he was merry, and told more to t)w. reporters about what was going on in the meeting than any other member. In response to a pointed question regarding what hnd hppn dorip at. a mornini n'--ion. v - o i however, he replied rather vaguely, and when a rejtorter afeke4 him flatly : "Well, please tell us what s happened: he answered: "When?" "Any time within the past few days," replied the reporter. " "Well, let me see, the latest thing of importance that I've heard of U that fitting Bull is dead." Then he bolted. Different. Puck.1 Turner Van Newleaf "I quit drinking about a week aco." Von Bibber "I thought you swore off the 1st of January.'' Turner Van. Newleaf "So I did; but this time I've quit." Salvation Oil, the great pain annihilator, is the staple liniment. Price only 25 cents. Light Hearts und Plenty Mono v. I' have completed my first week with my Plater, and have S-4--5 clear money. 1 am charmed w ith the business. 1 bought my Plater from th Lake Klectric Co., Knglewood. III., for and feel confident if Jeople knew how cheap they could get a 'latfr, and how much money they could make, we would see many more happy homes. It is surprising the amount of tableware and jewelry there is to plate; and if persons now idle would get a Plater, they would soon bave light hearts and plenty money. Completed to Utadwurd, The Burlington Route, C, B. kQ. R. R. from Chi. aco, Peoria and St. Louis, is, now completed, and daily passengct trains are running through Lincoln, Neb., and Custer, 8. D., to Dead wood. Also to Newcastle, Wyoming. Sleeping cars to Dead wood. To tlie Pacific Const. . Go to California via th through lines of the Burtineton Route, from Chicaeo or U LonU to Denver, and thence over the new broad gauge, through car linea of the Denver and lUo Urand or Colorado Midland lUilwayt via Leadriile, Glenwood Springs and Salt Lakethrough interesting cities and unsurpaued cenery. Dining cars all the way. Wbea Baby was sick, we gars her Castoria. When ahe was a Child, she cried for Caatoria. When she became Mia, ihe clung to Caston'a. Wbea ahe had Children, ahe gare them Caatoria. For a disordered liver try Leecbam'a rills...

-1 helped you win VOTICE TO ABSENTEES. 1 State f Indiana, IUpley County, ss Kipley Circuit Court. April term, Margaret Kllerman v. Ama-ia Kooblaugb, A4aw Krau. Ratio IIoHen n 1 Jacob Kraus. Petitio i and complaint fur administration of thl estate of a!-ente. Notice is !irehr girea to said Aiam Kraiis. J o6 Krau. Amaria Kooblaiub aul Katie Holloa that they eah have an estate ia the County ot Ripley and Mate of Indiana, ami thai aid etls is mnlering waste from th want ol proi.er care, nn l that th afove i a:u d M.irart KUcinaa has CeI her comjaint in tli Kiplry Circuit Court to l.ave iaid ah--e ite treated a dead, and soloed taij estate to aiiuioitral'Oii for the reason tnu ach of u d bpenteoy ha ab nte1 himself fruin hit uma! place of residi nee in aid Mate and gnne unto a d remained in a place unknown, for a hpaca ! raire than n yesr, without 1.1 ikinz anr rr .xL-ion for the manatnifnt o( th-lr !-a:d-taiea. The ro ablj value of f ch of said e-t.iV's it i3 A Vh:c!i complaint will coma up for hearing and trial at the next term ai said court to be he'.d at the court ho-jfo in Versailles at said county, on tba 27th daj of April. IS'.'l. MAUGAKET EI.T.ERMAN", ITaintiff. ED V. VuOI, Clerk I'.ipler Circuit Court, SH&RHQOD RESTORED. rxv I - sanatu o." tt.s ouuerlil bpanlsa lien.ety. is cld witia Yl'ritton';u'ranto to cure -U Nervjus Ditea, earn as Weak Memory. Low cf Eralu Power, Headache, Walipfaines. Lo Man-lio-x!. XirvuufneM, Lnstitudc. all drains r.r'X loss of power of the Before A, After Use, PhotoprapT'e.l from life. Generative Orpsns. tn enr.rr 6ex. cauN-d ly over-exrrtlon, von'fcful InrteCr'.-'tS ns, or tho cxrcMh e u-e of toir.--. "opium, or stimulant, whit h ultimately lead to Inuriii!v, ousuniiion and Insanity. Pm lj In onvenivat fjrm to rarrv tn toe vet rocket Priee f 1 a pickle, or 6 for 3. W.th every Vj orrtcr we pv? written KTuarantee to cure or refund (lie money. 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