Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 22, 1893-TWEVLE PAGES,

A STORM

BY JAMES H. XXII. IX TIIE NAME OF JUSTICE. When the court was oponed that morning, at the ustral hour, and the expectant multitude ruehed, scrambled, and tumbled in to üiht firet for front places and then for any place at all, the lawyers rho had entered by the jadee'a private etairway vera already seated inside the railing, chatting and laughing with cheerful indifference; the prisoner, lookin? worn and haggard, was seated in his place, and tha two drowsy jurymen were already commencing to yawn. The defense began the presentation of its evidence immediately. Mary Wallace was recalled to the etand to testify thnt when bar lover waa leaving heron the evening of the night of the murdar he told her that La wis going back to New Haven in Mr. IloUis' eloop. But the prosecuting attorney objected, and the court ruled that tho prisoner's statements at that time were not admissible. Mr. Hoi lis of New Haven bore witness that Dorn had come ever from New Haven with him that evening, had said that he might not return that night, and did not return to the beach at the a;!oiuted hour to accompany him back. Altotfuther, Mr. lioliia' vidence was rathur injurious than otherwise, and tue pros cuting attorney looked pleaded as ha mads a note of it. I em I'awle'.t was tailed to testify that the tracks left by the murderer in the soft earth ci 2Ir. Van Deust's garden were these of a man wearing high-heeled, fashionable boots or shoes, and having much mailer feet than Dorn Haekett, but as he had taken no measurements of them, and only judged from memory, and didn't know the tiro m Porn's feet, and was, as he readily admitted, a friend of the prisoner, the prosecuting attorney in crossexamination made it to ba inferred from hia manner that thare was no doubt in his mied that tue witness was deliberately perjurinsr timaelf in the hope of helping the case oi the accused. And at lea-t five of the jury res pensively looked as if that was the way thty .elt about it. Then witas.-aed were pat forward ass?if&rioz experts t j prove that cn the uizht of the murder there was almost a dea 1 caln. on the water, such as would have made it iaipisible for a tail-boat to go from NapePiCüö Inlet to New Haven in ths time that it was claimed by thj prosecution Dorn Lid gone. But when thu pruseculin,; attorney got to bullyi::jr and confusing them in cross-examination, be mads thm eay that they could not really wear whether the cairn was that nijhtor the nihl before, or tho niht after, or two or three r-iLts distant either way; and one of thfin even admitted that perhaps it nigat have blown a aie on that particular niiit, for all he whs now prepared to make oath to about it. Mtnple-miuded fteople, vti.- do not knovr how much n ore awyers L&rk thsn fcito, when goir.j through ti.e or leal of crooS-examinaiion are apt to fi& much a3 tha toai proverbially t'.oo3 when lie liuds hiiaselt under the harrow. 'lhings were going swimmingly for the prosecution. The d fnaa was forced to fall back upon its laat and always weakest intrenchment pro-if of previous go:d character and reputation. A few persons were found to ewear that they had known Dorn Ilackett from his boyhood, and had lit way a considered him hones:, industrious, truthful and kind-heartod, and they were confident that each wa Lis general reputation. I'ncle Thatcher w:is one cf those wit ii eses, at his own request, and the prosecuting attorney who had, in gome mysterious way, learned much more than he thould have been permitted to kuow about the witne&ses for the defence, sekfcd him tnccringly: Iid cot this excellent young man, about three yeara :'ZO, perpetrate an unprovoked ar.i bruta: assault oa your eon? "No, s r," replied tho old man sternly. TIo thrashf-d him, as ha deserved, for a contemptible action." Bat al thoH witnesses to pood character had to admit th!:. tliev had kuowu hothiiig of Dum for three vears par. durlag n iiu ri timo ne c.u t-een awav Irom th3 viiiasre whaling, it was tsaid. but for p.ll they knew to the contrary ho might Lava been living the most vicious and illregulated life in sorno big city. Then a ttror 5er witness in that direction took the 6tand, Mr. Merriwelher of Now Haven, owr.er cd tha schooner of which Dorn was ' ir.a;er. and ho could, and did, swear positively that he knew Dorn had been on a thrco years' whaling voyage, had einco been aie.niily in his employ, and was in all rs.ipccts moral, sobr, nd an entirely trustworthy young man of irreproachable rh:T!cter. Ttio prosecuting attorney eteinz that this witness was one who coal I not It? easily b'uifed or confused, contested hirr.felf with csking: "You are his employer, aro vou not?" "Yes. sir." "And interested in potting him ba;k to work for you, aa ycu deem him a pood bailor?" "Ye, sir. But" "Never mind. That will do, sir. I am through with thia witness." And tho prosecutor eat down, locking with nhcornf ul emiie toward the jtirv, a.s if he could have said to them confidentially: "You see this man cares nothing whether the prisoner is guilty or not of all the crimes forbidden by the decalogae, if he only eerves him well." In those days a person accu?ed was not permitted to go npon theetand in his own behalf and pive his testimony, under the sanctity of an oath, as ja now allowed him by the law. Then he might be granted the privilege cf making his statement, but it would be mondr a statement, and the prosecution was very careful always, when a pribcner thus spuke for himself, to impress uton the jury that his unsworn affirmation of iccoconce was of do value whatever, when weighed in the balance against other men's afli iavi's. Stress would be laid upon the time and knowledge the accused had had to enable hi preparation ci hia own version of the affair, and undue prominence and importance giren to the fact that ho could not be cross-examined. In this way an artful prosecutor could generally neutralize all poo l ellect the accused mL'ht otherwise produce, if not, indeed, mako the poor wretch's ssseverations of innocence absolutely harmful to him, by stirring up the ruspicion, antagonism, and secret coneciousness of infallibility in the minds of the jury, who resent attempts to deceive them. Dorn was uuly warned of thw, yet ho reritea in oeniandinz to bo allowed to tU his own frtory, and the court granted Lim i ermibion to do fvo. lie toM it simply, rlrarly. and truthtiilly, as Uh ha-1 to d it beforoto Letn, to Msry. to hia lawyer, and to the maiatrate who committed him, but he made no cew convert to his innocence now unless it might have been the e'enr-sighted and experienced old judjs rn the t ench, who believed that ho heard the ring of truth in the young man's voice, and saw Lonesty in his frank, manly face. j'.ut at the conclusion cf the statement, as Dorn left the stand and returned to bis eeat by hia counsel, the prosecuting attorney eilentlv held aloft before the iurr the

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CONNELLY. marked and identified handkerchief, and thu action was moie conousit a in its effect upon their minds than all that the prisoner had e:d. Looking upon their faces, the lawyer for the defense murmured to himself. "We are lost!" As the day wore on Lern Pnwlett was in azony, for his witness did not appear. It mads him dizzy and sick to see one witness after another leaving the stand in such rapid succession, for he did not know how soon the supply of them would run out, and the weak defense be compelled to close before the one upon whom all depended should make his appearance. "Why had he not come? The boat was due many hours a?o, and had not yet arrived! Jiecalmed, doubtless, on thia one day of all the davs in the year. Terhaps he might not be aboard. He mißrat bs sick. What if ha should be a cunning villain, the real criminal, for all his smooth extarior, who Lad purposely piven that handkerchief to Dorn to cast the puilt ap- j parently on him ? He smiled when it waa mentioned. And now he might be flying; faraway." These thoughts almost maddened Leui. Bitterly he reproached himself that he had net stayed in New York and kept his witness under hia eye until the last moment, and brought him alonz by force, if necessary. Again and again he was tempted to make his way to Mr. i Dunn, and urge him to licht the day through by all means; but each time he , remembered what Mr. Holden had said the prisoner's counsel must be, and refrained. Parched with thirst, and blazing with fever, yet with a cold perspiration breaking out all over him, poor Lern could hardly understand half that was going on. Lut when Horn's lawyer arose and eaid, "May it please the court, tho defense reets." the words came to his ears like a clap of thunder. It seemed to him that that was the last moment of grace, and he staggered to his feet, trying to say something; tocrvahalt; to appeal to the judcre for time; to do, he did not know whit. Hut hU tongue clave to the roof of hid mouth, end a deputy sheriff, seeing him Btanding there, waving hU arms and looting as if he was about to speak, shouted at him with such an awful voice, "Silence in the court," that be sank down, Btunne l and tpeerhleas in hia place, as helpless ns ho had been in that awful dream of the night before. The prosecuting attorney Legan summing up to the jury. If he was forcible in the opening, be was terriblo now. Of course ho assumed that a clear case bad been made out. ad prosecutors always do; that ' there was no moral doubt of the puilt of the accused, any more than if the jury had actually behold him battering in the bkull of his aed victim, wiping tho dripping b'ood from his hands upon the raiment oi the corpse, and clutching the gold, for lust of which he had done this hideous deed." Five of the jury looked as it they quite agreed with him; three others glanced timid y and furtively at the faces of the live, as it to read there what they, too, should think about it; the sleepy men were vsry wide awake now, having had a good nap while the evidence ss to character was being introduced ; and tho deaf man had both hands up to his ears to enable him to hear better, for if there is anything that country people do love it U a pood stron; epceeh. In the midst of one of his most vigorous declamatory etTons the eye of tho prosecutor caught Bight of the judge, who was sitting with upraised eavel and a look as if he was only waiting for the end of a sentence to arrest his progress. The speaker stopped, and the judge, laying down bis gavel, held up a note and said: "I am in receipt of a communication which is, if written in good faith that is, bv tho person whose name is signed to it of so very important a character, and has euch a decided bearing upon the interests of justice in this case, that I feel it would be in the highest degrea unwise to ignore it. I will, therefore, ask the prosecuting attorney to have the kindness to at least poätDone for a short time the continuation of his addrosa to the jury. Tha court will now take a recess tor hall an hour." The densely racked and excited audi ence hardly waited the conclusion of the sheriffs ior.j.al repetition of the formal oraer oi me court, 10 oreaxout into a loud murmur of exclamation, conjecturo, and discussion as to what the important communication might bo. The judge, upon rising from his seat, made a Bign to the prozecuting attorney and the counsel for tha defense to accompany him to hia room, and the trio went out by the private door, which they clossd behind tlmm. "What is it. Lorn? What do you sup pose they are going to do now?" Kuth a.ked anxiously of tbe young man, who eat in a semi-inanimate condition at her side, and who actually had not board a word of what the judge had said. He etartcd from his dream, into which realitv Lad sgain plungid him, and replied mis erably : "I don t know. Hacg him, I suppose." "Don't talk nonsense. Lern. What's the matter with you? Wuko up. DiJn't you hear what the judge said about hia rceivin an importnnt communication that bad a decided bearing, and all that?" "Did he?" "Yes, 'a decided bearing upon the inter obis oi justice minis caao. ltioie were his very words; and he held ud a letter." "Then it's all right now, liuth! All right at laut! He his cornel He has come ! ' "Who has come?" "The man who will save Dorn Ilack ett." XXIII. TTRX1NG OF THE TIDE, It seems a little strange to some people that a prosecuting attorney should so hun grily devoto himself to the conviction of an accused person, even when, aa is some limes neyona question, ne ieeis in ins heart that the individual against wlmm he is exerting all the force of his trainee legnl ingenuity, eloquence, and mental power is, in fact, guiltless of the crime al leged against him. If his pains depended upon his success in obtaining a conviction many who are accustomed to look upon pecuniary interest as a eufheient excuse for almost anything not Absolutely prohib ited by law, would understand him better. But such is not the caso. Hie salary is tho same, whether he succeeds in hangln? puiltless unfortunate or not. Success, in many casH. may help him to re-election; but that is not always a sarious consideration. Why. then, when he cannot convict bv clear proof of guilt, does he call to his aid the technicalities of law. the power of precedent, and all that may enable him to even prevent tho prisoner accomplishing that herculean task the proving of Lis innocence? Simpiy because of the development of him and the conscious possesion of the widest licena in its exerciseof the hunting instinct that is inherent in ft!i carniveroDS animals, man included. He hunts the accused down to dath, with not even the cnnniba'.'s excue of wishing to eat him, but that he may l.avi tho joy of triumph in the achievement, and that his reputation as a Luntcr nay be enhanced as some men used to kill buffaloes on tho plains, as long m there were any, simply for the sake of the killing. In other circum

stances and relations of life he may be pentle and kind-hearted, but put hi n in the chase and he knows no pity. Perhaps there are times when, afier a conviction, he secretly says to himself: "Thank God it was the jury's work, cot mine! I did not convict him !" Hut h deceives himself. The average juryman, even one who is without prejudice and means to do rightly, is but a tool of the most cunning and able of the two lawyers pitted against each other beforo him. Some drops of the innocent blood the jury sheds must cling to the hands of the prosecutor. When the court resumed its session, after the brief recess, another person eat within the raiting among the lawyers, a little elderly gentleman, at sight of whom Lern Pawie'tt almost wept for joy, and tha prisoner's heart felt a thrill of hope. Dorn's counsel formally announced to tho court that since the closing of the defence new and most important evidence, completely demonstrating the innocence of the prisoner at the bar, Lad been put in his possession, and he asked that the court prant permission for the reoponing of the defense and the admission of thi3 testimony. The prosecuting attorney argued long and earnestly against the introduction of any further evidence at the preseut stage

of the proceedings. In view of the high character and standing in the profession of the propoaed witness, who had been made known to him in the judge's private room, and with whose reputation be was well acquainted, he did not dare to cast a shadow of suspicion upon the proposed evidence as manufactured and un worth v of belief or consideration. Lvadiug that issue, he confined himsslf to opposing as informal, irregular, and liable to be viewed as a dangerous and evil precidect, the reopeuing of the case. Even if improperly convicted !for lack of this evi dence, the prisoner, he argued, would still lave his relief in a new trial, which the court of appeals would be sure to grant if the new testimony was indeed material. Mr. Dunn made a strong plea for tno accusod against the injustice of condemning an innocent man to await in prison, under the shadow of a sentence to death. and in an agony of suspenso, the slow action of the court of appeals, rather than disturb the mere formality of a trial. Finailv, the judge ruled as he had in tended to before either of the lawvers said a word that the new evidence should be admitted. The little elderly gentleman, responding promptly to the crier's call for 'Telatiah Holden." took the etand, was sworn, and testified: "My name is Telatiah Holden ; I reside in New York, and am a lawyer by profession. I have been the legal adviser of the brothers Peter and Jacob Van Deust in certain money matters; and. upon business connected with their affairs, visited their house on the evening of the IDth of July, coining from New York by boat to Sag Harbor and thence riding over on horseback." "That was the night npon which Jacob Van Deust was murdered, was it not?'' the prisoner's coucsel interposed. lo the Pest of :.iy present information and belief the murder was perpetrated on the night of the 10th, or morning of the 20th." Yes, sir. Proceed, sir." T remained with the Van Deust broth ers, taking supper with them, receiving their signatures to some papers, and holding a consultation with them in regard to the investment of certain monies belonging to them jointly, until, ns nearly as I can now remember, about fifteen minutes before 9 o'clock in the evening. Thev pressed me to remain all niiiht, which I declined to do. as I had business of im portance to attend to in New York, for other clients, and was desirous of return ing as speedilv as poeaibla to the city. When I took mr departure Jacob Van Deust accompanied me to where my horse was hitched in' the lane, and we stood there talking a few minutes. There was no wind elirring, and the mosquitoes annoyed me very much. In switching them from the back of my neck with mv hand kerchief I dropped it accidentally, and the horse chanced to step upon it, trampling it into the dirt of the lano. Seeing that it had been rendered unSt for present use, Mr. Jacob Van Deust was kind enouph to oiler me the loan of a clean one which he had in his pocket, and I thankfully accepted it. I mounted my horae, said pood-by, and set out upon a new road that Mr. Van Deust the younger brother, I mean had recommended to me as shorteningconsiderably the distance I Lad to travel. "I had ridden, aa nearly as I can judge, about a mile, or perhaps only seveneighths of a mile, when, in passing through a cutting that depressed the roadway to the depth of nine or ten feet below the surface of the ground on either side, I found, lying upon the ground and groaning, a young man." "Do tou recopnizo that man amons those here present?" "I do, sir. It was the prisoner at tho bar. He informed me that, having been unacquainted with the existence of that new road, he had jut sustained a severs fall into it. Hia injuries seemed to corroborate his statement, at least eo far aa his fall was concerned. His scalp was badly cut in at least two places, end he was bleeding profusely. "When I assisted him to rise he found that one ot his ankles the left. I believe was so seriously sprained that he could not bear to rest his weight upon it. and could not walk a stop without assistance. I used the clean handkerchief which was in my possession, together with one he had, to bind up his head and etanch the fi -.w of blood, after which I mipported him to the beach, where he hoped, he said, to bind a small ves! to take him to New Haven, where he resided. Put he was only ab'e to move very slowly, and when we arrived at the water's edi;o no vessel was in sight. While we were debating what was best to be done with him, under the circumstances, a small lishing boat came within a short distance of the ehore, and the person directing its movements responded to his call. He offered the person in the boat who appeared to be an old man, accompanied by a bov the sum of 10 to taky him over to New Haven, which oiler was accepted. I assisted him to enter the boat, and, when it sailed away, returned to where I had left my horse tied to a tree, remounted him, and prosecuted ir.y journey homeward." During the giving of this evidence a stillness prevailed in the court-room as if the speaker had been alone, and w hen his voice ceased there was such an enormous eigh from the crowded audience as if a 1 were at onco exhaling the pent-up breath they had not dared to free before for fear cf losing a word of what he said. Five juryman and the prosecuting attorney loosed equally disgusted. "At what hour that night did you last see the prisoner?" asked Mr. Dunn. "At tweoty-eeven minutes past 10 o'clock." "In a small boat, sailing from the shore?" "Yes. sir. Very slowly, however, as there was very little wind." "From your knowledge of hi?, condition at that timn. do vou believa it would have teen possible for him to Lave returned that nigfit to Mr. Van Deust's, entered that Louse, perpetrated the murder with which he is charged and made his escape?" - "No, sir. He was very weak from loss of blood, and I know, from personal examination, that his ankle was so severely sprained that it would have been a physical impossibility for him to have done what yoa siid." "Ahl you say that rou examined hie

ankle. Did you notice at the time what kind of shoes he wore?" "I did. He had on the low, broad, soft shoes, with hardly any heels, which sailors rurtoraarüy wear." "That is enough, sir. Thank you. Take the witness." said Mr. Dunn, with an air of triumph, "to the prosecuting attorney." That olUcial did not seem to care about taking the witness. He knew that it was a master in the art of cross-examination who was thus lightly turned over to him, and had no hope of entrapping him or shaking his testimooy. fctid, he had to make some show. IndinV rently ho esked: "Of course yoa have no i lea of who the old man in the beat was?" "To the best of my information and belief, his name was Jabez Sanborn. 1 aked him and that was what lie told me." Jabex Sanhoro! Why, everybody around Sag Harbor knew about him; a ehy old man, reputed a misr, who lived with a lad. hia grandson, in r. hut in tho woods and was known to be eddicted to wandering a 1 along the coest at night, in a little fishing smack, on errands best known to himself. Yes, the most likely man in the world to be met under just euch circumstances was old Jabez t-an-bcrn. And the least likely man to hear that a murder trial was going on in which he misfit be an important witness or perhaps to care if he had heard it wa3 alto oid Jabez Siinborn. The prosecuting attorney felt that ho had not drawn a trump that timo at least. While he cast about mentally for something else that he mi(.'ht ask the wi'r.es3. with at least tho minimum of harm to his fciue of the case, a startling divorsion occurred to interrupt the proceedings. Old Peter Van Deust. who had been sitting near the prosecuting attorney and directly in front of the witneaa, suddenly Fprarg to his feet, walked up lo Mr. Holden, clutched with trembling fingers the seal that dangled. from his watch-guard, and, after examining it a moment, cried shrilly: "It's all a lie! All a cunning made up story! He is un accomplice of the Assassin! This was Jacob's seal. I'll swear to it!" Almost everybody had jumped up in the exci'.ement of this interruption, even

the' sedate judge was J standing, leaning over the desic to get a better view of what was going on before him but below his range of vision, and there was a deafening chorus ot exclamations from all sides; but above all 'arose the sharp voice of Peter Van Delist, crying: "Arrest him! arrest him! I demand the arrest of this man as an accomplice!" The only tranquil person in the assemblage was Mr. Peiatiah Holden. He was surprised at his client's outbreak, but only for a moment. Then, blandly saying to the almost mad old man who stood before Lim, shaking a fonir, lean linger in his face, "Mr. Peter Van Deust, you seem to be excited." He very calmlv drew his watch from bis fob-pocket and, with tho 6eal attached to it, passed it up to the judge. The seal was a heavy, square unvx, with a foul anchor engraven on one eide. "I'd swear to it among a thousand," shrieked old Peter. "It belonged to my father when he was in the navy. He left it to brother Jacob. It w;is ctolen by the thief who murdered him." Thojudgo rapped Iiis pavel until order was restored in the court-room, and old Teter had been fairly dragged down into a seat by the prosecuting attorney, who was nearest him, after which, addresiins tho witness, ho asked: "How did this seal come into your posBoscion, Mr. Holden?" "Very Bimply, your honor. Cut before I relate how permit mo to request your honor to iss-ue f-trict injunctions to the officers at the door to permit no exit from this court-room or communication by thes'j within to persons on the outside." The juduie was evidently surprised, but tho respect for the well-known and honored Mr. Holden was sufficient to induco him to comply with the request without asking its reasons. When the necessarv instructions had been issued to tho court ofheers, Mr. Holden resumed: "About three weeks ago, while I was taking lunch one afternoon at Wir.dust's a very popular and well conducted restaurant on Park Iiow, Now York a young man came to the box in which I was seated and offered this seal for sale. I am, as a rule. averse to the purchase of pereonal proper tv from unknown persons and in an irreg ular way, but this young r.iaa told a melancholy storv of his present need for money for the sake of a widowed mother and bister ; aid tliat the i-enl hau belonged to his father who was a naval officer and asked for the article a price that was at least its full value. That influenced mo to purchase it. I reflected that if it had been stolen it would have been, in all probability, offered at a cheap price to ef fect readv disposal of it, whereas if he really needed money, as he said, for bis mother and sister and the thing honestly belonged to him, he would naturally try to get as much as he could. So I pave him $17 for it aud have tinee worn it." "What." asked the lustre, "was your reason for requesting tho careful tyling of the dcors beiore mtiking thai statement. Mr. Holden?" "Because 1 recognized today, in the court-yard without, as 1 was euteringthis building, the young man irom whom purchased this eea'." "You be'ieve so!" "I am certain of it. If vour honor will permit an officer to accompany me; I be Have that I wiil be able to bring him be fore vou in a fw moments. When I saw him he was seated at the root of an elm tree near the door, and alone." An oiiicer was directed to accompanv Mr. Holden and thev went out together by tho private staircase. The curious throng in the court-room, unwildng to lose u single incident of the eventful drtraa unfolding itself bofore them, strug gled hard to pet out and follow tho officer and his guide, but were not allowed to do eo, and returned to their eeats with a sersa oi iniurv. Everybody was intensely ex cited. The prosecuting attorney loaning over the judge's bench field a long and earnest conversation with him. The pris oner and his Tcounsel whispered tojrether. The j'urv jabbered to each other so that even the idiotic-looking one among them seemed to awake to an interest in the proceedings. Suddenly the little door behind the iudiio w as liung open, and Mr. Holden en tered. followed by the officer and a third person a young man, attired in a fleshy eort of vulgar fashion, and wearing a dyed mustache and goatee. Many audible ex clamations of astonishment wereuttere among the audience, numbers oi whom recognized this new actor thus brought upon the scene. "That, vour honor." said Mr. Holden "is the voung man who sold to me the seal which you now have before you." CONCLIDF.D NEXT WEKK. Natural HUtory. fllirner's Your Ppot-U 1 "Johnny," said Johnny's little brother, "a tlv ia a fly because he hies, isn t he: Yes. 'that's it." "And a flea is a flea because be flees, isn't it?" Shouldn't wonder." "Thsn why are Leu bee?" 'Because they be," laughed Johnny. A Future Hawaiian Iiure ite. SUc'a mr o J Ich, I'm her linm, bli' my I.. the, I'm her Soon I'll nonrx tier, Ymu inr txt; Utile Hawaii W ill b air pet PeCanc? Vtwu.

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Tortnrlnir. d!fi!nnic! eczema, und every rpecici OI itching, buxnuijj, eta:y, enisled, uid pimply sUiu aim raip cucaccg, wiia C ry, 1 liin, aa I fallir.? h ;ir, ra rclitv. J la Iti'jjt ckis ly i-incl aj-plim-ten, ati.l f-iccdi'y icj ocoüou.1cully cured by tho CUTICURA Eemedie, ccnsi'tlnj of CmcunA, tho pi-tut ei.i j oir?,crricur.x So.!', an c-jui.uo 6i.ia purillcr ni.il bcaatilicr, t: 1 Cl'TIrrn. Kz.'olvlxt, jrcaiiu cf fcuraor remedies, whui tlii lct physicians f :.,1. CfTlt L"R. ITekdT1!V. i:irA.i-i-i-t . ......iii,l,,i..iiuji,nu.uii ami disease iron rt'.mr-lci to ecrc.'uli. So!J everv. Wb'T. r,7TT.!l 1 )Ri it Atn ('TU. I 'ni- 1,. - Hour to Cure tLin I'lBea-cJ " mal-d ires. I Hi! provcausj uaj curej ly Ct'TK t:r.A FilEE FSG?3r1 RHEUrfiATiSä f In onn minute the C'.iticura A AnM-I'uIn 1 !;! or relieves If Katie, ni.vie, M;, liijiuy, t ar.d rnne-i!:ir r:tir.:tr.:ifj nvj:i);pf.f.'.H T'.- -..-ft aaj oc!y puin-killiniietrvuit-niii': THEY FORGET. MaJisun UcrU. Fome of our republican friends are earning at the mouth because the legisla ture abolished Ibis juu cial circuit and put our countv with the l ourth judicial circuit, lhey denounce the rneasura a-i unconstitutional and a mean political trick. They forgt that one judge can easily do the work ot this new circuit, and hereby the state of Indiana will be saved flj.i (X) a year in the matter of the judge's and prosecuting attorney's ealarioe. They forget that once npon a time Jeferson and Scott counties composed the Fifth judicial circuit and that it was a democratic circuit. They forget that in this circuit the lion. Charles L. Jewett was elected the judge thereof, and that while the votes were being counted at the sherii's oificc in the court noua in thu rity. bv the aid of a corrupt villain and scoundrel, "00 lawfully cast democratic ballots were taken from the ballot box and i'00 uucast republican ballots were inserted in their place, and thus a majority was manufactured for the republican candidate, and the people were defrauded of their rightfully chosen judge. They forget that shortly after this the logihhiture cut Scott county off from this circuit and put us with Switzerland coun ty, thus inakinz the circuit solidly repub lican. Thev forget that for years it had been the practice of our city council to make contracts with the employes of the elec tric light station for a term of three yeirs, in writing, and that under each coutracts republicans have been kept in their positions by democratic councils until the expiration of their contracts. Thev forgot that laet May, the contracts made by a ropub ican council having expired and the council being democratic, they made like coutracts with competent employes of their own party, and the very first thing a republican council did was to violate these contract, turn out tho demo cratic employes und till their places with repu oilcans, and Judge i-nedley susiained this infamy in his court. It does not seem to have oc curred to our republican friends that there was anything wrong in Ftulling the bailot-box and cheating the peonie out of their lawfully elected judge, or that there was anything unconstitutional m making a democratic circuit republican bv a little districting taclics, or that there was the slightest untairncsa in violating the solemn contract of the city and ousting democrats from the light station when a political advantage was to bo gained thereby. Now that thov have become so sensitive we pray the brethren to remember theso thinL'3 of which we write, and a!aa to re member that "The mills r,f thi pods crir.d slowly, Bui th.-y griud xceJig lino." TO THE CHILDREN OF INDIANA. IT.r th Author of 'Curfew Must Not Hin? To tdijhC' Whose Owa Childhood Was i'aiscd ia that JKar State." Years nzo, a!n, so many That the tlorj s.v ins a dream. Lire I a little brown-eyed maiden Bra lii'.ppy, intnn stream. Never skit s io blue as thosi were; Ter grass so cool and Krecn, And tho cottage eemcl a paUce Where dear mother reined a queon. All things liveJ to make her hai; r, Flowers nu l Mrli ami huc.mins bees; Stars wero gems In heaven's pavement. One might retch them from tho trees. Such meet songs tha birii sin to her, From their leafy civer green ; ueh (tweet muaic mng tho waters In the spearmint bordered stream. Some eiichaute J gf.eil was round her, Tbosa first daj of long ao. It was fairy-land she livid in. t'hall I tell vou how I know? After tnany years a woman, Who was once that little mal l, l'rouht a heart of homesick Innings To the dar old hickory's thado. And the strangest thin had hr.ppenel la the years that lar bolvrce-. For the cott.ige had it shrunken, 'I hat It secme 1 io mall and mean? Yes. tU: ktreuiu was th.Te, miut bordered. An i tu old rud school houso too, IJut the rky had lost its cearnass, And the ilowers the r brilliant hue; Tres were lower. All the spaces Neath the blue s.r's bunoli,; fries Wero contracted, dwarfed and shrunken. Till ehe scarcely knewr the plaon. Yet today the fairet picture. On the wall of memory's room. Is the oue the knew in rhildho'j 1, Wheu all naturo was in bloom; Still the cott ijo walls are lofty, And the mother queen Is there. And a holy spe.l buries o'er it Like the whUper of a prayer. H isk irnTwiric TiiORr-t. A IIuI Attack. fStreet & Smith's Good Newvl Sick Bov "I had tho uiirhtmaro las nwht awful." Mother "Mercy me! I must send for the doctor amain. What did vou dream ?" Sick Itoy "I dreamed I ;;ot well, an had to go to school. Not t'p in the Jli'iiu. Chii-aga Tribuue. Customer (ßlarini? nt him) "I find niece ot ham in this apple pie!" C erk (at luuch counter, loftilv) Yes. sir. If you wish somethine that hasn't got any ham in it, isir. I can recommend our ham eanawicnea, sir. Strange Chance. IN. Y. Weekly. J Citizen "What in creation will I do for a shirt?" Wifo "Didn't the washerwoman send anv?" Citizen "Yea, a dozen, but none of them fit mo." A Silver Linning. IN. Y. Week!y.l Mrs. Kindlo "I presume yoa have rather a hard time of it," Tramp "Yes, mum: but every cloud has a silver linoinz. mum. I'm not worried lo unalh by autograph hunters, tautn. Cnuae for Mtvig. IN. Y. Wekly. Ffrst American -"How did you happen to leave New 1 ork and settle la Chicago? .econd Aruencau '.Mv name cot on tho jury list in New York." Every voter should have a copy of The Fextinel Indiana Almanac. I ricolo cents For sale by all news dealers.

THOSE BIG SNAKES.

They Do Have Powerful Voracious Appe-titr-ft for ni 11 Iioys. St. Paul I'aily GSos.l EnABoo, Wis., March 1G. The snake house connected wiih llinrrlic? 1'ro.' circus winter qo arters at Baraboo. Wis., is a center ot attraction for the small boys of the vi lflffe. Wnat thre is about snakes so pecu iarly attractive to boys is pomethinir no feliow can find out. If 1 were ever fascinated by these "lr.si cts" iu my youthful davs 1 have forgotten it. The orders to attendants are very ttrict on tho tuhji ct of boys in relation to tliesnike house, and thia. of courts only r 'ndc-s the vicinity the mure inter Ftiajz to the venturesome youth of the town. Ud to the r rf8. nl thre the attendants have succeeded in k et i'j the kid.n at a tale distance, and it wa only because tie was uch a diminutive lime fellow that a towheaded urchin succded in running: the guards last Friday, when tho tuakn cäk'?s were bein re'rove j t the rew and larr quarters recently provided for the hu.'e reptiles. How it happened no one is able to explain. The men were removing tho pythons and boa constrictor Irom their old ca'. H into the new ones. The door of "Ben Ahmid's" ca.e 15. A. bein-a monster bo.i thirty-two ftt l n was temporarily left ot.on while the men went out into the yard to gt a new raw. Iu th-ee J few moint nts a little tot of a Norwegian hoy. who had come into town with hi.s ather, who was busy with the Rin.ins negd'aiin;.: a fu e oi o:it., (dipped ritos-i iho yard aad into the rear door of the snake-hou.-9. What he ßiw thtre probably paralyzed him with wonder or fear. V, hatever it was. he bad little time to re flect on the wonders of natural niätory ; or tho boa no soouer f-aw tha little fellonr than his mind, or instinct, or whatever he calls his think works, roverted to some oiiir past appetizing tcenes in his native India, and Le sprang from the ca-o with distended jaws and cobbled the youngster. When the attendants returned with Ben's new caae ti;iy were horrified to descry a fast disappearing pa r of legs fditking out through the monster jaws. Tlie trreat serpent'e eves were a tiaice with excitement, and in another eecond or two the poor little Norwegian bov would have disappeared from view for ever, it happened that lienrv Umgang. a giant in strength and Etatue, wis prent-nt. lie ia a man of quick impulses, and, with out counting the cc.n or foreseeing the danger, he grasped the Ferpent around the ceck and commenced shaking it. With one swipe of its muscular tail it sent Mr. KingUng scurrying heels over heud acropg the floor. Al Hindling happened in. lie took in the 6itua.ion at a giance. Grasping a long chain lying on the iloor, he passed it around the serpent a bodv at a toiut about six inches below v. hero he thought Ihn child's head would be. Directing several attendants to grasp either end of the chain and pu 1 with a'l their etrengtb. he was gralilied to notice a re axation t f the tnaWe's eliorts to swadow the child. Then this chain waa made fagt. Tho snake's tail was fastened around a poet, aud the whole body drawn to its greatest tension. This rendered his majesty iuert and powerless, lie stil. continued to gulp. But his gam was up. iwo men inserted a wagon jack be tween his taws, and by degrees they wero pried open end the boy pulkd out. His head and body were covered with a thick saliva of a peculiarly offensive odor. III LU V IUI UllliWIdUU IUCU U U I 3 l into tears. Then he looked around in a wondeiing way and ran out of the house and across the enow to his father's wagon. Two hours afterward he was in a druq store munching almond cr.ndy and drinking eoda. But hia hair, which his father said was of that peculiar light sha ie so noticeable in Xorwegiuns, had turned three shades lighter. His esperieuce was a direful one, but was happily attsnded with no ill eiiects. A RACE OF DWARFS. Observation of Mr. Walter Harris in tho Atlr.n limine. The existence of a raco of dwarfs on the Atlas ranze, about which there was an animated controversy last year, has received unexpected confirmation. Mr. Waller B. Harris, who haa just returned from a jour ney in southern Morocco, communicates tbeöe facts to the London Times' Whila traveling along the foot of the mountrdns be saw thirtern or fourteen person p. none of whom were over four feet pix inches iu hijjht, natives of tho upper mountain re gions. The Moors depcribo them "na a wild peocle, living in bui t houses in the rocks and Fnow, hunting niouflon with extraor dinary aeiiity, und piven to ehootinz anv one penetratinif to tbeir domains. lie attributes tbeir email stature not, as some have averted, to the fact that they are the remnants of the trtridytes, but to the cir cumstances in which they live. Ho believes them to bo merely a certain collec tion of Shlfh tribes, who, through tho hich F.ltitU'iea at whieU they live, and the extremes of c iuiate they an subject to, from their rovorty and inability to grow crops, from tlie scarcity and bad (juadty of, euch food es they are able to collect, have in the lapso of centuries, become of aiuiopt extraordinarily stunted prowth. On hi return journey to the coast lr. Harris visited the artificial caves of Ain Tareitt, which, from the bight of therooia and ilia fiize of the door?, windowo, and alcoves for beds, were evidently the work of dwarfs. He does not venture an opinion, however, as to whether any descendants of this people are still living. UuIns-Kik( Precaution. Chicago Tribune. "The collection Umh morninu, my friend?." announced tba Its v. Mr. Good man at the c!os of tno openinu service, "is lor tho benefit ot the heathen. "At rnv rctjuet-t," be continued pleii.sr.nlly, but with much distincinciM, ".Mr. Ii:cttriiii and Mr. Fairphes. who are regular insr.ibera of t!:e congregation, have kindly consented to act a? c oüeclor-." In the mid'it of a profound silence tha we 1-knowu cashier of the Pan-American national bank and the equally well-known conductor cf the A lover street car line walked ilowu the aifl, took tha basketa. waited upon the nudier.ee. and in the missionary collection that morninir for the first time in two years and six months there was not one counterfeit five-cent piece. . A tjuit' liiile on n Cowcatcher. I Br itiswick Time A rather tinular incident occurred on tho Savannah, Florida it Western railway tho other day. It was about forty mile from - Wavcross on a through train to Chattahoochee. On the trnc- lust in front of tho train the engineer, Mr. lu lio.se. saw a sheep with a youn lami. It wan too lae to etoD the enpine. aud tho train paesed on, havinir mutton in its wake. Arrived at aycrrws, tho enpitiecr e.-c'oled from his enuiue and saw the lamb alive and unhurt o: tho cow catcher. It hail been carried forty miles without a cratch. Iii ( rime l oll. vi Hint. I.-ith aier l'ost-Expre4.J Citizf n You eecm etranely agitated, mv friend." btranper "Do yt.u kuow what it is to be hunted from p'iace to place by the anpry people, to t:ot know where you can lav vour head in Bafetv?" Citizen "No, my friend. Is your crime then ao eeriou that you are obliged to flee lor your li'e?" titranper "It ia. I am the man who eet the fashion for criuo'iue."

R. R. R.

RADWAiS READYRELIEF

Tho Cheapest und Itet Medicine for l'Amily Ufr in the AVorld. Fore Throit, Col , Couch. P.-ieuraoni. Hronchitii, 1 uri-.iiirna'.ion. Contrition, lnllueaza, Di.licuit Hrethiu curei aud prevented by RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Ir (hni.'itin o! tin KUnyi. Ia'a-n-natim ol tl !. Ucr, In:! .u ot'lh vr!, CeafM ti.in of tli- .''i.--', i'l i. Utl n f tri H art. Hr uric. ".;, !) :.iihr;.i, Ctirr!i, Ia:lina, Cilt, CbiiU. A- ; t'i;:i-. Cä.lbialft, Frot-blw. Xerrriis S.. !isu u. Tli-i.;iot ..n ot tie ItEADY üSLIfJ? tit fa-t i t i art-t wU-re th? diLcultr ot pa. a null will a vir lrniml( .rn "rt. K P WAY'S K.l RIZIAE? 1 tl.tolr ra i. al n,. ul in to.' ic that mil uunallr luppata. Li itiMaMtr rei.otoi eul ojii ears. Rheumatism. Neuralgia, r.-H.!:li !:., TiK-tlun-!-, liiilnmrinticn, Avlli.ii i, IniliK'ti.t, L.t!cult i;rjt1i!nc Lunifo.o, Swo!l:r.!j of the .PvIhH, Pains la ltacl, C lieht or I.iLabi. Uauw.tj'B Kn!T Itflicf Is it Car for Kvery 1'u.iii, !raiii, Iti uisr. It Was the 1 irtt ami I tiitt Only PAIN REMEDY That intantlr lo;. th esurnciatinij paio. allati latlauuiatioD and cur Cotmtioa, wUctuurof la I.ui,, Moiueou, Ik) .Tel -r etiler gUnls or orjtaa. lii-IXITl. 111. Tt. EaJwar: I ti8 uel your lWlr B-liof PilU aud sarapari.Ilnu K-jlonl. aa 1 taint: fiat taf are ihe tamlarl remedial ot tut worn, utrciti hca i l otiiTt tail. Au;. VJ, XiJl. FlttlD M. IIcCEEED l. S.IH3H.L. IIU Dr. Ealwar: TUsc usl your mrJicaei Or tl Tf&r. aud have curd all d st-a-o I bar arer treated. I hat Mr l cue whna other diclir 1 girn m v at h .Firs. I liars ta bi liooni wtta Di'ma, t rr rbsumatiia. 1 TL-H A 1.1. Y. a blf to a tMpuuaful ia half tniuhur o! wai r will, ia a I w uiinuiM, ear ( ri.i'S, t ani. 8ur 8;o-uach, Ifii. Voialtl id, H'rlv'i!rn, er t:i: r. S:epliinc: S.ek lial a h , Uiatrtiea, Calic, r lataleucy, anl all Inleraal J auiv. Malaria in Im V.iriom Form Cured and Prevented. Tlir I not a rem Ua! aant in ta worli that vrd cur lo r and aa af.d all o.tir :nl no'i, Vil lous hoi 0lh.;r Kt. r., a !ol t.r UA.iÄAl B flUik to quickly a, a VU WAY'S IttlAUY Iti-Ut. A hum nr. l.r r-r mud Atus RAI) WAY ' UEAUY ItLIcP ia a sur aar al w( 'A as a ir tii live o: r er.T aoa 41, xura n rtiLBJy :r 1 1 com lha: w.ll can tau du at .iou liT.-lr, anJ ni:il pr.jn li ia w J"i dl-trici. ree trom atu-k. Taiil b tnttaiM lk'ioc ol ait j curs. qaiatne, eU').aiiN in, t li cured iUjuii i I. fwiaty dnji la I Uh?milul. ia a of waisr, takti tin first l'.üu o Jtiorf o t of b- d In tli- iinrnini. wl.l prtot tti irl m Iroin attack. One 5-cnt b'.ttle will eure ent:re Imi.ij, bq! hare eaim ii lof lo ti? all Ktadl ci t aiu that may trjuble joa, wtaer.rata aaauea or cliJfutis. 50c per Eottle. Sold by Drusgista. iarsapariman Resolvent. Th Great Ktood rurnr. Far the Cure of .Chain Dlseise. Chronic lihe irait sm, Soroful, Hacki.u Drr C.ufH. Uimtrou AHeoilonj. lieeiiuaof tu Lügs Wtu S.,lh3p. Tau r.. U.p O.eao, Urouoj t.t. tlotouir tlies ihi äarar.tlKlTealex90l 11 remrJial t-cuts ic t!i'-cur ot Cum io, .Hjro'nloa, Lonntltuti.-oal Ld bna Ujmm, .tat U oalf KIDXFT ÄND ELÄDDER tOMüLUSTS, Gravel. Diftbete, L)r.,: r. Sto-jpw or Wto-. Itconliu. es ol Urine. Br.tfia' Ow-eJ, A.I j .mi, tnd In ail ca." t-ior r bnc-aa. dio.ti, cr tUfl water u t hie, clouJy, tuii ia iubl40M likeUewi.il.ec:aO, or throi Ilk waiMtliK. ,rth.rU lu-roid, -Isr. liiliou. Pr,criao. sat white bon. du,t (l!K.it, nd when H-t U prlcrlln, Inrniiif ni-.tioa wUm p'.nrf tae pia in tte niU o' t ok- ul -OB lhi lo,a'Atbeks, O. p.ar?!r: I thongM I would write ro'i auJ tjU you what wonderful work your Ptntfarllhan A-iolT-nth.s S..u for ruv.. Sis fk'iio 1 count aol me without the tr.itret t .in u.1 d-. ot th. kuln-rs. I hu tr;ei ierr kind of Uulraent anl rtlncre.it niodirlDC. and had mr -luctor to precnb.; but notb n did any g -od until I J"'J yor Iolr- ... I t..ok Ihre loti! Und j.it eut lor thr iw.ro). YuirlMl-areatiol-nl. I w meui A tl.eni to ovr l.ut:dr,d wm; who t.l saf Athene, M. AC Pcnots. KiJiiej lU turnins to a Ilcnlthy Stntf U i'war A Ci.-ilp'itl. inen: I am i'OW takiu.' tha fimWl- of your llonc ent aud I am reee-mm crtat hc-ieft rra It when ail Olli uiedlcin la ird and es Küiey aro returning to a lieaithr co, Uon. ani w.ul t ri-cmnuieul It V ad uüerin from ikt d .aa. wüalewt Irom Oolr Kldacjt. lto .jcctiuily yon.r AVIU ITI5i r.alUaodtU..V.b. l)iatctc. LorisTAS. Mi Dr RilwtT-P r Sir: I har. .met four r:n,j,.,'w.ih:rtat.3rtlnpr.'ctiee; and the r f. . ud ior w'.ih jour ll,...lvui. u curei nts f D t . after tare, ,.l;f. can, had two ma up. I Circled achsnce -T rlnMn two ho..ri . a.W th. tr.; do, aud tareo Util- cur.d, I)r. Ri'TiVS Sirsmiriiba Insolvent. Areni T c dio I I l l'.'.-.-o i'.enM of atraarllt. rri air an 1 iariftora n broken dawa anl waani trtJki.nt a.d.i.r, id h, H draUU. OJtt I'oLLaK a liOli... FiLLS3 Tlt Greftt XAvrr nr,d trnnrh Kfinuly. Aa i:xrpllont ittnl Milil Cnthnrtlc rerfeot 1'tirinitlT, SootJilnj Aprtnt, Art Without I'nln, Alwnjs Hellable ana Natural In Their Operations. I'irlBCtir tatle, i eot?l with jubu. vu'i't rgu:ate, parüjr. elan au 1 itreanihaa. RADWAY'S PILLS For the rure ot (llnon lorn of the tlnmpk, I.lver, lhvria, Ki-lncj-a, liidlrr, rroui ltli'iisis l-Ansot ApjirtU". ll-fUach, Con. Ij ntion, uativfMi-, liHliglstinii, ltillitaa. IWrr, lull:imuiit oi of the llotrrl. riirn, niiJ all li'rnnirrmonta of Iho Internal Viagra. l'urdy Vruet.-tttl-t cmtiulng a liirn-urj-, niiuer.-ils, iir !'l'terlou ilruK. pr.UKt.tT Mfi KATION will I e aceotapliibtd by taking lud t'iU hr ao do.nf DYSPEPSIA. Rick lladsrh-, Foul frUomai-h, Ul'.iounei, will r uToi'l. i, n th food iP.t ti catoa rootrtbui 11 p. uri!h!iij j.rrt..rt t lor tha luj'pirt of tu natural Kmlrol tu U". S f-ih-r lue folloT.n armptota raH:Of from dm a. oi U : d ei: oria; Co.iilpsitu, inward pit' V liunti oi I 1 j i iu lha baal, aaid.tf ot the at'iiaach, nautea. har.hnra, dij.lof fool, ful.a.o or wai.lit of th iiauM i, aiir araotatloaa, lnia or fl ntjrio ot 1 1 biri, euokta oratio cUnt -n'Uon iiu io a I jriti po-lura, diaaat of .loa. d'il or wet ( 'or lUi a.iit, farar aal lull i In in tb ha I, uic.noy ol prnlratl, ya I iwii ol IM kin ant era, pnia iath 11, fl.ii,l ntii aud u liea tldU3i ol haat, b.raiafla tfc ntb A f toMint KDWAY'S TILLS will fre tk Ft item of all Iba ai-ova uam-d diaor Jara. Trice "'c per liox. fcold by all Drurglata. TM PADWAY A CO. N. S7 Warren -, J?tr York, will mad Loot ot Adficaoa application. lie huro to Get "ltaawaj'a.H