Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1894 — Page 5

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In unity there Is strength. In congeniality happiness. To encourage and circulate pure literature Is to mutually aid each other to & higher and better lifo. OFFICERS. President W. S. Kokendoffer. MonteTallo. Mo. First Vice-President William A. Clark, box 0.". Danville, Ind. . Second Vice-President Mrs. Sarah 'Taylor. Arcana, lnd. i Recording Secretary Miss Pora Wenner. ITeasant-ave.. Indianapolis, Ind. i Corresponding Secretary Miss Mary J. Luide;ibark'. look box i:.. Westvillc. O. , Treasurer Mis j Jennie r.hodes. Ft. . Recovery, o. KXECUTIVK COMMITTER Robert X. Moulfon. Wintersvill. Tnd. , Miss Mary E. Swaim, 603 Vermilion'ct.. Danville, 111. T. F. Untrer. Peru, Ind. Mrs. Minnie Webb Miller. Altoona, .Kas. William E. Fnlk. TWatur. Ind. OBJECTS. S"c. 2 of Art. 1 of Constitution The objects of this clu'o shall bo to establish Bociabl.ty. strengthen good morals in society, increa.se a desire for mind improvement and literary attainments and 'to extend the work of reformation. 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Prompt action guaranteed. Dues for 1W4 are 2." cent, payable during January and February to the treasurer. THKRK MIA LI, HE 0 ALPS. An Oral ion Recently Delivered ly M,iuiitn!n Pink." Some years ago the various spots of arth were closely surrcunded by high barriers-", to scale which scarcely entered the mind of the ordinary man. TIpj Mediterranean sea was the great sea beyond whose blue waters no mightier oean swelled. The great continent of Africa, now lying: like a fair, wellwatered garden, inviting the civilized world to come and make their lxme In lis bosom, was beyond a r.airow border lin. a dark blank unknown. Th dark sides of mountain ranges frowned upon the pa.ssers-by and hid from mortal eye the secrets of their gloomy (dt-:ns; but their shaggy sides have been torn apart and their inmost Jewesses robbed of their precious treasure. There ace no "Alps" which cannot be surmounted or leveled to a pain by energy, persvei T.r e and mighty will. Napoleon Bonapar'e, with a will iower towering above evtrythit.g, regarded nothing: a.1 Impossible. When toM that the Alp maintains flood in the way of his carrying his trmy into Ititly he scornfully replied. 'Thet e shall be no Alps," and he proved It by patiently and bravely leading his army acros-s to th? other side. And so In life we meet many things which rise above us, which seem lmiiossible to overcome, and we turn, away in despair. Yet these difficulties may be overcome by constant perseverance. The thread-bare fable of the hare ai:d the tortoise only exemplified this truth; it teaches that though others may have the advantage of us, yet we may come cut victorious In the end. No man need despair of accomplishing much if he only has courage to attempt much; th man who wills, rsflves and persevere can do- almost anything. Th hifrhts of great rnn reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. r.ut thy, while their com pan ions slept. Were toiling upward In the nlht. Ixt uj take for instance- the young man seeking an education; difficulties higher than the highest alps rise up before him. but by patiently struggling onward h is abl to penetrate even the worst of t hes. A man may bgin life with the wind and tide against him. but with will-power and perseverance he Is sure- of sircf.. Obstacle may become stepping stones to higher achievement s. How ma.ny of us. when starting out In life, become frightened at the least obstacle and irresolutely sink back in dismay. Many too gat the Impression that "what 1 to t- mil! h," and what fat iam in B'.ois for them, will come without

on thir part; but this 1 all wron. for "It 1 written on paradise cate. Woe to the man who yields to fate." Martin Ruthe-, the leader in the great religious reform, was but th son of a poor wood -on tt. and while at .school earr.-il hi?, bread by singing; in the stret. As ho became older, he believed more and more in the protectant religion, and finally drew up ninty-flve propositions against tlv catholic religion, and though he met opposition on all sides he kept bravely on and accomplished his mission. Abraham Lincoln, when a boy, lived in a log cabin and split rails for a living. As kites rise, not with th wind, but against it. so Abraham Lincoln, through rugged experience and storm, rose, and like a meteor shooting through the blackest, r.icht. pouring its glaring light o'er wild torrents and rocky cliffs, became president of th Initd States, and the mightiest factor in the overthrow of American slavery.. There are many boys today who might become Lincolns, and fill the world with their fame, jf they only had the ambition to try. Th messages from foreign nations that are Hashed across the Atlantic, speak of gigantic difficulties that ba.ve been overcome. The laying of the Atlantic table was accomplished only aftr yoars of patient toil. Again and aerain the cable parted, but Cyrus Y. FieU was not a man to be daunted hy failure; crossing and rrrossing the stormy Atlantic thirtyeight times, he persevered until after twelve years of lncessent labor, the news of pence between Prussia and Austria flashed from Rritain to America beneath the sea. Mr. Field has been calld the Columbus of modern times, who by his cable has moored the new world alongside tl.e old. When we remember the slow caravan moving across th land and compare it with the lightning train, as. with a shriek, a roar, and a rattle, it dashes through des "rts. dry and bare, up mountains, and spans the yawning gulf, we behold the work of t;orge Stevenson. Obstat le-- which seemed almost unsurmountablo rose higher than mountains. Men laughed at postal the id-a of the sped of ten him when he sugrunning his train at mils r.n hour, but Stevenson spoke in the groat Cor-dcan leader, who pirit of the said: "There shall be no Alps." pr line from Liverpool to ?ssed on, till his Manchester was successful. All over the world we find people who are seeking iover, mlluer.ee, wealth and fame. Too many expect to do something great and noble at first, that their fame may bf spread abroad. If we would le truly great we must use our opportunities aright. We must use every opportunity, however small, for "great oaks from little acorns grow." and if we lt little opportunities pass ly unnoticed we may never have a "hanee to e.ccomplish anything great. If we would climb the "ladder of fame" we must begin at the very bottom round and move patiently upward, passing over the difficulties which come before us. till we reach the topmost round, and then, as a reward for our labor, we shall wear the crown of laurels. True merit always wins; and if we use all our opportunities aright "there shall be no Alps." How many, many live? might have been great and noble if they had only used the little opportunities. So many when they find themselves surrounded by mountains of difficulties are ready to give up without even trying to surmount them. We must remember that each one of our greatest men hes begun empty handed, and armed wdth a pick, a shovel and strong will power, has started from his childhood home, from the roof that has sheltered him in infancy, and the si-ene-s that clustered round him there has gone forth to grapple with the stern realities of life. Some think, as they look back ujxm wasted opoprtunities that it is too late to begin, but "it is never too late to be what you might have been." Life is a season of antit ipations. hopes and desires. There is no one who is frei from all speculations for the future. Young folks will often spend a leisure hour in roaming in fancy over the future they are to experience, and thus they go on anticipating as if there could be nothing too great to be met in this romatic world, or too difficult to be achieved. Yet how very different it is when we put our thoughts into action; how disappointed we feel when at almost every step great "Alps" rise to view. Hut yet. If we have the courage to perscrve we are sure to reach the stars. In wliatever sphere of life we may Je, or in whatever occupation we may be engaged, if we set our mark high and accompany it with a determined resolution tu go gradually onward step by step, we will sometime attain it. lie who resolves upon any great end. by that very resolution, has scaled great barriers to it. In order to surmount the Alps in lib" we must use time well, for time is the material of which life is made. As every thread of gul 1 Is valuable so Is every minute of time, and minutes like cents are often thrown away. , because people do not know what to do with them. ' Some are always planning for no morrow, while the minutes of today u-e allowed to flow by unemployed. One joet has said: ro not tell me of tomorrow, There H much to do today That can never be accomplish el If we throw our hours awny. A few minutes well appled each day will make hours in the rorrre of a week and days In the course of a year. Thes, in the course of a life, if well employed, will make enough time in which one may be useful to his fellowmen and honorable to' himself. Lord Nelson once ad. "f owe all my success in life to having bee'n. always a quarter of an hour "Viefore my time." One hour eah day devoted to improvement Is nougb. t" make the ignorant man wise and t:,s poor man reasonably rich In tha eoirse of ten years. To b ready to overcome the dlfflrultls before us ws must learn to be economists of timp. ' Als! hw m.y have squandered this precious ift,tarid," when they come to the

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verge of death have reproached "themselves with the keenness of rebuke, which language is too poor to convey! The lofty Queen Flizabeth, as she lay dying, cried out, "Millions of money for one inch of time!" How many such inches had she "thrown away! The piercing cry came too- late, her time was gene. Time is like a ship which never anchors; it may bear us on like a rough trotting horse; and our journey may have Its dark nights and Its jatk o" lanterns: but there will come a ruddy morning at last, a smoother road and an easier gait. To be successful In life we must be enterprising, energetic and Industrious. Knterprlse oils the wheels of energy and industry. Industry gathers together with a frugal hand the means whereby we are enabled to develop our plans and purposes. ' Knergy gives us force whereby we may gather courage to persevere in the lines decided upon, and bids us go forth against opposing circumstances. Knterprie suggests ways and means to overcome difficulties that threaten to overwhelm us, and bids us explore entirely new fields. Thus armed and with a mighty purpose in view we should never be satjs-R--d with present attainments, but strive to sock new knowledge and plod patiently "onward and upward" and ever rememlerirg "the hights are beyond." We must not stand sighing, wishing and waiting, but we must go to work with energy and perseverance that will set. every obstacle in the way of success flying like leaves before a whirlwind. Providence has a hidden charm in difficult undertakings which Is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them; but this can only be true when, by our own exertions and the strength of our own self-reliance anl enterprise we have achieved the result. Every ors ought to desire to succeed In life. To have succeeded is one of life's greatest consols I ions. To hae made a failure of life is more to be regretted than anything else. Success is wit lung reach of every man and woman; though one man not accumulate a fortune yet he mav be successful. Wealth, position and fame are only incidents which may or may n"t accompany success. True success is something above and leyond them, so it is one's own faidt if he makes a. failure of life. And while we are striving for success we must not tlMiik only of our own selves, but of the welfare of others, and help them to conquer th Alps of difficulty and thus strengthen our own life. We must live so all will lienor and resject us. We can speak words of cheer to the downhearted and a kindly word to the erring. We can help remove obstacles from the paths of the weak and speak words of encouragement. We can incite the minds of those around us by correct examples and pure life. Wo can bid those who are well-nigh overwhelmed by waves of affliction and sorrow, to look up and see the sunshine breaking through the rifts in the dark clouds that have shut in aromid them. All this can be done by every one. and a man's gor I deeds will have an influence upon "lim and determine a degree of bis suc-oss. Fvery one, then, regardless of ins condition in ' fe, should set his aim high and resolve to remit no la'oor necessary for its realization. Cheerfully take up the trials and burdens that life has in store for him and carry them forth to a glorious consummation, be the discouragements what they may, and then "There shall be no Alps."

Iir.lt SI M.IKCT FOR WALYSIS. Sliepler I1lon)e n Subject n Itc(uolcd of Her. I-ar II. L. C. Friends: "Ts the old testament scripture symbolical of man's spiritual development, or is it a narrative of events?" The above falls to my lot for analysis in the pres'ent mor.th. ;r.id it is a subject which calls for more time and care than I possess to fully do it justice. Long ago this was a subject with which and over which my youthful mind was much exercised. In the words of the poet. I could say: I. when young did eauerly freinient, Ioctor and saint and heard great argument. About "it. and about, but evermore Wherein I went, came out at the same door. The spirit of deduction lamely was al ways getting me in a helpless quandery. Past teaching of Inspired infallibility would not readily conincide with the present surety, that wisdom and folly lay recorded side by side, each equally claiming the divinity of truth. Wickedness seemed to pass as virtue, and men were saved, or called God's chosen over that which would be loss of soul to me. My perplexity was met with the mysterious, unexplainable doctrine that these were given to teach us a spiritual good. They were types. A foreshadowing of that which was to come. You cannot feed the seeking mind of a child with metaphysical explanations of this kind, which show no reason of then need, or why they should be. I knew, stated as they were, they were historical episodes, and as that must simply be looked upon as history; or if they were types and given as that, they were not history; not true, and if allegorical merely, why not have chosen better types, better characters. This is the state of mind that such a meaning given of these books will leave for any child. Many give it up and never seek to know better. I did not. I believe that I first mastered all the evidence pro and con from all sources outsid of the books, as to what they were, 'fhen I let them of themselves tell their own stoi-y, and they tell it, and they tell it well. To rely upon a spirtual meaning for these books is to never get their real truth. To rely upon certain ancient rabbinical theories of their origin. Is to take a stand upon the side of ancient cerdulity. These books have a story to tell; have statements to make and these statements ure dependent, many of them, upon the peculiar beliefs and opinions of the writers, or masses in the times they were written. The old testament is mainly a narrative of events, but underlying: these events there are strwtig traces of a certain spiritual development deiendent upon a developing civilization. Civilisations are born and they die. Civilisations In their infancy are crude, are vuibarous, are credulous. They advance as does human life, from childhood with the fallacies of belief and dependence of the child, to the aspirations and chungtng knowledge et the man on t the ripe experience of maturity. And tfhis ancient record of the Jews shows us plainly they were no exception of this rule. That which was considered divinely right as to mse. or belief In one generation, fell into disuse as a wrong in succeeding generations. These written records show us in their time of record just where we must place the Jew In the scale of civilization. And these events narrated in this time will forever bear the imprint of civil laws and Interwoven spiritual belief commensurate to that scale; be those laws, those spiritual beliefs reasonable or infamous, be the character of Deity inconsistent, or be It not. These are problems of human life anl human rights slowly unfolding themselves under all the details of this history, and the historian writing in the fourth century B. C. did not interpret history as did . the historian of the tenth century B. C. Historians d.re Influenced by the particular advancement of knowledge of their day and a special coloring given by their own private opinions, whether religious or national, and generally both. The Egyptian hierarchy at the tlm? of the exodus was beset ön all points by rival rations.-and the oppression of her slaves at this time, hdd an underlying purpose, dependent upon these outside would-h Intruders. But. Egypt overreached herself here. This exMus. so great In the eye of the Jew. has puzzled th historian of other nations by Its smallnesa in the eye of the masters of

the Jew. For a nation so generally careful of its monumental chronicling of events it has left us no trace of this. But this great dynasty, built upon a still older and greater civilization, was at this time so broken up with outside troubles and Inward dissolution that the loss of her slaves must have been to her but one of the smallest inevitable results of the times. Moses, well known to the royal weakness and the royal power, saw the times were fit now, if ever, to lead these people away. And the oppression made them the more easily persuaded to strike for freedom.. Hut. despite of the learning and the knowledge of their leader their records show them to long have held the barbarous ways, childish credulity and modes of thought that spring from slavery and ignorance. There is. as I said at the beginning of this article, a certain belief prevalent as to the origin of these books. Mosaic account and all. Hut with me I think I can claim the best of Jewish and modern Christian thought, and their verdict is that a careful analysis of the b-xks show them to Jiave been written and preserved much as other histories were, and as we have them today they often show a composite character. One book will from the events, the statements it holds, show more than one author. - Some of the books give evidence of being dependent in part upon documents much older than themselves. and in part from oral testimony transmitted often until it partook of legendary character. We have Isolated statements here and there showing some of th sources from which these historians fortified their writings. "The Rooks if the Wars of Jehovah." "The History of Samuel th P-er." "The History- of Nathan the Trophet." "God. the Seer," "The Prophecy of Elijah." From many of these books we get our present history of Jewish wars and kings. With much perhaps we would know left out and much that suited tinlast writer's view added from many oral sources. "The Visions cf lddo" give us all. very likely, that v.e know of Jcreboam; and "Shemaiah. the. Prophet" was ransacked for the little we know of Solomon's son. Kchoboam, and perhaps much che we know under another name. Chronicles and Kinks are undoubtedly taken from older sources, called the "ChronUdes of the Kings of Judeali and Israel." Isaiah wrote a book tailed "Fzziah." These looks of the present you can see for yourself show a very eventful human basi-. They of themselves show tney had been written hundreds of yeirs after many of th events they chronicle had happened: and they show also, that their authors did not disdain to use the oral and legendary traditions'which had gathered around the names of their heroes as time had advanced. They show also that prcse and poem was searched for incidents to add to his greatness. All. sometimes, that we can judge of the history of a nation is by its songs and poetry handed down. And the Hebrew literature furnishes u something in this line. Jid you ever note how many of these books were great poems? The account of Crejition. Ruth. Job. many others beside th prophets, which are all written in a certain poetical metre. Hut poets have r.sed poetical licence from the beginning, and in searching history and t rut hfulns of depicted life in poptry we must consider this poetical license. Whether the historian searching for the history of Joshua took this into account when he consults the Poems of Jasher is not certain. But it is very certain that the credulous who followed after him did not. else such stress would not have been laid by molern people upon the rhymetical but not physical possibility of the statement: "Stiii. stand thou still upon Gideon's hlghts; moon be then hid in the valley Ajalen." We have many such etical representations of greatness. Understood In Its true meaning by the historian, perhaps, at the time, but losing its poetical significance as time went on. and the marvelous took firmer bold upon the minds of those who came after. For history plainly shows that the strongest misconceptions of these books and their meaning was made In times long after they were written, and their authors were in dust and forgotten. In closing this fitful article lot me say that under all these written f vents, what ever meaning we may ascribe to them, or their narrators, we can note a devel iIng character. The strongest human character I claim which yet the world has ever seen is the Jewish character. He often has been mistaken; been too fanatical, too conserative, too sure that his past records and his traditions wore right; too intolerant of new teachers. For, "Which of your prophets did you not persecute and kill." said dying Stephen. Put despite of his mistakes he never strayed, working slowly but steadily toward better light, but working as humanity works, by the light of his own acquired reason, and helped by the experience of past mistakes.; working against odds that would have swept a weaker pace in character from off the face of the earth. The scapesoat of all lands. Robbed, plundered and killed. National, physical calamities and mistakes laid at his door, for even daring to cumber the earth and his dear ones and his own life paying the forfeit of our shameful ignorance. Forced out of legitimate trades and Into usury, the only thing open to him.. The Christian character too good in the past to take up that business Itself, but not too good to make use of the Jew In It. And from out of the blackness and despair of his past, where does he stand today? Not In our jails; not at our criminal docks; not In mobs and strikes, but attending to the ta.sk you set him at of old, and loving his wife and children better than you all. Purity of life these old books show us he was spiritually seeking after, despite of draAVbacks. I believe he has in course of evolution come nearer to It than any other people. The greatest scholars of the day he holds in his name. Scientists, historians, pets and statesmen he ranks as his own. One trade only left open to him. and yet through it he rules the world, for the money of the world Is in his hands. Wei-e he of the vindictive nature, which his Latin oppressors possess, he would crush these nations and laugh at their calamity; but to le vindictive is not to be true to his national spiritual development. He asks his Interest, but he pities the helpless life which a withdrawal of his favor would send to a miserable existence or an untimely grave. His principle is better than his greatest calling. His life is letter than that of his enemieshis judges. IDA SUKPLKK. Raleigh, I nd, April 14.

wiiki:i.i:h w n.cov. An Outline of Her Life mid Writings 1 n I. To the Clirb I will try and give a brief outline of the life and writings of one of America's greatest writers, namely Klla Wheeler Wilcox. This writer, whom I consider so very gifted, and who has been considered the "song Litd of the northwest," is a native of Wisconsin. Her parents were poor at the time of her birth and her adantages for early education were rather limited, yet her literary talent in both prose and poetry was shown at the age of eight. At nine she was a local celebrity; at fourteen she contributed to three different pipers; two years later she vas enabled to aid her parents by the proceeds of her pen. At the age of twenty her name was known throughout the West and her poems commented on by the eastern press. "Poems of Passion" was the first published work which gave her Interna tiorra.1 fame. This drew forth a storm of praise and censure and extended bver two continents. Her principal poetical works are "Poems of Passion." "Poems of Pleasure." "Th Beautiful Land of Nod." "How Salvator Won. and Other Recitations." "An EJrring Woman's Love." The books in prose are "Sweet Danger." "Waa It Suicide?" "Adventures of Miss Volney," "A Double Life." "Men. Women and Children" and "Emotions." Mrs- Wilcox his resided for many yars In Xfw York City. Her d"mc?tic life is noted for benevolence, boundless

devotion to her husband and the memory of her lost child. The phrenologist in describing her s.iys she wins friends by the strong things she docs instead of avoiding that which offends, inste.id of gliding through like an eel she goes straight through like a pickerel. I think that is why I so much admire her. because she says what she thinks In a plain, independent way. which greatly fascinates one. I have read a few selections from her gifted p:n. One of her very best. "The Woniui of Today," I think should be read and heeded by all persons who desire the welfare of womankind. Here is a verse which it contain?; Formed . by the same clay, by the same God created. By the same passions stirred, the same temptations vexed. Whv should not our faults by the same rule be rated? Why pardon one sinner, and sentence the next? Woman's greatest fault, which, she says, is lack of independence, and "The Girl of the Period. Is She Virtuous?" I think of her writings are highly elevating, thoughtful and fraught with justice. "Minnie "Weste." ha the grippe gripped you so close you cannot visit the page or write a private letter, or what is the matter? "Wyandott Pewdrop." what, oh what! can be the matter with you that you have forsaken and forgotten me? 1 wih someone would give her or his views on "David Copporf,eld." Surely some of you have rend it; also "Which Is the More I'sful and Happy Life, Married or Single?" Now. don't write for argument's sake, but from earnest convictions. An revoir, "SI'NSLT."

nt XMxr. a nisnnricn. Prank's" Trials und Trihnln t ioni for Sl Lettin Weck. II. L. C. Friends I never knew until List summer just how much outward grace, inward cussin' Hint few postage stamps it did take to run a fourth-class post office. You see. the proprietor of one of these aforesaid thinps went off to hunt a better job and inaugurated me to attend the business, and they say I hadn't much more than ".taken me sate" until the people talked of impeaching me. And I wish they had. for my trials and tribulations were many those six weeks. Kverybody knows the manifold tricks ef the snia.ll lvy and the general sauciness of the srirl just old enough to begin her first ) -e correspondence. Well. 1 had my share of both. Once in a while when the small hoys got too obstreperous I could take them by the scrufr of the pants, or what was le't of it. and knock their heads gently together, but the small boy was all 1 could wreak mv pleasure upon in thi line. Then, beside other troubles, there was Grandpap Sims, wbn never got a letter in his life. 1 verily believe, and I know never wrote one, for he can't write, would come hobbling in two or three tinier a day. wanting me to se whether "there was nothin' for him tip there in some of them boxes. ' Then when I would do that and of course pet not liiup" for him. he'd want me to '"look down in the waste paper an' see if i hadn't dropped his letter down there by mistake; he'd heerd tell of potTiiH.sterf firin' tliet away." If Knui'imp's wife hadn't been living and just as aciively jealous of him yet as she certainly was sixty years a;", I'd have got snme old maid to written a letter to grandpap just for a change. Then old man Jones was another one. They don't got much mail at th Jones's, but that don't cut any Jicure at all as far as the postoftice is concerned. A month or two, though, before I went in the business l'.ecky F.llen Jones hail subscribed for the Ladies' ltepository and every day old man Jones asked for that blessed Repository, and when I'd tell him it wasn't here yet he'd swear It ought to be. One day I asked him what kini of a magazine that was Hvky Kllen was taking, a daily, weekly, yearly or semi-yearly. He said he didn't know- whether it was a sernmy or a sHinmy yearly, but it ort to been hre long aeo. I wrote to the publishers about It. They said their publication was a monthly one and that Miss Jones's number had been mailed to her on or about the l-'th of last month, and on or about the l.'.th of the present month her magazine would promptly be mailed to her and not to bother them aain fn that style. And sure enough, on or aloct the l."th that detestable Keposttory came sailing in. And I told old man Jones I didn't want to hear tell of that Repository again until on or about the l."th of next month, if I ever lived to see that time arrive. He said he guessed I didn't run the government and he'd ak for that Repository whenever he pleased. He stayed away about three days. Then one day when I'd settled down in peace, as 1 thought, to write a letter to an unknown c orresjondent I've sot out in Arizona (and I hope she will stay there: i wouldn t want to see her turn out to be a smiaw), when who should come sticking his long nose through the delivery window but old man Jones. "Has Becky Allen's Repository " He didn't tinish it and he didn't stick his nose through that hole again until the swelling went out of it. leastways. But don't think everybody is so aggravating. Oh, no. There are some that you just feel like turning the whole business over to do with as they plea.se, they are so refreshingly polite and afraid tr.ey might make you a liUle trou'ole. Old Squire L)inn;lebeck and his daughter belong to this class, and I did just literally turn the otlice over to them one day. It was an awful hot day and I'd had a bad morning of it with Grandpap Sims, and old man Jon? and the rest of the boys and girls. Then some of the men had hem in and said a fellow hud started a soda, water fountain up on the corner and they thought he had the best flavorin they'd ever drunk. And what was better, the proprietor was the lest character reader they ever saw; he could just tell from a man's face without him a-sayin' a word just about what kind of navorin' he'd be likely to take, and just about howdeep the rlavorin' ought to be under the fizz. Miss Pinglebeck had. in the meekest, politest tones, asked if she might write a letter in the office, and the squire said he'd read his paper while she was tun' that If 1 didn't have any objections, of course 1 hadn't and I asked a f.ivo;- of them; Would they watch the oftice while I went on a little errand? I staid loiiKer than I thought, but the soda water fellow was an entertaining sort of a chap, anr there isn't many of that kind, that is. in a general sort of a way, around" Jinitown. When 1 came back the squire said he had sold a postal card, and his daughter said she had handed out some mall. an liKiked over the oftice for Reeky Jones's Repository for the old man. but there was no such book in the ottiee. 1 thank.-, I them very kindly, but when I looked in the money box I wasn't so sure my thanks were "deserved a two-dollar bill 1 had laid on top of the change was gone. I suppose the old stjulre thought he tu-edfd some pay for selling that postal card. Rut that wasn't the worst, for when Lydia Ann Parker came in for her mail a letter that I had put up in her box that morning was gone. A sewing machine man had come into the neighborhood lately, and 1 knew that he was paying attentions to both the squire's duughter and Lydia Ann. The letter that morning for Lydia was from him: and .Miss lMiiiCl-beck. rccoanizin the handwriting, had just nailed it and taken it home to read at her leisure. Rut she had left me i& a leal of a tix, as 1 found the next morning, when the sewing machine atjent came in t'vmandimr to know why that letter he had mailed the day before had never been idven to the address upon it. I told him I didn't know anything about it. The Parkers, as far as 1 knew, always sot alt their mall. Perhaps the young laty in question had received her 1-tter all right; that is if he had ever written her one. and was just fooling him aliout not getting it. 1 had heard of girls doing that way. And whether she did or didn't I couldn't say. I wasn't expected to keep a record of ail the matl the Parkers tool; from the orlice, but the S. M. A. didn't bluff worth a copper. And before we were through he had said a good many things that 1 laid up to his account afterward. And when he got a dozen, more girls on his string, my second lest girl among that number, anr the soda water proprietor, who could tell what a. person was. business ajid all. from his face, said he'd bet a Canada dbne that S. M. A. was a married man. 1 just held back a half-dozen or so of thoe letters he was getting from the girls one day. Of coorse he rave, fumed and roared, but to no use. I had his letters, and he hadn't them. And when I got tired of his ehinmusie I politely Invited him out t.n trv a ltttle muscular mnic. He wasn't on that tack at all, but said he'd send a man that could sing me a calc or two of another tune. And so one day who should I see sauntering down the street but a long. lank stranger. The soda water proprietor was In the otueo. "I'll bet that's an Inspector. he ?atd. "I jruei I'd better be h tit' in' i;p to the corner." "If It is." T snswered "I have an idea he's one of my kind, not yourn." And sure enough, just as he got to the door he began solemnly to turn nls papers toward my view. Put 1 Interrupt" that view very quickly by shutting ami birring the door in his f;ice. Then didn't he get hot, and In no time he had the in

habitants all around him like bees. I never knew before how mean I was or how much I had been accused ' of. Even o!'j man Jones and Grandpap Sims had to chip in. too. Grandpap said that he knew of no less than thirteen letters th last month due him that he had never got. And oid man Jones said Becky Kllen had iost three or four Repositories lately. The citizens wanted the inspector to let them break down the door and get at me. but he said he had no authority to break doors and bunt locks. Just then Bill Slocum came along. He had been hunting. If I had had Bid on the inside I'd have been all right, for Rill is a friend always to one nearest him. But they had him and they soon ?irightened him as to the gravity of the case, r.ill asked the inspector if it would be against the law if he'd open the door without breakin' it down or hurtin' the lock? The inspector said he gqes-ed not. Then BUI yelled: "Lay low, Frank, for I'm goin' to shoot." It didn't take me long to size up what he was doing; he was shooting all around that lock and cutting it out as neat as a saw- could. It don't take a drowning man long to fin a straw to float out on. and 1 did some tall thinking while I ran a nag of truce out of the window. Bill stripped shooting. I told the crowd no one could come in but the inspector. But he didn't like the looks of any of us the best in the world, and he wasn't going to take any risks. I didn't care for Bill, so I told him to come along in too, as the inspector wouldn't come in alone. "I reckon." I says when he got in. "that measely sewing machine feller's been reportin" to you. has he?" He said he guessed that he was about the square of it. "Well." 1 told him. ";t wouldn't take us long to get the dimensions of that square, then." I said: Thet S. M. A. had come here from nobody knows where; an it was my opinion, from some good proof I had. which 1 wouldn't state just now. that he was cither, from the looks of his letters, in some lottery scheme, or the green goods business, and I was holding his letters as "suspects" until I got word from the owner of this shootin' match, what to do with them or where to semi them. I never saw anvbody op so quick as the inspector did. It woundn't surprise me that some time In his life he had been a victim of some green goods man. He said I was doing perfectly right. So we all three adjourned up to the soda water fountain and an hour after parted the best of friends. The next day the regular postmaster came back. He hadn't found a better job. so I gladly gave him his old position. And if you ever catch me in such a place again it will be when I am dcf. blind and crippled, can neither hear, se nor get after anv bodv. Yours as of old. Fit A NIC.

Tin: i it it alt it limn inc.. Contributed Uf Hen ArHys." the Son of n Vptcrim, The following lines, entitled "The Gibraltar Brigade of Antietam" were published in the "Masonian Literary Casket." a paper published by members of the First brigade. Third division. Second army corps, arinj of the Potomac. March 1. 1V.4. A copy of the paper was sent home to Lieut. Benjamin F. Smith of Company K. Fourteenth regiment. Indiana volunteers, by his brother Lewis of the same command. The "Gibraltar Brigade" consisted of the following infantry regiments: Seventh West Virginia. Fourteenth Indiana and Fourth and Highth Ohio. Shortly after the battle of Antietam Gen. Summer. In conversation with several officers of the army, gave It the name of Gibraltar brigade, which stood up like a wall of tire against the repeated assaults of the enemy. It Is a name little used by the men while in the presence it' others; but there is not one of them who will ever forget the tribute paid to their bravery by their gallant old chief. The Gibrnltnr Brigade of Antietam. (By Capt. W. S. Stroub. Fourth O. V. 1.) Er the echo of Sumter's last gun Had died away in the calm distance, Or treason's last maniac yell Of triumph e'en had its existence. Hied forth at the nation's first call To vanquish whoever might meet them. Though batallion-detached at the time The Gibraltar brigade of Antietam. Ohio. Indiana. Virginia. Forth sent them to battle with treason, Where Rich mountain summit rears high And Greenbriar flourishes in season: And the skirmish at Blue Gaps and Romney With others we need not repeat them Gave earnest for that dashing clan. The Gi'oraltcr brigade of Antietam. On Winchester's dearly bought tield They met and defeated the Jackson And charged him from stonewall and wood; That chieftain, whose name i? a maxim. They drove him from valley and hilltop And forced him to fly in retreat then, While followed close on his fast heels The Gihralter brigade of Antietam. 'Twas nobly they earned their proud name. When Antietam's brave battle was frightful. And all others gave way from the line They stood with a stubborness spiteful. Proud generals noted that stand And saw them charge foe and defeat them. And with one accord dubbed them at once The Gibraltar brigade of Antietam. OTHKK'S TIKHtaiT?. (.Selected for the Howard club by "Ben Ardys." Then pilgrim turn, thy cares forego, All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little hire below. Nor wants that little long. Goldsmith, The Hermit. Better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Cumberland. We look before and after, and pine for w hat is not; Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddvst thought. Shelly. Rest is for the dead. Carlyle, First Forty Years, by Froude. Oh, many a shaft at random sent. Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word at random spoken. May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. Scott, 1ord of the Tales. Every thought was oiu-e a poem. Charles I'arkhurst, sermons. O wad some power the giftie gle us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. Robert Burns, Lines to a Louse. Virtue is its own reward. Vanbrough, The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger. Know, all the good that idividuals find, Or God and1 nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense. Live in three words health, peace and competence. Pope, Essay on Man. One on God's side is a majority. Thackery. The Virginians. Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Vnder the sun. Thomas Hoed, The Bridge of Sighs. Indianapolis, April 11, lV.H. littni Tin: ihi:siih:t. Some l'lennaut Word on it Variety of J objects Hear Howard Friends Being afraid that you were thinking 1 had emigrated to Canada, and being seized with an unremitting desire to again mingle with you on the page, I grasp the pen to trace a few thoughts messages to the cluh. I would gladly attempt a few comments on some of the many Interesting topics being so ably handled by the memliers. but we know life in its general meaning is crowned with many duties that cannot be set aside at command. Hence I must beg your indulgence hi this brief letter. I wish to assure you that I have been greatly plejsed with recent pages. One c?ii readily discover a tendency to -opo with vital topics, mich as interest all. and lend valuable instruction. I am grateful for nd appreciate your efforts put forth to promote and interest the club. I am grateful for the efficient work, being done by the committee on work. "The topics assigned by chairman "Howard" are ably selected and have brought out many deeply Interesting co-itribtittons. Continue the Rood work to a complete success. (Official) -The committee on methods of work is now permanently organized, aj j

Sister "Sappho" has accepted the appointment as a, member of said committee. I hope the members of this committee arc enjoying the associations they are having. All acting in unity will make the burden light. Now. st the close of my brief letter I have a reasonable, though very iiujort3nt request to make to the club, and I hope the importance carried with thl request will be sufficient to prompt n immediate response. All memoers that are subscribers for the Weekly Sentinel pleas notify me of the fact at once. To the ladv members that sie subscribers, through your husbands, this is also directed. Also, if you have lieen instrumental in anyone becoming a subscriber please mention the fact. Now I hope I will hear from 11 im, mediately. Po not disapooint me by noC complvlng with my reju-t. With this I beg to drop the pen. with a fervent prayer for the welfare of the club.

Montevallo, Mo., April hi. ' Only n (ilranrr. Only a gleaner in life's toilsome way 'Mi l briars rank apainst the wall; Prayerfully toiling day by day To till my place tho' ever so small; Listening ever for the Master's call. Content to rest at the even tide. When the shadows softly creep And oyer the soul sweet memories hJe, When oft we smile and oft we weep Only a gleaner let me come Within your circle lair. Through fields of thought to roam And with you blessings share; " Only a gleaner let me come. With only a thought now and then Amid the many on our page; Mine Is only an humble pen. Savors rot of author or sage; If only one crlof it can assuage. Only one weary spirit cheer Amid life's toil and strife. Then glad I'll be I am here To fill my little place in ife. Then only a gleaner let m cont. And while the sheaves you gather In, (Madly shouting, "The harvest home.4Golden grained, 1 hope to 'win; Then only a gleaner let me come. "G lean er. Kldgeviile. April it. STHEET I'M llr.S. The board cf soldiers and sailors" monument commissioners has begun a good work in the prosecution of that class cf vandals which takes delight in carving or writing its name wherever it finds avail able space upon public buildings and in public places. It hns thus far lecn an ex-pens-ive piece of business for those .ppre hended for thus marring the finest monu ment in the world, and there is ever reason to believe that the law will be applied without discrimination to all violators of thi statute. There ia another class of vandal which ought to receiver attention from the proper authorities. This is the class which embraces the lazy man or woman, who, to avoid a few steps around, the ston walks In the staie house grounds, cuts path through the lawns. It m"nn mere ate jtioiis w no win wain, bipjni the lawn through wet or snow, climb th wire fences erected at "danger" points .nd probably walk a far as they would liavi had to have gone keeping on the walks, . simply out of a spirit of defiance to law. The grass on these lawns is bed n r t n to grow nicelv, but already there ar ugly lines aeross it made by this vagabond clas. At thi seprn of the year th ground 1 soft anl the feet sink into It t a depth which threatens the very roots of the sod which has been so carefully nurtured by the custodian of the grounds. Now is the time that a few examples otight to be made of the class of offenders whi think only of the present emergency and have no thought or care for the rights or property of others. If a fev of th?m should be arrested and flnM it might hav a salutary effect upon the rest of them and might possibly give the young gra-ss a. chance to get a start, after which th tread of this army of Ooxey's would hava a less damaging effect. At any rate th experiment would be a good one and ought to be triel If only for the sake of a. change. The sayings and dngs of one young lady who is blessed with ji immens amount of vitality would fill a volume. There i a young gentleman, well-known to all who use the prominent streets at.' all. who makes it his business to try andi tlirt with every young lady whom he sees. Sometimes this is very annoying to th ladies; but it is a form of annoyance from which there is no escape. One day, however, Miss X. came tripning along, and as her face was averted Mr. 'A. followed bis usual custom and stepped up to her. "Why. how do you do. Mins Wright," h said. "I believe 1 met you at Mrs. Jones's. Don't you remember me? 1 am Mr. Ran dolph." She turned around with a snap thJfnear-1-took him off his feet. "Oh, don't you try to flirt with me. li said. "I know you, Mr. Tom Z.; ym gj right along and let me alone." He went right along, bil she makes it a special point every tim he passes b yell out. "There sues .Mr. Randolph.'' And it makes him furious. There tre many Indianapolis girls who la one way or another have learned to tak care of themselves. One who atteodad th world's fair last summer was bent on having fun at any cost, and at her hotel struck up the acquaintance of a ftn-look, ing man, who became quite attentive, and walked across to the grounds with hen. He took her inside and paid her ay ami she very graciously let l.lm. NÄiturally he supposed she was as told as her actions and as they walked along crew veryfamiliar. This was goinc a ilttle too fat, and she suddenly turned to him with -sweet smile; "(h. will you please excuse roe," h' said. "1 see iny husband over there and X want to a-sk him for some moaej-." Hut sne had no chance to say anything ( further for her niash" had fled. IvJitor of Colored Homblower (who has been presented by I'ncle Ras with a fatj 'pos-um) "N hy, I'ncle, I'm sure I appre ciate your gift, but I don't know what Ii shall do with the animal. I nevtr eaS "possum." I'ncle Ras (amazed) "Xebher eats 'pes-' sum. Dat's funny. Why's dat?" Editor "Well, you see 1 can't digest It.' 1'iitle Ras On great anger "Suhl Yoi hat insulted de collud race and as d represent! ve ob dat race J demand, satis-. faction. Can't die jest yit, eh! 1 don know; about dat until you hab given me satis--faction." A death occurred recently hi a certalr family and no outward show was made byl the relatives. Contrary' to the usual custom, the blinds were not drawn, nor was there any crape on the door. This stata of thins was explained by a. friend of thfamily. "You know," she sail, "they're Ohristtani scientists, ami they don't approve oj' tit'" As no one really approves of death li9,' explanation was not considered lucid. y He "Come. Madeline, I want you to grj to the florist's with nie. 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