The National Banner, Volume 12, Number 37, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 January 1878 — Page 1

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. The Fational Banwe e "~ PUBLISHEDBY ' e /' JOHN B. STOLL, EIGONIER, NOBLECOUNTY,IND. < i ! Co “a ee o ! Terms ofpubsﬁ_crlp‘llon: - : One year,ipadvance,...........’............"».,5Q00 /. Six months, in AdVANCe..aumreaamacincaanna. 100 Eleven copies to one address, oneyear, .._.?29 00 G'Subspriber:é outside of Noble ¢ounty are charged 10 cents; extra [per year] for postage, which is prepaid g’y the publisker. : STRAUS BROS., Do a general Banking Business. . Buy Commercial and Farmers’ Notes at reasonable rates. S : _ Buy and Sell Home and !‘orelgn Exchange. Agents for Life and Fire Insurance. - ‘«,‘ i = Speéial Attenfion Given to Colb : ‘ , lectioms. . i Agents for Eastern Capitalists v For the loaning of money on Mortgage security. * Ligonier, Ind., October 25th, 1877.-27-1 y" ! M ! BANKING HOUSE 1 i —OQF—— | . 4 ! iy ; SOL. MIER, o * Conrad’s New Brick Brock, LIGONIER, IND’NA. ﬁbney loaned on long and shorttime. Notes discounted at reasonable rates. . - ‘Monies received on depogit andinterestallowed : on specified time, £ { ~ 'Exchangebought and sold, ‘and Foreign Drafts “v@rawn on principalcities of Egrope. ‘B2 70 THE FARMERS: : YOU: wmg}eaae take notice that lam stilleni&geddn nyin% wheat, for which I pay the hif eltms’rket&)r ge. / ; , Ifyondomnotfind meon the street, call before selling, at 10y Bu.nk!ﬁlg Ofiice, in Conrad’s Brick ‘Block. - § ; SOL. MIER. Ligoniexhlndiana, May 3,1877.—1 f e H. G. ZIMMERMAN, s * D, W, GREEN, Notary Public. 3 Justice of the Peace. ZIMMERMAN & GREEN, Office in Landon’s Block, Ligonier, Ind. - 12. : o e :i§ e 2 ' Physician and Surgeon. Promgt attention to calls day and niﬁht. Oflice ' over Eldred’s Drug Store, Ligonier, In 1% s To Horsemen and;those having Blemished Horses Dr. F. L, HATHAWAY, YETERINARY SURGEON an’ old snd reliable citizen of Ligonier, Ind., is ready to treat diseases in horses, break and 7 7 handle colts for s?eed; etc., ete, & _ Canbe found st Shobe’s Livery Stable. 42-ly. D, C. V'ANCAIV_IP, : "ATFORNEY AT LAW, Ligonier, : : : Indiana. ; Special attention given to ‘colleactions and convey-: ancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and . contracts,; Legal business promptly attended to. Office over Beazel’s Harness establishment, 9-50 | I . $ 'AJIBERT- BANI'A, : } I Justiceof the Peace & Conveyancer. LIGONIER, INDIANA. g Specialattention given to conveyancin"lg andcol.ections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawnup .and all legal business attended_to promptly and accurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’sstore, t sy May 15187315-8-3 - e ‘ H., WAKEMAN, - ‘TnsuranceAg't &Justice of the Peace ./ KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office with A. A. Chapin, Mitchell Block. Will receive subscriptions to THE NATIONAL BANNER. ‘Physician and Surgeon, : ‘LIGONIER, INDIANA, Office over Baum’s Grocery Store. V 9 n3-Iy. U i G, W.CARR, Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, - - ».= = = IND., " Willpromptlyatiend ail calls intrustedto him., Office and residence on 4th Street. - e

. M. TEAL, ' DEN TIST, mnooms over L. E. Pike’s Grocery, Corner of Maln and Mitchell Streets, m'o_p‘goelse the Post Office, Kendallville, Ind. 1l work warranted.<@% .- Kendallville, May 1, 1874. : : C. LINIGER, MERCHANT TAILOR, 4 Shop over Shinke’s Shoe Store, s Ligonier, = - - - - = Indianga. uits ‘made to order.in fashiénable style, and at «eagonable rates. CUTTING done promptly and satisfactorily, - Patronage’ respectfully golicited, ; ; 11-52:t¢ ; 3 R, Laughing Gas! 8 \N;ﬁ /‘ y »:. | ~FOR THE&"mf PAINLE}SS‘ EXTRACTION ) PR a IR TEETH N )\ i : T g } Dr. Ganty’ Offi N2> | . Gants' Offce. R V : Filling Teeth o Specialiy : Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1875, . 1-1 . PHILIP A. CARR, > AUCTIONEER, Offers his services to the publicin general. Terms ' moderate, ‘Orders may be left at the shoestoreof Sisterhen.. ot _igonier,Jannary 8,"73-37 ; L LS. V.INEKS,, * EBALERINMONUMENTS, Vaults, Toinbstones, AND B UILDINfG BBBTONES g LIGONIER, IND. ' J. W. HIGGINBOTHAM, N e ‘:»7% e\ B . ; f ./,* z S 00l [ 4 '”/ :_f'ﬂ;,;-‘.'u»‘r\ 8.: ‘ 3 ‘;," ‘\:L L »fd WATCH - MAKER, . JEWELER, | : . _ —onddealerin— ; Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, e i Dpastates. “ﬂm’ celebrate g T Vel PR e S T “ﬁ;g e e R | 0 y enred, Painless: nopublicity. Ge s i e e it S asti

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e ‘ $ : i = . . T From a Distingyished Physician. NO nlngd’ disease has entailed more luﬂerinﬁ or hastened the bre;khig up of the constitution than Catarrh. The sense of smell, of taste, of sight, of hnrln% the haman voice, the mind, one or more and sometimes all yleld to its deatruct(ve jufluence. The poison it distributes throughout the system atacks every vital force,and breaks up the most robust of constitutions. f%nored becanse but little understood by most physicians, impo;entl{ asgailed by quacks and charlatans, those sn{fer n% from it have little_hope to be relicved of it this side of the srave. Itis time, then, thatthe popular treatment of thisterrible disease by remedies within the ‘Teach of all passed into hands at once competent and trnstwortha. The' new and hitherto untried method adopted by Dr. Sanford in the preparation of his RADIOAL CURE has won my heartﬂ sgprovnl. I believe it likely to gucceed when all the usual remedies fail, because it strikes at the root of the disease, viz., the acidl{lcd blood, while it heals the ulcerated membrane by direct application to the nasal p_u?xca. Itsaction 18 based on certain fixed rules, and unless the vital forces are too far exg%wgd,must. in the great majority of cases, effect

o . GEO.BEARD, M. D. NoßsoorT BLOCE, §O. FRAMINGHAN, Oct. 1, 1674,

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MAY ‘safely claim to be one of the few popular . remedies receiving the approval of medical genﬂem%n. who, in Private, not only freely recomemend it but use it In their families in preference :31 ‘e?gi onr!the preparations usually prescribéd by ans. ;s 'yYou are aware,” said o dxsﬂnfnm\ed city thy!lclfn. ‘“that my omifpuona to tho Mass. Medical Bociety are such that I cannot publicly recommend or prescribe the Radical Cure; butsince I received 80 much relief from the use of'it myself, after a thorough trial of the usual'remedies, I have {mvately advised its use, and grcsume 1 have sentto ¥ou11; ggorqno lessthan one hundred of my patients or it. 4

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° TWO COBWEBS. AN OLD MAN’S STORY. . “There, I’'ve found the place, Cob= web.” o % ‘ “¥You have, papags; ... = 5 “L have.’ / i . - “Not a dreadful detached village, or cotlage ornee, papa?™ . = | . . “No, no, no, no, my child. It’s just what you asked me to get—old and rugged, and picturesque, and incon= venient, and damp, littered with leaves and four miles from any railway station, and now I hope you’re happy.” “Oh, I am, dear, dear, dear. father!” she cried, seating herself on' my knee, and nestling her head on my shoulder, “I am so, so glad. You’ve made me ?10 happy, for I was very tired of Lonon.” S :

I did not answer, but sat looking down on the smooth peachy cheek that one of my hands would keep stroking, and at the long yellow hair that hung'down over the shoulders. In spite of myself a sigh escaped my lips. - ‘Ruth—Cobweb as I always called her because she was so soff and downy—started up, gazed earnestly in my face, and then kissed me very, very fondly. : BT “Don’t -think. about the. past, dear father,” she said: softly—she always called me father when she was serious.

“Can’t help it, child,” I'said mournfully; and then seeing the tears gather in her eyes, I tried to be cheerful, and smiled as I added: “I have the future as well as the past to make me sad, my dear.” . : _ She looked at me wonderfully, but did not speak, and I sat there holding her little hand to my heart as I thought of the .past, and how ten years before, just as business was beginning to. prosper with me, I was left alone with the little fair-haired girl of eight, who found it so hard to believe that her mother had been taken away never to return, only to live in our-memories. e

~ And then I thought of my other sorrow—the future—and pictured with an agony I cannot describe the day when I should .have to resign my claim to another, and be left alone a desolate, broken old man. s 1 am naturally a very common, hard, and business-like old man, and terribly selfish. Cobweb had woven herself so round my heart, that in my peevish, irritable way, I was never happy wheén home from the city without she was ‘waiting on me. A fortnight later and we were settled’ down; and really, with all my London notions, I began to find the calm and repose of the country delicious. Cobweb was delighted, and constantly dragging me somewhere or another into the grounds of the pretty old place, where she arranged garden geats in the snuggest, shadiest spots for my especial behoof.

There was a wilderness of wood adjoining the garden, which the former possessor had left in a state of nature, saving that he had the footpaths and tracks widened in their old winding ways, carefully turfed, and dotted with a chair here and there.

One day I found Cobweb leaning on a dead beugh which crossed an opening in the wood, where all seemed of a delicate twilight green.: She was listening intently to the song of a bird over head, and as I stopped short gazing at the picture before me, I said to myself with a sigh— s

~ “All that’s bright must fade] My darling, I wish I had your likeness as you stand. Time flies,” I muttered, “and the winter comes at last, with bare trees to the woods—gray hairs and wrinkles to the old.? - -

- A day or two later I wasin the city, where I always went twice a week—for I could not give up business, it was part of my life—when an old friend ‘dropped in, and in the course of conversation he said— * -

- “By the way, Burrows, why don’t you have your portrait painted ?” © “Bah! stuff! - 'What for?” I said. -

~ “Well,” said my old friend, laughing, “I don’t know, only that it would give a poor artist I know a job; and, poor feltow, he wants it badly enough.” “Bah! I'm handsome enough without being painted,” I said gruffly.< Then as a thought flashed through my mind —for I saw again the picture in the wood with Cobweb: leaning on the branch—*“stop a minute. Can he paint well?” = | : b “Gloriously.” T “And is terribly hard up?” = “Horribly, poor fellow.” “How’s that ?” :

“Don’t know. He’s poor and proud, and the world has dealt very hardly with him, It isn’t so smooth with every one, Jack, as it is with us.”” “True, Tom, old fellow,” I -said, “true. Well, look here; I’ll give him a job, Would he come down and stay at my place?” 1 I%*oh, yes, if you treat him well; but, as I tell you, he’s a gentleman, and a man of honor.” .

“Oh, I’'m not' afraid-he’ll steal the spoons,” I said, laughing. >~ . i “No,” he said drily, “no fear of that. But you’ll make a good picture.” “Stuff,” I said. *“Do you think I'm going to be painted ?” ——%Why, what are you going-to do, then ?” he said in an astonished way. - “Let him paint little Cobweb,” I said, chuckling, and rubbing my hands. My friend gave a long whistle, and after a few more words he left.: .-

It did not strike me then, but I remarked afterwards that he seemed disposed to draw back from'his proposal; but I was now 8o wrapped up in my plans that 1 could think of nothing but the picture in the wood, and I went home full of It, meaning it for a surprise. : “Two days later orie of the servants announced a Mr. Grantley on business; and, on his being shown in, I found myself face to face with a handsome, grave-locking man of about thirty.— He was rather shabbily dressed, and looked pale and ill as he bowed to, Cobweb and myself, ending by stairing at my child, as I thought, in rather a peculiar way. ; S This annoyed me—a stout; cholerie, elderly man—for noone had a right to look at my Cobweb but me; and I spoke rather testily. I said; ol

“Naw, sir, when you please, lam at your service.” L “I beg your pardon,” he said, ina low, musical voice, “Miss Burrows,l presume. One moment, please—don’t move.” ; b s

Cobweb was sitting in the bay window, and to my utter astonishment he quickly drew one of the curtains, and then half closed the other, so that the light fell strongly upon her hair. 1 could not speak for the passion bubbling up in my.throat, and as I stood gasping, he came and took my arm, led me aside, and then, pointing %o where Cobweb sat, as astounded as myself, he said: = mhte “That would be admirable, sir. We

Meeuld not improve that natural pose.” - #*What the dickens——Are you mad, §ir? What do you megn ?” &“I beg your pardon,” he said, flushang hastily. “I thought you under@tood. Mr. Elden said you wished me. 4 paint this young lady’s portrait.— 4 m I mistaken.?” . % “Chut!” 1 ejaculated, cooling on the ‘stant. “I beg your pardon. Sit @own, sir. You’re hungry, of course. How stugid of me!—Cobweb, my dear, Qrde r some lunch into the dining m.’ : 1 i :‘V = He smiled, returned the pressure of Ay hand in a frank, honest way that Tliked, and then looked after my dardifig in a 'way I did not like; for this Was not what I meant, and my jealousy was aroused. I expected some sauffy-looking old painter, not a grave, jandsome young fellow. But I remembered Tom Elden’s words—“He i a gentleman and a man of honor”— and, castirg away my suspicibus thoughts, I entered into the subject at g¥d half forgotten it,” I said. “She’ll make a-good picture, eh?” “Admirable, sir. = That position struck me at once as I entered.” |

“I'll show you a better one than that, my boy,” I chuckled. “Buf I'm a business man; what’s your figure—the price, eh ?” e H{g hesitated, and his hand trembled as he said: : :

“Would—fifteen guineas be too much?” st g . e teen ) ITsaid. o

“I should take great pains with it—it will be a long task,” hesaid, eagerly ; and there was trouble in the wrinkles of his forehead. “But if yon think it too much—" - : ‘ “I think it is an absurd price, sir,” I said, testily, for Elden had said he was very poor. “Why, Mr. Elden gave four hundred for a bit of a scrap of canvas—" o g e

“By a very clever artist, sir,” he said, with a grave smile. ' “Look here,” .I :said, “Mr—Mr,— Grantley. You make a good picture of it and I’ll give you fifty guineas.” He flushed, and looked pained. “Less than half would pay me well, sir,” he said. : | “Tut, tut! stuff, man. Elden told me you were very poor. and hard up. You always will be if you are not more of a man of business.” “Sir!” he exclaimed, rising and looking at me angrily, “I came here expecting the treatment—” : He:stopped short,'sank into a chair, covered his face with his hands and sobbed like a child. ; : “My dear sir~—l—really—l—l didn’t mean—" I stammered, perspiring af every pore, for the position was most painful. ; “No, no,” he said, hastily, “I beg your pardon. But—but,” he continued, striving manfully to master his emotion. ; 5

“I have been very ill, sir,and I am weak. I have been unfortunate—almost starving at times. I have not broken bread since yesterday morning —ITI eould not without selling my colors. I—l am much obliged—forgive me—let me go back to town.. Oh, my God! has it come to this?” : . He sank back, half fainting, but started as I roared eut: “Go away!” for Cobweb was coming into the room. “Thank youn,” he said, taking my hand as he saw what I had done. “It was kind of you.” “My dear fellow,” I said, “this is terrible;” and I mopped my face.— “There, sit still—back directly.” ‘I ran out to find Cobweb in the hall. _“Oh, you dear, good father!” she eried, with tears in her eyes. “What a kind surprise! But is anything wrong ?” : «Artist little faint,” I said. “Here, the biscuits. Step away a bit.” : I ran back, and made him ' take some refreshments ; and, thus revived, he rose and thanked me. : -« “What are you going to do?” I said, gtarting. . : ’ - “I'm going back to town, sir,” he said quietly, but with his lower lip trembling. “I am not fit to undertake the task. I thank you, but it is too late.. lam not well.” s I looked at him as a business man, ‘and in that brief glance, as in a revelation, I saw the struggles of'a poor proud man of genius, who could not battle with the world. I saw the man who' had sold, bit by bit, everything he owned in his struggle for daily bread; and as I looked at him I-felt .ashamed that I should be so rich, and fat,and well. ... .- o ; ;

“Mr. Grantley,” I said, taking his hand, “I am a rough man, and spoiled by bullying people, and having my own way. L beg your pardon for what I haye said and am going to say. You cameé down here, sir, to paint my little girl’s portrait, and you are going to paint it before you go back to town; and when you do go you are to have fifty guineas in your pocket.— Hush! not a word, sir. My old friend Elden fold me that you were a gentleman and a man of honor. - Tom Elden is ‘never deceived. Now, sir, please come into the dining-room and have some lunch. Not a word, please. If good food won’t bring you round, you shall'have the doctor; tor, as the police say,” I continued, laughing, “you're my prisoner’—but -on parole.” ~ He tried to speak, but could ‘not, and turned away.. . . “All riglit* T said, “all right;” and 1 patted him on the shoulder, and walked away to the window for a few minutes, before I turned back to find him more composed. . .

_ That afternoon we all three went out into the wood, and I made Cobweb stand as. I.had-seen her on that '«da T ; 5 5 : érantley was delighted, and insisted upon making a sketch at once; and “then the days wore on, with the painting progressing slowly, but in a way _that was & wonder to me, so exquisite “was every touch, for the artist’s whole soul was in his work. = e «=**Phose were delightful days, 'hut ‘there was a storm coming. I quite “took to the young fellow, though, and by degrees heard from him his whole story—how, young and eager, he had, _fiye years before, come to town to im‘prove in his art, and how bitter had “been his struggle, till, just before he “had encountered my friend Elden, he had been really, literally dying of sick-ness-and want. ; e

It was a happy time, that, for when ‘the painting was over for the morning' we gardened, or strolled in the country—our new friend being an accomplished botanist, and a lover of every object he saw. "I used to wonder how he learned so much, and found time to paint as well. o Ay - Isayit was a happ% time for the first three weeks, and then there were clouds. b . Cobweb. was changed, I knew it but foo well. I coufd uld see it day by day, Grantley was growing distant, too, aud strange, and wy suspicions

grew hour by hour, till I was only kept from breaking out by the recollection of Tom Elden’s words—*He ig a gentleman and a man of honor.” | “Tom Elden never was wrong,” I said one morning, as I sat alone, “and for a man like that, after my kindness, to take advantage of his position to ‘'win that girl’s love from me, would be the act of the greatest scoun—” : “May 1 come in, Mr. Burrows ?” said the voice of the man of whom I was thinking. ; : ‘ “Yes, come in,” I said; and there ‘we stood looking in one another’s eyes. “He’s come to speak to me,” I said, and my heart grew very cold, but I concealed “my feelings till he spoke, and then I was astonished. “Mr. Burrows,” he said, “I’ve come to say good-bye.” i “Good-bye,” I said.

“Yes, sir, good-bye. - I have wakened from a dream of happiness to a sense of misery of which I cannot speak. Let me be brief, sir, and tell you that I shall never forget your kindness.” Se T

“But you haven’t finishéd. the picture ?” : -

“No, sir, and never shall, he said, bitterly. “Mr. Burrows, I cannotstay. I—that is—l need not be ashamed to gwn tit;, Ilove your child with all my eart.” :

“I knew it,” I said bitterly.. .- - “And you think I have imposed on your kindness. No, sir, I have not, for I have never shown by word or look—=" - c el ! “No, you seoundrel,” I said to my-| self, “but she knows it all the same.”! - “And, sir, such a dream as mine| could never be fulfilled—it is impossi-; ble.” s ! i i

“Yes,” I said, in a cold, hard voice, “it is impossible.” s “God bless you, gir! Good-bye.” | “You will not say good-bye to her ?” I said, harshly. e f He shook his head, and as I stood there, hard, selfish and jealous of him, I saw him go down the path, and ]i breathed more freely, for he was gone. Gone, but there was a shadow on my home. Cobweb said not a word and expressed no surprise, never ever referring to the picture, but went about the house slowly, drooping day after day, month after month, till the summer came round again, and I knew that in my jealous selfishness I was breaking her young heart. She never cowmplained, and was as loving as ever; but my little Cobweb was broken, and the tears spangled viﬁl like the dew whenever it was alone. |

It was as nearly as could be-a year after, that I, feeling ten years older, went to seek her one afternoon, and found her as I expected in the little wood, standing dreamy and in her po sition Teaning upon a tree, listening to no bird-song now, but with a far-ogig longing look in her eyes, that swept away the last selfish thought from my heart, : I

1 did not let her see me, but went straight up to Elden’s, learned what I wanted, and a short time after I was| in a handsome studio in St. Jehn’s Wood, staring at the finished victure of my child—painted, of course, from memory-- framed, against the wall, | As I stood there I heard the door| open, and turning stood face to fac% with Grantley. ‘ g We looked into each other's eyes fort a few moments without speaking, and then in a trembling, broken voicey 1 said: , e “Grantley, I've come as a beggar now. My poor darling--God forgive me! I've broken her heart!” | It was my turn t) sit down and cryf; like a child, while my dear boy tried to comfort me—telling me, tno, Wibli pride how he had worked and become famous, and in a few more months had meant to come down and ask my consent. - . . S But there, I'm mixing it up. Of course he told me that as we were rushing along, having just had time to catch the express; and on reachin the station there was no conveyance, and we had to walk. e

The scoundrel would not wait, but ran on without me, and when I gof there, panting and hot, I found m darling’s heart was mended with all of that belonging to the good man from whose arms she ran to hide h rosy blushes on my breast. I'm not the selfish old fellow that I was about Cobweb, for here in the ol place, where they’ve let me stay wit them, I pass my time with those tw flossy-haired little tyrants, Cobweb the Second and the Spider, as we call little Frank. As for Cobweb the Se¢ond,.aged two, she said to me this morning, with her tiny arms rouny my neck, and her soft cherub-cheek against mine: “Ob, gan’pa, dear, I do. yove 00!” as I love hér with all my selfish heart. : |

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- Chicago papers say that the holiday trade was not-so good as usual. New York papers also make the same statement. ot e :

_During the time that Pius the Ninth has been Pope the personal gifts made to him aggregate $140,000,000. : ; :

During the past month New York ity suffered losses by fire amounting t 0 $400,000. They were nearly all covered by insurance.

' The Pope will send by a special embassy splendid wedding gifts and an autograph letter to the King of Spain on the occasion of his marriage. - It is only 40 years since robbery in Pennsylvania was punished by death. In 1840 a man -who robbed a stage coach was hanged in Philadelphia. "~ Mortgages on church property in New York are considered good investments. One church—a Methodist—has already passed into the hands of the sheriff. - o Dandelions are in bloom in Cenfral park, New York.” -A:year ago the snow was six inches deep, and there was good ice for skating on the ponds of the park. * | : . Between fifty and sixty notices in bankruptcy advertisements now published in the Indianapolis Journal does not indicate much of.a let up in the hardtimes. @ .

- “No machinery of election,” said Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Mass., in a recent debate in the House, “ought ever to put a man in office who has not been elected by the vote of the people.” That’s a hard lick at Hayes. The opponents to a law making silver unlimitid legal tender are working determinedly during the vacation to defeat it, and claim to have enough Senators to sustain the Presidentif he should veto the bill. -He will hardly do that if he cares to retain any hold whatever on the couniry, outside of Wall street.—South Bend Tribune.

"+ A Rome journal explains to its subscribers why it can be had cheaper, by yearly than by quarterly subscription, as follows: “In repeatedly going to the office to subscribe, you may meet a friend not only in search of a match, but of a cigar and glass of vermouth; you may run up against two or three beggars; you may get wet on a rainy day, or on a hot day fall in with hy‘drophebic dogs not led by appropriate little strings; while by taking a full ‘year’s subseription on the Ist of January, all such possible expenses will certainly be avoided. Gt

' _A'plan has been proposed by which. the great desert in the western part of: Kansas and Nebraska can be converted into fruitful fields. The Arkansasand Platte rivers will be dammed and their waters turned upon the desert. This ‘will form a great lake which could be made to irrigate the land by artfully constructed canals and ditches. It is believed that in’ time forests would grow and miniature rivers spring up, flowing through the country and gradually render any artificial irrigation unnecessary. The scheme is declared feasible by competent engineers. It is said that the Goyernment has information that the Southern -Confederacy at the time of its downfall had money on deposit in different Eu-. ropean banks to the extent of ten or fifteen million dollars. ' The subject - of reclaiming these funds has recently been under - cabinet .consideration, -and it is probable that a contract will be made with certain prominent law= yers to take charge of the business. The equity of the case is plain enough, -and if the foreign banks are disposed to act honestly they ought not to hesi‘tate a moment to pay the amounts over to the Government of the United. ‘States.—lndianapolis Journal. - 2

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